Re: [CODE4LIB] Please stop the Welcome to Roy4Lib

2014-02-25 Thread Edward Summers
On Feb 25, 2014, at 10:25 AM, Repke de Vries re...@xs4all.nl wrote: With all due respect: CODE4LIB is a list with international following and this Welcome thread gets pretty annoying to those outside the CODE4LIB US Inner Circle. FWIW, it’s annoying to at least one person inside the US.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Python CMSs

2014-02-14 Thread Edward Summers
Can I just say, how nice it is to read this thread and not see Microsoft SharePoint mentioned? Have a great weekend, //Ed On Feb 14, 2014, at 3:14 PM, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote: Random comments and crackpot remarks. --- I like to think of myself as a programer and

Re: [CODE4LIB] links from finding aid to digital object

2014-01-15 Thread Edward Summers
Thanks for all the responses about linking finding aids to digital objects yesterday — it was very helpful! I haven’t done much work (yet) looking to see what the patterns are. But a few people contacted me asking me to provide the results. so I have pulled out the examples into a document

Re: [CODE4LIB] Question about OAI Harvesting via Perl

2014-01-15 Thread Edward Summers
On Jan 15, 2014, at 2:18 PM, Kyle Banerjee kyle.baner...@gmail.com wrote: Plenty of good advice in this thread but don't be afraid to write a harvester yourself that meets your needs. It's good to avoid reinventing the wheel, but OAI-PMH is a really easy protocol to work with -- it's the same

[CODE4LIB] links from finding aid to digital object

2014-01-14 Thread Edward Summers
Hi all, I was wondering if anyone can point me at example(s) of finding aids (either EAD XML or HTML) that are linked to digital object of some kind. For example a container list that links to a digital image that is available on the Web. I’m doing a bit of an informal survey so if you see

Re: [CODE4LIB] Question about OAI Harvesting via Perl

2014-01-14 Thread Edward Summers
Just out of curiosity, does it work for a little bit then stop working? I know arXiv throttle crawlers, and am not sure if they throttle oai-pmh clients. Simeon Warner who helps run arXiv has been know to post code4lib, so maybe this will cross his radar. In the meantime, could you share your

Re: [CODE4LIB] Automated Embedded Metadata Extraction in Photographs: Possible or Pipedream?

2013-12-17 Thread Edward Summers
I remember hearing somewhere that ExifTool is pretty good for extracting image metadata. edsu--

Re: [CODE4LIB] Mapping LCSH to DDC

2013-12-10 Thread Edward Summers
Not a naive idea at all. If you have the stomach for it, you could extract the Subject Heading / Dewey combinations out of say the LC Catalog MARC data [1] to use as training data for some kind of clustering [2] algorithm. You might even be able to do something simple like keep a count of the

Re: [CODE4LIB] Mapping LCSH to DDC

2013-12-10 Thread Edward Summers
be interesting to compare that with the results using all 600-651's. kc On 12/10/13, 1:18 PM, Edward Summers wrote: Not a naive idea at all. If you have the stomach for it, you could extract the Subject Heading / Dewey combinations out of say the LC Catalog MARC data [1] to use as training data

Re: [CODE4LIB] Mapping LCSH to DDC

2013-12-10 Thread Edward Summers
up someone at a major Dewey library like UIUC or Northwestern to see if they might be willing to provide data to add to what you get from LC. kyle On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Edward Summers e...@pobox.com wrote: Not a naive idea at all. If you have the stomach for it, you could

Re: [CODE4LIB] The lie of the API

2013-12-02 Thread Edward Summers
Amazon Web Services (which is probably the most heavily used API on the Web) use HTTP headers for authentication. But I guess developers typically use software libraries to access AWS rather than making the HTTP calls directly. //Ed

Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for two coders to help with discoverability of videos

2013-11-12 Thread Edward Summers
Hi Kelley, Thanks for posting this. When I began work on jobs.code4lib.org I was hoping it would encourage people to post short term contracts. The thought being that it may be easier for some institutions to find money for projects than full-time staff, and it could encourage more open

Re: [CODE4LIB] We should use HTTPS on code4lib.org

2013-11-10 Thread Edward Summers
On Nov 10, 2013, at 5:45 AM, Mitar mmi...@gmail.com wrote: It is not just about the security of the users but privacy of the users as well. Internet Archive moved to HTTPS so that nobody could monitor what their users are accessing. Yes, this is an extremely important point. It’s also why

Re: [CODE4LIB] mass convert jpeg to pdf

2013-11-10 Thread Edward Summers
Annotorious [1] is a neat little JavaScript library for adding annotations to an image, and displaying them later. I might be wrong, but it doesn’t appear to support zoomable images at the moment. I do see there was some cross-project activity with OpenSeaDragon [2] so maybe asking over there

Re: [CODE4LIB] mass convert jpeg to pdf

2013-11-08 Thread Edward Summers
It is sad to me that converting to PDF for viewing off the Web seems like the answer. Isn’t there a tiling viewer (like Leaflet) that could be used to render jpeg derivatives of the original tif files in Omeka? For an example of using Leaflet (usually used for working with maps) in this way

Re: [CODE4LIB] Loris

2013-11-08 Thread Edward Summers
On Nov 8, 2013, at 3:05 PM, Jon Stroop jstr...@princeton.edu wrote: And here's a sample of the server backing OpenSeadragon[2]: http://goo.gl/Gks6lR Thanks for sharing that Jon. Did you have to do much to get OpenSeadragon to talk iiif? //Ed

Re: [CODE4LIB] mass convert jpeg to pdf

2013-11-08 Thread Edward Summers
I’m having trouble understanding who the user of this content you are putting into Omeka is, and what you are expecting them to do with it. But, ok … //Ed On Nov 8, 2013, at 4:22 PM, Kyle Banerjee kyle.baner...@gmail.com wrote: It is sad to me that converting to PDF for viewing off the Web

Re: [CODE4LIB] Using OpenID in libraries

2007-03-23 Thread Edward Summers
On Mar 23, 2007, at 1:21 AM, Alexander Johannesen wrote: I suspect most of our patrons are in the latter category, but hey, we're going to implement OpenID cross-system soon so at least we're trying. :) I think experimentation and research are needed in the application of openid in

[CODE4LIB] planet.code4lib.org

2007-03-15 Thread Edward Summers
If you consider yourself part of the code4lib.org community and have a blog that isn't on http://planet.code4lib.org please let me know... //Ed

Re: [CODE4LIB] Planet code4lib

2007-03-06 Thread Edward Summers
One more thing to mention (that didn't come up in Athens) is that we recently installed subversion and trac at code4lib [1]to serve as a place for folks to drop code and/or documentation as needed. If you have a project that needs revision control or some wiki space please drop into #code4lib or

Re: [CODE4LIB] Re: [CODE4LIB] Videos of presentations?

2007-02-25 Thread Edward Summers
On Feb 25, 2007, at 4:45 PM, Jeremy Frumkin wrote: Just curious – any reason not to just upload the video to Youtube? (I’m not saying this needs to be the only distribution method, but it’s easy for both the producer and viewers of the content, and it’s basically free). Youtube would be good.

Re: [CODE4LIB] 2007 Conference Attendee List--Dumb question

2007-02-23 Thread Edward Summers
The grim reality is we have three distinct systems at the moment: drupal, pwyky, trac and svn...each with their own authentication scheme...well trac and svn happen to share the same one. It would be nice to move to a scenario where there was an openid layer that made this complexity go away.

Re: [CODE4LIB] 2007 Conference Attendee List--Dumb question

2007-02-23 Thread Edward Summers
On Feb 23, 2007, at 4:24 PM, David J. Fiander wrote: 3 = 4, for sufficiently large values of 3 More like 3 = 4 for people that can't compose and email and count at the same time :-) //Ed

Re: [CODE4LIB] svn update of frozen gems in rails app

2007-02-21 Thread Edward Summers
On Feb 21, 2007, at 2:21 PM, Daniel Chudnov wrote: I haven't figured out, though, how to most cleanly update frozen gems w/r/to the version control repository (svn, in our case). What's the best way to update the gems if, say, you want to go from a set of frozen gems from rails-1.1.6 to a new

Re: [CODE4LIB] auto-anthologizing

2007-02-15 Thread Edward Summers
On Feb 15, 2007, at 7:44 AM, Daniel Chudnov wrote: What's the proper form: is it copasetic to add your own stuff? How about replacing something you don't want on the list off with another? Is there a limit to the number of nominations per author/ blog? I think it should be OK to add your

Re: [CODE4LIB] auto-anthologizing

2007-02-15 Thread Edward Summers
On Feb 15, 2007, at 11:55 AM, Binkley, Peter wrote: So I don't see any problem with nominating your own stuff (as I did, indirectly), but I'd rather not see nominations removed - you may not be the best judge of your own stuff, after all. +1 I updated

Re: [CODE4LIB] roll-your-own search analytics?

2007-02-05 Thread Edward Summers
On Feb 4, 2007, at 9:40 AM, Tito Sierra wrote: If there is not enough interest in a Breakout Session I would be happy to do a Lightning Talk on a Best Bets implementation I did that makes use of search log analysis, pre and post implementation. Nice! Can you add it to the nascent list of

Re: [CODE4LIB] RE: [CODE4LIB] Polls open for Code4Lib 2007 T-Shirt design

2007-01-26 Thread Edward Summers
On Jan 26, 2007, at 9:31 AM, Jonathan Gorman wrote: Someone can read through the logs if they want to find out what the exact suggestion was. http://www.code4lib.org/irc-logs/index.php? date=2007-01-24#930b48ba-329f-4269-a1e3-406fb9cae405 berick's response would go nicely on the back I

Re: [CODE4LIB] Polls open for Code4Lib 2007 T-Shirt design

2007-01-26 Thread Edward Summers
On Jan 26, 2007, at 11:25 AM, Emily Lynema wrote: Even though I didn't vote for this design, I would vote for the shorter wording. But I will point out that it seems slightly less than democratic to have folks choose a design, and then re-do that design w/o putting it up for another vote on

Re: [CODE4LIB] Polls open for Code4Lib 2007 T-Shirt design

2007-01-25 Thread Edward Summers
On Jan 25, 2007, at 4:04 PM, Joan Starr wrote: Why didn't the invitation to vote go out to the Code4Lib listserv? I only found out about it because of Peter's email below. http://www.mail-archive.com/code4lib%40listserv.nd.edu/msg01085.html //Ed

Re: [CODE4LIB] Information Technology Specialist in Office for Strategic Initiatives at the Library of Congress

2007-01-23 Thread Edward Summers
On Jan 23, 2007, at 11:34 AM, Binkley, Peter wrote: Those are impressive salaries! What's the cost of living like in Washington? For a recent transplant from Nowheresville, Illinois the real estate seems wildly overpriced. I've heard this explained to be the result of lots of people moving

Re: [CODE4LIB] Information Technology Specialist in Office for Strategic Initiatives at the Library of Congress

2007-01-23 Thread Edward Summers
On Jan 23, 2007, at 12:44 PM, Joe Atzberger wrote: So by law it is limited... but we can hire you anyway? That wording sure is awkward eh? If you are genuinely interested there are some more details here: http://www.loc.gov/hr/employment/index.php?

[CODE4LIB] Information Technology Specialist in Office for Strategic Initiatives at the Library of Congress

2007-01-22 Thread Edward Summers
I forgot to mention that there is also a 5 year position in the Office for Strategic Initiatives as well [1]. Similar pay range ($93,822.00 - $121,967.00), similar title (Information Technology Specialist)...but a slightly different (more interesting imho) job description. I'm led to believe that

[CODE4LIB] Information Technology Specialists at Library of Congress

2007-01-22 Thread Edward Summers
There are 2 permanent software development positions open at the Library of Congress in DC [1]. You'd need to apply before 02/02/2007. The salary range is 93,822.00 - 121,967.00. The job description emphasizes Java--but I'm led to believe that while knowledge of Java is important, the work won't

Re: [CODE4LIB] NCIP API?

2007-01-08 Thread Edward Summers
On Jan 8, 2007, at 8:45 AM, David J. Fiander wrote: I'm the person that wrote the Evergreen SIP2 code, and will probably be the person writing NCIP code in the future. NCIP is a very large, very complicated standard, so even once work starts on NCIP, it's going to take a while to complete.

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib london

2007-01-05 Thread Edward Summers
On Jan 4, 2007, at 3:19 PM, Binkley, Peter wrote: Wasn't there also some discussion at one point about holding it in Venice? yeah, that was tafazzi in #code4lib ... //Ed

Re: [CODE4LIB] list of OCLC symbols

2007-01-05 Thread Edward Summers
On Jan 5, 2007, at 4:08 PM, John Furfey wrote: Does anyone know if OCLC, or someone else, maintains a list of the OCLC library symbols as a text file? It's not a text file but there is a web form where you can look up the symbols: http://www.oclc.org/contacts/libraries/default.htm The

[CODE4LIB] code4lib london

2007-01-04 Thread Edward Summers
This is a long shot, but back when we were planning code4lib2006 someone offered up a venue in London, England for the conference. I think it was either University of London, but I could be mistaken. Does anyone recall who this was? //Ed

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib lucene pre-conference

2006-11-27 Thread Edward Summers
On Nov 27, 2006, at 2:37 PM, Bess Sadler wrote: Comments? Suggestions? Sounds great! If you get a chance add a story to http://code4lib.org when things get solidified. //Ed

Re: [CODE4LIB] java application on a cd

2006-10-13 Thread Edward Summers
On Oct 13, 2006, at 4:06 PM, Casey Durfee wrote: Jetty's [1] tiny and a breeze to embed. [1] http://jetty.mortbay.org/ jetty++ //Ed

Re: [CODE4LIB] LC MARC records?

2006-09-05 Thread Edward Summers
On Sep 4, 2006, at 7:30 PM, Tim Spalding wrote: I gather that, although the LC sells the CDs, there are no copyright or redistribution restrictions—indeed, that companies often resell them, with minimal value adds. I also gather that libraries generally don't get these CDs, but rely on OCLC

[CODE4LIB] book club

2006-08-15 Thread Edward Summers
So a bunch of us in #code4lib are thinking of starting up a book club to read tech books together, learn from each other in the process, and hopefully use a bit of peer pressure to propel ourselves into actually finishing a book. The first book we're propsing to read is Practical Common Lisp [1]

Re: [CODE4LIB] [code4libcon] code4libcon 2007 planning

2006-06-10 Thread Edward Summers
On Jun 9, 2006, at 3:08 PM, LaJeunesse, Brad wrote: We've started looking at facilities around here for code4libcon 2007. Some of the qualifications I used in the search: * space for 150 attendees * 1 large auditorium for all attendees * 3 medium-sized meeting rooms (can hold 20 people, for

Re: [CODE4LIB] compact display for marc-xml

2006-05-01 Thread Edward Summers
On Mar 27, 2006, at 11:20 AM, Hickey,Thom wrote: I've attached a compressed tar file of compact.xsl, compact.css and mudlumps.xml, a test record. After you've extracted the files to a directory you should be able to view mudlumps.xml with a browser and see the results. A belated thank you for

Re: [CODE4LIB] analysis of referrer data

2006-03-30 Thread Edward Summers
On Mar 30, 2006, at 7:12 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: How would you go about doing this sort of analysis? All I have to start with is my Apache combined access_log files? I'm not sure about the 'morality' issue, but It might be interesting to see whether the links are distributed according to

Re: [CODE4LIB] compact display for marc-xml

2006-03-27 Thread Edward Summers
On Mar 27, 2006, at 8:04 AM, Hickey,Thom wrote: No, I don't think I ever did. I'll clean it up and make it available. Awesome, thanks Thom! //Ed

[CODE4LIB] compact display for marc-xml

2006-03-26 Thread Edward Summers
A while back Thom posted [1] some xslt/css for displaying marc-xml nicely. Does anyone remember if the xslt/css is available somewhere? //Ed [1] http://dewey.library.nd.edu/mailing-lists/code4lib/mail/archive/ 200502/0325.html

Re: [CODE4LIB] really rudimentary catalog

2006-03-19 Thread Edward Summers
On Mar 19, 2006, at 3:33 PM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: The hack was easy, just a few lines of code. I guess another enhancement would be access via a Web Services interface. I hacked links to Amazon.com in there too, but I took them out. Too much. Neat. While you're in there you might want to

Re: [CODE4LIB] sru archives

2006-03-18 Thread Edward Summers
On Mar 18, 2006, at 5:57 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: The searchable interface at the following URL is really a rudimentary (read, not quite standards compliant) SRU client: http://dewey.library.nd.edu/mailing-lists/code4lib/mail/archive/ Put another way, the SRU root is:

Re: [CODE4LIB] archives search

2006-03-17 Thread Edward Summers
On Mar 15, 2006, at 9:34 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: Both archives are searchable as well as browsable. Lot's of copies keep stuff safe. Eric, I seem to remember you slapped a SRU interface over the archives? Is this still available? //Ed

Re: [CODE4LIB] archives search

2006-03-12 Thread Edward Summers
On Mar 12, 2006, at 2:04 PM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: Done? See: http://dewey.library.nd.edu/mailing-lists/code4lib/ Thanks Eric! //Ed

[CODE4LIB] archives search

2006-03-10 Thread Edward Summers
Would it be possible to get the code4lib discussion list starting to archive under the 2006 directory? Also it would be nice to link to http://www.mail-archive.com/ code4lib@listserv.nd.edu/ on the http://dewey.library.nd.edu/mailing- lists/code4lib/ page indicating that the archives can be

Re: [CODE4LIB] VS: SV: Re: [CODE4LIB] tagging

2006-03-09 Thread Edward Summers
On Mar 9, 2006, at 10:44 AM, Magnus Enger wrote: But rather than despairing over what we can't do with this content, maybe we could come up with some creative uses for the increasing amounts of Open Access materials available in OA journals and repositories? I like the sound of that. Do you

Re: [CODE4LIB] At an end : when you rub against your managers

2006-03-08 Thread Edward Summers
On Mar 8, 2006, at 9:16 PM, Kevin S. Clarke wrote: That's my opinion anyway... not sure this has anything to do with code. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ whois opinions4lib.org NOT FOUND :-) //Ed

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Code Sharing - (Re: [CODE4LIB] journal)

2006-02-23 Thread Edward Summers
On 2/22/06, Andrew Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry if this was already stated. This sounds like the textualize site which has what appears to be drupal and then trac/svn. I think something could be done with just the trac/svn as it has wiki, bugtracking and source control. The scope of the