Millennium module developer Alex Garza Gonzalez tells me, "
the Millennium module for Drupal now has a Drupal 6 version (it's a develpoment version, but it works)."
Thanks Alex for letting me know -- guess I get to play with it after all :-)
I've been foiled on my quest to play with the
Drupal Millenium module (aka the way one can integrates III Millennium with the cms). Seems like the
Bibliography module - a requirement for the install -- hasn't yet been updated to work with the latest version of Drupal (6.6 if you're counting).
"Ok," I say. I'll just start messing around with
SOPAC. On the surface, it seemed like something I could do with my current, middle-ground, level of tech expertise. I got stymied as soon as I read the requirements. Oh. It involves a bit more than installing and configuring a Drupal module. One needs to install a search engine and something called PEAR::MDB2. Fudge. More mucking around infodiva's hosting environment from the command line. I'll need to create another mySQL db -- not a strength for me.
Ah well, I could probably hit up my techbootcamp pals to help me through it. Besides, it's a nice sunny day and I should be playing with M. and Z. outside anyway.
Labels: drupal *nix
I've installed
Drupal on infodiva.com for a number of reasons. Consider this your warning that
repositories for the rest of us will be migrating. I manage this blog via blogger 'cause it was a quick and dirty way of getting it up. I don't really want my stuff under Google's control, whether they adhere to their "do no evil" policy or not. I'm a control freak and I want to manage my own stuff. So, why Drupal?
A number of next gen catalog interfaces use it.
SOPAC,
VuFind,
eXtensible catalog, and there's a module for integrating Millennium directly into Drupal. I'd like to mess around with the tools. Gives me practice doing stuff from the *nix command line. Oh, yeah, and MPOW is looking at upgrading our catalog web interface.
Be warned that blog entries or any links in the side bar are probably going to break. Soon. I'll put redirects on the main URL and blog URL once I get stuff configured to my liking. And then, I'm kissing the blogger blog good bye.
My other google addictions (gmail, reader, igoogle) will probably take awhile longer to overcome.
Labels: administrivia, migration, MPOW
Haven't updated in awhile. Life 1.0 trumps life 2.0. Some little things: I just found
RepoHate (thanks delicious network!). In the wake of all the OCLC brouhaha over use and ownership of bibliographic records, the
Declaration of Independence for Metadata is both needed and bang.effing.on.
Our experiment with metadata movies at MPOW has wound down. I manage by consensus and the group decided they would rather watch metadata movies on their own time rather than as a group togetherness exercise at the end of our weekly staff meetings. *shrug* You try stuff, you fail sometimes. I will still bring muffins for the Monday morning meetings periodically. I'm happy to be relieved of Sunday night baking duty. My weekends are beginning to be filled up with cycling.
My wife has committed herself to riding the
Furnace Creek 508 in 2009 and has
started blogging regularly about it at slipperytext.net. It's a year away, but it will take that long to do the training. It's 512 miles and she's got 48 hours to complete it. I think, frankly, that rather than committing herself that she ought to be committed. But I approve of crazy audacious goals and I love and support her 100%. That includes:
- financial support -- she's got a coach and a very detailed training plan. She's got electronic toys for measuring power output, cadence, heart rate etc. Coach and toys are pricey. I'm giving up some extras so we can swing the cost
- waking up with her at 4am to train. She's got to put in 3hrs per training day on the bike and will be building up to 4-6hrs plus really really long rides on the weekends.I only join her for 30 minutes per session but she finds it helpful to have a buddy to wake up with her
- joining her for her afternoon sessions. I do another 30 minutes with her during her afternoon training -- with 4hrs per day to do on the bike, she's got to schedule it in chunks. I will build up to joining her for 90 minutes per training day (a girl has limits)
- traveling with her to brevets so she can practice doing long rides at high cadence
- being patient with her absences -- long rides means loooooong rides. Most of her weekends she'll be toiling away on the roads all day long. More housework for me, and less time with her.
Please follow along and give her encouragement. This is a very big deal and brings her a great amount of joy. I love seeing her passion for her sport and hope she can bring this joy to others with her journey. She's brought me into cycling (albeit not as hardcore) and we've had many wonderful hours together on the road. Go Milly go!
Labels: 4M, cycling, economic models, metadata, OCLC, repositories
