I may nod off several times in composing this post the day after election day. Hopefully, in reading it, you won't. It is a story about one corner of democracy. It is a journal entry about how it felt to be a citizen doing what I could do to make …

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 Internet Archive Wayback Machine.

During the inaugural NISO Plus meeting at the end of February, I was surprised and proud to receive the Ann Marie Cunningham Service award. Todd Carpenter, NISO’s executive director, let me know by tweet as I was not able to attend the conference.
Pictured in that tweet is my …

I saw it happen.

The contractor in the neighbor's back yard with the Ditch Witch trencher burying a cable. I was working outside at the patio table and just about to go into a Zoom meeting. Then the internet dropped out. Suddenly, and with a wrenching feeling …

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-person attendees forgetting that the presenter was remote!

The Code4Lib conference was this week, and with the COVID-19 pandemic breaking through many individuals and institutions made …

In early December 2019, a group of publishers announced Get-Full-Text-Research, or GetFTR for short. There was a heck of a response on social media, and the response was—on the whole—not positive from my librarian-dominated corner of Twitter. For my early take on GetFTR, see my December 3rd blog …

In early December 2019, a group of publishers announced Get-Full-Text-Research, or GetFTR for short. I read about this first in Roger Schonfeld's "Publishers Announce a Major New Service to Plug Leakage" piece in The Scholarly Kitchen via Jeff Pooley's Twitter thread and blog post. Details about how this works are …

Eighteen years ago, on Friday, September 7th, 2001, I was honored to be asked to participate in a naturalization ceremony for 46 new citizens of the United States in a courtroom of Judge Alvin Thompson in Hartford, Connecticut. I published those remarks on a website that has long since gone …

These are the presentation notes for the Engaging with Open Source Technologies presentation during the Open Source Publishing Technologies: Current Status and Emerging Possibilities webinar on Wednesday, August 14, 2019.

Webinar Description

This session will focus on discussions of open source publishing platforms and systems. What is the value proposition …

These are the presentation notes for the Ensuring System Interoperability presentation during the Readers and Ebooks: Making The Connection during the NISO/BISG Forum on Friday, June 21, 2019.

• EPUB
• NISO FASTEN Working Group
• ONIX for Books
• Project Counter
• W3C Web Annotation Data Model, Vocabulary, and Protocol
• Hypothes.is

Presentation …

So I'm paying more attention to the DLTJ blog now, and one of the things I quickly noticed is that the Atom syndication feed was broken. Or, at least modern web clients would refuse to retrieve the feed. The problem turned out to be not with the feed file, but …

Well, we have reached the end of another arbitrary orbit around our small unregarded yellow sun¹, and this primitive ape-descended life form² is looking back on this blog's past twelve months. Not much to show for it -- this'll be just the third blog post this year.

And yet …

These are the presentation notes for the Privacy in the Context of Content Platforms and Discovery Tools presentation during the NISO Information Freedom, Ethics, and Integrity virtual conference on Wednesday, April 18, 2018.

• ALA Code of Ethics
• Privacy: An Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights

• Panopticlick - Electronic Frontier Foundation …

I'm in the Austin, Texas, airport -- having just left the closing session of the Re-Think It conference -- and I'm wondering what the heck is happening to my chosen profession. When did we turn into an exclusive member's only club with unrealistic demands on professionalism and a secret handshake?

The closing …

I came across Jen Simmon's call for a #newwwyear by way of Eric Meyer:

Ok, here’s the deal. Tweet your personal website plan with the hashtag #newwwyear (thanks @jamiemchale!):
1) When will you start?
2) What will you try to accomplish?
3) When is your deadline?

Improve an existing …

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 for different media types, the Basic Image Solution Pack was probably the first one written. Displaying a JPEG image, after all, is -- well -- pretty …

I'm bringing this blog out of dormancy to add my voice to the chorus of people defending net neutrality. It isn't the first time; we've been here before when the rules were first adopted by the Federal Communications Commission in 2015. New president, new people in charge, but the reasons …

Earlier this year the STM Association -- a trade association for academic and professional publishers -- started a project called RA21: Resource Access in the 21st Century. The project is a renewed approach to moving past network address recognition and proxy agents as a way of authenticating access to licensed content. I …

This has to be among the weirdest pieces of unsolicited mail I've ever received. Nigerian prince? That is so yesterday. Virtual pharmacy? Too much effort. No, what we want to sell you is a can opener!

Hi Sir/Madam,

Glad to hear that you're on the market for can opener …

Today I was privileged to present to the 6th International Congress of Technological Innovation, Innovatics 2016, organized by Duoc UC Libraries, Library of Santiago, and University of Chile Libraries. The conference was simultaneously translated in English and Spanish. To aid the translators, I wrote out the text of my presentation …