Posted in General Thoughts on Mar 31st, 2008 1 Comment »
For the last month or so we’ve been working on moving out blogs from Movable Type to WordpressMU. This has meant a lot of work on our part to get MU to meet the majority of our needs. To meet some of our needs we’ve installs several plugins. These included Role Manager, and WPMU LDAP [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Mar 31st, 2008 No Comments »
Tim Spalding announce on the code4lib list last week that LibraryThing now has a beta JSON API for retrieve the core work data. This is pretty cool and I can’t wait to check it out. He also said that an API for member books is coming. Which means I’ll finally be able to pull the [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Mar 24th, 2008 No Comments »
In the last few months we upgrade from upgrade from Coldfusion 7 to 8. In the process of testing and usingColdfusion 8 we found some new features/tags that we really, really like.
CAPTCHA - The CFIMAGE tag can be used to create CAPTCHA images which help to reduce comment spam.
WYSIWYG Editor - Based on FCKEditor. This [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Mar 19th, 2008 1 Comment »
The last couple weeks at work have been taken up with the process of migrating our existing MovableType blogs to WordpressMU. I’d done some preliminary research for this process six months or more ago, but with the arrival of my hedge-minion (aka Web Services Coordinator) Rachel in October, I’ve been learning how to delegate, which [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Mar 19th, 2008 No Comments »
Last week I was working from home on a bunch of little projects some of them personal some professional. One mini project I’ve been working on is getting our media computer (the Mac Mini attached to the TV) hooked up to talk to our TB hard drive via the Airport Extreme. However, it seems that [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Mar 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
OSS Web-based cataloging tool- Chris Catalfo
This was probably one of my favorite presentation of the conference. Chris Catalfo from LibLime has built a web-based cataloging tool that performs many of the functions that are expected in ILS cataloging tools. It will also do some of the functions I’ve been performing with MARCEdit. Like Z39.50 searching [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Mar 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
Guild Navigators for infospace - Jon Udell
Understand connection in information space and bring things together
LibraryLookup - about making connections between Amazon and books in libraries
xISBN - Books with multiple ISBNs finding all equivalents
Equivalence services
Simile
Potluck - mashing up data. How do you want to merge data?
Importance of letting people describe things in their own vocabularies and [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Mar 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
XForms for Metadata creation - Winona Salesky and Michael Park
Winona and Michael each demonstrated the XForms that they have developed. Although they used slightly different methods, Winona’s XForms use a Firefox extension to render properly and Michael’s use Orbeon which is server-side, the goals were similar. I really was impressed with both of these forms [...]
