Comments for Matthew Smith http://blogs.library.uq.edu.au/ms Library Systems Programmer Sat, 21 Nov 2009 09:44:17 +0000 http://lyceum.ibiblio.org/?v=0.34 Comment on The Librarians by Jo http://blogs.library.uq.edu.au/ms/2007/10/30/897/#comment-1124 Fri, 02 Nov 2007 07:33:44 +0000 http://blogs.library.uq.edu.au/ms/2007/10/30/897/#comment-1124 As a bit of an aside - I only saw part of this week's episode so can't comment fully...... This show sparked some general conversation my way about Images of Librarians in Popular culture. We came up with some interesting ones and some that I hadn't come across and am now keen to investigate further. Myself, I have a very soft spot for Giles on Buffy - dry British humour, amazing tomes of mythology (some of it subversive which was hidden from the Watchers Council) and yet, somehow, he connected with the youngsters of Sunnydale High. I suppose it also helped that Anthony Stewart Head was easy on the eye...*to mine anyway* ;) And it amused me greatly that someone here decided to go looking for information, and of course, discovered an entry on Wikipedia actually called Librarians in Popular Culture..... As a bit of an aside – I only saw part of this week’s episode so can’t comment fully…...

This show sparked some general conversation my way about Images of Librarians in Popular culture. We came up with some interesting ones and some that I hadn’t come across and am now keen to investigate further. Myself, I have a very soft spot for Giles on Buffy – dry British humour, amazing tomes of mythology (some of it subversive which was hidden from the Watchers Council) and yet, somehow, he connected with the youngsters of Sunnydale High. I suppose it also helped that Anthony Stewart Head was easy on the eye…to mine anyway ;)

And it amused me greatly that someone here decided to go looking for information, and of course, discovered an entry on Wikipedia actually called Librarians in Popular Culture…..

]]> Comment on Collections considered … by Christiaan Kortekaas http://blogs.library.uq.edu.au/ms/2007/10/18/collections-considered/#comment-942 Thu, 18 Oct 2007 07:13:33 +0000 http://blogs.library.uq.edu.au/ms/2007/10/18/collections-considered/#comment-942 I think you have a good idea here Matt, but would this work work with transitive searching? Eg keeping the current option to do hierarchical auth rulesets by RELS-EXT isMemberOf. Or would this be redundant with a grand auth table view of the repository. Perhaps you could sketch up a mock of what the interface would look like. Take some inspiration from the Muradora policy setting tool - though I like your idea of setting the policies by search better in a way. Perhaps the auth groups could be like search keys themselves. Lots of possibilities here but the simplest will probably be the most elegant. I know Chi from Muradora is fairly against auth based on searches (virtual collections), though this could be due to limitations of XACML and the XACML implementation. I think you have a good idea here Matt, but would this work work with transitive searching? Eg keeping the current option to do hierarchical auth rulesets by RELS-EXT isMemberOf. Or would this be redundant with a grand auth table view of the repository. Perhaps you could sketch up a mock of what the interface would look like.

Take some inspiration from the Muradora policy setting tool – though I like your idea of setting the policies by search better in a way. Perhaps the auth groups could be like search keys themselves. Lots of possibilities here but the simplest will probably be the most elegant.

I know Chi from Muradora is fairly against auth based on searches (virtual collections), though this could be due to limitations of XACML and the XACML implementation.

]]> Comment on Fez 1.4 ?? by António Fonseca http://blogs.library.uq.edu.au/ms/2007/08/29/fez-14/#comment-610 Sun, 02 Sep 2007 23:10:50 +0000 http://blogs.library.uq.edu.au/ms/2007/08/29/fez-14/#comment-610 1. I think Multilingual support is a big issue here. I'm Portuguese and we use special characters like ç, ã, í and so on. It took my long and hard work to do a translation. To be 100% honest I would give up FEZ if I dind't get the "on time" help from the FEZ developers at the time. But like I noticed the first code of FEZ is not prepared for non-english and that is something that will lead FEZ to lots of new users. 2- The fulltext searching. Its imperative. 3- I'm not shure how FEZ advanced search is now (I have used the 1.2.), but I think it need to be improved. Specially related with the point 2. In this matter I would like to add the feature that I found in some systems: The full search presents the text searched underligned. Its dificult sometimes to find a document that has lots of texts (papers) and I will take to much time searching to find the exact article that has the words that I searched. But I will follow the Blog for nexts developments... António Fonseca 1. I think Multilingual support is a big issue here.
I’m Portuguese and we use special characters like ç, ã, í and so on.
It took my long and hard work to do a translation. To be 100% honest I would give up FEZ if I dind’t get the “on time” help from the FEZ developers at the time. But like I noticed the first code of FEZ is not prepared for non-english and that is something that will lead FEZ to lots of new users.

2- The fulltext searching. Its imperative.

3- I’m not shure how FEZ advanced search is now (I have used the 1.2.), but I think it need to be improved.
Specially related with the point 2. In this matter I would like to add the feature that I found in some systems:
The full search presents the text searched underligned. Its dificult sometimes to find a document that has lots of texts (papers) and I will take to much time searching to find the exact article that has the words that I searched.

But I will follow the Blog for nexts developments…

António Fonseca

]]> Comment on Roller Coaster Home Prices by sohojo http://blogs.library.uq.edu.au/ms/2007/05/02/roller-coaster-home-prices/#comment-237 Wed, 09 May 2007 09:42:44 +0000 http://blogs.library.uq.edu.au/ms/2007/05/02/roller-coaster-home-prices/#comment-237 That's a pretty funky ride! That’s a pretty funky ride!

]]> Comment on UQ Blogs Stats by Jo http://blogs.library.uq.edu.au/ms/2007/03/01/uq-blogs-stats/#comment-202 Mon, 12 Mar 2007 01:11:38 +0000 http://blogs.library.uq.edu.au/ms/2007/03/01/uq-blogs-stats/#comment-202 Someone out there agrees with Jo on the tartan mini-skirts thing. I'm still thinking the tartan mini-skirt is not such a bad idea! Yes, insanity and I are quite chummy..... Someone out there agrees with Jo on the tartan mini-skirts thing.

I’m still thinking the tartan mini-skirt is not such a bad idea! Yes, insanity and I are quite chummy…..

]]> Comment on IM Reference by sohojo http://blogs.library.uq.edu.au/ms/2007/01/10/im-reference/#comment-162 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:43:24 +0000 http://blogs.library.uq.edu.au/ms/2007/01/10/im-reference/#comment-162 The popular IM software would be good for chat. But, since we get quite a number of students using the Ask a service when they're actually in the library (!) we would end up having to get the software installed on library computers. Or, were they talking about their general screen names that they use outside of work? The popular IM software would be good for chat. But, since we get quite a number of students using the Ask a service when they’re actually in the library (!) we would end up having to get the software installed on library computers. Or, were they talking about their general screen names that they use outside of work?

]]> Comment on 25 Tips To Optimize Your Blog For Readers & Search Engines by sohojo http://blogs.library.uq.edu.au/ms/2007/01/10/25-tips-to-optimize-your-blog-for-readers-search-engines/#comment-161 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:38:45 +0000 http://blogs.library.uq.edu.au/ms/2007/01/10/25-tips-to-optimize-your-blog-for-readers-search-engines/#comment-161 Whoops, messed that up. I meant that replies to comments would be indented from the original comment. Whoops, messed that up. I meant that replies to comments would be indented from the original comment.

]]> Comment on 25 Tips To Optimize Your Blog For Readers & Search Engines by sohojo http://blogs.library.uq.edu.au/ms/2007/01/10/25-tips-to-optimize-your-blog-for-readers-search-engines/#comment-160 Thu, 11 Jan 2007 08:37:48 +0000 http://blogs.library.uq.edu.au/ms/2007/01/10/25-tips-to-optimize-your-blog-for-readers-search-engines/#comment-160 Matt, is there anyway we can customise the Lyceum software so that comments to posts and replies to these comments are structured like - Post comment Reply to comment It makes it easier to follow - a virtual conversation that you can have on other blogging sites. And, if posters entered their email address, could our replies then be sent to their email - so they don't have to keep checking the blog for a response. We have a few comments on our BSL blog and it would make it easier to follow. Matt, is there anyway we can customise the Lyceum software so that comments to posts and replies to these comments are structured like –
Post comment
Reply to comment

It makes it easier to follow – a virtual conversation that you can have on other blogging sites. And, if posters entered their email address, could our replies then be sent to their email – so they don’t have to keep checking the blog for a response. We have a few comments on our BSL blog and it would make it easier to follow.

]]> Comment on Testing 123 by sohojo http://blogs.library.uq.edu.au/ms/2006/12/07/testing-123/#comment-126 Fri, 08 Dec 2006 04:07:42 +0000 http://blogs.library.uq.edu.au/ms/2006/12/07/testing-123/#comment-126 Yes, I kind of figured that ;) It does show that you've blogged (or read blogs) somewhere else though..... Yes, I kind of figured that ;) It does show that you’ve blogged (or read blogs) somewhere else though…..

]]> Comment on Testing 123 by uqmsmi14 http://blogs.library.uq.edu.au/ms/2006/12/07/testing-123/#comment-124 Fri, 08 Dec 2006 00:56:21 +0000 http://blogs.library.uq.edu.au/ms/2006/12/07/testing-123/#comment-124 I was being facetious I was being facetious

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