Karen Medina's place to put stuff that doesn't belong anywhere else

I-Vote: An Audience Voting System (CHI2004 Student Design Competition)

• The paper in .doc or .pdf
• The poster (84cm high by 119cm wide) in .ppt, .jpg or .pdf

my greenstone installation: standard demo, behind the scenes.

Some basic cgi help for those who asked for it :

• basic_cgi

Microsoft Game for LIS450cw:

• Microsoft Game

GSLIS student life :

• dark photos
from Boyd's potluck May 2003.

Information Seeking in Context I

• Context Gatherer
  • Proposal original
  • IRB form
  • IRB form (another one?)
  • Consent form
  • Consent form (another one?)
  • Literature review
  • Progress report
  • Final paper Exactly What I Was Looking for: Adding Context to Internet Information Seeking

Information Seeking in a Common Task/Form Usability Study, UIUC IRB number 03264

Information Seeking in Context II

• IRB's approval letter
• IRB form The original form we filled out for the "Information Seeking in a Common Task/Form Usability Study", UIUC IRB number 03264
• Consent form for audio-recording.
• Consent form for video-recording and screen capture.
• Advertisement via email.
• Advertisement via poster.
• email 2nd contact (as a response to an inquiry or indication of interest).
• IRB had questions about our original application
• our answers to IRB's questions We just had to send them a letter touching on the points they had mentioned.
• my notes

Old projects

• download gslis photos (zipped file). This was part of the project for Dave Nichols' class. I was his "TA" (kindof). We took photos of GSLIS, put them in a mySql database so the class could create search interfaces for them. Twidale's student wants access to them now. So I put them here. Note: forgive the quality of the photos. They were quickly taken the night before I was suppose to leave for 2 weeks on a trip.

My old assistantships :

• openkey
• music-ir.org: annotated shared bibliography.

Links to my home pages

• My GSLIS page - updated the most often
• My Nottingham page - will disappear sometime soon.

Perl Help Notes

Installing Perl Modules When You Aren't Root

  0 cd /home/username/bin/perl-lib/
  1  wget http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/M/MS/MSERGEANT/XML-XPath-1.13.tar.gz
  2  tar -xvzf XML-XPath-1.13.tar.gz
  3  ls
  4  cd XML-XPath-1.13
  5  perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/home/username/bin/perl-lib
  6  ls
  7  cd XML-XPath-1.13
  8  make && make test
  9  make install PREFIX=/home/username/bin/perl-lib
  10 history > install_commands.txt

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use lib('/home/username/bin/perl-lib/')
use XML::XPATH;
print "Just testing\n";

find /home/username/ -name Templates.pm

Regular Expressions

Things I tend to forget the syntax for:

• push (@meals, "dinner");

Sorting a hash on the value (and printing it to a text file)

sub print_hash {
    my $output = pop(@_);
    my %hash = @_;
    open(OUT, ">$output")|| die "Could not open output file: $output.\n";
    print "Output file is $output\n";
    foreach $k (sort { $hash{$b} cmp $hash{$a} } keys %hash) {
       print OUT "$k => $hash{$k}\n";
    }# end foreach
    close(OUT);
}# end sub print_hash

Sort hash by key

sub print_hash {
    my $output = pop(@_);
    my %hash = @_;
    open(OUT, ">$output")|| die "Could not open output file: $output.\n";
    print "Output file is $output\n";
    foreach $k (sort keys %hash) {
        print OUT "$k => $hash{$k}\n";
    }# end foreach
    close(OUT);
}# end sub print_hash

&get_todays_date -- A sub I wrote (and tend to reuse) to get todays date and append it to a file name.

$suffix = &get_todays_date();
$new_file_name = $start_of_file_name . '_' . $suffix . '.txt';

sub get_todays_date {
    my ($year, $mon, $day, $hour, $min) = (localtime)[5,4,3,2,1]; #system ("date");
    $year += 1900;
    $mon += 1;
    if ($mon < 10){ #added Feb 19, 2004 by Karen Medina
        $mon = '0'. $mon;
    }# end if
    my @date = ($year, $mon, $day, $hour, $min);
    my $date = join('_', @date);
    return $date;
}# end sub

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