Something I plan to do a lot this year is spend time experimenting: with FOSS, Ruby on Rails and repository/object management software. These are not things that I often have the opportunity to do at work. But since they interest me, and I think they’re important to keep up with, I’m happy to spend time […]
Archive for the 'Open Source' Category
FOSS, experimenting and documentation
Published by January 10th, 2007 in Library technology, Open Source and rubyrails. 2 CommentsIf you haven’t already, check out Greenpeace’s Green My Apple campaign. It’s an incredible example of electronic activism.
As mentioned a few times, I’ve been trying to put off buying a new laptop for as long as possible. I’m still using a 2001 dual-USB 600mhz iBook (purchased early 2002). Five years is pretty good for a […]
OCS update
Published by October 30th, 2006 in General, Conferences, Research/Writing and Open Source. 0 CommentsWith just a month until NLS2006 (more on that later), pretty much everything I need to develop software or data-wise is done.
Still, I’m very pleased to read that there is a new version of Open Conference Systems coming next year. I did trial OCS for NLS and it was just a little too raw to […]
Reading roundup
Published by March 7th, 2006 in General, Associations, Conferences, Travel, Research/Writing, Open Source and Australia. 4 CommentsA roundup of things I’ve been reading, working on, and paying attention to lately:
The first couple of months this year have been very busy with committee meeting after meeting for various groups and projects that I am a member of. We are (just!) under nine months away from NLS2006, and we’re coming up to the […]
WSIS Tunis
Published by November 23rd, 2005 in General, Associations, Conferences and Open Source. 0 CommentsOne thing I’ve yet to really catch up on this week is the second Phase of the World Summit on the Information Society which was held in Tunis last week. The Dag Hammarsköld Library mentions that there is a Tunis committment. More WSIS information in a variety of languages, official WSIS site and IFLA address […]
One of the side-effects of the PC blowing up is that I got to recycle my old dust-gathering PC box and upgrade it. My old box was made with a dizzying array of salvaged, recycled, refurbished and purchased parts. No wonder nothing ever really quite worked on it.
With the now-freshly-upgraded box, I go to […]
I installed Open Office 2.0 RC3 on my iBook on Monday. First impressions - this is a very nice step up from 1.1.2 (the last version I had installed). They are still developer builds for Mac, as opposed to stable for PC, but I found it reliable enough for my needs. Features I anticipate […]
Import existing references into CiteULike
Published by September 6th, 2005 in Library technology, Research/Writing and Open Source. 1 CommentGood news for CiteULike fans, you can now import BibTeX files and save having to recreate reference lists all over again. I’m an EndNote user (unfortunately) so it’s a two step-process for me - the first to convert my references to BibTeX (using an output filter) and then to check that the references have a […]
More on the Creative Commons
Published by August 3rd, 2005 in Open Access, Open Source and Commons. 1 CommentI’ve been reading a lot of articles lately debating the merits of FOSS, Creative Commons and Open Access. There are some perspectives I agree with, and others I disagree with. But all of them have given me pause to consider my own position. Towards a Standard of Freedom: Creative Commons and the Free Software […]
On another Open Source note, with the use of Lightning Bug at Radical Reference to track reference questions, there is almost no aspect of library operations that cannot be run with Open Source applications. Many packages like Koha are now stable enough for widespread deployment.
An open classification system for physical objects may be the […]
