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I just picked up a new bike.  It’s a Felt Z70.  Love this bike.  Can’t wait to take it on my first big ride.  Here’s a picture. –TR

What started out as an idea to help out some colleagues stranded in state by travel restrictions will become a reality.  Kyle Banerjee and I hatched our plan in late March — since really no-one from the west coast was able to attend code4lib in providence (and won’t next year as well) — we figured…

What a fantastic movie.  I love Pixar movies because I know that I can take the kids and they will enjoy it and there’s a pretty good chance that I’ll like it too.  However, after last year’s Wall-E (which I loved), I had pretty high expectations going into the theatre this afternoon when my wife…

So over the last weekend (Sat — Mon., May 16-18), I was at Timberline Lodge near Portland, Oregon for the annual Timberline Acquisitions Conference (9th annual anyway).  The conference is one that I would generally not attend (what do I know about acquisitions other than you buy things) — but this year I had been…

So, I’ve been a little neglectful keeping up with the blogging due to a number of other outside activities.  Over the past couple of months, I’ve done a good deal of writing and publishing.  In order, I’ve had the following articles published: LRTS: Reese, T. (2009, April). Automated Metadata Harvesting: Low-Barrier MARC Record Generation from…

Just posted a small update to MarcEdit 5.1.  The biggest change is in the Z39.50 client — adding Unicode retrival to the Z39.50 batch tool.  However, I’ve also included changes to the Validator, expanded the delete field function, etc. You can find it at: MarcEdit_Setup.msi –TR

I wrote this up some time ago, but I still occasionally get questions about it (in fact, I got one today, hence this note).  The Project Gutenberg (PG) provides its metadata for download in RDF format on it’s website at: http://www.gutenberg.org/feeds/catalog.rdf.zip.  I wrote an XSLT transformation for this data (fairly basic) when I was visiting…

My wife got me for this Christmas.  I love it.   –TR

In LibraryFind 0.9, the UI has been enhanced to include a number of small niceties (things that have been flowing into the 0.8.x branch — but are enhanced in 0.9).  Things that you will find in LibraryFind 0.9 is Cover Art (which can be pulled from Open Library, Google or Library Thing [Open Library is…

One of the main UI complains with the 0.8.x branch of LibraryFind relates to what happens after the user searches.  Since LibraryFind must collocate all the search results together before display, what happens as the user waits (or doesn’t happen) has been an admitted weakness of the program.  That will change in 0.9.  In 0.9,…