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October 2009
How To: Getting Started with Amazon EC2
by marco
EC2 lets you easily run and manage many instances (like servers) and given the proper software and configurations, have a scalable platform for your web application, outsource resource-intensive tasks to EC2 or for whatever you would use a server farm
The URI microformat, OpenURL and COIns, will be very interesting to library application - in "Programming" (Tricks/tips learned in daily programming work)
by decembre
& 1 other
The URI microformat takes advantage of OpenURL and existing link resolver solution.It defines a convention of plugging URI metadata in HTML page. If it is adopted and widely used,now a microformat-aware application (be a greasemonkey script, or a web service) can grab the identifier and point to your local OpenURL resolver, you immediately get the copy from local library.It is very similar to COINS, but it's much simpler and cleaner, anyone can understand and use it, and its aplication can be beyond traditional research library. e.g. in a public library, you can use amazon as catalog and immediately check if it's available in local collection.------- COinS provides a great number of additional capabilities that URI microformat can't support. Since COinS can't be dismissed for this reason, it doesn't make sense to me to create yet another standard that does the same thing with so little savings.I will grant that the COinS is less intuitive.....
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September 2009
Is it a bird ? Is it a plane ? No. It’s a monopolistic library-bookseller - Analyse inquiétante sur Google books
by decembre
Analyse inquiétante et malheureusement teintée de lucidité d’Olivier Ertzscheid sur Google books : "Google libraire. Google bibliothécaire. Amazon éditeur.l’avenir de la prescription documentairequi n’est rien moins - sans lyrisme déplacé - que le simple avenir de la transmission des savoirs et de la culture à l’échelle de la planète
Amazon - Constrained Search vs. Random Results
by access2
The way to find needles in the immense haystack of Amazon.com is through constrained search.
Amazon's search function, like most others, claims to use a logical AND operator on keywords. That is search results for "Amazon Warriors," for example, should contain both "Amazon" AND "Warriors."
In fact, you will find that, all things being equal -- "Amazon" AND "Warriors" results will appear higher than "Amazon" OR "Warriors" results.
You need to "drill down" through the thousands of Amazon Categories to find the results that meet your criteria. I could go on and on (there really are thousands of categories) but I think this small sample will illustrate how different your results can be for a single search term
Amazon aStores @ Amazon.com
by access2
Now you can quickly and easily build thousands of Amazon product pages using the unlimited category nesting feature, build your own site navigation, and customize your store's look and feel with CSS.
The Whole Ed Cata-Blog
by access2
There are over 75 million pages at Amazon.com, and the major search engines don't index them nearly as well as you might think. My blog is your guide to the Amazon backwaters. This work is supported solely by Amazon commissions.
Eucalyptus Systems Inc
by jpcaruana
& 1 other
Eucalyptus is an open-source system for implementing on-premise private and hybrid clouds using the hardware and software infrastructure that is in place, without modification.
August 2009
Brain Off » There is a Kitfox. More on OpenStreetMap at Camp Roberts :: Mikel Maron :: Building Digital Technology for Our Planet
by karlcow
The OSM rails app and tile rendering system were straightforward to take offline, and run locally. Walking Papers took some hacking. The print and scan storage was optionally disengaged from S3.
Search by title if ISBN not found – Userscripts.org
by decembre
Liens du catalogue opac intégrer dans Amazon , ce script donne le statut du livre
July 2009
libcloud python library - a unified interface cloud server providers
by Xavier Lacot
& 2 others
Libcloud is a standard client library for many popular cloud providers, written in python. Exactly what I talked about a few weeks ago when asking for a common API to all cloud server providers. Now search for a way to convert / move an image from one provider to another !
Avec Yahoo Pipes Vérifiez la présence de ses ISBN dans Amazon (et GBS) - "Encore Un BiblioBlog"
by decembre
Pourquoi est-ce que j’ai fait ça ? Parce que pour utiliser les API Amazon, il faut avoir une clé Amazon et utiliser les API en question pour un site web. Moi, j’en ai besoin en local, ponctuellement. J’avais pu tester les API LibraryThing pour constater qu’ils couvraient 30% de notre catalogue (sur un échantillon de 1000 ISBN). Je n’avais pas pu le faire pour Amazon. Désormais je sais qu’Amazon couvrirait 94% de nos notices. Pour être plus précis : Amazon a identifié 94% de nos ISBN. En l’état, cela ne me dit pas quel pourcentage de couvertures il peut me proposer, ou de tables des matières, résumés, commentaires, etc. Il faudrait que j’affine l’analyse des réponses que le site donne dans ses listes de résultats.
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Bibliobsession 2.0 » Greasemonkey - Comment disséminer la bibliothèque grâce à greasemonkey?
by decembre
& 1 other
L’exemple le plus fameux et le plus fascinant pour les bibliothèques est le fait de pouvoir lier de manière dynamique des grands catalogues commerciaux le permettant (Amazon) et le catalogue de votre bibliothèque. Certaines bibliothèques anglophone proposent d’ores et déjà d’ajouter des petits bouts de codes qui rendent possible de savoir en visitant Amazon si la notice qu’il consultée figure dans le catalogue de la bibliothèque. Par exemple, sur ce blog est présenté le script de la bibliothèque de Colombus, et vous trouverez ici la liste des bibliothèques (rien de francophone hélas) proposant des scripts. La copie d’écran ci-dessous montre une page Amazon dans laquelle se trouve la phrase "le livre est disponible dans la bibliothèque de Keene!"
OSkope - visual search engine
by decembre
& 3 others
You can visually display and explore search results for specific keywords right inside your browser window. Results from Amazon, eBay, Flickr, Fotolia, Yahoo! and YouTube can be explored in different visualizations styles like: grid, stack, pile, graph and list.
