Flexibility of open source software: An example

I have been using MyLibrary is manage the content of a thing called the “Catholic Portal“, and because MyLibrary is open source I have greater flexibility in my development. Here’s an example.

The Portal is expected to ingest both EAD and MARC records. As these files are submitted I have been stuffing their entire contents into […]

simple, terminal-based scripts

I have made a number of simple, terminal-based scripts available for downloading from the local archive. From the distribution’s README file:

This distribution includes a set of terminal-based scripts to
manage a MyLibrary instance. Its primary purpose is to
demonstrate how to use some of the MyLibrary modules.
As such, the scripts allow you to manage facets, terms,
locations, resources. […]

MyLibrary and OAI-ORE

Hmm… Maybe something could be hacked to MyLibrary and OAI-ORE work closely together.
Open Archives Initiative Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE) posits a thing called a Resource Map (ReM). These ReMs are used to bundle together sets of Internet resources. Once created these bundles are expected to be discoverable through ATOM, RSS, RDF, and/or microformats […]