In his presentation, Building the Open Library, Aaron Swartz introduced us to his vision of an online library. In his vision, like Brewster’s, he sees a wiki with one page for every book. For this reason, the small group (6 people spread out around the world) is starting their project with monographs. To achieve this [...]
I have created a set on Flickr with a ton of pictures from the recent Code4Lib conference in Portland – as you see – I didn’t get out of the hotel much, but I did review each restaurant we ate in. Technorati Tags: code4lib, code4lib2008, yelp, flickr, code4libcon2008
In Andrew Nagy’s presentation From Idea to Open Source, he took us through the process of creating VuFind, an open-source OPAC replacement/Library portal. At Villanova, they wanted to develop a portal for library patrons that would let people search the catalog, the article databases and digital library all in one – and keep it separate [...]
Geeze, I go to a conference and come home to find that Google Docs has changed – and so has LinkedIn! LinkedIn has released a new design. So far it looks good to me – I can find everything I need and it’s a bit cleaner/moderner. Check it out. Technorati Tags: linkedin
I noticed yesterday while trying to work with other Code4Libers on a document summarizing the Lightning Talks that the Save button had disappeared. Now this AM when I went to edit a personal document I only needed to make one small change and went to hit ‘Save & Close’ and had to wait for the [...]
.htaccess EditorA free Web 2.0-like tool that lets you quickly generate .htaccess files for your hosted website. eBay DesktopeBay Desktop 1.0 provides a desktop alternative to the eBay website – you can use it to search, browse, bid, keep track of your auctions, and more Google SitesGoogle Sites, a new offering from Google Apps, makes [...]
No Shelf RequiredA moderated discussion of the issues surrounding eBooks, for librarians and publishers. Kaltura – Creating TogetherCollaborative video creation Online StopwatchGreat way for conference moderators to keep their speakers on track Open source plans – PLNWhat current plans or recent experiences do you have related to open source software? OSS Watch – open source [...]
Jonathan Brinley, Edward M. Corrado, and Jodi Schneider talked to us about the Code4Lib Journal, a project that had been talked about for years but never implemented until recently. The moral of this story is stop talking and just do it. They decided to use an agile development philosophy, which basically means don’t over-engineer complicated [...]
I know I’ve said in the past that I’m no fan of Twitter – but I’m giving it another go. I’m trying to use it via IM now. So far this is going pretty well. With my new job I have to be online all day – and on IM & Skype & IRC, so [...]
What a great way to open a conference like Code4Lib. The first keynote was presented by Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive. Brewster started by reminding us that the reason he was there talking to us and the reason he is working on the Internet Archive is because the library metaphor easily translates to the [...]
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