Andrew Nagy VuFind Developer Villanova Introduction What is a "next generation catalog"? The term is not Andrew's favorite -- he wants to get away from the word "catalog" and start talking about "resource discovery." A different approach between librarians and...
Roy Tennant OCLC Research Grid Services -- a set of APIs to access WorldCat data. It's not for human consumption, but for machine-to-machine communication. We'll talk about a few services, with a few demos. Many of APIs -- OCLC's and...
Karen Coombs University of Houston A couple definitions: Mashing up -- taking data from different places and shmooshing it together. Remixing -- rethinking the way we do the library web site. University of Houston library web site, 3 or so...
Thunder Talks are brief (4 minutes 30 seconds!) talks on any subject the speaker wants to talk about. Without further ado: BiblioCommons Rolled out at Oakville (Ontario) Public Library. Live implementation of the tool (the research leading to BiblioCommons was...
Ilana Kingsley Dave Mitchell Harish Nayak Debra Riley-Huff Nick Ruest University of Alaska, Fairbanks (Ilana Kingsley) Movie collection: Movie covers (built with Drupal 4). Pulls in movie records from catalog (it's a Sirisi catalog, so they need to screen-scrape) and...
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