Author Archives: jts

Widgetizing DSpace stalled by OAI-DC

By jts | Published: April 1, 2009
We’ve been needing a widget for displaying citations from DSpace collections on departmental and customer web sites.  For example, our Center of Telemedicine and Telehealth wants to display all their citations grouped by year on their web site without having to manually update the web site. It seemed simple enough.  My first thought was to pull [...]
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Mongrel Cluster as a service on Solaris 10

By jts | Published: April 1, 2009
I was excited to finally get Bibapp installed and running on a local Solaris 10 test server. The installation instructions for Bibapp are very good and certainly sufficient for testing if you’re a SSH user. However, as soon as you unleash it on your staff or development team you’ll find as I did [...]
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Confluence: Sustainable community

By jts | Published: January 9, 2009
Collecting some thoughts here: This edition of E2 almost makes me wish we’d moved to Portland 10 years ago when we were considering it.  What’s most inspiring is that the city commissioners, mayor, and other spearheaders interviewed don’t just talk about emissions and traffic, but about reviving the city while also drawing boundaries to preserve farmland [...]
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Research Data in the Cloud

By jts | Published: January 6, 2009
Although I haven’t really dabbled with AWS I do know anecdotally that it appears to be gaining ground among the library computing community for hosting (meta) data sets and experimental projects.  I have also heard rumors of adoption of AWS by my employer. Having been a frequent reader of Deepak Singh’s business|bytes|genes|molecules blog over the last [...]
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Battling Spam

By jts | Published: February 15, 2007
Spammers have been avid readers and commenters of a recent post, due, I’m guessing to trackbacks. I have moderation enabled, but the instruments of spam apparently are not designed to discern or care. The moderation alerts have finally nagged me enough to care and so I’ve implemented a couple of protections: Akismet [...]
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