Top ten reasons to use the Metalib X-Server
The X-Server is an optional, purchasable API to Metalib that allows you to design a custom metasearch application. But is it worth the price tag and development time and resources? Here are ten reasons...
View ArticleDeveloping fast X-Server applications
This article offers some design considerations aimed at improving the speed of an application using the Metalib X-Server. Performance Web services are all the rage these days, but they sometimes come...
View ArticleDealing with double-escaping in the X-Server
The X-Server double-escapes some XML character entity references, which, left unresolved, will affect the display of certain letters and symbols in your results. This article describes a simple...
View ArticleImproving the SFX menu
In a screen cast video I dissect some problems with the SFX menu and show a simpler interface developed at Cal State. Update: Transitioning to the new Ex Libris simplified menus If you previously...
View ArticleImpact of Xerxes at Cal State Fullerton
In this screen cast, I examine the large increase in usage that came with the migration from Metalib to Xerxes at Cal State Fullerton.
View ArticleBridge: WorldCat in Context
In this screen cast, I go over the design of a system to create localized WorldCat pages for books and other items that you might link to from your catalog or link resolver. This was my entry for the...
View ArticleUsing Metasearch to create a journal table of contents alerting service
In this screen cast I go over both the theory and the high-level technical requirements for using metasearch as a model for RSS table of contents.
View ArticleIntroducing Xerxes 2
Way back in 2004, I first set out to build an application that could serve as an improved user interface to Metalib, the federated search system developed and sold by Ex Libris. Just a few years prior,...
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