Category Archives: libraries

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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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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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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