Category: Digital Libraries

  • Code4Lib

    I’ll be periodically posting my notes on the Code4lib sessions, so stay tuned. –Terry

  • Back from Utah

    Up until this last weekend, I’d never actually been to Salt Lake City in the winter…just gorgeous.  There was snow everywhere around the mountains, an a little bit of the white stuff around the University of Utah grounds (though it looked maybe a week or so old).  I wish I would have had a little…

  • WPOPAC — a testbed by Casey Maison

    Disclaimer — these are some first impression type thoughts…dangerous, I know.  Take them for what they are…musings.  Casey Maison has been doing a lot of writing and thinking about how to make ILS systems more social — and as such, has created a testbed application using WordPress to sit ontop of their library opac.  His original post…

  • More Google & Privacy concerns

    The EFF is warning against using the new Google Desktop application because of a new option allowing users to search for documents across computers.  This feature appearently stores copies of your documents on Google servers meaning that they are just one subpena way from being read.  And while Google isn’t doing it yet, these documents…

  • CONTENTdm/EAD III

    As I’ve been putting together a CONTENTdm interface to our EAD records, I’ve been using the NWDA’s website as a template…the idea being that users working within our site could start local and then move out to the regional database and still see a like interface with like functionality.  However, this has meant doing some…

  • Develop the library’s OPAC? Maybe not…

    First, let me preface this post by noting that these are somewhat random thoughts that I’ve been rolling around in my head for the past couple of weeks…so take them for what they are. Over the past few weeks/months, the library blogshere has been doing quite a bit of chatting on Library 2.0, and ambigous…

  • Imagining the Google future

    An interesting article posted on CNNMoney called, Imagining the Google Future, looks at where Google might be taking us as we move into the future.  Essentially, a group of experts were asked the question, what will Google look between the period of 2015-2125.  Its worth the read I think. –Terry

  • Is the honeymoon over

    I wonder if the honeymoon is over for Google, at least as it relates to Wall Street. I’d never seen a company who’s value was more over inflated since its first public offering, and after missing their earnings estimates for this quarter (though, its ready why they missed them that’s even more interesting), it appears…

  • 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…