Google’s “Related Links” as a library’s “Find More Items Like This”?
On Thursday, Google announced a new service in the labs: Related Links Last week, we quietly rolled out Google Related Links, which lets you display a unit ...
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Fedora plus Sakai — a marriage made in heaven?
Note -- there was a follow-up to this post. What happens when you mix two Mellon-funded projects? Perhaps a nice bit of what they call synergy. The thinkin...
Why Fedora? Because You Don’t Need Fedora
I’m often asked “Why is OhioLINK using FEDORA?” (Just to eliminate any confusion at the start, I’m referring to the FEDORA Digital Object Repository, a proje...
Resources for Describing Visual Materials
A recent thread on describing visual materials from the IMAGELIB mailing list sparked the descovery of these resources. First was this bibliography of thesa...
AJAX-based Video Editing Tool
This is amazing stuff -- an AJAX-based video editing tool...in your web browser! I haven't looked at the underlying technology or it's licensing terms (the...
Berkeley’s “bSpace Images” project
Word of this Fedora-based image collection tool comes from the Sakai Library & Repositiories discussion group [Sakai Collab account required]. Project N...
Updated Disruption in Libraries Bibliography; New Location
I've moved the bibliography of the theory of disruptive innovation as applied to libraries and higher education to a new location. If you are reading this p...
Christensen on “Disruption in Education”
Somehow I completely missed this paper by Clayton Christensen, Sally Aaron, and William Clark from the EDUCAUSE 2001 Forum for the Future of Higher Education...
David Lewis in Ohio
OhioLINK was pleased to host David Lewis, Director of the Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis Library, to talk about "Disruptive Innovation ...
Where have all the programmers gone? Taking command of our destiny
What follows is pure conjecture; I did not live through the time in question, I can only speculate based on biased evidence and anecdotal hearsay. This is a...
To BPEL or not to BPEL, quite a good question
OhioLINK is actively looking at BPEL as an option for workflow orchestration for the DRC project. I was asked recently about that choice, especially in ligh...
Alternate (Open) Peer Review Model
At some point the DRC will need a generalized peer review system. Although I'm not sure we will use OAI-PMH to shepherd the results around various sys...