Monthly Archives: November 2010

In a short Library Journal blurb about a product that’s at it’s base OCLC’s bid to get into the “electronic journal holdings knoweldge base” business (and as side-effect, perhaps actually the most useful effect for OCLC and it’s users, get … Continue reading →

Scot Dalton at NYU continues in his impressive tradition of adding apparently well coded features to Umlaut without talking to me about them at all while he’s coding them.  I’d like to think this is because the Umlaut code is … Continue reading →

I just left viewing an ALCTS presentation on RDA, by Christine Oliver, entitled “Benefits for Users and Catalogers.” What the presentation actually was, though, was a focus on the goals and principles of RDA.  Which is a fine topic for … Continue reading →

At the time I wrote the Umlaut Amazon adapter, which uses the Amazon product services API (which may actually be currently called the “AWSECommerceService”, at that time just called “AWS”), you could ask for a variety of ResponseGroup’s when you … Continue reading →

[update 3 Nov 2010. On further experimentation, I realize I didn't get all the details below exactly righ t-- but I didn't learn enough to know what 'right' was, I just learned that I'm still confused about how some of … Continue reading →