December Executive Committee Report
On Friday, December 17th, the PINES Software Development staff conducted presentations on the Evergreen project at the PINES Executive Committee meeting in Dawsonville, Georgia. We covered widely varying areas of the software in these presentations. In this written report, I am going to glean some of the more interesting or important points from those presentations … Continue Reading about December Executive Committee Report →
mozilla/xpcom/javascript
So we’ve reached a small milestone this week.. I’ll start from the beginning. Mozilla, which we’re using as the client side software platform, has a built in framework called XPCOM which allows developers to add software components to the overall application. For example, if you developed a fast XML processing application that you wanted to … Continue Reading about mozilla/xpcom/javascript →
A Tale of Two Encodings
In my last post I explained the basics of how we will be handling MARC records as XML. To recap, we will store our bibliographic record as MARC21slim XML documents. This format is recommended and maintained by the Library of Congress, so we feel confident using it. Now we just need to morph our binary … Continue Reading about A Tale of Two Encodings →