Nice job Jonathan - my first test search seemed to bring back rather relevant materials with the first coming from the journal: http://www.google.com/cse?cref=http%3A%2F%2Fcode4lib.org%2Ftest%2Fgoogle_cse_context.xml&q=virtual+reference&sa=Search&siteurl=www.code4lib.org%2Fcustom_search%2Fsearch_form.html#gsc.tab=0&gsc.q=virtual%20reference&gsc.page=1
Very cool and very useful Andrew On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 9:35 PM, Jonathan Rochkind <rochk...@jhu.edu> wrote: > So I was in #code4lib, and skome asked about ideas for library hours. And I > recalled that there have been at least two articles in the C4L Journal on > this topic, so suggested them. > > Then I realized that there's enough body of work in the Journal to be worth > searching there whenever you have an "ideas for dealing with X" question. > You might not find anything, but I think there's enough chance you will, > illustrated by that encounter with skome. > > Then I realized it's not just the journal -- what about a Google Custom > Search that searches over the Journal, the Code4Lib wiki, the Code4Lib > website, and perhaps most interestinly -- all the sites listed in Planet > Code4Lib. > > Then I made it happen. Cause it seemed interesting and I'm a perfectionist, > I even set things up so a cronjob automatically syncs the list of sites in > the Planet with the Google custom search every night. > > The Planet stuff ends up potentially being a lot of noise -- I tried to > custom 'boost' stuff from the Journal, but I'm not sure it worked. But I did > configure things with facet-like limits including a "just the planet" limit, > if you do want that. But even though it's sometimes a lot of noise, it's > also potentially the most interesting/useful part of the search, otherwise > it'd pretty much just be a Journal search, but now it includes a bunch of > people's blogs, as well as other sites deemed of interest to Code4Lib > community (including a couple other open source library tech journals) -- > without any extra curatorial work, just using the list already compiled for > the Planet. > > I'm curious what people think of it. Try some searches for library tech > questions or information and see how good your results are. If people find > this useful, I'll try to include it on the main code4lib.org webpage in > some prominent place, spruce up the look and feel etc. (Or try to draft > someone else to do that, I think my time to work on this might be _just_ > about up after staying until 9.30 hacking on this cause it seemed cool). > > http://www.code4lib.org/**custom_search/search_form.html<http://www.code4lib.org/custom_search/search_form.html> >
