As part of the JISC Summon 4 HN project, we'll be releasing some chunks of code that I've knocked together for our Summon implementation at Huddersfield. The code will cover these areas: updating Summon with MARC record additions, updates and deletions from Horizon providing live availability information from Horizon without resorting to screen-scraping the OPAC [...]
Posts under ‘Horizon/HIP’
Squeezing Juice into the OPAC
Those who went to either Richard Wallis' API session or my OPAC session at the UKSG 2009 Conference will have heard about Richard's Open Source Juice Project. The project, which was launched at Code4Lib 2009, is designed to allow developers to create OPAC extensions (or, if you prefer, "bells and whistles") that, in theory, should [...]
QR Codes in the OPAC?
Just wondering if anyone out there is already experimenting with QR Codes in their OPAC? We're trying to figure out the best way of providing item location information (e.g. floor and shelfmark), so I'm interested to know if anyone has already done this.
Horizon 7.4.2 – available "worldwide"
The press release for Horizon 7.4.2 has just gone online. Both Talin Bingham (Chief Technology Officer) and Gary Rautenstrauch (Chief Executive Officer) use the word "worldwide" in the press release: This new version adds functionality requested by our customers worldwide and offers great benefits to libraries and patrons alike… Providing the features librarians need and [...]
Visual virtual shelf browsing
The Zoomii web site seems to be getting a lot of attention at the moment, so I got wondering how easy/difficult it would be do to a virtual bookshelf in the OPAC… It's definitely a "crappy prototype" at the moment, and the trickiest thing turned out to be getting the iframe to jump to the [...]
Google Graphs
We've had loan data on the OPAC for a couple of years now, although it's only previously been visible to staff IP addresses. Anyway, a couple of months ago, I revamped it using Google Graphs and I've finally gotten around to adding a stats link that anyone can peruse — you should be able to [...]
2008 — The Year of Making Your Data Work Harder
Quite a few of the conversations I've had this year at conferences and exhibitions have been about making data work harder (it's also one of the themes in the JISC "Towards Implementation of Library 2.0 and the E-framework" study). We've had circ driven borrowing suggestions on our OPAC since 2005 (were we the first library [...]
Sexy SirsiDynix shenanigans in sunny Southampton
(Well, it'll be sexy in-so-far as I'm including some gratuitous nudity in my session on "RSS and Social Networking" on Thursday. Will I be stripping off and revealing all in the name of "2.0"? You'll have to come along and find out!) I'm currently sat in Manchester Airport, waiting for a budget flight down to [...]
Scrum and Agile
I'm sure many SirsiDynix customers remember the terms "Scrum" and "Agile" being bandied around a few years ago during the development of Horizon 8.0. What I don't remember being as widely reported at the time was that half of the developers were based in Russia (the other half were based in Provo, USA). Anyway, the [...]
decorative tag cloud
It's not often that I'd consider adding pure "eye candy" to the OPAC, but I couldn't decide what would be the best way of making this tag cloud functional. So, I made an executive decision and decided it shouldn't be functional If you run a keyword search on our OPAC, at the foot of the [...]