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Emory and George Mason Team Up on Zotero Project

Published by rwatstein November 23rd, 2008 in libraries, cataloging and open source. 0 Comments

Emory University Libraries and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University have entered a cooperative partnership on Zotero, the free, open-source bibliographic manager. A team of librarians, information technologists, and faculty members led by Connie Moon Sehat, Emory Libraries’ new director of digital scholarship initiatives, will extend the research capabilities of the software in collaboration with Zotero’s main development team.

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Darien Library Launches Its Own Social Catalog

Published by rwatstein September 7th, 2008 in libraries, library services, cataloging and open source. 0 Comments

To pump up its web presence, the Darien Library is now offering SOPAC 2.0, a new open source social catalog created by staffer John Blyberg, which not only features faceted browsing, tag clouds, and total integration of patron-added content like ratings, comments, and reviews but is tailored to be a repository of community data from many libraries.

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Open Source Software in Education

Published by rwatstein July 12th, 2008 in education, software and open source. 0 Comments

Educational institutions have rushed to put their academic resources and services online, bringing the global community onto a common platform and awakening the interest of investors. Despite continuing technical challenges, online education shows great promise. Open source software offers one approach to addressing the technical problems in providing optimal delivery of online learning. Open source refers to both the concept and practice of making program source code openly available. Users and developers have access to the core designing functionalities that enable them to modify or add features to the source code and redistribute it. Extensive collaboration and circulation are central to the open source movement.

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New BBC Monitoring Library: Credible, Timely Open Source Intelligence

Published by rwatstein May 4th, 2008 in information and open source. 0 Comments

Publishing Technology, a provider of software, services and content for the information industry, has announced the launch of a new web platform for BBC Monitoring, the global news resource. The BBC Monitoring Library provides subscribers with open source intelligence from the BBC’s unparalleled network. Articles are selected from traditional and new media worldwide, with over one hundred source languages being translated into English to provide a fully searchable digital current affairs resource.

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Succeeding at Open-Source Innovation: An Interview with Mozilla’s Mitchell Baker

Published by rwatstein February 5th, 2008 in open source and Mozilla. 0 Comments

As companies reach beyond their boundaries to find and develop ideas, they are exploring new models to manage innovation. In projects that tap external talent, questions quickly arise about process management, intellectual-property rights, and the right to make decisions. Some executives have been at this game longer than others. Mitchell Baker, chairman and former chief executive officer of Mozilla Corporation, has devoted the past ten years to leading an effort that relies extensively on people outside her company—not just for creative ideas, but also to develop products and make decisions. The result: Mozilla’s Firefox browser, with 150 million users, has become a rival of Microsoft’s market-leading Internet Explorer.

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