JPEG XR Could Be Neat, but JPEG2000 is Still Neater
On Tuesday, the Joint Photographic Expert's Group (a.k.a. "JPEG") announced a new work item for the standardization of Microsoft's HD Photo as JPEG XR (XR is...
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SOLINET’s Collective Vision of the Future of Libraries
Library Journal reports on the results of discussions among SOLINET ((SOLINET is the Southeastern Library Network, Inc. -- a not-for-profit multi-type librar...
Call for Participation in Meredith Wolfwater’s Biblioblogosphere Survey
Meredith Farkas is conducting a survey of those in the library and information science profession who blog: After two years [since completing the first Surve...
OhioLINK Position available: Systems Developer
The Ohio Library and Information Network (OhioLINK) is seeking an energetic, creative individual to participate in the creation and maintenance of our intern...
“Show Me The Code!!!” -or- It Isn’t Open Source Until We Can See the Source
There are days that I feel like Tom Cruise. No, I have no idea what it is like to be married to Nicole Kidman or Katie Holmes and I don't have the secrets...
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...
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Automating Withdrawn Actions: Maximixing the Long Tail of Acquisitions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...