I should have done screencasts like the above long ago. It’s not that they’re great, but they are a wonderful excuse to use the canned lounge music I’ve got. Those videos are now on the front page of the official Scriblio site, and I did five more to demo the installation and configuration. Big thanks [...]

Posted March 3, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches, Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: lib20, library 2.0, screencast, scriblio. Be the first one.

My slides for my presentation yesterday at code4lib are available both as a 2.7MB QuickTime and a 7.8 MB PDF, while the gist of talk went something like this:
Scriblio is an open source WordPress plugin that adds the ability to search, browse, and create structured data to the the popular blog/content management platform. And WordPress [...]

Posted February 25, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: lib20, libraries, library 2.0, release, scriblio, Scriblio 2.7, wordpress. One Comment.

The above graph is far from typical, but I love that the box (the top one in this picture) can do the job when it needs to. This activity is a result of bulk record imports, web activity results in relatively little database traffic due to my use of Memcached and Batcache.

Posted February 19, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches, Technology. Tags: batcache, memcached, mysql, optimization, scriblio, server, wordpress. Be the first one.

It’s not WordCamp Paris (running on 7 February), but WordCamp Edu Northeast is today. I’m there to meet up with fellow WordPressies and talk about extending WordPress with Holladay Penick and Dave Lester.
Squeezing the three of us into a single time slot requires quite a bit of cutting, especially if we hope to have time [...]

Posted February 1, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches, Technology. Tags: presentation, scriblio, WordCamp, wordpress. One Comment.

Hi, I’m Casey. I developed Scriblio, which is really just a faceted search and browse plugin for WordPress that allows you to use it as a library catalog or digital library system (or both).
I’m not the only one to misuse WordPress that way. Viddler is a cool YouTube competitor built atop WordPress that allows you [...]

Posted September 22, 2008 by Casey
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: BuddyPress, DevCamp, identity management, lib20, libraries, library 2.0, scriblio, social software, wordpress. Be the first one.

(crossposted at Scriblio.net)
Using the newly released book viewability API in Google Book Search, Plymouth State University’s Lamson Library and Learning Commons is one of the first libraries to move beyond simply listing their books online and open them up to reading and searching via the web.
Take a look at how this works with books [...]

Posted March 13, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: books, ebooks, GBS, Google Book Search, lib20, libraries, library 2.0, library catalogs, read online, scriblio. 2 Comments.

Take note of the “New Feature: Text this to your cellphone” line above.
Adam Brin of Tricollege Libraries explained that the “text this to me” feature he built to send location information about items in the library catalog as text messages to a user’s cell phone is being used as many as 60 times a [...]

Posted February 28, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: catalog, lib20, libraries, library 2.0, library catalogs, scriblio, sms, text this to me, txt. 5 Comments.

I’m honored to be invited to the Ontario Library Association Superconference to present my work on Scriblio today (session #1329). A PDF of my slides is online.
Scriblio has had about a year of use in production at each of three sites, and the lessons suggest that Web 2.0 technologies really do work for libraries. And [...]

Posted February 1, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information. Tags: libraries, library 2.0, next generation catalog, OLA, Ontario Library Association, presentation, scriblio, superconference, superconference2008. Be the first one.

There can be no arguments about it, machine tags are cool and they solve problems. And now they work in WordPress with bSuite too (svn only, for the moment).
It’s not just because flickr popularized them that I like them, though it helps and you should definitely look at that stuff:

The announcement
Excitement from O’Reilly Radar, ProgrammableWeb, [...]

Posted December 17, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: folksonomy, machine tags, metadata, scriblio, tagging, tags, taxonomy. Be the first one.

Scriblio 2.3 v4 is out. See it. Download it. Install it. Join the mail list.
What’s new?

Lots of small bug fixes.
Implemented wp_cache support.
Revamped SQL query logic for better memory efficiency.
New widget options.
Search suggest/autocomplete support (implemented in the new theme).
New theme. New Theme! By Jon Link.

Posted December 11, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Technology. Tags: announcement, lib20, libraries, library 2.0, opac, OPAC replacement, release, scriblio, software. 5 Comments.