Open Library Demonstration Screencast
Earlier this week, Aaron Swartz of the Internet Archive announced the demonstration website of the Open Library project, a new kind of book catalog that brin...
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Article-Level OAI-PMH Harvest Available from DOAJ
Earlier this year the DOAJ began offering a new schema for registered articles that significantly improves the value of OAI-PMH harvested article content. P...
Automating Withdrawn Actions: Maximixing the Long Tail of Acquisitions
Libraries place a good deal of emphasis on collection development policies -- a written statement of a library's intentions for building its collection. It ...
Notes from the LITA Standards IG meeting
[Aside: I'm not quite sure what the procedure is for posting on LITAblog.org. This report was posted there last night to appear at something like http://ww...
Out of Print Books Get New Life via Amazon and Participating Libraries
Why settle for mere digital copies of books (a la the Google Book Search project and the Open Content Alliance) when you can have an edition printed, bound a...
Minutes of the JPEG2000 Interest Group Posted
Minutes of the JPEG2000 Interest Group have been posted to the j2kArcLib.info website. Comments there are restricted to registered users of the site (althou...
Introducing “Planet Library SOA”
I am pleased to announce the formation of Planet Library SOA -- an aggregation of blog postings and resources related to the application of the Service-Orien...
DLTJ Now Uses reCAPTCHA
DLTJ now uses reCAPTCHA on comment forms. reCAPTCHA is an enhanced version of CAPTCHA (an acronym for "completely automated public Turing test to tell compu...
A View of Regional Digitization Centers
As a part of work for an OhioLINK strategic task force, I have been exploring the creation and operation of regional/collaborative/shared digitization center...
Meeting of the JPEG 2000 Interest Group on Jun 23rd in Washington, DC
There will be a meeting of the LITA JPEG 2000 Interest Group during the annual conference of the American Library Association in Washington, DC, from June 2...
Solr-ized MARC Record Catalog
Rob Casson of Miami University announced this weekend the beta availability of their video catalog. In a subsequent posting, Rob describes the user interfac...
OAI-ORE Thoughts on Compound Documents
The Technical Committee and Liaison Group of the OAI Object Reuse and Exchange effort met last week in New York City to hammer out face-to-face some of the l...