Mylibrary@Ockham is a system for providing access to indexes of OAI-accessible content. It is written in Perl in conjunction with a number of other open source technologies including MySQL, GNU Aspell, and Wordnet. In a nutshell it works by harvesting data from OAI repositories, saving the resulting...

Given a URL that looks like this: {{{ http://spell.ockham.org/?word=origami }}} the spell service will return an XML stream looking like this: {{{ <spell> <version>0.1</version> <word>origami</word> <dictionary>master</dictionary> <spellings> <s...

Ockham Alert is written in Perl and prefers MySQL as its database back-end and swish-e as its indexer. Access to the index is through a Web Services protocol called SRU (Search/Retrieve via URL). Outputs from the service include HTML, RSS, and email messages. This system was implemented as a part...