[CODE4LIB] Library of Congress

2013-10-01 Thread Riley Childs
As far as I can tell the LOC is up and the offices are closed. HORRAY!! Let's celebrate! Riley Childs Junior and Library Tech Manager Charlotte United Christian Academy +1 (704) 497-2086 Sent from my iPhone Please excuse mistakes

Re: [CODE4LIB] solr computation field norm problem

2013-10-01 Thread Nicolas Franck
Thanks, but the sweet spot in our metadata cannot be derived from its length. I'm rather searching for a similarity class that uses more than one byte to encode its field norm. I keep on digging ;-) From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On

Re: [CODE4LIB] Library of Congress

2013-10-01 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! As far as I can tell the LOC is up and the offices are closed. HORRAY!! Let's celebrate!     Yeah, I guess the website folks haven't yet got the memo. http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2013/13-A06.html     I suppose someone that's bored on this list might generate a who's up and

Re: [CODE4LIB] Library of Congress

2013-10-01 Thread Kimberly Silk
Even a list of what's up and down would be helpful, if anyone is inclined. Sent from Kim's iPhone On Oct 1, 2013, at 7:19 AM, BWS Johnson abesottedphoe...@yahoo.com wrote: Salvete! As far as I can tell the LOC is up and the offices are closed. HORRAY!! Let's celebrate!

Re: [CODE4LIB] Library of Congress

2013-10-01 Thread Doran, Michael D
As far as I can tell the LOC is up and the offices are closed. HORRAY!! Let's celebrate! Before we start celebrating, let's consider our friends and colleagues at the LOC (some of who are code4lib people) who aren't able to work and aren't getting paid starting today. -- Michael #

[CODE4LIB] Register: Islandora Camp in NYC November 18 - 20

2013-10-01 Thread Islandora
Islandora is pleased to announce our first Eastern US Islandora Camp, taking place November 18 - 20th at the Columbia University Library in New York City. Registration and details here: *http://islandora.ca/camps/ny2013* Islandora is an open-source software framework designed to help institutions

Re: [CODE4LIB] Library of Congress

2013-10-01 Thread John Palmer
Furloughs don't officially start until noon local time Tuesday, so they may be in the process of receiving instructions for shutdown. On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 6:21 AM, Doran, Michael D do...@uta.edu wrote: As far as I can tell the LOC is up and the offices are closed. HORRAY!! Let's

Re: [CODE4LIB] Library of Congress

2013-10-01 Thread Nick Ruest
Welp. XSDs are redirecting. See[1]. -nruest [1] http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-4.xsd On 13-10-01 09:36 AM, John Palmer wrote: Furloughs don't officially start until noon local time Tuesday, so they may be in the process of receiving instructions for shutdown. On Tue, Oct 1,

[CODE4LIB] Job: Associate University Librarian, Digital Scholarship and Strategy at University of Victoria

2013-10-01 Thread jobs
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[CODE4LIB] Job: Librarian at NPR

2013-10-01 Thread jobs
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[CODE4LIB] Job: Public Service Librarian at Western Connecticut State University

2013-10-01 Thread jobs
WCSU is pleased to announce that applications are currently being accepted for a full-time, tenure-track position in the Ruth A. Haas Library. Responsibilities include providing bibliographic instruction and assistance with collection development, and other service to several academic departments

[CODE4LIB] Please use HTTP 503 (was: Library of Congress)

2013-10-01 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Oct 1, 2013, at 9:52 AM, Nick Ruest wrote: Welp. XSDs are redirecting. See[1]. -nruest [1] http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-4.xsd (*@#!@#% I tried telling people around here to use HTTP 503 ... but GSA sent out advice to use 302s ... If there are any people who are still

Re: [CODE4LIB] Please use HTTP 503 (was: Library of Congress)

2013-10-01 Thread Peter Murray
On Oct 1, 2013, at 10:14 AM, Joe Hourcle onei...@grace.nascom.nasa.gov wrote: I tried telling people around here to use HTTP 503 ... but GSA sent out advice to use 302s ... Out of curiosity, is that advice posted openly anywhere where it could be publicly ridiculed? My sympathies to

Re: [CODE4LIB] Library of Congress

2013-10-01 Thread Owen Stephens
+1 Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 1 Oct 2013, at 14:21, Doran, Michael D do...@uta.edu wrote: As far as I can tell the LOC is up and the offices are closed. HORRAY!! Let's celebrate! Before we

[CODE4LIB] Job: Ruby Developer at Integrated Mgmt

2013-10-01 Thread jobs
My client is Global company that has started a new team to provide key financial risk data on an intranet setup. Data will be collected from a variety of data sources, analyzed and presented (with Rails) in a meaningful way. The manager is big on open-source technology and Ruby is his choice.

[CODE4LIB] Call for Proposals NASIG 2014 - with submission link

2013-10-01 Thread publicist
***Apologies for reposting.Please note the link to submit proposals was omitted from the first message.*** The 2014 NASIG Program Planning Committee invites proposals for conference sessions. Publishers, vendors, librarians, and others in the fields of electronic resources, serials, and

[CODE4LIB] Ruby on Windows

2013-10-01 Thread Joshua Welker
I am attempting to write my first small Ruby app, but I am running into major problems just getting off the ground developing in Windows. I downloaded the most recent Ruby 2.0 package from RubyInstaller. Then I installed DevKit so I could use gems. After some fiddling, I was finally able to

Re: [CODE4LIB] Ruby on Windows

2013-10-01 Thread Jeremy M Prevost
I don't think anyone really develops, or deploys Ruby on Windows so nobody probably tests any Gems on Windows. Hopefully someone here is an exception and can help you. You could run a local headless Linux VM and SSH into it... On Oct 1, 2013, at 2:49 PM, Joshua Welker wel...@ucmo.edu wrote:

Re: [CODE4LIB] Ruby on Windows

2013-10-01 Thread John Fink
My *guess* is (and more sophisticated Rubyists can chime in and tell me I'm wrong) is that the gems that are failing on your Windows install are the gems that have Unix-ish dependencies -- e.g., the Blather gem wants to compile something in C and is looking for gcc or make or something you don't

Re: [CODE4LIB] Ruby on Windows

2013-10-01 Thread Michael J. Giarlo
Our Windows-based devs all do their Ruby work on Ubuntu and Fedora VMs, FWIW. -Mike On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Justin Coyne jus...@curationexperts.comwrote: If you see something about C-extensions, it's because the library is not written in pure Ruby, it is a wrapper around a library

Re: [CODE4LIB] Ruby on Windows

2013-10-01 Thread Ross Singer
It's probably also possible to get these working within Cygwin. Assuming the libraries you need to compile against are available in Cygwin, of course. -Ross. On Oct 1, 2013, at 4:28 PM, Michael J. Giarlo leftw...@alumni.rutgers.edu wrote: Our Windows-based devs all do their Ruby work on

Re: [CODE4LIB] Ruby on Windows

2013-10-01 Thread David Mayo
DevKit is a MingW/MSYS wrapper for Windows Ruby development. It might not be finding it, but he does have a C dev environment. I know you cut them out earlier, but would you mind sending some of the C Header Blather our way? It's probably got some clues as to what's going on. Also - which

Re: [CODE4LIB] Ruby on Windows

2013-10-01 Thread Joshua Welker
I'm using Windows 7 x64 SP1. I am using the most recent RubyInstaller (2.0.0-p247 x64) and DevKit (DevKit-mingw64-64-4.7.2-2013022-1432-sfx). That's disappointing to hear that most folks use Ruby exclusively in *nix environments. That really limits its utility for me. I am trying Ruby because

[CODE4LIB] Job: Software Developer I at ProQuest/Serials Solutions

2013-10-01 Thread jobs
Are you a Java Developer who craves the opportunity to write code that drives our products and enables things to get done? Do you enjoy interacting collaboratively with Software Development, QA and Project Management teams to create software products that truly matter? Then we want you to

Re: [CODE4LIB] Ruby on Windows

2013-10-01 Thread Ross Singer
If you absolutely must have a Windows development environment, you may want to consider a JVM-based scripting language, like Groovy or JRuby. All the cross-platform advantages, none of the woe. Or, not as much, at least (there's always a modicum of woe with anything you decide on). -Ross. On

Re: [CODE4LIB] Ruby on Windows

2013-10-01 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
So, when my desktop workstation was Windows, i developed ruby by actually running it on a seperate box which was a linux box. I'd just ssh in for a command line, and I used ExpanDrive[1] to mount the linux box's file system as a G:// drive on Windows, so I could still edit files there with the

[CODE4LIB] Job: Custom Solutions Manager at Innovative Interfaces

2013-10-01 Thread jobs
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[CODE4LIB] Job: Librarian at National Archives and Records Administration

2013-10-01 Thread jobs
As a Librarian in Research Services, Preservation Programs in College Park, MD you will have responsibility for cataloging a collection of historic and modern Hebraic and English library and archival materials, reviewing digitization priorities, tracking and maintaining collection database and