Exploring curation micro-services
As far as I'm concerned, the most exciting developments this year in repositories and digital curation have come out of the California Digital Library. It has been impossible not to notice their

Command-line shuffle
Being a nerd, I tend to like the command-line. When I'm working on my laptop at home, I tend to like listening to music. Before I discovered that mplayer had a really convenient shuffle idiom, I would invoke it thusly (to listen to all my Pavement tracks in shuffle mode): export IFS=$'\n' for track in $(find /mnt/upnp/MediaTomb/Audio/Artists/Pavement -name \*

I2: Survey results
I wrote in June that the I2 subgroup surveyed "repository managers to determine the current practices and needs of the repository community regarding institutional identifiers. Results from the survey will inform a set of use cases that will be shared with the community, and that are expected to drive the development of a new standard for institutional identifiers." The survey closed in July, and the subgroup spent August writing a report on the survey results. That report is now