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METS XForm

Submitted by administrator on Sun, 08/17/2008 - 15:38.

So while waiting for my consulting contract from UVM to come through I thought I’d while away the time with a METS XForm. This has immediately proved more challenging than I had anticipated. I think it would not be to hard to make institution specific forms but that it will be nearly impossible to create [...]

FireFox 2.0.0.13

Submitted by administrator on Thu, 03/27/2008 - 13:31.

I pretty much dread every Firefox upgrade, because of the havoc it could wreck on my XForms. The past few upgrades have been problem free, but yesterday’s automatic update has put a halt to metadata production once again. I’m having trouble explaining myself to the disgruntled catalogers who had just gotten back to work.
I’ve e-mailed [...]

Session Solutions

Submitted by administrator on Wed, 03/12/2008 - 14:33.

So I came up with two possible solutions to my sessions problem, I’m sure there are others as well.
1) I could store all the xqueries that build my metadata admin interface in eXist with restricted read permissions so that uses would be presented with a login from the server when they arrive at the page, [...]

Struggling with sessions

Submitted by administrator on Mon, 03/10/2008 - 20:07.

Right before I left for Code4lib 2008 we had a serious db crash, this was an eXist issue, which I’m hoping was partially solved by upgrading to 1.2 as well as some re-writing of xqueries to eliminate most of our temporary fragments creation. We haven’t had any problems with crashing since the upgrade, but a [...]

XForms for Metadata Creation

Submitted by administrator on Fri, 02/29/2008 - 22:06.

I just got back from Code4lib 2008 in Portland Oregon. Last year I did a lightning talk on XForms, this year I did full 20 minute presentation. Well, actually I did half a 20 minute presentation. I split the slot with Michael Park from Brown. We had both been working on MODS editors and had [...]

MODS for everyone

Submitted by administrator on Mon, 02/18/2008 - 13:51.

When I started working on the CDI project almost 2 years ago there were no easy solutions for integrating the creation and editing of complex metadata into a project workflow. Most DAMS (Digital Asset Management Systems) came with the ability to create Dublin Core, or some form of modified Dublin Core, but the creation of [...]

Working, not blogging

Submitted by administrator on Fri, 12/14/2007 - 15:14.

The past few weeks have been pretty busy for me, and I haven’t had much time or inclination to blog. But here is a round-up of what’s going on at the CDI these days.
MODS editor
The new MODS editor (talked about here, and you can see a version here) has been in production for about a [...]

MODS: a bumpy launch

Submitted by administrator on Tue, 12/04/2007 - 00:07.

Last week was our target date to launch the new MODS editor. On Wednesday we had a training session with the cataloging department to review workflow and familiarize the catalogers with the form. Metadata has been a bit of a bottle neck for us because the two librarians who were doing the cataloging could only [...]

Authority Control: MODS & MADS

Submitted by administrator on Tue, 10/30/2007 - 17:52.

I’ve been working on implementing authority control in our metadata editor for the past few weeks. I’ll spare you the painful details and just outline the process and direct you to a mostly working example of the MODS editor with name and subject suggest (the subjects suggest is still a bit buggy) functions.
I decided [...]

An XForms evening

Submitted by administrator on Wed, 10/17/2007 - 13:56.

XML 2007 is in Boston this year, and part of the line up is an XForms evening event. The line up of speakers looks great and includes many of the people whose work I have relied heavily on in exploring XForms during the past year (in particular: John Boyer, Erik Bruchez, and Mark Birbeck).
I’m not [...]

XForms and CSS

Submitted by administrator on Wed, 10/10/2007 - 19:54.

I’m in the final steps on my MODS XForm (check out the updated copy here), and I’ve run across quite a number of strange behaviors, and downright infuriating bugs. Most problems I’ve had have been with CSS. I would really like to use the display:table, display:table-row, display:table-cell to get my input boxes and labels to [...]

Inching closer to a MODS form

Submitted by administrator on Mon, 09/17/2007 - 13:42.

I’ve spent most of the last week developing the MODS XForm. You can take a look at its current incarnation here. The implementation of the form itself is not terribly difficult, although the nested repeats can get a little tricky. The real time sink is in trying to create a form that makes sense and [...]

Xforms suggest

Submitted by administrator on Fri, 08/24/2007 - 18:51.

So I have an XForms suggest function mostly working (you can see an example here, click on the “subject analysis” tab and try typing in milk, or united states). I used this tutorial to get the XForm working, and an XQuery that looks for all unique subjects starting with the submitted value.
It is a neat [...]

MODS XForm Update

Submitted by administrator on Tue, 08/14/2007 - 15:26.

I’ve finally had a chance to revisit my MODS XForm. Although I had been using Orbeon, I discovered this week that the origin and context attributes work in Firefox, so I have been doing most of my development with Firefox. I couldn’t find any documentation on this (looked here and here), but I have been [...]

Trouble with deletes

Submitted by administrator on Fri, 07/13/2007 - 01:26.

I haven’t been paying a whole lot of attention to our metadata editing interface lately, it has been kind of a relief to let it go, and work on some of the other issues on my list, like getting my development server put together, learning how to use mod_rewrite, trying to get a handle on [...]

Update on CDI XForms

Submitted by administrator on Thu, 06/14/2007 - 15:42.

Well, the new version of the Firefox XForms extension came out last week, and all my forms are working again. I am working on a version for Orbeon as well and I have a lot of thoughts about Orbeon vrs. Firefox, but will save that for a later post.
I have posted a version of my [...]

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