Here are a couple of swell ideas about tagging the library catalog. The first generates tags based upon subject headings from the catalog by using a particular table in the db. http://www.daveyp.com/blog/index.php/archives/127/ and then there are user contributed tags:http://tags.library.upenn.edu/ It seems that ajax is the magic.
The Melvyl Recommender Project, whichexplored next-generation services for library catalogs, has reached itsconclusion. This project was funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.Popular commercial services such as Google, eBay, Amazon, and Netflixhave evolved quickly over the last decade to help people find what theywant, developing information retrieval strategies such as usefullyranked results, spelling correction, and recommendations. Librarycatalogs, in contrast, have
dappithttp://www.dappit.com/extract content from websites google image namerhttp://images.google.com/imagelabeler/Basically, it’s a fun way for google to help improve their image search results. and of course, 43places.http://www.43places.com
http://www.libx.org/ LibX is a Firefox extension that provides direct access to your library’s resources.LibX is an open source framework from which editions for specific libraries can be built. …and here is what Ga State is doing with it…. Pretty cool, eh?http://www.library.gsu.edu/news/index.asp?view=details&ID=9558&typeID=1
Until IE becomes more standards compliant and all browsers began adhering strictly to the w3c coding standards, it will be nearly impossible to create one set of coding that renders beautifully across the various browsers. Many people do use one style sheet, but then include code specifically to work around junky IE. Anyhow, until that time, tables are still not