Library Cataloging
Top Technology Issues
At ALA, Joan Frye Williams, Clifford Lynch, Walt Crawford, Roy Tennant, Thomas Dowling, Tom Wilson, and Marshall Breeding meet to discuss the top technology issues. Here is their list
XML and InteroperabilityRFIDCopyrightMetasearchingOPACs and User BehaviorPolicies and TechnologyUser Interface DesignSecurity, Digital Rights Management
Several of these are of concern to catalogers and we should be in the midst of the discussions. It seems to me XML and Interoperability, Metasearching, OPACs and User Behavior and User Interface Design fall within our scope, at least. Who ever thought cataloging was a dying profession?
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Metastudy Of Users
Image via WikipediaThe digital information seeker: Findings from selected OCLC, RIN and JISC user behaviour projects has just been published by the JISC.In the interest of analysing and synthesising several user behaviour studies conducted in the US and...
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Open Source Opac
Rapi is yet another open-source OPAC project. It uses Lucene and Ruby like most of the projects do.Rapi is an open-source project of the WING group in the School of Computing, National University of Singapore licensed under the MIT license. Rapi provides...
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Flamenco Search Interface Project
UC Berkeley has released the Flamenco Search Interface as open-source.The Flamenco search interface framework has the primary design goal of allowing users to move through large information spaces in a flexible manner without feeling lost. A key property...
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Ajax Tools
Yahoo has made available a group of tools for AJAX work, the Yahoo! User Interface Library.The Yahoo! User Interface Library is a set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications using techniques such...
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Electronic Library Papers
Volume 22 Issue 2 of The Electronic Library has some interesting papers:A simple relevancy-ranking strategy for an interface to Boolean OPACs by Christopher S.G. Khoo; Kwok-Wai WanRoMEO studies 5: IPR issues facing OAI data and service providers by Elizabeth...
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