William == William Denton w...@pobox.com writes:
William Are any of you using R? http://www.r-project.org/
I use R for a number of things, including the multidimensional
scaling (512--2) I do here:
http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2009/07/project-torngat-building-large-scale.html
It is fast,
I should hope that Google is smart enough to look at the http Via
header[1] and allowing bigger caps for proxying HTTP requests.
On the other hand:
1) Google decides to have differential caps for proxying requests
2) People figure out that they could grab more pretending to be a
proxy by
It may/should help protect the user's privacy from the server end (from
Google), not the client end.
In the original question there is an underlying (perhaps true ;-) )
assumption that librarians are more trustworthy than Google.
-glen :-)
Nate == Nate Vack njv...@wisc.edu writes:
I thought this community would find this interesting: using large
scale journal full-text to create a visualization of the journal
space (like 'Maps of Science' thingies). 5.7M full-text STM articles
from 2200+ journals.
We're pretty excited about this, but I won't rant on about it any
more
I also think this is a good idea. I'd like to comment on the straw
man:
* Regarding who is eligible, I suggest it be
individuals, teams, or corporate entities.
Awardees must be willing to serve on the
next year's nominating committee.
Awardees should be changed to nominees: If
Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
It might be a good idea, but maybe not with the Code4Lib name. But I worry
in general we don?t collectively know enough about what makes good software
to give a Software of the Year honor reliably.
Karen Schneider wrote:
On the one hand, I agree. On the other hand, just
I am proud to announce LuSql:
LuSql is a simple but powerful tool for building Lucene indexes from
relational databases. It is a command-line Java application for the
construction of a Lucene index from an arbitrary SQL query of a
JDBC-accessible SQL database. It allows a user to control a
While not a personal experience, I think that the NY Times effort to
convert 4TB of TIFFS to 11 million PDFs using Hadoop + EC2 + S3 might
be of interest:
http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2008/02/hadoop-ec2-s3-super-alternatives-for.html
Glen
Hi Folks,
Anybody doing mass storage for their
This is something I did a little while ago, but thought some on this
list might find it interesting:
http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2007/10/tag-cloud-inspired-html-select-lists.html
Glen
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NRC W3C Advisory Committee
This may be tangential to this list...
I've just posted list of major digital library conference proceedings:
http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2008/07/list-of-digital-library-conference.html
If there are any that are missing, please let me know I will add
them.
Thanks,
Glen
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Glen Newton |
I touch on the text mining etc. needs of researchers in two recent blog entries:
- FREE THE ARTICLES! (Full-text for researchers scientists and their
machines)
http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2008/04/free-articles-full-text-for-researchers.html
- New Open Access Criterion: Support access by
The signal-to-noise ration is dropping on this list. Perhaps this
extremely humorous discussion could be taken off-list?
constructively,
Glen
Mark == Mark Sandford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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How do I write a computer program that spawns many processes but
returns one result?
I suppose the classic example of my query is the federated search. Get
user input. Send it to many remote indexes. Wait. Combine results.
Return. In this scenario when one of the remote indexes is slow
Ditto. :-)
Glen Newton
Kevin Clarke wrote:
Welcome John,
It's nice to have more Java folks around :-)
Kevin
On Feb 9, 2008 11:13 AM, John Fereira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Roy's message to the web4lib list gave me a nudge that I should probably
subscribed to Code4Lib. Then I had a
Hi Michael,
Taxonomic dichotomous (or binary) keys
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichotomous_key) and synoptic keys
(http://pyrenomycetes.free.fr/hypoxylon/keydir/synoptickey.htm) have a
number of implementations on the web and there is a significant body
of research and software out there. I did
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