Library Cataloging
Austin will be the site of BarCampTexas Saturday August 26th to Sunday 27th. A good opportunity for the L2 folks to mix it up with the Web 2.0 crowd.
- Uclassify Contest
The folks at LibraryThing are interested in what could be done with the uClassify tool. They are offering a $100.00 prize for the best tool.Our dream is to share hardcore classifier technology with everyone. We recognized that classifiers are mostly present...
- Firefox Problems
I got the new improved FireFox, version 3, yesterday and now I'm using MS Explorer. FF3 is SLOW. I can't get into Blogger. Several add-ons I liked, TinyURL Creator, Link Evaluator, Persistent URL Bookmarker, and Map+ (opens a map for any address)...
- Opac Replaced By Fish
Christopher Harris at Infomancy has an OPAC replacement, a FISH. FISH: Free (as in kittens) Integrated Search Handler. Using freely available tools has put together a system to replace the catalog. Seeing what he has done is fascinating and inspiring.With...
- Filtering
At my recent talk I pointed folks to my FURL site for links to all the tools I discussed. I've just received a note from a school librarian saying the filter will not allow access to that site. That is so wrong. Is Google or Yahoo filtered? FURL and...
- Lc Classification
A new product from LC. It has a reasonable price structure and worked fairly well in the beta test. "Great news! We are pleased to announce that Classification Web will be available as a subscription service on June 1, 2002. Subscription options, prices,...
Library Cataloging
Texas BarCamp
Austin will be the site of BarCampTexas Saturday August 26th to Sunday 27th. A good opportunity for the L2 folks to mix it up with the Web 2.0 crowd.
What do you want to hear, what do you want to say and what could you live without? Are you an expert in something cool? Is there some trend we should know about?barcamptexasAgile Development experience reports - what has worked in your organization? What hasn't?Scalability. This could be either general routes to engineering for scale, or technology/platform/software stack-specific post mortems (e.g. I know how to do this with LAMP, but I'm curious how RoR would change the picture, or J2EE, or...). What happens when your site's url is in the screen crawl on CNN Headline news?Designing for Mobile/Portable DevicesWorkshop on AudacityDeploying a Commercial Web Application/Product: War StoriesTips for Building Community & Attracting User ContributionsAd Management Tools: Options other than Google?Calendaring (Caldev, hcalendar, tool comparisons, Outlook exports)Microformats: Commercial Uses
- Uclassify Contest
The folks at LibraryThing are interested in what could be done with the uClassify tool. They are offering a $100.00 prize for the best tool.Our dream is to share hardcore classifier technology with everyone. We recognized that classifiers are mostly present...
- Firefox Problems
I got the new improved FireFox, version 3, yesterday and now I'm using MS Explorer. FF3 is SLOW. I can't get into Blogger. Several add-ons I liked, TinyURL Creator, Link Evaluator, Persistent URL Bookmarker, and Map+ (opens a map for any address)...
- Opac Replaced By Fish
Christopher Harris at Infomancy has an OPAC replacement, a FISH. FISH: Free (as in kittens) Integrated Search Handler. Using freely available tools has put together a system to replace the catalog. Seeing what he has done is fascinating and inspiring.With...
- Filtering
At my recent talk I pointed folks to my FURL site for links to all the tools I discussed. I've just received a note from a school librarian saying the filter will not allow access to that site. That is so wrong. Is Google or Yahoo filtered? FURL and...
- Lc Classification
A new product from LC. It has a reasonable price structure and worked fairly well in the beta test. "Great news! We are pleased to announce that Classification Web will be available as a subscription service on June 1, 2002. Subscription options, prices,...