The Long Tail in PINES (and the larger potential)
A couple of us came across an entry in Lorcan Dempsey’s Blog about the “long tail” argument, and we started thinking about it in the context of PINES Consortium and Evergreen. So, I started digging around in the PINES data, and discovered some really interesting numbers. Over 1.9 million holds have been placed in PINES. … Continue Reading about The Long Tail in PINES (and the larger potential) →
Running the gauntlet: Volume 1
I began work on open-ils.supercat this weekend, and things are going swimmingly so far. I created the open-ils.supercat.record.marcxml.retrieve and open-ils.supercat.metarecord.mods.retrieve methods with no problem, and added open-ils.supercat.record.mods.retrieve as well. The metarecord building code is mostly a big pile of DOM, but you can see the code here in the sub called retrieve_metarecord_mods if you are … Continue Reading about Running the gauntlet: Volume 1 →
Record groups? We got your record groups!
While we don’t have the many millions of records that OCLC does (what, 60M+?), we do have a local database to play with, an extensible ILS, and the desire to do fun stuff like OCLC does. So, I wrote an xISBN clone while working on the open-ils.supercat OpenSRF application. Instead of grouping records into FRBR … Continue Reading about Record groups? We got your record groups! →