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by Rick Mason
Category Archives: Web Design
Library Terms that Users Understand
Redesigning or editing the content of your library’s web site? Unsure whether to call that particular section “Periodicals” or “Serials” or “Journals” or even something else? Check out Library Terms That Users Understand for a useful collection of data on … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Web Design
Tagged Kathleen Turner
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reCAPTCHA
You have heard about the book digitization projects. You know that Optical Character Recognition is sometimes an uncertain thing, especially with offbeat typesets and obscure fonts. Then there is CAPTCHA (and here), the security method that many sites are using … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Libraries, Software, Web Design
Tagged Optical Character Recognition
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Adding Functionality to the Web OPAC
Schemes to Add Functionality to the Web OPAC is a posting by Disruptive Library Technology Jester (a.k.a. Peter Murray of OhioLINK) in which he lays out a basic categorization of ways in which libraries can get their OPACs to do more. This … Continue reading
Posted in ILS, Libraries, Library 2.0, Open Source, Software, Web Design
Tagged Librarian.net, Peter Murray, Voyager library, Web OPAC
Schemes, Web OPAC
Schemes, Web OPAC
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World Digital Library
The World Digital Library is a project that is quite vast in scope, but is looking ready to take on the challenge of combining primary historical resources from many of the worlds great libraries. This project was started by UNESCO … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, Maps, Open Source, Search, Software, Video, Web Design
Tagged Congress, Digital Library The World Digital Library, One Big Library, Open Source Software, search parameters, the Washington Post, U.S. Library of Congress, United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Orga, United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Orga, Washington Post, World Digital Library
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OpenStreetMap
OpenStreetMap is a U.K.-based project that fulfills a great need: an open, collaborative mapping project. Ever find an error in MapQuest, Google Maps, or Yahoo Maps? Can’t do much about it, can you? OpenStreetMap will be able to be updated … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Government, Maps, Online Services, Open Access, Web Design
Tagged Google, Linux, U.S. Census Bureau, United States, Yahoo
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Lorem Ipsum Trivium
For many years I thought that the latin-esque text known as “Lorem Ipsum”, commonly used as a placeholder when designing web sites, brochures, etc., was simply meaningless syllables that looked and sounded like latin. It turns out there is more … Continue reading
Posted in Definitions, History, Web Design
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LibGuides
(Note regarding this post: When you read this post, be sure to read the comments as well. I did not state my case as well as I should, and end up sounding as though I don’t feel that LibGuides has as much value for libraries as … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Libraries, Library 2.0, Online Services, Open Source, Software, Web Design, Wiki
Tagged 2.0 technology, annual web hosting fee, blog
software, consultant, content management system, e-mail management, Facebook, few built-in tools, hosted web server, hosted web service, Instant Messaging, paid solutions, search pages, shared group calendar software, USD, virtual server, web design instructors, web presence, web server, XML
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GRDDL
GRDDL, a new recommendation from the W3C, is short for “Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages”, a means by which software can extract semantic information from a variety of web pages. In other words, rather than having to rely … Continue reading
New York Times free for all
This seems to be fresh news, in that I can only find it on two sites: The New York Times is opening their web content to everyone, eliminating the subscription model that has existed for years. Not a bad piece … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, News, Web Design
Tagged New York Times, The New York Times, web content
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Texty
Texty is an online editor for creating and editing html. Type (or cut/paste) your content, and Texty generates the html for you. It is a simple, straightforward tool that does one thing very well. Sometimes that is exactly what one … Continue reading
Posted in Online Services, Web Design
Tagged html, online editor, online editor for creating and editing html, straightforward tool
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You got LibraryThing in my Aquabrowser!!!
Aquabrowser will now utilize LibraryThing’s tagging. In case that sentence makes you go “huh?”, follow these links: Aquabrowser Aquabrowser in action LibraryThing LibraryThing in action LibraryThing entry with tags found on ResourceShelf (with some well-phrased questions at the end of … Continue reading
Posted in ILS, Libraries, Library 2.0, Web Design
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Google Code for Educators
Interested in quick and straightforward tutorials for making dynamic websites and such? Check out Google Code for Educators to get a few ideas and examples that you can use to enhance your projects. found on the Official Google Blog
Posted in Google, Tutorials, Web Design
Tagged Google, Official
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Gliffy
Gliffy is an interesting flash-based online application that lets you create organizational charts, flowcharts, entity-relationship diagrams, and floorplans, and other projects Registration is required, but Gliffy is free with some limitations (you have a limited number of projects that you can … Continue reading
Posted in Online Services, Software, Web Design
Tagged flash-based online application
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Citizendium update
Some major updates to Citizendium, the wiki which is intended to become an authoratative wikipedia-type site, have been announced by Larry Sanger. He also summarized his own announcement here. found on Open Access News
Posted in Web Design, Wiki
Tagged authoratative wikipedia-type site, Larry Sanger
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Google Custom Search Engine
The Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) has just been made easier to set up and use. The brief summary: create a page of links to web resources you feel are useful and appropriate for a given topic. Via Google, you … Continue reading
Posted in Google, Online Services, Search, Web Design, WebSearch
Tagged Google, librarian, search engine, search tool, web resources
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Bowker buys AquaBrowser
Specifically, Bowker has bought the company that owns AquaBrowser. Bowker, best known for publishing Books In Print, as well as assigning ISBNs, has bought Medialab Solutions, the Amsterdam company that developed the search interface. If you haven’t used AquaBrowser lately, … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, News, Search, Software, Web Design
Tagged Amsterdam, AquaBrowser Specifically, AquaBrowser;, Bowker, Medialab Solutions, search interface
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Library 2.0 : Ken Varnum – RSS Basics and Beyond
Ken Varnum – RSS Basics and Beyond : Tips and Tricks for Getting the Most out of Syndicated Content. (PowerPoint) (Handout) Really Simple Syndication (RSS) Data format: RSS, RDF, Atom, etc. data interchange (sharing) : syndication – think of what … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Conferences, Libraries, Library 2.0, Online Services, OSUL2007, Web Design
Tagged Adobe, blog
software, Browser, Computer, Google, html, Ken Varnum, Perl, php, Reuters, Ruby, search databases, web
web page, web web page, webblog software, Yahoo
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Library 2.0 : Steven Bell – It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad Web 2.0 World
Steven Bell – It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad Web 2.0 World : Hidden Treasure or Just More Pressure? (Powerpoint) (Handout) The title is adapted from It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World, the “epic comedy” film from 1963. He … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Libraries, Library 2.0, OSUL2007, Web Design
Tagged 2.0 technology, American Libraries;, Charles Deering, Charles Deering McCormick University, Chris Anderson, David Bishop, David Lee King, Evanston, find technology, frantic search, Illinois, Instant Messaging, Jim Carroll, librarian, Library 2.0, library director, library tool, Northwestern University, problems needing solutions, staff using technology, Steven Bell, Wired;
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Library 2.0 Seminar
I am attending (not presenting, though) Ohio State University’s Library 2.0 Seminar, being held yesterday and today on the OSU campus. I am taking lots of notes, and plan to at least outline each of the sessions here. The speakers … Continue reading
Posted in Conferences, Libraries, Library 2.0, OSUL2007, Web Design
Tagged Brian Mathews, Chad Boeninger, Eric Schnell, Ken Varnum, Ohio State University, Ohio State University\'s Library, OSU campus, OSU Knowledge Bank, Stephen Abram, Steven Bell, User, Web Services
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Freebase article on OpenBusiness
Freebase is a new project which I described in a posting last March. OpenBusiness recently ran an interview on their blog with the sites founders. from Open Access News
Posted in Blogs, Online Services, Open Access, Web Design, Wiki
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