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Facet Forward: Faceted Navigation of Federated Search Results for Cultural Heritage Materials

October 6th, 2007 by Kelly Drake

Presenters: Danielle Cunniff Plumer, David Dorman, Mark Phillips.
This session reviewed three different ways or projects that provide faceted searching.
Danielle Plumer – Texas Heritage Digitization Initiative. http://texasheritageonline.org/
The Initiative is a statewide plan that unifies previously created pockets, not a centralized database. They have an OAI harvester (to be described later by Mark Phillips), a real [...]

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http://library2.0

October 6th, 2007 by Kelly Drake

Edward M. Corrado, The College of New Jersey, http://www.tcnj.edu/~corrado/
(good website for those interested in open source, and library 2.0 technologies)
Abstract:
Corrado began with an introduction of web2.0 then walked participants through the transformation of a Library 1.0 page to a Library 2.0 page, all by using freely available, low IT involvement, and commonly accepted web tools.
Why [...]

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Enhancing the OPAC

October 5th, 2007 by Kelly Drake

Enhancing the OPAC: Tagging the Catalog and Keyword-in-Heading Searching
Shawn Carraway, Midlands Technical College
Michael Bowden, Harrisburg Area Community College
Michael Bowden and Shawn Carraway presented on two major customizations they made to their OPACs
Both presenters work with SirsiDynix Unicorn but regardless of vendor any system should be able to, and want to impliment [...]

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