Posted in Ongoing Projects, XML on Jan 30th, 2005 No Comments »
Playing with PHP
Thursday and Friday this week I started working on writing my first
project in PHP. Normaly, I code in ASP, but circumstances have dictated
that now I start exploring PHP. The project I am doing isn't just a
plain old PHP project though. It is a project using PHP and XML. I've
played with PHP before and [...]
Posted in Ongoing Projects, OpenURL on Jan 30th, 2005 No Comments »
Free E-books
This week I spent some time adding free e-books collections to our
OpenURL resolver. The most important set I got added as the
Escholarship editions from the University of California Press.
Information about how to link to these titles and a list of them is
available on the web at http://texts.cdlib.org/escholarship/help.html
This collection contains almost 500 publically available titles. [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jan 28th, 2005 No Comments »
Integrateable Standards compliant WYSIWYG Editor
The Man in Blue has created a JavaScript-driven web-based WYSIWYG editor that can be added to any web page. This is similar to tools such as RichText Editor and HTMLArea,
but highly streamlined, standards-compliant, and much easier to
integrate. It is very cool. If you have a home-grown content management
system in which you [...]
Posted in Library Systems, Usability on Jan 28th, 2005 No Comments »
The Evergreen project blog has an interesting list of
functionalities that web being included in the OPAC portion of that
open source library system.
There are some specific OPAC functionalities that I’d like to point
out. Note that we designed this OPAC using the focus group notes as
guidelines, and the vast majority of this functionality comes directly
from those notes:
Ability [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jan 28th, 2005 No Comments »
Free Tool for Creating a Search Engine for Your Site
Thanks to The Linux Librarian I found a new tool for creating a search engine for a web site. The tool is called TSEP (The Search Engine Project)
and it is open source software. It requires the installation of PHP and
MySQL and that you include a snippet [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jan 26th, 2005 No Comments »
Hot Spot Security
There is a great article at the Security Pipeline
that talks about the security of using hotspots. The article points out
that hotspots users should think about whether or not the hotspot the
secure. Often hotspots are not secure, which means that your personal
data is at risk. One reason for this is that although you may [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jan 26th, 2005 No Comments »
Day in the Life of a Web Manager
David King has a really good post about what a web manager does as
part of their daily job duties. Being a web master myself, I had to
smile when I read it. If you ever wondered what those of us who are web managers, this is a good starting [...]
Posted in General Thoughts, OpenURL on Jan 26th, 2005 No Comments »
DSpace and OpenURL
Today I spent the majority of the day working on getting our OpenURL
resolver to work with the SUNY instance of DSpace. The SUNY Office of
Library and Information Services has made about three hundred titles
from SUNY Press available to all the SUNY campuses via DSpace. In order
to link to these titles via our OpenURL [...]
Posted in General Thoughts, Library Systems on Jan 25th, 2005 No Comments »
Happy Vendor Experience
I'm been working on trying to get the data generated by our OpenURL
resolver and our online list of periodical holdings to be in sync with
one another. The reason I need to do this is that we use SFX for our
OpenURL resolver and have been using data from Serials Solutions to
create our list of [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jan 25th, 2005 No Comments »
Idea Seedlings
One of the most difficult things about being the most techie
librarian in your library is that you don't have many people to bounce
ideas off of. In particular I always struggle with coming up with ideas
for conference presentations. If you've seen my list of publication and
conference presentation for the last year you might wonder what [...]
