JCDL2006 Monday Brain Dump
JCDL is ranking high one of the most useful (and when not useful one of the most interesting) meetings I've attended. This is my first time here, and althou...
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Jester Site Was Broken; Fixed Now
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Evergreen Goes Beta, Signals the End of the World As We Know It
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Who Said You Couldn’t Catalog the Internet?
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Fedora Advanced Applications Panel at JCDL2006
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Client JAR for FEDORA Server Access
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OhioLINK Mentors Three Students in the Google Summer of Code
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Near Consensus for Tag “fedora-dr”
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The Problem with MARC and AACR: the World Doesn’t Disco Anymore
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Seeking a Tag for /The/ FEDORA
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Digital Books, Layperson’s Summary
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In an earlier post, I extolled the virtues of Fedora as an ideal candidate for digital preservation because "[a]ll of the metadata (descriptive, preservation...