Presentations and documents tagged “code4libcon2008”
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CouchDB is sacrilege... mmm, delicious sacrilege
from eby, posted 2 years ago in Technology. 881 views
CouchDB has gained buzz in the last year as an ad-hoc, schema-free, web-friendly data store. Slapstick hilarity results when a self- confessed relational database bigot experiments with CouchDB and reports on the good, the bad, and the meh....
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Using a CSS Framework
from eby, posted 2 years ago in Business & Mgmt. 973 views
Using a CSS framework can allow you to speed up your development time, normalize your code base, and avoid some common browser bugs. In this talk I will discuss when it is appropriate to use a framework, potential pitfalls of common framewo...
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XForms for Metadata creation
from eby, posted 2 years ago in Technology. 615 views
As distributing metadata creation to authors, catalogers and other system users who may or may not have an understanding of XML becomes more and more important it has become imperative to develop reliable methods for creating and editing XM...
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Working with the WorldCat API
from eby, posted 2 years ago in Technology. 761 views
David Walker, from California State University, will show a prototype that uses the new OCLC Grid Services WorldCat API. The presentation will detail the newly released WorldCat API, examining its strengths and weaknesses. The prototype wil...
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Karen Coyle Keynote - R&D: Can Resource Descrip...
from eby, posted 2 years ago in Technology. 906 views
Work is beginning to transform the eloquent yet arcane texts called "library cataloging records" into data elements that will play well in the Web. Beginning with the upcoming revised cataloging rules, called
Resource Description and Access...
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C4l2008charper
from charper, posted 2 years ago in Technology. 264 views
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ÖpënÜRL
from eby, posted 2 years ago in Education. 543 views
The Ümlaut is an open source OpenURL middleware layer intended to improve the link resolving chain by analyzing incoming citations and intelligently querying resources to better enable access to them. The Ümlaut takes multiple approaches fo...
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DLF ILS Discovery Interface Task Force API reco...
from eby, posted 2 years ago in Technology. 727 views
The DLF ILS Discovery Interface Task Force was charged with creating a technical proposal that would provide standardized integration between integrated library systems and external applications, better enabling libraries to replace their O...
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Building Mountains Out of Molehills
from eby, posted 2 years ago in Spiritual. 514 views
Faceted navigation, which is an increasingly common feature of library OPACS, was initially developed to browse hierarchical data. MARC data however, has relatively little hierarchy, and user-generated tags have even less. The flatness of t...
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Zotero and You, or Bibliography on the Semantic...
from eby, posted 2 years ago in Business & Mgmt. 852 views
Representatives from the Center for History and New Media will introduce Zotero, a free and open source extension for Firefox that allows you to collect, organize and archive your research materials. After a brief demo and explanation, we w...
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Creating an Academic Image Collection with Flickr
from eby, posted 2 years ago in Technology. 445 views
Mark Dahl & Jeremy McWilliams Lightning Talk at Code4Lib 2008
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From Idea to Open Source
from eby, posted 2 years ago in Finance. 498 views
Last year I spoke about my research and initial investigations of building a "Next Generation Catalog" using XML technologies coined as the MyResearch Portal. The software has since progressed into an open source project known as VuFind. In...
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Code4Lib 2008 Metadata Registry
from jonphipps, posted 2 years ago in Technology. 6261 views
A presentation describing the NSDL Metadata Registry
