Category: jangle
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Where is the outrage?
For a couple of months this year, the library world was aflame with rage at the proposed OCLC licensing policy regarding bibliographic records. It was a justifiable complaint, although I basically stayed out of it: it just didn’t affect me very much. After much gnashing of teeth, petitions, open letters from consortia, etc. OCLC eventually…
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Better Paging Through Better Searching
For the last couple of weeks I’ve returned to working on Alto Jangle connector, at least part-time. Â I had shelved development on it for a while; I had a hard time finding anybody interested in using it and had reached a point where the development database I was working against was making it difficult to…
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Mixed Feelings
I cannot perceive a day that I might charge for a webinar about Jangle. I expect that that day will never come. Still, it pains me to see a NISO Webinar on Interoperability: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2009/interop09 It pains me for a couple of reasons — a hundred bucks for a webinar? Come on, NISO, get over yourself.…
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In search of a bag of holding
Let me start this by saying this is not a criticism or a rant against any of the technologies I am about to mention. The problems I am having are pretty specific and the fact that I am intentionally trying to use “off the shelf” commodity projects to accomplish my goal complicates things. I realize…
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I couldn’t agree more
“[S]training-to-be-clever acronyms department”… Project names are very important to me in a “the clothes make the man” sensibility. I’d prefer to leave an application untitled rather than have a contrived or pedestrian name attached to it (which is why my EAD publisher app never had a title — nothing non-EAD-derogatory ever came to me). Often,…
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Working around Ruby with XSLT
My relationship with Ruby nowadays is roughly akin to somebody addicted to pain killers. I know it’s not good for me (since everything I work on nowadays is RDF, XML or both) but I’m able to still be productive and the pain of quitting, while in the long run would be better for everybody, just…
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Risk, reward, and the in-between
I have been following a thread on the VuFind-Tech list regarding the project’s endorsement of Jangle to provide the basis of the ILS plugin architecture for that project. It’s not an explicit mandate, just a pragmatic decision that if work is going in to creating a plugin for VuFind, it would make more sense (from…
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Mea Culpa
Jangle-discuss is now publicly viewable. Since I’m always logged into the Googles, I never noticed that it was blocked to non-subscribers. Sorry about that.
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Bootstrapping Jangle
After several months of trying, Jangle.org is finally starting to take off. I set up a Drupal instance yesterday on our new web host. When I was still at Georgia Tech, one of the things I was trying to work on was a framework to consistently and easily expose the library’s data from its various…