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An acquisition means a new job, not merely a different name on paychecks.
I wish to be open about a mistake I have made in my career, in case it helps someone else avoid something similar.
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Still spinning? The merger of Canadiana.org with the Canadian Research Knowledge Network
In 3 parts: part 2
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Still spinning? My time at Canadiana.org prior to the CRKN merger
In 3 parts: part 1
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My new job at the Canadian Research Knowledge Network (CRKN)
I started my new job at CRKN on Tuesday the 3'rd of April. I sit at the same desk in the same cubicle as I did at Canadiana the week before, and have…
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Canadiana DevOps 2017 year review and look to the future
Many ongoing changes for the DevOps team this year.
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IIIF.io : the hardest part will be saying "no".
Back in April I noted Canadiana is working on adopting APIs from IIIF, the International Image Interoperability Framework.
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Moving more of Canadiana's software projects to GitHub
As some of the links in recent articles suggest, we have started moving more of our software from an internal source control and issue tracker towards…
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Canadiana JHOVE report
This article is based on a document written to be used at Code4Lib North on May 11’th, and discusses what we’ve learned so far with our use of JHOVE.
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Next steps for the Canadiana.org platform: IIIF, JHOVE
This is a new fiscal year. I'm excited to discuss some of our current plans, and hopefully get some feedback and help from the community.
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My #accessYFC question - what FLOSS projects to adopt to be able to collaborate with our members
This week I attended ACCESS2016. While I will post my overall thoughts of the conference later (I'm really enjoying myself), I wanted to post about the…
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The Canadiana preservation network and access platform
Canadiana is sending me to Access 2016. While I expect to learn quite a bit and meet new people, I wanted to make an additional introduction online…
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I work at Canadiana because I believe what they do is important (not other way around)
My article discussing why I believe a Canadiana.org and CRKN.ca merger could be great has received more page hits than my article discussing why…
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