All,
We are proud to announce the release of Version 4.8.7 of the open-source
digital repository SobekCM, along with a new MSI installer for simple
installation of this version (and much of the help related to the software) at
http://sobekrepository.org/software/download.
There were numerous u
Assistant Library Director for Technology
Brookline Public Library
Brookline
The Brookline Public Library, a member of the Minuteman Library Network, is a
vital community center, with a main library and two branch libraries that
boast some of the highest circulation numbers in the State.
We are se
The LibraryThing API could also be used to retrieve what they call "Common
Knowledge" tags, including character names but also place names etc.
Example:
https://www.librarything.com/services/rest/1.1/?method=librarything.ck.getwork&id=2773690&apikey=d231aa37c9b4f5d304a60a3d0ad1dad4
(using the exam
Stephen-
Thanks. Bryan Haberberger from Saint Louis University forked Mirador and has
been working on enhancements that include rotation and sliders for color
adjustments such as brightness, contrast, convert to greyscale and color
inversion (https://github.com/thehabes/m2). Its great work and
Roy-
Mirador will certainly work for single JPEG2000 presentation, as you can
configure it to remove buttons and chrome related to unnecessary features. But
it is built to support slightly more complex use cases including table of
contents data, multi-repository support, image comparison or an
The DPLA Technical Advisory Committee will be holding an open strategy
meeting at DPLAFest, this Friday, April 17, 2015 from 1:30-2:30 PM at the
Indianapolis Public Library's Knall Meeting Room. The agenda and notes
document for this session can be found at <
http://bit.ly/dplafest-techadvisory>. M
I like the UI, but from what I can tell displaying a single JPEG 2000 image
is probably not a good use case for this tool, right? That is, no group of
images from which to select, no comparison with a different image, etc. --
just displaying a single image for pan, zoom, etc. If I'm right in this
a
Very impressive Stu!
I thought I had seen rotation on the list of possible functionality... but I'm
not seeing that on the roadmap. Is this in the plan somewhere?
Stephen Davison
Head, UCLA Digital Library Program
390 Powell Library Building
Box 957201
Los Angeles, CA 90095
(310) 267-5135
sdavi
Another interesting startup in this area is Trajectory.
Here's a list of Classics/Fiction via their JSON API (doc=isbn):
http://api.trajectory.com/api/v1/search/?q=&c=Fiction%20%2F%20Classics&limit=568
Here's a "human readable" view:
http://www.trajectory.com/search/?q=&facets&c=Fiction%20%2F%20
We are excited to (officially) announce the release of Mirador version 2.0.
Please visit our new project website at http://projectmirador.org. Here you
will find a live demo, a four minute screencast demonstrating Mirador 2.0's
features, and links to the code repository and documentation
(http
I'm pleased to announce that the Health Sciences Library System of the
University of Pittsburgh has released an alpha version of pycounter, a
Python library for dealing with COUNTER usage statistics.
version 0.5a2 includes support for reports JR1, BR1, and BR2, and can fetch
reports via SUSHI or p
Salvete!
> Is the Freebase data good enough for your purposes? It appears that it lists
> the
> most important characters first, but that may just be the order in which they
> were added. You may not be able to rely on that sequence.
>
> A Tale of Two Cities: http://www.freebase.com/m/09c55p
What you *did* need for this interesting project was Small Demons, which
was a for-profit company that was creating linked data from books --
here's an article about it:
http://www.theverge.com/2013/3/1/4043298/building-an-atlas-for-books-with-small-demons
But it shut down in 2013, and I hav
Posting for a colleague - please excuse cross-postings.
There is still time to register for the “Transforming Library Metadata with
XSLT” workshop sponsored and hosted by the Association of Research Libraries.
The deadline for registration is April 20.
Transforming Library Metadata with XSLT
M
On 4/14/15 7:18 AM, Joel Marchesoni wrote:
It is a little disappointing that I couldn't find the IMDB of the literary
world.
Which reflects an interesting difference between books and movies --
movies have credits that list characters and actors. There are a few
books that include characte
Is the Freebase data good enough for your purposes? It appears that it lists
the most important characters first, but that may just be the order in which
they were added. You may not be able to rely on that sequence.
A Tale of Two Cities: http://www.freebase.com/m/09c55p
Pride and Prejudice: htt
ISBNdb [1] was the closest thing I could find but is probably not filled out
enough for what you're wanting to do. I also found RDF Book Mashup [2] but it's
nowhere near as granular as you are talking and looks pretty much dead (no news
since 2009).
I agree that this seems like it would fall to
Global Open Knowledgebase (GOKb) Editor
North Carolina State University
Raleigh
The NCSU Libraries invites applications and nominations for the position of
Global Open Knowledgebase (GOKb) Editor. In partnership with Kuali OLE and
Jisc Collections, GOKb is working to create a freely available, com
If a peson could denote the characteristics of both the main (female) character
as well as the protagonist, then bits of natural language processing (text
mining) might be able to address this problem. —Eric “When You Have A Hammer,
Everything Begins To Look Like a Nail” Morgan
Dear Dave and Code4Libbers:
We used to get this type of data from Syndetics Book Profiles (
http://proquest.syndetics.com/Marketing/Detail/EnrichmentElement#7), which
is not an easy place to get the data if you are doing it as a personal
hobby. We do not pull it in any more because the widget did
Salvete!
I declare this scriptable and doable, just not by me, since I can't
programme me way out of a wet paper bag. (Well, I prolly can at gunpoint, but
yeah, that's what it would take.)
> So I have this idea I'd like to do for a hobby project, but it requires
> finding a table that
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