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

2013-09-30 Thread Dan Scott
I've temporarily set up mirrors at: * http://stuff.coffeecode.net/www.loc.gov/marc/ (MARC21 docs) * http://stuff.coffeecode.net/www.loc.gov/standards/sourcelist/ (standards documentation) Hopefully these won't be necessary for long, or at all :/ On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Kyle Banerjee wr

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

2013-09-30 Thread Kyle Banerjee
It appeared very recently (depending on your timeframe) -- but that version is absolutely necessary because the javascript support in 3.0 couldn't support what I needed to do. And I had no access to cgi at the time I wrote it, so server side action that might have accommodated Mosaic aficionados wa

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

2013-09-30 Thread Roy Tennant
Netscape 4.0 is out? Gosh, but it sure is hard to keep up! Roy On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Kyle Banerjee wrote: > If all people need is to look up MARC tags, there is also the Cataloging > Calculator http://calculate.alptown.com/ Unless you want to want to feel > totally disgusted, avoid l

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

2013-09-30 Thread Becky Yoose
Cheers, deb! >I was gonna say something about still being able to use LCSH and LCNAF via Connexion, but that's really mostly for humans Well, at least for those who have Connexion in the first place ;c) I'm trying to cover all the bases for those catalogers who are panicking about Authorities a

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

2013-09-30 Thread Becky Yoose
And the OCLC Seal of Approval... On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Roy Tennant wrote: > As seen on Twitter, OCLC also has our version of MARC documentation here: > > > > It's mostly exactly the same except for the places where we have inserted > small but

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

2013-09-30 Thread Kyle Banerjee
If all people need is to look up MARC tags, there is also the Cataloging Calculator http://calculate.alptown.com/ Unless you want to want to feel totally disgusted, avoid looking source code as it was my first javascript program which was cobbled together in a day (i.e. it is garbage) and hasn't b

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

2013-09-30 Thread Debra Shapiro
And of course http://dewey.info/ will still work no matter what the feds do … I was gonna say something about still being able to use LCSH and LCNAF via Connexion, but that's really mostly for humans deb On Sep 30, 2013, at 3:58 PM, Becky Yoose wrote: > And the OCLC Seal of Approval... > >

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: 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, 201

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

2013-09-30 Thread Becky Yoose
Ah, I forgot about the Wayback Machine. Thank you :cD On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 3:44 PM, Ford, Kevin wrote: > All *.loc.gov web sites will be "closed," including the two you quoted. > > The Internet Archive's Way Back Machine is probably your best bet for > these types of things: > > http://web.a

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

2013-09-30 Thread Erik Hetzner
At Mon, 30 Sep 2013 15:31:40 -0500, Becky Yoose wrote: > > FYI - this also means that there's a very good chance that the MARC > standards site [1] and the Source Codes site [2] will be down as well. I > don't know if there are any mirror sites out there for these pages. > > Thanks, > Becky, abou

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

2013-09-30 Thread Ford, Kevin
2013 4:32 PM > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] [CODE4LIB] HEADS UP - Government shutdown will > mean *.loc.gov is going offline October 1 > > FYI - this also means that there's a very good chance that the MARC > standards site [1] and the Source Codes site [2] w

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

2013-09-30 Thread Becky Yoose
FYI - this also means that there's a very good chance that the MARC standards site [1] and the Source Codes site [2] will be down as well. I don't know if there are any mirror sites out there for these pages. [1] http://www.loc.gov/marc/ [2] http://www.loc.gov/standards/sourcelist/index.html Than

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

2013-09-30 Thread Jodi Schneider
Interesting -- thanks, Birkin -- and tell us what you think when you get it implemented! :) -Jodi On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Birkin Diana wrote: > > ...you'd want to create a caching service... > > > One solution for a relevant particular problem (not full-blown linked-data > caching): >

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

2013-09-30 Thread Birkin Diana
> ...you'd want to create a caching service... One solution for a relevant particular problem (not full-blown linked-data caching): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML_Catalog excerpt: "However, if they are absolute URLs, they only work when your network can reach them. Relying on remote resourc