Re: [CODE4LIB] Location of the first Code4Lib North meeting?

Hmmm. No one has brought up how increasingly onerous it has become to travel to the U.S., as a Canadian or non-U.S resident (and particularly for non-Canadian, non-US residents who are fingerprinted on each visit!). This should should not be discounted, as much as I enjoy visiting place like Montpe

Re: [CODE4LIB] Location of the first Code4Lib North meeting?

+1 for Montreal -- Glen Newton | glen.new...@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca Researcher, Information Science, CISTI Research [On assignment: IM Advisor, Canadian Forestry Service, Natural Resources Canada] http://tinyurl.com/yvchmu NRCan/CFS: 613-947-9088 <-- This one now NRC: tel 613-990-9163 | fax 613-

Re: [CODE4LIB] Choosing development platforms and/or tools, how'd you do it?

+1 [A good informed response] -glen Gabriel wrote: > On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 09:23:09AM -0500, Bill Dueber wrote: > > There's a spectrum of how much an editor/environment can know about a > > program. At one end is Smalltalk, where the development environment *is* the > > program. At the other e

Re: [CODE4LIB] Choosing development platforms and/or tools, how'd you do it?

Ross wrote: > I honestly think choosing the best* development language is very > similar to how one settles on politics, religion, diet, etc. > Environment plays a part, of course, but, in the end, what generally > works best is the language that jibes best with you and your > personality. Sin

[CODE4LIB] Alert! "Programming skills could transform librarians' roles"

earchinformation.info/features/feature.php?feature_id=245 -- Glen Newton | glen.new...@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca Researcher, Information Science, CISTI Research & NRC W3C Advisory Committee Representative http://tinyurl.com/yvchmu tel/t l: 613-990-9163 | facsimile/t l copieur 613-952-8246 Canada Institute for Sc

Re: [CODE4LIB] Character problems with tictoc

;! :-) -glen PS. I am contemplating trademarking "I see mangled characters" !! :-) On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Glen Newton wrote: > > The file I got with wget is: > http://cuvier.cisti.nrc.ca/~gnewton/tictoc.txt > (Just to convince myself I'm not going nu

Re: [CODE4LIB] Character problems with tictoc

Libraries To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Character problems with tictoc Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:14:54 -0800 Message-ID: At Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:59:01 -0500, Glen Newton wrote: > Thanks, Erik, some useful tools and advice. Glad to help! > […] > >

Re: [CODE4LIB] Character problems with tictoc

h tictoc Date: Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:24:49 -0800 Message-ID: At Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:09:28 -0500, Glen Newton wrote: > > It seems that different people are seeing different things in their > respective viewers (i.e some are OK and others are like what I am > seeing). > > Whe

Re: [CODE4LIB] Character problems with tictoc

ight sign, '\u00a9' becomes C2 A9). C3 83 C2 A9 is exactly what JISC is serving, what it should be serving is C3 A9. Send email to them. - Godmar [1] http://www.utf8-chartable.de/ 2009/12/21 Glen Newton > > [I realise there was a recent related 'Character-sets for dumm

Re: [CODE4LIB] Character problems with tictoc

s C3 83 and A9 (copyright sign, '\u00a9' becomes C2 A9). C3 83 C2 A9 is exactly what JISC is serving, what it should be serving is C3 A9. Send email to them. - Godmar [1] http://www.utf8-chartable.de/ 2009/12/21 Glen Newton > > [I realise there was a recent related 'Charact

[CODE4LIB] Character problems with tictoc

: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > Connection: close > Length: unspecified [text/plain] ><stuff removed> Can someone validate if they are also experiencing this issue? Thanks, Glen [1]https://listserv.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?S2=CODE4LIB&q=&s=character-sets+for+dummies&f=&

Re: [CODE4LIB] agile methodologies

2009/09/let-agile-fad-flow-by.html -- Glen Newton | glen.new...@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca Researcher, Information Science, CISTI Research & NRC W3C Advisory Committee Representative http://tinyurl.com/yvchmu tel/t l: 613-990-9163 | facsimile/t l copieur 613-952-8246 Canada Institute for Scientific

[CODE4LIB] R?

ling around William> with in R, but I wondered if anyone was using it for William> visualizing searches, usage, networks of information, William> that kind of thing. William> Bill -- William Denton, Toronto : miskatonic.org William> www.frbr.org openfrbr.org --

Re: [CODE4LIB] proxying Google Book Search and advertising networks to protect patron privacy

It may/should help protect the user's privacy from the server end (from Google), not the client end. In the original question there is an underlying (perhaps true ;-) ) assumption that librarians are more trustworthy than Google. -glen :-) > "Nate" == Nate Vack writes: Nate> Are yo

Re: [CODE4LIB] proxying Google Book Search and advertising networks to protect patron privacy

inserting this header field into their HTTP requests 3) Google caught on and went back to one cap to bind them all... BTW, if #1 is true and #2 and #3 are not yet true, then they soon will be! ;-) Glen Newton http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/ [1]http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html

[CODE4LIB] Semantic Maps of Science from Full-text

on about it any more (here!): for more info: http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2009/07/project-torngat-building-large-scale.html Let me know if you have any questions... Glen -- Glen Newton | glen.new...@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca Researcher, Information Science, CISTI Research & NRC W3C Advisory Commi

Re: [CODE4LIB] registering info: uris?

I count 75 messages on this topic. Perhaps it is time to take this off list? Someone give us a summary when/if this is resolved? Or start a new list for this issue and tell us where it is? thanks, Glen > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of > Eric Hellman > Sen

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib open source software award

Jonathan Rochkind wrote: "It might be a good idea, but maybe not with the Code4Lib name. But I worry in general we don?t collectively know enough about what makes good software to give a Software of the Year honor reliably." Karen Schneider wrote: "On the one hand, I agree. On the other hand, just

[CODE4LIB] code4lib open source software award

ould rule out some significant contributions. I would instead say something like "Directly impacting libraries". > * Regarding the timing, I suggest this be an > annual award given at each Code4Lib > conference. Sounds good. -Glen Newton [1]http://www.opensource.org/

[CODE4LIB] c4lc09 presentation voting reminder

I am having some trouble voting. Perhaps I am missing something. I go to http://vote.code4lib.org/election/index/7 It says "For each item, choose the score you wish to assign from 0-3. You may assign scores to as many items as you like. The winners will be chosen from the highest scores." I see

[CODE4LIB] Announcement: LuSql: Database to Lucene indexing

ment collection, producing an 86GB Lucene index. http://lab.cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/cistilabswiki/index.php/LuSql If you have any questions, please contact me. Thanks, Glen Newton :-) -- Glen Newton | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Researcher, Information Science, CISTI Research & NRC W3C Advisory C

[CODE4LIB] amazon s3?

lina at Chapel Hill > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 919-962-1288 > +++ -- Glen Newton | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Researcher, Information Science, CISTI Research & NRC W3C Advisory Committee Representative http://tinyurl.com/yvchmu tel/tél: 613-990-9163

[CODE4LIB] Tag Cloud inspired HTML Select lists

This is something I did a little while ago, but thought some on this list might find it interesting: http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2007/10/tag-cloud-inspired-html-select-lists.html Glen -- Glen Newton | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Researcher, Information Science, CISTI Research & NRC W3C Advi

[CODE4LIB] List of Digital Library Conference Proceedings

This may be tangential to this list... I've just posted list of major digital library conference proceedings: http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2008/07/list-of-digital-library-conference.html If there are any that are missing, please let me know & I will add them. Thanks, Glen -- Gl

Re: [CODE4LIB] [c4lj-articles] SPARC Europe and the DOAJ Announce the Launch of the SPARC Europe Seal for Open Access Journals

s by machines (m2m) http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2008/04/new-open-access-criterion-support.html -Glen -- Glen Newton | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Researcher, Information Science, CISTI Research & NRC W3C Advisory Committee Representative http://tinyurl.com/yvchmu tel/tél: 613-990-9163 | facsimile/télécopieur

code4lib@listserv.nd.edu

The signal-to-noise ration is dropping on this list. Perhaps this extremely humorous discussion could be taken off-list? constructively, Glen > "Mark" == Mark Sandford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mark> 01010111 01101000 01100101 01101110 0010 0001 Mark> 0110 01110101 0010

Re: [CODE4LIB] Announcement: Open Source In Libraries Website

Let a thousand flowers bloom. That is certainly the Open Source way. -Glen Newton > Ross wrote: > How is oss4lib.org and oss4lib-discuss not a "we" thing? > How is yet another community based around a rather small domain a good thing? > > -Ross. > > On Thu, Mar

[CODE4LIB] many processes, one result

there is a join(long timeoutMillis) method. Note that the threads can be doing all sorts of different things (like the situation you describe). -Glen -- Glen Newton | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Researcher, Information Science, CISTI Research & NRC W3C Advisory Committee Representative http://t

Re: [CODE4LIB] administratativia

Ditto. :-) Glen Newton Kevin Clarke wrote: > Welcome John, > It's nice to have more Java folks around :-) > > Kevin > > > On Feb 9, 2008 11:13 AM, John Fereira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Roy's message to the web4lib list gave me a nudge that I

[CODE4LIB] Whatbird Interface Framework

creating a generic framework would be a good idea. I might be interested, but I am a Java guy. :-( Glen -- Glen Newton | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Researcher, Information Science, CISTI Research & NRC W3C Advisory Committee Representative http://tinyurl.com/yvchmu tel/t??l: 613-990-9163 | facsimile/