{"id":484,"date":"2017-10-29T16:14:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-29T16:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnrobinson.org.uk\/blog\/?page_id=484"},"modified":"2026-03-01T10:33:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T10:33:21","slug":"links","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.johnrobinson.org.uk\/?page_id=484","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Words and photography by John Robinson, Library, ICT & Digital Services consultant.<\/p>\n

All images on this site are copyright. If you see something interesting and want a print or high-resolution digital file, drop me an e-mail.<\/p>\n

e-mail web@johnrobinson.org.uk<\/p>\n

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I was Secretary of London Metropolitan Network Limited (LMN)<\/a>, now dissolved.<\/p>\n

I used to work at SOAS University of London<\/a> as Director of Library & Information Services (a converged-services directorate).<\/p>\n

One of the highlights of my time at SOAS was to establish the SOAS Digital Library<\/a>. The system was originally based on Open Source software called SobekCM<\/a> but has since been replaced.<\/p>\n

The SOAS Library<\/a> was the first in the UK to install an Open Source Library system called OLE (see below). This was part of a suite of Open Source Systems including, for example, the VuFind Discovery system<\/a> as its Library public interface (now replaced by https:\/\/soas.on.worldcat.org\/discovery<\/a>).<\/p>\n

The SOAS Library worked with Kuali<\/a> to implement its Open Source Library Management System.<\/p>\n

This has now transferred to the Open Library Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I previously worked for JISC<\/a> as its Director of Services.<\/p>\n

Before that, I was Head of ICT in ILS at the University of Greenwich<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A very, very<\/em> long time ago (well, in the 1970s), I worked in Community Access Video in Australia. Some former colleagues have recently put together a web-site documenting some of these activities<\/a> in the Western Suburbs of Melbourne. Look closely enough and you might<\/em> find some very early John Robinson lurking there.<\/p>\n

See John Austin's pages<\/a> for a unique view by an English photographer now living in the antipodes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

About & links Words and photography by John Robinson, Library, ICT & Digital Services consultant. All images on this site are copyright. If you see something interesting and want a print or high-resolution digital file, drop me an e-mail. e-mail web@johnrobinson.org.uk (Links open in new tabs) I was Secretary of London Metropolitan Network Limited (LMN), … Continue reading “About”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"bt-no-sidebar-boxed.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-484","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t