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...
Recent posts
NISO IR Presentation: “The Third Wave of Library Information Stewardship”
On Monday, I had the honor and pleasure of speaking at the NISO workshop "Getting the Most Out of Your Institutional Repository" on the topic of The Third Wa...
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...
Pointless Mid-Week, Mid-Morning Fun
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Adding Educause Connect’s “Service Oriented Architecture” Term to Planet LibrarySOA
Richard Akerman's recent post highlighting SOA resources at Educause reminded me about the aggregation point on Educause Connect for SOA resources. I'm ass...
OAI-ORE Open Meeting, March 3 2008, Johns Hopkins University
Here is the press release describing the event: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Open Archives Initiative Announces Public Meeting on March 3, 2008 to Release Object...
Xerox and Library of Congress Collaborate on JPEG2000 for Image Preservation
Xerox and the Library of Congress announced a joint effort last week to study the use of JPEG 2000. This is welcome news! The project is "designed to help ...
Textbooks On Reserve Program at Miami University
At the Academic Library Association of Ohio meeting last week, I saw a presentation by John Burke, director of the library at Miami University – Middle...
Results of JPEG2000 Activity in the Google Summer of Code 2007
Earlier this year I posted a summary of planned JPEG2000 activity in the Google Summer of Code. As you may recall, there were two project: one mentored by ...
Support Public Access to Research Funded by the National Institutes of Health
The blogosphere is abuzz with what would seem to be the final hurdle for open access to taxpayer funded research by the National Institutes of Health. Ove...
“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...
Eric Schnell’s Introduction to Library SOA
Back in June, Eric Schnell posted a five part introduction to applying Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) concepts to library applications. Along with his ...