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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.Libology Blog
Established July 2006
ISSN: 1946-1852
by Rick Mason
Category Archives: Open Source
Koha Zoom
The Nelsonville Public Library in Athens County, Ohio has just gone live with the latest update for Koha, an open source Integrated Library System (ILS). The OPAC is clean, fast, and shares more than a passing similarity to the OPAC … Continue reading
Posted in Google, ILS, Libraries, Open Source, Search, Software, Web Design
Tagged Athens County, Google, koha, Koha Zoom The
Nelsonville Public Library, Koha Zoom The
Nelsonville Public Library, Ohio
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OldVersion
Need to find an earlier version of Adobe’s Acrobat Reader for that 200MHz computer that slows to a crawl when you try to use the current version of the software? Never fear: previous versions of dozens of software programs, open … Continue reading
Firefox 2.0 released
It is still a bit early (tomorrow is the official release date), but it seems that the folks over at Mozilla have put the final version of Firefox 2.0 on their download site. This isn’t as dramatic an update as … Continue reading
Posted in Open Source, Software, Web Design
Tagged download site
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Happy Birthday OO.org
Don’t you hate it when you miss someone’s birthday? OpenOffice.org had its birthday last Friday, October 13th, and I completely forgot about it. I guess it is ok, though, as OO.org likes to give birthday gifts instead of receiving them: … Continue reading
Posted in Open Source, Software
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Eudora to be based on Thunderbird
In the news today: Eudora, the e-mail client that has been around since the late 1980’s, will soon be based on the Mozilla Thunderbird source and released as an open-source project. The reason behind this is that Qualcomm, the owner … Continue reading
Posted in Open Source, Software
Tagged owner, Qualcomm, software projects, wireless technology
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Gentium – a typeface for the nations
This isn’t a new discovery, but I found myself recommending the Gentium typeface to someone this morning, and thought it made sense to post it as well. Gentium is easy to read, especially when printed out. It can sometimes look … Continue reading
Common Cartridge – a standard for learning management software
It has been announced that a group consisting of publishers and course software makers have created a standard format for online classes called Common Cartridge, which promises to allow electronic resources to be used interchangeably within different learning management software. … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Open Access, Open Source, Software, Training, Web Design
Tagged learning management software, McGraw-Hill, online classes, open source course software makers, Pearson, software makers, software programs
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Zotero – Public Release Day set
Zotero, the software project I am waiting for, won’t keep us waiting much longer: the Public Release Date has been set for Thursday, October 5th. One slight hitch: it requires Firefox 2.0 (I have been staying on 1.5.0.7 for the … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Libraries, Open Source, Software, Web Design
Tagged One Big Library
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Songbird upgrade
The Songbird project has gone to version 0.2! This means that many, many features still do not work, but many, many features do work, and they work great! This is to be a full-fledged media player built on the same … Continue reading
Posted in Open Source, Software, Video
Tagged built-from-scratch software, media player
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An example of where Open Source could have helped…
NASA recently made 1100 Apollo-era documents, including Mission Reports (I have read several, and they are truly fascinating to those interested in manned spaceflight), Evaluation Reports, Scientific Studies, and Interviews, available on a DVD-ROM, calling it the Lunar e-Library. Fantastic! … Continue reading
Posted in Copyright, Libraries, Open Access, Open Source, Software, Space
Tagged National Aeronautics and Space Administration, open source software world, restrictive software license, software license
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Innovate
The current issue (November/December 2006) of Innovate – Journal of Online Education is focused on Open Source and Open Access in higher education. There are several articles of interest in to those looking to add or expand offerings in online … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Open Access, Open Source, Software
Tagged Journal of Online Education;, online education
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Open Of Course
There is a relatively new site for online learning called Open Of Course, which offers a variety of tutorials and such for no cost (except your time and effort). Included among their offerings are tutorials on administering and using Linux … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Open Access, Open Source, Software, Training, Tutorials, Web Design
Tagged Linux, online learning, php, Ubuntu, Web Design
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Semantic Indexing Project
A group at Middlebury College is working on open-source search tools that, rather than rely on keywords, attempt to deal with the query semantically. The Semantic Indexing Project goes beyond the “Ask Jeeves” (don’t you kind of miss him?) experience, … Continue reading
Posted in Online Databases, Open Source, Search, Software, WebSearch
Tagged desktop search appliance, Middlebury College, open-source search, speech recognition
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Zotero review
Daniel Chudnov, aka One Big Library has a review of the private beta version of Zotero, and man, does he like it! I am very eager to see what this piece of software can do! Watch for the public beta … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Libraries, Online Databases, Open Access, Open Source, Search, Software, Web Design
Tagged aka
One Big Library, aka
One Big Library, Daniel Chudnov
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Firefox 2, Release Candidate 1
The next generation Firefox browser is one step closer to general release. Release candidates mean that they still expect to find a few bugs, but that they will be fewer and less obtrusive. In other words, if you want to … Continue reading
Posted in Open Source, Software, Web Design
Tagged Release Candidate
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OpenOffice.org to get extension capabilities
OpenOffice.org, the open source office suite that gives Microsoft Office a run for it’s money (no pun intended), will soon be able to have its features expanded by the use of Extensions. Extensions are small, add-on programs created by developers … Continue reading
Posted in Open Source, Software, Web Design
Tagged Google, html, Microsoft, web design projects
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OpenDocument.XML.org
OpenDocument.XML.org is, as the name might suggest, a website devoted to the new standard document file format. These formats have been making news over the past year or so because of the issue of archiving data files and having the … Continue reading
Zotero, formerly known as Firefox Scholar
Zotero is a Firefox extension which will automatically detect when you are on a website that contains information related to citations (i.e. a library OPAC), and will collect this information for you. It will also let you save the web … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Online Databases, Open Access, Open Source, Search, Software
Tagged research tool
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