I'm back

I've decided to start blogging here again.  I'll be honest, I'm a little vain; I like to see what I've written get wide exposure.  Hopefully I'll write something worth a wider audience than I have on my current work blog. 

I used Creighton's local instance of WordPress to keep notes on creating a Fedora Commons 3.0 test server.  I will keep those notes here, and write about some other projects, too.

In simple, here are my professional growth projects from now (August 30 2008) to the end of the calendar year (December 31 2008):

   1. Get a copy of Fedora Commons 3.0 and the Fez front-end working.

   2. Attempt to move content from EMC's Documentum (ApplicationXtender 5.4 to be specific) to Fedora Commons 3.0.

   3. See what makes better sense:

      - Using an enterprise search tool like the Google Enterprise Search Appliance for federated search, too.

      - Using a federated search tool like DeepWeb for enterprise search, too.

      - Using separate enterprise search and federated search tools, 'cause they do slightly different things for different groups of users.

   4. Attempt to port the libraries' data from SirsiDynix Symphony 3.2.0 to the Koha v. 3 open source integrated library system.

   5. Personal project:  learn about IndexData's PazPar2, Yaz and Zebra products.

   6. Personal project:  learn about the D Programming Language by Digital Mars.

And one final thing:  learn how to make better use of whatever EDUCAUSE CONNECT is using as blog software.  I would live to remove or edit the two older entries on this blog, but I cannot find a way to do that.