Hello everybody. I apologize for the crossposting, but this is an
area that could (potentially) affect every one of these groups. I
realize that not everybody will be able to respond to all lists,
but...
First of all, some back story (Code4Lib subscribers can probably skip ahead):
Jangle [1]
I think in order to accomplish this you'd have to send a completeness
or truncation attribute:
@attr 1=4 6=3 foo bar # search for 'foo bar' as the complete field
@attr 1=4 6=2 foo bar # search for 'foo bar' as the complete subfield
@attr 1=4 5=100 foo bar # do not truncate - although this is
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Dan Scott dsc...@laurentian.ca wrote:
I hear there's at least one good book about Apache Derby out there,
although it's rather dated now...
I have a copy. Signed by one of the authors!
-Ross.
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Bill Dueber b...@dueber.com wrote:
This is hard stuff. But it's worth doing right.
+1
The issue here isn't about serializations or transmission formats.
It's about data modeling. Our current bibliographic data model is
horribly inefficient, with antiquated
from each scenario at
http://dublincore.org/dcmirdataskgroup/Scenarios
Ross Singer wrote:
Right, ok, so an RDF graph can say the same resource is multiple
things at the same time, so that's how you deal with this:
http://lccn.loc.gov/95100870 rdf:type bibo:Book .
http://lccn.loc.gov/95100870
of the tools at their disposal.
All this being said, it's really not too late to fix any of this,
since nobody is implementing this and, realistically, nobody ever
will.
-Ross.
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:15 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote:
Ross Singer wrote:
So, thanks to the help of my coworkers
It's not off-topic, at least I don't think so.
And I don't think anybody is asking to give up on catalogers. Just
like I don't think anybody would want the technologists to describe
the materials, I think the problem is that the catalogers tried to
apply their idea of a data model into tangible
to start somewhere. It's just that the
cataloging pieces move so excruciatingly slowly.
ah
Ross Singer wrote:
It's not off-topic, at least I don't think so.
And I don't think anybody is asking to give up on catalogers. Just
like I don't think anybody would want the technologists
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote:
My problem with bibo is that it's strongly oriented toward academic journal
articles... I would like to see a comparison to MARC, if anyone has done
that, which might give us an idea of what isn't there. For example, I don't
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote:
Still looks pretty limited to me. What academics cite isn't a full
bibliographic universe. No music, no films, no way to do realia. And citing
isn't the same as bibliographic description. Don't get me wrong, I think
it's very
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote:
Note this isn't as much of a problem for born web resources -- nobody's
going to accidentally create an alternate URI for a dbpedia term, because
anybody that knows about dbpedia knows that it lives at dbpedia.
Unless
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote:
I admit that httprange-14 still confuses me. (I have no idea why it's
called httprange-14 for one thing).
http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/group/track/issues/14
Some background:
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote:
But shouldn't we be able to know the difference between an identifier and a
locator? Isn't that the problem here? That you don't know which it is if it
starts with http://.
But you do if it starts with http://dx.doi.org
I
things that begin: http:// but that are very different in practice. What's
yours?
kc
Ross Singer wrote:
Your email client knew what do with:
info:doi/10./j.1475-4983.2007.00728.x ?
doi:10./j.1475-4983.2007.00728.x ?
Or did you recognize the info:doi scheme and Google
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 5:55 AM, Mike Taylor m...@indexdata.com wrote:
Identifiers identify; locations locate.
I've been avoiding and ignoring this all day, because I wanted the
thread to die and we all move on with our lives. But Kevin Clarke
just quoted this on Twitter, and I felt I couldn't
, but in common use?
It gets complicated thinking about these things. There are potentially
several things wrong with it.
Jonathan
Ross Singer wrote:
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:12 AM, Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
r...@loc.gov wrote:
Leaving aside religious issues I just want to be sure
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
r...@loc.gov wrote:
Nor do people outside of libraries care about identifiers.
Except, of course, for Tim Berners-Lee and anybody who listens to him:
http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html
-Ross.
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Rob Sanderson azar...@liverpool.ac.uk wrote:
If you want an identifier that *explicitly* cannot be dereferenced, then
info URIs are a good choice. If you want one that can be dereferenced
to some representation of the identified object, then HTTP is the only
I agree with this as well. I guess it just depends on whether you
think this needs to be done prior to facitating the process to mint
URIs or after.
The advantage to the former is that it will actually get documented.
Speaking of, if anybody wants to help formalize this for the purl
method,
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote:
And if the Oscars are our model, color me even more concerned. :)
But think of the Freebase mashup opportunities
-Ross.
http://vote.code4lib.org/election/index/9
The formatting is a little ugly, highlighting the perils of cut and paste.
Voting is open through 4:30 PM EST on Wednesday, February 25th. If
there's a tie, we'll have a runoff that ends sometime before the
conference ends on Thursday.
May the best
I am hardly impartial, but I think Jangle makes a worthy API.
http://jangle.org/
If you're attending the Code4lib conference next week, you can learn
all about it.
-Ross.
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Matthias Einbrodt
matthias.einbr...@meinbrodt.net wrote:
Hello,
I'm interested in your
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 7:25 AM, Alexander Johannesen
alexander.johanne...@gmail.com wrote:
I wasn't asking for technical reasons; I was more having a stab at how
many people use and need MARCXML specifically as compared to a number
of other more used formats. I mean, seriously, you can use
His point, though, is that you can't tell the format being used until
you open the document and try to negotiate it that way.
So if you think in terms of content-negotiation and a particular
resource is available in EAD, MARC XML and Dubin Core, you have no way
of expressing that.
Jonathan, this
for these formats will make everything flow much more
smoothly and clearly.
Of course, even without them being registered, we can use
application/x-marc+xml and application/x-mods right away, which is
probably what I'll do.
Jonathan
Ross Singer wrote:
His point, though, is that you can't tell
Eric, this is a good point. I will be at ELAG this year, and I think
Ed Corrado will, too.
Past presentations look to be very in line with Code4lib and, in fact,
it was billed to me as If you think of Access or Code4Lib but in a
scenic European setting with great beer then you'll have a good
On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote:
Hmm, I could send a DC KEV OpenURL (ie info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dc ; there
is no format for an XML DC? Kind of odd), and use the type element.
Google's Protocol Buffers [1] seem like they may be another possible
alternative here. The content-type in that case would be
application/x-protobuf.
The advantage here would be that the consumer wouldn't have to be
written in PHP and there's no need to know the structure of your JSON
object.
I
I agree with this, as well as just using HTTP for it (Status: 300/Conneg).
Still gets a bit tricky when talking about a 'search results' or
'browse' page (rather than a 'resource' page).
Of course, some other metadata options beside JSON would probably
helpful in this case, since it would take
Wait, has there actually been confirmation of this behavior? What
browser displays the title for a span? I haven't run across this.
-Ross.
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Jonathan Rochkind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yeah, I had recently noticed indepedently, been unhappy with the way a COinS
:
On 12/05/2008 10:45 AM, Ross Singer wrote:
Wait, has there actually been confirmation of this behavior? What
browser displays the title for a span? I haven't run across this.
If you tag things as span title='foo'Some Text/span, most browsers
will display the title as a tooltip over Some
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Godmar Back [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Jonathan Rochkind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not that I know of.
You can say display:none, but that'll probably hide it from LibX etc too.
No, why would it.
I agree with Godmar -- everything
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Godmar Back [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
BTW, I don't see why screen readers would stumble over this when the
child of the span is empty. Do they try to read empty text? And if
a COinS is processed, we fix up the title so tooltips show nicely.
Thinking about this
This is correct. I'd bet it'd be like 10 lines of PHP or less, though.
-Ross.
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Karen Coyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks, Chad, it does help. And I think it helps me understand why I was a
bit confused by the suggestion, but let me see if I've gotten it:
I
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 3:53 PM, John Miedema [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Definitely useful.
Minor note. COinS appears to separate first and last name for authors.
Open Library has them as a single field. I'm sure you'll find a
solution.
Depending on the metadata format used (I figure pretty
Given the voting method, no. A rating system is already a run off.
-Ross.
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Barnett, Jeffrey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I joined myself to the group just today, too late to vote, but what I see is
23 votes for Boston and 43 for anywhere else. Shouldn't there at
Hi everybody. Pardon the cross-posting.
Jangle, an open specification to apply the Atom Publishing Protocol to
library services and resources, has just released a draft version of a
1.0 release spec.
http://jangle.org/drupal/1_0rev1spec
The goal of Jangle is to provide a very simple and easily
Also, I noticed another dump on the IA of Library of Congress updates
since the initial Bisson load.
http://www.archive.org/details/marc_loc_updates
In typical IA fashion, it's incredibly difficult to know what the hell
this stuff is, though.
-Ross.
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 7:02 PM, Ed Summers
s/customer/partner/
Also, in the case of what the thread was initially calling for, what
would be the legalities of redistributing this data?
-Ross.
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Ross Singer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume you need to be an OCLC
I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume you need to be an OCLC
customer to benefit from this?
-Ross.
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Houghton,Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Ross Singer
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 7
You wouldn't be able to see it, though.
On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Thomas Dowling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 09/26/2008 02:52 PM, Michael J. Giarlo wrote:
Yeah, and no silly options like NINJAS!!!
Because, you know, NINJAS!!! always wins.
Wait, we can have ninjas for our logo?
I doubt xCal is nearly as widely supported as iCal.
Although not a 'standard', per se, Google Calendar's Atom extensions
are also a possible option, given that anything that Google does has
pretty broad support.
http://code.google.com/apis/calendar/
-Ross.
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 12:25 PM,
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Godmar Back [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://libxcache.appspot.com/get?url=http%3a%2f%2fdemo.jangle.org%2fopenbiblio%2fresources%2f5974
(To take some load off that Jangle demo, Ross, in case it's slashdotted.)
Wedged between flame wars between OSX and Linux.
Actually, SFX is probably not going to care what the title is.
It's much more likely to care about the ISSN, volume and issue.
Now, if the matching targets are EBSCO or Proquest, you might have a
problem (since they accept inbound OpenURLs from SFX), but I'm not
sure, exactly.
How many of these
Jon,
The conference and the journal are run fairly differently (did anybody
from the journal get back to you?). The journal's actually organized
(from what I can tell). It uses WordPress
The conference, on the other hand, uses a crazy mish-mash of things
that changes from year to year. CfPs
Going back to the original question about keynotes, I think Sebastian
Hammer from IndexData would be an interesting choice.
-Ross.
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 4:33 PM, jean rainwater
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Mark the dates!
Brown University is hosting code4lib 2009 which will take place at the
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 10:48 AM, Ross Singer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Theoretically you should be able to also pass the argument
record_type=dc or record_type=marc to give you dublin core or marc21,
but there seems to be a bug there. I'll fix that today.
Bah, this actually did work, I just
Actually, regarding this very point...
One of the outcomes of Jangle is that I'd like to create a registry
(like, say, a SKOS vocabulary) that defines an identifier for an
agreed upon record format. You point out that conneg doesn't work for
Atom or RSS payloads, but it wouldn't work, anyway.
I'm not sure this addressing the criteria of the licensing. How would
you stop commercial purposes?
Say I work for a UK-based vendor that starts with a T (as hard as
that may seem) and I devise a script (or, even more crazily, have root
access to the server to the server that the Berman catalog
What would be the advantage of setting up an SVN server on Code4lib
rather than using something like GitHub?
http://github.com/
Seems a lot more practical and, speaking as somebody that lost a ton
of code the last time we lost a C4L svn repo (you know, back when hack
wasn't a crime), would
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Ed Summers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I guess I'm alone here, but I actually like seeing posts that aren't
just about dull library coding crap :-)
I agree with you. Personally, I feel like the planet is more the
aggregation of people that make up a community.
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Edward M. Corrado [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(4) Automatically truncate posts after X words. The scroll gets so long and
it is hard to find some of the posts that conform to what I think of the
original idea of RSS was (a brief description of the content, not the
An application called i-Covers polls this list:
http://www.i-covers.net/en_bases.htm
for covers/posters.
-Ross.
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 2:29 PM, Gabriel Sean Farrell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 11:39:06AM -0400, Ken Irwin wrote:
With some limitations, the Google Books API
I guess I don't understand why you'd prefer SRU to an API. The ideal
(in my mind) is that by having the API available, you have your cake
and eat it too. Can a SRU (or OpenSearch or OpenURL or whatever)
service not be built on top of the API?
However, if there was no API available, only a SRU
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Tim Spalding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As for the idea that getting a book off the shelf is a non-trivial
hassle, while I admit that it can get hard if your library is split
between locations, at most colleges, getting a book from a library is
a trivial effort.
How did you get my phone number?
-Ross.
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 7:20 AM, John Fereira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 03:41 PM 4/3/2008, you wrote:
So now I have to compile my jokes?
I have frequently uttered the phrase what a joke! when reading some
of the code I inherited that was
This is ironic given that their API is standards based.
http://www.serialssolutions.com/ss_360_link_features.html
What, exactly, are vendors worried about when they hide their API behind an NDA?
Even more disturbing, why bother advertising your API at all if a
community can't be built to create
As an alternative, I think Georgia Tech has done work integrating OJS
(and OCS) with DSpace.
-Ross.
On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Michael J. Giarlo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey Sunny,
I believe Rutgers has done some work integrating OJS with the Fedora
repository architecture. Hopefully
All I use is a pen and legal size paper. Longhand is the real hacker's IDE.
Then I feed my code in via a scanner and OCR.
Python's a little tricker: needs a ruler or graph paper at the very least.
All my work is open source, give me a call and I'll read it to you.
Sorry, the fax machine isn't
waits for cosmic
radiation to pummel the magnetic patterns on his drive into a pleasing
and functional sequence of bits.
--Sebastian
Ross Singer wrote:
All I use is a pen and legal size paper. Longhand is the real
hacker's IDE.
Then I feed my code in via a scanner and OCR
While I have no comment on this particular issue (since nobody wants
me adminning *anything*), I would like to propose that before we set
up any new services/applications on code4lib.org, we talk about
whether or not any of the existing applications have functionality
that could suffice.
I guess
How is oss4lib.org and oss4lib-discuss not a we thing?
How is yet another community based around a rather small domain a good thing?
-Ross.
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 11:11 AM, Chadwick Seagraves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This might be of interest to some of you. I know that oss4lib has been
That may be, but it's not generally the path to successful and healthy
online communities. (Or OSS projects, for that matter).
-Ross.
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 3:06 PM, Glen Newton - NRC/CNRC CISTI/ICIST
Research [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Let a thousand flowers bloom. That is certainly the Open
I don't want the world, I just want your half.
--Jonathan Rochkind, 2008
more or less
-Ross.
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 8:09 AM, Rob Styles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 21 Mar 2008, at 16:23, Kevin S. Clarke wrote:
You and someone else could
run the planet
did nobody think the idea that
Hi everybody and pardon the cross-posting.
I just wanted to announce that http://openurl.code4lib.org is finally
live (after many, many months of being on my to do list).
The intention is to build a community around the use, development and
education of OpenURL/NISO Z39.88 and as a place for
Karen,
The server should be changed to:
irc.freenode.net
and the channel is:
#code4lib
I guess we'll see in a minute if that works for you,
-Ross.
On Jan 7, 2008 3:55 PM, K.G. Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yeah, I even saw my nick, but when I tried to type the error page showed
up.
Mike,
It seems like it might be a good project for one of the botanical
garden libraries or ag/forestry school libraries. Have you considered
asking around to them? I know NY Botanical Garden and the Missouri
Botanical Garden both have some pretty sharp people on their staff.
-Ross.
On Dec
So, Jeffrey and Rob Casson have discovered the feature that you must
fill out your profile information (or, at the very least first name
and last name, I think) in order to vote.
While we won't actually hold your vote against you (although if you
voted for Better Living Through Hierarchy, I know
It doesn't actually work with OAIster's own SRU interface, either. A
query for the title works, but adding the author's name fails.
OAIster's SRU implementation is very strange, though, so I could very
well be doing something wrong.
-Ross.
On 10/25/07, Eric Lease Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Not make this full-contact Ross/Dan ping-pong, but here we go.
On 8/1/07, D Chudnov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1) we could have found someplace
2) this is a problem either way
3) this is a problem either way
4) a few days' downtime is one thing - a few weeks' is another.
I suppose these are
On 8/2/07, D Chudnov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I thought the site would be back up in some state earlier this week,
and like you I've been busy in the meantime. Seeing that it was still
down after 10 days led me to want to say something and offer to help.
Well, to be fair, some people have
Thanks, Dan. This is actually the best argument against an
arrangement outside of organization that explicitly does this sort of
work.
This much more soundly articulates my concern (I was using university
counsel as an example, but anyone in the chain can potentially disrupt
this entire
I agree with this. Expectations of anvil's return to duty shouldn't
add to the pressure of getting it running again.
-Ross.
On 8/2/07, Kevin S. Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, to that effect, here's what I think the current options are:
1) Get it back up on anvil
2) Get it up on
Just a reminder, everyone, this conversation is today at 7PM GMT (3PM
EDT/Noon PDT) in #code4lib.
Hope to see you all there,
-Ross.
On 7/27/07, Ed Summers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As you may have seen or experienced code4lib.org is down for the count
at the moment because of some hackers^w
On 8/1/07, D Chudnov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Okay, I've read a transcript copy that somebody sent me privately. I
have a few concerns that I'm going to voice strongly, and I think they
represent questions that need to be answered before I'll be
comfortable with any particular plan. It
+1
-Ross.
On 8/1/07, Gabriel Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've got a transcript of the discussion all ready to post if there are
no objections. I'll wait until tomorrow afternoon.
Gabe
Andrew,
Of your choices, I would have to go with FastCGI. If 'getting it
running' isn't your problem, it works pretty well.
Plus mod_ruby has other issues:
http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/mod_ruby
Good luck,
-Ross.
On 7/17/07, Andrew Darby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello, all. I'm
On 5/9/07, Jonathan Rochkind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am, however, worried that I can't do what I want to do without
breaking 500 querries a day, and my institution is not going to be
willing to pay for it. So I'm interested in exploring other
opportunities. (Does Umlaut really not exceed 500
Well that probably didn't need to go to the whole world, but there you go.
-Ross.
On 3/30/07, Ross Singer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Karen, I probably wouldn't be the right person to host such an event,
since my only associations with ERAMS are this email and the fact that
I've read a 4 page
.
Asst. Prof./Chair, Content Management
Robert B. Greenblatt, M.D., Library, AB-241
Medical College of Georgia
1451 Laney-Walker Boulevard
Augusta, GA 30912
Phone: (706) 721-9912
Fax: (706) 721-6006
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ross Singer [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/23/2007 11:36:07 AM
ERAMS E-Resource
You know, ironically, I don't care that I sent the reply here. It
just wasn't my intention.
-Ross.
On 3/30/07, Frumkin, Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since I'm sitting in the Dallas airport, I thought I'd jump in and echo Ed's
sentiment, but add some creativity...
*snarky on*
So, when
it!
- David
On 22-Mar-07, at 23:37 , Ross Singer wrote:
On 3/22/07, Don McMorris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ryan's message (I guess seeing academia) made me think of Athens,
which made me further think Hey, Subscription Databases are just
ITCHING for OpenID!. I mean, come on... The methods we
Bill,
I have thought about this (although not in regards to logging library
workstations -- that'd be difficult but awesome), especially now that
Georgia Tech is implementing lifetime accounts. The project that we are
currently trying to pull together (GaTher -- which is sort of a library
On 3/22/07, Don McMorris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ryan's message (I guess seeing academia) made me think of Athens,
which made me further think Hey, Subscription Databases are just
ITCHING for OpenID!. I mean, come on... The methods we have for
database authentication aren't working well...
Actually, I just forwarded it to the OpenURL Advisory Group's listserv, as
well, since it's an issue I think probably needs to be addressed at that
level, too.
-Ross.
On 3/19/07, Eric Hellman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would recommend that you send this query to the OpenURL listserv
[EMAIL
WEB DEVELOPER Location: LIBRARY INFORMATION CENTER
Job #: CEW6177 Hiring Range: $44,330 to $56,500
Education:Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field or
equivalent combination of education and experience.
Experience:Four or more years of work related experience.
Demonstrated
Eric,
I don't know about Net::Delicious, but the Delicious API only allows
you to query for information in /your/ profile. del.icio.us is also
very restrictive about limiting numbers of hits.
Yahoo's MyWeb (http://myweb.yahoo.com/) is much more open on this
front, but, of course, is no
Nathan,
Ed Summers' ruby-marc is an excellent way to get Voyager's generally
pretty crappy MARC batch export into XML.
http://www.textualize.com/ruby_marc
Use the MARC::ForgivingReader and then you output everything using
MARC::XMLWriter.
For a collection the size of yours it's going to take
Bess,
I do have a ruby class that gets current holdings, but it would only
work for Voyager.
My guess is it depend greatly on the ILS -- the RDBMS based ones
(Voyager, Aleph, Horizon, VTLS, etc.) and the rest (Unicorn, III,
etc.).
Unicorn has its API to draw from, but you'd have problems
Nathan,
I don't think that will scale to showing status information for a result set.
I think a compromise needs to be reached with your Systems folks.
Maybe they could review the queries?
After all, hitting Oracle directly is more efficient than any single
part of Voyager.
-Ross.
On
and happy voting,
-Ross Singer.
[*] - In cases of 2 proposals by one submitter being amongst the
top-15, we will ask the submitter to choose one, discard the other and
the next highest vote getter will be included.
On 11/28/06, Kevin S. Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How do you switch to it? How do the pieces talk? This is the point
of standards. If there is a standard way of addressing an index then
you don't have to care what the newest greatest indexer is. This
paragraph seems in contrast to your
Jody,
Everywhere I've worked (except my current employer, AFAICT) has had a
system for naming servers internally (for reference to the machine in
particular) and vhosts for the services themselves.
When I worked at Tennessee (at the time, a strict Sun shop), all the
servers were named after sun
See also:
http://www.textualize.com/trac/browser/ropenurl
-Ross.
On 10/17/06, Houghton,Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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other things better).
And, yes, it needs documentation.
-Ross.
On 10/17/06, Alexander Johannesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 10/18/06, Ross Singer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I respond with an SVN repository for a ruby OpenURL library (that
doesn't currently have any documentation).
Not sure
Thanks, Thom, for solving this problem 20 years too late.
-Ross.
On 8/16/06, Hickey,Thom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I see the problem. You really should have been using the (4,4) key for
searching.
--Th
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On 6/6/06, Alexander Johannesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
You can thank NCSU for bringing the catalogers, reference types,
administrators, vendors, etc. to the table.
Hmm, how so? I've been at the table with many of them for many years
already and know them quite well. :) Are you
Although, at the same time, I think Google has taught us that our result set
order doesn't have to be perfect. It just has to be 'relatively accurate'
and present enough information to let the user determine its relevance.
I think a dependence on technology to 'solve this problem' is more
I'm confused as to why this argument /continually/ gets brought up in a
library context, but not in, say, the outside world.
del.icio.us doesn't seem to care much about these issue. Nor does amazon.
To think that amazon doesn't care about the 'integrity' of its data is
ridiculous. It's
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