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Author Archives: robinna
Semantic Search engine?
Like | robinna | Jun 28, 2008 | Search engines/browsers, semantic web, XHTML/XML/CSS
From Read/WriteWeb: Evri Beta Launches: Search Less – Understand More Evri, a Paul Allen backed semantic search engine, launched into a limited beta this week. Evri was first shown publicly at the D6 conference. Evri’s CEO Neil Roseman likes to talk about Evri in terms of organizing content instead of calling it a search engine. At its core, however, Evri definitely is a search engine, ...
So You Want Your Library or Organization in Second Life: A Practical Guide (SL workshop)
Like | robinna | Jun 27, 2008 | Libraries, life 2.0+, question of the day, second life, training / tutorials
Please join Sonja Morgwain and Teofila Matova Tuesday, July 1st at 8:00 a.m. SLT at the Open Auditorium on Cybrary City 1 in Second Life for the third “So You Want Your Library or Organization in Second Life: A Practical Guide.” This workshop includes a short presentation, tour of a library, and lots of time for questions and answers. Also offered is a tour of ...
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Like | robinna | Jun 25, 2008 | Libraries
From Code4Lib: Columbia University Libraries has developed the Archival Collections Portal, a unified search system helping users discover archival resources in a streamlined way. We combined the power of Lucene and Solr to search XML, parse JSON objects, create EAD-compliant documents, and deliver results in an easy-to-use interface. By reusing MARC records and employing new search engine features and techniques, we are able to bring ...
Expression Engine security vs. drupal
Like | robinna | Jun 23, 2008 | CMS, opensource
Nice outline of pros and cons of two security models (closed vs. opensource), expression engine (ee) vs. drupal. Of course, lullabot also is closely tied to drupal, so take it for what it is worth. http://www.lullabot.com/articles/drupal-and-expressionengine-security-models
Second Life Shakespeare
Like | robinna | Jun 21, 2008 | life 2.0+, second life
Now this sounds coool — if only I get my avatar out of theocean (I’m just as clumsy in SL as I am in real life, APPARENTLY) 😉 sLiterary, Second Life: Of shipwrecked twins separated in a foreign land, lovetriangles mixed with identity confusion, and girl masquerading as guy falling inlove with her noble… The SL Shakespeare Company takes a brief hiatus from Hamletto pursue ...
Little excel tips: display no value for zero, automatically add date
Like | robinna | Jun 20, 2008 | microsoft, tools/tips
So, you’re totalling a formula up (such as a sum) and you do not want the value to display as 0 (i.e., zero). In my case, some people will use the spreadsheet online, while others will print it out. For those who print it, I want the total column to appear blank (but it is not!) so that they can manually print in their calculations ...
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Most useful Drupal modules
Like | robinna | Jun 19, 2008 | my projects, opensource, Training
I thought I would crosspost some of what I consider my most useful Drupal handout information from my demo and presentation for the UGADG. Of course, this doesn’t include the demo part at the moment! Maybe I will screencapture that part and add it in later. Another thing for the todo list! Anyhow, you can see the handouts here ..and now to the top ten ...
New online resource — Civil Rights Digital Library
The recently unveiled Civil Rights Digital Library, contains text, image and video archives with annotated bibliographies, learning modules, study guides, etc.Not only of interest to educators and students, the Civil Rights Digital Library is a treasure trove of real life stories — talk about reality tv!This collection also serves in providing access and digitally archiving a huge collection of material. It’s really an amazing collection ...
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Tables + CSS (and captioning an image)
Like | robinna | Jun 16, 2008 | CMS, Design, my projects, publishing, webdesign, XHTML/XML/CSS
For those of you who use CSS in web design (or have been following its evolution), you may remember the battle cry of “tables are dead” from a few years ago, which was soon followed by rallying cry “Long live tables!” According to the thinking (and gurus) at the time, EVERYTHING that could be done with a table could be done with div layout and ...