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Peter E. Murray

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

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  • DLTJ Now Uses Webmention and Bridgy to Aggregate Social Media Commentary

    When I converted this blog from WordPress to a static site generated with Jekyll in 2018, I lost the ability for readers to make comments. At the time, I thought that one day I would set up an installation of Discourse for comments like Boing Boing did in 2013. But …

     Posted on  July 11, 2021
     and last updated July 11, 2021
     ·  3 minutes reading time

  • 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 thoughts and feelings.

    Featuring an ouroboros, a snake or dragon biting its own tail, a digital representation of a copy of a 1478 drawing by Theodoros Pelecanos of an alchemical tract attributed to Synesius.
    Ouroboros: an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail. Or—in this context—constantly chasing what you can never …

     Posted on  June 23, 2021
     and last updated June 23, 2021
     ·  6 minutes reading time

  • Make Plans to Attend the ResourceSync Post-Conference Tutorial at LITA Forum

    ResourceSync LogoAs you are planning your trip to the 2013 LITA Forum in Louisville in mid-November, plan to stay a few hours longer to attend the ResourceSync Tutorial happening after the close of the main conference on Sunday. Herbert van de Sompel will lead this 3-hour session where attendees can learn …

     Posted on  August 21, 2013
     and last updated August 21, 2013
     ·  1 minutes reading time

  • 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

  • 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

  • Working With the Web Architecture

    As you may have noticed, the web has evolved a set of common principles that are a mix of ratified standards and ad hoc practices. The notion of a Web Architecture was codified in a W3C technical report called "Architecture of the World Wide Web" http://www.w3.org/TR …

     Posted on  February 16, 2007
     and last updated February 16, 2007
     ·  4 minutes reading time