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Will “Article of the Future” hamper sharing among scientists?
Ad Lagendijk argues that Elsevier’s experiment “to redefine how a scientific article is presented online” is a solution in search of a problem. For many scientists, Adobe’s PDF is the standard for publishing and reading scientific literature. Linear text is still the preferred format for consumption. Lagendijk suggests that Elsevier’s real aim is to force [...]
Content Management for the Library
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At MPOW we’re hoping to migrate the library’s static HTML web site to the Drupal CMS. We’ve been using Drupal successfully for a year and a half for an offsite affiliate project and for a SEPA grant-funded project. We have access to develop the current site using .NET when we want, but we [...]
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Autotagging the OPAC
There are lots of Drupal-based OPACs in the wild these days. Pasteur from Tecnologico de Monterrey is particulary cool because it uses a module that auto-applies LCC terms based on the item’s LCC number. The terms are derived from HILCC, Hierarchical Interface to the Library of Congress Classification.
ApacheSolr provides search and faceting.
Better still, HILCC is [...]
Notes from Increasing Use and Content Through Creative Service-Repository Bundling
Paul Royster of University of Nebraska – Lincoln has some insight about open access publishing within academia. He gave a very helpful and entertaining presentation that was hosted as a webinar by Sun Microsystems. They use a mix of bepress Digital Commons and ContentDM at Lincoln, but his comments transcend any particular software platform.
This reminded [...]
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Google adds automatic captions to YouTube