Posted in Notes from the Field on Feb 28th, 2007 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jan 11th, 2007 1 Comment »
I was so excited when Jeremy Frumkin announced this on the code4lib list.
Oregon State University / Code4lib Scholarship for Women
The OSU / Code4lib Scholarship for Women will provide up to $1000 to cover travel costs and conference fees for one qualified attendee to the 2007 Code4lib conference. This scholarship is eligible to any woman interested [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Jul 3rd, 2006 7 Comments »
I talked in a previous post a little bit about my experience at code4lib in reference to a general lack of super techy women in librarianship. I got a comment and linked to in reference to how to make code4lib better and would like to address that as a post for several reasons.
First, I want [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field, Ongoing Projects on Feb 16th, 2006 No Comments »
I spent time today and Code4Lib listening to Dan Chudnov talk about unAPI both in a formal presentation and in a breakout session where people talked about and created a draft specification for it. Before coming here I really didn’t know much about the unAPI idea. I’d kind of been following what Dan had been [...]
Posted in General Thoughts, Notes from the Field on Feb 16th, 2006 No Comments »
Art Rhyno
Enterprise Resource Planning Systems
why should I care?
we are all impacted by these kind of systems
Do you really want to recreate these types of functions (acquistions, etc)
Spend a lot of time on workflow
rules engines
OSS ERP
GNUe - python-based, still emerging
Compiere - java-based, oracle for persistence, recently added sybase
ERP5 - zope-based, add-ons for resource calculations
OFBiz - java-based, [...]
Posted in General Thoughts on Feb 15th, 2006 1 Comment »
Enhancing with external content
book review
usage statistics
list each loan, days borrowed, and returned, days our, renewals and borrower class
incorporate popularity into searching
Permalink for the book
book covers
random cover comes up on library’s homepage
virtual new book shelf
Link to local libraries connect to see if resource at available
search other remote resources
Google
RedLightGreen
is this available via fulltext via GooglePrint or snippets [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Feb 15th, 2006 No Comments »
Late last night I arrived in Corvallis, OR for Code4Lib, the conference I’ve been looking forward to the most this year. Originally, I didn’t think that I’d be able to attend but I’m here and very excited. The conference experience started out good because I was able to catch a ride from Portland to Corvallis [...]
