Processing WOLFcon Conference Recordings with FFMPEG
WOLFcon—the World Open Library Foundation Conference—was held last month, and all of the meetings were recorded using Zoom. Almost all of the sessions were ...
Raw Technology
This website contains 0.00006% of the world’s knowledge
According to reputable sources, this blog contains 0.00006% of the world’s knowledge. The large language models (LLMs) that underlie tools like ChatGPT a...
Controlled Digital Lending…What’s the Fuss?
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...
ReplayWeb for Embedding Social Media Posts (Twitter, Mastodon) in Web Pages
If you have been following social media news, you know that Twitter is having its issues. Although there is still a bit to go before it goes away (or, more ...
LibNFT: a second look…still ‘nope’
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
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...
Mastodon Instance Operators Report on the Impact of the #TwitterMigration
A number of Mastodon operators have started to report the impact of the #TwitterMigration on their instances. I started gathering these because I was curiou...
With Mastodon on the Rise, Who Archives the Digital Public Square?
DALL*E prompt: photorealistic waves of twitter logos and mastodon logos crashing onto a sandy beach Much has been made ab...
OCLC v. Clarivate: What was MetaDoor? What is an OCLC Record?
On November 7, 2022, OCLC and Clarivate announced a settlement in their lawsuit about using WorldCat records in the embryonic MetaDoor service. This ended th...
Automatically Generating Podcast Transcripts
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...
You’re getting "Invalid request provided: AWS::CloudFront::PublicKey" because CloudFront Public Keys are immutable
This is the web page I wish I had found when I spent the afternoon sorting through why AWS CloudFormation kept telling me: Resource handler returned mess...
Starting a Python-oriented Serverless-dot-com Project
In the past few months, I’ve created about a half-dozen projects using “serverless” infrastructure on Amazon Web Services (AWS). (And I’m about to start ano...
A Better Structlog Processor for Python for CloudWatch Logs Using AWS Lambda
I was introduced to structured logs at work, and this ol’ hacker thinks that is a darn good idea. For a new program I’m writing, I wanted to put that into u...
Router Behind a Uverse/Pace 5268ac Gateway Loses its Mind Every 10 Minutes
Late last year, I had my AT&T Uverse residential gateway replaced. For reasons that truly baffle me, AT&T has decided that they are going to run uns...
Refactoring DLTJ, Winter 2021 Part 1: Picking up Obsidian
As 2021 comes to a close, I’ve been thinking about this blog and my own “personal knowledge management” tools. It is time for some upgrades to both. The ne...
User Behavior Access Controls at a Library Proxy Server are Okay
Earlier this month, my Twitter timeline lit up with mentions of a half-day webinar called Cybersecurity Landscape - Protecting the Scholarly Infrastructure. ...
Running an All-Online Conference with Zoom [post removed]
This is an article draft that was accidentally published. I hope to work on a final version soon. If you really want to see it, I saved a copy on the Interne...
Tethering a Ubiquity Network to a Mobile Hotspot
I saw it happen. <figcaption>The cable-chewing device</figcaption> The contractor in the neighbor’s back yard ...
Managing Remote Conference Presenters with Zoom
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...
Adding Islandora Viewers Capability to Basic Image Solution Pack
Putting this here because I didn't see it mentioned elsewhere and it might be useful for others. Thinking about the history of the Islandora solution packs ...
Modify Islandora objects on-the-fly using Devel “Execute PHP Code”
Alan Stanley taught me this trick at an Islandora Camp a few years ago, and when trying to remember it this morning I messed up one critical piece. So I'll ...
How to fix a directory that Git thinks is a submodule
Nuts. I added and committed a directory to my Git repository when the directory itself was another separate Git repository. Now Git thinks it's some sort o...
Idea for an NPR Twitter bot – Tweet me about that story I just heard
So I had an idea for a Twitter bot I would like to see. Occasionally I’ll be listening to a story on NPR and I’ll want to know more about it. Sometimes the h...
Embedding Graphics in Jaspersoft Report Files
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...
Separating Configuration from Code in CollectionSpace
For the past few months I've been working on a project to migrate a museum's collection registry to CollectionSpace. CollectionSpace is a "free, open-source...
Institution-wide ORCID Adoption Test in U.K. Shows Promise
Via Gary Price's announcement on InfoDocket comes word of a cost-benefit analysis for the wholesale adoption of ORCID identifiers by eight institutions in th...
What Does it Mean to Have Unlimited Storage in the Cloud?
We've seen big announcements recently about unlimited cloud storage offerings for a flat monthly or fee. Dropbox offers it for subscribers to its Business ...
Blocking /xmlrpc.php Scans in the Apache .htaccess File
Someone out there on the internet is repeatedly hitting this blog's /xmlrpc.php service, probably looking to enumerate the user accounts on the blog as a pre...
On questions regarding ISO/DIS 18626, Information and documentation — Interlibrary Loan Transactions
There is a ballot under consideration within the ISO TC 46/SC 4 on InterLibraryLoan Transactions. The ballot description is: This International Standard spe...
Make Plans to Attend the ResourceSync Post-Conference Tutorial at LITA Forum
As you are planning your trip to the 2013 LITA Forum in Louisville in mid-November, plan to stay a few hours longer to attend the ResourceSync Tutorial happe...
Interlibrary Loan Standards Undergoing Revision at the ISO Level
My employer (LYRASIS) is a member of NISO (the accredited standards organization for information and documentation in the U.S.), and as the primary contact I...
A Great iPad Keyboard/Case Combination: New Trent Airbender
This is a review of the Airbender Bluetooth keyboard by New Trent (model IMP38W). I have been testing this unit since January 28, 2013, and traveled with it ...
ResourceSync Specification Draft Published for Comment
ResourceSync -- a joint effort of NISO and the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) team with work funded by the Sloan Foundation -- has published a draft specific...
Interesting Shibboleth Use Case: Enforcing Geographic Restrictions
Last month's HathiTrust newsletter had an interesting technical tidbit at the top about access to out-of-print and brittle or missing items: One of the lawfu...
E-mail Phishing Attempts Get Trickier: Fake bounced mail and Fake mail-from-scanner
Two phishing ((I think these would be classified as spear phishing as defined by Webopedia: "A type of phishing attack that focuses on a single user or depa...
W3C Incubator Group Report on Library Linked Data Published
This morning the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced the publication of the final report of the Library Linked Data Incubator Group. The abstract is r...
IETF May Form Working Group on “Reputation Services”
Last week I saw a post on the IETF Announcement List seeking feedback on the possible formation of a "Reputation Services" working group. That posting has m...
Fixing a Bad SSH authorized_keys under Amazon EC2
I was doing some maintenance on the Amazon EC2 instance that underpins DLTJ and in the process managed to mess up the .ssh/authorized_keys file. (Specifical...
Call for Public Comment – W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group
The W3C Library Linked Data (LLD) Incubator Group invites librarians, publishers, linked data researchers, and other interested parties to review and comment...
PPTP VPN for iOS with AT&T Uverse and DD-WRT
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...
Does the Google/Bing/Yahoo Schema.org Markup Promote Invalid HTML?
[Update on 10-Jun-2011: The answer to the question of the title is “not really” – see the update at the bottom of this post and the comments for more informa...
“The Challenges of User Consent” – Handling Shibboleth User Attributes
One of the great things about the Shibboleth inter-institution single sign-on software package is the ability for the Identity Provider to limit how much a S...
Recordings from Code4Lib Virtual Lightning Talks Available
Thanks to everyone for participating in the first Code4Lib Virtual Lightning Talks on Friday. In particular, my gratitude goes out to Ed Corrado, Luciano Ra...
What To Do With ISO 2709:2008?
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...
Iron Mountain to Close its Virtual File Store Service
About two years ago I wrote a blog post wondering if we could outsource the preservation of digital bits. What prompted that blog post was an announcement f...
IPv4 Address Space Disappearing, Here Comes IPv6
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
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...
Slight Tweak to WordPress Broken Link Checker Plugin
In a futile effort to fight link rot on DLTJ, I installed the Broken Link Checkerplugin by “White Shadow”. I like the way it scans the entire content of this...
The PERL Way to Add OmniFocus Inbox Entries from Twitter
Over the weekend I got the bright idea of asking OmniGroup to ask an iPhone voice recognition application (like Dragon Dictation) to add a link to the OmniFo...
Using Twitter For Service Outage Awareness
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
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...
From “Moby-Dick” To “Mash-Ups:” Thinking About Bibliographic Networks at ALA Annual 2010
Ron Murray and Barbara Tillett, both from the Library of Congress, are presenting their research in thinking about bibliographic information as networks of i...
Bandwidth of Large Airplanes
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
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
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
[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
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
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, ...
OCLC Introduces an API for Anyone to Access Book Data
OCLC announced on Monday the availability of a new API for querying the WorldCat database: the WorldCat Basic API. This is a big deal -- it opens up part of...
OLE Project Design Phase Final Report
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
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...
Google’s Watching What We’re Doing – At Least In Aggregate
An interesting thing happened at my place of work (OhioLINK) today. We recently added links to our central catalog pointing to manifestations in Google Book...
Proposals for NISO Work Items: Physical Delivery Best Practices and Standardized Markup for Journal Articles
NISO voting members are currently considering two new work items: a statement of best practices for the physical delivery of library resources and formalizi...
Open Library Environment Final Report Draft Released
Over the weekend, the folks at Duke University coordinating the development of the OLE Project Design Final Report released a draft for public comment. Weig...
| Three New Search Services: Wolfram | Alpha, Microsoft Bing, Google Squared |
It has been a wild few weeks in search engines -- or search-engine-like services. We've seen the introduction of no fewer than three high-profile tools ......
Google Search Engine Adds Support for RDFa, Or Do They?
Via a post and an interview on the O'Reilly Radar blog, Google announced limited support for parsing RDFa statements and microformat properties in web page H...
Tweaking the New FriendFeed Interface
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
[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
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...
Open Library Environment Project Picks Up the Pace
Participants in the design phase of the OLE Project met in Lawrence, Kansas, earlier this month for a week-long work session. Coming out of the session are ...
FulfILLment from Equinox Selected for Statewide Resource Sharing System
This is an announcement posted by the State Library of Ohio regarding the selection of FulfILLment from Equinox for a statewide resource sharing system. OPEN...
Anatomy of the Zotero Library to RSS Feed Pipe
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 ...
Can We Outsource the Preservation of Digital Bits?
A colleague forwarded an article from The Register with news of a new service from Iron Mountain for Cloud-Based File Archiving. It is billed as a "storage ...
Zotero Library to RSS Feed
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
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...
Specifications for Object Reuse and Exchange (ORE) published
The first production version of the Object Reuse and Exchange from the Open Archives Initiative was published today. In the words of the release announceme...
XML Tower of Structural Metadata
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
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
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
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...
On the Internet, How Do You Know If You Are Talking to a Dog?
Published in The New Yorker July 5, 1993.Image from The Cartoon Bank The famous 1993 cartoon from The New Yorker has the caption “On the Internet, nobo...
“Object Reuse and Exchange” Beta Specifications Now Available
Carl Lagoze of Cornell University and Herbert Van de Sompel of Los Alamos National Laboratory announced the release of the beta form of the ORE specification...
Fixing a Mac OSX Leopard Login Loop Caused by Launch Services
After the release of the latest update to the Macintosh operating system (10.5.3), some users were reporting a "login loop" to MacFixIt.com. I followed the ...
“We are scanning them to be read by an AI.”
May 30, 2008Peter Murrayproduct Review of The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google Find it in your library 0.3</div> Towards ...
Long-term Preservation Storage: OCLC Digital Archive versus Amazon S3
Last month OCLC announced a new service offering for long-term storage of libraries' digital collections. Called Digital Archive™, it provides "a secu...
Getting a Hyperlink of the Last Sent Message from Mail.app using Applescript
I’ve been a fan of Getting Things Done as a technique for managing projects, but it was only recently that I settled on OmniFocus as the “trusted system” col...
Thumbgrabber: a metadata augmentation tool
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
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 ...
LC’s Adoption of Silverlight – Good Deal for Microsoft, Bad Deal for the Rest of Us
Earlier this year, Microsoft announced that it was giving $3 million in "funding, software, technological expertise, training and support services" to the Li...
A Glimpse into the Internet Archive’s Scanning and Print-on-Demand Operations
Wired magazine published a brief story and online photo gallery of the book scanning and print-on-demand projects at the Internet Archive. It is a fascinati...
Vint Cerf on the Origins of 32-bit IP Addressing
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...
Microsoft Giving Away Developer Software to Students
Stu Hicks, one of OhioLINK's systems engineers, told the OhioLINK staff last night about a new program at Microsoft called DreamSpark. Through this program,...
Would the Real “Dublin Core” Please Stand Up?
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?
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
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?
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...
Draft Specifications of OAI Object Reuse and Exchange Now Available
Last night, Herbert Van de Sompel announced the availability of the draft specifications and user guide for Object Reuse and Exchange (ORE). This effort, un...
NELLCO’s Universal Search Solution Project
Boundaries are being blurred between the academic and commercial Web, between library resources, between the citation and the item itself. Students have no p...
“Everyone’s Guide to By-Passing Internet Censorship for Citizens Worldwide”
The title of this post is the same as the report it describes, Everyone's Guide to By-Passing Internet Censorship for Citizens Worldwide [PDF]. It was annou...
Schemes to Add Functionality to the Web OPAC
Schemes to add functionality to the web OPAC fall into four categories: web OPAC enhancements, web OPAC wrappers, web OPAC replacements, and integrated libr...
Fronting Tomcat with Apache HTTPD to Remove Ports and Context Paths
In this How-To guide, I show a combination of software and configuration to clean up URLs by removing the port numbers of the Java servlet engine (Tomcat) an...
Analysis of Google Scholar and Google Books
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...
PocketModMac: MacOSX PocketMod Generator Via Print Dialog
This one goes out to all of the MacOS X users out there. (For the rest of you, why aren't you switching?) Perhaps you have seen PocketMod -- the origami-li...
Gentoo Abandons WordPress in Portage
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...
“Show Me The Code!!!” -or- It Isn’t Open Source Until We Can See the Source
There are days that I feel like Tom Cruise. No, I have no idea what it is like to be married to Nicole Kidman or Katie Holmes and I don't have the secrets...
Article-Level OAI-PMH Harvest Available from DOAJ
Earlier this year the DOAJ began offering a new schema for registered articles that significantly improves the value of OAI-PMH harvested article content. P...
Solr-ized MARC Record Catalog
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
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?
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...
Data Visualization: Depth, Breadth, and Malleable
In case you haven't run across Gapminder.org yet, I encourage you to carve out about 45 minutes of a day to do so. Even before going to the URL above, your ...
2007 Web Design Survey
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
On Tuesday, the Poynter Institute (a school for journalists, future journalists, and teachers of journalists) released results of their EyeTrack07 study &mda...
Survey on Digital Preservation Systems is Seeking Respondents
There are just a few days left to respond to the "International Digital Preservation Systems Survey" being run by Karim Boughida and Sally Hubbard from the G...
Can You Hear Me Now? DLTJ as a Podcast
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...
A Report on Namespaces Used by OAI-PMH Repositories
I had a need for a survey of the metadata namespaces used by OAI-PMH repositories, so I wrote up a quick shell script and XSLT style sheet to parse through t...
Killing Off Runaway Apache Processes
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
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...
Update to ‘Embedded Web Video in a Standards-Compliant, Accessible, and Successful Way’
With the release of Microsoft’s Windows Media Player version 11, the Microsoft Media Server (MMS) protocol is officially no longer supported. (Except, of cou...
The Intersection of the Web Architecture with Scholarly Communication
Two previous posts on dltj.org have described the OAI Object Reuse and Exchange (ORE) project and the theory behind what has become known as the 'Web Archite...
Working With the Web Architecture
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...
Presentation Summary: “Cross-Repository Semantic Interoperability: the MIT SIMILE Project”
Richard Rodgers presented this talk based on the work of he and MacKenzie Smith in the Digital Library Research Group at MIT. The original abstract of the p...
Presentation Summary: “MPTStore: Implementing a fast, scalable, and stable RDBMS-backed triplestore for Fedora and the NSDL”
Chris Wilper gave this presentation on behalf of the work that he and Aaron Birkland did to improve the performance of the Fedora Resource Index. Present...
Open Repositories Presentation: Building an IR Interface Using EJB3 and JBoss Seam
Below is the outline of the Ohio DRC presentation from today's FEDORA session at Open Repositories conference. Comments welcome! Executive Overview of the ...
Scripted Searches for Java Code in Popular Source Code Search Engines
Sometimes the best way to solve a programming problem is to see how others have done the same thing. When that happens, having immediate access to the vario...
Getting Around Drupal’s Prohibition of @ Characters in User Ids
A while back we created an LDAP directory to consolidate account information for various back-room services, and when we created it we decided to use the ind...
Building an Institutional Repository Interface Using EJB3 and JBoss Seam
This tour is designed to show the overall architecture of a FEDORA digital object repository application within the JBoss Seam framework while at the same ti...
Managing a Gentoo Linux Server Configuration with Subversion, GLCU, and Trac
Keeping track of configuration changes to servers is a tough job made tougher when some of the sysadmins work from home. Questions of who did what when and w...
IAB to Address Concerns About Internet Routing Scalability
An e-mail from Leslie Daigle, chair of the Internet Architecture Board, crossed my inbox tonight through the IETF-announce list (excerpted below) that brough...
Traditional Development/Integration/Staging/Production Practice for Software Development
Recently, I was asked to outline a plan for a structured process for software development that maximizes productivity and reduces bugs that reach the user. ...
Google Custom Search’s Planet Code4Lib as an OpenSearch Plugin
Earlier I mentioned creating a Google Custom Search for Planet Code4Lib. The Google-supplied markup puts a form on your web page that leads to Google's ser...
Picking a Java Web Application Framework
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
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
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...
Embedded Web Video in a Standards-Compliant, Accessible, and Successful Way
The word “Successful” in the title, when juxtaposed with “Standards-Compliant” and “Accessible,” should be big, bold and flashing (except that the flashing s...
The Dis-integration of the ILS into a SOA Environment
This is part three of a continuing series on the application of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) design pattern to library systems. In the first part...
Services in a Service Oriented Architecture
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...
Defining “Service Oriented Architecture” by Analogy
This post is the first in a series over the next few days that in total will attempt to lay the groundwork for a discussion of applying the Service Oriented ...
Possible Resolution to Technorati Update Problem
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...
OpenLDAP with a Go Daddy “Turbo SSL Secure Certificate”
Okay -- this seemed like a lot harder than it should have been. At the very least, it took piecing together information from a number of places in order to ...
Script for Testing HTTP Referer Headers
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...
Open Source Software: Should You Bet Your Career On It?
At any point in time, there is a college IT director trying to determine whether to upgrade, migrate away from, or stay the course with some software package...
Representing Collections In FEDORA
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
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...
Buzzwords Galore and Bandwidth that May Rival Your Stationwagon
At the recent LITA Top Technology Trends gathering, Clifford Lynch spoke of an advanced network emerging from Internet2 that is built as a hybrid between opt...