Category: Digital Libraries

  • Shifting through the chaos (myDspace pooled tasks)

    At OSU, we have very few Dspace collections configured to allow direct submission to the repository.  Nearly anyone on campus can submit an item into Dspace, but that item is then vetted through Technical Services where metadata is looked at and corrected before being added to Dspace.  To do this, we have ~4 individuals (though…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 uptake

    I don’t do it very often but its now been about a year since I formally posted MarcEdit 5.0 as beta and in the 12 months, the program has now been downloaded by 10, 021 unique users.  Not bad I guess.  Hopefully, when I take the program to 5.1 when the docs are completed, I’ll see less…

  • The wonderful world of skype

    So today I entered the wonderful world of skype.  Love it.  If anyone has a desire to chat and use skype, my skype name is reese_terry. –TR

  • Learning Systems Management Patent

    I’m not sure how I missed this, but apparently the US Patent office, in their infininte wisdom, granted Blackboard a paton on “Internet-based education support system and methods”.    Michael Feldstein on the e-Literate blog notes that: As I read it, Blackboard basically owns the patent on any sort of groupware at all that is used…

  • OSCON Day 3

    Just a note — The presentation notes have been posted for all the presentations now (at least as far as I can tell). I’ll post another post with direct links to all the sessions I attended after this one. KeyNotes The first few keynotes really weren’t that interesting (I thought) and I’ll admit that I…

  • OSCON Presentation notes

    For those interested in seeing all the presentation notes from OSCON 2006, you can find all the sessions currently posted at: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/pub/w/46/presentations.html For sessions that I’ve attended and written about, I’ve placed them below.  As more sessions become available, I’ll post additional links. Building Internet Applications with Mozilla XULRunner Benjamin Smedberg URL: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/presentations/os2006/smedberg_benjamin.odp (Open Office files) Google…

  • OSCON 2006: Day 2

    Keynotes: The Zen of Free Simon Phipps, Sun “Opening” the Possibilities: APIs and Open Source Gary Lang, AutoDesk, Inc. Ugh — As good as the first day’s keynotes were — these were not.  I was nearly ready to bag the keynotes when… 5 a day Robert “rOml” Lefkowitz, Root Markets This was a fantastic keynote. …

  • OSCON: Day 1 sessions

    Test-driven development meets design-by-contract Jim Weirich, Compuware Slides: http://www.onestepback.org/articles/TddMeetsDbc I enjoyed this session partly because I’m not a big fan of Ruby’s Unit Testing and liked the idea of a contract testing method.  The session discussed a separate testing packed called rSpec (http://rspec.rubyforge.org/).  I’ve included a link to the presentation which includes sample code on…

  • OSCON 2006 Wed. Keynotes (Tim O’Reilly)

    In the openning keynote, Tim O’Reilly presented what he calls his 5 big ideas about open source.  Some I thought were fairly interesting.  Architectures of participation beyond software development (Web 2.0) The idea here is that in this new world of Web 2.0, successful companies are looking to architectures where people build systems simply by…

  • OSCON 2006

    I’m going to be away from the office for a few days while attending the OSCON 2006 conference here in Portland, Oregon.  I’ll be periodically blogging about the sessions throughout the conference — so stay tuned.  BTW, if anyone is here at OSCON, give me a hollar. –TR