Alternative OPACs Personal Card Catalogs Bookbags Record Tagging Reading Lists User built RSS Feeds of reading lists and searches Interactive searches Saved searches Search history … tons of other things we’ve collectively imagined … What do they conceptually have in common?
It’s turtles all the way down
This will be a quick one because I’m feeling a bit under the weather, but I wanted to post a quick update on some of our tornado-like progress post-alpha.
Sometimes good enough is better
There has been quite a saga unfolding slowly over the last couple months in the #code4lib IRC channel regarding the use of Amazon’s OpenSearch technology and it’s use for searching across cooperating libraries’ catalogs. Everyone there seems to agree, on a basic level, that OpenSearch is a useful search interface and that it benefits everyone … Continue Reading about Sometimes good enough is better →
Getting along with the neighbors
If you had asked me three weeks ago how one might go about creating a federated search interface that could intelligently combine the results from academic and public libraries, I would have shrugged. If you had then asked how one might go about integrating search results from other sources, such as online journal indexes, weblogs, … Continue Reading about Getting along with the neighbors →
Filler
So I’ve been pretty slack about posting dev stuff as of late. I can blame most of my silence on being busy writing code, but I won’t have that excuse pretty soon. With any luck we’ll be able to slow down a bit after July (watch for the alpha release!) and I’ll get to do … Continue Reading about Filler →
The birth of OpenSRF
After months of work, buckets of sweat, and one snapshot of code seemingly unrelated to libraries, we are proud to present our first subproject: OpenSRF (Open Scalable Request Framework), pronounced “open surf”. The 0.1 release of OpenSRF represents the culmination of everything we have posted about here, and some things we haven’t. One of the … Continue Reading about The birth of OpenSRF →