[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 [...]
Posts from ‘January, 2006’
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 [...]
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 [...]