Seeing as I've got my head in the clouds at the moment, here's one showing the most popular keyword search words used on our OPAC during the last 6 months… www.daveyp.com/blog/stuff/opacsearches.html To be honest, there aren't too many surprises in there — students studying business & law and the health sciences are the heaviest users [...]
Posts Tagged ‘horizon7’
The tie-dyed OPAC ball
This Second Life (SL) hack is slightly more useful and is my first attempt at integrating OPAC functionality into a SL object…
Lending paths
Whilst working on Pewbot, I wondered if you could really predict the future borrowing pattern of a user based on a specific book — in other words, if they borrow book X will they then go on to borrow book Y and then book Z? Anyway, I've knocked together a basic script that will extrapolate [...]
OPAC keyword email alerts
One of the medical conditions I suffer from is the common "not-enough-hours-in-the-day-itus" — bits of software and new stuff gets prototyped or developed to the proof-of-concept stage, and then put to one side when something more important comes up. This is something I originally coded in January 2006, briefly blogged about in mid February, then [...]
Getting HIP updates & add-ons via a HTTP proxy
A couple of years ago we wanted to try out the optional ADA Profile for HIP 3 but, try as I might, I could not get the add-on to download using the HIP admin pages. After much pondering, I realised that it's because our external firewall was blocking HIP from being able to connect 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 settings? [...]
Three Coins in the OPAC
Inspired by Lorcan Dempsey's post about Coins in Open WorldCat, I've been messing around with adding Coins to our OPAC. I still need to research the specification in further depth, but it's been relatively easy to add a prototype to our OPAC. Here's how it displays in Firefox using the Openly OpenURL Referrer extension: I've [...]
More Ajax goodness
I've spent the afternoon Ajax-ing the "did you mean?" code on the OPAC, and also finishing off the serendipity suggestions. The serendipity suggestions take longer to generate than before, as the the code now considers keyword phrases returned by answers.com, instead of just single keywords. As an example, here's what appears if I try searching [...]
book suggestions from "pewbot"
I've put together my first hack using pewbot — suggestions based on an individual's loan history. By running a user's loan history against the "also borrowed" database, it's possible to build a list of titles that should be of interest to that borrower. For example, if a student had borrowed the following 4 IT books: [...]
Dewey DNA Profile your checkouts
It has come to my attention that we have a large number of items being removed from our shelves. Whoever is doing this is being extremely clever by not removing too many from any one shelf. I have long harboured suspicions that this is in some way related to all of those people who keep [...]