[update: we're now using Aspell and the Text::Aspell module]
HIP 4 contains a spellchecking "did you mean?" facility which, although not as powerful as Googles, is certainly a step in the right direction. One of the basic rules of designing any web based system that supports searching or browsing is to always give the user choices [...]
Posts from ‘January, 2006’
"Did You Mean?" for HIP 2 or 3
Amazon.co.uk Greasemonkey script
This Greasemonkey script (based on Carrick Mundell's script) for the Firefox web browser adds details of (and links to) our library holdings to the Amazon.co.uk site:
To use the script, you'll need to do the following:
1) Make sure you have the latest version of Firefox installed
2) Go to http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/ and install the Greasemonkey extension
3) Close [...]
REST output from Huddersfield's catalogue
Inspiried by John Blyberg's middleware which provides REST output from the Ann Arbor catalogue, I've put together something similar for ours:
http://webcat.hud.ac.uk/rest/info.html
Here are some sample results:
http://161.112.232.203:4128/rest/keyword/author/tolkien
http://161.112.232.203:4128/rest/keyword/subject/yorkshire railways
http://161.112.232.203:4128/rest/record/id/411760
http://161.112.232.203:4128/rest/record/isbn/1904633048
I've decided to include more information in the output than John did — primarily because I want to use the REST output to power a staff OPAC. Amongst other things, [...]