AustLit

What I've done

• ADFA proxy authentication issues from AustLit resolved thanks to Geoff Collin's configuration of the ADFA proxy, allowing us to successfully "relay" full text from the SETIS site back to our subscribers without requiring hardcoded userids or passwords.

  Work with Creagh Cole to link to SETIS full text (HTML and PDF) completed.

• Followups on continuing issues regarding IP based authentication. Shared proxies used by ISP's make IP based authentication problematic, and the issues in each case can be time-consuming to address.

• After a hiatus of several weeks, took up the task of maintaing scope information in the indexer's user interface. This is a significant programming task, and a few days further work remains.

• A few changes to stylesheets and other formatting following maintainer and user feedback (change formating of journal source list;works without manifestations/sources for Tessa; changes to publication date formats (don't think this is finalised yet!);image list (not sure why...);add "show parts" function to list works comprising series and sequences;include works with full text on SETIS as "electronic resources" for sorting purposes;

• The system was stable. The power supply will be disconnected from the ADFA library between 11am and 1pm on Saturday 13th April. I'll start the shutdown of the server just after 10am, disconnect the power and restart it as soon as possible after 1pm.

Next Week

• Continue design/implementation of relationship scopes. The first use for this facility will be year-scoping of award-as-subject relationships.

• Move awards to be event-based rather than work-based.

• Refining NBD Holdings searches.

• Review all subset definitions for efficacy.

• Import/export in MARC and DC formats.

• SDI facility.

• Combining searches

• System Documentation

Links of the week

• How can BIBSYS benefit from FRBR? - powerpoint presentation by Ole Husby, BIBSYS to the NetLab conference, April 2002, Sweden

  "FRBR should be used as a framework for all BIBSYS thinking about bibliographic data".

  Cites AustLit. Thanks to Debbie Campbell for sending me this reference.

• Semantic problems of thesaurus mapping - powerpoint presentation by Martin Doerr, ICS-FORTH to the same NetLab conference, April 2002, Sweden

• Emancipating Instances from the Tyranny of Class - Jeffrey Parsons, Yair Wand

  Database design commonly assumes, explicitly or implicitly, that instances must belong to classes. This can be termed the assumption of inherent classification. We argue that the extent and complexity of problems in schema integration, schema evolution, and interoperability are, to a large extent, consequences of inherent classification. Furthermore, we make the case that the assumption of inherent classification violates philosophical and cognitive guidelines on classification and is, therefore, inappropriate in view of the role of data modeling in representing knowledge about application domains.

  As an alternative, we propose a layered approach to modeling in which information about instances is separated from any particular classification.

• Develop Your Own Applications Using Google

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