work advertisement

I know, I know -- I never did finish putting up pix of my visit down under. And you want to see them. I'm a reluctant blogger, I guess.

But I had to share this: my project is getting more visibility, even though it's still a prototype in the early stages.

Check out http://library.stanford.edu/ and look in the upper right for the big bright ad! (Note: ad will change to user quotes and will eventually disappear, so if you're reading this weeks after I posted it ... don't expect anything.)

Some of the Stanford librarians are really pleased. Some of our feedback has been incredibly positive. (Note that the expensive library vendor closed source software that Stanford uses doesn't allow search results to be ranked by relevancy!) Some folks are concerned that their particular methods for finding things will no longer work, or that the results aren't exactly the same. There will be much fine tuning as we go.

But wow! Visibility!

Hopefully I won't have to deal with any performance bottlenecks ...