Library Cataloging
Our catalog is part of the deep or invisible Web. In an effort to make it more visible I've created a Web page that is just a bibliography with links back to the catalog record for LPI publications. It will be interesting to see if and when these publications get indexed by the search engines. Not as good as an API, or OAI-PMH access but something to expose our work.Added March 20, 2006. I have made a page on Google that holds the links. Now to test how this works.
OPAC
- Oai Capture By Search Engines
Search Engine Coverage of the OAI-PMH Corpus by Frank McCown, Xiaoming Liu, Michael L. Nelson, and Mohammad Zubair has been submitted to IEEE Internet Computing.The major search engines are competing to index as much of the Web as possible. Having indexed...
- Catalog Of U.s. Government Publications
There is a new version of the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP). This version of the CGP is the online public access catalog (OPAC) module of the Government Printing Office's (GPO) new integrated library system. With the availability of...
- Blogging The Catalog
Library 2.0 in the Real World by Jenny Levine points to some very interesting work.The prototype is built on the WordPress open source, blogging platform, which gives it some very interesting features. For example, every record in the catalog gets its...
- Open Worldcat
OCLC has created a tutorial on deep linking to help libraries get the most out of the Open WorldCat program. Open WorldCat can help drive users to libraries and increase circulation if properly configured to support deep linking.Deep linking helps users...
- 100 Million Web Pages
Breaking Through the Invisible Web by Mark Ludwig in the current Library Journal describes a unique library Web Catalog. They have made each catalog record a Web page and then used tools to search and display the information. This has the advantage of...
Library Cataloging
Deep Web
Our catalog is part of the deep or invisible Web. In an effort to make it more visible I've created a Web page that is just a bibliography with links back to the catalog record for LPI publications. It will be interesting to see if and when these publications get indexed by the search engines. Not as good as an API, or OAI-PMH access but something to expose our work.Added March 20, 2006. I have made a page on Google that holds the links. Now to test how this works.
OPAC
- Oai Capture By Search Engines
Search Engine Coverage of the OAI-PMH Corpus by Frank McCown, Xiaoming Liu, Michael L. Nelson, and Mohammad Zubair has been submitted to IEEE Internet Computing.The major search engines are competing to index as much of the Web as possible. Having indexed...
- Catalog Of U.s. Government Publications
There is a new version of the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP). This version of the CGP is the online public access catalog (OPAC) module of the Government Printing Office's (GPO) new integrated library system. With the availability of...
- Blogging The Catalog
Library 2.0 in the Real World by Jenny Levine points to some very interesting work.The prototype is built on the WordPress open source, blogging platform, which gives it some very interesting features. For example, every record in the catalog gets its...
- Open Worldcat
OCLC has created a tutorial on deep linking to help libraries get the most out of the Open WorldCat program. Open WorldCat can help drive users to libraries and increase circulation if properly configured to support deep linking.Deep linking helps users...
- 100 Million Web Pages
Breaking Through the Invisible Web by Mark Ludwig in the current Library Journal describes a unique library Web Catalog. They have made each catalog record a Web page and then used tools to search and display the information. This has the advantage of...