Re: [CODE4LIB] Structured Data Markup on library web sites

2016-03-31 Thread Brian Kennison
On Mar 31, 2016, at 9:39 AM, Brian Kennison <kennis...@wcsu.edu<mailto:kennis...@wcsu.edu>> wrote: I was perplexed by this also but I realized that there was “content negotiation” going on. I set the header to accept rdf and indeed there is data for this document. Every

Re: [CODE4LIB] Structured Data Markup on library web sites

2016-03-31 Thread Brian Kennison
I’m sorry I should have attached the pdf.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Structured Data Markup on library web sites

2016-03-31 Thread Brian Kennison
On Mar 31, 2016, at 10:24 AM, Kevin Ford > wrote: p.s. Curl command I used: curl -L -H 'Application/rdf+xml' http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2014/2014-02-18.html | grep schema I tried a few variations, such as removing the .html from the end of the

Re: [CODE4LIB] Structured Data Markup on library web sites

2016-03-31 Thread Brian Kennison
On Mar 29, 2016, at 12:46 PM, Kevin Ford > wrote: FWIW, I'm looking at the HTML itself. You may be using a tool that is generating a little but of schema. Is that accurate? Kevin, I was perplexed by this also but I realized that there was

Re: [CODE4LIB] Preserving Digital Objects with Descriptive Metadata

2016-03-23 Thread Brian Kennison
>> >> How do others approach this problem? Are there recognized best practices to >> adhere to? >> I’m still trying to put the CDL model into practice. < https://confluence.ucop.edu/display/Curation/D-flat > And Stanford has similar but different model <

Re: [CODE4LIB] onboarding developers coming from industry

2016-03-02 Thread Brian Kennison
On Mar 1, 2016, at 9:39 PM, Fitchett, Deborah > wrote: I actually feel that the tech side of library things may be less bewildering to a non-tech person than the *culture*. Things like: * the way any progress happens in

Re: [CODE4LIB] Creating/maintaining metadata for intangible concepts

2016-01-08 Thread Brian Kennison
> Has anyone come up with a good way to provide this sort of access? Thanks, Isn't this what topic-maps are for? Topics exist independently of any resources but allow you to link resources to topics (it's kind of like classification in traditional library setting). The problem I'm having is

Re: [CODE4LIB] Creating/maintaining metadata for intangible concepts

2016-01-08 Thread Brian Kennison
>I don't know what system these collections are in, but isn't this what >tagging is for? The idea has died out in libraries, but this seems like a >perfect use case for a folksonomy. :-) Tagging is a good idea and I think it would help. Topic maps are a little more than just tags though. A

Re: [CODE4LIB] Job: Digital Humanities Developer at Yale University

2015-03-09 Thread Brian Kennison
b On Mar 9, 2015, at 12:05 PM, j...@code4lib.org wrote: Digital Humanities Developer Yale University New Haven This position designs and builds rich-client, web-based applications to support Digital Humanities projects on Yale's campus. Using dynamic scripting languages such as Python

Re: [CODE4LIB] Easy Borrow or another way to automate search/request across multiple catalogs?

2014-12-15 Thread Brian Kennison
On Dec 15, 2014, at 2:02 PM, Darylyne Provost dprov...@colby.edumailto:dprov...@colby.edu wrote: I'm sure many other libraries have similar issues: our patrons have so many disparate catalogs to search/request it is confusing and cumbersome. I'm not a programmer, and we don't have one on staff

Re: [CODE4LIB] MARC reporting engine

2014-11-03 Thread Brian Kennison
On Nov 2, 2014, at 9:29 PM, Stuart Yeates stuart.yea...@vuw.ac.nzmailto:stuart.yea...@vuw.ac.nz wrote: Do any of these have built-in indexing? 800k records isn't going to fit in memory and if building my own MARC indexer is 'relatively straightforward' then you're a better coder than I am.

Re: [CODE4LIB] jobs digest for 2014-05-16

2014-05-21 Thread Brian Kennison
On May 21, 2014, at 9:43 AM, Edward M. Corrado ecorr...@ecorrado.usmailto:ecorr...@ecorrado.us wrote: I am a fan of the full ads as well. +1

Re: [CODE4LIB] looking for an application to handle a large amount of redirects

2012-09-05 Thread Brian Kennison
already sorted out how to handle redirects, I'd love to hear from you. Thanks! What about NOID from the CDL, it can also act as a resolver. https://wiki.ucop.edu/display/Curation/NOID -- Brian Kennison Haas Library Western Connecticut State University

Re: [CODE4LIB] WebOPAC/III Z39.50 PHP Query/PHPYAZ

2012-05-10 Thread Brian Kennison
) marc tag is the 852/hij. You might have to see what field you system indexes (050). I haven't tried it with YAZ but it should work. -- Brian Kennison Haas Library Western Connecticut State University

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q.: MARC8 vs. MARC/Unicode and pymarc and misencoded III records

2012-03-09 Thread Brian Kennison
= codecs.open(dc.csv, mode=w, encoding=utf-8) This opens a file that is utf-8 aware and it let me write the file. Doesn't answer your question about the encoding but it will let you save the record. -- Brian Kennison Western Connecticut State University

Re: [CODE4LIB] OCR Solutions

2011-11-07 Thread Brian Kennison
On Nov 4, 2011, at 11:37 AM, Michael Della Bitta wrote: Tesseract and ABYY Recognition Server, I just used tesseract to ocr 450 tiffs and it did a pretty good job. We had a student compare the scans to those done by Abbey reader and while they differed some the results were very comparable.

Re: [CODE4LIB] OExchange4Lib

2010-06-03 Thread Brian Kennison
On 6/3/10 8:54 AM, Eric Hellman e...@hellman.net wrote: What do people think of OExchange? Not only OExchange but what do you think about XRD (extensible resource description). I've looked at it some and it seem pretty understandable. --- Brian Kennison Systems Haas Library Western Connecticut

Re: [CODE4LIB] A newbie question

2010-04-15 Thread Brian Kennison
1) totally unrelated, apples and grommets 2) DC started up first; FRBR was issued in 1998, but didn't get much attention for the first 10 years of its life. DC was getting increasing use during that time. 3) DC takes a 'start simple' approach whereas FRBR attempts to encompass every

Re: [CODE4LIB] Running a repository on Debian Stable

2010-04-08 Thread Brian Kennison
On 4/8/10 11:14 AM, Mike Taylor m...@indexdata.com wrote: I want to run a simple repository on a Debian Stable box -- something that lets me and other authorized people upload PDFs and create and edit metadata describing them, and that lets anyone search the archive and download the PDFs. In