Archive for 'code4lib'
Blacklight 2.1 release
The 2.1 release is out the door and ready for download. You can download it here and view the release notes here.
Highlights of this release include:
Several bug fixes
More robust testing for the plugin (tests for the plugin no longer rely on an external solr index)
Better adherence to W3C accessibility guidelines
Savable search history
APA/MLA citations
OpenSearch [...]
Posted: May 6th, 2009 under blacklight, code4lib.
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Blacklight 2.0 release!
There is a spiffy new 2.0 release out in the world now, and you can download it here and release notes are here. This is our first release since refactoring for the plugin architecture, so we thought it deserved a major number bump. Also, we’ve re-arranged the subversion tree so current development is now happening [...]
Posted: March 31st, 2009 under blacklight, code4lib.
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Ada Lovelace Day
I just heard about Ada Lovelace Day and I think it’s a super idea.
Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to draw attention to women excelling in technology. [...] We want you to tell the world about these unsung heroines. Entrepreneurs, innovators, sysadmins, programmers, designers, games developers, hardware experts, tech journalists, tech [...]
Posted: March 21st, 2009 under code4lib, human rights, libraries, sexism.
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marc4j 2.4 released!
It’s been a long time coming, but there is now a new release of marc4j. You can download it here: http://marc4j.tigris.org/ Most of the work on this new release was by people primarily working on SolrMarc, the indexing system for Blacklight and VuFind.
If you’re not deep into these projects, you might not know that the [...]
Posted: October 20th, 2008 under blacklight, code4lib, solr.
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beCamp is coming up!
This is a repeat of a post I wrote on the beTech Blog
Special note for code4libbers: If you’re anywhere in driving distance of Charlottesville and you like technology, beer, and FUN, please consider yourself invited to beCamp. We’re going to have a pretty healthy code4lib contingent already, so chances are good that you will [...]
Posted: April 23rd, 2008 under code4lib, libraries.
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