Systems Cringely on SCO > 6) As for SCO, they’ll continue to make noise until the middle of the year, at which point Lorcan Dempsey Feb 19, 2004
Systems Modelling digital information assets There was some discussion of digital object management and the relevance or otherwise of FRBR at the staff meeting this Lorcan Dempsey Feb 19, 2004 1 min read
Systems National OpenURL service A national OpenURL service has just been announced in the UK. > The OpenURL Router works by offering a central Lorcan Dempsey Feb 17, 2004
Systems Yee on RDF Raymond Yee has an interesting and frank discussion of his attempts to grapple with RDF and the Semantic Web. > Lorcan Dempsey Feb 17, 2004
Hiatus I have busy week following return from travel, so there will be no entries for a few more days here. Lorcan Dempsey Feb 16, 2004
Systems Recall Recall from the Internet Archive is pretty interesting on first inspection. An outline is provided on the Help Page [https: Lorcan Dempsey Jan 29, 2004
Research ∕ Learning Institutional repositories Some suggestive observations about institutional repositories in the summary of a CNI roundtable discussion. > In many ways, discussing “institutional Lorcan Dempsey Jan 29, 2004 1 min read
Books In America On a personal note … my brother in law, Arthur Lappin, is the producer of the movie In America [https://www. Lorcan Dempsey Jan 27, 2004
Books Mind the gap When I had been with OCLC for a few months, I was asked to do a keynote presentation to the Lorcan Dempsey Jan 25, 2004 2 min read
Systems NYT article on copyright > Not long ago, the Internet’s ability to provide instant, inexpensive and perfect copies of text, sound and images Lorcan Dempsey Jan 25, 2004 1 min read
Books How good is the catalog? Pretty interesting piece by a member of faculty in the history department at Swarthmore. I quote at length — follow the Lorcan Dempsey Jan 25, 2004 3 min read
Systems New OS asset management system based on FRBR > This is the development wiki of LibDB, an open-sourced Perl/MySQL library and asset management system based on and Lorcan Dempsey Jan 24, 2004