Month: February 2006

  • Open Source Federated search project

    Something we’ve been working on for a little bit is an open source federated search project.  I’m sure folks are probably wondering why we would bother considering the wide variety of vendor solutions currently available — but we do have a good reason I think.  In a sense, we are looking at building a library…

  • CONTENTdm and EAD Part II

    Well, it looks like we will be using CONTENTdm to handle our EAD records.  I was able to augment how CONTENTdm treats our EAD records (via display and indexing) so that it will meet our needs.  The good thing is that these records will be indexed on Google/Yahoo very soon now that they are in…

  • Internet Explorer 7 preview

    I figured since I do a bit of web development (though I’ll admit it tends to mostly be backend work), I thought I’d download Microsoft’s new IE 7 preview.  For the most part, it looks pretty good.  Nothing earth shattering or worth switching from your current browser if your happy with it, but I do…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 refresh

    Fixed a couple of bugs.  The one that folks would most likely run across was a bug in the swap fields function.  If you used the find text option, a match and swap would never occur. Other fixes, I’ve added some code to make sharing the application across a network share easier. As always, the…