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code4lib – standards rule

By mitcheet | Published: February 25, 2009

Sebastian Hammer started out the second full day of Code4Lib with a discussion f the origin of open source software. After talking for a few minutes about the growing challenge for libraries to remain relevant in a changing informaiton economy, he bridged to the concept of builidng things not through api use but rather by [...]

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code4lib – day 2

By mitcheet | Published: February 24, 2009

The first full day at code4lib included a slew of 20 minute talks on various library and coding topics today. The opening speaker stefano mazzocchi pushed on the idea about how the change to digital will impact how we encode and transport information. The interesting angle on this discussion was the representation of the reduction [...]

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code4lib 2009 – Vufind

By mitcheet | Published: February 23, 2009

This morning kicked off code4lib 2009 with a series of pre-conferences. Both Kevin and I attended the Vufind preconference session which included an overview of vufind, install exercise, and a q&a session on vufind features and issues.
I documented lots of notes & tips on our Vufind project page in the library wiki and once we [...]

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