{"id":1770,"date":"2006-07-18T12:34:53","date_gmt":"2006-07-18T17:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/?p=15"},"modified":"2006-07-18T12:34:53","modified_gmt":"2006-07-18T17:34:53","slug":"semacode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/18\/semacode.html","title":{"rendered":"Semacode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/semacode.org\/\">Semacode<\/a> is an open system for generating url encoded barcodes (not the standard striped variety, but the square crossword puzzle-ish variety) for any url you want.\u00a0 Mobile phones would then be able to use these to connect with resources.<\/p>\n<p>This would be interesting as a way to connect library items and handouts with related websites.\u00a0 The possibilities are limited at the moment since it requires someone to have a web-enabled mobile phone with the software installed, but there is a definite potential to this.<\/p>\n<p>It reminds me a bit of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cuecat\">CueCat<\/a>, without the commercial lock-in and resulting controversy.<\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/catalogablog.blogspot.com\/2006\/07\/semacode.html\">Catalogablog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Semacode is an open system for generating url encoded barcodes (not the standard striped variety, but the square crossword puzzle-ish variety) for any url you want.\u00a0 Mobile phones would then be able to use these to connect with resources. This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2006\/07\/18\/semacode.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2966,2978],"tags":[3003,3004],"class_list":["post-1770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","category-websearch","tag-cellular-telephone","tag-mobile-phones"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/sSU5g-semacode","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}