Category: Polishing the Turd
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A proposal to Endeavor Voyager customers
If YPOW, like MPOW, is an Endeavor Voyager site, you’ve got some decisions ahead. Francisco Partners, naturally, would like you to migrate to Aleph, and I have no doubt that Ex Libris is, as I write this, busily working on a means to make that easy for Voyager libraries to do. But ILS migrations are…
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Nice threads
I have been working on Fancy-Pants quite a bit in the last couple of weeks. This is an AJAX layer over Voyager’s WebVoyage — an attempt to de-suck-ify its interface a bit. Why is it called Fancy-Pants? Well, Voyager still has the same underwear, it’s just got a new set of britches. There are two…
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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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Back to the whiteboard for inspiration
Paul Miller (of Talis) was kind enough point out that Talis already has a product named Alto. In fact, it’s their ILS. D’oh. Given that Talis’ corporate name is “composer-based” (and, I don’t know, that they came up with the name waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay before I did) I suppose I can relinquish the name “Alto” 🙂 So,…
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Envisioning Alto
I have mentioned here several times the “alternative to the catalog” project I am trying to implement at Tech. One of the problems that I’ve had is naming the project something that lets people realize what I’m talking about, without the political hairiness of saying “catalog replacement” (since that’s technically not true, anyway). In a…
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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,…