DAF-2.0
From the site:
"Digital Asset Factory (DAF) v2.0 provides all the necessary tools required to manage the whole process of a digitization workflow, including its various Phases, User management, file movement and archiving. It provides the flexibility to manage multiple simultaneous projects with a diversity of materials, covering books, journals, newspapers, manuscripts, unbound materials, audio, video, and slides.
The system allows easy integration of any tool used to perform functions of the workflow, such as the OCR, image processing, etc. It can be integrated with the current tools used at your organization.
DAF v2.0 i...
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oss4lib - open source systems for libraries - October 12, 2007 Author: dchud Tags: Image Processing Java Repositories
TextCite-1.0.2
As seen on fm:
"TextCite is a program for organizing and commenting textual citations from texts (books, articles, or other published works) for use in producing scientific or academic publications. You can organize by publication, author, category, or outline. It works with bibliographic management programs like Citation, EndNote, RefWorks, and BibTeX, providing important text/citation management capabilities that these programs lack, while still allowing for rapid footnote and bibliography generation by means of your favorite bibliography manager. It also exports to PDF and Word (RTF)."
The latest release, 1.0.2, sounds...
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oss4lib - open source systems for libraries - October 12, 2007 Author: dchud Tags: Bibliography Java
CiL/LiC, January 2007: Introducing Libraries in Computers
[Note: the publisher I write for has a liberal 90-day repub embargo, so I thought it might be interesting to post these earlier columns up here. I'll catch up a bit with the backlog of 2007 columns at first, and will then try to post them more regularly soon after the moving wall moves enough.
This column was originally published in the January 2007 issue of Computers in Libraries magazine.]
Welcome to my first Libraries in Computers column for Computers in Libraries magazine. I hope you'll find it to be thought-provoking and fun to read. In this first column, I'll introduce myself, explain the funny name, and start thing...
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One Big Library. - dchud shelf-readin', taking notes and naming names. - October 9, 2007 Author: dchud Tags: column lic
Missing Access
Something's terribly wrong when I can't make it to Access. I've never missed a Hackfest before now.
I will be very sad on Wednesday. And Thursday, and Friday...
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One Big Library. - dchud shelf-readin', taking notes and naming names. - October 8, 2007 Author: dchud Tags: access
Article: Fac-Back-OPAC: An Open Source Interface to Your Library System
Free in this month's Computers in Libraries (I get paid to write a column in same, but had no idea about this until now) is this piece by Mike Beccaria and Dan Scott:
"Fac-Back-OPAC is a faceted back up OPAC. This advanced catalog offers features that compare favorably with the traditional catalogs for today’s library systems. Fac-Back-OPAC represents the convergence of two prominent trends in library tools: the decoupling of discovery tools from the traditional integrated library system and the use of readily available open source components to rapidly produce leading-edge technology for meeting patron and library ne...
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oss4lib - open source systems for libraries - October 1, 2007 Author: dchud Tags: Articles Java MARC OPAC Python
Scriblio released
Scriblio is a WordPress-based OPAC and CMS, which merges the concepts of "blog entry" and "catalog record". You can see it in action live at Plymouth State University, the project's host institution.
Read about how to get it here, with some detailed notes about installation here.
Copies of the scriblio-specific (i.e. not-WordPress) components are attached.
AttachmentSize
scriblio_plugin.tar.gz33.5 KB
scriblio_theme.tar.gz222.08 KB
bsuite_core.tar.gz20.62 KB
bsuite_btags.tar.gz7.71 KB
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oss4lib - open source systems for libraries - September 30, 2007 Author: dchud Tags: MARC OPAC PHP
LibraryFind-0.8.2
The LibraryFind crew has released version 0.8.2, which promises:
Improved out-of-the-box user interface
re-worked html/css architecture to support easier design customization
new generic graphic design for out-of-the-box UI
many, many bugfixes
Try this latest version out live at OSU.
A copy is attached.
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libraryfind-0.8.2.tar.gz4.27 MB
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oss4lib - open source systems for libraries - September 30, 2007 Author: dchud Tags: Information Retrieval OpenURL Resolvers Ruby Z39.50
g3data-1.5.1
It's been a really long time since I've written about g3data, the excellent tool for extracting data from graphs. It has seen many updates, and the latest version is 1.5.1.
A copy is attached.
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g3data-1.5.1.tar.gz46.23 KB
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oss4lib - open source systems for libraries - September 30, 2007 Author: dchud Tags: C Image Processing
Tellico-1.2.14
It's been a long while since I've written about Tellico, the excellent personal bibliographic collection manager. But since the last post here, it's undergone a steady series of improvements and remains a terrific desktop app with super all-purpose biblio-fu. The latest version is 1.2.14.
Somehow I couldn't download 1.2.14, so a copy of 1.2.13 is attached.
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tellico-1.2.13.tar.gz4.57 MB
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oss4lib - open source systems for libraries - September 30, 2007 Author: dchud Tags: Bibliography C MARC SRU Z39.50
VuFind-0.6.1
Earlier this summer, Andrew Nagy from Villanova University announced VuFind, a php-based OPAC written around Apache Solr:
"VuFind is a library resource portal designed and developed for libraries by libraries. The goal of VuFind is to enable your users to search and browse through all of your library's resources by replacing the traditional OPAC to include:
Catalog Records
Locally Cached Journals
Digital Library Items
Institutional Repository
Institutional Bibliography
Other Library Collections and Resources
VuFind is completely modular so you can implement just the basic system, or all of the components. And since it's ...
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oss4lib - open source systems for libraries - September 30, 2007 Author: dchud Tags: OPAC PHP
Simple2ZOOM-1.01
Hammer writes: "We're delighted to announce the release of another new product: Simple2ZOOM, a sort of universal Swiss Army gateway that proxies between Z39.50, SRU, SRU/POST and SRW. Although nearly all testing so far has been with Z39.50-to-SRU configurations, it ought to work with pretty much any combination of these protocols on the front- and back-ends. The software essentially combines the qualities of two existing packages, ZOOM and SimpleServer into one universal protocol gateway.
Simple2ZOOM is free-as-in-freedom, open source, software. It is distributed under the same terms as Perl, that is, either under the GNU...
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oss4lib - open source systems for libraries - September 30, 2007 Author: dchud Tags: Information Retrieval Perl SRU Z39.50
Slow to catch on... too slow
Why is it that I'm always realizing so late that I've been ignoring/misappreciating/willfully missing out on an amazing band for years and years? Or that sometimes an artist I know I should enjoy/understand/gain enlightenment from but never had before suddenly starts to make sense?
I was 19 before I finally grokked XTC. I didn't get Joni Mitchell until I was about 25. I ignored Radiohead until 2002. Bob Dylan didn't really click for me until I was 32. Two years ago I finally listened to Spoon and I haven't stopped yet. Last year it was Matthew Herbert, I guess. Now I don't get what it was that I was missing all that...
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One Big Library. - dchud shelf-readin', taking notes and naming names. - September 19, 2007 Author: dchud Tags: music
"Blogs are so 2002" is so 2005
I thought i'd be clever and write the title with just the part in quotes, but, obviously, I wouldn't be the first to say so.
Just for fun:
"Blogs are so 1998"
"Blogs are so 1999"
"Blogs are so 2000"
"Blogs are so 2001"
"Blogs are so 2003"
"Blogs are so 2004"
"Blogs are so 2005"
"Blogs are so 2006"
(...mmm, i love the smell of the observer effect in the morning...)
Seriously, though. Is this medium dead, or what? Has it really changed at all in five years, or since the first podcast?
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One Big Library. - dchud shelf-readin', taking notes and naming names. - September 7, 2007 Author: dchud Tags: blog meta
Rumor has it
Back in January I wrote:
"The only iPod-plus-cell-phone combo I could imagine Steve Jobs signing off on would be one whereby the entire iTunes Music Store is available from the device. I.e. you can buy anything from the iTunes catalog right from the device, and listen to it nearly instantly ... and then listen to it on your computer later, too."
/me reaches for wallet...
I said 'bluetooth' when I should've assumed wifi. Either way: does anybody know if it does zeroconf? I've read that the iPhone does not do zeroconf.
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One Big Library. - dchud shelf-readin', taking notes and naming names. - September 6, 2007 Author: dchud Tags: iphone ipod zeroconf
Notes from SciFoo: David Carlson and the International Polar Year
A month ago I attended Science Foo Camp. It was a heady experience for a librarian-from-Indiana like me, and I wish I'd had time to write at greater length about it at the time. But we had to go immediately and move out of two temporary residences in two states three hundred miles apart and into a third one in a third state (well, District, to be precise). That's done now, and though not quite all the books are unpacked and on their shelves quite yet (anybody want a 1999 Books in Print [Mint Condition]?), I'd still like to share some of what I learned and some notes on the people I met with you, even if it's already yea...
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One Big Library. - dchud shelf-readin', taking notes and naming names. - September 5, 2007 Author: dchud Tags: ipy scifoo
Get Scriblio, indeed
I wrote earlier arguing that Casey Bisson should release his Scriblio project's source, or tell us when he would, or stop calling it open source. I have no idea if he ever saw that post.
In any case, you can now get Scriblio for yourself. Hooray!
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One Big Library. - dchud shelf-readin', taking notes and naming names. - August 23, 2007 Author: dchud Tags: scriblio
At scifoocamp
Three random but mind-blowing moments from SciFooCamp 2007:
A session on 3-D printing led, in turns, by Hod Lipson, Brian Derby, and Vik Olliver (who brought a live, working RepRap demo).
I have seen the future.
Meeting and chatting with Carl Bergstrom, whose father's course in microeconomics I took while at University of Michigan. The course textbook was the one by Hal Varian, who is here at Google, and here at SciFooCamp.
George Dyson's jam-packed-in-a-small-room talk on Kurt Gödel's personal and professional struggles during WWII.
A wonderful demonstration of the power of archival materials, despite George's ...
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One Big Library. - dchud shelf-readin', taking notes and naming names. - August 5, 2007 Author: dchud Tags: dyson Gödel reprap scifoo
SVN code review workflow module?
At dinner last night a colleague mentioned a f/l/oss code review workflow module that integrates with subversion, but we couldn't remember the name of it. That is, "code review" as in "you set up a workflow that says you can't commit until somebody approves". This is a well-known practice at some well-known companies. But it seems that this free software project isn't an easy thing to search for, either, if you don't know what it's called.
Anybody know what the project I mean?
[Update: maybe it's Review Board.]
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One Big Library. - dchud shelf-readin', taking notes and naming names. - August 3, 2007 Author: dchud Tags: svn
On temporary hiatus
Sorry for not posting this sooner, but because of a load of not-oss4lib tasks to accomplish before the end of the summer, this site will likely stay quiet at least until September 2007. Hope to be back soon.
In the meantime please continue to post news and other stories to the oss4lib-discuss list.
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oss4lib - open source systems for libraries - August 2, 2007 Author: dchud Tags: Site news
When open source *really* isn't open source
A quick update on "Dear Casey": there's no update. I haven't heard from Casey - I didn't expect to, he seems to keep quiet about his day-to-day work despite being a prolific blogger about other topics like strange tourist sites, broken gadgets, and recently-deceased auteurs. I'd like to think that he respects me enough to at least consider what I had to say about Scriblio at least briefly before writing my post off as my being an officious jerk. But so far as I can tell, he's either not seen the post or chosen to ignore it, so I can only make of it that his app is still not open source - yet, and there's nothing more t...
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One Big Library. - dchud shelf-readin', taking notes and naming names. - July 31, 2007 Author: dchud
Doing reference? Check out Jing
I don't normally like to post random "hey check this out" links - other people do that just fine, thank you. But after a quick look at Jing i'd guess it screams out for use by virtual reference librarians using IM. From the Camtasia people, so you know they know their stuff, and it works on PCs and Macs. Check it out.
Heard about it on MacBreak Weekly 50.
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One Big Library. - dchud shelf-readin', taking notes and naming names. - July 31, 2007 Author: dchud Tags: jing
Dear Casey Bisson
Casey - you're an impressive guy and we're all waiting to see what you do next. We've been hearing you talk about your plans for Scriblio since, well, at least since code4lib 2006, which was in February 2006, and your ideas were as exciting back then as they still seem to be today. But if we can't have the Scriblio source today, it's not open source today.
You can say it "will be released as open source". You can say "you intend to release it under a free software license". Ideally you'd even say when you think it will be released to let us know when it will be open. But until you do release it under a free software ...
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One Big Library. - dchud shelf-readin', taking notes and naming names. - July 25, 2007 Author: dchud
Announcing the CSS Zen OPAC
It's time for a CSS Zen OPAC. Remember the CSS Zen Garden, and how that changed your opinion of what's really possible with CSS? If you look around today, you'll see many libraries experimenting with slicker new user interfaces for their data (if you haven't seen any for yourself, see Ryan Eby's post, which is Solr-specific, but there are also plenty of non-Solr projects doing the same thing, too). Right now, though, a lot of the experimentation is being done by us #code4lib types - usually systems folks comfortable with coding but not necessarily the best design eyes.
One thing we could do to push the boundaries furthe...
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One Big Library. - dchud shelf-readin', taking notes and naming names. - July 25, 2007 Author: dchud Tags: css microformats opac
Unordered list of songs
"Desde que o Samba é Samba" by Caetano Veloso
"India" by John Coltrane
"The Candy Song" by Masters of Reality
"Sundrops" by Kristen Hersh
"You Look Like Rain" by Morphine
"It's All Over Now, Baby Blue" by Bob Dylan
"God Bless the Child" by Billie Holliday (or performed by Eric Dolphy)
"Headache" by Frank Black
"Little Green" by Joni Mitchell
"Jesus Christ Pose" by Soundgarden
"The Whole of the Moon" by The Waterboys
"90-Mile Water Wall" by The National
"Sir Duke" by Stevie Wonder (see also here and here and here)
"I Never Asked to be Your Mountain" by Tim Buckley
"See a Little Light" by Bob Mould
"Wrap Your Troubles in Dr...
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One Big Library. - dchud shelf-readin', taking notes and naming names. - July 19, 2007 Author: dchud Tags: music
I am writing in a blog
I am writing in a blog different from the one you are reading now. I am preserving the appearance of my written words and I am going to edit it back into the network again and again until the resonant frequencies of the post reinforce themselves so that any semblance of my words with perhaps the exception of satire is destroyed. What you will read, then, are the natural resonant frequencies of the post duplicated by blogs. I regard this activity not so much as a demonstration of a network effect, but more as a way to smooth out any irregularities my words might have.
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One Big Library. - dchud shelf-readin', taking notes and naming names. - July 12, 2007 Author: dchud
unalog dashboard widget
Attached at a link at the bottom of this entry is a dashboard widget that lets you keep a list of items from unalog right on your OS X desktop. You can see 5, 10, or 20 recent items from the feed as a whole, or for any particular user or tag. Here's an example, for the tag "xkcd":
It was pretty easy to do using Dashcode and its RSS widget template. If you want to try writing your own widget, you'll find it easier if you already know some javascript+html and have some minimal event-driven UI development background to figure out which events need to happen and when. Or you could just grab some existing widgets you like ...
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One Big Library. - dchud shelf-readin', taking notes and naming names. - June 16, 2007 Author: dchud Tags: dashboard dashcode osx unalog
...in which i poke at the relatively calm microformats-new about service links
The thing about all the stuff I've been writing and speaking about lately is that if the rest of the web doesn't go for it, it doesn't stand a chance.
So I asked the folks over at microformats-new what they think about the identify-the-service-links bit. We'll see what they say...
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One Big Library. - dchud shelf-readin', taking notes and naming names. - June 13, 2007 Author: dchud Tags: microformats
iTunes and ZeroConf in the WSJ
My last post was about my recent talk where I try to highlight how iTunes is able to work its instant-sharing magic - by using ZeroConf. Today Walt Mossberg, the most influential tech writer around, chose to highlight this very thing in his must-read Personal Technology column called "You're Using iTunes, But Are You Missing Some of the Fun?"
So to paraphrase Mr. Mossberg:
"You're using the library and the network, but you're missing some of the fun."
Thanks to inkdroid I've been nursing a geek crush on ZeroConf for over a year. Its time might just be now.
(If, after reading the WSJ piece, you want to know more about w...
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One Big Library. - dchud shelf-readin', taking notes and naming names. - June 7, 2007 Author: dchud Tags: itunes wsj zeroconf
NASIG 2007 talk: A New Approach to Service Discovery and Resource Delivery
Here are the slides (all one hundred and thirty-freakin'-five of them) from the keynote/"vision" talk I gave yesterday morning in Louisville, KY at NASIG 2007. I was very sorry to miss most of the rest of the conference, but was quite glad to have the chance to present this talk to a very engaged crowd (especially considering it was 8am on a Sunday) and catch up with several friends I hadn't seen in ages after the talk.
The name of this talk is -
A New Approach to Service Discovery and Resource Delivery
...and that's what it's about.
In it I reprised some slides and concepts from previous talks I've given at a NISO meet...
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One Big Library. - dchud shelf-readin', taking notes and naming names. - June 5, 2007 Author: dchud Tags: coins nasig slapi talks unapi zeroconf
Advice to a slightly less experienced geek librarian
Lately I’ve been reading a lot about the frustration a lot of you expressed after returning from exciting tech conferences when you struggle to translate that new stuff you’ve learned into something you can apply where you work. You’re not alone; it *is* frustrating.
It’s hard to learn to account for the differences between a conference setting where you learn about the potential of some shiny new thing and doing something real and useful with it. What you get at a conference isn’t reality - it’s a notion of what’s possible utterly divorced from what’s real.
As someone who’s lived through enough of that...
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One Big Library. - dchud shelf-readin', taking notes and naming names. - May 25, 2007 Author: dchud Tags: advice new sexy shiny tech thing
