LINK
What is it?
Not your average online college course catalog.
Why is this interesting?
I actually use this domain quite frequently day to day. It makes a lot of sense to display a course catalog based on academic concentrations for students but staff members are more interested in knowing who is meeting when and where*. This is similar to what Chuck was talking about in this Needlebase blog post, although from a slightly different angle. Once I had the catalog loaded into Needle it's really easy to start answering questions like "which classes are meeting tomorrow morning on the first floor?" in 2 clicks rather than 20.
Where is it going in the future?
Right on our intranet dashboard perhaps?
*Yes, there are folk who have access to the catalog back-end but I'm not one of those people!
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Monday, January 10, 2011
Needlebase: Clark University Libraries
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What is it?
I wanted to build an alternative to the Clark University Libraries index page for very selfish reasons. See, the thing is, that list is alphabetical and my library is about 2/3rd down the page. No one likes being below the page break. My plan here was to build an interactive map that also automatically grabbed the hours for each library. At this point though it's just YAGMM (yet another google maps mashup).
Why is this interesting?
This is one of the few domains I'm working with that relies heavily on "live data". Deadbased is another good example because the Internet Archive actually gets quite a few "new" matrix shows that are uploaded each month, but this one takes advantage of the feature in a much more tangible way.
Where is it going in the future?
I would really like to integrate this into our new campus intranet page. Maybe when I get some free time this summer I'll give it another go.
What is it?
I wanted to build an alternative to the Clark University Libraries index page for very selfish reasons. See, the thing is, that list is alphabetical and my library is about 2/3rd down the page. No one likes being below the page break. My plan here was to build an interactive map that also automatically grabbed the hours for each library. At this point though it's just YAGMM (yet another google maps mashup).
Why is this interesting?
This is one of the few domains I'm working with that relies heavily on "live data". Deadbased is another good example because the Internet Archive actually gets quite a few "new" matrix shows that are uploaded each month, but this one takes advantage of the feature in a much more tangible way.
Where is it going in the future?
I would really like to integrate this into our new campus intranet page. Maybe when I get some free time this summer I'll give it another go.
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