Re: [CODE4LIB] Fwd: Request for Comments: SKOS Reference: W3C Working Draft 25 January 2008

2008-02-01 Thread Casey Bisson
Ed, thanks for the pointer to this. It does indeed look to be something libraries should get involved with. Using SKOS, conceptual resources can be identified using URIs, labeled with lexical strings in one or more natural languages,documented with various types of note, linked to each other

[CODE4LIB] Social Activities for Code4Lib 2008

2008-02-01 Thread Jonathan Gorman
Hi all, I thought I'd give a brief update on how social activities are going for Code4Lib 2008. I'm posting to the general list because it doesn't seem everyone's on the code4libcon list. (Of course, I believe that list is primarily for volunteers and planning, so that's not surprising).

Re: [CODE4LIB] low-cost software for prison libraries?

2008-02-01 Thread Gabriel Sean Farrell
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 11:54:32PM -0500, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: January 30, 2008 9:12:19 PM EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [prison-l] Library automation software Greetings: Last month there was some discussion here about

Re: [CODE4LIB] xml java package

2008-02-01 Thread Godmar Back
On Jan 27, 2008 5:40 PM, Eric Lease Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the most respected (useful, understandable) XML Java package? In a few fits of creative rage, I have managed to write my first Java programs. I can now index plain text files with Lucene and search the index. I can

Re: [CODE4LIB] xml java package

2008-02-01 Thread Riley, Jenn
-Original Message- I now need to read XML. Unlike indexing and doing OAI-PMH, there are a myriad of tools for reading and writing XML. I've done SAX before. I think I've done a bit of DOM. If I wanted a straight-forward and well-supported Java package that supported these APIs,

Re: [CODE4LIB] xml java package

2008-02-01 Thread Clay Redding
I don't know if it's still the case, but I know a recent EAD project that tried to use Castor said that it had problems with mixed content models. -- Clay On Feb 1, 2008, at 10:50 AM, Riley, Jenn wrote: -Original Message- I now need to read XML. Unlike indexing and doing OAI-PMH,

Re: [CODE4LIB] low-cost software for prison libraries?

2008-02-01 Thread Cloutman, David
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 11:54:32PM -0500, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: January 30, 2008 9:12:19 PM EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [prison-l] Library automation software Greetings: Last month there was some discussion here about

Re: [CODE4LIB] xml java package

2008-02-01 Thread Godmar Back
I haven't used Castor for mixed content, but obviously, mixed content is more difficult to map to Java types, even if you have a schema. I probably wouldn't use Castor in those situations. Otherwise, it - or a tool like it that can map schemata to Java types for automatic parsing, generation, and

Re: [CODE4LIB] atom feeds

2008-02-01 Thread Peter Keane
Eric- I puzzled over the Atom data modelling question quite a lot as I created the interfaces for a digital library application we've created at UT Austin. I spent a fair amout of time asking questions on the quite helpful atom-syntax mailing list and the advice I was usually given was to use