Posted on Fri 29 April 2011 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
I'm at the Evergreen 2011 conference in balmy Decatur, Georgia... which wasn't a sure thing yesterday, given that the day started with an eight hour delay at the Sudbury airport due to fog - not to mention having to fly through the storm that spawn a tornado in Alabama. After all …
Posted on Mon 14 March 2011 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
tldr version: the Evergreen project now has a continuous integration server and build farm and needs testcases to make the best use of that infrastructure to help us provide higher-quality releases in the future.
Back in November 2009, Evergreen developer Shawn Boyette launched the Evergreen buildbot - a …
Posted on Sat 05 February 2011 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Back in early 2010, I responded to the call for proposals for the OLA SuperConference with the following proposal for a session called Evergreen 2.0: What doesn't it have?:
The first release of the Evergreen library system in September 2006 brought circulation, cataloguing, reports, and a modern OPAC. Evergreen …
Posted on Sun 17 October 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Earlier this week, I had the honour of speaking at the Access 2010 conference in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The title of my talk was rather unwieldy, but what it boiled down to was:
Posted on Wed 29 September 2010 in misc • Tagged with Coding, Evergreen
Sometimes forking a project is necessary to reassert community control over a project that has become overly dominated by a single corporate rules: see OpenIndiana and LibreOffice for recent examples. And in the world of distributed version control systems, forking is viewed positively; it's a form of evolution, where experimental …
Posted on Mon 20 September 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Update 2010-09-28: Fixed link
The home page for ***Information Technology and Libraries*** states:
*Information Technology and Libraries* ( ITAL) (ISSN 0730-9295) is a refereed journal published quarterly by the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA), a division of the American Library Association.
The September 2010 issue of ITAL contained an article …
Posted on Wed 01 September 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Update 2010-09-28: pedantic XHTML fix
The recorded version of the Evergreen episode of the FLOSS Weekly show was released over the weekend. I'm happy to say that Lynn watched it without looking too pained at any given point, and the Evergreen project has already had several responses to our plea …
Posted on Thu 26 August 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
Last week, I started my summer vacation with a weekend at a friend's cottage. By Tuesday I was deeply engrossed in some Evergreen enhancement work for the International Institute of Social History. I'm building an authorities management user interface that properly exposes Evergreen's powerful authority support in the 2.0 …
Posted on Mon 09 August 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
As a librarian who works at a library that primarily uses the Library of Congress classification scheme, I have been interested for a long time in teaching Evergreen to be aware of call number schemes other than Dewey. The problem, in a nutshell, is that Evergreen simply applies an alphabetical …
Posted on Mon 19 July 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen
As part of the informal partnership between the International Institute of Social History (IISH) and Project Conifer, I was pleased to be able to spend the last two weeks in Amsterdam, working side-by-side with one of the Institute's developers, Ole Kerpel, on augmenting the support for MARC21 authorities in Evergreen …