Monthly Archives: August 2010

If you didn’t already hear. For real apparently! http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2010/8/29/rails-3-0-it-s-done Just a couple days ago I looked, and there were still a buncha significant outstanding tickets, and I figured, oh well, it’ll be a while. But apparently… something happened. Um, apparently … Continue reading →

So any catalogers reading this, would appreciate some ideas or background information if you’ve got em. So recently, someone (PCC, the Program for Cooperative Cataloging, I guess?),  came up with this “Provider-Neutral” policy for “e-monograph” records. Which apparently is now … Continue reading →

So the British library will apparently be releasing their complete bib corpus publicly, in RDF. So it first must be said that this is a very welcome precedent, hopefully encouraging others to do the same, and even more so. The … Continue reading →

So Elsevier used to supply free sample covers for the journals they published. They even supplied them in several very convenient machine-useable ways. This was nice!  Most publishers don’t do that, although it really is a win/win for everyone, we … Continue reading →

In response to a thread on NGC4Lib arguing about whether how many records are in worldcat is a good way to judge OCLC’s value proposition. (A kind of weird thing to argue about, yeah? They’re really just arguing about whether … Continue reading →

I just noticed that ruby Hash#merge has a form that takes a block, where you can customize how the merging happens. This makes it easy to write your own custom-fitted #deep_merge. (I actually noticed it existed when looking at the … Continue reading →