Re: [CODE4LIB] Formalizing Code4Lib?

MOU - is the steering group an incorporated entity? > > On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 3:40 PM, Esmé Cowles <escow...@ticklefish.org> wrote: > >> I remember another option being brought up: picking an official >> organizational home for C4L that would handle being the financial host for &

Re: [CODE4LIB] Formalizing Code4Lib?

I remember another option being brought up: picking an official organizational home for C4L that would handle being the financial host for the conference, and possibly other things (conference carryover, scholarship fundraising, holding intellectual property, etc.). An existing library

Re: [CODE4LIB] Back-of-house software

One of the great things you can customize in JIRA is the workflow, which lets you make the tool work the way you want it to instead of having to live with a pre-set workflow. You can have different workflows for different projects, so the workflow can be tailored for different groups, or

Re: [CODE4LIB] Listserv communication

In fact, there is a C4L slack channel: https://code4lib.slack.com Sign up here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/120Dw1JjLxPJB9VTGl0mUY7Ot6yg6YNY1RZUISJFzdwk/viewform?c=0=1 -Esmé > On Feb 26, 2016, at 10:23 AM, Michael Schofield wrote: > > Not thinking very critically

Re: [CODE4LIB] [code4libcon] Proposed Duty Officer

We live in a world where the are repercussions of calling out people for sexual harassment. Not to put too fine a point on it, we live in a world where people were recently sued for doing just that. So I think it's completely necessary to have an anonymous method of raising concerns, if you

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib NYS Meeting: Aug. 4-5, 2016 at Cornell

Christina- It's really cool to see this shaping up! The timing's great for me because it's right before my mother-in-law's birthday when we usually go up to Ithaca anyway. I could lead a Fedora 4 workshop with Andrew/David, or solo if they can't make it. -Esmé > On Feb 24, 2016, at 9:23

Re: [CODE4LIB] Recommendations for analytics software?

I just wanted to chime in to say that this sounds a lot like "tell me how to track the users who have asked us not to track them?". IMHO, the way to avoid this is to use different kinds of tools for different kinds of analysis. Static log analysis generally doesn't treat users as individuals

Re: [CODE4LIB] Fedora 4 repositories with open API?

And if there aren't any open Fedora 4 repositories forthcoming, you can always use fcrepo4-vagrant to spin up your own pretty easily: https://github.com/fcrepo4-labs/fcrepo4-vagrant -Esme On 07/08/15, at 4:01 PM, Tom Cramer tcra...@stanford.edu wrote: Hi Patrick, To my knowledge, Penn

Re: [CODE4LIB] Modeling a repository's objects in a relational database

We do store our metadata in a relational database (postgresql). But instead of doing relational modeling of any particular schema, we model everything as RDF. So our database is just one big table with columns for subject, prediate, object and namedGraph. We do queries using Jena to

Re: [CODE4LIB] linked data question

Cindy- I think there are several options for how this works, and different applications may take different approaches. The most basic approach would be to just include the URIs in your local system and retrieve them any time you wanted to work with them. But the performance of that would be

Re: [CODE4LIB] linked data question

Yes, I would expect each organization to fetch linked data resources and maintain their own local indexes, and probably also cache the remote resources to make it easier and faster to work with them. I've heard discussions of caching strategies, shared indexing tools, etc., but haven't heard

Re: [CODE4LIB] seeking linked data-based user interface examples in libraries

This is a good point. Our DAMS (http://library.ucsd.edu/dc/) uses RDF, and there are link headers advertising the fact that you can add .rdf to our object and collection pages to get the RDF/XML for them. But there isn't a lot in the UI that would tell you that. -Esme On 02/11/15, at 7:20

Re: [CODE4LIB] examples of displays for compound objects and metadata

for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Esmé Cowles Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 4:14 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] examples of displays for compound objects and metadata Laura- At UCSD, we have complex objects which range from a flat list

Re: [CODE4LIB] examples of displays for compound objects and metadata

Laura- At UCSD, we have complex objects which range from a flat list of files (e.g. page images): http://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb59054559 all the way up to pretty involved hierarchy modeling a filesystem: http://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb9796611k Many of these have a hierarchy with

Re: [CODE4LIB] Update on Code4Lib 2015 registration info

Also not on the committee, but I can help with #3: getting to the conference is very easy by train: there's a train from the airport to downtown Portland, which stops less than 1/4 mile from the hotel, and costs $2.50 each way. -Esme On Dec 1, 2014, at 5:10 PM, Coral Sheldon-Hess

Re: [CODE4LIB] very large image display?

We previously used the Zoomify Flash applet, but now use Leaflet.js with the Zoomify tileset plugin: https://github.com/turban/Leaflet.Zoomify One thing I like about this approach is that it minimizes the amount of Javascript code the clients have to load, since we use Leaflet.js for our maps

[CODE4LIB] Friends of code4lib (was Re: [CODE4LIB] Call for Old Conf Tshirt Logos)

It seems like the main things a 501(c)(6) can do that a 501(c)(3) can't is engage in advertising, lobbying, supporting candidates for office, etc. Other that that, it can engage in the same activities as a 501(c)(3). IMHO, a Friends of code4lib non-profit organization would fall squarely under

Re: [CODE4LIB] Call for Old Conf Tshirt Logos

+1 # this could be a great way to provide some financial stability and continuity. -Esme On 04/11/2014, at 8:30 AM, Francis Kayiwa fkay...@colgate.edu wrote: Signed PGP part On 4/11/2014 7:19 AM, Lisa Rabey wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 11:45 PM, Jon Gorman jonathan.gor...@gmail.com

Re: [CODE4LIB] Shop Link

I wonder, with the 10th conference coming up next year, if there would be any interest in re-issuing some or all of the shirts. A while back I went through and added links to the wiki for all the t-shirt contests and winners I could find. But for the first couple of years, I could find the

Re: [CODE4LIB] Expressing negatives and similar in RDF

create a content as text node with a blank body? How does RDF handle empty strings?! (And I'm sorry to say that the qname for content as text is cnt - I'm going to have to just get over the dis-ease that causes me ) kc On 9/14/13 6:47 AM, Esmé Cowles wrote: That looks like a nice way

Re: [CODE4LIB] Expressing negatives and similar in RDF

AM, Esmé Cowles wrote: Yes, I was thinking you would create a content as text node, and just leave the value blank (or maybe use something like rdf:nil). And the good thing about qnames is that you can use whatever you want. I always use mads: instead of madsrdf: for MADS, and would use

Re: [CODE4LIB] Expressing negatives and similar in RDF

Thomas- This isn't something I've run across yet. But one thing you could do is create some URIs for different kinds of unknown/nonexistent titles: example:book1 dc:title example:unknownTitle example:book2 dc:title example:noTitle etc. You could then describe example:unknownTitle with a label

Re: [CODE4LIB] MODS experts here?

Patrick- There are some things in MODS that are close to addressing this problem, for example you could create a part wrapper around each file, but my reading of the docs says that may not be the intended use of the part element (depending in part on whether the files represent different

Re: [CODE4LIB] Libraries and IT Innovation

On Jul 17, 2013, at 2:01 PM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com wrote: As for cloud computing I am rather unsure of how that can be applied to the libraries. Possibly it can be used as part of the collaborative space? Possibly it can be utilized for file redundancy in digital archives

Re: [CODE4LIB] Job: Project Manager at Digital Public Library of America

The ad also doesn't mention that this is a 2-year fellowship, and requires not just a PhD, but one conferred since 2010. -Esme -- Esme Cowles escow...@ucsd.edu Men feared witches and burnt women. -- Louis Brandeis, Whitney v. California, concurring On 03/6/2013, at 10:48 AM, William Denton

Re: [CODE4LIB] Editing Code4lib Wiki

I had the same problem today -- I changed my email address and sent a new confirmation code and it arrived right away. -Esme -- Esme Cowles escow...@ucsd.edu They extend copyrights perpetually. They don't get how that in itself is a form of theft. -- Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture On

Re: [CODE4LIB] Zoia

I personally regard the IRC channel as a particular flavor of c4l, rather than the primary flavor. For example, this discussion is happening on the mailing list and not in the IRC channel. I'd say IRC is one of the main flavors, but I'm not sure I would call anything primary. I really like

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib 2013 location

On 01/11/2013, at 7:54 PM, Francis Kayiwa kay...@uic.edu wrote: The hotel is a mile or thereabouts from UIC Forum. Here is the problem with us natives planning. It never crossed our minds that walking a mile while on the *upper limit* of our shuttling to and from work is not the norm for

Re: [CODE4LIB] Question abt the code4libwomen idea

I really don't see how setting up a new IRC channel (or tumblr, or any other forum) to encourage and promote the inclusion of women is discriminatory. You keep on using that term, and accusing others of prejudice, but you have shown no proof. -Esme -- Esme Cowles escow...@ucsd.edu They

Re: [CODE4LIB] Gender Survey Summary and Results

I think a coed group would be great. It might be nice to have a separate IRC channel for testing things out where people wouldn't have to worry about bothering people or looking foolish. I think an intro to IRC and quick rundown of all the zoia commands would be a great thing to do in the

Re: [CODE4LIB] Choosing fora. was: Proliferation of Code4Lib Channels

I think this raises some interesting questions about community and appropriate use of the code4lib name. I just took a look at the code4lib reddit and there were comments from a handful of people. If a handful of people want to create some new channel and call it code4lib, is that OK? Who

Re: [CODE4LIB] tech vs. nursing

On 11/29/2012, at 4:43 PM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: Code4Lib didn't used to, when I attended the second code4lib conf, the vast majority of the presentations and presenters were NOT about grant-funded work or digital repository work, and the majority of people I met at

Re: [CODE4LIB] anti-harassment policy for code4lib?

Also, I've seen a number of reports over the last few years of women who were harassed at predominately-male tech conferences. Taken together, they paint a picture of men (particularly drunken men) creating an atmosphere that makes a lot of people feel excluded and worry about being harassed

Re: [CODE4LIB] email to FTP or something?

The traditional Unix tool for this job is procmail[1]. You can configure it to process all incoming mail in an account with a shell script -- decoding the attachment and saving it to a file would be very easy to do, assuming the server is also a FTP or web server. Of course, the script could

Re: [CODE4LIB] Best way to process large XML files

One way to get the best of both worlds (scalability of a streaming parser, but convenience of DOM) is to use DOM4J's ElementHandler interface[1]. You parse the XML file using a SAXReader, and register a class to handle callbacks, based on an XPath expression. I used this approach to break up

Re: [CODE4LIB] Metadata

+1 # everything is data, context makes it meta On Feb 15, 2012, at 10:29 PM, Simon Spero wrote: I have had several theoretical changes of opinion on this question, and have come to the considered opinion that there is no principled *essential* difference between Metadata and Data. It all

Re: [CODE4LIB] image zoom for iPad

For a client-side solution, you can use the Google Maps or OpenLayers libraries with an alternate tileset. Here are a few examples: http://clintlalonde.net/2009/01/09/zoom-and-pan-large-images-with-google-map-interface/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Linux Laptop

Mark- One option which works on any Linux/Unix machine (including OSX) is rsync with the --link-dest option. This does the same thing as Time Machine: it creates backups that hardlink to existing copies of files (if they exist) saving disk space on unchanged files. There are lots of