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Peter E. Murray

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

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  • "Cautiously Optimistic"

    During the cookies and lemonade break during JCDL this afternoon I surprised one of the well-respected elders of the field with this question: are we really making progress? are we winning a fight against entropy Defined as: "Measure of disorganization or degradation in the universe that reduces available energy, or …

     Posted on  June 13, 2006
     and last updated June 13, 2006
     ·  4 minutes reading time
  • For the record, I did attend JCDL2006

    If you look along the right-most row in this picture, about midway vertically in the shot, you can see someone in a cream-colored shirt with an Apple laptop. (You can tell it is an Apple laptop because of the glowing white logo in the center.) That's me.

    ZoneTag Photo Monday …

     Posted on  June 13, 2006
     and last updated June 13, 2006
  • Librarians as Gatekeepers

    The plenary session of JCDL this morning was Jonathan Zittrain (Harvard Law School and University of Oxford) entitled "Open Information: Redaction, Restriction, and Removal." This was so good that I couldn't stand to stop and take notes. I did write down one bit: "Libraries are the best hope...for the …

     Posted on  June 13, 2006
     and last updated June 13, 2006
  • JCDL2006 Monday Brain Dump

    JCDL is ranking high one of the most useful (and when not useful one of the most interesting) meetings I've attended. This is my first time here, and although I'd heard about it before I did not realize what a treat it would be to attend. I'm a practice-oriented guy …

     Posted on  June 13, 2006
     and last updated June 13, 2006
     ·  3 minutes reading time
  • Fedora Advanced Applications Panel at JCDL2006

    I am excited almost beyond description to be sharing a panel with Sandy Payette (Cornell
    University, USA), Andrew Treloar (Monash University, Australia), Matthias Razum (Fiz
    Karlsruhe, Germany), and Carl Lagoze (Cornell University, USA) at the upcoming Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. The tutorial is on Sunday afternoon (Sunday, June 11 …

     Posted on  June 05, 2006
     and last updated June 06, 2006
     ·  2 minutes reading time