FSOSS 2009: Project Conifer update

Posted on Tue 10 November 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen

Update: 2009-11-24 James Forrester of the Ontario Academy of Art and Design has posted a short video (Internet Archive) of the presentation. Thanks, James!

On Friday, October 30th, I presented a status update on Project Conifer at the Free Software Open Source Symposium (FSOSS). This was a follow-up to the …


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Evergreen development workshop at FSOSS 2009

Posted on Fri 30 October 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen

Update 2009-11-24 Robert Soulliere has also made the videos available via the Internet Archive - thanks again, Robert!

Update 2009-11-09 As promised, Robert Soulliere has posted the video recordings he made of the workshop - thanks, Robert!

Yesterday, I lead a three-hour Evergreen development workshop at the Free Software Open Source Symposium …


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Presentation at the Lyrasis "Open Source in Your Library" conference

Posted on Sat 10 October 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen

On Friday, October, 9th, I had the pleasure of (along with Joe Lucia and Karen Coombs) speaking at the Lyrasis "Open Source in Your Library" conference at the Olin College of Engineering in Needham, MA. First, a note about Olin College - it is a very modern campus that makes an …


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Using nginx to serve static content with Evergreen

Posted on Sun 04 October 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen

Update 2009-10-04 Added a title to the post; oops!

A long time ago, when I discovered that Evergreen was chewing up and spitting out Apache backends at a furious pace because Apache was being used to serve up static content like CSS, JavaScript, and image files, I suggested that using …


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Evergreen Developer Basics Workshop at FSOSS 2009

Posted on Sat 03 October 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen

If you're working on or interested in working on the Evergreen open source library system, and you can be in the Toronto area on October 29th, 2009, you might want to spend $75 and register for the Free Software Open Source Symposium (FSOSS) to be held at the Seneca@York …


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Two podcasts of potential interest to Evergreen fans

Posted on Tue 15 September 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen

Most recently, the latest Software Freedom Law Show focuses on the subject of how to choose a license for your software project's documentation. The episode was a direct response to a dent I had sent to one of the hosts, Bradley Kuhn, suggesting the subject. I thought the Evergreen Documentation …


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SFX target parser for Evergreen and some thoughts about searching identifiers

Posted on Mon 29 June 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen

UPDATE 2010-03-10 See More granular identifier indexes for your Evergreen SRU / Z39.50 servers for some recommended enhancements to the target parser and Evergreen's identifier index capabilities

Laurentian University is part of the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL), and a user of the centrally hosted Ontario Scholars Portal SFX …


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Globalization presentation at Evergreen International Conference 2009

Posted on Fri 05 June 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen

I was fortunate to be invited to give a talk (OpenOffice.org Impress / PDF ) on Evergreen's progress on the

globalization front at the first ever Evergreen International Conference. My friend

Tigran Zargaryan from the Fundamental Science Library of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia gave a …


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Evergreen International Conference hackfest results: Evergreen serials support

Posted on Wed 27 May 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen

Yes, all of a sudden and rather quietly, Evergreen has serials support.

A few weeks ago, I finished hooking up a rudimentary serials holdings display based on David Fiander's MFHD parsing code to our production instance of Evergreen. We loaded our MFHD records from our legacy system into Evergreen and …


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Conifer lives: Ontario launches a consortial academic library system built on Evergreen

Posted on Mon 11 May 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen

I awoke around 4:48 am today. At the time, I thought it was just our baby kicking away excitedly. However, later this afternoon, I realized that it had been almost exactly a week ago, around 4:30 am on Monday, May 4th that I sent a broadcast email message …


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