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Library 2.0 Gang Member and Ex Libris Chief Strategy Officer, Oren Beit-Arie joins Richard Wallis in conversation about the recently announced Ex Libris Open Platform Strategy. In the first part of this Talking with Talis conversation, they discuss the ramifications of the recent change of ownership when Francisco Partners sold their investment in Ex Libris [...]
Martin Marlmsten is from the LIBRIS department of the Royal Library of Sweden – LIBRIS being the discovery interface for the library. Since joining as a software developer has been absorbed in to the world of library search and discovery. He played a major part in the build and launch of the latest LIBRIS search [...]
LibraryThing have followed the opening up of their Common Knowledge API with the A million free covers from LibraryThing announcement: A few days ago, just before hitting thirty million books, we hit one million user-uploaded covers. So, we’ve decided to give them away—to libraries, to bookstores, to everyone. Get yourself a LibraryThing Developer Key (any LibraryThing [...]
Listening to the conversation on the August show from The Library 2.0 Gang, the seems to be a consensus that it has. I believe that the folks behind the open source movements can credit themselves not only with providing alternatives and a challenge to the [traditional] commercial vendors, but also with changing the way those [...]
The Francisco Partners investment fund has sold its holdings in Ex Libris to New York based Leeds Equity Partners for an estimated $170M, according to HAARETZ.com. In the upbeat Ex Libris press release Matti Shem Tov, Ex Libris Group president and CEO is quoted as saying “the Ex Libris corporate structure will remain unaltered, this [...]
In October 2005 VTLS inc announced their success in being chosen as preferred provider, with their Virtua product, for the library management system for the University of Oxford and its member libraries. It has now been announced University of Oxford and VTLS Inc. agree to end implementation of Virtua at Oxford. Reading the press release [...]
In this Talking with Talis podcast I am in conversation with Jonathan Gorman from the University of Illinois. Jon can often be found on the code4lib IRC channel discussing many aspects of innovation with the community of library software developers and enthusiasts. In our conversation we discuss his career and some of the tasks and projects [...]
The next UK general election is probably only a couple of years away and there is a serious possibility that we could see a change of governing party. Against this background Ed Vaizey, Conservative MP for Wantage & Didcot and Shadow Minister of Culture is beginning to shape his thoughts and future [...]
In this month’s Library 2.0 Gang show on the recent ALA conference in Anaheim, Char Booth fed back that one of the themes from the conference that she had picked up on was privacy. Specifically around the area of patron (or borrowers as we call them in the old country) data, both personal and [...]
Sir Tim Berners-Lee first talked about the Semantic Web in the seminal Scientific American article back in 2001. The first mention of it I can find on Panlibus was back in 2004, and anyone who has spent a few minutes talking about data with us at Talis will know we have been passionate about [...]
The Library 2.0 Gang, July - ALA Conference show has been published and is available for a listen. Outgoing ALA president Loriene Roy was the guest. Gang regulars for this show Char Booth (soon to move to a new position at The University of California, Berkeley - well done Char), Carl Grant from Care [...]
As highlighted by Perkins from a report in the Bookseller Andrew Motion, who was appointed as Poet Laureate in 1999, has been appointed as the new chair of the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA). His four year role which starts this week will cover the period as the country readies itself for the London [...]
After Talis Platform we know have El Commons from Exlibris . via Panlibus Ex Libris has translated its open-platform strategy into a program spanning three major areas of activity: Formalizing the process by which we design, implement, document, and publish our interfaces, to maintain consistency across all products and achieve comprehensiveness Increasing our emphasis on service-oriented architecture...
The mind, especially in an early morning pre-caffeine state, often takes you off at unexpected tangents. Whilst reading this press release from Ex Libris (more of which in a moment) I met a reference to EL Commons. Immediately a vision of a dust covered spaghetti western bit-part player, complete with long moustache and sombrero, [...]
Ed Summers has recently been active in exposing Library of Congress Subject Heading data as Linked Data using Semantic Web technologies and RDF, through his experimental service at lcsh.info. In this conversation we find out how Ed’s career, not always on a traditional library path, has led him to his work in the Library of [...]
