Re: [CODE4LIB] Scanned PDF to text

2014-12-11 Thread Chris Fitzpatrick
Tesseract is going to be slow, and there might not much you can do about that. You can do a couple of things, like set up a processes that run on AWS EC2 spot instances, so you can put a standing bid order on AWS instances and only run your OCR when the price drops. Or you can buy ABBYY , which

[CODE4LIB] Job: Research Data Services Librarian at University of New Hampshire

2014-12-11 Thread jobs
Research Data Services Librarian University of New Hampshire Durham The University of New Hampshire Library is seeking a creative, enthusiastic, and resourceful librarian to join our team. We welcome candidates to apply for the position of Research Data Services Librarian, a new term position.

[CODE4LIB] Job: Digital Scholarship Librarian at University of Nevada, Las Vegas

2014-12-11 Thread jobs
Digital Scholarship Librarian University of Nevada, Las Vegas Las Vegas The University of Nevada, Las Vegas invites applications for the position of Digital Scholarship Librarian (15291). This tenure-track position, reporting to the Head of Resource Acquisition, Sharing and Digital

[CODE4LIB] ArchivesSpace House @ code4lib 2015

2014-12-11 Thread Chris Fitzpatrick
Hi everyone, The ArchivesSpace project is considering hosting an open house during code4lib this year in Portland, with the idea of having some meetups and get-togethers planned. We are looking at renting a house close to the conference and it's possible that there's an extra bed for

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

2014-12-11 Thread Goben, Abigail
I'm in the audiobook camp with Coral because of my commute. Books: Terry Pratchett. I'm still working my way through the Discworld but I'm going to run out/catch up next year. At which point I'll of course have to start listening all over again. The Amazing Thing About the Way It Goes:

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

2014-12-11 Thread Jacobs, Jane W
In my earlier post I failed to mention two of my personal favorites: Urban Tigers and the (conveniently titled) Urban Tigers Two. These are fictionalized anecdotes from the author's experiences working at a veterinary hospital devoted exclusively to feline practice. If you liked James

Re: [CODE4LIB] Scanned PDF to text

2014-12-11 Thread David J. Fiander
Art Rhyno talked about doing this with scans of old community newspapers a few years ago (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcjCiS9pJ3A) Yes, it's very compute intensive and slow. He set up Hadoop to farm jobs out to the PCs in the library's public lab while the library was closed at night. -

[CODE4LIB] node.js and Apache together?

2014-12-11 Thread Junior Tidal
Hi all, I'd like to experiment with node.js on our production server to create a small calendar app. I was wondering if it's better to run node.js on the same server with Apache, or to set it up a separate cloud instance? I'm not sure if one is better than the other. Best, Junior Tidal

Re: [CODE4LIB] node.js and Apache together?

2014-12-11 Thread Brian Zelip
I've had success running node and nginx on the same digital ocean droplet fwiw. Apparently node and apache need to be run alongside each other on separate ports. The answers to this question might be useful to your process: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14369865/running-node-js-in-apache.

Re: [CODE4LIB] node.js and Apache together?

2014-12-11 Thread David Naughton
I would take a step back first and ask: Is production really the best place to experiment? I strongly recommend experimenting somewhere else first. If you truly are experimenting, and have never worked with node.js before, the safer of the two options you asked about would be to start by putting

Re: [CODE4LIB] node.js and Apache together?

2014-12-11 Thread Jason Ronallo
Junior, Not exactly your question, but there are sometimes reasons to proxy your node.js app behind another Web server (say to share a domain or subdomain with other applications or content without using a new public port). Choose nginx in that case if you can. There are good tutorials for

[CODE4LIB] Job: Associate Dean for Library Technology Planning and Policy at University of Alabama

2014-12-11 Thread jobs
Associate Dean for Library Technology Planning and Policy University of Alabama Tuscaloosa The University of Alabama Libraries is seeking an innovative, experienced, and successful technology leader for the position of Associate Dean for Library Technology Planning and Policy. Reporting to the

[CODE4LIB] Professional Service Opportunity: Copy Editor at Weave, the Journal of Library User Experience

2014-12-11 Thread Peter Coco
Weave: the Journal of Library User Experience seeks a copy editor to join our editorial staff. The copy editor is responsible for the final line edits to all journal content for correct spelling, syntax, usage, and compliance with Chicago Manual of Style before each issue is sent to Michigan

[CODE4LIB] Job: Data Services Librarian at Columbia University

2014-12-11 Thread jobs
Data Services Librarian Columbia University New York City The Columbia University Libraries/Information Services invites nominations and applications for the position of Data Services Librarian in the Social Sciences Libraries. The Libraries seek an innovative, knowledgeable, and service-oriented

[CODE4LIB] Job: Emerging Technologies Librarian at George Washington University

2014-12-11 Thread jobs
Emerging Technologies Librarian George Washington University Washington, D.C. The George Washington University Law School, Jacob Burns Law Library, located in Washington, DC, seeks a qualified librarian for its emerging technologies librarian position to begin as early as March 2, 2015. The

[CODE4LIB] Job: Metadata Librarian at Columbia University

2014-12-11 Thread jobs
Metadata Librarian Columbia University New York City The Columbia University Libraries invites applications and nominations for the position of Metadata Librarian. The purpose of this position is to develop, document, maintain and apply standards and procedures for creating metadata used to

[CODE4LIB] Job: Metadata Specialist (Specialist III) at New York Public Library

2014-12-11 Thread jobs
Metadata Specialist (Specialist III) New York Public Library New York City The Metadata Services Unit (MSU) of NYPL Labs is seeking its newest member: a creative, self-motivated specialist to wrangle metadata, oversee workflows, make batch enhancements across a corpus of more than a million

[CODE4LIB] Job: Web Developer at Johnson County Library in Overland Park, KS

2014-12-11 Thread Beesley, Michelle, JCL
Johnson County Library seeks an innovative, curious, positive, customer-focused Web Developer to work with the Web Content Team to develop Web presences that provide exceptional digital user experiences. Job duties include Development projects like: * Develop innovative custom Drupal

Re: [CODE4LIB] node.js and Apache together?

2014-12-11 Thread Junior Tidal
Thanks Jason and David for you input. Yes, to clarify I've worked on some node apps on a workstation then push them onto a production server to see how it works with other things on that server. However, it seems like the better route is to start up a instance dedicated just for node apps.

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

2014-12-11 Thread Ken Irwin
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

Re: [CODE4LIB] node.js and Apache together?

2014-12-11 Thread Jaap Blom
+1 I'd also recommend using a dedicated Node.js server. Putting it behind a (Apache or nginx) proxy defeats it's power of being able to simultaneously handle a lot of interactions without flooding the machine with threads. Also really consider what you want to use Node for. I do not recommend it

Re: [CODE4LIB] node.js and Apache together?

2014-12-11 Thread David Naughton
Junior, sincerely hope that helped. Seems like you made a good choice. Jason, thanks for the tip: I did not expect Passenger to ship with an nginx compiler/installer. (Just starting to experiment myself!) Useful not only for people who aren't system admins, but for those who don't have root on

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

2014-12-11 Thread Cary Gordon
Where do the data come from? An array? Cary On Dec 11, 2014, at 1:32 PM, Ken Irwin kir...@wittenberg.edu 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

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

2014-12-11 Thread Cary Gordon
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,

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

2014-12-11 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Dec 11, 2014, at 4:32 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.

[CODE4LIB] Fwd: [Rdap] Call for Editors for IMLS-funded DataQ Project (Due 1/30/15)

2014-12-11 Thread Joe Hourcle
A few months ago, there was a discussion of trying to try to make a libraries site on Stack Exchange. For those that were interested, this might be an interesting project to participate in, although their scope isn't necessarily all library questions. -Joe Begin forwarded message: From:

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

2014-12-11 Thread 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

Re: [CODE4LIB] Streaming Copyrighted material

2014-12-11 Thread Brent Hanner
Sorry this took so long but been having a bunch of computer problems. Instead of trying to reply to bits of this I’m going to try to be more comprehensive. First thing is to understand a few things. The streaming aspect is far less important than where you are transfering it from and

[CODE4LIB] FW: [BIBFRAME] The Library of Congress and OCLC - Working Together to Clarify Approaches to Library Linked Data

2014-12-11 Thread Bucknum, David
Forwarded to several lists, apologies for the duplication: From: Bibliographic Framework Transition Initiative Forum [mailto:bibfr...@listserv.loc.gov] On Behalf Of McCallum, Sally Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2014 5:16 PM To: bibfr...@listserv.loc.govmailto:bibfr...@listserv.loc.gov Subject:

Re: [CODE4LIB] Streaming Copyrighted material

2014-12-11 Thread davesgonechina
Hi all, Agreed with Brent regarding a cease and desist order coming long before any legal action, and agreed with Simon that under Aereo, and previous decisions, streaming is a performance and not distribution. FWIW I'm fairly certain that between the educational exemption for performance and

Re: [CODE4LIB] Functional Archival Resource Keys

2014-12-11 Thread Andrew Anderson
I’m not commenting on whether inflections are good, bad, or ugly, but simply looking at this from the perspective of real-world hurdles, unexpected interactions, and implementation challenges that are going to be run into by the selection of an existing reserved character as an inflection