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 be [...]
Posts Tagged ‘hip’
Squeezing Juice into the OPAC
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.
HIPpie — how to build a dictionary
Many thanks to those of you who've tested the code from yesterday! Those of you outside of the UK might want to see if this version works slightly faster for you:
hippie_spellcheck_v0.02.txt
The next thing I'll be looking at is how to optimise the spellchecker dictionary for each library. Some of you will already have [...]
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 middle [...]
HIPpie "Did you mean?" ready for testing
I've just finished plugging the first bit of HIPpie into our test OPAC:
I'm gonna be out of the office for most of next week (3 days in London at Online Information 2007), but I'll start contacting those of you who said you'd like to be involved with the testing. The test code just requires [...]
HIP XML Parser (v0.01) – search parser
Okay folks – here's the companion piece of code to the bib parser I posted a few weeks ago!
http://www.daveyp.com/blog/stuff/xmlparser/search.pl
As with the previous code, this is alpha at best and should be treated as such. However, if you have any suggestions then please feed them back to me.
As well as specifying your own $url, you can [...]
HIP XML Parser (v0.01)
This is some code that I've been meaning to make available for public consumption for weeks, but we've been up to our necks with our RFID tender at Huddersfield recently.
The basic idea is to convert the XML output of HIP 2 and HIP 3 into a Perl data structure, which you can then use to [...]
HIP Tip: changing the timeout
This is in response to an email Anne Barnard posted to the Horizon-L mailing list:
I have my global settings session timeout set to 5 minutes, and my search timeout set to 2 minutes. I'm starting to get complaints from remote users that they timeout to quickly. How long are other libraries making their [...]
Live OPAC search terms display
Another shameless hack inspired by the "Making Visible the Invisible" at SPL.
I've tweaked HIP to cache keyword search terms and then put together a couple of pages that display successful searches (in tasteful shades of purple and lilac) and failed searches (in gruesome greens).
IE has a nice CSS blur, so I've coupled that with Ajax [...]
Curse you Superpatron!
It's way past my bedtime, but the Ann Arbor Superpatron has been planting ideas in my head again…
Recently Checked Out Books feed (in RSS or otherwise)
I've not built a feed, but I have come up with these two representations of the most recent check outs (click for larger versions):
1) The last 30 covers to walk [...]