Posted in Notes from the Field on Oct 5th, 2007 No Comments »
The October schedule madness has begun. Yesterday I flew to Denver for LITA Forum which is the first of three conferences I’m attending in October. Normally, three conferences isn’t a big deal. But my application for continuing appointment also happens to be due at the end of Oct, as is the book manuscript. So I’m [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Jul 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
The third and fourth days of ALA were as busy for me as the first and second days. Sunday was the Top Tech Trends panel with myself, John Blyberg, Marshall Breeding, Walt Crawford, Joan Frye Williams, and Roy Tennant. I’d never heard Joan speak before and I thought that she was awesome because she brought [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Jun 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
I’ve been at ALA for two days now and only really managed to get 1 blog post up. I normally blog more at conferences but this ALA is a busy one for me. I think that there is only one program that I’m going to be able to go to of my own free will. [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Jun 23rd, 2007 1 Comment »
Friday I spoke as part the RUSA Preconf on Reinventing Reference with Michael Stephen, David Lee King, Dave Free, and David Ward. Although many of the different topics that the other folks are talking about I know a great deal about, being at the preconference is a great experience for two reasons. First, it is [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field, XML on May 29th, 2007 No Comments »
(Sorry I’m a bit late getting this out!) The focus of day 4 of the XML workshop was XQuery. Yet another topic I don’t have much experience with and have been slightly intimidated by up until this point. Patrick Yott showed us that each XQuery is typically based on the FLWOR module:
For
Let
Where
Order
Return
Using this basic model [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field, XML on May 24th, 2007 No Comments »
The morning of day 3 focused on advanced XSLT; primarily conditionals such as <xsl:if>, <xsl:choose>, <xsl:when>, and <xsl:otherwise>. There was also discussion of XSLT functions such as position(), last(), and name(). name() is really helpful if you want to know what the name of a given node is or use the name of a given [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field, XML on May 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
Day 2 of this workshop had us spending the morning focusing on XML-Schemas some more. We had the opportunity to markup a document in light of a particular schema, which was enlightening but not something I’d likely do as part of my job.
The afternoon session focused on XSLTs. Most of this was review for me. [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field, XML on May 21st, 2007 No Comments »
This week I’m in Austin for ARL’s workshop on Web Development with XML. Over the course of 4 days the workshop is supposed to cover a range of topics from What is XML to XQuery. I signed up mostly for Days 3-4 but thought that after not using some of my XML skills in a [...]
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 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
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How to use the system
Import Directory Server data
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