by David Lee King on November 1, 2007
Casey Bisson (met him for the first time – nice guy!)
“Libraries are much larger than our books and our OPACs”
Catalog challenges:
- usability
- findability
- remindability
We use Linux daily – it’s the dominant platform of most social web apps
IBM saves over $900,000,000 annually because of LInux
Scriblio.net (used to be his WPOPAC) – very cool. He’s making this easily available to other libraries!
“sites that allow comments value their users”
“Your website is not a marketing tool – it’s a service point.”
Then Casey did a successful live install of Scriblio! Very cool. It’s basically Wordpress with some customized widgets and plug-ins (and your catalog records) – took him 11 1/2 minutes, it seemed easy to do.
It’s going to work with Horizon soon. Book jackets come from Amazon.
by David Lee King on March 22, 2006
(Karen Coombs was the speaker)
summary – open source is cool!
sometimes it’s not free… there might be a licensing cost
still need hardware and time
advantages: change and expand on the source code if you want to, offers an active developer community – very nice!
Foundational Software:
apache, tomcat – another java-based web server
php, perl, python, ruby – open source programming languages
mysql and PostGres – more robust
Content Management:
Drupal – weblogs.ucalgary.ca – for the students
Plone – Requires Zope application server – stony brook suny runs on plone (health sciences site)
Textpattern – much simpler, fewer features
Bloging Software:
wordpress – probably best-known (LITA’s blog runs in wordpress)
WordpressMU – mu.wordpress.org – alpha stage, multiple blogs
or you can do a wordpress farm to run multiple blogs…
Movable Type – create multiple blogs with multiple authors (UHouston uses this) – another university runs thousands – mt is very scalable
Wiki software:
- mediawiki, PHP Wiki, Pm wiki – usc aiken gregg-graniteville library – runs on a wiki…
maintenance
awstats, w3c link checker, log validator – checks to see if your HTML is valid
other tools
Nvu, opensourcewebdesign – free code
tinymce.moxiecode.com – wysywyg html editor – open source, incorporate into your site. It looks like word. It can be incorporated into a CMS
htdig, Lucene – full text search engines written in Java
Furl and Wikipedia both use Lucine… hmm…
CIL2006
by David Lee King on August 30, 2004
by David Lee King on August 30, 2004
