September 1st is launch day for the new library web site and catalogue for Darien Public Library – John Blyberg has been working hard over the last few months to get things ready.   It is more than just the launch of another good looking library web site and catalogue though.  John has been working on a total rewrite of his SOPAC ...

Library 2.0 Gang Member and Ex Libris Chief Strategy Officer, Oren Beit-Arie joins Richard Wallis in conversation about the recently announced Ex Libris Open Platform Strategy. In the first part of this Talking with Talis conversation, they discuss the ramifications of the recent change of ownership when Francisco Partners sold their investment ...

 Martin Marlmsten is from the LIBRIS department of the Royal Library of Sweden – LIBRIS being the discovery interface for the library. Since joining as a software developer has been absorbed in to the world of library search and discovery.  He played a major part in the build and launch of the latest LIBRIS search interface which has ...

In this Talking with Talis podcast I am in conversation with Jonathan Gorman from the University of Illinois. Jon can often be found on the code4lib IRC channel discussing many aspects of innovation with the community of library software developers and enthusiasts. In our conversation we discuss his career and some of the tasks and projects he ...

The next UK general election is probably only a couple of years away and there is a serious possibility that we could see a change of governing party. Against this background Ed Vaizey, Conservative MP for Wantage & Didcot and Shadow Minister for Culture is beginning to shape his thoughts and future policy with respect to libraries. This ...

Ed Summers has recently been active in exposing Library of Congress Subject Heading data as Linked Data using Semantic Web technologies and RDF, through his experimental service at lcsh.info. In this conversation we find out how Ed's career, not always on a traditional library path, has led him to his work in the Library of Congress, his ...

Karen Schneider has had a varied career in libraries, she is best known as an entertaining and informative speaker at library conferences, author of many articles, and prolific blogger as Free Range Librarian. Karen recently announced another career move to become Community Librarian, for Open Source library software support company, Equinox. We ...

Program Services Librarian at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at the University of British Columbia Canada, Allan Cho, has a theme of the Semantic Web running through many of his post on his blog Allan's Library. In this Talking with Talis conversation we discuss the newly created role of Program Services Librarian, Allan's thoughts on the ...

In our latest podcast I talk with Peter Mika of Yahoo! Research. Peter is speaking at the Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose later this month, and we explore the topic of his presentation as well as learning more about Yahoo! bringing semantic technologies to the mainstream with SearchMonkey. During the conversation, we refer to the ...

In our latest podcast I talk with Christine Connors, Global Director, Semantic Technology Solutions at Dow Jones. Christine is speaking at the Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose later this month, and we explore the topic of her presentation as well as discussing Dow Jones' wider approach to the adoption of semantic technologies. During ...