Posted in Library Systems, Web 2.0 on Jan 18th, 2007 1 Comment »
Over at Library 2.0 An Academic Perspective, Laura Cohen has a post commenting on my recent article in Computers in Libraries. She worries about the scale of 2.0 projects and how libraries can share what they’ve done so that we aren’t always reinventing the wheel. The project of remaking the Libraries site at UH may [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jan 18th, 2007 1 Comment »
Some days I just have to be amused with the capacity of people to learn new stuff and surprise others. Particularly when their learning new stuff helps them to solve problems other people are having. Case in point, for the last week I’ve been super annoyed that since I upgrade my Firefox the link feature [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jan 17th, 2007 No Comments »
I’m off to ALA Midwinter on Friday. As you can see below I have a relatively full schedule. However, this is some built-in time for some fun and hopefully some writing!
Posted in General Thoughts on Jan 12th, 2007 3 Comments »
Over at One Big Library Dan Chudnov has a good post entitled “What iPhone is telling us” that talks about why the iPhone has the potential to reshape the landscape of user interfaces and devices. In particular when it comes to visual and tactile ways of navigating. Probably the part of this post that I [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jan 11th, 2007 1 Comment »
I was so excited when Jeremy Frumkin announced this on the code4lib list.
Oregon State University / Code4lib Scholarship for Women
The OSU / Code4lib Scholarship for Women will provide up to $1000 to cover travel costs and conference fees for one qualified attendee to the 2007 Code4lib conference. This scholarship is eligible to any woman interested [...]
Posted in CSS on Jan 10th, 2007 2 Comments »
I wasn’t picking on any specific project or vendor in my previous post. I just have noticed that people don’t go to remove the tables where they are easy to remove. For example, a simple two column layout is relatively easy to do using CSS. Also, I’ve noticed that tables get used a lot for [...]
Posted in Blogging, RSS on Jan 8th, 2007 No Comments »
So I’ve switched to Google Reader for news aggregation and for the most part love it dearly. One of the features I like the best is the fact that I can share my feeds as an Atom feed. I can do this for all my feeds or just for ones I’ve categorized a specific way. [...]
Posted in Web Standards, XHTML on Jan 8th, 2007 6 Comments »
So I started to customize a piece of open source software that the Libraries are interested in using for our archival finding aids. I openned up the code and was immediately disheartened to discovered that the pages are laid out in tables. This isn’t such a problem on the main page. However, when you get [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jan 4th, 2007 No Comments »
To David who tagged me, sorry I’m late I’m a little behind in my feeds so I’m just getting to this.
I was married on a three-masted schooner off the coast of Maine.
I’ve seen it rain in the Atacama Desert (the driest desert in the world) and thought I’d been hit by lightening when the storm [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jan 4th, 2007 No Comments »
So just prior to the holidays I made a list of new things that I want/need to learn about in 2007. Below is my ambitious list:
XQuery
Xforms
XML Native databases like eXist
Indexing tools
Lucene
Solr
Most of this list is due to growing interest and responsibilities related to digital libraries and collections. I was lucky enough to have an XML [...]
