14 Jun 2006 23:20
update.
So I'm at this conference in Ohio yesterday and somebody gets up to talk about their new library OPAC and one of their slides says "it supports unAPI". Okay, well, it was people from Evergreen, so, it wasn't a complete surprise, but, still, pretty cool, no? Our deadline for unAPI Version One is soon (next week), but so far no issue have been raised against revision 3. So, if you have issues, let them be known now! Separately, there's an opportunity to write an introduction to unAPI for one of the more-prominent non-peer-reviewed digital library journals. I'd like to invite everybody who's helped with the spec so far, or done any implementation, to help put that article together or at least submit a screenshot or description of how you're using it in your application. I'm starting to put the text together and will need help editing and rounding out the article, too. The article has a short turnaround - it's due the first week of July. But, it shouldn't be too hard to get done. This is a great opportunity to showcase how so many of us from somewhat-far reaches of the library world were able to assemble a new and useful specification quickly and successfully, and the more co-authors we can credit, the better! Let me know if you're interested offline and I'll start up a private thread so we don't bombard the list with details. If you haven't set aside time to try unAPI yet and are looking for a good reason, contributing to the article and offering feedback for the pending unAPI Version One release are the best reasons yet.(Continue reading)
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