Pie Palace » BiblioCommons http://www.piepalace.ca/blog Mon, 26 Jul 2010 03:39:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 My blog likes your library http://www.piepalace.ca/blog/2009/12/my-blog-likes-your-library.html http://www.piepalace.ca/blog/2009/12/my-blog-likes-your-library.html#comments Tue, 29 Dec 2009 06:47:12 +0000 Erigami Scholey-Fuller http://www.piepalace.ca/blog/?p=1234
BiblioPress are go!

BiblioPress publishes reviews from a Bibliocommons-based library catalogue to a WordPress-based blog. In other words: all the time I wasted reviewing stuff on Ottawa’s library website is now made useful because my blog will automatically republish my reviews.

The plugin is something verging on beta software. It works, but its only had limited testing.

]]> http://www.piepalace.ca/blog/2009/12/my-blog-likes-your-library.html/feed 1 Hello Ottawa Public Library http://www.piepalace.ca/blog/2009/12/hello-ottawa-public-library.html http://www.piepalace.ca/blog/2009/12/hello-ottawa-public-library.html#comments Mon, 07 Dec 2009 04:24:25 +0000 Erigami Scholey-Fuller http://www.piepalace.ca/blog/?p=1205 And no, that isn’t a membership card in my pocket. I’m just happy to see your new catalog. Your FANTASTIC new catalog.

The crunky old catalog has been replaced with a shiny new BiblioCommons website. With a bit of searching, I managed to track down some info on BiblioCommons:

  1. They have a terrible website.
  2. Their founder, Beth Jefferson, appears to be a mix of volunteer-ist and entrepreneur (imagine that!).
  3. Beth talks about BiblioCommons in a podcast I haven’t listened to yet.
  4. They seem to snarf information from Amazon. (Their images come directly from Amazon)
  5. I am addicted to annotating books.

As far as I can tell, they don’t have an official API. I managed to find a Drupal module that professes to do BiblioCommons stuff, but I don’t know enough about Drupal to tell what it’s up to.

And their login pages confuse cURL. Boo!

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