Category Archives: web services

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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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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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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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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Microsoft: The Good and The Bad

By jts | Published: April 11, 2007
I’ve been impressed by some of Microsoft’s recent projects, the Windows Live suite in particular. I’ve used FolderShare on a daily basis for the last 4 months to sync folders between my Tablet PC and my desktop machine. It’s a simple P2P tool that works. I’m using Windows Live Writer to compose this post [...]
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