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Zen OPAC and COinS

I’d been thinking about a Zen OPAC idea for quite awhile and now see that dchud thinks similarly. My first thought was to use some of the requirements being that it uses markup similar to what current template set-ups allow in commercial OPACs. I then scraped that and thought should be from scratch and try [...]

Libraries and Outsourcing

There’s plenty of comments regarding the Gorman blogging but I like this snippet from within Clay Shirkey’s response:

Academic libraries, which in earlier days provided a service, have outsourced themselves as bouncers to publishers like Reed-Elsevier; their principal job, in the digital realm, is to prevent interested readers from gaining access to scholarly material.

Karen Schneider gave [...]

Solr in Libraries

Note: Many of the examples below only include screenshots. As these are development versions I don’t want to overwhelm them with traffic. If you pop in #code4lib you’ll probably be able to get a peek at them.

What is Solr?

If you were at Code4Lib 2007 then you were probably beat over the head with Solr. If [...]

Revish and Machine Tags

I noted before the discussion on machine tags. Another example has come about with Revish, the book review community, pulling in images from Flickr that use the book:isbn=********** tag. An example page is Bulletproof Ajax. From their blog:

There are only a few people using this at Flickr at the moment, but there are a lot [...]

Retagging and Changing Logs in SVN

Found a couple tips on Ted Husted’s blog. He recommends deleting the old tag and then doing another tag as trying to overwrite will do a merge. And so to have it for prosperity here is the command to change the log for a revision:

$ svn propset –revprop -r 504523
svn:log "WW-1715 Branch [...]

Trac Performance

In the past I’ve used mod_python to serve trac and got ok performance, but my installs weren’t public. On Code4Lib it was set-up as a fcgi install. This worked ok but was extremely resource intensive.

I also host through TextDrive and found that they recommend running Trac through Tracd and then proxying the requests through apache [...]

Code4Lib2007: Karen’s Keynote

I’m way behind in lots of things right now but I might as well post something. The keynote on the first day of Code4Lib 2007 was by Karen Schneider who writes at Free Range Librarian, among other places. You can view a video of her presentation on google and download links should be available soon [...]

Transcript of Dan and Jon’s Podcast

As I’ll be having a long drive/ride down to Code4Lib this year I decided I’d try out the CastingWords service for transcribing podcasts. I tend to prefer to read over listen. Once podcast I’d like to catch up on is the OpenURL talk by Jon Udell and Dan Chudnov. Both Jon and Dan have [...]

Code4Lib Host Vote

As with everything code4lib, it’s up for a vote.

It’s a tough decision but here’s some additional info:

Beerfly: Portland, Oregon
Beerfly: Madison, Wisconsin
Beerfly: Vancouver, BC - note some listed are in Victoria