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Comment on Getting to know the Copac libraries 2 – York Minster, antiquarian material, and local notes by Copac Developments

Copac Developments — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:17:52 +0000

[...] reengineering. We will also be exploring FRBR work level deduplication. As I’ve mentioned in an earlier blog post , we don’t de-duplicate anything published pre-1801. So what do we do for the post-1801 [...]

Comment on Behind the Copac record by HotStuff 2.0 » Blog Archive » Word of the Day: “typos”

HotStuff 2.0 » Blog Archive » Word of the Day: “typos” — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:06:00 +0000

[...] the Copac record [web link]Copac Developments (26/Jan/2010)“…wouldn’t for example correct typos in [...]

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Tue, 26 Jan 2010 22:08:02 +0000

[...] Behind the Copac record at Copac Developments copac.ac.uk/development-blog/2010/01/behind-the-copac-record – view page – cached What’s happening behind the scenes at Copac [...]

Comment on Yesterday’s loss of service by Database update at Copac Developments

Database update at Copac Developments — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:29:24 +0000

[...] had a recurrence of the problem I reported a month ago and so last night we installed an update to the database software we use. I’m told the update [...]

Comment on Copac Beta can search your library too by Copac and museum libraries « London Museum Libraries and Archives

Copac and museum libraries « London Museum Libraries and Archives — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 09:01:37 +0000

[...] supported libraries to search both their local catalogue and Copac simultaneously. See Copac’s development blog for more [...]

Comment on New Copac interface by Ashley

Ashley — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:53:10 +0000

Owen, whichever authentication mechanism we support, we have to support the UK Federation (or Shibboleth if you prefer) as it is the JISC preferred authentication mechanism. The UK Federation is available to most, if not all, the UK academic research community and many other publicly funded organisations. And if you aren’t a member of such an organisation, then anyone can sign up with ProtectNetwork or TypeKey and get a login that way. ProtectNetwork gives you an OpenID as well.

I think that supporting multiple different authentication mechanisms is going to be confusing for users (never mind those that have to support the services), so we’d really like to support just the one authentication mechanism. The ID providers I mention above does make the UK Federation (and hence a Copac login) available to all.

Comment on New Copac interface by Owen Stephens

Owen Stephens — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:56:44 +0000

I guess the obvious question about logins is why not support OpenID for login?

Comment on New features of the Copac Beta Interface by New Copac interface at Copac Developments

New Copac interface at Copac Developments — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 15:07:51 +0000

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Comment on Atom and Shibboleth by William Waites

William Waites — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:18:36 +0000

JavaScript is not good for this sort of thing. This means making any of the data machine-useable is very hard which means building services or programs that use the information is hard – and it shouldn’t be.

Also keep in mind that many web browsers, particularly those in mobile phones might not work properly with JavaScript cruft. Imagine you’re somewhere deep in the stacks and you want to look something up – why not do it right then and there instead of going to find a computer?

Cookies are better but still unwieldy. I agree with Owen that if at all possible tokens in nice stable (RESTful) URLs are the best.

Comment on Joy Palmer by Sarah O'Donnell

Sarah O'Donnell — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:54:41 +0000

Thanks for putting me straight about twwets and twittering!
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