Posted in Blogging on Oct 18th, 2006 9 Comments »
So I spent some time today playing with Wordpress MU because I wanted to try it out and see how it compared with Movable Type as a multi-blog, multi-user blogging environment. We’ve been using Movable Type for blogging for the last year but for a number of different reasons (the biggest being we don’t have [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Oct 18th, 2006 No Comments »
Getting the Goods: Libraries and the Last Mile - Roy Tennant
The ‘Last Mile’ Problem
Libraries have dealt better with description than delivery
Our system are ill-suited for online delivery
We have largely rested on our restrospective conversion and automation laurels
We are being overtake by other players (ie. Google)
We need the "two click solution" (Jeremy Frumkin)
We have far too [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Oct 18th, 2006 No Comments »
OurOntario:Yours to Recover - Art Rhyno, and Walter Lewis
OurOntario brings together content and contributed metadata from different sources including newspaper, audio, images, etc. Use Lucene to do this because Lucene is very good at bringing together seperate indexes. Also using Solr to look at facets. All allow Comment on Items (see Great Lakes Images collection [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Oct 18th, 2006 No Comments »
The Umlaut & U - Ross Singer
Current State of Link Resolvers
Conference Proceedings are problematic
Wariness to use extended services
Only shows items that are defined as part of the collection
Cannot integrate all resources possibily available to a user
Non-personalizable
Face of the Library in a Google Scholar environment
http://rsinger.library.gatech.edu/access2006
Drupal Hacks for Libraries - Mark Jordan
Drupalib - http://drupalib.interoperating.info/
Drupal for Scheduling Events [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Oct 18th, 2006 2 Comments »
Library 2.0
open the library
push the library everywhere
engage with actual potential user communities
disaggregate library systems… and bring them together
shared innovation
Want to know more about Library 2.0?
Library 2.0 Wiki
Google Library 2.0
Talis is trying to nurture the discussion. Mashing up the Library Competition
John Blyberg - Go-Go-Google-Gadget (Library Catalog information into Google personal homepage)
Second Life Library 2.0 - [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Oct 15th, 2006 No Comments »
I just got back from Access and am trying to get my things together to head off to Internet Librarian at the end of the week. Sorry folks, I haven’t had a chance to write up my notes yet. The short version though is that it was a fabulous conference and Ottawa is a great [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Oct 12th, 2006 1 Comment »
I’ve been playing around some more with TinyMCE so that I can get it to do what I want, both in Wordpress and as a WYSIWYG editor on our Content Management System. I get a little closer each day, but the process is slow. My stuggles have been with trying to get it to produce [...]
Posted in Coldfusion, XML on Sep 28th, 2006 1 Comment »
I’ve been posting off and on about ways to transform an RSS or Atom feed into HTML using an XSLT, and Coldfusion. However, I failed to mention that you can also use the DOM and Coldfusion to make the transform happen. Here is a working example that does RSS 1.0, RSS 2.0, and Atom 1.0 [...]
Posted in Social Software on Sep 28th, 2006 No Comments »
A while back I decide that I wanted to migrate all my Furl links to Del.icio.us because Furl was giving me some trouble and I’d grown to like del.icio.us better. The problem was that I couldn’t figure out how to get it to import all 1600+ links at once and then get them to be [...]
Posted in Blogging on Sep 25th, 2006 No Comments »
The WYSIWYG editor in Wordpress has been driving me crazy for a while. So today I broke down and completely replaced it with a plugin called Advanced WYSIWYG Editing. One thing you have to keep in mind if you want to get this plugin to work with Wordpress 2.0.4 is that you need to install [...]
