exlibris – commonplace.net

Just in time or just in case?

Metasearch vs. harvesting & indexing The other day I gave a presentation for the Assembly of members of the local Amsterdam Libraries Association “Adamnet“, about the Amsterdam Digital Library search portal that we host at the Library of the University of Amsterdam. This portal is built with our […]

October 16, 2009February 14, 2020Librarycatalog, discovery tools, exlibris, federated search, harvesting & indexing, innovation, integration, library systems, metasearch, next generation

Roadmaps to uncertainty

What will library staff do 5 years from now? I attended the IGeLU 2009 annual conference in Helsinki September 6-9. IGeLU is the International Group of Ex Libris Users, an independent organisation that represents Ex Libris customers. Just to state my position clearly I would like to add […]

October 6, 2009January 12, 2020Libraryexlibris, igelu, igelu09, library systems, meetings, next generation, roadmap, saas, system librarians, urm, workflows

Who needs MARC?

Why use a non-normalised metadata exchange format for suboptimal data storage? This week I had a nice chat with André Keyzer of Groningen University library and Peter van Boheemen of Wageningen University Library who attended OCLC’s Amsterdam Mashathon 2009. As can be expected from library technology geeks, we […]

May 15, 2009November 3, 2020Generalaacr2, authority files, bibliographic formats, dublin core, exlibris, formats, library systems, mab, metadata, metalib, openurl, pica+, rda, sfx, sru, srw

Developers meet developers, people meet people

Last month I was in the opportunity to participate in the first official Ex Libris “Developers meet developers” meeting in Jerusalem, November 12-13, 2008. The meeting was dedicated to the new Open Platform strategy that Ex Libris has adopted. I already mentioned this development in my post How […]

December 14, 2008January 12, 2020Generaldeveloper platforms, eluna, exlibris, igelu, meetings, open systems

How open are open systems?

In my post “LING – Library integration next generation” I mentioned Marshall Breedings presentation at TICER “Library Automation Challenges for the next generation”.Besides “Moving toward new generation of library automation” one of his other two topics was “A Mandate for Openness”, about Open Source, Open Systems, Open Content.Marshall […]

October 12, 2008January 12, 2020Librarydeveloper platforms, exlibris, library systems, oclc, open api's, open source, open systems

Library Systems and the world of hardware

The project for implementation of Aleph as the new ILS for the Library of the University of Amsterdam started last week (October 2) with the official kick-off meeting. The Ex Libris project plan was presented to the members of the project team, bottlenecks were identified, and a lot […]

October 8, 2008January 12, 2020Generalaleph, exlibris, hardware, library systems

So, commonplace.net….

I have had this domain name for a long time, before I started working with digital library systems, even before I knew about them. It was January 2000, at the peak of web 1.0. My main motive was that I wanted to have an email address that I […]

October 3, 2008January 12, 2020Generalexlibris, igelu