Code4Lib Journal Issue 5 has been published 2008 December 15
I am happy to being able to report that the fifth issue of th eCode4Lib Journal has arrived. When this was discussed at the first Code4Lib conference in 2006, I never envisioned us having a journal that has had 58,316 hits in the first year of publication, or that we would even make it to a second year. Heck, I was skeptical we would ever make it to a first issue. I think it is pretty amazing what the editorial committee has been able to accomplish with no formal structure and absolutely no funding, While I am on the committee, I don’t deserver nearly as much credit as other committee members. Each issues coordinator editors for the bulk of the work, along with the people who have configured our WordPess-publishing platform – these people are the real heroes here. However, in a small bit if self-aggrandizing, I will say that I am pleased that after year one of the journal, the article Free and Open Source Options for Creating Database-Driven Subject Guides that I co-authored with Kathryn A. Frederick has been the most visited article.
Issue #5 has a lot of great articles including
- ‡biblios: An Open Source Cataloging Editor
- User-Centred Design and Agile Development: Rebuilding the Swedish National Union Catalogue
- Reaching Users Through Facebook: A Guide to Implementing Facebook Athenaeum
- Affinity Strings: Enterprise Data for Resource Recommendations
- Identifying FRBR Work-Level Data in MARC Bibliographic Records for Manifestations of Moving Images
- Rasmuson Library DVD Browser: Fun with Screen Scraping and Drupal
- Reviving Digital Projects
- Generating Metadata on a Shoestring sans Programmer, with Our Good Friend, Excel (or Any Spreadsheet)
- SPECIAL REPORT: Creating Conference Video
- COLUMN: We Love Open Source Software. No, You Can’t Have Our Code
Visit Code4Lib issue 5 to read all of these great articles along with Emily Lynema’s Editorial Introduction.