Re: [CODE4LIB] Formalizing Code4Lib?

2016-06-30 Thread Galen Charlton
Hi, On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 5:52 PM, Galen Charlton wrote: > - organizing itself and setting some deadlines The first meeting will take place tomorrow (1 July) at noon EDT; the agenda (which is entirely concerned with bootstrapping the IG) and a link to the Google Hangout can be found at: h

Re: [CODE4LIB] Formalizing Code4Lib?

2016-06-17 Thread Galen Charlton
he IG will be taking in the near future include: - organizing itself and setting some deadlines - sending out a survey to get more information about options and community preferences - enlisting the aid of experts as we do our work Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton gmcha...@gmail.com

Re: [CODE4LIB] Formalizing Code4Lib?

2016-06-13 Thread Galen Charlton
er and chair of the Evergreen project's oversight board. The Evergreen project became a member project of the Software Freedom Conservancy in 2011; since then, its conferences have been organized with Conservancy acting as fiduciary and fiscal agent. -- Galen Charlton Infrastructure and Add

Re: [CODE4LIB] "Illegal Aliens" subject heading

2016-04-18 Thread Galen Charlton
or the most part; the question is whether we have the people. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Infrastructure and Added Services Manager Equinox Software, Inc. / Open Your Library email: g...@esilibrary.com direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366 skype: gmcharlt web:http://www.esilibrary.c

Re: [CODE4LIB] Parsing LC call numbers?

2015-08-28 Thread Galen Charlton
, 6728, "S", > 4546, "F", 73, 2015, "2", "GRAPHICNOVELS"])? This way, I could have > granular control over sorting by call number. Have a look at this: https://github.com/libraryhackers/library-callnumber-lc/tree/master/python Regards, Galen --

Re: [CODE4LIB] marcxml to mrc

2015-08-27 Thread Galen Charlton
he lines of 0a220 4500 might get yaz-marcdump to emit ISO2709 records. However, for those to be useful, you'll likely want to set positions 5, 6, and 7 in the leader to values that make sense for the type of records you're dealing with. Regards, Galen -- Galen Ch

Re: [CODE4LIB] marcxml to mrc

2015-08-27 Thread Galen Charlton
s: curl http://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml/schema/MARC21slim.xsd > MARC21slim.xsd xmllint --noout --schema MARC21slim.xsd INPUTFILE Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Infrastructure and Added Services Manager Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: g...@esilibrary.com direct: +1 7

Re: [CODE4LIB] marcxml to mrc

2015-08-27 Thread Galen Charlton
is used, but there are others. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Infrastructure and Added Services Manager Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: g...@esilibrary.com direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366 skype: gmcharlt web:http://www.esilibrary.com/ Support

Re: [CODE4LIB] marcxml to mrc

2015-08-27 Thread Galen Charlton
TPUTFILE To go from MARCXML to ISO2709 yaz-marcdump -i marcxml -o marc INPUTFILE > OUTPUTFILE Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Infrastructure and Added Services Manager Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: g...@esilibrary.com direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-436

Re: [CODE4LIB] is python s l o o o w ? [resolved]

2015-05-19 Thread Galen Charlton
ython 2.7.6 on OS X 10.10.2 and Python 2.7.3 on Debian Jessie. In both cases, the standard json module was noticeably slower (and "import _json" does work). On my Debian box I also tried using simplejson directly, and it was also faster than json. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Infr

Re: [CODE4LIB] is python s l o o o w ?

2015-05-18 Thread Galen Charlton
written in Python itself. I tried swapping in cjson and UltraJSON [1] in place of "json" in your Python script, and in both cases it ran rather faster. [1] https://github.com/esnme/ultrajson Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Infrastructure and Added Services Manager Equinox Softwa

Re: [CODE4LIB] SIP2 to LDAP

2015-02-27 Thread Galen Charlton
ha-mailing-lists/ Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Infrastructure and Added Services Manager Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: g...@esilibrary.com direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366 skype: gmcharlt web:http://www.esilibrary.com/ Supporting Koha and Evergreen

Re: [CODE4LIB] CodeOfConduct4Lib: have a look!

2015-01-27 Thread Galen Charlton
s of late 2013, ALA has a code of conduct for conferences as well, e.g., http://alamw15.ala.org/statement-of-appropriate-conduct Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Manager of Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: g...@esilibrary.com direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell

Re: [CODE4LIB] Conference photography policy

2015-01-26 Thread Galen Charlton
Hi, On Mon, Jan 26, 2015 at 2:00 PM, Galen Charlton wrote: > For folks' consideration, here is a draft of the policy, which is > based on the Evergreen and AdaCamp policies and adapted to C4L's needs > and the feedback so far in this thread: > > https:/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Conference photography policy

2015-01-26 Thread Galen Charlton
;s needs and the feedback so far in this thread: https://gist.github.com/gmcharlt/8546dcb0ce2af580a476 Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Manager of Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: g...@esilibrary.com direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366 skype: gmcha

Re: [CODE4LIB] Conference photography policy

2015-01-26 Thread Galen Charlton
onduct) during the announcements and housekeeping periods each morning would be a good way to do it. For next year, it could be included on the registration website, and if the conference does speaker agreements, they could include an opt-in for photography and recording. Regards, Galen -- Galen Ch

[CODE4LIB] Conference photography policy

2015-01-26 Thread Galen Charlton
encourage attendees to ask for consent before taking photographs. [1] http://evergreen-ils.org/conference/photography-policy/ [2] https://adainitiative.org/2013/07/another-way-to-attract-women-to-conferences-photography-policies/ Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Manager of Implementati

Re: [CODE4LIB] MARC Validation in a UNIX Environment

2015-01-23 Thread Galen Charlton
, and on a Debian or Ubuntu box, by running apt-get install libmarc-lint-perl. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Manager of Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: g...@esilibrary.com direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366 skype: gmcharlt web:http:/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Adobe privacy follow-up

2014-12-19 Thread Galen Charlton
/2014/10/testing-adobe-digital-editions-4-0-1-round-2/ Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Manager of Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: g...@esilibrary.com direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366 skype: gmcharlt web:http://www.esilibrary.co

Re: [CODE4LIB] what good books did you read in 2014?

2014-12-15 Thread Galen Charlton
recipient, you are hereby notified that any > dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly > prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify > us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. -- Galen C

Re: [CODE4LIB] New look for Planet Code4Lib: with Dublin Core metadata!

2014-10-06 Thread Galen Charlton
WP can add creativeCommons:license elements to the feed at both the channel and item level. Looking at the one post on planet.code4lib.org that's currently displaying a DC.rights statement, it looks like it's being mapped from the /rss/channel/copyright element. Regards, Galen -- Gal

Re: [CODE4LIB] ruby-marc: how to sort fields after append?

2014-09-12 Thread Galen Charlton
that we can be doing. However, I think there's also a history of bad communication between catalogers and programmers that is getting in the way of moving forward (and don't get me wrong, Terry - your efforts have been HUGE in keeping conversation going). Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton

Re: [CODE4LIB] ruby-marc: how to sort fields after append?

2014-09-12 Thread Galen Charlton
its use have had exposure to professional catalogers. [1] http://www.snopes.com/music/artists/vanhalen.asp Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Manager of Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: g...@esilibrary.com direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366

Re: [CODE4LIB] ruby-marc: how to sort fields after append?

2014-09-12 Thread Galen Charlton
some catalogers in my experience do care, and even if only for the sake of inter-personal harmony, avoiding unnecessary reordering of MARC fields can be a win. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Manager of Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: g...@esilibrary.com di

Re: [CODE4LIB] ruby-marc: how to sort fields after append?

2014-09-12 Thread Galen Charlton
numeric tag order. I can't speak to the specifics, not being well-versed in Ruby, but assuming that the underlying sort is stable, you might want to use a custom comparator that leaves the relative 5XX and 6XX field order alone. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Manager of Implementation Equinox

Re: [CODE4LIB] Barcode scanner

2014-07-01 Thread Galen Charlton
, it looks like that project is by Eric Melton from the Kirkendall Public Library; it just happens to be hosted on Google Code. Please excuse the derail, but I just wanted to attribute it correctly. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Manager of Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The O

Re: [CODE4LIB] Does 'Freedom to Read' require us to systematically privilege HTTPS over HTTP?

2014-06-16 Thread Galen Charlton
tween having enough for disaster recovery while not keeping individually identifiable circ history forever * ensuring that contracts with ILS hosting providers and services that access patron data from the ILS have appropriate language concerning data retention and notification of subpoenas. Re

Re: [CODE4LIB] barriers to open metadata?

2014-04-29 Thread Galen Charlton
;t necessary have immediate benefit to the library) and maintaining uptime for the human users, often the convenient decision is to block the bots. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Manager of Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: g...@esilibrary.com direct: +1 770-709-558

Re: [CODE4LIB] 2nd meetup for code4lib LA - May 15th

2014-03-28 Thread Galen Charlton
Hi, On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 10:29 AM, McAulay, Elizabeth wrote: > ROAD TRIP Beware the UC Ride Share Vanpool Van!!! I now have The Ride of the Valkyries as an earworm. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Manager of Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email:

[CODE4LIB] SECURITY release: MARC::File::XML 1.0.2

2014-01-21 Thread Galen Charlton
ibXML parser that is configured to process external entities. The issue was reported by John Lightsey. [1] https://metacpan.org/release/GMCHARLT/MARC-XML-1.0.2 Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Manager of Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts emai

Re: [CODE4LIB] book cover api

2013-12-04 Thread Galen Charlton
ata point, the last time I checked, Syndetics offers a choice of "small", "medium", or "large" but doesn't offer on-the-fly scaling to user-supplied dimensions. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Manager of Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source

Re: [CODE4LIB] Pyromarc (Modern MARC processing in python) sprint next week

2013-10-23 Thread Galen Charlton
interesting. However, if you're looking for folks to join in the sprint, it may help to state the license that the end result will be distributed under. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Manager of Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: g...@esilibrary.com dir

Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides: I don't get it

2013-08-13 Thread Galen Charlton
dividual pages and also provides (via a paid add-on module) an XML export function. I don't know if SpringShare will also provide free one-time exports on request, but I would hope they do. Of course, even if one has the data in hand, data migrations can still take a lot of time, effort, a

Re: [CODE4LIB] Python and Ruby

2013-07-29 Thread Galen Charlton
from scratch (in which case go nuts (or not, as you may be constrained by the platform preferences of your employer)), often the right language is what everybody else is using _for the projects you're working on_. In other words, it pays to be flexible and be willing to learn new languages. R

Re: [CODE4LIB] StackExchange reboot?

2013-07-09 Thread Galen Charlton
etter off being comprehensive (e.g., all the libraries, all the archives, all the musuems, etc.) to have as large a pool as possible, or whether having a bunch of more focused fora (e.g., the potential digital preservation one mentioned by Trevor) is the way to go. Regards, Galen -- Galen Char

Re: [CODE4LIB] StackExchange reboot?

2013-07-07 Thread Galen Charlton
e community of users; a goal of building a knowledge base would not be achievable without a recognition that it's necessarily a secondary goal. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Manager of Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: g...@esilibrary.com direct

Re: [CODE4LIB] StackExchange reboot?

2013-07-06 Thread Galen Charlton
lks would respond to taking another bite at the apple. Certainly there are a number of clones [1] that we could host, for some C4L-ish definition of the word "we", which wouldn't require that we meet StackExchange's activity guidelines. [1] http://meta.stackoverflow.com/quest

Re: [CODE4LIB] Corrections to Worldcat/Hathi/Google

2012-08-28 Thread Galen Charlton
opy cataloging, but I suppose it's possible that some catalogers were also looking at the list of modifying agencies ("library A touched this record and is particularly good at subject analysis, so I'll grab their 650s"). Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Director of Support

Re: [CODE4LIB] Corrections to Worldcat/Hathi/Google

2012-08-27 Thread Galen Charlton
g out good ways to calculate differences between versions of a record, and perhaps more to the point, express those in a way that's more useful to maintainers of the metadata. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Director of Support and Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Exp

Re: [CODE4LIB] Software/service to deal with matching up incomplete DVD/CD sets.

2012-08-23 Thread Galen Charlton
uestion of potential users are - ACQNET-L (http://www.acqweb.org/acqnetnew) - PUBLIB (http://www.webjunction.org/documents/webjunction/PubLib_Overview.html) Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Director of Support and Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: g...@esil

[CODE4LIB] Equinox job posting - Support specialist

2012-05-15 Thread Galen Charlton
a year but is negotiable and commensurate with experience. This position is based on Duluth, Georgia. Please send your resume, 3 professional references, and salary requirements to care...@esilibrary.com Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Director of Support and Implementation Equinox Software,

[CODE4LIB] Equinox job posting - Library Data Specialist

2012-02-06 Thread Galen Charlton
. -- Galen Charlton Director of Support and Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: g...@esilibrary.com direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366 skype: gmcharlt web:http://www.esilibrary.com/ Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org &

[CODE4LIB] Equinox offering two scholarships for the 2012 Code4Lib conference

2011-12-14 Thread Galen Charlton
ssful applicants will be notified by January 5, 2012. Feel free to re-post this announcement and/or our press release (http://esilibrary.com/esi/newsitem.php?id=2182) Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Director of Support and Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts emai

Re: [CODE4LIB] C4L scholarships available

2011-12-01 Thread Galen Charlton
mmodations. This does mean that in order to be considered for the scholarship, one must already be registered or on the waitlist, and the awards can only be made to individuals who have an active registration by January 5th. Regards, Galen On 12/01/2011 03:43 PM, Galen Charlton wrote

[CODE4LIB] C4L scholarships available

2011-12-01 Thread Galen Charlton
this announcement and/or our press release (http://esilibrary.com/esi/newsitem.php?id=2182) Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Director of Support and Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: g...@esilibrary.com direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366 skype

[CODE4LIB] Equinox job opportunity - System Administrator

2011-11-29 Thread Galen Charlton
ts to care...@esilibrary.com with "Sysadmin" in the subject line. -- Galen Charlton Director of Support and Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: g...@esilibrary.com direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366 skype: gmcharlt web:http://www.esilibrary.com/

[CODE4LIB] Equinox job posting - System Administrator

2011-10-19 Thread Galen Charlton
insurance, fully paid for by the company. We also offer a 401k plan with matching contributions. Salary starts at $45,000 a year but is negotiable and commensurate with experience. Please send your resume, 3 professional references, and salary requirements to care...@esilibrary.com -- Galen Charlto

[CODE4LIB] Equinox job posting - Library Data and Support Specialist

2011-08-24 Thread Galen Charlton
. -- Galen Charlton Director of Support and Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / Your Library's Guide to Open Source email: g...@esilibrary.com direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366 skype: gmcharlt web:http://www.esilibrary.com/ Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http:/

Re: [CODE4LIB] marcxml

2010-11-11 Thread Galen Charlton
can't > replicate in marcedit. Are there any that I've missed? As far as Perl modules are concerned, MARC::XML is a bit long in the tooth. MARC::File::XML used in conjunction with MARC::Record may give you better results. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton gmcha...@gmail.com

Re: [CODE4LIB] SIP2 SDK available

2010-11-05 Thread Galen Charlton
updates can also be found at https://github.com/atz/SIPServer One of the things I'd like to do for Koha RSN is to merge back its fork of OpenNCIP so that both Koha and Evergreen are using the same base codebase for SIP2 support. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton gmcha...@gmail.com

Re: [CODE4LIB] marc OSS coding efforts

2010-04-08 Thread Galen Charlton
olchanges The link for the RSS feed itself is: http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=f13c2ebc06904437450eb6d5ed5f9931&_render=rss Please drop me a line if you want your project's commit and/or release announcement feeds added and can supply an Atom or RSS feed. Regards, Galen -

Re: [CODE4LIB] planet code4lib code

2010-03-29 Thread Galen Charlton
g? Ohloh can snarf code for various statistical and analysis purposes. Currently it can process Bazaar, CVS, Git, Mercurial, and Subversion repos. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton gmcha...@gmail.com

Re: [CODE4LIB] planet code4lib code (was: newbie)

2010-03-29 Thread Galen Charlton
but anyone have any idea > what it would actually look like? Perhaps as a sideways start we could use use the 'code4lib' tag on Ohloh to link projects together? Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton gmcha...@gmail.com

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

2009-07-27 Thread Galen Charlton
Hi, On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:19 PM, Chad Fennell wrote: > 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

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

2009-07-23 Thread Galen Charlton
Hi, 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. And particular, perhaps we can invite him without inviting Saint Ignucius? [1]

Re: [CODE4LIB] Javascript trees

2008-11-05 Thread Galen Charlton
e's what I've found: I've used the jQuery TreeView plugin successfully, albeit to manage a fairly small tree. http://plugins.jquery.com/project/treeview Nice, lightweight, supports async loading, and not-dead-yet. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton VP, Research & Development,

[CODE4LIB] Position announcement - Koha application developer (US or Canada)

2008-09-08 Thread Galen Charlton
http://liblime.com/about/careers/software_engineer_koha HOW TO APPLY Send a resume and cover letter to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Galen Charlton VP, Research & Development, LibLime [EMAIL PROTECTED] p: 1-888-564-2457 x709 skype: gmcharlt

Re: [CODE4LIB] presentation files

2008-03-04 Thread Galen Charlton
Hi, On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 8:44 AM, Dan Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So in that scenario, we would just link from the talk page to the location > of each video on archive.org > > There seemed to be general support on IRC for using the Internet Archive as > the destination of choice for t

Re: [CODE4LIB] arg! classpaths!

2008-01-26 Thread Galen Charlton
ore-2.3.0.jar:/home/eric/lucence/lucene-demos-2.3.0.jar You use a plain directory as a CLASSPATH component only if you intend to use .class files that has not been packaged up in a JAR. Regards, Galen Charlton [EMAIL PROTECTED] AKA [EMAIL PROTECTED]