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  1. Getting Started with XML: A Manual and Workshop
  2. MyLibrary: A digital library framework & toolkit
    • Description: This article describes a digital library framework and toolkit called MyLibrary. At its heart, MyLibrary is designed to create relationships between information resources and people. To this end, MyLibrary is made up of essentially four parts: 1) information resources, 2) patrons, 3) librarians, and 4) a set of locally-defined, institution-specific facet/term combinations interconnecting the first three. On another level, MyLibrary is a set of object-oriented Perl modules intended to read and write to a specifically shaped relational database. Used in conjunction with other computer applications and tools, MyLibrary provides a way to create and support digital library collections and services. Librarians and developers can use MyLibrary to create any number of digital library applications: full-text indexes to journal literature, a traditional library catalog complete with circulation, a database-driven website, an institutional repository, an image database, etc. The article describes each of these points in greater detail.
    • Date: 2008-09-18
    • Source: This is pre-edited version of an article by the same name appearing the Information Technology and Libraries 27[3]:12-24, September 2008.
    • Subject(s): articles; MyLibrary;
    • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/mylibrary-framework/index.shtml
  3. Creating and managing XML with open source software
    • Description: This article reviews a number of open source XML applications and systems including editors, validators, native XML databases, and publishing systems; to describe how some of these tools have been combined by the author to create a specific system for a specific need. An overview of XML is provided, a number of open source XML applications/systems are reviewed, and a system created by the author using some of these tools is described. The open source tools for working with XML are maturing, and they provide the means for the library profession to easilyh publish library content on the Internet using open standards. XML provides an agreed upon way of turning data into information. The result is non-proprietary and application independent. Open source software operates under similar principles. An understanding and combination of these technologies can assist the library profession in meeting its goals in this era of globally networked computers and changing user expectations.
    • Date: 2005-07-30
    • Source: This article was originally published in Library Hi Tech Vol. 23 No. 4, 2005 pp. 526-540. This text is a pre-edited version of the published article
    • Subject(s): articles; TEI (Text Encoding Initiative); XML (eXtensible Mark-up Language); open source software;
    • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/xml-with-oss/index.shtml
  4. Review of some ebook technology
    • Description: This column describes my experience to date with the dynamic creation and use of ebook data for Newton MessagePads, PalmPilot personal digital assistants, NuvoMedia's Rocket eBook, and SoftBook Press's SoftBook Reader. In a sentence, ebook technology effectively provides the means for reading electronic texts on portable devices but the functionality of these devices is not necessarily a superset of the functionality of print on paper; the functionality and business models of ebooks and traditional print media overlap.
    • Date: 1999-09-10
    • Source: This text is a pre-edited version of a column originally written for Computers in Libraries.
    • Subject(s): ebooks;
    • URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/ebooks/index.shtml
  5. Open Source Software and XML
  6. Catalogs of the future

Creator: Eric Lease Morgan <eric_morgan@infomotions.com>
Date created: 2000-06-20
Date updated: 2010-05-01
URL: http://infomotions.com/musings/