RIRI: Red Island Repository Institute 2011
Registration is now open for this year’s Institute, September 17-23. We are
planning to have 2 streams this year: Digital Humanities and Science Data. Come
and learn about cutting-edge repository technologies with like minded folk on
beautiful Prince
Hi -
I'd just like to let everyone know I did some work yesterday on
ruby-zoom to port most of the code to 1.9.2. All of the standard z39.50
features are ported. The only feature left is the packages, which allow
for the extended services.
I'd appreciate anyone that uses it to provide
I'd be curious to know if this project itself would be open source.
Second, I'm intrigued because I've never seen a UML diagram so close before in
the wild and it's fascinating to discover the jokes are true (I kid, I kid...).
Let's get serious and pull out your Refactoring book by Fowler and
(Apologies for cross-posting...)
Indiana University announces the availability of several deliverables from the
IMLS-funded Variations/FRBR project, all of which are accessible from the
project website, http://vfrbr.info.
An export of FRBRized data with an RDF binding of the Variations/FRBR
As some points for comparison, you might look at two exisintg and similar
systems for registering software...
First, a software tools database that is maintained for the environmental
sciences community:
http://ebmtoolsdatabase.org/
An example of one of my tool entries in this system is here:
I agree with Brice think you might be over-thinking/over-architecting
it, although over-thinking is one of my sins too and I'm not always sure
how to get out of it.
But am I correct that you're going to be relying on user-submitted
content in large part? Then it's important to keep it simple,
I'm combining several responses into one. Apologies for the delay in getting
back to folks; I'm technically on vacation at the moment...
On Aug 9, 2011, at 12:47 PM, Brice Stacey wrote:
I'd be curious to know if this project itself would be open source.
Yes, we'll post the registry code and
On 10/08/11 09:45, Peter Murray wrote:
Lastly, you may want to look into Drupal's project module. I think that's what
they use to run their module directory. It seems like it would be a good
starting point and may work out of the box.
Cool -- thanks for the tip!
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On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 3:50 PM, stuart yeates stuart.yea...@vuw.ac.nzwrote:
...
Ohloh is great. However it relies almost completely on metrics which are
easily gamed by the technically competent. Use of these kinds of metrics in
ways which encouraging gaming will only be productive in the
