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/
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. 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.
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edu/sec/cu/libraries/bts/hilcc/subject_map.html
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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.
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ur own site, even though students end up
logging in a lot to get to journals and databases. We should!
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ars, though, and is under consideration
for being dropped in favour of the sadly ubiquitous LibGuides.
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de?
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".
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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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
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
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,
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r and see if it works
better. Thanks for giving it a shot, though.
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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.
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te [1] yet, though maybe if we ask ...
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[1] http://www.monicamaceli.com/
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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.
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lly-used proprietary classification
scheme---sad not only that it did it, but that it can at all.
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maintainer,
but how other people handle their code is up to them, and I'm glad to now know
the reasoning in this case.
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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?
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, 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.
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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.
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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.
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off the
camera and put a paper bag over it for the duration.
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easy for people from upstate New York to get to, as well.
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l tool.
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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'
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.
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the first time I've ever seen that, and the name
"Code2Bib" is a real delight. I'm very happy to hear about it!
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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.
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Audit
I'm sure many of you knew about it but thought I'd mention it.
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omputing
power and instituional heft---and I wonder if anyone here is doing that are
their work.
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nt. They seem to get along fine.
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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
where every entry looked like it
was written on a library card or in a book or something?
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. Whoever runs that server, let me know ...
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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
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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
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
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.
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ps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyAkUJCgDUk
[3] https://www.spaceglasses.com/
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t will
happen to it in five years, and what will replace it.
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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/
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ood technical skills
and a science background.
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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.
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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
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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,
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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.
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http://www.miskatonic.org/
enton/playlists/2229053/Code4Lib_2013_in_Chicago/
[2] http://developer.rdio.com/
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ing through the Art Institute of Chicago, or d) all of the above.
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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.
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:
http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/LibraryThing_APIs
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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.
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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.
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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.
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a
lot clearer.
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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.
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On 1 November 2012, Michael J. Giarlo wrote:
Not to be glib, but: code4lib.
+1
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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.
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here whose opinion I value, I thought I'd throw it
out.
Thanks,
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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.
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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,
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eges, school systems, cities, etc.
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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 ...
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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!
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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.
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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?
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
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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
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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.
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how the web works. It changed how I think.
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n. I'm looking forward to it.
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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!
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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.
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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,
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(or
whatever is doing it) isn't available to whatever kind of account I have.
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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.
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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,
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afternoon, etc. Mixing that with organizational details *and*
general discussion about all local chapter meetings would confuse
everything, I think.
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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.
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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.
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attend.
Questions or comments? Send mail to the mailing list, or e-mail Wendy
Huot and William Denton .
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to the US---but I hope some small to mid-size
American cities put in too. Providence and Asheville were great to visit.
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edule, but I wanted to send out a quick note to reassure people the
discussion hadn't just died.
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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
)
Is there any American holiday happening in there?
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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.
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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.
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s
of information, that kind of thing.
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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
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
"Error establishing a database connection," it says, for all requests. :(
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r two different books.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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/
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share ratio is 9.538. :)
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Generous, but not exhaustive.
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