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jrochkind++ # very cool, and wickr++ # for the assist. beyond my personal use, this will be my first suggestion for a lot of my colleagues' questions/etc. cheers. On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Jonathan Rochkind <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > (PS: Thanks a lot to ryan wick for spending time helping to get a reasonable > ruby environment installed on the code4lib.org server, so I could then get > my scripting done quickly and pleasantly.) > > On 10/6/2011 9:35 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: >> >> So I was in #code4lib, and skome asked about ideas for library hours. And >> I recalled that there have been at least two articles in the C4L Journal on >> this topic, so suggested them. >> >> Then I realized that there's enough body of work in the Journal to be >> worth searching there whenever you have an "ideas for dealing with X" >> question. You might not find anything, but I think there's enough chance you >> will, illustrated by that encounter with skome. >> >> Then I realized it's not just the journal -- what about a Google Custom >> Search that searches over the Journal, the Code4Lib wiki, the Code4Lib >> website, and perhaps most interestinly -- all the sites listed in Planet >> Code4Lib. >> >> Then I made it happen. Cause it seemed interesting and I'm a >> perfectionist, I even set things up so a cronjob automatically syncs the >> list of sites in the Planet with the Google custom search every night. >> >> The Planet stuff ends up potentially being a lot of noise -- I tried to >> custom 'boost' stuff from the Journal, but I'm not sure it worked. But I did >> configure things with facet-like limits including a "just the planet" limit, >> if you do want that. But even though it's sometimes a lot of noise, it's >> also potentially the most interesting/useful part of the search, otherwise >> it'd pretty much just be a Journal search, but now it includes a bunch of >> people's blogs, as well as other sites deemed of interest to Code4Lib >> community (including a couple other open source library tech journals) -- >> without any extra curatorial work, just using the list already compiled for >> the Planet. >> >> I'm curious what people think of it. Try some searches for library tech >> questions or information and see how good your results are. If people find >> this useful, I'll try to include it on the main code4lib.org webpage in some >> prominent place, spruce up the look and feel etc. (Or try to draft someone >> else to do that, I think my time to work on this might be _just_ about up >> after staying until 9.30 hacking on this cause it seemed cool). >> >> http://www.code4lib.org/custom_search/search_form.html >