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Links to OPAC Enhancements, Wrappers, and Replacements

Below are the supplemental links for the presentation at the NISO workshop on discovery layers in Chapel Hill, NC, on March 28, 2008.

Update 20080404T1124 : Carolyn McCallum at Wake Forest University posted a great summary of day two of the NISO discovery layer forum, including an overview of my talk. Thanks, Carolyn!

Foundational Pieces

The presentation started as an extension of a DLTJ blog post. I also mentioned Marshal Breeding’s Library Technology Report published in July/August of 2007 and available from the ALA store.

This is a preview of Links to OPAC Enhancements, Wrappers, and Replacements. Read the full post (306 words, estimated 1:13 mins reading time)
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2008 03 28 Comments (16) Permalink

SSL for WordPress Admin and the Problem with XMLHttpRequest

The WordPress Codex has documentation for running the login, registration, and administration interfaces on an SSL server. There is even a plug-in that will do much of the heavy lifting for you. I have found both of these methods, by themselves, to be rather unsatisfactory, though, in that admin services that rely on AJAX calls back to WordPress break (such as the periodic saving of drafts). What happens is this:

  1. Plugins will use the ’siteurl’ and/or ‘home’ values in the Options → General admin page, and that value is typically set to the “http://” rather than “https://” address of the blog.
This is a preview of SSL for WordPress Admin and the Problem with XMLHttpRequest. Read the full post (366 words, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)
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2008 03 20 Comments (3) Permalink

A Glimpse into the Internet Archive’s Scanning and Print-on-Demand Operations

Wired magazine published a brief story and online photo gallery of the book scanning and print-on-demand projects at the Internet Archive. It is a fascinating glimpse into their vision and processes. Included below are cropped thumbnails and part of the text captions that accompanied the pictures in the Wired online gallery.

The book to be scanned sits in front of a technician underneath a V-shaped glass platter. Two opposing cameras angled at each page take photos of the book. On screen is the multipage view that the operator uses to verify the quality of the scans and the book’s pagination.
This is a preview of A Glimpse into the Internet Archive’s Scanning and Print-on-Demand Operations. Read the full post (511 words, 9 images, estimated 2:03 mins reading time)
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2008 03 20 Comments (0) Permalink

NISO Workshop Exploring the Discovery Layer; March 27-28, 2008; Chapel Hill, NC

NISO is conducting a workshop later this month called Next Generation Discovery: New Tools, Aging Standards. The workshop is described this way: “Discovering scholarly information and data is essential for research and use of the content that the information community is producing and making available. The development of knowledge bases, web systems, repositories, and other sources for this information brings the need for effective discovery — search-driven discovery and network (or browse) driven discovery — tools to the forefront. With new tools and systems emerging, however, are standards keeping pace with the next generation of tools? What’s coming up and where might standards fit to assist in this arena? The forum will include both a look at the current state of discovery tools and at new visions of what these tools might look like in the next several years.”

This is a preview of NISO Workshop Exploring the Discovery Layer; March 27-28, 2008; Chapel Hill, NC. Read the full post (286 words, estimated 1:09 mins reading time)
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2008 03 12 Comments (2) Permalink
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