Taking a Day’s Break from SOA
No Service Oriented Architecture posting today, but here is a glimpse of the topic of the next one -- the title is: "Web Services: A means to a Service Orie...
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The Dis-integration of the ILS into a SOA Environment
This is part three of a continuing series on the application of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) design pattern to library systems. In the first part...
Services in a Service Oriented Architecture
This post is the second in a series about the application of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) system design pattern to library services. The first po...
Defining “Service Oriented Architecture” by Analogy
This post is the first in a series over the next few days that in total will attempt to lay the groundwork for a discussion of applying the Service Oriented ...
Why FEDORA? Answers to the FEDORA Users Interview Survey
The Fedora Outreach and Communications team is conducting a survey of the high-level sense of passion and commitment inherent in the Fedora community. I've ...
Ohio Digital Commons for Education Conference Announcement
Where can faculty, administrators, librarians and technology gurus all meet to discuss learning, libraries, technology and the convergence of these activitie...
Possible Resolution to Technorati Update Problem
Up until about an hour ago, Technorati refused to update its database of postings to DLTJ, and having reached the 31-day point of no updates I was starting t...
OpenLDAP with a Go Daddy “Turbo SSL Secure Certificate”
Okay -- this seemed like a lot harder than it should have been. At the very least, it took piecing together information from a number of places in order to ...
Google News Archive Search — Where Are the Links to Content from Libraries?
Extra! Extra! Read All About It! "Explore History as it Happened: Google News Now Has Archive Search" Extra! Extra! </p> In my imagination I can ...
Best Practice Proposal for a DESCRIPTION Datastream
OhioLINK is deep in the process of migrating content from our old Bulldog/Documentum-based system to, well, something else, and we've been talking about the ...
Script for Testing HTTP Referer Headers
I’ve just had the third occasion where in support of a user I suspect that user has a piece of software which is blocking or modifying the HTTP “referrer” he...
XTF and FEDORA — Comments from the Community
Some questions and observations that have come in through mechanisms other than blog comments on the analysis of the XTF/FEDORA integration. I've reproduced...