CLL

carmen Library Link

What is Carmen Library Link!?

the Editor

the Technology

James Muir

muir.29@osu.edu

Systems Developer/Engineer

Ohio State University Libraries

A way for Librarians to create specialized content to be delivered from within Carmen

the Library Link shows at the top of the Carmen course page

the purpose of the editor is to create an easy to use interface for librarians to:

json

REST web services

1. create Pages

2. associate those Pages with Colleges, Departments, and Courses

3. publish Pages to Carmen

javascript

a Page can be associated with any and all of the following:

XML

database ORM and abstraction layer

apache

SilverStripe content management system integration

MySQL

Kohana PHP5 MVC framework

• a College
• a Department
• a Course

AJAX

SOAP web services

XSLT

PHP5

jQuery

OSU Libraries' REST API framework

Page is a collection of Widgets

widget

page < widget

widget

Alright! Let's see the editor already! time is running out!

https://portal.lib.ohio-state.edu/carmenlibrarylink

http://portal.lib.ohio-state.edu/carmenlibrarylink

Widget is a collections of Items

item

widget < item

item

a Librarian can easily and effectively create specialized, consistent-looking resource webpages with no knowledge of HTML or web design