Terry’s Worklog

  • atscap and pchdtvr GPL revoked or can it be

    I’ve never used this package (apparently its used for HDTV scheduling/recording on Linux), but this link on Slashdot caught my eye: http://sourceforge.net/developer/diary.php?diary_id=26407&diary_user=147583.  Apparently, the developer of this software package is seeking to revoke the GPL license not just for his current code, but his past code/package as well.  I have a difficult time believing that…

  • Talking with Talis

    In response to my top tech trends post, Richard Wallis had asked if I would be willing to expand my thoughts in their Talking with Talis podcast series.  Sounded fun (and it was).  You can find it at: http://blogs.talis.com/panlibus/archives/2008/01/terry_reese_sha.php if you are interested.   –TR

  • Is IT becoming too disposable?

    This is something that came up when I was expanding my thoughts from one of my “non-lita tech trends” earlier this morning and the more I’ve thought about it, the more I’m finding it weighing on my mind.  I’m wondering if we are making our hardware too disposable in the name of convenience.  This comes…

  • Sun aquires MySQL

    URL: http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=7611   I don’t know why, but this makes me a little sad.  Oh, yeah — I know why — I trust Sun about as much as I trust a wolf in a hen house.  Let’s hope they don’t screw up MySQL.   –TR

  • Bring on the Penn State Kitty cats

    So, its official (as of last week I believe), but Oregon State University’s football team will be traveling to Happy Valley to play the Lions — and I’ll be there.  My wife has given me the ok so I’ve got the plane tickets, a hotel room in altoona, pa and a rental car.  Now all…

  • My non-LITA top tech trends

    (Note, I started this post last night, but had to put it away so I could get some rest before a 6 am flight.  I finished the remainder of this while waiting for my flight).  So, after getting up way to early this morning, I staggered my way down to the LITA Top Tech Trends…

  • How they see us

    After a long day of flying, I got to Philly about an hour late (thanks to some snow at the St. Paul airport) and found taxis to be in short supply.  So, I hired a driver and on the drive over, had a great conversation.  My favorite part came when we chatted about our days. …

  • Finally, proof that I did something last year 🙂

    I’ll only have one more post about this (when I actually have books in hand), but Kyle Banerjee and I spent the last year writing a book about building digital libraries.  While I yet to have the proof in hand, I did get a call from our publisher letting us know that the book is…

  • Using MarcEdit to reuse (and maybe import) items in Dspace

    I’ve been thinking a little bit about some of the things that I use MarcEdit for and have been pushing some of this work off my desk to some of the staff in our technical services department.  We actually use MarcEdit quite a bit when it comes to sharing metadata from our Dspace instance with…

  • MarcEdit OAI harvester changes

    Just a small update.  I’d run into a case where I needed to download some data being provided via OAI in a non-Library specific metadata schema.  While the MarcEdit OAI Harvester allows for the definition of your own crosswalks, it limits the types of metadata_Prefixes that can be sent via the harvester (by defining 4…

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