Re: [CODE4LIB] SIP2 SDK available

[Bill Kuntz]

There is a php class to talk SIP2.  Perhaps you can get some ideas from it.

http://code.google.com/p/php-sip2/

Bill

Migell Acosta wrote:
> Michael,
>
> The ILS is Symphony by SirsiDynix and for sure it has the necessary SIP2
> compnents on the server side.  I'm just looking to do a client on the PC
> side (Windows, Mac or *nix is fine).  The client will have a barcode reader
> and receipt printer so the requirements for HW support is low.
>
>   

-- 

Bill Kuntz
FCLA Open Systems Group
(352) 392-9020 x 242

Re: [CODE4LIB] a Solr search recall problem you probably don't even know you're having

[Naomi Dushay]

Robert,

Thanks!   I've been using Solr 1.5 from trunk back in March - time to  
upgrade!  I also like the "put the stopword filter after the WDF  
filter" fix.


- Naomi

On Nov 5, 2010, at 12:36 PM, Robert Muir wrote:

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Naomi Dushay   
wrote:

(sorry for cross postings - I think this is important information to
disseminate)

Executive Summary:  you probably need to increase your query slop.   
A lot.




I looked at your example, and it really looks a lot like
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-1852

This was fixed, and released in Solr 1.4.1... and of course from the
upgrading notes:
"However, a reindex is needed for some of the analysis fixes to take  
effect."


Your example "Prisoner in a red-rose chain" in Solr 1.4.1 no longer
has the positions "1,4,7,8", but instead "1,4,5,6".

I recommend upgrading to this bugfix release and re-indexing if you
are having problems like this

[CODE4LIB] ALA Poster Session proposals for 2011 Annual Conference now being accepted

[Luke Vilelle]

**Please excuse cross postings**

Dear colleagues,

Share your best ideas with the national and international library community by 
presenting a poster session at the ALA Annual Conference!

Proposals for poster sessions to be presented at the 2011 ALA Annual Conference 
in New Orleans are now being accepted. An application form is available on the 
poster session website, at http://www.lib.jmu.edu/org/ala/howto.aspx, and the 
deadline for submission is January 7.

The poster session committee encourages submissions from all types of libraries 
and on any topic relevant to librarianship. Submissions may include a 
description of an innovative library program; an analysis of a solution to a 
problem; a report of a research study; or any other presentation that would 
benefit the larger library community.

Poster session participants place materials such as pictures, data, graphs, 
diagrams and narrative text on boards that are usually 4 x 8 feet. During their 
assigned 1½ hour time periods, participants informally discuss their 
presentations with conference attendees.

The deadline for submitting an application is January 7, 2011. Applicants will 
be notified by Feb. 28, 2011, whether their submission has been accepted for 
presentation at the conference, prior to the ALA Early Bird Registration 
deadline. The 2011 ALA Annual Poster Sessions will be held June 25 and 26, 2011 
(the Saturday and Sunday of the conference) at the Ernest N. Morial Convention 
Center in New Orleans.

Questions about poster session presentations and submissions may be directed to:

Luke Vilelle, chair of the ALA poster session committee, 
lvile...@hollins.edu
Or
Candace Benefiel, chair of the ALA poster session review panel, 
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Email: ala.post...@gmail.com
Website: http://www.lib.jmu.edu/org/ala/



Luke Vilelle
Public Services Librarian
Wyndham Robertson Library, Hollins University
540-362-6592
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Re: [CODE4LIB] SIP2 SDK available

[Galen Charlton]

Hi,

On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Schneider, Wayne  wrote:
> There is a perl implementation of the server (or ACS, in SIP
> terminology) side, which I believe is incorporated into the Koha code. A
> CVS repository is available from SourceForge
> (http://openncip.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/openncip/). It doesn't
> appear to be too actively worked on at the moment. I don't know if how
> helpful it will be, since you're probably looking at libraries for the
> client side, but there may be useful stuff in there for you.

A version of it with some updates can also be found at

https://github.com/atz/SIPServer

One of the things I'd like to do for Koha RSN is to merge back its
fork of OpenNCIP so that both Koha and Evergreen are using the same
base codebase for SIP2 support.

Regards,

Galen
-- 
Galen Charlton
gmcha...@gmail.com

[CODE4LIB] a Solr search recall problem you probably don't even know you're having

[Naomi Dushay]

(sorry for cross postings - I think this is important information to  
disseminate)


Executive Summary:  you probably need to increase your query slop.  A  
lot.



We recently had a feedback ticket that a title search with a hyphen  
wasn't working properly.  This is especially curious because we solved  
a bunch of problems with hyphen searching AND WROTE TESTS in the  
process, and all the existing hyphen tests pass.  Tests like "hyphens  
with no spaces before or after, 3 significant terms, 2 stopwords" pass.


Our metadata contains:
record A with title:   Red-rose chain.
record B with title:   Prisoner in a red-rose chain.

A title search:  prisoner in a red-rose chain  returns no results

Further exploration (the following are all title searches):
red-rose chain  ==>  record A only
"red rose" chain ==>  record A only
"red rose chain" ==> record A only
"red-rose chain" ==> record A only
red rose chain ==>  records A and B
red "rose chain" ==>  records A and B  (!!)

For more details and more about the solution, see  
http://discovery-grindstone.blogspot.com/2010/11/solr-and-hyphenated-words.html

- Naomi Dushay
Senior Developer
Stanford University Libraries
 

Re: [CODE4LIB] SIP2 SDK available

[Migell Acosta]

Michael,

The ILS is Symphony by SirsiDynix and for sure it has the necessary SIP2
compnents on the server side.  I'm just looking to do a client on the PC
side (Windows, Mac or *nix is fine).  The client will have a barcode reader
and receipt printer so the requirements for HW support is low.

Re: [CODE4LIB] how 'great' are the great books

[Lars Aronsson]

On 11/04/2010 04:37 PM, Ken Irwin wrote:

Can you tell the difference between "no one has read this book" and "this book is 
not as great"?


Are books that many hate also great? Web pages get
a high "Page rank" because of many links, independent
of whether those links are "likes" or "ridicules".

Talking of citation analysis, has anybody developed an
algorithm for recognizing literary references in plain
text? If I write "to code or not to code", that is
clearly a reference (a link) to Hamlet's monologue,
and should contribute to its Page rank, don't you think?


--
  Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se)
  Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se