announcing gnujake-0.2

[Daniel Chudnov]

>pardon x-posts<


announcing gnujake-0.2:    

  http://gnujake.med.yale.edu/

Progress on gnujake continues.  Many new database content lists have been
added; retrieval is now much faster; more fields including
citation/fulltext start/end dates are being tracked; over 11,600
cross-referenced (mostly serials) titles are now findable; a new update
script under heavy development is being used to regularly refresh the
data.

Internally, gnujake now uses xml and xsl to format and render results;
anyone can now write their own gnujake front end by simply querying
gnujake remotely and rendering results locally using xsl or a suitable
equivalent.  Simply put, this means you can create a view of gnujake that
is entirely specific to your institution, replete with dynamically
generated links into your own holdings.  Instructions on how to do so are
up at the site, and there are some sample stylesheets for generic and
Yale-specific views of gnujake.

Additionally, two new mailing lists (gnujake-list and gnujake-devel-list)
are up and available to anyone who wishes to participate.

gnujake is free to all to use, copy, modify, or redistribute under the
terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL).  If you want it, you can
have it.  Try it... you just might like it.  And if you don't, tell us
why and we'll make it better.

Areas in which development needs to be focused in the near future include
increasing the retrieval of fulltext information, linking between
resources, and web/application-based management tools, and making the
generic and Yale stylesheets much much better than their current, simple
forms.


about gnujake:

gnujake (GNU Jointly Administered Knowledge Environment) seeks to make
management of and linking between online resources easier for library
patrons and staff. It does so by managing online resource metadata with a
database union list, title authority control, linking tools, and a local
holdings layer.



  Regards,

  -Dan


Daniel Chudnov
Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Yale University
(203) 785-4347