Okay, I think I’ve finished a first pass at tagging. Try the Tagging Demonstration. You will need to create an account or sign in before anything will work. I suppose next steps are to allow people to edit their tags, view their tags as clouds or lists, and to hotlink tags to “find more like this […]
After three days of hacking, I finally got a bit of the user interface to the tagging demo working. You can now: 1) sign in, 2) browse the collection, 3) opt to add a tag, 4) enter a tag, 5) have the input echoed back to you, and 6) restore the page to its original […]
I have made some initial steps regarding my tagging application. See:
http://mylibrary.library.nd.edu/demos/tagging/
I started with the Reading List application since it included bunches o’ data and the framework for managing users. I then used the “kewl” details hack from Articles Index demonstration to create a pop-up form for inputting tags. Finally, I got some Javascript to echo […]
I am going to try to write a MyLibrary application that implements tagging.
First I will create a system that asks you to log in. I will then list information resources. Next, I will supply a widget labeled “Add a tag”. The widget will display an input box. Enter a tag. Click go. The tag gets […]
Open source software is filled with people who like to solve problem, so, here’s a problem I hope someone here will be able to help me solve.
How can I make the subroutine, get_location, faster? It is given a resource object and a scalar representing the human-readable location type. The routine then finds all the locations […]
More imitation as the sincerest form of flattery.
This past week I had the opportunity to attend the Charleston Conference. During one of the sessions someone reported the results of their various usability studies. To resolve some the issues the studies uncovered they decided to create a system where people would log in and be presented […]
I believe we will be implementing a “Reference Desk FAQ” using MyLibrary.
Over the past year the reference department has facilitated online reference chats. They have kept these chats in a database but the database’s support has dried up. They now use simpler tools for chat reference like IM. Given the year’s worth of data, they […]
For a few days last week I went to Boston College and attended a meeting for the Catholic Research Resources Alliance (CRRA), also known as the “Catholic Portal”. In its present state, the portal is really an index to rare and unique materials of interest to catholic scholars. The system runs on top of MyLibrary. […]