...in which Ross Singer [1] tells us all about his new job at Talis [2] and his work on Jangle [3], aka Just Another Next Generation Library Environment. Jangle is an effort to connect and expose library resources using the Atom Publishing Protocol [4], but it's not as easy or obvious to do that as it sounds at first. Ross takes us through the reasoning of why Jangle is a compelling next step in the evolution of library web services and what needs to happen next.
We recorded this interview a few weeks ago, on the day of Halloween, before the U.S. presidential election, so if there's a reference or two to costumes or voting, that's why.
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I listened to the latest episode in Dan Chudnov’s Library Geeks podcast series, 013 - Jangle, where Dan talks to Ross Singer about Jangle. I can’t stop myself from mentioning that around 18m50s Dan Chudnov says the word “item” r...
Links:
[1] http://dilettantes.code4lib.org/
[2] http://www.talis.com/
[3] http://jangle.org/
[4] http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5023.txt
[5] http://www.flickr.com/photos/dchud/3047737648/
[6] http://jangle.org/drupal/spec/1.0
[7] http://groups.google.com/group/jangle-discuss
[8] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1520640426278068124&hl=en
[9] https://project.library.upenn.edu/confluence/display/ilsapi/Home
[10] http://www.frbr.org/2008/11/15/chudnov-and-singer-and-jangle