More uncommon images
NYPL has joined the Flickr commons with 1300 images that tease us with the suggestion of what else might be coming. Unlike the earlier contributions from the Library of Congress,… Read more »
Author Archives: Wally
Light show
It fell to me to both create the slides and handle the equipment for the presentation a group of us did off-campus on Monday. The “handle the equipment” part meant… Read more »
Portals presentation at CNI
Yesterday, I was part of a group presenting Mason’s Research Portal project at CNI’s Fall 2008 meeting. Another member of my group counted 65 people in the audience which seemed… Read more »
Award-winning Omeka
At today’s CNI opening plenary, Vint Cerf presented Tom Scheinfeldt of the Center for History and New Media an award check for $50,000, citing the work they’re doing with Omeka.  … Read more »
Biznar, Federated Search and the Deep Web
Sent an exploratory note to DeepWeb Technologies the other day, asking if they’d tell me a little more about their product and give me some idea of what it might… Read more »
Linking to Google Books
This must be the month of the OPAC or something. Today I worked up a quick way to link from a book in our Voyager system to Google books via… Read more »
PHP + DOM + Joel = SMS from OPAC
Mentioned the other day that I was working on adding a “send this call number to your cell phone” capability to our Voyager OPAC (mitigating the “find a scrap of… Read more »
SMS messaging from the Catalog
Getting started on a project where I’ll try to add a “send this item’s location to my cellphone” link in our OPAC (a 21st century analog to the little box… Read more »
In the news
Brian Krebs, writing in his Security Fix column for the Washington Post, had this to say this morning: Unknown hackers broke into George Mason University’s e-mail system and sent students… Read more »
See you in court…
Statement from George Mason University on Center for History and New Media’s Zotero Software Oct. 29, 2008 Media Contact: Daniel Walsch, dwalsch@gmu.edu 703-993-8785 The Thomson Reuters Corporation has sued the… Read more »