Instead of a standard presentation/demo, we got to sit down with a couple people and simply discuss what the library is looking for and what the vendor is selling. Hopefully my notes make sense. Continue reading “Intota Discussion”
About Us Redesign & Reorganization
The website redesign continues! Next up is the ‘About Us’ section. I find it more difficult to do sometimes, because our users don’t use the About section nearly as much, so don’t always have much of an opinion about it. Although it goes against my usual inclination, I decided to go ahead with only minimal feedback. Continue reading “About Us Redesign & Reorganization”
Learning Management System Demo Week Notes
Ryerson is going through a public consultation for a new LMS. I mostly went to the sessions where an instructor came in to talk about their experience with a product. When that wasn’t available, I went to the vendor presentations.
Full schedule and links to the session recordings: http://lms.blog.ryerson.ca/2013/03/20/announcing-lms-demo-week/
Continue reading “Learning Management System Demo Week Notes”
Making Your Website Accessible Part 3: Content WCAG Compliance
This is actually a repost of my guest post on the ACRL TechConnect Blog. Continue reading “Making Your Website Accessible Part 3: Content WCAG Compliance”
Code4Lib Virtual Lightning Talks: Notes
Terry Brady – File Analyzer and Metadata Harvester
- purpose: assemble collection of tasks into a simple user interface
- modular code: hopefully easy to add/modify
- File Analyzer: scans file system and performs actions on files, can also import file to edit records
- Want to know if looks interesting/useful
Misty De Meo – Human Rights Thesaurus: Transitioning a legacy thesaurus to SKOS/RDF
- legacy thesaurus did not do any validation of spelling, syntax, etc.
- sublime highlighting for the particular format
- ruby script to parse errors in data
- Vocabulary Management Tool: iqvoc.net
- Slides
Roy Tennant – Under the Hood of Hadoop Processing at OCLC Research
For background see Adventures in Hadoop
- (the slides had a lot of the info, so I’ll try to get the link)
- can track jobs, and monitor nodes in web interface
Kate Kosturski – How I Taught Myself Drupal In a Weekend (And You Can Too!)
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- Have no fear: “you can’t break Drupal”
- a lot of modules and themes to choose from, especially a WYSIWYG editor
- Quick and Dirty Solution: Drupal Gardens – can at least get you more comfortable with it
- Live site
Thanks to Peter Murray for organizing!