We’ve reached a milestone in our list of Basecamp projects. 65 projects! And, we have more in our queue that have been submitted but not approved.
Over the past few months, we’ve developed a process for managing the flow of projects that we are working on to be submitted, approved and documented.
We start with filling [...]
After years of creating multiple versions of files and directories and storing them locally, we in NYPL Labs are moving to a shared repository for our code and our projects. It’s a big move. We are using subversion to manage the code for all of our work. The first step [...]
I’ve now been to my first web conference! Jennifer Anderson and I went to the An Event Apart conference in Boston last week and gathered a cornucopia of great web delights. What follows are some choice morsels.
Jeffrey Zeldman spoke of the pain of being a web designer, “the Rodney Dangerfield of [...]
Every task and activity requires that we find the right hammer to get the job done. Recently, I asked my colleagues to list their favorite mini-applications and tools that helped make their jobs a little easier or helped with a specific task. The list grew as folks realized how many applications they [...]
I wonder what it is about the petite, the miniature, the small that is so attractive to so many? If we knew, we could explain the fascination with cuteoverload.com, the Hello Kitty phenomenon or the aaaww factor of baby animals. One explanation is the “Cute Factor,” which is comprised of cues that indicate extreme [...]
We’ve launched our reconfigured, reorganized, reconstituted, rejuvenated, restructured Digital Collections page!
We only have a few days of data and it will be interesting to see how this develops over time, but so far the most popular links are:
NYPL Digital Gallery (3.6%)
eNYPL (3.3%)
more image collections (3.2%)
more text collections (1.6%)
articles & databases (1.0%)
webcasts, audio & video (1.0%)
In [...]
What is a collection? We know the answer to this question from a library perspective. Collections and digital collections have very specific meanings in a library. The Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science provides more details.
But, what does a “collection” mean to a user of a library website? Does it [...]
You know I really need to know
-Pete Townsend
In 1982 I was a freshman in college (yes, I know this dates me!) and a group of us drove to Shea Stadium to see The Who since it was being billed as their last tour ever. (Well, not really)…
Pete Townsend’s questions come to mind now while [...]
