I was in Scotland earlier this week for the latest instalment in the Mashed Library programme: Haggis and Mash formed the first part of a two-day event looking at open source and open data in libraries, held at the National e-Science Centre (NeSC) in Edinburgh.
Various people spoke throughout the morning about different aspects of open library systems, including products such as VuFind and Blacklight; software toolkits like Juice*; Linked Data and RDA… followed, in the afternoon, by the now-traditional practical mashing workshops.
(*An aside: I spent some time talking to Talis’s Matt Machell about Juice and discussing how it might be used to enhance the e-journals A-to-Z; I’ve since installed it on the Learning Lab server and we’re going to give it a go!)
Nicola Osborne, EDINA’s social media officer, blogged the event live (and very comprehensively); you can also see plenty of photos from Haggis and Mash, on flickr, including this one of the cutting of a celebratory ‘Happy Birthday Open Library Systems 1.0‘ cake…
Next stop: Pancakes and Mash on 8 March 2011 in Lincoln.
Thanks for the kind comments about my blog (which will be getting a bit of formatting help over the weekend) and for sharing your photos (which put mine to shame)!
I’ll look forward to seeing posts on Juice experiments – looked like some interesting potential based on Matt’s presentation.
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