Re: [CODE4LIB] Question for Institutional Repository Folks
i was recently helping some students, and discovered that the ColorSync utility for OSX did pretty well with opening/printing PDFs while ignoring the passwordsjust fyi On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Jim DelRosso jd...@cornell.edu wrote: Ah, they definitely get more specific than most. Breaking the password or getting it from the prof is probably your best bet, then. Good luck! Jim *Jim DelRosso, MPA, MSLIS Digital Projects Coordinator* *Hospitality, Labor, and Management Library* Catherwood Library ILR School Cornell University 239D Ives Hall Ithaca, NY 14853 p 607.255.8688 f 607.255.9641 e jd...@cornell.edu www.ilr.cornell.edu *Advancing the World of Work* On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.comwrote: Correct, it is locked only to editing. The professor is around so I probably should contact him as you suggest. I was asking in the case I ran into something where I could not contact the professor, but asking him directly is probably the best move. As for adding it to the metadata I am just a bit unsure as the e-mail they sent me requested that I Please add this text to the pdf file: On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Jim DelRosso jd...@cornell.edu wrote: Just to clarify: the password's only necessary to *edit *the PDF? In my experience, most publishers are fine with required statements going in the metadata, so long as the metadata is visible to users. That being said, it does depend on the publisher, and their specific request. Is it possible to contact the author directly about getting the password, or a PDF that's not password-locked? Jim *Jim DelRosso, MPA, MSLIS Digital Projects Coordinator* *Hospitality, Labor, and Management Library* Catherwood Library ILR School Cornell University 239D Ives Hall Ithaca, NY 14853 p 607.255.8688 f 607.255.9641 e jd...@cornell.edu www.ilr.cornell.edu *Advancing the World of Work* On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.comwrote: We use DSpace for our repository so any editing to the PDFs have to be done in Acrobat before uploading. I can add a note to the metadata in DSpace, but I am not sure if that fulfills the permissions agreement. I was recently hired for this position so I do not know who provided us the file to upload in the first place. That is why I am asking if anyone else has dealt with this since I am unsure if I can ever get the password. On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Jim DelRosso jd...@cornell.edu wrote: Matt, Does the software you use generate cover pages that you can edit? Or can you add the note to the metadata page associated with the document? Jim *Jim DelRosso, MPA, MSLIS Digital Projects Coordinator* *Hospitality, Labor, and Management Library* Catherwood Library ILR School Cornell University 239D Ives Hall Ithaca, NY 14853 p 607.255.8688 f 607.255.9641 e jd...@cornell.edu www.ilr.cornell.edu *Advancing the World of Work* On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.comwrote: Hello Code4libbers, I had a question for for others who work with institutional repositories. I have a file given by the a professor that I have permission to post if I add a note to the PDF, but the file is password locked. Has anyone else run into this problem before? Can anyone give me some advice in how I can edit this to add the required note to the top of the PDF? Any advice is welcome. Matt Sherman
Re: [CODE4LIB] local APIs atop III's Sierra DB
i've done some very ugly, preliminary hacking at getting MARC records out: https://gist.github.com/roblivian/7012077 generally works, but still need to account for more invalid MARC tags, on-the-fly records (non-MARC records, i.e. reserve items, ordered bibs, etc) On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Thomale, Jason jason.thom...@unt.eduwrote: Everyone: You guys are fantastic. Thanks to those who have responded thus far for being so willing to share. I will be contacting y'all off-list, if you don't mind. :-) Just wanted to tag onto Dave's response here... I've written a decent amount of code against Sierra, but I don't know if any of it amounts to an API. ... * I've also started creating little web services with mod_perl for use in a web-application I'm working on. Examples: a script that spits back item information in JSON when given an item barcode, a script that spits back a JSON list of all attached items when given a bib record number. Again these are mostly special purpose, but I have a notion to find ways to generalize them. Yes this is basically where I am right now and where this is coming from. I've thrown together sort of a prototype app for helping us with some inventory stuff we're doing, which consists of a really quick-and-dirty web service that serves up JSON and a bootstrap/jQuery front-end. For what it is--which at this point isn't much more than a proof-of-concept--it works. But. In the coming year there are a lot of similar things we plan to do, and building out a RESTful API to serve up catalog data in particular ways seems like a logical step right now. Julia alluded to some things you don't want to do when you're querying the database, which is something I'm interested in talking about as well. If my experiences are anything like yours, Julia, I'm finding things just aren't indexed in ways that make it optimal for our use cases. Namely, querying on most variable field data is out of the question if you don't want multi-minute response times. It seems the only way to get this to work well will be to dump portions of the database out to an external document store / indexer. I'm primarily looking at serving up JSON at this point, so probably something like Solr or Elasticsearch. Learning from your experiences building a Sierra driver for VuFind would be quite helpful and interesting. Francis, I'll be interested to see whether you're thinking along similar lines or if you're going a totally different direction... Sadly, I'm a team of one here and I'm a bit shy about the state my code is currently in, so I haven't published it anywhere. ( Also the way I use git locally is probably wrong, not to mention there are probably passwords in old commits. ) No worries! I completely understand, and I share your shyness. Believe me, I'm the last person that should judge. Nonetheless, I'd definitely be interested in collaborating on anything that might benefit all Sierra users. Cool. I really appreciate it. I guess--at this point I'm still looking at solving local needs first, but making it easy enough to extend to new use cases. Or...at the very least doing something that will provide for a good learning experience. :-) I don't know, it's still ideas. Thanks, Jason
Re: [CODE4LIB] Examples of augmented reality?
a computer science prof (Bo Brinkman) who happens to be married to one of our librarians is working on ShelvAR, a shelf-reading app: http://shelvar.com/ there's some youtube videos too On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 4:11 PM, William Denton w...@pobox.com wrote: I'm writing a chapter about augmented reality and would like to include a couple more examples of it in use in libraries and archives. Are any of you using it for something exciting? I know about SCARLET at U Manchester [1] but would love to hear about other work. I'm especially interested in anyone that's made their own app or otherwise gone beyond just popping up POIs in Layar or Junaio or adding an image or video overlay to something in print. While I'm here about AR, the YouTube recording of Geoffrey Alan Rhodes's 2012 talk AR on AR: Occupying Virtual Space is worth a look as an interesting way of mixing and discussing the real and the virtual. And also, if you haven't seen the video showing of Meta's SpaceGlasses [3], it's freaky. Thanks, Bill [1] https://teamscarlet.wordpress.**com/https://teamscarlet.wordpress.com/ [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?**v=SyAkUJCgDUkhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyAkUJCgDUk [3] https://www.spaceglasses.com/ -- William Denton Toronto, Canada http://www.miskatonic.org/
Re: [CODE4LIB] 2012 preconference proposals wanted!
as the guy who suggested someone do this (and now, sadly, can't make it to seattle), thanks for doing this. beers on me in 2013, rc On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote: Excellent! Let me know how I can help. Cary On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 10:52 PM, Michael B. Klein mbkl...@gmail.com wrote: Anjanette brought this up on the conference mailing list, and asked for a new facilitator. I volunteered. I was going to throw together a little intro and some starting points, and then throw it open to the room to share information and ask questions. But I think your name was on the board first, Cary, so if you'd like to facilitate, I'm happy to play either role. Michael On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 5:00 PM, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote: I would really like some help. I was going to be the assistant, but while I use git every day, I am no expert. Thanks, Cary On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Ian Walls ian.wa...@bywatersolutions.com wrote: Due to a recent change in employment, I'm not going to be able to make it to Code4Lib this year (much to my disappointment). That means I won't be able to facilitate the Git -r Done preconference session. It looks like there are enough other interested Git users attending, though, to make a pretty good show of it. I look forward to attending in 2013, once I've established myself at my new institution. Cheers, -Ian On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Carl Wiedemann carl.wiedem...@gmail.comwrote: I've been using Git extensively for a library's Drupal sites and may have some relevant items to share about deployment strategy and managing branches across dev/test/prod environments. Would be very interested to hear how others have approached these issues, especially on different platforms. Carl Wiedemann Website design and development consulting carl.wiedem...@gmail.com | skype: c4rlww On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 11:04 AM, Ian Walls ian.wa...@bywatersolutions.comwrote: Yup, for better or worse, I'll help shepherd this preconference along. Anyone interested in sharing their knowledge and experience is welcome to contact me directly, or put something up on the wiki when it returns. I'm personally quite interested in the different workflows groups have set up around Git; the way we do it for Koha may be completely different than, say, for Drupal or Summon. Cheers, -Ian On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Kevin S. Clarke kscla...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Andrew Nagy asn...@gmail.com wrote: Is anyone leading this session or is a free for all? Code4lib site is down - so I can't see whats on the wiki. I believe ian.wa...@bywatersolutions.com volunteered to lead it. Have your engineer contact him(?) Kevin -- Ian Walls Lead Development Specialist ByWater Solutions Phone # (888) 900-8944 http://bywatersolutions.com ian.wa...@bywatersolutions.com Twitter: @sekjal -- Cary Gordon The Cherry Hill Company http://chillco.com -- Cary Gordon The Cherry Hill Company http://chillco.com
Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Community google custom search
jrochkind++ # very cool, and wickr++ # for the assist. beyond my personal use, this will be my first suggestion for a lot of my colleagues' questions/etc. cheers. On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: (PS: Thanks a lot to ryan wick for spending time helping to get a reasonable ruby environment installed on the code4lib.org server, so I could then get my scripting done quickly and pleasantly.) On 10/6/2011 9:35 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: So I was in #code4lib, and skome asked about ideas for library hours. And I recalled that there have been at least two articles in the C4L Journal on this topic, so suggested them. Then I realized that there's enough body of work in the Journal to be worth searching there whenever you have an ideas for dealing with X question. You might not find anything, but I think there's enough chance you will, illustrated by that encounter with skome. Then I realized it's not just the journal -- what about a Google Custom Search that searches over the Journal, the Code4Lib wiki, the Code4Lib website, and perhaps most interestinly -- all the sites listed in Planet Code4Lib. Then I made it happen. Cause it seemed interesting and I'm a perfectionist, I even set things up so a cronjob automatically syncs the list of sites in the Planet with the Google custom search every night. The Planet stuff ends up potentially being a lot of noise -- I tried to custom 'boost' stuff from the Journal, but I'm not sure it worked. But I did configure things with facet-like limits including a just the planet limit, if you do want that. But even though it's sometimes a lot of noise, it's also potentially the most interesting/useful part of the search, otherwise it'd pretty much just be a Journal search, but now it includes a bunch of people's blogs, as well as other sites deemed of interest to Code4Lib community (including a couple other open source library tech journals) -- without any extra curatorial work, just using the list already compiled for the Planet. I'm curious what people think of it. Try some searches for library tech questions or information and see how good your results are. If people find this useful, I'll try to include it on the main code4lib.org webpage in some prominent place, spruce up the look and feel etc. (Or try to draft someone else to do that, I think my time to work on this might be _just_ about up after staying until 9.30 hacking on this cause it seemed cool). http://www.code4lib.org/custom_search/search_form.html
Re: [CODE4LIB] ny times best seller api
and nothing specific to this case, but i've taken to developing using
.ajax() instead of the .getJSON(), etc. .ajax underlies all the
others, but i've had better luck debugging/diagnosing with the
lower-level function.
On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Nate Hill nathanielh...@gmail.com wrote:
Anybody out there using the NY times best seller API to do stuff on their
library websites?
I can't figure out what's wrong with my code here.
Data is returned as null; I can't seem to parse the response with jQuery.
Any help would be supercool.
I removed the API key - my code doesn't actually contain ''.
Here's the jQuery:
jQuery(document).ready(function(){
$(function(){
//json request to new york times
$.getJSON('
http://api.nytimes.com/svc/books/v2/lists/hardcover-fiction.json?api-key=',
function(data) {
//loop through the results with the following
function
$.each(data.results.book_details, function(i,item){
//turn the title into a variable
var bookTitle = item.title;
$('#container').append('p'+bookTitle+'/p');
});
});
});
});
Here's a snippet of the JSON response:
{
status: OK,
copyright: Copyright (c) 2011 The New York Times Company. All Rights
Reserved.,
num_results: 35,
last_modified: 2011-09-23T12:00:29-04:00,
results: [{
list_name: Hardcover Fiction,
display_name: Hardcover Fiction,
updated: WEEKLY,
bestsellers_date: 2011-09-17,
published_date: 2011-10-02,
rank: 1,
rank_last_week: 0,
weeks_on_list: 1,
asterisk: 0,
dagger: 0,
isbns: [{
isbn10: 0399157786,
isbn13: 9780399157783
}],
book_details: [{
title: NEW YORK TO DALLAS,
description: An escaped child molester pursues Lt. Eve
Dallas; by Nora Roberts, writing pseudonymously.,
contributor: by J. D. Robb,
author: J D Robb,
contributor_note: ,
price: 27.95,
age_group: ,
publisher: Putnam,
primary_isbn13: 9780399157783,
primary_isbn10: 0399157786
}],
reviews: [{
book_review_link: ,
first_chapter_link: ,
sunday_review_link: ,
article_chapter_link:
}]
--
Nate Hill
nathanielh...@gmail.com
http://www.natehill.net
Re: [CODE4LIB] 2012 preconference proposals wanted!
youse_guys++ looking forward to it On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote: Afternoon is great. I am willing to help present. I am not excited about doing a git /subversion comparison, and would rather see the time filled with git specific info. There is certainly enough of it to keep us busy. I am not a raconteur, but a couple years ago, when the Drupal migration from CVS was in its nascent stage, I was walking Dries Buytaert back to his hotel... on Rue Git in Paris. He asked if I though that was portentous. I said it was bzr. Thanks, Cary On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Ian Walls ian.wa...@bywatersolutions.com wrote: Cool, I'll add this to the wiki, then. Anyone prefer morning v. afternoon? Afternoon is currently empty, so I figure it'd make sense to default there for now. Unless folks want to talk about Git for the whole day Giving the session a cute name... git lends itself well to such. I'm in no way wedded to the name; I may have had too much/little caffeine this morning. -Ian On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 10:38 AM, Kevin S. Clarke kscla...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Ian Walls ian.wa...@bywatersolutions.com wrote: If we still need someone to take the lead on this, I would volunteer. I don't believe anyone else has volunteered to lead so if you want to do it, run with it! I'd be glad to do a quick bit on how easy it is to use gitolite for private git repositories, if there is time for it (with all the other good git topics that have been suggested). Thanks, Kevin -- Ian Walls Lead Development Specialist ByWater Solutions Phone # (888) 900-8944 http://bywatersolutions.com ian.wa...@bywatersolutions.com Twitter: @sekjal -- Cary Gordon The Cherry Hill Company http://chillco.com
Re: [CODE4LIB] 2012 preconference proposals wanted!
some of us in IRC were kicking around the idea of a git preconf. i'm just getting started, and totally unqualified to lead something like that, but could help out a bit...anyone feel like they could wrangle that? we've got a couple folks that could talk about specifics (gitolite, etc) On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 9:13 PM, John Fink john.f...@gmail.com wrote: Hey Code4lib folks! Code4Lib 2012 is rapidly approaching and it's time to gather up some proposals for the Code4Lib 2012 preconference sessions! We're accepting preconference proposals for both full day and half day morning/evening sessions. If you've got an idea, put it on the wiki! It's at http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/2012_preconference_proposals. The proposal deadline is Friday, November 18th. We can accommodate preconference sessions of varying sizes; there's a main room that can fit 275 people and five breakout rooms that can fit between 30-35 people. For examples of last years preconference proposals, take a look at the wiki here -- http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/2010_Preconference_Proposals. Once we've collected enough proposals, we'll put them up, and if we've collected too many of them, we'll vote on which ones are the best, probably after November 18th. Thanks for submitting and let us know if you've got any questions! jf
Re: [CODE4LIB] Web platform for digitized books
lots of folks use XTF (http://xtf.cdlib.org/) for ebook collections cheers, rob On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Yitzchak Schaffer yitzchak.schaf...@gmx.com wrote: Hello all, Can anyone suggest projects or general approaches for providing access to digitized books on the web? We're not interested in CONTENTdm, Greenstone has worked for us in the past but will not work for our ongoing projects. I don't have real experience with DSpace and such repository products, but they seemed ill-suited for this purpose when I've examined them in the past. Omeka (at last evaluation) is not compatible with hierarchic objects (like books). I am rather amazed that I have not been able to find any FOSS dedicated to this. I am currently favoring the idea of creating a web app using a decent framework (symfony2) designed for this purpose (web presentation of hierarchic text-based entities). Many thanks, -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 212.742.8770 ext. 2432 http://www.tourolib.org/
Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2012 Seattle Update
i've got admin rights on the code4lib drupal, so i went ahead and set the alias: http://code4lib.org/code4lib_2012_sponsorship cary: i'll look into getting you the correct privileges. you're highermath, correct? cheers, rob On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote: In a modern version of Drupal, you can set a path alias for any page. Unfortunately, C4L does not appear to be in a modern version of Drupal. It looks like 4.7 or earlier. I would be happy to volunteer to help manage it. Cary On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Anjanette Young youn...@u.washington.edu wrote: Hey Susan, Sweet! Language. Information. Social niceties. Here is the link to the 2012 sponsor page. http://code4lib.org/node/417 (Anyone know how to make that a nicer url on drupal?) There seems to be discussion on expanding options for sponsorship, but the options on the page are standard. Thank you for the words. Hope that it turns out that you able to travel to Seattle for the conference. --Anj On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Susan Kane adarconsult...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Anj, Nice to see your name again after meeting briefly at UW when you were coming and I was leaving for Boston! I doubt I'll be able to attend the conference this year but I've put the word out to the group of Ex Libris and Endeavor alumni that I manage on LinkedIn. Many people now work for other library technology companies. Will let you know if anything useful comes back. Here's a copy of my promotional message, in case others on the list want to try their own networks. It might help our cause if someone could add a link about sponsorships to the conference section of the website. --- promotional blurb --- c4l -- code4lib is a unique conference that attracts a small but influential group of library technologists each year. Next year's conference is Feb 6-9, 2012 in Seattle, WA. They are still seeking vendor sponsorships -- great visibility with influential folks for a fraction of the cost of ALA! If you can help, please contact me privately through your preferred contact method here. http://code4lib.org/conference http://www.linkedin.com/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcode4lib%2Eorg%2Fconferenceurlhash=-Iyx_t=tracking_anet -- promotional blurb --- Susan Kane Harvard University OIS -- Anjanette Young | Systems Librarian University of Washington Libraries Box 352900 | Seattle, WA 98195 Phone: 206.616.2867 -- Cary Gordon The Cherry Hill Company http://chillco.com
Re: [CODE4LIB] A suggested role for text mining in library catalogs?
And I probably should have added to your thread on NGC4LIB, rather than Code4lib - I tend to conflate them. i'm offended ;)
Re: [CODE4LIB] exporting marc records from iii
all good suggestions so far.some colleagues have been poking around davidWalker's excellent shrew project (with code.google.com timing out for me on some projects right now. strange): http://code.google.com/p/shrew/ overview of options is also found at III's customer documentation site, which will require a login/password: http://csdirect.iii.com/documentation/outputdata.shtml essentially Create LISTs and Output MARC records using FTS i like to pretend i don't work at a III-institution, but if you found me in IRC or something, i might accidentally paste something in a window cheers, rc On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Kyle Banerjee baner...@uoregon.edu wrote: On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Walker, David dwal...@calstate.edu wrote: Hey Eric, Is this an Innovative system you have access to (at Notre Dame)? And do you need to do this one time only, or does it need to be automated and ongoing? If it's a system you have access to, and you only need it once, then you might just have one of the staff there use the Millennium client to get these records. Innovative provides modules (Create Lists and Data Exchange) to search for and export MARC records. There is, of course, documentation for that. There is also a function in the character based system that allows you to export MARC records. This can easily be automated with expect. If it is ongoing and you only need individual records, you can also ask target systems to enable XRECORD for bib records in their system. This will enable you to pull up records in XML that contain all the fields in their full glory. I strongly recommend against this option as it is one of the most insane schemas I've ever seen, it doesn't deal with certain characters properly, and you can only harvest by control number. There is also a syntax that you can use to pull individual records from the staff view in the public OPAC that gives you a textual representation of the MARC record. This can be parsed and converted to a real MARC record. If you need all records in the system, the expect route through the character based system is the best. The other methods can be used in a pinch. I recommend against Data Exchange not because it doesn't work (though the last time I checked it didn't work well with large sets), but because you can't automate it and it forces you to work though a java gui client. kyle -- -- Kyle Banerjee Digital Services Program Manager Orbis Cascade Alliance baner...@uoregon.edu / 503.877.9773
[CODE4LIB] experiences with Liferay/Unicon and/or CampusEAI
our university is currently evaluating products/vendors for our campus portal, and i'd be interested in hearing anyone's opinions/experiences with Liferay/Unicon and/or CampusEAI. campusEAI seems to be a fork of Liferay 5.x (fork might be generousprobably just a repackaging), with Liferay moving away from their previous MIT licensing to the LGPL for 6.x thanks for any info you might have, and please feel free to reply off-list if you don't feel comfortable replying publicly, rob
Re: [CODE4LIB] [code4lib-midwest] code4lib midwest [agenda and challenge]
Solr will surely get mentioned/used during the meeting, so it might be worth your time to attend Erik Hatcher's webinar on Thursday, Rapid Prototyping Search Applications with Solr: http://www.lucidimagination.com/solutions/events should be a great crash course for the unfamiliar. cheers, rc On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: We are now up to sixteen registrants (Woot!)... Here is our tentative Friday agenda for the Midwest Meeting: * 10 o'clock - Meet greet * 10:30 - Show Tell / Lighting Talks * Noon - Lunch at the Dining Hall * 1 o'clock - Tour of campus * 2:30 - Code4Lib Challenge * 3:30 - Hack Session * 6 o'clock - Social Event But I wanted to especially highlight the Code4Lib Challenge. In one of preplanning conference calls a number of months ago, the idea of a challenge was proposed, and here is what we hope to do: 1. from the lightning talks, pick one or two really really cool things 2. present the selected ideas to library employees 3. ask the employees to challenge the Meeting attendees to solve a particular computing problem 4. hope someone from the Meeting picks up the banner and hacks a solution 5. present the solution back to employees at a later time Or something like that. Wish us luck, and we'll let y'all know how it goes. -- Eric Lease Morgan University of Notre Dame (574) 631-8604
Re: [CODE4LIB] 12 Bones BBQ excursion
i've also heard good things about this place: http://rosettaskitchen.com/ some of us non-veg*ns were even thinking of getting a meal there at some point...no idea about capacity, etc, just a heads-up. looking forward to asheville, rob On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 5:33 PM, Jodi Schneider jschnei...@pobox.com wrote: Much as I love corn bread and Kale, Wednesday (aka BBQ night [1]) may be a good night to take in a good vegetarian restaurant: http://www.asheville.com/restaurants/veggie.html -Jodi [1] http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/C4L2010_social_activities#12_Bones_BBQ_Dinner_Excursion Full up, but there's a waitlist. On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Rosalyn Metz rosalynm...@gmail.com wrote: Only 4 spots left. Get them while you can.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Support for attending Code4Lib2010
this++ # not pledging money, just props to y'all for doing this
Re: [CODE4LIB] solr - search query count | highlighting
i think some of the new TermVectorComponent stuff might be applicable...i've not experimented with it yet tho, so YMMV. http://wiki.apache.org/solr/TermVectorComponent it's only part of 1.4, which is due for a release any day now, once they patch up a Lucene bug On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Eric James cirese...@hotmail.com wrote: Thanks for your response. But, yes I'm able to use facets in general, and yes I'm able to do highlighting on stored fields. But finding how many times the query appears in the full text is my question. For example say you search on Heisenberg We'd like to see: Hit 1: Your search for Heisenberg appears 10 times within the Finding Aid Hit 2: Your search for Heisenberg appears 3 times within the Finding Aid Hit 3: Your search for Heisenberg appears 88 times within the Finding Aid etc Could there be a solr parameter that calculates this? Otherwise a klugey, not very scalable method could be that once you retrieve a solr result xml, find the fedora pid, retrieve the EAD full text, run a standard function to count how many times the query appears in the text for each hit, and add parameters back into the xml with these counts. Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:27:42 -0400 From: ewg4x...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] solr - search query count | highlighting To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Hi Eric, You do not have to store the entire text content of the EAD guide in order to enable facets. Here's an example: http://kittredgecollection.org/results?q=*:* . There are about 15 facets enabled on a collection of almost 1500 EAD documents (though quite small in filesize compared to traditional EAD finding aids), and there's no slowdown whatsoever. I don't believe you need to store the guides to enable highlighting either, though I have heard there is some dropoff in performance with highlighting enabled. I've never done benchmarking on highlighting enabled versus disabled, so I can't tell you how much of a dropoff there is. In an index of only several hundred documents, I would think that the dropoff with highlighting enabled would be fairly negligible. Ethan On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Eric James cirese...@hotmail.com wrote: For our finding aids, we are using fedoragenericsearch 2.2 with solr as index. Because the EADs can be huge, the EADs are indexed but not stored (with stored EADs, search time for ~500 objects = 20 min rather than 1 sec). However, we would like to have number of search terms found within each hit. For example, CDL's collection: http://www.oac.cdlib.org/search?query=Donner Also we would like highlighting/snippets of the search term similar to CDL's. Is it a lost cause to have this functionality without storing the EAD? Is there a way to store the EAD and have a reasonable response time? --- Eric James Yale University Libraries
Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Logo?
think it's a swell ideasolr is looking at a new logo, and this site came up on-list: http://99designs.com/ not endorsing, or painting a bikeshedjust a heads-up. rc
Re: [CODE4LIB] BarCampOhio and LibraryCampOhio, August 11, 2008
http://barcamp.org/BarCampOhio looking forward to this, and thanks to peter and bob (and whomever else) for actually making this happen. On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 3:58 PM, Joe Atzberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds good! On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Peter Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All of the details, include stuff not covered below, are on the event homepage. Did I miss the URL, or are you holding out on us? : ) --joe
Re: [CODE4LIB] Life after Expect
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Re: [CODE4LIB] Z39.50 for III Database?
Actually, it comes with the OPAC as far as I know. We don't have the XML server. yeah, it comes with the stock innopac; the returned xml is the same as that from the (defunct) xml server, and there are xslts that can convert it to marcxml, mods, dc, etc. it may not have all the info that godmar wants thomy first thought was to suggest the xrecord stuff too :) rc - adam On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 02:51:04PM -0700, Bin Zhang wrote: -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Adam Brin Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 2:29 PM To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Z39.50 for III Database? BTW, one other solution comes to mind, III supports an XML format request from the OPAC (it has to be configured in the wwwoptions to enable, but you *should* be able to request bib's/items via: catalog_url/xrecord=b100200 catalog_url/xrecord=i102345 eg. http://tripod.brynmawr.edu/xrecord=b1005614 I believe it's III's xml (as opposed to marcXML, but it might be preferable (and easier). It's essentially a poor man's rest interface. - adam [BZ] You don't have it unless you have purchased the XML server product, right? Bin On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 06:32:02PM -0400, Godmar Back wrote: If I may follow up on an earlier discussion [ relevant parts are included below ] regarding how to extract holdings information from III or other catalogs. I have one thing to offer and 1 thing to request. I'll start with the offering: MAJAX. MAJAX is a JavaScript library that screenscrapes III catalogs and can include the results so obtained into any document served from the same domain. URL of the current code is http://libx.org/majax/majax.html ; a demo is at http://libx.org/majax/majaxtest4.html ) After an initial, somewhat clumsy approach, we've now adopted an approach that's similar to COinS. For instance, to include holdings information for a book into a website, all you have to do is include a span class=majax-showholdings title=iX/span in your HTML, and include MAJAX via a single script element, which will result in that SPAN being replaced with the holdings of the book with ISBN XXX. Also support bibrecord number and title. It's so easy a cave librarian could do it. It can be done directly from the WebBridge management panel for those of you have are damned to use WebBridge. Of course, the underlying JavaScript API is still available for more advanced users. MAJAX has been released under the LGPL. Now for the thing to request. Are there any reusable, open source scripts out there that implements a REST interface that screenscrapes or otherwise efficiently accesses a III catalog? David and James have provided links, but no code. I would be grateful for anything I could reuse and don't have to reimplement. Here's what I envision: Interface: REST Input: search terms/type - maybe OpenURL v0.1-syntax, or another adopted standard, or something custom, but ideally simple. Output: XML - maybe Marc XML with 852 (or whatever the number is) holdings records - similar to what David's screen scrape test provides. Ideally XML that comes with a schema and validates against it. Maybe JSON like James's scripts (?) Implementation: Something that a cave librarian could deploy - good candidates are PhP and possibly Perl-based cgi, but one could conceive of others. Nothing that requires elaborate server setups or installing custom frameworks. Thank you for any pointers/suggestions you may have. - Godmar On 3/4/07, Birkin James Diana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mar 1, 2007, at 5:23 PM, Walker, David wrote: http://walkertr.csusm.edu/scrape/test.htm Very cool; works on our III catalog! Nathan Mealy -- I also used the screenscrape method to get info we needed for a couple of ISBN-based projects, not knowing at the time about the yaz-z39.50-OPAC option. By implementing this in the form of a web-service, I can switch the work-horse code without affecting other apps, and minimize session concerns. http://dl.lib.brown.edu/soa_services/josiah_status/examples.php http://dl.lib.brown.edu/soa_services/josiah_status/tests/ InfoHolderTest.php (The returned json info is more comprehensible via view-source.) --- Birkin James Diana Programmer, Web Services Brown University Library [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [CODE4LIB] Videos
i've incremented everyone's karma in-channel, but just want to do the same here; it was my big-mouth that (re)started the video capturing, since i didnt' attend, and i really just want to thank everyone for their work on this...code4lib++; it's really appreciated, and i sing your praises all the timei'm excited for the videos, and i'm forwarding them on to colleagues, as i already know how informative/inspiring they'll bethanks again, rc of course, roy says it much better, but that's why he's roy :) I just want to reflect on the fact that how the videotaping and the aftermath of the videotaping is the essence of code4lib. From beginning to end (not there yet, but soon), it has been a volunteer effort by an ad hoc group of willing individuals. People came forward to do it, and are still working to complete it. At minimum, Karen Schneider, Noel Peden, and Ryan Eby have been involved with taping, editing, and mounting on the web all of the talks from the conference. Others have also done bits here and there. It has been wonderful to watch and amazing in its nature and effectiveness. I think one of our greatest challenges as a group is how to enable such ad hoc involvement while not letting things fall through the cracks with too little planning and forethought. I guess a part of it is making sure everyone knows that there is no such thing as an in group that controls everything. We are all code4lib. Just step forward and contribute. We'll love you for it. Roy On 3/9/07 4:55 PM, Ryan Eby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I should have mentioned that I'm tagging them as I go: http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=label%3A%22code4lib2007%22 eby On 3/9/07, Ryan Eby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Once the videos are uploaded to code4lib I'll add links if someone else doesn't. For those that were finished so far I've uploaded them to google so they can be embedded. Example: http://code4lib.org/2007/nagy Once everything is up I'll create some video podcasts. Let me know if anyone has a problem with the embedding. Eby On 3/9/07, Noel Peden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good idea. I'll see about cutting/pasting from the schedule. Jeremy Dunck wrote: On 3/9/07, Noel Peden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With several issues being 'solved', I'm finally starting to generate the final videos. If possible, could you give a synopsis of the video topic? The file name is one thing, but I don't know what Karen's keynote was about, and I bet you'd save bandwidth if I didn't download them all to find out. :)
