[CODE4LIB] MOAI open-source Python OAI server released

2009-05-06 Thread Posthumus, Etienne
In the past year we have been working on migrating our repository infrastructure to a Fedora-Commons based system. One of the requirements of the system was a flexible OAI server configuration that could handle multiple 'virtual' repositories from a single back-end installation. The most effective

Re: [CODE4LIB] Linux tools for making PDFs

2009-02-03 Thread Posthumus, Etienne
Yan, I am curious what kind of image files you mean that contain east Asian characters, surely an image has no characters in it but just pixels? Or do you mean the filenames? This: http://www.swftools.org/about.html Is the best thing since sliced bread for me. Among other things it can convert

Re: [CODE4LIB] Is there a utility to open a folder of many pdfs and determine if each one will open? (eom)

2009-01-29 Thread Posthumus, Etienne
Your question reminded me that I wanted to do something similar for a pile of PDFs from our institutional repository. So I made a small script in Python that can do this, using the Python module from: http://pybrary.net/pyPdf/ You can then put the following in a script: (mind the indentation) ---8

Re: [CODE4LIB] Dutch Code4Lib

2009-01-22 Thread Posthumus, Etienne
While the enthusiasm is fantastic, I would like to say: "Hold your horses folks!". Let's see if there is any animo for local people over here to attend a few regional things and get some momentum going before we can even think of organising a conference. That being said, if we ever do get a Europe

[CODE4LIB] Dutch Code4Lib

2009-01-21 Thread Posthumus, Etienne
At various tech related library gatherings here in the Netherlands there have been discussion about setting up a regional Code4Lib (or something similar) So as a start, if there any subscribers on this list who are in the vicinity of Netherlands/Belgium and interested, please give me a shout. We

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open Library API

2008-06-06 Thread Posthumus, Etienne
David wrote: >The problem is that for the two programming languages I use, Java and > PHP the variable name key~ and $key~ is illegal, and I believe that is > the case for most programming languages. Thus, in this PHP class (an its > Java analog) would fail at compile / parse time: > Note that >