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Day 1 LibX2. LibX Edition builder . Build custom version of LibX Xtensible Catalog. Drupal, LMS, NCIP, LMS integration: Blackboard. webcast . scriblio: Social Library System Wordpress based plugin enjoysthin.gs . Mark Matienzo. anarchivist.Rich contextual book marklet. Emily Lynema. NCSU Libraries. E-Matrix : Open Source ERM Eric Lease Morgan. Alex4 . Erik Hatcher. Lucid Imagination. Lucene/SOLR. Index of Lucene apache site. Mike Taylor and Mike. Index Data. Translucent record store=="Torus" pazpar2 . Registry of searchable targets? Hard to do. IRSpy :Z39.50 Mike Beccaria from Paul Smith College. Microsoft DeepZoom . "Like microfiche" - audience. Photosynth of library stacks?? Dan Chudnov, LOC. BagIt File Package Format Random things heard and seen: citation style language , Open Vocab , UCSD Libraries Digital Assest Management System , SWORDS . Distributed version control: monotone , mercurial , bzr . Day 2: A new frontier - the Open Library Environment (OLE) -- T...

The proceedings for digital library conferences are a little hard to find. They are distributed across the ACM Digital Library, the IEEE Xplore, Springer's Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS), and other less accessible sites. It is definitely not convenient having to look all over for these resources. I've decided to collect what I could find here in this blog entry. If there are any missing (I am sure there are) please let me know and I will add them. NB : I've focused on the proceedings, and only listed the conference web sites when I couldn't find the proceedings. 2009 JCDL2009 2008 ICADL 2008 - International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries 2 - 5 December 2008, Bali, Indonesia ECDL 2008 . Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries 12th European Conference, ECDL 2008, Aarhus, Denmark, September 14-19, 2008. Proceedings . Zzzoot post . JCDL 2008 International Conference on Digital Libraries. Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE-CS joint confer...

At a recent plenary I gave [ earlier post ] at the Colorado Association of Research Libraries Next Gen Library Interfaces conference, I went a little off-script and was educating (/haranguing) the mostly librarian audience about the present-and-near-future importance of the accessibility of full-text research articles to their researchers and scientists. By accessibility of full-text I didn't mean the ability of a human to access the PDF or HTML of an article via a web browser: I was referring to the machine- accessibility of the text contained in the article (and the metadata and the citation information). I was concerned because of the increasing number of discipline-specific tools that use full-text (& metadata & citations) to allow users (via text mining, semantic analysis, etc.) to navigate, analyze and discover new ideas and relationships, from the research literature. The general label for this kind of research is ' literature-based discovery ', where new ...

The March 2008 issue of Computers in Libraries is titled " The Open Source Software Craze" and has a series of articles on Open Source in Libraries: Using Open Source to Give Patrons What They Want . Amy Begg De Groff. The Community Behind the Code . Terence K. Huwe. Making a Business Case for Open Source ILS . Marshall Breeding. What Librarians Still Don’t Know About Open Source . Daniel Chudnov. Open Source Becomes More Accessible . Janet L. Balas. What Can Open Source Do for You? Rachel Singer Gordon and Jessamyn West. Unfortunately most of the articles do not seem to be web accessible until later this month.

One of the more interesting things that I learned on my recent trip to Denver was the new feature of Aquabrowser called ' My Experience ' where LibraryThing tags (17M) and ratings (2M) are pre-loaded and made available out-of-the-box. More important is how all instances of My Experience can participate in a global network of other instances, and can share additional social networking information generated by the users' of the instances (and perhaps other sources?). I also have to say that I was very impressed with the presentation of TLC 's Indigo ILS front-end: it was very convincing (and much better than their online flash presentation : they need to fix that!).

The International Journal on Digital Libraries has a special issue entitled " Connecting digital libraries to eScience". I haven't had a chance to read any of the articles, but they look very interesting, and include some discussion on various scientific data issues, collaboration, repositories, research infrastructure, etc: Connecting digital libraries to eScience: the future of scientific scholarship . Michael Wright, Tamara Sumner, Reagan Moore, Traugott Koch Not by metadata alone: the use of diverse forms of knowledge to locate data for reuse . Ann Zimmerman Little science confronts the data deluge: habitat ecology, embedded sensor networks, and digital libraries . Christine L. Borgman, Jillian C. Wallis, Noel Enyedy Collaborative eScience libraries . Linn Marks Collins, Mark L. B. Martinez, Ketan K. Mane, James E. Powell, Chad M. Kieffer, Tiago Simas, Susan K. Heckethorn, Kathryn R. Varjabedian, Miriam E. Blake, Richard E. Luce Pathways: augmenting interoperabilit...

Tag Standards : Full circle for Library cataloging? It is very ironic that someone is calling for a standard for web tags (" The Need for Creating Tag Standards "). After all the body blows that Library cataloging has taken in the Age of the Web, it seems that the bloggerati are starting to run in to information management problems, ones which traditional (and more modern) library cataloging have long dealt with (not always in the best ways, BTW). While the blog entry is focuses on more mundane issues than classification, it does talk about the implications of the anarchy which is out there and how difficult this makes it if you want to get to the Semantic Web Promised Land....

Extensible Text Framework (XTF) : FLOSS platform for access to digital content XTF is the California Digital Library 's amazing access platform for digital content. It is based on Lucene , a tool that is well known as a scalable and stable full-text engine. But XTF is more than Lucene, and is a full end-to-end system, offering ü ber configurable indexing, quering and display. Java-based, completely XSLT-driven presentation-layer, extensible to things like Shibboleth , and has some very nice additioanl features like OAI-PMH provider and SRU . From what I can tell it does not have an SOA architecture, but offers a high degree of modularity which could easily be wrapped in Web services, etc