Fun with our Traffic Counter’s API
We installed counters over all the entrances in Fenwick Library a while back. Smart little devices that offer an API as well. Click the image to check out this particular… Read more »
Category: Coding
You don’t always have to write code
Sometimes what appears to be a programming task doesn’t actually require firing up your editor. Consider this problem: Two fixed-length text files, one has 42,000 lines while the other has… Read more »
Three Social Media Library Services
A local library made news in 2010, announcing that it would archive every tweet ever posted. With Twitter generating 500 million tweets a day, can we really be surprised that it’s… Read more »
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 »
For your textual pleasure…
Earlier today I was running a few SQL queries against our local Voyager system–preparing for the upcoming metadata migration to a consortial implementation of Alma. My tool of choice for… Read more »
Beefing up Discovery
In preparation for tomorrow’s launch of inPrimo, we just added an important new service to the system: the ability to discover from within inPrimo whether any library in the WRLC holds a… 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 »
Amplify API
Heard about the OpenAmplify API yesterday and using some PHP code from their site, fashioned a little test service to see the API in action. But first, what’s Amplify? Here’s… Read more »
S3 Storage
I realize it’s been around for at least two years but only recently have I begun spending some time with Amazon’s Simple Storage Service (S3). Beyond just enjoying the exploration… Read more »
Award-winning Omeka
At today’s CNI opening plenary, Vint Cerf presented Tom Scheinfeldt of the Center for History and New Media an award check for $50,000, citing the work they’re doing with Omeka.  … Read more »