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Despite lower attendance than in the past and blustery, cold weather, the American Library Association's Midwinter Meeting in Denver in January offered lots of news from industry vendors and lots of opportunities to discuss important issues and trends. For a general report on the meeting, check out the March issue of Information Today. In this report, I'll highlight some of the most important product announcements with a focus on library technology developments.
Open Technologies Lead the Way
Based on the products and services I saw, I'd say the hottest current tech trend is toward "openness"--not just open source but open data, open library, open platform, open APIs, and open access. It seems to be the new frontier for libraries and vendors, offering economies of scale, collaborative approaches, customization, cost savings, and more.
LibLime, an upstart company that has provided open source software solutions for libraries for several years (best known for its Koha ILS), made its move into providing open data and open library content. In 2008, LibLime introduced biblios, an open source, web-based metadata tool for libraries. At the conference, it launched [double dagger] biblios.net, a free, browser-based cataloging service with a data archive containing more than 30 million bibliographic and...
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