Re: [CODE4LIB] generating and parsing NCIP with PHP
You might want to take a look at VuFind's XCNCIP2 driver here: https://vufind.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/vufind/trunk/web/Drivers/XCNCIP2.php This constructs requests in a crude way (simple string concatenation) but parses responses using SimpleXML. SimpleXML is pretty user-friendly, but XML namespaces make it a little more complicated, and this code demonstrates namespaces in action. I'll be happy to answer any questions you might have. - Demian -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Emily Lynema Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 4:03 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] generating and parsing NCIP with PHP Hi folks, We are working with Lehigh University on building out a more full- fledged SirsiDynix Symphony adapter to work with the XC NCIP toolkit. We will hopefully building our new Patron Account interface on top of the eXtensible Catalog NCIP toolkit. Obviously, to build our new interface on top of the NCIP toolkit, we need to generate NCIP XML requests and parse NCIP XML responses. These things are a bit gnarly to work with, and I'm not sure that PHP is exactly known for excellence in working with XML. Has anyone ever dabbled in this area before? Created an awesome PHP library we could just pick up and use? Have any particular pointers? We have Zend framework at our disposal in terms of PHP frameworks, and will likely be using that for this project. I don't know in particular if it has good XML parsing tools (my staff probably would), but even if it does, we still have to sort through the NCIP verbosity. Just thought I'd check. -emily
Re: [CODE4LIB] Calling all Maryland, DC, and Virginia folk Save the Date
Happy New Year all! I am interesting in attending this meeting. It will be my first! Do I need to RSVP? Just wondering if you need to know who is coming. We are in DC after all. ;-} Thanks, Loren Loren Scherbak Archives of American Art Smithsonian Institution 202-633-7968 scherb...@si.edumailto:scherb...@si.edu Sign uphttp://www.aaa.si.edu/about/e_mail_sign_up.cfm for the Archives' new e-newsletter Primary Source at www.aaa.si.eduhttp://www.aaa.si.edu/. Subscribers will receive bimonthly updates on recent acquisitions, publications, exhibitions, research resources, and events. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU]mailto:[mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of BWS Johnson Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 3:43 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDUmailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Calling all Maryland, DC, and Virginia folk Save the Date Salvete! Just an alert that the next non OCLC sanctioned, deeply underground, seedy meeting of the MDC Chapter of Code4Lib will be gathering Tuesday, 10 January, 2012 10:00AM to Noon at The George Washington University Gelman Library in Foggy Bottom, DC 2130 H Street NW Washington DC 20052. The last ad hoc meeting was a bunch of fun, but if you have an idea for a presentation or don't want to forget to share summat, feel free to mess with the agenda on the wiki. http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/MDC Cheers, Brooke
Re: [CODE4LIB] Obvious answer to registration limitations
The price of admission to that event is a talk proposal, and while perhaps obviously, not everyone speaks, it does set a boundary. It might be tough to find folks to serve as gatekeepers, but maybe we should at least require a why you should let me go to Code4Lib statement or proposal. Unfortunately, this would seem (in my mind) to encourage recidivism more than anything. Newcomers are not going to have the benefit of knowing what Code4Lib is about in their statement and what is already viewed as a bit of a cliquish cabal will only likely become more so. Seems like the why part could be skipped or used in lieu of the proposal if the person feels that is more compelling than any topic they'd want to talk about on stage. As far as how to make the vetting process for proposals (for who gets to attend) practical, I suspect that simple requirement would reduce the flow enough that it might not be necessary to disappoint anyone. Rather than have a clunky voting process to potentially examine over 200 proposals (if there are more than spots), that seems to be a good job for the program committee. kyle
[CODE4LIB] NYC regional mtg: Weds Apr 25
Hello all, The next meeting of the code4lib NYC regional / METRO SIG is scheduled for Wednesday, April 25, 10a-12m at the METRO Training Center, 57 E 11th Street. -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 212.742.8770 ext. 2432 http://www.tourolib.org/ Access Problems? Contact systems.libr...@touro.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Calling all Maryland, DC, and Virginia folk Save the Date
Salvete! Happy New Year all! I am interesting in attending this meeting. It will be my first! Do I need to RSVP? Just wondering if you need to know who is coming. We are in DC after all. ;-} Thanks, Loren Just an alert that the next non OCLC sanctioned, deeply underground, seedy meeting of the MDC Chapter of Code4Lib will be gathering Tuesday, 10 January, 2012 10:00AM to Noon at The George Washington University Gelman Library in Foggy Bottom, DC 2130 H Street NW Washington DC 20052. Nope, just show up and join the fun :D I look forward to seeing you all next week. Cheers, Brooke
[CODE4LIB] implemented Microdata and/or Schema.org?
Hi, Anyone else implemented HTML5 Microdata [1] and/or Schema.org [2]? I'm looking for examples of libraries, museums, archives, and educational organizations that have implemented HTML5 Microdata and/or Schema.org in any way. Even if you have just used it in a very limited way on a site, I'd be interested in seeing it. I have a short list right now that I've gleaned from various email lists, and I have looked around Sindice and blekko's grep the web [3] and found a few more. Anyone know of a way (other than doing my own map-reduce job on the common crawl data [4]) to search for embedded markup like this? I'd like to see if there are more examples I could draw on for my code4lib conference talk. Thank you, Jason [1] http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/microdata.html [2] http://schema.org/ [3] You can vote for a couple of my suggested greps here: http://blekko.com/webgrep?page=viewid=bee6ebc66500ba971415d8cf9c0402ba and http://blekko.com/webgrep?page=viewid=575a6690c56e46a87339b85b797620ce [4] http://www.commoncrawl.org/data/accessing-the-data/
[CODE4LIB] http://openurl.code4lib.org/ MIA
there used to be an http://openurl.code4lib.org/ . It's even linked to from a Wikipedia article on OpenURL. I seem to recall it had some useful stuff rsinger put there. It is now MIA. Anyone know what happened to it, and if it's easy to bring it back? rsinger? No big deal, just curious. Jonathan
Re: [CODE4LIB] Elsevier App Challenge at Code4Lib 2012
Hello, Nishit. I'm not sure what kind of response you were looking for. I volunteered to be on the program planning committee for the upcoming Code4Lib meeting, so part of me wants to respond from a program planning perspective. I'm also a member of the anarchistic Code4Lib community, so I want to respond from that one-person/one-vote perspective as well. So here is a reply with the two perspectives rolled into one. From the first perspective, this probably isn't the ideal mailing list to bring up the question of scheduling this into the meeting. The meeting planning is happening on the code4libcon Google Group (http://groups.google.com/group/code4libcon). Hopefully you have been in touch with the Code4Lib meeting hosts to see if they have any concerns or objections to what you are proposing. If not, I'd do so pronto! From the second perspective, I see a couple of problems. First, the proposed schedule has the prototype built during the meeting itself. Others may voice otherwise, but I go to the meeting to absorb the content from presentations and to network with attendees. So I, for one, wouldn't be interested in using the time during the week on heads-down coding. (Others may feel otherwise, obviously.) (Also note that Code4Lib typically hasn't had a heads-down coding challenge during the meeting like what I've seen at the Open Repositories meeting. Not that it couldn't be tried, but you'd be swimming against a strong tide of tradition at this late date.) Second, all of the selections are being done by Elsevier, which is out-of-character for a highly participatory group like Code4Lib. You might want to revisit that part to see if you can get community engagement at the selection stages as well. Thanks for sponsoring the meeting last year and this year. I hope this constructive criticism is helpful. Peter On Dec 29, 2011, at 2:20 PM, Bhuva, Nishit (ELS-NYC) wrote: Hello Everyone, My name is Nishit Bhuva and I am the Partner Development Manager in the Developer Network team at Elsevier. I am sure many of the Code4Lib members must be aware of SciVerse Applications http://www.applications.sciverse.com/action/userhome that are developed on the Elsevier platform. For the members who are new to this platform, the apps on SciVerse basically assist researchers in accelerating their scientific study by saving time and effort and presenting targeted information, rather than having them go through the vast amount of scientific data available. We are very excited about the Code4Lib conference. Elsevier was one of the sponsors for Code4Lib 2011 and we are also on the sponsors list for Code4Lib 2012. Since SciVerse apps are excellent tools that bring precise scientific information at the fingertips of researchers, we are interested in engaging with all members of Code4Lib to use their expertise and assist the scientific community in accelerating their research. To facilitate the engagement with Code4Lib members, we are interested in organizing an App Challenge prior to and during the 2012 conference. This challenge will give Code4Lib members an opportunity to showcase their talents on a global platform. Below is a draft outline for the challenge we are interested in organizing (this draft is open for discussion). Stage 1: Submit your concepts/ideas for an app. * Concept/Idea submission begins on January 9, 2012. * Deadline for submission will be January 31, 2012. * Submissions should include a detailed concept/idea description and poster/slides showing functionality of the app. * Top 10-15 concepts/ideas will be selected by Elsevier. * Entries could be as individuals/teams. Stage 2: Build an app based on selected concepts. * The poster/slides of selected entries will be displayed on all days of the conference. * Members of the winning teams will build apps during the 4 days of the conference (February 6 - 9, 2012). * End deliverable will be a working prototype of the app. * Three winners will be selected by Elsevier * Winners receive cash rewards after the conference. * Entries could be as individuals/teams. Some of you might be wondering that what happens to concept/ideas and prototype apps that are not selected. The good news is, these go to the SciVerse Labs Applications gallery where: * The concepts can be used by any developer to build apps and, * Original developers of app prototypes will have an opportunity to continue their work. I would be glad to hear from all members about their thoughts on this challenge and also discuss other possibilities to engage during the conference. Happy Holidays to all ! Best, Nishit -- Peter Murray Assistant Director, Technology Services Development LYRASIS peter.mur...@lyrasis.org +1 678-235-2955 1438 West Peachtree Street NW
[CODE4LIB] re-introducing Umlaut, again
An alpha release of Umlaut 3.0 is now available. Umlaut is an open source front-end for a link resolver, or: Umlaut is a just-in-time aggregator of last mile specific citation services, taking input as OpenURL, and providing an HTML UI as well as an api suite for embedding Umlaut services in other applications. What the heck does this mean?Read more. https://github.com/team-umlaut/umlaut/wiki/What-is-Umlaut-anyway The 3.0 release of Umlaut will not add any new features, but instead modernizes Umlaut's architecture to be based on Rails 3.1+ as an engine gem, and work on modern ruby versions. Lots of unsupported cruft was also removed from the codebase. (Umlaut actually began as a Rails 1.x application!). Why this matters to you is that Umlaut should be easier to install and maintain than it ever was before. SeeInstallation/Getting Started instructions. https://github.com/team-umlaut/umlaut/wiki/Installation This is still an alpha release at present. It likely has some not yet discovered bugs, missing features, or performance issues. But it should be much easier to work with than Umlaut 2.x, if you are looking to get started with Umlaut, definitely start with the 3.x alpha. Alpha tester feedback very welcome, please let me know of any difficulties you have with it, suggestions, questions, etc. Umlaut 3.x source code is available in theumlaut3dev branch in the github project https://github.com/team-umlaut/umlaut/tree/umlaut3dev(eventually it will move to master).
Re: [CODE4LIB] Obvious answer to registration limitations
(This discussion happened a couple of weeks ago during the summer break here, but I figured it was still worth adding my couple of cents.) so, from Monday to Thursday, each day at noon Eastern, 50 registration slots open. I think this is a fantastic idea -- especially if you shift around the timeslot so that it is beneficial to people in different time zones Shifting times would be good. The registration opened at 5am here, though I probably would have gotten up for it had I known it was going to go so quickly. (Did you have to pay when you registered? If so, I don't think I could have convinced the holder of an institutional credit card to get up with me though.) I'll also +1 the suggestion for limiting attendees per organisation if the overall number is going to be kept small. David -- oʇɐʞıɐʍ ɟo ʎʇısɹǝʌıun uɐıɹɐɹqıן sɯǝʇsʎs
Re: [CODE4LIB] Obvious answer to registration limitations
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 7:08 PM, David Friggens frigg...@waikato.ac.nz wrote: Shifting times would be good. The registration opened at 5am here, though I probably would have gotten up for it had I known it was going to go so quickly. (Did you have to pay when you registered? If so, I don't think I could have convinced the holder of an institutional credit card to get up with me though.) I'll also +1 the suggestion for limiting attendees per organisation if the overall number is going to be kept small. I think the thing that would move these ideas along is for someone to write the registration system that we're talking about (or find one that does what we want that we could repurpose). In my humble opinion, ideas that require more manual work on the part of the host(s) are less likely to happen; but, if there was a system that would do what we want (and handle the crush of registration), I think the community would happily jump behind it -- registration has always been an issue. So, that said, I'll take one step backword and let someone else step forward (by standing still) to volunteer to write it... as they say, running code wins. Kevin
