Shaun Ellis sha...@princeton.edu
If you read my email, I don't tell anyone what to use, but simply
attempt to clear up some fallacies. Distributed version control is new
to many, and I want to make sure that folks are getting accurate
information from this list.
As would I. I don't think
All,
I am working on expanding the currently functionality of the open-source
SobekCM METS Editor ( http://ufdc.ufl.edu/metseditor ,
http://sourceforge.net/projects/metseditor/ ) to allow it to be both more
extensible for various unforeseen metadata formats, and to analyze division and
file
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Andreas Orphanides akorp...@ncsu.eduwrote:
The right implementation is important for adoption, of course, but for a
backup system to be helpful it needs to encourage compliance -- including
things like having the backup folks available for monitoring,
Kyle, I think you've got some good points. But I'd hesitate to suggest that
the core problem with compliance stems from learned helplessness, laziness,
etc. Certainly that could be an aspect of it for some individuals, but i
think the systemic core of the problem is a little broader, at least in
Ah! Thanks, Tom.
The first one I clicked on was wicked interesting. ;)
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Thomas Gerald
Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 9:54 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Sample
The METS Registered Profiles,
http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/mets-registered-profiles.html, are required
to have at least one sample METS document in their appendices. It's a little
extra work to extract the METS files from the profiles, but these should give
you a large variety of
Can you two take your argument somewhere else? This thread is REALLY boring.
(Am I going to make it worse by posting this? Are people going to start flaming
me for being intolerant? Would I deserve it? Possibly. I am willing to take
that risk in a last ditch hope that the Code4Lib listserv
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I have a follow-up:
By default, Jetty starts Fuseki with -Xmx1200M for heap. Have you altered
this for production? How many triples do you have and how often does your
endpoint process queries? Our dataset won't be large at first (low
millions of triples), but we can reasonably expect 10,000+
On 2/21/13 7:48 PM, Emily Morton-Owens wrote:
This was just the right thing to say, because he was connecting it to
something that I consider myself talented at (languages), rather than
something I don't (math).
I want to clear up the math is hard and programming is math myths.
First, the
Well, Jonathan. I believe that you were one of the ones who defended the
predominance of non-code talk on IRC as community building. So, is the
listserv for code and IRC for play? (filters, Jonathan, use the
filters!) Note that many of us eschew the IRC channel because it appears
to be a gross
Reminds me of the Zen saying: In the beginner's mind there are many
possibilities. In the expert's mind there are few.
-Original Message-
From: Justin Coyne jus...@curationexperts.com
Sent: Feb 21, 2013 11:59 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] You are a *pedantic*
Hi,
I was advised to repost this as many list members were at the
conference last week.
The W3C Open Annotation Community Group
http://www.w3.org/community/openannotation/ is pleased to announce
three public meetings introducing the Open Annotation Data Model
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On 2/22/13 11:22 AM, Peter Schlumpf wrote:
Reminds me of the Zen saying: In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities.
In the expert's mind there are few.
... with beginner's mind being the zen-preferred place to hang out, right?
While comprehensive specific math skill set might not be necessary in
programming, an understanding of mathematics beyond arithmetic can be
very useful. Relational database theory, for example, maps pretty
neatly to set theory.
Mathematics in general delivers a lot of insight into dealing with
On Feb 22, 2013, at 11:39 AM, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote:
Is a solid math background necessary to program? Of course not. Sooner
or later though, programmers need a solid understanding of logic.
I concur. The reason mathematics is so closely tied to computer programming is
because
On 2/22/13 8:39 AM, Cary Gordon wrote:
While comprehensive specific math skill set might not be necessary in
programming, an understanding of mathematics beyond arithmetic can be
very useful. Relational database theory, for example, maps pretty
neatly to set theory.
In fact, Cary, you can do
ERic, see what I wrote to Cary. Again, math is not the only route to
beautiful solutions. It is not the only rigorous thinking. These
hegemonic arguments are beneath our intelligence. - kc
On 2/22/13 8:53 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
On Feb 22, 2013, at 11:39 AM, Cary Gordon
Sadly Karen, I can't take credit for recommending the publication you
mentioned, but I would like to thank whoever did. It looks really great.
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote:
On 2/21/13 7:48 PM, Emily Morton-Owens wrote:
This was just the right thing
I do not find drawing a line between philosophy and mathematics to be
useful, as they have pretty vast overlap. Plato and Aristotle talked
about math, whether they called it math or not. Whether set theory has
its roots in math or philosophy is irrelevant.
I don't believe that I said that
I can't tell whether you're agreeing with me, or disagreeing with me, or
just riffing off of what I said, but I hope you didn't take what I said to
imply that women think math is hard, or are bad at math, or that I
presently think I'm terrible at math! Actually, through learning
programming, I got
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 6:50 AM, Andreas Orphanides akorp...@ncsu.eduwrote:
Staff numbers remain static, but responsibilities (and gate
counts) keep increasing. As things get busier, we focus on our core
responsibilities and some of the added stuff can fall to the wayside. If
the overhead of
Emily, no, I didn't mean to imply that you thought math was hard,
although that is a myth (remember Barbie Math is hard?) about women.
So I wanted to make the point that math isn't any harder for women than
men, other than the social prescriptions that lead to Barbie-isms.
What does rather
The math you get in an introductory programming class is 4th grade math:
add, subtract, divide, multiply, mod. It isn't the stuff that matters for
big structural problems. And it's not practical. For a few numbers, I can
do it faster with a calculator. For many numbers, I can do it quickly
On 2/22/2013 1:09 PM, Wilhelmina Randtke wrote:
It's a little worrying that there aren't introductory programming platforms
that let someone do something interesting at a simple level
Wilhelmina,
Would you consider something like ROSALIND to be what you are
describing? It focuses a little
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Hi Folks,
This is a great discussion and it continues to be helpful to me on many
different levels.
It started late enough after code4lib that I plunged ahead with my class.
FWIW, Impostor Syndrome (thanks Jason Griffey) was an eye opener, and a
chance for me to offer my own sense of some
Hello,
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On Feb 22, 2013, at 11:20 AM, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote:
I do not find drawing a line
The intercom is a little different because, presumably, that's
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Although, I do think she said she's hearing-impaired, which would imply the
need for a multimodal alert.
-Ross.
On Friday, February 22, 2013, Kyle Banerjee wrote:
I had this problem last year.
I did PDF. There are about no studies on PDF size and usability. What I
did is go to gray scale for text pages to knock down file size, played with
optimizing, and broke super long (think 3K page book) files in smaller
chunks.
It does not make for a pleasant
I have no experience with this in particular but thinking on it I would
think the way to make the size more user friendly would be to make 300 dpi
display jpegs, possibly greyscale if without images, and stitch those
together into a pdf. I imagine that would be decent sized off. Now if you
Wilhelmina Randtke writes
Pretty much the whole entire entry level programming class for the average
class covers using code to do things that you can do much more easily
without code.
Probably it was the wrong course. I think coding should start with
building web pages. A calculator
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