Depending on your platform and context, you may want to explicitly use the
--selinux --acls --xattrs
options.
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On Fri, 22 Sept 2023 at 07:32, Lolis, John wrote:
> Long live tar! *T*ape *AR*chiving may be dead, but the command it ha
n't see any way you could separate those
> format blocks from the text to be blocked out. Am I misunderstanding you?
>
> Steve McDonald
> steve.mcdon...@tufts.edu
>
>
> > -Original Mes
LaTeX is a little like PostScript and Excel with autorun scripts: formats
conceived and developed prior to the software development insight that
separation of content and code need to be separate.
Nowadays it is accepted that content should be split into text and style,
but way back when, there wa
label:starred appears to be your friend.
See also label:unread, etc.
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On Mon, 9 May 2022 at 11:02, charles meyer wrote:
>
> I've Googled this issue but Gmail Help support page doesn't solve the
> problem.
>
> You receive an approve
https://pkpservices.sfu.ca/ are the people who developed OJS. I've not
used them for hosting but had very positive interactions with them for
debugging / fixing / patching stuff. They're also a unit of a Canadian
university rather than a for-profit company.
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Comms tip:
When writing an announcement you hope is going to be widely
circulated, make it clear less than three paragraphs in which of the
two confusingly-similarly-named software projects you're writing
about.
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On Fri, 9 Jul 2021 at
How are you going to present answers to questions such as "In your
opinion, what is the most interesting item or collection that your
library has digitized?" anonymously, given that these are highly
likely to be unique?
"15. Top 3: Considering vendors and other partners that you have
worked with,
any pages are in the book’s
> preface. In an attempt to make progress on a “read a book from every country
> in the world” challenge I coded
> https://deborahfitchett.com/toys/aroundtheworld/ using Wikidata but… needs
> more data.
>
> Deborah
>
> From: Code for Libraries
ah
> Sent: Monday, March 29, 2021 7:46 PM
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG<mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG>
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] facial hair names
>
> dc.coverage.facial
>
> From: Code for Libraries
> mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG>> On Behalf Of Stuart
> A. Yea
The CDC has released a list of facial hair names
https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/npptl/pdfs/FacialHairWmask11282017-508.pdf
If we want to use these for facetting, which metadata fields should we be using?
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dle destination. Then
> > throw
> > a CloudFront distribution in front of it, change the DNS, and call it a
> > day.
> > You’ll spend a couple bucks a month for storage and bandwidth, but the
> > ultimate control stays with the institution.
> >
> >
My institution has used handles for more than a decade and would like
to stop (non-standard ports, special server, etc), particularly as
we're now committed to DOIs.
However, we don't want to break URLs.
Does anyone know of a third party service that we can hand a list of
handle-to-URL-mappings a
There's XML and XML.
I suggest that you enquire about the exact format that you're going to
be receiving and ask around for systems that support it out of the
box.
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On Fri, 18 Dec 2020 at 07:37, Pennington, Buddy D. wrote:
>
> Hi a
Sounds like a classical use for the tf–idf measure.
For those with no background in information retrieval, see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tf%E2%80%93idf
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On Sat, 11 Jul 2020 at 06:58, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
>
> To stop word, o
After allowing time for obits to appear, I would encourage you to
consider writing a wikipeda article about Sandusky. Most late career
academics meet the criteria. If you need help with the mechanics of
writing I'm more than willing to help, but start with compling
secondary sources.
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On Fri, 13 Mar 2020 at 09:43, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
>
> On Mar 12, 2020, at 3:44 PM, Stuart A. Yeates wrote:
>
> >> Where can I find a list of Open Journal System (OJS) journals and their
> >> associated OAI-PMH data repository root UR
I believe that many years ago there was a comprehensive list published
by the PKP (who produce OJS) based on the homing signals OJS uses to
check for updates. That's gone now (privacy reasons?), DOAJ is a great
place to start, but many journals don't qualify for DOAJ.
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WARC is not an access format.
WARC is entirely optimised for crawling and the gold standard for archiving
because it's close to the 'on the wire' web experience.
BUT
There is no file index: you access every file using a linear search from
the start of the archive.
There is no guarantee that rela
Depending on what level of control you have, you could potentially do
some DNS black magic: have a VPN that sent all client requests for
*.ebscohost.com to server.yourdomain.edu which then used httpd
redirects (or similar) to rewrite those to include the proxy prefix.
You'd need to include an appro
My understanding is that the database at https://portal.issn.org/
contains the official information for all registered ISSNs and that
while it's free to access on a record-by-record basis, they charge for
API access and don't permit the redistribution of the results (and
goes to great length to tal
If you know the original photographer and are in contact with them,
would it be possible to get them to upload a copy to
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:UploadWizard for use in
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Kilgour ?
Ideally get the original uploaded for provenance purposes, the wi
gt; ORCiD: https://orcid.org/-0001-5059-4132
>
>
> On 2019/07/17, 1:30 PM, "Code for Libraries on behalf of Stuart A. Yeates"
> wrote:
>
> I'm looking for work or discussions on systematic bias in
> bibliometrics or appropriate fora wh
I'm looking for work or discussions on systematic bias in
bibliometrics or appropriate fora where such discussions are likely to
happen. Even critical analysis of the founding assumptions of
bibliometrics as a field would be a good place to start
I have some ideas but they seem obvious and I'm afr
I was personally ambivalent about anonymity on the mailing list.
However, the fact that it appears to be predominantly men arguing for
banning anonymity and women arguing for allowing it is a tell that us
men folk might have our lower appendages in our orifices.
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In the spirit of fixing actual things that need to be fixed, I'd like
to point out the really positive news out of the ALA about them
recognising Dewey
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/27/melvil-deweys-name-stripped-from-top-librarian-award
and AAAS about them recognising issues with curr
gan wrote:
>
> On Jun 12, 2019, at 8:40 PM, Stuart A. Yeates wrote:
>
> >> The Distant Reader [0] harvests an arbitrary number of user-supplied files
> >> or links to files, transforms them into plain text files, and performs
> >> numerous natural language proce
Taking a look at distant reader (which I don't believe I've looked at before):
(a) It would be great to sanity-check the corpus by running language
identification on each of the files
(b) There are a whole flotilla of technical identifiers that could
useful be extracted from the text files (DOIs,
Is there a clear statement of the problem OCFL is trying to solve? I'm
a third of the way through and it looks like METS with JSON replacing
XML and all references to existing metadata schemas (MARC, dublin
core, etc) stripped.
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On Wed
Altmetic is great for capturing social media buzz.
Unfortunately it has a very narrow selective view of impact, which
means that many classes of publication aren't captured.
It also has no notion of conflict of interest, so institutions which
have twitter bots connected to their institutional rep
That's great!
I've done a lot of work with VIAF, ORCID, etc in wikipedia and one of
the huge issues is with multiple clusters for the same person. The
wiki page for the list of VIAF errors is so long it no longer loads on
some of my browsers...
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I would also add somewhere links to the definitions / standards for
each of these files types. Not everyone who encounters MARC can be
expected to know all the other acronyms-as-file-formats.
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On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 at 08:58, Kyle Baner
Are there any other Browzine / thirdiron (https://thirdiron.com/)
users out there who are seeing an issue with browzine forgetting which
institution it's meant to be authenticating against when used by off
campus users who have not previously logged into our institutional
systems with this browser?
fier as a Handle, and not first validating that the Handle is
> actually a valid DOI. I'd regard that as a bug in the DOI's resolver,
> personally.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Conal
>
>
> On Fri, 17 Aug 2018 at 09:37, Stuart A. Yeates syea...@gmail.com>
't be too hard to add.
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On Fri, 17 Aug 2018 at 14:20, Stuart A. Yeates wrote:
> Interesting insight Conal, I wasn't aware of that service.
>
> https://doi.org/10063/1710 redirects to
> http://researcharchive.
t; actually a valid DOI. I'd regard that as a bug in the DOI's resolver,
> personally.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Conal
>
>
> On Fri, 17 Aug 2018 at 09:37, Stuart A. Yeates wrote:
>
> > We have a DSpace instance that is configured to issue handle.net
&g
We have a DSpace instance that is configured to issue handle.net
identifiers to all items, so links such as:
https://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/handle/10063/1710
http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/handle/10063/1710
https://hdl.handle.net/10063/1710
http://hdl.handle.net/10063/1710
all take a web bro
We're in the process of rolling out Rosetta from ExLibris / Proquest,
almost solely based on it's compliance with archival standards.
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On 24 March 2018 at 09:09, Turner, Steven wrote:
> Hi everyone - At The University of Alabama Lib
> I
> haven't thought this through but because BF combines the FRBR work and
> expression into a single entity, it may be safe to say that no BF
> instance can be an instanceOf more than one BF work.
Isn't every edition of 'Complete Works of Shakespeare' an instanceOf each
of the plays?
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In the meantime:
http://web.archive.org/web/20171202212012/http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/5468
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On 13 January 2018 at 07:05, Karen Coyle wrote:
> The link:
>
> http://journal.code4lib.org/
>
> goes to https://www.ibiblio.org/
Someone is on the list is bound to have extra megabytes left on their
archive.org sub at the end of the period. Maybe we could have a wiki page
describing the best crawl config so nothing gets left out? Remember that
re-crawling the same content doesn't incur a cost...
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For those of you blissfully unaware of what PREMIS in METS is / looks like
(as I confess I was a year ago), take a look at
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/stuartyeates/METS_metadata_for_complete_beginners/master/thesis-exported/ie.xml
(search for 'premis:').
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We're using https://www.zendesk.com/ for end user feedback. It's great.
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On 25 October 2017 at 09:04, Jason Bengtson wrote:
> I've used a variety of them in the past for projects . . . often through
> google forms. I haven't done it
On 14 October 2017 at 07:11, Edward Summers wrote:
> What if we created an identifier system that organizations would pay an
> annual feel to belong to? This identifier would be guaranteed to be
> globally unique as long as the organization cared to maintain it. You could
> use this identifier wi
Do you mean something like http://rioxx.net/ ?
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On 11 October 2017 at 10:20, Karen Coyle wrote:
> Hello, all. I'm working on some projects where we are trying to define
> formats and guidance for metadata *profiles*. You may have se
We're currently migrating a number of in-house and DSpace systems into SIPs
for ingest into Rosetta.
My advice is to put as much metadata as possible into the METS. For
example, just this week we seriously discussed putting sushi sections in at
the item level. Previously sushi was done by very dif
I'm currently scripting the conversion of >10 authority records into
MARC. I have quite a bit of sundry information about some of the people and
I'd like encode this in a way which makes it optimal for use / reuse as LOD.
Does anyone have any pointers or examples?
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Quality digital preservation software will ignore file extensions and file
names for file type identification and use JHOVE or similar.
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On Tuesday, April 25, 2017, Benedikt Kroll
wrote:
> That would work, but I'm rather trying to find out whether digital
> preservation softwares h
Most SPAM filters use distributed feedback as an important feedback loop.
This means that if individuals on the list want to do something about this,
they can check their SPAM box for code4lib messages and mark them as not
spam. To find these enter "in:spam code4lib" into the gmail search box.
ch
https://archive-it.org/ the subscription service of https://archive.org/
does login-protected sites.
We've found them to be very helpful and the software to just work, but
we've never done any password protected sites.
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On Thu, Jan 1
If anyone is keen, another likely source of synonyms is Wikipedia
redirects. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Redirects
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On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 3:10 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
> I wrote a little hack called the Synonomizer, a P
That is, if the XML is completely consistent AND you're guaranteed to never
encounter MARC data with XML special characters, then Kyle's suggestion is
an excellent one.
I really need to find an excuse to publish a document with a title starting
" wrote:
> Well, I think that's a *bit* harsh. But t
That should have read:
...
or more readibly as:
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From: Stuart A. Yeates
Date: Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 10:28 AM
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] MARCXML help again
To: Code for Libraries
You need an
You need an identity transform + a no-op template such as:
or more readibly as:
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On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Julie Swierczek
wrote:
> Thanks to all who responded to my earlier plea for help. I now have a new
> problem.
A question I'd start with is: Are you associated with an institution with a
archive that you could deposit into in return for defraying their costs?
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On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 10:00 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 13, 2016
I'm currently trying to systematise our use of EZproxy for
non-purchased/licensed resources.
There are two classes of non-purchased/licensed resources that I'm aware of.
The first is the class of PURL-like: services http://doi.org/,
http://purl.org/, http://handle.net/ and so forth which are used
There is a mailing list at
http://www.oclc.org/support/services/ezproxy/documentation/list.en.html
which is a great source for info like this.
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On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 3:18 PM, Kate Deibel wrote:
> Ranti Junus pointed me at this scr
PGP has a dreadful reputation for usability, be prepared for a significant
support burden if you take that route.
You could always try omitting details from the email but providing a link:
"You have 4 books due tomorrow, click here and login to see the details"
kind of thing. That in conjunction w
"Database" covers a multitude of sins.
Relational databases (MySQL / Oracle / postgres / etc) are unlikely to be
things that most libraries / librarians view as within their core
professional mandate.
Textual databases (which may or may not have an associated relational
database driving certain a
The real alternative is to build your own XML catalogue. This also makes
things faster by eliminating network lookups.
For linux users there's the helpfully named 'xmlcatalog' command to build
and maintain them.
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