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

2016-03-31 Thread Kevin Ford
://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 URL etc. Nada. On 03/31/2016 08:39 AM, Brian Kennison wrote: On Mar 29, 2016, at 12:46 PM, Kevin Ford <k...@3windmills.com<mailto:k...@3windmills.com>>

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

2016-03-29 Thread Kevin Ford
versity Press, 2013. Pp. ix, 278. ISBN 9780199657865. $35.00. This is indeed why I wanted a "before and after" test - to see if schema did add SEO. Now we don't know. kc On 3/29/16 7:48 AM, Kevin Ford wrote: Hi Karen, I took a look at those bryn mawr hits and I don't see the sc

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

2016-03-29 Thread Kevin Ford
Hi Karen, I took a look at those bryn mawr hits and I don't see the schema.org used in the page. Am I missing it? Perhaps I found the wrong thing. If indeed it's not there, it just goes to show how using schema is not a panacea. Loads of factors go into search ranking, relevancy, and

Re: [CODE4LIB] Deduping linked data in search - was RE: [CODE4LIB] Structured Data Markup on library web sites

2016-03-29 Thread Kevin Ford
Hi Cindy, Deduping can happen in any number of ways, but making use of shared identifiers is the preferred way to address this issue. You could adopt a shared identifier or you can an indicate that your Thing is the same as a this other Thing. In schema.org's vocabulary, you'd use

Re: [CODE4LIB] Deduping linked data in search - was RE: [CODE4LIB] Structured Data Markup on library web sites

2016-03-29 Thread Kevin Ford
It's probably not safe to say that "all search is local" but there is most certainly a strong local component considered for every search. For me, every hit on the first page of Google's results for a search for "ice cream parlor" is related to Chicago, which is where I executed the search. A

Re: [CODE4LIB] Protocol-relative URLs in MARC

2015-08-18 Thread Kevin Ford
I think it is technically permissible, but unwise for a host of reasons, a number of which have been noted in this thread. It boils down to this: at the end of the day - and putting aside the whole SSL/non-SSL tangent - it is a relative reference according to the RFC and that begs the

Re: [CODE4LIB] Processing Circ data

2015-08-05 Thread Kevin Ford
Hi Cindy, This doesn't quite address your issue, but, unless you've hit the 2 GB Access size limit [1], Access can handle a good deal more than 250,000 item records (rows, yes?) you cited. What makes you think you've hit the limit? Slowness, something else? All the best, Kevin [1]

Re: [CODE4LIB] Processing Circ data

2015-08-05 Thread Kevin Ford
it over the 2GB mark. I've tried extracting to a csv, and that didn't work. Maybe I'll try a Make table to a separate db. Or the OpenRefine suggestion sounds good too. Cindy Harper -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Kevin Ford Sent

Re: [CODE4LIB] Mayor of Libraries

2015-03-27 Thread Kevin Ford
Hi Rodney, Who, or how, is the scheduling system being replaced? (Assuming it is changing.) Do *you* need to replace the scheduling system (and that's would you would potentially have to write from scratch)? OR Is a scheduling system being procured that will obsolete the current system

Re: [CODE4LIB] lita

2015-01-05 Thread Kevin Ford
I think this just goes to show, with the advent of the Internet, centralized authorities are not as necessary/useful as they once used to be. —ELM -- Maybe. I think it it recession-related. The high water mark for nearly all of the groups on that list is 2007 (2006 for one or two). The

Re: [CODE4LIB] Anyone have a list of exposed z39.50 endpoints?

2014-08-29 Thread Kevin Ford
There is also this: http://www.loc.gov/z3950/ Yours, Kevin On 08/28/2014 06:40 PM, Habing, Thomas Gerald wrote: Index Data maintains a searchable list: http://irspy.indexdata.com/ Tom -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Jay

Re: [CODE4LIB] Bibframe contracts

2014-08-27 Thread Kevin Ford
them, and then the information is posted publicly so that everyone interested in the opportunity has access to the same information. Yours, Kevin -- Kevin Ford Network Development and MARC Standards Office Library of Congress Washington, DC

Re: [CODE4LIB] Job: Digital Projects Coordinator at Library of Congress

2014-08-25 Thread Kevin Ford
Dear All, This position - though hard to tell from the below - is chiefly for a developer position in the Library of Congress's Network Development and MARC Standards Office, also known as NetDev for short. Our office, as its name suggests, manages the MARC Format standards, but we also

Re: [CODE4LIB] C4L DC 2014 Thanks

2014-08-13 Thread Kevin Ford
I fully second Josh's comments. A nice job and a big thanks! --Kevin On 08/13/2014 12:59 PM, Joshua Westgard wrote: A big, public thank you is in order to Laura Wrubel, Dan Chudnov, and their whole team for organizing and running the C4L regional meeting in DC over the past two days, to GWU

Re: [CODE4LIB] transforming marc to rdf

2013-12-05 Thread Kevin Ford
* BIBFRAME Tools [6] - sports nice ontologies, but the online tools won’t scale for large operations -- The code running the transformation at [6] is available here: https://github.com/lcnetdev/marc2bibframe We've run several million records through it at one time. As with

Re: [CODE4LIB] transforming marc to rdf

2013-12-05 Thread Kevin Ford
Anything that will remodel MARC to (decent) RDF is going be: - Non-trivial to install - Non-trivial to use - Slow - Require massive amounts of memory/disk space Choose any two. -- I'll second this. Frankly, I don't see how you can generate RDF that anybody would want to

Re: [CODE4LIB] The lie of the API

2013-12-02 Thread Kevin Ford
Though I have some quibbles with Seth's post, I think it's worth drawing attention to his repeatedly calling out API keys as a very significant barrier to use, or at least entry. Most of the posts here have given little attention to the issue API keys present. I can say that I have quite

Re: [CODE4LIB] The lie of the API

2013-12-02 Thread Kevin Ford
not going to defend API keys, but not all APIs are open or free. You need to have *some* way to track usage. There may be alternative ways to implement that, but you can't just hand wave away the rather large use case for API keys. -Ross. On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Kevin Ford k

Re: [CODE4LIB] The lie of the API

2013-12-02 Thread Kevin Ford
A key (haha) thing that keys also provide is an opportunity to have a conversation with the user of your api: who are they, how could you get in touch with them, what are they doing with the API, what would they like to do with the API, what doesn’t work? These questions are difficult to ask

Re: [CODE4LIB] rdf triplestores

2013-11-11 Thread Kevin Ford
I'll second Richard on this. 4store is fairly quick to set up and get going. It comes with command-line tools and an HTTP option. FWIW, ID.LOC.GOV uses 4store in its stack. Yours, Kevin On 11/11/2013 01:17 AM, Richard Wallis wrote: I've had some success with 4Store: http://4store.org

Re: [CODE4LIB] What do you want to learn about linked data?

2013-09-01 Thread Kevin Ford
Dear Karen, I think that how extensible RDF is would be a very good topic. I'm not talking about the theoretical extensibility of RDF, but how to do it in a practical manner. That is, if you have a role, or some other relationship, for example, and you want to use it. Linked Data provides

Re: [CODE4LIB] What do you want to learn about linked data?

2013-09-01 Thread Kevin Ford
as publishing an extension) is part of that. I could see this extending to best practices for naming (e.g. URI/IRIs), and perhaps even a bit about documenting. Great topic! kc On 9/2/13 1:25 AM, Kevin Ford wrote: Dear Karen, I think that how extensible RDF is would be a very good topic. I'm not talking

Re: [CODE4LIB] Browsable subject list

2012-10-29 Thread Kevin Ford
My (erroneous) assumption was that if a record did not have a broader term (i.e. a 550 $wg value) then it would sit at the top of the subject tree, and that they would be the very general subjects headings. As I found this obviously not the case. -- You're corrrect - LCSH doesn't work like

Re: [CODE4LIB] Worldcat schema.org search API

2012-07-10 Thread Kevin Ford
to support the need? And have a place to post various solutions, even ones that are not OCLC-specific? (Because I am hoping that the use of microformats will increase in general.) kc On 7/10/12 12:12 PM, Kevin Ford wrote: is there an open search to get one to the desired records in the first place

Re: [CODE4LIB] Worldcat schema.org search API

2012-07-10 Thread Kevin Ford
enough that one wouldn't want to look up all of the records by hand. kc On 7/10/12 1:43 PM, Kevin Ford wrote: As for someone who might want to do this programmatically, he/she should take a look at the Programming languages section of the second link I sent along: http://schema.rdfs.org

Re: [CODE4LIB] Worldcat schema.org search API

2012-07-10 Thread Kevin Ford
available for years. Roy On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 2:08 PM, Kevin Ford k...@3windmills.com wrote: The use case clarifies perfectly. Totally feasible. Well, I should say totally feasible with the caveat that I've never used the Worldcat Search API. Not letting that stop me, so long as it is what I

Re: [CODE4LIB] MARC Magic for file

2012-05-23 Thread Kevin Ford
, Kevin [1] https://listserv.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1103L=CODE4LIBT=0F=S=P=112728 -- Kevin Ford Network Development and MARC Standards Office Library of Congress Washington, DC

Re: [CODE4LIB] MARC Magic for file

2012-05-23 Thread Kevin Ford
that started in March 2011 [1] (it ends in April if you want to go crawling for the entire thread). Rgds, Kevin [1] https://listserv.nd.edu/cgi- bin/wa?A2=ind1103L=CODE4LIBT=0F=S=P=1 12728 -- Kevin Ford Network Development and MARC Standards Office Library of Congress Washington, DC

Re: [CODE4LIB] Anyone using node.js?

2012-05-08 Thread Kevin Ford
I was told by the project manager that Apache, Java, and Tomcat were showing signs of age. -- Taking this statement at face value, and taking it to its logical end (that you'll have to migrate your application), I'm extremely doubtful that Apache, Java, and Tomcat are so near their ends of

Re: [CODE4LIB] Anyone using node.js?

2012-05-08 Thread Kevin Ford
(and am looking into a java triplestore to run in Tomcat) -- I don't know if the parenthetical was simply a statement or a solicitation - apologies if it was the former. Take a look at Mulgara. Drops right into Tomcat. http://mulgara.org/ --Kevin On 05/08/2012 02:01 PM, Ethan Gruber

Re: [CODE4LIB] Query LCSH terms at id.loc.gov by modification date

2010-05-14 Thread Kevin Ford
, and its ecosystem of tools and services. //Ed [1] http://www.openarchives.org/ore/1.0/atom On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Kevin Ford k...@loc.gov wrote: The short answer to your question is no, there's no way to query terms based on last modification date. However, and this feature

Re: [CODE4LIB] Query LCSH terms at id.loc.gov by modification date

2010-05-13 Thread Kevin Ford
The short answer to your question is no, there's no way to query terms based on last modification date. However, and this feature needs publication on the website, there is an Atom feed that exposes the change activities for the subject headings: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/feed/ You can