First Draft of Shire Oral Histories Blog

A couple of weeks ago I posted about my quest to publish Sutherland Shire Libraries Oral Histories online as a podcast, asking for advice on how best to open up the data around the audio files.  Well I've had my first go at publishing them.

I created a blog at http://shireoralhistories.blogspot.com/. If you take a look please leave me any feedback you have, bearing in mind that:

• There's no effort been put into design yet - just a standard Blogger template.  When I'm happy with the functionality I'll worry about a bit of look and feel.
• Enclosures were added for the audio files and the resulting feed works as a podcast in iTunes.
  
• I used Blogger in Draft's beta geotagging feature. Each post can be located on a map so the associated feed becomes a GeoRSS feed.
• I've used the Internet Archive to host the files and licensed them with a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike license.
• Each Interview will be cut into chunks so that they can be tagged and geolocated separately, in case you want to search for all audio about a single location or subject across all interviews, for instance.

The geotagged feed makes it easy to see all the entries on a Google Map, however, it would be nice to have the info link back to the individual posts from the map. I'm not quite sure why this doesn't work but it must be something to do with the coding of the feed I think.

So, what do you all think?

Big Changes for the Integrated Library System?

Are we about to see major changes in the way Library Management Systems work?  I've been listening to the Library 2.0 Gang podcast a bit lately and they've covered a lot of territory around ILS developments in recent months.

I wrote about it (with links to relevant episodes) on the RISG New Technology blog - Changes in the Library Management System Landscape.