Six-hour meetings
It’s not exactly the Spanish Inquisition, but a six-hour meeting is as close as I want to come, thanks. At that, I’m more patient than most people seem to be; Allen Renear and the OEBF PubStruct group trained me up real good for marathon meetings.
Still. Brain fried now. With a side of cole slaw.
On the upside, I got a second patch accepted to DSpace today. This was the millions of emailed error messages bug, and apparently my band-aid fix was good enough.
For my next trick, I’m gonna turn author names in item pages into browse-by-author links. Yep. Shouldn’t be all that hard (famous last words). I was thinking about doing that for subject, too, but I’m not sure it’s worth the effort, given the meagre collections in your average repository—there’s just not enough subject duplication to lead people to anything useful.
(Pre-coordinate vs. post-coordinate vocabularies for IR metadata. Discuss. I’m for post-coordinate, myself, but I’ve never been all that convinced of the value of pre-coordination away from card catalogs. Heresy, I know; the LCSH Posse can burn me later.)
A link to an OAIster search or federated-search-tool search by subject, now… that might be interesting. Hmmm…