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(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