Re: [CODE4LIB] Has anyone used Mechanical Turk?

2008-12-09 Thread Steve Toub
I used MTurk for a data gathering project recently. Turnaround time is great: within a few hours. You can set params to only accept people whose rejection rate is 5% or less or what not (95% acceptance rate is the default) to weed out the riffraff. Pretty cost effective. My instructions were c

Re: [CODE4LIB] How to discover UPCs for movies, music?

2008-11-05 Thread Steve Toub
ields, including the UPC: <http://www.hometheaterinfo.com/dvdlist.htm> Roy On 11/5/08 11/5/08 € 8:57 PM, "Steve Toub" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi-- Is there a web site and/or web service that, given a DVD/CD/cassette title input (or more fields to help disambiguate: artist

[CODE4LIB] How to discover UPCs for movies, music?

2008-11-05 Thread Steve Toub
ldn't complain if they did), just something where I can lookup the UPC. --SET -- Steve Toub Product Manager, BiblioCommons

Re: [CODE4LIB] oca api?

2008-02-26 Thread Steve Toub
aps it's the XML interface that you guys know about already. Is that > documented anywhere? How the heck did you find out about it? > > Jonathan > > > >>> Steve Toub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02/25/08 9:41 PM >>> > I'll add that when IA told me abo

Re: [CODE4LIB] oca api?

2008-02-25 Thread Steve Toub
miae2 > 1univ_marc.xml > > The only way to get standard identifiers (ISBN, ISSN, OCLC, LCCN) for > these scanned books is to grab them out of the MARC record. So the > long-winded answer to your question, Tim, is no, there's no simple way > to crossref what IA has scanned with y

Re: [CODE4LIB] oca api?

2008-02-25 Thread Steve Toub
--- Tim Shearer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I'm looking into tapping the texts in the Open Content Alliance. > > A few questions... > > As near as I can tell, they don't expose (perhaps even store?) any common > unique identifiers (oclc number, issn, isbn, loc number). I poked arou

Re: [CODE4LIB] library find and bibliographic citation export?

2007-09-27 Thread Steve Toub
A reminder that the data model for OpenURL/COinS does not have all metadata fields: only one author allowed, no abstract, etc. You may want to consider using unAPI instead of COinS. DLF Aquifer has a Rails presentation layer and is using unAPI. The unAPI interface is exposing MODS, which is the

Re: [CODE4LIB] [Bulk] Re: [CODE4LIB] code.code4lib.org

2007-08-14 Thread Steve Toub
If you want to build a simple system for a small group of developers who are close to code4lib to host their projects, great! But if you are trying to build a google code for libraries, I really want to be discouraging, because it will be a lot of work, you won’t get what you want out of it, & you

Re: [CODE4LIB] Citation parsing?

2007-07-18 Thread Steve Toub
Godmar Back wrote: A year or so ago a couple of students looked into this for LibX. There are a number of systems that people have published about, although some are not available and none worked very well or were easy to get to work. The systems also varied in their computational complexity, wit

[CODE4LIB] OpenURL validation services

2007-03-17 Thread Steve Toub
Hi-- Is there any existing code that can validate the descriptive metadata of an OpenURL ContextObject? For example, http://www.openurl.info/registry/docs/mtx/info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal states thats "auinit1" can have zero or one value and it must be the first author's first initial. Is there

Re: [CODE4LIB] Limiting by availability (was Re: [CODE4LIB] Getting data from Voyager into XML?)

2007-01-19 Thread Steve Toub
ged the wording? The problem we always face with this type of statistics is: what the heck to do with those numbers? -emily lynema Steve Toub wrote: Jonathan Rochkind wrote: Patrons definitly want to be able to limit on availability. And I don't think anyone's figured out a good way to

[CODE4LIB] Limiting by availability (was Re: [CODE4LIB] Getting data from Voyager into XML?)

2007-01-17 Thread Steve Toub
Jonathan Rochkind wrote: Patrons definitly want to be able to limit on availability. And I don't think anyone's figured out a good way to do that in this generation of "export and index" search tools we are experimenting with. Does anyone have hard data (e.g., surveys, focus groups... anything

[CODE4LIB] Findings from the Melvyl Recommender Project

2006-10-26 Thread Steve Toub
entire project can be found on the CDL website: <http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/melvyl_recommender/> -- Steve Toub California Digital Library (510) 987-0078

[CODE4LIB] JSP? XSLT? UI layer on top of Java code and XML data for non-programmers

2005-08-19 Thread Steve Toub
folks do the and tags) and that's gone fairly well. We're now evaluating JSTL, which seems to blend XSLT with JSP tag libraries fairly well. What are y'all doing out there? What are your thoughts on the best UI layer that gives non-programmers freedom to edit markup and hi