[WEB4LIB] Re: Organizing links pages

[Dietmar Bussmann]

Hi,

we are using a complete database version developed with cold fusion.

have a look at :

http://www.virtual-institute.de/en/link/eeinf.cfm

regards,

dietmar

Karen Harker wrote:

> We briefly flirted with the idea of having all our links in a database and using a ColdFusion application to retrieve the links and a brief description.  We got little enthusiasm for it, so we set in on the back burner.
>
> However, I do know that some sites are entirely controlled by a database.  I think we may still go back to the database idea when we get into allowing personalization of the home page.
>
> Karen R. Harker
> UT Southwestern Medical Library
> Dallas, TX
>
> >>> <toth-waddell at ontla.ola.org> 2/12/99 11:25:09 AM >>>
> This is a problem which I'm sure many libraries are beginning to encounter.
> We have developed a links page (containing over 700 sites) for our staff and
> clients which contains links to web sites of research value.  Some of these
> links appear under the jurisdiction responsible, eg. Canada - federal;
> Canada - provincial; others appear under broad topics and others yet under
> form, eg. Almanacs.  As you can imagine, in some cases links appear under
> more than one category/topic.
>
> Do you know of any better methods to organize these links which are
> proliferating outside of our OPAC?  Is it possible to create metadata
> records for these links, put them in a database and then still product an
> html page which is easily browsable?
>
> We would appreciate any suggestions on how to tackle this problem.  Thanks
>
> Annemarie Toth-Waddell
> Information Access Manager
> Ontario Legislative Library
>
> Toth-Waddell at ontla.ola.org
> (416) 314-8515
> Fax: (416) 314-8541



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