Posted in General Thoughts on Mar 28th, 2007 No Comments »
This post on Lifehacker about UPS allowing you to control your packages after they are shipped and before they are delivered made my day. Because I’m on the road a lot and my husband gets home late, UPS packages have been problematic for us in the past. We’ve always wanted the ability to look and [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Mar 26th, 2007 1 Comment »
I got “tagged” by Darlene to list 5 non-library blogs I read. The problem with getting asked to do this meme late in the game is that most of the non-library stuff I read has already been talked about by others. However, I’m going to bend the rules slightly and list sites that have a [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Mar 25th, 2007 1 Comment »
While of my other 5 Weeks organizers have posted their own reflections on the 5 Weeks experience and since I’m a little late to the game I won’t reiterate what they have said already. Instead I’d like to talk a little bit of what I got out of 5 Weeks.
When I got involved in 5 [...]
Posted in General Thoughts, Mac on Mar 25th, 2007 1 Comment »
At my house my husband and I have the great divide. I’m a Mac user. He uses PCs. Unfortunately we have one lovely HP laserjet printer that we want to share. This poses a problem for two reasons. One my husband’s computer and the printer are downstairs. Since he doesn’t leave his computer on all [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Mar 21st, 2007 6 Comments »
The last month or so I’ve been trying to figure out how to get screenshots from my Mac at 300 dpi the resolution that my publisher insists that I must submit all images for print publication. The problem is that I have no idea how to make this work without the images looking terrible. On [...]
Posted in Digital Libraries on Mar 9th, 2007 3 Comments »
Since getting back from code4lib my mission for this week has to get Fedora running properly with Fez. We want to test this as part of making a decision about which tool we are going to use for our digital library objects. Coincidentally an update to Fez was distributed this week. The update has been [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Mar 5th, 2007 No Comments »
For a number of reasons I’ve been a bit shell shocked the past couple of days and haven’t had a chance to post my code4lib wrap-up. Due to intense migraine there are no live notes from Day 3 (sorry!).
It is hard to capture in a blog post this year’s code4lib and do it justice. However, [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Mar 1st, 2007 No Comments »
From Dan Chudnov’s Presentation on Fun with ZeroConfMetaOpen Search
iStumbler
Bonjour Browser
From Ed Summers Atom Publishing Protocol Primer
Atom protocol RFC 4287
REST (Representational State Transfer)
Application state and functionality are divided into resources
Resources are uniquely addressability using a universal syntax (ie. URIs)
All resources share a uniform interface for the transfer of state between client and resources (HTTP)
Live HTTP Headers
Firefox [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Mar 1st, 2007 No Comments »
The Bib App - Eric Larson and Nate Vack
Idea: UW Bibliography
don’t know where people are publishing and need to capture this information
Directory
Citation
Citation Management
Archival rights (Sherpa/RoMEO)
What is it?
12,000 + Citation
2,700 Ready to Archive
9 Departments
257 People
Find items that are ready for deposit into Institutional Repositories
Written in Rails
How to use the system
Import Directory Server data
Add People
Add Papers
Collect the [...]
