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Peter E. Murray

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

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  • Processing WOLFcon Conference Recordings with FFMPEG

    WOLFcon—the World Open Library Foundation Conference—was held last month, and all of the meetings were recorded using Zoom. Almost all of the sessions were presentations and knowledge-sharing, so giving the recordings a wider audience on YouTube make sense. With nearly 50 sessions, though, manually processing the recordings would …

     Posted on  September 19, 2023
     and last updated September 19, 2023
     ·  12 minutes reading time
  • On Open Library Services: Reflections from the GIL User Group Meeting

    In May 2023 I was asked to join the opening session at Georgia's GIL User Group Meeting. Along with Chris Sharp and Emily Gore, we reflected on the conference theme: The Future is Open. GALILEO has an exciting time ahed of it...their libraries are adopting FOLIO and a new …

     Posted on  September 03, 2023
     and last updated September 02, 2023
     ·  5 minutes reading time
  • Free Software in Libraries, success stories and their impact on the library today

    Today I was privileged to present to the 6th International Congress of Technological Innovation, Innovatics 2016, organized by Duoc UC Libraries, Library of Santiago, and University of Chile Libraries. The conference was simultaneously translated in English and Spanish. To aid the translators, I wrote out the text of my presentation …

     Posted on  August 31, 2016
     and last updated September 01, 2016
     ·  21 minutes reading time
  • Happy to Announce that I'm Joining Index Data

    Index Data posted an announcement on their blog about how I will be joining them next month. Confirmed! I'll be working on the open source library service platform that was announced by EBSCO last month, and more specifically in a role as an organizer and advocate for people participating …

     Posted on  May 19, 2016
     and last updated May 19, 2016
     ·  1 minutes reading time
  • Vote for an ALA2013 Ignite Session on Open Source Communities

    I've put in a proposal on the importance of communities in open source software for an "ignite" session at the ALA Annual meeting in Chicago, and I'd appreciate your vote to get the talk into the program. If you have experienced the power and benefit of open source software, you …

     Posted on  February 26, 2013
     and last updated February 26, 2013
     ·  1 minutes reading time