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Tracking Web Traffic Across GW Libraries
November 10, 2014Christian Aldridge, Web Developer for Libraries.left-bump {margin-left:2em;} @media screen and (max-width:640px) { .left-bump {margin-left:0; max-width:90%;} ] GW Libraries has nearly...
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Making our Menu Accessible
August 11, 2015Christian Aldridge, Web Developer for GW LibrariesOne of the remaining challenges to accessibility in the GW LIbraries website (library.gwu.edu) was its main menu. We use a ‘hover’ style...
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Social Media Harvesting Techniques
October 28, 2015Justin LittmanSocial Feed Manager (SFM) is a tool developed by the Scholarly Technology Group for harvesting social media to support research and build archives. As part of enhancements...
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December 15, 2015Justin LittmanThe Twitter Streaming API is very powerful, allowing harvesting tweets not readily available from the other APIs. However, recall from our previous post that the Twitter...
View ArticleThe Sound of the Library at Work
January 5, 2016Laura WrubelAt the Access Conference in Toronto in September 2015, I attended an all-day hackfest on data sonification, led by William Denton of York University and Katie Legere of...
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An Experiment with Social Feed Manager and the ELK stack
January 13, 2016Justin LittmanThe latest in our social media harvesting experiments for the Social Feed Manager project involves analysis, discovery, and visualization of social media content. An...
View ArticleGW’s Expert Finder
March 8, 2016On Feb 1, GW’s Expert Finder launched. Expert Finder is an implementation of VIVO, a researcher discovery platform. The project is a collaboration between the Division of Information...
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Tracking changes to harvests in Social Feed Manager
March 14, 2016Justin LittmanIn her blog post, “Social Media for Good: the Series, Episode 2”, DPC’s Sara Day Thomson explains:New work also reveals the heightened importance of archived social media...
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Are you living in a filter bubble? Web searching, privacy, objectivity, and...
June 30, 2016Dan KerchnerThis past spring, four of us here at GW Libraries had the privilege of attending the 2016 Code4Lib conference, featuring a wide variety of talks and discussions relevant to...
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Securing Your Drupal Site
January 26, 2017Christian Aldridge, Web Developer for Libraries & Academic InnovationIf you’re patching your Drupal installation regularly (core and module updates) you’re halfway there.An...
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