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Peter E. Murray

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

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  • Digital Repository Software: How Far Have We Come? How Far Do We Have to Go?

    Bryan Brown's tweet led me to Ruth Kitchin Tillman's Repository Ouroboros post about the treadmill of software development/deployment. And wow do I have thoughts and feelings.

    Featuring an ouroboros, a snake or dragon biting its own tail, a digital representation of a copy of a 1478 drawing by Theodoros Pelecanos of an alchemical tract attributed to Synesius.
    Ouroboros: an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail. Or—in this context—constantly chasing what you can never …

     Posted on  June 23, 2021
     and last updated June 23, 2021
     ·  6 minutes reading time

  • Blocking /xmlrpc.php Scans in the Apache .htaccess File

    Someone out there on the internet is repeatedly hitting this blog's /xmlrpc.php service, probably looking to enumerate the user accounts on the blog as a precursor to a password scan (as described in Huge increase in WordPress xmlrpc.php POST requests at Sysadmins of the North). My access logs …

     Posted on  September 03, 2014
     and last updated September 04, 2014
     ·  2 minutes reading time

  • On questions regarding ISO/DIS 18626, Information and documentation — Interlibrary Loan Transactions

    There is a ballot under consideration within the ISO TC 46/SC 4 on InterLibraryLoan Transactions. The ballot description is:

    This International Standard specifies the transactions between libraries or libraries and other agencies to handle requests for library items and following exchange of messages. This standard is intended to at …

     Posted on  November 08, 2013
     and last updated November 09, 2013
     ·  5 minutes reading time