Category Archives: Internet

Internet technologies

The power of collaborative editing

Posted on May 5, 2006 by Josh

At MSU we recently imported most of the The Making of Modern Michigan digital collection into a wiki. We’re getting some great additions to the wiki, corrections to the main authoritative page and some wonderful personal comments in the discussion … Continue reading →

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MSU Library – Amazon Integration

Posted on April 23, 2006 by Josh

I’ve modified Greasemonkey scripts by Carrick Mundell (based on work by Jon Udell) and the Silkworm Threadster extension to work with MSU libraries catalog. The first script checks whether a book you’re browsing on Amazon’s site is available in the … Continue reading →

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Alternative interfaces to digital collections

Posted on April 12, 2006 by Josh

I’m currently working at the MSU Libraries on a grant to create alternative/gaming interfaces to the Making of Modern Michigan project. We’ve come up with a lot of really great ideas. Among them are an automatically created subject hiearchy using … Continue reading →

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