Aquifer and American Social History Online at DLF Spring Forum

Aquifer   May 2, 2008 (1 week ago)

There was a flurry of Aquifer and American Social History Online activity at DLF Forum in Minneapolis this week. The DLF Board meeting before the Forum included an open discussion about Aquifer's future. Will DLF have a continued interest in Aquifer elements that have been well received by the digital library community, such as the...

Update on work since January

khage's blog   Apr 17, 2008 (3 weeks ago)

I've done quite a bit of work since January 30-- just slow to update. 1. Worked with core team to develop a set of browsable subject categories for the main page (which will be rolled out with the timeline and geographic facets at the same time). Once we had these, I cataloged each registry record to have one or more of these subjects....

New Collections Added to American Social History Online

Susan's Summaries   Mar 27, 2008 (1 month ago)

New collections have been added to American Social History Online. There is now a total of 143 collections with 295,945 items. The new items have been harvested from a selection of collections from: California Digital LibraryColumbia UniversityHarvard UniversityUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign DLF Aquifer actively seeks material that fits within an American culture and life theme,...

How do you know it's a country

Chicks Bit Brick   Mar 25, 2008 (1 month ago)

I wanted to know if a string contains a country. So I got a list of countries, there are plenty out there though finding one containing England and names like that is hard. Anyway I think to myself, I'll just build a nice regular expression that looks like /country1|country2|.../ and check it against my string....

Ruby on Rails Upgrade Woes

Aquifer   Mar 15, 2008 (1 month ago)

We were having mysterious seg faults with some long-running Rails tasks on our server, so I thought it might time for some software updates. Nothing too radical just Ruby 1.8.5 -> 1.8.6 and Rails 1.2.3 -> 1.2.6. In the process I discovered that a new version of RubyGems was available, so I thought it might be good to upgrade it at the same time, Gem 0....