Posted in General Thoughts on May 5th, 2008 3 Comments »
After spending the better part of the last couple weeks working with the WorldCat API to get at my library’s holdings, I realized that I’d made an incorrect assumption in my plans. I was describing what I was doing to our Head of Cataloging and Metadata Services over lunch when she interrupted me to say [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on May 2nd, 2008 7 Comments »
I’m doing some work with the early release of WorldCat API to incorporate some new functionality into our content management system. Part of this involves searching WorldCat and manipulating the records retrieved in MARCXML. While the service will also return Dublin Core records, I decided that I preferred to work with the full information. This [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on May 2nd, 2008 1 Comment »
Sometimes you just don’t know about a new technology until you see it in action. In February, Google announced a new feature in Google Spreadsheet which allowed you share a spreadsheet by creating a form into which data could be entered into the spreadsheet. This didn’t hit my radar until very recently when a conference [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on May 1st, 2008 No Comments »
In my last post, I mentioned that I had been working on a Drupal project that was related to one of my ALA groups but that I couldn’t talk about it yet. Today I’m really thrilled to announce the debut of that project: YourBIGWIG, which is part of the crusade effort to implement more modern [...]
