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Unlibguiding Libguides: Using Jquery And Css With Campus Guides To Make Libguides A True Web Cms, M Ryan Hess Jul 2012

Unlibguiding Libguides: Using Jquery And Css With Campus Guides To Make Libguides A True Web Cms, M Ryan Hess

M Ryan Hess

DePaul University's Library Web Services team investigated the potential of Springshare CampusGuides for serving as a web content management system. The team overrode system CSS, added JQuery libraries and features, integrated an external SQL database into the site and leveraged the workflows and functionalities of Campus Guides to make it a more powerful WCMS.


Visualizing Digital Collections At Archive-It, Kalpesh Padia Jul 2012

Visualizing Digital Collections At Archive-It, Kalpesh Padia

Computer Science Theses & Dissertations

Archive-It, a subscription service from the Internet Archive, allows users to create,maintain, and view digital collections of web resources. The current interface of Archive-It is largely text-based, supporting drill-down navigation using lists of URIs.While this interface provides good searching capabilities, it is not efficient for browsing. In the absence of keywords, a user has to spend large amount of time trying to locate a web page of interest. In order to provide a better visual experience to the user, we have studied the underlying characteristics of Archive-It collections and implemented six different visualizations (treemap, time cloud, bubble chart, image plot, …