Hands-on workshop for teaching people in libraries about open source software. Given the linked texts, the accompanying set of software & access to a Windows or Unix computer, the student should be able to read the essays, work through the exercises, and...
SRW/U are Web Services-based protocols for querying Internet indexes or databases and returning search results. A "REST-ful" Web Service usually encodes commands from a client to a server in the query string of a URL.
What frustrates me is the degree to which in libraries our human capital and our financial resources are tied into commercial software that rarely meets our needs well. The issue is how to break free of the inertia that keeps us in a technologically paral
Open source software is about having greater control over your computing environment. XML is about distributing your data and information unambiguously.
Open source software is about having greater control over your computing environment. XML is about distributing your data and information unambiguously.