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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Making Fedora Easier to Implement with Fez - Christiaan Kortekaas
What is Fez?
Manages all kinds of documents
publications, images, learning objects, spreadsheets, databases and datasets, course materials
Fez technologies

PHP 5
MySQL 4.1+
Apache
Java SDK
ImageMagick
Graphviz
JHOVE
Fedora

Unique Benefits

Dynamic GUI configurabale document modelling and workflow engine
Powerflow search index
GUI managed security with Shibboleth federated authentication, authorization and WAYF
Preservation services

GUI Content Model Editor

One major difference between [...]

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I meant to post more from ALA Midwinter but there was much running around, meetings, and administratia so I really didn’t get a chance. I had several meetings, from which I learned more about the operations/idiosyncrasies of LITA and ALA. Some of this was helpful, other bits were just mind boggling. Overall it was a [...]

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Below are summaries of a smattering of the DSpace User Group Sessions I saw today at Open Repositories.
If We Build It Will they Come? - Phillip Davis and Matthew Connolly
Examine usage of Dspace at Cornell and look at why or why not faculty were using it.
Upward trend of growth at Cornell. About 1000 items per [...]

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I arrived safely in Seattle for Midwinter yesterday after a long flight from Houston. Luckily I had my Ruby on Rails books to read which kept me pretty entertained. I got into Seattle around noon and as a result, I had most of the afternoon to myself to walk around. I convinced a friend of [...]

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