Terry’s Worklog
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National Digital Newspaper program: enhancing access to America’s newspapers
Helen Aguera, National Endowment for the Humanities Mark Sweeney, Library of CongressNational Digitial Newspaper program: enhancing access to America’s newspapers NEH Future directions: NEH will only be making one award per state, looking for collaborative partnerships Projects should Have an advisory board Represent the diversity of the state Will consider “orphan titles” Will cover costs…
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Opening remarks
August Imholtz, ReadexKolakowski’s “What the past is for”: a reflection on the irreality of the past and its consequences in the digital world August provided a philosophical discussion of Kolakowski’s lecture, “What the past is for” (http://www.loc.gov/loc/kluge/kluge-prize-speech.html). The talk was a discussion of history and the idea that there is no historical truth, only interpreted…
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Welcome to Chestire, VT — Day one of the Readex Digital Institute
Ok — so its been a few days since I have last posted on my weblog. Well, I’ve been traveling. I actually spent the last week in Vermont at the Readex digital institute. Using Microsoft’s live writer, I’d been blogging the conference but have waited to upload everything till I returned. So, the posts will…
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Adding user comments and tagging to CONTENTdm
At OSU, we’ve played with this on and off and finally decided to just take this live. For those that use CONTENTdm, I’ve created a small document that discusses how this works and what it looks like. As I said, simple implementation at this point, but if use takes off, I’ll look to add things…
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Dspace Community-list; adding most popular collections entries hack
As I’ve started to get more involved in the Dspace work here at OSU, one thing that has struck me is the interface really could use a once over. No place could this be more obvious than the community-list page. While I doubt that this page was every meant to be the default access mechanism…
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Dspace hack #2 — Did you mean?
Its funny how things work out. As some folks know, we are currently in the process at OSU of re-writing our hybrid metasearch tool from PHP to ruby, and now that much of the heavy lifting has been accomplished (a simple caching engine, wsdl api, oai harvesting, ferret integration, etc.), its been time to start…
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ruby-oai 0.0.3 — thanks ed
Ed posted revisions to the ruby-oai package. It includes the ability to utilize libxml as the xml parser. For those interested, this can now be coupled with the following class to parse a normal dublin core unqualified record into an object version of the record. BTW, I realize that this code makes some use…
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Kenny’s first day at school
A milestone for Kenny (seems we are having a few at the house lately) — it was his first day at kindergarten. He’s been so, so, so excited about today. Last week we went in and met his teacher and his teacher got to see first hand how much hard work Kenny has been doing with…
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Daily commute
I’ve been playing with the Microsoft Live Writer and have been itching to include a map into one of my posts. So here’s a good one. Here’s a map of my daily commute — 50 miles, round-trip down hwy. 99. It’s actually a fantastic ride — with mostly courteous drivers (till you hit Corvallis anyway) —…
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ruby-oai and processing metadata elements
Since modifying the ruby-oai module to work with libxml — I’ve found extracting the data from “metadata” to be much easier. And the nice part — using libxml, I was able to do an initial metadata harvest from 4 collections in under 10 seconds. Here’s the code from the harvesting component — see below. –TR…
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