Re: [CODE4LIB] stats for the conference video?

2011-02-17 Thread Ranti Junus
Well, excuuse me, Jason dear. ;-) Thanks for the info, Bill, and the link, Jason. ranti. On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:03 PM, Jason Griffey wrote: > Oh, Rantiyou wound me (for 1D6 damage): > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons_gameplay#Ability_scores > > Jason > > On Thu, Feb

Re: [CODE4LIB] stats for the conference video?

2011-02-17 Thread Jason Griffey
Oh, Rantiyou wound me (for 1D6 damage): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_%26_Dragons_gameplay#Ability_scores Jason On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:57 PM, Ranti Junus wrote: > Well, I totally have no clue what 'Str', 'Dex', 'Con', and others > mean. Somebody kindly enlighten me? > > > thank

Re: [CODE4LIB] stats for the conference video?

2011-02-17 Thread Ranti Junus
Well, I totally have no clue what 'Str', 'Dex', 'Con', and others mean. Somebody kindly enlighten me? thanks, ranti. On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:49 PM, Bill Dueber wrote: > Cha: 16 You must've been watching a different crowd than the rest of us > :-) > > On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:38 PM, Simon

Re: [CODE4LIB] stats for the conference video?

2011-02-17 Thread Bill Dueber
Cha: 16 You must've been watching a different crowd than the rest of us :-) On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 8:38 PM, Simon Spero wrote: > Str: 11 > Dex: 3 > Con: 8 > Int: 16: > Wis: 18 > Cha: 16 > -- Bill Dueber Library Systems Programmer University of Michigan Library

Re: [CODE4LIB] stats for the conference video?

2011-02-17 Thread Simon Spero
Str: 11 Dex: 3 Con: 8 Int: 16: Wis: 18 Cha: 16

[CODE4LIB] graphML of a social network in archival context

2011-02-17 Thread Brian Tingle
Hi, As a part of our work on the Social Networks and Archival Context Project [1], the SNAC team is please to release more early results of our ongoing research. A property graph [2] of correspondedWith and associatedWith relationships between corporate, personal, and family identities is made av

[CODE4LIB] stats for the conference video?

2011-02-17 Thread Kevin S. Clarke
Hi IUers, Thanks for a great code4lib conference! It would be really neat to be able to see stats on how many people were watching the conference video stream at different points in the conference. If it isn't convenient to generate something like that in house at IU, perhaps the logs could be m

Re: [CODE4LIB] GPL incompatible interfaces

2011-02-17 Thread Nick Ruest
Somewhat on topic - I thought this might be relevant - The most recent episode of the Free as in Freedom Podcast/Oggcast is entirely about Copyleft and the basics of compatibility. You can check out the episode here: http://www.softwarefreedom.org/podcast/2011/feb/15/free-freedom-episode-0x09-c

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib North | Meetup!

2011-02-17 Thread Dileshni Jayasinghe
Vote for a full day hackfest too. More time to come up with something interesting. Dileshni Tim Ribaric wrote: code4lib North ++ Thanks for putting this together. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of William Denton Sent: Thursda

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib North | Meetup!

2011-02-17 Thread Tim Ribaric
code4lib North ++ Thanks for putting this together. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of William Denton Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2011 4:15 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib North | Meetup! On 17 Feb

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib North | Meetup!

2011-02-17 Thread William Denton
On 17 February 2011, Nick Ruest wrote: It is getting close to that time to start planning for another Code4Lib North meetup! In anticipation, John Fink and I have been working behind the scenes here at McMaster to convince our administration to allow us to throw in proposal to host it. Hurra

Re: [CODE4LIB] GPL incompatible interfaces

2011-02-17 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
On 2/17/2011 12:50 PM, Eric Hellman wrote: If list members would like to "name and shame" GPL incompatible interfaces that they're stuck working with, have at it. If I'm mistaken and there are none left, then I'd like to know it. Well, the problem with "viral" licenses like GPL is that other

Re: [CODE4LIB] A to Z lists

2011-02-17 Thread Tim McGeary
At Lehigh, I've extracted e-journals from our SirsiDynix Symphony catalog via API into alphabetical and discipline-based XML documents. We then index those documents with Swish-e (http://www.swish-e.org/) and display the browse-able XML alphabetized lists and search interface in our Drupal-base

[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib North | Meetup!

2011-02-17 Thread Nick Ruest
Hey Folks, It is getting close to that time to start planning for another Code4Lib North meetup! In anticipation, John Fink and I have been working behind the scenes here at McMaster to convince our administration to allow us to throw in proposal to host it. We have tentatively booked up our Ly

Re: [CODE4LIB] Do you have Project Gutenberg (or other public domain e-books) MARC Records in your OPAC?

2011-02-17 Thread Ross Singer
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page "Project Gutenberg is the place where you can download over 33,000 free ebooks to read on your PC, iPad, Kindle, Sony Reader, iPhone, Android or other portable device. " "Over 100,000 free ebooks are available through our Partners, Affiliates and Resources.

Re: [CODE4LIB] EZB

2011-02-17 Thread Inga Overkamp
Markus Fischer wrote: [...] I am not aware of an API that let's you synchronize holdings registration automatically. Intersting idea anyhow. But you may do an export of your holdings, so this may work in the other direction. According to my information, an 'inbound' API was developed with su

[CODE4LIB] GPL incompatible interfaces

2011-02-17 Thread Eric Hellman
A comment on my blog from "Graham", after I pointed out that my discussion of Koha using AGPL was moot: Well, it's not entirely moot as you're referring to this article to scare people on the Code4Lib list off using the AGPL. I understand that you don't like the AGPL, but the argument you're ma

Re: [CODE4LIB] Do you have Project Gutenberg (or other public domain e-books) MARC Records in your OPAC?

2011-02-17 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
Hmm, what does "ebook" mean in this context exactly? Gutenberg has a heck of a lot more than 35k digital texts of books, I consider them all 'ebooks'. What does Gutenberg consider 'ebooks' exactly? On 2/17/2011 12:29 PM, Charles Ledvina wrote: Hello Matt: There are 35,224 records in this bzi

Re: [CODE4LIB] Do you have Project Gutenberg (or other public domain e-books) MARC Records in your OPAC?

2011-02-17 Thread Charles Ledvina
Hello Matt: There are 35,224 records in this bzip file from Project Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/feeds/catalog.marc.bz2 from this page: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Offline_Catalogs It is their complete eBook collection and they say the file is updated daily. --Charles Ledvi

Re: [CODE4LIB] EZB

2011-02-17 Thread Markus Fischer
No english documentation to my knowledge. If you want to become a member of the EZB you pay a small fee for their infrastructure and their staff maintaing the database. It's around 500 EUR a year. Very valuable! I am not aware of an API that let's you synchronize holdings registration automa

Re: [CODE4LIB] EZB

2011-02-17 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
No documentation in English, huh? This is a very interesting service I had not previously been aware of, indeed quite powerful. It's free for libraries to register their own holdings with EZB? Even American libraries? Does the API by chance cover that registration of holdings too, so softwar

Re: [CODE4LIB] Any open-source library statistics projects out there?

2011-02-17 Thread Michael Beccaria
Brandon, You're probably familiar with it, but I think CUFTS can handle counter files. http://researcher.sfu.ca/ It probably can't do everything you need, but it's worth checking out. Mike Beccaria Systems Librarian Head of Digital Initiative Paul Smith's College 518.327.6376 mbecca...@paulsmiths.

Re: [CODE4LIB] EZB

2011-02-17 Thread Markus Fischer
Linking is dependent on the request and the technical possibilities of the targeted publisher. Very often on article level. Were not possible on journal level. The things the EZB can't do is resolve identifiers like PMIDs, DOIs, SICI numbers. But you can do that easily by writing your own appl

Re: [CODE4LIB] EZB

2011-02-17 Thread Ross Singer
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: > Interesting, does their link resolver API do article-level links, or just > journal title level links? > > I/you/one could easily write a plugin for Umlaut for their API, would be an > interesting exersize. I think it would also be inte

[CODE4LIB] EZB

2011-02-17 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
Interesting, does their link resolver API do article-level links, or just journal title level links? I/you/one could easily write a plugin for Umlaut for their API, would be an interesting exersize. On 2/17/2011 1:18 AM, Markus Fischer wrote: The cheapest and best A to Z list i know is the g

[CODE4LIB] SV: [CODE4LIB] AGPL for libraries (was: A to Z lists)

2011-02-17 Thread Tony Mattsson
Hi, > Great to hear of your effort; I hope you have chosen to implement the NISO > 1.0 standard. I have no idea what the NISO standard is. The only standard followed is the OpenURL (currently 0.1) standard. But of course, this is an open source project, so I or anyone else can implemented it i

[CODE4LIB] AGPL for libraries (was: A to Z lists)

2011-02-17 Thread Eric Hellman
Hej Tony! Great to hear of your effort; I hope you have chosen to implement the NISO 1.0 standard. I would urge you to carefully consider your choice of license, however. As I wrote last year when the issue came up in Koha, using AGPL in stead of the less restrictive GPL can have some unintend

[CODE4LIB] SV: A to Z lists

2011-02-17 Thread Tony Mattsson
Hi, We are at the final stages of building an EBM system with AZ-list and OpenURL resolver developed in LAMP (with Ajax) which we will release into the public domain (AGPL). I'll put up a notice on this list when it's done, and you can try it out to see if it measures up :=) Tony Mattsson IT-L