Another old post that is worth reading over at threepress about a case study in ebook presentation that has obvious application to scanning projects.
Most of the findings line up with experience but nice to see them quantified. Many preferred html versions for printability, layout, etc. Also covers workflow, costs.
ACLS Humanities E-Book XML Conversion Experiment: Report [...]
An old article but still applicable for those with small spaces.
But our deck is on the wrong side of the house. Then an idea came to me that was a little unusual and might involve a little risk. The idea is essential this: Why not put rain gutters in rows along the wood siding on [...]
(also posted on the AADL devblog)
We recently overhauled the public computing setup at AADL, though it hasn’t been rolled out at all the branches yet. It consists of a mix of linux hosted web management software, linux thin clients and windows terminal servers. It is a bit of a unique setup so figure I should [...]
The first being Operator, a firefox extension that helps with the use of microformats, including things such as exporting hcard contacts. It now boasts support for RDFa and eRDF and has changed its description to be more about the use of semantic data, rather then just microformats.
The second is Zotero, another Firefox extension which is [...]
The idea of mobile reference was first brought to my attention by Alan Gray at Darien who has a nice post on the topic on his blog. He terms the current desk situation as siege warfare.
What they’ve decided is that we are NOT going to have a desk or any kind of barrier, but that [...]
Folksonomy Provides 70 Percent More Terms Than Taxonomy
A short article on a study on how many terms users added versus the controlled vocabulary chosen for pieces of art. The discussion centers around the findability of items where 70% of the terms people use are not present. Usually the debate in libraries revolves around the noise [...]
Some interesting visualizations that some may want to check out.
Summize
The first is from an online shopping site called summize.
Rather than build yet another price comparison shopping site – which are great once you know what to buy – we’ve taken a reviews-first approach: we crawl the web for product reviews, aggregate those reviews, select [...]
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 [...]
Just came across the listeningtowords site which is collecting information on the lectures available on the web in audio or video. There’s a lot of great content online, especially with more and more universities and colleges adding their lectures to iTunes and the like. It’s nice to see sites like this that may make them [...]
Some articles that may interest some. Referenced from a recent article in New Scientist. Subscription is required to read the New Scientist online, but the articles themselves are available on arxiv:
The Computational universe: Quantum gravity from quantum computation.
Seth Lloyd (MIT, LNS) . Jan 2005. 31pp.
Submitted to Science
Quantum gravity computers: On the Theory of [...]
Once referred to as “tripletags” supposedly but now called Machine Tags, due to Flickr’s adoption of their use for geocoding, etc. From machinetags.org:
Machine tags, or triple tags, are tags that are made up of three parts (namespace:predicate=value) in order to give extra information. Machine tags have been in use for a while now on sites [...]
New book available that may interest quite a few that deal with copyright or licensing. It also touches on why it is important for some cultural items to be openly accessible.
Open Content Licensing: Cultivating the Creative Commons, a new publication from Sydney University Press, brings together papers from some of the most prominent thinkers of [...]
While I still haven’t gotten time to fully grok dchud’s Open Data is not the point, some more posts regarding the importance of open data have come about. While I agree with dchud that it’s definitely not the whole story, it is an important one.
Alf over at Hublog posts some of the replies he’s gotten [...]
For those that work with RDF or similar you may be interested in these:
Raptor
Raptor is a free software / Open Source C library that provides a set of parsers and serializers that generate Resource Description Framework (RDF) triples by parsing syntaxes or serialize the triples into a syntax. The supported parsing syntaxes are RDF/XML, N-Triples, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
If you run wordpress make sure you have the latest version as there was a compromised download on their site. If you use the SVN update method then you should be unaffected but there is a new version regardless. I just updated here via SVN without a problem.
Again this info is from users/customers and not press releases so may be different for various versions:
Voyager
Export
Built in. Can export Marc with bib, holdings and authorities records, though marc is often mangled.
Database Access
Built in. Uses Oracle and also provides entity-relationship diagrams and some pre-build “views” to help in development. I believe the oracle license is [...]
A first post in hopefully a series. Access to data from the ILS has been a common thorn in #code4lib’ers sides. I’m hoping here to post some of the ILS’s that are out there, what data access options they offer and whether they are built in the base or are extra products. I won’t bother [...]
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