Re: [CODE4LIB] Canvas Fingerprinting by AddThis
http://www.addthis.com/privacy/opt-out Is this satire?
Re: [CODE4LIB] book cover api
I was a bit surprised that these techniques from 2005 still work... http://aaugh.com/imageabuse.html Basically, Amazon cover images can be manipulated via the URL. Of course, you'll probably want to check Amazon's terms of use. Keith
Re: [CODE4LIB] book cover api
So, any bets on which book cover image provider will be the first to implement IIIF? http://www-sul.stanford.edu/iiif/image-api/1.1/ Keith On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote: Open Library book covers come in S, M and L - https://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/api/covers Of course, if what you want isn't exactly one of those... kc On 12/4/13 9:34 AM, Kaile Zhu wrote: A while ago, we had a discussion about book cover APIs. I tried some of those mentioned and found they are working to some degree, but none of them would offer the size I want. The flexibility of the size is just not there. The size I am looking for is like this: http://img1.imagesbn.com/p/9780316227940_p0_v2_s114x166.JPG Anybody has found a way of implementing book cover api to your specifications successfully and is willing to share that with me? Off-line if you want. Much appreciation. Thanks. Kelly Zhu 405-974-5957 kz...@uco.edu **Bronze+Blue=Green** The University of Central Oklahoma is Bronze, Blue, and Green! Please print this e-mail only if absolutely necessary! **CONFIDENTIALITY** This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information. Any unauthorized disclosure or use of this information is prohibited. -- Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet
Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API
the LCSH master file is so big that it basically crashes the server. Do you really want to use the full LCSH, or just the subset that exists in your local catalog? Or, to put it another way: do you really want to provide the user with search suggestions that will result in zero hits? Keith
Re: [CODE4LIB] Stand Up Desks
I just learned that the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health actually has public walkstations that can be reserved by faculty, staff, and students. The walkstations are treadmills with adjustable-height desks. http://www.sph.unc.edu/weekly_news/august_27_2012_23670_13974.html#new_walkstation I'm not sure which will happen first: treadmills in the library, or desks in the gym. Keith
Re: [CODE4LIB] Lib or Libe
Code4'brary On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Jessie Keck jk...@stanford.edu wrote: Wait, you're telling me it's not Code4Liberty? - Jessie On Feb 13, 2013, at 10:18 AM, Thomas Bennett wrote: After voting I am surprised at the results, its a library as in libe, not a leebrary as in lib, ryght or is that reeght or rit ?. Thomas or is it Thoomas you say tomato I say tomato pecan or pecan In these two examples maybe pronounce it as you wish or weesh or woosh, what ever….. Support Requesthttp://portal.support.appstate.edu Thomas McMillan Grant Bennett Appalachian State University Operations Systems AnalystP O Box 32026 University LibraryBoone, North Carolina 28608 (828) 262 6587 Library Systems http://www.library.appstate.edu Confidentiality Notice: This communication constitutes an electronic communication within the meaning of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. Section 2510, and its disclosure is strictly limited to the recipient intended by the sender of this message. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of any of the information contained in or attached to this transmission is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. Please contact this office immediately by return e-mail or at 828-262-6587, and destroy the original transmission and its attachment(s), if any, if you are not the intended recipient. On Feb 13, 2013, at 11:08 AM, Fleming, Declan wrote: Hi - at the conference, there has been much foment about how to pronounce the end of code4lib. Please go to: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1lseCc2gwQUXL6oC8aLB7N8YMRnjsl90SfPHAmX5EA_w/viewform and vote. D
Re: [CODE4LIB] Rdio playlist
Can't believe no one has yet mentioned Chicago band I Fight Dragons -- they mix NES-controller chiptunes with electric guitars, playing rockin' covers of Mario Bros., Legend of Zelda, Contra, etc. in addition to some originals that have been remixed by other Chicago musicians. They just got back from their War of Cyborg Liberation Tour.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Responsive Web Site Live
Does anyone here have any experience with browser emulators such as BrowserStack? http://www.browserstack.com/ If so, have you come across any significant differences between the emulators and the real thing? Keith On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Ron Gilmour rgilmou...@gmail.com wrote: Ideally, of course, one would have a mobile device lab http://mobile.smashingmagazine.com/2012/09/24/establishing-an-open-device-lab/ where one could test a site on all kinds of devices, but that's not likely at a small college library.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Metrics for measuring digital library production
Just wondering who might be willing to share what kind of stats they produce to justify their continued existence? Although it's more anecdotal (rather than statistical), fan mail can help make a convincing argument that certain services are worth continuing. Here at our library, I've seen both e-mails and snail-mailed letters gushing with thanks for help at the reference desk, thanks for a specific digital collection, thanks for an in-depth research consultation. Some of these are sent to specific staff, and some to the library as a whole. Our library director usually reads one or two or these aloud at our all-staff meetings each semester, so I know she sees value in them. Keith
Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib online study group - GIS anyone?
Hi, Bess. Check out the online trainings from OpenGeo, a company based in New York City that has many of the major geospatial open source developers on their payroll (so they really know what they are talking about): http://opengeo.org/products/training/ There are so many opensource geospatial softwares that it can be difficult to understand how they are all related, but you would do well to focus on PostGIS and GeoServer. (OpenLayers is good too, but now has some healthy competition from lighter-weight javascript libraries like Leaflet.) OSGeo (the foundation, not to be confused with OpenGeo, the company) has a bootable DVD that will let you run most of the available open source geospatial software without having to install anything first: http://live.osgeo.org/ The FOSS4G conference is a great place to learn more; there are usually plenty of pre-conference workshops for the major projects. The 2013 conference is going to be in the UK, but there will also be a regional conference in Minneapolis, May 22-24: http://foss4g-na.org/ We are currently planning a complete rewrite of our geospatial data repository, to be based on OpenGeoportal, which originated at Tufts and now has several other deployments elsewhere. Its major strength is its excellent spatial relevance ranking (something which fails miserably in nearly every other geodata portal I've ever seen) implemented using Solr. It also uses GeoServer, OpenLayers, etc. http://opengeoportal.org/ I'd be interested in knowing how that online course turns out, and would be happy to try to help out if you run into any stumbling blocks. Cheers, Keith Keith Jenkins GIS/Geospatial Applications Librarian, Cornell University On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Bess Sadler bess.sad...@gmail.com wrote: There's an interesting thread going on around code4lib study groups for a given MOOC (or, presumably, other kinds of online training). I am currently attempting to educate myself in the subject of how to design, build, and maintain a spatial data infrastructure for a library[1]. This will serve out our local GIS resources, enabling them to be incorporated into online mapping programs. I know that this is something that many academic libraries are going to have to tackle eventually. Luckily there are some great open source tools out there for tackling this job, but unluckily there is not a lot of training that I have been able to find. I have uncovered one online course that looks pretty good: http://www.geospatialtraining.com/index.php?option=com_catalogview=nodeid=71%3Aopen-source-gis-bootcampItemid=108 I signed up, but I haven't got very far yet. I wonder if having code4lib collaborators would help? If anyone else is undertaking a project like this and would like to form a support / study group, please let me know. Cheers, Bess [1]We are also hiring a GIS developer: http://goo.gl/PURkZ
Re: [CODE4LIB] Seeking examples of outstanding discovery layers
It's not a library, but the McMaster-Carr product catalog is a classic: http://www.mcmaster.com/ Keith On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Tania Fersenheim tan...@brandeis.edu wrote: Got a favorite discovery interface? Send me the URL I am doing some quick dirty investigation into libraries that have successfully and elegantly integrated discovery of various resources, e.g.: - library catalog - federated indexing service such as Serials Solutions or Primo Central, or a federated search system like Metalib - ejournals - ebooks - libguides - library web site - worldcat local - that kind o' stuff I am looking for sites that are both nice to look at and seem easy to use. I will assume that if you're touting your own site it is technologically sophisticated. :-D Got any faves? Tania -- Tania Fersenheim Manager of Library Systems Brandeis University Library and Technology Services 415 South Street, (MS 017/P.O. Box 549110) Waltham, MA 02454-9110 Phone: 781.736.4698 Fax: 781.736.4577 email: tan...@brandeis.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Storing lat / long
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Mark Jordan mjor...@sfu.ca wrote: What's the best (i.e., most standardized and flexible) format for storing single-point geocoordinates? Definitely stick with decimal degrees (-122.61458), because dealing with minutes and seconds (122° 36' 52.5 W) is a real nuisance and unnecessarily complicates everything. If you are looking to embed coordinates within a data format like JSON, you might want to look at GeoJSON: http://www.geojson.org/geojson-spec.html#id2 Cheers, Keith
Re: [CODE4LIB] archiving a wiki
Many organizations are using Archive-It, the Internet Archive's service for harvesting and preserving specific websites. I think it can be used to produce public or private archives. http://www.archive-it.org/ Keith On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Carol Hassler carol.hass...@wicourts.gov wrote: My organization would like to archive/export our internal wiki in some kind of end-user friendly format. The concept is to copy the wiki contents annually to a format that can be used on any standard computer in case of an emergency (i.e. saved as an HTML web-style archive, saved as PDF files, saved as Word files).
Re: [CODE4LIB] Lift the Flap books
The Massachusetts Historical Society had to deal with the flap issue when presenting Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia. Jefferson had inserted blocks of text into the manuscript by gluing a flap at the point of insertion. Some of the flaps have text on both sides, others on one side only. Here's an example of how this is presented in the document view: http://masshist.org/thomasjeffersonpapers/notes/nsvviewer.php?page=5 I'm not certain about this particular document, but most of the other documents in the collection were marked up using TEI. Keith On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 8:34 PM, stuart yeates stuart.yea...@vuw.ac.nz wrote: On 15/02/12 13:43, Sara Amato wrote: If you were to have a 'lift the flap' type book that you wanted to digitize, for web display and use, what technology would you use for markup and display?
Re: [CODE4LIB] marc in json
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Gabriel Farrell gsf...@gmail.com wrote: I suspect newline-delimited will win this race. Yes. Everyone please cast a vote for newline-delimited JSON. Is there any consensus on the appropriate mime type for ndj? Keith
[CODE4LIB] conference voting and registration
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: Last year we had 129 unique voters for the proposals, roughly unchanged from Asheville (119). Both cases FAR fewer than the number of delegates (and more importantly, the number of people that wanted to be delegates). Just a thought: If we ever wanted to move to a lottery-based registration for the conference, perhaps those who take time to cast votes for presentation proposals could be weighted slightly. Keith (who sadly missed out on the whole Black Wednesday rush for Code4Lib 2012)
Re: [CODE4LIB] Job Posting: Digital Library Repository Developer, Boston Public Library (Boston, MA)
Unless it has changed, I think the official posting policy is here: https://listserv.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0311L=CODE4LIBD=0T=0P=3396
Re: [CODE4LIB] source of marc geographic code?
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: On 6/22/2011 11:25 PM, Ross Singer wrote: Can't you use: http://www.loc.gov/standards/codelists/gacs.xml Yes, I can! I didn't know about/hadn't found that one either hadn't been mentioned until now. Thanks! Where did you find that? That XML file is linked from near the bottom of this page: http://www.loc.gov/marc/geoareas/ Keith
Re: [CODE4LIB] stemming in author search?
Does Solr support Soundex? (Soundex was originally developed to
assist with alternate spellings of names)
Keith
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 8:08 PM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote:
In a Solr-based search, stemming is done at indexing time, into fields with
stemmed tokens.
It seems typical in library-catalog type applications based on Solr to have
the default (or even only) searches be over these stemmed fields, thus
'auto-stemming' to the user. (Search for 'monkey', find 'monkeys' too, and
vice versa).
I am curious how many people, who have Solr based catalogs (that is, I'm
interested in people who have search engines with majority or only content
originally from MARC), use such stemmed fields ('auto-stemming') over their
_author_ fields as well.
There are pro's and con's to this. There are certainly some things in an
author field that would benefit from stemming (mostly various kinds of
corporate authors, some of whose endings end up looking like english language
phrases). There are also very many things in an author field that would not
benefit from stemming, and thus when stemming is done it sometimes(/often?)
results in false matches, pluralizing an author's last name in an
inappropriate way for instance.
So, wanna say on the list, if you are using a Solr-based catalog, are you
using stemmed fields for your author searches? Curious what people end up
doing. If there are any other more complicated clever things you've done
than just stem-or-not, let us know that too!
Jonathan
Re: [CODE4LIB] Same CMS for both Intranet and Public websites?
We are using Confluence here, campus-wide -- not just for the libraries. The campus installation has over 200 spaces (projects), some of which are public, some private. You can also have private pages within a public space, and vice versa. You can change permissions on any page, and pages inherit permissions by hierarchy, so it is pretty easy to set up a private section of a public space, etc. However, there were some issues I encountered a while back, when trying to move a private page into the public part of the page hierarchy: it was telling me that the page had no restrictions, but apparently no one else could see it. This problem may have been fixed in our recent upgrade, although I've just gotten used to the workaround we found (adding another restriction and then removing it). Keith On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 10:21 PM, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote: FWIW, we prefer Confluence for documentation-centric intranets.
Re: [CODE4LIB] RDF for opening times/hours?
schema.org may have some potential, but it's not clear to me how the LocalBusiness/openingHours is supposed to work with anything but regular hours... Here's how openingHours are described at http://schema.org/LocalBusiness The opening hours for a business. Opening hours can be specified as a weekly time range, starting with days, then times per day. Multiple days can be listed with commas ',' separating each day. Day or time ranges are specified using a hyphen '-'. - Days are specified using the following two-letter combinations: Mo, Tu, We, Th, Fr, Sa, Su. - Times are specified using 24:00 time. For example, 3pm is specified as 15:00. Here is an example: time itemprop=openingHours datetime=Tu,Th 16:00-20:00Tuesdays and Thursdays 4-8pm/time So how would one indicate different hours on different days? Is there more documentation that I'm missing? If I wanted to create a service to take this data an calculate whether the business is open right now, I'm still stuck having to parse and interpret a text string, which defeats the purpose of having this information encoded as data. Keith
Re: [CODE4LIB] A right way for recording a place name?
1 and 2 probably represent two different geographic levels with the same name. There is a township (county subdivision) called Springfield, which also contains a city called Springfield. If you are planning to generate LCSH placenames, one thing to note is that LCSH typically uses old-style state abbreviations (Mass., Pa.) instead of the more common postal abbreviations (MA, PA). I thought there might be some way to use id.loc.gov but for some reason none of your example LCSHeadings show up in a search for springfield -- maybe place headings are not comprehensively included in id.loc.gov? Keith On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 11:02 AM, Ethan Gruber ewg4x...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I've just about completed a new XForms-based interface for querying geonames.org to populate the geogname element in EAD. An XML representation of a geographical place returned by the geonames APIs includes its name, e.g., Springfield, country name, and several levels administrative names (Sangamon County, Illinois). Is there some sort of official way of textually representing a place? In LCSH, one finds: 1 Springfield (Bucks County, Pa.) 2 Springfield (Bucks County, Pa. : Township) 3 Springfield (Burlington County, N.J.) Why 1 and 2 are distinct terms in LCSH, I don't know. The mode for dealing with American place names seems to be [name of place] ([administrative name - lower level], [administrative name - upper level]). For a European city, we find Berlin (Germany) Are these examples in LCSH the most common way to textually record places, or are there other examples I should look at? Thanks, Ethan
[CODE4LIB] exposing website visitor IP addresses to webcrawlers
Just out of curiosity, does anyone on this list have any opinions about whether website owners should publicly post lists of their visitors' IP addresses (or hostnames) and to also allow such lists to be indexable by search engines? For example: https://www3.ietf.org/usagedata/site_201104.html Keith
Re: [CODE4LIB] exposing website visitor IP addresses to webcrawlers
Thanks for all the responses so far. My thoughts are pretty much summed up by Mike and Nate, although I would suggest that no one is going out of their way to make these IPs accessible -- rather, they aren't going out of their way to make them inaccessible. Luckily, most websites don't make their stats accessible, or else the problem would be much larger -- anyone could get a list of websites you have ever visited, using a simple google search, like this (to pick a hostname at random from that IETF page): http://www.google.com/search?q=%22tge1lba9.emirates.net.ae%22 While not all IP addresses are linked to individuals, some are, and I think this is mainly a privacy problem for those individuals who have static IPs. Keith On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Mike Taylor m...@indexdata.com wrote: My computer at home has a static IP address. If I visit www.wikileaks.ch, I might not want the world to know that my IP address is in its access logs. So this is potentially a gross invasion of privacy. On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:26 AM, Nate Vack njv...@wisc.edu wrote: Strikes me as roughly analogous to publicly posting the caller ID of everyone who calls you. It's not a big risk to your visitors. It's not very polite. It's probably not very useful. Unless you've got a good reason to do it... why bother?
Re: [CODE4LIB] Seth Godin on The future of the library
I always get suspicious when an author converts current prices into 1962 dollars for no apparent reason, and without explanation. Keith On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Roy Zimmer roy.zim...@wmich.edu wrote: I think 50 cents would be right in the ballpark. My earliest scifi paperbacks cost me that much, mid-60's. Roy Zimmer Waldo Library Western Michigan University On 5/17/2011 11:18 AM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: On 5/16/2011 7:52 PM, Luciano Ramalho wrote: And then we need to consider the rise of the Kindle. An ebook costs about $1.60 in 1962 dollars. A thousand ebooks can fit on one device, 1) Why quote the ebook price in 1962 dollars? The reality in 2011 is that Kindle books in general are too expensive, particularly when Yeah, how much did a paperback book cost in 1962? 50 cents? $1? I wasn't alive then, but I bet $1.60 is expensive in 1962 dollars!
Re: [CODE4LIB] What's the descriptive technical terminology?... pdf image of a page. pdf format used with cut paste.
I've also heard many people use the term searchable PDF for a text-based PDF. Keith On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Peter Murray peter.mur...@lyrasis.org wrote: That is the same terminology I use as well -- image-based versus text-based. I find that works most times because people can visually see if something looks like a scanned image.
Re: [CODE4LIB] What do you wish you had time to learn?
* Google App Engine * PostGIS * Drums
Re: [CODE4LIB] regexp for LCC?
The Google Code regex looks like it will accept any 1-3 letters at the start of the call number. But LCC has no I, O, W, X, or Y classifications. So you might want to use something more like ^[A-HJ-NP-VZ] at the start of the regex. Also, there are only a few major classifications that use three letters. Like DJK, and several in the Ks. I'm not sure, but there might be others. Keith On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: Except now I wonder if those annoying MLCS call numbers might actually be properly MATCHED by this regex, when I need em excluded. They are annoying _similar_ to a classified call number. Well, one way to find out. And the reason this matters is to try and use an LCC to map to a 'discipline' or other broad category, either directly from the LCC schedule labels, or using a mapping like umich's: http://www.lib.umich.edu/browse/categories/ But if it's not really an LCC at all, and you try to map it, you'll get bad postings. On 3/31/2011 1:03 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: Thanks, that looks good! It's hosted on Google Code, but I don't think that code is anything Google uses, it looks like it's from our very own Bill Dueber. On 3/31/2011 12:38 PM, Tod Olson wrote: Check the regexp that Google uses in their call number normalization: http://code.google.com/p/library-callnumber-lc/wiki/Home You may want to remove the prefix part, and allow for a fourth cutter. The folks at UNC pointed me to this a few months ago. -Tod On Mar 31, 2011, at 11:29 AM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: Does anyone have a good regular expression that will match all legal LC Call Numbers from the LC Classified Schedule, but will generally not match things that could not possibly be an LC Call Number from the LC Classified Schedule? In particular, I need it to NOT match an MLC call number, which is an LC assigned call number that shows up in an 050 with no way to distinguish based on indicators, but isn't actually from the LC Schedules. Here's an example of an MLC call number: MLCS 83/5180 (P) Hmm, maybe all MLC call numbers begin with MLC, okay I guess I can exclude them just like that. But it looks like there are also OTHER things that can show up in the 050 but aren't actually from the classified schedule, the OCLC documentation even contains an example of Microfilm 19072 E. What a mess, huh? So, yeah, regex anyone? [You can probably guess why I care if it's from the LC Classified Schedule or not]. Tod Olsont...@uchicago.edu Systems Librarian University of Chicago Library
[CODE4LIB] OpenRoom daylight saving time
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 6:14 AM, graham gra...@theseamans.net wrote: We've just gone live with OpenRoom, got a lot of student response - and have run into a problem I think is due to incorrect handling of the change to daylight saving time (this is in the UK). The problem is the display is out of sync with the data in the database, and as a result the system is letting students make duplicate bookings causing further problems. We've turned it off for now - but I wonder if anyone else has run into this problem and has a quick fix? I'm not sure about the quick fix, but the ideal long-term solution is to abolish daylight saving time worldwide. It has certainly caused more problems than it has solved... [remainder of rant omitted, due to gmail message size limitations] Some questions to help diagnose the problem: 1. Which dates are affected? Just those after the time change? (UK changes this weekend, right?) 2. How are the dates actually stored? (UTC, local time, Unix timestamp?) 3. Are the stored times correct? (i.e. is the error occurring on input, or on output?) If the dates are being stored as text strings like 2011-03-28 09:00:00 that are getting processed by the PHP strtotime() function (OpenRoom runs on PHP, right?), then you can force a particular timezone interpretation by appending the timezone info (Europe/London or whatever) to the end of the string before processing with strtotime(). Good luck, Keith
Re: [CODE4LIB] geo-locating email domains
Hi, Eric. While you're at it... what's the percentage overlap between those lists? Keith On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: For a good time I geo-located the email domains of Code4Lib subscribers, plotted them on a Google map, and discovered that us Code4Libbers use Gmail in greater proportions than a couple of my other mailing lists (NGC4Lib and Usability4Lib) -- http://bit.ly/hdL55U Interesting!? Fun with Perl, the Google Maps API, and mailing lists. -- Eric Lease Morgan University of Notre Dame
Re: [CODE4LIB] Which O'Reilly books should we give away at Code4Lib 2011?
Hopefully the 4th edition of Programming Python will be out in time for the conference. Keith On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Kevin S. Clarke kscla...@gmail.com wrote: If you have particular O'Reilly titles that you'd like for us to ask O'Reilly for, send them to me and I'll put them in our request.
Re: [CODE4LIB] how 'great' are the great books
Hi, Eric. I suspect that many of us have only read a (small) fraction of these books. (But since your survey links directly to the full text, we can now only claim the limits of time as our excuse.) Are you tracking how many times people choose I don't know? I'm sure that is the most popular book. Maybe you could first ask which of the books we've read, and then have us vote just amongst those titles? Cheers, Keith On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: In an effort to answer the question, How 'great' are the Great Books?, I have created the beginnings of a crowd sourced survey, and it would be great if y'all were to beta test it for me -- http://bit.ly/bPQHIg I'm also looking for ways to make the survey more fun to use. If y'all could give me any suggestions, then at would be... great.
Re: [CODE4LIB] how 'great' are the great books
Roberto Hoyle roberto.j.ho...@dartmouth.edu wrote: If you haven't read one of the books, doesn't that argue for it's lack of 'greatness?' Elizabeth Winter elizabeth.win...@library.gatech.edu wrote: Gosh, I hope not. I think it argues for better literature programs in our K-12 and universities It also argues for a moratorium on publishing new books until we all have time to catch up. (I'm still working my way through the 5th century B.C.) Keith -- Elizabeth L. Winter Electronic Resources Coordinator Collection Acquisitions Management Library and Information Center Georgia Institute of Technology email: elizabeth.win...@library.gatech.edu phone: 404.385.0593 fax: 404.894.1723 - Original Message - From: Roberto Hoyle roberto.j.ho...@dartmouth.edu To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Sent: Thursday, November 4, 2010 4:03:12 PM Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] how 'great' are the great books On Nov 4, 2010, at 11:24 AM, McAulay, Elizabeth wrote: i agree with keith's comments about having a 'what have you read?' portion first. I had to answer i don't know to most of the questions because if I hadn't read both of the works, i didn't want to choose one over the other. i have a master's in English and i think only one out of 20 comparisons i answered included two works i had read. r.
Re: [CODE4LIB] locator
Tom, Before spending too much time trying to integrate building floorplans with Google Maps, I would consider whether the maximum zoom level (currently 20, which is around 3 pixels per foot) will allow you to provide the detail needed for your floorplan. Although this might only be an issue if you want the floorplan to display as an overlay over the regular GMaps basemaps. Keith Keith Jenkins GIS/Geospatial Applications Librarian Mann Library, Cornell University Ithaca, New York 14853 On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Tom Vanmechelen tom.vanmeche...@libis.kuleuven.be wrote: We're considering to expand our service with a item locator. Mapping the library (http://mashedlibrary.com/wiki/index.php?title=Mapping_the_library) describes how to build this with Google maps. But is this really the way to go? Does anyone has any experience with this? Does anyone have some best practices for this kind of project knowing that we have about 20 buildings spread all over the town? Tom --- Tom Vanmechelen K.U.Leuven / LIBIS W. De Croylaan 54 bus 5592 BE-3001 Heverlee Tel +32 16 32 27 93
Re: [CODE4LIB] audio transcription software
I tried Dragon Naturally Speaking a couple of years ago. (After breaking a wrist in a cycling accident, I figured it might be easier than one-hand typing, which wasn't true in the case of typing programming code with lots of curly brackets, indentation, etc.) Speech-to-text software works best after a training session, in which the software asks the speaker to read a known text, to calibrate the software. I'm not sure how it might work to calibrate for voices on recordings, but it may be that the software can learn during a proof-reading process. Your success for oral history recordings may depend on the uniqueness of each speakers voice, and the length of each recording. (Lots of short recordings of many different speakers would tend to be harder.) Keith On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: Does anybody here use or know of any audio transcription software? We have a growing number of projects here at Notre Dame that include oral histories. How can these digital files be converted into plain text? Audio transcription software may be the answer? -- Eric Lease Morgan University of Notre Dame
Re: [CODE4LIB] Next-generation policy for WorldCat records?open for community review
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote: My question about WorldCat records has to do with whole v. parts -- I can understand that a full MARC record, with holdings, downloaded from WC could be considered a WC record. After that, there is a lot of distance between the full MARC and, say, a citation with an author, title, publisher and date. Where is the line drawn? When does it cease to be a WC record and become just another chunk of bibliographic data floating around cyberspace? This reminds of when dewey.info released RDF data under a Creative Commons No Derivative Works license, which doesn't really make sense to me. Data (as opposed to literary texts or music, for example) is always going to be manipulated for processing or display. It seemed to me that in order to ingest and use the data in any way (for example, in a web interface) you have to use a derivative, unless you are simply re-displaying the original data verbatim. But I don't think many users would want to look at raw RDF/XML. Keith
Re: [CODE4LIB] PHP bashing (was: newbie)
Who is presenting at the ducttape4lib conference this year? Keith On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Jason Stirnaman jstirna...@kumc.edu wrote: Oh, and please never use duck tape for stage applications like taping extension cords and mic cables to the floor. Gaff tape is tougher and leaves no sticky residue.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: MARC formats in XML
A few years ago, there was some work being done in Portugal for UNIMARC and MARC21 validation via XML schemas: http://www.bookmarc.pt/unimarc/ http://www.bookmarc.pt/documentation/marcdoc.html Cheers, Keith On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Houghton,Andrew hough...@oclc.org wrote: Does anybody know whether the MARC formats ... are encoded in an XML format that one might use for processing/validation of the leader, field tags, indicator codes, subfield codes, field and subfield repeatability, and field and subfield requiredness.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Auto-suggest and the id.loc.gov LCSH web service
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Ed Summers e...@pobox.com wrote: It would be great to have some external dataset to use in ranking LCSH suggestions at id.loc.gov. But at the moment it's a simple mysql db loaded up with some MARC LCSH data. I guess it could do something smart with PageRank-like ranking of 'super-concepts' (concepts that are linked to a lot)...but that would've taken longer than 20 minutes :-) The frequency of an LCSH term within the LC catalog could also be useful for ranking, although I'm not sure if such data would be readily available. Another possibility would be a simple count of broader terms + narrower terms + related terms or something like that. Although PageRank would probably be better, since even some important terms might have a relatively small number of immediately-adjacent links. Keith
Re: [CODE4LIB] Journal Usage Statistical collection software - suggestions?
There's also SUSHI (Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative): http://www.niso.org/workrooms/sushi Keith On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Brandon Dudley bran...@discontent.com wrote: Apologies for cross-posting. My institution is currently evaluating methods of collecting COUNTER stats in a comprehensive way. We currently use Excel spreadsheets to calculate cost-per-use and gather all the stats together, but I am hoping that there's a better way. In today's climate, justifying our spending decisions grows ever more important. I am aware of JURO and JURO4c, and of the Swets Scholarly Stats commercial packages - are there any other options worth consideration? Anybody devised their own slick homegrown method of collecting such stats? Many thanks, Brandon Dudley
Re: [CODE4LIB] Bookmarking web links - authoritativeness or focused searching
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Tim Cornwell tc...@cornell.edu wrote: 41,000 sites and 21 million pages (http://www.ablegrape.com/en/about.html) is a lot of vetting. ... Authoratative vetting of a large volume of resources is a hard problem. I haven't seen any good solutions, but am leaning toward crowd-sourcing with an authoratative crowd. :-) Do you have any additional information on how AbleGrape vets these? I can only guess, but I would think it's probably a combination of automatic and manual vetting: crawl the links from known good sites, filter out bad sites, filter out off-topic sites, manually add newly-discovered sites not already in the index, manually remove inappropriate sites that somehow made it into the index, adjust the algorithms, try to build a user community and solicit feedback. (I once reported inappropriate results coming from a wine producer's website that had been taken over by vandals, and AbleGrape removed it from the index almost immediately.) Keith
Re: [CODE4LIB] Bookmarking web links - authoritativeness or focused searching
AbleGrape.com is a good example of a focused search engine that aims to index only authoritative sources within a particular disciple -- in this case it's wine, enology, and viticulture. It currently crawls about 40,000 vetted websites. It's a great search engine for the subject area it serves, and it probably helped that the creator was a VP at Inktomi. Keith On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:53 AM, Cindy Harper char...@colgate.edu wrote: So that led me to speculate about a search engine that ranked just by links from .edu's, libraries sites, and a librarian-vetted list of .orgs, scholarly publishers, etc. I think you can limit by .edu in the linked-from in Google - I haven't tried that much. if anyone here has experience at using tha technique, I'd like to hear about it. But I'm thinking now about the possibility of a search engine limited to sites cooperatively vetted by librarians, that would incorporate ranking by # links. Something more responsive than cataloging websites in our catalogs. Is anyone else thinking about these ideas? or do you know of projects that approach this goal of leveraging librarian's vetting of authoritative sources?
Re: [CODE4LIB] help on displaying lcsh from MARC
Using -- before subfields $v, $x, $y, and $z should work well for all the standard MARC 6XX fields. The only exception might be in any locally-defined fields 690-699. Keith On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: Thanks! So $v, $x, $y, and $z should always get a -- before them -- that's sufficient logic to do it 'right'? I guess an LCSH 6xx always needs an $a first, so I don't need to worry about if a $v or $x happens to come first, and shouldn't get a preceding --. Should I do this only for 6xx with 2nd indicator 2 indicating LCSH, or do people generally just do this for all 6xx? Tod Olson wrote: Only for certain subfields: Dash (-) that precedes a subdivision in an extended 600 subject heading is not carried in the MARC record. It may be system generated as a display constant associated with the content of subfield $v, $x, $y, and $z. From http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd600.html -Tod On Sep 23, 2009, at 9:09 AM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: Hi all, I'm writing some marc record display code, and I have a question about the 'right' way to display LCSH headings. LCSH headings are typically displayed with -- between components. But looking at the MARC, it looks like the -- punctuation isn't actually in the MARC field. (A rare instance where display punctuation isn't in the marc!). Is it correct for any LCSH 6xx field (which you know because the 2nd indicator is 0, right?), to add -- between ALL present subfields on display? Do I have the right logic there? Thanks for any advice! Jonathan
Re: [CODE4LIB] Book recommendation
I haven't read any of them yet, but O'Reilly has a new series of books that might be of interest. They all have titles like Beautiful Teams, Beautiful Architecture, Beautiful Data, Beautiful Testing, etc. Maybe someone else has read one and can comment on their usefulness? Keith On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Robert Fox rf...@nd.edu wrote: Since this list has librarians, hard core programmers and hybrid librarian programmers on it, this is probably a good place to ask this sort of question. I'm looking for some book recommendations. I've read a lot of technical books on how to work with specific kinds of technology, read a lot of online technical how tos and that has been good as far as it goes. But, technology changes too fast to be wed to one particular programming language, database technology, metadata standard, etc. I'm interested in finding books that speak to the issues of programming methodology, design principles, lessons learned, etc. that transcend any particular programming technology. Are there good books that distill the wisdom and experience of veteran developers and /or communicate best practices for things like design patterns, overall software architecture, learning from mistakes, the developer mindset and such things? Could you recommend perhaps the top three or four books you've read in these areas? Rob Fox Hesburgh Libraries University of Notre Dame
Re: [CODE4LIB] GPO PURLs
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Jonathan Rochkindrochk...@jhu.edu wrote: Of course, one failure in X (10?) years is fairly good reliability... depending on how long it takes them to get everything back working 100%. If it's back by tomorrow, one outage in 10 years pretty good. If it takes a week to get back, not so good. It's been 8 days so far... hopefully it will we back to normal soon. I'm not sure how long GPO has been serving PURLs, but if we assume this is the first failure in 10 years, then that's still 99.8% uptime, which isn't bad. If the 0.2% were spread evenly across ten years, it would hardly be noticable, but when it happens all at once, it certainly does seem worse. Keith
Re: [CODE4LIB] find in page, diacritics, etc
Hi, Tim. Are you are referring to a find in page, where a user presses CTRL-F in the browser? If so, it will depend on the browser. Google Chrome 2.0 will find matches regardless of the diacritics (i.e. user can type placa and it matches plaça, and vice versa). This doesn't seem to work in Firefox 3.0.13 or IE8. Keith On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Tim Shearersh...@ils.unc.edu wrote: Hi Folks, Looking for help/perspectives. Anyone got any clever solutions for allowing folks to find a word with diacritics in a rendered web page regardless of whether or not the user tries with or without diacritics. In indexes this is usually solved by indexing the word with and without, so the user gets what they want regardless of how they search. Thanks in advance for any ideas/enlightenment, Tim
Re: [CODE4LIB] GPO PURLs
Thanks to everyone who helped me confirm that the GPO PURL server is down. An official announcement on the GPO Listserv said: The PURL Server is currently inaccessible. GPO is working with IT staff to restore service as soon as possible. We regret any inconvenience caused by the server problems. An updated listserv will be sent once service is restored. While the server is down, here is one workaround (thanks to Patricia Duplantis): 1. Go to http://catalog.gpo.gov/ 2. Click Advanced Search 3. Search for word in URL/PURL, enter the PURL 4. Click Go 5. The original URL at the time of cataloging should appear in a 53x note. This incident, however, illuminates a weakness in PURL systems: access is broken when the PURL server breaks, even though the documents are still online at their original URLs. Maybe someone more familiar with PURL systems can tell me... is there any way to harvest data from a PURL server, so that a backup/mirror can be available? Keith
[CODE4LIB] GPO PURLs
Is it just me, or is the GPO PURL resolver down? I keep getting a timeout error... For example: http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS4468 Does anyone know of any alternate place to lookup the real URL for GPO PURLs? Keith
Re: [CODE4LIB] [Fwd: [ol-tech] Modified RDF/XML api]
I agree with Ed. It would be best to omit the statement about the cover image if it doesn't actually exist. Keith On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Ed Summerse...@pobox.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Karen Coyleli...@kcoyle.net wrote: Does it work for folks if this returns either a cover OR a blank? (1x1 jpg). It may be awkward to test first for an actual cover. Also, if it's ok to not test for a cover, does anyone have a preference over the blank or a 404 error? I think the API can do both. My personal preference would be to include the assertion about the cover image only if it's true. It might be better to say nothing than having to live with the false positives. But maybe some other people feel differently about it. //Ed
Re: [CODE4LIB] OT(?) - Historical journal value data?
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Nate Vack njv...@wisc.edu wrote: Anyone know of a source of historical journal value data? I know that, for historical prices of specific journal titles, a former colleague would consult our old paper copies of Ulrich's. (The online version of Ulrich's only has current pricing info.) Keith
Re: [CODE4LIB] registering info: uris?
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Mike Taylor m...@indexdata.com wrote: Worse, consider how the actionable-identifier approach would translate to other non-actionable identifiers like ISBNs. If I offer the non-actionable identifier info:isbn/025490 which identified Farlow and Brett-Surman's edited volume The Complete Dinosaur, it's obvious that you have a choice of methods for resolving the ISBN ... but the identifier gives no indication of what those choices might be, and I wouldn't even be able to find out anything more about the info:isbn scheme unless I happened to know that http://info-uri.info/ is the registry for info: URIs (or could Google my way to it). An http: identifier could at least take you to general information about the scheme (perhaps with options for resolution), if not directly to some description of the identified thing itself. Keith
Re: [CODE4LIB] PHP Frameworks: An informal survey.
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Cloutman, David dclout...@co.marin.ca.us wrote: The results were pretty lopsided: Unnamed: 8 Zend: 11 CakePHP: 4 Symfony: 4 Code Igniter: 2 Interestingly, these numbers match up pretty well with what Google Trends shows for 2008: http://www.google.com/trends?q=zend,symfony,cakephp,code+igniterdate=ytd Keith
Re: [CODE4LIB] amazon s3?
Relatedly, just today Fedora Commons and DSpace have announced a project called DuraSpace: '''Over the next six months funding from the planning grant will allow the organizations to jointly specify and design DuraSpace, a new web-based service that will allow institutions to easily distribute content to multiple storage providers, both cloud-based and institution-based. The idea behind DuraSpace is to provide a trusted, value-added service layer to augment the capabilities of generic storage providers by making stored digital content more durable, manageable, accessible and sharable.''' Full press release here: http://www.dspace.org/index.php?option=com_contenttask=blogcategoryid=74Itemid=175 Keith
Re: [CODE4LIB] creating call number browse
I think that one advantage of browsing a physical shelf is that the shelf is linear, so it's very easy to methodically browse from the left end of the shelf to the right, and have a sense that you haven't accidentally missed anything. (Ignore, for the moment, all the books that happen to be checked out and not on the shelf...) Online, linearity is no longer a constraint, which is a very good thing, but it does have some drawbacks as well. There is usually no clear way to follow a series of more like this links and get a sense that you have seen all the books that the library has on a given subject. Yes, you might get lucky and discover some great things, but it usually involves a lot of aimless wandering, coming back to the same highly-related items again and again, while missing some slightly-more-distantly-related items. Ideally, the user should be able to run a query, retrieve a set of items, sort them however he wants (by author, date, call number, some kind of dynamic clustering algorithm, whatever), and be able to methodically browse from one end of that sort order to the other without any fear of missing something. Keith On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 6:08 PM, Stephens, Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think we need to understand the way people use browse to navigate resources if we are to successfully bring the concept of collection browsing to our navigation tools. David suggests that we should think of a shelf browse as a type of 'show me more like this' which is definitely one reason to browse - but is it the only reason?
Re: [CODE4LIB] New England code4lib gathering
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Jay Luker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The reasons I threw the Northampton/Amherst area out there are a) it's central to a lot of NE and is on or near the major highways (91 and 90) ...and if you are willing to bend the interpretation of NE to mean not just New England, but North East, there might be a few of us across the border in New York state who might be tempted to join in the fun. In which case the Northampton/Amherst locale would have extra appeal. Keith
Re: [CODE4LIB] a brief summary of the Google App Engine
Thanks for sharing that, Doug. It's not mentioned at all in the Developer's Guide (contains everything you need to know): http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/ I'll have to take a closer look at the src docs... Keith On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Doug Chestnut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a Searchable Entity with GAE. Refer to the src for docs. It is fairly straight forward, it takes the text of the properties, removes stop words, creates a new list property that contains the words. An index on this property allows fast retrieval. It is fairly limited, you don't want list properties to get too large (this is what the devs told me at google io). From the docs: Don't expect too much. First, there's no ranking, which is a killer drawback. There's also no exact phrase match, substring match, boolean operators, stemming, or other common full text search features. Finally, support for stop words (common words that are not indexed) is currently limited to English. I have been playing with reverse indexes in GAE with some potential success for search and faceted browse. --Doug
Re: [CODE4LIB] a brief summary of the Google App Engine
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:21 AM, Godmar Back [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aside from the limitations imposed by the index model, the problem then is fundamentally similar to how you index MARC data for use in any discovery system. I think Godmar is referring to GAE's lack of keyword searching. To elaborate, the following is from http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/datastore/queriesandindexes.html Tip: Query filters do not have an explicit way to match just part of a string value, but you can fake a prefix match using inequality filters: db.GqlQuery(SELECT * FROM MyModel WHERE prop = :1 AND prop :2, abc, abc + \xEF\xBF\xBD) This matches every MyModel entity with a string property prop that begins with the characters abc. The byte string \xEF\xBF\xBD represents the largest possible Unicode character. When the property values are sorted in an index, the values that fall in this range are all of the values that begin with the given prefix. So it's a bit of a hack just to get a left-anchored search. Querying for a particular keyword anywhere within a string value would be even more work. For small datasets, I guess you could iterate through every record. But for anything larger, you'd probably want to figure out a way to manually build an index within the Google datastore, or else keep the indexing outside GAE, and just use GAE for fetching specified records. Any ideas on how that might work? Keith
Re: [CODE4LIB] free movie cover images?
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Peter Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IMDB has cover art for films, but I haven't looked to see if they provide an API to get to them /a la/ Google Books. I don't think IMDB is an option... All pictures and videos found on our site (including movie stills, headshots, photo galleries and trailers) are licensed to IMDb only and we are not permitted to sublicense them onwards or grant permission for other to use them, sorry. From: http://www.imdb.com/help/show_leaf?usephotos Keith
Re: [CODE4LIB] poll of javascript libraries
As of right now, the results of the informal poll of Javascript libraries stands as follows: jQuery = 23 votes Prototype = 17 votes Scriptaculous = 10 votes YUI = 9 votes ExtJS = 5 votes Dojo = 2 votes MooTools = 2 votes MochiKit = 1 votes LowPro = 0 votes Note that these poll results are completely unscientific and necessarily incomplete (superdelegates have not been counted yet...), but hopefully not entirely uninformative. If you still want to add your input, the poll is here: http://doodle.ch/sr5z4vusiwi4yssi subliminalMessageMaybe someone wants to write an article for the code4lib journal, or present at next year's conference about their favorite javascript library.../subliminalMessage Cheers, Keith
[CODE4LIB] poll of javascript libraries
I've seen various Javascript libraries mentioned on this list from time to time, and would like to get a better sense which major Javascript libraries are being used within the Code4Lib community. So I've set up a quick, informal poll here: http://doodle.ch/sr5z4vusiwi4yssi Just enter your name (or any string, really) and vote for the libraries that you are currently using. Since the libraries listed have different scopes, and some are used in conjunction, please vote for any and all that you are actively using. (If you've used a library in the past, but don't expect to use it again, don't vote for it.) I'll collect the results and report back to the list after a week or so. Keith
Re: [CODE4LIB] httpRequest javascript.... grrr
jQuery++
I like to do things from scratch, but have never regretted moving to
jQuery. Whatever time it takes you to check it out will be paid back
a thousand times, at least.
Keith
On 11/29/07, Ewout Van Troostenberghe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To point out why the use of a Javascript framework is important, let me
put your code into jQuery (http://jquery.com)
$.get('index.cgi', {cmd:'add_tag', username:'username'}, function(html) {
// do whatever you want here
})
Re: [CODE4LIB] weird worldcat results?
http://www.worldcat.org/issn/00253154 This link brings up an article record, apparently from ArticleFirst. (FYI, worldcat.org is including results from the GPO, ArticleFirst, Medline and ERIC databases -- I just found that out now.) On 9/4/07, Jonathan Rochkind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would that ISSN assigned to a record that's really for an article not for a title be considered bad data? Are you supposed to have an ISSN on such a record? In the ArticleFirst database, the ISSN of the source journal is recorded as a standard number. It makes sense within an article database to include the ISSN as an unambiguous reference to the source journal. But I agree that it makes absolutely no sense to deliver this single article record in response to the URL above. I'm sure OCLC would agree, too... So, Jonathan, I'd suggest reporting this via the feedback link at the bottom of the worldcat.org page. Hopefully they can correct this odd behaviour (while it's still in beta). Keith
Re: [CODE4LIB] LCC classifications in XML
On 8/28/07, Roy Tennant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the files at http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/ The files Roy mentions are a great start, and might be enough for your purposes. But they don't go into the full gory detail of the classification. For example, if you are interested in QA934, you can only get as close as: QA801-939 Analytic mechanics If you do need the full, detailed classification, LC's Classification Web appears to be based on a set of MARC records. Here's an example for QA934: ID: CF 94037268Rec Stat: nEntrd: 930427Used: 19960528 CNID: DLCRec Type: wKOR: aNumType: aVal: a Opt: aEnc Levl: nSyn: aDis: a 010 $a CF 94037268 040 $a DLC $c DLC 084 0 $a lcc 153 $a QA934 $h Mathematics $h Analytic mechanics $h Elasticity. Plasticity $j Torsion 753 $a Torsion $b Analytic mechanics Record: 85693 Added: Tue Apr 27 00:00:00 1993 Modified: Tue May 28 10:09:38 1996 The drawback is that these records only appear to be available through the subscription-accessed Classification Web. I couldn't find any mention of the availability of the actual MARC records on the Cataloging Distribution Service website. Maybe LC will make them available via a free RESTful web service... :) -Keith
Re: [CODE4LIB] 2007 Conference Attendee List
I'm with you, Peter, in not being there. But I renamed the section to lurkers, because stalkers just sounded too creepy... -Keith On 2/23/07, Binkley, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've taken the liberty of adding a stalkers section at the end, for those of us who will be there in spirit but not in the flesh.
Re: [CODE4LIB] LC MARC records?
From looking at the LC website, it looks like there is a one-time cost of $30,450 for all the retrospective records from 1968-2005. But then it's $21,025 for weekly updates throughout the 2006, or $24,025 for daily updates. (One year is estimated to include 1,000,000 records, including 387,000 new records.) So it's the keeping up-to-date that is the real expense, since it's $20,000+ every year. http://www.loc.gov/cds/mds.html#complete -Keith p.s. If you could wait until 2007, then 2006 would be included in the retrospective records. Or you could even wait a decade and really save money... and by that time maybe they'll be free at last :-) On 9/5/06, Houghton,Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is my understanding that OCLC *pays* LC several thousands of dollars, per year, for access to their MARC records...
