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iNODE
The weblog of Digital Programs and Systems at George Mason University Libraries
- Mechanical Turk as Collection Development Tool
posted on November 16, 2009 04:00:39 pm
Poking around Amazon’s Mechanical Turk today, I found this “HIT” (Human Intelligence Task) available to webworkers. The author/publisher is offering $4.00 if you request the book from your library (which I guess they hope will trigger a wave of purchases). I don’t know ... - Mason Tweets
posted on November 12, 2009 09:23:36 pm
Earlier today a tweet from Dan Cohen pointed me to an interesting service offered by NC State: http://twitter.ncsu.edu/ They were nice enough to offer a link to their Zend-framework based PHP code on the site so I spent a few minutes today building a Mason tweet aggregator. It still needs a bit of... - OCR, Image/Text PDFs and the Mac
posted on October 06, 2009 11:02:31 am
This week I’ve been staring at a collection of just over 29,000 PDFs. Image-only copies of thousands of documents created with “..the software that came with the scanner.” My task? Figuring out the right tools and workflow to get these PDFs through an OCR process so we can unloc... - Javascript speed
posted on October 02, 2009 10:11:34 am
I’ve long thought that if you wanted the fastest browser experience on a Mac, you went with the nightly Webkit build from http://nightly.webkit.org/. So I was surprised today when I happened on the SunSpider JavaScript benchmark site and put several browsers through their paces. One caveat,... - Fix it till it breaks ? into 64 bits
posted on September 24, 2009 10:01:26 pm
I like to fix things till they break. Today’s post is a cautionary tale for that admittedly small niche of sysadmins running OSX server on XServes upgraded in place from Leopard to Snow Leopard… For the past few weeks I’ve been tweaking the JSP interface of our MARS system and doi... - iPhone / iTouch / Android enabled
posted on September 16, 2009 03:33:49 pm
Got an iPhone 3GS the other day (clearly I’m behind the mobile curve but then I hate talking on the phone so it took me a while to “get it”). Anyway, after just a few days with the thing, I realize I need to begin tweaking some of the library’s web-based content. First (ea...