Re: [CODE4LIB] Let's implement the referrer meta tag

2015-06-12 Thread Andrew Anderson
I was not suggesting mixing HTTP/HTTPS resources, but rather wholesale converting to SSL and taking advantage of the fact that vendors don’t seem to care about privacy issues and do not support SSL today. Thus when leaving the secure site, the referring header will not be sent, thanks to RFC 2

Re: [CODE4LIB] Let's implement the referrer meta tag

2015-06-12 Thread Suchy, Daniel
No to mention that users may get that annoying and paranoia-inducing browser warning: "These resources can be viewed by others while in transit, and can be modified by an attacker to change the look of the page.² Its enough to scare me off even though its usually harmless. -Dan Daniel Su

Re: [CODE4LIB] Let's implement the referrer meta tag

2015-06-12 Thread Eric Hellman
While going to SSL is a good thing to do, it's not a good idea to be loading non-secure resources into a secure web page, because then your page is no longer secure. So for example, if you load the google analytics script via http from an https page, and MITM attacker could just insert evil cod

Re: [CODE4LIB] Let's implement the referrer meta tag

2015-06-12 Thread Eric Hellman
I'd not heard of this. But on reading it closely, I don't think it regulates the referer header, rather it prevent restricts the origins of resources that a page can load.So it doesn't work with referrer policies. but I could be wrong Eric On Jun 12, 2015, at 12:24 AM, Conal Tuohy wrote: > >

[CODE4LIB] Job Posting: Geospatial Project Metadata Coordinator

2015-06-12 Thread Kevin Dyke
Apologies for cross posting. The University of Minnesota Libraries are seeking a Geospatial Project Metadata Coordinator. Please forward to those who may be interested. University of Minnesota Libraries, Twin Cities CIC Geospatial Project Metadata Coordinator The University of Minnesota Libra

Re: [CODE4LIB] Auto discovery of Dewey, UDC

2015-06-12 Thread LeVan,Ralph
This is as close to an official statement as I can find: http://www.oclc.org/developer/news/2015/dewey-down.en.html I've asked around, but can't add anything to that. Ralph -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Karen Coyle Sent: Frid

[CODE4LIB] Job: Metadata Technologies Librarian at North Carolina State University

2015-06-12 Thread jobs
Metadata Technologies Librarian North Carolina State University Raleigh, North Carolina The NCSU Libraries invites applications and nominations for the position ofMetadata Technologies Librarianin the Acquisitions and Discovery department. Acquisitions and Discovery's seven librarians and sixteen

Re: [CODE4LIB] Distribution of collections by DDC or UDC?

2015-06-12 Thread Karen Coyle
Christina, I was hoping that someone with more info would reply, but to my knowledge the services that do these statistical surveys are "pay-fer" so this might be considered proprietary info. Presumably libraries that have used these services received the results, but may not be allowed to shar

Re: [CODE4LIB] Auto discovery of Dewey, UDC

2015-06-12 Thread Karen Coyle
Hi. I tweeted this last month and got a reply that dewey.info is indeed currently down for major work, but is intended to return. That said, it was intended to return a month or two ago, so the usual coding project delays are in action here. ;-) kc On 6/12/15 7:08 AM, Sergio Letuche wrote: d

Re: [CODE4LIB] Auto discovery of Dewey, UDC

2015-06-12 Thread Sergio Letuche
i am afraid we cannot wait... Thanx again Stefano, Cheers 2015-06-12 18:00 GMT+03:00 Stefano Bargioni : > I found this (a bit strange): > http://ddc.typepad.com/025431/2015/04/deweyinfo-is-coming-back.html > > On 12/giu/2015, at 16:08, Sergio Letuche wrote: > > > dewey.info > > > > seems to be

Re: [CODE4LIB] Auto discovery of Dewey, UDC

2015-06-12 Thread Stefano Bargioni
I found this (a bit strange): http://ddc.typepad.com/025431/2015/04/deweyinfo-is-coming-back.html On 12/giu/2015, at 16:08, Sergio Letuche wrote: > dewey.info > > seems to be dead, we have also checked this. > > 2015-06-12 16:57 GMT+03:00 Péter Király : > >> Hi Sergio, >> >> As part of eXten

Re: [CODE4LIB] Auto discovery of Dewey, UDC

2015-06-12 Thread Sergio Letuche
dewey.info seems to be dead, we have also checked this. 2015-06-12 16:57 GMT+03:00 Péter Király : > Hi Sergio, > > As part of eXtensible Catalog we developed a Dewey module for Drupal, > which takes a Dewey number, and use OCLC's dewey.info to fetch the > textual description of the part. When it

Re: [CODE4LIB] Auto discovery of Dewey, UDC

2015-06-12 Thread Péter Király
Hi Sergio, As part of eXtensible Catalog we developed a Dewey module for Drupal, which takes a Dewey number, and use OCLC's dewey.info to fetch the textual description of the part. When it was created the service contained only 3 levels of the classification system, since then they went ahead, and

Re: [CODE4LIB] Auto discovery of Dewey, UDC

2015-06-12 Thread Sergio Letuche
thank you very much for your quick reply, dear Stefano, i appreciate it 2015-06-12 13:47 GMT+03:00 Stefano Bargioni : > Hi, Sergio: > maybe this article [1 abstract] [2 English text] can give you some basic > ideas. We added a lot of DDC info in our Koha catalog two years ago. > HTH. Stefano > >

Re: [CODE4LIB] Auto discovery of Dewey, UDC

2015-06-12 Thread Stefano Bargioni
Hi, Sergio: maybe this article [1 abstract] [2 English text] can give you some basic ideas. We added a lot of DDC info in our Koha catalog two years ago. HTH. Stefano [1] http://leo.cineca.it/index.php/jlis/article/view/8766 [2] http://leo.cineca.it/index.php/jlis/article/view/8766/8060 On 12/gi

[CODE4LIB] Auto discovery of Dewey, UDC

2015-06-12 Thread Sergio Letuche
hello community! we are facing this challenging issue. We need to complete for a vast amount of records, the dewey, UDC info, has anyone had any experience with this? We need some way (via modeling? mahout?) to try and discover these values, based on some text, found in the records' metadata, and