Library Cataloging
KenoSearch Indexer Review
Eric Lease Morgan has published Fun with KinoSearch a review of an indexing tool. Seems like a very viable alternative to swish-e and Plucene.
KinoSearch
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Metadata And Delicious
Eric Lease Morgan has taken the Alex texts and extracted keywords from them and their metadata and then loaded this on del.icio.us. All automated. Nice for discovery of the texts in the Alex Catalog. However, I wonder, since this is possible, just how...
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The "next Generation" Library Catalog
A "Next generation" library catalog by Eric Lease Morgan is well worth reading. This text outlines an idea for a "next generation" library catalog. In two sentences, this catalog is not really an catalog at all but more like a tool designed to make it...
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Open Journal Systems
Open Journal Systems, an open source tool for journal publishers is now available. It uses the OAI-PMH standard.Open Journal Systems (OJS) is a journal management and publishing system that has been developed by the Public Knowledge Project through its...
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Notes On The Workshop "open Source Software In Libraries"
We began by installing an Apache Web server. Many folks are still using version 1.3 rather than 2.0. One reason is because they would loose the functionality of AxKit, an XML transformation engine.Next we examined Perl. Very common and useful language....
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Really Rudimentary Catalog
Really Rudimentary Catalog is a simple "card catalog" program. It consists of:bin/acquire.pl - a rather brain-dead acquisitions program that downloads MARC records from the Library of Congressbin/marc2html.pl - another brain-dead program that converts...
Library Cataloging