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 records into XML! (WARNING: What follows is pretty technical, so hang on tight.)
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Staff Client Themes and Skins
Previously, we mentioned CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) and how it allows us to separate presentation from content in our Mozilla-based applications. We have a few screenshots to demonstrate this. Let’s start with some drastic examples:
November Executive Committee Report
This is the first of what I hope will be informative and helpful progress reports for the Evergreen software development project. In this report I plan on giving a broad, project-wide overview of events, decisions, issues, and milestones that have occurred recently within the project. I also hope this report elicits responses and comments from you, the reader. My goal is to compile this sort of report at least monthly. The official target audience for this report is the PINES Executive Committee, but, of course, I welcome anyone to read and comment. I should also mention that since this is my first report, and I have to cover multiple months, this will most likely be one of my larger reports.