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 tho...
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 tho...
These are the presentation notes for the Ensuring System Interoperability presentation during the Readers and Ebooks: Making The Connection during the NISO/B...
Helping patrons find the information they need is an important part of the library profession, and in the past decade the profession has seen the rise of ded...
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This weekend I was at the second "DPLAfest" for the Digital Public Library of America. For a while I was in the national e-book program track. Participants...
There is a ballot under consideration within the ISO TC 46/SC 4 on InterLibraryLoan Transactions. The ballot description is: This International Standard spe...
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads: by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner It is a security/privacy edition of DLTJ Thursday Threads this week. F...
At the American Library Association meeting in Chicago last month I gave a 20 minute presentation that was a combination of an overview of interoperability a...
My employer (LYRASIS) is a member of NISO (the accredited standards organization for information and documentation in the U.S.), and as the primary contact I...
My employer recently became a member of NISO and I was made the primary representative. This is my first formal interaction with the standards organization...
Late last year I was asked to put together a 20-minute presentation for my employer (LYRASIS) on what I saw as upcoming technology milestones that could impa...
I'm pleased to announce that the Fall 2010 issue of NISO's International Standards Quarterly (ISQ) is done and available online to NISO members and ISQ subsc...
At the ALA Annual Conference exhibit floor I got my first chance to see the RDA Toolkit. RDA is "Resource Description and Access" -- the new standard for bi...
NISO voting members are currently considering two new work items: a statement of best practices for the physical delivery of library resources and formalizi...
The first production version of the Object Reuse and Exchange from the Open Archives Initiative was published today. In the words of the release announceme...
Carl Lagoze of Cornell University and Herbert Van de Sompel of Los Alamos National Laboratory announced the release of the beta form of the ORE specification...
My place of work is looking to acquire educational videos in a digital form with an eye towards long-term preservation. At this point we receive a physical ...
Copied from the press release announcing the U.K. Public Meeting for OAI/ORE. Open Archives Initiative Announces U.K. Public Meeting on April 4, 2008 for Eu...
What's the deal with NCIP? For those that don't know, NCIP is the NISO protocol that attempts to "define the various transactions needed to support circulat...
Two items of recent note in the JPEG2000 world. The first is the announcement of "the world’s first fully integrated wireless HDTV" that uses JPEG2000...
Last night, Herbert Van de Sompel announced the availability of the draft specifications and user guide for Object Reuse and Exchange (ORE). This effort, un...
Here is the press release describing the event: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Open Archives Initiative Announces Public Meeting on March 3, 2008 to Release Object...
On Tuesday, the Joint Photographic Expert's Group (a.k.a. "JPEG") announced a new work item for the standardization of Microsoft's HD Photo as JPEG XR (XR is...
[Aside: I'm not quite sure what the procedure is for posting on LITAblog.org. This report was posted there last night to appear at something like http://ww...
OhioLINK is engaged in building a "trusted digital repository" on behalf of its membership. As we build it, we want to have an understanding of what "truste...
The discussion has died down on Jack Nack's blog posting about the future of JPEG2000 support in Photoshop. Since I last updated my own commentary on the is...
Friend and former colleague Eric Meyer writes about the 2007 Web Design Survey (first annual) on his blog. It is an effort to "increase knowledge of web des...
John Nack, Senior Product Manager for Adobe Photoshop, posted a query recently to his blog seeking customer reactions to the possibility of removing JPEG2000...
I had a need for a survey of the metadata namespaces used by OAI-PMH repositories, so I wrote up a quick shell script and XSLT style sheet to parse through t...
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 ...
In the past few months a new group has formed to tackle the problem of representing and exchanging complex digital objects in a web-based environment. I am ...
An e-mail from Leslie Daigle, chair of the Internet Architecture Board, crossed my inbox tonight through the IETF-announce list (excerpted below) that brough...
Long time readers of DLTJ know that I rarely post commentary outside the realm of disruptive library technology to this blog, much less reflections of person...
One of the DRC developers had a question recently that sparked a discussion about what to do with collections of objects. In order to answer the question of...
Attending: M. Anderson, U of Iowa; A. Laas, LexisNexis; Y. Han, U of Arizona; P. Howell, Western Michigan University; Y. Kaganovia, Princeton U; P. Murray,...
While in UNC-CH for JCDL I've had occasion to rant with/at some people about the state of the integrated library system marketplace — including, of cou...
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...