Comments on: Opening bibliographic data http://jodischneider.com/blog/2010/02/07/opening-bibliographic-data/ reading, technology, stray thoughts Fri, 27 Jan 2012 11:39:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Dan Scott http://jodischneider.com/blog/2010/02/07/opening-bibliographic-data/comment-page-1/#comment-2712 Dan Scott Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:40:53 +0000 http://jodischneider.com/blog/?p=1062#comment-2712 Ah, I see the confusion; it was Casey Bisson who, in much the same time frame as Casey Durfee's "Open Source Endeca in 250 lines or less" (time bloats all things!), wrote Scriblio (née WpOPAC) and when Plymouth State University won a Mellon Award for Technical Collaboration for his work on Scriblio, the money from the award was used to purchase Library of Congress records and contribute them to the archive.org / OpenLibrary effort. Ah, I see the confusion; it was Casey Bisson who, in much the same time frame as Casey Durfee’s “Open Source Endeca in 250 lines or less” (time bloats all things!), wrote Scriblio (née WpOPAC) and when Plymouth State University won a Mellon Award for Technical Collaboration for his work on Scriblio, the money from the award was used to purchase Library of Congress records and contribute them to the archive.org / OpenLibrary effort.

]]> By: Dan Scott http://jodischneider.com/blog/2010/02/07/opening-bibliographic-data/comment-page-1/#comment-2707 Dan Scott Sun, 07 Feb 2010 17:28:07 +0000 http://jodischneider.com/blog/?p=1062#comment-2707 Just to clarify, Kochief actually has nothing to do with Scriblio; Kochief started as Casey Durfee's "Endeca in 1000 lines or less" proof of concept code presented at code4lib 2007, was adopted and maintained as Fac-Back-OPAC by a few of us for a while, then was rebranded as Kochief a year or more ago. Scriblio is based on Wordpress, Kochief is a Django/Solr platform. Just to clarify, Kochief actually has nothing to do with Scriblio; Kochief started as Casey Durfee’s “Endeca in 1000 lines or less” proof of concept code presented at code4lib 2007, was adopted and maintained as Fac-Back-OPAC by a few of us for a while, then was rebranded as Kochief a year or more ago.

Scriblio is based on WordPress, Kochief is a Django/Solr platform.

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