Modifications to FreePress Recent Comments Plugin
For others that may find it useful, I've made two modifications to the FreePress Recent Coments plugin on DLTJ: one to strip out quoted material when using ...
Recent posts
Analysis of CDL’s XTF textIndexer to Replace the Local Files with FEDORA Objects
This is a continuation of the investigation about integrating the California Digital Library's XTF software into the FEDORA digital object repository that st...
CDL’s XTF as a Front End to Fedora
We're experimenting pretty heavily now with the California Digital Library's XTF framework as a front-end to a FEDORA object repository. Initial efforts loo...
A Known Citation Discovery Tool in a Library2.0 World
When it comes to seeking a full-text copy of that known-item citation, are our users asking "what have you done for me lately?" OpenURL has taken us pretty ...
DLTJ under a New Theme
Okay -- let's try this again. The first time around didn't go so well, so I went back to the basics and started with a new theme: what is running on DLTJ n...
Integration announced for DPubS (e-journal publishing system) and FEDORA (digital object repository)
The August 2006 edition of "The DPubS Report" produced by Cornell University Libraries for the DPubS community announced work underway at the Penn State to b...
DLTJ page rendering updated (sorry Bloglines users)
Overnight I made several changes to the layout and rendering of pages on DLTJ -- both in its web presentation and in its RSS presentation. The changes were ...
Just In Time Acquisitions versus Just In Case Acquisitions
What of a service existed where the patrons selected an item they needed out of our library catalog and that item was delivered to the patron even when the l...
Can Google be Out-Googled?
I have been heard to remark to other librarians on occasion a comment along the lines of "Don't fear Google; Don't Chase Google; Let's Out-Google Google!" ...
Open Source Software: Should You Bet Your Career On It?
At any point in time, there is a college IT director trying to determine whether to upgrade, migrate away from, or stay the course with some software package...
Representing Collections In FEDORA
One of the DRC developers had a question recently that sparked a discussion about what to do with collections of objects. In order to answer the question of...
Access Management and Provisioning Technology
Building on the shoulders of others -- isn't that how that quote goes? There has been a stack of printouts on my desk for a while now for various access man...