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Peter E. Murray

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

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  • Local and Unique and Digital: A Evolving Trend for Libraries and Cultural Heritage Institutions

    These are slides and audio from presentation given at the LOUIS Users Group meeting, on October 4, 2013, in Baton Rouge, LA. The description of the talk was:

    Libraries have been digitizing materials for decades as surrogates for access to physical materials, and in doing so have broadened the range …

     Posted on  October 09, 2013
     and last updated October 10, 2013
     ·  1 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Personal Book Digitizer, Status of Book Piracy, Core Elements of Description

    It wasn't too long ago that the music industry was in an uproar about stories of how easy it was to copy digital audio files and make digital copies with high fidelity. It was predicted that we would see the same thing in other media forms, and this week's DLTJ …

     Posted on  January 20, 2011
     and last updated January 20, 2011
     ·  6 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Amazon Pressures Publishers, Academic Spam, Mechanical Turk Spam, Multispectral Imaging

    With the close of the year approaching, this issue marks the 14th week of DLTJ Thursday Threads. This issue has a publisher's view of Amazon's strong-arm tactics in book pricing, research into the possibility that academic authors could game Google Scholar with spam, demonstrations of how Amazon's Mechanical Turk drives …

     Posted on  December 30, 2010
     and last updated January 02, 2018
     ·  5 minutes reading time
  • Interesting Google Book Search Settlement Bits in Advance of Thursday's Fairness Hearing

    Thursday will be a big day in the Google Book Search lawsuit settlement: the parties to the lawsuit, along with the objectors, supporters, and friends-of-the-court, will be in the courtroom of United States District Judge Denny Chin offering oral arguments in the final settlement/fairness hearing. In his order, Judge …

     Posted on  February 15, 2010
     and last updated February 16, 2010
     ·  3 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
  • A Glimpse into the Internet Archive's Scanning and Print-on-Demand Operations

    Wired magazine published a brief story and online photo gallery of the book scanning and print-on-demand projects at the Internet Archive. It is a fascinating glimpse into their vision and processes. Included below are cropped thumbnails and part of the text captions that accompanied the pictures in the Wired online …

     Posted on  March 20, 2008
     and last updated March 20, 2008
     ·  3 minutes reading time
  • Vint Cerf on the Origins of 32-bit IP Addressing

    Via a weekly wrap-up post by Dion Almaer on the Google Code Blog comes mention of a Google Tech Talk video from their IPv6 Conference 2008. It is a panel discussion called "What will the IPv6 Internet look like?" and it offers insight into the difficulties of transitioning to the …

     Posted on  March 07, 2008
     and last updated March 08, 2008
     ·  2 minutes reading time
  • Soundprint's 'Who Needs Libraries?

    OhioLINK's Meg Spernoga pointed our staff to a 30 minute audio documentary called Who Needs Libraries? from Soundprint.org:

    As more and more information is available on-line, as Amazon rolls out new software that allows anyone to find any passage in any book, an important question becomes: Who needs libraries …

     Posted on  February 01, 2008
     and last updated February 01, 2008
  • 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 and sent to you in the mail? That's the twist behind a recent partnership announced by Amazon.com, Kirtas Technologies, Emory University …

     Posted on  June 24, 2007
     and last updated June 24, 2007
     ·  1 minutes reading time