Briefly
BookDrive Our ATIZ BookDrive DIY scanner arrived on campus today (hope to have it delivered to our building tomorrow some time). Despite other distractions, we should have it set up… Read more »
BookDrive Our ATIZ BookDrive DIY scanner arrived on campus today (hope to have it delivered to our building tomorrow some time). Despite other distractions, we should have it set up… Read more »
In February this year, Apple conferred EOL status on Xserve RAID and announced the replacement: Promise VTRAK RAID. Last month, I needed an additional RAID unit and decided to order… Read more »
The other day a couple of colleagues came by asking if I’d take a look at an equipment proposal they were putting together for a new planetary scanner (and no,… Read more »
It has been nearly a month since the last post appeared. To some degree that’s a function of the 100+ hours it seems I’ve spent on personnel issues (a Copyright… Read more »
A month or so ago I wrote a note about switching to a smaller (even if less powerful) laptop. I now realize that was just one point on a trendline…. Read more »
Until a few weeks ago, there were basically two programs that could be used to do a screencast on a Mac: Snapz Pro X from Ambrosia Software and iShowU from… Read more »
I continue thinking about how to exploit a user-friendly tool like Omeka to enable library staff to build inviting exhibitions of digital objects—more particularly, those stored in our MARS (DSpace)… Read more »
Mason’s Center for History and New Media announces the release of Omeka – a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) platform for publishing collections and exhibitions online. Designed as a solution… Read more »
Yesterday Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences voted to require faculty to make copies of their research freely available through the Office of Scholarly Communications. You can read the proposal… Read more »
Work on our first research portal (Bioinformatics) is just about complete. To refresh, we’re combining two open-source products (WordPress and CWIS) to build what we hope will prove to be… Read more »