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Peter E. Murray

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

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  • Digital versus Digitized: On the Hachette v. Internet Archive Appeal Oral Argument

    One thing that would dramatically clarify the controlled digital lending concept in general and the Hachette v. Internet Archive lawsuit in particular is having distinct terms for types of ebooks. I propose that we refer to them as digital and digitized. A digital book is one that is born digital …

     Posted on  July 06, 2024
     and last updated July 06, 2024
     ·  14 minutes reading time
  • Controlled Digital Lending…What's the Fuss?

    On March 16, 2023, I gave a presentation with this title to the code4lib conference in Princeton, New Jersey. The suggested links from the end of the presentation are listed below followed by a rough transcript of the talk.

    As I noted in the talk, the judge in the Hachette …

     Posted on  March 16, 2023
     and last updated March 18, 2023
     ·  18 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Open Source in Health Care, The Big Deal, Archives of Web Pages

    We're taking a break this week from the HarperCollins e-book story; although the commentary continues from librarians (and a few authors), there hasn't been anything new (that I've seen) from HarperCollins itself. There is still plenty more to look at, though. First up is a report from the health care …

     Posted on  March 17, 2011
     and last updated January 15, 2018
     ·  5 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: HarperCollins Ebook Terms, Internet Archive Ebook Sharing, Future of Collections

    It is an all e-books edition of DLTJ Thursday Threads this week. The biggest news was the announcement of the policy change by HarperCollins for ebooks distributed through OverDrive. Beyond that, though, was an announcement of a new sharing model and program through the Internet Archive. Lastly is a slidecast …

     Posted on  March 02, 2011
     and last updated March 03, 2011
     ·  8 minutes reading time
  • Mashups of Bibliographic Data: A Report of the ALCTS Midwinter Forum

    This year the ALCTS Forum at ALA Midwinter brought together three perspectives on massaging bibliographic data of various sorts in ways that use MARC, but where MARC is not the end goal. What do you get when you swirl MARC, ONIX, and various other formats of metadata in a big …

     Posted on  January 27, 2010
     and last updated January 27, 2010
     ·  16 minutes reading time
  • Comments on Google Book Search Settlement Coming to a Head (Again)

    Ah, it is the beginning of September when thoughts turn to going back to school, the days turn a little colder (in the northern hemisphere) and the smell of lawsuit briefs is in the air. Well, okay -- the latter might not be what you expect, but this is a special …

     Posted on  September 03, 2009
     and last updated September 03, 2009
     ·  4 minutes reading time
  • Intervention by IA Denied; Deadline for Objections Extended

    New York Judge Denny Chin recently issued two rulings in the Google Book Search settlement. In the first, he ' the request by the Internet Archive to intervene as a defendant in the lawsuit (and thus, presumably, be on firmer founding to guide aspects of the settlement). In his response, Judge …

     Posted on  April 29, 2009
     and last updated April 29, 2009
     ·  2 minutes reading time
  • Letters Begin Flying in Objection to the Proposed Google Book Search Settlement

    We are starting to see objections to the Google Book Search Settlement this month in advance of the May 5th deadline set up by the court. The first comes from the consumer advocacy group Consumer Watchdog (found by way of the American Libraries news feed). They have submitted a letter …

     Posted on  April 17, 2009
     and last updated April 17, 2009
     ·  3 minutes reading time
  • Open Library Demonstration Screencast

    Earlier this week, Aaron Swartz of the Internet Archive announced the demonstration website of the Open Library project, a new kind of book catalog that brings together traditional publisher and library bibliographic data in an interface with the user-contributed paradigm of Wikipedia. Okay, I'll pause for a moment while you …

     Posted on  July 20, 2007
     and last updated July 20, 2007
     ·  11 minutes reading time