Infrastructure
I was recently invited to join the JISC Resource Discovery Infrastructure Taskforce – the first meeting was yesterday. We had been given some background material, and a couple of people (Owen Stephens...
View ArticleLibrary hackers FTW
Yesterday I went along to Mashed Library UK 2008 in London. Quickly abbreviated to ‘mashlib’, the event was the brain-child of Owen Stephens. Owen did most of the organising, aided by David Flanders...
View ArticleEuropeana, numbers and scalable architectures
I just got around to reading the press release issued after the collapse of Europeana (previously the more easily pronounced ‘European Digital Library’) following its launch a couple of weeks ago. If...
View ArticlePush or pull?
A brief comment, as I hop across the North Sea back to Bristol. With the news that arXiv will now accept deposits from institutional repositories, Dorothea Salo continues her theme about a deposit flow...
View ArticleOpenID and name authority
In his Science in the Open blog Cameron Neylon has written an interesting post, A Specialist OpenID Service to Provide Unique Researcher IDs? in which he asks: Good citation practice lies at the core...
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HEIs Get Facebook Fever (again)
Facebook rolled out its ‘usernames‘ function today. This is a new feature at Facebook which allows a user to claim their little bit of the Facebook namespace, along the lines of:...
View ArticleNot ready to wave goodbye to email
Last week I posted a remark on Twitter: Can’t help thinking that the idea that Google Wave will replace email rather misses the point…. The first response to this echoed my view on this suggesting that...
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An infrastructure service anti-pattern
Last week I outlined an idea, that of the service anti-pattern, as part of a presentation I gave to the Resource Discovery Taskforce (organised by JISC in partnership with RLUK). The idea seemed to...
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Institutions and the Web done better
Introduction – (warning – old-timer indulgence) From the mid-nineties through to the end of 2006 I earned my living as a developer of Web applications, or as someone managing Web application...
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Call for feedback to the ResourceSync specification for synchronisation of...
I have been slightly involved (through Jisc funding) with the ResourceSync specification project, being led by Herbert Van de Sompel of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The project has just released...
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