Update 2012-06-19: And here's how to implement stream-oriented XML parsing

Many academic libraries are already generating electronic resource holdings summaries in the Google Scholar XML holdingsformat, and it seems to provide most of the metadata you would need to provide a discovery layer summary in a nice, granular format …

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Update 2012-06-19: And here's how to implement stream-oriented XML parsing

Many academic libraries are already generating electronic resource holdings summaries in the Google Scholar XML holdingsformat, and it seems to provide most of the metadata you would need to provide a discovery layer summary in a nice, granular format …

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Preface: I'm talking to my daughter's kindergarten class tomorrow about my job. Exciting! So I prepped a little bit; it will probably go entirely different, but here's how it's going to go in my mind...

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Since the announcement of the new v1 Google Books API, I've been doing a bit of work with it in Python (following up on my part of the conversation). Today, Google announced that many of their older APIs were now officially deprecated. Included in that list are the Google Books …

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On the subject of the new Google Books API that was unveiled during the Google IO 2011 conference last week, Jonathan Rochkind states:

Once you have an API key, it can keep track of # requests for that key — it’s not clear to me if they rate limit you, and …

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In the past couple of days, two people have written me email essentially saying: "Dan, this File_MARC library sounds great - but I can't figure out how to create a record from scratch with it! Can you please help me?"

Yes, when you're dealing with MARC, you'll quickly get all …

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The official announcement for the Canadian Library Association (CLA) Emerging Technology Interest Group (ETIG)-sponsored Access Conference for 2011 went out back in November, announcing Vancouver, British Columbia, as the host. Note that the schedule has changed from its original dates to October 19-22!

I've told a number of people …

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I'm posting the following instructions for testing the ports required by

Ariel interlibrary loan software. I get requests for this information a few

times a year, and at some point it will be easier to find on my blog than to

dig through my email archives from over 3 years …

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When I was preparing my Access 2010 presentation about social sharing and aggregation in library software, I came across Chilifresh, a company that aggregates reviews written by library patrons from across libraries that subscribe to the company's review service. I was a bit disappointed to see that the service almost …

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Sometimes forking a project is necessary to reassert community control over a project that has become overly dominated by a single corporate rules: see OpenIndiana and LibreOffice for recent examples. And in the world of distributed version control systems, forking is viewed positively; it's a form of evolution, where experimental …

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