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Tag, You’re It: Can Subject Headings Really Become Tags?

December 9, 2008 by Joe Dalton
Filed in Digital Gallery, Indexes, Metadata, Subjects, Tagging

Last summer a talented colleague, Mark Matienzo, previewed a skunkworks project that he’d been working on at an NYPL DEG presentation. From what I can remember, it involved a Wordpress theme for connecting the oral histories of eminent physicists with archival and current commentary by other physicists. Or something like that. [...]

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The Need for Speed(y Searches)

September 3, 2008 by Kristopher Kelly
Filed in Acts_as_ferret, Ferret, Indexes, Internal interface, Ruby on Rails

More is more. 750,000 images is a lot of images, each nestled in a rich bed of additional data. So when it came time to build an internal application to search all of these images (published to our public gallery or not), it was obvious: Somewhere, we were going to need an index.
Since the application [...]

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