Month: January 2008
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How they see us
After a long day of flying, I got to Philly about an hour late (thanks to some snow at the St. Paul airport) and found taxis to be in short supply. So, I hired a driver and on the drive over, had a great conversation. My favorite part came when we chatted about our days. …
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Finally, proof that I did something last year 🙂
I’ll only have one more post about this (when I actually have books in hand), but Kyle Banerjee and I spent the last year writing a book about building digital libraries. While I yet to have the proof in hand, I did get a call from our publisher letting us know that the book is…
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Using MarcEdit to reuse (and maybe import) items in Dspace
I’ve been thinking a little bit about some of the things that I use MarcEdit for and have been pushing some of this work off my desk to some of the staff in our technical services department. We actually use MarcEdit quite a bit when it comes to sharing metadata from our Dspace instance with…
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MarcEdit OAI harvester changes
Just a small update. I’d run into a case where I needed to download some data being provided via OAI in a non-Library specific metadata schema. While the MarcEdit OAI Harvester allows for the definition of your own crosswalks, it limits the types of metadata_Prefixes that can be sent via the harvester (by defining 4…