I have created a Codecademy project (with a lot of help in corrections and improvements from Esther Arens!) that builds a short script to read a raw MARC record and display it in a more readable format. Try it here:…
Flexi hours calculator (online and for Excel)
I have tidied up and moved my ancient flexi hours calculator which now lives at http://www.aurochs.org/flexi/flexi.html. Several people have emailed me out of the blue recently about setting up an Excel version, which I have done and which now lives…
Cataloguing coding
I am not a trained programmer, coding is not part of my job description, and I have little direct access to cataloguing and metadata databases at work outside of normal catalogue editing and talking to the systems team, but I…
Tom’s Excellent Website Snow (using Greasemonkey)
Behold: a version of Tom’s Excellent Javascript Snow (unobtrusive and customisable javascript snow for web pages using no images) that works on all websites you open on your browser (provided your browser is Firefox or something else that can run…
Lodopac example searches
Yay, my entry for the Discovery & DevCSI Developers Competition– Lodopac– was awarded a commendation for its use of the Cambridge University Library (CUL) dataset. During the judging I was asked for searches which were known to work well- the…
Test for brackets in captions
Example without square brackets: Example with square brackets: This is a cow
Sparql recipes for bibliographic data
One of the difficulties in searching RDF data is knowing what the data looks like. For instance, finding a book by its title means knowing something about what how a dataset has recorded the relationship between a book and its…
Lodopac : simple Linked Open Data OPAC
Lodopac is my entry to the UK Discovery Developer Competition. Aside from obvious mocking of the name, comments on Lodopac are very welcome. If anyone installs it locally, I’d also be very interested to know. About Lodopac Lodopac is a…
Customizing Classification Web with Greasemonkey
Classification Web is ace, but there are a couple of things about the interface that annoy me and, in one colleague’s case, seriously put him off using it, in particular: The opening of a new tab/window when you click on…
Sketch for Eurovision linked data
I’ve been looking around to see if Eurovision data exists as linked data, or openly in any format. I can find relatively little, mostly just data about one of the recent contests, or about UK performances. None of it is…