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Revision Status
- This page displays the configuration of revision #1
- Internal version of this revision: 1.5.1
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This revision has not been built.
Use the "Build Revision" button in the edition builder
under the "My Editions" tab to build it.
However, you can already perform testing on the catalogs using the
forms below.
- Last modification to config file was made
October 01, 2009. 05:15:01 am.
- Direct link to
config.xml file for this revision.
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Click here
for a directory listing all files used in building this edition.
Catalog Settings
The following catalogs are configured.
You can test these catalogs directly here, without building and installing your revision.
OpenURL settings
No OpenURL resolver(s) are defined for this revision.
Note: as of 7/19/2007, LibX uses only the first OpenURL resolver, the others are ignored, but they will be used in the future.
Proxy Settings
The following remote access proxies are configured for this edition:
- No remote access proxy is defined for this edition.
Note: as of 1/19/2008 the use of multiple proxies is supported. Each proxy can be enabled in
the context menu preferences by the end user.
By default, however, only the first configured proxy is enabled.
Branding & Logos
The small logo included in this edition is
- this logo is displayed in the
toolbar and in the right-click menu.
The logo should have a height of 16px, and ideally, a width of 16px.
The logo should look good when stretched or shrunk to 16x16, as we do now:
Logos generally look better if their background is transparent, because
then the background of the page on which it is placed will shine through.
Here is your small logo shown on a
black background:
and on gray background:
The areas where you see black or gray shine through, respectively, is where
your logo is transparent. If you don't see black or gray, your small logo is not
transparent.
As of 2/7/2008, we support a new, optional icon setting that is used only
for your cues. You can set it in Options -> Cue Icon in the edition builder,
after uploading it in the File Management tab.
This edition does not have a specific cue icon. LibX will resort to using the configured small logo:
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Your large logo is shown below.
This logo is displayed in the "LibX Preferences" in the "About" tab
Instructions for Testing:
You should thoroughly test your edition.
To test this revision, either use a blank profile,
or install this edition over your current edition. (We believe that in 1.5.0.3
and higher, it is no longer necessary to uninstall the current version first.)
In all versions, don't forget to restart Firefox afterwards.
In LibX IE, you must start a new browser window.
To install over your current edition in FF, simply drag and drop the link to the
.xpi file into the address bar.
Part 1: Toolbar
Try out keyword searches, title searches, author searches, ISBN/ISSN, and call number
searches from the toolbar for all catalogs you have configured and see if they work
to your satisfaction.
Use the blue down button in the toolbar to create
multiple-term searches (author + title, author + keyword, etc.)
Check that the links you want displayed to your users in the top-left dropdown
menu work. You configured the following links (they open in a new window.)
- About LibX ...
If you have an "edition homepage" link--typically the last link--to
,
this link won't work until the edition is live. It will then point
to where you offer your edition to your users.
Part 2: Cues
Each of these links will open in a new window.
Make sure you click on each cue to see if it works and performs
the desired search.
The table below shows each supported cue, when it was last tested, and whether
it is supported in Firefox (FF) or Internet Explorer (IE).
Cues occasionally break (don't appear).
If your edition was built after a cue was last checked and the cue does not
appear, please let us know about it.
Currently, getting the cue to work again requires a rebuild and reinstall or update,
but in the future, they will automatically update.
COinS Support
This edition does not support COinS.
Your need an OpenURL resolver for COinS to work and you must turn
COinS on in the Options tab.
Part 2a: Autolinking
Autolink: The autolink feature is enabled for this edition.
Certain identifiers, such as ISBNs, ISSNs, etc. shown on a page,
should turn into links.
ISBNs & ISSNs link to your catalog,
Examples: 006073132X, 0-06-073132-X, 9780060731328, 978-0-06-073132-8, 0098-7484.
To avoid too many false positives (numbers that look like ISBNs/ISSNs, and have
the correct checksum, but really aren't standard numbers), we conservatively
suppress some forms.
The following forms should not have turned into
autolinks: 00987484 , 100987484 , 10098-7484 ,
006-073-132X , 006-073-1328 , 006-0731328, 006-073-132X, 006-073-1328.
You can also test this feature on:
nature.com.
Some pages have taken measures against this, for instance, you may have noticed
that there was an autolink on the Amazon.com page, but not on the Barnes&Noble
page. Like those pages, we have disabled autolinks for the ISBNs etc. that follow
on this page to allow you to test the adaptive context menu functionality next.
Although the new autolink functionality partially obsoletes the
select & right-click functionality of the context menu, please
test it nonetheless (because it does not work if the site took
countermeasures, and because the user might have intentionally disabled
autolinking, but still wishes to use the right-click selection functionality.)
Please report problems with this feature to libx.org@gmail.com.
Part 3: Context-Menu
Note that the context menu is adaptive and end user configurable.
It is adaptive in that what is displayed changes based on what a user has selected,
and based on where the user right-clicks. In particular, if nothing is selected,
you may not see any entries (or, you'll only see a proxy entry if configured.)
This is not a bug. You must select text, then right-click.
LibX will attempt to match the text you select against a number of patterns, such
as ISBNs, ISSNs, DOIs, etc. If any of these patterns apply, the corresponding
entries will be displayed. Otherwise, the entries configured under "General" (as shown
in the Context Menu tab in the preferences) will be displayed.
For example, to test your ISBN support, select this ISBN:
006073132X by
double-clicking on it. When you right-click,
"Search bib.ville-bobigny.fr using 'Allez !' for ISBN/ISSN 006073132X" should appear.
Select it to test that ISBNs are correctly searched.
Here's another one: 055380202X
Test xISBN support, if activated, by right-clicking
006073132X
and selecting "Search xISBN for ISBNs related to 006073132X".
Test that 13-digits EANs work: select
9780743226714
by
double-clicking on it, then proceed as above. It should be converted into a 10-digit ISBN.
To test your ISSN support, select this ISSN:
0164-0925.
Right-click and select "Search bib.ville-bobigny.fr using 'Allez !' for ISSN 0164-0925".
Test author name heuristics. This heuristics changes the order of the
first and last name to increase the chance of an exact match.
Select the following names in their entirety, then right-click and select
"Search bib.ville-bobigny.fr using 'Allez !' for Author ...":
- James Joyce
- Joyce, James
- Joyce, J
- H.G. Wells
- T. Faulkner
- Thomas C. Faulkner
LibX should run a proper author search against your catalog.
Observe that the "for Author" option is different from the other options
in the right-click menu.
Part 4: Scholar Support
Google Scholar changed their page layout in early Feb 2007.
Your LibX edition must have been built (or rebuilt) after Feb 8, 2007
for the Scholar heuristics to work properly.
To test Scholar support, make sure that you are either using an IP address that is recognized
by Scholar or that you have set your preferences to include a library that displays OpenURLs - your library, if you're registered with Scholar, or if not, pick any library that is (Find It @ Stanford is a good pick.)
After you have done this, select the following five entries, one at a time.
Select an entire line each time, right-click and pick "Search via Scholar."
- HOMPACK90: A suite of FORTRAN 90 codes for globally convergent homotopy algorithms
- Convergence of trust region augmented Lagrangian methods using variable fidelity approximation data
- "The KaffeOS Java Runtime System." Godmar Back and Wilson C Hsieh. ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems.
- Unskilled and unaware of it: how difficulties in recognizing one's own incompetence lead to inflated self-assessments
- Analog of Photon-Assisted Tunneling in a Bose-Einstein Condensate
- The cellular automata paradigm for the parallel solution of heat transfer problems
Depending on the strength of your OpenURL resolver and depending on your
holdings (or the holdings of the library you set in your Scholar preferences),
you should be led either to the publisher's site for these pages, or to your
OpenURL resolver page. The last entry should lead to a tech report site.
An additional tab opens each time with the result of the Scholar search LibX runs.
Check that the links on the Scholar page have been replaced with your
logo:
If you don't see your OpenURL resolver page after selecting "Search via Scholar" for at least
one of the examples above, check first that you are seeing your logo on the Scholar page.
Since we do not have control of the layout Google uses on the Scholar page, it
may be possible that LibX finds a different layout than what it expected, preventing
it from recognizing when an item was found.
In this case, the user will have to manually select the icon on the Scholar page
to get to the item, as if they had themselves searched Scholar.
Check that the Scholar button works from inside a PDF (Windows only).
Open this PDF file,
go to the references, and pick a title in the references, then drag and drop it
onto the Scholar button.
Some additional tests that are a little bit more challenging for LibX (select the entire box):
Hastings, R. J. & Johnson, E. (2001). Stress in UK families
conducting intensive home-based behaviour intervention
for young children with autism. Journal of Autism and
Developmental Disorders, 31, 327-336.
- Llewellyn, G. (1994). Parenting: a neglected human
Check that the "Search Google Scholar" option in the list of catalogs works.
Enter unskilled and unaware into the
search bar (or select the text and drag-n-drop it in there), make sure "Keyword" is selected
and then press the "Search Google Scholar" button from the drop-down menu.
Also test searches by author, article title, and journal title.
they should work with Scholar as well -- they correspond to "author:", "allintitle:", and
the journal title search corresponds to Scholar's "published as" option in the advanced
search.
Options
The column labeled "Options" above lists the internal encoding of the options
for a catalog. The edition builder provides a graphical user interface to enter
these options and change their order (via drag-n-drop).
Each code is associated with a label that is displayed.
The list below shows which label goes with which code.
You may use the edition builder to add new codes, and to change the label for each code.
Note, however, that not all catalogs support all code. You cannot simply
add a code and hope it works - the underlying catalog implementation must support it.
The edition builder knows which options are supported by which catalog.
| Internal Code |
Label |
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Y |
Keyword |
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t |
Title |
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a |
Author |
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d |
Subject |
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i |
ISBN/ISSN |
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c |
Call Number |
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