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Peter E. Murray

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

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  • 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
  • "iTunes U" for Libraries?

    A recent posting in the Chronicle of Higher Education "Wired Campus" section describes the new iTunes U portal, "a spot on the site that will collect college lectures, commencement speeches, tours, sports highlights, and promotional material, all available at no cost." (If you have iTunes on your desktop/laptop, you …

     Posted on  June 01, 2007
     and last updated June 01, 2007
     ·  1 minutes reading time
  • Information Explorers versus Editors

    A post by Bill Harris at "Dubious Quality" with the title Information got caught up in my Technorati filter for disruptive change in libraries. Geoff Engelstein, a colleague of Bill's mentioned this in an e-mail:

    We were a generation of information explorers. They [Geoff's thirteen– and eleven-year-olds] are a generation …

     Posted on  May 25, 2007
     and last updated May 26, 2007
     ·  1 minutes reading time
  • Creating Participatory Digital Libraries

    "Participatory Digital Libraries" is the name of a talk Paul Jones, Director of ibiblio.org, gave this morning at OCLC's Kilgour Auditorium. Known as "The Public's Library," ibiblio is a large, diverse digital library. His talk offered insight on how ibiblio works and commentary for applying the same successful techniques …

     Posted on  May 14, 2007
     and last updated May 14, 2007
     ·  4 minutes reading time
  • Survey on Library Professional Perceptions

    Jenny Emanuel, Electronic Services Librarian at University of Central Missouri, posted an invitation to complete a survey on how library professionals think of themselves to several mailing lists. As part of the ALA Emerging Leaders 2007 program, she is part of a team look for options on rebranding the librarian …

     Posted on  April 30, 2007
     and last updated April 30, 2007
     ·  1 minutes reading time
  • Can You Hear Me Now? DLTJ as a Podcast

    Update 19-Jan-2011: I've decommissioned this service. Talkr seems to be unavailable, and I haven't had time to find a replacement.

    If reading the thoughts of the Jester via this blog wasn't enough, you can now hear this witty (witless?) insights read to you through your favorite podcast player. I've been …

     Posted on  March 25, 2007
     and last updated March 26, 2007
     ·  3 minutes reading time
  • JPEG2000 for Digital Preservation

    Last month was an interesting month for discussion and news of JPEG2000 as an archival format. First, there was a series of posts on the IMAGELIB about the rational for using JPEG2000 for master files. It started with a posting by Tom Blake of Boston Public Library asking these questions …

     Posted on  February 26, 2007
     and last updated February 26, 2007
     ·  5 minutes reading time
  • The Intersection of the Web Architecture with Scholarly Communication

    Two previous posts on dltj.org have described the OAI Object Reuse and Exchange (ORE) project and the theory behind what has become known as the 'Web Architecture'. These two areas meet up now in this post which describes the issues surrounding the raw Web Architecture as applied to a …

     Posted on  February 16, 2007
     and last updated February 16, 2007
     ·  6 minutes reading time
  • "Applying the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Model to Libraries" — A Presentation

    There was a great crowd at the University of Windsor "Future of the ILS" symposium. The presentation is available from http://dltj.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/200611-uwindsor-soa/. An outline of the presentation is given below with links into the presentation slides. Amanda Etches-Johnson has also posted a great summary …

     Posted on  November 15, 2006
     and last updated November 15, 2006
     ·  1 minutes reading time
  • The Dis-integration of the ILS into a SOA Environment

    This is part three of a continuing series on the application of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) design pattern to library systems. In the first part, the SOA concept was compared to a transportation network and the basic foundation for defining SOA was set down. The second part described what …

     Posted on  September 20, 2006
     and last updated September 21, 2006
     ·  9 minutes reading time
  • Services in a Service Oriented Architecture

    This post is the second in a series about the application of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) system design pattern to library services. The first post in this series focused on defining "Service Oriented Architecture" using the analogy of a transportation network. This post goes into some detail about what …

     Posted on  September 19, 2006
     and last updated September 20, 2006
     ·  10 minutes reading time
  • Defining "Service Oriented Architecture" by Analogy

    This post is the first in a series over the next few days that in total will attempt to lay the groundwork for a discussion of applying the Service Oriented Architecture (or SOA) software design pattern to systems and solutions in the library space. It starts with comparing the SOA …

     Posted on  September 18, 2006
     and last updated September 19, 2006
     ·  4 minutes reading time
  • Ohio Digital Commons for Education Conference Announcement

    [Image: ODCE Logo]Where can faculty, administrators, librarians and technology gurus all meet to discuss learning, libraries, technology and the convergence of these activities? At the Ohio Digital Commons for Education 2007 – The Convergence of Learning, Libraries and Technology Conference, of course!

    Be a part of ODCE 2007! The Ohio Digital Commons for …

     Posted on  September 12, 2006
     and last updated September 12, 2006
     ·  1 minutes reading time
  • A Known Citation Discovery Tool in a Library2.0 World

    When it comes to seeking a full-text copy of that known-item citation, are our users asking "what have you done for me lately?" OpenURL has taken us pretty far when one starts in an online environment -- a link that sends the citation elements to our favorite link resolver -- but it …

     Posted on  August 15, 2006
     and last updated August 15, 2006
     ·  4 minutes reading time
  • Just In Time Acquisitions versus Just In Case Acquisitions

    What of a service existed where the patrons selected an item they needed out of our library catalog and that item was delivered to the patron even when the library did not yet own the item? Would that be useful? With the growth of online bookstores, our users do have …

     Posted on  August 02, 2006
     and last updated August 02, 2006
     ·  7 minutes reading time
  • Can Google be Out-Googled?

    I have been heard to remark to other librarians on occasion a comment along the lines of "Don't fear Google; Don't Chase Google; Let's Out-Google Google!" After allowing the confused stare linger for a moment or the hysterical laughter die down, I explain my thesis: we have something Google doesn't …

     Posted on  July 30, 2006
     and last updated July 30, 2006
     ·  8 minutes reading time
  • Appreciating our Heritage while Embracing a Future

    Tom Wilson, LITA past president and all-around insightful LITA Top Technology Trendster, posted a commentary to the "Where have all the programmers gone?" post that deserves top billing For those that have not yet encountered this idiom, "top billing" is a motion picture industry term that refers to actors whose …

     Posted on  July 13, 2006
     and last updated July 13, 2006
     ·  4 minutes reading time
  • It's All About User Services: A Summary and Commentary on the LITA Top Technology Trends meeting

    What follows is a summary and commentary on the LITA Top Technology Trends meeting at ALA annual conference in New Orleans on 25-Jun-2006. What I've tried to do is collate comments from the panel members and add my own commentary (marked off as such from the rest of the summary …

     Posted on  June 25, 2006
     and last updated June 26, 2006
     ·  8 minutes reading time
  • Minutes of the FEDORA Workflow Working Group meeting of 18-Jun-2006

    Please note -- this is a copy of the FEDORA Workflow Working Group minutes from the FEDORA Wiki. It is being posted here in order to get it into the blogosphere at the right places. Please make comments on the FEDORA Wiki "talk" page rather than on this posting.

    FEDORA Workflow …

     Posted on  June 20, 2006
     and last updated June 21, 2006
     ·  6 minutes reading time
  • Disruption in Publishing

    Last week's Chronicle of Higher Education Review had an opinion piece by Kate Wittenberg, director of EPIC (Electronic Publishing Initiative at Columbia) with the title "Beyond Google: What Next for Publishing?" (subscription required). An excerpt from the beginning:

    While we have been busy attending conferences, workshops, and seminars on every …

     Posted on  June 19, 2006
     and last updated June 20, 2006
     ·  1 minutes reading time