What ever happened to Google Knowls?
It was announced on December 13th last year with much discussion here on DLTJ and elsewhere on the blogosphere. It would seem uncharacteristic of Google to ...
Recent posts
OAI-ORE Alpha Specifications Updated
As a result of discussions coming from the OAI-ORE open meeting in Baltimore in the first week of March, the document editors released a new version of the O...
On Innovation in the ILS Marketplace
Last month the ILS Discovery Interface Task Force of the DLF called a meeting of library system vendors (including one commercial support organization for op...
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 ...
DLTJ Updated to WordPress 2.5
Unlike previous upgrades, this left some functionality broken -- notably some of the links in the second block under the "about" heading to the left (if you ...
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...
Links to OPAC Enhancements, Wrappers, and Replacements
Below are the supplemental links for the presentation at the NISO workshop on discovery layers in Chapel Hill, NC, on March 28, 2008. Update 20080404T1124 : ...
SSL for WordPress Admin and the Problem with XMLHttpRequest
Note! The updates to SSL handling in WordPress version 2.6 handle the problem of SSL-encrypted admin sessions in a much less hackish sort of way. It doesn'...
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...
NISO Workshop Exploring the Discovery Layer; March 27-28, 2008; Chapel Hill, NC
NISO is conducting a workshop later this month called Next Generation Discovery: New Tools, Aging Standards. The workshop is described this way: "Discoveri...
OhioLINK seeks applicants for two positions: User Services Development and Electronic Licensing
Applications are invited for two positions at OhioLINK: an Assistant Director of Library Systems -- User Services Development and an Assistant Director of E...
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...