The museum (and rare-book-archive) world probably already has solutions for
this, given that displaying artifacts in the museum requires constant
monitoring of temperature and humidity. Of course, I expect those solutions to
be expensive due to the critical nature of the components contained
These are all very good ideas. I'm partial to the Arduino solution
myself but it got me thinking, does facilities already collect this
information? A lot of systems have built in monitors that report to a
central location. It might be possible there is a built in API you
could just hijack and
You might want to contact Dr. Ray Russell here at Appstate. Ray is in the
Computer Science department here and has done work for NASA also. He has this
obsession, oops I mean hobby, for collecting weather data. He has weather
stations throughout the High Country ( western North Carolina )
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Maryann Kempthorne marya...@gmail.comwrote:
Why not a cardigan checkout?
Maryann
We have had semi-serious conversations here about having lap blanket
checkouts. Our fourth floor is prime quiet study space, but when it's below
freezing outside--which is the
Thanks to all of you for great suggestions! I'm definitely going to
check out some of the tools you mentioned - I think it would be a fun
side project to implement.
On 5/1/2012 3:00 PM, Peter Murray wrote:
Sounds like a neat idea. I wonder if you could get electrical
engineering students to
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Thanks to all of you for great suggestions! I'm definitely going to check out
some
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Edward Iglesias edwardigles...@gmail.comwrote:
These are all very good ideas. I'm partial to the Arduino solution
myself but it got me thinking, does facilities already collect this
information? A lot of systems have built in monitors that report to a
central
: [CODE4LIB] whimsical homepage idea
Date: Tue, May 1, 2012 2:39 pm
This is really more of a thought experiment than an actual project, but
I thought some people might get a kick out of it - maybe someone has
even done it.
We are in the process of redesigning our library homepage. During the
fall
not sure what the
standard cardigan metadata would include.
Genny Engel
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Why not a cardigan checkout?
Maryann
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 6:23
This is really more of a thought experiment than an actual project, but
I thought some people might get a kick out of it - maybe someone has
even done it.
We are in the process of redesigning our library homepage. During the
fall semester we had a team of freshmen CIS students do a basic
Hi Ellen,
I think this is a great idea. If you could collect temperature readings with a
date/timestamp, you could even create graphs of indoor weather over time. Maybe
this could be done with a PHP/MySQL script, or even have the temperature
tweeted using the Twitter API?
I actually had the
Sounds like a neat idea. I wonder if you could get electrical engineering
students to build DIY sensors from kits and make a real educational project out
of it.
Peter
On May 1, 2012, at 3:51 PM, Ellen K. Wilson ewil...@jaguar1.usouthal.edu
wrote:
This is really more of a thought
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Subject: [CODE4LIB] whimsical homepage idea
This is really more of a thought experiment than an actual project, but
I thought some people might get a kick out of it - maybe someone has
even done it.
We are in the process of redesigning our library homepage. During the
fall
: Tuesday, May 01, 2012 4:09 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] whimsical homepage idea
Hi Ellen,
I think this is a great idea. If you could collect temperature readings with a
date/timestamp, you could even create graphs of indoor weather over time.
Maybe this could
So, if one were to attempt this:
-Would it be OCLC-approved?
If this doesn't meet the definition of Geek the Library, I don't know
what else would.
+1 OCLC Approval
You could nail digital thermometers up and point webcams at them then
run that through OCR.
( sorry, I was thinking about what might actually get approved in the
budget...)
:)
Paul
On 5/1/2012 3:39 PM, Ellen K. Wilson wrote:
This is really more of a thought experiment than an actual project,
Salvete!
Hm. And if you collected and recorded the data for some period of time, you
might be able to use it to convince Building Services (or whoever) to try to
fix
the problem.
I couldn't help but think that meteorologists and archivists should already
be doing this. Perhaps
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] whimsical homepage idea
This is really more of a thought experiment than an actual project, but
I thought some people might get a kick out of it - maybe someone has
even done it.
We are in the process of redesigning our library homepage. During
We do have microclimates within the library, so while it may be hot on
3N, chances are good it's freezing on 4S. Given that actually fixing this
is beyond the library's control, what if we put wireless temperature
sensors throughout the building and displayed their readings on the library
We do have microclimates within the library, so while it may be hot on
3N, chances are good it's freezing on 4S. Given that actually fixing this
is beyond the library's control, what if we put wireless temperature
sensors throughout the building and displayed their readings on the library
Why not a cardigan checkout?
Maryann
On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Kyle Banerjee baner...@uoregon.edu wrote:
[stuff on where to get sensors deleted]
Depending on how many you need, wireless sensors for weather stations could
make more sense (you can run them on different channels to prevent
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