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Peter E. Murray

Library technologist, open source advocate, striving to think globally while acting locally

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  • Automatically Generating Podcast Transcripts

    I'm finding it valuable to create annotations on resources to index into my personal knowledge management system. (The Obsidian journaling post from late last year goes into some depth about my process.) I use the Hypothesis service to do this—Hypothesis annotations are imported into Markdown files for Obsidian using …

     Posted on  September 28, 2022
     and last updated January 07, 2023
     ·  5 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Website Accessibility Reporting Service and Remixes in Film

    This week's DLTJ Thursday Threads has just two pointers. First, a new volunteer web service to report problems with websites, which may be useful for not only our own sites but for the sites our patrons visit. Second, a nine-minute video that illustrates the reuse of themes and ideas in …

     Posted on  February 10, 2011
     and last updated February 10, 2011
     ·  2 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Kindle Singles and Kindle Accessibility, Sped-up Discourse, ISBN Troubles

    This week Amazon takes center stage of DLTJ Thursday Threads with a report of their new Kindle Singles program for medium-form digital content and a screen-reader-aware version of the Kindle reader application for PCs. After that is a look at how scholarly discourse is changing -- radically! -- with the availability and …

     Posted on  January 27, 2011
     and last updated January 27, 2011
     ·  7 minutes reading time
  • Defining Metadata and Making Metadata Accessible

    In preparation for the last webinar of the three-part series "Using RDA: Moving into the Metadata Future", I'm reading again Karen Coyle's "Library Data in a Modern Context" -- the first chapter of Understanding the Semantic Web: Bibliographic Data and Metadata. Right at the start she has a clear and …

     Posted on  November 16, 2010
     and last updated November 17, 2010
     ·  4 minutes reading time
  • Preserving Digital Video

    My place of work is looking to acquire educational videos in a digital form with an eye towards long-term preservation. At this point we receive a physical form (preferably DVD, but sometimes VHS) and digitize it to a very lossy access format (RealMedia, in this case). With this change, we …

     Posted on  April 08, 2008
     and last updated April 08, 2008
     ·  4 minutes reading time
  • Resource for Improving Higher Education Instruction

    A few months back I referred to a project that used video to present information about accessibility needs in the classroom. That article was about how difficult it is to create markup for embedded video that is universally accessible and valid HTML. Late last month the larger project that used …

     Posted on  March 03, 2007
     and last updated March 03, 2007
     ·  2 minutes reading time
  • Update to "Embedded Web Video in a Standards-Compliant, Accessible, and Successful Way"

    With the release of Microsoft's Windows Media Player version 11, the Microsoft Media Server (MMS) protocol is officially no longer supported. (Except, of course, for the confusing/amusing footnote on that page that says 'mms://' URIs are "highly recommended" as a protocol rollover URL — only Microsoft can at the same …

     Posted on  February 21, 2007
     and last updated January 15, 2018
     ·  5 minutes reading time
  • Embedded Web Video in a Standards-Compliant, Accessible, and Successful Way

    The word "Successful" in the title, when juxtaposed with "Standards-Compliant" and "Accessible," should be big, bold and flashing (except that the flashing style would then go against web accessibility best practice). The goal is to embed a video clip into a web page that validates as "XHTML4.01 Transitional", includes …

     Posted on  September 25, 2006
     and last updated January 15, 2018
     ·  16 minutes reading time