drupalib A place for library drupallers to hang out

For our Drupal4lib BoF, it looks like Sunday 6/29, sometime in the afternoon is the most popular time. Aaron's schedule of "Afternoon with LITA" was pretty helpful: Top Tech Trends (1:30-3:00), LITA Awards (3:00-4:00), and LITA President's program (4:00-5:30).

[Personally, I'm most interested in the Top Tech Trends, so -- again personally -- I'd be okay with anything after around 3pm. ]

As a way to nail down the time, I set up a Doodle poll so that people can specify their preference(s):

http://www.doodle.ch/85b5bs3gcyvnppcb

Location tentatively is in the LITA's Blogger Room. We could go out for dinner afterwards...

In any case, if you've got any comments, feel free to reply to me or leave them here.

I wanted to write up some of what we've got in the works just in case anyone has filled some of the missing pieces yet :)

Our virtual reference service records transcripts. The transcripts go in custom nodes. A custom index extracts URLs and another custom table extracts phrases from the patron's question. Phrases are groups of two or three words that don't contain a stopword and aren't broken by punctuation.

The slow, slow prototype, http://www.oregonlibraries.net/guides, shows popular phrases in questions in the past week. Clicking on a phrase (or searching for another) shows websites shared in transcripts where the question contained that phrase, sorted by how many times it happened.

Thanks to everyone who took the time to talk to me about how they're using Drupal for my presentation at the Computers in Libraries conference earlier this month. It went great! Here's the prez with audio.

I am proud to announce the newest version of the Millennium integration module, which crawls a Millennium WebOpac and converts MARC into Biblio nodes, adds taxonomy terms, and can show holdings information in real-time.

Check it out here: http://drupal.org/project/millennium

I've created a vocablulary called 'Category' (figuring I'd use the language of the users =8^) that can be applied to pretty much every content type on Drupalib, and seeded it with the following terms:

Advocacy
Documentation
Getting started
How to
Reviews
Training

Not sure if any of you noticed (well, at least a couple of you did since you emailed me), but the downtime today was due to a move to a new web hosting service. My previous one, WebServe, was sinking fast so I bailed. Their customer support over the last few months has dwindled to NULL, and last weekend I actually phoned tech support and got routed to a call center somewhere where "Jack" the dweeb wasn't even able to look up my user info based on my domain. His technical knowledge was equally lacking.

Spreading the luv between the larger Drupal and Joomla communities (http://drupal.org/node/213524, etc.), and following up on a thread in code4lib and other lists, I wanted to dash off a quick lunchtime post about the Joomla in Libraries site. My initial reaction is wow!