Category Archives: innovation

Upgrades

By jts | Published: June 24, 2009
I just upgraded from Wordpress 2.6 to 2.8. All in all, that took less than 5 minutes. DSpace upgrade from 1.4.1 to 1.5.2? 2+ weeks and it’s she’s still not entirely stable. The new dashboard in WP is very nice. I’m using the QuickPress feature to write this post. Way too easy! I also just signed up [...]
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Drupal Projects That Tickle My Fancy

By jts | Published: April 3, 2009
Thanks to Planet Drupal, I came across code.developmentseed.org today. They’re pushing out some great projects with a fury. The one I’m most excited about is Aegir. Ægir is a new set of contributed modules for Drupal that aims to solve the problem of managing a large number of Drupal sites. It does this by providing you [...]
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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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Federated Search for Google Search Appliance

By jts | Published: May 23, 2008
MuseGlobal and Adhere Solutions recently announced a federated search extendor, the All Access Connector, for the Google Search Appliance and Google Mini. Sol at Federated Search Blog raises some good questions about how relevancy is calculated for search results. One point is that Google’s PageRank probably won’t fare well in the enterprise. [...]
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