Pre-Conference Workshop Notes
Create a beta space for the Libraries where we can play and all librarians can see what we're working on and have the chance to play with it!.
Great tutorial workshop - notes from the session:
Michael Sauers
Twitter
widget to show library twitter feed on page.
Flickr
Profile Widget from Big Huge Labs
Library Thing Widget
add new books into Library Thing Account, display covers on web page.You can use feeds from your Library Things account, and use Yahoo pipes to direct people back to your catalog.
Calendar
Embedded Google calendar for Library activity. You can pull rss from this. Can we do something like this - public calendar events to display out of oracle calendar?
Grazr
Create a list of feeds you want your patrons to read embedded in the web site. List of feeds for staff on intranet.
Feed 2JS (feed 2JS.org)
You can download this to your local server (php). Display feed on your web page
feed.informer
create a digest for feeds that you want to pull in to display on your website. You can add filters, search queries, etc
Karen Coombs
World Cat Affiliate Tools
3 types of searches ...Search for items in Libraries near you
Database widgets:
Proquest -
Ebsco
JStor
Embeddable Google Books
Google Book Search API
WordPress settings for iPhone, iPod Touch, etc
xfruits.com
Take an rss and convert to mobile device (for any mobile device)
Google Book Search Mobile App
WorldCat in process of developing mobile version of worldcat.org.
Creating Mashups with Yahoo Pipes
data sources: database search results, catalog search results, blogs, lists of resources
pipes.yahoo.com
Slide show of covers from rss feed from catalog
fetch feed - rss
loop - loops through each item in feed
string builder
emit results
output
You could do this with google books or amazon covers
Amazon feed remixed-
Amazon feed
rename (isbn)
Regular expression
Build link to google for table of contents
Build link to reviews at Library Thing
Build link to worldcat.org
You can clone other peoples pipes to see how they are done. You have to start with data to get data.
Jason Clark
http://www.lib.montana.edu
Open Search Widgets
Google Gadgets
Library as portal - how we can pull and deliver these pieces to different places?
Google Gadget editor can be used to create these as well -
Base url of the library/mobile
Many emulators - iPhoney
Open search plugins- how can we add stuff into the browser?
widgets and tools at Montana - http://www.lib.montana.edu/tools/
with mobile apps - start simple - what can we start with
Pick one and become an expert at on piece, experimaent and play with what you want to do. Work through amd see how it works.
data feeds,
search boxes
prime candidates for new environments - look at the little pieces that you may be able to pluck and put in these new environments. Let's think about what we can aggregate and put in these new environments.
Feed for this session:
http://delicious.com/tag/cil2009+w6
Create a beta space for the Libraries where we can play and all librarians can see what we're working on and have the chance to play with it!.
Great tutorial workshop - notes from the session:
Michael Sauers
widget to show library twitter feed on page.
Flickr
Profile Widget from Big Huge Labs
Library Thing Widget
add new books into Library Thing Account, display covers on web page.You can use feeds from your Library Things account, and use Yahoo pipes to direct people back to your catalog.
Calendar
Embedded Google calendar for Library activity. You can pull rss from this. Can we do something like this - public calendar events to display out of oracle calendar?
Grazr
Create a list of feeds you want your patrons to read embedded in the web site. List of feeds for staff on intranet.
Feed 2JS (feed 2JS.org)
You can download this to your local server (php). Display feed on your web page
feed.informer
create a digest for feeds that you want to pull in to display on your website. You can add filters, search queries, etc
Karen Coombs
World Cat Affiliate Tools
3 types of searches ...Search for items in Libraries near you
Database widgets:
Proquest -
Ebsco
JStor
Embeddable Google Books
Google Book Search API
WordPress settings for iPhone, iPod Touch, etc
xfruits.com
Take an rss and convert to mobile device (for any mobile device)
Google Book Search Mobile App
WorldCat in process of developing mobile version of worldcat.org.
Creating Mashups with Yahoo Pipes
data sources: database search results, catalog search results, blogs, lists of resources
pipes.yahoo.com
Slide show of covers from rss feed from catalog
fetch feed - rss
loop - loops through each item in feed
string builder
emit results
output
You could do this with google books or amazon covers
Amazon feed remixed-
Amazon feed
rename (isbn)
Regular expression
Build link to google for table of contents
Build link to reviews at Library Thing
Build link to worldcat.org
You can clone other peoples pipes to see how they are done. You have to start with data to get data.
Jason Clark
http://www.lib.montana.edu
Open Search Widgets
Google Gadgets
Library as portal - how we can pull and deliver these pieces to different places?
Google Gadget editor can be used to create these as well -
Base url of the library/mobile
Many emulators - iPhoney
Open search plugins- how can we add stuff into the browser?
widgets and tools at Montana - http://www.lib.montana.edu/tools/
with mobile apps - start simple - what can we start with
Pick one and become an expert at on piece, experimaent and play with what you want to do. Work through amd see how it works.
data feeds,
search boxes
prime candidates for new environments - look at the little pieces that you may be able to pluck and put in these new environments. Let's think about what we can aggregate and put in these new environments.
Feed for this session:
http://delicious.com/tag/cil2009+w6
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