Archive for December, 2006

Is Open Data the Point?

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

I’ve been thinking about the biblioblogosphere’s reaction to Casey Bisson’s decision to use the $50,000 he was awarded by the Mellon Foundation for his work on WPopac to purchase LC bibliographic data and open it up to anyone who wanted to take a crack at it. Yes, this is a “Good Thing,” and valuable to [...]

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The State of Open Source Archival Management Software

Thursday, December 21st, 2006

It’s been a while since I’ve written here, but other responsibilities at both at home and work have kept me busy. To get back into the swing of writing regularly, I thought I’d take a look at one of the biggest hot-button topics in archives this year: the development and release of open source archival [...]

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