Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.
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12/17/07 – Resurgens – 1/11/08
Last Thursday, Johns Hopkins University Libraries went live with the Ãœmlaut (Ãœ2). This comes slightly less than four weeks after Georgia Tech took theirs down (although they were using the much more duct tape and bailing wire version 1), and it’s nice to see a library back in the land of Röck Döts. Ãœ2 shares…
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Objectifying OpenURL
Sometime in November, I came to the realization that I had horribly misinterpreted the NISO Z39.88/OpenURL 1.0 spec. I’m on the NISO Advisory Committee for OpenURL (which makes this even more embarrassing) and was reviewing the proposal for the Request Transfer Message Community Profile and its associated metadata formats when it dawned on me that…
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Filing an extension on my fifteen minutes
I was reading Brian’s appeal for more Emerils in the library world (bam!), noticed Steven Bell’s comment (his blog posting was a response to one by Steven in the first place) and it got me thinking. First off, I don’t necessarily buy into Brian’s argument. Maybe it’s due to the fact that he’s younger than…
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New Year, New Leaf
I realize I’ve been extremely quiet for the last several months (probably around the time I left Tech for Talis). While there are a slew of reasons for this (holidays, settling into new job, trying to shore up some projects, writing some articles, family, etc.), I’ve let it get out of hand. One of the…
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Tales from the Open Content Alliance
San Francisco is a truly miserable town to try to recuperate from a sore throat. Not that anyone would consider a place with the nickname ‘Fog City’ to be a good place to convalesce, especially since walking around in the wet and cold is so desirable given the charms of the city. And so I…
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Champions, We are the
Since my omission of my job title in my last post has piqued peoples’ curiosity, here you all go. At Talis, I will be known as: Interoperability and Open Standards Champion There. It’s out there. (I can hear you snickering)
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Taking off the yellow jacket
As of October 1st, I will no longer be working for Georgia Tech. I turned in my notice on Thursday morning. On October 15th, I’ll starting the next stage of my life with Talis. My job title embarrasses me a bit, so I’m not going to put it here, but my job centers around interoperability,…
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HACK IS NOT A CRIME
…although LinuX_Xploit_Crew, with all due respect, I think it actually is. Oh well, we’re back with a new theme (which nobody will see except to read comments, since I’m pretty sure all traffic comes from the code4lib planet) and an updated WordPress install. Look out, world! So, in the downtime here’s a non-comprehensive rundown of…
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Union Card
Can anyone give a rational explanation as to why a job with a description like this: DESCRIPTION: Provides technology and computer support for the Vanderbilt Library. The major areas of responsibility include developing, maintaining and assisting in the enhancement of interfaces to web-enabled database applications (currently implemented in perl, PHP, and MySQL). The position also…
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Super arrogant programmer clique
One thing I hope that never happens at Access (and hope it hasn’t already happened and I’m too much of a super arrogant programmer to notice) is the “hotshot developers” gather round a table and whip out their laptops and break only to give supra-obtuse presentations on how to use their technologies (and opening by…
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