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 General Thoughts on Mar 1st, 2007 No Comments »
From Dan Chudnov’s Presentation on Fun with ZeroConfMetaOpen Search
iStumbler
Bonjour Browser
From Ed Summers Atom Publishing Protocol Primer
Atom protocol RFC 4287
REST (Representational State Transfer)
Application state and functionality are divided into resources
Resources are uniquely addressability using a universal syntax (ie. URIs)
All resources share a uniform interface for the transfer of state between client and resources (HTTP)
Live HTTP Headers
Firefox [...]
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
Written in Rails
How to use the system
Import Directory Server data
Add People
Add Papers
Collect the [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Feb 28th, 2007 No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Feb 28th, 2007 No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Feb 28th, 2007 No Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Feb 28th, 2007 2 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Notes from the Field on Feb 28th, 2007 2 Comments »
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 [...]
