Category Archives: libraries

Will “Article of the Future” hamper sharing among scientists?

By jts | Published: August 17, 2009
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 [...]
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Content Management for the Library

By jts | Published: August 5, 2009
del.icio.us Tags: drupal,libraries,tools 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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Upgrades

By jts | Published: June 24, 2009
I just upgraded from Wordpress 2.6 to 2.8. All in all, that took less than 5 minutes. DSpace upgrade from 1.4.1 to 1.5.2? 2+ weeks and it’s she’s still not entirely stable. The new dashboard in WP is very nice. I’m using the QuickPress feature to write this post. Way too easy! I also just signed up [...]
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Autotagging the OPAC

By jts | Published: April 17, 2009
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 [...]
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Drupal Projects That Tickle My Fancy

By jts | Published: April 3, 2009
Thanks to Planet Drupal, I came across code.developmentseed.org today. They’re pushing out some great projects with a fury. The one I’m most excited about is Aegir. Ægir is a new set of contributed modules for Drupal that aims to solve the problem of managing a large number of Drupal sites. It does this by providing you [...]
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