[Web4lib] Make a shelf list searchable online?

[Bruce Jensen]

I greatly appreciate all the suggestions and help.  Though Scriblio is
great, there is no way at present that this Excel shelf list can be
significantly altered nor records imported--it's a staffing thing.
The current clumsy incarnation is at
http://faculty.kutztown.edu/rjensen/WC/searchX.asp and it works off
the existing list.  Which has some issues of its own, obviously, but
anyway...

I'm excited about the Simile project.  It looks like a tremendous way
to work with the given raw materials and I'll be experimenting with
that in the coming weeks.

On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:42 PM, rileyhuf <rileyhuf at olemiss.edu> wrote:
> 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
> Web Services Librarian
> Assistant Professor
> JD Williams Library
> University of Mississippi
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