http://wire.jstirnaman.com innovate : the church : the library : the culture Sat, 08 Nov 2008 13:59:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en MuseGlobal and Adhere Solutions recently announced a federated search extendor, the All Access Connector, for the Google Search Appliance and Google Mini. Sol at Federated Search Blog raises some good questions about how relevancy is calculated for search results. One point is that Google's PageRank probably won't fare ... http://wire.jstirnaman.com/2008/05/23/federated-search-for-google-search-appliance/ Lots of great Open Source and Community Source work was showcased at JA-SIG this week. Here's a list, in no particular order, of the most interesting, most relevant projects for me: OpenCollection collections management and online access application for museums, archives and digital collections. Sophie software for writing and reading rich media documents ... http://wire.jstirnaman.com/2008/04/30/best-of-ja-sig-2008/ Mark Diggory Look & Feel CSS, HTML layout Branding Repository Communities Collections Items Visualization Interpret metadata Link metadata can serialize metadata to JSON Explain metadata Share Tiers Style Tier Simple themes XHTML + CSS Theme Tier Complex themes XSL + ... http://wire.jstirnaman.com/2008/04/30/manakin-xml-ui-for-dspace-15/ Mark Diggory, MIT Upgrading Version 1.4.2 to Version 1.5.x Pre-session chat/gripes about inadequacy/orphan status of stats module. 1.5.1 coming out soon Code Reorg Separates Java code into functional units (API, OAI, JSP-UI) Reorgs resources by web-app service (OAI, JSP-UI) Adds new web-app services ... http://wire.jstirnaman.com/2008/04/30/upgrading-dspace/ I'm at JA-SIG, St. Paul.  It's winding down today with some sessions, a BarCamp and a uCamp.  I'm looking forward to the uCamp.  Overall, it has been a good conference, probably not as relevant for me personally as the Open Repositories Conference, but still very useful.  And it's inspiring to ... http://wire.jstirnaman.com/2008/04/30/ja-sig-2008/ I just came across Cleveland Public Library's site featured on drupalib.  They've done some very nice design work.  Their use of "Premium" as a paradigm for describing research databases is both catchy and sensible. http://wire.jstirnaman.com/2008/04/09/kudos-cleveland-public-library-site/ If Google Calendar is your primary calendaring spot but you also need to keep track of events in a Mac group, you can subscribe GCal to a .Mac calendar like so:1. Visit your .Mac group calendar2. In the left-hand column there's a "Subscribe" link and a "Download" link.  Copy the URL for the ... http://wire.jstirnaman.com/2008/01/30/tip-add-mac-ical-to-google-calendar/ I wish this was around when I was working with a Millennium system. Of course, it still would have been hard to use since we were in a Microsoft-only shop. I wonder if it's adaptable to Voyager? http://wire.jstirnaman.com/2008/01/30/drupal-for-opac/ Recently, a Medlib-er asked for examples of how medical librarians were using Microsoft Sharepoint. The majority of respondants said they had created sites or pages for their library in Sharepoint, duplicating the usual stuff found on library web sites: ILL forms, links to the public catalog, and other sites - essentially ... http://wire.jstirnaman.com/2008/01/30/medical-research-services-in-sharepoint/ The 2007 Horizon Report has been released by the New Media Consortium . The annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the NMC’s Horizon Project, a research-oriented effort that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have a large impact on teaching, learning, or creative ... http://wire.jstirnaman.com/2007/12/15/report-on-emerging-technologies-released/