Posted in General Thoughts on Nov 20th, 2008 No Comments »
As part of a book I’m working on I’m writing a chapter on open source wikis. The one I’m most familiar with is MediaWiki. It is what UH used when we first put wikis in place 2 years ago. Customizing MediaWiki wasn’t always the easiest task and we took the easy route of just putting [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Nov 19th, 2008 1 Comment »
Sometimes serendity is so terrific. I started a conversation with Amanda Etches-Johnson at Internet Librarian about the need for a Drupal in libraries conference or unconference. Then we dragged John Blyberg and into the mix. The result was the following:
Darien Library will be hosting a “Drupal4Lib Camp” on Friday, February 27, 2009 from 9 am [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Nov 17th, 2008 No Comments »
As I have mentioned several times on this blog I’ve been doing a lot of work with Drupal of late. One way I’ve been learning about Drupal is through a series of books by Packt publishing. The most recent one is entitled “Drupal Multimedia”.
This book provides an excellent overview of how to use Drupal for [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Nov 11th, 2008 No Comments »
For the last two days I’ve been attending the TRLN Management Academy in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. I wasn’t sure exactly what to expect from the Management Academy, or how much I’d learn. As with many learning opportunities, much of the experience is about the participants. There is a diverse group of interesting, smart folks [...]
Posted in Digital Libraries, XML on Nov 6th, 2008 No Comments »
I’ve been working with a variety of digital library metadata standards the last week or so. Developing project specifications and doing some rapid prototyping of forms for cataloging digital library objects both born digital and digitized. Digital library metadata standards are a hodge-podge of acronyms (METS, MODS, MIX) each of them equally complex on its [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Nov 5th, 2008 8 Comments »
There are a number of good posts in the library blogosphere about the OCLC’s change in the. Two especially good ones are Terry Reese’s post and that of Ed Corrado. As someone who has been working with the WorldCat Search API, I’ve been watching the discussion with interest. I’m a big fan of many of [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Oct 23rd, 2008 5 Comments »
I took one of the iPod Touch that the UH Libraries bought with me to Internet Librarian and over the course of the conference learned a bunch of neat tricks and installed some cool free Apps. This included:
How to take a screen shot on your iPod Touch
Stanza
InstaPaper
Wordpress blogging App
Stanza
Also for those of you reading my [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Oct 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
Liz Lawley
Liz is warning us that she is going to insight technolust
Today is Liz’s 6 year blogversary!!
How can libraries embrace the tangible again?
We care what things feel like and look like
Apple understands the importance of the physical and tangible
Social proprioception - mobile devices are making this easier
Ability to say where we are
People want to know [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Oct 22nd, 2008 1 Comment »
David Lee King, Stephen Abram, Rebecca Jones, and Nancy Dowd
Moderated by Greg Schwartz
This session flew by so fast that I couldn’t keep up. Below are a few key points and my reflections on the session.
Nancy Dowd was fabulous!!
I’ve never seen someone out present Stephen Abrams but Nancy did.
Tapping into your [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Oct 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
Web 2.0
Shift in development and deployment
Users effect the technology cycle
User generated content
Flows tech bubble & means hope
Reshape the way people see interact and use technology
Reshaping of public spaces online
Rise of social network sites
Key characteristics of
- profile - digital body, way of making yourself known in a particular context
- public articulation of friends - weirdness of [...]
