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Peter E. Murray

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

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  • OCLC WorldCat Hackathon -- New York City -- November 7-8

    This is interesting news -- Don Hamparian, Manager WorldCat Grid Portfolio at OCLC, formally announced the WorldCat Hackathon to the WorldCat Developer Network Discussion List tonight.

    Join fellow coders, hackers and tech-enthusiasts for a two-day WorldCat Hackathon at the New York Public Library. Sponsored by the OCLC Developer’s Network and …

     Posted on  September 09, 2008
     and last updated September 10, 2008
     ·  2 minutes reading time
  • Video Tour of OPAC Discovery Layer Tools

    In March, I gave a presentation at the NISO forum on Next Generation Discovery Tools: New Tools, Aging Standards. For those that were there, you may remember the bulk of the presentation was in the screencast tours of the functionality of 10 OPAC enhancement tools. Topping out at over 750MB …

     Posted on  July 25, 2008
     and last updated July 25, 2008
     ·  1 minutes reading time
  • On Innovation in the ILS Marketplace

    Last month the ILS Discovery Interface Task Force of the DLF called a meeting of library system vendors (including one commercial support organization for open source ILS software) to talk about the state of computer-to-computer interfaces in-to and out-of the ILS. The meeting comes as the work of the task …

     Posted on  April 12, 2008
     and last updated April 13, 2008
     ·  4 minutes reading time
  • Links to OPAC Enhancements, Wrappers, and Replacements

    Below are the supplemental links for the presentation at the NISO workshop on discovery layers in Chapel Hill, NC, on March 28, 2008.

    Update 20080404T1124 : Carolyn McCallum at Wake Forest University posted a great summary of day two of the NISO discovery layer forum, including an overview of my talk …

     Posted on  March 28, 2008
     and last updated March 28, 2008
     ·  4 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