Web Developers (Yale)

2006-05-10
Jeff Barnett on Yulib (in response to official announcement): "What I created is referred to by Firefox as a "search plugin", not a full fledged helper application or conventional "plug in". Documentation on how to build more like it is at http://mycroft.mozdev.org/deepdocs/deepdocs.html. The heavy lifting is done by the search engines themselves (in this case Orbis). The search plugin's role is simply to format the query in a standard way, and provide a way of identify the search engine to Firefox and to the user."

2006-04-27
Julie Linden mentioned Jeffrey Barnet's (POG-inspired) Orbis bookmarklet for Firefox. I downloaded it from mozdev.org. Possible to tweak so that search defaults to title rather than keyword? Check Mozilla plugin documentation.

[2005-02-22]
Per Karen Reardon memo, note in particular list of current ILTS projects , including, among many other items, a link to Yale Library International Database. Also note ILTS's Digital Library Research and Planning Wiki


Some action items from yesterday's meeting:
-WW&DCS will investigate technologies to enable a 'printer friendly' output button for pages using the FD templates that might need to be printed.

-We will create and maintain a list of current projects and technologies being explored with contact information for interested parties. Note that some of this is already listed in the ILTS project plan;
See also Electronic Library Initiatives (ELI).

-PIC will consider wording and placement of links to MetaLib (PIC is already doing this - results will be publicly posted.)

-We will investigate any possibility of 'web ssh' access to servers. If there were other topic I may have forgotten, please e-mail me. We will post updates to these issues as they happen."