SRU / OpenSearch get together
Well at least the people behind them… De Witt reports in the A9 Developer Blog the visit of Dr. Robert Sanderson to the A9.com’s offices. With Dr Sanderson the co-creator of the SRU search standard...
View ArticleOut-of-copyright book download from Google
Reported by Michael Arrington on TechCrunch, Google Book Search has added the ability to allow PDF downloads of out-of-copyright books. Until now, Google only allowed people to read the...
View ArticleRed light for RedLightGreen
I was sad to read the report of the demise of the innovative RedLightGreen, from the OCLC absorbed RLG, which has been providing a book location and citation service since 2003. An early and obvious...
View ArticleFree to SRU
When you approach things in a different way things just start dropping in to place. Paul in his post yesterday commenting on Peter Murray‘s latest episode of his excellent series of posts around...
View ArticleZee REST
Superpatron (Ed Vielmetti) posted ‘a note to self’ yesterday entitled Zed REST. I’ve probably got my national stereotypes wrong, but surely Ed should have called it Zee REST, leaving it to the British...
View ArticleStriking a new Cenote
Paul gets all the fun! Not only does he get to show the first results of Medialab becoming a Talis Platform Partner, using data contributed to the Platform in their AquaBrowser Online service that I...
View ArticleThe beauty is in the API of the beholder
I published my posting about the announcement of Project Cenote, when Paul Miller was up talking about it at Access 2006 in Ottawa. Whilst I was doing it I was monitoring the #code4lib IRC chat...
View ArticleInnovative and OCLC join the Gang
Following in the footsteps of their counterparts from Ex Libris, SirsiDynix, and Talis, Betsy Graham, Vice President Product Management for Innovative Interfaces, and Matt Goldner, Executive Director...
View ArticleStephen Arnold – A conversation with the closing keynote speaker for Online...
Stephen E. Arnold’s career has lead him to be a prolific writer, speaker, and expert on web technologies and their application both inside the commercial enterprise and across the Internet. He is...
View ArticleRemember OPAC Suckiness
It was all the rage three years or so ago. Karen Schneider even did a three part series on ALA TechSource exploring How OPACSs Suck, in which she listed elements of OPAC Suckitude and desirable...
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