by Kirk Hess, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Why Google Analytics? free JavaScript based small tracking image (visible via Firebug) = mostly users not bots works across domains easy to integrate with existing system API Some useful things in the interface: heat map content drill down – click on page and see where users went from … Continue reading »
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Code4lib Day 1: Lightning Talks Notes
Al Cornish – XTF in 300 seconds (Slides in PDF) technology developed and maintained by California Digital Library supports the search/display of digital collections (images, PDFs, etc) fully open source platform, based on Apache Lucene search toolkit Java framework, runs in Tomcat or Jetty servlet engine extensive customization possible through XSLT programming user and developer … Continue reading »
Koha – Free Software & Community @ Access 2011
Chris Cormack from Catalyst IT is one of the founders of Koha, an open source ILS, and one of the lead developers. He gave a talk on Koha today, but focused more on the free software, caring, sharing, and community. Free Software freed to run the program, for any purpose freedom to study how the … Continue reading »
Augmented Library – Access 2011 Hackfest
So today at Access 2011, it’s hackfest, with ~60-70 people, quite big! I decided to work on the augmented library topic with 5 others. We discussed two different software products out there at the moment and possible implimentations. Layar Layar allows for mobile app development using GPS/Geolocation to provide more information and image recognition to … Continue reading »
Creating a Twitter Search, Hashtag, User, Favorites or List RSS Feed
[Update March 4, 2013] – As of March 5th, 2013, twitter will no longer support unauthenticated feeds of any kind and will be dropping support for RSS altogether (meaning you can only get JSON feeds). Therefore, you will need to make your own (see comments for one suggestion) or use an app to follow specific … Continue reading »
A Brief Look at Summon
Summon is Serials Solutions’ web scale discovery tool. I think so far, it looks pretty good. It has all the things you’d want these days in your searches including: sidebar with different options to refine search clean, easy to use interface save citations to folder and export advance search, including ISBN for books Currently, all … Continue reading »
PDF Batch Automation (PDF to Image and PDF Merge)
EDIT: I’ve been reminded/informed that this only works in Windows (or MS-DOS anyway) since it uses .bat files. The suggestion if you’re using other OSs is to use php (but really you can use anything) to automate the command. I’m sure everyone is familiar with Adobe Acrobat (even if they haven’t actually used it). It’s … Continue reading »
PDF2Wiki Conversion Comparison
So, some people may ask, why are you trying to convert PDF to Wiki? PDF is usually the last step in the process, so just use the original document. My response would naturally be, what if you don’t have the original document? A Two-Step Process Through my searching and reading on the topic, it seems … Continue reading »
DOC2Wiki (Word2Wiki) Converters Comparison
So to continue on ways to convert existing documents to wiki code, next is formatted text documents, which is typically word DOC files, but may also be something like RTF files. Most sites I found actually just instructed people to use a 2 step conversion. From Word to HTML and then to wiki code. While … Continue reading »
HTML2Wiki Converter Comparison
So, for the past little while on and off, I’ve been looking for and playing around with HTML to Wiki Converters to see which one works best. Most of the ones I’ve found are online and most of them seem to be based on a Perl script created by David Iberri, who provides a web … Continue reading »
