Code4lib 2007, Ligtning talks, day 1 2007 March 1
Sarnowski: Digital Disaster Recovery: This session provided an overview of ResCarte.
Walter Lewis: Location, Location, Location: Walter is from the OurOntario.ca and he discussed the challenges of using facets based on location. They have a interesting Google Maps mashup based on location facets.
Mark Dehl and Jeremy ___: Breaking the III black box with Apache mod_filter: They talked about using Apache mod_filter to “scrape” III records. Unlike some ILS, III doesn’t really allow you to get to the MARC records.
Andrew Nagy: Sneak Peak at MyResearch Portal: Andrew showed off Villanova’s new open source OPAC based on Solr. Villanova hopes to put this in production this summer. Villanova uses Voyager and it should be real easy for another Voyager library (i.e. TCNJ )to take his code and do this!
Edward M. Corrado http://library2.0/del.icio.us:Hey that’s me! I talked about using de.licio.us to add websites to subject guides. To see the end product, go to : http://www.tcnj.edu/~library/moulaison/ItalianStudies.html
Martin Haye: Spelling 2.0 – beyond single words : Martin talked about a spelling engine he created for the California Digital Library.
Tricia Williams: Peel Prairie Provinces: Another Solr Project: Tricia talked about the faceted browsing features of the Peel Prairie Project i Canada. Some interesting features included the date facet graph and a google maps mashup.
LXiming: xISBN update: Discussed recent developments with OCLC’s xISBN service.
Dan Scott: File_MARC under PHP. Dan talked about a php Marc tool he wrote. File_MARC is a Pear library that is currently in Alpha. It builds upon emilda.org’s php_marc module and has an object oriented interface and unit tests. I reads in both MARC21 and MARCXML and can return MARC21 or MARCXML (As long as the data is UTF-8).
Brad Baker: Faceting in the DLG: Brad talked about adding faceting displays to the digital library of Georgia . One of the neat things about there facets is how they can be used for browsing. No need to search, just browse.
Karen Combs: AWstats for log analysis: Karen talked about AWstats, an open source tool written in Perl for dealing with Web server logs. The tool allows you to easily build different sets of reports. An interesting thing about AWstats is that it stores the data in XML files., that you can access using other tools.