Jason Griffey is the Director of Strategic Initiatives at NISO, where he works to identify new areas of the information ecosystem where standards expertise is useful and needed. Prior to joining NISO in 2019, Jason ran his own technology consulting company for libraries, has been both an Affiliate at metaLAB and a Fellow and Affiliate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, and was an academic librarian in roles ranging from reference and instruction to Head of IT at the University of TN at Chattanooga.
Jason has written extensively on technology and libraries, including multiple books and a series of full-periodical issues on technology topics, most recently AI & Machine Learning in Libraries and Library Spaces and Smart Buildings: Technology, Metrics, and Iterative Design from 2018. His newest book, co-authored with Jeffery Pomerantz, will be published by MIT Press in 2024.
He has spoken internationally on topics such as artificial intelligence & machine learning, the future of technology and libraries, decentralization and the Blockchain, privacy, copyright, and intellectual property. A full list of his publications and presentations can be found on his CV.
He is one of eight winners of the Knight Foundation News Challenge for Libraries for the Measure the Future project (http://measurethefuture.net), an open hardware project designed to provide actionable use metrics for library spaces. He is also the creator and director of The LibraryBox Project (http://librarybox.us), an open source portable digital file distribution system.
Jason can be stalked obsessively online, and spends his free time with his daughter Eliza, reading, obsessing over gadgets, and preparing for the inevitable zombie uprising.
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5 replies on “The path to learning starts…”
believe you me, i only grok a portion of what i link too, but at least it’s there for when i have the time and need to start poking around. it helps to have a project, i think. anyway, i added another xmlhttprequest-related link that looks like a good tutorial: http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/02/09/xml-http-request.html
ha. i was just about to leave a comment with the 11 things… link as another suggestion, but thought, hmm non-round number, what are the chances that was one of things jason linked to in that post of his?
Javascript is the easiest one to start with. A wonderful place to is Javascript Source , which gives you both an idea of the range of programming you can do with JS and sample scripts to tailor to your use. That’s how I did my masters project and Brad’s work when I knew nothing about Javascript for form validation.
And of course there’s WebMonkey for the basics.
Honestly though, unless you truly need to know how to program from scratch, don’t bother. The learning curve is steep unless you’re a programming natural, and there will always be someone who can do it better. That’s why I just use and credit their scripts :).
to start, a wonderful place to start. Too…early…for…grammar.
it’s amazing. i don’t even notice other people’s typos i skim so much. i only notice my own–after it’s too late to change them.