Open Source Exile

[This started out as a response for [[ Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Evaluation of Vector 2022 ]] but turned out to be expansive and too-br...

This post is a personal reflection on the recent events in Christchurch. Many people have proposed different responses making some very good...

This post inspired by  TEI Next  by Hugh Cayless. How would we know when it was time to move from TEI/XML to TEI/JSON? If we stand back...

This post is a direct response to some of the organisational issues raised in https://scalablereading.northwestern.edu/?p=477 I completely ...

Last week I was on an NDFNZ wikipedia panel with Courtney Johnston, Sara Barham and Mike Dickison. Having reflected a little and watche...

This blog post is feedback on a recent blog post ‘Introducing the DigitalNZ Concepts API’ http://digitalnz.org/blog/posts/introducing-the-di...

Adrian Pohl ‏wrote some excellent thoughts about the current state of BIBFRAME at http://www.uebertext.org/2014/07/name-authority-files-link...

Over the last 48 hours I’ve had a very unsatisfactory conversation with the individual(s) behind the @royalsocietynz twitter account rega...

I didn't really have a presentation for my demonstration at the NDF, but the event team have asked for presentations, so here are the no...

At today's LODLAM NZ, in Wellington, I co-hosted a vocabulary schema / interoperability session. I kicked off the session with a list o...

During the NDF2011 today I was in "Digital initiatives in Māori communities" put on the the talented Honiana Love and Claire Hall...

You may or may not have noticed, but recently a number of 'social media' services have begun looking and working very similarly. Fac...

Over the last week or two I've been having a bit of a play with Ngā Ūpoko Tukutuku / The Māori Subject Headings (for the uninitiated, t...

Thoughts on " Letter about the TEI " from Martin Mueller Note: I am a member of the TEI council , but this message is should b...

I'm part of the TEI community , which maintains an XML standard which is commonly transformed to HTML for presentation (more rarely PD...

The transition costs of migrating from the world of books-as-physical-artefacts-of-pulped-tree to the world of books-as-bitstreams are going...

As the heaving mass of activity that is the mixandmash competition heats up, I have come to realise that I should have better documented a ...

You may have heard news about the release of " bookserver " by the good folks at the Internet Archive. This is a DRM-free ePub eco...

This is the second blog following on from an excellent talk about librarything by LibraryThing's Tim given the VUW in Wellington afte...

After an excellent talk today about LibraryThing by LibraryThing's Tim , I got enthused to see how LibraryThing stacks up against othe...