code4lib was less than a month ago, but already I’ve forgotten some details.

That’s why I’m glad to have notes from Ed Summers (day one, two, and three), Art Rhyno, Tom Hickey, Karen Coombs, and Ryan Eby.

Posted March 14, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: code4lib, code4lib 2006, conference blog, conference journal, libraries, library. Be the first one.

I prefaced my point about how the standards we choose in libraries isolate us from the larger stream of progress driving development outside libraries with the note that I was sure to get hanged for it.
It’s true.
I commented that there were over 140,00 registered Amazon API developers and 365 public OpenSearch targets (hey look, there’s [...]

Posted February 23, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy. Tags: a9, amazon api, amazon web services, argument, AWS, cage match, code4lib, code4lib 2006, future libraries, information retrieval, lib20, libraries, library, library 2.0, library standards, opensearch, search, search and retrieval, search retrieval, sru/srw, srw/sru, web services. 5 Comments.

As with all my other presentations, the my slides tell less than half the story, but I’ve posted them anyway. I’m told the audio was recorded, and there’s a chance that will help explain all this, but until then you’ll have to piece this all together from my previous writings, what little I’m about to [...]

Posted February 22, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: code4lib, coders, developers, future libraries, great wall of standards, isolation, libraries, library, library 2.0, population density, presentation, programmers, standards, sustainability, sustainable development, wpopac. 2 Comments.

Art Rhyno confused my by calling it ERP, but he just rocked his code4lib presentation and I realized he’s talking about the same thing that’s been itching me: libraries are not unique, but our software and standards are unnecessarily so.
In my introduction of WPopac I made the point that I didn’t want to replace the [...]

Posted February 15, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: acquisitions, code4lib, code4lib2006, enterprise resource planning, erp, libraries, library, open source, workflow. 2 Comments.

I’d be excited just to be a fly on the wall at code4lib, but I’m on a bit of a mission to change the architecture of our library software — to make it more hackable, and make those hacks more sharable — so I had to propose a talk.
Title: What Blog Applications Can Teach [...]

Posted January 6, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: code4lib, common platform, lib20, libraries, library, library 2.0, library software, library systems, library20, reusable code, software architecture, software design, system architecture, system design. 2 Comments.