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Territorial Mercenaries discography

Posted on: 15 May 2012 Last updated on: 15 May 2012 Written by: Orangeaurochs

Over the weekend I came across the recorded musical output of my first band: the Territorial Mercenaries. The Mercenaries consisted of me and my friend Simon. I played the keyboard (and Spectrum loading sequence, etc.) and cobbled together the music; …

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MARC Viewer Codecademy Project

Posted on: 20 March 2012 Last updated on: 20 March 2012 Written by: Orangeaurochs

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:…

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Flexi hours calculator (online and for Excel)

Posted on: 17 February 2012 Last updated on: 17 February 2012 Written by: Orangeaurochs

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…

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Cataloguing coding

Posted on: 8 January 2012 Last updated on: 7 February 2012 Written by: Orangeaurochs

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…

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Tom’s Excellent Website Snow (using Greasemonkey)

Posted on: 4 December 2011 Last updated on: 4 December 2011 Written by: Orangeaurochs

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…

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Lodopac example searches

Posted on: 15 September 2011 Last updated on: 27 July 2012 Written by: Orangeaurochs

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…

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Test for brackets in captions

Posted on: 31 August 2011 Last updated on: 31 August 2011 Written by: Orangeaurochs

Example without square brackets: Example with square brackets: This is a cow

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Sparql recipes for bibliographic data

Posted on: 5 August 2011 Last updated on: 30 April 2015 Written by: Orangeaurochs

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…

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Lodopac : simple Linked Open Data OPAC

Posted on: 31 July 2011 Last updated on: 31 July 2011 Written by: Orangeaurochs

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…

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Customizing Classification Web with Greasemonkey

Posted on: 24 June 2011 Last updated on: 24 June 2011 Written by: Orangeaurochs

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…

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