Library Cataloging
Last night I installed Open Office on my home machine. Pretty slick. It comes with a database program. I couldn't find anything about the db, is it MySQL? Open Office is worth investigating. It has the look and feel of a mature commercial product. I think it will handle all my word processing, presentation, and spreadsheet needs.
Databases
- Lemon8-xml
Adding semantic mark-up to text is something the cataloger in me always finds good. Microformats, XML, or RDF all make searches more precise. Lemon8-XML is a tool to chamge scholarly papers in MS Word or Open Office formats into XML. Sweet idea.Lemon8-XML...
- Open Office And Bittorrent
Open Office 3.0 is released today. It is also Open Access Day, nice fit there. But don't bother to try to download it now, the servers are overwelmed. You can grab it using BitTorrent. A nice P2P tool that is for more than stealing movies. BitTorrent...
- Creative Commons Metadata
Microsoft has released an add-on to MS Office to embed a Creative Commons license in MS files.This add-in enables you to embed a Creative Commons license into a document that you create using the popular applications: Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft...
- Mysql In A Nutshell
Much of our work, as catalogers, deals with databases. MySQL in a Nutshell is a new book from O'Reilly about the Open Source database.After introductory information on installing and formatting queries to MySQL, the book presents a reference listing...
- Mac Os X
Those with access to a Mac might be interested in Konfabulator and widgets. Widgets are small open-source programs, easy to create. Currently ones exist to search the Internet Movie Database, Google, and Yahoo. It would be slick for some libraries to...
Library Cataloging
Open Office
Last night I installed Open Office on my home machine. Pretty slick. It comes with a database program. I couldn't find anything about the db, is it MySQL? Open Office is worth investigating. It has the look and feel of a mature commercial product. I think it will handle all my word processing, presentation, and spreadsheet needs.
Databases
- Lemon8-xml
Adding semantic mark-up to text is something the cataloger in me always finds good. Microformats, XML, or RDF all make searches more precise. Lemon8-XML is a tool to chamge scholarly papers in MS Word or Open Office formats into XML. Sweet idea.Lemon8-XML...
- Open Office And Bittorrent
Open Office 3.0 is released today. It is also Open Access Day, nice fit there. But don't bother to try to download it now, the servers are overwelmed. You can grab it using BitTorrent. A nice P2P tool that is for more than stealing movies. BitTorrent...
- Creative Commons Metadata
Microsoft has released an add-on to MS Office to embed a Creative Commons license in MS files.This add-in enables you to embed a Creative Commons license into a document that you create using the popular applications: Microsoft Office Word, Microsoft...
- Mysql In A Nutshell
Much of our work, as catalogers, deals with databases. MySQL in a Nutshell is a new book from O'Reilly about the Open Source database.After introductory information on installing and formatting queries to MySQL, the book presents a reference listing...
- Mac Os X
Those with access to a Mac might be interested in Konfabulator and widgets. Widgets are small open-source programs, easy to create. Currently ones exist to search the Internet Movie Database, Google, and Yahoo. It would be slick for some libraries to...