Raw Technology

Controlled Digital Lending…What’s the Fuss?

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On March 16, 2023, I gave a presentation with this title to the code4lib conference in Princeton, New Jersey. The suggested links from the end of the presen...

LibNFT: a second look…still ‘nope’

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The day after I posted LibNFT: a Project in Search of a Purpose, the project proponents held their CNI project briefing. The recording of that briefing is n...

LIBnft: a Project in Search of a Purpose

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At first, I thought this was a parody. LibNFT is an R&D initiative exploring the impact of blockchain and the digital asset economy on library arch...

Automatically Generating Podcast Transcripts

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I’m finding it valuable to create annotations on resources to index into my personal knowledge management system. (The Obsidian journaling post from late las...

Managing Remote Conference Presenters with Zoom

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Bringing remote presenters into a face-to-face conference is challenging and fraught with peril. In this post, I describe a scheme using Zoom that had in-per...

Embedding Graphics in Jaspersoft Report Files

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One of the features of Jaspersoft Reports is the ability to include static graphics – logos, for instance – in the completed reports. These graphic files are...

PPTP VPN for iOS with AT&T Uverse and DD-WRT

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Wandering into public or semi-public wireless networks makes me nervous because I know how my network traffic can be easily watched, and because I'm a geek w...

What To Do With ISO 2709:2008?

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My employer recently became a member of NISO and I was made the primary representative. This is my first formal interaction with the standards organization...

IPv4 Address Space Disappearing, Here Comes IPv6

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Last week in DLTJ Thursday Threads I posted an entry about running out of IP addresses. Since I posted that, I've run across a couple of other stories and w...

New Web Expectations and Mobile Web Techniques

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Late last year I was asked to put together a 20-minute presentation for my employer (LYRASIS) on what I saw as upcoming technology milestones that could impa...

Using Twitter For Service Outage Awareness

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Emily Clasper of the Suffolk County Library posted about some work she had done to embed status messages in the catalog using Twitter. This sounded like a r...

RDA-as-Service Only

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At the ALA Annual Conference exhibit floor I got my first chance to see the RDA Toolkit. RDA is "Resource Description and Access" -- the new standard for bi...

Bandwidth of Large Airplanes

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Back in the early days of this blog, I had a post on Buzzwords Galore and Bandwidth that May Rival Your Station Wagon. The topic was a "hybrid optical and p...

Mash-Up Request for Submissions

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I'm working with some colleagues at the Library of Congress on the on the description of complex analog and digital resources. In that research, we want to ...

Split Routing with OpenVPN

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My place of work has installed a VPN that moderates our access to the server network using the OpenVPN protocol. This is a good thing, but in its default co...

Experiential Learning Enhanced with 2-D Barcodes

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[caption id="attachment_1507" align="alignright" width="216" caption="QR-Code pointing to DLTJ"][/caption] This morning I attended a presentation on "Using Q...

Why I Digitally Sign My E-Mail

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Most e-mail messages I send are digitally signed using a process called “Pretty Good Privacy”, or PGP. In e-mail applications that don’t understand PGP, this...

A New Year, a New PGP Key

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It is the start of a new year ((Some have even said it is the start of a new decade, but of course that isn’t true. We won’t start a new decade until 2011, ...

OLE Project Design Phase Final Report

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There is an announcement on the OLE Project site that links to the final report as submitted to the Mellon Foundation. This version of the report has minor ...

Index Data on Z39.50 for Dummies

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Earlier this year, Index Data started a new blog. I wanted to call out a series of posts (parts one and two) their newly started blog called Z39.50 for Dum...

Tweaking the New FriendFeed Interface

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FriendFeed went live yesterday with changes to the user interface and back-end systems. The changes were moderately positive, taken as a whole, but there ar...

Advances in OpenSearch Definitions

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[caption id="osul-opensearch" align="alignright" width="375" caption="Screenshot of adding the OSU Libraries Catalog Search"][/caption] Earlier this month, O...

Beyond Federated Search Redux

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It started with a post by Carl Grant on the Federated Search Blog: Beyond Federated Search – Winning the Battle and Losing the War?. I bookmarked thi...

Anatomy of the Zotero Library to RSS Feed Pipe

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Note! A new feature on the Zotero website does away with the need to use this Yahoo! Pipe. RSS feeds are now generated by the Zotero website itself. Read ...

Zotero Library to RSS Feed

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Note! A new feature on the Zotero website does away with the need to use this Yahoo! Pipe. RSS feeds are now generated by the Zotero website itself. Read ...

PHP Script for hCalendar to iCalendar Conversion

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I try to do the “right thing” in postings on DLTJ. In the context of this discussion “right” is an attempt to be progressive: including hCalendar microformat...

XML Tower of Structural Metadata

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Jerome McDonough of the Graduate School of Library & Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign presented a paper this summer ...

Test Driving Lumifi

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Earlier this week, Lumifi Inc. announced a new version of their research platform "to better serve students, professionals and others in dealing with informa...

Revision Proposed to ORE Atom Serialization

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Last Friday, Herbert Van de Sompel posted a message to various mailing lists about a proposed revision to the serialization of OAI-ORE into Atom. The propos...

HOWTO Deal With Spam as a Mailman List Owner

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Dealing with SPAM e-mail is a real hassle. Dealing with SPAM e-mail as a mailing list owner is an even bigger hassle. Here are some tips for dealing with S...

Thumbgrabber: a metadata augmentation tool

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In reading a background paper for the American Social History Online portal, I was reacquainted with a paper by Muriel Foulonneau, Thomas Habing and Tim Cole...

Preserving Digital Video

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My place of work is looking to acquire educational videos in a digital form with an eye towards long-term preservation. At this point we receive a physical ...

Vint Cerf on the Origins of 32-bit IP Addressing

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Via a weekly wrap-up post by Dion Almaer on the Google Code Blog comes mention of a Google Tech Talk video from their IPv6 Conference 2008. It is a panel d...

Would the Real “Dublin Core” Please Stand Up?

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I've been following the discussion by Stu Weibel on his blog about the relationship between Resource Description Framework (RDF) and Dublin Core Abstract Mod...

Is JPEG Good Enough for Archival Masters?

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On the ImageLib mailing list, Rob Lancefield (Manager of Museum Information Services for Wesleyan University) posted a link to the Universal Photographic Dig...

The Cost of a Phone Call Drops to Near Zero

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The title of this post is true, under certain circumstances. Last week's e-mail brought word from Michael Robertson of Backdoor Dialing - Free Calling to Mi...

What’s the Deal with NCIP?

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What's the deal with NCIP? For those that don't know, NCIP is the NISO protocol that attempts to "define the various transactions needed to support circulat...

NELLCO’s Universal Search Solution Project

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Boundaries are being blurred between the academic and commercial Web, between library resources, between the citation and the item itself. Students have no p...

Schemes to Add Functionality to the Web OPAC

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Schemes to add functionality to the web OPAC fall into four categories: web OPAC enhancements, web OPAC wrappers, web OPAC replacements, and integrated libr...

Analysis of Google Scholar and Google Books

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Two papers were published recently exploring the quality of Google Scholar and Google Books. Google Scholar Philipp Mayr and Anne-Kathrin Walter, both of GE...

Gentoo Abandons WordPress in Portage

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I don't think this has been widely announced, but while waiting for an update to Gentoo's portage entry for WordPress to cover the latest security and bug fi...

Solr-ized MARC Record Catalog

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Rob Casson of Miami University announced this weekend the beta availability of their video catalog. In a subsequent posting, Rob describes the user interfac...

OAI-ORE Thoughts on Compound Documents

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The Technical Committee and Liaison Group of the OAI Object Reuse and Exchange effort met last week in New York City to hammer out face-to-face some of the l...

“iTunes U” for Libraries?

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A recent posting in the Chronicle of Higher Education "Wired Campus" section describes the new iTunes U portal, "a spot on the site that will collect college...

2007 Web Design Survey

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Friend and former colleague Eric Meyer writes about the 2007 Web Design Survey (first annual) on his blog. It is an effort to "increase knowledge of web des...

What Librarians Could Learn From Journalists

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On Tuesday, the Poynter Institute (a school for journalists, future journalists, and teachers of journalists) released results of their EyeTrack07 study &mda...

Can You Hear Me Now? DLTJ as a Podcast

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Update 19-Jan-2011: I've decommissioned this service. Talkr seems to be unavailable, and I haven't had time to find a replacement. If reading the thoughts o...

Killing Off Runaway Apache Processes

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Well, something is still going wrong on dltj.org — despite previous performance tuning efforts, I'm still running into cases where machine performance ...

WordPress/MySQL Tuning

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dltj.org runs on a relatively tiny box — a Pentium III with 512MB of RAM. I'm running a Gentoo Linux distribution, so I actually have a prayer of gett...

Working With the Web Architecture

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As you may have noticed, the web has evolved a set of common principles that are a mix of ratified standards and ad hoc practices. The notion of a Web Archi...

Picking a Java Web Application Framework

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We're beginning a new phase of our digital library development at OhioLINK and an oversimplification of one of the consequences of this new phase is that we ...

Google Custom Search for Planet Code4Lib

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I wanted to mess around with Google's new Custom Search Engine feature and in casting about for a list of URLs to feed it I thought I'd try the list of blogs...

GSoC: JPEG2000 JPIP Server and Viewer Applet

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OhioLINK was excited and privileged to participate in the second annual Google Summer of Code -- a program to inspire young developers and provide students i...

Services in a Service Oriented Architecture

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This post is the second in a series about the application of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) system design pattern to library services. The first po...

Possible Resolution to Technorati Update Problem

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Up until about an hour ago, Technorati refused to update its database of postings to DLTJ, and having reached the 31-day point of no updates I was starting t...

Script for Testing HTTP Referer Headers

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I’ve just had the third occasion where in support of a user I suspect that user has a piece of software which is blocking or modifying the HTTP “referrer” he...

Representing Collections In FEDORA

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One of the DRC developers had a question recently that sparked a discussion about what to do with collections of objects. In order to answer the question of...

Access Management and Provisioning Technology

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Building on the shoulders of others -- isn't that how that quote goes? There has been a stack of printouts on my desk for a while now for various access man...