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It pains me to say this after a number of good...

It pains me to say this after a number of good Loomware years, but it is increasingly challenging for me to keep Loomware updated, so I am "archiving" the site with this post - leaving it open but making the... Continue reading

Posted Mar 15, 2015 at LoomWare

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Islandora Scholar Institutional Repository Solution Pack

Islandora Release 7.x-1.3 Series #1 Background The Islandora Scholar Solution Pack is one of the most feature rich and long-awaited components of the Islandora ecosystem. Scholar is an IR (Institutional Repository) or general-use document repository, ideal for preserving and promoting... Continue reading

Posted Apr 29, 2014 at LoomWare

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Return to Blogging

It seems to me I have done this once (or twice) before, but I feel like it is time to continue blogging on Loomware. My Loomware blog started in February of 2004, so I guess I can call this the... Continue reading

Posted Apr 18, 2014 at LoomWare

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CDL, UCLA and DiscoveryGarden Partner on Islandora

The latest CDLINFO newsletter mentions plans to integrate the Islandora system with CDL's Merritt backend: In coordination with the UCLA Library and DiscoveryGarden, we are planning to move forward on work to integrate Islandora with Merritt. UCLA will be conducting... Continue reading

Posted Jun 28, 2012 at LoomWare

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New Islandora 6 & 7 Releases Available

The Islandora team released 2 new version last week: Islandora 12.2.0 (the latest Drupal 6-compatible version) features a new version of the book solution pack, along with improvements and bug fixes to many other modules. You can read about all... Continue reading

Posted Jun 28, 2012 at LoomWare

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iPad App for Islandora Repo Now Available

Our new iPad application, Telling Island Stories, is now available in the App Store (and yes it does support the retina display). TIS is a front-end to a number of Islandora-based digital collections, with a focus on story and geo-level... Continue reading

Posted Jun 1, 2012 at LoomWare

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Islandora 7 Code Sprint Underway

I'm a little late in getting this out, but you know how it goes. The University of PEI and DiscoveryGarden teams are hard at work on a 2-week code sprint to create the initial Islandora/Drupal 7 release. We have been... Continue reading

Posted May 29, 2012 at LoomWare

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New Islandora Site in Italy

I want to start highlighting new Islandora sites as we come across them, so please let me know when you find or create a new site using the Islandora framework. The BESS (Biblioteca Elettronica Di Scienze) Digital Archive is a... Continue reading

Posted May 29, 2012 at LoomWare

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UPEI Senate Approves Open Access Policy

After a lengthy but very fruitful process UPEI's Senate approved a new open access policy. Some highlights of the policy: immediate deposit of scholarly articles (including faculty, grad student and undergraduate works) in the UPEI repository is encouraged (a mandate... Continue reading

Posted May 29, 2012 at LoomWare

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Michael Geist - Why Universities Should Not Sign the Access Copyright

A new post from Michael Geist is added to the positive message from the growing list of universities not signing the AC/AUCC "unModel" License. What more do Canadian universities need to make the only decision that is in the best... Continue reading

Reblogged May 25, 2012 at LoomWare

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Thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster, There is Still Leadership in This World

UBC announced today that they ARE NOT signing the Access Copyright agreement. This is a sensible decision and one that speaks to what every university in Canada should do. If you are a Canadian institution that has not yet signed... Continue reading

Posted May 15, 2012 at LoomWare

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Elite Universities' Online Play (Again)

The Coursera effort described in this article is an interesting new twist in the ongoing effort to "redefine" the delivery of university education. There has been a lot of buzz about Stanford's recent massively open online courses efforts, especially since... Continue reading

Posted May 2, 2012 at LoomWare

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If There Was Ever Any Doubt...

this latest battle of the IT overlords should dismiss any that remains. The emerging legal details in the Google-Oracle battle over Java highlights why Oracle and open source are like oil and water. The attempt to copyright a language is... Continue reading

Posted Apr 17, 2012 at LoomWare

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Not a Bad Idea, If Not For...

This recent announcement from the federal government seems like a long time coming and one I personally am mostly in favour of, if only the government wasn't also decimating other services for the "those with less", including Internet access. Would... Continue reading

Posted Apr 16, 2012 at LoomWare

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Man With the Google Glasses

Ross Douthat's NYT column struck a chord this weekend while I was trying out some new iPad apps. My strongest thought was that the Google Glasses reflect the impeding death of the iPhone, with such a compelling interface and integration... Continue reading

Posted Apr 15, 2012 at LoomWare

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A Global University-Cached Archive?

I just read the Jan/Feb issue of MITs Technology Review which features a piece called Fire in the Library. It made me mostly sad. It's about a group called the Archive Team and their efforts to scrape and archive what... Continue reading

Posted Apr 15, 2012 at LoomWare

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UNESCO Open Access Document

UNESCO's recently released guide to Open Access. Continue reading

Posted Apr 8, 2012 at LoomWare

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Kahle's Building a Digital Library Talk

A peek at what Brewster has planned next for his digital library. Continue reading

Reblogged Mar 29, 2012 at LoomWare

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AIMS White Paper Available

The AIMS project has released their white paper, which has some great reading on the issues and challenges facing institutions as they embrace the avalanch of born digital content. From the e-mail release: AIMS (Born-Digital Collections: An Inter-Institutional Model for... Continue reading

Posted Mar 6, 2012 at LoomWare

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CNI Workshop On Scholarly Identity, April 4, Baltimore

Call For Participation The Management of Scholarly Identity A CNI Workshop April 4, 2012 (following the CNI Spring Member Meeting) Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel Baltimore, Maryland 10AM - 3PM The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is hosting an invitational workshop... Continue reading

Posted Mar 6, 2012 at LoomWare

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Presentations from PASIG January 2012

Presentations from the PASIG Meetings in Austin, Texas, January 2012 | SULAIR There are some great presentations in the list from this year's PASIG event, held in early January. I'm sorry I missed it! Continue reading

Reblogged Feb 24, 2012 at LoomWare

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Top 10 Digital Preservation Developments of 2011 « The Signal: Digital Preservation

Interesting list of some key developments in digital preservation - includes DuraCloud. Continue reading

Reblogged Feb 23, 2012 at LoomWare

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NOW AVAILABLE: Fedora GSearch Version 2.4.1 | DuraSpace

NOW AVAILABLE: Fedora GSearch Version 2.4.1 | DuraSpace The latest GSearch is available and includes some very nice new features: use of Tika for metadata/text extraction; support for Solr/Lucene 3.5 and ability to embed RISearch queries in Solr/Lucene. Continue reading

Reblogged Feb 23, 2012 at LoomWare

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Boing Boing weighs in on UWO/UofT Access Copyright Fiasco

Canadian universities sign bone-stupid copyright deal with collecting society: emailing a link is the same as making a photocopy, faculty email to be surveilled - Boing Boing I thought gadgetgirl said it best: "I thought links were supposed to be... Continue reading

Reblogged Feb 22, 2012 at LoomWare

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The diplomacy of knowledge

This editorial by Canada's Governor-General seems to me a passionate statement in support of open access and open data, not to mention the fundamental commitment for scientists and knowledge seekers in all disciplines to share their knowledge freely. Canada's new... Continue reading

Posted Feb 17, 2012 at LoomWare

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