Library Geeks

Ross Singer tells us about Jangle, a new specification for using the Atom Publishing Protocol with library resources.

Joshua Ferraro, Debra Denault, and Chris Cormack of LibLime join Dan to discuss Koha and how they've built a successful, growing company around FLOSS for libraries

Gary Price joins Dan to discuss his work of politely getting in people's faces to share the best of what's on the web at his job at ask.com and through his other sites like ResourceShelf and Docuticker.

A break from form to participate more actively in the U.S. holiday honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., if only just by reading aloud some of his words.

Bess Sadler, Erik Hatcher, and Art Rhyno join Dan to discuss the recent eIFL-FOSS meeting they attended in Cupramontana, Italy.

William Denton of the FRBR blog (frbr.org) and OpenFRBR (openfrbr.org) joins Dan at the Chateau Laurier Hotel in Ottawa to discuss FRBR and his new open source FRBR project.

Bruce D'Arcus joins Dan, Ed, and Ross to discuss his work on making bibliography management open and seamless through the Open Office Bibliographic project, the OpenDocument specifications, Citation Style Language (CSL), the hCite microformat, and more. [Ed.: sorry for the little audio blips. :(]

Dan and Ross introduce the annual Hackfest preconference at Access 2006 in Ottawa, and many participants discuss their Hackfest projects.

Dan Cohen, Josh Greenberg, and Dan Stillman of CHNM join Dan to discuss the Zotero project, which is set for public release this coming Thursday, October 5, 2006.

A quick update on upcoming shows - all about Zotero, and an SAA conference report. Plus: what's with the Smoke and Mirrors?

Ed Summers joins Dan and Ross to talk about how we got our starts as library geeks.

Abby Blachly and Tim Spalding join Dan to discuss their company LibraryThing and all the things it can do, as LibraryThing reaches its first anniversary with 70,000 users.

Jessamyn, Dan, and Ross finish up the conversation with an update from Ross on the umlaut and Jessamyn Answers the Questions™ (Part 2 of 2).

Jessamyn West joins Dan and Ross to discuss online and offline communities and how her work as a librarian intersects with each (Part 1 of 2).

Ross Singer joins Dan for the inaugural episode, and discusses his work on a next-generation link resolver at Georgia Tech.