[CODE4LIB] Local search index with Alma and Primo
Has anyone used Alma, Primo APIs in combination with a local index of the same collection? For example, indexing bib records in Solr ( + Blacklight, VuFind, RYO) and fetching additional info from the APIs. If so, are you happy? Has it been an improvement over using only the APIs or over Primo's UI? Apologies if this is a rehash, but I've only found this 2013 thread on the same topic: http://serials.infomotions.com/code4lib/archive/2013/201312/4587.html Contact me off list if you prefer. Thanks, Jason Jason Stirnaman Galter Health Sciences Library, Northwestern University
Re: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author
Thanks for catching that. I haven't done much testing yet. Send a pull request? Jason On May 24, 2015 10:59 PM, Wataru Ono ono.wataru.p...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Thank you for your kind advice using jQuery with the ORCID Public API to fetch publications for specific IDs: https://github.com/jstirnaman/Orcid-Profiles-jQuery-Widget In the case of ['work-external-identifiers'] is null, It is an error! 81 line： var extids = value['work-external-identifiers']['work-external-identifier']; ＿ 小野 亘 (Ono, Wataru) E-Mail: ono.wataru.p...@gmail.com （業務用: onow...@u-gakugei.ac.jp） @wonox http://orcid.org/-0002-6398-9317 東京学芸大学附属図書館（教育研究支援部学術情報課） Tel: 042-329-7217 Fax: 042-323-5994 2015-05-20 23:16 GMT+09:00 Jason Stirnaman jstirna...@kumc.edu: Hi again. Here are some examples implementing the ORCID API: using jQuery with the ORCID Public API to fetch publications for specific IDs: https://github.com/jstirnaman/Orcid-Profiles-jQuery-Widget a Ruby client for Public and Member: https://github.com/jstirnaman/BibApp/blob/kumc/lib/orcid_client.rb Jason Jason Stirnaman, MLS Application Development, Library and Information Services, IR University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319 On May 20, 2015, at 9:06 AM, Jason Stirnaman jstirna...@kumc.edu wrote: Hi, Alex. re: ORCID, available author info depends on what Bio information the ID owner makes publicly visible. See the READ section at https://members.orcid.org/api/api-calls I was about to send some old Ruby code for searching NLM Eutils (PubMed) until I saw your last message. If you want to manage a local bibliography, then try Zotero and their API: https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/web_api/v3/start Jason Jason Stirnaman, MLS Application Development, Library and Information Services, IR University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319 On May 20, 2015, at 5:59 AM, Alex Armstrong alehand...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list, What are some good API options for retrieving a list of scholarly publications by author? I would like to be able to grab them and display them on a website along with other information about each author. Google Scholar does not have a public API as far as I can tell. CrossRef metadata search does not allow to search by author. Orcid seems promising. I would have to ask the users I have in mind to add or import their publications to Orcid, as most of them are not on there already. That's doable, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to do what I described above with their public (as opposed to their member) API. Any other ideas or thoughts? Best, Alex Armstrong
Re: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author
Hi, Alex. re: ORCID, available author info depends on what Bio information the ID owner makes publicly visible. See the READ section at https://members.orcid.org/api/api-calls I was about to send some old Ruby code for searching NLM Eutils (PubMed) until I saw your last message. If you want to manage a local bibliography, then try Zotero and their API: https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/web_api/v3/start Jason Jason Stirnaman, MLS Application Development, Library and Information Services, IR University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319 On May 20, 2015, at 5:59 AM, Alex Armstrong alehand...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list, What are some good API options for retrieving a list of scholarly publications by author? I would like to be able to grab them and display them on a website along with other information about each author. Google Scholar does not have a public API as far as I can tell. CrossRef metadata search does not allow to search by author. Orcid seems promising. I would have to ask the users I have in mind to add or import their publications to Orcid, as most of them are not on there already. That's doable, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to do what I described above with their public (as opposed to their member) API. Any other ideas or thoughts? Best, Alex Armstrong
Re: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author
Hi again. Here are some examples implementing the ORCID API: using jQuery with the ORCID Public API to fetch publications for specific IDs: https://github.com/jstirnaman/Orcid-Profiles-jQuery-Widget a Ruby client for Public and Member: https://github.com/jstirnaman/BibApp/blob/kumc/lib/orcid_client.rb Jason Jason Stirnaman, MLS Application Development, Library and Information Services, IR University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319 On May 20, 2015, at 9:06 AM, Jason Stirnaman jstirna...@kumc.edu wrote: Hi, Alex. re: ORCID, available author info depends on what Bio information the ID owner makes publicly visible. See the READ section at https://members.orcid.org/api/api-calls I was about to send some old Ruby code for searching NLM Eutils (PubMed) until I saw your last message. If you want to manage a local bibliography, then try Zotero and their API: https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/web_api/v3/start Jason Jason Stirnaman, MLS Application Development, Library and Information Services, IR University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319 On May 20, 2015, at 5:59 AM, Alex Armstrong alehand...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list, What are some good API options for retrieving a list of scholarly publications by author? I would like to be able to grab them and display them on a website along with other information about each author. Google Scholar does not have a public API as far as I can tell. CrossRef metadata search does not allow to search by author. Orcid seems promising. I would have to ask the users I have in mind to add or import their publications to Orcid, as most of them are not on there already. That's doable, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to do what I described above with their public (as opposed to their member) API. Any other ideas or thoughts? Best, Alex Armstrong
Re: [CODE4LIB] Anyone analyzed SirsiDynix Symphony transaction logs?
Francis, I was able to use Logstash's existing patterns for what I needed. Depending on how you configure the logging, the format can be identical to Apache's. I may have some custom expressions for query params, but you can also do a lot with ES' dynamic fields, which will keep the index smaller. I have the template on Github, but I'm not sure it's the latest. I'll check and post the link. Jason -- Original message -- From: Francis Kayiwa Date: 03/21/2015 8:53 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU; Subject:Re: [CODE4LIB] Anyone analyzed SirsiDynix Symphony transaction logs? On 3/19/15 3:53 PM, Jason Stirnaman wrote: I've been using the ELK (elastic + logstash(1) + kibana)(2) stack for EZProxy log analysis. Yes, the index can grow really fast with log data, so I have to be selective about what I store. I'm not familiar with the Symphony log format, but Logstash has filters to handle just about any data that you want to parse, including multiline. Maybe for some log entries, you don't need to store the full entry at all but only a few bits or a single tag? And because it's Ruby underneath, you can filter using custom Ruby. I use that to do LDAP lookups on user names so we can get department and user-type stats. Hey Jason, Did you have to create customized grok filters for EZProxy logs format? It has been something on my mind and if you've done the work... ;-) Cheers, ./fxk -- Your analyst has you mixed up with another patient. Don't believe a thing he tells you.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Anyone analyzed SirsiDynix Symphony transaction logs?
I've been using the ELK (elastic + logstash(1) + kibana)(2) stack for EZProxy log analysis. Yes, the index can grow really fast with log data, so I have to be selective about what I store. I'm not familiar with the Symphony log format, but Logstash has filters to handle just about any data that you want to parse, including multiline. Maybe for some log entries, you don't need to store the full entry at all but only a few bits or a single tag? And because it's Ruby underneath, you can filter using custom Ruby. I use that to do LDAP lookups on user names so we can get department and user-type stats. 1. http://logstash.net/ 2. https://www.elastic.co/downloads Jason Jason Stirnaman, MLS Application Development, Library and Information Services, IR University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319 On Mar 19, 2015, at 2:15 PM, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote: Has anyone considered using a NoSQL database to store their logs? With enough memory, Redis might be interesting, and it would be fast. The concept of too experimental to post to Github boggles the mind. Cary On Mar 19, 2015, at 9:38 AM, Andrew Nisbet anis...@epl.ca wrote: Hi Bill, I have been doing some work with Symphony logs using Elasticsearch. It is simple to install and use, though I recommend Elasticsearch: The Definitive Guide (http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028505.do). The main problem is the size of the history logs, ours being on the order of 5,000,000 lines per month. Originally I used a simple python script to load each record. The script broke down each line into the command code, then all the data codes, then loaded them using curl. This failed initially because Symphony writes extended characters to title fields. I then ported the script to python 3.3 which was not difficult, and everything loaded fine -- but took more than a to finish a month's worth of data. I am now experimenting with Bulk (http://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/docs-bulk.html) to improve performance. I would certainly be willing to share what I have written if you would like. The code is too experimental to post to Github however. Edmonton Public Library Andrew Nisbet ILS Administrator T: 780.496.4058 F: 780.496.8317 -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of William Denton Sent: March-18-15 3:55 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Anyone analyzed SirsiDynix Symphony transaction logs? I'm going to analyze a whack of transaction logs from our Symphony ILS so that we can dig into collection usage. Any of you out there done this? Because the system is so closed and proprietary I understand it's not easy (perhaps impossible?) to share code (publicly?), but if you've dug into it I'd be curious to know, not just about how you parsed the logs but then what you did with it, whether you loaded bits of data into a database, etc. Looking around, I see a few examples of people using the system's API, but that's it. Bill -- William Denton ↔ Toronto, Canada ↔ https://www.miskatonic.org/
[CODE4LIB] Assignment planner-calculator use
One of our librarians came across K-State's Assignment Planner http://www.lib.k-state.edu/apps/ap/ which is based on Minnesota/Minitex's http://sourceforge.net/projects/research-calc/ We're curious to hear: 1. some anecdotes as to how much use this kind of service gets and 2. if there are worthy alternatives (free or fee)? Contact me directly if you prefer. Thanks, Jason Jason Stirnaman, MLS Application Development, Library and Information Services, IR University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319
Re: [CODE4LIB] Past Conference T-Shirts?
Riley, Could you fix the spelling on More then just books in the store? Should be More than just books Thanks, Jason Jason Stirnaman Lead, Library Technology Services University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319 On Nov 6, 2014, at 1:04 PM, Riley Childs rchi...@cucawarriors.com wrote: Yes, but I have been unsuccessful thus far in getting a vector file/high res transparent image. If you have one and can send please do so and I will put it up on the code4lib store (code4lib.spreadshirt.com). Thanks //Riley -- Riley Childs Senior Charlotte United Christian Academy IT Services Administrator Library Services Administrator https://rileychilds.net cell: +1 (704) 497-2086 office: +1 (704) 537-0331x101 twitter: @rowdychildren Checkout our new Online Library Catalog: https://catalog.cucawarriors.com Proudly sent in plain text -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Goben, Abigail Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2014 1:10 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Past Conference T-Shirts? My Metadata t-shirt, from C4L 2013, has been getting some interest/requests of where others can purchase. I thought we'd talked about that here. Was there a store ever finally set up that I could refer people to? Abigail -- Abigail Goben, MLS Assistant Information Services Librarian and Assistant Professor Library of the Health Sciences University of Illinois at Chicago 1750 W. Polk (MC 763) Chicago, IL 60612 ago...@uic.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Stack Overflow
I think those are the reasons Jeff Atwood of Stack Exchange started Discourse (https://github.com/discourse/discourse | http://www.discourse.org/faq/). Of course, it comes with hosting and/or maintenance overhead. The listserv is archaic and easy and backed by inertia. I think the only way you're going to know is to scratch your itch, experiment, and see if anyone else joins in. Jason Jason Stirnaman Lead, Library Technology Services University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319 On Nov 4, 2014, at 9:34 AM, Schulkins, Joe joseph.schulk...@liverpool.ac.uk wrote: To be honest I absolutely hate the whole reputation and badge system for exactly the reasons you outline, but I can't deny that I do find the family of Stack Exchange sites extremely useful and by comparison Listservs just seem very archaic to me as it's all too easy for a question (and/or its answer) to drop through the cracks of a popular discussion. Are Listservs really the best way to deal with help? I would even prefer a Drupal site... Joseph Schulkins| Systems Librarian| University of Liverpool Library| PO Box 123 | Liverpool L69 3DA | joseph.schulk...@liverpool.ac.uk| T 0151 794 3844 Follow us: @LivUniLibrary Like us: LivUniLibrary Visit us: http://www.liv.ac.uk/library Special Collections Archives blog: http://manuscriptsandmore.liv.ac.uk -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Joshua Welker Sent: 04 November 2014 14:43 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Stack Overflow The concept of a library technology Stack Exchange site as a google-able repository of information sounds great. However, I do have quite a few reservations. 1. Stack Exchange sites seem to naturally lead to gatekeeping, snobbishness, and other troll behaviors. The reputation system built into those sites really go to a lot of folks' heads. High-ranking users seem to take pleasure in shutting down questions as off-topic, redundant, etc. Argument and one-upmanship are actively promoted--The previous answer sucks. Here's my better answer! This tends to attract certain (often male) personalities and to repel certain (often female) personalities. This seems very contrary to the direction the Code4Lib community has tried to move in the last few years of being more inclusive and inviting to women instead of just promoting the stereotypical IT guy qualities that dominate most IT-related discussions on the Internet. More here: http://www.banane.com/2012/06/20/there-are-no-women-on-stackoverflow-or-ar e-there/ http://michael.richter.name/blogs/why-i-no-longer-contribute-to-stackoverf low 2. Having a Stack Exchange site might fragment the already quite small and nascent library technology community. This might be an unfounded worry, but it's worth consideration. A lot of QA takes place on this listserv, and it would be awkward to try to have all this information in both places. That said, searching StackExchange is much easier than searching a listserv. 3. I echo your concerns about vendors. Libraries have a culture of protecting vendors from criticism. Sure, we do lots of criticism behind closed doors, but nowhere that leaves an online footprint. Often, our contracts include a clause that we have to keep certain kinds of information private. I don't think this is a very positive aspect of librarian culture, but it is there. I think a year or two ago that there was a pretty long discussion on this listserv about creating a Stack Exchange site. Josh Welker -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Schulkins, Joe Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2014 8:12 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Stack Overflow Presumably I'm not alone in this, but I find Stack Overflow a valuable resource for various bits of web development and I was wondering whether anyone has given any thought about proposing a Library Technology site to Stack Exchange's Area 51 (http://area51.stackexchange.com/)? Doing a search of the proposals shows there was one for 'Libraries and Information Science' but this closed 2 years ago as it didn't reach the required levels during the beta phase. The reason I think this might be useful is that instead of individual places to go for help or raise questions (i.e. various mailing lists) there could be a 'one-stop' shop approach from which we could get help with LMSs, discovery layers, repository software etc. I appreciate though that certain vendors aren't particularly open (yes, Innovative I'm looking at you here) and might not like these things being discussed on an open forum. Does anybody else think this might be useful? Would such a forum be shot down by all the vendors legalese wrapped up in their Terms and Conditions? Or are you happy with the way
Re: [CODE4LIB] ruby-marc: how to sort fields after append?
Thanks, Steve! Thought I had tried that, but it's exactly what I was looking
for.
Jason
Jason Stirnaman
Lead, Library Technology Services
University of Kansas Medical Center
jstirna...@kumc.edu
913-588-7319
On Sep 12, 2014, at 8:06 AM, Steve Meyer steve.e.me...@gmail.com wrote:
Since the fields property of a MARC::Record is a MARC::FieldMap, which is a
subclass of Array, I use the Array.sort_by! method:
record.fields.sort_by! {|f| f.tag}
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 12:28 AM, Jason Stirnaman jstirna...@kumc.edu
wrote:
Ruby-marc sages,
What's the best way to re-sequence fields in a record after appending to
it? This seems to work ok, but feels wrong.
for record in reader
# Return a record with new field appended.
newrecord = add_control_number(record)
### Re-sort fields by tag and copy them to a new record. ###
sortedrecord = MARC::Record.new
sortedrecord.leader = newrecord.leader
newrecord.sort_by{|f| f.tag}.each {|tag| sortedrecord.append(tag)}
writer.write(sortedrecord)
end
Thanks,
Jason
Jason Stirnaman
Lead, Library Technology Services
University of Kansas Medical Center
jstirna...@kumc.edu
913-588-7319
Re: [CODE4LIB] ruby-marc: how to sort fields after append?
Thanks, Terry, Kyle, et al. To Terry's point, I was too lazy to review the rules for sorting fields, but hoping someone wiser would chime in. Yeah, I'm going to keep sorting indiscriminately until I see a problem or someone complains. In my example it's an 035. I considered not re-sorting at all, but it just looks so wrong, even if I am busting any field order magic in the process. Jason Jason Stirnaman Lead, Library Technology Services University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319 On Sep 12, 2014, at 12:11 PM, Terry Reese ree...@gmail.com wrote: I was so hoping someone would bring up position of MARC fields. Everything Kyle says is true -- and I would follow that up by saying, no one will care, even most catalogers. In fact, I wouldn't even resort the data to begin with -- outside of aesthetics, the sooner we can get away from prescribing some kind of magical meaning to field order (have you ever read the book on determining 5xx field order, I have -- it's depressing; again, who but a cataloger would know) we'll all be better off. :) --tr -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Kyle Banerjee Sent: Friday, September 12, 2014 12:44 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] ruby-marc: how to sort fields after append? On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 9:20 AM, Galen Charlton g...@esilibrary.com wrote: ... One caveat though -- at least in MARC21, re-sorting a MARC record strictly by tag number can be incorrect for certain fields... This is absolutely true. In addition to the fields you mention, 4XX, 7XX, and 8XX are also not necessarily in numerical order even if most records contain them this way. There is no way to programatically determine the correct sort. While this may sound totally cosmetic, it sometimes has use implications. Depending on how the sort mechanism works, you could conceivably reorder fields with the same number in the wrong order. The original question was how to resort a MARC record after appending a field which appears to be a control number. I would think it preferable to iterate through the fields and place it in the correct position (I'm assuming it's not an 001) rather than append and sort. However, record quality is such a mixed bag nowadays and getting much worse that tag order is the least of the corruption issues. Besides, most displays normalize fields so heavily that these type of distinctions simply aren't supported anymore. kyle
[CODE4LIB] ruby-marc: how to sort fields after append?
Ruby-marc sages,
What's the best way to re-sequence fields in a record after appending to it?
This seems to work ok, but feels wrong.
for record in reader
# Return a record with new field appended.
newrecord = add_control_number(record)
### Re-sort fields by tag and copy them to a new record. ###
sortedrecord = MARC::Record.new
sortedrecord.leader = newrecord.leader
newrecord.sort_by{|f| f.tag}.each {|tag| sortedrecord.append(tag)}
writer.write(sortedrecord)
end
Thanks,
Jason
Jason Stirnaman
Lead, Library Technology Services
University of Kansas Medical Center
jstirna...@kumc.edu
913-588-7319
[CODE4LIB] OpenRefine survey results: Librarians are largest percentage of OR user base
Martin Magdinier just published the 2014 OpenRefine user survey results: http://openrefine.org/2014/08/29/2014-survey-results.html One of four OpenRefine user identified himself as librarians making this group the the largest of OpenRefine user base. The Researcher and Open Data enthusiasts represent the two second largest group, each representing over 15% of the userbase. Finally Data journalist and Semantic web each represent around 10%. The OpenRefine team is investigating how to better engage the user community, encourage problem reports, collect feature requests, etc. I know they'd appreciate any feedback. They're also wanting to validate possible business models, e.g. OR in the cloud. Jason Jason Stirnaman Lead, Library Technology Services University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319
Re: [CODE4LIB] Anybody know a way to add a MARC tag on-mass to a file of MARC records
Ray, There are also good MARC libraries for Ruby, Python, Perl... Here's an example implementing ruby-marc within a pipeline-able command-line script: https://github.com/jstirnaman/ebook_bibs Jason Jason Stirnaman Lead, Library Technology Services University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319 On Aug 28, 2014, at 1:39 PM, Schwartz, Raymond schwart...@wpunj.edu wrote: But how can you automate that in a script? /Ray -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Blake Galbreath Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2014 2:37 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Anybody know a way to add a MARC tag on-mass to a file of MARC records Yep, then you just go MarcEditor Tools Add/Delete Field (F7). On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Jane Costanza jcost...@trinity.edu wrote: MarcEdit is a free MARC editing utility. http://marcedit.reeset.net/ Jane Costanza Associate Professor/Head of Discovery Services Trinity University San Antonio, Texas 210-999-7612 jcost...@trinity.edu http://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/ http://lib.trinity.edu/ On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Schwartz, Raymond schwart...@wpunj.edu wrote: Anybody know a way to add a MARC tag on-mass to a file of MARC records. I need to add the tag 918 $a with the contents DELETE to each of the records. Thanks in advance. /Ray Ray Schwartz Systems Specialist Librarian schwart...@wpunj.edu blocked::mailto:schwart...@wpunj.edu David and Lorraine Cheng Library Tel: +1 973 720-3192 William Paterson University Fax: +1 973 720-2585 300 Pompton RoadMobile: +1 201 424-4491 Wayne, NJ 07470-2103 USA http://nova.wpunj.edu/schwartzr2/ http://euphrates.wpunj.edu/faculty/schwartzr2/ -- Blake L. Galbreath Systems Librarian Eastern Oregon University One University Boulevard La Grande, OR 97850 (541) 962.3017 bgalbre...@eou.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Anybody know a way to add a MARC tag on-mass to a file of MARC records
MARCEdit can also be invoked on the command-line: http://blog.reeset.net/archives/1078 Jason Jason Stirnaman Lead, Library Technology Services University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319 On Aug 28, 2014, at 1:44 PM, John Mignault jmigna...@metro.org wrote: You don't need to write a script. The MARCEditor will add the field to every record in the file. Take a look. --j On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Schwartz, Raymond schwart...@wpunj.edu wrote: But how can you automate that in a script? /Ray -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Blake Galbreath Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2014 2:37 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Anybody know a way to add a MARC tag on-mass to a file of MARC records Yep, then you just go MarcEditor Tools Add/Delete Field (F7). On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Jane Costanza jcost...@trinity.edu wrote: MarcEdit is a free MARC editing utility. http://marcedit.reeset.net/ Jane Costanza Associate Professor/Head of Discovery Services Trinity University San Antonio, Texas 210-999-7612 jcost...@trinity.edu http://digitalcommons.trinity.edu/ http://lib.trinity.edu/ On Thu, Aug 28, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Schwartz, Raymond schwart...@wpunj.edu wrote: Anybody know a way to add a MARC tag on-mass to a file of MARC records. I need to add the tag 918 $a with the contents DELETE to each of the records. Thanks in advance. /Ray Ray Schwartz Systems Specialist Librarian schwart...@wpunj.edu blocked::mailto:schwart...@wpunj.edu David and Lorraine Cheng Library Tel: +1 973 720-3192 William Paterson University Fax: +1 973 720-2585 300 Pompton RoadMobile: +1 201 424-4491 Wayne, NJ 07470-2103 USA http://nova.wpunj.edu/schwartzr2/ http://euphrates.wpunj.edu/faculty/schwartzr2/ -- Blake L. Galbreath Systems Librarian Eastern Oregon University One University Boulevard La Grande, OR 97850 (541) 962.3017 bgalbre...@eou.edu -- *John Mignault, Empire State Digital Network Technology Specialist* Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO http://metro.org/) 212.228.2320 x129 http://www.mnylc.org/esdn
Re: [CODE4LIB] Creating a Linked Data Service
Mike, Check out http://json-ld.org/, http://json-ld.org/primer/latest/, and https://github.com/digitalbazaar/pyld But, if you haven't yet sketched out a model for *your* data, then the LD stuff will just be a distraction. The information on Linked Data seems overly complex because trying to represent data for the Semantic Web gets complex - and verbose. As others have suggested, it's never a bad idea to just do the simplest thing that could possibly work.[1] Mark recommended writing a simple API. That would be a good start to understanding your data model and to eventually serving LD. And, you may find that it's enough for now. 1. http://www.xprogramming.com/Practices/PracSimplest.html Jason Jason Stirnaman Lead, Library Technology Services University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319 On Aug 6, 2014, at 1:45 PM, Michael Beccaria mbecca...@paulsmiths.edu wrote: I have recently had the opportunity to create a new library web page and host it on my own servers. One of the elements of the new page that I want to improve upon is providing live or near live information on technology availability (10 of 12 laptops available, etc.). That data resides on my ILS server and I thought it might be a good time to upgrade the bubble gum and duct tape solution I now have to creating a real linked data service that would provide that availability information to the web server. The problem is there is a lot of overly complex and complicated information out there onlinked data and RDF and the semantic web etc. and I'm looking for a simple guide to creating a very simple linked data service with php or python or whatever. Does such a resource exist? Any advice on where to start? Thanks, Mike Beccaria Systems Librarian Head of Digital Initiative Paul Smith's College 518.327.6376 mbecca...@paulsmiths.edu Become a friend of Paul Smith's Library on Facebook today!
Re: [CODE4LIB] Recommendations for IT Department Management Resouces
I'm a big fan of Johanna Rothman: http://www.jrothman.com/ Most of her writing centers on teams, project management, and hiring in technology. It doesn't always translate easily to our glacial, resource-strapped academic environments though. Jason Jason Stirnaman Lead, Library Technology Services University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319 On Jul 3, 2014, at 1:45 PM, Hagedon, Mike - (mhagedon) mhage...@email.arizona.edu wrote: Code4Lib is awesome. I probably wouldn't have thought to ask Mike's question here, but I just bought Leading Snowflakes because of Francis' answer. Thanks! Mike -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Francis Kayiwa Sent: Friday, May 02, 2014 5:35 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Recommendations for IT Department Management Resouces -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5/2/2014 8:25 AM, Michael Beccaria wrote: I'm looking for resources on managing IT departments and infrastructure in an academic environment. Resources that go over high level organization stuff like essential job roles, policies, standard operating procedures, etc.? Anyone know of any good resources out there that they consider useful or essential? I quite enjoyed reading this book -it comes with video packages etc.,- and I wish it on all my past and future managers. ;-) http://leadingsnowflakes.com/ Cheers, ./fxk - -- Sent from a computer using a keyboard and software. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTY5DvAAoJEOptrq/fXk6MxEUH/1vphJKTUegBG3VTims0FFYD FHtlPK2i/venSKOpcmCxwQESCiDPgLO4oiUeXe6MecjaxdGEWv00GHoDASfmhTTQ pKpFRGHo3kLM80ZdaeuHFfk/EO+N/sb8KGAohStaul9ZJvYUtiL0ItnaZsg4fMbv qu/wpEG/9+gJYZho8WFUe5jSc4yDOPiVdo74f0OkyNaNFhjFwz8147WpqoveAnuS Qsf1LkaTSJgkcoAfENARrw5nKCnj8dZQXYbxq/hBD6h/FvbduyOn8+M5seL6Wsco YwNcLNuSKFcp+aV+QE/jIshhdIBiZG/qfEaZbWUCb5uwpnlSs8+/3iG5hK45Uz8= =/Gwp -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: [CODE4LIB] orcid
http://orcid.org/faq-page#n110 Jason Jason Stirnaman Lead, Library Technology Services University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319 On Jun 10, 2014, at 3:04 PM, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: Is ORCID an acronym, and if it is then what does it stand for? —ELM
Re: [CODE4LIB] Anyone working with iPython?
Yes, I just started playing with it, too, and would like to hear ideas. The notebook model is really cool and, I think, would at least be helpful for teaching others to code. There's also an iRuby port. Jason -- Original message -- From: Roy Tennant Date: 12/19/2013 11:54 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU; Subject:[CODE4LIB] Anyone working with iPython? Our Wikipedian in Residence, Max Klein brought iPython [1] to my attention recently and even in just the little exploration I've done with it so far I'm quite impressed. Although you could call it interactive Python that doesn't begin to put across the full range of capabilities, as when I first heard that I thought Great, a Python shell where you enter a command, hit the return, and it executes. Great. Just what I need. NOT. But I was SO WRONG. It certainly can and does do that, but also so much more. You can enter blocks of code that then execute. Those blocks don't even have to be Python. They can be Ruby or Perl or bash. There are built-in functions of various kinds that it (oddly) calls magic. But perhaps the killer bit is the idea of Notebooks that can capture all of your work in a way that is also editable and completely web-ready. This last part is probably difficult to understand until you experience it. Anyway, i was curious if others have been working with it and if so, what they are using it for. I can think of all kinds of things I might want to do with it, but hearing from others can inspire me further, I'm sure. Thanks, Roy [1] http://ipython.org/
Re: [CODE4LIB] rdf triplestores
Eric, We just did a workshop at C4LMidwest on getting up and running with Fuseki and RDF/XML. Here's the 3-part tutorial (for OS X, but translates easily to Linux): http://jstirnaman.wordpress.com/2013/10/11/installing-fuseki-with-jena-and-tdb-on-os-x/ Jason -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Eric Lease Morgan Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2013 11:12 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] rdf triplestores What is your favorite RDF triplestore? I am able to convert numerous library-related metadata formats into RDF/XML. In a minimal way, I can then contribute to the Semantic Web by simply putting the resulting files on an HTTP file system. But if I were to import my RDF/XML into a triplestore, then I could do a lot more. Jena seems like a good option. So does Openlink Virtuoso. What experience do y'all have with these tools, and do you know how to import RDF/XML into them? -- Eric Lease Morgan
Re: [CODE4LIB] Faculty publication database
To affirm what Eric and Tom said, we use BibApp but collecting publication data and disambiguating authors is a huge, person-intensive chore. And that's speaking as a small-ish medical center that can rely on PubMed to source 80-90% of our data. We're hoping that ORCID will make a big difference. We're just getting ready to push our verified publication data to ORCID profiles for our researchers. Cornell has done some work on author-name disambiguation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44PVULsDk24 Jason Stirnaman, MLS Biomedical Librarian, Digital Projects and Research A.R. Dykes Library University of Kansas Medical Center -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Eric Larson Sent: Friday, October 25, 2013 2:32 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Faculty publication database Hi all, I was the lead developer for BibApp at UW-Madison. BibApp is a neat tool and worth consideration for Ruby/Solr folk. However, the project lost momentum at UW because we could not capture enough data to approach faculty expectations that the database be _truly comprehensive_. We harvested citation data via APIs, collected paper CVs, brokered our way into obtaining copies of annual merit review exercises, but still we could not capture enough publication data. Ultimately, seeing the amount of staff cost for data collection, for building a non-comprehensive tool, the library decided to back away. In the sciences you'll have far better luck, but in the humanities it's a complete mess. Good luck finding citations for all the public radio appearances the Chair of the English department expects to see on their profile... It's an unwinnable war. I still cry at night. Cheers, - Eric On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 1:30 PM, Michael J. Giarlo leftw...@alumni.rutgers.edu wrote: Have you looked at VIVO yet? http://vivoweb.org/ It's an open-source project that was initially developed by Cornell and is now being incubated by DuraSpace. -Mike On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Alevtina Verbovetskaya alevtina.verbovetsk...@mail.cuny.edu wrote: Hi guys, Does your library maintain a database of faculty publications? How do you do it? Some things I've come across in my (admittedly brief) research: - RSS feeds from the major databases - RefWorks citation lists These options do not necessarily work for my university, made up of 24 colleges/institutions, 6,700+ FT faculty, and 270,000+ degree-seeking students. Does anyone have a better solution? It need not be searchable: we are just interested in pulling a periodical report of articles written by our faculty/students without relying on them self-reporting days/weeks/months/years after the fact. Thanks! Allie -- Alevtina (Allie) Verbovetskaya Web and Mobile Systems Librarian Office of Library Services City University of New York 555 W 57th St, Ste. 1325 New York, NY 10019 1-646-313-8158 alevtina.verbovetsk...@cuny.edumailto:alevtina.verbovetskaya@cuny.e du
Re: [CODE4LIB] Ruby on Windows
Josh, If you're wanting to deploy a Ruby app to Windows desktops then you might look at Shoes or jRuby (as others suggested): http://www.slideshare.net/anisniit/jruby-15867973 http://www.slideshare.net/anisniit/jruby-15867973http://www.slideshare.net/anisniit/jruby-15867973 For web apps...what everyone else said, but if you're adventurous you might look at Ironpython and Ironruby: https://github.com/IronLanguages Jason https://github.com/IronLanguages-- Original message -- From: Jonathan Rochkind Date: 10/01/2013 7:04 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU; Subject:Re: [CODE4LIB] Ruby on Windows So, when my desktop workstation was Windows, i developed ruby by actually running it on a seperate box which was a linux box. I'd just ssh in for a command line, and I used ExpanDrive[1] to mount the linux box's file system as a G:// drive on Windows, so I could still edit files there with the text editor of my choice. So it barely mattered that it was a separate machine, right? Even if it had somehow been on my local machine, I'd still be opening up some kind of shell (whether CMD.exe or more likely some kind of Cygwin thing) to start up my app or run the automated tests etc. It's a window with a command line in it, what does it matter if it's actually running things on my local machine, or is a putty window to a linux machine? So, if you don't have a separate linux machine available, you might be able to do something very similar using VirtualBox[2] to run a linux machine in a VM on your windows machine. With VirtualBox, you can share file systems so you can just open up files 'in' your linux VM on your Windows machine. There's probably a way to ssh into the local linux VM, from the Windows host, even if the linux VM doesn't have it's own externally available IP address. It would end up being quite similar to what I did, which worked fine for me for many years (eventually I got an OSX box cause I just like it better, but my development process is not _substantially_ different). But here's the thing, even if you manage to do actual Windows ruby development without a linux VM... assuming you're writing a web app... what the heck are you going to actually deploy it on? If you're planning on deploying it on a Windows server, I think you're in for a _world_ of hurt; deploying a production ruby web app on a Windows server is going to be much _more_ painful than getting a ruby dev environment going on a Windows server. And really that's not unique to ruby, it's true of just about any non-Microsoft interpreted/virtual-machine language, or compiled language not supported by Microsoft compilers. There are reasons that almost everyone running non-MS languages deploys on linux (and a virtuous/viscious circle where since most people deploy on linux, most open source deployment tools are for linux). If you really have to deploy on a Windows server, you should probably stick to MS languages. Or, contrarily, if you want to develop in non-MS languages, you should find a way to get linux servers into your infrastructure. [1] http://www.expandrive.com/ [2] https://www.virtualbox.org/ From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Ross Singer [rossfsin...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2013 7:06 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Ruby on Windows If you absolutely must have a Windows development environment, you may want to consider a JVM-based scripting language, like Groovy or JRuby. All the cross-platform advantages, none of the woe. Or, not as much, at least (there's always a modicum of woe with anything you decide on). -Ross. On Tuesday, October 1, 2013, Joshua Welker wrote: I'm using Windows 7 x64 SP1. I am using the most recent RubyInstaller (2.0.0-p247 x64) and DevKit (DevKit-mingw64-64-4.7.2-2013022-1432-sfx). That's disappointing to hear that most folks use Ruby exclusively in *nix environments. That really limits its utility for me. I am trying Ruby because dealing with HTTP in Java is a huge pain, and I was having difficulties setting up a Python environment in Windows, too (go figure). Josh Welker -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU javascript:;] On Behalf Of David Mayo Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2013 3:44 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU javascript:; Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Ruby on Windows DevKit is a MingW/MSYS wrapper for Windows Ruby development. It might not be finding it, but he does have a C dev environment. I know you cut them out earlier, but would you mind sending some of the C Header Blather our way? It's probably got some clues as to what's going on. Also - which versions of Windows, RubyInstaller, and DevKit are you using? On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.comjavascript:; wrote: It's probably also possible to get
[CODE4LIB] Discovery services (Summon, EDS) at medical centers
Would anyone from a medical/healthcare institution that has implemented or evaluated Serials Solutions' Summon, EBSCO's Discovery Service, or similar search service be willing to share their opinions? Any opinions on- or off-list with regard to overall value, source coverage, usability, or API integration with VuFind or Blacklight are appreciated. Thanks, Jason Jason Stirnaman Digital Projects Librarian A.R. Dykes Library University of Kansas Medical Center 913-588-7319
Re: [CODE4LIB] Python and Ruby
I recommend going through http://pragprog.com/book/btlang/seven-languages-in-seven-weeks No, of course it's not exhaustive, but it offers an appreciation of some modern languages, their differences, and the roots they derived from. Every coder [their] language. Every language its coder :) Jason -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Marc Chantreux Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 10:14 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Python and Ruby On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 02:21:55PM +, Rich Wenger wrote: The proliferation of boutique languages is a cancer on our community. sure ... but i don't want to be stuck on PHP or python when i have the power of perl inside my hands, other would argue perl is too hard for librarians and go python, someone else will tell us all that yeah, his go server is 30 times faster than our dynamic langages based ones. Guess what? They are all right and it's a matter of what you need and how those languages will taste to you. There is no silver bullet, so don't expect a cancer cure for the moment. Sorry about that :) regards -- Marc Chantreux Université de Strasbourg, Direction Informatique 14 Rue René Descartes, 67084 STRASBOURG CEDEX ☎: 03.68.85.57.40 http://unistra.fr Don't believe everything you read on the Internet -- Abraham Lincoln
Re: [CODE4LIB] Python and Ruby
As of Ruby 1.9, I would dispute the Ruby is slower than everything case. There's lots of evidence to the contrary, e.g. http://www.unlimitednovelty.com/2012/06/ruby-is-faster-than-python-php-and-perl.html Jason -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Marc Chantreux Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 11:25 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Python and Ruby On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:25:14AM -0500, Matthew Sherman wrote: Ok folks, we have veered into nonconstructive territory. How about we come back to the original question and help this person figure out what they need to about Ruby and Python so they can do well with what they want to work on. comparing languages on objective criterias (especially when they are as close as ruby and python) isn't constructive. but ok, let's try * both claim to be very easy to learn (ruby by having a very nice syntax, python by limitating the features from the syntax) * writing python code is very boring when you come from featured. langages like ruby or perl. nothing can be expressed a simple way. * ruby is slow ... i mean: even for a dynamic language. * both langages have libs for libraries for libraries but lack something as robust and usefull as CPAN (and related tools) * python has an equivalent of the perl PDL (scipy) * python has Natural Language Toolkit (equivalent in other langages ?) your basic goal | your langage - write/maintain faster | perl reuse existing faster | python learn faster | ruby executefaster | you're probably screwed. experiment lua, go, haskell, rust regards -- Marc Chantreux Université de Strasbourg, Direction Informatique 14 Rue René Descartes, 67084 STRASBOURG CEDEX ☎: 03.68.85.57.40 http://unistra.fr Don't believe everything you read on the Internet -- Abraham Lincoln
Re: [CODE4LIB] Anyone have access to well-disambiguated sets of publication data?
Paul, Not a huge set, but I will offer up our BibApp data, http://experts.kumc.edu/faq. It should mostly meet your requirements and is already in VIVO form (and other flavors) for you. Contact me off-list of you have questions. Jason Stirnaman 913-588-7319 -- Original message -- From: Paul Albert Date: 7/9/2013 10:33 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU; Subject:[CODE4LIB] Anyone have access to well-disambiguated sets of publication data? I am exploring methods for author disambiguation, and I would like to have access to one or more set of well-disambiguated data set containing: – a unique author identifier (email address, institutional identifier) – a unique article identifier (PMID, DOI, etc.) – a unique journal identifier (ISSN) Definition for well-disambiguated – for a given set of authors, you know the identity of their journal articles to a precision and recall of greater than 90-95%. Any ideas? thanks, Paul Paul Albert Project Manager, VIVO Weill Cornell Medical Library 646.962.2551
Re: [CODE4LIB] Visualizing (public) library statistics
Cab, I realize you asked for examples, not tools, and this may be overkill for what you're wanting, but http://ushahidi.com/products/ushahidi-platform. Ushahidi would be good if you wanted a geographic, time-series visualization mashed-up with social media. e.g. http://community.ushahidi.com/uploads/documents/c_Ushahidi-Practical_Considerations.pdf I imagine that could be a worthwhile project on a large scale for many libraries. A Google Fusion Table would be a simpler mapping/charting alternative. e.g. https://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?docid=1JRSvdVxym2lKiM2cnfB7vmY735l58GSxD5O7-g0 Jason Jason Stirnaman Digital Projects Librarian A.R. Dykes Library University of Kansas Medical Center 913-588-7319 From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Francis Kayiwa [kay...@uic.edu] Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 3:38 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Visualizing (public) library statistics On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 03:40:29PM -0400, Cab Vinton wrote: Come budget time, I invariably find myself working with the most recent compilation of public library statistics put out by our State Library -- comparing our library to peer institutions along a variety of measures (support per capita, circulation per capita, staffing levels, etc.) so I can make the best possible case for increasing/ maintaining our funding. The raw data is in a Excel spreadsheet -- http://www.nh.gov/nhsl/lds/public_library_stats.html -- so this seems ripe for mashing up, data visualization, online charting, etc. Does anyone know of any examples where these types of library stats have been made available online in a way that meets my goals of being user-friendly, visually informative/ clear, and just plain cool? If not, examples from the non-library world and/ or pointers to dashboards of note would be equally welcome, particularly if there's an indication of how things work on the back end. YMMV but I've used infogr.am [0] Granted the type of data I was using doesn't compare to the kind you are trying to tame above. Failing that there's lots of listed at datavisualization.ch[1] that could help solve you problem. Here some assembly will be required. Cheers, ./fxk [0] http://infogr.am/ [1] http://selection.datavisualization.ch/ Cheers, Cab Vinton, Director Sanbornton Public Library Sanbornton, NH -- i'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. -- e. e. cummings
Re: [CODE4LIB] GitHub Myths (was thanks and poetry)
Another option might be to set it up like the Planet. Where individuals just post their poetry to their own blogs, Tumblrs, etc., tag them, and have $PLANET_NERD_POETS aggregate them. Git and Github are great. But while I get the argument for utility, there does seem to be barrier-to-entry there for someone just wanting to submit a poem. Jason Jason Stirnaman Digital Projects Librarian A.R. Dykes Library University of Kansas Medical Center 913-588-7319 From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Karen Coyle [li...@kcoyle.net] Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 10:42 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] GitHub Myths (was thanks and poetry) Shaun, you cannot decide whether github is a barrier to entry FOR ME (or anyone else), any more than you can decide whether or not my foot hurts. I'm telling you github is NOT what I want to use. Period. I'm actually thinking that a blog format would be nice. It could be pretty (poetry and beauty go together). Poems tend to be short, so they'd make a nice blog post. They could appear in the Planet blog roll. They could be coded by author and topic. There could be comments! Even poems as comments! The only down-side is managing users. Anyone have ideas on that? kc On 2/20/13 8:20 AM, Shaun Ellis wrote: (As a general rule, for every programmer who prefers tool A, and says that everybody should use it, there’s a programmer who disparages tool A, and advocates tool B. So take what we say with a grain of salt!) It doesn't matter what tools you use, as long as you and your team are able to participate easily, if you want to. But if you want to attract contributions from a given development community, then choices should be balanced between the preferences of that community and what best serve the project. From what I've been hearing, I think there is a lot of confusion about GitHub. Heck, I am constantly learning about new GitHub features, APIs, and best practices myself. But I find it to be an incredibly powerful platform for moving open source, distributed software development forward. I am not telling anyone to use GitHub if they don't want to, but I want to dispel a few myths I've heard recently: * Myth #1 : GitHub creates a barrier to entry. * To contribute to a project on GitHub, you need to use the command-line. It's not for non-coders. GitHub != git. While GitHub was initially built for publishing and sharing code via integration with git, all GitHub functionality can be performed directly through the web gui. In fact, GitHub can even be used as your sole coding environment. There are other tools in the eco-system that allow non-coders to contribute documentation, issue reporting, and more to a project. * Myth #2 : GitHub is for sharing/publishing code. * I would be fun to have a wiki for more durable poetry (github unfortunately would be a barrier to many). GitHub can be used to collaborate on and publish other types of content as well. For example, GitHub has a great wiki component* (as well as a website component). In a number of ways, has less of a barrier to entry than our Code4Lib wiki. While the path of least resistance requires a repository to have a wiki, public repos cost nothing and can consist of a simple README file. The wiki can be locked down to a team, or it can be writable by anyone with a github account. You don't need to do anything via command-line, don't need to understand git-flow, and you don't even need to learn wiki markup to write content. All you need is an account and something to say, just like any wiki. Log in, go to the anti-harassment policy wiki, and see for yourself: https://github.com/code4lib/antiharassment-policy/wiki * The github wiki even has an API (via Gollum) that you can use to retrieve raw or formatted wiki content, write new content, and collect various meta data about the wiki as a whole: https://github.com/code4lib/antiharassment-policy/wiki/_access * Myth #3 : GitHub is person-centric. (And as a further aside, there’s plenty to dislike about github as well, from it’s person-centric view of projects (rather than team-centric)... Untrue. GitHub is very team centered when using organizational accounts, which formalize authorization controls for projects, among other things: https://github.com/blog/674-introducing-organizations * Myth #4 : GitHub is monopolizing open source software development. ... to its unfortunate centralizing of so much free/open source software on one platform.) Convergence is not always a bad thing. GitHub provides a great, free service with lots of helpful collaboration tools beyond version control. It's natural that people would flock there, despite having lots of other options. -Shaun On 2/19/13 5:35 PM, Erik Hetzner wrote: At Sat, 16
[CODE4LIB] Getting started with Ruby and library-ish data (was RE: [CODE4LIB] You *are* a coder. So what am I?)
This is a terribly distorted view of Ruby: If you want to make web pages, learn Ruby, and you don't need to learn Rails to get the benefit of Ruby's awesomeness. But, everyone will have their own opinions. There's no accounting for taste. For anyone interested in learning to program and hack around with library data or linked data, here are some places to start (heavily biased toward the elegance of Ruby): http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Working_with_MaRC https://delicious.com/jstirnaman/ruby+books https://delicious.com/jstirnaman/ruby+tutorials http://rdf.rubyforge.org/ Jason Jason Stirnaman Digital Projects Librarian A.R. Dykes Library University of Kansas Medical Center 913-588-7319 From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Joe Hourcle [onei...@grace.nascom.nasa.gov] Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2013 12:52 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] You *are* a coder. So what am I? On Feb 17, 2013, at 11:43 AM, John Fereira wrote: I have been writing software professionally since around 1980 and first encounterd perl in the early 1990s of so and have *always* disliked it. Last year I had to work on a project that was mostly developed in perl and it reminded me how much I disliked it. As a utility language, and one that I think is good for beginning programmers (especially for those working in a library) I'd recommend PHP over perl every time. I'll agree that there are a few aspects of Perl that can be confusing, as some functions will change behavior depending on context, and there was a lot of bad code examples out there.* ... but I'd recommend almost any current mainstream language before recommending that someone learn PHP. If you're looking to make web pages, learn Ruby. If you're doing data cleanup, Perl if it's lots of text, Python if it's mostly numbers. I should also mention that in the early 1990s would have been Perl 4 ... and unfortunately, most people who learned Perl never learned Perl 5. It's changed a lot over the years. (just like PHP isn't nearly as insecure as it used to be ... and actually supports placeholders so you don't end up with SQL injections) -Joe
Re: [CODE4LIB] Getting started with Ruby and library-ish data (was RE: [CODE4LIB] You *are* a coder. So what am I?)
I've heard similar good things about Codecademy from a friend who recently wanted to start learning programming along with his teenage son. It seems like a good gateway drug :) I introduced my 11-year-old to the Javascript-based animation tutorials on Khan Academy and he found them really fun. I have him use IRB to calculate his math homework. I don't care which, if any, language he prefers. It's more important to me that he's able to think under the hood a bit about computers, data, and what's possible. I've been thinking alot about how to introduce not only my kids, but some of our cataloging/technical staff to thinking programmatically or computationally[1] or whatever you want to call it. For me, Ruby will likely be the tool - especially since it's so easy to install on Windows now, too. In her wisdom, Diane Hillman (I think), pointed out the need for catalogers to be able talk to programmers. Personally, that's what I'm after... to equip people to think about problems, data, and networks differently, e.g. No, you really don't have to look up each record individually in the catalog and check the link, etc. 1. http://www.google.com/edu/computational-thinking/ Jason Stirnaman Digital Projects Librarian A.R. Dykes Library University of Kansas Medical Center 913-588-7319 From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Matthew Sherman [matt.r.sher...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 10:18 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Getting started with Ruby and library-ish data (was RE: [CODE4LIB] You *are* a coder. So what am I?) Getting back to the original point so noting some nice starting tools, I find http://www.codecademy.com to be a decent starting spot for those of us without much computer science background. I am not sure what professional developers think of the site but I find it a helpful to tutorial to start getting a basic understanding of scripting, Ruby, JavaScript, Python, JQuery, APIs, ect. Hope that helps. Matt Sherman On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 7:52 AM, Jason Stirnaman jstirna...@kumc.eduwrote: This is a terribly distorted view of Ruby: If you want to make web pages, learn Ruby, and you don't need to learn Rails to get the benefit of Ruby's awesomeness. But, everyone will have their own opinions. There's no accounting for taste. For anyone interested in learning to program and hack around with library data or linked data, here are some places to start (heavily biased toward the elegance of Ruby): http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Working_with_MaRC https://delicious.com/jstirnaman/ruby+books https://delicious.com/jstirnaman/ruby+tutorials http://rdf.rubyforge.org/ Jason Jason Stirnaman Digital Projects Librarian A.R. Dykes Library University of Kansas Medical Center 913-588-7319 From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Joe Hourcle [onei...@grace.nascom.nasa.gov] Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2013 12:52 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] You *are* a coder. So what am I? On Feb 17, 2013, at 11:43 AM, John Fereira wrote: I have been writing software professionally since around 1980 and first encounterd perl in the early 1990s of so and have *always* disliked it. Last year I had to work on a project that was mostly developed in perl and it reminded me how much I disliked it. As a utility language, and one that I think is good for beginning programmers (especially for those working in a library) I'd recommend PHP over perl every time. I'll agree that there are a few aspects of Perl that can be confusing, as some functions will change behavior depending on context, and there was a lot of bad code examples out there.* ... but I'd recommend almost any current mainstream language before recommending that someone learn PHP. If you're looking to make web pages, learn Ruby. If you're doing data cleanup, Perl if it's lots of text, Python if it's mostly numbers. I should also mention that in the early 1990s would have been Perl 4 ... and unfortunately, most people who learned Perl never learned Perl 5. It's changed a lot over the years. (just like PHP isn't nearly as insecure as it used to be ... and actually supports placeholders so you don't end up with SQL injections) -Joe
Re: [CODE4LIB] Getting started with Ruby and library-ish data (was RE: [CODE4LIB] You *are* a coder. So what am I?)
I'm not advocating the Google CT lessons as the best way to learn Python. Karen, I really like your hacker space idea. Anyone else know of an online environment like that? Another option is maybe a Python IRC channel or a local meetup discussion list. For example, we have a really good Ruby meetup group here in KC that meets once a month. I also know between meetings that I can go to the mail list to get help with my Rails questions. I am interested more in the Google CT lessons in the Data Analysis and English-Language subjects as entry points into how to think differently about your work and about this thing you're hunched over for 8 hours a day. Sure, those lessons focus heavily on spreadsheet functions, but that's a familiar way to introduce the concepts. I think it could also be adapted to Ruby, Python, whatever. Jason Jason Stirnaman Digital Projects Librarian A.R. Dykes Library University of Kansas Medical Center 913-588-7319 From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Karen Coyle [li...@kcoyle.net] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2013 3:25 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Getting started with Ruby and library-ish data (was RE: [CODE4LIB] You *are* a coder. So what am I?) On 2/18/13 12:53 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: On 2/18/2013 2:04 PM, Jason Stirnaman wrote: I've been thinking alot about how to introduce not only my kids, but some of our cataloging/technical staff to thinking programmatically or computationally[1] or whatever you want to call it. Do you have an opinion of the google 'computational thinking' curriculum pieces linked off of that page you cite? For instance, at: http://www.google.com/edu/computational-thinking/lessons.html I looked at the Beginning Python one[1], and I have to say that any intro to programming that begins with a giant table of mathematical functions is a #FAIL. Wow - how wrong can you get it? On the other hand, I've been going through the Google online python class [2] and have found it very easy to follow (it's youtubed), and the exercises are interesting. What I want next is more exercises, and someone to talk to about any difficulties I run into. I want a hands-on hacker space learning environment that has a live expert (and you wouldn't have to be terribly expert to answer a beginner's questions). It's very hard to learn programming alone because there are always multiple ways to solve a problem, and an infinite number of places to get stuck. kc [1] http://tinyurl.com/bcj894s [2] https://developers.google.com/edu/python/ Or at: http://www.iste.org/learn/computational-thinking/ct-toolkit -- Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet
Re: [CODE4LIB] Rdio playlist
++ I was bummed not to find any Big Black in rdio. Jason Jason Stirnaman Digital Projects Librarian A.R. Dykes Library University of Kansas Medical Center 913-588-7319 From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Gabriel Farrell [gsf...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 1:15 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Rdio playlist Glad to see Tortoise on here. If we run out of music we can just dip into the catalogs of Thrill Jockey, Drag City, and all the resthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_record_labels . On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Matt Schultz matt.schu...@metaarchive.orgwrote: This is great - loved the way the mix shaped up! Getting a taste of some new music. Thanks especially to the I Fight Dragons rec that surfaced on the thread. Love. It. Rock. On. On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:33 AM, William Denton w...@pobox.com wrote: There are 70 songs on the playlist [1] now, including Little Walter, Styx, Liz Phair, Tortoise, Lupe Fiasco, Cheap Trick, Herbie Hancock, Ministry, Sam Prekop and Screeching Weasel. Great listening! Nine busy people have added songs so far. It costs $5 or more per month if you want to subscribe to Rdio, but you can sign up free for a week if you just want to try it out. There's an API [2], and with it or by hand I'll make a record of the songs on the playlist so they're not lost and people can listen to them elsewhere. Bill [1] http://www.rdio.com/people/**wdenton/playlists/2229053/** Code4Lib_2013_in_Chicago/ http://www.rdio.com/people/wdenton/playlists/2229053/Code4Lib_2013_in_Chicago/ [2] http://developer.rdio.com/ -- William Denton Toronto, Canada http://www.miskatonic.org/ -- Matt Schultz Program Manager Educopia Institute, MetaArchive Cooperative http://www.metaarchive.org matt.schu...@metaarchive.org 616-566-3204
Re: [CODE4LIB] Group Decision Making (was Zoia)
Ian +1 I like that direction and I'll sign it. I think it would be good to offer an occasional reminder in C4L channels (e.g. link in the IRC greeting, mail list signup, etc.) that this is the sort of *community* you're entering and here's what you should expect. Jason Jason Stirnaman Digital Projects Librarian A.R. Dykes Library University of Kansas Medical Center 913-588-7319 From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Ian Walls [iwa...@library.umass.edu] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 12:46 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Group Decision Making (was Zoia) +1 Perhaps, instead of a policy document (which is inherently rules-based), we have a statement of belief and a pledge to stand by it (which is more of a good-faith social contract). Those of us who believe in it could sign it in some way, perhaps through GitHub This way we'd still have a document to point people at, but we wouldn't have to worry about coding up rules that work for every conceivable situation. A basic statement of belief: We don't believe that people should harm each other. The basic situations we'd need to cover are: a) I am harmed by someone - a pledge to speak up, either to the person directly or to someone else in the community b) someone is harmed by me - a pledge to review my behavior and take appropriate action (apologize, or explain why I feel the behavior is justified) c) someone is harmed by someone else - a pledge to be willing to listen to both parties, and form our opinions of the situation in light of the statement of belief Do you all think something like this would work for the whole community? -Ian -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Jonathan Rochkind Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 1:25 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Group Decision Making (was Zoia) The best way, in my mind, is to somehow create a culture where someone can say: you know, I'm not ok with that kind of remark and the person spoken to can respond OK, I'll think about that. I think that's a really good to try to create, Karen says it just right. Note that OK, I'll think about it is neither No, you must be mistaken nor Okay, I will immediately do whatever you ask of me. But it does need to be a legitimate actual I'll think about it, seriously. The flip side is that the culture is also one where when someone says you know, I'm not ok with that kind of remark, it often means And I'd like you to think about that, in a real serious way rather than And I expect you to immediately change your behavior to acede to my demands. Of course, what creates that, from both ends, is a culture of trust. Which I think code4lib actually has pretty a pretty decent dose of already, let's try to keep it that way. (In my opinion, one way we keep it that way is by continuing to resist becoming a formal rules-based bueurocratic organization, rather than a community based on social ties and good faith). Now, at some times it might really be neccesary to say And I expect you to immediately stop what you're doing and do it exactly like I say. Other times it's not. But in our society as a whole, we are so trained to think that everything must be rules-based rather than based on good faith trust between people who care about each other, that we're likely to asume that you know, i'm not ok with that remark ALWAYS implies And therefore I think you are an awful person, and your only hope of no longer being an awful person is to immediately do exactly what I say. Rather than And I expect you to think about this seriously, and maybe get back to me on what you think. So if you do mean the second one when saying you know, i'm not ok with that remark, it can be helpful to say so, to elicit the self-reflection you want, rather than defensiveness. And of course, on the flip-side, it is obviously helpful if you can always respond to you know, i'm really not okay with that! with reflection, rather than defensiveness. From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Karen Coyle [li...@kcoyle.net] Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 12:22 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Group Decision Making (was Zoia) On 1/24/13 3:09 PM, Shaun Ellis wrote: To be clear, I am only uncomfortable with uncomfortable being used in the policy because I wouldn't support it being there. Differing opinions can make people uncomfortable. Since I am not going to stop sharing what may be a dissenting opinion, should I be banned? I can't come up with a word for it that is unambiguous, but I can propose a scenario. Imagine a room at a conference full of people -- and that there are only a few people of color. A speaker gets up and shows or says something racist. It may be light-hearted in nature, but the people of color in that almost-all
Re: [CODE4LIB] Anyone have a SUSHI client?
It looks like the Metridoc project might have one: https://code.google.com/p/metridoc/source/search?q=sushiorigq=sushibtnG=Search+Trunk No idea if it's working, but I'd be really interested in hearing an update on Metridoc - if Thomas or anyone else involved is listening. Jason Stirnaman Digital Projects Librarian A.R. Dykes Library University of Kansas Medical Center 913-588-7319 From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Bill Dueber [b...@dueber.com] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 9:36 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Anyone have a SUSHI client? Yeah -- I found that right away. Most of what's there appears to be abandonware. On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Tom Keays tomke...@gmail.com wrote: Hey. NISO has a list of SUSHI tools. http://www.niso.org/workrooms/sushi/tools/ Tom -- Bill Dueber Library Systems Programmer University of Michigan Library
Re: [CODE4LIB] Library CDNs
Tom, We use Rackspace's Cloud Files for Cloud Server backup, not CDN, but it is built for that. You can use it with Akamai to serve content. It has versioning and mobile UIs: http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/public/files/technology/ Jason Jason Stirnaman Digital Projects Librarian A.R. Dykes Library University of Kansas Medical Center 913-588-7319 From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Tom Keays [tomke...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 9:48 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Library CDNs Is anybody out there using a CDN[1] that is separate from their website to host JavaScript, CSS, and image files? I'm looking for a one place where I can consolidate and organize these files that is reliable (good uptime and good response time) and affordable (less expensive than hosting a complete website). In-as non-technical folks may need to access it, the interface for managing the files and directories needs to be friendly. E.G., AWS's native interface is too convoluted for newbies, but a program or web app built as a front-end designed to have simple management functions is the kind of thing I'm looking for (and something that mirrored AWS's built-in versioning would be awesome). Tom [1] CDN: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network
Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with WordPress for Code4Lib Journal
It might be worth considering the Annotum theme for Wordpress, meant to do just that. http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/annotum-base Jason Jason Stirnaman Digital Projects Librarian A.R. Dykes Library University of Kansas Medical Center 913-588-7319 From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Tom Keays [tomke...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2012 9:27 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Help with WordPress for Code4Lib Journal On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: Seriously, folks, if we can't even figure out how to upgrade our Drupal instance to a version that was released this decade, we shouldn't be discussing *new* implementations of *anything* that we have to host ourselves. Not being one to waste a perfectly good segue... The Code4Lib Journal runs on WordPress. This was a decision made by the editorial board at the time (2007) and by and large it was a good one. Over time, one of the board members offered his technical expertise to build a few custom plugins that would streamline the workflow for publishing the journal. Out of the box, WordPress is designed to publish a string of individual articles, but we wanted to publish issues in a more traditional model, with all the issues published at one time and arranged in the issue is a specific order. We could (and have done) all this manually, but having the plugin has been a real boon for us. The Issue Manager plugin that he wrote provided the mechanism for: a) preventing articles from being published prematurely, b) identifying and arranging a set of final (pending) articles into an issue, and c) publishing that issue at the desired time. That person is no longer on the Journal editorial board and upkeep of the plugin has not been maintained since he left. We're now several WordPress releases behind, mainly because we delayed upgrading until we could test if doing so would break the plugins. We have now tested, and it did. I won't bore you with the details, but if we want to continue using the plugin to manage our workflow, we need help. Is there anybody out there with experience writing WordPress plugins that would be willing to work with me to diagnose what has changed in the WordPress codex that is causing the problems and maybe help me understand how to prevent this from happening again with future releases? Thanks, Tom Keays / tomke...@gmail.com
Re: [CODE4LIB] OpenURL linking but from the content provider's point of view
Sorry. I guess I misunderstood. I thought David meant resolving OpenURLs pointed at his content. Jason Jason Stirnaman Digital Projects Librarian A.R. Dykes Library University of Kansas Medical Center 913-588-7319 From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Young,Jeff (OR) [jyo...@oclc.org] Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 9:08 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] OpenURL linking but from the content provider's point of view If the referent has a DOI, then I would argue that rft_id=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2132176.2132212 is all you need. The descriptive information that typically goes in the ContextObject can be obtained (if necessary) by content-negotiating for application/rdf+xml. OTOH, if someone pokes this same URI from a browser instead, you will generally get redirected to the publisher's web site with the full-text close at hand. The same principle should apply for any bibliographic resource that has a Linked Data identifier. Jeff -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Owen Stephens Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2012 9:55 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] OpenURL linking but from the content provider's point of view The only difference between COinS and a full OpenURL is the addition of a link resolver address. Most databases that provide OpenURL links directly (rather than simply COinS) use some profile information - usually set by the subscribing library, although some based on information supplied by an individual user. If set by the library this is then linked to specific users by IP or by login. There are a couple(?) of generic base URLs you can use which will try to redirect to an appropriate link resolver based on IP range of the requester, with fallback options if it can't find an appropriate resolver (I think this is how the WorldCat resolver works? The 'OpenURL Router' in the UK definitely works like this) The LibX toolbar allows users to set their link resolver address, and then translates COinS into OpenURLs when you view a page - all user driven, no need for the data publisher to do anything beyond COinS There is also the 'cookie pusher' solution which ArXiv uses - where the user can set a cookie containing the base URL, and this is picked up and used by ArXiV (http://arxiv.org/help/openurl) Owen PS it occurs to me that the other part of the question is 'what metadata should be included in the OpenURL to give it the best chance of working with a link resolver'? Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 20 Nov 2012, at 19:39, David Lawrence david.lawre...@sdsu.edu wrote: I have some experience with the library side of link resolver code. However, we want to implement OpenURL hooks on our open access literature database and I can not find where to begin. SafetyLit is a free service of San Diego State University in cooperation with the World Health Organization. We already provide embedded metadata in both COinS and unAPI formats to allow its capture by Mendeley, Papers, Zotero, etc. Over the past few months, I have emailed or talked with many people and read everything I can get my hands on about this but I'm clearly not finding the right people or information sources. Please help me to find references to examples of the code that is required on the literature database server that will enable library link resolvers to recognize the SafetyLit.org metadata and allow appropriate linking to full text. SafetyLit.org receives more than 65,000 unique (non-robot) visitors and the database responds to almost 500,000 search queries every week. The most frequently requested improvement is to add link resolver capacity. I hope that code4lib users will be able to help. Best regards, David David W. Lawrence, PhD, MPH, Director Center for Injury Prevention Policy and Practice San Diego State University, School of Public Health 6475 Alvarado Road, Suite 105 San Diego, CA 92120 usadavid.lawre...@sdsu.edu V 619 594 1994 F 619 594 1995 Skype: DWL-SDCAwww.CIPPP.org -- www.SafetyLit.org
Re: [CODE4LIB] OpenURL linking but from the content provider's point of view
David, The short answer is that your application needs to map keys and values from the OpenURL query to your application's specific query interface. DSpace supports OpenURL requests. You can find some of the relevant code at: https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/blob/master/dspace-xmlui/src/main/java/org/dspace/app/xmlui/cocoon/OpenURLReader.java Jason Stirnaman Digital Projects Librarian A.R. Dykes Library University of Kansas Medical Center 913-588-7319 From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of David Lawrence [david.lawre...@sdsu.edu] Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 1:39 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] OpenURL linking but from the content provider's point of view I have some experience with the library side of link resolver code. However, we want to implement OpenURL hooks on our open access literature database and I can not find where to begin. SafetyLit is a free service of San Diego State University in cooperation with the World Health Organization. We already provide embedded metadata in both COinS and unAPI formats to allow its capture by Mendeley, Papers, Zotero, etc. Over the past few months, I have emailed or talked with many people and read everything I can get my hands on about this but I'm clearly not finding the right people or information sources. Please help me to find references to examples of the code that is required on the literature database server that will enable library link resolvers to recognize the SafetyLit.org metadata and allow appropriate linking to full text. SafetyLit.org receives more than 65,000 unique (non-robot) visitors and the database responds to almost 500,000 search queries every week. The most frequently requested improvement is to add link resolver capacity. I hope that code4lib users will be able to help. Best regards, David David W. Lawrence, PhD, MPH, Director Center for Injury Prevention Policy and Practice San Diego State University, School of Public Health 6475 Alvarado Road, Suite 105 San Diego, CA 92120 usadavid.lawre...@sdsu.edu V 619 594 1994 F 619 594 1995 Skype: DWL-SDCAwww.CIPPP.org -- www.SafetyLit.org
Re: [CODE4LIB] Transcription/dictation software?
That's what I hear, too. You might also look at http://support.google.com/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=enanswer=100076 Jason On 2/27/2012 at 12:56 PM, in message cb713bfa.df25%shan...@jhu.edu, Sean Hannan shan...@jhu.edu wrote: Mechanical Turk it. (I hear that's what all the hipsters do while they watch Downton Abbey.) -Sean On 2/27/12 1:52 PM, Suchy, Daniel dsu...@ucsd.edu wrote: Hello all, At my campus we offer podcasts of course lectures, recorded in class and then delivered via iTunes and as a plain Mp3 download (http://podcast.ucsd.edu). I have the new responsibility of figuring out how to transcribe text versions of these audio podcasts for folks with hearing issues. I was wondering if any of you are using or have played with dictation/transcription software and can recommend or de-recommend any? My first inclination is to go with open-source, but I'm open to anything that works well and can scale to handle hundreds of courses. Thanks in advance! Dan * Daniel Suchy User Services Technology Analyst University of California, San Diego Libraries 858.534.6819 dsu...@ucsd.edumailto:dsu...@ucsd.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Get Lamp showing at cod4libcon
/me waves dongle I have a Mac mini displayport to DVI adaptor Jason On 1/9/2012 at 04:01 PM, in message CABqCXLTTT+C=l3jcspwozyr-gqoffqyf8kmvmmabi92a4dq...@mail.gmail.com, Michael B. Klein mbkl...@gmail.com wrote: DVD ordered! Do we know what kind of large-screen viewing/projector device we'll have in the hospitality/hostility suite? I can currently handle VGA and HDMI, but I'm not sure about DVI. Michael On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Adam Wead aw...@rockhall.org wrote: Hi all, There's been some discussion on IRC about having a viewing of the movie Get Lamp [1] at the code4lib conference. Michael Klein has agreed to spring for the movie, which costs about $45, and I can look at coordinating a showtime in the hospitality suite. Is there any interest from conference attendees out there? Is it agreeable to chip in $1 or $2 to Mike to his trouble? Respond off-list if you have interest, and if there's enough I'll send another message with details. thanks, ...adam Adam Wead | Systems and Digital Collection Librarian ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME + MUSEUM Library and Archives 2809 Woodland Avenue | Cleveland, Ohio 44115-3216 216-515-1960 | FAX 216-515-1964 Email: aw...@rockhall.org Follow us: rockhall.com | Membership | e-news | e-store | Facebook | Twitter [1] http://www.getlamp.com/ [http://donations.rockhall.com/Logo_WWR.gif] http://rockhall.com/exhibits/women-who-rock/ This communication is a confidential and proprietary business communication. It is intended solely for the use of the designated recipient(s). If this communication is received in error, please contact the sender and delete this communication. '
Re: [CODE4LIB] Data Mining / Business Analytics in libraries
Cindy, I asked this same question a few months ago[1]. We've been working with our campus Enterprise Analytics group to help us prioritize what we to measure and develop a BI strategy. They use QlikView http://www.qlikview.com/ as their analysis tool of choice. I like the idea of possibly using the Metridoc project for harvesting and modeling the data. I'm not sure we have enough data or flux to warrant fully automating the harvesting. 1. See thread http://www.mail-archive.com/code4lib@listserv.nd.edu/msg11280.html Jason On 12/15/2011 at 08:54 AM, in message CANc3e05ARd9J_tq49=b_dy-tfvjxg+nidp6f7dxrmrhi7s7...@mail.gmail.com, Cindy Harper char...@colgate.edu wrote: Are there any listservs, blogs, forums addressing data mining in libraries? I've taken some courses, and am now exploring software - I just tried our RapidMiner, which integrates with R and Weka, and has facility for data cleaning and storage. I'm interested to see if anyone is sharing their experiences with Business Analytics type products in libraries. Cindy Harper, Systems Librarian Colgate University Libraries char...@colgate.edu 315-228-7363
Re: [CODE4LIB] Automatic Content Classification recommendations?
ConceptSearch http://www.conceptsearching.com/web/ is a commercial search engine and classification tool. Maybe similar to TemaTres, it doesn't use machine-learning but extracts concepts out of your documents that can be mapped to vocabulary terms. The vocabulary is then exposed to the end-user as search results facet. It's all driven by MS SQL Server and exposed as web services. We've used it here to map medical school lectures to the licensing exam outlines and have experimented a little with autoclassifying the same lecture content by MeSH. Jason Jason Stirnaman Biomedical Librarian, Digital Projects A.R. Dykes Library, University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319 On 11/28/2011 at 12:00 AM, in message of1513ea09.c0a3aa92-onca257956.001e9bcd-ca257956.00210...@parliament.vic.gov.au, Peter Neish peter.ne...@parliament.vic.gov.au wrote: Hi there, Just wondering if anyone has any recommendations for systems that will do automatic content classification through machine learning? We want to classify newspaper articles using terms from our existing thesaurus and have a fairly big set of articles already tagged that could be used as a training set.. Services like OpenCalais don't really fit our need because we want to use our own thesaurus. Happy to look at both open source and commercial software. Thanks, Peter -- Peter Neish Systems Officer Victorian Parliamentary Library Ph: 03 9651 8638 peter.ne...@parliament.vic.gov.au ////// Parliament of Victoria . Important Disclaimer Notice: The information contained in this email including any attachments, may be confidential and/or privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender and delete it from your system. Any unauthorised disclosure, copying or dissemination of all or part of this email, including any attachments, is not permitted. This email, including any attachments, should be dealt with in accordance with copyright and privacy legislation. Except where otherwise stated, views expressed are those of the individual sender.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2012 Registration Cost?
You have no idea Whenever I make it, some of this is coming with me http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1693254250/wilderness-brewing-co Jason Jason Stirnaman Biomedical Librarian, Digital Projects A.R. Dykes Library, University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319 On 11/15/2011 at 11:16 AM, in message c4bb34c7c52a1c4ba828b699fc6cc9a320a67...@xmail-mbx-bt1.ad.ucsd.edu, Fleming, Declan dflem...@ucsd.edu wrote: tl;dr except that maybe we'll miss out on KC beer? SAY IT ISN'T SO! :) D -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Kevin S. Clarke Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2011 11:49 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2012 Registration Cost? +1 to the below... On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Jason Stirnaman jstirna...@kumc.edu wrote: I agree that conference-ish things are mostly not broken, and that we should keep talking about this in order to make them better. I also think Tim makes an important point here: then let's not separate the two parts of C4L conf like a traditional conference Why do we need to define workshops or hackfests as pre-conference? Why not just say this is the conference: hackfests, workshops, talks, great people, and brew-tasting? And maybe more people would participate or benefit if hackfest was middle-conference or post-conference, i.e. after they're spurred by presentations and ready to dive in. And couch-surfing ++ I'm expecting I won't get to spend my library's entire travel budget to attend C4L this year and lodging obviously accounts for a huge chunk of that. If not, I'll just save up my bottles of KC's finest for next year and hope some newcomer replaces me in the registration rush. Jason Jason Stirnaman Biomedical Librarian, Digital Projects A.R. Dykes Library, University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319 On 11/10/2011 at 11:01 AM, in message cajajqvrgw8ogxojo3+zzwgz1e2ozyfafgx5dw2y1ajumhdj...@mail.gmail.com, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote: In the grand scheme of things, $150 for a conference is very low, and $320 for a pre conference is low, as well. This doesn't make them cheap or mean that everyone who would like to go, can go. I fully understand that $25 is in inconsequential amount of money… Unless it is your $25. I think that there is consensus that we want to keep c4l at its current size, and I think that money shouldn't be the primary factor determining attendance. Perhaps it would be good if we raised our price to $200 or $250, increased our sponsorship fundraising efforts, and used the excess to provide partial and full (including travel and lodging) scholarships for those who need them. Maybe we should encourage local couch surfing hosts. We should keep talking about this. Cary On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Timothy McGeary timmcge...@gmail.com wrote: At $150 for registration, I agree with Kyle, that this is a very good price in comparison to most technical conferences. Perhaps you could consider the extra airfare and hotel room night as the price of the pre-conference. The extra airfare and hotel, in this case, is $320 per person. Hardly a reasonable comparison. I realize that I'm now looking at this from a different perspective than when I was a first time Code4Libber, when I was simply try to soak it all in and build a network of people I could work with on projects that I and my library were interested in. Now I have to be concerned with budgets, and getting people other than myself to C4L so they can join the community and contribute. If the price points of rentals goes down because of the preconf day where the costs are mostly a wash, then that's great, but then let's not separate the two parts of C4L conf like a traditional conference, or put such emphasis on the participation in a preconf that undermines or undervalues the participation of someone coming to the conference days themselves. We can't have it both ways. Code4Lib conferences *ARE* unique and they are invaluable to many, many, many people who are fortunate enough to A) register in time and B) can afford to come at all. So let's not diminish this by presuming or assuming anything, rather take extra care in protecting this event as a treasure, lest all of the tireless efforts the conference planners put forth be for naught. The last thing I'd want to see is C4L be under attended because people couldn't justify reasonable costs to their organization due to lack of information, openness, or mere confusion. Tim -- Tim McGeary Team Leader, Library Technology Lehigh University 610-758-4998 tim.mcge...@lehigh.edu timmcge...@gmail.com GTalk/Yahoo/Skype/Twitter: timmcgeary 484-938-TMCG (Google Voice) On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Fowler, Jason jason.fow...@ubc.ca wrote: let people completely fend for themselves w/r/t to food
Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2012 Registration Cost?
I agree that conference-ish things are mostly not broken, and that we should keep talking about this in order to make them better. I also think Tim makes an important point here: then let's not separate the two parts of C4L conf like a traditional conference Why do we need to define workshops or hackfests as pre-conference? Why not just say this is the conference: hackfests, workshops, talks, great people, and brew-tasting? And maybe more people would participate or benefit if hackfest was middle-conference or post-conference, i.e. after they're spurred by presentations and ready to dive in. And couch-surfing ++ I'm expecting I won't get to spend my library's entire travel budget to attend C4L this year and lodging obviously accounts for a huge chunk of that. If not, I'll just save up my bottles of KC's finest for next year and hope some newcomer replaces me in the registration rush. Jason Jason Stirnaman Biomedical Librarian, Digital Projects A.R. Dykes Library, University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319 On 11/10/2011 at 11:01 AM, in message cajajqvrgw8ogxojo3+zzwgz1e2ozyfafgx5dw2y1ajumhdj...@mail.gmail.com, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote: In the grand scheme of things, $150 for a conference is very low, and $320 for a pre conference is low, as well. This doesn't make them cheap or mean that everyone who would like to go, can go. I fully understand that $25 is in inconsequential amount of money… Unless it is your $25. I think that there is consensus that we want to keep c4l at its current size, and I think that money shouldn't be the primary factor determining attendance. Perhaps it would be good if we raised our price to $200 or $250, increased our sponsorship fundraising efforts, and used the excess to provide partial and full (including travel and lodging) scholarships for those who need them. Maybe we should encourage local couch surfing hosts. We should keep talking about this. Cary On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Timothy McGeary timmcge...@gmail.com wrote: At $150 for registration, I agree with Kyle, that this is a very good price in comparison to most technical conferences. Perhaps you could consider the extra airfare and hotel room night as the price of the pre-conference. The extra airfare and hotel, in this case, is $320 per person. Hardly a reasonable comparison. I realize that I'm now looking at this from a different perspective than when I was a first time Code4Libber, when I was simply try to soak it all in and build a network of people I could work with on projects that I and my library were interested in. Now I have to be concerned with budgets, and getting people other than myself to C4L so they can join the community and contribute. If the price points of rentals goes down because of the preconf day where the costs are mostly a wash, then that's great, but then let's not separate the two parts of C4L conf like a traditional conference, or put such emphasis on the participation in a preconf that undermines or undervalues the participation of someone coming to the conference days themselves. We can't have it both ways. Code4Lib conferences *ARE* unique and they are invaluable to many, many, many people who are fortunate enough to A) register in time and B) can afford to come at all. So let's not diminish this by presuming or assuming anything, rather take extra care in protecting this event as a treasure, lest all of the tireless efforts the conference planners put forth be for naught. The last thing I'd want to see is C4L be under attended because people couldn't justify reasonable costs to their organization due to lack of information, openness, or mere confusion. Tim -- Tim McGeary Team Leader, Library Technology Lehigh University 610-758-4998 tim.mcge...@lehigh.edu timmcge...@gmail.com GTalk/Yahoo/Skype/Twitter: timmcgeary 484-938-TMCG (Google Voice) On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 6:26 PM, Fowler, Jason jason.fow...@ubc.ca wrote: let people completely fend for themselves w/r/t to food/drink on the preconference day. Coders consume from the flat food group. Anything that fits beneath a door… ..jason On 11-11-09 3:12 PM, Kevin S. Clarke kscla...@gmail.commailto: kscla...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Kyle Banerjee baner...@uoregon.edu mailto:baner...@uoregon.edu wrote: Yes, we have. We've even had people want to come to the preconference (and pay the preconference charge) but not attend the regular conference. :-) They've wanted to do it, but have they actually been able to? What makes c4l worthwhile is the ability to mix it up. If people attend with the intention of just receiving specific training, they're not contributing and that undermines the experience for everyone. Yes... at least at the Asheville conference (though there were just a couple). C4l has seen both free and paid preconferences and it's easy enough to rationalize
Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2012 Registration Cost?
Second that. It was mentioned earlier on the list that cost would be $150. Are the pre-conference sessions extra? Jason Jason Stirnaman Biomedical Librarian, Digital Projects A.R. Dykes Library, University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319 On 11/8/2011 at 10:46 AM, in message CALBScSQVFmz9RH7wFBX8CHwZ6DHUEbRVO0mHd9G1A_x=bpj...@mail.gmail.com, Timothy McGeary timmcge...@gmail.com wrote: For having registration opening next week, I am surprised the registration cost isn't listed on the C4L 2012 page: http://code4lib.org/conference/2012/ I can't authorize my team members to register next week without first submitted cost estimates for the trip, and I can't do that without a registration cost. Airfare is already over $400, so maybe it's a moot point. But I'm not sure it's wise to open registration without publishing this information very soon, like today. Just a thought... Tim -- Tim McGeary Team Leader, Library Technology Lehigh University 610-758-4998 tim.mcge...@lehigh.edu timmcge...@gmail.com GTalk/Yahoo/Skype/Twitter: timmcgeary 484-938-TMCG (Google Voice)
Re: [CODE4LIB] Usage and financial data aggregation
When all else fails, Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_intelligence_tools#Open_source_free_products RapidMiner and Pentaho Community Editions both look appealing. I hope to try them out soon. I also found the Ruby ActiveWarehouse and ActiveWarehouse-ETL projects which look pretty cool for Rails projects, but maybe a bit stale. Jason Jason Stirnaman Biomedical Librarian, Digital Projects A.R. Dykes Library, University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319 On 9/13/2011 at 04:37 PM, in message 4E6FCD17.CF3 : 5 : 23711, Jason Stirnaman wrote: Thanks, Shirley! I remember seeing that before but I'll look more closely now. I know what I'm describing is also known, typically, as a data warehouse. I guess I'm trying to steer around the usual solutions in that space. We do have an Oracle-driven data warehouse on campus, but the project is in heavy transition right now and we still had to do a fair amount of work ourselves just to get a few data sources into it. Jason Stirnaman Biomedical Librarian, Digital Projects A.R. Dykes Library, University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319 On 9/13/2011 at 04:25 PM, in message can7tqjapw78rpgzpu1l5qvoj6iw9rrkmzl+yeygqbov-gzo...@mail.gmail.com, Shirley Lincicum shirley.linci...@gmail.com wrote: Jason, Check out: http://www.needlebase.com/ It was not developed specifically for libraries, but it supports data aggregation, analysis, web scraping, and does not require programming skills to use. Shirley Shirley Lincicum Librarian, Western Oregon University linc...@wou.edu On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Jason Stirnaman jstirna...@kumc.edu wrote: Does anyone have suggestions or recommendations for platforms that can aggregate usage data from multiple sources, combine it with financial data, and then provide some analysis, graphing, data views, etc? From what I can tell, something like Ex Libris' Alma would require all fulfillment transactions to occur within the system. I'm looking instead for something like Splunk that would accept log data, circulation data, usage reports, costs, and Sherpa/Romeo authority data but then schematize it for data analysis and maybe push out reporting dashboards nods to Brown Library http://library.brown.edu/dashboard/widgets/all/ I'd also want to automate the data retrieval, so that might consist of scraping, web services, and FTP, but that could easily be handled separately. I'm aware there are many challenges, such as comparing usage stats, shifts in journal aggregators, etc. Does anyone have any cool homegrown examples or ideas they've cooked up for this? Pie in the sky? Jason Jason Stirnaman Biomedical Librarian, Digital Projects A.R. Dykes Library, University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319
Re: [CODE4LIB] Usage and financial data aggregation
Thanks, Jonathan. I vaguely recall the presentation. Looks like their code is available at http://code.google.com/p/metridoc/ and active. Definitely worth trying. Jason Stirnaman Biomedical Librarian, Digital Projects A.R. Dykes Library, University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319 On 9/14/2011 at 11:13 AM, in message 4e70d292.7000...@jhu.edu, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: Yeah, I think it ends up being pretty hard to create general-purpose solutions to this sort of thing that are both not-monstrous-to-use and flexible enough to do what everyone wants. Which is why most of the 'data warehouse' solutions you see end up being so terrible, in my analysis. I am not sure if there is any product specifically focused on library usage/financial data -- that might end up being somewhat less monstrous, it seems the more you focus your use case (instead of trying to provide for general data warehouse and analysis), the more likely a software provider can come up with something that isn't insane. At the 2011 Code4Lib Conf, Thomas Barker from UPenn presented on some open source software they were developing (based on putting together existing open source packages to be used together) to provide library-oriented 'data warehousing'. I was interested that he talked about how their _first_ attempt at this ended up being the sort of monstrous flexible-but-impossible-to-use sort of solution we're talking about, but they tried to learn from their experience and start over, thinking they could do better. I'm not sure what the current status of that project is. I'm not sure if any 2011 code4lib conf video is available online? If it is, it doesn't seem to be linked to from the conf presentation pages like it was in past years: http://code4lib.org/conference/2011/barker On 9/13/2011 5:37 PM, Jason Stirnaman wrote: Thanks, Shirley! I remember seeing that before but I'll look more closely now. I know what I'm describing is also known, typically, as a data warehouse. I guess I'm trying to steer around the usual solutions in that space. We do have an Oracle-driven data warehouse on campus, but the project is in heavy transition right now and we still had to do a fair amount of work ourselves just to get a few data sources into it. Jason Stirnaman Biomedical Librarian, Digital Projects A.R. Dykes Library, University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319 On 9/13/2011 at 04:25 PM, in messagecan7tqjapw78rpgzpu1l5qvoj6iw9rrkmzl+yeygqbov-gzo...@mail.gmail.com, Shirley Lincicumshirley.linci...@gmail.com wrote: Jason, Check out: http://www.needlebase.com/ It was not developed specifically for libraries, but it supports data aggregation, analysis, web scraping, and does not require programming skills to use. Shirley Shirley Lincicum Librarian, Western Oregon University linc...@wou.edu On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Jason Stirnamanjstirna...@kumc.edu wrote: Does anyone have suggestions or recommendations for platforms that can aggregate usage data from multiple sources, combine it with financial data, and then provide some analysis, graphing, data views, etc? From what I can tell, something like Ex Libris' Alma would require all fulfillment transactions to occur within the system. I'm looking instead for something like Splunk that would accept log data, circulation data, usage reports, costs, and Sherpa/Romeo authority data but then schematize it for data analysis and maybe push out reporting dashboardsnods to Brown Library http://library.brown.edu/dashboard/widgets/all/ I'd also want to automate the data retrieval, so that might consist of scraping, web services, and FTP, but that could easily be handled separately. I'm aware there are many challenges, such as comparing usage stats, shifts in journal aggregators, etc. Does anyone have any cool homegrown examples or ideas they've cooked up for this? Pie in the sky? Jason Jason Stirnaman Biomedical Librarian, Digital Projects A.R. Dykes Library, University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319
Re: [CODE4LIB] Usage and financial data aggregation
PS, Here's the link for jumping to Thomas Browning's Metridoc talk: http://www.indiana.edu/~video/stream/launchflash.html?format=MP4folder=vicfilename=C4L2011_session_2_20110208.mp4starttime=3600 Jason Stirnaman Biomedical Librarian, Digital Projects A.R. Dykes Library, University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319 On 9/14/2011 at 11:13 AM, in message 4e70d292.7000...@jhu.edu, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: Yeah, I think it ends up being pretty hard to create general-purpose solutions to this sort of thing that are both not-monstrous-to-use and flexible enough to do what everyone wants. Which is why most of the 'data warehouse' solutions you see end up being so terrible, in my analysis. I am not sure if there is any product specifically focused on library usage/financial data -- that might end up being somewhat less monstrous, it seems the more you focus your use case (instead of trying to provide for general data warehouse and analysis), the more likely a software provider can come up with something that isn't insane. At the 2011 Code4Lib Conf, Thomas Barker from UPenn presented on some open source software they were developing (based on putting together existing open source packages to be used together) to provide library-oriented 'data warehousing'. I was interested that he talked about how their _first_ attempt at this ended up being the sort of monstrous flexible-but-impossible-to-use sort of solution we're talking about, but they tried to learn from their experience and start over, thinking they could do better. I'm not sure what the current status of that project is. I'm not sure if any 2011 code4lib conf video is available online? If it is, it doesn't seem to be linked to from the conf presentation pages like it was in past years: http://code4lib.org/conference/2011/barker On 9/13/2011 5:37 PM, Jason Stirnaman wrote: Thanks, Shirley! I remember seeing that before but I'll look more closely now. I know what I'm describing is also known, typically, as a data warehouse. I guess I'm trying to steer around the usual solutions in that space. We do have an Oracle-driven data warehouse on campus, but the project is in heavy transition right now and we still had to do a fair amount of work ourselves just to get a few data sources into it. Jason Stirnaman Biomedical Librarian, Digital Projects A.R. Dykes Library, University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319 On 9/13/2011 at 04:25 PM, in messagecan7tqjapw78rpgzpu1l5qvoj6iw9rrkmzl+yeygqbov-gzo...@mail.gmail.com, Shirley Lincicumshirley.linci...@gmail.com wrote: Jason, Check out: http://www.needlebase.com/ It was not developed specifically for libraries, but it supports data aggregation, analysis, web scraping, and does not require programming skills to use. Shirley Shirley Lincicum Librarian, Western Oregon University linc...@wou.edu On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Jason Stirnamanjstirna...@kumc.edu wrote: Does anyone have suggestions or recommendations for platforms that can aggregate usage data from multiple sources, combine it with financial data, and then provide some analysis, graphing, data views, etc? From what I can tell, something like Ex Libris' Alma would require all fulfillment transactions to occur within the system. I'm looking instead for something like Splunk that would accept log data, circulation data, usage reports, costs, and Sherpa/Romeo authority data but then schematize it for data analysis and maybe push out reporting dashboardsnods to Brown Library http://library.brown.edu/dashboard/widgets/all/ I'd also want to automate the data retrieval, so that might consist of scraping, web services, and FTP, but that could easily be handled separately. I'm aware there are many challenges, such as comparing usage stats, shifts in journal aggregators, etc. Does anyone have any cool homegrown examples or ideas they've cooked up for this? Pie in the sky? Jason Jason Stirnaman Biomedical Librarian, Digital Projects A.R. Dykes Library, University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319
Re: [CODE4LIB] Usage and financial data aggregation
Correction: Thomas Barker. Sorry. PS, Here's the link for jumping to Thomas Browning's Metridoc talk: http://www.indiana.edu/~video/stream/launchflash.html?format=MP4folder=vicfilename=C4L2011_session_2_20110208.mp4starttime=3600 Jason Stirnaman Biomedical Librarian, Digital Projects A.R. Dykes Library, University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319 On 9/14/2011 at 11:13 AM, in message 4e70d292.7000...@jhu.edu, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: Yeah, I think it ends up being pretty hard to create general-purpose solutions to this sort of thing that are both not-monstrous-to-use and flexible enough to do what everyone wants. Which is why most of the 'data warehouse' solutions you see end up being so terrible, in my analysis. I am not sure if there is any product specifically focused on library usage/financial data -- that might end up being somewhat less monstrous, it seems the more you focus your use case (instead of trying to provide for general data warehouse and analysis), the more likely a software provider can come up with something that isn't insane. At the 2011 Code4Lib Conf, Thomas Barker from UPenn presented on some open source software they were developing (based on putting together existing open source packages to be used together) to provide library-oriented 'data warehousing'. I was interested that he talked about how their _first_ attempt at this ended up being the sort of monstrous flexible-but-impossible-to-use sort of solution we're talking about, but they tried to learn from their experience and start over, thinking they could do better. I'm not sure what the current status of that project is. I'm not sure if any 2011 code4lib conf video is available online? If it is, it doesn't seem to be linked to from the conf presentation pages like it was in past years: http://code4lib.org/conference/2011/barker On 9/13/2011 5:37 PM, Jason Stirnaman wrote: Thanks, Shirley! I remember seeing that before but I'll look more closely now. I know what I'm describing is also known, typically, as a data warehouse. I guess I'm trying to steer around the usual solutions in that space. We do have an Oracle-driven data warehouse on campus, but the project is in heavy transition right now and we still had to do a fair amount of work ourselves just to get a few data sources into it. Jason Stirnaman Biomedical Librarian, Digital Projects A.R. Dykes Library, University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319 On 9/13/2011 at 04:25 PM, in messagecan7tqjapw78rpgzpu1l5qvoj6iw9rrkmzl+yeygqbov-gzo...@mail.gmail.com, Shirley Lincicumshirley.linci...@gmail.com wrote: Jason, Check out: http://www.needlebase.com/ It was not developed specifically for libraries, but it supports data aggregation, analysis, web scraping, and does not require programming skills to use. Shirley Shirley Lincicum Librarian, Western Oregon University linc...@wou.edu On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Jason Stirnamanjstirna...@kumc.edu wrote: Does anyone have suggestions or recommendations for platforms that can aggregate usage data from multiple sources, combine it with financial data, and then provide some analysis, graphing, data views, etc? From what I can tell, something like Ex Libris' Alma would require all fulfillment transactions to occur within the system. I'm looking instead for something like Splunk that would accept log data, circulation data, usage reports, costs, and Sherpa/Romeo authority data but then schematize it for data analysis and maybe push out reporting dashboardsnods to Brown Library http://library.brown.edu/dashboard/widgets/all/ I'd also want to automate the data retrieval, so that might consist of scraping, web services, and FTP, but that could easily be handled separately. I'm aware there are many challenges, such as comparing usage stats, shifts in journal aggregators, etc. Does anyone have any cool homegrown examples or ideas they've cooked up for this? Pie in the sky? Jason Jason Stirnaman Biomedical Librarian, Digital Projects A.R. Dykes Library, University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319 Jason Stirnaman Biomedical Librarian, Digital Projects A.R. Dykes Library, University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319
Re: [CODE4LIB] Usage and financial data aggregation
I'll try to update a few more. You can adjust the starttime parameter (in seconds) in the URL accordingly for each talk. Of course, you have to watch to figure out where they start. Jason Stirnaman Biomedical Librarian, Digital Projects A.R. Dykes Library, University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319 On 9/14/2011 at 12:58 PM, in message 4e70eb3b.9090...@jhu.edu, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: Thanks, I added this as a comment on the code4lib talk page from the conf. If anyone else happens to be looking for a video and finds it, and you want to add it to the code4lib talk page in question, it would probably be useful for findability. In the past I think someone bulk added the URLs to all the talk pages, but I guess that didn't happen this time, I guess actually cause there aren't split videos of each talk but just video of the whole session? Hmm, I guess that makes it harder to figure out what the URL to the right minute of the talk should be, unless you're Jason. Oh well. Thanks Jason! On 9/14/2011 1:49 PM, Jason Stirnaman wrote: PS, Here's the link for jumping to Thomas Browning's Metridoc talk: http://www.indiana.edu/~video/stream/launchflash.html?format=MP4folder=vicfilename=C4L2011_session_2_20110208.mp4starttime=3600 Jason Stirnaman Biomedical Librarian, Digital Projects A.R. Dykes Library, University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319 On 9/14/2011 at 11:13 AM, in message4e70d292.7000...@jhu.edu, Jonathan Rochkindrochk...@jhu.edu wrote: Yeah, I think it ends up being pretty hard to create general-purpose solutions to this sort of thing that are both not-monstrous-to-use and flexible enough to do what everyone wants. Which is why most of the 'data warehouse' solutions you see end up being so terrible, in my analysis. I am not sure if there is any product specifically focused on library usage/financial data -- that might end up being somewhat less monstrous, it seems the more you focus your use case (instead of trying to provide for general data warehouse and analysis), the more likely a software provider can come up with something that isn't insane. At the 2011 Code4Lib Conf, Thomas Barker from UPenn presented on some open source software they were developing (based on putting together existing open source packages to be used together) to provide library-oriented 'data warehousing'. I was interested that he talked about how their _first_ attempt at this ended up being the sort of monstrous flexible-but-impossible-to-use sort of solution we're talking about, but they tried to learn from their experience and start over, thinking they could do better. I'm not sure what the current status of that project is. I'm not sure if any 2011 code4lib conf video is available online? If it is, it doesn't seem to be linked to from the conf presentation pages like it was in past years: http://code4lib.org/conference/2011/barker On 9/13/2011 5:37 PM, Jason Stirnaman wrote: Thanks, Shirley! I remember seeing that before but I'll look more closely now. I know what I'm describing is also known, typically, as a data warehouse. I guess I'm trying to steer around the usual solutions in that space. We do have an Oracle-driven data warehouse on campus, but the project is in heavy transition right now and we still had to do a fair amount of work ourselves just to get a few data sources into it. Jason Stirnaman Biomedical Librarian, Digital Projects A.R. Dykes Library, University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319 On 9/13/2011 at 04:25 PM, in messagecan7tqjapw78rpgzpu1l5qvoj6iw9rrkmzl+yeygqbov-gzo...@mail.gmail.com, Shirley Lincicumshirley.linci...@gmail.com wrote: Jason, Check out: http://www.needlebase.com/ It was not developed specifically for libraries, but it supports data aggregation, analysis, web scraping, and does not require programming skills to use. Shirley Shirley Lincicum Librarian, Western Oregon University linc...@wou.edu On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Jason Stirnamanjstirna...@kumc.edu wrote: Does anyone have suggestions or recommendations for platforms that can aggregate usage data from multiple sources, combine it with financial data, and then provide some analysis, graphing, data views, etc? From what I can tell, something like Ex Libris' Alma would require all fulfillment transactions to occur within the system. I'm looking instead for something like Splunk that would accept log data, circulation data, usage reports, costs, and Sherpa/Romeo authority data but then schematize it for data analysis and maybe push out reporting dashboardsnods to Brown Library http://library.brown.edu/dashboard/widgets/all/ I'd also want to automate the data retrieval, so that might consist of scraping, web services, and FTP, but that could easily be handled separately. I'm aware there are many challenges
Re: [CODE4LIB] Usage and financial data aggregation
Thanks, Shirley! I remember seeing that before but I'll look more closely now. I know what I'm describing is also known, typically, as a data warehouse. I guess I'm trying to steer around the usual solutions in that space. We do have an Oracle-driven data warehouse on campus, but the project is in heavy transition right now and we still had to do a fair amount of work ourselves just to get a few data sources into it. Jason Stirnaman Biomedical Librarian, Digital Projects A.R. Dykes Library, University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319 On 9/13/2011 at 04:25 PM, in message can7tqjapw78rpgzpu1l5qvoj6iw9rrkmzl+yeygqbov-gzo...@mail.gmail.com, Shirley Lincicum shirley.linci...@gmail.com wrote: Jason, Check out: http://www.needlebase.com/ It was not developed specifically for libraries, but it supports data aggregation, analysis, web scraping, and does not require programming skills to use. Shirley Shirley Lincicum Librarian, Western Oregon University linc...@wou.edu On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Jason Stirnaman jstirna...@kumc.edu wrote: Does anyone have suggestions or recommendations for platforms that can aggregate usage data from multiple sources, combine it with financial data, and then provide some analysis, graphing, data views, etc? From what I can tell, something like Ex Libris' Alma would require all fulfillment transactions to occur within the system. I'm looking instead for something like Splunk that would accept log data, circulation data, usage reports, costs, and Sherpa/Romeo authority data but then schematize it for data analysis and maybe push out reporting dashboards nods to Brown Library http://library.brown.edu/dashboard/widgets/all/ I'd also want to automate the data retrieval, so that might consist of scraping, web services, and FTP, but that could easily be handled separately. I'm aware there are many challenges, such as comparing usage stats, shifts in journal aggregators, etc. Does anyone have any cool homegrown examples or ideas they've cooked up for this? Pie in the sky? Jason Jason Stirnaman Biomedical Librarian, Digital Projects A.R. Dykes Library, University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319
Re: [CODE4LIB] Survey on Uses of Cloud Computing and Virtualization in Libraries
Hey, Erik. I'd be to happy to complete the survey but I feel I should let you know that it doesn't jibe with our environment and we're probably not the only ones. We have a mix of support staffing scenarios. Nearly everything is virtualized now. In some cases, campus IT spins up a virtual server specifically for our use and we manage it from there. In other cases, the web site for example, they manage it completely. In other cases, we have things hosted in the cloud with varying levels of management responsibility. As I began the survey I got stuck immediately and question what value and how accurate my response would be. It's just not as clear-cut as the survey assumes. Regards, Jason Jason Stirnaman Biomedical Librarian, Digital Projects A.R. Dykes Library, University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319 On 8/25/2011 at 02:04 PM, in message camgfwb97+xemuvwvjepcke0sjffvnsz8c+-ygpou0m2g254...@mail.gmail.com, Erik Mitchell mitch...@gmail.com wrote: Please forgive cross posting This research study is about cloud computing and virtualization adoption in libraries. It asks questions about the level of adoption and factors that enable or inhibit the use of these technologies in library environments. The survey is open to anyone who works with IT related to libraries (e.g., systems departments, desktop support, campus IT department supporting the library, etc.). Even if your library does not use cloud computing or virtualization technologies your input is still valuable for understanding the landscape of this technology adoption in libraries. To take the survey please follow this link https://uncodum.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_6mmaLbFa2El3trK Erik Mitchell Assistant Professor College of Information Studies University of Maryland College Park
Re: [CODE4LIB] Do you enjoy the Code4Lib conference? Why not sponsor it?
Kevin, Marketing genius to send this out the morning of payday! Thanks for running with it! Jason Jason Stirnaman Biomedical Librarian, Digital Projects A.R. Dykes Library, University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319 On 1/7/2011 at 09:38 AM, in message aanlktin6zxxpeltzk6shifchy3vgchjkn6wvbspwa...@mail.gmail.com, Kevin S. Clarke kscla...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, On the Code4Lib Conference planning list, Dan Chudnov suggested that we should create a Code4Lib Community sponsorship opportunity. We all appreciate the sponsorships of our corporate sponsors, but since the Code4Lib Conference if for, by, and of the people of Code4Lib, wouldn't it be a great idea if we were also sponsors for it? I'm not sure if we're too late to get something like The Code4Lib Community on the t-shirt as a sponsor, but I've created a pool at ChipIn.com for those of us who would like to pool our resources to become a collective sponsor of the conference. If this idea interests you, you can contribute at: http://code4lib.chipin.com/code4lib-conference If you've enjoyed attending in the past and would like to express your love (and/or appreciation) for Code4Lib and the annual conference, this is a great way. I'm acting as the coordinator of the ChipIn fund and will pass the collected money onto this year's local hosts so that it can be used or, at the very least, be passed onto next year's host. So far we have 4 contributors pitching in $300 (%30 of the way to our goal of $1000!). Feel free to contribute any amount you'd like ($5, $10, $20, $100)... that's the beauty of pooling our resources, every bit adds to the total. Thanks for considering this! Kevin
Re: [CODE4LIB] Hotel reservations
Me too when confirming, after it shows the list of rooms available. Jason Stirnaman Biomedical Librarian, Digital Projects A.R. Dykes Library, University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319 On 12/13/2010 at 11:54 AM, in message aanlkti=c+xq_-znr8=cencg3p35p+gesjgkefhwdl...@mail.gmail.com, Mark A. Matienzo m...@matienzo.org wrote: I seem to be getting a ROOM UNAVAILABLE for just about every rate listed for the Biddle Hotel using the online reservation system. Mark A. Matienzo Digital Archivist, Manuscripts and Archives Yale University Library
[CODE4LIB] Job posting: Applications Administrator, University of Kansas Medical Center
Job Ad Applications Administrator A.R. Dykes Library at the University of Kansas Medical Center is recruiting for an Application Administrator with emphasis in planning, implementing, supporting new and existing applications. This position (position #J0184705) is unclassified and will work closely with the Digital Projects Librarian, other application/system managers, and library staff to ensure that technology supports the goals of the library and University. Interested applicants must apply online at https://jobs.kumc.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/Welcome_css.jsp. Go to Information Technology, Application Administrator, position #J0184705 Regards, Jason Jason Stirnaman Biomedical Librarian, Digital Projects A.R. Dykes Library, University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319
[CODE4LIB] Job Posting: Web Developer / Designer
University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS Web Developer/Designer This person will work closely with Dykes Library (http://library.kumc.edu) staff, faculty and other Information Resources units to raise the visibility of expertise, research, publications, grey literature, and collections on the KUMC web site. Requires one to work closely with librarians and library personnel to understand information requirement needs and to then seek solutions for meeting those required needs. Requires working with diverse web applications and data sources to provide seamless user services. Duties: Extend Bibapp (http://www.bibapp.org), a Ruby on Rails and Apache Solr web application, to better meet the needs of KUMC. Customize DSpace (http://www.dspace.org) and assist with XML/XSLT theme development. Customize sites in a content management system using XSLT. Assist departments, faculty, and staff with integrating RSS feeds, Solr web services, or other application data into their websites. Provide guidance for integrating repository and discovery applications including the library catalog, journal holdings, online journals, DSpace, digital asset management, bibliographic databases, and search engines. Visit https://jobs.kumc.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/position/JobDetails_css.jsp?postingId=371769 for a complete description and application Jason Stirnaman Biomedical Librarian, Digital Projects A.R. Dykes Library, University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319
[CODE4LIB] Job Posting: Web Developer / Designer
Web Developer / Designer A.R. Dykes Library/Internet Development University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS See the full posting at https://jobs.kumc.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/position/JobDetails_css.jsp?postingId=371066 Position Summary: This person will work closely with Dykes Library staff, faculty and other Information Resources units to raise the visibility of expertise, research, publications, grey literature, and collections on the KUMC web site. Requires one to work closely with librarians and library personnel to understand information requirement needs and to then seek solutions for meeting those required needs. Requires working with diverse web applications and data sources to provide seamless user services. Required Qualifications: 2 or more years experience developing database-driven web applications Degree from accredited college or university. An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered - each year of additional experience may be substituted for one year of education. Experience programming with Ruby Experience working with XSLT and XPath Experience developing real-world applications using Ruby on Rails, Java, .NET, or PHP and Postgresql, MySQL, SQL Server, or Oracle Experience working in a Unix environment Willingness to work in a collaborative team setting Excellent communication skills, analytical, and problem-solving abilities
Re: [CODE4LIB] PHP bashing (was: newbie)
Those things cost a (relative) fortune. You can find cheaper versions at Amazon. Oh, and please never use duck tape for stage applications like taping extension cords and mic cables to the floor. Gaff tape is tougher and leaves no sticky residue. Jason Jason Stirnaman Biomedical Librarian, Digital Projects A.R. Dykes Library, University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319 On 3/25/2010 at 1:58 PM, in message 9bd043651003251158k767fc446he67589cebd5f2...@mail.gmail.com, Rosalyn Metz rosalynm...@gmail.com wrote: Simon you can purchase the dongles at the Mac store (did it for another conference the week after code4lib). Also thank you all for the duck tape info. This explains why the duck tape i used to attach the dryer vent ducts didn't work. i shall now go by the proper tape. and now this conversation has completely devolved. On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Simon Spero sesunc...@gmail.com wrote: The proper name is actually Duck Tapehttp://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/02/magazine/the-way-we-live-now-3-02-03-on-language-why-a-duck.html?sec=spon=pagewanted=all, yet unlike Duck Typing, it makes everything it touches more reliable. Discuss. However, C4L10 exposed a major gap in my meeting-tech go-bag; I don't have any new style mac dongles- just the DVI to VGA one. People need to send me one of each of the new generation of macbooks, so I can be prepared. Simon
Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Midwest?
I think maybe I started the chatter in IRC, but now it looks as if I should redefine my region. Being in KC, I don't see myself or other MO, KS driving to Ohio and back in a day or weekend. I could be wrong. Thoughts? Any interest in a Code4Lib-Big-12-ish? Kudos to Jonathan for running with this. I'm a drummer too, BTW...in the event of a C4L11 Battle of the Bands. Jason -- Jason Stirnaman Biomedical Librarian, Digital Projects A.R. Dykes Library, University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319 On 3/5/2010 at 9:37 AM, in message acf139531003050737m54303c1sc9fa64096e9c9...@mail.gmail.com, Bill Dueber b...@dueber.com wrote: I'm pretty sure I could make it from Ann Arbor! On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Ken Irwin kir...@wittenberg.edu wrote: I would come from Ohio to wherever we choose. Kalamazoo would suit me just fine; I've not been back there in entirely too long! Ken -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Garrison Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 8:37 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Midwest? +1 ELM, I'm happy to help coordinate in whatever way you need. Also, if we can find a drummer, we could do a blues trio (count me in on bass). I could bring our band's drummer (a HUGE ND fan) down for a day or two if needed--he's awesome. --SG WMU in Kalamazoo - Original Message - From: Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Sent: Thursday, March 4, 2010 4:38:53 PM Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Midwest? On Mar 4, 2010, at 3:29 PM, Jonathan Brinley wrote: 2. share demonstrations I'd like to see this be something like a blend between lightning talks and the ask anything session at the last conference This certainly works for me, and the length of time of each talk would/could be directly proportional to the number of people who attend. 4. give a presentation to library staff What sort of presentation did you have in mind, Eric? This also raises the issue of weekday vs. weekend. I'm game for either. Anyone else have a preference? What I was thinking here was a possible presentation to library faculty/staff and/or computing faculty/staff from across campus. The presentation could be one or two cool hacks or solutions that solved wider, less geeky problems. Instead of tweaking Solr's term-weighting algorithms to index OAI-harvested content it would be making journal articles easier to find. This would be an opportunity to show off the good work done by institutions outside Notre Dame. A prophet in their own land is not as convincing as the expert from afar. I was thinking it would happen on a weekday. There would be more stuff going on here on campus, as well as give everybody a break from their normal work week. More specifically, I would suggest such an event take place on a Friday so the poeple who stayed over night would not have to take so many days off of work. 5. have a hack session It would be good to have 2 or 3 projects we can/should work on decided ahead of time (in case no one has any good ideas at the time), and perhaps a couple more inspired by the earlier presentations. True. -- ELM University of Notre Dame
Re: [CODE4LIB] exercising at code4libcon next week
Cary, Where are you renting from? jason -- Jason Stirnaman Biomedical Librarian, Digital Projects A.R. Dykes Library, University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319 On 2/18/2010 at 5:08 PM, in message 17c28acc1002181508w52810797m1a2daa5b5a9ef...@mail.gmail.com, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote: I haven't given any thought to route. I am renting a road bike, so I may look for something challenging so that I can get a good ride in a shorter time. I may hedge by renting a trainer. Warning, I am a vision in lycra. Shield your eyes. Cary On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Mitchell, Erik mitch...@wfu.edu wrote: Excellent - not sure what the weather holds but perhaps a bike ride can be had. Did you have a route in mind? E On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote: BTW, I will ride in light rain, but not if there is ice on the road. I will be leaving the hotel at 7 AM. On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote: I am going to be attempting to ride a bike Tue-Fri mornings, early. Let me know if you want to join. Probably about 15-20 miles. I ride about 18 mph, but I can go faster or slower, NP. Caru On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Erik Hatcher erikhatc...@mac.com wrote: code4libcon is about here, yay! I'm kinda in a fitness craze right now, and will be doing some training in Asheville. Monday night, 6:30pm, I'm going to the CrossFit Asheville gym - http://www.crossfitasheville.com/ I contacted them and they said that was a good time to come. I'll likely go back on Wednesday night at the same time. (dunno if they'll charge some fee, though). There were a couple of folks that mentioned interest, and I can carpool up to 3 others. If you've never done it before, now's not the time to start and I'm sure they'll only let experienced folks partake, but I imagine those curious about the insanity are welcome to spectate. Jogging - what say folks up for runs meet in the hotel lobby at 6:30am any day next week. I'm game for a relatively short run (2-3 miles) both Monday and Wednesday. I fleshed out a daily signup on the wiki. If it's too cold or treacherous out, I'll just hit the treadmill or rowing machine if they have it. http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/C4L2010_social_activities#Working_Out I'm still debating how many pushups folks must do at the Black Belt preconference, and which kata to teach ;) Erik -- Cary Gordon The Cherry Hill Company http://chillco.com -- Cary Gordon The Cherry Hill Company http://chillco.com -- Erik Mitchell, Ph.D. Assistant Director for Technology Services Z. Smith Reynolds Library Wake Forest University http://erikmitchell.info
Re: [CODE4LIB] exercising at code4libcon next week
NM. Just saw the previous message dork/ -- Jason Stirnaman Biomedical Librarian, Digital Projects A.R. Dykes Library, University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319 On 2/18/2010 at 5:08 PM, in message 17c28acc1002181508w52810797m1a2daa5b5a9ef...@mail.gmail.com, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote: I haven't given any thought to route. I am renting a road bike, so I may look for something challenging so that I can get a good ride in a shorter time. I may hedge by renting a trainer. Warning, I am a vision in lycra. Shield your eyes. Cary On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Mitchell, Erik mitch...@wfu.edu wrote: Excellent - not sure what the weather holds but perhaps a bike ride can be had. Did you have a route in mind? E On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote: BTW, I will ride in light rain, but not if there is ice on the road. I will be leaving the hotel at 7 AM. On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote: I am going to be attempting to ride a bike Tue-Fri mornings, early. Let me know if you want to join. Probably about 15-20 miles. I ride about 18 mph, but I can go faster or slower, NP. Caru On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 7:04 AM, Erik Hatcher erikhatc...@mac.com wrote: code4libcon is about here, yay! I'm kinda in a fitness craze right now, and will be doing some training in Asheville. Monday night, 6:30pm, I'm going to the CrossFit Asheville gym - http://www.crossfitasheville.com/ I contacted them and they said that was a good time to come. I'll likely go back on Wednesday night at the same time. (dunno if they'll charge some fee, though). There were a couple of folks that mentioned interest, and I can carpool up to 3 others. If you've never done it before, now's not the time to start and I'm sure they'll only let experienced folks partake, but I imagine those curious about the insanity are welcome to spectate. Jogging - what say folks up for runs meet in the hotel lobby at 6:30am any day next week. I'm game for a relatively short run (2-3 miles) both Monday and Wednesday. I fleshed out a daily signup on the wiki. If it's too cold or treacherous out, I'll just hit the treadmill or rowing machine if they have it. http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/C4L2010_social_activities#Working_Out I'm still debating how many pushups folks must do at the Black Belt preconference, and which kata to teach ;) Erik -- Cary Gordon The Cherry Hill Company http://chillco.com -- Cary Gordon The Cherry Hill Company http://chillco.com -- Erik Mitchell, Ph.D. Assistant Director for Technology Services Z. Smith Reynolds Library Wake Forest University http://erikmitchell.info
Re: [CODE4LIB] preconference proposals - solr
+1 I'd never leave the dojo. Agreed on morning and afternoon black belt sessions for all those who desire dark Solr. -- Jason Stirnaman On 11/13/2009 at 11:01 AM, in message 20091113170101.gd4...@manheim.library.drexel.edu, Gabriel Farrell g...@rc98.net wrote: On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 11:42:53AM -0500, Walter Lewis wrote: On 13 Nov 09, at 11:25 AM, Bess Sadler wrote: 1. Morning session - solr white belt [delightful descriptions snipped] 2. Morning session - solr black belt 3. Afternoon session - Blacklight Is there any chance that the black belt session needs to be/should be a two parter and run through the afternoon as well? ... or repeat for those who have just acquired their white belts but are headed in different directions? Agreed on morning and afternoon black belt sessions for all those who desire dark Solr. Gabriel
Re: [CODE4LIB] preconference proposals
+1 I'm managing a Solr-powered app, but haven't had much time to learn how to use Solr better. Hands-on would be great as long as the attendees understand the prereqs and were ready to jump in and work - not expecting time and assistance with downloading, installing, etc. Speaking as one of the problem children (Windows users), I think that pretty much derailed the VuFind session last year. Jason Jason Stirnaman Bess Sadler eo...@virginia.edu 11/10/2009 8:41 AM +1 from me on this, no surprise. :) What if we did a next gen catalog day thing? We could spend the morning on solr, which many projects have in common, in the morning, and then in the afternoon have sessions that build on top of solr (vufind, blacklight, kochief, etc.) We were going to submit a proposal for a blacklight pre-conference regardless, but it makes a lot of sense to do something more coordinated, and it particularly makes sense to ensure that as many people as possible can take advantage of Erik's presence and expertise. One goal I also have for this conference is to solicit community feedback on how to improve solrmarc and marc4j, which are used by both blacklight and vufind (and a few other projects at this point... yes?). A solr-focused session might be a good venue for some of that discussion as well... as we discuss neat things to do with solr we might ask how do we do that with solrmarc. Or maybe that's a separate discussion. It's up to the community. Bess On 10-Nov-09, at 5:38 AM, Erik Hatcher wrote: I'm interested presenting something Solr+library related at c4l10. I'm soliciting ideas from the community on what angle makes the most sense. At first I was thinking a regular conference talk proposal, but perhaps a preconference session would be better. I could be game for a half day session. It could be either an introductory Solr class, get up and running with Solr (+ Blacklight, of course). Or maybe a more advanced session on topics like leveraging dismax, Solr performance and scalability tuning, and so on, or maybe a freer form Solr hackathon session where I'd be there to help with hurdles or answer questions. Thoughts? Suggestions? Anything I can do to help the library world with Solr is fair game - let me know. Thanks, Erik On Nov 9, 2009, at 9:55 PM, Kevin S. Clarke wrote: Hi all, It's time again to collect proposals for Code4Lib 2010 preconference sessions. We have space for six full day sessions (or 12 half day sessions (or some combination of the two)). If we get more than we can accommodate, we'll vote... but I don't think we will (take that as a challenge to propose lots of interesting preconference sessions). Like last year, attendees will pay $12.50 for a half day or $25 for the whole day. The preconference space will be in the hotel so we'll have wireless available. If you have a preconference idea, send it to this list, to me, or to the code4libcon planning list. We'll put them up on the wiki once we start receiving them. Some possible ideas? A Drupal in libraries session? LOD part two? An OCLC webservices hackathon? Send the proposals along... Thanks, Kevin
Re: [CODE4LIB] openphi and/or healthlibrarian
Thanks, Eric. I hadn't heard of these. We'll check it out. Another interesting one is Mednar (who named this thing?) - a medical open access federated search engine launched by fed search veterans Deep Web. http://mednar.com/mednar/ Jason -- On 7/9/2009 at 6:18 PM, in message bb97ff1f-b194-4519-9723-4a73480de...@nd.edu, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: How many people here work in a library where medicine is a topic of interest, and how many of those are familiar with OpenPHI [1] and/or HealthLibrarian [2] ? OpenPHI is a start-up company who is using open source software to harvest and index open access content for the purposes of creating useful indexes to medical information. For example, they have collected content from MEDLINE, Biomed, and other peer-reviewed sites to create a pretty comprehensive and competitive index called HealthLibrarian. Lots o' content! I'm not sure of all the details, but the folks at OpenPHI are looking for librarians like ourselves (hackers) to integrate HealthLibrarian into their library offerings -- a possible alternative or supplement to the indexes we are already providing. I think they are offering free trials to their index through Web Services interfaces sans the advertising, etc. Being a new company and very open to all things... open, I believe the folks at OpenPHI are open to constructive criticism on how to provide viable library services to... libraries. [1] http://www.openphi.com/ [2] http://www.healthlibrarian.net/
Re: [CODE4LIB] Digital imaging questions
and then write a parser (in Python or Ruby) that will read the values from that spreadsheet and produce a dublin_core.xml Sai, That work has already been done in PHP: http://tds.terkko.helsinki.fi/utils/ I just used it for a small project. I tweaked it a tiny bit and tried to clarify the documentation, but otherwise it works really well. Regarding the DSpace metadata registry, I'd recommend sending your question to dspace-tech maillist. Jason -- On 6/18/2009 at 1:38 PM, in message 97d9c0c70906181138x4e15e044q939ed862f9e11...@mail.gmail.com, Andrew Hankinson andrew.hankin...@gmail.com wrote: I'm pretty sure you can add extra fields to the dublin_core.xml file and import it. I think I did something like this a few years ago, but I'm a bit fuzzy on the details. For the metadata creation, it might be worth your while to save the Excel spreadsheet to a CSV file and then write a parser (in Python or Ruby) that will read the values from that spreadsheet and produce a dublin_core.xml file. If you gather the photo files in the same location, you can then use the DSpace bulk importer to import everything into your collection. See here: http://www.tdl.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/DSpaceBatchImportFormat.pdf You may be able to add extra fields to the search index. See here: http://wiki.dspace.org/index.php/Modify_search_fields On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Deng, Sai sai.d...@wichita.edu wrote: Andrew and Yan, Thanks for the reply and the information! About DSpace metadata registry, we can add new schema or new elements to it, but the elements won’t be searchable, right? (We can change the input-forms.xml to make it display in the submission workflow if we will have item by item submission.) In our case, we already have the herbarium metadata in excel sheet created by Biology Dept. They are now in loose Darwin Core and kind of free style. If I would like to do data transformation (transform it to a mixture of DC and Darwin Core possibly) and batch import the xml to DSpace, how to proceed? Where should I add the Darwin Core metadata (in the dublin_core.xml as well)? It seems that it only has dcvalue element. Sai -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Andrew Hankinson Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 11:03 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Digital imaging questions Hi Sai, Archival Quality Images has some meaning, but it might be helpful to look up a standard and start your investigation for a new camera based on the recommendations of that standard. You might find this page from the Library of Congress helpful: http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/content/still.shtml I think your indication that RAW/TIFF is a pretty safe bet, but being able to point to an actual standard might make your case for a new camera a bit more convincingly. Other factors to take into account (other than megapixels and format) are color reproduction, image 'noise' specifications, DPI, lighting, (and probably many other things). For DSpace you don't even need to map the elements of Dublin Core to DarwinCore. Dspace has the ability to input different schema in its metadata registry. You can then modify the inputforms.xml file in the Dspace config directory to add the appropriate fields for the additional metadata fields. Hope this helps! -Andrew On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Deng, Sai sai.d...@wichita.edu wrote: Hi, list, A while ago, I read some interesting discussion on how to use camera to produce archival-quality images from this list. Now, I have some imaging questions and I think this might be a good list to turn to. Thank you in advance! We are trying to add some herbarium images to our DSpace. The specimen pictures will be taken at the Biology department and the library is responsible for depositing the images and transferring/mapping/adding metadata. On the testing stage, they use Fujifilm FinePix S8000fd digital camera ( http://www.fujifilmusa.com/support/ServiceSupportSoftwareContent.do?dbid=8747 16prodcat=871639sscucatid=664260 ). It produces 8 megapixel images, and it doesn't have raw/tiff support. It seems that it cannot produce archival quality images. Before we persuade the Biology department to switch their camera, I want to make sure it is absolutely necessary. The pictures they took look fine with human eyes, see an example at: http://library.wichita.edu/techserv/test/herbarium/Astenophylla1-02710.jpg In order to make master images from a camera, it should be capable of producing raw or tiff images with 12 or above megapixels? A related archiving question, the biology field standard is DarwinCore, however, DSpace doesn't support it. The Biology Dept. already has some data in spreadsheet. In this case, when it is impossible to map all the elements to Dublin Core, is it a
Re: [CODE4LIB] Serials Solutions Summon
Agree. When you step outside libraryland and into corporate/enterprise IT (thinking Autonomy, FAST, etc.) then federated search is often used to refer to aggregated local indexing of distinct databases. Jason -- Jason Stirnaman Digital Projects Librarian/School of Medicine Support A.R. Dykes Library, University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319 On 4/21/2009 at 12:56 PM, in message 49ee08d3.7010...@jhu.edu, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: I think I like your term aggregated index even better than local index, thanks Peter. You're right that local can be confusing as far as local to WHAT. So that's my new choice of terminology with the highest chance of being understood and least chance of being misconstrued: broadcast search vs. aggregated index. As we've discovered in this thread, if you say federated search without qualification, different people _will_ have different ideas of what you're talking about, as apparently the phrase has been historically used differently by different people/communities. I think broadcast search and aggregated index are specific enough that it would be harder for reasonable people to misconstrue -- and don't (yet?) have a history of being used to refer to different things by different people. So it's what I'm going to use. Jonathan Peter Noerr wrote: From one of the Federated Search vendor's perspective... It seems in the broader web world we in the library world have lost metasearch. That has become the province of those systems (mamma, dogpile, etc.) which search the big web search engines (G,Y,M, etc.) primarily for shoppers and travelers (kayak, mobissimo, etc.) and so on. One of the original differences between these engines and the library/information world ones was that they presented results by Source - not combined. This is still evident in a fashion in the travel sites where you can start multiple search sessions on the individual sites. We use Federated Search for what we do in the library/information space. It equates directly to Jonathan's Broadcast Search which was the original term I used when talking about it about 10 years ago. Broadcast is more descriptive, and I prefer it, but it seems an uphill struggle to get it accepted. Fed Search has the problem of Ray's definition of Federated, to mean a bunch of things brought together. It can be broadcast search (real time searching of remote Sources and aggregation of a virtual result set), or searching of a local (to the searcher) index which is composed of material federated from multiple Sources at some previous time. We tend to use the term Aggregate Index for this (and for the Summon-type index) Mixed content is almost a given, so that is not an issue. And Federated Search systems have to undertake in real time the normalization and other tasks that Summon will be (presumably) putting into its aggregate index. A problem in terminology we come across is the use of local (notice my careful caveat in its use above). It is used to mean local to the searcher (as in the aggregate/meta index above), or it is used to mean local to the original documents (i.e. at the native Source). I can't imagine this has done more than confirm that there is no agreed terminology - which we sort of all knew. So we just do a lot of explaining - with pictures - to people. Peter Noerr Dr Peter Noerr CTO, MuseGlobal, Inc. +1 415 896 6873 (office) +1 415 793 6547 (mobile) www.museglobal.com -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Jonathan Rochkind Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2009 08:59 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Serials Solutions Summon Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress wrote: Leaving aside metasearch and broadcast search (terms invented more recently) it is a shame if federated has really lost its distinction fromdistributed. Historically, a federated database is one that integrates multiple (autonomous) databases so it is in effect a virtual distributed database, though a single database.I don't think that's a hard concept and I don't think it is a trivial distinction. For at least 10 years vendors in the library market have been selling us products called federated search which are in fact distributed/broadcast search products. If you want to reclaim the term federated to mean a local index, I think you have a losing battle in front of you. So I'm sticking with broadcast search and local index. Sometimes you need to use terms invented more recently when the older terms have been used ambiguously or contradictorily. To me, understanding the two different techniques and their differences is more important than the terminology -- it's just important that the terminology be understood.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Solr for Internal Searching
I haven't used it, but there is an AJAX extension for GSA and Mini that does faceting - they refer to it as parametric search: http://code.google.com/p/parametric/ We use the Mini on our university web site, but not for intranet (yet). Jason -- Jason Stirnaman Digital Projects Librarian/School of Medicine Support A.R. Dykes Library, University of Kansas Medical Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] 913-588-7319 On 8/6/2008 at 4:00 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Stephens, Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Google Mini didn't facet when I used it (about a year ago). It is very simple to setup, and required very little maintenance. The Mini had some restrictions compared to the Google Appliance, if these apply it would be worth looking at the differences - the Appliance certainly was significantly more expensive than the Mini. Overall I'd recommend the Mini if you want something cheap, very quick to get going, with a brand that users will recognise and (generally) trust, and you are happy to sacrifice some flexibility for these features. Owen Owen Stephens Assistant Director: eStrategy and Information Resources Central Library Imperial College London South Kensington Campus London SW7 2AZ t: +44 (0)20 7594 8829 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Spalding Sent: 06 August 2008 05:08 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Solr for Internal Searching Does Google Mini facet? It seems to have a concept of collections, but does it facet by them? T On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 12:05 AM, Bill Dueber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At UMich, we use space on a Google Appliance as our site search (different setups for internal vs. public pages) and have been pretty happy. I've been able to abuse the google ads space to our benefit -- e.g., go to http://lib.umich.edu/ and search Web Pages for grad (get today's hours) or 'dueber' (find me). On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 11:24 PM, Nate Vack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this is code4lib, not buystuff4lib, but the Google Mini is reputed to be rather quick, bulletproof and configurable, and starts at $3k. For example, it works nicely with lots of file formats (including Office documents) out of the box. And works with LDAP and NTLM for authentication and authorization. I suspect it'll probably be challenging to deliver a quality search solution for a lower total cost. Of course, this all depends on what your intranet looks like on the inside. I've seen 'intranet' mean a things that would call for wildly different search solutions. So... solr is great, but this question doesn't contain nearly enough information to answer whether it's a good fit for your task at hand. Cheers -Nate On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Cloutman, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today my boss asked me to come up with a solution that would let us index and search our intranet. I was already thinking of using Solr on our public Web site we are building, and thought this might be a good opportunity to knock two items off the to-do list with the same technology. I know there was a preconference session on Solr this year, and I have the sense that this is gaining traction in the library community. Is there any reason why I shouldn't do this? Thanks, - David --- David Cloutman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electronic Services Librarian Marin County Free Library Email Disclaimer: http://www.co.marin.ca.us/nav/misc/EmailDisclaimer.cfm -- Bill Dueber Library Systems Programmer University of Michigan Library -- Check out my library at http://www.librarything.com/profile/timspalding
Re: [CODE4LIB] Digital Collections management software
Harish, OpenCollection (http://www.opencollection.org/ ) is open source. It was mentioned at JASIG. I'm hoping to install and try it out here soon. Jason -- Jason Stirnaman Digital Projects Librarian/School of Medicine Support A.R. Dykes Library, University of Kansas Medical Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] 913-588-7319 On 7/17/2008 at 11:12 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Harish Maringanti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've heard of Contentdm from OCLC that many institutions are using to manage their digital collections. If you are using Contentdm would you mind sharing some of the pros cons of using it (either to the group or off the list). Are there any other viable products either commercial or open source that can be considered to manage digital collections. Particularly in the open source domain are there any good applications to manage image collections? Thanks in advance, Harish Harish Maringanti Systems Analyst K-State Libraries (785)532-3261
Re: [CODE4LIB] Enterprise Search and library collection
In short, I think a Google Appliance is an expensive but viable option. Relative to other commercial products in the space, the GA or G-mini is actually very inexpensive. Another option to add to Eric's list is the All Access Connector which adds MuseGlobal's fed search technology to the Google appliance. Of course, it also add $40K or more to the total price. http://wire.jstirnaman.com/2008/05/23/federated-search-for-google-search-appliance/ Jason -- Jason Stirnaman Digital Projects Librarian/School of Medicine Support A.R. Dykes Library, University of Kansas Medical Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] 913-588-7319 On 7/10/2008 at 10:25 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Eric Lease Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At the risk of interpreting the original question incorrectly, we have had decent success using the Google Search Appliance to facilitate search across the enterprise (university): * Buy the Appliance. * Feed it one or more URLs. * Wait for it to crawl. * Customize the user interface. * Allow people to use it. While we haven't done so, it would not be too difficult to implement a sort of federated search within the Appliance's interface. This could be done in a number of ways: 1. Acquire bibliographic data and feed to directly to the Appliance via the (poorly) documented SQL interface. 2. Acquire bibliographic data, save it as HTML files, and allow the Appliance to crawl the HTML. 3. License access to bibliographic making sure it is accessible through some sort of API, and write a Google OneBox module that queries the data, and returns results as a part of a normal Google Appliance search. The larger Google Appliance costs about $30,000 but you purchase it, not license it. No annual fees. That will buy you the ability to index 500,000 documents. When it comes to a bibliographic database (such as a subject index or a library catalog) that is not really very much. We here at Notre Dame did implement Option #3, but it queries the local LDAP sever to return names and addresses of people, not bibliographic citations. [1, 2] I did write a OneBox module to query our catalog, but we haven't implemented it, yet. It will probably appear as a part of the library's Search This Site functionality. In short, I think a Google Appliance is an expensive but viable option. [1] Search for a name (ex: Hesburgh) at http://search.nd.edu/ [2] OneBox source code - http://tinyurl.com/6ktxot
Re: [CODE4LIB] Enterprise Search and library collection [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
Renata, We haven't implemented anything yet, but we did recently issue an RFI for exactly this and evaluated the vendors who responded. Our biggest challenge is still getting sufficient institutional buy-in. So, we will likely be conducting small, focused pilots with two different vendors. I would be happy to share our RFI and some of our evaluation results with you off list. Jason -- Jason Stirnaman Digital Projects Librarian/School of Medicine Support A.R. Dykes Library, University of Kansas Medical Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] 913-588-7319 On 7/8/2008 at 1:11 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dyer, Renata [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our organisation is looking into getting an enterprise search and I was wondering how many libraries out there have incorporated library collection into a 'federated' search that would retrieve a whole lot: a library collection items, external sources (websites, databases), internal documents (available on share drives and/or records systems), maybe even records from other internal applications, etc.? I would like to hear about your experience and what is good or bad about it. Please reply on or offline whichever more convenient. I'll collate answers. Thanks, Renata Dyer Systems Librarian Information Services The Treasury Langton Crescent, Parkes ACT 2600 Australia (p) 02 6263 2736 (f) 02 6263 2738 (e) [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://adot.sirsidynix.net.au/uhtbin/cgisirsi/ruzseo2h7g/0/0/49 ** Please Note: The information contained in this e-mail message and any attached files may be confidential information and may also be the subject of legal professional privilege. If you are not the intended recipient, any use, disclosure or copying of this e-mail is unauthorised. If you have received this e-mail by error please notify the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this transmission together with any attachments. **
Re: [CODE4LIB] Exporting RSS Source from a Blog
Couple of thoughts: I'm not a Blojsom user, but shouldn't you be able to set the number of posts that Blojsom puts in the feed? I see a Blojsom blog at http://www.entropy.ch/blog/?flavor=rss that seems to spit out all the entries as Atom, RSS 2.0, RSS, etc. Also, the Blojsom export pushes out a package of XML. You could use XSLT to convert to RSS: http://www.ejlife.net/blogs/john/2006/04/25/1146023865263.html Jason -- Jason Stirnaman OME/Biomedical Digital Projects Librarian A.R. Dykes Library The University of Kansas Medical Center Kansas City, Kansas Work: 913-588-7319 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 5/6/2008 at 10:23 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], The Ford Library at Fuqua [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi John, Thanks for the quick response. I tried accessing the feed with lynx to no avail. Its been quite awhile since I worked w/ lynx. I'll take a quick look at wget as well and see if its deployed here and usable. Can you spare a few moments to send an example of your quick and dirty method? Feel free to do this on- or off-list if you have the time. Thanks again! -- Carlton Brown Associate Director IT Services Manager Ford Library - Fuqua School of Business Duke University On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Jonathan Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The quick and dirty way I've done something similar in the past is to download individual rss pages by running something like wget. Other command-line browsers/spiders could do something similar. After all, the mechanisms for pulling rss feeds are really at the base the same mechanisms for pulling web pages of any type. Jon Gorman Original message Date: Tue, 6 May 2008 10:01:48 -0400 From: The Ford Library at Fuqua [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [CODE4LIB] Exporting RSS Source from a Blog To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Hello All, We're attempting to migrate our java-based Blojsom blog to the more user-friendly WordPress software. WordPress has built import wizards for many popular blog platforms; but there isn't one for Blojsom which is different from *bloxsom* which does have an import wizard. Blojsom does have an export blog plugin; but the data is not in RSS 2.0 and would require more Perl than I know to convert. WP can import data in RSS 2.0, and I can grab the RSS source of some posts by simply viewing/copying the source in my browser. But I need to migrate more than the limited number of posts that can be extracted by viewing the RSS source in the browser. Does anyone know of a tool or hack to extract - export the entire contents, or a large fixed number of posts from a blog as RSS 2.0? Google Reader and some others will grab a large number of posts; but I can't view the RSS source. I've done considerable googling already and the few scripts/tools I've located call for PHP or Ruby -- neither of which are deployed in our environment. Thanks in advance for any tips or pointers. -- Carlton Brown Associate Director IT Services Manager Ford Library - Fuqua School of Business Duke University
[CODE4LIB] Serials Solutions 360 API - classes?
Or .NET classes for the same? -- Jason Stirnaman OME/Biomedical Digital Projects Librarian A.R. Dykes Library The University of Kansas Medical Center Kansas City, Kansas Work: 913-588-7319 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 4/2/2008 at 12:39 PM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Pons, Lisa (ponslm) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd be interested as well From: Code for Libraries on behalf of Yitzchak Schaffer Sent: Wed 4/2/2008 12:28 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Serials Solutions 360 API - PHP classes? All: Does anyone have/know of PHP classes for searching the Serials Solutions 360 APIs, particularly Search? Thanks, -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Librarian Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x230 Fax (212) 627-3197 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[CODE4LIB] Distributed Models the Library (was: Re: [CODE4LIB] RFC 5005 ATOM extension and OAI)
not, for instance, and entire library catalog? If I could check out the library catalog onto my computer use whatever tools I wished to search, Peter, You might be interested in Art Rhyno's experiment. Here's Jon Udell's summary: Art Rhyno’s science project Art Rhyno’s title is Systems Librarian but he should consider adding Mad Scientist to his business card because his is full of wild and crazy and — to me, at least — brilliant ideas. Last year, when I was a judge for the Talis “Mashing up the Library” competion, one of my favorite entries was this one from Art. The project mirrors a library catalog to the desktop and integrates it with desktop search. The searcher in this case is Google Desktop, but could be another, and the integration is accomplished by exposing the catalog as a set of Web Folders, which Art correctly describes as “Microsoft’s in-built and oft-overlooked WebDAV option.” http://blog.jonudell.net/2007/03/16/art-rhynos-science-project/ Jason -- Jason Stirnaman OME/Biomedical Digital Projects Librarian A.R. Dykes Library The University of Kansas Medical Center Kansas City, Kansas Work: 913-588-7319 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 10/25/2007 at 10:47 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], pkeane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Jakob- Yes, I think you are correct that it is a bit much to think that a distributed archiving model is a bit much for libraries to even consider now, but I do think there are useful insights to be gained here. As it stands now, linux developers using Git can carry around the entire change history of the linux kernel (well, I think they just included the 2.6 kernel when they moved to Git) on their laptop, make changes, create patches, etc and then make that available to others. Well, undoubtedly change history is is a bit much for the library to think about, by why not, for instance, and entire library catalog? If I could check out the library catalog onto my computer use whatever tools I wished to search, organize, annotate, etc., then perhaps mix-in data (say holdings data from other that are near me) OR even create the sort of relationships between records that the Open Library folks are talking about (http://www.hyperorg.com/blogger/mtarchive/berkman_lunch_aaron_swartz_on.htm l) then share that added data, we have quite a powerful distributed development model. It may seem a bit far-fetched, but I think that some of the pieces (or at least a better understanding of how this might all work) are beginning to take shape. -Peter On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Jakob Voss wrote: Peter wrote: Also, re: blog mirroring, I highly recommend the current discussions floating aroung the blogosphere regarding distributed source control (Git, Mercurial, etc.). It's a fundamental paradigm shift from centralized control to distributed control that points the way toward the future of libraries as they (we) become less and less the gatekeepers for the stuff be it digital or physical and more and more the facilitators of the bidirectional replication that assures ubiquitous access and long-term preservation. The library becomes (actually it has already happended) simply a node on a network of trust and should act accordingly. See the thoroughly entertaining/thought-provoking Google tech talk by Linus Torvalds on Git: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8 Thanks for pointing to this interesting discussion. This goes even further then the current paradigm shift from the old model (author - publisher - distributor - reader) to a world of user-generated content and collaboration! I was glad if we finally got to model and archive Weblogs and Wikis - modelling and archiving the whole process of content copying, changing and remixing and republication is far beyong libraries capabilities! Greetings, Jakob -- Jakob Voß [EMAIL PROTECTED], skype: nichtich Verbundzentrale des GBV (VZG) / Common Library Network Platz der Goettinger Sieben 1, 37073 Göttingen, Germany +49 (0)551 39-10242, http://www.gbv.de
