[CODE4LIB] Indexing MARC(-JSON) with MongoDB?

2010-05-13 Thread Fernando Gómez
There's been some talk in code4lib about using MongoDB to store MARC records in some kind of JSON format. I'd like to know if you have experimented with indexing those documents in MongoDB. From my limited exposure to MongoDB, it seems difficult, unless MongoDB supports some kind of custom

Re: [CODE4LIB] audio transcription software

2010-05-13 Thread Markus Wust
Eric, I tried Docsoft:AV (http://www.docsoft.com/Products/AV/), a server-based solution, about a year ago to see whether we could use it to automatically transcribe and timestamp our oral history recordings. It might work nicely if you had multiple recordings with the same speakers where it

Re: [CODE4LIB] Indexing MARC(-JSON) with MongoDB?

2010-05-13 Thread Benjamin Young
On 5/13/10 8:59 AM, Fernando Gómez wrote: Any suggestions? Do other document oriented databases offer a better solution for this? Hey Fernando, I'd suggest you checkout CouchDB. CouchDB uses JSON as it's document format, provides advanced indexing (anywhere in the JSON docs) via

Re: [CODE4LIB] Indexing MARC(-JSON) with MongoDB?

2010-05-13 Thread Király Péter
Hi Fernando, Yesterday I changed the Ubuntu to 64 bit version, because I'd like to try out MongoDB indexing library records, and the 32 bit version has some limitation (the maximal database could not exceed 2 GB). I haven't tried MARC yet, only XC records, which is a derivative of MARC, but

Re: [CODE4LIB] Indexing MARC(-JSON) with MongoDB?

2010-05-13 Thread MJ Suhonos
There's been some talk in code4lib about using MongoDB to store MARC records in some kind of JSON format. I'd like to know if you have experimented with indexing those documents in MongoDB. From my limited exposure to MongoDB, it seems difficult, unless MongoDB supports some kind of custom

Re: [CODE4LIB] audio transcription software

2010-05-13 Thread Kristina Long
I've saw a reference to some software called IBM ViaScribe when reading about a project that converts lectures to text (http://www.liberatedlearning.com/technology/index.shtml) a while back. Kristina CODE4LIB automatic digest system wrote:

Re: [CODE4LIB] Indexing MARC(-JSON) with MongoDB?

2010-05-13 Thread Thomas Dowling
On 05/13/2010 09:59 AM, MJ Suhonos wrote: First things first : it depends on what kind of indexing you're looking to do — I haven't worked with CouchDB (yet), but I have with MongoDB, and although it's a great (and fast) data store, it has a basic style of indexing as SQL databases.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Indexing MARC(-JSON) with MongoDB?

2010-05-13 Thread MJ Suhonos
Sorry, meant to include this link, which compares Elastic Search and Solr: http://blog.sematext.com/2010/05/03/elastic-search-distributed-lucene/ MJ

[CODE4LIB] Job Posting: Director of Digital Technologies at Brown University

2010-05-13 Thread jean rainwater
*DIRECTOR OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES* The Brown University Library invites applications for a dynamic and innovative Director of Digital Technologies to provide leadership, vision, and strategic direction for the Brown University Library in the development, delivery and integration of new and

Re: [CODE4LIB] Indexing MARC(-JSON) with MongoDB?

2010-05-13 Thread Houghton,Andrew
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Kyle Banerjee Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 11:51 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Indexing MARC(-JSON) with MongoDB? JSON maybe a great data exchange format, but it's not a markup language like

Re: [CODE4LIB] Call for comments: OPDS Catalogs 0.9 draft, an Atom-based standard for ebook distribution

2010-05-13 Thread Karen Coyle
Quoting Ed Summers e...@pobox.com: Folks involved in the Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS) effort are seeking feedback on the latest version of the spec [1] from the publishing and library communities--and specifically from the library-tech oriented code4lib subscribers. The goal is

Re: [CODE4LIB] Query LCSH terms at id.loc.gov by modification date

2010-05-13 Thread Kevin Ford
The short answer to your question is no, there's no way to query terms based on last modification date. However, and this feature needs publication on the website, there is an Atom feed that exposes the change activities for the subject headings: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/feed/ You can

Re: [CODE4LIB] Call for comments: OPDS Catalogs 0.9 draft, an Atom-based standard for ebook distribution

2010-05-13 Thread Ed Summers
Hi Karen, On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote: but I would have expected to see a title data element listed somewhere. Is dc assumed? Or is the bibliographic description scheme an open question? The nice thing about Atom is that it allows you to layer in

Re: [CODE4LIB] Indexing MARC(-JSON) with MongoDB?

2010-05-13 Thread Allen Jones
Airtran???Newark not jfk. Allen Jones Director - Digital Library Programs The New School Libraries On May 13, 2010, at 2:00 PM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: JSON and XML as structures have 'order' in exactly analagous ways. In the case of Json, if you want to encode order you

Re: [CODE4LIB] Indexing MARC(-JSON) with MongoDB?

2010-05-13 Thread Allen Jones
Please disregard last email. Allen Jones Director - Digital Library Programs The New School Libraries On May 13, 2010, at 2:00 PM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: JSON and XML as structures have 'order' in exactly analagous ways. In the case of Json, if you want to encode order

Re: [CODE4LIB] Query LCSH terms at id.loc.gov by modification date

2010-05-13 Thread Ed Summers
As Kevin said, I think you can use the Atom feed to page backwards through time. Basically this amounts to programatically following the link rel=next links in the feed, applying creates, updates and deletes as you go until you make it to Feb. 15, 2010. Currently this would involve walking from:

[CODE4LIB] FW: Webcast on UC3's microservices and the new DPR: Thurs May 20, 2-3pm

2010-05-13 Thread Fleming, Declan
Hi - of interest to some of y'all? D From: UC3-L [mailto:uc...@listserv.ucop.edu] On Behalf Of Perry Willett Sent: Thursday, May 13, 2010 3:34 PM To: uc...@listserv.ucop.edu Subject: Webcast on UC3's microservices and the new DPR: Thurs May 20, 2-3pm Here's the information on our webcast next

Re: [CODE4LIB] FW: Webcast on UC3's microservices and the new DPR: Thurs May 20, 2-3pm

2010-05-13 Thread Perry Willett
Well, Declan's let the cat out of the bag. We're having a webinar on our microservices, to demo the repository and ingest services we've developed so far. The webinar is primarily meant for our partners within the University of California, but all are welcome. Thurs May 20, 2-3pm (PDT). More