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Matt Zumwalt’s Presentation on OM from Code4Lib 2011.

Next week, the Code4Lib community will descend upon Bloomington, IN. If you’re attending the conference, you will have many opportunities to learn more about Hydra and to connect with Hydra developers. All of the Hydra-related presentations and organized Hydra activities will be on Wednesday, February 9th.

Even if you’re successfully running Hydrangea without RVM, I will argue that you’ve merely chanced upon an ephemeral state of bliss. To paraphrase a famous Sicilian: you’ve fallen victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is “never get involved in a land war in Asia”, but only slightly less well-known [...]

In case you’ve been curious about the current status of the Hydra project, here is the latest rundown of what we’ve done so far and what we plan to do over the coming months. First, here are some links to stable reference material: Your main source of information about the Hydra Project is still the [...]

At Open Repositories in 2007, I gave a presentation on Simplifying Fedora Frontends with XForms and Fedora Disseminators (PPT).  This work showed how to leverage Fedora disseminators to embed XForms directly into your Fedora repository, thus embedding a basic edit interface directly into your archival objects.  The reference implementation used Orbeon XForms and a whole lot of [...]

I submitted an abbreviated version of this proposal (limited to 4 pages) to the OR10 review committee.  Feel free to download the abbreviated version or this long version in PDF format. OpenRepositories 2010 Presentation Proposal (Long Version) Any repository solution provides facilities for Creation, Management, & Editing of Content as well as facilities for Searching [...]

I’ve posted my last videos to the Code4Lib & Dev8D 2010 channel on Vimeo. (NB: the Dev8D responses are all on YouTube, not Vimeo).  We only had a half day on Thursday but I managed to run around and gather enough video for one montage of hello messages and three mini-interviews. I convinced Thursday’s emcee [...]

Among the highlights of dev8D are the developer challenges. Last year, List8D took home the £5,000 first prize at the Developer Decathlon. This year, there are ten different challenges, or bounties. Mahendra Mahey explained that last year’s single grand prize format left a number of otherwise deserving innovation efforts unrecognized. As a result, this year’s [...]

Adrian Bowyer, from the University of Bath, visited us today at dev8D to demonstrate RepRap. RepRap is a 3D printer that uses plastic as raw material (the ink, or toner, if you will) to produce three-dimensional objects. Aside from the pure geek-appeal of a self-replicating, 3D printer that accepts designs from Art of Illusion or [...]

Keynote #2: catfish, cthulhu, code, clouds and Levenshtein distance The final half-day of Code4Lib 2010 began with a roving, sublimely geeky keynote address by Paul Jones, Director of ibiblio.org (you know – host of project Gutenberg, etc.).  His opening challenge: “What is the levenshtein distance between Paul Jones and Cathy Marshall?” Little did he know that zoia the [...]