A couple of months ago Chris Gray brought to my attention the fact that the MyLibrary Your Page demonstration was broken. Well, I (finally) got around to fixing it. Please try:
http://mylibrary.library.nd.edu/demos/your-page/
There you will be presented with a list of famous intellectuals who you can impersonate. Once logging in using their credentials you are […]
This is the beginnings of personalized (as opposed to customized) page. Based on the patron’s personal characteristics, it displays “their page”. See: http://mylibrary.library.nd.edu/demos/your-page/
Here is how the process works:
import data (name, address, courses, major, department, etc.) about patrons from the registrar and HR departments (think “circulation module”)
create sets of library-related information resources (indexes, catalogs, Internet […]
Article Index, a MyLibrary demonstration application, serves two purposes: 1) to illustrate ways DOAJ content can be re-used and repurposed, and 2) to demonstrate how MyLibrary can be used to support digital library collections and services.
DOAJ is an OAI-PMH data repository. It supports at least two different data sets: 1) metadata regarding journals, and 2) […]
MyLibrary can be used to create a simple library catalog. See:
http://mylibrary.library.nd.edu/demos/catalog/
The process is not too difficult:
Acquire the set of MARC records used to describe your library’s content.
Use something like MARC::Record to loop through the records extracting bibliographic information.
Map the bibliographic information to Dublin Core elements.
Store the Dublin Core elements in MyLibrary.
Along the way, examine the […]
Reading List is a MyLibrary demonstration application.
As mentioned previously, MyLibrary systems consists of: 1) information resources, 2) users, and/or 3) librarians. In the case of Reading List, the information resources are journal titles harvested from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) via OAI.
DOAJ supports OAI as a data repository. It outputs at least two […]