wget -> WARC
Had an email exchange yesterday with a group that wants to archive a few of their online web projects in our MARS system. Due to what I hope is a… Read more »
Category: MARS
A few year-end statistics
The fiscal year ended July 1 so it seems a good time to report some of the numbers we saw over the past year (July 1, 2009 – June 30,… Read more »
OCR, Image/Text PDFs and the Mac
This week I’ve been staring at a collection of just over 29,000 PDFs. Image-only copies of thousands of documents created with “..the software that came with the scanner.” My task?… Read more »
Fix it till it breaks – into 64 bits
I like to fix things till they break. Today’s post is a cautionary tale for that admittedly small niche of sysadmins running OSX server on XServes upgraded in place from… Read more »
MARS update (final)
Completed upgrading the new MARS (DSpace) server to from 10.5.8 to 10.6 (Snow Leopard Server). Went very smoothly. Here’s the sequence: run SuperDuper to clone boot drive to second drive… Read more »
MARS update
Finally have a tolerable JSP (java server pages) interface up and running. I’m no web designer but after firing up CSS Edit and reading (then re-reading) the 1.5.2 DSpace manual, … Read more »
Catching Up
Yes, those are in fact cobwebs hanging from the corners. It’s not that I’ve been too busy to write something, just distracted, I guess. Vacation…a few other short trips…couple of… Read more »
History MetaFinder
It’s not ‘feature complete’ but our new Mason Metafinder is up and running. The idea is to build small federated search engines for our various research portals. My testbed has… Read more »
OA begins at home…
I spent the better part of Tuesday working on a metasearch service that we’re adding to our award-winning research portals (just found out we’ve won an innovation award from a… Read more »
Presentation tools
Here are two tools I recently stumbled across. Each might prove useful when putting together a presention. OmniGraphSketcher Omnigroup made news a few weeks ago by releasing OmniWeb, OmniDiskSweeper and… Read more »