Although I don't always agree with him, Jacob Nielsen has advice on the
provision of 'Advanced Search' - essentially, most users cannot use it
effectively - http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20010513.html The only
problem with this is that the short report doesn't make it very clear
what 'advanced
Hi Jonathan,
PS: And indeed, mapping to OpenURL 1.0 is _exactly_ what I need to
do. Sounds like I should look into L8X?
There is a demo/testing site at http://www.lemon8.org ; you might want
to try playing around there with some citations to get a feel for how
it works without having to
I am proud to announce LuSql:
LuSql is a simple but powerful tool for building Lucene indexes from
relational databases. It is a command-line Java application for the
construction of a Lucene index from an arbitrary SQL query of a
JDBC-accessible SQL database. It allows a user to control a
Peter Morville has been putting search examples into a flickr collection
for an upcoming book he's writing:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/morville/collections/72157603785835882/ and
http://www.findability.org/archives/000194.php
There are some great examples of both simple and complex search
I think there are ways to dispense with it without actually dispensing
with it.
David, you've of course seen what I did with Xerxes, where instead of
calling it 'advanced search' I call it 'more options'. That was of
course a much simpler case--the difference between Metalib's advanced
We have some great ones, and want more. Submit!
http://library.brown.edu/code4libcon09/proposals/
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Brown University Library
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This is going out to a couple of lists. Apologies for the duplication.
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Darien Library will be hosting a Drupal4Lib Camp on Friday, February
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The camp will be an opportunity for libraries who are working with
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At Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:10:45 -0500,
Birkin James Diana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yesterday I attended a session of the DLF Fall Forum at which Ryan
Chute presented on djatoka, the open-source jpeg2008 image-server he
and Herbert Van de Sompel just released.
It's very cool and near the
