Re: [CODE4LIB] Conference "all-timers?"

2013-02-15 Thread Andrew Nagy
Around where I was sitting - there was myself, Dan Chudnov and Karen Coombs. On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Michael J. Giarlo < leftw...@alumni.rutgers.edu> wrote: > Hi, > > Every year when hands shoot up in response to the question of "how many of > you have attended all code4lib conferences?

Re: [CODE4LIB] 2013 Code4lib Conference Registration (Change of time)

2012-11-28 Thread Andrew Nagy
Will there be reserved registration slots for speakers, or do they need to be on ready to register 2 minutes before noon-eastern like a Bruce Springstein concert? -- Forwarded message -- From: Francis Kayiwa Date: Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 1:16 PM Subject: [CODE4LIB] 2013 Code4lib Conf

[CODE4LIB] New Newcomer Dinner option

2012-02-03 Thread Andrew Nagy
Hi All - I just added another restaurant option to the newcomer dinner list as the options are starting to look quite full. I've listed Momiji - a new japanese restaurant that I have been wanting to try and a very short cab ride from the hotel. If anyone signs up, I'll make a reservation. Andrew

Re: [CODE4LIB] Voting is open for code4lib 2012 presentations.

2011-11-22 Thread Andrew Nagy
My votes are not showing after returning to the voting page. I thought I remembered being able to modify my votes from previous years. I went through the first 30 or so, and wanted to come back to it to go through more, but my votes are not persisting. Is this a bug, a change, or a failure in my

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4lib 2012 Seattle. Call for presentation proposals

2011-10-07 Thread Andrew Nagy
I'd like to hear more about the DPLA project - I hope we get a proposal about that this year! I'll post it to the wiki page. Andrew On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Anjanette Young wrote: > Code4lib 2012 call for proposals. > > We are now accepting proposals for Code4lib 2012. > > Code4lib 2012

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Community google custom search

2011-10-06 Thread Andrew Nagy
Nice job Jonathan - my first test search seemed to bring back rather relevant materials with the first coming from the journal: http://www.google.com/cse?cref=http%3A%2F%2Fcode4lib.org%2Ftest%2Fgoogle_cse_context.xml&q=virtual+reference&sa=Search&siteurl=www.code4lib.org%2Fcustom_search%2Fsearch_fo

Re: [CODE4LIB] 2012 preconference proposals wanted!

2011-09-26 Thread Andrew Nagy
Is anyone leading this session or is a free for all? Code4lib site is down - so I can't see whats on the wiki. We use Git very heavily with the engineering of Serials Solutions' Summon and we'd be happy to have an engineer do a session on some of the ways we use it on a fairly large project/codeb

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2012 Seattle Update.

2011-06-10 Thread Andrew Nagy
Hi Anj - I just wanted to let you know that Serials Solutions is working out a plan to better support the conference. We'd possibly like to sponsor an evening event, we will have more information for you later in the summer. Cheers Andrew On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Anjanette Young wrote:

Re: [CODE4LIB] Adding VIAF links to Wikipedia

2011-05-26 Thread Andrew Nagy
Ralph - this sounds like a very valuable process. I would imagine it could solve the problem illustrated here: http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/57 What would be the best path forward? Im not active in the wikipedia community - but I understand that their is a community of editors. Perhaps l

Re: [CODE4LIB] dealing with Summon

2011-03-01 Thread Andrew Nagy
Hi Godmar - to help answer some of your questions about the fields - I can help address those directly. Though it would be interesting to hear experiences from others who are working from APIs to search systems such as Summon or others. In regards to the publication date - the Summon API has the

Re: [CODE4LIB] Ride sharing IND - Bloomington - IND

2010-12-17 Thread Andrew Nagy
To help better track ride share opportunities, I created a page on the Code4Lib wiki. http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/C4L2011_rideshare#Indianapolis_International_Airport This way folks seeking ride share opportunities can sign up for a ride - and those offering can list their ride. Andrew On

Re: [CODE4LIB] algorithm for Summon's Recommender

2010-05-06 Thread Andrew Nagy
Hi Ya'aqov - I'm about to board a plane so I don't have much time for a well formed response. We do not have anything published about Summon's relevancy algorithms nor the recommendation engine. I'd be happy to answer any specific questions offline as I don't feel it appropriate to get into detai

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: what is the best open source native XML database

2010-01-17 Thread Andrew Nagy
I've had the best luck with eXist and BerkeleyDB XML. Both support XQuery and have indexing features based on any XML structure. Andrew On 1/16/10, Godmar Back wrote: > Hi, > > we're currently looking for an XML database to store a variety of > small-to-medium sized XML documents. The XML docum

Re: [CODE4LIB] Suggest a keynote speaker for Code4Lib 2010!

2009-07-23 Thread Andrew Nagy
I'd also be happy to nominate my old boss Joe Lucia at Villanova. He is a Library Director who fully supports Open Source software and speaks on it from time to time. He was the keynote speaker at the recent Evergreen conference. Andrew On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Andreas Orphanides < and

Re: [CODE4LIB] Suggest a keynote speaker for Code4Lib 2010!

2009-07-23 Thread Andrew Nagy
Stallman would be incredible! Watch the movie Revolution OS if you haven't yet. On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Ranti Junus wrote: > I think Richard Stallman would be interesting. Just make sure somebody > is ready to drag him away when his time is up. He's a, er, very > passionate speaker. >

Re: [CODE4LIB] David Walker Wins Third OCLC Research Software Contest

2009-07-22 Thread Andrew Nagy
david_walker++ Just watched the video - great job David! On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Roy Tennant wrote: > DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 22 July 2009 > > David Walker Wins Third OCLC Research Software Contest > > David Walker has won the Third OCLC Research Software Contest with Bridge, > a > set of s

Re: [CODE4LIB] tricky mod_rewrite

2009-07-01 Thread Andrew Nagy
You probably could if you get real tricky with the regex code - but I would say probably not. rewrite takes the entire url into consideration - so you need to denote where to start with the rewrite base. I use this for vufind: RewriteRule ^([^/]+)/(.+)$ index.php?module=$1&action=$2 [L,QSA] Whic

Re: [CODE4LIB] How to access environment variables in XSL

2009-06-19 Thread Andrew Nagy
If you are using some sort of XSL processor in a programming language (java, php, ruby) you can "assign" a variable to the xsl file and use the variable in the file much like you would in any other scripting environment. You can also go one step ahead and use XQuery which gives you the ability to

Re: [CODE4LIB] Serials Solutions Summon

2009-05-04 Thread Andrew Nagy
David - Keep in mind that aggregators are not the original publishers of content - so even if an aggregator is not yet participating in Summon, the content in their aggregated databases most often **is** indexed by the service. To date there are already over 80 individual content providers particip

Re: [CODE4LIB] Serials Solutions Summon

2009-04-22 Thread Andrew Nagy
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 5:08 AM, Laurence Lockton wrote: > -- >> Date:Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:36:30 -0400 >> From:"Diane I. Hillmann" >> Subject: Re: Serials Solutions Summon >> >> ... > >> 3. Because they also have data on what journals any particular library >>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Serials Solutions Summon

2009-04-18 Thread Andrew Nagy
Schaffer wrote: > Hello all: > > I see that there was an Andrew Nagy-led breakout on Summon at the con. > Summon is a NGC product with the distinction of using a local copy of > indexes of licensed content (by agreement with Elsevier, JSTOR, et alia) for > federated search - rath

Re: [CODE4LIB] MARC-XML -> Qualified Dublin Core XSLT

2009-03-06 Thread Andrew Nagy
Hey David - per my last posting in regards to MARCXML XSLTs - the LOC maintains a large collection of XSLT for MARCXML that are very thorough http://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml/xslt/ Andrew On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Walker, David wrote: > Hi All, > > Anyone have an XSLT style sheet to

Re: [CODE4LIB] Printed catalogs

2009-03-06 Thread Andrew Nagy
If you do choose to use XSLT, the Library of Congress has a bunch of XSLTs for MARCXML which will save a tremendous amount of time for you. http://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml/xslt/ Andrew On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Jared Camins wrote: > Dear CODE4LIB, > > I think this sort of question w

Re: [CODE4LIB] APIs that an OPAC should provide ...

2009-02-19 Thread Andrew Nagy
OAI-PMH! Andrew On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Matthias Einbrodt < matthias.einbr...@meinbrodt.net> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm interested in your opinion regarding the question which (kind of) > APIs an OPAC should provide nowadays and in the near or maybe not so > near future! > > Thanks in adva

Re: [CODE4LIB] Mime type for PHP serialized objects

2009-01-26 Thread Andrew Nagy
Correction - "text/x-php" - but again - I don't think it will make any effect on you. Andrew On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Andrew Nagy wrote: > I've used "application/x-php" in the past. I wouldn't really worry about > it though if you are build

Re: [CODE4LIB] Mime type for PHP serialized objects

2009-01-26 Thread Andrew Nagy
I've used "application/x-php" in the past. I wouldn't really worry about it though if you are build the server and the client. The mime type doesn't make that much difference. You could even just use "text/plain". Andrew On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 1:55 PM, Cloutman, David wrote: > I have a quick

Re: [CODE4LIB] BISAC Subject Headings Lookup or Crosswalk

2009-01-21 Thread Andrew Nagy
I saw a great presentation by Jesse Haro from Phoenix Public on their Endeca catalog. They had their catalogers go back and recatalog the entire collection with BISAC headings. You might want to see if you can get in touch with him to see if he has any information for you. http://mlamasslib.blog

Re: [CODE4LIB] "release management"

2008-11-04 Thread Andrew Nagy
I second the notion for Fogel's book. From: Code for Libraries [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Randy Metcalfe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 10:42 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] "release management" 2008/10/29 J

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open Source Discovery Portal Camp - November 6 - Philadelphia

2008-10-07 Thread Andrew Nagy
I updated the wiki for the conference with a link of nearby hotels that are suggested by PALINET. Here is the link: http://www.palinet.org/ourorg_directions_hotels.aspx Andrew > -Original Message- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Eric Lease Morgan > Se

[CODE4LIB] Open Source Discovery Portal Camp - November 6 - Philadelphia

2008-10-02 Thread Andrew Nagy
Implementing or hacking an Open Source discovery system such as VuFind or Blacklight? Interested in learning more about Lucene/Solr applications? Join the development teams from VuFind and Blacklight at PALINET in Philadelphia, November 6, 2008, for day of discussion and sharing. We hope to exa

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Authority Data

2008-10-01 Thread Andrew Nagy
If only we knew someone who worked in the LOC that we could tell this information to From: Code for Libraries [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Summers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 7:02 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re:

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Authority Data

2008-09-29 Thread Andrew Nagy
> Although note that these are only *subject* authorities. > > Andrew, I think you may also be looking for name authorities (since I > assume this inquiry came from a suspiciously topically similar thread > on vufind-tech). Yes - I would love to be able to obtain all authority files. > > Also, Ed

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Authority Data

2008-09-29 Thread Andrew Nagy
Data > > Simon Spero at UNC did a scrape of the entirety of the LoC Authority > files in Dec of 2006. They are available at Fred 2.0: > > http://www.ibiblio.org/fred2.0/wordpress/?page_id=10 > > Jason > > > On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Andrew Nagy > <[EMAIL PROTE

[CODE4LIB] LOC Authority Data

2008-09-23 Thread Andrew Nagy
Hello - I am curious if anyone knows of a way to access the entire collection of authority records from the LOC. It seems that the only way to access them know is one record at a time. Feel free to email me off line if you are uncomfortable posting a response to the list. Thanks Andrew

Re: [CODE4LIB] Conference: Access 2008 in Hamilton, ON -- October 1-4.

2008-08-27 Thread Andrew Nagy
This may be a bit too specific or complex for 1 day - but I will throw it out there and would be more than happy to lead the event. This is an idea I kind of formalized today: Develop an authority control mechanism into vufind (www.vufind.org) that would utilize the library of congress authorit

Re: [CODE4LIB] implementing cool uris in java

2008-07-03 Thread Andrew Nagy
I talked to someone once who did this by creating a dynamic 404 error page (assuming for whatever reason you can't use mod_rewrite). If you are familiar with an MVC design pattern, you could make your 404 error page your main application controller that directs the traffic. The problem with th

Re: [CODE4LIB] III SIP server

2008-06-12 Thread Andrew Nagy
Yes - Please do share! Here is my vote for an SVN server hosted at code4lib.org Andrew > -Original Message- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Walker, David > Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 6:00 PM > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB]

Re: [CODE4LIB] Internet Archive collection codes?

2008-06-04 Thread Andrew Nagy
Excuse me if I am late to the game on this one - but at the Code4Lib conference either Brewster Kahle or Aaron Swartz spoke about an API to either the open library or the internet archive. Is this available, or any plans to release this? It seems like you are referring to some sort of API. An

Re: [CODE4LIB] how to obtain a sampling of ISBNs

2008-04-28 Thread Andrew Nagy
When playing around with OCLC's XISBN service, I plugged in the isbn number for one of the "gone with the wind" books we have at our library - it returned something like 150 similar isbn numbers. You could try doing that for a few items. Just an idea ... Andrew > -Original Message- >

Re: [CODE4LIB] place for code examples?

2008-03-31 Thread Andrew Nagy
> I still think if you want a production machine, though, you shouldn't > be doing development on there. If you want to do something with > DokuWiki put it some other place first and get it like you want it > there. Otherwise, I think we're just recreating anvil with all the > inherent problems t

Re: [CODE4LIB] place for code examples?

2008-03-31 Thread Andrew Nagy
I think a snippet repository would be a fantastic idea that would fit well within the code4lib website. Dokuwiki would also be a good fit for this and would allow people to share the "oai harvester in under 50 lines", etc. snippet.code4lib.org++ Andrew > -Original Message- > From: Cod

[CODE4LIB] VuFind 0.8 Release

2008-03-18 Thread Andrew Nagy
://vufind.org/demo Or feel free to join our mailing list: https://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/vufind-general Enjoy! Andrew Nagy

Re: [CODE4LIB] Planning open source Library system at Duke

2008-01-28 Thread Andrew Nagy
> -Original Message- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Nathan Vack > > Isn't there already an extant open-source ILS that's out there, and > reputed to be rather good? > > I'm all for parallel approaches to problems... but the world of ILSes > is pretty sma

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib http irc channel

2008-01-07 Thread Andrew Nagy
> I'm not sure who manages linuxinlibraries.com, but it's not directly > related to code4lib. Perhaps it's time for us to run an IRC cgi > client on a code4lib server? This would be excellent - I have been battling my campus IT dept for years to allow my work computer to access IRC with absolute

Re: [CODE4LIB] [Fwd: z39.50 holdings schema]

2007-12-17 Thread Andrew Nagy
> It is also my understanding that while the Voyager NCIP API supports > their ILL product, it was not meant to serve as a general purpose NCIP > API. I believe that that accounts for the lack of (customer) > documentation. Back in March of 2004, the then Endeavor Voyager > Product Manager discus

Re: [CODE4LIB] [Fwd: z39.50 holdings schema]

2007-12-17 Thread Andrew Nagy
> But this part is > what I, as a developer writing discovery systems, need most and fail to > get from current systems. Exactly! This is the reason I have been investiagating NCIP - since it is already implemented (currently in limited stages) in my ILS as well as open source ILSs such as Ever

Re: [CODE4LIB] z39.50 holdings schema

2007-12-17 Thread Andrew Nagy
Emily - we are investingating NCIP quite a bit here for use with VuFind. Maybe this might be an appropriate standard to standardize on? Take care, Andrew > -Original Message- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Emily Lynema > Sent: Monday, December 17, 20

[CODE4LIB] Voting for Code4Lib 2008 Prepared Talks

2007-12-10 Thread Andrew Nagy
There was some minor miscommunication with the voting system and the initial link sent out was to a test instance of the voting system. Please use the following URL for voting on the talks for the conference talks - the voting will be officially open as of December 11th: http://dilettantes.code

Re: [CODE4LIB] Vote on code4lib 2008 talk proposals!

2007-12-10 Thread Andrew Nagy
It might be also worthy to note that based on the current draft schedule there are roughly 17 spot for talks. This might have an effect on voting. Is the 17 spots set in stone or will that change based on the outcome? Andrew > -Original Message- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMA

Re: [CODE4LIB] open source chat bots?

2007-12-03 Thread Andrew Nagy
get something up and running. Andrew > -Original Message- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > K.G. Schneider > Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 12:18 PM > To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] open source chat bots? > >

Re: [CODE4LIB] open source chat bots?

2007-12-03 Thread Andrew Nagy
> -Original Message- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Wayne Graham > Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 12:47 PM > To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] open source chat bots? > > Andrew, > > Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but i

[CODE4LIB] open source chat bots?

2007-12-03 Thread Andrew Nagy
Hello - there was quite a bit of talk about chat bots a year or 2 back. I was wondering if anyone knew of an open source chat bot that works with jabber? Thanks Andrew

Re: [CODE4LIB] httpRequest javascript.... grrr

2007-11-29 Thread Andrew Nagy
Don't leave out the Yahoo YUI library as something to consider. Whats nice is that you don't have to load the entire library as one big huge js file - you can pick and choose what libraries you want to include in your page minimizing the javascript filesize. If you want to have one little js w

Re: [CODE4LIB] httpRequest javascript.... grrr

2007-11-29 Thread Andrew Nagy
Eric - Have a look at some of the ajax functions I wronte for VuFind - there are some almost identical function calls that work just fine. http://vufind.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/vufind/web/services/Record/ajax.js?revision=106 See function SaveTag Also - You might want to consider usi

[CODE4LIB] Access 2007 summary

2007-11-28 Thread Andrew Nagy
Does anyone know of or have an in-depth review of the access 2007 conference. Was there video captured? I was unable to attend - but wanted to check it out this year. Thanks Andrew

[CODE4LIB] Position: Programmer at Villanova University Library

2007-11-06 Thread Andrew Nagy
Library Software Development Specialist Falvey Library, Villanova University This position reports to the Technology Management Team and is responsible for designing, developing, testing and deploying new technology methods, tools and resources to extend and enhance digitally-mediated or digital

Re: [CODE4LIB] Libstats is looking for project leaders

2007-10-26 Thread Andrew Nagy
Nate, we use LibStats religiously here. I would be interested in joining the community - but similiarly to you, I don't have much time to spare. Andrew > -Original Message- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Nathan Vack > Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 1

Re: [CODE4LIB] LC class scheme in XML or spreadsheet?

2007-09-25 Thread Andrew Nagy
This topic came up a few weeks ago on code4lib too, where were you Ed!? :) I will echo something that Roy mentioned in the thread from a few weeks back, would the LOC be willing to create a web service where you could supply a call number and it would return the heirarchy of topic areas for that

Re: [CODE4LIB] LCC classifications in XML

2007-08-28 Thread Andrew Nagy
ons in XML > > Not long ago, I recall Ed Summers sharing the classification outline > in RDF. I may still have a copy of that around if you're interest. > > Have a nice day, > Jonathan > > > > On 8/28/07 12:16 PM, "Andrew Nagy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[CODE4LIB] LCC classifications in XML

2007-08-28 Thread Andrew Nagy
Does anyone know of a place where the LCC Callnumber classifications can be found in a "parseable" format such as XML? Thanks Andrew

Re: [CODE4LIB] code.code4lib.org

2007-08-13 Thread Andrew Nagy
> -Original Message- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Will Kurt > > One of the things that's really lacking in the library community is > something like a sourceforge.net to serve as a central repository for > all opensource library projects and this certa

Re: [CODE4LIB] parse an OAI-PHM response

2007-07-30 Thread Andrew Nagy
Andrew, I began building a PHP OAI Client library based on a OAI Server library that I wrote a while back. The OAI Client library is not complete, but it can get you started. I attached it in a file called Harvester.php Andrew > -Original Message- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[E

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib.org hosting

2007-07-30 Thread Andrew Nagy
In case I can't make the conversation, I must suggest Bastille - a linux package that does firewalling and IP Masquerading. I have been using it for about 8 years now and have never had a hacked linux box running it. I even had my ISP kill my network connection once because my server was being

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open Source OPAC - VUFind Beta Released

2007-07-20 Thread Andrew Nagy
> -Original Message- > Alexander Johannesen > > Excellent stuff, and thanks for the open-source effort. > > Three things ; > > 1. Will there be efforts towards a development community outside your > library? Completely. I just imported all of the code to the Sourceforge SVN Server. It i

[CODE4LIB] Open Source OPAC - VUFind Beta Released

2007-07-19 Thread Andrew Nagy
Sorry for cross-posting Hello All, I am please to announce the release of our Next-Gen library catalog browser, VuFind. It is now officially open source code under the GPL and hosted on Sourceforge. We have been working on the application for quite some time now, almost a year, and for the p

Re: [CODE4LIB] marc2oai

2007-05-29 Thread Andrew Nagy
> -Original Message- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Eric Lease Morgan > Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 1:53 PM > To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu > Subject: [CODE4LIB] marc2oai > > Does anybody here know of a MARC2OAI program? > Eric, I have a small script tha

[CODE4LIB] Posting Presenations

2007-03-07 Thread Andrew Nagy
I am still having difficulty posting my presentation to the C4L website. I am getting an error about my file not being authorized or something to that extent. I did not try last night, but I will try again tonight. Has anyone checked to make sure that this is working? Andrew

Re: [CODE4LIB] Preconference

2007-02-22 Thread Andrew Nagy
as well that could be used to jumpstart the system? Thanks! -emily Andrew Nagy wrote: Andrew Nagy wrote: I have an XSLT doc for transforming MARCXML to SOLR XML that I can share around. I was asked if I could post my XSLT doc, so here it is! It is probably somewhat geared toward my collection

Re: [CODE4LIB] Preconference

2007-02-13 Thread Andrew Nagy
Andrew Nagy wrote: I have an XSLT doc for transforming MARCXML to SOLR XML that I can share around. I was asked if I could post my XSLT doc, so here it is! It is probably somewhat geared toward my collection of data and I had some custom scripting for determining the format more accurately but

Re: [CODE4LIB] Preconference

2007-02-13 Thread Andrew Nagy
I have an XSLT doc for transforming MARCXML to SOLR XML that I can share around. Andrew Jonathan Rochkind wrote: If we bring MARCXML and/or MODS, can we assume that there will be people who can help us process that data into something useable by Solr? That would be a nice, at any rate. Jonath

Re: [CODE4LIB] Very large file uploads, PHP or possibly Perl

2007-02-09 Thread Andrew Nagy
I have done large file uploads in PHP. Make sure you have the following set in php.ini: upload_max_filesize = file_uploads = on post_max_size = Also, you can set these values through the set_ini function in PHP so that it can be per script instead of effective for every script which can allow

Re: [CODE4LIB] Solr indexing -- why XSL is the wrong choice

2007-01-19 Thread Andrew Nagy
Casey, we have had great successes with XSL for MARCXML to SOLR, so I can't agree to everything you are saying. However I anxiously await your presentation on your successes with SOLR so you can persuade me to the dark side :) Casey Durfee wrote: I think there are many good reasons why XSLT is

Re: [CODE4LIB] a few code4lib conference updates

2007-01-19 Thread Andrew Nagy
Nathan Vack wrote: On Jan 19, 2007, at 9:51 AM, LaJeunesse, Brad wrote: I must strongly encourage everyone attending to bring fully-charged laptops and spare batteries (if you have them). The auditorium has 60 power outlets available, which gives us roughly a 2:1 ratio of outlets to people. S

Re: [CODE4LIB] Getting data from Voyager into XML?

2007-01-17 Thread Andrew Nagy
Nathan Vack wrote: Unless I'm totally, hugely mistaken, MARC doesn't say anything about holdings data, right? If I want to facet on that, would it make more sense to add holdings data to the MARC XML data, or keep separate xml files for holdings that reference the item data? As others have said,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Getting data from Voyager into XML?

2007-01-17 Thread Andrew Nagy
Bess Sadler wrote: As long as we're on the subject, does anyone want to share strategies for syncing circulation data? It sounds like we're all talking about the parallel systems รก la NCSU's Endeca system, which I think is a great idea. It's the circ data that keeps nagging at me, though. Is ther

Re: [CODE4LIB] Getting data from Voyager into XML?

2007-01-17 Thread Andrew Nagy
Nathan Vack wrote: Hey cats, I'm starting to think (very excitedly) about the Lucene session, and realized that I'd better get our data into an XML form, so I can do interesting things with it. Anyone here have experience (or code I could steal) dumping data from Voyager into... anything? I'm h

Re: [CODE4LIB] lucene pre-conference - reminder

2006-12-19 Thread Andrew Nagy
nks! Bess Sadler People who have registered for the pre-conference: Adam Soroka Andrea Goethals Andrew Darby Andrew Nagy Antonio Barrera Art Rhyno Bess Sadler Dan Scott Ed Summers Edwin Sperr Emily Lynema Jonathan Gorman Jonathan Rochkind Kevin S. Clarke Kristina Long Michael Doran Michael Witt Mik

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib lucene pre-conference

2006-12-13 Thread Andrew Nagy
Erik Hatcher wrote: At this point, I'm planning on winging it with the datasets. By late February I will have (high on my TODO list now!) built a light-weight Solr mechanism for bringing in MARC data, and perhaps more (iTunes data files would make a fun one) and doing simple skinnable front- en

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib lucene pre-conference

2006-11-29 Thread Andrew Nagy
For an interesting read: XQuery Processing with Relevance Ranking Leonidas Fegaras http://www.springerlink.com/content/em728eqn888nuer4/

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib lucene pre-conference

2006-11-29 Thread Andrew Nagy
Kevin S. Clarke wrote: Fwiw Andrew, I'd suggest you are not seeing the "true spirit of your NXDB." Try to put MARC into a RDBMS and you are going to run into the same problem. You have to index intelligently or reorganize the data (which is the default when you put XML into a RDBMS anyway). P

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib lucene pre-conference

2006-11-29 Thread Andrew Nagy
Clay Redding wrote: Hi Andrew (or anyone else that cares to answer), I've missed out on hearing about incompatabilites between MARCXML and NXDBs. Can you explain? Is this just eXist and Sleepycat, or are there others? I seem to recall putting a few records in X-Hive with no problems, but I

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib lucene pre-conference

2006-11-28 Thread Andrew Nagy
Kevin S. Clarke wrote: Have you had a chance yet to evaluate the 1.1 development line? It is supposed to have solved the scaling issues. I haven't tried it myself (and remain skeptical that it can scale up to the level that we talk about with Lucene (but, as you point out, it is trying to do m

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib lucene pre-conference

2006-11-28 Thread Andrew Nagy
Casey Durfee wrote: I thought that was the point of using interfaces? I guess I don't get why you need a standard to be compelled to do something you should be doing anyway -- coding to interfaces, not implementations. Interfaces work well with like products (a database abstraction librar

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib lucene pre-conference

2006-11-28 Thread Andrew Nagy
Gabriel Farrell wrote: A Google search on "lucene xquery parser" (no quotes) brings up Nux and Jackrabbit. I don't know much about either project, but they seem to be working already on the future we're talking about. Now this sounds promising. This is exactly what I would be looking for.

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib lucene pre-conference

2006-11-28 Thread Andrew Nagy
Kevin S. Clarke wrote: By the way, I see a very interesting intersection between Solr and XQuery because both are speaking XML. You may have XQueries that generate the XML that makes Solr do it's magic for instance. This is an alternative to fulltext in XQuery, sure... it is something that is

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib lucene pre-conference

2006-11-28 Thread Andrew Nagy
Art Rhyno wrote: I made a big mistake along the way in trying to work with Voyager's call number setup in Oracle, and dragged Ross along in an attempt to get past Oracle's constant quibbles with rogue characters in call number ranges. The idea was to expose the library catalogue as a series of f

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib lucene pre-conference

2006-11-28 Thread Andrew Nagy
Erik Hatcher wrote: "What if" games are mostly just guessing games in the high tech world. Agility is the trait our projects need. Software is just that... soft. And malleable. Sure, we can code ourselves into a corner, but generally we can code ourselves right back out of it too. If softwa

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib lucene pre-conference

2006-11-27 Thread Andrew Nagy
Binkley, Peter wrote: There would probably be a lot of optimizations you could do within Solr to help with this kind of thing. Art and I talked a little about this at the ILS symposium: why not nestle the XML db inside Solr alongside Lucene? Solr could then manage the indexing of the contents of

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib lucene pre-conference

2006-11-27 Thread Andrew Nagy
Casey Durfee wrote: I am writing a Solr-powered OPAC right now and have not had any performance problems (either indexing or querying) using Solr for both data storage and search. You can indicate in Solr whether you want particular data fields to be stored, indexed or both. So I stick the

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib lucene pre-conference

2006-11-27 Thread Andrew Nagy
Bess Sadler wrote: Hi, Andrew. Since this will be an all-day event, the session would be starting first thing in the morning on Feb 27. I'm thinking 9am, but I haven't confirmed that with anyone else. I'm just flying by the seat of my pants here. I wouldn't be able to make this then due to tim

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib lucene pre-conference

2006-11-27 Thread Andrew Nagy
Bess Sadler wrote: Enough people are interested in ILS related topics that it might be worth forming groups around specific ILS products. If you are one of these people, email the list if you're interested in setting up such a thing. Bess, this sounds like a great conversation. You can count

[CODE4LIB] Announcing the Villanova University Digital Library

2006-09-06 Thread Andrew Nagy
. Feel free to browse our collections and enjoy the wonderful images: http://digital.library.villanova.edu Enjoy, Andrew Nagy

[CODE4LIB] blocked IRC

2006-02-28 Thread Andrew Nagy
My university has blocked the standard IRC port due to massive trojan traffic. Does the freenode.net irc server allow any other non-standard ports? I checked their website, but their is no mention of ports (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=site%3Awww.freenode.net+port&btnG=Google+Search) Th

[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Code Sharing - (Re: [CODE4LIB] journal)

2006-02-22 Thread Andrew Nagy
Art Rhyno wrote: I guess I am looking for more recipe sharing, comments in the margins, and whiteboarding, I wouldn't want to break or detract from anything that is working now. All of this happens virtually at some level, but there's still some impedance when compared to lightning talks and phy

Re: [CODE4LIB] PHP and SSL

2006-01-20 Thread Andrew Nagy
Jeff, SSL has nothing to do with PHP and is something that is under the control of the web server. Are you using Apache, or ... dare I say it ... IIS? Either way the vendor of the web server you are using will have plenty of documentation on setting up an SSL protected web site. Hope this helps

[CODE4LIB] XML Database Server Requirements (Re: Catalog Enhancements)

2005-12-16 Thread Andrew Nagy
e the response, but will try to find out. Roy On Dec 2, 2005, at 12:36 PM, Andrew Nagy wrote: Roy Tennant wrote: Andrew, just as an additional data point, we have millions of records indexed in our Lucene-based XTF system, and the response isn't too bad even on a development server. Can you and

Re: [CODE4LIB] Catalog Enhancements & Extensions (Re: mylibrary @ockham)

2005-12-02 Thread Andrew Nagy
Roy Tennant wrote: Andrew, just as an additional data point, we have millions of records indexed in our Lucene-based XTF system, and the response isn't too bad even on a development server. Can you and others on this list briefly describe your hardware platform for this? I am assuming this is

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4libcon

2005-11-18 Thread Andrew Nagy
Neat, are there any topics yet decided? What topics are you looking for, any suggested topics? Andrew Edward Summers wrote: This is very preliminary, but since folks on this list [1] have been instrumental in getting things this far we figured it was best to at least ping everyone to see if t

Re: [CODE4LIB] PHP Question--Dynamically Naming then Calling a Variable

2005-11-14 Thread Andrew Nagy
Andrew, I think Ross's reply covers what you are asking for. But it seems that you may not be doing what you are trying to do the best possible way. If you want to explain what you are trying to do in more depth, we may be able to help you devise a more elegant solution. Andrew Nagy A

Re: [CODE4LIB] Catalog Enhancements & Extensions (Re: mylibrary @ockham)

2005-11-09 Thread Andrew Nagy
Roy Tennant wrote: Andrew, just as an additional data point, we have millions of records indexed in our Lucene-based XTF system, and the response isn't too bad even on a development server. Roy, do you feel that XTF is able to give you the performance that you are looking for? I am currently

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