Peter Murray

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  • March 17, 2011
  • 06:46 AM
  • 595 views

Thursday Threads: Open Source in Health Care, The Big Deal, Archives of Web Pages

by Peter Murray in Disruptive Library Technology Jester

Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads:by E-mailby RSSDelivered by FeedBurner We’re taking a break this week from the HarperCollins e-book story; although the commentary continues from librarians (and a few authors), there hasn’t been anything new (that I’ve seen) from HarperCollins itself. There is still plenty more to look at, though. First up is a report from [...]... Read more »

Reynolds, Carl J., & Wyatt, Jeremy C. (2011) Open Source, Open Standards, and Health Care Information Systems. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 13(1). DOI: 10.2196/jmir.1521  

  • December 15, 2010
  • 11:57 AM
  • 740 views

“Do More … With Someone Else” — Guest Editor Introduction to NISO ISQ Fall Issue

by Peter Murray in Disruptive Library Technology Jester

I’m pleased to announce that the Fall 2010 issue of NISO‘s International Standards Quarterly (ISQ) is done and available online to NISO members and ISQ subscribers. Print copies are scheduled to be mailed on December 28th. The individual issue is available for purchase (see the form link to on the issue homepage), and some of [...]Post from: Disruptive Library Technology Jester“Do More … With Someone Else” — Guest Editor Introduction to NISO ISQ Fall Issue ... Read more »

Murray, Peter E. (2010) Do More .. With Someone Else. International Standards Quarterly, 22(4), 3-3. info:/10.3789/isqv22n4.2010.01

  • October 14, 2010
  • 03:44 PM
  • 966 views

Thursday Threads: Disruption in Library Acquisitions, Publishing, and Remedial Education plus Checking Assumptions of Cloud Computing and a National Digital Library

by Peter Murray in Disruptive Library Technology Jester

If it is Thursday it must mean it is time for another in this series of Thursday Threads posts. This week there are an abundance of things that could fall into the category of “disruptive innovation” in libraries and higher education. If you find these interesting, you might want to subscribe to my FriendFeed stream [...]Post from: Disruptive Library Technology JesterThursday Threads: Disruption in Library Acquisitions, Publishing, and Remedial Education plus Checking Assumptions of ........ Read more »

  • April 7, 2009
  • 03:32 PM
  • 1,473 views

Clarification Offered for “Technology: The textbook of the future” in Nature

by Peter Murray in Disruptive Library Technology Jester

A recent issue of Nature published an article by Declan Butler called “Technology: The textbook of the future” included a paragraph about OhioLINK’s exploration of digital textbooks:Ongoing tests of CourseSmart e-textbooks by the University System of Ohio show that they reduce costs — the average US student forks out some $900 annually on print textbooks [...]Post from: Disruptive Library Technology Jester

Clarification Offered for “Technology: The textbook of the ........ Read more »

  • September 16, 2008
  • 11:38 AM
  • 1,754 views

LANL Releases Open Source JPEG2000 Image Server

by Peter Murray in Disruptive Library Technology Jester

The lead article in the September/October issue of D-Lib Magazine release yesterday is on djatoka, the open source JPEG2000 Image Server from Los Alamos National Laboratory. The authors, Ryan Chute and Herbert Van de Sompel describe their effort in the article abstract:

The ISO-standardized JPEG 2000 image format has started to attract significant attention. Support [...]... Read more »

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