Re: [CODE4LIB] The Berman Catalog
Security measures can be set in place to prevent the scenario you describe. Is the state of Minnesota or the city of Minneapolis able to copyright its work? Certainly this is impossible on the Federal level. But state laws vary. What would a FOIA request produce? Tagging systems (or pop culture cataloging) such as those used by Amazon.com were consciously or unconsciously inspired by Berman's work, I don't think that's so. As the inventor of the first such system for books, I can say that I was not inspired by Berman's work, impressive as I now know it to be. Nor I suspect was Joshua Schachter, who designed tagging for Del.icio.us. It is an unfortunate fact that information technology has largely bypassed librarianship. One reason for this is that librarians have convinced themelves that their work should not be public—that the taxpayer-funded work of a public library should be kept under restrictive terms. but although they are dynamic and current, they are simplisitic and undisciplined...we've got a sort of highly personalized marginally literate chaos where 5 people can all tag the same item differently and the sixth person who may search for that item may not search for it using any of the tags the previous 5 assigned. Do you speak from any experience in this topic? For example, have you compared systems in reality, or is this just a theoretical opinion about reality? I don't think marginally literate applies to LibraryThing's tagging, generally. Nor do I think LibraryThing's 37 million tags are more likely to yield no hits than one man's subject system. Anyway, if regular human beings are simplistic and undisciplined when they tag things, they are also so when they search for them. I think there is a place for both formal subject systems—and the more the better—and informal tagging systems. Having spent a few years carefully comparing the results, however, and seeing many success, I am weary of those who, to paraphrase Clay Shirky, refuse to see it working in practice, because they already know it doesn't work in theory. Berman's system is dynamic and current but also finely, structured and highly disciplined, he's created a great cognitive map of interconnected associations that bring order to chaos and clarifies and defines issues evolving in the culture... you could say a good search engine does that but his brain worked and still works in a more exquisitely sophisticated and powerful way than any search engine I've used. I appreciate that you admire the man, but this is an almost mystical idea. As to someone using his work for profit...get real no one besides ourselves has a clue to the value and usefulness of Berman's work, and they don't care to find out...and they certainly would not make the effort to deconstruct it and turn it into a Twitter version of a catalog, especially since they can't profit from it. I consider that a challenge! There's no monetary gold to be harvested from Berman's work...there's treasure of another kind! It seems to me that any system useful for finding things has value of every sort imaginable, including financial. Tim
[CODE4LIB] ssh tunneling through a mysql dsn
Is there anyway to support SSH tunneling through a MySQL DSN? I would like to open a database connection to remote host through Perl's DBI. The remote database is MySQL, but the server hosting the database does not allow outside connections. Instead the systems administrators suggest first setting up a local SSH tunnel, and then making connections to the host. Something this: $ ssh -T -L 3306:mysql.example.org:3306 [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ mysql -h mysql.example.org Alas, this option does not work for two reasons. First, I get prompted for my username after the first command and my shell crashes. Second, and more importantly, port 3306 is already in use on my local machine. The whole thing seems weird anyway. Maybe I can configure tunneling in the DBD::mysql DSN? I see that DBD::mysql supports SSH, but I see no tunneling option: use DBI; $database = 'foo'; $user = 'bar'; $password = 'baz'; $host = 'mysql.example.org'; $dsn = DBI:mysql:database=$database;host=$host;mysql_ssl=1; $dbh = DBI-connect( $dsn, $user, $password ); Am I missing something, or is there some trickery I can use with the definition of $host and/or $database? -- Eric Lease Morgan Head, Digital Access and Information Architecture Department Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame (574) 631-8604
Re: [CODE4LIB] WorldCat API account
The WorldCat API is not yet in general release. It is presently being beta tested by invited developers, many of whom (if not all) are on this list. Thus the confusion. Sorry, but stay tuned. A good way to do that is to sign up on the WorldCat Developer's Network listserv. A link to the signup page can be found on this page: http://worldcat.org/devnet/ Thanks, Roy On 6/25/08 6/25/08 8:40 AM, Yitzchak Schaffer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings CODE4LIBers: Does anyone know how to get a test account for the WorldCat API? The wiki, last I checked, instructed to contact OCLC, but my e-mail to their generic address yielded no response. Thanks, --
Re: [CODE4LIB] ssh tunneling through a mysql dsn
There was a quick recipe for doing key based SSH tunneling in the January 2008 issue of Linux Journal. --- David Cloutman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electronic Services Librarian Marin County Free Library -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nate Vack Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 8:21 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] ssh tunneling through a mysql dsn On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 7:59 AM, Eric Lease Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anyway to support SSH tunneling through a MySQL DSN? I would like to open a database connection to remote host through Perl's DBI. The remote database is MySQL, but the server hosting the database does not allow outside connections. Instead the systems administrators suggest first setting up a local SSH tunnel, and then making connections to the host. Something this: $ ssh -T -L 3306:mysql.example.org:3306 [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ mysql -h mysql.example.org Alas, this option does not work for two reasons. First, I get prompted for my username after the first command and my shell crashes. Second, and more importantly, port 3306 is already in use on my local machine. The whole thing seems weird anyway. Yeah -- this is (probably) the way you want to do it, though. You'll need to: * Set up SSH keys such that building the tunnel doesn't prompt for a password * Run the local end of the tunnel on a free port * Configure your local client to talk to the local end of the tunnel Cheers, -Nate Email Disclaimer: http://www.co.marin.ca.us/nav/misc/EmailDisclaimer.cfm
Re: [CODE4LIB] ssh tunneling through a mysql dsn
On Jun 25, 2008, at 8:59 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: Is there anyway to support SSH tunneling through a MySQL DSN? Not sure if this is exactly relevant, but I used to need to access a remote mysql database not open to internet access, and came to love ssh tunneling. Some notes: http://bspace.us/notes/entries/ssh-tunneling-notes/ Also, for a different reason, I needed to handle passwordless logins. This might be of some use: http://bspace.us/notes/entries/passwordless-logins/ --- Birkin James Diana Programmer, Integrated Technology Services Brown University Library [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [CODE4LIB] ssh tunneling through a mysql dsn
Not sure if I'm understanding Eric's original scenario correctly but...This setup of needing to support SSH tunneling through to an Oracle database is exactly what we have setup in my library using SecureCRT ( http://www.vandyke.com/products/securecrt/). I think this software is quite useful and supports keys and all the rest ( Set up SSH keys such that building the tunnel doesn't prompt for a password, * Run the local end of the tunnel on a free port, * Configure your local client to talk to the local end of the tunnel). This is an essential piece of our infrastructure and we have SecureCRT set up on servers as well as individual PCs to ensure secure transmission of information to sources outside our firewall. Steve On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Birkin James Diana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 25, 2008, at 8:59 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: Is there anyway to support SSH tunneling through a MySQL DSN? Not sure if this is exactly relevant, but I used to need to access a remote mysql database not open to internet access, and came to love ssh tunneling. Some notes: http://bspace.us/notes/entries/ssh-tunneling-notes/ Also, for a different reason, I needed to handle passwordless logins. This might be of some use: http://bspace.us/notes/entries/passwordless-logins/ --- Birkin James Diana Programmer, Integrated Technology Services Brown University Library [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [CODE4LIB] ssh tunneling through a mysql dsn
In a Windows environment, SSH tunneling can also be accomplished by installing OpenSSH via Cygwin. http://www.cygwin.com/ --- David Cloutman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electronic Services Librarian Marin County Free Library -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Oberg Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 10:05 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] ssh tunneling through a mysql dsn Not sure if I'm understanding Eric's original scenario correctly but...This setup of needing to support SSH tunneling through to an Oracle database is exactly what we have setup in my library using SecureCRT ( http://www.vandyke.com/products/securecrt/). I think this software is quite useful and supports keys and all the rest ( Set up SSH keys such that building the tunnel doesn't prompt for a password, * Run the local end of the tunnel on a free port, * Configure your local client to talk to the local end of the tunnel). This is an essential piece of our infrastructure and we have SecureCRT set up on servers as well as individual PCs to ensure secure transmission of information to sources outside our firewall. Steve On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Birkin James Diana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jun 25, 2008, at 8:59 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: Is there anyway to support SSH tunneling through a MySQL DSN? Not sure if this is exactly relevant, but I used to need to access a remote mysql database not open to internet access, and came to love ssh tunneling. Some notes: http://bspace.us/notes/entries/ssh-tunneling-notes/ Also, for a different reason, I needed to handle passwordless logins. This might be of some use: http://bspace.us/notes/entries/passwordless-logins/ --- Birkin James Diana Programmer, Integrated Technology Services Brown University Library [EMAIL PROTECTED] Email Disclaimer: http://www.co.marin.ca.us/nav/misc/EmailDisclaimer.cfm
[CODE4LIB] alpha characters used for field names
Are alpha characters used for field names valid in MARC records? When we do dumps of MARC records our ILS often dumps them with FMT and CAT field names. So not only do I have glorious 246 fields and 100 fields but I also have CAT fields and FMT fields. Are these features of my ILS -- extensions of the standard -- or really a part of MARC? Moreover, does something like Marc4J or MARC::Batch and friends deal with these alpha field names correctly? -- Eric Lease Morgan
Re: [CODE4LIB] alpha characters used for field names
Eric, This is definitely not a feature of MARC but rather a feature of your local ILS (Aleph 500). Those are local fields for which you'd need to make a translation to a standard MARC field if you wanted to move that information to another system that is based on MARC. Steve On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Eric Lease Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are alpha characters used for field names valid in MARC records? When we do dumps of MARC records our ILS often dumps them with FMT and CAT field names. So not only do I have glorious 246 fields and 100 fields but I also have CAT fields and FMT fields. Are these features of my ILS -- extensions of the standard -- or really a part of MARC? Moreover, does something like Marc4J or MARC::Batch and friends deal with these alpha field names correctly? -- Eric Lease Morgan
Re: [CODE4LIB] ssh tunneling through a mysql dsn
Have you tried changing the source port to e.g. 3307 so you avoid the conflict with your localhost MySQL port? Genny Engel Internet Librarian Sonoma County Library [EMAIL PROTECTED] 707 545-0831 x581 www.sonomalibrary.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/25/08 05:59AM Is there anyway to support SSH tunneling through a MySQL DSN? I would like to open a database connection to remote host through Perl's DBI. The remote database is MySQL, but the server hosting the database does not allow outside connections. Instead the systems administrators suggest first setting up a local SSH tunnel, and then making connections to the host. Something this: $ ssh -T -L 3306:mysql.example.org:3306 [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ mysql -h mysql.example.org Alas, this option does not work for two reasons. First, I get prompted for my username after the first command and my shell crashes. Second, and more importantly, port 3306 is already in use on my local machine. The whole thing seems weird anyway. Maybe I can configure tunneling in the DBD::mysql DSN? I see that DBD::mysql supports SSH, but I see no tunneling option: use DBI; $database = 'foo'; $user = 'bar'; $password = 'baz'; $host = 'mysql.example.org'; $dsn = DBI:mysql:database=$database;host=$host;mysql_ssl=1; $dbh = DBI-connect( $dsn, $user, $password ); Am I missing something, or is there some trickery I can use with the definition of $host and/or $database? -- Eric Lease Morgan Head, Digital Access and Information Architecture Department Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame (574) 631-8604
Re: [CODE4LIB] alpha characters used for field names
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Eric Lease Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Moreover, does something like Marc4J or MARC::Batch and friends deal with these alpha field names correctly? I believe the Perl modules MARC::Batch/MARC::Record accept records with alphabetic characters as tags. Searching alpha tags (without quotes) at The Mail Archive for Perl4Lib [1] retrieves 6 messages in what appear to be two threads. [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]q=alpha+tags I hope this helps, Bryan Baldus [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://home.inwave.com/eija
Re: [CODE4LIB] alpha characters used for field names
Why don't systems use the 900 fields for local stuff like this? That's what they're there for, right? --Casey On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Steve Oberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric, This is definitely not a feature of MARC but rather a feature of your local ILS (Aleph 500). Those are local fields for which you'd need to make a translation to a standard MARC field if you wanted to move that information to another system that is based on MARC. Steve On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Eric Lease Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are alpha characters used for field names valid in MARC records? When we do dumps of MARC records our ILS often dumps them with FMT and CAT field names. So not only do I have glorious 246 fields and 100 fields but I also have CAT fields and FMT fields. Are these features of my ILS -- extensions of the standard -- or really a part of MARC? Moreover, does something like Marc4J or MARC::Batch and friends deal with these alpha field names correctly? -- Eric Lease Morgan
Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib 2009
Going back to the original question about keynotes, I think Sebastian Hammer from IndexData would be an interesting choice. -Ross. On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 4:33 PM, jean rainwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark the dates! Brown University is hosting code4lib 2009 which will take place at the Renaissance Providence Hotel from Monday, Feb 23 (preconference day) to Thursday, Feb 26. It's time to start a discussion of potential keynote speakers. Ideas? Jean Jean Rainwater Co-Leader, Integrated Technology Services Brown University Library Providence, Rhode Island 02912 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib 2009
I think Sebastian is a great suggestion. He presented several times at UNT over the years and each presentation was well received by a broad range of listeners. Also at code4lib he can get all geeky and such. Mark -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ross Singer Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 2:43 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib 2009 Going back to the original question about keynotes, I think Sebastian Hammer from IndexData would be an interesting choice. -Ross. On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 4:33 PM, jean rainwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark the dates! Brown University is hosting code4lib 2009 which will take place at the Renaissance Providence Hotel from Monday, Feb 23 (preconference day) to Thursday, Feb 26. It's time to start a discussion of potential keynote speakers. Ideas? Jean Jean Rainwater Co-Leader, Integrated Technology Services Brown University Library Providence, Rhode Island 02912 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib 2009
Patrick Ball, open source geek, statistician, doing great work for the world: http://www.hrdag.org/about/patrick_ball.shtml james Phillips, Mark wrote: I think Sebastian is a great suggestion. He presented several times at UNT over the years and each presentation was well received by a broad range of listeners. Also at code4lib he can get all geeky and such. Mark -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ross Singer Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 2:43 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib 2009 Going back to the original question about keynotes, I think Sebastian Hammer from IndexData would be an interesting choice. -Ross. On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 4:33 PM, jean rainwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark the dates! Brown University is hosting code4lib 2009 which will take place at the Renaissance Providence Hotel from Monday, Feb 23 (preconference day) to Thursday, Feb 26. It's time to start a discussion of potential keynote speakers. Ideas? Jean Jean Rainwater Co-Leader, Integrated Technology Services Brown University Library Providence, Rhode Island 02912 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- James R. Jacobs International Documents Librarian Green Library Stanford University (650) 725-1030 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://jonssonlibrary.stanford.edu AIM: LibrarianJames Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib 2009
Last year we had a somewhat mixed process - I'll have to go back and look at the email archives, but I believe we had a somewhat informal vote after folks volunteered to host pre-conference topics. After the vote, there was at least one group that decided to run an 'unofficial' pre-conference as well, which was also well attended. -- jaf === Jeremy Frumkin Head, Emerging Technologies and Services 121 The Valley Library, Oregon State University Corvallis OR 97331-4501 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 541.602.4905 541.737.3453 (Fax) === Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. - Emerson -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jean rainwater Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 12:18 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib 2009 Alexis - I'm posting your question to the list because I don't have the answer. We have a pre-conference room which will hold 80 people reserved for Monday, 2/23. We could book a second (and third?) room if necessary. I'm not sure if the pre-conference topics go to popular vote or if anyone willing to organize one gets a green light. Jeremy or others - how did work last year? Jean On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Alexis Rossi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jean, I sent you an email a couple of months ago regarding having an OpenLibrary.org pre-conference next year. I'm sure I was jumping the gun a bit timing-wise, but would now be a better time to start discussing whether this will be possible? Three people from our project spoke at the 2008 conference - Aaron Swartz, our tech lead; Brewster Kahle, founder of Internet Archive; and Karen Coyle, our metadata czarina. We also held a small meeting prior to the conference, which I'm told was well attended. We'd like to do a whole day pre-conference in 2009 if that will work out schedule-wise. What do you think, is this a possibility? Thanks, Alexis Rossi Internet Archive jean rainwater wrote: Mark the dates! Brown University is hosting code4lib 2009 which will take place at the Renaissance Providence Hotel from Monday, Feb 23 (preconference day) to Thursday, Feb 26. It's time to start a discussion of potential keynote speakers. Ideas? Jean Jean Rainwater Co-Leader, Integrated Technology Services Brown University Library Providence, Rhode Island 02912 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [CODE4LIB] alpha characters used for field names
Ok. What's allowable/possible vs. what is actually defined as part of variable MARC data fields in say MARC21. I'm amused by the hairsplitting. The bottom line is these particular fields are ALEPH specific and are not part of MARC21. I agree with others that accounting for these in whatever parsing program you use should not be a big deal. Steve On 6/25/08, Jonathan Rochkind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe that alpha characters for field names ARE legal according to (most of the various) MARC standard(s). But they are not generally used in library MARC data. Jonathan Eric Lease Morgan wrote: Are alpha characters used for field names valid in MARC records? When we do dumps of MARC records our ILS often dumps them with FMT and CAT field names. So not only do I have glorious 246 fields and 100 fields but I also have CAT fields and FMT fields. Are these features of my ILS -- extensions of the standard -- or really a part of MARC? Moreover, does something like Marc4J or MARC::Batch and friends deal with these alpha field names correctly? --Eric Lease Morgan -- Jonathan Rochkind Digital Services Software Engineer The Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University 410.516.8886 rochkind (at) jhu.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] alpha characters used for field names
On Jun 25, 2008, at 4:37 PM, Steve Oberg wrote: Ok. What's allowable/possible vs. what is actually defined as part of variable MARC data fields in say MARC21. I'm amused by the hairsplitting. The bottom line is these particular fields are ALEPH specific and are not part of MARC21. I agree with others that accounting for these in whatever parsing program you use should not be a big deal. Yep, I'm getting ALEPH output, and the issue is not so much whether or not alpha-named fields exist but whether or not my parsing tools (MARC::Batch and friends or Marc4J) handle them correctly. For example, MARC::Batch warns of invalid indicators with values such as BE. Who ever heard of an indicator being longer than two characters long? -- Eric
Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib 2009
There is a google group - code4libcon - for conference planning details. http://groups.google.com/group/code4libcon -- Jean On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Jonathan Rochkind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe last year there was also a separate conference organizing list, where those who wanted to participate in decision making about the conference could sign on and discuss it? Me,I'm perfectly happy to leave things like preconferences to those who are interested in thinking about it. But I recall that opinion of mine was controversial too, and someone (jaf? :) ) thought that everyoen attending the conf shoudl be participating on the conf organizing list. Either way, not everyone on the code4lib list will even be attending the conf, of course. Jonathan Frumkin, Jeremy wrote: Last year we had a somewhat mixed process - I'll have to go back and look at the email archives, but I believe we had a somewhat informal vote after folks volunteered to host pre-conference topics. After the vote, there was at least one group that decided to run an 'unofficial' pre-conference as well, which was also well attended. -- jaf === Jeremy Frumkin Head, Emerging Technologies and Services 121 The Valley Library, Oregon State University Corvallis OR 97331-4501 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 541.602.4905 541.737.3453 (Fax) === Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. - Emerson -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jean rainwater Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 12:18 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib 2009 Alexis - I'm posting your question to the list because I don't have the answer. We have a pre-conference room which will hold 80 people reserved for Monday, 2/23. We could book a second (and third?) room if necessary. I'm not sure if the pre-conference topics go to popular vote or if anyone willing to organize one gets a green light. Jeremy or others - how did work last year? Jean On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 2:50 PM, Alexis Rossi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jean, I sent you an email a couple of months ago regarding having an OpenLibrary.org pre-conference next year. I'm sure I was jumping the gun a bit timing-wise, but would now be a better time to start discussing whether this will be possible? Three people from our project spoke at the 2008 conference - Aaron Swartz, our tech lead; Brewster Kahle, founder of Internet Archive; and Karen Coyle, our metadata czarina. We also held a small meeting prior to the conference, which I'm told was well attended. We'd like to do a whole day pre-conference in 2009 if that will work out schedule-wise. What do you think, is this a possibility? Thanks, Alexis Rossi Internet Archive jean rainwater wrote: Mark the dates! Brown University is hosting code4lib 2009 which will take place at the Renaissance Providence Hotel from Monday, Feb 23 (preconference day) to Thursday, Feb 26. It's time to start a discussion of potential keynote speakers. Ideas? Jean Jean Rainwater Co-Leader, Integrated Technology Services Brown University Library Providence, Rhode Island 02912 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jonathan Rochkind Digital Services Software Engineer The Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University 410.516.8886 rochkind (at) jhu.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] ssh tunneling through a mysql dsn
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: On Jun 25, 2008, at 11:21 AM, Nate Vack wrote: $ ssh -T -L 3306:mysql.example.org:3306 [EMAIL PROTECTED] $ mysql -h mysql.example.org Yeah -- this is (probably) the way you want to do it, though. You'll need to: * Set up SSH keys such that building the tunnel doesn't prompt for a password * Run the local end of the tunnel on a free port * Configure your local client to talk to the local end of the tunnel I went to Plan B, namely, installing my Perl module on the remote host where the MySQL database resides. Doing the tunneling thing was too much like using my right hand to reach around my head to scratch my left ear. Cumbersome. SSH tunneling is an odd concept at first, but it's very useful if you don't have VPN ... For instance, when I'm on the road, I use tunneling to make my e-mail look like it's coming from a machine that our SMTP server will route mail for. I've also used it for checking development websites that are behind firewalls, by connecting the tunnel to my local port 80. (you also need to adjust your /etc/hosts or equivalent if the site isn't good about using relative or root-relative links to their local content). Now I have YAUAPTR (Yet Another Username And Password To Remember). /me sighs too Get a password management program... I have 93 in one, and 165 in another ... and my work wants us to have seperate login wheel accounts, which is going to add another 31. There's no way in hell that I could remember them all. -Joe
Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib 2009
Here are a few ideas., since you asked (I think?) Stefano Mazzocchi: http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/ Creator or Cocoon, one of the people behind the Simile project, now at MetaWeb ... I think Stefano's experience with public speaking, open source software, data processing and the web would make him a compelling keynote. Andy Powell: http://www.eduserv.org.uk/foundation/people/andypowell/ Long time metadata wrangler, and moving force behind organizations like UKOLN, JISC, Open Archive Initiative, Eduserv. Andy's been a strong advocate for the use of web technologies, and web architecture in the digital library space. Ian Davis: http://iandavis.com/blog/about CTO of Talis, architect of their RESTful semweb platform, co-author of RSS 1.0, creator of FRBR RDF vocabulary, articulate and experienced speaker on the use of the web and semantic web technologies, particularly (but limited to) the library space. Tim Spalding: http://www.librarything.com/profile.php?view=timspalding The guy behind LibraryThing. His insights into the communities around books and libraries, and how to enable them on the web are fun, invigorating and inspiring. Carl Malamud: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Malamud Long time advocate for Internet technologies for the public good. Most recently involved with making public domain data sets available to the public w/ public.resource.org. Jon Orwant: http://www.orwant.com/bio/ Perl hacker, author, former CTO of O'Reilly, now at Google Book Search. Would be fun to hear where he thinks libraries and books, and hopefully he'd throw a mug or two. //Ed
Re: [CODE4LIB] alpha characters used for field names
Eric Lease Morgan wrote: |Who ever heard of an indicator being longer than two characters long? Byte 10 (zero origin) of the MARC leader specifies the number of indicator characters. MARC21 and its predecessors have always specified 2, but the possible range is 0 to 9. The 24-character leader is the wizard of MARC records, specifying what a particular version of MARC looks like. Libraries have always been very conservative in this regard, using only a single set of specifications from 1968 to the present. However, the standard actually permits a very wide range of possible implementations. Unfortunately, the most limiting aspect of the 24-character leader is that fact that only 5 digits (the first 5 characters of the leader) were specified as the maximum length of a MARC record. Manipulating the various possible values of specific positions in the leader could lead to record/field/subfield sizes far larger than this, but the 5-digit (99,999 maximum) limitation is really *quite* limiting these days. The 5-digit base address in positions 12-16 might pose a similar problem. But people were thinking in catalog card terms back at the beginning of MARC. It's sort of like, are we putting unconscious limitations on anything today in our specifications that future generations might wish *we* had done differently? Harvey -- === Harvey E. Hahn, Manager, Technical Services Department Arlington Heights (Illinois) Memorial Library 847/506-2644 - FX: 847/506-2650 - Email: hhahn(at)ahml(dot)info OML Scripts web pages: http://www.ahml.info/oml/ Personal web pages: http://users.anet.com/~packrat
Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib 2009
Oh, I'm all over that suggestion about Sebastian. For Pete's sake, who doesn't use Yaz? Forgive the ditto -- I have nothing to add -- but just felt compelled to post. \-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/ Scot Colford Web Services Manager Boston Public Library [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone 617.859.2399 Mobile 617.592.8669 Fax 617.536.7558 My email replies and forwards are brief so I may address everyone's concerns much faster. For matters that require conversation, please contact me by telephone. On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Phillips, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think Sebastian is a great suggestion. He presented several times at UNT over the years and each presentation was well received by a broad range of listeners. Also at code4lib he can get all geeky and such. Mark -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ross Singer Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 2:43 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib 2009 Going back to the original question about keynotes, I think Sebastian Hammer from IndexData would be an interesting choice. -Ross. On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 4:33 PM, jean rainwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark the dates! Brown University is hosting code4lib 2009 which will take place at the Renaissance Providence Hotel from Monday, Feb 23 (preconference day) to Thursday, Feb 26. It's time to start a discussion of potential keynote speakers. Ideas? Jean Jean Rainwater Co-Leader, Integrated Technology Services Brown University Library Providence, Rhode Island 02912 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
