Category: libraries
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The NISO Riots of Ought-Five
I am at the NISO OpenURL/Metasearch Workshop, and in almost every way it’s going well. I don’t have a whole lot to say about the workshop content itself. It’s very informative and helpful, but I’ve really got nothing of value to add or comment upon. Except one thing. Today was “Metasearch” day and just after…
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Metasearch Metadata Metaphor
SRW/U is to Yngwie J. Malmsteen as OpenSearch is to Keith Richards. Yngwie Malmsteen is technically superior, however aesthetically unlistenable (unimplementable, in the case of SRW/U). Keith Richards is sloppy, unsophisticated and writes timeless melodies that resonate with the masses (OpenSearch is sloppy, unsophisticated — while time will tell if OpenSearch becomes “timeless” [seems doubtful,…
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Implementing COinS in the SFX Menu
Since Andrew asked: This should go in your banner.tmpl file. I am not bothering with BANNER_TYPE_3, since I am not really sure how I would represent that in a COinS format, anyway. Thanks to David Walker for showing me how this would work. <TMPL_IF BANNER_TYPE_1> <TMPL_IF ATITLE> <TR valign=”top”> <TD class=”LabelBold”>Title:</TD> <TD class=”Label”><TMPL_VAR NAME=”ATITLE” ESCAPE=’HTML’>…
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All the cool kids are implementing COinS
A little while ago, I added COinS (ContextObjects in Spans) to our SFX menu pages. I have been asked by several people about the motivation of this, since it would seem that the user would know if fulltext was available to them at this stage. Dan Chudnov posted to his worklog one of the advantages…
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Abstract Artunit
I’ve mentioned several times in this space the OPAC redesign project that Art and I are working on. There hasn’t really been anything to show, to date, because it’s taken a very long time to get actually get the data out of Voyager. There are easier and faster ways we could have done this, probably,…
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Librarians are arrogant asses
Despite our waning patronage (both physically and virtually), librarians never cease their criticism of the barbarism of the unwashed masses for not adopting their love of rich metadata. “Dumbing down the catalog” “I don’t think it’s too much to ask a student to learn what the library catalog is” “Thousands of hits” “Did A9 even…