Re: [CODE4LIB] Consortial services

2016-05-25 Thread William Denton
ario university libraries, runs Dataverse, hosts chat services, and more, and is currently in the middle of planning a province-wide union catalogue. http://www.scholarsportal.info/ Bill -- William Denton Toronto, Canada <https://www.miskatonic.org/>

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

2016-04-15 Thread William Denton
. Backup, for example, is a snap and easily automated. And if you want to turn the bib into a web site, then it's easy to use a static site generator like Jekyll: put a few lines of metadata at the top of each file, set up a template, and bingo, there's your site. Bill -- William Denton

Re: [CODE4LIB] LCSH, Bisac, facets, hierarchy?

2016-04-13 Thread William Denton
edu/sec/cu/libraries/bts/hilcc/subject_map.html Bill -- William Denton ↔ Toronto, Canada ↔ https://www.miskatonic.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib mailing list [domain]

2016-03-28 Thread William Denton
Eric for all his work over the years---and to the small group of folks who got this all started a decade or more ago. Bill -- William Denton ↔ Toronto, Canada ↔ https://www.miskatonic.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] personalization of academic library websites

2016-03-23 Thread William Denton
ur own site, even though students end up logging in a lot to get to journals and databases. We should! Bill -- William Denton ↔ Toronto, Canada ↔ https://www.miskatonic.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] List of Database Subjects

2016-03-20 Thread William Denton
ars, though, and is under consideration for being dropped in favour of the sadly ubiquitous LibGuides. Bill -- William Denton ↔ Toronto, Canada ↔ https://www.miskatonic.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Forming a Coalition of Libraries running Tor exit nodes: C4L 2016 Breakout Followup

2016-03-19 Thread William Denton
de? Bill -- William Denton ↔ Toronto, Canada ↔ https://www.miskatonic.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Forming a Coalition of Libraries running Tor exit nodes: C4L 2016 Breakout Followup

2016-03-11 Thread William Denton
". Count me in. These are great starting points. I've been running a relay node for over a year but haven't started to work on trying to arrange an exit node---without a lot of preparation it's too easy to get a no ten seconds after starting to explain it. Bill -- Willi

Re: [CODE4LIB] onboarding developers coming from industry

2016-03-02 Thread William Denton
g in a little city where everyone's studying and thinking, and every year a quarter of the population moves out and a new quarter moves in. Bill -- William Denton ↔ Toronto, Canada ↔ https://www.miskatonic.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] introduction, and a fun date visualization

2016-02-10 Thread William Denton
On 9 February 2016, Greg Lindahl wrote: https://blog.archive.org/2016/02/09/how-will-we-explore-books-in-the-21st-century/ And the demo itself is here: https://books.archivelab.org/dateviz/ Very cool! I'm glad you're on the list. Bill -- William Denton ↔ Toronto, Canad

[CODE4LIB] LibX and new Firefox rules

2015-12-16 Thread William Denton
Firefox has disallowed the LibX add-on because it's unsigned, and Firefox has new rules about verifying extensions. We upgraded our LibX build to a fresh version, but Firefox still doesn't lke it. Godmar, Annette, anyone---is this a way I can get it working? Bill -- Willia

[CODE4LIB] OCLC shutting down xISBN and xID (was Re: [CODE4LIB] Matching print and electronic editions of the same book)

2015-12-11 Thread William Denton
al Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of William Denton Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2015 5:40 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Matching print and electronic editions of the same book Thanks! That opens things up. We do have a lo

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

2015-12-09 Thread William Denton
CLC 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 wrote: I'm looking at how to match print (p) and electro

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

2015-12-09 Thread William Denton
n't find any discussion about making these connections. Have any of you done it? Know of it being done in code I can see? Written it up? Thanks for any pointers, Bill -- William Denton ↔ Toronto, Canada ↔ https://www.miskatonic.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Getting into Paperity

2015-11-16 Thread William Denton
r and see if it works better. Thanks for giving it a shot, though. Bill -- William Denton ↔ Toronto, Canada ↔ https://www.miskatonic.org/

[CODE4LIB] Getting into Paperity

2015-11-15 Thread William Denton
ake of the "I confirm that I am a lawful representative of the journal and I have full legal capacity to apply for its inclusion in Paperity" line, but heck, just click it. Bill -- William Denton ↔ Toronto, Canada ↔ https://www.miskatonic.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] LIS educators analyze jobs.code4lib.org (new paper in the Journal of Education for Library and Information Science)

2015-09-16 Thread William Denton
te [1] yet, though maybe if we ask ... Bill [1] http://www.monicamaceli.com/ -- William Denton ↔ Toronto, Canada ↔ https://www.miskatonic.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Parsing LC call numbers?

2015-08-28 Thread William Denton
there's this more recent one I saw mentioned on Planet Code4Lib a day or two ago: https://github.com/pulibrary/lcsort I haven't tried it and don't know how it relates to the first, but if you want a Ruby approach, those should help. Bill -- William Denton ↔ Toronto, Canada ↔ https://www.miskatonic.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Auto discovery of Dewey, UDC

2015-06-14 Thread William Denton
lly-used proprietary classification scheme---sad not only that it did it, but that it can at all. Bill -- William Denton ↔ Toronto, Canada ↔ https://www.miskatonic.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Native MarcEdit for MacOSX

2015-04-07 Thread William Denton
maintainer, but how other people handle their code is up to them, and I'm glad to now know the reasoning in this case. Bill -- William Denton ↔ Toronto, Canada ↔ https://www.miskatonic.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Native MarcEdit for MacOSX

2015-04-06 Thread William Denton
From the users perspective, it should all be Mac-tastic. I've always been curious, and now seems a good time to ask: I'm sure you've considered, and been asked about, releasing MarcEdit under a free software license, but decided against it. Why? Bill -- William Dent

Re: [CODE4LIB] Anyone analyzed SirsiDynix Symphony transaction logs?

2015-03-20 Thread William Denton
, which locations are busiest, what call number ranges get used the most) but I wonder what others have found to be the most interesting and helpful. Bill -- William Denton ↔ Toronto, Canada ↔ https://www.miskatonic.org/

[CODE4LIB] Anyone analyzed SirsiDynix Symphony transaction logs?

2015-03-18 Thread William Denton
x27;ve dug into it I'd be curious to know, not just about how you parsed the logs but then what you did with it, whether you loaded bits of data into a database, etc. Looking around, I see a few examples of people using the system's API, but that's it. Bill -- William Dent

Re: [CODE4LIB] Info request - Library Hackathon for students

2015-02-11 Thread William Denton
e they're enjoying it and have something to do. Having university IT developers and admins around really helps, whether they're just doing their work or they're acting as helpers or mentors. Bill -- William Denton ↔ Toronto, Canada ↔ https://www.miskatonic.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Conference photography policy

2015-01-26 Thread William Denton
off the camera and put a paper bag over it for the duration. Bill -- William Denton ↔ Toronto, Canada ↔ https://www.miskatonic.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib North 2015 meet up?

2015-01-05 Thread William Denton
easy for people from upstate New York to get to, as well. Bill -- William Denton ↔ Toronto, Canada ↔ https://www.miskatonic.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] what good books did you read in 2014?

2014-12-10 Thread William Denton
l tool. Bill -- William Denton ↔ Toronto, Canada ↔ https://www.miskatonic.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] New look for Planet Code4Lib: with Dublin Core metadata!

2014-10-06 Thread William Denton
On 4 October 2014, William Denton wrote: http://planet.code4lib.org/ And for anyone who prefers the old view, it's here: http://planet.code4lib.org/old.html About Coral's question about copyright information in WordPress feeds, I had a bit of a look around but didn'

[CODE4LIB] New look for Planet Code4Lib: with Dublin Core metadata!

2014-10-04 Thread William Denton
rmation in feeds, and I'm displaying it in this theme. Most sources have no information, so it's blank, but if you're on the Planet, have a look and make sure that information is in your feed. Bill -- William Denton ↔ Toronto, Canada ↔ https://www.miskatonic.org/

[CODE4LIB] Code2Bib (was Re: [CODE4LIB] UNIMARC validation rules)

2014-09-23 Thread William Denton
the first time I've ever seen that, and the name "Code2Bib" is a real delight. I'm very happy to hear about it! Bill -- William Denton ↔ Toronto, Canada ↔ http://www.miskatonic.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Cleaning up code4lib.org

2014-09-10 Thread William Denton
On 10 September 2014, Chris Beer wrote: I updated code4lib.org from Drupal 4 to Drupal 7 (or, from 4 to 5, 5 to 6, cursed Drupal repeatedly, and finally from 6 to 7). !!! Wonderful! Thank you. Bill -- William Denton ↔ Toronto, Canada ↔ http://www.miskatonic.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Privacy audits Re: [CODE4LIB] Library Privacy, RIP

2014-08-20 Thread William Denton
Audit I'm sure many of you knew about it but thought I'd mention it. Bill -- William Denton ↔ Toronto, Canada ↔ http://www.miskatonic.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

2014-08-14 Thread William Denton
omputing power and instituional heft---and I wonder if anyone here is doing that are their work. Bill -- William Denton ↔ Toronto, Canada ↔ http://www.miskatonic.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

2014-08-14 Thread William Denton
nt. They seem to get along fine. Bill -- William Denton ↔ Toronto, Canada ↔ http://www.miskatonic.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis

2014-08-13 Thread William Denton
junk like AddThis, but cripes, I hadn't realized how many people pull in Javascript libraries from Google or Yahoo. That's a harder way of tracking to avoid. Bill [0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-monster/ [1] https://www.eff.org/privacybadger [2] https://dis

[CODE4LIB] planet.code4lib.org relaunched

2014-07-22 Thread William Denton
where every entry looked like it was written on a library card or in a book or something? Bill -- William Denton ↔ Toronto, Canada ↔ http://www.miskatonic.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] access to code4lib server for planet maintenance?

2014-07-14 Thread William Denton
. Whoever runs that server, let me know ... Bill -- William Denton ↔ Toronto, Canada ↔ http://www.miskatonic.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] We should use HTTPS on code4lib.org

2013-11-05 Thread William Denton
People log in to code4lib.org and wiki.code4lib.org by sending their passwords in the clear! That is uncool. (Question: Why does HTTPS complicate screen-scraping? Every decent tool and library supports HTTPS, doesn't it?) Bill [0] http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/2014_Prepared_Talk_Proposals -- William Denton Toronto, Canada http://www.miskatonic.org/

[CODE4LIB] We should use HTTPS on code4lib.org

2013-11-04 Thread William Denton
as default? It's one of those slightly finicky things that on the surface isn't necessary (why bother with a library's opening hours or address?) but deeper down is, because everyone should be able to browse the web without being monitored. Bill [0] https://cert.startcom

Re: [CODE4LIB] W. P. Scott Chair in E-Librarianship at York University

2013-09-04 Thread William Denton
I'm not on the search committee. Bill PS again: York pays well. I estimate that if you're five years post-MLIS you'd get close to $100,000 CDN. Our salaries are based on years-since-MLIS. On 17 June 2013, William Denton wrote: This is a great opportunity to have a coupl

Re: [CODE4LIB] Desk Statistics Software Question

2013-08-22 Thread William Denton
enter our ref desk work into our system, but it's pretty much a one-way system and nothing much happens with the data except for some numbers in annual reports. Bill -- William Denton Toronto, Canada http://www.miskatonic.org/

[CODE4LIB] Examples of augmented reality?

2013-08-13 Thread William Denton
ps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyAkUJCgDUk [3] https://www.spaceglasses.com/ -- William Denton Toronto, Canada http://www.miskatonic.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] StackExchange reboot?

2013-07-09 Thread William Denton
t will happen to it in five years, and what will replace it. Bill -- William Denton Toronto, Canada http://www.miskatonic.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] W. P. Scott Chair in E-Librarianship at York University

2013-06-17 Thread William Denton
nship Research York University Libraries, 516 Scott Library York University, 4700 Keele Street Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3 Fax 416-736-5451 yula...@yorku.ca Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/8337/ -- William Denton Toronto, Canada http://www.miskatonic.org/

[CODE4LIB] One-year contract web librarian, York University, Toronto

2013-04-07 Thread William Denton
ood technical skills and a science background. Bill -- William Denton Toronto, Canada http://www.miskatonic.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Job: Digital Library Application Developer at Princeton University

2013-03-11 Thread William Denton
Ed, does this amazing jobs site require your hand on the dial? I thought you'd coded it all into magic and it just worked. Bill -- William Denton Toronto, Canada http://www.miskatonic.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Job: Project Manager at Digital Public Library of America

2013-03-06 Thread William Denton
supervision * Willingness to move to DPLA permanent headquarters (TBA by April 2013) * Knowledge of one or more of the following fields is desirable: * Digital Humanities * Digital Scholarship * Data Management/Curation * Data Modeling * Libraries and Scholarly Communication -- William Denton

[CODE4LIB] Did anyone try the Layar augmented reality thing in Chicago?

2013-02-25 Thread William Denton
n see only points from a map or only tweets---having both was sometimes overwhelming---and also add a filter so you can just see recent tweets. I took some screenshots and I'll post about it but if you used do let me know. Cheers, Bill -- William Denton Toronto, Canada http://www.miskatonic.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] ruby code for Chicago Transit Authority API

2013-02-08 Thread William Denton
Chicago's open data site has a lot of really interesting data sets: https://data.cityofchicago.org/ I wish my city had as much online. Bill -- William Denton Toronto, Canada http://www.miskatonic.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Rdio playlist

2013-02-05 Thread William Denton
enton/playlists/2229053/Code4Lib_2013_in_Chicago/ [2] http://developer.rdio.com/ -- William Denton Toronto, Canada http://www.miskatonic.org/

[CODE4LIB] Rdio playlist

2013-02-03 Thread William Denton
ing through the Art Institute of Chicago, or d) all of the above. Bill -- William Denton Toronto, Canada http://www.miskatonic.org/

[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2013 in Layar

2013-01-31 Thread William Denton
ile at least. See you soon, Bill [1] http://www.layar.com/ [2] https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=213549257652679418473.0004ce6c25e6cdeb0319d&msa=0 and https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=208580427660303662074.0004d00a3e083f4d160a4&msa=0 [3] As in Odysseus's father, who was one of the Argonauts and did a fair bit of travelling, and because his name has "layer" in it. -- William Denton Toronto, Canada http://www.miskatonic.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Anybody using the Open Library APIs?

2013-01-22 Thread William Denton
: http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/LibraryThing_APIs Bill -- William Denton Toronto, Canada http://www.miskatonic.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] A gentle proposal: slim down zoia during the conference

2013-01-18 Thread William Denton
ia) should opt-in. Aha, I see what you mean. I don't think there's a way to do that in IRC, but I might be wrong. Personally I'd be happy if zoia was restricted to a very minimal set of what she does now, or if most of her responses were msged and not in channel. Bill -- Willi

Re: [CODE4LIB] Newberry Library tour

2013-01-18 Thread William Denton
ing in Digital Initiatives and Conservation Services, plus learning about what C4L-type stuff is going on there. And perhaps seeing a treasure and getting to go down a floor on the caged staircase. Bill -- William Denton Toronto, Canada http://www.miskatonic.org/

[CODE4LIB] Newberry Library tour

2013-01-17 Thread William Denton
then it's a good one to read before visiting Chicago. [2] If you saw the movie, which is a poor substitute for the book, you didn't see the Newberry, because the movie was filmed in Toronto and two different libraries here were library doubles for it. -- William Denton Toronto, Canada http://www.miskatonic.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] A gentle proposal: slim down zoia during the conference

2013-01-17 Thread William Denton
a lot clearer. Bill -- William Denton Toronto, Canada http://www.miskatonic.org/

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

2012-11-29 Thread William Denton
time to go ... be good to hear that approach too. If someone's looking to change what they're doing in the library/technology world, getting to Code4Lib however they can is something to seriously consider. Bill -- William Denton Toronto, Canada http://www.miskatonic.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] one tool and/or resource that you recommend to newbie coders in a library?

2012-11-01 Thread William Denton
On 1 November 2012, Michael J. Giarlo wrote: Not to be glib, but: code4lib. +1 Bill -- William Denton Toronto, Canada http://www.miskatonic.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] open circ data

2012-10-29 Thread William Denton
On 26 October 2012, Francis Kayiwa wrote: Just saw this at code4li... 'er Access 2012. ;-) https://github.com/splurge/splurge No open data here yet, but we're working on it ... and I'll see about merging in existing open data. Bill -- William Denton Toron

[CODE4LIB] Python web framework recommendations good when learning Python

2012-07-10 Thread William Denton
here whose opinion I value, I thought I'd throw it out. Thanks, Bill -- William Denton Toronto, Canada http://www.miskatonic.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] GRAP: The granular restricted access problem

2011-11-03 Thread William Denton
ng up restricted access actually is an improvement: without it, there'd be no (online) access at all; the person would have to physically come to the archive and show identification to view the diary that won't be open to the public for 50 years. Bill -- William Denton Toron

[CODE4LIB] GRAP: The granular restricted access problem

2011-11-02 Thread William Denton
ith time limits, for all material (X to the public, Y to this person, Z to students in HUM 101 for one week) - seamless streaming of audio and video (with access controls) # - end GRAP Any suggestions welcome. I'll pass along and report back. Thanks, Bill -- William Denton

Re: [CODE4LIB] Examples of Web Service APIs in Academic & Public Libraries

2011-10-10 Thread William Denton
eges, school systems, cities, etc. Bill -- William Denton Toronto, Canada http://www.miskatonic.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Listserv help desperately needed!

2011-04-11 Thread William Denton
On 11 April 2011, LeVan,Ralph wrote: We can't be the only ones with this problem. Does anyone have a suggestion on how we fix it? OCLC could buy L-Soft, who make LISTSERV ... Bill -- William Denton, Toronto : miskatonic.org www.frbr.org openfrbr.org

Re: [CODE4LIB] utf8 "\xC2" does not map to Unicode

2011-04-06 Thread William Denton
On 6 April 2011, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: http://zoia.library.nd.edu/tmp/tor.marc Happily, Kevin's magic formula recognizes this as MARC! Bill -- William Denton, Toronto : miskatonic.org www.frbr.org openfrbr.org

Re: [CODE4LIB] MARC magic for file

2011-04-06 Thread William Denton
lid MARC is valid MARC, but if---for the sake of file and its magic---we can identify technically invalid but still usable MARC, that's good. Bill -- William Denton, Toronto : miskatonic.org www.frbr.org openfrbr.org

Re: [CODE4LIB] MARC magic for file

2011-04-06 Thread William Denton
content of fields, which in my opinion, is more open to interpretation based on system usage of the data. What do you think is the best way to recognize MARC files (up to some level of validity, given all the MARC you've seen and parsed) that could be made to work the way magic is defined?

Re: [CODE4LIB] MARC magic for file

2011-03-31 Thread William Denton
regex/1 (^[0-9]{5})[cdn][uvxy] MARC Holdings 0 regex/1 (^[0-9]{5})[acdn][w]MARC Classification 0 regex/1 (^[0-9]{5})[cdn][q] MARC Community -- William Denton, Toronto : miskatonic.org www.frbr.org openfrbr.org

[CODE4LIB] MARC magic for file

2011-03-23 Thread William Denton
regex [\ 12345678uz] 18 regex [\ aciu] 19 regex [\ abc] MARC Bibliographic #>20 byte 4 #>21 byte 5 #>22 byte 0 #>23 byte 0 MARC Bibliographic # --- end clip'n'test -- William Denton, Toronto : miskatonic.org www.frbr.org openfrbr.org

Re: [CODE4LIB] Register now for code4lib Northwest!

2011-03-04 Thread William Denton
With Code4Lib North in early May, and Code4Lib Northwest in mid-June, we now need Code4Lib North by Northwest in late May, with Cary Grant running through a field escaping a plane attempting to dust him with poisonous, badly formed MARC records. Bill -- William Denton, Toronto

Re: [CODE4LIB] Controlled Vocabulary DB: RESTful CRU[D]

2011-03-01 Thread William Denton
how the web works. It changed how I think. Bill -- William Denton, Toronto : miskatonic.org www.frbr.org openfrbr.org

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib North | Meetup!

2011-02-17 Thread William Denton
n. I'm looking forward to it. Bill -- William Denton, Toronto : miskatonic.org www.frbr.org openfrbr.org

Re: [CODE4LIB] Streaming

2011-02-08 Thread William Denton
On 8 February 2011, Jason Griffey wrote: I'd like to ditto what Roy said below. I know how hard this is to do at all, and to do it well is the sign of experience and talent. +1 I'm watching the archive now and the video is wonderful. Thank you! Bill -- William Dento

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib 2011 announcements

2011-02-07 Thread William Denton
streaming video---I'll be watching tomorrow with great interest! I hope everyone there has a great time. It looks like it'll be fun. Bill -- William Denton, Toronto : miskatonic.org www.frbr.org openfrbr.org

[CODE4LIB] How to give a friendly URL to a code4lib.org page?

2010-12-12 Thread William Denton
I want http://code4lib.org/node/388 to be http://code4lib.org/conference/2011/schedule but I don't see any way to set that. How is it done? If it requires some kind of higher level access, maybe an admin can do it? Thanks, Bill -- William Denton, Toronto : miskatoni

Re: [CODE4LIB] How to give a friendly URL to a code4lib.org page?

2010-12-12 Thread William Denton
(or whatever is doing it) isn't available to whatever kind of account I have. Bill -- William Denton, Toronto : miskatonic.org www.frbr.org openfrbr.org

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib "midwest" regional meeting

2010-06-14 Thread William Denton
r! Sounds like it was a fun day. Nice mellow hangin' out in the back yard, too. Thanks for letting us know how it went. Bill -- William Denton, Toronto : miskatonic.org www.frbr.org openfrbr.org

[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib North: lots of fun

2010-05-10 Thread William Denton
e. One last note: we decided to delete the code4lib-north mailing list and have any future discussions here on the main list. If we need to, we can make a separate list again, but there's no demonstrated need. Cheers, Bill -- William Denton, Toronto : miskatonic.org www.frbr.org openfrbr.org

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib North planning continues

2010-04-08 Thread William Denton
afternoon, etc. Mixing that with organizational details *and* general discussion about all local chapter meetings would confuse everything, I think. Bill -- William Denton, Toronto : miskatonic.org www.frbr.org openfrbr.org

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib North planning continues

2010-04-07 Thread William Denton
more time for informal stuff, or lightning talks, or "Ask Anything" like I see NYC is doing? Sometimes with a smaller group people don't talk so much, but sometimes they do. Bill -- William Denton, Toronto : miskatonic.org www.frbr.org openfrbr.org

[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib North planning continues

2010-04-07 Thread William Denton
ted in giving a talk should drop a note and add themselves on the wiki page. Discussion of a possible hackfest/something on the Thursday continues, but it seems like most people will be solidly there for just Friday. Bill -- William Denton, Toronto : miskatonic.org www.frbr.org openfrbr.org

[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib North, Kingston ON, 6-7 May 2010

2010-03-21 Thread William Denton
attend. Questions or comments? Send mail to the mailing list, or e-mail Wendy Huot and William Denton . Bill -- William Denton, Toronto : miskatonic.org www.frbr.org openfrbr.org

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2011 Proposals

2010-03-02 Thread William Denton
to the US---but I hope some small to mid-size American cities put in too. Providence and Asheville were great to visit. Bill -- William Denton, Toronto : miskatonic.org www.frbr.org openfrbr.org

[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib North, 6-7 May 2010, Kingston, Ontario

2010-02-06 Thread William Denton
edule, but I wanted to send out a quick note to reassure people the discussion hadn't just died. Bill -- William Denton, Toronto : miskatonic.org www.frbr.org openfrbr.org

[CODE4LIB] Kingston? And now the date (was Re: [CODE4LIB] Location of the first Code4Lib North meeting?)

2010-01-27 Thread William Denton
ore time for hanging out on Friday night. How should we do the dates? Given the April/May range, and the suggested restrictions, I think these are the days that work. Can we vote on the list, or should we do a Doodle thingie? If we can vote here then I say +1 Thursday-Friday 6-7 May Bi

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

2010-01-20 Thread William Denton
) Is there any American holiday happening in there? Bill -- William Denton, Toronto : miskatonic.org www.frbr.org openfrbr.org

[CODE4LIB] Announcing Code4Lib North

2010-01-12 Thread William Denton
up for it, and if we had 30-40 people for day and a half then we could have a blast. Anyone who's interested, speak up here or drop us a note. Bill -- William Denton, Toronto : miskatonic.org www.frbr.org openfrbr.org

Re: [CODE4LIB] Library Website Redesign Info and Project Plans

2009-09-18 Thread William Denton
ome to the meetings but didn't like things later, well, they'd had their chance. We went slowly but that's what universities are like. Think what you may of the end result, as a project it went very smoothly. Bill -- William Denton, Toronto : miskatonic.org www.frbr.org openfrbr.org

[CODE4LIB] R?

2009-09-09 Thread William Denton
s of information, that kind of thing. Bill -- William Denton, Toronto : miskatonic.org www.frbr.org openfrbr.org

Re: [CODE4LIB] Suggest a keynote speaker for Code4Lib 2010!

2009-07-24 Thread William Denton
ound the world to protect sensitive information and shield the identity of victims or witnesses who provide testimony on human rights abuses. Martus is the Greek word for witness." [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Ball [2] http://www.hrdag.org/ [3] http://www.martus.org/ B

[CODE4LIB] Position open: Chair in E-Librarianship, York University, Toronto

2009-07-18 Thread William Denton
tic web or cyberinfrastructure is required. The Chair must have demonstrated success in directing and conducting research or a large project. As a member of the YUL complement, the successful candidate will contribute in an area of the libraries suited to the candidate's area of expertise." Bi

[CODE4LIB] journal.code4lib.org down

2009-04-29 Thread William Denton
"Error establishing a database connection," it says, for all requests. :( Bill -- William Denton, Toronto : miskatonic.org www.frbr.org openfrbr.org

Re: [CODE4LIB] COinS in OL?

2008-12-09 Thread William Denton
r two different books. Bill -- William Denton, Toronto : www.miskatonic.org www.frbr.org www.openfrbr.org

Re: [CODE4LIB] presentation voting open through Wednesday December 3

2008-11-25 Thread William Denton
On 25 November 2008, William Denton wrote: Can you get a post up on the code4lib.org home page about this? Never mind, anarchivist did it, and now I know where I could have done it myself, through the "create content" link. Bill -- William Denton, Toronto : www.miskatonic.org ww

Re: [CODE4LIB] presentation voting open through Wednesday December 3

2008-11-25 Thread William Denton
On 25 November 2008, Birkin James Diana wrote: Voting is now open to select the presentations for the 2009 Code4Lib conference. <http://vote.code4lib.org/election/index/7> Can you get a post up on the code4lib.org home page about this? Bill -- William Denton, Toronto : www.miskaton

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4lib mugs?

2008-11-03 Thread William Denton
dy have all the travel mugs I want. Funding someone's attendance--or paying a student to get the audio and video online quickly--would be great. Bill -- William Denton, Toronto : www.miskatonic.org www.frbr.org www.openfrbr.org

[CODE4LIB] Extreme reference

2008-11-03 Thread William Denton
techniques see other parallels to the desk? Extreme reference would be less dangerous and exciting than extreme ironing, but perhaps more satisfactory to users than regular one-person ref desk encounters. Bill [1] http://www.pragprog.com/titles/ahptl/ -- William Denton, Toront

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Authority Data

2008-09-30 Thread William Denton
share ratio is 9.538. :) Bill -- William Denton, Toronto : www.miskatonic.org www.frbr.org www.openfrbr.org

Re: [CODE4LIB] planet.code4lib.org -- 3 suggestions

2008-05-22 Thread William Denton
Generous, but not exhaustive. Bill -- William Denton, Toronto : www.miskatonic.org www.frbr.org www.openfrbr.org

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