Getting out of the HTML business: The database-driven Web site solution

Information Technology and Libraries

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 176-181

  Antelman, Kristin ^a  

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References (25)

1. 1. Virginia Ortiz-Repiso and Purificacion Moscoso, "Web-Based OPACs: Between Tradition and Innovation," Information Technology and Libraries 18, no. 2 (1999): 68-77.
2. 2. David W. Lewis, "What if Libraries Are Artifact-Bound Institutions?" Information Technology and Libraries 17, no. 4 (1998): 190.
3. 3. For an extended discussion of choosing a database solution, including a detailed discussion of the tools outlined here, see John Paul Ashenfelter, Choosing a Database for Your Web Site (New York: Wiley, 1999). For a more technical, but lighthearted, perspective that is critical of the application server, see Philip Greenspun, Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing, San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann Pub., 1999. Accessed Aug. 3, 1999, www.photo.net/wtr/thebook/.
4. 3. For an extended discussion of choosing a database solution, including a detailed discussion of the tools outlined here, see John Paul Ashenfelter, Choosing a Database for Your Web Site (New York: Wiley, 1999). For a more technical, but lighthearted, perspective that is critical of the application server, see Philip Greenspun, Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing, San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann Pub., 1999. Accessed Aug. 3, 1999, www.photo.net/wtr/thebook/.
5. 4. Filemaker, Inc. Accessed Aug. 3, 1999, www. filemaker.com/.
6. 5. John Paul Ashenfelter, "Getting Started with Web Databases," Webreview.com. Accessed Feb. 26, 1999, htrp://webreview. com/wr/pub/1999/02/26/webdb/index.html.
7. 6. John Paul Ashenfelter, "The Application Server Market-place," Webreview.com. Accessed Feb. 26, 1999, http://webreview. com/wr/pub/1999/02/26/webdb/index3.html.
8. 7. Allaire Corp. Accessed Aug. 3, 1999, www.allaire.com.
9. 8. Pervasive Software, Inc. Accessed Aug. 3, 1999, www. everyware.com/products/tango/.
10. 9. Wodaski, Ron. "ASP Technology Overview." Accessed Nov. 1, 1999, http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/server/ asp/aspfeat. asp?RLD=22. Several solutions are available to run ASP on nonMicrosoft platforms. For instance, Chilisoft (www. chilisoft.com) and Halcyon (www.halcyonsoft.com/index.htm).
11. 9. Wodaski, Ron. "ASP Technology Overview." Accessed Nov. 1, 1999, http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/server/ asp/aspfeat. asp?RLD=22. Several solutions are available to run ASP on nonMicrosoft platforms. For instance, Chilisoft (www. chilisoft.com) and Halcyon (www.halcyonsoft.com/index.htm).
12. 9. Wodaski, Ron. "ASP Technology Overview." Accessed Nov. 1, 1999, http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/server/ asp/aspfeat. asp?RLD=22. Several solutions are available to run ASP on nonMicrosoft platforms. For instance, Chilisoft (www. chilisoft.com) and Halcyon (www.halcyonsoft.com/index.htm).
13. 10. For more on PHP, see www.php.net/usage.php3, www.php.net, and www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/99/21/. For more on MySQL, see www.mysql.net/.
14. 11. "Welcome to the World of AOL Server" Accessed Nov. 1, 1999, www.aolserver.com/; Meta-Html.Com, Accessed Nov. 1, 1999, www.metahtml.com/.
15. 11. "Welcome to the World of AOL Server" Accessed Nov. 1, 1999, www.aolserver.com/; Meta-Html.Com, Accessed Nov. 1, 1999, www.metahtml.com/.
16. 12. Louis Rosenfeld and Peter Morville, Information Architecture for the World Wide Web (Sebastopol, Calif.: O'Reilly, 1998): 24-25.
17. 13. Ibid., 46.
18. 14. Roy Tennant, "Personalizing the Digital Library," Library Journal 124, no. 12 (July 1999): 36-38.
19. 15. One problem is the publisher field in our MARC serial records, which according to standard cataloging practice is not updated. "With the exception of the final date of publication, significant changes appearing on later issues are recorded in notes, when considered desirable. Do not clutter the record with minor changes, particularly those that involve commercial publishers," CONSER Cataloging Manual, 10.6. A periodical's current publisher is useful information for managing electronic journals because, for example, if access to one title is "broken," typically all other titles from that publisher will be broken and need to be coded not to display on the Web.
20. 16. One option is to use the MARC record as the central database record. Such a project at Los Alamos National Laboratory is described in Frances L. Knudson et al, "Creating Electronic Journal Web Pages from OPAC Records," Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship 15 (Summer 1997). Accessed Aug. 3, 1999, www.library.ucsb.edu/istl/97summer/article2. html. Information pertaining to the electronic version of a journal was coded in a local 956 field. Customized CGI scripts were written and run nightly to extract records from the catalog and reformat them into various HTML displays.
21. 17. Such research is already underway in the Stanford Lane Medical Library "Mediane" project. Dick Miller described their research at the Medical Libraries Association annual meeting, May 15-19, 1999, Chicago, IL. His presentation is available at http://krypton.Stanford.EDU:8080/~dmiller/.
22. 18. Ortiz-Repiso and Moscoso, 74-75.
23. 19. Declan Butler, "The Writing Is on the Web for Science Journals in Print," Nature 397, no. 6716 (Jan. 21, 1999): 195-200. Projects such as E-biomed (www.nih.gov/welcome/director/ ebiomed/ebiomed.htm) and BioOne (www.arl.org/sparc/ bio1.html) are taking significant steps in this direction.
24. 19. Declan Butler, "The Writing Is on the Web for Science Journals in Print," Nature 397, no. 6716 (Jan. 21, 1999): 195-200. Projects such as E-biomed (www.nih.gov/welcome/director/ ebiomed/ebiomed.htm) and BioOne (www.arl.org/sparc/ bio1.html) are taking significant steps in this direction.
25. 19. Declan Butler, "The Writing Is on the Web for Science Journals in Print," Nature 397, no. 6716 (Jan. 21, 1999): 195-200. Projects such as E-biomed (www.nih.gov/welcome/director/ ebiomed/ebiomed.htm) and BioOne (www.arl.org/sparc/ bio1.html) are taking significant steps in this direction.