My delicious bookmarks for 2010-05-26
Horowhenua Library Trust Amazon Search ToolA Google Chrome Extension that integrated the HLT Koha Catalog results into Amazon. More of my links
Archive | May, 2010
My delicious bookmarks for 2010-05-24
DiasporaThe privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all distributed open source social network More of my links
VLA Keynote: Library of the Future
This year’s VLA (Vermont Library Association) Conference had the theme of ‘Where tradition meets transformation.’ That’s why they asked Norma Blake and Peggy Cadigan from NJ libraries to give the keynote – because they were instrumental in a ton of transformations!! They titled their talk ‘Library of the future: The indispensable library.’ The digital native [...]
My delicious bookmarks for 2010-05-23
CloudCourseCloudCourse is a course scheduling system. More of my links
My delicious bookmarks for 2010-05-18
Virtual Shelf BrowseThe Virtual Shelf Browse project attempts to replicate in an online environment the experience of browsing a bookshelf for item discovery. This is one way of providing users with the ability to ?find more like this? in the library. More of my links
My delicious bookmarks for 2010-05-16
Tesseract OCRThe Tesseract OCR engine was one of the top 3 engines in the 1995 UNLV Accuracy test. Between 1995 and 2006 it had little work done on it, but it is probably one of the most accurate open source OCR engines available. The source code will read a binary, grey or color image and [...]
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The Prevalence, Perceived Barriers and Benefits of Open Source Software in K-12 Public Schools in Southwest Ohio Selection and Management of Open Source Software in Libraries An evaluative study on the open source digital library softwares for institutional repository: Special reference to Dspace and greenstone digital library A Virtual Exhibition of Open Source Software for [...]
My delicious bookmarks for 2010-05-15
Academic JournalsAcademic Journals provides free access to research information to the international community without financial, legal or technical barriers. All the journals from this organization will be freely distributed and available from multiple websites More of my links
My delicious bookmarks for 2010-05-13
OpenMICOpenMIC is an open source, web-based cataloging tool that can be used as a standalone application or integrated with other repository architectures by a wide range of organizations. It provides a complete metadata creation system for analog and digital materials, with services to export these metadata in standard formats. OpenETDOpen Source Electronic Theses and Dissertations [...]
The reality of open source (aka Koha confusions)
This disclaimer is of course on the about page of this blog, but it bears repeating before I start: Disclaimer: Please note that the words on this blog are my words and no one else’s. The opinions and views presented here are my personal views and not those of my employers. Now that that’s out [...]
