Category Archives: Coding
Beefing up Discovery
In preparation for tomorrow’s launch of inPrimo, we just added an important new service to the system: the ability to discover from within inPrimo whether any library in the WRLC holds a particular journal in their collection(s). A few screen grabs will … Continue reading
Posted in Coding, General, Library Tech
History MetaFinder
It’s not ‘feature complete’ but our new Mason Metafinder is up and running. The idea is to build small federated search engines for our various research portals. My testbed has been development of a search engine for an Early American … Continue reading
Posted in Coding, General, Library Tech, MARS
Amplify API
Heard about the OpenAmplify API yesterday and using some PHP code from their site, fashioned a little test service to see the API in action. But first, what’s Amplify? Here’s a quote from their site: Using patented Natural Language Processing … Continue reading
S3 Storage
I realize it’s been around for at least two years but only recently have I begun spending some time with Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3). Beyond just enjoying the exploration of something new, I’m trying to figure out whether it … Continue reading
Posted in Apple / OSX, Coding, Desktop Software, General
Tagged Amazon, Clients, Digital Preservation, S3, Transmit
Award-winning Omeka
At today’s CNI opening plenary, Vint Cerf presented Tom Scheinfeldt of the Center for History and New Media an award check for $50,000, citing the work they’re doing with Omeka.  Congratulations to Tom and the other 9 MATC (Mellon Award … Continue reading
Posted in Coding, General
Tagged cni2008fall
Linking to Google Books
This must be the month of the OPAC or something. Today I worked up a quick way to link from a book in our Voyager system to Google books via the ISBN number. You can see how it works with … Continue reading
Posted in Coding, Library Tech
PHP + DOM + Joel = SMS from OPAC
Mentioned the other day that I was working on adding a “send this call number to your cell phone” capability to our Voyager OPAC (mitigating the “find a scrap of paper” problem). I was heading down the JavaScript path (based … Continue reading
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