Hadoop World 2009
I had the privilege of attending Hadoop World 2009 on Friday. It was amazing to meet, listen to, and pick the brains of so many smart people. The quantity ...
Digital Libraries
Multi-Threading with VFS
One of the new features in the BagIt Library will be multi-threading CPU-intensive bag processing operations, such as bag creation and verification. Modern ...
Funny Smelling Code – Endlessly Propagating Parameters
We’re currently working on a new version of the BagIt Library: adding some new functionality, making some bug fixes, and refactoring the interfaces pretty he...
What You Learn
Version 2.0 of Chronicling America went online yesterday. Congratulations are in order to David, Ed, Dan, Curt, and everybody else on the team!
Good News For Libraries: DMCA Not Applicable
Sure, it’s a brain-dead piece of legislation that simultaneously undermines the longevity of our modern cultural heritage and turns graduate students into cr...
The Future of Digital Archives
Ever since the announcement that portions of the Library’s new Library of Congress Experience initiative would have some user-interface components implemente...
Chronicling America - Now With More Page!
I spend a significant fraction of my time working at the Library on Chronicling America. We went live with the latest release a little while ago, finally bre...
Waterboarding in the Press - 106 Years Ago
The current debate over the use of waterboarding seems new and fresh and relevant. But if working on a digital archive of historical newspapers has taught me...
Chronicling America Update
As usual, I’ve been crazy busy. We released a new version of my project at the Library of Congress on June 14th. The cut-over was nice and smooth, with only ...
Chronicling America
Ever wonder what I do for a living? Check it out: Chronicling America is now live!
Adventures in Enormous Lucene Indexes on AIX
I have been working hard over the last several weeks to port our system at work from our x86 Linux development environment to the PowerPC AIX production envi...
IFLA Newspaper Conference: Gerardo Valencia - National Library of Mexico
This is a country report by Gerardo Valencia from the National Library of Mexico.
IFLA Newspaper Conference: Utah Olympic Park
We took a trip up to the Utah Olympic Park in Park City for a dinner and show last night. The drive up the mountain was quite gorgeous, although I spent most...
IFLA Newspaper Conference: Sandra Burrows - Library and Archives Canada
This is a country report from Sandra Burrows from the Library and Archives Canada. The Library and Archives site has a list on their site of mostly free onli...
IFLA Newspaper Conference: Maritza Failla - National Library of Chile
This is a country report by Maritza Failla from the National Library of Chile. Chilean law requires a deposit of 15 copies of each paper or book, along with ...
IFLA Newspaper Conference: Kenning Arlitsch and John Herbert - University of Utah
This panel is on Statewide Digitization Initiatives, with Kenning Arlitsch and John Herbert.
IFLA Newspaper Conference: David Adams - National Library of New Zealand
This is a country report from David Adams, from the National Library of New Zealand. He shows Google Maps, and says, “There will be Google Newspapers. Do we ...
IFLA Newspaper Conference: Perry Willett
Perry Willett from the University of Michigan is the first of the technical panel presenters. He is discussing the university’s newspaper experiences. He beg...
IFLA Newspaper Conference: Morgan Cundiff
Morgan Cundiff, from the Library of Congress is the final presenter for the Technical Panel. I’m friends with Morgan - we work at the Library together. He wo...
IFLA Newspaper Conference: James Simon - Center for Research Libraries
The title of the presentation is “Cooperative Digitization and Dissemination of World Newspapers: A Proposal.” James is from the Center for Research Librarie...
IFLA Newspaper Conference: Hartmut Walravens - Berlin State Library
This is a report on the IFLA Newspaper Section and other worldwide newspaper programs, presented by Hartmut Walravens from the Berlin State Library. The IFLA...
IFLA Newspaper Conference: Ed King - British Library
Ed is giving a general overview of the state of newspaper publishing in the UK. It seems that growth is being seen in regional papers, often with news becomi...
IFLA Newspaper Conference: Alison Stevenson & Elizabeth Styron
Alison and Elizabeth from the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre, part of the Victoria University of Wellington, are the next presenters in the technical pan...
XServe RAID vs. The Batmobile
When you think of Apple, you probably think of iPods and Powerbooks and iTunes. Apple is well known for making chic and sexy hardware and software. It’s a co...