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Peter E. Murray

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

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  • Draft Specifications of OAI Object Reuse and Exchange Now Available

    ORE logoLast night, Herbert Van de Sompel announced the availability of the draft specifications and user guide for Object Reuse and Exchange (ORE). This effort, under the auspices of the Open Archives Initiative (OAI), seeks to define a standard for the description and exchange of aggregations of web resources.

    If you …

     Posted on  December 12, 2007
     and last updated December 12, 2007
     ·  3 minutes reading time
  • OAI-ORE Open Meeting, March 3 2008, Johns Hopkins University

    Here is the press release describing the event:

    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

    Open Archives Initiative Announces Public Meeting on March 3, 2008 to Release Object Reuse and Exchange Specifications

    Ithaca, NY and Los Alamos, NM, October 31, 2007 - On March 3, 2008 the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) will hold a public …

     Posted on  November 09, 2007
     and last updated November 10, 2007
     ·  3 minutes reading time
  • JPEG XR Could Be Neat, but JPEG2000 is Still Neater

    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 short for "extended range" -- a reference to its improvement over the original JPEG standard). You can read the publicity details in the …

     Posted on  August 04, 2007
     and last updated August 04, 2007
     ·  5 minutes reading time
  • Notes from the LITA Standards IG meeting

    [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://www.litablog.org/2007/06/23/standards-ig/ but it seems to be stuck in a moderation queue of some sort. I'm reposting it …

     Posted on  June 24, 2007
     and last updated June 24, 2007
     ·  6 minutes reading time
  • Planning a digital preservation assessment using TRAC:CC and DRAMBORA

    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 "trusted" means, and so we are engaging in an audit process to assess whether we can claim to be trustworthy. This process is panning …

     Posted on  May 23, 2007
     and last updated May 23, 2007
     ·  6 minutes reading time
  • Following Up on Adobe Photoshop and JPEG2000

    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 issue, there have been a few more comments, including one by Erich Kesse from the University of Florida. Jack has added a few …

     Posted on  April 25, 2007
     and last updated April 25, 2007
     ·  1 minutes reading time
  • 2007 Web Design Survey

    2007 Web Design Survey logoFriend 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 design and boost respect for the profession" and asks questions to learn "Who are we? Where do we live? What are our titles …

     Posted on  April 24, 2007
     and last updated April 24, 2007
     ·  1 minutes reading time
  • Questioning the Future of JPEG2000 Support in Photoshop

    John Nack, Senior Product Manager for Adobe Photoshop, posted a query recently to his blog seeking customer reactions to the possibility of removing JPEG2000 support from Photoshop:

    Adobe developed the plug-in in anticipation of cameras entering the market with native JPEG 2000 support on board. The thing is, that hasn't …

     Posted on  April 05, 2007
     and last updated April 05, 2007
     ·  3 minutes reading time
  • A Report on Namespaces Used by OAI-PMH Repositories

    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 the list of Registered Data Providers at the OpenArchives.org website. The results of this effort are pretty interesting. Some …

     Posted on  March 20, 2007
     and last updated March 20, 2007
     ·  2 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
  • Introducing the OAI Object Reuse and Exchange Initiative

    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 proud to serve on the technical committee for this group and over the next few postings I'm aiming to introduce the library community …

     Posted on  February 12, 2007
     and last updated February 13, 2007
     ·  7 minutes reading time
  • IAB to Address Concerns About Internet Routing Scalability

    An e-mail from Leslie Daigle, chair of the Internet Architecture Board, crossed my inbox tonight through the IETF-announce list (excerpted below) that brought back memories of the mid-90s and the Internet growth explosion that spurred the deployment of NAT (Network Address Translation) devices, the shift in large scale Internet routing …

     Posted on  December 20, 2006
     and last updated December 21, 2006
     ·  2 minutes reading time
  • Child Rearing Through HTTP Status Codes

    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 personal, non-work life. This will be an exception, though, because it straddles that boundary between technology and family. It is called REST for toddlers and …

     Posted on  December 15, 2006
     and last updated December 15, 2006
     ·  1 minutes reading time
  • Representing Collections In FEDORA

    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 how to represent the notion of a collection within the repository, we're going to have to get pretty heavy into RDF: the …

     Posted on  July 25, 2006
     and last updated July 25, 2006
     ·  5 minutes reading time
  • Minutes of the ALA/LITA JPEG2000 for Libraries and Archives interest group meeting

    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, OhioLINK; K. Thompson, Smithsonian Libraries

    Participants talked about their interest in JPEG2000 and their institution's use of the standard: Western Michgan University is digitizing manuscripts …

     Posted on  June 24, 2006
     and last updated June 24, 2006
     ·  1 minutes reading time
  • Is the Writing on the Wall for the Integrated Library System?

    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 course, how we got into the spot we're in and how we might get out of it (and those people were kind enough to engage …

     Posted on  June 13, 2006
     and last updated June 14, 2006
     ·  6 minutes reading time
  • "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