Re: [CODE4LIB] Software used in Panama Papers Analysis

2016-04-12 Thread Owen Stephens
Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 > On 12 Apr 2016, at 16:05, Tom Cramer wrote: > > The IJNet article is particularly interesting—thanks for posting this. > Excerpts like the one below make me wo

Re: [CODE4LIB] MARC reporting engine

2014-11-03 Thread Owen Stephens
The MARC XML seemed to be an archive within an archive - I had to gunzip to get innzmetadata.xml then rename to innzmetadata.xml.gz and gunzip again to get the actual xml Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288

Re: [CODE4LIB] Stack Overflow

2014-11-04 Thread Owen Stephens
m supportive of the idea, but I'd hate to see this go through the pain of the SE process only to fail for the same reasons as previous efforts in this area. I think we need to think about this underlying problem - but I'm not sure what the solution is/solutions are. Owen Owen Stephens

Re: [CODE4LIB] Stack Overflow

2014-11-04 Thread Owen Stephens
Thanks for that Mark. That's running on 'question2answer' which looks to have a reasonable amount of development going on around it https://github.com/q2a/question2answer/graphs/contributors (given Becky's comments about OSQA which still hold true) Owen Owen Stephens Owen

[CODE4LIB] Automatically updating documentation with screenshots

2015-01-26 Thread Owen Stephens
o use. Anyone done/tried anything like this? Cheers Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936

Re: [CODE4LIB] Automatically updating documentation with screenshots

2015-01-26 Thread Owen Stephens
Selenium2Screenshots' [https://github.com/datakurre/robotframework-selenium2screenshots] Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 > On 26 Jan 2015, at 13:16, Mads Villadsen wrote: > > I have used casperj

Re: [CODE4LIB] Automatically updating documentation with screenshots

2015-01-26 Thread Owen Stephens
b.com/ebrehault/resurrectio <https://github.com/ebrehault/resurrectio>] Cheers Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 > On 26 Jan 2015, at 13:48, Owen Stephens wrote: > > Thanks all - I'm lookin

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4LibCon video crew thanks

2015-02-17 Thread Owen Stephens
Apologies for a +1 message, but you know... +1 and some Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 > On 13 Feb 2015, at 18:00, Cary Gordon wrote: > > I want to deeply thank Ashley Blewer, Steven And

Re: [CODE4LIB] linked data question

2015-02-26 Thread Owen Stephens
pattern Generally my view would be that (1) and (2) are viable approaches for different applications, but that (3) is generally a bad idea (having been through federated search before!) Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com

Re: [CODE4LIB] eebo

2015-06-05 Thread Owen Stephens
TEI files. If there is anything I can help with I’d be happy to. The people who worked with the files in detail were a UK s/w development company Knowledge Integration (http://www.k-int.com/) - I can give you a contact there if that would be helpful. Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens

[CODE4LIB] Global Open Knowledgebase APIs

2015-06-08 Thread Owen Stephens
int/gokb-phase1/wiki/Sample-SPARQL <https://github.com/k-int/gokb-phase1/wiki/Sample-SPARQL> Feedback on any/all of this would be very welcome - either to the list for discussion, or directly to me. We want to make sure we can provide useful data and services and hope you can help us

Re: [CODE4LIB] eebo [developments]

2015-06-08 Thread Owen Stephens
272/1/Baron_Hardie.pdf [4] http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/vard/about/ Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 > On 7 Jun 2015, at 18:48, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > > Here some of developments with my playing with the EEBO data

Re: [CODE4LIB] eebo [perfect texts]

2015-06-09 Thread Owen Stephens
records are those in the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) http://estc.bl.uk. There have been some great steps forward in the last few years, but I still feel libraries need to increase the amount they are doing to publish metadata under explicitly open licences. Owen Owen Stephens Owen

Re: [CODE4LIB] Desiring Advice for Converting OCR Text into Metadata and/or a Database

2015-06-18 Thread Owen Stephens
ob/master/scraper.py> Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 > On 18 Jun 2015, at 17:02, Matt Sherman wrote: > > Hi Code4Libbers, > > I am working with colleague on a side project which involves so

Re: [CODE4LIB] Processing Circ data

2015-08-05 Thread Owen Stephens
deas/2014/11/working-with-data-using-openrefine/> Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 > On 5 Aug 2015, at 21:07, Harper, Cynthia wrote: > > Hi all. What are you using to process circ data f

Re: [CODE4LIB] Protocol-relative URLs in MARC

2015-08-17 Thread Owen Stephens
Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 > On 17 Aug 2015, at 21:41, Stuart A. Yeates wrote: > > I'm in the middle of some work which includes touching the 856s in lots of > MARC records pointing to we

Re: [CODE4LIB] Protocol-relative URLs in MARC

2015-08-17 Thread Owen Stephens
Sorry - addressing the actual question, rather than the one in my head, the 856 field "is also repeated when more than one access method is used” - so my reading is you should be doing both: 856 40 $uhttp://example.com 856 70 $uhttps://example.com$2https Owen Owen Stephens Owen Ste

Re: [CODE4LIB] Job: Wine Loving Developer at University of California, Davis

2015-12-11 Thread Owen Stephens
. Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 > On 10 Dec 2015, at 23:42, James Morley wrote: > > I agree with Thomas's logic, if not the maths (surely $2,000?) > > I was going to do a few myse

Re: [CODE4LIB] searching metadata vs searching content

2016-01-28 Thread Owen Stephens
. http://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/support Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 > On 27 Jan 2016, at 00:30, Laura Buchholz wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm trying to understand how digital libra

Re: [CODE4LIB] XMP Metadata to tab-delemited file

2013-01-14 Thread Owen Stephens
I'm not familiar with what XMP RDF/XML looks like but it might be worth using an RDF parser rather than using XSLT? Graphite (http://graphite.ecs.soton.ac.uk/) is pretty easy to use if you are comfortable with PHP Owen On 14 Jan 2013, at 19:09, Kyle Banerjee wrote: > On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at

Re: [CODE4LIB] Directories of OAI-PMH repositories

2013-02-08 Thread Owen Stephens
Also see OpenDOAR http://www.opendoar.org We used this listing when building Core http://core.kmi.open.ac.uk/search - which aggregates and does full-text analysis and similarity matching across OA repositories Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email

Re: [CODE4LIB] You *are* a coder. So what am I?

2013-02-13 Thread Owen Stephens
"Shambrarian": Someone who knows enough truth about how libraries really work, but not enough to go insane or be qualified as a real librarian. (See more at http://m.urbandictionary.com/#define?term=Shambrarian) More information available at http://shambrarian.org/ And Dave Pattern has publishe

[CODE4LIB] British Library Directory of Libraries (probably of interest to UK only)

2013-04-23 Thread Owen Stephens
proving the scraper welcome (I don't usually write Python so the code is probably even ropier than my normal code :) Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936

Re: [CODE4LIB] DOI scraping

2013-05-17 Thread Owen Stephens
owser plugin). Also looking for custom database scrapers it might be worth looking at Zotero translators, as they already exist for many major sources and I guess will be grabbing the DOI where it exists if they can http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/translators Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consu

Re: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone

2013-06-12 Thread Owen Stephens
Putting the files on GitHub might be an option - free for public repositories, and 38Mb should not be a problem to host there Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 12 Jun 2013, at 02:24, Dana Pearson

Re: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone

2013-06-12 Thread Owen Stephens
On 12 Jun 2013, at 14:06, Dana Pearson wrote: > Thanks for the replies..I had looked at GitHub but thought it something > different, ie, collaborative software development...I will look again Yes - that's the main use (git is version control software, GitHub hosts git repositories) - but of cou

Re: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone

2013-06-13 Thread Owen Stephens
On 13 Jun 2013, at 02:57, Dana Pearson wrote: > quick followup on the thread.. > > github: I looked at the cooperhewitt collection but don't see a way to > download the content...I could copy and paste their content but that may > not be the best approach for my files...documentation is thin, s

Re: [CODE4LIB] Anyone have access to well-disambiguated sets of publication data?

2013-07-09 Thread Owen Stephens
les - e.g. for same person http://names.mimas.ac.uk/individual/25256.html?&outputfields=resultpublications You could then use the Crossref DOI lookup service to get journal identifiers Not sure this will get you what you need but might be worth a look Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Co

Re: [CODE4LIB] Releasing library holdings metadata openly on the web (was: Libraries and IT Innovation)

2013-07-24 Thread Owen Stephens
On the holdings front also see the work being done on a holding ontology at https://github.com/dini-ag-kim/holding-ontology (and related mailing list http://lists.d-nb.de/mailman/listinfo/dini-ag-kim-bestandsdaten) - discussion all in English Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web

Re: [CODE4LIB] netflix search mashups w/ library tools?

2013-08-19 Thread Owen Stephens
From the Netflix API Terms of Use "Titles and Title Metadata may be stored for no more than twenty four (24) hours." http://developer.netflix.com/page/Api_terms_of_use Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6

Re: [CODE4LIB] What do you want to learn about linked data?

2013-09-04 Thread Owen Stephens
Just a recommendation for a source of information - I've found http://linkeddatabook.com/editions/1.0/ very useful especially in thinking about the practicalities of linked data publication and consumption in applications Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web:

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open Source ERM

2013-09-20 Thread Owen Stephens
. GOKb has the added complication/interest of also having a Open (was Google) Refine extension as this is the tool chose for loading messing e-journal data into the system Sorry to go on, hope the above is of some interest Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email

Re: [CODE4LIB] Library of Congress

2013-10-01 Thread Owen Stephens
+1 Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 1 Oct 2013, at 14:21, "Doran, Michael D" wrote: >> As far as I can tell the LOC is up and the offices are closed. HORRAY!! >> Let's cele

Re: [CODE4LIB] Retrieving ISSN using a DOI

2014-03-05 Thread Owen Stephens
this fascinating substance", "type": "journal-article", "DOI": "10.1126/science.169.3946.635", "ISSN": [ "0036-8075", "1095-9203" ], "URL": "http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.169.3946.63

Re: [CODE4LIB] tool for finding close matches in vocabular list

2014-03-21 Thread Owen Stephens
/ might be a good starting point if you want to see what Refine can do Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 21 Mar 2014, at 18:24, Ken Irwin wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm looking for a tool

Re: [CODE4LIB] semantic web browsers

2014-03-22 Thread Owen Stephens
ed browser from Southampton *does* support content-negotiation - what makes you think it doesn't? Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 22 Mar 2014, at 20:49, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > Do you k

[CODE4LIB] Research Libraries UK Hack day

2014-04-04 Thread Owen Stephens
RLUK members The event is free and you can sign up now at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rluk-hack-day-rlukhack-tickets-11197529111 - I hope to see some of you there Best wishes Owen 1. http://www.rluk.ac.uk/news/rluk-joins-european-library/ Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web:

Re: [CODE4LIB] distributed responsibility for web content

2014-04-18 Thread Owen Stephens
lish clear policies and (perhaps!) take some of the emotion out of decision making - e.g. see http://boagworld.com/business-strategy/website-animal/ - perhaps a similar approach might help here as well. Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ost

Re: [CODE4LIB] barriers to open metadata?

2014-04-30 Thread Owen Stephens
ore-project.kmi.open.ac.uk/node/32 6 OpenDOAR http://www.opendoar.org/ Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 29 Apr 2014, at 21:06, Ben Companjen wrote: > Hi Laura, > > Here are some reasons I may have

Re: [CODE4LIB] Any good "introduction to SPARQL" workshops out there?

2014-05-01 Thread Owen Stephens
ee if there is any possibility of having it webcast if there was interest. Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 1 May 2014, at 17:23, Hutt, Arwen wrote: > We're interested in an introduction to SPARQL

Re: [CODE4LIB] Is ISNI / ISO 27729:2012 a name identifier or an entity identifier?

2014-06-19 Thread Owen Stephens
Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 18 Jun 2014, at 23:28, Stuart Yeates wrote: > My reading of that suggests that > http://isni-url.oclc.nl/isni/000122816316 shouldn't have both "Bell

[CODE4LIB] 'automation' tools

2014-07-04 Thread Owen Stephens
l with? Thanks, Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936

Re: [CODE4LIB] 'automation' tools

2014-07-07 Thread Owen Stephens
Thanks Riley and Andrew for these pointers - some great stuff in there Other tools and examples still very welcome :) Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 4 Jul 2014, at 15:04, Andrew Weidner wrote

Re: [CODE4LIB] coders who library? [was: Let me shadow you, librarians who code!]

2014-07-07 Thread Owen Stephens
subfields or write MODS XML freehand. http://shambrarian.org :) Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 7 Jul 2014, at 15:36, Miles Fidelman wrote: > This recent spate of message leads me to wonder: How ma

Re: [CODE4LIB] 'automation' tools

2014-07-07 Thread Owen Stephens
al at http://www.meanboyfriend.com/overdue_ideas/2013/02/introduction-to-apis/ but a change to the BL open data platform means this no longer works :(( Thanks all again - I'll be trying to put stuff from the automation workshop online at some point and I'll post here when there is some

[CODE4LIB] Automation tools - session at the "Pi and Mash" unconference

2014-08-11 Thread Owen Stephens
. There are also two accompanying files 'ISBNs.xlsx' and 'isbns.csv' which are used in the examples/exercises. All materials are available at http://bit.ly/automatedlovefolder Thanks to all who made suggestions which contributed towards the session. Best wishes, Owen Owen Ste

Re: [CODE4LIB] Automated searching of Copac/Worldcat

2014-08-13 Thread Owen Stephens
ut allows more sophisticated approach to checking and writing out information about text present/absent in web pages retrieved. Hope that is of some help Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 13 A

Re: [CODE4LIB] IFTTT and barcodes

2014-09-11 Thread Owen Stephens
- available from https://github.com/cantino/huginn Overkill for this particular problem but may be of more general interest Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 11 Sep 2014, at 08:21, Sylvain Machefert wrote

Re: [CODE4LIB] Python or Perl script for reading RDF/XML, Turtle, or N-triples Files

2014-09-30 Thread Owen Stephens
x27; error (once in ntriples, Rapper can be used for further parsing) Some slightly random advice there, but maybe some of it will be useful! Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 30 Sep 2014, at 15:54, Jere

Re: [CODE4LIB] ISSN lists?

2014-10-17 Thread Owen Stephens
. For example the RLUK release of 60m+ records at http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/access/data/lod, or the 12million records released by Harvard http://openmetadata.lib.harvard.edu/bibdata (both CC0) Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Ema

Re: [CODE4LIB] Linux distro for librarians

2014-10-21 Thread Owen Stephens
approach (the change of direction is noted at http://dhbox.commons.gc.cuny.edu/blog/2014/dh-box-new-friend-new-platform#sthash.27THWR6E.dpbs). To be honest I'm not 100% sure where the project is right now, as although it looks like not much has been updated since May 2014. Owen Owen Ste

Re: [CODE4LIB] CIS students, service learning, and the library

2011-10-14 Thread Owen Stephens
h s/w http://jerome.library.lincoln.ac.uk/ Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 13 Oct 2011, at 23:04, Robert Robertson wrote: > Hi Ellen, > > The event hasn't been held yet but it might be worth taking

[CODE4LIB] Mobile technologies in libraries - fact finding survey

2011-11-24 Thread Owen Stephens
-libraries.info and subscribe to updates (links in the right hand side for RSS or email subscriptions). Thanks and best wishes, Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936

Re: [CODE4LIB] Models of MARC in RDF

2011-11-28 Thread Owen Stephens
Would be really helpful if more projects published their transformations (or someone told me where to look!) Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 26 Nov 2011, at 15:58, Karen Coyle wrote: > A few of

Re: [CODE4LIB] Models of MARC in RDF

2011-12-02 Thread Owen Stephens
ts that can appear in multiple places in the hierarchy. > > -Esme > -- > Esme Cowles > > "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the > argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." -- William Pitt, 1783 > > On 11/28/2011, at

Re: [CODE4LIB] Models of MARC in RDF

2011-12-02 Thread Owen Stephens
s that can appear in multiple places in the hierarchy. > > -Esme > -- > Esme Cowles > > "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the > argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." -- William Pitt, 1783 > > On 11/28/2011,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Models of MARC in RDF

2011-12-06 Thread Owen Stephens
I'd suggest that rather than shove it in a triple it might be better to point at alternative representations, including MARC if desirable (keep meaning to blog some thoughts about progressively enhanced metadata...) Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephen

Re: [CODE4LIB] Models of MARC in RDF

2011-12-06 Thread Owen Stephens
; element to this - or at least there was for me when looking at the transformation at the Open University) Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 5 Dec 2011, at 18:56, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: > On 12/5/2011 1

Re: [CODE4LIB] Models of MARC in RDF

2011-12-07 Thread Owen Stephens
Fair point. Just instinct on my part that putting it in a triple is a bit ugly :) It probably doesn't make any difference, although I don't think storing in a triple ensures that it sticks to the object (you could store the triple anywhere as well) Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens

Re: [CODE4LIB] Models of MARC in RDF

2011-12-07 Thread Owen Stephens
ny major issues with the conversion after that period we felt confident disposing of the record. This is the type of usage I was imagining for a copy of the MARC record in this scenario. Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone:

Re: [CODE4LIB] Namespace management, was Models of MARC in RDF

2011-12-07 Thread Owen Stephens
On 7 Dec 2011, at 00:38, Alexander Johannesen wrote: > Hiya, > > Karen Coyle wrote: >> I wonder how easy it will be to >> manage a metadata scheme that has cherry-picked from existing ones, so >> something like: >> >> dc:title >> bibo:chapter >> foaf:depiction > > Yes, you're right in pointing

Re: [CODE4LIB] Namespace management, was Models of MARC in RDF

2011-12-12 Thread Owen Stephens
f I'm serious about this or not!) Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 11 Dec 2011, at 23:47, Karen Coyle wrote: > Quoting Richard Wallis : > > >> You get the impression that the BL &quo

Re: [CODE4LIB] Namespace management, was Models of MARC in RDF

2011-12-12 Thread Owen Stephens
On 11 Dec 2011, at 23:30, Richard Wallis wrote: > > There is no document I am aware of, but I can point you at the blog post by > Tim Hodson [ > http://consulting.talis.com/2011/07/british-library-data-model-overview/] > who helped the BL get to grips with and start thinking Linked Data. > Anothe

Re: [CODE4LIB] URL checking for the catalog

2012-02-24 Thread Owen Stephens
from-references/6-8-3-telstar-approach/ although for some reason (my fault) this doesn't include a write up of the link checking process/code we created. Of course, this approach is in no way incompatible with regular proactive link checking. Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens

[CODE4LIB] "Repositories", OAI-PMH and web crawling

2012-02-24 Thread Owen Stephens
eader The latter has the advantage of being an existing way of doing it, but I wonder how fiddly it might be to implement, while a simple file in a known location might be easier. Anyway, thoughts appreciated - and alternatives to these of course. One obvious alternative that I keep coming back to

Re: [CODE4LIB] "Repositories", OAI-PMH and web crawling

2012-02-24 Thread Owen Stephens
thinking, maybe we should just use a web crawler and ignore OAI-PMH but I guess this was we maybe get the best of both worlds). Thanks again (and of course further thoughts welcome) Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 01

Re: [CODE4LIB] "Repositories", OAI-PMH and web crawling

2012-02-26 Thread Owen Stephens
On 24 Feb 2012, at 16:52, Ian Ibbotson wrote: > Sorry.. late to the discussion... > > Isn't this a little apples and oranges? > > Surely robots.txt exists because many static resources are served directly > from a tree structured filesystem? > > (Nearly) all OAI requests are responded to by spe

Re: [CODE4LIB] "Repositories", OAI-PMH and web crawling

2012-02-26 Thread Owen Stephens
On 24 Feb 2012, at 18:20, Joe Hourcle wrote: > On Feb 24, 2012, at 9:25 AM, Kyle Banerjee wrote: > I see it like the people who request that their pages not be cached elsewhere > -- they want to make their object 'discoverable', but they want to control > the access to those objects -- so it's o

Re: [CODE4LIB] "Repositories", OAI-PMH and web crawling

2012-02-26 Thread Owen Stephens
at both web crawlers, and any other mechanisms like OAI-PMH can follow I realise these may not be achievable, but just my thoughts Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 25 Feb 2012, at 22:18, Peter Noerr

Re: [CODE4LIB] "Repositories", OAI-PMH and web crawling

2012-02-26 Thread Owen Stephens
On 24 Feb 2012, at 18:20, Joe Hourcle wrote: > > I see it like the people who request that their pages not be cached elsewhere > -- they want to make their object 'discoverable', but they want to control > the access to those objects -- so it's one thing for a search engine to get a > copy, but

Re: [CODE4LIB] "Repositories", OAI-PMH and web crawling

2012-02-27 Thread Owen Stephens
e two wrongs don't make a right, it seems to us that if repositories are not preventing Google (or others - for example notably CiteSeerX is in the business of crawling repositories http://csxstatic.ist.psu.edu/about/crawler) crawling/indexing/caching their content, then we hope that a n

Re: [CODE4LIB] "Repositories", OAI-PMH and web crawling

2012-02-27 Thread Owen Stephens
On 27 Feb 2012, at 13:31, Diane Hillmann wrote: > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 5:25 AM, Owen Stephens wrote: > >> > providers provide such intermediate pages (arxiv.org, for instance). The > other issue driving providers towards intermediate pages is that it allows > them

Re: [CODE4LIB] "Repositories", OAI-PMH and web crawling

2012-03-01 Thread Owen Stephens
question of the indexing of library catalogues by search engines. Thanks again to all who have contributed to the discussion - very useful Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 1 Mar 2012, at 11:42, Ed Summer

Re: [CODE4LIB] "Repositories", OAI-PMH and web crawling

2012-03-01 Thread Owen Stephens
embargoed papers (as per Raffaele's suggestion); how to deal with >multi-part resources etc. Anything coming out of the project would, of course, >be just one projects recommendations for JISC to consider not more than that. Cheers, Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web:

[CODE4LIB] Code and Catalogue data event

2012-04-26 Thread Owen Stephens
ng supported by DevCSI (http://devcsi.ukoln.ac.uk/about/) I hope some of you can make it Owen -- Owen Stephens Consulting http://ostephens.com e: o...@ostephens.com t: 0121 288 6936 skype: owen.stephens

Re: [CODE4LIB] isoncampus service

2012-06-14 Thread Owen Stephens
es. > Though > mapping from an IP address to its owner is not the same as listing IP > ranges associated with an organization (many include multiple discontiguous > CIDR ranges), I note that some of this information is also public via the > BGP-advertised IP-prefixes for an institutio

[CODE4LIB] Open data and Research Libraries UK

2012-08-03 Thread Owen Stephens
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/5RH8KH8 Thanks and best wishes Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936

Re: [CODE4LIB] Recommendations for a teaching OPAC?

2012-08-03 Thread Owen Stephens
On 3 Aug 2012, at 15:56, Joseph Montibello wrote: > search, you could probably do worse than to install Blacklight. It > probably doesn't really meet the "simple" criteria - there's a lot more to > it than I could talk about. But getting it out of the box, turned on, and > searching against a f

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

2012-08-28 Thread Owen Stephens
The JISC funded CLOCK project did some thinking around cataloguing processes and tracking changes to statements and/or records - e.g. http://clock.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/2012/05/23/its-a-model-and-its-looking-good/ Not solutions of course, but hopefully of interest Owen Owen Stephens Owen

Re: [CODE4LIB] Seeking examples of outstanding discovery layers

2012-09-21 Thread Owen Stephens
s%20upload/ica12Final00423.pd f Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936

Re: [CODE4LIB] CODE4LIB equivalent in UK?

2012-10-08 Thread Owen Stephens
s it that the code4lib list doesn't satisfy that people would like to see from a UK based list? Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 8 Oct 2012, at 09:14, Richard Wallis wrote: &

Re: [CODE4LIB] Citation manager --> ??? --> BePress Bulk-upload Excel spreadsheet

2012-10-15 Thread Owen Stephens
No idea if this is useful, but just to note that RefWorks also has an API in case that offers any more options to you in terms of pushing the data around http://rwt.refworks.com/rwapireference/ Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q.: software for vendor title list processing

2012-10-16 Thread Owen Stephens
run sets of rules across data sets from specific sources. We should be making progress on this in the next couple of months. Hope that's helpful Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 16 Oct 2012, a

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q.: software for vendor title list processing

2012-10-17 Thread Owen Stephens
Are there any examples of data in this format in the wild we can look at? Also given KBART and ONIX for Serials Online Holdings have NISO involvement, is there any view on how these two activities complement each other? Thanks, Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q.: software for vendor title list processing

2012-10-17 Thread Owen Stephens
t the moment the question of uptake/compliance is the bigger issue. Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 17 Oct 2012, at 14:48, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: > I've always been a fan of ONIX for SOH, a

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q.: software for vendor title list processing

2012-10-17 Thread Owen Stephens
> > This leads to three follow-up questions. > > First, is there software to translate/normalize existing vendor lists from > vendors that have not yet adopted either of these standards into these > formats? I'm thinking of a collection of adapters or converters, perhaps. > Each would likely cons

Re: [CODE4LIB] open circ data

2012-10-26 Thread Owen Stephens
recommender API based on the data http://copac.ac.uk/innovations/activity-data/?page_id=227 Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 26 Oct 2012, at 23:04, Jimmy Ghaphery wrote: > Are there any ot

Re: [CODE4LIB] SRU & MARC fields with indicators

2012-11-06 Thread Owen Stephens
According to the MARC spec, 035 doesn't support '9' as a valid indicator. My very uneducated guess would be the invalid indicator is causing the underlying system not to index it? Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Tele

Re: [CODE4LIB] SRU & MARC fields with indicators

2012-11-07 Thread Owen Stephens
Thanks Karen - probably should have known that! That's the nice thing about MARC - always some new thing to cope with :) Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 6 Nov 2012, at 19:37, Karen Coyle

Re: [CODE4LIB] COinS

2012-11-21 Thread Owen Stephens
ists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-schemabibex/ or wiki http://www.w3.org/community/schemabibex/wiki/Main_Page Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 21 Nov 2012, at 07:37, Dave Caroline wrote: &g

Re: [CODE4LIB] OpenURL linking but from the content provider's point of view

2012-11-21 Thread Owen Stephens
of the question is 'what metadata should be included in the OpenURL to give it the best chance of working with a link resolver'? Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 20 Nov 2012, at 19:39, Da

Re: [CODE4LIB] OpenURL linking but from the content provider's point of view

2012-11-21 Thread Owen Stephens
Failure rate on resolving DOIs via CrossRef is high enough that I'd argue for belt && braces Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 21 Nov 2012, at 15:08, "Young,Jeff (OR)" wrote:

Re: [CODE4LIB] What is a "coder"?

2012-11-30 Thread Owen Stephens
el? Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 29 Nov 2012, at 22:51, William Denton wrote: > On 29 November 2012, Cary Gordon wrote: > >> Obviously, we need to offer trainings on how to get funding to

Re: [CODE4LIB] Zotero, unapi, and formats?

2010-04-06 Thread Owen Stephens
y I chose unAPI over COinS. > And yeah, better documentation would be nice, thanks for looking into > it. > > -Chad > -- Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com

[CODE4LIB] OCLC UK Mashathon and 'Liver and Mash' Mashed Library event (Liverpool, May 13-14)

2010-04-14 Thread Owen Stephens
days. As Mashed Library has become a really popular event in the UK, the bookings for that are going quite quickly (we currently have 13 spaces left) but there's still plenty of room at the Mashathon. Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com

[CODE4LIB] Bibliographic data on Freebase

2010-04-22 Thread Owen Stephens
mapping place of publication to existing Freebase location information ( http://lists.freebase.com/pipermail/freebase-discuss/2010-April/001218.html) Owen -- Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com

Re: [CODE4LIB] Bibliographic data on Freebase

2010-04-22 Thread Owen Stephens
; > -Sean > > > On Apr 22, 2010, at 7:27 AM, Owen Stephens wrote: > > > Thought that some on the list might be interested in various discussions > > happening on the Freebase email list at the moment: > > > > Firstly some stuff on dealing with ISBNs >

Re: [CODE4LIB] Twitter annotations and library software

2010-04-28 Thread Owen Stephens
quot;American Quarterly", > "volume": "58", > "page": "137-158", > "issued": { "date-parts": [ [2006, 3] ] }, > "type": "article-journal" > > } > > > -- > Jakob Voß , skype: nichtich > Verbundzentrale des GBV (VZG) / Common Library Network > Platz der Goettinger Sieben 1, 37073 Göttingen, Germany > +49 (0)551 39-10242, http://www.gbv.de > -- Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com

Re: [CODE4LIB] Twitter annotations and library software

2010-04-28 Thread Owen Stephens
Services Manager > California State University > http://xerxes.calstate.edu > ____ > From: Code for Libraries [code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Owen > Stephens [o...@ostephens.com] > Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 2:26 AM > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.ED

Re: [CODE4LIB] it's cool to hate on OpenURL (was: Twitter annotations...)

2010-04-30 Thread Owen Stephens
followed enough OpenURL enabled hyperlink dead ends > to contest "it works". > > //Ed > -- Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com

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