Re: [CODE4LIB] New OAI-PMH harvester project

2016-07-14 Thread Roy Tennant
as it is so easy to use and works (at least so far) without any trouble at all. Just what I like in a basic tool like this. Thanks for spinning this off from the VuFind code. Roy On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 10:05 AM, Demian Katz <demian.k...@villanova.edu> wrote: > Hello, > > VuFind h

Re: [CODE4LIB] Formalizing Code4Lib?

2016-06-10 Thread Roy Tennant
All I was saying is that the effort to find/create a permanent fiduciary agent and finding a 2017 host can be completely independent of each other, and take parallel paths. I certainly was NOT arguing against seeking a permanent fiduciary. Roy On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Salazar, Christina

Re: [CODE4LIB] Formalizing Code4Lib?

2016-06-10 Thread Roy Tennant
I think it's quite likely that we will have at least one proposal for 2017 -- perhaps more. I don't think we need to worry about 2017. Roy On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 2:29 PM, Brian Rogers <pqb...@mocs.utc.edu> wrote: > Agreed on the wording. Because, while at this point I'm guessing we'll

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4lib 2017 is dead; Long Live Code4lib 2017

2016-06-10 Thread Roy Tennant
, in an open and inclusive process. Roy On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 12:42 PM, Brian Rogers <pqb...@mocs.utc.edu> wrote: > Hi Francis - > > I sent a reply to your code4libconf Google Group post... but looks like > it's still in moderation mode. > > We're speaking w/the other g

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4lib 2017 is dead; Long Live Code4lib 2017

2016-06-10 Thread Roy Tennant
I agree that a Call for Proposals should go out and other groups be invited to apply. It is still early enough for an energized group to pull off a Feb/Mar event. Roy On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 12:15 PM, Becky Yoose <b.yo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 12:02 PM, Francis Ka

Re: [CODE4LIB] Good Database Software for a Digital Project?

2016-04-15 Thread Roy Tennant
automated. Roy > On Apr 15, 2016, at 11:37 AM, Scancella, John <j...@loc.gov> wrote: > > I would definitely pick postgres over mysql. It has all of the same features > and more, plus it is easier to use (in my own opinion). > > But before I even pick a database I woul

Re: [CODE4LIB] http://errol.oclc.org/ down ?

2016-02-03 Thread Roy Tennant
The service is obsolete and no longer available. We are editing the web page that points to it. Roy On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Stuart A. Yeates <syea...@gmail.com> wrote: > http://errol.oclc.org/ appears down for me. > > http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/oairesolv

[CODE4LIB] Call for Papers: IFLA Satellite Meeting on Big Data & Linked Data, Chicago USA, August 2016

2016-01-19 Thread Roy Tennant
Forwarded on behalf of Ted Fons. Roy *From: Ted Fons **<t...@thirdchapter.com>* <t...@thirdchapter.com> *Date:* January 14, 2016 at 6:18 PM *To:* bibfr...@loc.gov *CC:* "Svensson, Lars" <l.svens...@dnb.de> <l.svens...@dnb.de>, emmanuelle.ber...@bnf.fr, nthabis

Re: [CODE4LIB] Matching print and electronic editions of the same book

2015-12-09 Thread Roy Tennant
/work/data/1613596711 That then will give you all of the OCLC numbers that we consider are part of that work (under the "WorkExample" tab). I know, not an optimal solution even if you have the OCLC number. But it could work if you do. Roy On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 1:37 PM, William Denton &l

Re: [CODE4LIB] Announcing the official Code4Lib Conference Website

2015-09-14 Thread Roy Tennant
have often ended up disappearing eventually. Did the team consider that? Are there any measures being put in place to assure that it won't also eventually disappear? Just wondering, as a speaker who has mourned the passing of past conference web sites, as if they had never happened. Roy On Mon, Sep 14, 20

Re: [CODE4LIB] Announcing the official Code4Lib Conference Website

2015-09-14 Thread Roy Tennant
with the overall Code4Lib community the better, which I now see you have done. Thanks, Roy On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Shaun Ellis <sha...@princeton.edu> wrote: > Hi Roy, > Thanks for the kind words! It was very much a collaborative effort. > > As for the preservation issue, the

Re: [CODE4LIB] Sorry for my last message

2015-09-04 Thread Roy Tennant
Pony Express. Everyone keeps talking about this "fax" thing, but I don't hold truck with new-fangled devices. Now GET OFF MY LAWN. Roy On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Andreas Orphanides <akorp...@ncsu.edu> wrote: > Cod4Lib Journal is seeking editors. Please fax your resume

[CODE4LIB] Matching names to VIAF

2015-09-03 Thread Roy Tennant
ore useful records from us. Roy

Re: [CODE4LIB] Friday Humor: Stuff Business People Say

2015-07-24 Thread Roy Tennant
And then there's this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYu_bGbZiiQ Roy On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Chad Nelson chadbnel...@gmail.com wrote: Similar, but for us poor remote workers: http://conferencecall.biz/ On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 1:50 PM Tim McGeary timmcge...@gmail.com wrote

[CODE4LIB] Interested in learning more about library linked data at ALA Annual 2015?

2015-06-09 Thread Roy Tennant
of Vermont · Barbara Bushman, Assistant Head, Cataloging Metadata Management Section, National Library of Medicine · Nate Trail, Network Development and MARC Standards Office, Library of Congress · Roy Tennant, Senior Program Officer, OCLC Research REGISTER http://alaac15.ala.org/node/28856

[CODE4LIB] International Linked Data Survey for Implementers: RSVP by 17 July 2015

2015-06-01 Thread Roy Tennant
Posted on behalf of my colleague. Roy OCLC Research is repeating its survey to learn details of specific projects or services that format metadata as linked data and/or make subsequent uses of it. Many in the libraries/archives/museum community are excited by the potential of linked data

Re: [CODE4LIB] Announcing Mirador 2.0 and projectmirador.org

2015-04-14 Thread Roy Tennant
in this assessment, I'll stick with the IIPMooViewer [1] for my use case. Thanks, Roy [1] http://iipimage.sourceforge.net/ On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Stuart Snydman snyd...@stanford.edu wrote: We are excited to (officially) announce the release of Mirador version 2.0. Please visit our new

Re: [CODE4LIB] Native MarcEdit for MacOSX

2015-04-06 Thread Roy Tennant
Better yet, get a brand-new Mac mini for what you've already raised: http://store.apple.com/us/buy-mac/mac-mini Roy On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote: You might want to consider picking up a MacBook on Craigslist, or something like that. You can get a lot

Re: [CODE4LIB] Native MarcEdit for MacOSX

2015-04-06 Thread Roy Tennant
politically correct solution, but so be it. Running (and maintained) code trumps everything. Roy On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 6:13 PM, Terry Reese ree...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Bill, Sure -- this has been asked before. In fact, I wrote an article about the responsibilities developers and organizations

Re: [CODE4LIB] Philadelphia Bid for 2016

2015-02-20 Thread Roy Tennant
Oh gosh. The Mutter Museum or The Huntington. What a dilemma! Roy On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 6:48 AM, Chad Nelson chadbnel...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, On behalf of the proposal committee, I'm pleased to confirm that Philadelphia has now submitted a bid to host the 2016 National Conference

Re: [CODE4LIB] Communications — conference and otherwise (was: [CODE4LIB] Code4LibCon video crew thanks)

2015-02-17 Thread Roy Tennant
achievable to me. Roy On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote: I have no issue with Google Docs or Eventbrite. My point is that it is hard for me to find stuff when it is in so many systems, and I am used to it. I think that it is time to do something about

[CODE4LIB] Fwd: New report - Common Ground: Exploring Compatibilities Between the Linked Data Models of the Library of Congress and OCLC

2015-01-27 Thread Roy Tennant
This list might be interested in this. Roy OCLC and the Library of Congress jointly released a white paper today, *Common Ground: Exploring Compatibilities Between the Linked Data Models of the Library of Congress and OCLC http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/2015/oclcresearch-loc-linked

Re: [CODE4LIB] lita

2015-01-05 Thread Roy Tennant
Also, I would point out that libraries increasingly hire non-librarians in technology positions. That likely means that even if said persons might eventually find Code4Lib, their allegiance to a profession as epitomized by ALA is unlikely. Roy On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 8:37 AM, Debra Shapiro dsshap

Re: [CODE4LIB] Novel OAI endpoints

2014-11-06 Thread Roy Tennant
Seeing as how I wrote this OAI provider from scratch in Perl, riding on top of the code I wrote to serve up the site, it's quite likely to be buggy: http://freelargephotos.com/oai.cgi?verb=Identify Dubious, certainly, if not buggy. Roy On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Conal Tuohy conal.tu

Re: [CODE4LIB] Subject: Re: Why learn Unix?

2014-10-28 Thread Roy Tennant
is more dangerous, in most cases, than none at all. In Unix and in whitewater rafting. Roy On Oct 28, 2014, at 6:46 PM, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote: Well you can do a lot of damage quickly using very short commands. Deleting the master boot record can be quite effective, but I

Re: [CODE4LIB] ISSN lists?

2014-10-16 Thread Roy Tennant
I would use this over a WorldCat.org search: http://xissn.worldcat.org/ but I am unaware of a data dump. Roy On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 7:16 PM, Stuart Yeates stuart.yea...@vuw.ac.nz wrote: My understanding is that there is no universal ISSN list but that worldcat allows querying

Re: [CODE4LIB] Official #teamharpy Statement on the case of Joseph Hawley Murphy vs. nina de jesus and Lisa Rabey

2014-09-20 Thread Roy Tennant
Just a minor point. Despite my relative index score it doesn't necessarily mean that I am not a shameless self-promoter, it may just mean I've been at it longer. Just sayin'. Roy On Sep 20, 2014, at 2:12 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote: Lisa, I hadn't know about this so I just spend

Re: [CODE4LIB] PDX conference: invited speakers

2014-09-18 Thread Roy Tennant
What Tara said, Certainly one of the benefits of moving this conference around geographically must surely be the opportunity to pull on local talent. Thanks for pointing that out! Roy On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Tara Robertson trobert...@langara.bc.ca wrote: Hi, The current list

[CODE4LIB] Time to solicit sponsorships for the 2015 Conference

2014-09-11 Thread Roy Tennant
organizations in the area of the conference that may have not been asked before. 2) Volunteers to contact specific organizations. Do you have a vendor contact that you feel like you can approach about sponsorship? Relationships are important so we want to leverage those wherever we can. Thanks, Roy

[CODE4LIB] Results from the International Linked Data Survey for Implementers

2014-09-08 Thread Roy Tennant
Forwarded on behalf of my colleague. Roy -- Forwarded message -- Many thanks to all of you who participated in the international linked data survey for implementers or disseminated the survey link! I’ve been summarizing the results in a series of HangingTogether posts, which

Re: [CODE4LIB] Anybody know a way to add a MARC tag on-mass to a file of MARC records

2014-09-02 Thread Roy
Look at marcedit at http://homepages.wmich.edu/~zimmer/marc_index.html On 8/28/2014 2:26 PM, Schwartz, Raymond wrote: Anybody know a way to add a MARC tag on-mass to a file of MARC records. I need to add the tag 918 $a with the contents DELETE to each of the records. Thanks in advance. /Ray

Re: [CODE4LIB] [code4libcon] Code4Lib 2014 Conference accounting update

2014-09-02 Thread Roy Tennant
This is worth taking the OCLC Bacon Seal of Approval out of its velvet-lined case and affixing that stamp upon the awesome work that the Research Triangle group did on the last conference. Congratulations and a huge thanks! Roy On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Tim McGeary timmcge...@gmail.com

[CODE4LIB] Library Linked Data Survey: Who's Doing It

2014-08-28 Thread Roy Tennant
Forwarded on behalf of my colleague. Roy The results of the international survey on specific projects or services that format metadata as linked data and/or make subsequent uses of it are being posted as a series of HangingTogether blog posts. I just posted the first of the series: Linked Data

Re: [CODE4LIB] Archival File Storage

2014-08-13 Thread Roy Tennant
Media You Can Read In-house http://oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/library/2013/2013-02.pdf Roy On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Will Martin w...@will-martin.net wrote: As with most libraries, we're accumulating an increasing number of digital holdings. So far, our approach

Re: [CODE4LIB] Creating a Linked Data Service

2014-08-07 Thread Roy Tennant
Most of the time I'm not sure what I am supposed to be doing so I just make a solution that works BINGO. That describes me, and likely others, to a T. Roy On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Michael Beccaria mbecca...@paulsmiths.edu wrote: I'm a one man shop and sometimes go to these conferences

Re: [CODE4LIB] Creating a Linked Data Service

2014-08-06 Thread Roy Tennant
for many problems. Roy On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Michael Beccaria mbecca...@paulsmiths.edu wrote: I have recently had the opportunity to create a new library web page and host it on my own servers. One of the elements of the new page that I want to improve upon is providing live or near live

[CODE4LIB] International Linked Data Survey deadline extended

2014-08-05 Thread Roy Tennant
On behalf of my colleague: I have been asked to extend the deadline for the international linked data survey athttps://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LinkedDataSurvey as a number of implementers have been on vacation. The deadline has now been extended to Friday, 15 August. If you started the survey,

[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Bay Area Meetup on Monday!

2014-07-25 Thread Roy Tennant
Berkeley, UCSF, Several CSUs including Fresno, and other universities and community colleges will be attending. Hope to see you there! Roy

Re: [CODE4LIB] iiif compatible servers

2014-07-25 Thread Roy Tennant
, and web site display on each image. Here's an example if you want to get all up close and personal with an Emu: http://freelargephotos.com/photos/300112/full.jp2/David+Chudnov Roy [1] IIP: http://iipimage.sourceforge.net/documentation/server/ On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 2:39 PM, James, Eric eric.ja

[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib NorCal, July 28th!

2014-07-14 Thread Roy Tennant
, please consider submitting a prepared talk proposal (due by this Sunday), or a lightning talk or breakout session here: http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Western#Code4Lib_NorCal_2014 We have a couple sessions proposed already but we can use more. Thanks, Roy [1] http://bit.ly/1wn30E2

Re: [CODE4LIB] LC Call # splitting/sorting scripts?

2014-07-11 Thread Roy
Well, if you can accommodate Perl, here's software that will enable that: http://homepages.wmich.edu/~zimmer/other_index.html and look at cnparse.lib On 7/11/2014 12:01 PM, Robert Dumas wrote: ​Hey all: Does anyone know of any scripts (preferably in Ruby or Python) which can slice up an

[CODE4LIB] Linked Data Survey for Implementers: RSVP by 31 July 2014

2014-07-07 Thread Roy Tennant
Posted on behalf of my OCLC Research colleague. Roy OCLC Research is conducting a survey to learn details of specific projects or services that format metadata as linked data and/or make subsequent uses of it. Many in the libraries/archives/museum community are excited by the potential of linked

Re: [CODE4LIB] Initial NorCal Code4Lib Meetup

2014-07-03 Thread Roy Tennant
of that, please sign up here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/code4lib-norcal Thanks, Roy On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 6:29 AM, Collier, Aaron acoll...@calstate.edu wrote: Good Morning, The NorCal group has been discussing an initial meet up and we've settled on a half-day (10am - 3pm

[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib NorCal

2014-06-17 Thread Roy Tennant
/forum/#!forum/code4lib-norcal Any events will be announced on the main Code4Lib list, however, so if you want to attend but not help plan you don't need to do anything. Just hang loose until you hear from us. Thanks, Roy for the planning group

Re: [CODE4LIB] Ross Singer RE: [CODE4LIB] Jobs Digest

2014-05-28 Thread Roy Tennant
Yay. What mjgriarlo said. Roy On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 6:59 PM, Michael J. Giarlo leftw...@alumni.rutgers.edu wrote: We need a survey to determine which survey tool to use? ;) Rosy already set one up; let's roll with that. Rough consensus, running code, and all that rot. On May 28, 2014 6

Re: [CODE4LIB] Job Interview : A Libcoder's Helpful Advices

2014-05-12 Thread Roy Tennant
that justifications must be given in terms of the candidate's qualifications vis. a vis. the position description, but if you aren't paying attention to personality traits then you are missing the boat. Roy [1] http://roytennant.com/column/?fetch=data/101.xml

Re: [CODE4LIB] Anyone know the status of MARCView (Systems Planning/OCLC Dev Network)

2014-05-05 Thread Roy Tennant
is interested. Thanks, Roy Tennant OCLC Research On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Salazar, Christina christina.sala...@csuci.edu wrote: Hi all, I see that Systems Planning turned over MARCView and MARCConvert to OCLC Dev Network, but I cannot find any download on OCLC Dev Network. Does anyone know

Re: [CODE4LIB] barriers to open metadata?

2014-04-30 Thread Roy Tennant
Work URIs) can be treated as if they are in the public domain and can be included in any data exposure mechanism or activity as public domain data. http://www.oclc.org/developer/develop/linked-data.en.html Roy On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Richard Wallis richard.wal...@dataliberate.com

Re: [CODE4LIB] barriers to open metadata?

2014-04-30 Thread Roy Tennant
perspective. Take the first hit? You could see how that works. In the end there may need to be reconciliation services just like we had similar services in the card-catalog-to-digital years. Roy On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote: Roy, the question that I have

Re: [CODE4LIB] barriers to open metadata?

2014-04-29 Thread Roy Tennant
world, then no one is paying attention. Roy [1] http://oclc.org/en-US/news/releases/2014/201414dublin.html [2] http://dataliberate.com/2014/04/worldcat-works-197-million-nuggets-of-linked-data/ [3] http://hangingtogether.org/?p=3811

Re: [CODE4LIB] Friends of code4lib (was Re: [CODE4LIB] Call for Old Conf Tshirt Logos)

2014-04-14 Thread Roy Tennant
that has nothing to do with code in libraries. ;-) Roy [1] https://wiki.library.oregonstate.edu/confluence/display/code4lib/Breakout+Session+Ideas On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 8:18 AM, Edward M. Corrado ecorr...@ecorrado.uswrote: I think discussing which type of non-profit to be (501(c)3 vs. 501(c)6 vs

Re: [CODE4LIB] Call for Old Conf Tshirt Logos

2014-04-10 Thread Roy Tennant
That's good on the tax front, but it would be nice if eventually we could find a way to make money to help out with the conference. But that will take an organization, and so far we've avoided that. Roy On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Riley Childs rchi...@cucawarriors.comwrote: It is running

Re: [CODE4LIB] Call for Old Conf Tshirt Logos

2014-04-10 Thread Roy Tennant
could then go down the list until we got a yes. Roy On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 8:21 PM, Riley Childs rchi...@cucawarriors.comwrote: That might be a better idea then a fully independent code4lib organization. Riley Childs Student Asst. Head of IT Services Charlotte United Christian Academy (704

Re: [CODE4LIB] Call for Old Conf Tshirt Logos

2014-04-10 Thread Roy Tennant
There's also CLIR, which oversees DLF[1], albeit as a program of CLIR which is a closer alliance than we would seek. That doesn't mean a looser alliance wouldn't be possible. Roy [1] http://www.diglib.org/about/ On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Tom Cramer tcra...@stanford.edu wrote: Is black

Re: [CODE4LIB] New Zealand Chapter

2014-04-09 Thread Roy Tennant
Go All Blacks! Roy On Apr 9, 2014, at 12:25 PM, Kevin S. Clarke kscla...@gmail.com wrote: Wow, and the prize for the best regional Code4Lib design goes to... New Zealand. @slowclap Kevin On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Jay Gattuso jay.gatt...@dia.govt.nz wrote: Hi all, Long

Re: [CODE4LIB] New Zealand Chapter

2014-04-09 Thread Roy Tennant
Of course it's U+2163, the t-shirt just knows how to render Unicode. Roy On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Jay Gattuso jay.gatt...@dia.govt.nz wrote: Luckily we made the graphic in such a way we can easily change the text Any of the text. The maker is on leave exploring Europe, but I

Re: [CODE4LIB] New Zealand Chapter

2014-04-09 Thread Roy Tennant
If it were my head instead of MARC, catalogers everywhere would get it as a tattoo -- prison or no. Roy On Apr 9, 2014, at 5:39 PM, Simon Spero sesunc...@gmail.com wrote: If DEATH were holding the severed head of MARC I would get this as a prison tattoo. On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 5:20 PM

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

2014-03-28 Thread Roy Tennant
You mean from that...uh...farm? As a Cal Alumni I am actually legally obligated not to mention the word Stanford. So sorry, nothing personal. ;-) All kidding aside, MY BAD. You just have so much talent gathered in one spot the light is blinding. I can't even look your direction. :-) Roy On Fri

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

2014-03-28 Thread Roy Tennant
have CDL in Oakland, several nearby UCs, CSUs, large publics, and community colleges to draw from. We should be able to put together a decent showing on our own, I would imagine. Roy On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Collier, Aaron acoll...@calstate.eduwrote: Josh - it was great to see you again

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

2014-03-28 Thread Roy Tennant
location. Plus, if someone wants to fly in we are only 10 minutes away from SFO. Also, I'll do my best to get my jet out of the shop by the time of a planned gathering. Roy On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Tom Cramer tcra...@stanford.edu wrote: I threw in Junior University as a sop for our UC

Re: [CODE4LIB] CFP: A Librarian's Introduction to Programming Languages

2014-03-24 Thread Roy Tennant
Basic? Seriously? I mean, the very first language I learned, in the early 1980s, was BASIC. But come on. If you can find a person to write the chapter I want to take them out behind the barn and, well, do them some serious damage. Interpret that however you wish. Roy On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 8:08

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

2014-03-21 Thread Roy Tennant
Have you considered dumping it into Open Refine? [1] I haven't used it a lot, but it is likely a good tool to find similar data and allow you to globally replace with a canonical entry. Roy [1] http://openrefine.org/ On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Ken Irwin kir...@wittenberg.edu wrote: Hi

Re: [CODE4LIB] Reminder: Send in your questions for Valerie!

2014-03-20 Thread Roy Tennant
You kids. All about the technology. PollEverywhere looks useful, thanks. Now GET OFF MY LAWN. Roy On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 6:32 AM, Sibyl Schaefer sibylschae...@gmail.comwrote: In lieu of index cards, may I suggest Poll Everywhere? http://www.polleverywhere.com/ Questions can be submitted

Re: [CODE4LIB] Question About Code4Lib 2014 Streaming

2014-03-19 Thread Roy Tennant
So...there's an unofficial stream? I can't wait to see that one... Roy On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 7:00 AM, Riley Childs rchi...@cucawarriors.comwrote: http://YouTube.com/Code4Lib is the official stream. Riley Childs Junior IT Admin email: rchi...@cucawarriors.com office: +1 (704) 537-0031

[CODE4LIB] Reminder: Send in your questions for Valerie!

2014-03-18 Thread Roy Tennant
stream (not IRC!) for questions as well, but the best chance of getting your question asked is to send it in ahead of time. Thanks! Roy [1] http://valerieaurora.org/ [2] https://adainitiative.org/

[CODE4LIB] Newcomer's dinner

2014-03-16 Thread Roy Tennant
) I'd also like a way to contact you, whatever you prefer: text, phone, email. Thanks, Roy

Re: [CODE4LIB] #c4l14 Newcomer Dinner, Monday evening 3/24

2014-03-14 Thread Roy Tennant
contacted me. That way we can all coordinate as need be. Thanks, Roy On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Becky Yoose b.yo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, Will this be your first time at code4lib? Or are you a code4lib veteran looking to corrupt some newbies? Join fellow newbies and veterans

Re: [CODE4LIB] Shop Link

2014-03-13 Thread Roy Tennant
The price does seem high. You can sell mugs at CafePress for $12 and that includes a commission, although not shipping and handling. Roy On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 2:17 AM, Ben Companjen ben.compan...@dans.knaw.nlwrote: Ohh, that's a nice mug! I broke my Public Domain Review mug [1] before its

[CODE4LIB] For your plane reading pleasure...

2014-03-12 Thread Roy Tennant
the road from our hotel? I know, you can probably think of a lot of ways that don't involve violent death, but hey, consider the source. Roy

Re: [CODE4LIB] .cpd file format head scratcher

2014-03-11 Thread Roy
The most likely suspect I've come up with for this is a Corel Print Office format. Roy Zimmer Western Michigan University On 3/11/2014 11:15 AM, Andrew Gordon wrote: Hey All, For a set of digitized pharmaceutical cards, I am coming up against an image file format that seems to be locked

Re: [CODE4LIB] Shop Link

2014-03-09 Thread Roy Tennant
and that hasn't flown in the past. Not saying it can't now, just that it hasn't yet. For now I've disabled the link. Roy On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 6:56 AM, Riley Childs rchi...@cucawarriors.comwrote: Has anyone else noticed the Shop Link links to the CafePress homepage? Riley Childs Student Asst

Re: [CODE4LIB] Shop Link

2014-03-09 Thread Roy Tennant
I believe the winning designs were: 2006: http://code4lib.org/files/t-shirt.png 2007: http://www.code4lib.org/files/code4lib2007-7.jpg (I still have this one somewhere) Roy On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Esmé Cowles escow...@ticklefish.org wrote: I wonder, with the 10th conference coming up

[CODE4LIB] Intro to the Conference

2014-03-03 Thread Roy Tennant
to it? Is there someone who would like to put together a brief video intro to the conference? Thanks, Roy

Re: [CODE4LIB] Intro to the Conference

2014-03-03 Thread Roy Tennant
it will be easiest to accommodate it in the ways I suggested (which could possibly be a lightning talk as part of the first day's intro if Tim is willing). Roy On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Peter Murray peter.mur...@lyrasis.orgwrote: In the interest of being a welcoming community, I think

Re: [CODE4LIB] Fwd: RFC 7154 - IETF Guidelines for Conduct

2014-03-03 Thread Roy Tennant
Just so everyone knows, the 2014 Code4Lib Conference Code of Conduct is here: http://code4lib.org/conference/2014/code_of_conduct and it is linked from the main conference page. Thanks, Roy On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Peter Murray peter.mur...@lyrasis.orgwrote: Code4LibCon is coming up

[CODE4LIB] Questions for Valerie Aurora

2014-02-28 Thread Roy Tennant
be allocated to questions solicited in advance. Therefore, please consider what you wish to hear Valerie speak about and send me your questions. I will collate and merge them and share them with her in advance. Thanks, Roy [1] http://valerieaurora.org/ [2] http://adainitiative.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Welcome to Roy4Lib

2014-02-25 Thread Roy
Which one? On 2/24/2014 6:56 PM, Forrest, Stuart wrote: Dumb question. Who is Roy ;-) Excuse my brevity Sent from my iPad Stuart Forrest Library Systems Specialist Beaufort County Library On Feb 24, 2014, at 6:15 PM, Schwartz, Raymond schwart...@wpunj.edu wrote: Roy won't ask the bar

Re: [CODE4LIB] Welcome to Roy4Lib

2014-02-24 Thread Roy
PM, Edward M Corrado ecorr...@ecorrado.uswrote: Roy4lib has consumed to much Scotch - after all, it is Friday. -- Edward M. Corrado On Feb 21, 2014, at 18:13, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com wrote: roy4lib.org is ALWAYS down. I mean, it just makes too much sense for it to be in any other

Re: [CODE4LIB] Welcome to Roy4Lib

2014-02-24 Thread Roy Tennant
That would make sense, but I think in this particular instance I was watching bacon being cooked. Roy On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Michael J. Giarlo leftw...@alumni.rutgers.edu wrote: Clearly taken in the liquor store. On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 7:08 AM, Cindi Trainor Blyberg cindi

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib.org down

2014-02-21 Thread Roy Tennant
Usually I can bring a server down in a matter if hours. I must be getting old. Er...older. Roy On Feb 21, 2014, at 1:52 PM, Michael J. Giarlo leftw...@alumni.rutgers.edu wrote: Coincidence that this happened less than a day after Roy Tennant posted to the list? I think not. -Mike

Re: [CODE4LIB] Welcome to Roy4Lib

2014-02-21 Thread Roy Tennant
roy4lib.org is ALWAYS down. I mean, it just makes too much sense for it to be in any other state. Roy On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Rosalyn Metz rosalynm...@gmail.com wrote: it appears that roy4lib.org is also down On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Frumkin, Jeremy frumk

Re: [CODE4LIB] how to unsubscribe this list?

2014-02-20 Thread Roy Tennant
On the contrary, this discussion list has the OCLC Bacon Stamp of Approval. Carry on! Roy On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Michael J. Giarlo leftw...@alumni.rutgers.edu wrote: That's not what I heard Roy Tennant saying. ಠ_ಠ -Mike On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Eric Lease Morgan

Re: [CODE4LIB] Proquest search api?

2014-02-17 Thread Roy Tennant
. It sure makes for easier code, though, no doubt. Also, if people were more interested generally in what is in various 856 subfields for book/journal MARC records, they can refer to my MARC Usage in WorldCat work[2]. It can be amusing, at least, if not instructive. Roy [1] http://roytennant.com/proto

Re: [CODE4LIB] EZProxy changes / alternatives ?

2014-01-31 Thread Roy Tennant
When it comes to hedging bets, I'd sure rather hedge my $50,000 bet than my $500 one. Just sayin'. Roy On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 6:04 PM, BWS Johnson abesottedphoe...@yahoo.comwrote: Salvete! Tisn't necessarily Socialist to hedge one's bets. Look at what Wall St. experts advise when one

Re: [CODE4LIB] COinS metadata format support

2014-01-17 Thread Roy Tennant
I agree that most Schema.org markup would be generated on the fly from a database, so I'm a bit unclear on what kind of tool we (OCLC) or someone else is being asked to develop. Perhaps someone could spell it out for this dense person? Thanks, Roy On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Karen Coyle li

Re: [CODE4LIB] Question about OAI Harvesting via Perl

2014-01-15 Thread Roy Tennant
provide pretty much everything you need except the record parsing bit in a simple email message is proof enough. Roy On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Kyle Banerjee kyle.baner...@gmail.comwrote: No need for a module -- that would be using a chain saw to cut butter. To return to an earlier

Re: [CODE4LIB] links from finding aid to digital object

2014-01-14 Thread Roy Tennant
of thing. Roy On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Kyle Banerjee kyle.baner...@gmail.comwrote: Archive Engine West http://hero.village.virginia.edu/nwda/ includes EAD with direct links to digital content as well as a way to search digital content directly that links back to finding aids. If you

[CODE4LIB] Fwd: [WEB4LIB] Digital Project Manager position - UC Berkeley Library

2014-01-14 Thread Roy Tennant
-- Forwarded message -- From: Lisa WEBER lwe...@library.berkeley.edu Date: Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 12:31 PM Subject: [WEB4LIB] Digital Project Manager position - UC Berkeley Library To: web4...@listserv.nd.edu The UC Berkeley Library is hiring a Digital Project Manager. Read all

[CODE4LIB] Anyone working with iPython?

2013-12-19 Thread Roy Tennant
to understand until you experience it. Anyway, i was curious if others have been working with it and if so, what they are using it for. I can think of all kinds of things I might want to do with it, but hearing from others can inspire me further, I'm sure. Thanks, Roy [1] http://ipython.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Automated Embedded Metadata Extraction in Photographs: Possible or Pipedream?

2013-12-17 Thread Roy Tennant
that into whatever you wanted for import. Since you would have the filename that may be sufficient to map it into the right place in DigiTool (but I'm unfamiliar with it). Roy On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Swauger,Shea shea.swau...@colostate.eduwrote: Hi all, I'm wondering

Re: [CODE4LIB] Mapping LCSH to DDC

2013-12-10 Thread Roy Tennant
Has anyone looked at using the Classify web service for this? [1] It doesn't have a batch mode, but it has a web service [2]. Roy [1] http://oclc.org/research/activities/classify.html [2] http://classify.oclc.org/classify2/api_docs/index.html On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Kyle Banerjee

Re: [CODE4LIB] Lorem Ipsum metadata? Is there such a thing?

2013-12-09 Thread Roy Tennant
I can't help wondering what the half-life of a radioactive MARC record is. My guess is it is either really, really short or really, really long. ;-) Roy On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Peter Binkley peter.bink...@ualberta.cawrote: Years ago Bill Moen had a set of radioactive MARC records

Re: [CODE4LIB] Lorem Ipsum metadata? Is there such a thing?

2013-12-09 Thread Roy Tennant
I ask you, would you want to work all day sitting on top of a huge pile of radioactive MARC records? I sure wouldn't... Roy On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Bill Dueber b...@dueber.com wrote: The sad thing is that the Library of Congress spent billions of dollars of taxpayer money building

Re: [CODE4LIB] problem in old etd xml files

2013-12-09 Thread Roy Tennant
For my money, the text transform should look only for exact matches (e.g., aacute;, nbsp;, copy;) and replace them with their numeric counterparts. Roy On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 5:41 PM, jason bengtson j.bengtson...@gmail.comwrote: For testing purposes I just nixed them. As I noted, to rework

Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for two coders to help with discoverability of videos

2013-12-02 Thread Roy Tennant
from a slide, which of course plays havoc with items such as the creation date. So depending on the exact situation your mileage may vary, but the basic principle stands -- if you can allow a machine to capture the metadata then by all means let it. Roy On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Kyle

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Conference Registration

2013-11-20 Thread Roy Tennant
OMG, this one is for the ages. rsinger++ On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 8:33 PM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: I went to the code4lib list To get my share of abuse asked about the conf registration Or any information of use Now John, you can't always get what you want No you can't

Re: [CODE4LIB] mass convert jpeg to pdf

2013-11-08 Thread Roy Tennant
Cramer and company. That would make you compliant with the Mirador multi-windowing tool that he mentioned. Sounds like a win-win to me. Roy [0] http://FreeLargePhotos.com/ - sample: http://freelargephotos.com/photos/01/full.jp2/Roy+Tennant [1] http://www-sul.stanford.edu/iiif/image-api/1.1

Re: [CODE4LIB] image gallery management software recommendations

2013-11-07 Thread Roy Tennant
Batch upload to Omeka (or use the API) if at all possible. I have found the workflow for uploading items via a web browser to be less than optimal or understandable. Roy On Nov 7, 2013, at 1:59 PM, Kyle Banerjee kyle.baner...@gmail.com wrote: We're in the process of moving our collections

Re: [CODE4LIB] MARC field lengths

2013-10-16 Thread Roy Tennant
I don't even have to fire it up. That's a statistic that we generate quarterly (albeit via Hadoop). Here you go: 100 - 30.3 245 - 103.1 600 - 41 610 - 48.8 611 - 61.4 630 - 40.8 648 - 23.8 650 - 35.1 651 - 39.6 653 - 33.3 654 - 38.1 655 - 22.5 656 - 30.6 657 - 27.4 658 - 30.7 662 - 41.7 Roy

Re: [CODE4LIB] [CODE4LIB] HEADS UP - Government shutdown will mean *.loc.gov is going offline October 1

2013-09-30 Thread Roy Tennant
As seen on Twitter, OCLC also has our version of MARC documentation here: http://www.oclc.org/bibformats/en.html It's mostly exactly the same except for the places where we have inserted small but effective messages that RESISTANCE IS FUTILE, YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED. Roy On Mon, Sep 30, 2013

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