Joss has beaten me to blogging this, so rather than think for myself I’m just going to quote him in full. Yesterday, I submitted a proposal to Talis under their Incubator fund. If successful, I would have the pleasure of working with Paul Stainthorp, E-Resources Librarian at the University of Lincoln, and Casey Bisson, Information [...]
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Mashing in the Midlands on Monday
I’m at Birmingham City University on Monday for mashed library event No.3, a.k.a. #Middlemash. I’m giving a lightning talk in the morning covering the work we’ve done on using RefWorks to create new-book RSS feeds; I’ll also be trying to raise interest around Joss’s and my project to develop WordPress MU as a platform for [...]
OpacPress – semantic union catalogue
Joss Winn has blogged about a possible next stage in developing our idea of using WordPress MU+Scriblio+Triplify to create a flexible, devolved ‘union-catalogue-lite‘ Web2.0-age OPAC ecosystem. It’s going to require funding, and clearer thinking. Our lightning presentation received a muted response at Mash Oop North, but I’m sure that there’s a corker of an idea [...]
Blogs·Library·Lincoln is changing! (All for the better)
F.A.O. all staff in L&LR at the University of Lincoln. I’ve ‘pushed the button’ on quite a big change for the way L&LR staff post new messages to our three blogs. The main result of the change is that we’ve been brought within the main University blogging platform. Our old blogging interface [image below] is [...]
Blogs·Library·Lincoln software upgraded
I’ve just upgraded our installation of WordPress MU for Blogs·Library·Lincoln to the latest version, 2.6.3. And nearly broken the blogs in the process. Note my use of the word ‘nearly’!
New temporary WordPress theme for this blog
You’ll notice that I’ve changed the visual theme of this L&LR staff blog from the WordPress ‘default’ theme to a different, minimalist theme called ‘blog.txt‘. I’ve only done this because people were getting confused about which blog they were posting to(!) – so the change is just intended to distinguish between this blog, and the [...]
Blogging tip #2 – pasting from Word
If you paste text into WordPress from Microsoft Word (or Excel, PowerPoint, FrontPage etc.) using the usual cut-and-paste shortcuts (right-click > Paste or Ctrl > V), it can lead to some odd-looking blog posts. This is because WordPress will keep the formatting that Microsoft Word used, even if it doesn’t match the rest of the [...]
Blogging tip #1 – tags
When you write a blog post, you can enter any number of tags. You’ll see the ‘Add new tag’ field underneath the main ‘Post’ window. Tags are a really useful way of informally grouping together several blog postings covering the same subject(s), using [usually] one- or two-keyword phrases, so that readers of your blog can quickly view a [...]
