Terry’s Worklog

  • Emulating III’s Advance Keyword Searching using Z39.50

    Its funny how things work.  I was talking today with David Walker about III and their Z39.50 implementation.  The problem that David had noticed and had asked me about was whether I had noticed that the items being returned via the Z39.50 keyword search were different than a query done via the Opac.  Up until…

  • I’m back

    So I’m back. I’ve been gone for the better half of 5 days, having gone to relax, fish, do a little crabbing and spend time with my family. Here are some pictures. This first picture is of Kenny fishing. I took him down to the docks at 10 mile Lake in Lakeside, OR to see…

  • Gone Fishin

    For those looking for me — I’m taking off on an extended fishing trip for the next few days. –Terry

  • LibraryFind (Metasearch) testing expanded

    I’m preparing some documents for our library faculty and staff as we begin expanding the beta testing to the entire library.  I make the next cutover from our development to semi-production server this Friday —  so barring any unforeseen problems or objections by the project team (good thing Jeremy is in New York till next…

  • LibraryFind (metasearch update)

    Its been a little bit since I updated folks on our metasearch development.  I’m including a current screenshot that shows the current look with a new function — inline OpenURL resolution.  As users scroll over the Find in library link, they see the openURL items show up directly in their window. So what’s been worked…

  • MarcEdit 5.0 update

    Alrighty — I’ve posted a new update to MarcEdit 5.0.  And for those wondering — I’m going to be moving the version number to 5.1 by ALA and out of beta the program will come.  At this point, we are no longer finding problems in the application — the only holdup has been documentation creation…

  • My DLF Trip Report

    I’d forgotten to post my trip report from DLF — so here it is. DLF Federation Trip Report.doc –Terry

  • Sunny in Austin, TX

    I’m hanging out in Austin attending DLF’s Spring forum this weekend.  I’ll post my notes from the meeting at the end of each day — but if you are in Austin and want to say howdy, drop me a message.  –Terry

  • Making metasearch work for you

    Maybe I’ll write about this — maybe not.  I haven’t decided yet — but one of the benefits of rolling our own metasearch tool is that we get to try lots of new things.  Case in point.  Last night (this morning), I setup a multi-tier caching system into our metasearch tool.  Here’s how it works:…

  • More metasearch

    Apparently the Corvallis Gazette Times contacted Jeremy about our metasearch project.  Here’s the article URL: http://gazettetimes.com/articles/2006/03/31/news/community/friloc01.txt Cool beans. –Terry

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