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Make Plans to Attend the ResourceSync Post-Conference Tutorial at LITA Forum 22 Aug 2013 | 04:49 am
As 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...
Interoperability and Its Role In Standardization, Plus A ResourceSync Overview: Slidecast from ALA2013 20 Jul 2013 | 10:35 pm
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 and standards plus a brief overview of the R...
Host Your Own Virtual Lightning Talks Using Google Hangout — Slides and Links from ALA2013 Presentation 29 Jun 2013 | 10:29 pm
In the “very meta” category, this morning I gave a lightning talk about lightning talks to a crowd of about 150 at the LITA Lightning Talks session. More specifically, it was a brief presentation on h...
LYRASIS’ “Reposervice” Setup Pushed to GitHub 19 Jun 2013 | 10:58 pm
Earlier this month published ‘reposervice’ to GitHub. Reposervice is a “self-contained” Islandora installation source tree that is intended to smooth the LYRASIS deployment of repository services betw...
Code4Lib Journal Issue #20 Published; My Editorial: “It is Volunteers All the Way Down…” 17 Apr 2013 | 10:51 pm
Issue #20 of the Code4Lib Journal was just published, and I had the honor of being the coordinating editor for the issue. Being on the editorial committee of the Journal has been a heck of an experien...
Notes on the Code4Lib Virtual Lightning Talks 9 Apr 2013 | 06:22 am
Last week I emcee’d the second Code4Lib Virtual Lightning talk session and I wanted to record some notes and pointers here in case me (or anyone else) wants to do the same thing again. First, though, ...
Interlibrary Loan Standards Undergoing Revision at the ISO Level 15 Mar 2013 | 05:25 pm
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 see and consider ballots for standards iss...
Vote for an ALA2013 Ignite Session on Open Source Communities 27 Feb 2013 | 03:41 am
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 prog...
A Great iPad Keyboard/Case Combination: New Trent Airbender 22 Feb 2013 | 07:46 pm
This is a review of the Airbender Bluetooth keyboard by New Trent (model IMP38W). I have been testing this unit since January 28, 2013, and traveled with it to Code4Lib in Chicago where I relied on th...
ResourceSync Specification Draft Published for Comment 5 Feb 2013 | 01:33 am
ResourceSync — a joint effort of NISO and the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) team with work funded by the Sloan Foundation — has published a draft specification that I urge members of the library tech...
