Systems Which Fedora? Apparently RedHat has trademarked ‘Fedora’. See Fedora Project, sponsored by Red Hat [https://fedora.redhat.com/about/name.html]. Cornell Lorcan Dempsey Nov 21, 2003
Systems Wils review > Tom Zillner has written a review of Lorcan Dempsey’s The Recombinant Library: Portals and People (28 pp.). See Lorcan Dempsey Nov 20, 2003
Systems Another CIP Several colleagues met with Norbert Lossau of Bielefeld University this morning. Norbert is on a tour of US universities and Lorcan Dempsey Nov 19, 2003 1 min read
Institutions u-Portal I argued [https://www.oclc.org/research/staff/dempsey/recombinant_library/dempsey_recombinant_library.htm] a while ago that libraries’ Lorcan Dempsey Nov 19, 2003 1 min read
Systems Open source vs buy Interesting article by the CIO of UW Madison. They like to buy, but uncertainty in the vendor space is prompting Lorcan Dempsey Nov 19, 2003 1 min read
Systems Clusters figure highly in top supercomputer list > While the overall rate of performance growth of the top 500 systems is steady, distributed clusters of generally off-the-shelf Lorcan Dempsey Nov 19, 2003
Systems DIDL, METS et al When Herbert was here some time ago, he was wondering about METS. Interesting discussion in current D-LIB Magazine about using Lorcan Dempsey Nov 18, 2003 1 min read
Systems Text retrieval primer from Oracle Introductory overview to information retrieval evaluation from Oracle. Interesting to see discussion of precision, recall, TREC conferences, etc, in this Lorcan Dempsey Nov 18, 2003 1 min read
Systems Facets Ed organised a discussion with Endeca [https://endeca.com] last week, given shared interest in faceted classification. In that context Lorcan Dempsey Nov 16, 2003
Systems Google and pizza Want to know where to get a pizza near where the Dempsey-Lennon family lives in Columbus? Try: Google Search: pizza Lorcan Dempsey Nov 16, 2003
Systems World's fastest computers This list came up in discussion with OSU computer science faculty during the week. > The TOP500 project was started Lorcan Dempsey Nov 16, 2003
Systems Thesauri and RDF > Work is ongoing to develop RDF vocabularies for describing thesaurus data. We would like to be able to encode Lorcan Dempsey Nov 14, 2003