code4lib days 2-3
So I didn’t have time to journal about the 2nd and 3rd days of the conference since there was so much good stuff going on. I’m on the plane back to Chicago now so I’ve got a few moments to jot down...
View Articlea new type of journal
In the unlikely event that you haven’t seen it there is an interesting thread over on the code4lib discussion list about establishing a code4lib journal. I think Mark Jordan has the right idea: …would...
View Article(py)?lucene 1.9
So on March 1st lucene v1.9 was released and the *next day* pylucene v1.9 is released. Nice work! I guess there are a bunch of methods that are deprecated in 1.9 which will dissappear entirely in v2.0....
View Articlereading 2.0
Reading 2.0 slipped under my radar, but I guess that was the idea: to let people from O’Reilly, Los Alamos National Labs, OCLC, The Internet Archive, Adobe, Yahoo, Harvard and Elsevier hobnob away from...
View Articleprofessionalism in the age of discontent
After seeing him speak and meeting him a couple times I’m a big fan of Adrian’s work. He was one of the first people to “mash up” google maps at chicagocrime.org; has set the bar for local online media...
View Articlecode4libcon 2007
Here’s to making sure that code4libcon 2007 is a watershed moment for women library technologists. code4libcon 2006 in Corvallis wasn’t all male, but it was largely…and I can only remember two women...
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set your data free … with unapi
Dan, Jeremy, Peter, Michael, Mike, Ross and I wrote an article in the latest Ariadne introducing the lightweight web protocol unAPI. Essentially unAPI is an easy way to include references to digital...
View Articleopen standards
Folks who are interested in libraries and technology are often drawn to the issue of open standards. Using open standards is very important to libraries for a variety of reasons that Ed Corrado...
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the importance of making packages
If you are interested in such things Ian Bicking has a nice posting about why breaking up a project into smaller packages of functionality is important. His key point is that the boundaries between...
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ruby-oai v0.0.3
v0.0.3 of ruby-oai was just released to RubyForge. The big news is that this release allows you to use libxml for parsing thanks to the efforts of Terry Reese. Terry is building a RubyOnRails...
View Articlersinger++
So Ross beat out 11 other projects to win the OCLC Research Software Contest for his next generation OpenURL resolver umlaut. Second place went to to Jesse Andrews’ BookBurro–so the competition was...
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evergreen
In case you missed it linux.com is running an article by Michael Stutz on Evergreen, an open source integrated library system developed by the state of Georgia to support a consortium of 44 different...
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DemoCampDC
DemoCampDC is an adaptation of BarCamp to provide an informal mechanism for sharing technology shtuff in the DC area. If you are interested and in the DC area please add your name to the list of...
View Articlerockin’ the plastic
High 5, more dead than alive Rockin’ the plastic like a man from a casket Yeah, the blog is back after getting routed by the LinuXploit Crew. The whole episode was really rewarding actually. I learned...
View Articletabulator and google reader notifier oddness
If you’ve ever tried installing the Tabulator (Tim Berners-Lee’s experimental linked-data browser) and not seen it work you may have run into the same problem as me. On a hunch I guessed that there...
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SKOS in the Context of Semantic Web Deployment
If you happen to be in the DC area on May 8th and are interested in linked data and the practical application of semantic web technologies like RDF and OWL please join us at the Library of Congress for...
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lcsh.info SPARQL endpoint
disclaimer: lcsh.info was a prototype, and is no longer available, see id.loc.gov for the service from the Library of Congress I’ve set up a SPARQL endpoint for lcsh.info at sparql.lcsh.info. If you...
View Articleterminology services sneak peak
I just saw Diane Vizine-Goetz demo OCLC’s Terminology Services at the CENDI/SKOS meeting and was excited to see various things out on the public web. For example, the LCSH concept “World Wide Web” is...
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federal register embraces the web and opensource
Tom Lee of the Sunlight Foundation blogged yesterday about the new Federal Register website. The facelift was also announced a few days earlier by the Archivist of the United States, David Ferriero. If...
View Articleday of digital archives psa
Today is Day of Digital Archives day and I had this semi-thoughtful post written up about BagIt and how it’s a brain dead simple format to use to package up your files so that you’ll know if you still...
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