Cool Tools: Energizing Law Librarianship with Web 2.0
Open Source Data and Information Tools
Kincaid C. Brown
Head of Electronic & Systems Services
University of Michigan Law Library |
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About the Slideshow
This presentation was created using S5 - a public domain tool, created by Eric Meyer, that mimics a slideshow in the web environment using XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
Simile Exhibit
The Simile Project http://simile.mit.edu/ out of MIT has developed Exhibit, an open source tool that allows for:
- data to be displayed in a variety of ways
- the addition of faceted browse and keyword search capabilities
- easy set-up and implementation even with moderate web skills
Exhibit Lets You Take This ...
... And Display it in List (Tile) View
Tile View
Tile Format is the default Exhibit "view." We have used the Tile View for:
... Or Display it in Table View
Table View
We have used Table View for:
... Or Display it in Timeline View
Timeline View
We have used the Simile Timeline for:
... Or Display it in Map View
Map View
We have used Map View for:
Other useful links:
- iTouchMap.com allows you to click on a map to get the decimal latitude and longitude coordinates needed for the Map View
- Google Maps API: where to get your Google Map Key for the Map View
- Simile Babel: where to convert your Excel sheet into the Exhibit json format
- jEdit: a great program for working on web pages, css, and js documents; it does FTP, too
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