Comments on: plinkit: scalable solutions to library tech rollouts http://www.librarian.net/stax/1689/plinkit-scalable-solutions-to-library-tech-rollouts/ putting the rarin back in librarian since 1999 Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:06:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Scott Gallagher-Starr http://www.librarian.net/stax/1689/plinkit-scalable-solutions-to-library-tech-rollouts/comment-page-1/#comment-5430 Scott Gallagher-Starr Mon, 20 Mar 2006 19:54:53 +0000 http://www.librarian.net/stax/1689#comment-5430 I was the reviewer for the LSTA-grant funded Plinkit project. My opinion of Plinkit is that it is an excellent, as you say, "happy medium solution." The people behind this project (one Eva Miller of the Multnomah County Library was coordinator) really put some good thought and implementation into the project. Plone itself provides the ability to customize the "web presence" that Plinkit provides. The Plinkit folks took it upon themselves to set up a comfortable library-ish template and then package the whole thing for easy installation. The people who put all this together, the Plinkit community, use resources from the Plone community, which draws from the <a>Zope</a> community (Plone is built on Zope). All of these communities are smart and aggressive in their approach to providing and "selling" web services. What this means in practical terms is that the library community is being handed a tool with some powerful leverage attached. I love to see this sort of thing happening, and I hope that many libraries find packages like Plinkit to be helpful. And, by the way, thanks for your blog! Another fan. Scott I was the reviewer for the LSTA-grant funded Plinkit project. My opinion of Plinkit is that it is an excellent, as you say, “happy medium solution.” The people behind this project (one Eva Miller of the Multnomah County Library was coordinator) really put some good thought and implementation into the project.

Plone itself provides the ability to customize the “web presence” that Plinkit provides. The Plinkit folks took it upon themselves to set up a comfortable library-ish template and then package the whole thing for easy installation.

The people who put all this together, the Plinkit community, use resources from the Plone community, which draws from the Zope community (Plone is built on Zope). All of these communities are smart and aggressive in their approach to providing and “selling” web services.

What this means in practical terms is that the library community is being handed a tool with some powerful leverage attached. I love to see this sort of thing happening, and I hope that many libraries find packages like Plinkit to be helpful.

And, by the way, thanks for your blog! Another fan.

Scott

]]>