Posted on Tue 14 October 2014 in Linked Open Data • Tagged with coding, evergreen, libraries, structured data
My slides from DCMI 2014: schema.org in the wild: open source libraries++.
Last week I was at the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative 2014 conference, where Richard Wallis, Charles MacCathie Nevile and I were slated to present on schema.org and the work of the W3C Schema.org Bibliographic Extension …
Posted on Thu 07 May 2009 in Libraries • Tagged with Libraries
The following was written in response to a faculty member's complaint that a review containing a negative statement about a book that the faculty member had authored was attached to the book record in our catalogue. The facult member asked that we delete the review from the catalogue because [i …
Posted on Thu 02 August 2007 in misc • Tagged with Libraries
As a laundry-list systems librarian, my responsibilities run the gamut from crawling under desks connecting cables, administering our ILS, getting an institutional repository up and running, and contributing to open source projects. Maintaining staff workstations is part of the gig. Now, I'm pretty lenient when it comes to personal workstations …
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 14 February 2007 in misc • Tagged with Libraries
I made a mistake, or several mistakes, a few weeks back.
Yes, shocking to hear me admit that, I know.
Here's the set up: one night a week, I'm the LibrarianTM on reference duty. In practice, this means that I continue to sit in my office working on library …
Posted on Wed 03 January 2007 in Libraries • Tagged with Coding, Libraries
A little over a week ago, I made the following prediction following the extremely under-the-radar press release on December 22nd that Vista Equity Partners was investing in SirsiDynix:
I'll go out on a limb and say that a merger or acquisition of SirsiDynix in 2007 is unlikely (33% confidence), but …
Posted on Fri 08 September 2006 in Libraries • Tagged with Libraries
Update 2007/01/02: The wiki you are looking for is at http://futurelib.pbwiki.com/ -- sorry for not updating this earlier.
Update 2006/09/10: I have been informed that while my effort was appreciated, Karen and Eric Lease Morgan are working on setting up their own wiki instead …
Posted on Tue 20 June 2006 in Libraries • Tagged with Libraries
I was recently given the opportunity to answer a customer satisfaction survey about the vendor of our integrated library system (ILS). It was actually my fourth opportunity, but I had passed up the chance in the past because the survey invitation stated:
You must use Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x …