Monthly Archives: July 2010

I’ve deployed a pretty cool date range limit/profile function our demo (not yet production, but public) Blacklight instance. http://blacklight.mse.jhu.edu/demo Click on “Publication Year” on the left, either before or after you’ve done a search, try both. (It may be slow, … Continue reading →

I’m using the insanely awesome Flot JQuery plotting/charting package for the soon-to-be-released range limit plugin for Blacklight. So one problem I ran into. The place I’d like to put my Flot chart is in a div on screen that is … Continue reading →

The SolrMarc example/default configuration tries to get a publication date out of 260$c. This is a tricky thing to do, because you’re trying to parse not entirely coded data. And on top of that, I just discovered that dates in … Continue reading →

Lorcan Dempsey has a blog post about ‘stitching costs’ that gives me some useful language to plug Umlaut some more. Libraries are also familiar with high ‘integration’ costs: perhaps these might be called stitching costs. This means that it may … Continue reading →

It occured to me a while ago that Umlaut isn’t just a ‘link resolver front end’, or an ‘improved link resolver’. It is those things, but when you improve a link resolver enough, and pay attention to all forms/genres (not … Continue reading →

In every deal you get some things and don’t get (or give up) others, that’s what makes it a deal. HathiTrust recently a welcome expansion of access to public domain texts, within some significant limits if you aren’t a HathiTrust … Continue reading →

Did you think anyone did? Are we served when an institution does? A significant change for MSU in the new SkyRiver environment is the inability to contribute to PCC cataloging. MSU was (and still is, in name) a CONSER and … Continue reading →