Re: [CODE4LIB] Voting is open for code4lib 2012 presentations.

[Mark Diggory]

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On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Anjanette Young
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> Voting for code4lib 2012 talks are now open.
>
> Voting will close at 5pm (PST) on December 9, 2011.
>
> Presentation criteria to keep in mind
>
>
>- Usefulness
>- Newness
>- Geekiness
>- Diversity of topics
>
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> Presentation proposal descriptions can be found on the wiki
>
> http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/2012_talks_proposals
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> Thank you to Ross Singer for keying in all 72 proposals!
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> --Anjanette
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[CODE4LIB] Voting is open for code4lib 2012 presentations.

[Anjanette Young]

Voting for code4lib 2012 talks are now open.

Voting will close at 5pm (PST) on December 9, 2011.

Presentation criteria to keep in mind


   - Usefulness
   - Newness
   - Geekiness
   - Diversity of topics

http://vote.code4lib.org/election/21  -- You will need your
code4lib.orglogin in order to vote. If you do not have one you can
create one at
http://code4lib.org/

Presentation proposal descriptions can be found on the wiki

http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/2012_talks_proposals

Thank you to Ross Singer for keying in all 72 proposals!

--Anjanette

[CODE4LIB] Plea for help from Horowhenua Library Trust to Koha Community

[Joann Ransom]

Horowhenua Library Trust is the birth place of Koha and the longest serving
member of the Koha community. Back in 1999 when we were working on Koha,
the idea that 12 years later we would be having to write an email like this
never crossed our minds. It is with tremendous sadness that we must write
this plea for help to you, the other members of the Koha community.

The situation we find ourselves in, is that after over a year of battling
against it, PTFS/Liblime have managed to have their application for a
Trademark on Koha in New Zealand accepted. We now have 3 months to object,
but to do so involves lawyers and money. We are a small semi rural Library
in New Zealand and have no cash spare
in our operational budget to afford this, but we do feel it is something we
must fight.

For the library that invented Koha to now have to have a legal battle to
prevent a US company trademarking the word in NZ seems bizarre, butit is at
this point that we find ourselves.

So, we ask you, the users and developers of Koha, from the birth place of
Koha, please if you can help in anyway, let us know.

Background reading:

   - Code4Lib article : How hard
   can it be : developing in Open Source [history of the development of Koha]
   by Joann Ransom and Chris Cormack.
   - Timeline  of Koha
   :development
   - Koha history visualization 


Help us
If you would like to help us fund legal costs please use the paypal donate
button below.




Otherwise, any discussion, public support and ideas on how to proceed would
be gratefully received.

Regards


Jo.

-- 
Joann Ransom RLIANZA
Head of Libraries,
Horowhenua Library Trust.

[CODE4LIB] Library System Administrator Position

[James RW MacDonald]

The University of Northern British Columbia, (think beautiful mountain ranges, 
lakes, rivers and outdoor adventure), is seeking a system administrator.  This 
is a full-time continuing position.  Please find the job description attached.

Cheers

James MacDonald
Digital Initiatives Librarian
Geoffrey R. Weller Library
University of Northern British Columbia
(250) 960-6601


11-096CU(E) Systems Administrator I - Library Reg FT BH web.docx
Description: 11-096CU(E) Systems Administrator I - Library Reg FT BH web.docx

Re: [CODE4LIB] vivosearchlight

[Gabriel Farrell]

On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 6:53 AM, Ed Summers  wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 7:44 AM, John Fereira  wrote:
>> If you want to see what node.js can do to implement a search mechanism take 
>> a look something one of my colleagues developed.  http://vivosearchlight.org
>>
>> It installs a bookmarklet in your browser (take about 5 seconds) that will 
>> initiate a search against a solr index that contains user profile 
>> information from several institutions using VIVO (a semantic web 
>> application).  From any web page, clicking on the "Vivo Searchlight" button 
>> in your browser will initiate a search and find experts with expertise 
>> relevant to the content of the page.  Highlight some text on the page and it 
>> will re-execute a search with just those words.
>
> Thanks for sharing John. That's a really a neat idea, even if the
> results don't seem particularly relevant for some tests I tried. I was
> curious how it does the matching of page text against the profiles. I
> see from the description at http://vivosearchlight.org that
> EleasticSearch is being used instead of Solr. Any chance Miles
> Worthington (ok I googled) would be willing to share the source code
> on his github account [1], or elsewhere?
>
> //Ed

I second the request. I've been doing a fair amount of work with Node
and ElasticSearch as well lately.

> [1] https://github.com/milesworthington
>