I received the following email late last week, and took the time to reply to it tonight. I had originally been asked by a friend to help diagnose why his organization's site navigation wasn't working in some of his browsers. I noticed that the navigation bar was implemented in Flash …
Posted on Thu 30 October 2008 in misc • Tagged with Personal
I'm reasonably careful about the cookies I accept from Web sites - I don't want companies to be able to track every site I visit, for example, so that they can build a nice little profile about me. It's for the protection of the companies more than anything else: someone there …
Posted on Tue 28 October 2008 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Just poked at the OLA SuperConference 2009 schedule (January 28 - 31, 2009) and found four sessions listed that are all about Evergreen. Wow! Check this out:
Date |
Time |
Title |
Description (may be abridged) |
Presenters |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Thursday, January 29 |
9:05 am |
Posted on Thu 23 October 2008 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen, FSOSS
In a few minutes I'll be giving a talk with John Fink at the Free Software Open Source Symposium at Seneca College on Evergreen: an enterprise-strength OSS solution for library ossification. I'm jazzed!
Here are the slides: (ODP format) (PDF format).
Posted on Thu 09 October 2008 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding
My place of work, Laurentian University, is looking for a new Director of the J.N. Desmarais Library. The call for applications closes October 30th. I think our library has done some impressive work (participating in the food security project for the Democratic Republic of Congo, building the Mining Environment …
Posted on Tue 07 October 2008 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Update: 2008-10-07 As of changeset 10774, the detailed record view in Evergreen's dynamic catalog is now recognized by Zotero.
I really like Zotero. And it works really well with Evergreen's current "basic search"
because it embeds unAPI links that enable Zotero to
consume MODS representations of the underlying
bibliographic records …
Posted on Sat 04 October 2008 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
On Friday, October 3rd, I had the honour of presenting the progress of Project Conifer with my colleague John Fink to my peers at Access 2008. Project Conifer is the effort to bring the Evergreen open source library system to a consortium of academic libraries in Ontario (Algoma, Laurentian, McMaster …
Posted on Sun 21 September 2008 in Software Freedom • Tagged with Coding
I opted to do something out of the unusual (for me) this year when I learned about Software Freedom Day; I signed up to organize an event in Sudbury. Given everything that was already on my plate, it was pure foolishness to do so - but it was also important to …
Posted on Mon 25 August 2008 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
So, after loading 3.7 million records into the Project Conifer test server, we have found that search can be slow. Not really a big surprise, because I've spent very little time tuning the database beyond running a VACUUM FULL and tweaking just a few parameters. But one of the …
Posted on Sat 12 July 2008 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
I've posted a second revision of the "academic reserves" requirements RFC. I'm not looking to boil the ocean with the first iteration of academic reserves for Evergreen (that's what third-party systems like ReservesDirect and Ares are for), but I am hoping that by engaging the community in a discussion we …