Terry’s Worklog

  • Red Hat Patent lawsuit and its far reaching consequences

    I seen that Red Hat has recently found themselves ensnared in a patent lawsuit stemming from their purchase of JBoss.  The lawsuit is centered around the Hibernate 3 technologies — or technologies that deal with object-oriented access to a relational database.  The story can be found here: http://www.infoq.com/news/RedHat-Sued-Due-to-Hibernate-3-O My assumption, looking over this lawsuit, is that there will likely be much prior art to pull from to hopefully invalidate this particular claim.  However, in a worse case scenero (i.e., the patent is upheld), frameworks made popular by languages like Ruby and Python would be…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 Update

    I made a few updates over the weekend — though the are mostly fixing a few things: Delimited Text Translator:  The generated 008 field was too long.  The date information wasn’t being truncated correctly. UTF-8 => Marc8 translation:  I finally setup the translation to support the Greek and Greek Symbols as noted by the LC…

  • Comments have been re-enabled

    I’d had some folks try to post comments over the last few days and had run into some problems.  I think that I’ve corrected these problems. –tr

  • Beavers win the CWS!

    Congratulations to the Oregon State Beavers for winning OSU’s first National Championship in a team sport (not counting cross country).  Great time to be a Beaver. –tr

  • Warren Buffet to give it all away

    I realize that this isn’t library related — but I think its very cool.  A few weeks ago, Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates, makes the announcement that he will step down and continue to spend his vast fortune through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (which does help libraries).  Well today, Warren Buffet announced that he…

  • Helping out New Orleans in my own special way

    Have you ever known that you were being taken?  Well, I did (as did my wife) and was.  Whooho!  We were walking down Decanter (is that how you spell it) street and was approached by someone playing a steet game.  I was game — and of course — it didn’t work out.  Cost me $20…

  • Off to ALA

    So my wife and I are off to New Orleans.  Should arrive around 6pm New Orleans time, so obviously we’ll be spending quite a bit of time in the air soon.  I’m hoping that the conference is a good one for both the attendees and the city.  As usual — I won’t have much time…

  • Project Gutenburg update

    Andrew Houghton let me know that this project did start creating MARC records for their data sets at some point.  Here’s the link I got: http://www.gutenberg.org/feeds/catalog.marc.zip  I haven’t looked at the records yet — but I’ll look at them shortly.  I’ll still post the XSLT in case anyone is interested in just looking at it…

  • Project Gutenburg MARC records

    I’m not sure how many folks will be interested, but I had someone ask me how difficult it would be to generate MARC records from the Project Gutenburg RDF catalog records.  Since I couldn’t remember if anyone has already generated a process for creating MARC records from these sets — I quickly generated an XSLT…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 Update

    Couple of Update notes.  I fixed a small issue with the 008/006 editing and have been spending a bit of time going through the XSLT processing code to do as much optimization as possible — and I’m happy to report that it looks like some good has come out of these optimizations.  Here’s how it…

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