Category: OpenURL
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Objectifying OpenURL
Sometime in November, I came to the realization that I had horribly misinterpreted the NISO Z39.88/OpenURL 1.0 spec. I’m on the NISO Advisory Committee for OpenURL (which makes this even more embarrassing) and was reviewing the proposal for the Request Transfer Message Community Profile and its associated metadata formats when it dawned on me that…
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Üpdate
It’s been a while since I’ve written anything about the ümlaut. It’s been a while since I’ve written about anything, really. Lots of reasons for that: been frantically trying to pull the ümlaut together in time to launch for fall semester, and I’ve got this little bit of business going on… Still, it’s probably time…
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Explosive Diaereses
I’ve been waiting for a while to have this title. Well, actually, not a long while, and that’s testimony to how quickly I’m able to develop things in Rails. While I think SFX is fine product and we are completely and utterly dependent upon it for many things, it does still have its shortcomings. It…
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Ruh-ropenurl Raggy
Ed Summers has been helping me write an OpenURL library for Ruby. Preliminary work available on Ed’s “business in front” site via svn. Note, I am very new to Ruby, so these are probably not terribly well written.
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That Article I Had No Business Writing…
Is finally out. So, uh, if you’re in the market to buy a Link Resolver or just are seeking general information on one… er, check it out.