Casey Bisson, information architect at Plymouth State University, was presented with a $50,000 Mellon award for Technology Collaboration by Tim Berners-Lee at the Coalition for Networked Information meeting in Washington DC December 4.
His project, WP-OPAC, is seen as the first step for allowing library catalogs to integrate with WordPress, a popular open-source content management system.
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Z39.50 has been a useful technology for searching library catalogs and individual databases for many years, but it presents certain implementation challenges–Bath or SUTRS?
The Open Search specification is interesting, since it promises much the same thing. It was initiated by a commercial entity–A9–and some libraries are starting to pay attention to it as a supplement [...]
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Jay Datema has an MBA from Binghamton University (2007), a Masters in Library and Information Science from Dominican University (1999), and a BA in Literature from Wheaton College (1995).
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Zeldman, Jeffrey. Designing with Web standards. Indianapolis Ind.: New Riders, 2007.
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“In the end, though, companies that are forced to choose between opening up their data or paying their employees will not likely choose the long-term reward. Part of this difficulty, however, has been tied to the lack of available legal options, standards, or licenses for releasing data into the public domain.”
Lock-in Leads to Lockdown
13 January 2009
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