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Peter E. Murray

Library technologist, open source advocate, striving to think globally while acting locally

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  • George Siemens to Provide Keynote at ODCE Conference on March 5th

    Join George Siemens — a leading theorist on the implications of technology and societal trends on learning and knowledge — to examine how changing learner expectations impact educators, institutions and the process of learning. Siemens will present the opening keynote address, Connectivism: Content, Connections, Conversation, on Monday, March 5, 9:45-10:45 …

     Posted on  January 24, 2007
     and last updated January 25, 2007
     ·  1 minutes reading time
  • A Vision for FEDORA's Future, an Implementation Plan to Get There, and a Project Update

    This morning, Sandy Payette of Cornell University and FEDORA project co-director, gave an update on the FEDORA project including a statement of a vision for FEDORA's future, information about the emerging FEDORA Commons non-profit, and a status report/roadmap for the software itself. Below is a summary based on my …

     Posted on  January 24, 2007
     and last updated January 24, 2007
     ·  5 minutes reading time
  • 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 Ohio Digital Resource Commons
      • Facets of the Digital Resource Commons Vision
      • DRC Vision (Multi-Institutional)
      • DRC Vision (Cross-Institutional)
      • DRC Vision (Access Control)
      • DRC Vision (Multi-Media)
      • The DRC Vision …
     Posted on  January 23, 2007
     and last updated January 24, 2007
     ·  1 minutes reading time
  • Blogging About Open Repositories 2007? Use the 'icor2007' tag.

    Are you blogging the Open Repositories conference in San Antonio this week? Are you posting pictures to Flickr?

    if so, may I suggest using the 'icor2007' tag when posting your content. When doing so, the HitchHikr service will aggregate content from Technorati and Flickr based on that tag. (Why not …

     Posted on  January 23, 2007
     and last updated January 24, 2007
  • 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 various search engines helps get you back on track quickly. Here are OpenSearch plug-ins (suitable for Firefox and MSIE7) that will search the …

     Posted on  January 19, 2007
     and last updated January 19, 2007
     ·  6 minutes reading time
  • 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 individual's e-mail address as the account identifier (uid in LDAP-speak). It seemed like the logical thing to do -- it is something that the user …

     Posted on  January 19, 2007
     and last updated January 15, 2018
     ·  5 minutes reading time
  • 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 time pointing out individual design decisions and extension points that are specific to the Ohio Digital Resource Commons application. Geared towards software developers, a familiarity …

     Posted on  January 18, 2007
     and last updated January 19, 2007
     ·  14 minutes reading time
  • Looking Forward to Version 2.2 of FEDORA

    Sandy Payette, Co-Director of the Fedora Project and Researcher in the Cornell Information Science department, announced a tentative date for the release 2.2 of the FEDORA digital object repository.

    The Fedora development team would like to announce that Fedora 2.2 will be released on Friday, January 19, 2007 …

     Posted on  December 31, 2006
     and last updated January 01, 2007
     ·  5 minutes reading time
  • 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 why can be exacerbated by the lack of physical proximity --- in other words, I can't simply yell over the cubical wall to …

     Posted on  December 22, 2006
     and last updated January 15, 2018
     ·  12 minutes reading time
  • Pocket-sized Graph of the Theory of Disruptive Innovation

    I really like Christensen's Theory of Disruptive Innovation (as he proposed in his book The Innovator's Dilemma). It succinctly describes the challenges, if not the fate, of academic libraries as we navigate through changing expectations and fast-moving, turbulent technologies. In fact, I often find that in explaining my point-of-view …

     Posted on  December 21, 2006
     and last updated December 21, 2006
     ·  1 minutes reading time
  • 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 brought back memories of the mid-90s and the Internet growth explosion that spurred the deployment of NAT (Network Address Translation) devices, the shift in large scale Internet routing …

     Posted on  December 20, 2006
     and last updated December 21, 2006
     ·  2 minutes reading time
  • What a NASA/Google Mashup Might Mean for Libraries

    Ron Murray (no relation) from the Library of Congress sent me this announcement about a joint NASA/Google partnership, which starts:

    NASA Ames Research Center and Google have signed a Space Act Agreement that formally establishes a relationship to work together on a variety of challenging technical problems ranging from …

     Posted on  December 19, 2006
     and last updated December 20, 2006
     ·  1 minutes reading time
  • ODCE 2007: Preliminary Program, Online Registration Now Available

    ODCE 2007: The Convergence of Learning, Libraries and Technology conference is set for March 4-6, 2007. You can view the preliminary program and pre-conference workshop descriptions as well as register online for ODCE 2007, Ohio's premier higher education conference.

    This year's conference will feature five pre-conference workshops, more than 40 …

     Posted on  December 18, 2006
     and last updated December 18, 2006
     ·  1 minutes reading time
  • Child Rearing Through HTTP Status Codes

    Long time readers of DLTJ know that I rarely post commentary outside the realm of disruptive library technology to this blog, much less reflections of personal, non-work life. This will be an exception, though, because it straddles that boundary between technology and family. It is called REST for toddlers and …

     Posted on  December 15, 2006
     and last updated December 15, 2006
     ·  1 minutes reading time
  • Java Application for Batch Processing FEDORA Objects

    We had a need today to transform an XML file with a custom DTD into Dublin Core; the custom XML file is a datastream in our FEDORA repository and we want to put the Dublin Core XML file back into the FEDORA object as the DC datastream. This took a …

     Posted on  December 13, 2006
     and last updated January 15, 2018
     ·  12 minutes reading time
  • 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. This was originally an internal OhioLINK document, but the process described is pretty traditional and others might find a use for this as well. You …

     Posted on  December 04, 2006
     and last updated December 05, 2006
     ·  6 minutes reading time
  • "Applying the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Model to Libraries" — A Presentation

    There was a great crowd at the University of Windsor "Future of the ILS" symposium. The presentation is available from http://dltj.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/200611-uwindsor-soa/. An outline of the presentation is given below with links into the presentation slides. Amanda Etches-Johnson has also posted a great summary …

     Posted on  November 15, 2006
     and last updated November 15, 2006
     ·  1 minutes reading time
  • MaintainIT Project Gears Up to Support Public Access Computing

    I got an e-mail tonight from Franziska Marks, Senior Communications Manager at CompuMentor (and home of TechSoup & the TechSoup NetSquared Initiative), about the newly created MaintainIT Project, promoting sustainable best practices and models of technical support for public libraries. They have just launched their "Share your story" campaign to collect …

     Posted on  November 09, 2006
     and last updated November 10, 2006
     ·  2 minutes reading time
  • Sakai gets JSR-170 support; possible integration point with FEDORA?

    Earlier this year, I was on a quest to hook a FEDORA content repository into the Sakai collaboration and learning environment. What looked at first to be a fairly easy integration turned out to be rather complicated and I set the project aside for another time. Today brings word from …

     Posted on  November 08, 2006
     and last updated November 08, 2006
     ·  1 minutes reading time
  • "Applying the SOA Model to Libraries" talk coming up at the U-Windsor "Future of the Integrated Library System" symposium

    It is my honor and pleasure to be asked to speak at a one-day symposium called "The Future of the Integrated Library System" hosted by the University of Windsor on November 15, 2006. More information can be found at the symposium wiki. I have a one-hour talk with the title …

     Posted on  November 07, 2006
     and last updated November 07, 2006
     ·  1 minutes reading time