[CODE4LIB] Recs for Knowledge base software
Just getting started with our search, so I figured it would make sense to toss this query to y'all: I have a faculty who has been tasked with setting up a knowledge base of facts geared towards students who will be sitting a standardized subject exam. The nature of this exam is such that folks typically spend a lnng time prepping for it and have to review a dizzying array of material. Because of this, this resource will be big and possibly kind of unwieldy. I need something that will allow for: a few thousand short articles about different topics, multiple contributors/editors for those articles, decent support for full-text searching as well as reasonable support for creation/maintenance/search of whatever metadata scheme that makes sense once this thing starts to come together. Any ideas on where to start looking? Use a commercial help-desk-oriented package? Self-host a wiki instance? Try to hack something together in-house using a CMS? Any thoughts would be most welcome Ed Sperr, M.L.I.S. Copyright and Electronic Resources Officer St. George's University esp...@sgu.edu = This e-mail is intended to be a private and confidential communication. This message (and any attachments) contains information that is confidential and privileged and protected from disclosure. It is intended solely for the use of the individual(s) or entity(ies) to whom it is addressed and others authorized to receive it. If you are not the intended recipient of this message or any parts of it, please immediately contact the sender and delete the message from your system. No other person is authorized to copy, forward or disclose, distribute or retain this message in any form. The sender shall not be liable for the incomplete transmission of this message nor for any delay in its receipt and does not guarantee that this communication is free of viruses, interceptions or interference. __ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com __
Re: [CODE4LIB] Some women and computing resources
It is interesting to note that collecting the oral histories of library folks is something that at least two professional organizations have looked at. It might be worth using these as a model: http://www.mlanet.org/about/history/oral_history.html http://www.sla.org/content/Events/centennial/oralhistory.cfm Ed Sperr, M.L.I.S. Copyright and Electronic Resources Officer St. George's University esp...@sgu.edu From: Johnston, Leslie lesliej_at_nyob Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 10:54:56 -0500 To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU I am very much with you, Karen, that we are not doing enough to capture our history. We definitely need to start an active oral history program. This has been weighing on my mind a lot lately -- that there is a lot of history that people are not aware of. Leslie -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Karen Coyle Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 5:59 PM To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Some women and computing resources All, I stumbled upon the conference publication [1] from a conference at U Minn's Charles Babbage Institute on women and computing. Not only is it excellent, but it has an entire chapter on librarians and computers. In fact, I don't think that chapter got it quite right, and I'm thinking that we somehow need to start capturing our own history, perhaps through interviews/oral histories. I've dreamed about doing that for the MELVYL system, before too many of us can't remember what day it is. The conference pages include a good bibliography [2]. And the CBI archive pages have great photos and other interesting historical information. [3] kc [1] http://www.amazon.com/Gender-Codes-Women-Leaving- Computing/dp/0470597194 [2] https://netfiles.umn.edu/users/tmisa/www/gender/literature.html [3] http://www.cbi.umn.edu/ -- Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet __ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com __
Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with WordPress for Code4Lib Journal
Instead of maintaining a custom codebase to try and force WP to do what you want, why not just use a tool purpose-built for this kind of job? The open-source, Open Journal Systems from PKP might be a good fit: http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ojs Ed Sperr, M.L.I.S. Copyright and Electronic Resources Officer St. George's University esp...@sgu.edu __ This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service. For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com __
[CODE4LIB] Binary Battle entries?
Did anybody on the list put together something for the Mendeley/PLoS Binary Battle? I'm aware of a couple of things (notably sciencecard.org and biostor.org -- readermeter.org is also interesting, though I don't know if it was an official entry or not), but I don't think Mendeley has posted a full list of entrants as of yet. My own humble attempt is live at http://medmenca.appspot.com/. It's a surfacing of PubMed's related citations feature, mashed up against a Mendeley user's existing library of pmid-tagged citations. It's a potentially useful current awareness tool for biomed researchers who use Mendeley. If you fall in that category, feel free to check it out. I'd love to get some feedback... Ed Sperr, M.L.I.S. Copyright and Electronic Resources Officer St. George's University esp...@sgu.edu __ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email __
