OpenURL : Link Resolvers : Listserv for homegrown OpenURL developers. Anna writes "If you are developing (or plan to develop) your own OpenURL link resolver, John Weible of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has created a listserv for you. A small but growing number of libraries have already or are now developing non commercial link resolving solutions with OpenURL at the core. These libraries need a peer support group for the exchange of ideas and solutions. Specific information about how to construct deep linking URLs for a particular target site is likely to be a frequent topic. I expect that the exchange of open source software tools related to link resolution will also be a frequent topic. So, if you are involved in the development or maintenance of an open source or "homegrown" OpenURL link resolver at your library or institution or interested in doing so, this list is available for you. To subscribe, send a message to listserv@listserv.uiuc.edu The body of the message should be: subscribe lib-openurl-dev-l Your Name" [LISNews.com]  6:05:09 PM   [Feedback ]  

Unicode : UNICODE. It's comming to MARC. This is a gentle introduction. The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Absolutely, Positively Must Know About Unicode and Character Sets (No Excuses!) by Joel Spolsky.

Before I get started, I should warn you that if you are one of those rare people who knows about internationalization, you are going to find my entire discussion a little bit oversimplified. I'm really just trying to set a minimum bar here so that everyone can understand what's going on and can write code that has a hope of working with text in any language other than the subset of English that doesn't include words with accents. And I should warn you that character handling is only a tiny portion of what it takes to create software that works internationally, but I can only write about one thing at a time so today it's character sets.

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