Posted on Tue 02 October 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding
Ooh, yes, I remember writing that now. Not about Evergreen, which has book bags and format limiters and facets and whiz-bangy unAPI goodness whose potential for causing mayhem has barely been scratched - but about Fac-Back-OPAC, the Django-and-Solr-and-Jython beast that Mike Beccaria and I picked up from Casey Durfee's scraps pile …
Posted on Sun 09 September 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Yesterday, over on the Evergreen blog, Mike announced that I am now a full committer to the Subversion repository for Evergreen. (It was blog post #100 for Evergreen, by the way - two milestones in one!). The road to getting here was pretty standard fare for open-source projects: submit patches that …
Posted on Fri 31 August 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Karen G. Schneider has a great post on Enterprise Open Source on the ALA TechSource blog:
But the truly significant activity in LibraryLand technology hasn't been vendor-driven. It has been the maturation of what I call "enterprise open source": products such as Evergreen and Koha that are robust, well-implemented library …
Posted on Wed 01 August 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding
I had been getting anxious about the lack of news on the Access 2007 conference front, but just saw in my trusty RSS feed that the draft program schedule is now available. I'm already looking forward to Jessamyn West's opening keynote and Roy Tennant's closing keynote. They always bring …
Posted on Tue 24 July 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Well, I'm finally back from Atlanta and the Evergreen AcqFest. I'll apologize right off the top for not providing more blog updates over the course of the weekend, but the requirements and design discussions were pretty intense so I didn't want to risk continuously missing subtle but important details and …
Posted on Wed 18 July 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Libraries
Bill Denton, you are a genius!
So, my colleague Bill Denton recently landed a job as the Web Librarian at York University. While chatting idly with him, err, strengthening my professional network, I related a tale of mock woe and bitterness about how York had turned me down for a …
Posted on Wed 18 July 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
So I'm taking off tomorrow for Atlanta to spend four days deeply immersed in discussing, designing, planning, and implementing Evergreen's acquisitions and serials support. At least that's the plan. In our spare time (heh), we're going to tackle the internationalization infrastructure as well. The spirit of the event is modelled …
Posted on Sat 07 July 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
So, yesterday afternoon Mike Rylander from the Evergreen (a.k.a Open-ILS) project pushed out the first release candidate of Evergreen 1.2.0. Hurrah! If you tried installing Evergreen before, but got hung up on some of the build, install, or configuration steps, I think you'll find this release …
Posted on Sun 24 June 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Correction update: 2007/06/26Wow. I am incredibly embarassed. Somehow, I made a very stupid mistake in my summary of the State Library
of Ohio ILS Options Discussion Meeting Minutes - April 24, 2007. The mistake was that I incorrectly attributed Joshua Ferraro of LibLime with making statements about Evergreen …
Posted on Wed 25 April 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding
After much iteration and minor bug-squashing in my configuration, I am pleased to announce the Evergreen on Gentoo VMWare image is available for download. The download itself is approximately 500MB as a zipped image; when you unzip the image, it will require approximately 6GB of disk space. (1)
Basic instructions …