The Knight News Challenge grant also funded DocumentCloud ( open source
newsroom platform for uploading, annotating, sharing documents ), which
actually created Backbone.js and Underscore.js. They have a pretty active
community.
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 6:21 PM, Chad Nelson
Vagrant is not a good idea for production. It's really for people to work
against a copy of the production environment.
Like you can use Vagrant, then update a ansible or puppet or chef script
then deploy that to yr VM.
Hashicorp is making something called Otto which is supposed to replace
Vagrant
Hi,
Yes, what version are you running?
b,chris.
On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 9:18 AM, KNOWLES Claire claire.know...@ed.ac.uk
wrote:
Hi Michael,
Have you posted to the ArchivesSpace Google Group
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/archivesspace? I've found it
really helpful when I've had
Tesseract is going to be slow, and there might not much you can do about
that.
You can do a couple of things, like set up a processes that run on AWS EC2
spot instances, so you can put a standing bid order on AWS instances and
only run your OCR when the price drops.
Or you can buy ABBYY , which
Hi everyone,
The ArchivesSpace project is considering hosting an open house during
code4lib this year in Portland, with the idea of having some meetups and
get-togethers planned.
We are looking at renting a house close to the conference and it's possible
that there's an extra bed for
Oh I definitely agree. Some of my best friends are narcissists, so I get
it.
On Wed, Oct 8, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Riley Childs rchi...@cucawarriors.com
wrote:
I like c4l because there are limited standards... Just sayin'
Riley Childs
Senior
Charlotte United Christian Academy
Library Services
more cowbell
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 9:05 PM, Wilhelmina Randtke rand...@gmail.comwrote:
I prefer full ads also.
-Wilhelmina Randtke
On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 7:53 AM, Dunn, Katie dun...@rpi.edu wrote:
On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 10:06 PM, Joe Hourcle wrote:
It looks to me like it's a
technically inclined.
ArchivesSpace is also a member-supported community. Lists of current
members are posted at http://www.archivesspace.org/members. If you are
interested in becoming a member, please send a request to
archivesspaceh...@lyrasis.org.
Chris Fitzpatrick | Developer
as going over migration and plugins architecture.
All are welcome.
See you this afternoon!
best, chris fitzpatrick
ArchivesSpace Developer
http://archivesspace.org
in the session.
Hope to see you in Raleigh!
best regards, Chris Fitzpatrick
Chris Fitzpatrick | chris.fitzpatr...@lyrasis.org
Developer, ArchivesSpace
http://archivesspace.org/
About ArchivesSpace
Built for archives by archivists, ArchivesSpace is the open source archives
information management
to
archivesspaceh...@lyrasis.org.
Chris Fitzpatrick | chris.fitzpatr...@lyrasis.org
Developer, ArchivesSpace
http://archivesspace.org/
I've used one of the DIY Bookscanners kits. Worked great and I didn't have
to go into the dumpster. They did a good job on the components and
assembly was rather easy.
However, it is all very much a manual process. An operator has to work the
machine to scan all the pages.
In addition, there's a
free to contact me directly.
Thanks and look forward to see you all soon!
best regards,
Chris Fitzpatrick
Developer
ArchivesSpace
http://archivesspace.org
Also, last time few time I was in LA I took the Metro to/from the airport
and it was great.
I think the Green line goes to LAX and the Red Line goes to North Hollywood
and Burbank.
But you would run the danger of running into Ed Begley Jr., so there's
that.
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 12:48 AM,
, please
feel free to contact me directly.
Thanks again and look forward to seeing you all soon.
best,
Chris Fitzpatrick
Developer
ArchivesSpace
Do you need OCR?
This script =
http://bookscanner.pbworks.com/w/page/45609343/Homer%20bash%20script
will OCR a directory of TIFFs (using Tesseract) and build a PDF using
Tesseract.
It's a little old, but I still use it pretty much every day. I think you'll
need to have Ruby 1.9 installed, since
Hi,
I think you can do this all with JS or Coffeescript.
Here's a fiddle :
http://jsfiddle.net/chrisfitzpat/t69Xs/
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Daryl Grenz grenzda...@hotmail.com wrote:
Powell's Books provides an API (http://api.powells.com/stable) and direct
links to their book
Yeah...I think you're running into this:
http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/field-length-normalization-tp495308p495311.html
TL;DR:
Jay Hill says fields with 3 terms and 4 terms both score at .5 in the
lengthNorm.
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Nicolas Franck
Hi,
Would something like this work?
https://github.com/marc4j/marc4j/blob/master/src/org/marc4j/samples/StylesheetChainExample.java
On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Tod Olson t...@uchicago.edu wrote:
code4lib,
I'm looking for some advice on splitting and transforming XML data using
Java.
UNSUBCRIBE
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Joshua Welker wel...@ucmo.edu wrote:
Ah you got me. Shame on me for not checking the link first. I haven't had
to
dodge Rickrolls since 2010 so I am out of practice.
Josh Welker
Information Technology Librarian
James C. Kirkpatrick Library
One thing to factor in is that if you learn ruby you run the risk of
becoming one of those people who constantly talks,tweets,blogs, posts to
this mailing list about how great ruby is. This can have a very negative
impact on your work productivity.
On Monday, July 29, 2013, Dana Pearson wrote:
not really that different.
From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Chris
Fitzpatrick [chrisfitz...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, July 29, 2013 1:39 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Python and Ruby
One thing
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I recommend looking at pdfbeads. It's in ruby and the documentation is
mostly in Russian (
http://rubyforge.org/docman/view.php/9752/10692/pdfbeads.ru.html ), but
it provides both a library and an easy to use executiable to build PDFs
out of hOCR files and images. You literally just point it
Hi,
I recently looked into similar services...
There are some cloud based vendors that do this. Abbyy, for example,
offers one. But the cost seems rather high when working in bulk. I did
the math and it didn't make sense for usI think they market it
towards people building mobile apps,
Hi,
In regards to handwriting, you could always train an OCR library to do
this and there are several OCR libraries that attempt to do this
out-of-the-box (probably most notable is Evernote) ...but yeah, the
results vary greatly depending on the style of writing. Most focus on
just hand
So, yeah, new thread. Sorry (I'm not sorry).
tl;dr = it's not perfect but you'll never get access
control/revision/fulltext searching functionality even if you spend
~1000x more.
About using Google Driveyeah, we're very small ( 115 students!), so
we're very interested in keeping our
hi,
has anyone volunteered for the mapping feature? if not, I'd like to take a
crack at it as I am wanting to get more practical django experience under
my belt. and since this list has gotten me two jobs, I would love to give
some payback. just dont want to duplicate any work someone else has
pendantic and ruby go together about as well as brevity and this
mailing list
class Foo
private
def bar
Calling a private method is foobar
end
end
$ irb
1.9.3p286 :009 Foo.new.bar
NoMethodError: private method `bar' called for #Foo:0x007f9e9184b8b8
1.9.3p286 :010 Foo.new.send(:bar)
Hi,
I am wanting to add epub output to our scanning workflow...just like the
Internet Archive does. However, looking at their code, it appears they are
using Abbyy FineReader for OCR.
We're using Tesseract to make hOCR files, which we combine to with the
images to make PDFs. Has anyone done the
1:19 PM, Chris Fitzpatrick wrote:
Hm. This all has been a long and really interesting conversation...but I
gotta ask if men really outweigh women in the higher paying library jobs
as much as they do in banks and K-12? I guess it depends on the definition
of tech vs. non-tech jobs
Hm. This all has been a long and really interesting conversation...but I
gotta ask if men really outweigh women in the higher paying library jobs
as much as they do in banks and K-12? I guess it depends on the definition
of tech vs. non-tech jobs in the library setting, which I'll leave to
that
maybe i'm just being naive, but i have the feeling if we:
a) strongly stated that we support and encourage diversity and would like
to see that reflected in our presentation lineup
b) allowed people to include some information about themselves in the
proposal that increases voter awareness (
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On Nov 19, 2012, at 4:09 AM, Chris Fitzpatrick wrote:
Hi,
I'm working on designs
I'm also having issues. I'm using WebTV.
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 7:27 PM, Michael B. Klein mbkl...@gmail.com wrote:
Results brought to you by @zalgo.
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Becky Yoose b.yo...@gmail.com wrote:
Not a voting problem per se, but the results page in IE9 [1] in
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre's_law
On Oct 25, 2012 3:49 PM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Oct 25, 2012, at 9:20 AM, Gary McGath develo...@mcgath.com wrote:
Which is exactly the point I was about to make before I read your second
paragraph; the server, not the web page,
If you're just wanting a web server for a single site, having a
physical dedicated server is probably not really needed. But if it's a
requirement to have stuff, i'd look to buy something that I can set up
a small VM setup that I could deploy multiple webservers as needed, in
which case you
This just seems like some sort of trap. The fact that it's a craigslist ad
in all caps makes me pretty sure this person is working on a librarian
centpede in their basement.
On Jul 9, 2012 7:56 PM, Simon Spero sesunc...@gmail.com wrote:
On Jul 9, 2012 1:27 PM, Joshua Gomez jngo...@gwu.edu wrote:
I think it has to be a federal employee because the SCOTUS ruling left
the experimentation on federal employees part of Obamacare stand. I
think that was just a to placate Scalia or something (didn't work).
And they're probably looking for librarians because they'll come in
droves if there's cats
Hey Ravi,
I actually learned about TinkerPop from a posting on this list from
Brian Tingle and I started playing with it and eventually started
working with it for the digital repository we're building. I actually
began with the Sail extension, but scaled back to non-RDF model on
that after
Hi Ravi,
Yeah, if you haven't seen it yet, take a look at the first link
(http://www.w3.org/wiki/LargeTripleStores) in the search results that
Stefano included.
A big question is if you're going to need reasoning capabilities. If
that's the case, you'll probably want to look at the first 3 in
just to mention, I don't think Less works with jruby, so if you use
Bootstrap, you have to use the static assets and can't use the
generators...
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Shaun Ellis sha...@princeton.edu wrote:
I have not used Foundation, but from what I can see, it offers a subset of
Hi,
I've deployed Blacklight on both Heroku and Elastic BeanStalk.
Heroku is still a much better choice. The only issue I had was I
needed to make sure the sass-rails gem in installed in the :production
gem group and not just development.
I still have an issue of getting heroku to compile all
On 3/29/12 12:16 PM, Chris Fitzpatrick chrisfitz...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I've deployed Blacklight on both Heroku and Elastic BeanStalk.
Heroku is still a much better choice. The only issue I had was I
needed to make sure the sass-rails gem in installed in the :production
gem group
Hey Erik,
I used this AMI for solr =
http://www.lucidimagination.com/blog/2010/02/01/solr-shines-through-the-cloud-lucidworks-solr-on-ec2/
Note : You will have to change the schema and solrconfig files on the image...
b,chris.
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 9:44 PM, Erik Mitchell mitch...@gmail.com
) if anyone has insight into this, please
lemme know...I believe having them compile at runtime does slow down
the application...
b,chris.
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:49 PM, Chris Fitzpatrick
chrisfitz...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey Erik,
I used this AMI for solr =
http://www.lucidimagination.com/blog/2010
I figured it was in Paris since that's where all the ninjas seem to be
these days.
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Lisa H Kurt lk...@unr.edu wrote:
Cary,
It looks like this is a telecommuting job- location would be anywhere:
* Working from home (yes, you heard it right, though slackers
Fitch
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Chris Fitzpatrick
chrisfitz...@gmail.com wrote:
Hej hej,
Is anyone is using neo4j in their library projects.
If the answer is ja, I would be very interested in hearing how it's going.
How are you using it?
Is it something that is in production
Hej hej,
Is anyone is using neo4j in their library projects.
If the answer is ja, I would be very interested in hearing how it's going.
How are you using it?
Is it something that is in production and is adding value or is it
more a skunkworks-type effort?
What languages are you using? Are you
I was part of a particularly long siege during the METS offensive back in '08.
It was brutal. We pretty much ran out of everything and were fighting
hand-to-hand before the whole thing was over.
I remember toward the end, while out on requirement gathering patrol, my team
came up on a group of
Thanks everyone for all the recommendations. I know this would be this list to
ask.
Sounds like Ubuntu is the overwhelming favorite. In the past when I've used a
linux in a non-server computer, there are always some annoying problems...
things like the laptop not waking from sleep mode, power
, at 12:54 PM, Chris Fitzpatrick wrote:
Thanks everyone for all the recommendations. I know this would be this list
to ask.
Sounds like Ubuntu is the overwhelming favorite. In the past when I've used
a linux in a non-server computer, there are always some annoying problems...
things
Why do I have the feeling that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's presentation on test
driven development is going to get 99% of the vote?
On Nov 22, 2011, at 12:34 PM, David Uspal wrote:
Of course, literally two seconds after sending my last email, my vote finally
goes through...
-Original
I think that we should start over.
On Nov 16, 2011, at 9:28 AM, Frumkin, Jeremy wrote:
Hi Elizabeth -
The message you sent is confusing - could you clarify what you mean by
there are a multitude of reasons why you will be contacted and be able to
get into code4lib?
-- jaf
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On Nov 16, 2011, at 2:36 PM, Joe Atzberger wrote:
The site you are trying to access does not exist. Please contact the event
organizer to report this problem.
It's days like today I wish I was Amish.
On Oct 13, 2011, at 2:16 PM, Ross Singer wrote:
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Blake, Tom tbl...@bpl.org wrote:
...or, you could take advantage of our extended application deadline and
reconsider one of the two developer positions open at the
On 10/13/11 3:02 PM, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com wrote:
Ross, hold him down, would you, while I cut his beard off?
Roy
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Chris Fitzpatrick cf...@stanford.edu
wrote:
It's days like today I wish I was Amish.
On Oct 13, 2011, at 2:16 PM
Hi Cindy,
I getting deja vu from this...we had a similar problem over a year ago. What
happened to us is that our IST dept (who run a mysql service) made some
changes to their load balancer and pooling configuration on their servers.
You might be running into a similar problem. The solution a
I do think it's pretty funny that the person shrieking about some kind of
corporate conspiracy to intervene into library sovereignty is writing from a
Google Gmail account.
On Sep 28, 2011, at 1:31 PM, Karen Coyle wrote:
That you left out Jeff Young, the only real RealWorldObject at
That's just because we need young virgins to sacrifice in order appease our sun
god, who blesses us with perfect weather.
We used to just hold fake Jonas Brother's concerts on campus, but this method
has just turned out so much easier since developers really don't put up much of
a fight
On a related project, I also just pushed some major code updates to the Orbeon
xforms application we use at Stanford for MODS and TEI editing.
It's at https://github.com/cfitz/orbeon-forms .
It uses the Orbeon Form Runner forms environment, which you can read about
here:
Hey Ken,
When you changed it to Content-Disposition = attachment, did you keep
the content-type still set to text/plain ?
You might try setting content-type to one (or maybe all) of these:
Content-Type = application/octet-stream
Content-Type = application/force-download
Content-Type =
Hey Brian,
This is awesome.
Awhile back I took a stab at doing something kinda similar with jruby
and google app engine. I think I still have a half finished blog post
floating around somewhere on thatfinishing that might be a good
christmas break project.
For other ruby-based
A couple of years ago I missed registration and had to get my
Code4Lib ticket on StubHub.
The only downsides were I had to pay twice face value and tell
everyone my name was Naomi Dushay all week
On Dec 16, 2010, at 8:47 AM, Birkin James Diana wrote:
Kevin wrote:
...we did have
Hi everyone,
I found out this morning not everyone watched WGN on Saturday
afternoon in the 1980s
So here are two links to contextualize tshirt option #1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1jzs6dk4bs
http://thisdistractedglobe.com/2007/04/03/breaking-away-1979/
All great
+1 to the this discussion is really depressing me camp.
On Oct 27, 2010, at 12:53 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
Alexander Johannesen wrote:
Is it to throttle spam or something? 50 seems rather low, and it's
rather depressing to have a lively discussion throttled like that.
Not
Hey,
I've written a few ingest scripts for fedora...too many,
actually...but I posted a more generic version of one I did somewhat
recently in Ruby here ==
http://worldonawire.info/2010/07/ruby-fedora-ingestor/
I tried to clean it up a bit and a little bit of explanation as to
what it's
Dunno if this is a good thing or a bad thing
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/07/16/financial/f132526D44.DTL
best,chris.
I too have written a metadata editor in Orbeon xforms, using their new
Form Runner framework.
I put a semi-up-to-date beta demo version of it here, if anyone is
curious -- https://mdtoolkit-dev.stanford.edu/ops/fr/mods/mlm/
(Feel free to edit/delete records, as this is just a dev instance.
My favorite part is when he ask the software to return a bibliographic
record matching 245 10$aFaust.$nPart one
and the computer literally catches fire.
Artificial intelligence is no match for the MARC format.
On May 4, 2009, at 12:40 PM, Frumkin, Jeremy wrote:
Seems more like a
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