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VUFind “Midwest” User’s Group Meeting
An inaugural VUFind “Midwest” User’s Group Meeting was held Friday, September 3, and this posting outlines my perceptions of what happened there. The “Catholic Portal” uses VUFind as its “discovery...
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CRRA in San Diego, January 2011
We invite you to attend the CRRA reunion and discussions in San Diego on Thursday afternoon, January 6, 2011. We are scheduling this meeting before the ALA Midwinter Meeting meetings begin on Friday in...
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VuFind 2.0 Conference
VUFind is the technical backbone of the “Catholic Portal”, and this posting documents my experiences at the VuFind 2.0 Conference held at the Villanova Conference Center on September 15 & 16, 2010....
View ArticleAdding unitid elements to did elements
This posting outlines how I believe I will add unitid elements to did elements of EAD files. The problem As the CRRA matures, I expect a greater amount of the metadata ingested into the “portal” will...
View ArticlePreparing EAD files for indexing
This posting outlines how I plan to prepare EAD files for indexing with Solr, the underlying indexing technology of VUFind. The problem I am aggregating sets of EAD files from Catholic Research...
View ArticleCRRA Update September 2010
CRRA Update SEPTEMBER 2010 In this update … CRRA Welcomes Three New Members Duquesne University, Laverna Saunders Loyola Marymount University, Kristine Brancolini University of St. Michael’s College in...
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Today I indexed some of the metadata I extracted yesterday using a script called index-ead.pl. Of all the scripts I’ve written so far, this one is the most straight-forward. Read locally-developed XML...
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EAD @ Marquette 4 CRRA
This is the briefest of travelogues reporting on a meeting about EAD files at Marquette University for the Catholic Research Resources Alliance on September 20, 2010. A few members of the Alliance were...
View ArticleVery satisfying!
I have made significant progress in the process of harvesting EAD files and preparing them for ingestion into the “Catholic Portal”. This posting outlines the successes. Assuming a Catholic Research...
View ArticleIndexing MARC and EAD in VUFind with Solr for the CRRA
This posting outlines how I am currently indexing MARC and EAD files in VUFind with Solr for the CRRA. (Boy, there are a lot of acronyms in that sentence!) Background The Catholic Research Resources...
View ArticleDigital Access Committee (DAC) Meeting
Today we had a CRRA Digital Access Committee (DAC) meeting via the telephone. Attendees included: Ann Hanlon Demian Katz Eric Frierson Eric Morgan Kevin Cawley Pat Lawton Susan Leister Thomas...
View ArticleNames & addresses
This posting outlines how the names & addresses of the “Catholic Portal” are made available. The purpose of this posting is mostly documentation. Documentation for myself, since I always forget....
View ArticleInternet Archive content, VUFind (Solr), and text mining
The posting outlines how I have: 1) mirrored metadata and full text content from the Internet Archive, 2) made the mirrored content accessible through VUFind, and 3) implemented a rudimentary text...
View ArticleCRRA Update October 2010
CRRA Update OCTOBER 2010 CRRA Welcomes Dominican University and University of San Francisco Spotlight on Portal Development: Progress on EAD; VuFind Announces 2.0 Roadmap CRRA January 6, 2011 in San...
View ArticleVUFind record drivers and templates
This posting documents how I wrote and edited a couple of VUFind record drivers and Smarty templates for the “Portal” of the Catholic Research Resources Alliance. In writing this posting I hope to...
View ArticleText mining Catholic pamphlets
This is the quickest of blog postings outlining how I am initially providing a text mining interface to digitized Catholic pamphlets. Jean McManus used a scanner to create PDF versions of a few...
View ArticleCatholic pamphlets and the “Catholic Portal”
This posting outlines a possible workflow for getting digitized versions of Notre Dame’s Catholic pamphlets into the “Catholic Portal”. The problem The University of Notre Dame owns a significant...
View ArticleCRRA Update November 2010
CRRA Update NOVEMBER 2010 Welcome to the University of Dayton and to DePaul University, the Alliance’s Newest members! Watch for more information about Dayton and DePaul in the December Update....
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Catholic Portal look & feel
Thanks to the good work done by Eric Frierson of St. Edwards University, the “sandbox” of “Catholic Portal” now sports the look & feel of our public view: Moreover, since the “sandbox” is runs...
View ArticleBlogpost about CRRA – DePaul Univ Law Library
CRRA is getting some press … DePaul University Rinn Law Library for their recent blogpost “Catholic Research Resources Alliance Helps Locate Canon Law Titles”...
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