Day: June 5, 2006

  • Spell Checking with Aspell and PHP

    One of the things that I like about PHP is the many built in functions found in the language. Within our metasearch tool, one of the things that I wanted to start looking at adding was spell checking. Since Aspell works as a good open source dictionary and is available as a php extension (pspell)…

  • Creating Analytic records from EAD finding aids

    While at UVA, I was asked if the MarcEdit stylesheet could be modified to allow for the creation of both Collection, series and analytic records for items in the EAD records. This is just a template and would need to be modified for actual use — but I put this together while on the plane…

  • Libraries, digital libraries and the printed word

    On Sunday, before coming back to Oregon, I ended up spending some time at Monticello relaxing in the garden doing some reflecting on my trip and I started to think about the printed book and where it fits into the digital library of the future.  Its actually funny, because a number of articles recently have…