[Web4lib] Make a shelf list searchable online?

[rileyhuf]

You may want to check out the Simile project from MIT. It is pretty nice. If
you have an excel file you can turn it into a searchable faceted site using
JSON. You don't really need to know much programming to make this run. The
great thing is that you can also host the excel file in google docs and
share it with your team so you don't need to get involved in content
updates. I think it has many practical applications.
 http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/Exhibit

Best,
Debra

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 1:58 AM, Bruce Jensen <flaco.jensen at gmail.com>wrote:

> Most of you can probably do this in your sleep, so I hope you might be
> able to point me toward the right book or online tutorial:
>
> The folks at a lending library with a couple thousand titles listed on
> a five-column sheet in an Excel workbook, want to make their
> collection visible & searchable on the Web.  Sorting the list by
> title, by author, etc. and making a static HTML page of each did not
> thrill them.  They wonder if a kind of keyword-searchable OPAC is
> possible.
>
> I moved the list to Access and have built some representative queries
> but am clueless where to go from here.  We have an ASP.NET-capable
> server available to use, but no real VBasic nor other programming
> talents to go with it.  I'd like to see a source that could step me
> through putting the database on the server, making the connection to
> it, building the .aspx page with the search form, and whatever else is
> needed.
>
> Any tips or models or instructive sources would be gratefully
> welcomed.  Thank you,
>
> Bruce
>
>
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Debra Riley-Huff
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JD Williams Library
University of Mississippi
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