Re: [CODE4LIB] Forming a Coalition of Libraries running Tor exit nodes: C4L 2016 Breakout Followup

2016-03-20 Thread David J. Fiander
The simplest thing to do (for a suitable definition of "simple") is, rather than setting up a new IP range for the exit node, tell your vendors to exclude the IP address of the exit node. Much like vendors who don't allow off-campus access (*cough* uptodate) exclude the proxy server address

Re: [CODE4LIB] List of Database Subjects

2016-03-18 Thread David J. Fiander
The problem with "programs/departments" is that there are things that aren't under the umbrella of a single program/department. Where does "planetary science" go, for example, when it's a strange mix of Earth Sciences, Geography, and Astronomy? The other problem is that there are some very LARGE

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] Proposing talks for Code4Lib North 2014

2014-04-14 Thread David J. Fiander
Code4Lib North is what we make of it. Please propose a talk or a discussion topic. We have both 5 minute lightning talks slots and longer 20 minute presentation timeslots. The lightning talks are a great way to share quick tips and tricks, or to point out a new use for an old tool. The 20 minute

[CODE4LIB] Now that Code4Lib is over, come to London Ontario for Code4Lib North!

2014-03-31 Thread David J. Fiander
This year, Code4Lib North is coming to London, Ontario, and we've expanding our reach by working with the London Public Library to put it on. The details are starting to appear on the Code4Lib North wiki page at

Re: [CODE4LIB] Creating a dataset: Pulling citations/references from articles

2014-03-24 Thread David J. Fiander
If the journals are indexed by ISI Web of Science, then you might be able to get the data from them. They probably have annoying terms of reference that don't allow this sort of thing normally, but they do regularly support bibliometric research, so there's probably a way to tell them what you

[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib North 2014 Registration is now open!

2014-03-10 Thread David J. Fiander
This year, Code4Lib North is coming to London, Ontario, and we've expanding our reach by working with the London Public Library to put it on. The details are starting to appear on the Code4Lib North wiki page at

[CODE4LIB] When did OCLC's original xISBN service launch?

2013-05-01 Thread David J. Fiander
According to the Code4Lib mailing list archives, the service moved from experimental to production, and changed format, in February, 2007, but the earliest reference to the service in the archives is a question from Thom Hickey in May, 2005 soliciting feedback about what additional features might

Re: [CODE4LIB] An interesting practical problem that might be a good hackfest project

2013-04-09 Thread David J. Fiander
for the library's holdings information. This really is a matter of gluing together two or three systems, none of which is easy to use programmatically. - David On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 12:56 PM, David J. Fiander da...@fiander.infowrote: A friend on friendfeed (no, it's not dead, and yes there's an active

[CODE4LIB] An interesting practical problem that might be a good hackfest project

2013-04-08 Thread David J. Fiander
A friend on friendfeed (no, it's not dead, and yes there's an active librarian community there) who works in a public library complains thusly: I have decided that it's a goal of mine that for all series in the fiction collection that circulate reasonably well, I want us to have the full

[CODE4LIB] A question about voting points

2013-04-01 Thread David J. Fiander
So, I just voted for the Code4Lib 2014 location. There are two possible venues, and I was given three points to apportion however I wish. While having multiple votes, to spread around at will, makes a lot of sense, shouldn't the number of votes each elector is granted be limited to max(3,

Re: [CODE4LIB] A question about voting points

2013-04-01 Thread David J. Fiander
to put raleigh over the top. not that i've ever done that before On Mon, Apr 1, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: PATCHES WELCOME. -Ross. On Apr 1, 2013, at 12:01 PM, David J. Fiander da...@fiander.info wrote: So, I just voted for the Code4Lib 2014

Re: [CODE4LIB] anyone going to OLA Superconference this week?

2008-01-28 Thread David J. Fiander
Sounds like a good idea. If nothing else, it'll make the Top Tech trends the next morning that much more interesting ;-) - David On 28-Jan-2008, at 19:33 , Elizabeth Sadler wrote: Hey, if any code4lib people are going to be at the Ontario Library Association superconference [1] in Toronto

[CODE4LIB] How to make a disco ball with CDs

2008-01-07 Thread David J. Fiander
Just in time to start working on it for Access 2008: http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Disco-Ball-With-CDs - David

Re: [CODE4LIB] z39.50 holdings schema

2007-12-17 Thread David J. Fiander
Andrew, My sense of NCIP is that it was designed primarly for communication between agencies that have negotiated a trust relationship offline and configured their systems to interoperate. It's not clear to me that NCIP will work well as a protocol for transmitting ad hoc queries from an

[CODE4LIB] Problems with neat stuff in Facebook

2007-06-08 Thread David J. Fiander
might it make in a day? - David -- David J. Fiander Digital Services Librarian

Re: [CODE4LIB] Using OpenID in libraries

2007-03-23 Thread David J. Fiander
. -Ross. -- David J. Fiander Digital Services Librarian

Re: [CODE4LIB] Using OpenID in libraries

2007-03-22 Thread David J. Fiander
to look deeper into. - David -- David J. Fiander Digital Services Librarian

Re: [CODE4LIB] Video encoding done - Mashup idea request

2007-03-15 Thread David J. Fiander
not) is incredibly cool. -- David J. Fiander Digital Services Librarian

[CODE4LIB] Posting the conference video?

2007-03-07 Thread David J. Fiander
How about sending it to the Internet Archive? - David -- David J. Fiander Digital Services Librarian

Re: [CODE4LIB] 2007 Conference Attendee List--Dumb question

2007-02-23 Thread David J. Fiander
Edward Summers wrote: The grim reality is we have three distinct systems at the moment: drupal, pwyky, trac and svn...each with their own authentication scheme...well trac and svn happen to share the same one. This must be some southern definition of three with which I am unfamiliar. Or is it

Re: [CODE4LIB] Information Technology Specialist in Office for Strategic Initiatives at the Library of Congress

2007-01-23 Thread David J. Fiander
expensive in general. - David -- David J. Fiander Digital Services Librarian

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

2007-01-19 Thread David J. Fiander
the punctuation. - David -- David J. Fiander Digital Services Librarian

Re: [CODE4LIB] NCIP API?

2007-01-09 Thread David J. Fiander
have any questions I'm happy to answer them. John Bodfish Senior Technical Designer/Developer OCLC PICA Inc. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David J. Fiander Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 7:45 AM To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu Subject: Re

Re: [CODE4LIB] NCIP API?

2007-01-08 Thread David J. Fiander
to be used in the Koha ILS. David, I'm the person that wrote the Evergreen SIP2 code, and will probably be the person writing NCIP code in the future. NCIP is a very large, very complicated standard, so even once work starts on NCIP, it's going to take a while to complete. - David -- David J

Re: [CODE4LIB] NCIP API?

2007-01-08 Thread David J. Fiander
Edward Summers wrote: On Jan 8, 2007, at 8:45 AM, David J. Fiander wrote: I'm the person that wrote the Evergreen SIP2 code, and will probably be the person writing NCIP code in the future. NCIP is a very large, very complicated standard, so even once work starts on NCIP, it's going to take

Re: [CODE4LIB] Server names at libraries

2006-10-27 Thread David J. Fiander
er, more visible.) I've always enjoyed the library server names that sounded sophisticated and evil... darkstar etc reminds me of our tabby cat thinking she's a cruel-hearted tiger as she pounces on a cloth mouse. Karen G. Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- David J. Fiander Digital Services

Re: [CODE4LIB] Server names at libraries

2006-10-27 Thread David J. Fiander
So I guess you don't have a machine name Shawinigan then. - David On 27-Oct-06, at 09:08 , Walter Lewis wrote: David J. Fiander wrote: Naming computers is always fun. My main computer at home is always Golem, and if I ever had had the power to name a series of computers, I was going to name

Re: [CODE4LIB] Musings on using xISBN in our Horizon catalog

2006-05-24 Thread David J. Fiander
' is a poor justification for changing an API) it might be exposed for this reason. Am I making an invalid assumption here? Or might there be a way to tweak the algorithm so that we don't run into this problem? Ben -- David J. Fiander Digital Services Librarian

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib journal

2006-05-09 Thread David J. Fiander
. The fire marshal would probably have a conniption. - David -- David J. Fiander Digital Services Librarian

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib journal

2006-05-04 Thread David J. Fiander
Thomas Dowling wrote: The editors of THE Journal suggest we establish a 246 field for Slash Lib Slash Dev. Of course, the media's penchant for referring to the solidus as a backslash is going to be a serious problem for any such move to provide parallel title information. - David -- David J

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib journal

2006-05-04 Thread David J. Fiander
(punctuation) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slash_(punctuation)#English -- David J. Fiander Digital Services Librarian

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib journal

2006-05-04 Thread David J. Fiander
on The The, and then there's the Canadian political commentary journal, This Magazine, which while it doesn't cause a problem for the software, is terribly confusing just in general. -- David J. Fiander Digital Services Librarian