Library Web Chic

Smart Subjects: Application Independent Subject Recommendations - Tito Sierra
Concept

Input - user search
Output - A list of related library subjects
Subject recommendation engine

Motivation

Search log analysis
What kinds of queries are people inserting into our search tool
Lots of topical subject queries

Subject Browse portal at NCSU

connect people to subject portal in a search environment
Locally developed subject classification
100 subject notes [...]

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Free the Data: creating a web services interface to the online catalog - Emily Lynema
Look for holding availability
CatalogWS

REST web API for dynamically querying information from the NCSU Libraries Catalog

Motivations

Initial impetus - 2 requests

Can we have RSS feeds for the catalog?
Can we integrate catalog results into library

Using the service
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/catalogws/?
Parameters

service
query
output
count
offset
sort
style

XML Response

Defined with Relax NG Schema
Data from search [...]

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MyResearch Portal - Andrew Nagy
ILS agnostic web portal for students and faculty to perform research activities
Create 1 single interface for all library resource to minimize interface learning curve
Develop in-house a “framework” to combine all of our resources

Most resources are in XML
Digital Library: METS
MetaLib XServer: XML
Catalog: MARCXML
Library Website: XHTML

Data Store

Native XML stores allows for easy storage [...]

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Hurry up Please It’s Time - Karen Schneider
State of Emergency

We have given away our collections
We don’t build or own the tools that manage them
We provide complex, poorly-marketed systems
We function like a monopoly service when our competition is thriving right under our nose.

Memory work - preserve and provide access to our culture’s memories
5-3-1 rule

Pick 5 issues [...]

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My first full day at code4lib started off with a bang. I ran into Nicole Engard who is the recipient of this year’s the Code4Lib Scholarship for Women. It is really nice to see Nicole is here as well as so many other awesome tech women.
I also talked to Terry Reese about LibraryFind and where [...]

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Erik Hatcher author of Lucene in Action gave a wonderful all day pre-conference on Solr at code4lib 2007. He provided many examples of Solr in action. Most of these were written in Ruby or Ruby on Rails. I was very lucky and got most of the examples to work. The item I had the most [...]

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In the last couple weeks, we’ve been having some problems with blog comment and trackback spam with the UH Libraries blogs. I wasn’t sure exactly how to deal with this and because I don’t control the network I didn’t want to start blocking IP addresses (this is something I’d have to ask someone else to [...]

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I’m going to the Solr preconference at code4lib and have been working with the Head of Cataloging and Metadata Services here to get a sample set of MARC records into the right format to index in Solr. I’d been planning on using a transform from MARCXML to Solr written by Andrew Nagy. Then I saw [...]

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As part of 5 Weeks to a Social Library participants have to chat (using instant messenger) concerning the topic of the week in small groups. I discovered early on that the workplace of the participants in the group I’m leading has chosen to try to completely and total block chat. This means they filter out [...]

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We’ve been examining and considering revamping the site search tool this week. As part of that process we wanted to examine the search terms that users were putting into our site search box. In particular we were concerned that people were using this box to search for articles and books rather than understanding it searches [...]

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