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 ...
Recent posts
Charleston, SC Visitor’s Center A/V Display
First, sorry about this getting posted prematurely through the DLTJ blog. I was trying the post-from-Flickr function, and it was telling me that the postin...
From Joshua Kim, Ideas for Working with Vendors
Joshua Kim, senior learning technologist and an adjunct in sociology at Dartmouth College, recently had a series of posts about working with software vendors...
“Mash-Up” Term is Over 150 Years Old!
Ron Murray, a colleague at the Library of Congress (and no known relation to me), sent me a note about the history of the term "mash-up" in the Oxford Englis...
Fedora plus Sakai, Any Interest?
There was a time when I was moving in both the worlds of the Sakai Collaborative Learning Environment and the Fedora Commons digital content repository. It ...
Creative Blog Spam
I have to give the creator of the blog spam below points for trying. This is what I found in my WordPress spam queue this morning, embedded here as an image...
Interesting Google Book Search Settlement Bits in Advance of Thursday’s Fairness Hearing
Thursday will be a big day in the Google Book Search lawsuit settlement: the parties to the lawsuit, along with the objectors, supporters, and friends-of-th...
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...
The Role of the Library in the Future of Reading
A popular topic coming across my radar screen is the future of reading, and more specifically the role of libraries in the future of reading. Much of commen...
Extensible Catalog Project Seeking Developers in Innovative Ways
Last month, the eXtensible Catalog (XC) project posted job openings for Java developers. These are short-term, grant-funded projects and, having been on th...
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...
Mashups of Bibliographic Data: A Report of the ALCTS Midwinter Forum
This year the ALCTS Forum at ALA Midwinter brought together three perspectives on massaging bibliographic data of various sorts in ways that use MARC, but wh...