[CODE4LIB] Employment Opportunity - Full Time Islandora Developer at University of Prince Edward Island

2011-05-02 Thread Kirsta Stapelfeldt
Apologies for cross-posting. See information here: http://www.upei.ca/humanres/44E11 Date of Posting: Apr 29 2011 Unrestricted Competition ROBERTSON LIBRARY/OFFICE OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PA LEVEL 7 – ISLANDORA DEVELOPER FULL-TIME TERM POSITION Competition Number: 44E11 The Robertson Library

Re: [CODE4LIB] NY Times Bookmarklet

2011-05-02 Thread Erin R White/FS/VCU
Good call. I ended up rewriting the bookmarklet to look at NYT's tags rather than the body text as they are more uniform and usually contain the info we need. They have fairly consistent use across the archives for the years I quickly tested (2003-present). The script now looks for a published

[CODE4LIB] Updated: Position Anouncement: Web Developer - University of Pittsburgh

2011-05-02 Thread Gregg, Brian D
Systems/Programmer III Web Developer, Information Systems, Thomas BL. To apply or see more information on this position: (Updated Link) http://www.pittsource.com/applicants/Central?quickFind=67052 This is a temporary grant-funded position through September 30, 2013 in the University Library Syst

[CODE4LIB] yaz-marcdump

2011-05-02 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
Does the -t flag in yaz-marcdump tell the program to convert characters in MARC records to specific character sets, or does merely change the value in a MARC leader to denote the character set of the record as a whole? In other words, will yaz-marcdump do its best to convert MARC-8 characters fo

Re: [CODE4LIB] yaz-marcdump

2011-05-02 Thread Mark A. Matienzo
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > Does the -t flag in yaz-marcdump tell the program to convert characters in > MARC records to specific character sets, or does merely change the value in a > MARC leader to denote the character set of the record as a whole? In other > w

Re: [CODE4LIB] yaz-marcdump

2011-05-02 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
On May 2, 2011, at 10:43 AM, Mark A. Matienzo wrote: >> Does the -t flag in yaz-marcdump tell the program to convert characters in >> MARC records to specific character sets, or does merely change the value in >> a MARC leader to denote the character set of the record as a whole? In other >> wo

Re: [CODE4LIB] yaz-marcdump

2011-05-02 Thread Jon Gorman
>From a good article on this at http://www.indexdata.com/blog/2009/10/z3950-dummies-part-4. $ yaz-marcdump -f marc-8 -t utf-8 -o marc -l 9=97 part01.dat > part.mrc (97 = 'a') If I remember correctly some of this functionality has also changed over various versions so not sure if this is still n

[CODE4LIB] Blogs/news you follow

2011-05-02 Thread Yitzchak Schaffer
Hello all, In the spirit of last week's inspiring and procrastination-enhancing thread on what-to-learn, a new survey: what tech/library news outlets and blogs do folks follow? My list follows, in the sections I use in my reader. I used to follow more tech news outlets, but it was too overwh

[CODE4LIB] New Jack Librarian: Making Links and Open Linked Data at The Great Lakes THATCamp

2011-05-02 Thread Ranti Junus
Mita Williams, the User Experience Librarian at the Leddy Library, University of Windsor, wrote interesting article linked data and semantic web from a librarian's point of view, and her surprise findings about RDF on Drupal 7. http://librarian.newjackalmanac.ca/2011/05/making-links-and-open-linke

Re: [CODE4LIB] Blogs/news you follow

2011-05-02 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
programming.reddit.com On 5/2/2011 11:04 AM, Yitzchak Schaffer wrote: Hello all, In the spirit of last week's inspiring and procrastination-enhancing thread on what-to-learn, a new survey: what tech/library news outlets and blogs do folks follow? My list follows, in the sections I use in my

[CODE4LIB] Job - Digital Services Librarian - University of Wisconsin Digital Collections

2011-05-02 Thread Eric Larson
We need digital collection metadata help. Please pass this job opening around to fun people. http://www.ohr.wisc.edu/pvl/pv_070122.html Full position listing below. Applications due May 13th. Cheers, - Eric -- Eric Larson Digital Library Consultant University of Wisconsin Digital Collection

Re: [CODE4LIB] Blogs/news you follow

2011-05-02 Thread Brett Bonfield
I love this topic. I hope by sharing my list I'll encourage others to share theirs and I'll find some good stuff I don't yet know about. # Library: Individuals * Wayne Bivens-Tatum’s Academic Librarian * John Blyberg’s Blyberg.net * Daniel Chudnov’s One Big Library * Ellie Collier’s Ellie <3 Libra

Re: [CODE4LIB] Blogs/news you follow

2011-05-02 Thread Ed Summers
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: > programming.reddit.com Similar, but different: http://news.ycombinator.com/ which also has a daily edition: http://www.daemonology.net/hn-daily/ //Ed

Re: [CODE4LIB] Blogs/news you follow

2011-05-02 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
I have been following ProfHacker from the Chronicle of Higher Education: http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/ It is a group effort advocating different ways to use computer technology in academia. -- Eric Morgan

Re: [CODE4LIB] Webinar information for today's Virtual Lightning Talks

2011-05-02 Thread Peter Murray
Thanks to everyone for participating in the first Code4Lib Virtual Lightning Talks on Friday. In particular, my gratitude goes out to Ed Corrado, Luciano Ramalho, Michael Appleby, and Jay Luker being the first presenters to try this scheme for connecting library technologists. My apologies also

Re: [CODE4LIB] Webinar information for today's Virtual Lightning Talks

2011-05-02 Thread Karen Coyle
Quoting Peter Murray : Peter, I was there for a couple of the talks and thought it went well. Obviously, practice will make ... better. Second, some comments I got were about cranky Java applets and applications. LYRASIS has two conference tools at its disposal -- Java-based Centra and Fl

Re: [CODE4LIB] Blogs/news you follow

2011-05-02 Thread Lovins, Daniel
I get a daily digest from slashdot.org. / Daniel -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ed Summers Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 2:02 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Blogs/news you follow On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 12:

[CODE4LIB] Group-sourced Google custom search site?

2011-05-02 Thread Cindy Harper
That reminds me - I was looking last week into the possibility of making a Google custom search site with either a whitelist of trusted technology sites, or a blacklist of sites to exclude. I haven't looked into whether the management of that could be group-sourced, but maybe someone else here has

Re: [CODE4LIB] What do you wish you had time to learn?

2011-05-02 Thread Cary Gordon
I believe the key is capturing your subjects "in flagrante delicto" On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Fleming, Declan wrote: > How to make money at photography -- Cary Gordon The Cherry Hill Company http://chillco.com

Re: [CODE4LIB] What do you wish you had time to learn?

2011-05-02 Thread Cary Gordon
That is where the wine comes in. Give me a Montechristo #2 and an '77 Fonseca or perhaps a '65 Domaine de la Coume de Roy Maury, and I am in the proverbial hog heaven. Cary On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 4:45 PM, Fleming, Declan wrote: > Dude, that's easy. > > Throw yourself at the ground and miss. > >

Re: [CODE4LIB] Blogs/news you follow

2011-05-02 Thread Brian Tingle
This perltree is called "daily reading" but some are more like weekly or monthly http://pear.ly/tSgr { http://highscalability.com/ http://slashdot.org/ http://planet.code4lib.org/ http://planetdjango.org/ -- currently down http://news.ycombinator.com/ http://thedailywtf.com/ } plus I