Evergreen 1.4.0.0 RC2 and OpenSRF 1.0.1 are out

Posted on Fri 21 November 2008 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen

As I announced on the Evergreen mailing lists last night:

One month after the first release candidate of Evergreen 1.4.0.0, the

Evergreen development team is pleased to announce the availability of

Evergreen 1.4.0.0, release candidate 2, from

http://open-ils.org/downloads.php

A partial …


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Archive of OCLC WorldCat Policy as posted 2008-11-02

Posted on Mon 03 November 2008 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding

I noticed last night (Sunday, November 2nd, 2008) that the new and much-anticipated / feared OCLC WorldCat Policy had been posted. As far as the clarified terms went, I was willing to give them the benefit of the doubt until they were actually posted. I was first alerted to the freshly …


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An Evergreen track at the OLA SuperConference 2009?

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

It.s Just a Little Bit of Programming Isn.t …


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Evergreen: deOSSification of library software

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).


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Boss me around, s'il vous plait

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 …


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Access 2008 hackfest report: Zotero vs Evergreen

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 …


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Access 2008 presentation: Project Conifer report

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 …


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Heating up Evergreen search

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 …


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Academic reserves for Evergreen: request for comments

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 …


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(unofficial) bzr repositories for Evergreen branches

Posted on Sat 12 July 2008 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen

I wrote a long blog post about the distributed version control workflow that the two Laurentian students working on Evergreen (Kevin Beswick and Craig Ricciuto) are using successfully this summer, only to lose the post to a session timeout and my own lack of caution (note to self: if writing …


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