Re: [CODE4LIB] Hours on Library Websites?

[Tom Keays]

We use LibCal's hours module to create calendars for our locations (just
the one actually, but we use a sub-location to track when patrons need to
swipe their card for evening entry). LibCal hours has a module that can be
embedded to display a rolling monthly calendar.

http://resources.library.lemoyne.edu/about/hours

Because there isn't a similar module to display a weekly calendar, I had to
roll my own using the JSONP output from the LibCal API. Here's a version of
the code I wrote.

http://codepen.io/tomkeays/pen/MYewYN?editors=001



On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 10:33 AM, Matt Sherman 
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> We are working on a website migration/redesign into WordPress and I am
> trying to figure out an automated solution for posting and keeping up
> to date the hours on the home page.  I am wondering, how do other
> institutions manage this?  Are there any good tools I should be
> looking into?  Any insights or suggestions are appreciated.
>
> Matt Sherman
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Help me build a QA dataset for a Wayback search engine

[Tom Keays]

I am almost always looking for a known website to find some lost piece of
information, so I'll be interested in how a topic search interface would
actually work.

Of no utility to your question, but fun: the wayback_exe project, where a
bot runs against the Wayback Machine API and makes a screen grab of a
vintage website which it then frames inside the context of a vintage
browser. It's really quite a fascinating look back in time. The bot posts
results to Twitter every couple of hours. I'm unclear how the target pages
are seeded.

https://twitter.com/wayback_exe

On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 4:59 PM, Greg Lindahl  wrote:

> I'm working on a search engine for the Internet Archive's Wayback
> Machine web archive, and we're at the stage where we could use a
> diverse set of web search queries for quality assessment. If you have
> a few spare minutes, please fill out the form at:
>
> http://goo.gl/forms/HThG6R9Pp0
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> -- greg
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Interim data storage for researchers

[Tom Keays]

Nature magazine recommends figshare or the Dryad Digital Repository. They
also list others by subject.

http://www.figshare.com/
http://www.datadryad.org/
http://www.nature.com/sdata/data-policies/repositories

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 8:25 AM, K. Godfrey 
wrote:

> Hi all
>
> We've been approached by a researcher who would like our assistance in
> storing data (various file types) on an on-going project (not at a data
> preservation stage yet). The researcher wants to be able to access, add and
> change this data from their project site and allow her fellow research
> partners (not necessarily at our institution) access as well. Are any other
> folks offering this kind of service? Have you partnered with campus IT to
> make this happen? Are you using particular software, such as DataVerse or
> Pydio to facilitate such a service? Thanks!
>
> Krista
>
> K r i s t a G o d f r e y
>
> 
>
>
> Interim Head, Library Information Technology Services/
> Web Services Librarian
> Library IT Services
> Queen Elizabeth II Library
> Memorial University of Newfoundland
> St. John's, NL
> A1B 3Y1
> t:709-864-3753
>
>
> 
>
> "He's like Super Librarian, y'know?
> Everyone forgets, Willow, that knowledge is the ultimate weapon."
> -  Buffy the Vampire Slayer
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Combining RSS feeds

[Tom Keays]

I guess I'd approach it by tweaking your RSS feeds such that the PubDate is
the date the event occurs rather than the default of the date the entry was
entered into the system. Otherwise, you have to add some sort of
non-standard tag (in the description maybe?) and build a system that sorts
on that.

I would have suggested Yahoo Pipes to do the merging and sorting... I'm
disappointed to hear of its pending demise; it was a powerful tool. Thanks
Conal for the link to the alternative services.

Once upon a time, I created a Pipe that merged a bunch of RSS feeds from
Scopus listing new publications written by a set of faculty members (one
Scopus feed per individual) to create a combined new publication list for
their department. Pipes also made it possible to proxy the URLs in the feed
and allowed the creation of email alerts (where the proxied URLs were
crucial for off-campus access).



On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 4:53 PM, Kyle Breneman 
wrote:

> I am looking for a solution to combine 2 RSS feeds into a single feed.  One
> is the feed for our library blog and another is the feed for our library's
> events calendar.  My concern is that posts from the two feeds are
> appropriately interspersed.  An example of what I mean: it would be
> counterproductive for an August event, posted today, to have more
> prominence than a previously posted event occurring tomorrow.
>
> Is this possible to accomplish?  I've found scads of online sites that
> offer to combine feeds, but they don't seem to ensure against this
> problem.
>
> Kyle
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] looking for free hosting for html code

[Tom Keays]

GitHub Pages is one way. You can even use CNAME to wrap them within another
domain.

https://pages.github.com/
https://help.github.com/articles/tips-for-configuring-a-cname-record-with-your-dns-provider/

On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 8:40 AM, Sarles Patricia (18K500) <
psar...@schools.nyc.gov> wrote:

> Thank you to everyone for pointing me to free HTML editors.
>
> I've been using this one successfully:
>
> http://editra.org/download
>
> on my Mac at work running OS 10.5.8.
>
> I plan to teach coding to my 6th and 12th grade students next school year
> and our lab has a mixture of old (2008) and new Macs (2015) so I want to
> make all the Macs functional for writing code in an editor.
>
> My next question is this:
>
> I am familiar with free Web creation and hosting sites like Weebly, Wix,
> Google sites, Wikispaces, WordPress, and Blogger, but do you know of any
> free hosting sites that will allow you to plug in your own code. i.e. host
> your own html files?
>
> I had my students create wikis and blogs this year as a place for them to
> put their projects and writing.
>
> I linked to all my students' work from my own blog:
>
> http://pascrs2014.blogspot.com
>
> and you will see if you click on one of them, for example this one:
>
> http://ajb96crs.wikispaces.com/New+TChart
>
> from my blog, I can link to all of my students' work.
>
> For next year, I want my students to create original sites for their
> original content that I can link to from a single location, e.g. a blog I
> create.
>
> If all students are creating files with code with no place to host their
> files, then I wouldn't be able to do this.
>
> So I am looking for a site that will host html files for free.
>
> I hope this is clear.
>
> Many thanks for your input!
>
> Patricia
>
>
> 
> Patricia Sarles, MA (Anthropology), MLS
> Librarian
> Jerome Parker Campus Library
> 100 Essex Drive
> Staten Island, NY 10314
> 718-370-6900 x1322
> psar...@schools.nyc.gov
> http://jeromeparkercampus.libguides.com/home
>
> You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether
> a man is wise by his questions. - Naguib Mahfouz
>
> As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the
> best information. - Benjamin Disraeli
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Library Hours

[Tom Keays]

I'd like to find out how and why Google is parsing this information. If you
go to the the SFPL hours page (first link in the Google results), and look
at the source code, this is all you find.
http://sfpl.org/index.php?pg=010101
Is the ID in the DIV sufficient?  It would be nice to have a set of use
cases to work from.

Currently, I'm generating a weekly hours box by pulling JSONP from the
hours API of LibCal. I could easily output this in schema.org format (and
probably will now), but can Google pick up the information from the DOM if
it is delivered as JSON and transformed into HTML?


  Hours
  

  Sun
  Mon
  Tue
  Wed
  Thu
  Fri
  Sat


  12-5
  10-6
  9-8
  9-8
  9-8
  12-6
  10-6

  



On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 9:47 AM, Karen Coyle  wrote:

> Charlie, I don't know of any libraries that have used schema.org for
> their web site - perhaps others do. If it is used, it should be "picked up"
> the next time the search engines index the site. What the search engines do
> with schema.org is not guaranteed, but can be observed. It is not
> guaranteed because none of the search engines will say what they do, as
> that is considered a trade secret (especially from each other).
>
> However, as locations and hours are important for their commercial
> customers (stores, restaurants, etc.) I would expect that to be picked up
> as a matter of course. Note that already locations and hours for some
> businesses do show in the search engines, and that is for sites that are
> not yet using schema.org, so the engines have some way of picking that up
> from the HTML. The Google side-bar "knowledge graph" for my local libraries
> shows " Hours <
> https://www.google.com/search?sa=X&biw=1299&bih=561&q=san+francisco+public+library+larkin+street+hours&stick=H4sIAGOovnz8BQMDgzYHnxCXfq6-gVlZhbF5sZZ0drKVfk5-cmJJZn4enGGVkV9aVBzLKeznIsHxlTMy2S10V0iJwvZlMgBPWBDOSA&ei=qhlKVcKWJ8b7oQS65oCQCA&ved=0CJgBEOgTMBA>:
>
> Open today · 9:00 am – 8:00 pm 
> " but I have no idea where that comes from.
>
> kc
>
>
> On 5/6/15 5:22 AM, Charlie Morris wrote:
>
>> I'm curious, Karen, Ethan or anyone else, do you know of any examples of
>> libraries that have implemented schema.org or RDFa for hours data and
>> have
>> noticed that Google or some other search engine has picked it up (i.e.,
>> correctly displaying that data as part of the search results)?  And if so,
>> how quickly will Google or the like pickup on changes to hours (i.e.,
>> shifting between semesters or unplanned changes)?
>>
>> On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 8:15 AM, Ethan Gruber  wrote:
>>
>>  +1 on the RDFa and schema.org. For those that don't know the library URL
>>> off-hand, it is much easier to find a library website by Googling than it
>>> is to go through the central university portal, and the hours will show
>>> up
>>> at the top of the page after having been harvested by search engines.
>>>
>>> On Tue, May 5, 2015 at 6:54 PM, Karen Coyle  wrote:
>>>
>>>  Note that library hours is one of the possible bits of information that
 could be encoded as RDFa in the library web site, thus making it
 possible
 to derive library hours directly from the listing of hours on the web

>>> site
>>>
 rather than keeping a separate list. Schema.org does have the elements

>>> such
>>>
 that hours can be encoded. This would mean that hours could show in the
 display of the library's catalog entry on Google, Yahoo and Bing. Being
 available directly through the search engines might be sufficient, not
 necessitating creating yet-another-database for that data.

 Schema.org uses a restaurant as its opening hours example, but much of

>>> the
>>>
 data would be the same for a library:

 http://schema.org/"; typeof="Restaurant">
GreatFood

  4 stars -
  based on 250 reviews


  1901 Lemur Ave
  Sunnyvale,
  CA >>> property="postalCode">94086

(408) 714-1489
http://www.dishdash.com";>www.greatfood.com
 
Hours:
Mon-Sat
 11am

>>> -
>>>
 2:30pm
Mon-Thu
 5pm -
 9:30pm
Fri-Sat
 5pm -
 10:00pm
Categories:

  Middle Eastern
,

  Mediterranean

Price Range: $$
Takes Reservations: Yes
 

 It seems to me that using schema.org would get more bang for the buck
 --
 it would get into the search engines and could also be aggregated into
 whatever database is needed. As we've seen with OCLC, having a separate
 listing is likely to mean that the data will be out of date.

 kc

 On 5/5/15 2:19 PM, nitin arora wrote:

  I can't see they distinguished between public libraries and other types
>
 on
>>>
 their campaign page.
>
> They say " all libraries" as far as I can see.
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Library Hours Fail

[Tom Keays]

Here's a status update on how I am using the LibCal Hours API to display
hours on my library's homepage.  For MPOW, the API gave me a URL for JSON
as:

https://api3.libcal.com/api_hours_grid.php?iid=567&format=json&weeks=1

The problem I had was that the LibCal v2 documentation didn't say how to
obtain JSONP rather than JSON in order to avoid the CORS problem. I
resigned myself to writing my own custom PHP script to turn the LibCal JSON
into JSONP, but Emily King pointed me in the right direction and a
programmer at SpringShare advised me that all I had to do was to add the
string "&callback=?" at the end of the URL to generate JSONP directly.
E.G.,

https://api3.libcal.com/api_hours_grid.php?iid=567&format=json&weeks=1&callback=
?

After playing around with several other APIs to gain experience working
with JSON, I have come to realize this is a common practice (adding the
callback attribute) and that it is often undocumented. I guess you are just
supposed to know.

Here's a codepen displaying the current week's hours. If the "currently_open"
attribute for a given day is set to "true" -- i.e., is it today and are we
currently open -- a CSS class is added to highlight that day in the list.

http://codepen.io/tomkeays/pen/MYewYN?editors=001

Our situation is that we have extended hours from 9 pm - 2 am from Sunday -
Thursday, when patrons have to use their ID cards as keycards to swipe and
gain entrance to the building. LibCal let me set this up quite easily. In
the pen, if you change the offset from 0 to 1 (from current week to next
week), you can see what that looks like.

Tom



On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Tom Keays  wrote:

> I've been playing with the hours options in LibCal. I especially like
> being able to pull out today's hours so easily. LibCal gives you options to
> do this using HTML (iframe), JavaScript, JSON, or RSS.
>
> HTML and JavaScript both format the output in a table, which is probably
> desirable if you have multiple locations, but maybe less good if you have
> one location only. That made me want to look into rolling my own solution
> using the JSON option.
>
> The problem is that to avoid XSS vulnerabilities, you can't use plain
> JSON, but must instead use JSONP, which is NOT an option being offered by
> LibCal (if anybody knows otherwise, I'd appreciate the information).
>
> So, my solution was to write a meatball PHP script that wraps the JSON in
> a JSONP callback. I wish I didn't have to do the extra server hop, but it
> works. Here's my demo.
>
> http://codepen.io/tomkeays/pen/EaKrgg/?editors=101
>
> Now, I wish there was a JSON option to display a week's worth of hours for
> a given location instead of just the one day's worth.
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Heidi Steiner Burkhardt <
> hmstei...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Mary,
>>
>> You mentioned LibCal and I do not think anyone else has addressed this
>> yet...you can use the Hours module for one location with the free version
>> <http://www.springshare.com/free.html>. The one location piece is the
>> only
>> limitation...so it should work for you if you just need it for one
>> library's hours. It is what we use on our website
>> <http://academics.norwich.edu/library/about/hours/>. You can set the
>> hours
>> for the whole year (using templates and exceptions) and then do not have
>> to
>> worry about it. There are a few different widget/API options
>> <http://help.springshare.com/usinghourslc/widgetapi>.
>>
>> All best,
>> Heidi
>>
>> --
>> Heidi Steiner Burkhardt
>> Head of Digital Services
>> Kreitzberg Library, Norwich University
>> 158 Harmon Dr. Northfield, Vermont
>> 802.485.2171
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Mary E. Hanlin 
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > I know this has been covered a bit here, but I have a rather exigent
>> > conundrum, and I'm hoping to figure out the best/easiest solution.
>> > Yesterday, the script to hour library hours (on our front page) which
>> pulls
>> > from Google calendar stopped working ("Error at line undefined in
>> > undefined[!]" - the exclamation point is mine; it seemed like it needed
>> > one.)
>> >
>> > Basically, the code came from a site that walked one through how to call
>> > daily hours (javascript) using Google's V2 API, but the V2 is fully
>> > deprecated (as I abruptly discovered), and I need to figure out another
>> > solution.  (I haven't been able to find similar documentatio

Re: [CODE4LIB] Library Hours Fail

[Tom Keays]

I've been playing with the hours options in LibCal. I especially like being
able to pull out today's hours so easily. LibCal gives you options to do
this using HTML (iframe), JavaScript, JSON, or RSS.

HTML and JavaScript both format the output in a table, which is probably
desirable if you have multiple locations, but maybe less good if you have
one location only. That made me want to look into rolling my own solution
using the JSON option.

The problem is that to avoid XSS vulnerabilities, you can't use plain JSON,
but must instead use JSONP, which is NOT an option being offered by LibCal
(if anybody knows otherwise, I'd appreciate the information).

So, my solution was to write a meatball PHP script that wraps the JSON in a
JSONP callback. I wish I didn't have to do the extra server hop, but it
works. Here's my demo.

http://codepen.io/tomkeays/pen/EaKrgg/?editors=101

Now, I wish there was a JSON option to display a week's worth of hours for
a given location instead of just the one day's worth.


On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 4:17 PM, Heidi Steiner Burkhardt <
hmstei...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Mary,
>
> You mentioned LibCal and I do not think anyone else has addressed this
> yet...you can use the Hours module for one location with the free version
> . The one location piece is the only
> limitation...so it should work for you if you just need it for one
> library's hours. It is what we use on our website
> . You can set the hours
> for the whole year (using templates and exceptions) and then do not have to
> worry about it. There are a few different widget/API options
> .
>
> All best,
> Heidi
>
> --
> Heidi Steiner Burkhardt
> Head of Digital Services
> Kreitzberg Library, Norwich University
> 158 Harmon Dr. Northfield, Vermont
> 802.485.2171
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 9:18 AM, Mary E. Hanlin 
> wrote:
>
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I know this has been covered a bit here, but I have a rather exigent
> > conundrum, and I'm hoping to figure out the best/easiest solution.
> > Yesterday, the script to hour library hours (on our front page) which
> pulls
> > from Google calendar stopped working ("Error at line undefined in
> > undefined[!]" - the exclamation point is mine; it seemed like it needed
> > one.)
> >
> > Basically, the code came from a site that walked one through how to call
> > daily hours (javascript) using Google's V2 API, but the V2 is fully
> > deprecated (as I abruptly discovered), and I need to figure out another
> > solution.  (I haven't been able to find similar documentation for V3's
> API.)
> >
> > Some constraints: 1. Our IT will not support php.We are an .NET shop
> > with IIS servers.  2. We may not have the dough to pay for something like
> > LibCal which seems to me the easiest solution.  3.  I'm semi-new to this
> > "Internets/webmaster" thing, and really only know front-end coding, so a
> > solution involving something like .NET, Python, etc. would have to have,
> > "How to make a peanut butter sandwich," kind of documentation.
> >
> > Right now, I've just manually coded our hours, which is fine until
> > Saturday when our hours change, and I'm not here (hopefully).  I will be
> > super grateful for insight or knowledge.
> >
> > Mary.
> >
> > Mary Hanlin
> > Electronic Resources and Web Librarian
> > J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College
> > Phone:804.523.5323
> > Email: mhan...@reynolds.edu
> >
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] looking for a good PHP table-manipulating class

[Tom Keays]

Ken: are you looking for pivot table functions?  I thought you were
describing something more akin to the Excel TRANSPOSE function.

If you are looking for a pivot table library, ADO is a good abstraction
library and has it built in.
http://phplens.com/adodb/pivot.tables.html

If you want to transpose a table, then look for 'php array transposing'. I
don't know of a specific library, but you can find examples in
stackoverflow, etc.



On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 7:28 PM, Cary Gordon  wrote:

> Of course, the easiest thing to do is search for “php pivot tables”. There
> are many libraries for this, although I don’t recall any that output “plain
> text”. There are some ultra-slick ones that you can buy if you want the
> output to look like something from Excel in 1998.
>
> Cary
>
>
> > On Dec 11, 2014, at 4:15 PM, Cary Gordon  wrote:
> >
> > Where do the data come from? An array?
> >
> > Cary
> >
> >> On Dec 11, 2014, at 1:32 PM, Ken Irwin  wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi folks,
> >>
> >> I'm hoping to find a PHP class that designed to display data in tables,
> preferably able to do two things:
> >> 1. Swap the x- and y-axis, so you could arbitrarily show the table with
> y=Puppies, x=Kittens or y=Kittens,x=Puppies
> >> 2. Display the table either using plain text columns or formatted html
> >>
> >> I feel confident that in a world of 7 billion people, someone must have
> wanted this before.
> >>
> >> Any ideas?
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> Ken
> >
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] what good books did you read in 2014?

[Tom Keays]

Thanks for all the good additions to my own reading list. Here are some of
mine.

Fiction Books - I tend to read urban fantasy and sci-fi, with other stuff
thrown in. I tend to graze tech books, so I won't record them.

The Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch - I'm currently reading book #4 in
the series and #5 just came out. I'm reading the UK editions, so I've been
looking up a lot of Britishisms.
Clariel by Garth Nix (book 4 in the Abhorsen series) - Nix is mostly a
young adult fantasy author, but this series is a cut above.
Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett (Discworld #40) - I re-read all of the
previous books in the series this year.
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce - I kept thinking
"what would Forrest Gump have done", but it was actually a pretty good
read.
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone - I
finished it in June, just as the fight with Hachette was brewing.

Graphic Novels/Comics - I've been reading more of them this year than I
have for a long time. Guilty pleasure? I guess so. Image Comics is a nice
alternative to Marvel and DC in that the authors retain copyright and
artistic control.

Alex + Ada - about the relationship between artificial intelligence and
humans in a world where androids exist and have the potential to become
sentient. Covers some of the same ground as the movie Her, but with the
luxury of diving deeper as the series goes on.
The Walking Dead - how have I never read these? I binged on borrowed copies
over the long Labor Day weekend and have been buying new issues since.
Still haven't seen the TV series.
Fables - I'm just getting started with this series (and its spin-offs), but
I agree with Paula that this is better than Once Upon A Time.
Velvet - a British spy thriller.


On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Sarah Walden  wrote:

> My library hold list has already doubled in size - thanks for all the
> great recommendations!
>
> I will second the plug for _The Martian_ by Andy Weir. Very gripping, and
> the science felt believable and realistic. John Scalzi's latest, _Lock In_,
> was also a blast to read, and raises some really thought-provoking
> questions about disability, race, and gender, all wrapped up in a
> near-future SF murder mystery.
>
> ---
> Sarah Walden
> Digital Projects Librarian
> Robert Frost Library
> Amherst College
> PO Box 2256
> Amherst, MA 01002-5000
> Tel: (413) 542-2960
> Fax: (413) 542-2662
> E-mail: swal...@amherst.edu
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Andromeda Yelton
> Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2014 9:47 AM
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: [CODE4LIB] what good books did you read in 2014?
>
> Hey, code4lib! I bet you consume fascinating media. What good books did
> you read in 2014 that you think your colleagues would like, too?  (And hey,
> we're all digital, so feel free to include movies and video games and so
> forth.)
>
> Mine:
> http://www.obeythetestinggoat.com/ (O'Reilly book, plus read free online)
> - a book on testing from a Django-centric, front end perspective. *Finally*
> I get how testing works. This book rewrote my brain.
>
> _The Warmth of Other Suns_ - finally got around to reading this magnum
> opus history of the Great Migration, am halfway through, it's amazing. If
> you're looking for some historical context on how we got to Ferguson,
> Isabel Wilkerson has you covered.
>
> _Her_ - Imma let you finish, Citzenfour and Big Hero 6 and LEGO movie and
> Guardians of the Galaxy - you were all good - but I walked out of the
> theater and literally couldn't speak after this one. Plus, funniest
> throwaway scene ever. Almost fell out of my chair.
>
> _Tim's Vermeer_ - wait, no, watch that one too. Weird tinkering genius who
> can't paint obsesses over recreating a Vermeer with startling,
> physics-driven results. Also, Penn Jillette.
>
> --
> Andromeda Yelton
> Board of Directors, Library & Information Technology Association:
> http://www.lita.org
> Advisor, Ada Initiative: http://adainitiative.org
> http://andromedayelton.com @ThatAndromeda <
> http://twitter.com/ThatAndromeda>
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib stickers

[Tom Keays]

I might place an order if you provided a mockup of what they would look
like.
Tom

On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Karen Coyle  wrote:

> and for those of us with mushy brains who can't remember if they responded
> previously? ... kc
>
>
> On 11/4/14 4:29 PM, Riley Childs wrote:
>
>> This is a reminder to fill out the code4lib stickers response form if you
>> are interested (yeah, I haven't given up yet...), I am waiting to order
>> until I have 50 people on the list (or enough where I can be sure I won't
>> be left with leftovers). The google form is here:
>> https://docs.google.com/a/tfsgeo.com/forms/d/1k-bQVSduKyOVMkXpJ_
>> xOwk9SDjjEoX7QnQ4JTyp2BqI/viewform
>> I am leaning towards a diecut sticker depending on further response.
>> Filling out this form is not a commitment to purchase. Stickers will be
>> printed by StickerMule and will be on demand following the initial batch.
>> Those who purchase from the first batch will receive a 30% or more
>> (depending on number of people who order) discount over the standard price.
>>
>> 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
>>
>
> --
> Karen Coyle
> kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net
> m: +1-510-435-8234
> skype: kcoylenet/+1-510-984-3600
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Stickers

[Tom Keays]

I was interested in the idea but I *still *need to see a mock-up of the
design before I commit to making a purchase.


On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 11:36 AM, Riley Childs  wrote:

> So far I have 14 people that have indicated interest in stickers, for this
> to be economically viable I need at least 50 people to indicate interest
> that would like to purchase from the initial run, this will be slightly
> cheaper than when they go for general sale on sticker mule. The google form
> is here:
>
> https://docs.google.com/a/tfsgeo.com/forms/d/1k-bQVSduKyOVMkXpJ_xOwk9SDjjEoX
> 7QnQ4JTyp2BqI/viewform.
>
>
>
> //Riley
>
>
>
> Riley Childs
>
> Senior
>
> Charlotte United Christian Academy
>
> IT Services Admin
>
> Library Services Admin
>
> web: rileychilds.net
>
> twitter: @RowdyChildren
>
> Checkout our new library catalog: catalog.cucawarriors.com
>
>
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] c4l Stickers

[Tom Keays]

I might be interested, but I need to see it first. Any chance you could
upload a sample image somewhere -- e.g., Google Drive -- so we could see
what you are proposing?

Tom


On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 9:08 AM, Riley Childs 
wrote:

> The code4lib logo
> The stickers range in size and shape, you can view designs here
> http://www.stickermule.com/t/categories/custom-stickers, initially
> 3.5"x7.5" bumper stickers and kiss-cut stickers. Spreadshirt doesn't offer
> stickers so I had to go stickermule
>
> Riley Childs
> Student
> Asst. Head of IT Services
> Charlotte United Christian Academy
> (704) 497-2086
> RileyChilds.net
> Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes
> 
> From: Jason Bengtson
> Sent: ‎7/‎8/‎2014 8:57 AM
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] c4l Stickers
>
> Hi Riley,
>
> Is the design the code 4 Lib logo, or is it something else? How big are the
> stickers? Thanks!
>
> Best regards,
> *Jason Bengtson, MLIS, MA*
>
> Head of Library Computing and Information Systems
> Assistant Professor, Graduate College
> Department of Health Sciences Library and Information Management
> University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center
> 405-271-2285, opt. 5
> 405-271-3297 (fax)
> jason-bengt...@ouhsc.edu
> http://library.ouhsc.edu
> www.jasonbengtson.com
>
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>
>
> On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 7:48 AM, Riley Childs 
> wrote:
>
> > If you are interested in code4lib stickers please contact me directly. I
> > am about to add the c4l stickers to stickermule, but can't because you
> need
> > to purchase $50 in stickers before the design goes live. Those who
> > prepurchase will get the stickers for $3 vs the usual $4.
> >
> > //Riley
> >
> > Thanks
> > Riley Childs
> > Student
> > Asst. Head of IT Services
> > Charlotte United Christian Academy
> > (704) 497-2086
> > RileyChilds.net
> > Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes
> >
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] software for a glossary

[Tom Keays]

The Web Ahead podcast had an episode that covered the current state of
web annotation. Something there might work.
http://5by5.tv/webahead/60

Crossing the thread over to linked author data, this item made me laugh.
http://w3cmemes.tumblr.com/post/76273506486/dave-started-reviewing-open-annotations-today

On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Eric Lease Morgan  wrote:
> Do you know of a Web-based tool or piece of desktop software that would let a 
> professor post a text in a frame, then highlight words or phrases and link 
> them to a glossary? A quick-and-dirty web page (possibly attached) and link 
> below illustrates the idea:
>
>   http://dh.crc.nd.edu/tmp/glossary.html
>
> —
> Eric Morgan

Re: [CODE4LIB] 15% off of all tshirts on the code4lib store (MYSHIRT2014

[Tom Keays]

Probably a good time to flog the store URL then.

http://code4lib.spreadshirt.com/


On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 10:46 AM, Riley Childs wrote:

> Spreadshirt is offering 15% off of all tshirts on our store this week with
> coupon code MYSHIRT2014
>
>
>
>
> Riley Childs
> Junior
> IT Admin
> email: rchi...@cucawarriors.com
> office: +1 (704) 537-0031 x101
> cell: +1 (704) 497-2086
>
> Please Think Before Hitting Reply All
> I Do Web Design! RileyChilds.net/services
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] jobs digest for 2014-05-16

[Tom Keays]

I want the t-shirt too. Somebody should make it so!

(To be fair, I might occasionally velcro other other listserv names over
the code{4}lib logo.)


On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 10:10 AM, Doran, Michael D  wrote:

> > I honestly have no opinion as to whether we have full job postings, a
>
> > digest, a separate mailing list, or whatever. I just want this
>
> > conversation to be over.
>
>
>
> Perhaps you want to buy the t-shirt:
>
> [cid:image001.png@01CF7666.DEF677F0]
>
>
>
> -- Michael
>
>
>
> > -Original Message-
>
> > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
>
> > Joshua Welker
>
> > Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 8:55 AM
>
> > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
>
> > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] jobs digest for 2014-05-16
>
> >
>
> > I honestly have no opinion as to whether we have full job postings, a
>
> > digest, a separate mailing list, or whatever. I just want this
>
> > conversation
>
> > to be over.
>
> >
>
> > http://youtu.be/ju4-bw3a48E
>
> > http://impossiblehq.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Final-Form.jpg
>
> >
>
> >
>
> > Josh Welker
>
> >
>
> > -Original Message-
>
> > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
>
> > Riley Childs
>
> > Sent: Friday, May 23, 2014 5:49 AM
>
> > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
>
> > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] jobs digest for 2014-05-16
>
> >
>
> > Should we put this to a vote?
>
> >
>
> > Riley Childs
>
> > Student
>
> > Asst. Head of IT Services
>
> > Charlotte United Christian Academy
>
> > (704) 497-2086
>
> > RileyChilds.net
>
> > Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes
>
> > 
>
> > From: Chris Fitzpatrick
>
> > Sent: ‎5/‎23/‎2014 5:51 AM
>
> > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
>
> > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] jobs digest for 2014-05-16
>
> >
>
> > more cowbell
>
> >
>
> >
>
> > On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 9:05 PM, Wilhelmina Randtke
>
> > mailto:rand...@gmail.com>>wrote:
>
> >
>
> > > I prefer full ads also.
>
> > >
>
> > > -Wilhelmina Randtke
>
> > >
>
> > >
>
> > > On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 7:53 AM, Dunn, Katie  dun...@rpi.edu>> wrote:
>
> > >
>
> > > > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 10:06 PM, Joe Hourcle wrote:
>
> > > > > It looks to me like it's a change in the messages that '
>
> > > > jobs.code4lib.org'
>
> > > > > generates and sends to the list ...
>
> > > >
>
> > > > I much preferred receiving the full ads in separate messages,
>
> > > > because
>
> > > they
>
> > > > were easy to archive and search in my email without having to
>
> > > > copy/paste from the website, but I can just subscribe to the Atom
>
> > feed
>
> > > > instead.
>
> > > >
>
> > > > Katie
>
> > > >
>
> > >
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] jobs digest for 2014-05-16

[Tom Keays]

I would prefer to get the full ads as well.

full ads and (listserv topics and/or email filter) gives each code4lib
subscriber the most control.


On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 8:53 AM, Dunn, Katie  wrote:

> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 10:06 PM, Joe Hourcle wrote:
> > It looks to me like it's a change in the messages that '
> jobs.code4lib.org'
> > generates and sends to the list ...
>
> I much preferred receiving the full ads in separate messages, because they
> were easy to archive and search in my email without having to copy/paste
> from the website, but I can just subscribe to the Atom feed instead.
>
> Katie
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] SubjectsPlus themes

[Tom Keays]

I searched briefly in the SubjectsPlus group archive but found no mention
of themes.

https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!forum/subjectsplus




On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Wilhelmina Randtke wrote:

> Does anyone have a theme for SubjectsPlus up on github?
>
> I'm playing around with the CMS, and I can't find themes.  Surely they
> must exist.
>
> -Wilhelmina Randtke
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Tool Library 2.0

[Tom Keays]

EDUCAUSE published a useful "7 Things You Should Know About
Makerspaces"
last year that is probably still relevant. They have it in PDF and ePub,
but really it should have been published in HTML.

The resources below explore makerspaces, physical locations where people
> gather to share resources and knowledge, work on projects, network, and
> build. Makerspaces are zones of self-directed learning, providing a
> physical laboratory for inquiry-based learning and are primarily used for
> technological experimentation, hardware development, and idea prototyping.
> Increasingly, though, individual inventors and creative teams are using
> makerspaces to build projects in fields other than engineering and
> technology.
>


The Case for a Campus Makerspace
> 
> 2013
> This post from the Hack Education blog describes the maker movement,
> various maker tools, and the teaching and learning value of the method.
>


Is it a Hackerspace, Makerspace, TechShop, or FabLab?
>
> 
> 2013
> This article provides a short history of the hackerspace and makerspace
> movements and also explains techshops and fablabs. It includes
> illustrations of each, with links to further resources.
>


Makerspace: Playbook
> 2012
> After providing a name and e-mail address, you will be sent a step-by-step
> guide on how to get a makerspace up and running. It includes information on
> space selection, pedagogical approaches, tools, materials, and safety.
>


Manufacturing Makerspaces
>
> 
> 2013
> This resource site from American Libraries includes various examples,
> potential uses, a historical timeline, equipment suggestions, and a
> resource list—all to support the development of a makerspace.



Makerspaces Move into Academic Libraries
> 2012
> This post from the ACRL TechConnect Blog details the value of makerspaces
> and the learning needs they fulfill. Several examples and illustrations are
> provided.
>


Georgia Tech’s Makerspace is a Model for Higher Education
>
> 
> 2013
> This article describes Georgia Tech’s Invention Studio, a campus-wide
> makerspace open to any faculty, student, or staff member and project. The
> Invention Studio features $500,000 of equipment, has 3,000-square feet,
> serves over 500 users per month, and is supported by 70 students (members
> of the makers club).
>


A Model for Managing 3D Printing Services in Academic Libraries
> 2013
> Drawing from the University of Alabama’s 3D printing studio experience,
> this article describes how to implement and evaluate a studio and also
> provides suggestions for future improvements to such a lab.




On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 2:38 PM, Rachel Shaevel wrote:

> Late to the party, but one of our Maker Lab staffers suggested this site:
>
> http://fab.cba.mit.edu/about/faq/
>
>
> Rachel Shaevel
> Electronic Resources Cataloger
> Technical Services/Catalog Department
> Chicago Public Library
> Harold Washington Library Center
> 400 S. State St.
> Chicago, IL 60605
> P: (312) 747-4660
> rshae...@chipublib.org
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Daron Dierkes
> Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2014 3:51 PM
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Tool Library 2.0
>
> In St. Louis, to my knowledge we do not have a makerspace as part of a
> library.  We do however have a hackerspace called Arch Reactor and a new
> TechShop is coming soon, which I guess is maybe something similar but
> diffferent?
>
> Could any of you help clarify the terms for me and maybe explain what
> libraries have to do with them?
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Cary Gordon  wrote:
>
> > Personally, I would put soldering irons in phase 2, as they really do
> > require training to use. Without a pretty decent skillset, you can
> > burn through a lot of led strips, etc.
> >
> > My lab consists of a Sparkfun kit hot-glued to the top of a parts box.
> > This arrangement has been very helpful for my chronic mislayer self.
> > It's a makerspace in a box.
> >
> > Cary
> >
> > http://www.flickr.com/photos/36809832@N00/12821466713/
> >
> > Cary
> >
> > On Feb 27, 2014, at 12:33 PM, Edward Iglesias
> > 
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hello All,
> > >
> > > A colleague and I were recently asked to help create a "tool library
> > > for makerspaces" for a local state library consortia. The idea being
> > > they
> > would
> > > lend out kits such as Arduino's with breadboards to libraries that
> > > ar

Re: [CODE4LIB] Jobs Digest

[Tom Keays]

filters++

I do like to receive them here, but filtering removes them from my inbox
until I'm ready to go through a batch of them.


On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 7:39 PM, Nick Ruest  wrote:

> Email filters ;-)
>
>
> On 14-02-24 07:32 PM, Riley Childs wrote:
>
>> I just got like 25 Jobs emails, anyone ever think about doing a digest?
>> Just a suggestion.
>>
>> Riley Childs
>> Student
>> Asst. Head of IT Services
>> Charlotte United Christian Academy
>> (704) 497-2086
>> RileyChilds.net
>> Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes
>>
>>

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib.org down

[Tom Keays]

Interesting. The Journal was also down last night with a mysql database
error. Pure coincidence since they are not served at uoregon.

Tom


On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Rosalyn Metz  wrote:

> :(
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Python CMSs

[Tom Keays]

Here's a little digression, getting away from talk about the underlying
technology...

Most CMSes, rather than being *content *management systems, are actually *page
*management systems. They provide a few different page templates -- blog
posts, about pages, product descriptions, etc. -- but when you get to the
point of creating of creating or editing content, you are asked to fill in
a form that, other than requiring a title, author, date, and simple tags or
categories, is mainly just a big-old-chunk-o-unstructured-text.

Read the following post by Christopher Butler, a web developer, that
describes this problem and proposes a new way of thinking about content
management.

http://www.newfangled.com/the_way_you_design_web_content_is_about_to_change

AFAIK, none of the CMSes mentioned in this thread so far do anything that
approaches what this article is talking about. Drupal is constantly
restructuring itself to be more modular. I keep having hope. But it remains
cumbersome to reuse content in Drupal or any other CMS I've looked at.
Ultimately, CMS modularity is still tied to page templates.

The one exception seems to be LibGuides. I think the reason that librarians
and libraries like LibGuides is the ease of creating modules of content
that it offers. In the process of building a guide (a suite of pages on a
topic), you are largely creating boxes of structured content. In those
boxes, you can create links that can be shared and reused in other guides;
you can have a user profile that can be slotted into any page; and even the
most unstructured content, the "rich text box", can be cloned into other
pages or guides. Entire pages or guides can also be cloned and reused. With
the forthcoming LibGuides 2, which offers even more structured and reusable
content -- e.g., assets in the form of links, RSS feeds, documents/files,
book entries, media widgets, database listings, and icons -- it looks even
more modular. Their new approach to building boxes by assembling them from
reusable components is also a step forward.

You can't do everything with LibGuides that you can with "real" CMS
systems; some content types are purposely withheld -- e.g., event and
calendar entries, blog/news posts, image galleries, etc. -- but does any
"real" CMS even come close in terms of modularity?

What I'd like to see is a modular CMS, with reusable components and,
ideally, some sort of API to further extend reuse.

Tom

On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 11:39 AM, Sarah Thorngate  wrote:

> I second Jason's approach. Even though I'd have more fun using a framework,
> I'm currently implementing a CMS (Drupal) for our main site content. If
> your non-technical library colleagues are anything like mine, they will
> want LibGuides-level simplicity for editing content. My thinking is that
> it's worth a little extra pain now to make sure I'm not the only one who
> can make changes to our content in the future; that can be a huge time
> suck, and prevent you from moving on to other projects.
>
> Sarah
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 10:08 AM, Scott Turnbull <
> scott.turnb...@aptrust.org
> > wrote:
>
> > We used Django and Python extensively while I was at Emory.
> >
> > First let me answer your question.  If Django interests you then
> > DjangoCMS is a pretty good choice https://www.django-cms.org/en/
> >
> > I know a few folks who use it and like it quiet a bit.  That said I
> > know a lot of the community is trending toward Flask for simple apps
> > in python so it depends on how deep you want to go with what you need
> > to develop.
> >
> > In terms of what I'd add, I would reflect what a lot of people have
> > already said here.  My own philosophy is that the CMS problem has
> > already been solved and it's not a great fit for a custom framework
> > unless you have very strong use cases that prove it isn't.   I suggest
> > you consider taking care of straight up content with whatever CMS you
> > want to use (Drupal, Wordpress, etc) and reserve Django and python for
> > custom apps that need to sit under it.
> >
> > You can theme the sites so they look the same, leave the CMS to the
> > CMS and put your django apps under an app. subdomain to make the
> > experience more ore less seamless.
> >
> > Just my thoughts, I hope that helps some.
> >
> > Good luck and let us know what you end up doing,
> >
> > - Scott
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 10:35 AM, Jason Bengtson
> >  wrote:
> > > I agree with Josh. In the end it's really going to come down to
> > balancing priorities. On my personal site I don't use any kind of content
> > management system and have no interest in adopting one. This has left me
> > free to do as I please without jumping through hoops to try and get
> things
> > work with an often intentionally limiting CMS. At my last University we
> > started with nothing but moved institutionally to Cascade Server (a
> > horrible mistake if ever there was one). Still, as rotten as CS is, I was
> > able to shoehorn a lot of web code through va

Re: [CODE4LIB] calibr: a simple opening hours calendar

[Tom Keays]

The III Millennium catalog, in its days open module, allows you to express
this case easily. MPOW is open from 8am - 2am; in Millennium you enter the
closing time as 2600.


On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 6:41 PM, Barnes, Hugh wrote:

> Great edge case, thanks for sharing that one!
>
> I think currently that could only be _encoded_ as a separate opening in
> the CSV file for loading into the database, which won't work because of my
> assumption. There simply isn't a way to express it. The relevant fields for
> the load file are startdate, enddate, opentime, and closetime, the last two
> being formatted as only "hh:mm", so it's assumed they relate to each single
> day in the range.
>
> However, I edited a "closes" field value directly in the test database,
> and to my surprise it rendered sensibly. I would have thought it would be
> rejected by a validity test I have which checks that the day portion of the
> start and closing datestamps are the same [1].
>
> I can't justify spending time on this in the near future, since it's a use
> case we are unlikely to need here. However, I'll log an issue, or you may.
> Thanks again.
>
> Cheers
> Hugh
>
> [1] https://github.com/LincolnUniLTL/calibr/blob/master/lib/app.php#L113
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Bohyun Kim
> Sent: Wednesday, 27 November 2013 11:28 a.m.
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] calibr: a simple opening hours calendar
>
> Hugh,
>
> Thanks for sharing. A quick question. If a library opens past midnight,
> does that count more than one opening a day or no?
>
> ~Bohyun
>
>
> On Nov 26, 2013, at 5:04 PM, "Barnes, Hugh" 
> wrote:
>
> > Hi folks
> >
> > I took a calendar script posted to this list by Andrew Darby some time
> ago and made some changes. I don't think there is any of Andrew's code
> left, so I've rebranded it with an acknowledgement. (If I had my time
> again, I might have coded it from scratch rather than built it over
> Andrew's script, but that's somewhat academic.)
> >
> > The whole scoop is in the readme on Github:
> http://github.com/LincolnUniLTL/calibr
> >
> > TLDR: With PHP, MySQL, some fiddling and data entry, you can publish a
> library opening hours calendar on your website in more than one language if
> you wish. It's a little quicker to enter common period patterns than it
> used to be in Google Calendar. The output is more accessible, customisable,
> multilingual, semantic, and hopefully more extensible (iCal etc) than
> previously.
> >
> > Here's a branded reference implementation:
> http://library2.lincoln.ac.nz/hours - it won't necessarily reflect the
> latest version.
> >
> > Use it, improve it, feed back, or log issues right there on Github if
> that works for you.
> >
> > Many thanks to Andrew for providing the foundation!
> >
> > Cheers
> >
> > Hugh Barnes
> > Digital Access Coordinator
> > Library, Teaching and Learning
> > Lincoln University
> > Christchurch
> > New Zealand
> > p +64 3 423 0357
> >
> >
> >
> > 
> > P Please consider the environment before you print this email.
> > "The contents of this e-mail (including any attachments) may be
> confidential and/or subject to copyright. Any unauthorised use,
> distribution, or copying of the contents is expressly prohibited. If you
> have received this e-mail in error, please advise the sender by return
> e-mail or telephone and then delete this e-mail together with all
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>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Faculty publication database

[Tom Keays]

Correct that. 1.1.2 was Sept 2011 [1] and the developer release on the
GitHub repo [2] has activity as of 6 months ago.

[1] http://bibapp.org/download/
[2] https://github.com/BibApp/BibApp


On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Tom Keays  wrote:

> At one point BibApp looked like it was going to be a good alternative to
> #3 on Bohyun's hierarchy  Release 1.0 was made in July 2010, so I don't
> know if it is still being worked on.
>
> http://bibapp.org/
>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Bohyun Kim  wrote:
>
>> Hi Allie,
>>
>> (With the caveat that compiling the comprehensive faculty publication db
>> is not a walk in the park at all particularly if you want to include the
>> publications from when the faculty were working at other institutions and
>> also by all types of faculty- not just full-time or tenured.)
>>
>> You can do any of these:
>>
>> 1. RefShare list through Refworks
>> 2. RSS feeds from databases (by looking up the institution of the author)
>> 3. Build Custom database  (Ours beta site is at:
>> http://bayonet.fiu.edu/library/facpub/  if you want to take a look)
>> 4. Use IR
>> 5. License proprietary products (e.g. Digital Measures or Sedona)
>>
>> At MPOW, we tried 1 and 2 but switched to 3 recently. We have IR but do
>> not use it for faculty publication database purposes But we are thinking
>> about using it in conjunction with 3 so that 3 would link to the full-text
>> if there exists any pre/post print articles in the IR.
>>
>> My college (medical school) is also considering 5. I was in the meeting
>> with the vendors for these products and they do much more than keeping
>> track of publications and do keep track of all faculty activities -
>> publication, services, committees, courses, teachings, conference
>> presentations, etc. for statistical purposes. But faculty members are asked
>> to enter the items themselves (or find the department staff who will do it
>> for them).
>>
>> ~Bohyun
>>
>> ---
>> Bohyun Kim, MA, MSLIS
>> Digital Access Librarian
>> bohyun@fiu.edu
>> 305-348-1471
>> Medical Library, College of Medicine
>> Florida International University
>> http://medlib.fiu.edu
>> http://medlib.fiu.edu/m (Mobile)
>>
>> 
>> From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of
>> Alevtina Verbovetskaya [alevtina.verbovetsk...@mail.cuny.edu]
>> Sent: Friday, October 25, 2013 11:35 AM
>> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
>> Subject: [CODE4LIB] Faculty publication database
>>
>> 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.edu<mailto:alevtina.verbovetsk...@cuny.edu>
>>
>
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Faculty publication database

[Tom Keays]

At one point BibApp looked like it was going to be a good alternative to
#3 on Bohyun's hierarchy  Release 1.0 was made in July 2010, so I don't
know if it is still being worked on.

http://bibapp.org/



On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:08 PM, Bohyun Kim  wrote:

> Hi Allie,
>
> (With the caveat that compiling the comprehensive faculty publication db
> is not a walk in the park at all particularly if you want to include the
> publications from when the faculty were working at other institutions and
> also by all types of faculty- not just full-time or tenured.)
>
> You can do any of these:
>
> 1. RefShare list through Refworks
> 2. RSS feeds from databases (by looking up the institution of the author)
> 3. Build Custom database  (Ours beta site is at:
> http://bayonet.fiu.edu/library/facpub/  if you want to take a look)
> 4. Use IR
> 5. License proprietary products (e.g. Digital Measures or Sedona)
>
> At MPOW, we tried 1 and 2 but switched to 3 recently. We have IR but do
> not use it for faculty publication database purposes But we are thinking
> about using it in conjunction with 3 so that 3 would link to the full-text
> if there exists any pre/post print articles in the IR.
>
> My college (medical school) is also considering 5. I was in the meeting
> with the vendors for these products and they do much more than keeping
> track of publications and do keep track of all faculty activities -
> publication, services, committees, courses, teachings, conference
> presentations, etc. for statistical purposes. But faculty members are asked
> to enter the items themselves (or find the department staff who will do it
> for them).
>
> ~Bohyun
>
> ---
> Bohyun Kim, MA, MSLIS
> Digital Access Librarian
> bohyun@fiu.edu
> 305-348-1471
> Medical Library, College of Medicine
> Florida International University
> http://medlib.fiu.edu
> http://medlib.fiu.edu/m (Mobile)
>
> 
> From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Alevtina
> Verbovetskaya [alevtina.verbovetsk...@mail.cuny.edu]
> Sent: Friday, October 25, 2013 11:35 AM
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: [CODE4LIB] Faculty publication database
>
> 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.edu
>

[CODE4LIB] Looking for an Announcements system

[Tom Keays]

Our campus uses DotNetNuke as the backend for its website. Opinions aside
about the wisdom of that particular CMS choice, one DNN module that has
proven to be extremely useful at MPOW is the DotNetNuke Announcements
module.

  http://dnnannouncements.codeplex.com/documentation

We are currently using it for all of our announcements, but I find I keep
looking for an alternative that I might use as a replacement. I'm worried
about what I would do if the campus ever were to switch away from DNN.

Here are several essential functionality requirements that I am looking for
in a replacement.

Publication and Expiration Dates -- Posts in DNN Announcements have both
publication and expiration date and time fields. This means you can write
an announcement in advance and it won't appear in public current events
listing until the specified date and time. If the optional expiration date
and time is set, the post will drop out of the current list of events once
that date is passed, but will continue to appear in the Monthly and
Category archives. The RSS feed for the current events listing therefore
only includes items that have not expired. This functionaliity, especially
the expiration feature, is not found in the same form in any of the common
blogging platforms I've looked at. In WordPress, the CMS I'm most familiar
with, I've found plugins that "expire" a post by assigning it to a
different category or deleting it. However, neither of those approaches are
satisfactory. Are there any CMSes or blogging platforms that have true
expiration date functionality, either natively or via plugins?

Featured Posts -- Posts can be easily tagged to be "featured" which means
they float to the top, regardless of default sort order (DNN Announcements
lets you choose to sort lists of posts by either publication or expiration
date). I believe there are ways to pull the featured post content to
display on other pages, although that is something I have not explored. I
think there are ways to achieve this in WordPress using plugins.

Publication and Expiration Date functionality is the biggie. Most of the
other key functionality in DNN Announcements can be found in other systems
-- i.e., use of author, title, summary, hierarchical categories, tags,
thumbnail image, summary image, and other similar metadata fields -- so I'm
less worried about being able to replicate that functionality in a
replacement system.

I would not rule out calendar systems per se, but what separates that use
case from the announcements use case is that most of my announcements are
either not tied to a particular date and time (i.e., announcements about a
new service) or span a block of time (i.e., a show in the art gallery).
Calendar systems don't really handle those sorts of announcements well or
at all.

Any suggestions? I'm looking for either a standalone announcements system
or a module in a more general CMS. It would be nice if it installed on a
vanilla LAMP stack.

Thanks,
Tom

Re: [CODE4LIB] What can be done to stop deleting of records belonging to users of our Minuteman Library Network in Massachusetts?

[Tom Keays]

Innovative Users Group has a listserv.

http://www.innovativeusers.org/iug-discussion-list


On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 8:45 PM, don warner saklad
wrote:

> Any other online forums, groups, email lists about difficulties with
> Innovative Interfaces software?...
>
> Innovative Interfaces Incorporated http://www.iii.com/ is the Integrated
> Library System
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_library_systemprovider
> for Minuteman Library Network
> http://www.mln.lib.ma.us/about/about.htm Webmaster scripted replies to
> concerns fail, aren't responsive. Libraries' attempts fail, give up
> attempting to resolve concerns about software.
>
> Users' records get deleted. No notification before some entries get deleted
> at "My Lists"  http://www.mln.lib.ma.us/catalog/faq_account.htm#ma50
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Kyle Banerjee  >wrote:
>
> > I thought you guys have Millennium.
> >
> > If that is correct, you won't be able to change the behavior of the
> system
> > and the only thing you can do is revoke delete permissions for whoever is
> > doing it.
> >
> > kyle
> >
>
>
>
>
> | > What can be done to stop deleting of records belonging to users of our
> Minuteman Library Network in Massachusetts? Or at least notification needs
> to be made before deleting.
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides: I don't get it

[Tom Keays]

I'm not sure I understand the more-heat-than-light criticisms of LibGuides.
It perfectly fits the needs of many libraries.

The most valid criticism that has been lodged -- that the CMS is so easy to
use that librarians create content which they then don't maintain -- could
be said of any website or CMS (except for the "so easy" part). The
counter-argument might be that library content is better maintained in
LibGuides than in other systems because librarians are not buffaloed by the
underlying technology and willingly (happily) use them as part of their
everyday workflow. Has anybody done that research?

There were also several comments that Springshare support is not
responsive. That has never been my experience. Some things might take
longer to implement because programming is involved, but the support staff
have been exemplary and every feature request I've made has been
implemented or explained (in no b.s. terms) why they were unable to fulfill
it.

And, yeah, what Wilhelmina said.

Tom

Re: [CODE4LIB] EAD vs. HTML for finding aids

[Tom Keays]

I also found this

http://www.cdlib.org/services/dsc/tools/ead_toolkit.html


On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 8:22 AM, Tom Keays  wrote:

> The advice to transform EAD to HTML using an xsl transform stylesheet
> seems to still be the best practice.
>
> http://saa-ead-roundtable.github.io/
>
> If you want an example of what the HTML looks like, here's one from
> Syracuse University
>
> http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/a/aaace.htm
>
>
> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Rachel Shaevel wrote:
>
>> Hello friendly Borg,
>>
>> Does anyone have anything thoughts about using EAD for finding aids vs.
>> HTML?  Or are both going the way of the dinosaurs?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Rachel
>>
>> Rachel Shaevel
>> Electronic Resources Cataloger
>> Technical Services/Catalog Department
>> Chicago Public Library
>> Harold Washington Library Center
>> 400 S. State St.
>> Chicago, IL 60605
>> P: (312) 747-4660
>> rshae...@chipublib.org<mailto:rshae...@chipublib.org>
>>
>
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] EAD vs. HTML for finding aids

[Tom Keays]

The advice to transform EAD to HTML using an xsl transform stylesheet seems
to still be the best practice.

http://saa-ead-roundtable.github.io/

If you want an example of what the HTML looks like, here's one from
Syracuse University

http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/a/aaace.htm


On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 4:39 PM, Rachel Shaevel wrote:

> Hello friendly Borg,
>
> Does anyone have anything thoughts about using EAD for finding aids vs.
> HTML?  Or are both going the way of the dinosaurs?
>
> Thanks!
> Rachel
>
> Rachel Shaevel
> Electronic Resources Cataloger
> Technical Services/Catalog Department
> Chicago Public Library
> Harold Washington Library Center
> 400 S. State St.
> Chicago, IL 60605
> P: (312) 747-4660
> rshae...@chipublib.org
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] File based CMSes

[Tom Keays]

I've used DokuWiki as a CMS for several website projects. The default theme
is no great shakes, but you can theme it to look like anything and there
are hundreds of plugins. I think the syntax it uses is much friendlier than
that used by Mediapress.

http://dokuwiki.org/

I've also been curious about Octopress. Nominally a blogging layer for
Jekyll, with the new version I think it can probably work as a CMS. It uses
Markdown as the syntax.

http://octopress.org/


On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Wilhelmina Randtke wrote:

> Has anyone worked with file based CMSes,and do you have a recommendation
> for one with simple backend?
>
> One of the issues with the CMS is that databases don't make sense to people
> without background in them.  I want to look at static file based CMSes with
> the goal of finding something that is easier to write instructions on doing
> maintenance and backups for than is a database based CMS.
>
> -Wilhelmina Randtke
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Library CDNs

[Tom Keays]

Here's a link to the thread from January
  https://listserv.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A1=ind1301&L=CODE4LIB#220
and here's a brief summary I made when I decided on Rackspace
  https://listserv.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1301&L=CODE4LIB&F=&S=&P=52081

One thing I didn't mention was that Cloud Files doesn't have any version
control or any way to roll back files. To compensate for that I am using
Git on a local repo (not uploaded to GitHub, etc). It is a bit clunky, but
for the small number of changes I need to make, it suffices.

Tom

On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Josh Wilson wrote:

> Would you mind sharing what CDNs you seriously considered as alternatives,
> and what led you to go with Rackspace?
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Tom Keays  wrote:
>
> > A couple of months ago I asked for suggestions for a CDN that a library
> > without its own web server (other than our OPAC) might use to deploy
> image,
> > javascript and css resources for use on third-party systems such as
> > LibGuides, Serials Solutions A-Z journal lists, etc.
> >
> > We're a small institution and I have just a handful of files I needed to
> > deploy, so I figured that using a CDN could be much less expensive than
> > contracting for a full-fledged web hosting solution. I weighed several
> good
> > suggestions sent to this list and decided to give Rackspace Cloud Files
> [1]
> > a try. Pricing is 10 cents/Gigabyte/month.
> >
> > It doesn't have a true nest folder file structure, but if you use
> > Cyberduck, which supports the Rackspace API [2], it represents the
> > directory structure of your original local repo in the URL -- e.g.,
> >
> >
> http://6423ab35994a822f653e-1cba4c36ec78f50a350878d40a7c96c2.r6.cf1.rackcdn.com/assets/js/jquery.cookie.js
> >
> > I didn't purchase anything but Cloud Files, so I don't have access to
> > Rackspace CNAMES to give my URLs more friendly names (and campus IT isn't
> > interested in providing that service for us). I decided this was not a
> > problem on the whole.
> >
> > The system has been very fast and stable, with none of the intermittent
> > outages I experienced when I was testing the idea by hosting some of
> these
> > files on my hobby website on Bluehost.
> >
> > The only gotcha is that if you need to upload a file, there is some
> latency
> > for changes to propagate across the CDN. The Rackspace technician I
> talked
> > too was surprised how long an old copy was hanging around after one of my
> > updates, but we concluded that, ultimately, that's the proper function of
> > the service (at least on this CDN). You can speed things up by deleting
> the
> > original and re-upping it, but changes are not instantaneous.
> >
> > After 2 complete billing cycles, we've yet to have enough traffic to
> > generate a charge. This surprised me, since I thought there might be a
> > minimum usage charge hidden somewhere, but we've not seen any to date.
> I'm
> > not anticipating this situation will change drastically. It will take
> quite
> > a bit of traffic for us to hit the 10 cent mark.
> >
> > I'm pretty happy so far.
> >
> > Tom
> >
> > [1]: http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/public/files/technology/
> > [2]: http://trac.cyberduck.ch/wiki/help/en/howto/cloudfiles
> >
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Library CDNs

[Tom Keays]

A couple of months ago I asked for suggestions for a CDN that a library
without its own web server (other than our OPAC) might use to deploy image,
javascript and css resources for use on third-party systems such as
LibGuides, Serials Solutions A-Z journal lists, etc.

We're a small institution and I have just a handful of files I needed to
deploy, so I figured that using a CDN could be much less expensive than
contracting for a full-fledged web hosting solution. I weighed several good
suggestions sent to this list and decided to give Rackspace Cloud Files [1]
a try. Pricing is 10 cents/Gigabyte/month.

It doesn't have a true nest folder file structure, but if you use
Cyberduck, which supports the Rackspace API [2], it represents the
directory structure of your original local repo in the URL -- e.g.,
http://6423ab35994a822f653e-1cba4c36ec78f50a350878d40a7c96c2.r6.cf1.rackcdn.com/assets/js/jquery.cookie.js

I didn't purchase anything but Cloud Files, so I don't have access to
Rackspace CNAMES to give my URLs more friendly names (and campus IT isn't
interested in providing that service for us). I decided this was not a
problem on the whole.

The system has been very fast and stable, with none of the intermittent
outages I experienced when I was testing the idea by hosting some of these
files on my hobby website on Bluehost.

The only gotcha is that if you need to upload a file, there is some latency
for changes to propagate across the CDN. The Rackspace technician I talked
too was surprised how long an old copy was hanging around after one of my
updates, but we concluded that, ultimately, that's the proper function of
the service (at least on this CDN). You can speed things up by deleting the
original and re-upping it, but changes are not instantaneous.

After 2 complete billing cycles, we've yet to have enough traffic to
generate a charge. This surprised me, since I thought there might be a
minimum usage charge hidden somewhere, but we've not seen any to date. I'm
not anticipating this situation will change drastically. It will take quite
a bit of traffic for us to hit the 10 cent mark.

I'm pretty happy so far.

Tom

[1]: http://www.rackspace.com/cloud/public/files/technology/
[2]: http://trac.cyberduck.ch/wiki/help/en/howto/cloudfiles

Re: [CODE4LIB] A Responsibility to Encourage Better Browsers ( ? )

[Tom Keays]

jQuery 2.x will support IE 9+ . Jonathan is correct that 1.x will continue
to support IE 6+ and there are techniques to deliver the older version of
jQuery to older browsers if the developer deems it necessary.

http://jquery.com/browser-support/

However, I think Michael is in good company in thinking the time has come
to cut (or at least reduce) support for older versions of IE. I've heard
several top notch web developers talking on various podcasts (no, I'm not
going to cite them) about starting with responsive web approach that that
delivers what would essentially be the mobile view of the page, albeit with
less functionality, to these browsers. The full desktop view goes only to
modern browsers. It doesn't cut off those communities that are bound for
whatever reason to use IE 6 or 7. It just gives them a different
experience.

My 2c.
Tom

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:

> On 2/19/2013 10:22 AM, Michael Schofield wrote:
>
>> Now that Google, jQuery, and others will soon drop support for IE8 -
>> its time to politely join-in and make luddite patrons aware. IMHO,
>> anyway.
>>
>
> I would like a cite for this. I think you are mis-informed. It is a
> misconception that JQuery is dropping support for IE8 anytime soon. And I'm
> not sure what you mean about 'Google' dropping support for IE8.

Re: [CODE4LIB] You *are* a coder. So what am I?

[Tom Keays]

Nice start on a list. I added the directory links to the wiki page for new
coders. I bet there are more that could be added.

http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/One_recommended_tool/resource_for_n00bs#Meetups_and_User_Groups

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Joe Hourcle
wrote:

> On Feb 15, 2013, at 9:00 AM, Lin, Kun wrote:
>
> > Wow, Interesting. But I am not fun of Perl. Is there other workshop?
>
> I don't know of any full workshops in the area, but there are plenty
> of monthly or semi-monthly meetings of different groups:
>
> Python: http://dcpython.org/
>
> R : http://www.meetup.com/R-users-DC/
>
> Groovy: http://www.dcgroovy.org/
>
> Drupal: http://groups.drupal.org/washington-dc-drupalers
>
> Hadoop: http://www.meetup.com/Hadoop-DC/
>
> Ruby:   http://www.dcrug.org/
>
> ColdFusion: http://www.cfug-md.org/
>
>
> For those not in this area, see:
>
> http://www.pm.org/groups/
> http://wiki.python.org/moin/LocalUserGroups
> http://r-users-group.meetup.com/
> http://groups.drupal.org/
> http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/community/user-groups/
> http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/User_groups
> http://coldfusion.meetup.com/
>
> -Joe
>

[CODE4LIB] Streaming URL

[Tom Keays]

The URL for streaming was given in the IRC channel

http://new.livestream.com/accounts/2768983/events/1865025?device_panel=true

You apparently need to register for an account to avoid ads.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Editing Code4lib Wiki

[Tom Keays]

There's a timely article on the subject in SitePoint,
http://www.sitepoint.com/captcha-inaccessible-to-everyone/

The article concludes:

> There is a fundamental disconnect in intent that means it is highly
> unlikely that a universally accessible CAPTCHA, or even a set of different
> CAPTCHAs will ever be devised.
>
> CAPTCHAs are, by definition, exclusive: they are are there to keep baddies
> out. Their way of testing “badness” does not allow for the legitimate use
> of machines. So they will tend to be inaccessible.
>
FWIW, the Code4Lib Journal had some reports of inaccessibility in the
captcha we were using (reCaptcha) and we eventually decided to jettison it.
It wasn't slowing down the spammers much anyway, as shown by our Akismet
stats.

Tom


On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Kyle Banerjee wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 1:02 PM, MJ Ray  wrote:
>
> > It would also be very nice to replace the reCaptcha with something
> > that allowed people who can't pass audio-visual tests to take part!
> >
>
> I've always wondered what percentage of the population has trouble with
> reCaptcha challenges. I know I do.
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Conference streaming?

[Tom Keays]

I was wondering if a link for streaming will be available in advance of the
programs tomorrow?  I poked around a bit on the LETS page,
http://tigger.uic.edu/depts/accc/lets/uicast.html , but could not find
information that would let me test out compatibility of the stream format
with local equipment, etc. Enjoy the preconferences today!

Tom

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Margaret Heller  wrote:

> Yes, thanks to the people at UIC Learning Environments & Technology
> Services the conference will be streamed and archived. We are awaiting
> details, but certainly will publicize it widely when we have them.
>
> Margaret Heller
>
> Margaret Heller
> Digital Services Librarian
> Loyola University Chicago
> 773.508.2686
>
> >>> Tom Keays  01/29/13 20:36 PM >>>
> I was wondering if talks from the conference would be streamed this year?
> It was really great to have it the last time I was unable to attend.
>
> Tom
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Anyone have a SUSHI client?

[Tom Keays]

Hi Joshua,

I was mainly looking at your program, not for the code, but as a way to
bring myself up to speed about current practices in modeling the COUNTER
data. I'm trying to avoid reinventing something that has already been well
thought through. I apologize for calling out your model. You have gotten
much further than I have. Some of the other respondents in this thread have
set me straight on some things I was very fuzzy on going in.

How go about I collecting and storing the data is still something I haven't
resolved yet. I personally would prefer a Python solution, but there forces
here at MPOW that suggest I should build a data repository in SharePoint.
Assuming that is the case, Serial Solution's open source SUSHI harvester
written in .NET might actually be the way for me to go. So, my next step is
to look at their data model and see what reports they collect and store.

As an aside, I'm also now wondering if de-duping is strictly necessary as
long as there is a field to record the date the report was generated.
 De-duping (or maybe just deprecating duplicate data) could be separate
from the collection process.

Best,
Tom

On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Joshua Welker  wrote:

> Tom,
>
> I am the guy who wrote sushi.py around this time last year. My apologies
> for the shabbiness of the code. It was meant to be primarily a proof of
> concept. It's definitely incomplete. I only completed the DB3 and JR1
> report logic up to this point, but it would be easy enough to add other
> report types. You're also right that sushi.py doesn't do anything to dedupe
> data, but it would be very simple to write a script that reads through the
> SQL records and deletes dupes. You could also use the built-in UNIQUE flag
> in MySQL when creating your table so that duplicate records just don't get
> saved. If you use the CSV export functionality of sushi.py, Excel has some
> built-in dedupe features that would help as well.
>
> Let me know if you'd like some help modifying sushi.py. I sort of gave up
> on it last spring. SUSHI implementation among vendors is still pretty
> shabby, and there are still some weaknesses in the SUSHI standard (I wrote
> about them in the Nov 2012 issue of Computers in Libraries). The
> productivity gains I was seeing from using SUSHI ended up being pretty low.
>
> Josh Welker
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Tom Keays
> Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 8:40 AM
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Anyone have a SUSHI client?
>
> I've been looking briefly at sushi.py, as a way to orient myself to
> collecting stats this way. I'm not intending to single out sushi.py, but
> looking at it (mainly the data structure at this point, and not the code
> itself), raises some questions about the best approach for collecting SUSHI
> data.
>
> sushi.py seems to have a small number of routines; mainly to retrieve the
> XML file from a vendor and ingest the data in that file into a MySQL
> database. There are only MySQL tables for COUNTER JR1, DR1, DR2, and DR2
> reports and they mirror, to a degree, the structure of the item records
> returned in the SUSHI xml. Here are the skeletons of 2 of the sushi.py SQL
> tables:
>
> counter_jr1
>   id int,
>   print_issn varchar,
>   online_issn varchar,
>   platform varchar,
>   item_name text,
>   data_type varchar,
>   date_begin datetime,
>   date_end datetime,
>   ft_pdf int,
>   ft_html int,
>   ft_total varchar
>
> counter_db3
>   id int,
>   platform varchar,
>   item_name text,
>   data_type varchar,
>   date_begin datetime,
>   date_end datetime,
>   searches int,
>   sessions int
>
> On the face of it, this seems like a pretty good data structure (although
> I have a couple of concerns, that I will get to) but my main question is
> whether there is any agreement about how to collect this data? If I were to
> dig into some of the other SUSHI packages mentioned in this thread, what
> would I find there? Excel-formatted COUNTER reports are simply a table of
> columns, representing various fields, such as title (for JR1), platform,
> publisher (for JR1), ISSN (for JR1), etc., followed by columns for up to 12
> months of the collected year, and then summary data.  JR1 reports have
> fulltext HTML, PDF, and Total columns. DR1 has two rows, one for searches
> and one for sesssions, with YTD totals in the final column. Similar data
> structures exist for other COUNTER reports. They rely on the user to
> interpret them and probably ought not to inform a decision for structuring
> the data in a database. Is there been any best practice for how COUNTER
> data is modeled in a datab

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Conference streaming?

[Tom Keays]

UIC++

On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 9:22 AM, Jon Gorman wrote:

> Three cheers for UIC folks!
>
> Jon Gorman
>

[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Conference streaming?

[Tom Keays]

I was wondering if talks from the conference would be streamed this year?
It was really great to have it the last time I was unable to attend.

Tom

Re: [CODE4LIB] Anyone have a SUSHI client?

[Tom Keays]

I've been looking briefly at sushi.py, as a way to orient myself to
collecting stats this way. I'm not intending to single out sushi.py, but
looking at it (mainly the data structure at this point, and not the code
itself), raises some questions about the best approach for collecting SUSHI
data.

sushi.py seems to have a small number of routines; mainly to retrieve the
XML file from a vendor and ingest the data in that file into a MySQL
database. There are only MySQL tables for COUNTER JR1, DR1, DR2, and DR2
reports and they mirror, to a degree, the structure of the item records
returned in the SUSHI xml. Here are the skeletons of 2 of the sushi.py SQL
tables:

counter_jr1
  id int,
  print_issn varchar,
  online_issn varchar,
  platform varchar,
  item_name text,
  data_type varchar,
  date_begin datetime,
  date_end datetime,
  ft_pdf int,
  ft_html int,
  ft_total varchar

counter_db3
  id int,
  platform varchar,
  item_name text,
  data_type varchar,
  date_begin datetime,
  date_end datetime,
  searches int,
  sessions int

On the face of it, this seems like a pretty good data structure (although I
have a couple of concerns, that I will get to) but my main question is
whether there is any agreement about how to collect this data? If I were to
dig into some of the other SUSHI packages mentioned in this thread, what
would I find there? Excel-formatted COUNTER reports are simply a table of
columns, representing various fields, such as title (for JR1), platform,
publisher (for JR1), ISSN (for JR1), etc., followed by columns for up to 12
months of the collected year, and then summary data.  JR1 reports have
fulltext HTML, PDF, and Total columns. DR1 has two rows, one for searches
and one for sesssions, with YTD totals in the final column. Similar data
structures exist for other COUNTER reports. They rely on the user to
interpret them and probably ought not to inform a decision for structuring
the data in a database. Is there been any best practice for how COUNTER
data is modeled in a database?

There are other COUNTER reports besides those four. For instance, some
journal vendors do indeed report searches and sessions using the DR3
report, but others use the equivalent JR4 report, so I would have expected
sushi.py to have a mechanism to collect these. Does SUSHI only deliver JR1,
DR1, DR2, and DR2 reports, or is this a problem with sushi.py?

Now, one of the selling points for SUSHI is that if a vendor ever advises
that you should re-collect data for a given time period, the xml you
receive is structured such that the act of collecting OUGHT TO update,
rather than duplicate, data previously collected. However in sushi.py's SQL
structure, which gives every row a unique (auto-incremented) ID number,
there would have to be logic applied during the ingest to prevent multiple
instances of data collected from the same vendor for the same time period.
So, that's a concern.

I'm also concerned about what is represented in the ft_pdf, ft_html, and
ft_total fields. In the Excel COUNTER reports, the ft_pdf, ft_html, and
ft_total columns simply tabulate the YTD totals and the only way you would
be able to derive a monthly breakdown would be to collect 12 monthly
reports and analyze the differences from month to month -- something that
most libraries don't do. I have to go back and confirm this, but I don't
think the SUSHI reports are giving a month-only breakdown for those fields,
so I wonder about their inclusion in that table. I guess my question is
what is returned in the SUSHI xml report: monthly or yearly figures for the
ft_pdf, ft_html, and ft_total fields?

Tom

Re: [CODE4LIB] Anyone have a SUSHI client?

[Tom Keays]

>From the NISO list, JISC's SUSHI Starter, written in PHP, looks pretty good.

http://cclibweb-4.dmz.cranfield.ac.uk/projects/sushistarters/

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Tom Keays  wrote:

> Hey. NISO has a list of SUSHI tools.
>
> http://www.niso.org/workrooms/sushi/tools/
>
> Tom
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Anyone have a SUSHI client?

[Tom Keays]

Hey. NISO has a list of SUSHI tools.

http://www.niso.org/workrooms/sushi/tools/

Tom

Re: [CODE4LIB] Anyone have a SUSHI client?

[Tom Keays]

The one I know of is
http://code.google.com/p/sushicounterclient/
which is offered by Serial Solutions. It's a .NET framework.

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:28 AM, Van Mil, James (vanmiljf) <
vanmi...@ucmail.uc.edu> wrote:

> Hi Bill,
>
> There's a lightweight python client:
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/sushipy/
>
> (I haven't used it, just know *of* it)
>
> Thanks,
> James
>
> James Van Mil
> Collections & Electronic Resources Librarian
> University of Cincinnati Libraries
> Telephone: (513)556-1410
> vanmi...@ucmail.uc.edu
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Bill Dueber
> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 5:44 PM
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: [CODE4LIB] Anyone have a SUSHI client?
>
> [Background: SUSHI
> is a SOAP protocol
> for getting data on use of electronic resources in the COUNTER format]
>
> I'm just starting to look at trying to get COUNTER data via SUSHI into our
> data warehouse, and I'm discovering that apparently no one has worked on a
> SUSHI client since late 2009.
>
> UnlessI'm missing one? Anyone out there using SUSHI and have a client
> that works and is up-to-date and has some documentation of some sort? I'd
> prefer ruby or java, but will take anything that'll run under linux (i.e.,
> not C#) at this point.
>
> I'm desperately trying not to have to deal with the raw SOAP and parsing
> the XML and such, so any help would be appreciated.
>
> --
> Bill Dueber
> Library Systems Programmer
> University of Michigan Library
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with WordPress for Code4Lib Journal

[Tom Keays]

After some discussion on the Code4Lib Journal editors' back-channel, we
decided to move the various WordPress plugins and themes to the Code4Lib
organization site on GitHub. Besides making our process a little more
transparent, we also hope to encourage participation in maintaining and
improving the Journal's WordPress web experience.

The two c4lj repositories that have been ported are:

https://github.com/code4lib/c4lj-issue-manager  (renamed issue-manager
plugin)
https://github.com/code4lib/c4lj (Journal's current WordPress theme -- with
1 open issue)

Tom

On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Tom Keays  wrote:

> I spent the past week teaching myself how to properly use Git and have
> finally updated the repository with Mark's contribution to the Code4Lib
> Journal Issue Manager plugin.
>
> https://github.com/tomkeays/issue-manager
>
> Thanks again for the help.
> Tom
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Tom Keays  wrote:
>
>> The Code4Lib Journal is now running an up-to-date version of WordPress on
>> our server and all of our plugins are similarly updated and operational.
>> I'd especially like to acknowledge the contribution of Mark Pernotto, whose
>> good knowledge of the WordPress codex allowed him to see the problem that I
>> could not, and write a revised Issue Manager plugin. I'll post the revised
>> code to GitHub in the next week or so. Thanks again to the other
>> code4libbers that also offered to help. This group's generousity and
>> expertise is great.
>>
>> For the Code4Lib Journal, many thanks!
>>
>> Tom
>>
>
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with WordPress for Code4Lib Journal

[Tom Keays]

I spent the past week teaching myself how to properly use Git and have
finally updated the repository with Mark's contribution to the Code4Lib
Journal Issue Manager plugin.

https://github.com/tomkeays/issue-manager

Thanks again for the help.
Tom

On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Tom Keays  wrote:

> The Code4Lib Journal is now running an up-to-date version of WordPress on
> our server and all of our plugins are similarly updated and operational.
> I'd especially like to acknowledge the contribution of Mark Pernotto, whose
> good knowledge of the WordPress codex allowed him to see the problem that I
> could not, and write a revised Issue Manager plugin. I'll post the revised
> code to GitHub in the next week or so. Thanks again to the other
> code4libbers that also offered to help. This group's generousity and
> expertise is great.
>
> For the Code4Lib Journal, many thanks!
>
> Tom
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Library CDNs

[Tom Keays]

I got 3 suggestions so far, all of them good. Thanks!

I think I'm going to check out Rackspace Cloud Files. Though not free, it
looks like it would fit my need. They seem to have a clearer web interface
and API than other services I've looked at already.  Not requiring a
contract gives me some flexibility to use them on a trial basis and I don't
have that many files at present that setting it up is going to be a hassle.
If I do go with RackSpace, I'll report back what I thought of them.

I had previously looked at Amazon CloudFront, and was initially excited
about it, but finally concluded that it was more cumbersome to manage than
I wanted. I haven't ruled it out though. Some sort of web app front end
might swing me back.

CloudFlare's CDN has the great price of free, but the complication to this
one is that you need to use their DNS server for your site(s), effectively
routing all your website's traffic through them. They provide not just CDN
and unlimited free bandwidth, but website acceleration, server scaling, and
security services (even with the free account). However, for my situation,
where the purpose of the files I want to host (at least right now) are to
overlay my library branding and navigation across several domains,
including 4 vendor-hosted services, this just isn't going to work.
Libraries are a messy use case, and the DNS part is not under my direct
control. I can see it being useful for a single site though.

Thanks,
Tom

[CODE4LIB] Library CDNs

[Tom Keays]

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] T-Shirt voting is now open!

[Tom Keays]

Link is broken in my email program, so here it is again, further corrected.

http://vote.code4lib.org/election/25

Tom

On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Andreas Orphanides wrote:

> Minor correction:
>
> The correct address for voting is
> http://vote.code4lib.org/**election/25<
> http://vote.code4lib.org/election/results/25>,
> though the address Shaun provided (http://vote.code4lib.org/**
> election/results/25 ) will
> let you cheat and sneak a peek at who's winning, if you're into that kind
> of thing.
>
> -dre.
>
> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Shaun Ellis  wrote:
>
> > Hi folks,
> > The T-shirt committee is pleased to announce that voting is now open at
> > the following URL:
> >
> > http://vote.code4lib.org/**election/results/25<
> http://vote.code4lib.org/election/results/25>
> >
> > Voting will close at midnight of January 15th.  Those who are not
> > registered for the conference by January 15th are not guaranteed a shirt.
> >  If you are attending, please fill out the sizing form here so we get you
> > the right size and fit:
> > https://docs.google.com/**spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=**
> > dGoxYmVZaTJrdkVyZF9rWWVYNi1XbV**E6MQ<
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGoxYmVZaTJrdkVyZF9rWWVYNi1XbVE6MQ
> >
> >
> > A big ++ to Ross Singer for help in setting up the diebold-o-tron...
> > thanks, Ross!
> >
> > Cheers,
> > The Code4Lib 2013 T-shirt Committee
> >
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Responsive Web Site Live

[Tom Keays]

Browserstack and other emulators help quite a bit in testing, and testing
on real devices is always advisable.

But here's a nifty tool I discovered which is really useful if you are just
playing around with breakpoint testing on your desktop browser.

http://lab.maltewassermann.com/viewport-resizer/

Tom

On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Keith Jenkins  wrote:

> Does anyone here have any experience with browser emulators such as
> BrowserStack?  http://www.browserstack.com/
>
> If so, have you come across any significant differences between the
> emulators and the real thing?
>
> Keith
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Ron Gilmour  wrote:
> > Ideally, of course, one would have a mobile device lab
> > <
> http://mobile.smashingmagazine.com/2012/09/24/establishing-an-open-device-lab/
> >
> > where one could test a site on all kinds of devices, but that's not
> likely
> > at a small college library.
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with WordPress for Code4Lib Journal

[Tom Keays]

The Code4Lib Journal is now running an up-to-date version of WordPress on
our server and all of our plugins are similarly updated and operational.
I'd especially like to acknowledge the contribution of Mark Pernotto, whose
good knowledge of the WordPress codex allowed him to see the problem that I
could not, and write a revised Issue Manager plugin. I'll post the revised
code to GitHub in the next week or so. Thanks again to the other
code4libbers that also offered to help. This group's generousity and
expertise is great.

For the Code4Lib Journal, many thanks!

Tom

Re: [CODE4LIB] Request for submissions: Code4Lib 2013 T-Shirt designs!

[Tom Keays]

Doubt it was intended as a conference shirt, but, yeah, I'd buy it as
general C4L merch. Cafepress or Zazzle anyone?  Beat it proudly, people.

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 8:29 AM, Mark Sullivan  wrote:

> I thought we had settled on Michael Doran's design?
>
> __**__
> Mark Sullivan
> Executive Director
> IDS Project
> Milne Library
> 1 College Circle
> SUNY Geneseo
> Geneseo, NY 14454
> (585) 245-5172
>
>
> On 12/10/2012 2:57 PM, Andreas Orphanides wrote:
>
>> Hey Code4Libbers,
>>
>> The time has come once again to create the official Code4Lib 2013 tee
>> shirt! If you're interested in submitting a design, please head over to
>> the
>> wiki:
>>
>> Code4Lib 2013 T-Shirt Design
>> Proposals> shirt_design_proposals
>> >
>>
>> The basics:
>>
>> - One submission per person, please. (But you don't need to be
>> attending
>> to submit a design!)
>> - T-shirt designs should be 1-sided, single color designs suitable for
>> screenprinting.
>> - You should have a print-ready version of your design available when
>> you submit it.
>> - If you'd like, you can add a line or two of explanatory text to your
>> submission to explain your concept, indicate color specifications,
>> etc.
>> - All proposals posted to the above wiki page while the calendar year
>> is
>> still 2012 will be considered.
>>
>> Get your submissions in by December 31, 2012! If you've got any questions,
>> drop me a line!
>>
>> -Dre, on behalf of the C4L 2013 tee shirt committee
>>
>
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with WordPress for Code4Lib Journal

[Tom Keays]

After a bit of dithering on this, I'm pretty sure that Mark's revision of
the plugin is working under the current version of WordPress I'm testing on
(3.4.2). I have a few other things I'm going to need to do before I declare
this solved, upgrade the Journal's instance of WordPress and upload the
updated plugin to GitHub, but I wanted to say thanks in advance. The
Code4Lib community is incredible!

Tom

Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with WordPress for Code4Lib Journal

[Tom Keays]

First... I haven't died, but I got caught up in some a project at work that
required all my time the past couple of days. I hope to test Mark's WP
plugin tomorrow.  (And, just in time, since Wordpress 3.5 seems to be out
of beta now too.)

Second, the Code4Lib Journal founders looked at OJS in 2007. We liked it,
but the decision was to go with WordPress. In the future, we may try
another approach.

Tom

On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 5:05 PM, Ed Sperr  wrote:

> Instead of maintaining a custom codebase to try and force WP to do what
> you want, why not just use a tool purpose-built for this kind of job? The
> open-source, "Open Journal Systems" from PKP might be a good fit:
> http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ojs
>
> Ed Sperr, M.L.I.S.
> Copyright and Electronic Resources Officer
> St. George's University
> esp...@sgu.edu
>
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> This email has been scanned by the Symantec Email Security.cloud service.
> For more information please visit http://www.symanteccloud.com
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>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with WordPress for Code4Lib Journal

[Tom Keays]

Let's have mine be the canonical version for now. It will be too confusing
to have two versions that don't have an explicit fork relationship.

https://github.com/tomkeays/issue-manager

Tom

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Chad Nelson  wrote:

> Beat me by one minute Tom!
>
> And here it is in code4lib github
>
> https://github.com/code4lib/IssueManager
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Tom Keays  wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Shaun Ellis 
> wrote:
> >
> > > You can upload it to your account and then someone with admin rights to
> > > Code4Lib can fork it if they think our Code4Lib Journal custom code
> > should
> > > be a repo there.  Doesn't really matter if they do actually. I think
> for
> > > debugging, it's best to point folks to the actual code the journal is
> > > running, which was forked from the official one on the Codex, right?
> >
> >
> > It was written for the Journal and originally kept in a Google Code repo
> > (this is before Github became the de facto). After the author left the
> > journal, he did a couple of updates which he uploaded to the WP Codex,
> but
> > nothing for a few years.
> >
> > Anyway, here it is:
> >
> > https://github.com/tomkeays/issue-manager
> >
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with WordPress for Code4Lib Journal

[Tom Keays]

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Shaun Ellis  wrote:

> You can upload it to your account and then someone with admin rights to
> Code4Lib can fork it if they think our Code4Lib Journal custom code should
> be a repo there.  Doesn't really matter if they do actually. I think for
> debugging, it's best to point folks to the actual code the journal is
> running, which was forked from the official one on the Codex, right?


It was written for the Journal and originally kept in a Google Code repo
(this is before Github became the de facto). After the author left the
journal, he did a couple of updates which he uploaded to the WP Codex, but
nothing for a few years.

Anyway, here it is:

https://github.com/tomkeays/issue-manager

Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with WordPress for Code4Lib Journal

[Tom Keays]

Hijacking my thread back. To answer all the questions in one go:

>From Chad Nelson:
> What version of WP are you currently on?

Embarrassed, but you just have to do a view source of the Journal to learn
the dirty truth: WordPress 3.0.4

As you can see from the wiki, upgrading is something we want to do:

  http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Code4Lib_Journal_Tech_Wishlist

> Is the source of the plugin available anywhere?

Version 1.4.3 is the most current version I found. There's an older version
on a Google Code repo, so don't use that.

  http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/issue-manager/

>From Jason Stirnaman:
> It might be worth considering the Annotum theme for Wordpress, meant to
do just that.
> http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/annotum-base

Peter Murray suggested Annotum to me last week, but we'd very likely have
to change our workflow to use it and work would have to be done to merge
our template with Annotum's.  I'm not against either, but inertia sets in.

Peter also mentioned SemiotiX New Series, which I have yet to suss out

  http://ideophone.org/semiotix-wordpress-e-journal/

>From Shaun Ellis (echoed by Katherine Lynch):
> Tom, can you post the plugin to Code4Lib's github so we can have a crack
at it

I can't, since I do not have a login to that Github account (I didn't even
know about it until last week). I'm not sure what the feeling of the
current Code4Lib owner(s) is regarding this, but if you can push content to
that account, please feel free to start a new plugin repo there.

I've had offers of help from Mark Pernotto and Katherine Lynch, for which I
am thankful. We'll have to figure out how to go forward with this. First
though, Mark and Katherine, can you confirm that you will help? We can
probably do the rest of this off the public channel.

And to anyone else who feels like it: please take a look at the code in the
WordPress Codex and see if anything jumps out at you. All and all, it
seemed to me to conform to the WP documentation I've read, but obviously
something has changed in the codex that I'm missing. Mark suggested that
the way WP handles jQuery & ajax requests might be part of it, and I think
he's on to something. However, there also seems to be a problem with the
way the cat_ID (category ID) search is being executed to build the list of
articles in the target issue. Maybe it is tied to the how the
jquery-ui-sortable-1.5.2.js module is working, but maybe not.

Thanks for the positive response,
Tom

[CODE4LIB] Help with WordPress for Code4Lib Journal

[Tom Keays]

On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Ross Singer  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] Choosing fora. was: Proliferation of Code4Lib Channels

[Tom Keays]

Or just use Reddit's OS codebase*.
  https://github.com/reddit

Tom

* though I'm personally hoping there won't be another channel to keep track
of.


On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Shaun Ellis  wrote:

> On 12/3/12 2:14 PM, MJ Ray wrote:
>
>> This listserv looks threaded to me.  Maybe you need to upgrade
>> Thunderbird, although I could have sworn it's done threaded for
>> a while now.
>>
>>
> I was thinking of something that has a "Vote to Promote" feature. I feel
> that it's important to give folks a chance to support ideas even if they
> don't have a lot to add comment-wise.  It's a good way to gauge interest
> among folks who are not "top talkers".  The "Vote to Promote" pattern is
> designed as an unobtrusive, democratic way to show support for ideas and
> focus the discussion toward constructive commentary [1].
>
> Interestingly enough, the RailsBridge curriculum project implements a
> simple version of this pattern as its core project[2].  I wonder if it
> would be a good starting point for a collaborative project?  Everyone who
> takes the workshop will know how this app works and should be able to add
> to it in the months that follow the conference.
>
> One of the MIT Mentorship Program tips [3] recommends making sure mentors
> get something in return (that it's not all giving on the part of the
> mentor). Since, according to Jonathan, we have a paucity of volunteer
> coders, perhaps the RailsBridge app could be an ongoing github project and
> a way to enlist more volunteers to give back to Code4Lib. Mentees might be
> expected to contribute something after the workshop and get a feel for
> software collaboration on github with their mentors in a helpful
> environment?
>
> Whether or not people would use such a tool in addition to the listserv, I
> don't know.  Vote to Promote requires a critical mass to make it
> worthwhile, but it's hard to gauge actual support without testing it.
>
> [1] 
> http://ui-patterns.com/**patterns/VoteToPromote
> [2] 
> http://docs.railsbridge.org/**curriculum/
> [3] http://mit.edu/uaap/prog_tips.**html
>
>
>
>> Unless you do something pretty silly - like insisting everyone
>> register with github
>>
>
> Unfortunately, in order to collaborate on the anti-harrassment policy, you
> do need to have a github account, or lobby someone who does to make a
> change for you.  But I think most would agree that's better than hashing
> out such details on this list.
>
>
> --
> Shaun D. Ellis
> Digital Library Interface Developer
> Firestone Library, Princeton University
> voice: 609.258.1698 | sha...@princeton.edu
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Library event systems and using your API talents for good

[Tom Keays]

I've been disappointed by event management/calendaring systems in general.
I think there are a number of common needs that libraries all share.

Calendar systems -- scheduling single instance or repeating instance events
seems to be the one thing you can find in a system. Basic
metadata/filtering parameters should (and usually do) include: date, time,
location, description. There's variation in how rich this metadata is; some
include permutations on address, campus information, mapping options, etc.;
some include html options for the description, such as allowing links or
images.

Event registration -- an added feature is the ability to allow users to
register for an event and for event organizers to process that data.  You
don't want to have to maintain a separate registration system. Outside the
scope of LibraryThing's Event API, except possibly to replicate
registration links so users can sign up from within LT.

Syndication -- Jon Udell spent much of 2009 and 2010 documenting his
efforts to find and then build a calendaring system that would aggregate
existing sources of calendar data, the goal being reuse rather than
replication. [1]  His specific objective was to create a shared community
calendar [2] and along the way, he explored the limitations of RSS and iCal
data. Once such data was captured by a calendar aggregator, it could then
be resyndicated, giving users a single source for the entire community.
(Udell has been less public since 2010, so I lost track of where this has
been going.)

[1] http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/08/lessons-learned-building-the-e.html
[2] http://elmcity.cloudapp.net/

Embedded calendar data -- Also related to syndication is the idea of
including calendar metadata in a format on a web page that can be indexed
by search engines and directly consumed by users via browser plugins and
the like. The hCalendar microformat [3] was an attempt to embed iCal
calendar data into event listings. When RDFa had its brief accendency a
couple of years ago, it looked like hCalendar might be merge into it or be
replaced my similar systems, such as Schema.org's Event property [4].
However, now it looks like HTML5  attribute might edge out Schema.org
and hCalendar. Unfortunately, it seems to be impossible to encode hCalendar
microformats as HTML5 microdata.

[3] http://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar
[4] http://schema.org/Event
[5] http://html5doctor.com/the-time-element/

Ongoing events -- much of library event data doesn't fit neatly into
regular calendar systems. Whereas calendaring systems only seem to be good
at scheduling events with a specified time and date of occurence, I'd also
like to see calendar system that can handle scheduling of events that are
ongoing -- e.g., exhibits, art shows, library week announcements, etc.  A
defining feature of a good event system would the ability to schedule both
the publication and expiration dates of the event, along with a mechanism
to archive expired events. From the public's point of view, an ongoing
event would appear once on the calendar -- i.e., as a single event spanning
several days rather than as a series individual listings strung over the
course of several days or weeks. On a day calendar, it would show as an
all-day event or announcement. On a week or month calendar, it might be a
bar spanning the days or weeks for which it was in effect.

My observation has been that whenever libraries have to maintain separate
calendar and event systems, that the calendar system eventually begins to
be missed as new events are added, to the point where it becomes
unreliable. As Tim observed in his post, if a system is not reporting event
information, it becomes much less useful. I wouldn't be surprised if
something like what I've just described is not ultimately impacting how
well LibraryThing's Event API is able to pick up local event data. If a
library marginalizes their calendar (intentionally or otherwise), it simply
won't be available to LT.

Alright. Sort of meandering and beyond the scope of Tim's original email,
but I thought it was worthwhile getting a few more use cases out there.
Udell's aggregation approach, for instance, might be more effective for
capturing discrete event data.

My 2c
Tom


On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Tim Spalding  wrote:

> Dear Code4Lib-ers (and apologies for a semi-crosspost to Web4Lib):
>
> ## Request:
>
> I'm trying to get a global view of library event systems—a part of library
> technology I've never really looked at. I wonder if anyone here could give
> me a leg up?
>
> * Who are the top competitors?
> * Are they local- or cloud-based?
> * What sort of outputs to they present?
> * Has anyone worked with this data—moving it to other calendar systems,
> etc.?
>
> Thanks for any help!
>
> ## Background:
>
> LibraryThing has decided to expand our "LibraryThing Local" system (
> http://www.librarything.com/local ), starting with our events coverage, by
> scraping and other parsing. So far we're processing data 

[CODE4LIB]

[Tom Keays]

What makes it work for SXSW is that they have a formal organization -- an
incorporated body, in fact -- that gives them the continuity and structure
to do things that can be highly structured or ad hoc, depending on the need
of the situation. They have to be this way because they are freakin' huge.
It is the fact because they are so huge, and have so many presentation
applications, that the organizers have this sort of latitude to pick and
choose among the best candidates.

Code4Lib is more like a collective: no central organization, only a loose
set of guidelines, and, thankfully, a lot of engaged individuals with a
good institutional memory to keep things on track (where the definition of
"on track" itself is fairly mutable). We can be this way because we have
intentionally kept the event small. It works, but it can be rocky.

Would I alter my vote for a presentation due to data that indicated gender,
ethnicity, age, whatever? (Probably not.) Might a presenter be a little
weirded out that these variables were being included as part of the voting
process. (Quite possibly.) Is it even legal to do so? (Dunno.)

I don't think we're big enough that the SXSW approach of having a central
organizational body make some discreet discretionary choices among the
presentation finalists would actually work. In our context, who would that
be anyway?  To achieve the gender/ethnicity/age/whatever balance, they
might have to sacrifice quality in the talks. Quota systems don't work when
the pool is small. And given our open voting system, the people being
passed over will not be happy.

To me, the solution is not to winnow at the back end, but encourage
diversity at the front end. I think we, as a group, have tended to do this.
As Bess has said, "our community is clearly doing a lot to move in the
direction of inclusiveness."

Tom

On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 12:44 PM, danielle plumer wrote:

> s

Re: [CODE4LIB] anti-harassment policy for code4lib?

[Tom Keays]

I think a good code is "Try not to be an asshole."  You can but try.
Never-the-less, I feel it mitigates the need for an angry god and makes the
10 commandments redundant.

Anyway, thanks to Bess for raising the issue. I think all of you have made
a great start. I think there are more than enough volunteers already, but I
would contribute if you need me. Using Github seems like a good way to
garner support and endorsement of the final policy. I've added it to my
"starred" list to show my support.


On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Karen Coyle  wrote:

> On 11/26/12 4:37 PM, Joe Hourcle wrote:
>
>> Don't be an asshole.
>>
>
> Could that become the 11th commandment, and could we get a really really
> angry god to enforce it? Everywhere, all of the time?
>
> kc
>
>
>  I think there was a second line of it, about how we had the right to
>> remove people who refused to follow that advice and no refunds would be
>> given. I might be wrong on the exact language. The e-mail I found
>> referenced 'Don't be a dick', in an attempt to paraphrase the legalese of
>> the Code of Conduct for our venue ... but the reference to gender-specific
>> anatomy would be kinda sexist in itself. -Joe
>>
>
> --
> Karen Coyle
> kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net
> ph: 1-510-540-7596
> m: 1-510-435-8234
> skype: kcoylenet
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4lib Registration 2013 Redux.

[Tom Keays]

Thanks for giving us a week notice. I would be screwed if it was today,
both for schedule reasons and for being given funding (which still isn't).

In the original proposal, http://tigger.uic.edu/~kayiwa/code4lib.html , you
said:

"Our plan will include staggered registration divided in 3 equal parts.
"Early bird" for people on the East Coast and our international friends who
stay up late, another in the middle of the day convenient for the central
time zone, and another late in the day to accommodate the West Coast and
international guests."

I haven't heard anything about this in the recent email flurry, so I'm
assuming there will just be a registration single queue, right?

Thanks,
Tom


On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 7:43 PM, Francis Kayiwa  wrote:

> To prove that we *do* listen the registration is push a full week from
> the last post.
>
> Repeat: You will be registering on 12/4 for Code4lib 2013.
>
> Apologies and thanks for those who beat some sense into us. We *do
> appreciate it*. That said we will not delay this any further. :-)
>
> ./fxk
> --
> A candidate is a person who gets money from the rich and votes from the
> poor to protect them from each other.
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] PBCore 2.0 to MARC XML?

[Tom Keays]

PBCore lists a bunch of crosswalk mapping schemes that they've identified.

http://www.pbcore.org/PBCore/PBCore_Mappings.html

Some of them are listed but aren't done yet, including a direct mapping to
MARC 21. However, a mapping of PBCore to Dublin Core exists, so you could
probably get there by using DC as an intermediate.

http://www.pbcore.org/PBCore/mappings/PBCore-DublinCore_Mapping.html

They also identify the Metadata Advisory Group of the MIT Libraries as a
source of mapping information, so you could possibly consult them for help
in this project.

http://libraries.mit.edu/guides/subjects/metadata/mappings.html


On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 2:15 PM, john passmore  wrote:

> Hi,
> Before I start reinventing the wheel, does anyone know of any stylesheets
> out there that convert PBCore 2.0 XML  to MARC
> XML?
>
> Thanks!
> John
> WNYC Archives
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] one tool and/or resource that you recommend to newbie coders in a library?

[Tom Keays]

And here's my coding tool, which is supported by most of the common code
editors via plugins: Zen Coding, http://code.google.com/p/zen-coding/

The idea is that it lets you use CSS-like selectors as tags that can be
expanded into full HTML snippets. I'll just use the example from the
project page to describe what I mean.

You type a string like this ...

div#page>div.logo+ul#navigation>li*5>a

... and Zen Coding will expand it into:

Re: [CODE4LIB] one tool and/or resource that you recommend to newbie coders in a library?

[Tom Keays]

I won't expand on Michael's excellent summary of using SASS, but he did
leave out one crucial bit -- it comes in two formats, which causes some
confusion.  The format that Michael was describing is the second one, SCSS,
which is basically CSS with some fancy nesting patterns that you can't do
natively in CSS, as well as variables and math functions. The original
format, SASS, omitted the {} braces and used a whitespace indenting style,
purposely emulating Ruby and Python in that regard. SCSS has the shorter
learning curve and, in fact, you can just use your usual CSS to get started
go on from there. In SASS, you have to refactor all your old CSS to the new
format, but my understanding is that there may be some things you can do in
SASS that you can't do in SCSS (not sure what, though).

On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Nate Hill  wrote:

> Huh.  Michael, I'd love to know more about why I should care about SASS.
> I kinda like writing CSS.
> I see why LESS http://lesscss.org/ makes sense, but help me under stand
> why
> SASS does?
>
> On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Ethan Gruber  wrote:
>
> > Google is more useful than any reference book to find answers to
> > programming problems.
> > On Nov 1, 2012 4:25 PM, "Bohyun Kim"  wrote:
> >
> > > Hi all code4lib-bers,
> > >
> > > As coders and coding librarians, what is ONE tool and/or resource that
> > you
> > > recommend to newbie coders in a library (and why)?  I promise I will
> > create
> > > and circulate the list and make it into a Code4Lib wiki page for
> > collective
> > > wisdom.  =)
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance!
> > > Bohyun
> > >
> > > ---
> > > Bohyun Kim, MA, MSLIS
> > > Digital Access Librarian
> > > bohyun@fiu.edu
> > > 305-348-1471
> > > Medical Library, College of Medicine
> > > Florida International University
> > > http://medlib.fiu.edu
> > > http://medlib.fiu.edu/m (Mobile)
> > >
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Nate Hill
> nathanielh...@gmail.com
> http://4thfloor.chattlibrary.org/
> http://www.natehill.net
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] archiving a wiki

[Tom Keays]

I haven't tried it on a wiki, but the command-line Unix utility wget can be
used to mirror a website.

http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/html_node/Advanced-Usage.html

I usually call it like this:

wget -m -p http://www.site.com/

common flags:
   -m = mirroring on/off
   -p = page_requisites on/off
   -c = continue - when download is interrupted
   -l5 = reclevel - Recursion level (depth) default = 5

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Carol Hassler
wrote:

> My organization would like to archive/export our internal wiki in some
> kind of end-user friendly format. The concept is to copy the wiki
> contents annually to a format that can be used on any standard computer
> in case of an emergency (i.e. saved as an HTML web-style archive, saved
> as PDF files, saved as Word files).
>
> Another way to put it is that we are looking for a way to export the
> contents of the wiki into a printer-friendly format - to a document that
> maintains some organization and formatting and can be used on any
> standard computer.
>
> Is anybody aware of a tool out there that would allow for this sort of
> automated, multi-page export? Our wiki is large and we would prefer not
> to do this type of backup one page at a time. We are using JSPwiki, but
> I'm open to any option you think might work. Could any of the web
> harvesting products be adapted to do the job? Has anyone else backed up
> a wiki to an alternate format?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
> Carol Hassler
> Webmaster / Cataloger
> Wisconsin State Law Library
> (608) 261-7558
> http://wilawlibrary.gov/
>
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Bootstrap vs Foundation

[Tom Keays]

I read this awhile back. It's by someone associated with the
Foundation project.
  
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/dive-into-responsive-prototyping-with-foundation/
Both look good. Like you, I looked hard at Bootstrap after the
conference, but haven't really done anything with it. I'd be
interested which framework you settle on.



On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Jessie Keck  wrote:
> Hi all,
> We are about to develop a set of style-guids and templates for our locally 
> developed applications that will have a unified look and feel.  One 
> manifestation of this will be a ruby gem that we will use for all of our 
> rails apps (including Blacklight and Hydra applications).
>
> As we were discussing the approaches we may take for this, the question of 
> basing our designs on a library such as Bootstrap or Foundation came up.  I 
> have heard a lot about Bootstrap in the C4L community, but very little about 
> Foundation.  Does anybody here have extensive experience w/ both libraries 
> and would recommend one over the other?
>
> We are already leaning towards Bootstrap as many in the Blacklight and Hydra 
> communities have expressed interest or are using it already.  Also, some 
> folks locally who have used or investigated both libraries have had positive 
> experiences in either case.
>
> Understanding that this may be boil down to a simple matter of taste, I 
> wonder what opinions you all have.
>
> Thank you,
> - Jessie Keck
> Stanford University

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q.: MARC8 vs. MARC/Unicode and pymarc and misencoded III records

[Tom Keays]

I'm out of my depth here, but I'm curious how this all works. Is it true
that, in MARC8 records, there is supposed to be an 066 field included that
defines non-Latin character sets? I'm making this conclusion from some
things I read on the LOC website. ANSEL is mentioned as one of the
instances where this might be necessary.

http://www.loc.gov/marc/specifications/speccharucs.html#field066
http://www.loc.gov/marc/specifications/speccharconversion.html#escape
http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd066.html


On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 1:02 PM, Godmar Back  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> a few days ago, I showed pymarc to a group of technical librarians to
> demonstrate how easily certain tasks can be scripted/automated.
>
> Unfortunately, it blew up at me when I tried to write a record:
>
> UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe8 in position 9:
> ordinal not in range(128)
>
> Investigation revealed this culprit:
>
> =LDR  00916nam a2200241I  4500
> =001  ocm10685946
> =005  19880203211447.0
> =007  cr\bn||abp
> =007  cr\bn||cda
> =008  840503s1939gw00010\ger\d
> =040  \\$aMBB$cMBB$dCRL
> =049  \\$aCRLL
> =100  10$aEsser, Hermann,$d1900-
> =245  14$aDie judischer Weltpest ;$bjudendammerung auf dem
> Erdball,$cvon Hermann Esser.
> =260  0\$aMunchen,$bZentralverlag der N S D A P., F. Eher
> ahchf.,$c1939.
> =300  \\$a243 [1] p.$c23 cm.
> =533  \\$aAlso available as electronic reproduction.$bChicago :$cCenter for
> Research Libraries,$d[2009]
> =650  \0$aJewish question.
> =700  12$aBierbrauer, Johann Jacob,$d1705-1760?
> =710  2\$aCenter for Research Libraries (U.S.)
> =856  41$uhttp://dds.crl.edu/CRLdelivery.asp?tid=10538$zOnline version
> =907  \\$a.b28931622$b08-30-10$c08-30-10
> =998  \\$awww$b08-30-10$cm$dz$e-$fger$ggw $h4$i0
>
> The leader[9] field is set to 'a', so the record should contain
> UTF8-encoded Unicode [1], but E8 75 in the 245$a appears to be ANSEL where
> 'E8' denotes the Umlaut preceding the lowercase 'u' (0x75). [2]
>
> To me, this record looks misencoded... am I correct here? There are
> thousands of such records in the data set I'm dealing with, which was
> obtained using the 'Data Exchange' feature of III's Millennium system.
>
> My question is how others, especially pymarc users dealing with III
> records, deal with this issue or whatever other
> experiences/hints/practices/kludges exist in this area.
>
> Thanks.
>
>  - Godmar
>
> [1] http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bdleader.html
> [2] http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/codetables/45.html
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Transcription/dictation software?

[Tom Keays]

My wife, for a linguistics research project, recorded the responses of her
subjects to a list of questions, so that she could transcribe them and
analyze them. She got Dragon Dictate with the intention of getting a rough
transcription and then, listening to the tape, correct the errors. With so
many subjects, she found that the software, which was trained to her voice,
never gave good enough results to be faster than transcribing them herself
by hand. So, keep that issue in mind. I would imagine that, if there were
just a few lecturers for the podcast, that a speech transcription solution
might work out, provided you could get the lecturers to spend a little time
helping to train the software. However, you need to find out how many
different voices a given dictation software can be trained to reliably
understand. If it is fewer than the number of lecturers, it probably not be
worth it. If it did work, you could send rough transcriptions and the audio
and have Mechanical Turk do clean up edits rather than the whole
transcription.

Tom

On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Suchy, Daniel  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.edu
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Pre confirm when where?

[Tom Keays]

I was just downstairs (escalator down out of the bar near the lobby) and
saw that they are start at 9:00 in various rooms.
Tom

On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 8:47 PM, Jonathan Rochkind  wrote:

> Is there some obvious way I'm not seei g to figure out when and where the
> conf pre conf sessions are tomorrow? I can't seem to find it anywhere. I
> don't even know what time to wake up and go looking for them? Not even
> positive if they are at the conf hotel?
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] NEcode4lib?

[Tom Keays]

Just a reminder that there is a NE Code4Lib space on the wiki --
http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/NEC4L (or http://ne.code4lib.org ) that
was used as part of the planning for a 2008 meeting in Boston.

On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Joseph Montibello <
joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edu> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It looks like there was a New England regional a couple of years ago. Is
> there still any activity/interest in this region? I can imagine that in
> addition to folks who missed the registration power-hour, there might be a
> significant group that can't get their library to support a trip to Seattle.
>
> Just curious.
> Joe Montibello, MLIS
> Library Systems Manager
> Dartmouth College Library
> 603.646.9394
> joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edu
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Pandering for votes for code4lib sessions

[Tom Keays]

> One thing I would be open to is to put a disclaimer splash page before
> any ballot (only to be seen the first time a person votes) briefly
> explaining how the ballot works and to mention that ballot stuffing is
> "unethical, undemocratic and tears at the fabric that is Code4Lib" or
> some such.  I would welcome contributions to the wording.
>
> What would people think about that?

+1 I agree with Ross on all points here.

In this age of blatant viral campaigns -- e.g., a band putting a link on
their homepage asking their fans to vote them up in a "best of" category -- I
don't feel outrage on this issue ... although I think it coasts along the
edge of ethicality. And I have to ask the question (since I really don't
know): was the amount of ballot stuffing that occurred sufficiently large
that it could actually swamp legitimate votes?

Tom

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

[Tom Keays]

Mine are being remembered from this morning when I filled it out at home.
I'm now on a different network/OS/browser.

Tom

On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Andrew Nagy  wrote:

> My votes are not showing after returning to the voting page.  I thought I
> remembered being able to modify my votes from previous years.  I went
> through the first 30 or so, and wanted to come back to it to go through
> more, but my votes are not persisting.  Is this a bug, a change, or a
> failure in my memory?
>
> Andrew
>
> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Michael J. Giarlo <
> leftw...@alumni.rutgers.edu> wrote:
>
> > POWERED BY DIEBOLD
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 14:08, Michael B. Klein 
> wrote:
> > > Hmm. 404'ing for me now.
> > >
> > > On Nov 22, 2011, at 4:22 AM, Ross Singer 
> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Ok, the results screen should no longer be throwing an error.
> > >>
> > >> Vote early, vote often,
> > >> -Ross.
> > >>
> > >> On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 6:57 AM, Ross Singer 
> > wrote:
> > >>> Mark, I'm only getting that for the "results" page.  Are you getting
> it
> > >>> somewhere else?
> > >>>
> > >>> I'll fix the results page as soon as I can.
> > >>>
> > >>> -Ross.
> > >>>
> > >>> On Monday, November 21, 2011, Mark Diggory 
> > wrote:
> >  The ever popular...Internal Server Error
> >  On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 7:34 PM, Anjanette Young
> >  wrote:
> > 
> > > Voting for code4lib 2012 talks are now open.
> > >
> > > Voting will close at 5pm (PST) on December 9, 2011.
> > >
> > > Presentation criteria to keep in mind
> > >
> > >
> > >- Usefulness
> > >- Newness
> > >- Geekiness
> > >- Diversity of topics
> > >
> > > http://vote.code4lib.org/election/21 -- You will need your
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Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib National 2012 Registration is now OPEN!!!!

[Tom Keays]

I got a confirmation email for registration billing. I assume,
therefore, that the delayed confirmation message you refer to below is the
success of completing the SurveyMonkey form.

Is it safe to assume that when the SurveyMonkey registration portion
reaches a threshold, that people won't be taken to the payment site?

Tom

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Elizabeth Duell wrote:

> Confirmations will be sent out at a later date. We chose not to have
> automatic confirmations because of the possibility of misinformation.
>
> They will be coming.
>
>  - E
>
>
>
> Elizabeth Duell
> Orbis Cascade Alliance
> edu...@uoregon.edu
> (541) 346-1883
>
> On 11/16/2011 8:27 AM, Michael North wrote:
>
>> And I assume that our registration is "reserved" until you get the
>> payment, or forfeited on Jan. 6th, correct?
>> We need a couple days to cut the checks.
>> Also, will there be a "confirmation" of registration email ... I have not
>> received anything, or should I be more patient :-)
>>
>> Michael North
>> Northwestern University
>>
>>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Code for Libraries 
>> [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.**EDU]
>> On Behalf Of Elizabeth Duell
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 10:18 AM
>> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
>> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib National 2012 Registration is now
>> OPEN
>>
>> yes, I will keep this e-mail as a reminder that it should be on its way.
>> Do you need more information?
>>
>> Thank you for letting me know!
>>
>> Elizabeth
>>
>>
>> Elizabeth Duell
>> Orbis Cascade Alliance
>> edu...@uoregon.edu
>> (541) 346-1883
>>
>> On 11/16/2011 8:11 AM, Mark A. Matienzo wrote:
>>
>>> Can we pay for registration by check, as suggested by the payment page?
>>>
>>> Mark
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Elizabeth Duell
>>> wrote:
>>>
 Registration is now open for Code4Lib 2012!

 The 2012 conference will be February 6-9 in Seattle, Washington.

 Code4Lib 2012 is a loosely-structured conference for library
 technologists to commune, gather/create/share ideas and software, be
 inspired, and forge collaborations.

 Register here: 
 http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/**Code4LibNational2012

 Conference information can be found on the conference web page and
 the code4lib wiki:

 http://code4lib.org/**conference/2012
 http://wiki.code4lib.org/

 Registration information as well as Transportation and Things to do
 in Seattle are at:

 http://orbiscascade.org/index/**code4lib-national-2012

 
 Hoping to give a 20-min talk or lead a pre-conference?

 Spots will be reserved for speakers, so please help us by noting that
 you have submitted a proposal for the conference in the "anything
 else we need to know" section of your registration form.  If your
 registration hinges on delivering a talk, register but DO NOT PAY FOR
 YOUR REGISTRATION AT THAT TIME.  We will contact you later for payment.

 *
 Wait, registration has filled up already? I just got this notice.

 Please register for the conference and get on the wait list but DO
 NOT PAY FOR YOUR REGISTRATION AT THAT TIME. Because of the large
 number of spots reserved for speakers, we will most likely be opening
 up more spots after the presentations are chosen on December 9th. We
 will be contacting individuals on the wait list and asking for
 payment at that time.


 --

 Elizabeth Duell
 Orbis Cascade Alliance
 edu...@uoregon.edu
 (541) 346-1883

Re: [CODE4LIB] _[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib National 2012 Registration is now OPEN!!!!

[Tom Keays]

Non-obvious, then. I always enter my name in the Description field. Since
my name was in the Billing Information, I hope that suffices.

---
Description: Tom Keays

On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Elizabeth Duell wrote:

> The Description field is for the PARTICIPANT'S NAME.
>
>  - E
>
>
>
> Elizabeth Duell
> Orbis Cascade Alliance
> edu...@uoregon.edu
> (541) 346-1883
>
> On 11/16/2011 8:21 AM, Joshua Gomez wrote:
>
>> Stephen are you sure it is a captcha error? When I first tried to submit
>> it complained about the "description" field being empty (it's at the top
>> of the form). I'm not sure what the description field is for, so I just
>> typed in "code4lib 2012".
>>
>> -Josh
>>
>>  "Westman, Stephen"  11/16/11 11:12 AM>>>
>>>>>
>>>> For some reason, it is not accepting the "captcha" information. I'm
>> typing in exactly what's showing, but I can't get the payment to submit.
>>
>> Stephen Westman
>> __**__
>> From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of
>> Elizabeth Duell [edu...@uoregon.edu]
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 10:59 AM
>> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
>> Subject: _[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib National 2012 Registration is now OPEN
>>
>> Registration is now open for Code4Lib 2012!
>>
>> The 2012 conference will be February 6-9 in Seattle, Washington.
>>
>> Code4Lib 2012 is a loosely-structured conference for library
>> technologists to commune, gather/create/share ideas and software,
>> be inspired, and forge collaborations.
>>
>> Register here: 
>> http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/**Code4LibNational2012<http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Code4LibNational2012>
>>
>> Conference information can be found on the conference web page
>> and the code4lib wiki:
>>
>> http://code4lib.org/**conference/2012<http://code4lib.org/conference/2012>
>> http://wiki.code4lib.org/
>>
>> Registration information as well as Transportation and Things to
>> do in Seattle are at:
>>
>> http://orbiscascade.org/index/**code4lib-national-2012<http://orbiscascade.org/index/code4lib-national-2012>
>>
>> 
>> Hoping to give a 20-min talk or lead a pre-conference?
>>
>> Spots will be reserved for speakers, so please help us by noting
>> that you have submitted a proposal for the conference in the
>> “anything else we need to know” section of your registration
>> form.  If your registration hinges on delivering a talk, register
>> but DO NOT PAY FOR YOUR REGISTRATION AT THAT TIME.  We will
>> contact you later for payment.
>>
>> *
>> Wait, registration has filled up already? I just got this notice.
>>
>> Please register for the conference and get on the wait list but
>> DO NOT PAY FOR YOUR REGISTRATION AT THAT TIME. Because of the
>> large number of spots reserved for speakers, we will most likely
>> be opening up more spots after the presentations are chosen on
>> December 9th. We will be contacting individuals on the wait list
>> and asking for payment at that time.
>>
>>
>> --
>>
>> Elizabeth Duell
>> Orbis Cascade Alliance
>> edu...@uoregon.edu
>> (541) 346-1883
>>
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2012 Registration Cost?

[Tom Keays]

Also, may I recommend that going forward, we document the registration
amounts on the wiki, both conference and pre-conference, including what
meals were included as part of the registration fee. After the conference,
this information vanishes with the registration form. It would be of
benefit to conference planners and attendees alike.

On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 4:39 PM, Tom Keays  wrote:

> There is the conference, for which, we have been told, registration is
> $150.
>
> There is the pre-conference, for which, we have been told, there will be
> no additional charge.
>
> In the past, we have charged for the pre-conference. No one has said what
> this charge was, but I sort of remember it being $25. I can't recall if
> that is for both morning and afternoon or if it was $25 each (total of
> $50). 
>
> Also, at least in 2009, lunch was on our own.
>
> I'm content to pay $0, $25, $50, or some other reasonable amount for the
> pre-conference. I don't care, except, like everybody else, I need to know.
> I fudged it on my travel request, but surely this can be resolved.
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2012 Registration Cost?

[Tom Keays]

There is the conference, for which, we have been told, registration is $150.

There is the pre-conference, for which, we have been told, there will be no
additional charge.

In the past, we have charged for the pre-conference. No one has said what
this charge was, but I sort of remember it being $25. I can't recall if
that is for both morning and afternoon or if it was $25 each (total of
$50). 

Also, at least in 2009, lunch was on our own.

I'm content to pay $0, $25, $50, or some other reasonable amount for the
pre-conference. I don't care, except, like everybody else, I need to know.
I fudged it on my travel request, but surely this can be resolved.

Re: [CODE4LIB] opening a pdf file [diva]

[Tom Keays]

Another idea, if you are looking for an app-based rather than web-based
reader is VuDroid, which supports both PDF and DjVu formats.
http://code.google.com/p/vudroid/

I suggest it, not because I use it but because, at least in the Open Library
version of the book's record,
http://openlibrary.org/books/OL7169556M/
DjVu is listed as a streaming format. If I had an Android, I would give it a
try.

For iOS, there's DjVu reader that seems pretty decent.
http://xzonesoftware.com/products/xdjvu
I may check it out later tonight.

Tom

Re: [CODE4LIB] opening a pdf file [diva]

[Tom Keays]

On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Andrew Hankinson <
andrew.hankin...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm one of the developers of Diva. I noticed that you've been getting your
> files from the Internet Archive. They also have the full high-quality JPEG
> and JPEG2000 images available.
>
> http://ia600209.us.archive.org/6/items/acourseofreligio00gerauoft/
>
> You could use those for Diva instead of the already-compressed PDF.
>

While I agree that Diva offers a really good on-screen reading experience
(probably the best I've used so far), Archive.org itself offers a good one
too.

So, for the first book in Eric's list,
http://www.archive.org/details/acourseofreligio00gerauoft
the on-screen reader is at
http://www.archive.org/stream/acourseofreligio00gerauoft

I tried it out in my 3 year old, 2nd generation iPod Touch over the flakey
campus WiFi and found that it displayed quite nicely. You have paging
controls, but can also use touch gestures to scroll and pinch the page
larger. Like Diva, it uses lazy loading techniques, so you don't have to
wait until the whole document is available to start reading.

Tom

Re: [CODE4LIB] ny times best seller api

[Tom Keays]

On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Doug Yancey  wrote:

> I've put an example of the php file (extension changed to .txt), along with
> the stylesheet I'm using in the following directory on our webserver:
>
> http://nc.ccrls.org/code4lib/


Thank you. I'll take a look.


> I was going to build a caching strategy into the php script itself, but
> recently discovered that our webserver can do output caching.  So I'm
> exploring that right now and want it working before this little project
> goes
> live.  I think it will improve performance, since these pages don't have to
> be up-to-the-minute current, and keep us well away from the NYT api limits.
>

The Reading Radar caches pages too. I imagine they would have a real concern
with API limits (unless the NY Times gives them a break).


> My only lingering question is whether or not this setup compromises my
> developer key.  I don't think it does, since that key is included in the
> php
> file itself and isn't visible in the output.  However, if others detect an
> issue here, I'd be grateful to hear about it.
>

One never knows how an API "vendor" will react, but given that the NY Times
features the Reading Radar in their API gallery, and it has had a lot of
traffic since it went live in 2009, I can't imagine that would have any
objection to yours or anybody else's.

http://developer.nytimes.com/reading_radar_app

Karen Coyle seems to have been involved with the bestseller API in the
context of developing a WorldCat book ordering system.

http://www.oclc.org/developer/news/building-new-york-times-bestsellers-application

There are only screenshots provided; no working example or code. I don't
know if this has progressed past the prototype stage, but it is a really
nice idea.

Tom

Tom

Re: [CODE4LIB] ny times best seller api

[Tom Keays]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 5:38 PM, Doug Yancey  wrote:
>I just got this set up on our site, using php to parse the json response.
> You should be able to see the result on our staging port at:
>
>http://catalog.ccrls.org:2082
>
>...under the 'Bestsellers' menu in the top nav bar.

Nice. It reminds me of the Reading Radar portal, written using the
Maintainable PHP Framework.

http://readingradar.com/
https://github.com/maintainable/framework

> would be happy to share that code with you, if you think it would
>help.

The author of Reading Radar described the structure of his mashup, but
didn't follow up with any code. It would be great to see yours.

http://jhherren.wordpress.com/2009/02/03/mashing-up-the-new-york-times-best-sellers-readingradarcom/


On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 5:36 PM, Godmar Back  wrote:
>NYTimes could allow JSONP, but then developers would need to embed their
API
>key in their web pages, which means the API key would simply be a token
used
>for statistics, rather than for authentication. It's their choice that they
>don't allow that.

I saw several threads in the NY Times developer forum, one as far back as
2009, where a JSONP option had been promised by NY Times staff. It may not
be coming.

However, given that the API is read-only, I don't see the real consequence
of using keys in the open.


Tom

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib New York one-day minicon, Mon Sept 26

[Tom Keays]

Since there is a Code4Lib NYC group but no evidence of a Code4Lib NY State
group, I think it was pretty unabiguously NYC. If you really need to check,
click the link for Yitzchak's organization, http://www.tourolib.org/ and
there is no doubt.

For reference, in the recent past, the closest regional options from central
NY have been Code4Lib North, Code4Lib New England, and (temptingly) Code4Lib
Midwest. See the list on http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Main_Page .

Tom

On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Wilfred Drew  wrote:

> New York City? Please be more specific than just New York. There is a lot
> of New York State north and west of Manhattan.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Yitzchak Schaffer
> Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2011 1:40 PM
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: [CODE4LIB] code4lib New York one-day minicon, Mon Sept 26
>
> Hello everybody,
>
> Plans are underway for a one-day code4lib [1] mini-conference in New
> York, in conjunction with METRO [2], which has graciously hosted our
> local "chapter" for several years as a SIG.
>
> After ruling out large swaths of time this fall for various reasons, we
> arrived at Monday, Sept. 26 as the potential date.
>
> Kevin Reiss [kevin.re...@gmail.com], Joanna DiPasquale and I are
> co-conveners of the local group. We would like to confirm that the date
> is not evil before concretizing it, so: if you know of some conflict
> that would prevent people attending, please let one of us know.
>
> More information should be forthcoming.
>
> [1] http://code4lib.org/
> [2] http://metro.org/
>
> Many thanks,
>
> --
> Yitzchak Schaffer
> Systems Manager
> Touro College Libraries
> 212.742.8770 ext. 2432
> http://www.tourolib.org/
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] source of marc geographic code?

[Tom Keays]

You are right: the linked versions don't have the country name labels.
However, if you download the full files (see the very last link on the
page), they are included. Furthermore, they only offer RDF and N-triples
options that include the labels; no JSON. Strange way to put up this data,
if you ask me, but hopefully better than screen scraping.

Tom

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 9:42 PM, Jonathan Rochkind  wrote:

> > It can be found at
> > http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas.html
>
> > Look near the bottom of the page for links to the codes as RDF,
> N-triples,
> > and JSON.
>
> Right, so like I keep saying, as far as I can tell, those files are lists
> of URLs, one for each code. (Or technically lists of RDF-triples, but where
> two parts of each triple is identical in every triple just saying "this URL
> is part of the marc geographic vocabulary", and then each triple has a
> unique URL representing a code).
>
> And I'd need to do a seperate HTTP request for each code ( a couple
> hundred?) to actually get the label(s).
>
> Am I missing something? That's not a very convenient way to get the data
> for the very common use case of wanting to construct a mapping from code to
> label, right? Or that's just me?
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] source of marc geographic code?

[Tom Keays]

It can be found at
http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas.html

Look near the bottom of the page for links to the codes as RDF, N-triples,
and JSON.

Tom

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 6:38 PM, Stephen Hearn  wrote:

> Have you looked at id.loc.gov? One of its vocabularies defines URLs
> for each of the MARC geographic area codes.
>
> Stephen
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Jonathan Rochkind 
> wrote:
> > Can anyone remind me if there's a machine readable copy of the MARC
> > geographic codes available at any persistent URL?
> >
> > They're in HTML at http://www.loc.gov/marc/geoareas/gacs_code.html . I
> > actually had a script that automatically downloaded from there and
> "scraped"
> > the HTML -- but sometime since I wrote the script, the HTML structure on
> the
> > page changed and it broke.
> >
> > (I kind of thought that was unlikely since that HTML page itself was
> machine
> > generated -- but I guess they changed the software that generated it.
> > Certainly I knew that scraping HTML was a bad thing to rely on... which
> is
> > why I hope LC provides this in some format less likely to change?)
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Stephen Hearn, Metadata Strategist
> Technical Services, University Libraries
> University of Minnesota
> 160 Wilson Library
> 309 19th Avenue South
> Minneapolis, MN 55455
> Ph: 612-625-2328
> Fx: 612-625-3428
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] RDF for opening times/hours?

[Tom Keays]

There was a time, about 5 years ago, when I assumed that microformats
were the way to go and spent a bit of time looking at hCalendar for
representing iCalendar-formatted event information.

http://microformats.org/wiki/hcalendar

Not long after that, there was a lot of talk about RDF and RDFa for
this same purpose. Now I was confused as to whether to change my
strategy or not, but RDF Calendar seemed to be a good idea. The latter
also was nice because it could be used to syndicate event information
via RSS.

http://pemberton-vandf.blogspot.com/2008/06/how-to-do-hcalendar-in-rdfa.html
http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfcal/

These days it seems to be all about HTML5 microdata, especially
because of Rich Snippets and Google's support for this approach.

http://html5doctor.com/microdata/#microdata-action

All three approaches allow you to embed iCalendar formatted event
information on a web page. All three of them do it differently. I'm
even more confused now than I was 5 years ago. This should not be this
hard, yet there is still no definitive way to deploy this information
and preserve the semantics of the event information. Part of this may
be because the iCalendar format, although widely used, is itself
insufficient.

Tom

Re: [CODE4LIB] Seth Godin on The future of the library

[Tom Keays]

I wonder if Mr Godin, in articulating his vision of the library as a
place "filled with so many web terminals there's always at least one
empty," isn't framing it around the Digital Public Library of America
proposal? He didn't specifically name it but, with all the acclaim for
the idea in the mainstream media, it is difficult to believe he is
unaware of it. In that he is primarily describing a public rather than
an academic library setting in his post, access to books rather than
journals and databases is probably what he had in mind and that aligns
with the goals of the DPLA. In addition, the DPLA conceivably could
satisfy some of the concerns voiced here about how local libraries go
about maintaining links and obtaining cataloging records.

To bring something new to the discussion, take a look at this post to
the PLA Blog, 
http://plablog.org/2011/06/two-more-reasons-for-library-outposts-the-dpla-and-youmedia-learning-labs.html
, describing something similar (or so it seems to me) to what Mr Godin
is describing.

Tom

Re: [CODE4LIB] 2012 Conference Dates

[Tom Keays]

Apparently no date set as yet.

http://code4lib.org/node/405
http://sites.google.com/site/code4lib2012seattle/\



On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Richard, Joel M  wrote:

> Good morning,
>
> I know that Seattle has been chosen for the next code4lib conference, but I
> can't find any info on dates. I'm really hoping it doesn't fall on the week
> of Mardi Gras (Feb 21, 2012). Does anyone have info on this?
>
> Thanks!
> --Joel
>
>
> Joel Richard
> IT Specialist, Web Services Department
> Smithsonian Institution Libraries | http://www.sil.si.edu/
> (202) 633-1706 | richar...@si.edu
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] code hosting / versioning

[Tom Keays]

You might also try out jsFiddle http://jsfiddle.net . It can be used to
implement source code snippets either stored directly in your "fiddle" or
pulled from a gist repository, http://doc.jsfiddle.net/use/gist_read.html .

Tom

On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Nate Hill  wrote:

> Hi all,
> I have some code I'd like to paste out in the open so that folks can play
> with it and sumbit their own versions.
> It is nothing too complicated: just a website template that includes a few
> html files, a css file, and a javascript file.
> I'm not really familiar with versioning systems, and after downloading Git
> and playing around it feels like overkill for what I'm trying to do.
> Does it make sense to just paste the files in code.google.com and go from
> there?
> Would anyone recommend a different approach?
> Thanks!
> Nate
>
> --
> Nate Hill
> nathanielh...@gmail.com
> http://www.natehill.net
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] An alternate presentation of Code4Lib Journal

[Tom Keays]

As I recall, one of the editors mentioned Anthologize a while back
and, at the time, we decided it wasn't a super good fit. Perhaps we
ought to reconsider. We're running WordPress 3.0.4, so that's not an
issue.

On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Eric Lease Morgan  wrote:
> On Jan 4, 2011, at 11:40 AM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
>
>> ...Is there any easy way to get it to, for instance, make an anthology of
>> all the posts with a certain WordPress tag or category instead?...
>
> Based on my (poor) recollection of playing with the Anthologize plug-in, the 
> process is a bit manual. Initialize epub. Drag postings to it. Annotate/tweak 
> titles. Click 'Go'. Get epub file. The process is not laborious, just a bit 
> tedious. I would definitely recommend the "Journal Committee" experiment with 
> Anthologize.
>
> --
> Eric Morgan
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] CouchDB and MongoDB (was: Re: O'Reilly books...)

[Tom Keays]

I saw this visualization of where the various nosql databases fit on
the CAP Theorem triangle. CAP says there are three primary concerns
you must balance when choosing a data management system: Consistency,
Availability, and Partition tolerance. Furthermore, you can only pick
2.

http://blog.nahurst.com/visual-guide-to-nosql-systems

According to this, Riak, SimpleDB, Cassandra and CouchDB all sit on
the AP side, whereas MongoDB and BigTable sit on the CP side. Most
relational databases sit on the CA side.

Tom

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Luciano Ramalho  wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Bill Dueber  wrote:
>> Oops. I just found a better overview than I can provide, at
>> http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Comparing+Mongo+DB+and+Couch+DB
>
> I was just about to send that link.
>
>> There are lots of other players in this space, too -- see
>> http://nosql-database.org/
>
> It depends on how you define "that space". There are lots of players
> in the non-relational, AKA, NoSQL space, but in the document oriented
> space I don't know of any other current contender other than MongoDB
> and CouchDB. Do you?
>
> Comparing Riak, Cassandra and MongoDB is like comparing a golf cart, a
> fork lift and a fire engine. They are just too different.
>
> But i'd say MongoDB and CouchDB belong in the same category, though
> MongoDB is optimized for performance in cluster, deployed in a single
> datacenter, with master-slave replication, and CouchDB is designed for
> easy and reliable distributed deployment with master-master
> replication among nodes that are not always online.
>
> Their conceptual data model is very similar (JSON and BSON), so it's a
> snap to migrate data from CouchDB to MongoDB (the opposite maybe more
> complicated depending on the dataset, because BSON has more primitive
> types than JSON).
>
> Where I work [1] we are doing pilot projects with CouchDB, but we also
> envision using CouchDB as the main repository for content creation,
> and pushing data to MongoDB for high demand services, if we find out
> that CouchDB can't handle the traffic.
>
> [1] http://regional.bvsalud.org/php/index.php?lang=en
>
> --
> Luciano Ramalho
> programador repentista || stand-up programmer
> Twitter: @luciano
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] WorldCat as an OpenURL endpoint ?

[Tom Keays]

We have been trying to enumerate serials holdings as explicitly as possible.
E.G., this microfiche supplement to a journal,
http://summit.syr.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=274291 shows apparently
missing issues. However, there are two pieces of inferred information here:

1) every print issue had a corresponding microfiche supplement (they didn't,
so most of these are complete even with the "gaps")
2) that volumes, at least up until 1991, had only 26 issues (that is
probably is true, but it is not certain) and there is no way to be certain
how many issues per volume were published with 1992 (28?, 52?)

v.95:no.3 (1973)-v.95:no.8 (1973
v.95:no.10 (1973)-v.95:no.26 (1973)
v.96 (1974)-v.97 (1975)
v.98:no.1 (1976)-v.98:no.14 (1976)
v.98:no.16 (1976)-v.98:no.26 (1976)
v.99:no.1 (1977)-v.99:no.25 (1977)
v.100 (1978)-v.108 (1986)
v.109:no.1 (1987)-v.109:no.19 (1987)
v.109:no.21 (1987)-v.109:no.26 (1987)
v.110 (1988)-v.111 (1989)
v.112:no.1 (1990)-v.112:no.26 (1990)
v.113 (1991)
v.114:no.1 (1992)-v.114:no.21 (1992)
v.114:no.23 (1992)-v.114:no.27 (1992)
v.115 (1993)-v.119 (1997)
v.120:no.2 (1998:Jan.21)-v.120:no.51 (1998:Dec.30)




On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 9:56 PM, Bill Dueber  wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Kyle Banerjee 
> wrote:
> > No, but parsing holding statements for something that just gets cut off
> > early or which starts late should be easy unless entry is insanely
> > inconsistent.
>
> Andthere it is. :-)
>
> We're really dealing with a few problems here:
>
>  - Inconsistent entry by catalogers (probably the least of our worries)
>  - Inconsistent publishing schedules (e.g., the Jan 1942 issue was
> just plain never printed)
>  - Inconsistent use of volume/number/year/month/whatever throughout a
> serial's run.
>
> So, for example, http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/45417/Holdings#1
>
> There are six holdings:
>
> 1919-1920 incompl
> 1920 incompl.
> 1922
> v.4 no.49
> v.6 1921 jul-dec
> v.6 1921jan-jun
>
> We have no way of knowing what year volume 4 was printed in, which
> issues are incomplete in the two volumes that cover 1920, whether
> volume number are associated with earlier (or later) issues, etc. We,
> as humans, could try to make some guesses, but they'd just be guesses.
>
> It's easy to find examples where month ranges overlap (or leave gaps),
> where month names and issue numbers are sometimes used
> interchangeably, where volume numbers suddenly change in the middle of
> a run because of a merge with another serial (or where the first
> volume isn't "1" because the serial broke off from a parent), etc.
> etc. etc.
>
> I don't mean to overstate the problem. For many (most?) serials whose
> existence only goes back a few decades, a relatively simple approach
> will likely work much of the time -- although even that relatively
> simple approach will have to take into account a solid dozen or so
> different ways that enumcron data may have been entered.
>
> But to be able to say, with some confidence, that we have the full
> run? Or a particular issue as labeled my a month name? Much, much
> harder in the general case.
>
>
>  -Bill-
>
>
> --
> Bill Dueber
> Library Systems Programmer
> University of Michigan Library
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] WorldCat as an OpenURL endpoint ?

[Tom Keays]

I do provide the user with the proxied WorldCat URL for just the reasons
Jonathan cites. But, no, being an otherwise open web resource, you can't
force a user to use it.

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:

>
> I haven't yet found any good way to do this if the user is off-campus
> (ezproxy not a good solution, how do we 'force' the user to use ezproxy for
> worldcat.org anyway?).
>
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] WorldCat as an OpenURL endpoint ?

[Tom Keays]

I think my perspective of the user's goal is actually the same (or close
enough to the same) as David's, just stated differently. The user wants the
most local copy or, failing that, a way to order it from another source.

However, I have plenty of examples of faculty and occasional grad students
who are willing to make the trek to a nearby library -- even out of town
libraries -- rather than do ILL. This doesn't encompass every use case or
even a typical use case (are there typical cases?), but it does no harm to
have information even if you can't always act on it.

The problem with OpenURL tied to a particular institution is
a) the person may not have (or know they have) an affiliation to a given
institution,
b) may be coming from outside their institution's IP range so that even the
OCLC Registry redirect trick will fail to get them to a (let alone the
"correct") link resolver,
c) there may not be any recourse to find an item if the institution does not
own it (MPOW does not provide a link to WorldCat).

Tom

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 12:16 PM, Walker, David wrote:

> > It seems like the more productive path if the goal of a user is
> > simply to locate a copy, where ever it is held.
>
> But I don't think users have *locating a copy* as their goal.  Rather, I
> think their goal is to *get their hands on the book*.
>
> If I discover a book via COINs, and you drop me off at Worldcat.org, that
> allows me to see which libraries own the book.  But, unless I happen to be
> affiliated with those institutions, that's kinda useless information.  I
> have no real way of actually getting the book itself.
>
> If, instead, you drop me off at your institution's link resolver menu, and
> provide me an ILL option in the event you don't have the book, the library
> can get the book for me, which is really my *goal*.
>
> That seems like the more productive path, IMO.
>
> --Dave
>
> ==
> David Walker
> Library Web Services Manager
> California State University
> http://xerxes.calstate.edu
> 
> From: Code for Libraries [code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Tom Keays
> [tomke...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 8:43 AM
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] WorldCat as an OpenURL endpoint ?
>
> On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Jonathan Rochkind 
> wrote:
>
> > The trick here is that traditional library metadata practices make it
> _very
> > hard_ to tell if a _specific volume/issue_ is held by a given library.
>  And
> > those are the most common use cases for OpenURL.
> >
>
> Yep. That's true even for individual library's with link resolvers. OCLC is
> not going to be able to solve that particular issue until the local
> libraries do.
>
>
> > If you just want to get to the title level (for a journal or a book), you
> > can easily write your own thing that takes an OpenURL, and either just
> > redirects straight to worldcat.org on isbn/lccn/oclcnum, or actually
> does
> > a WorldCat API lookup to ensure the record exists first and/or looks up
> on
> > author/title/etc too.
> >
>
> I was mainly thinking of sources that use COinS. If you have a rarely held
> book, for instance, then OpenURLs resolved against random institutional
> endpoints are going to mostly be unproductive. However, a "union" catalog
> such as OCLC already has the information about libraries in the system that
> own it. It seems like the more productive path if the goal of a user is
> simply to locate a copy, where ever it is held.
>
>
> > Umlaut already includes the 'naive' "just link to worldcat.org based on
> > isbn, oclcnum, or lccn" approach, functionality that was written before
> the
> > worldcat api exists. That is, Umlaut takes an incoming OpenURL, and
> provides
> > the user with a link to a worldcat record based on isbn, oclcnum, or
> lccn.
> >
>
> Many institutions have chosen to do this. MPOW, however, represents a
> counter-example and do not link out to OCLC.
>
> Tom
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] WorldCat as an OpenURL endpoint ?

[Tom Keays]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Jonathan Rochkind  wrote:

> The trick here is that traditional library metadata practices make it _very
> hard_ to tell if a _specific volume/issue_ is held by a given library.  And
> those are the most common use cases for OpenURL.
>

Yep. That's true even for individual library's with link resolvers. OCLC is
not going to be able to solve that particular issue until the local
libraries do.


> If you just want to get to the title level (for a journal or a book), you
> can easily write your own thing that takes an OpenURL, and either just
> redirects straight to worldcat.org on isbn/lccn/oclcnum, or actually does
> a WorldCat API lookup to ensure the record exists first and/or looks up on
> author/title/etc too.
>

I was mainly thinking of sources that use COinS. If you have a rarely held
book, for instance, then OpenURLs resolved against random institutional
endpoints are going to mostly be unproductive. However, a "union" catalog
such as OCLC already has the information about libraries in the system that
own it. It seems like the more productive path if the goal of a user is
simply to locate a copy, where ever it is held.


> Umlaut already includes the 'naive' "just link to worldcat.org based on
> isbn, oclcnum, or lccn" approach, functionality that was written before the
> worldcat api exists. That is, Umlaut takes an incoming OpenURL, and provides
> the user with a link to a worldcat record based on isbn, oclcnum, or lccn.
>

Many institutions have chosen to do this. MPOW, however, represents a
counter-example and do not link out to OCLC.

Tom

[CODE4LIB] WorldCat as an OpenURL endpoint ?

[Tom Keays]

I know it is possible to sent OpenURL requests to the WorldCat Registry
service and have it chose a local OpenURL resolver based on what IP address
you are coming from.

WorldCat OpenURL endpoint: http://worldcat.org/registry/gateway

What I don't know is if WorldCat has an OpenURL resolver or can itself act
as an endpoint for an OpenURL? I realize this is not the usual use case;
normally an OpenURL would be searching against a knowledgebase of the
holdings of a specific institution. With WorldCat, the OpenURL would have
the holdings of all the constituent member libraries as its "knowledgebase".
So, the purpose of this would be to discover where a given item represented
by the OpenURL was held. A secondary purpose would be as a source of
bibliographic citation information This could be quite useful discovery
tool, especially for materials that are not widely held.

Ditto the same question for OpenLibrary.

Tom

Re: [CODE4LIB] Location of Code4Lib 2011

[Tom Keays]

I attended IU Bloomington (and was a bike rider) when the movie was
filmed. The dad's car lot was just a few blocks from my house and I
biked a lot of the places that the main character, David, rode in the
movie.Much of the campus, including a scene outside the IUB library
(made of limestone from nearby Oolitic quarries), is featured
prominently. Nostalgia fodder after I graduated.

However, don't look at the TV show for a sense of Bloomington. It was
largely filmed in Athens, Georgia. Didn't the organizers of Code4Lib
2007 mention that? :-)

On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 9:43 AM, McDonald, Robert H.
 wrote:
> Thanks everyone - we feel really honored to be hosting next year's event
> here in Bloomington (a classic college town - please see Breaking Away if
> you have never seen it - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078902/) and we look
> forward to making it a wonderful time for everyone.
>
> Thanks again to our other host proposals from New Haven and Vancouver. Our
> competition made everyone's proposals better.
>
> Best,
>
> Robert
>
>
>
> On 3/23/10 9:35 AM, "Michael J. Giarlo"  wrote:
>
>> Congratulations to Bloomington, Indiana, and our new hosts at Indiana
>> University, for being voted as the host city for Code4Lib 2011!
>>
>> Thanks to all who voted and all the sites that submitted proposals.
>>
>> -Mike
>
> **
> Robert H. McDonald
> Associate Dean for Library Technologies
> Associate Director, Data to Insight Center-Pervasive Technology Institute
> Executive Director, Kuali OLE
> Frye Leadership Institute Fellow 2009
> Indiana University
> Herman B Wells Library 234
> 1320 East 10th Street
> Bloomington, IN 47405
> Phone: 812-856-4834
> Email: rob...@indiana.edu
> Skype/GTalk: rhmcdonald
> AIM/MSN: rhmcdonald1
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] favorite jQuery plugins for libraries?

[Tom Keays]

Since you mentioned that you were modifying your OPAC, you should
check into the Juice Project, a jQuery framework for doing just that.

http://code.google.com/p/juice-project/


On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 11:36 AM, Ken Irwin  wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm on a mission to finally learn some jQuery, and I'm kind of falling in 
> love with it. In particular, I'm finding in it the perfect tool for modifying 
> our OPAC in ways that the catalog vendor never intended, tweaking the DOM to 
> my heart's content.
>
> Having worked my way through the basics of the language (I'm using the 
> "Learning jQuery" book, which is a good introduction but has a nearly-useless 
> index) I'm curious about the vast array of jQuery plugins. There are too many 
> to know, and reading the descriptions it is not immediately apparent to me 
> what they do.
>
> So I ask those of you who use jQuery: Do you have favorites, or ones that you 
> find particularly relevant to the kind of work that we do? ("The kind of work 
> that we do" varies quite a bit, but still...) The only one I've really 
> explored so far is the dataTables plugin, which I will be keeping in mind for 
> future applications.
>
> Nicole: your "Library Mashups" book is next on my list; I'm looking forward 
> to it.
>
> joys,
> Ken
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] favorite jQuery plugins for libraries?

[Tom Keays]

I have been using a resource that takes advantage of the html5 offline
storage capabilities of the iPod/iPhone version of Safari to install
itself as a standalone jQuery Reference app that is current with
jQuery 1.4. I think it has the capability to update itself after
installation too.

http://www.mrspeaker.net/2010/01/14/jquery-iphone-reference/

I don't know if it works on other smartphones or not but I imagine
that you could reference it online, even if it wasn't possible to
install it.

As far as a favorite, I like the jQuery UI Tab plugin

http://stilbuero.de/jquery/tabs_3/

Tom

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Hagedon, Mike
 wrote:
> This doesn't answer the question; more I just want to point out for anyone 
> else learning jQuery that I've found the API reference at visualjquery.com to 
> be helpful. It's only 1.2.6, but I've used the information with 1.3 
> successfully so far.
>
> Mike Hagedon
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Ken 
> Irwin
> Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 9:37 AM
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: [CODE4LIB] favorite jQuery plugins for libraries?
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm on a mission to finally learn some jQuery, and I'm kind of falling in 
> love with it. In particular, I'm finding in it the perfect tool for modifying 
> our OPAC in ways that the catalog vendor never intended, tweaking the DOM to 
> my heart's content.
>
> Having worked my way through the basics of the language (I'm using the 
> "Learning jQuery" book, which is a good introduction but has a nearly-useless 
> index) I'm curious about the vast array of jQuery plugins. There are too many 
> to know, and reading the descriptions it is not immediately apparent to me 
> what they do.
>
> So I ask those of you who use jQuery: Do you have favorites, or ones that you 
> find particularly relevant to the kind of work that we do? ("The kind of work 
> that we do" varies quite a bit, but still...) The only one I've really 
> explored so far is the dataTables plugin, which I will be keeping in mind for 
> future applications.
>
> Nicole: your "Library Mashups" book is next on my list; I'm looking forward 
> to it.
>
> joys,
> Ken
>