Terry’s Worklog

  • MarcEdit 5.0 Update

    I posted an update to MarcEdit tonight.  Changes: Bug fix: When moving data from UTF-8 to MARC8, specific subscript characters would be placed into the superscript area. Bug fix: When working with the Console — if you used the commandline parameters — the destination path was being read incorrectly. Added Help files Updated Langauge files…

  • 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…

  • Flying home from UVA

    It has been a long, tiring and very enjoyable last week in Virginia.  I had been invited to UVA to talk to the folks there about a myriad of topics, one being the metasearch developments at OSU.  Great fun all around.  I find how other library do digital production and view digital libraries and digital…

  • IUG Trip report

    So here is my IUG trip report. I only had to cut out my notes from one session since it is reserved for those having gone through a special set of III training. Here’s the link: iug_2006_publicnotes.doc –tr

  • Federated Search limitations

    Today we got to see first hand the fragility associated with the current state of federated search technology. As a beta site for Innovative, we have been testing their 2006 general release software prior to general distribution and an update last night caused ports to fail, resources to be limited and screwed up the keyword…

  • Extra, extra…LibraryFind kicks MetaFind’s, um, bottom

    Actually, that’s probably a bit overstating it and its still fairly early, but with MetaFind over the past year, our average search stats on a good day was about 70 searches.  Since Friday (include the weekend) with no publicity and a soft launch — we’ve had 798 cached results and ~1200 searches.  I’m hoping that…

  • Believe it or not…

    So, I’m getting ready to come home after the IUG and the Denver Hyatt is hosting a new conference, and I’m not making this up, the Society of Government Meeting Professionals.  Ugh…I’m sure its different than the picture in my head but… Updated:  I stand corrected — it was actually worse than I thought.  I…

  • IUG — new stuff in 2006

    Given that I sometimes give III a bit of a hard time (which I think is part of our job as users) — I thought I would note some of the very cool things that are out in the 2006 general release: RightResults(tm): III’s new relevance ranking algorthem.  I’d talked about this earlier — but…

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