Building more informative record displays in Evergreen with BibTemplate

Posted on Fri 23 April 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen

Update: 2011-04-24 Just noticed the link to the Laurentian detail file was broken - that's what I get for posting early in the morning under the influence of a cold, eh? All fixed up now, though.

This is a quick link to the updated version of the presentation (OpenOffice.org) (PDF …


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Evergreen self-serve password reset interface coming in 1.6.1.0

Posted on Thu 22 April 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen

Update: 2010-04-22 16:24:56: Evidently, "in a few minutes" means tomorrow morning... avid Coffee|Code readers get the early scoop.

I'm going to give a lightning talk in a few minutes about the self-serve password reset mechanism that I added to Evergreen last month, that should see the light …


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Setting up secure self-check connections using SIP tunneled through SSH

Posted on Fri 16 April 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen

Updated 2010-04-27: Fix corrupted characters introduced by copying from my GroupWise client. Thanks to Joe Atzberger for pointing that out.

I set up a secure SIP connection from our self-check machine to our Evergreen server located about 450km away, and thought I would put together a quick blog post on …


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Adjusting relevancy rankings in Evergreen 1.6, some explorations

Posted on Wed 17 March 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen

Update: 2010-03-18 - I just realized that now that I have a separate keyword index for titles, I can assign a stronger boost in general to keywords that appear in the title for a keyword search; see update: index weight below.

One of my colleagues just asked me:

So, how does …


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More granular identifier indexes for your Evergreen SRU / Z39.50 servers

Posted on Wed 10 March 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen

In June of 2009 I was moaning about how “Evergreen, by default, has no identifier index for limiting searches by ISBN / ISSN / LCCN / OCLCnum” and that “if [fixing this problem] requires work from me, it will probably be 2010 before any of it happens”. Due to some of the tools …


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Evergreen 1.6: Z39.50 target servers for academics

Posted on Fri 05 March 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen

UPDATE 2010-03-05 I just backported Warren's patch for sorting Z39.50 servers to rel_1_6_0 (it counts as a bug fix), so expect to see it in the Evergreen 1.6.0.4 release. Yay!

In Evergreen 1.6, Z39.50 target server configuration (for copy-cataloguing targets) moves …


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Fun with Evergreen and SQL: representative record samples

Posted on Thu 04 March 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen

Let's pretend your national library asked you to submit a set of records with holdings representing all of the various formats in your library system. Let's also pretend that you're really lucky and you're running Evergreen. Here's what you would do to get one example of each combination of item …


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Wrap-up: Evergreen developer workshop at OLA SuperConference 2010

Posted on Mon 01 March 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen

To summarize the results of the Evergreen developer workshop at the OLA SuperConference, I think things went pretty well. The primary focus this time was on the nuts and bolts of building a minimal OpenSRF service and I saw the lights go on in a number of faces as I …


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OLA SuperConference 2010 - Evergreen developer workshop update

Posted on Tue 23 February 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen

Hey all - if you're coming to the Evergreen developer workshop at the OLA SuperConference 2010, there's one thing you can do to prepare. As this is a hands-on workshop (how else can you learn!), I'm hoping many or most of you will have laptops. And ideally, your laptop will have …


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Introduction to SQL for Evergreen administrators

Posted on Sat 20 February 2010 in Libraries • Tagged with Evergreen

I've been a bit quiet for the last two weeks, ostensibly because I've been on vacation. However, much of the time I was preparing to deliver a two-day introduction to SQL for Evergreen to the good people at Bibliomation. On Wednesday I flew down to Middlebury, CT - Bibliomation central - and …


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