ngs help more people than
>> they annoy so they should be kept as-is.
>
> My view is that it would make more sense to have separate discussion
> and job notice lists, as I see in other places. But I'm not that
> bothered personally, as I would subscribe to both and filter them into
> the same folder in my mail client. :-)
>
> Cheers
> David
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> A more rational approach, IMO, would create a general description set
> (probably numbering 20-50), then expanding that for more detail and for
> different materials. Users of the sets could define the "zones" they wish to
> use in an application profile, so no one would have to carry around data
> 2. MARC21 bib data -- very detailed, well over 1,000 different data
> elements
I can understand appreciating the richness of #2, but 1k data elements
(choices I have to make) seems, to me, more like evidence of a core
problem with MARC21 than a core strength.
"Seconded. We use Solr's SpellCheckComponent to accomplish exactly this."
+1
> So let's say (hypothetically, of course) that a colleague tells you he's
> considering a NoSQL database like MongoDB or CouchDB, to store a couple
> tens of millions of "documents", where a document is pretty much an
> article citation, abstract, and the location of full text (not the full
> text
> It's still a LOT better than COinS for Zotero, I assume though.
Yes, if only because you get more complete metadata with things like
RIS than COinS does via OpenURL. I do like the theoretical benefit of
a metadata format request API , but the promise of richer metadata
(primarily for Zotero) wa
> If you want to run your own VPS, go with Linode (and contact me for a
> referral key :)). A number of customers have switched to them since
> Slicehost was sold to Rackspace.
Hey, no fair! :^p
FWIW, I was going to mention VPS as an option, but it sounded like
*maybe* you'd been working under a managed hosting environment, so
Heroku seemed like a natural fit to your question (easy Rails installs
with support for a wide variety of libraries/common dependencies),
which is why I mentioned at
> I was curious if anyone could recommend a hosting service that they've had a
> good ruby on rails experience with. I've been working with bluehost but my
> experience has not been good. You need to work through a lot of hoops just to
> get a moderately complicated rails application properly. T
A classic general overview (on the topic of "what the heck ARE
character sets???"):
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Ken Irwin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking for a good source to help me understand character sets and how to
> use them. I
I nominate Andy Lester, author of ack "a grep replacement" and
itinerant speaker on "Technical Debt" and employment in the tech
world. He's a Perl guru working in the publishing indsutry. Andy's
"Technical Debt" lecture would be a good fit, IMO, for the code4lib
group.
Technical Debt Talk:
http:
On Dec 4, 2008, at 9:30 AM, Tom Habing wrote:
http://www.dlfaquifer.org/unapi
" />
Yes, forgot to mention this piece.
http://ethicshare.org/unapi
" />
ement some kind
of unAPI "server".
Is this correct?
Thanks,
kc
Chad Fennell wrote:
On Dec 2, 2008, at 4:21 PM, Karen Coyle wrote:
I've looked at unAPI, but I can't get a handle on what needs to be
in the . What would be useful?
kc
I put together a pretty basic
On Dec 2, 2008, at 4:21 PM, Karen Coyle wrote:
I've looked at unAPI, but I can't get a handle on what needs to be
in the . What would be useful?
kc
I put together a pretty basic unAPI interface (technically, a Drupal
module) for our EthicShare project; you can see how the tags
are us
Library Code People:
1 - What do you use for your web statistics package? Are you happy
with it? Pros/Cons?
2 - What do you wish you used or had access to?
3 - Opinions on Specific Projects:
3.1 Piwiki/Mint
Piwik and Mint both seem pretty interesting to me because they solve
some of the
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