Lecture Hall, Alexander Library, Rutgers University, October 31st from 10am to noon.

• Ron Jantz. Event Management: Computer systems of all types must manage events. RUcore (Rutgers University Community Repository) will be integrating an event management system into the repository infrastructure. The core technology is the open-source middleware from Sun, Java Messaging Service (JMS) which will be integrated into Fedora. This discussion will cover a basic description of events, an overview of JMS, and how this capability might be integrated into RUcore.

  Fedora

• Mike Giarlo. unAPI: There exist numerous tools and protocols for integrating library resources into other information systems, library or otherwise. OAI-PMH and OpenURL are two great examples of successful and widely deployed technologies. Unfortunately, few developers outside the small world of library technology know anything about library standards, and this is seen as a significant integration barrier. unAPI is a tiny HTTP-based specification designed to solve the problem of identifying, copying, and pasting discrete content objects to and from web applications, making it simpler for developers outside the library world to get at our vast intellectual resources. The concepts behind unAPI will be discussed, and working implementations will be demonstrated.

  unAPI

• Jeffery Triggs. How It Works: Using amberfish to Search XML Repositories. The recent popularity of XML in the library community has highlighted the need for open source XML-aware search engines. One such engine is amberfish, which we have been using for three years now to search the XML Fedora objects and full texts of the Rutgers University Community Repository. I will focus on our current implementation of a front end interface for amberfish and discuss various enhancements we plan to implement in the near future.

  Amberfish

• Brian Hancock. Inferno Grid: We have set up a grid (distributed network) to integrate a computing environment with new and somewhat older machines running different operating systems that link the Montclair Electronic Text Archive (META) and the Classics Department at Rutgers in order to create a coherent computing landscape to facilitate work on texts useful for teaching and research. How this is done will be demonstrated and discussed.

  Inferno Grid

Our next meeting will be held at Montclair State University in the Spring of 2007.

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