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Best of JA-SIG 2008

By jts | Published: April 30, 2008
Lots of great Open Source and Community Source work was showcased at JA-SIG this week. Here’s a list, in no particular order, of the most interesting, most relevant projects for me: OpenCollection collections management and online access application for museums, archives and digital collections. Sophie software for writing and reading rich media documents in a networked environment. SEASR/NEMA rich media [...]
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JA-SIG 2008

By jts | Published: April 30, 2008
I’m at JA-SIG, St. Paul.  It’s winding down today with some sessions, a BarCamp and a uCamp.  I’m looking forward to the uCamp.  Overall, it has been a good conference, probably not as relevant for me personally as the Open Repositories Conference, but still very useful.  And it’s inspiring to see these different projects and [...]
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Drupal for OPAC

By jts | Published: January 30, 2008
I wish this was around when I was working with a Millennium system. Of course, it still would have been hard to use since we were in a Microsoft-only shop. I wonder if it’s adaptable to Voyager?
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Medical Research Services in Sharepoint

By jts | Published: January 30, 2008
Recently, a Medlib-er asked for examples of how medical librarians were using Microsoft Sharepoint. The majority of respondants said they had created sites or pages for their library in Sharepoint, duplicating the usual stuff found on library web sites: ILL forms, links to the public catalog, and other sites – essentially reconstructing the library’s public web site [...]
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Report on Emerging Technologies Released

By jts | Published: December 15, 2007
The 2007 Horizon Report has been released by the New Media Consortium . The annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the NMC’s Horizon Project, a research-oriented effort that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative expression within higher education…. The core of the report [...]
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