Posted in General Thoughts on Jan 30th, 2007 1 Comment »
I got word a while back that I would be able to hire a new web developer for my department. I’m really excited about having an additional staff member in my department and think the things they will be working on are very cool. Below is a summary of the job ad which is now [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jan 29th, 2007 1 Comment »
In case you haven’t noticed I’m been on the road for a little bit. Normally, I like traveling and I love conference because they are a great place to meet new people and learn things. The only problem is that being on the road for too long can induce conference burn out.
This is what happened [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Jan 25th, 2007 No Comments »
Making Fedora Easier to Implement with Fez - Christiaan Kortekaas
What is Fez?
Manages all kinds of documents
publications, images, learning objects, spreadsheets, databases and datasets, course materials
Fez technologies
PHP 5
MySQL 4.1+
Apache
Java SDK
ImageMagick
Graphviz
JHOVE
Fedora
Unique Benefits
Dynamic GUI configurabale document modelling and workflow engine
Powerflow search index
GUI managed security with Shibboleth federated authentication, authorization and WAYF
Preservation services
GUI Content Model Editor
One major difference between [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jan 25th, 2007 No Comments »
Using OAI-PMH Resource Harvesting & MPEG-21 DIDL for Digital Preservation - Joan Smith
WWW and Digital Libraries are separate and different worlds. It is difficult to preserve websites for faculty and students.
Two problems with web site preservation
The counting problem - Finding everything
Crawlers can’t always reach every page
dynamic content
orphaned pages
protected pages
pages are too deep
The representation problem - [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Jan 25th, 2007 No Comments »
I meant to post more from ALA Midwinter but there was much running around, meetings, and administratia so I really didn’t get a chance. I had several meetings, from which I learned more about the operations/idiosyncrasies of LITA and ALA. Some of this was helpful, other bits were just mind boggling. Overall it was a [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jan 24th, 2007 5 Comments »
I have to admit I have a love/hate relationship with ALA. Over the last year and a half I’ve been participating more in ALA particularly LITA and have loved meeting and working with people. BIGWIG is the best group of folks and we are working on some really cool stuff.
Still this Midwinter meeting had moments [...]
Posted in Digital Libraries, Notes from the Field on Jan 24th, 2007 No Comments »
Below are summaries of a smattering of the DSpace User Group Sessions I saw today at Open Repositories.
If We Build It Will they Come? - Phillip Davis and Matthew Connolly
Examine usage of Dspace at Cornell and look at why or why not faculty were using it.
Upward trend of growth at Cornell. About 1000 items per [...]
Posted in Blogging on Jan 24th, 2007 1 Comment »
I’ve just been reading the basic release notes for Wordpress 2.1 and I’m pretty excited about what I’m seeing. Below are a few of the features that I’m really excited about.
Spellchecking - I can’t spell well so I’m really looking forward to this. Granted since I moved to Firefox 2.0 I already have spellchecking but [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Jan 20th, 2007 1 Comment »
I arrived safely in Seattle for Midwinter yesterday after a long flight from Houston. Luckily I had my Ruby on Rails books to read which kept me pretty entertained. I got into Seattle around noon and as a result, I had most of the afternoon to myself to walk around. I convinced a friend of [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jan 18th, 2007 No Comments »
This week has been stellar for me because I was able to make progress on getting some new software properly installed and testing new things. First, I was able to install Solr for the preconference workshop at code4lib. I tried doing the install before Christmas and had nothing but problems. So I went back to [...]
