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Historical Perspectives of Canadian Publishing - LAUNCH!!!

By Nick Ruest ~ Posted Wed, 10/07/2009 - 02:34

Oops, I was supposed to write about this last Thursday when we actually launched. Busy, busy week. So, without further ado - Historical Perspectives on Canadian Publishing !

Internment Camp Correspondences, Gestapo Camp Correspondences, updates, and Russell Library

By Nick Ruest ~ Posted Mon, 07/06/2009 - 17:43

More updates on the World War, 1939-1945, German Concentration Camps and Prisons Collection. The Internment Camp Correspondences are now finished. There weren't too many of them - only 56 to be exact.

2009 OLITA Digital Odyssey

By Nick Ruest ~ Posted Sat, 06/06/2009 - 03:16

I must say that the Digital Odyssey was the best one day event I have been to. Just a fantastic day with fantastic people talking about awesome projects. It cheered me up and gave me hope in these crap times. Best part of the day had to be Mike Ridley's keynote speech - The Age of Information is over. It is time for the Age of Imagination. It will be the library's job to nurture and foster creativity.

Workshops attended:

OMG! You Don't Need CONTENTdm!!!

So, I bet a lot of you are wondering what is up with my with my title? Well, I don’t plan on standing up here taking potshots at OCLC for 15 minutes, but I am sure some people in the crowd wouldn’t mind. Basically, the title should have had a very long sub-title along the lines of, like Dr. Strangelove or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace Open Source Software.

How many people here know what CONTENTdm is? Well, straight from the site - is a single software solution that handles the storage, management and delivery of your library’s digital collections to the Web.

file:

OMG-Dont-buy-contentdm.ppt.zip

OMG-Dont-buy-contentdm.pdf

OMG-Dont-buy-contentdm.key.zip

Drupal/Digital Collections/Images

By Nick Ruest ~ Posted Fri, 02/20/2009 - 21:38

The Image API was recently released for Drupal 5, and changed a lot of things. During my updates (and redesign), I thought it might be a good idea to provide a sort of "how to" for images in Digital Collections. First thing first, make sure you have CCK! Also of note, for each collection that I've setup with CCK, I created a new imagefield for each one, and provided it with a directory in the "files" directory.

Drupal & Digital Collection Sites - 2

By Nick Ruest ~ Posted Tue, 12/16/2008 - 21:21

Ok, more Drupal stuff for Digital Collections site. I'll yammer on about "must have" modules in this one. Hit the snooze button if you'd like. Oh, and this is in addition to the ones I mentioned in the previous post...

Drupal & Digital Collection Sites - 1

By Nick Ruest ~ Posted Wed, 12/10/2008 - 17:44

I have written about Drupal & the Digital Collections site (http://digitalcollections.mcmaster.ca) a few times now, but haven't really explained how to make a digital collections site out of Drupal. So, without further ado...

What are the necessities of a digital collections site?

Dublin Core standard metadata
OAI-PMH Version 2
Searching
Browsable
Collection Sets

Access 2008

By Nick Ruest ~ Posted Tue, 10/07/2008 - 19:44

Access was great, my first time going, first time at a hackfest, first time presenting at a conference. I had to laugh to myself at some points. Presenters were throwing out their Access "street cred" - being at the '96 Access...I was in high school.

Hackfest
Worked on problem 7:

7 . Socialize Evergreen! John Blyberg just released SOPAC 2.0
(http://www.thesocialopac.net/ and
http://www.blyberg.net/2008/08/16/sopac-20-what-to-expect/) built on a
Drupal, MySQL, and Sphinx platform, with interfaces defined for

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