http://zone.biblio.laurentian.ca:8080/dspace/handle/10219/268 2013-05-22T02:35:25Z http://zone.biblio.laurentian.ca:8080/dspace/handle/10219/1993 Title: Microdata: making metadata matter Authors: Scott, Dan Abstract: In this session, Dan Scott (the contributor of the schema.org microdata enhancement for Evergreen and a participant in the schemabibex effort to extend schema.org to better support bibliographic data) will discuss the origins of the microdata standards, explain how nominally machine-readable cataloguing data can fit into the machine-actionable semantic web, reflect on the impact that a microdata-enabled catalogue has had at Laurentian University to date, and offer some thoughts about the future of microdata – including the schema.org and RDFa Lite standards. Description: WARNING: you may come away with ideas not only for enriching your library system, but for your web site and other web-based library applications as well! Microdata enables search engines and other automated processes to make sense of the data on a web page — like identifying the title, author, and identification number of a book from all of the other content on a given page. Web pages enhanced with microdata contribute to the semantic web, and in turn are more likely to be incorporated into search engines and advanced web applications. If it sounds like we should publish microdata from Evergreen’s catalogue, you will be pleased to know that Evergreen was (naturally) the first library system to incorporate microdata in its default public catalogue with the 2.2.0 release in June 2012. 2013-04-12T00:00:00Z http://zone.biblio.laurentian.ca:8080/dspace/handle/10219/310 Title: Quick Lookup Laptops in the Library: Leveraging Linux with a SLAX LiveCD Authors: Scott, Dan; Beswick, Kevin Abstract: This article discusses the experiences over the past year at Laurentian University in deploying a Linux live CD solution to create customized kiosk browsers on ‘quick lookup’ laptops. This provides security, reliability, ease of use, and improved response time compared to other options. We explain why we chose this solution, reveal techniques we used to achieve some of our goals, and reflect on possible future iterations of this project. 2008-03-24T00:00:00Z http://zone.biblio.laurentian.ca:8080/dspace/handle/10219/305 Title: Project Conifer: Open source academic library system Authors: Scott, Dan Abstract: An introduction to Project Conifer, the effort to bring the Evergreen open source library system from public libraries into Ontario's academic libraries. Dan Scott, project manager for Project Conifer, demonstrates the rationale behind the collaboration between Algoma University, Laurentian University, McMaster University, the Northern Ontario Health Integration Network (NOHIN), and the University of Windsor, and demonstrates the benefits Evergreen offers over our existing systems. 2008-09-23T16:55:26Z http://zone.biblio.laurentian.ca:8080/dspace/handle/10219/304 Title: Artificially enhanced research : Free software and fantastic research Authors: Scott, Dan Abstract: The free software community has developed a number of tools that are useful to researchers. This presentation introduces four tools: the LibX toolbar to extend library searching throughout your Web experience; the Zotero plug-in for collecting, organizing, and citing your research materials; the LU|ZONE|UL institutional repository built on DSpace for making your research openly accessible; and the quick lookup Linux laptops that have made quick searches fast and easy for library visitors and saved Laurentian University tens of thousands of dollars in hardware replacement costs. 2008-09-23T16:48:56Z http://zone.biblio.laurentian.ca:8080/dspace/handle/10219/270 Title: Fac-Back-OPAC: An Open Source Interface to Your Library System Authors: Scott, Dan; Beccaria, Michael Abstract: This article discusses the motivation for, history of, and capabilities of Fac-Back-OPAC, an alternative library catalogue built on open source technology. 2007-10-01T00:00:00Z