* About me
Posted on September 7th, 2007 by Ross.
About Me
I am an application developer at the Georgia Tech Library. The bulk of my responsibilities revolve around creating web services for both the public web presence as well as the development and maintenance of the library’s intranet. We are trying to create a sort of library application R&D lab here, experimenting with a wide range of technologies across various projects.
I also founded MALTA (the Metro Atlanta Library Technology Association) in the winter of 2005. We have had one “summit” already and are planning our second, to be held in late summer.
Previously, I was Web & Application Development Coordinator at the Emory University General Libraries. Before that, I worked for the University of Tennessee Libraries as an application developer (among other things). Between those two stops I had a short stint in the corporate world working for internet.com (now JupiterMedia) in New York City.
I have a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre from the University of Tennessee. Of the two theatre companies that I have helped found: one failed miserably, the other is still in existence.
I play the bass guitar.
- The Ümlaut: an OpenURL LinkResolver, analyzer, recommender and contextualizer
- WAG
the Dog PHP Web Localizer: a project intended to conceptualize and
localize the web. - A9 Opensearch interface for SRU: demonstration | download
(python) - Reserves Direct
(previously named course/control): a reserves management system - WebTribute: a web
based alternative to Macromedia’s Contribute 2
- Singer, Ross. (2006) “Helping You Buy: Link Resolver Tools.” Computers in Libraries 26, 2, pg. 15
- Chudnov, Dan; Cameron, Richard; Frumkin, Jeremy; Singer, Ross;
Yee, Raymond. (2005). “Opening Up OpenURLs
With Autodiscovery.” Ariadne #43 - Google Scholar and the Dawn
of Web Localization.
- Socially Inept? Shoehorning tags on a library: ACIG/LITA - ALA Annual 2006 (June 2006)
- Überating our ÖpenÜRLs: ELUNA 2006 (June 2006)
- Declunkifying your Z-Server: Implementing SRW/U, OpenSearch and other web services to your Voyager server: Enduser 2006 (April 2006)
- (Grease)Monkeywrenching the Library: Utilizing the sloppy underbelly of the web to expose our collections and services: Access 2005 (October 2005)
- Using WAG the Dog and COinS to Expose Collections and Services: NISO OpenURL/Metasearch Workshop (August 2005)
- Taming Google Scholar: SMUG 2005 (June
2005) - WAGging Google Scholar (and beyond!): Localizing
and Contextualizing the Web: GUGM 2005 (May 2005) - WAGging the Web: Exposing our collections and services where the
users are: MALTA I (March 2005)
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November 15th, 2007 at 12:25 pm
[...] once in 2005 at a session at the Metro Atlanta Library Technology Association (MALTA), hosted by Ross Singer, and once virtually as the keynote conference at the first code4lib event in 2006. I knew they [...]
January 17th, 2008 at 8:07 am
Ross,
I tried to send a message to your gatech email address and it bounced, of course. It was a forward of a thread from the steve.museum list in reaction to LC’s Flickr images and the tagging application. Thought you’d be interested. I’m sure you’ve seen the announcements of the LC project. The steve messages basically said: let’s do it where the people are, we should develop an app for Facebook, and similar. Let me know the best email address if you want the thread forwarded.
Sherman
January 28th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Found you already!
Nice to meet ye today!
June 18th, 2008 at 3:22 pm
Ross,
I wanted to let you know about the web development services we have put together here in Eugene Oregon. Yourlibrarysite.com was recently launched to serve public libraries with cost-effective development services that are built on Drupal open source content management.
Yourlibraysite.com is an initiative built by CraftySpace, L.L.C., an Internet technology company focused on website and web application development services for education and professional organizations. Some time ago, the Metropolitan Cooperative Library System (MCLS.org), an association of 33 public libraries located in the greater Los Angeles area approached us to respond to their needs for a new site. Our proposal won the contract and we developed their current site, followed by sites for several of their member libraries. We learned a lot about the needs of public libraries and how to respond to those needs using Web 2.0 thinking and technology.
Yourlibrarysite.com encompasses what we learned working with MCLS. By standardizing our technical approach and tools; and by using Drupal, we believe we can provide public libraries with powerful websites at costs that rival in-house development. We have a subscription-based solution for small libraries with a very low cost of entry. These sites can be launched in under 30 days.
Anyway, we want to reach out to folks like you for feedback and hopefully approval of our approach. We also would like to offer our expertise in Drupal and web development to support your efforts working with libraries.
Please visit our website and let me know what you think. If there are any questions you have about Yourlibrarysite.com or any issues you have with Drupal where we can be supportive, feel free to contact me.
Paul Berger
YourLibrarySite.com
541 485-7220 Direct
877.878.1794 Toll-free
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