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It's 10 a.m. and your inbox has an 'Urgent' message from the State Librarian asking for an update on the “NCIP thing” for the statewide project first mentioned (to you) yesterday. You know there’s an open source “NCIP Toolkit” which supports the variety of systems involved in your statewide project, but you’ve also heard it’s pure Java and that’s not your cuppa. Sure it supports discovery with multiple ILS types, as well as resource sharing, patron empowerment, etc. etc. but is it possible to bridge those worlds? After a few minutes of searching you have a plan for ticking-off the “multi-vendor NCIP support” box on the project requirements. We’ll demonstrate a proof-of-concept implementation for PHP developers and report on the issues we encountered and our solutions.
== Powering Complicated Web Form in Rails Using XML ==
* Kristopher Kelly, New York Public Library, kristopherkelly@nypl.org
The New York Public Library recently launched the first phase of its new Metadata Management System, created in-house to create MODS-based metadata for digital assets. Moving from an idiosyncratic database design, the NYPL wanted to use a more standard format. Adopting MODS and XML led to the question of how to store the data. We chose to attempt to store XML in the database and edit it through a web form. Storing bibliographic data in such a way might seem counter-intuitive, but it has proven to solve more problems than it has created.
In this session, I will discuss how we were able to power a complicated form with XML while improving usability and overall performance.
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