The Grinnell College Digital Library Application Developer's Blog

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2 min read Mar 25, 2025
Migration of Digital.Grinnell to Alma-D is ‘complete’. It’s time now to reconfigure for future bulk import of new content.

Customizing Primo

1 min read Mar 18, 2025
A ‘reminder’ blog post started from a Slack thread of March 18, 2025.

Installing Ruby and Jekyll on My MacBook

1 min read Feb 12, 2025
Spent the evening installing Ruby and Jekyll on my MacBook and don’t want to forget how.

Another Alma Dedup Mystery

1 min read Feb 10, 2025
A ‘reminder’ blog post copied from an email thread from Feb 10, 2025.

Collection Migration Template

5 min read Dec 20, 2024
A public blog post copied from Collection-Migration-Template.md in my private repo at https://github.com/Digital-Grinnell/Migration-to-Alma-D.

Discovery Import Profile (DIP) Record Removal

2 min read Dec 19, 2024
A public blog post copied from Removing-Primo-VE-Imported-OAI-Records.md in my private repo at https://github.com/Digital-Grinnell/Migration-to-Alma-D.

Dealing with Alma Dedup and FRBR

6 min read Dec 19, 2024
A public blog post copied from Dealing-with-Alma-Dedup-and-FRBR.md in my private repo at https://github.com/Digital-Grinnell/Migration-to-Alma-D.

`dg_timestamp` Google Sheet Apps Script

2 min read Dec 12, 2024
Inserts a static/permanent “dg_” value into a Google Sheets cell when any other cell in the corresponding Google Sheet row is edited. This UNIX epoch timestamp (with “dg_” prepended) becomes the identifier of a “new” – one that has no legacy identifier – Digital.Grinnell or CollectionBuilder object.

Updating Rootstalk - February 2024

10 min read Feb 13, 2024
Documents the process used to update Rootstalk, in development and production, in February 2024 with the publication of corrections made in the Fall 2023 term, and the addition of our new submissions portal.

Updating Rootstalk - August 2023

10 min read Aug 15, 2023 | Updated: Feb 13, 2024 14:51 Superseded by posts/147-updating-rootstalk-february-2024
Documents the process used to update Rootstalk, in development and production, in August (and September) 2023 with the publication of content from the Spring 2023 term as Volume IX, Issue 1.