For those investigating a shelf browse (and for those that have
implemented one), I have a few questions:
Where is the feature demand originating? Staff? Faculty? Students? Grad
students? Undergrad students? (Not to exclude publics or special
libraries, but this seems to be an academic catalog
This thread reminded me that there exists a code4lib Goodreads group:
https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/72219-code4lib
-Sean
On 12/10/14, 9:10 AM, Foster, Meredith mfos...@wcupa.edu wrote:
Interesting post and responses.
Books:
Started the year by finishing up the Dresden Files (Jim
I'm just going to jump in here and question the need for it to be ALA or LITA
affiliated. Plenty of stuff has been accomplished and respected (like, oh, hey,
code4lib) without an attachment of ALA or LITA.
Ad...discuss.
-Sean
From: Code for
On 9/16/14, 7:15 PM, Michael Schofield mschofi...@nova.edu wrote:
Q4. No nav?
Okay, nobody actually brought this up, but users don¹t tend to look at
sidebars at all. Most libraries have a top menu in the header. If this is
the case, consider dropping sidebars entirely and positioning your single
Would it be possible to re-write this position as a project-based contract?
Such a position is more appealing for short-term (part-time) gig-type work
and telework types. Also, it helps you out in that if the telework thing
doesn¹t work for various reasons, you¹re done with it at the end of the
Pull requests welcome.
From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Andreas
Orphanides [akorp...@ncsu.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2014 9:33 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Community anti-harassment policy
In
That source seems, shall we say, less than legitimate.
-Sean
From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Daron Dierkes
[daron.dier...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, May 02, 2014 2:23 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB]
We¹ve had good experience with just using our student employees. They get
quite fast at it and become content experts at the same time, which comes
in really handy if the content is user research and the like.
-Sean
On 4/25/14, 9:24 AM, Rachel Shaevel rshae...@chipublib.org wrote:
Piggybacking
?
Maybe it would be better suited on its own page with similar content that
is of a more digestible length. That sort of thing.
-Sean
---
Sean Hannan
Senior Web Developer
Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
On 4/17/14, 7:42 PM, Simon LeFranc simonlefr...@hotmail.com wrote:
My organization has
OptimalWorkshop.com
-Sean
From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Coral
Sheldon-Hess [co...@sheldon-hess.org]
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 9:48 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Usability resources
Here is one
Reporting staff are somewhat indifferent. It’s a bit of a hassle and the
native interface makes no sense for help desk ticketing (it’s very clear
that it’s for development). Staff that respond to issues are trained on it
and it works for them, but it’s still not ideal.
I would not recommend JIRA
with using
a Mac. It made usability testing a bit tricky, since they were
apprehensive about even using the trackpad. ³How do I go back?² ³You press
the back button, just as you would in Firefox on a PC.² That kind of
thing. I definitely didn¹t expect that.
-Sean
‹
Sean Hannan
Senior Web Developer
You need the Confluence HTML Macros plugin installed.
-Sean
(Who hates Confluence with the passion of a thousand suns.)
On 2/21/14, 11:12 AM, Kimberly Silk kimberly.s...@rotman.utoronto.ca
wrote:
Thanks, Christina and Dre --- I've tried these macros, to no avail. I'm
wondering if it's blocked
In ruby, there's the ffaker gem (https://github.com/EmmanuelOga/ffaker), which
itself is a port of Perl's Data::Faker.
-Sean
From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Pottinger,
Hardy J. [pottinge...@missouri.edu]
Sent: Saturday,
Did someone say colors?
http://dysinterested.com/rainbows.html
-Sean
From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Doran, Michael
D [do...@uta.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 4:55 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re:
That sounds like a request for Roy to fire up the ole OCLC Hadoop.
-Sean
On 10/16/13 1:06 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote:
Anybody have data for the average length of specific MARC fields in some
reasonably representative database? I mainly need 100, 245, 6xx.
Thanks,
kc
--
Karen
Hey, that's me! Come see me talk!
It's a good conference. I've gone the last two years. Cheapest
design-thinking conference you'll ever see.
-Sean
On 10/14/13 8:24 AM, EdUI Conference i...@eduiconf.org wrote:
This is how you do digital collections in
Very cool.
But, why only for a limited period of time?
-Sean
On 10/11/13 11:16 AM, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote:
For a limited period of time I am making publicly available a Web-based
program called PDF2TXT -- http://bit.ly/1bJRyh8
PDF2TXT extracts the text from an OCRed PDF
You could do something like what I did and run your own data backend and use
whatever you need to/have to to display content.
Our website is just static HTML, CSS, and Javascript. Everything
dynamic/data-powered is javascript that is pulling from a centralized API
(written using grape:
the content of library pages on the CMS?
Josh Welker
On Aug 14, 2013, at 8:35 AM, Sean Hannan shan...@jhu.edu wrote:
You could do something like what I did and run your own data backend and use
whatever you need to/have to to display content.
Our website is just static HTML, CSS
Again, this not a technical issue. It's a content strategy issue.
Believe me, I was where you were. I was using all kinds of javascript and
CSS hacks to try to prevent people from getting creative with color. I was
getting to the point of setting up Capybara tests to run against the guides
to
All of this, plus SpringShare has great support. Like, the best of any library
vendor I've dealt with. I've had them implement features within an hour of me
sending the email suggesting it.
The big downside of LibGuides is that it's ease of use (and ease if reuse)
leads to content sprawl like
Also, I'm sure you have your reasons for wanting (or needing) to use
mongodb, but you might want to take a look at this presentation:
http://thebuild.com/presentations/pg-as-nosql-pgday-fosdem-2013.pdf and the
benchmarks in the latter half of it.
-Sean
On 7/5/13 5:47 AM, dasos ili
I'm a big fan of middleman (http://middlemanapp.com). It's more coder-oriented,
but you're not locked into the horrible UI of a wiki product. Once it's set up,
it's good to go. There's lots of nice extensions for it, including a WYSIWYG
blog post manager/editor, and it's simple to code for.
Honestly, if you're interested in and looking to focus on Content Strategy and
UX, the only course there that comes close is Human-Computer Interaction.
If those are really your interests, I'd look at a strictly HCI program (they're
out there) or something that leans more towards Knowledge
Let's not forget that Google has a business case for dropping IE8 support.
Alerting folks to their old browser could (in SEO terms) turn into Chrome
conversions.
-Sean
On 2/19/13 12:22 PM, Eric Phetteplace phett...@gmail.com wrote:
I guess my general philosophy is that, for any browser with a
I'm a big fan of just having an obscenely large monitor. I can work on the
other side of the room. Standing, sitting, whatevs.
http://instagram.com/p/RqaKH0DRQN/
-Sean
On 2/7/13 2:37 PM, Peter Murray peter.mur...@lyrasis.org wrote:
I don't have a standing desk, but I'm a big fan of using PVC
Or just black ink on a black T-shirt. You know, The Black Album style.
-Sean
On 1/16/13 12:19 PM, Suchy, Daniel dsu...@ucsd.edu wrote:
I vote that the code4lib 2013 portion be added in backlight ink.
\m/
-Dan
On 1/16/13 8:55 AM, Cynthia Ng cynthia.s...@gmail.com wrote:
Curious,
As someone that's had to fight with maintaining a Jira system for the last 6
years, I'm going to have to steer people away from it. It's a giant pain in
the ass (in my experience).
If you go with Jira, at the very least, go with a hosted solution. You don't
want Jira's blood on your hands. It
Slight derail, but for everyone considering a workshoppy preconf, you might
consider using something like http://showterm.io so that people can follow
along.
-Sean
On 11/8/12 8:16 PM, Heidi P Frank h...@nyu.edu wrote:
Hi Jason,
I'd definitely be interested in the Ruby workshop. I know a
Every one of these sites is not going to work for everyone.
Please conduct your own user research for your own audience.
Our users, for example, have no interest in visualizations of search
results.
Our researchers actually want just a list of results. They are compiling
bibliographies or
That's what user research is. Qualitative evidence, too.
-Sean
On 9/20/12 1:18 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote:
And I presume that you have quantitative evidence to show that.
kc
On 9/20/12 8:49 AM, Sean Hannan wrote:
Every one of these sites is not going to work for everyone
The Sheridan Libraries of the Johns Hopkins University seeks a Software
Engineer for its new Digitization Services Unit. This position will perform a
major role in the design, software development, and implementation of the
University Libraries and Museums’ digital collections discovery and
As an administrator of a Confluence installation, I have to say that I hate
it.
Confluence is fine if you are not going to be touching it or doing any kind
of local customizations (hooking it into local auth, etc.). If that's the
case, you should really be looking at the hosted version.
I've
I go by my statistics (and you should, too). I can't make users use another
browser (as much as I'd like them to). The bulk of our users still use IE
(well, the bulk use a WebKit browser--Chrome/Safari--but lumping those
together isn't an assumption I'm ready to lean on yet). That IE majority is
I'm implementing this in Google Calendar. Easy to update for non-tech staff.
Easy to have multiple calendars (one per location), and the API is baked in.
Amenities info, etc. can be included in the notes field of the calendar
entry.
-Sean
---
Sean Hannan
Web Developer
Sheridan Libraries
Johns
There's this thing: http://influx.us/onepager
But I don't really believe in it.
I know the library world is full of people that think that we're unique
snowflakes, but at least in my case (for library websites) I find that to be
true. This is based on a number of factors: how librarians
If you already have everything indexed in Solr elsewhere, a way to cut down
the BL slug size is to remove/ignore the SolrMarc.jar. It's pretty sizable.
-Sean
On 3/29/12 12:16 PM, Chris Fitzpatrick chrisfitz...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I've deployed Blacklight on both Heroku and Elastic
Mechanical Turk it.
(I hear that's what all the hipsters do while they watch Downton Abbey.)
-Sean
On 2/27/12 1:52 PM, Suchy, Daniel dsu...@ucsd.edu wrote:
Hello all,
At my campus we offer podcasts of course lectures, recorded in class and then
delivered via iTunes and as a plain Mp3
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Sean Hannan
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 11:37 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Local catalog records and Google, Bing, Yahoo!
Our Blacklight-powered catalog (https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/) comes
up
a lot in google search results (try gil
Our Blacklight-powered catalog (https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/) comes up
a lot in google search results (try gil scott heron circle of stone).
Some numbers:
59% of our total catalog traffic comes from google searches
0.04% of our total catalog traffic comes from yahoo searches
0.03% of our
Not Jira.
-Sean
On 2/22/12 12:36 PM, Cynthia Ng cynthia.s...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi All,
We're looking at implementing an issue tracker for internal use, so
I'm looking for recommendations.
What's key:
1) minimal effort in install/setup i.e. ready to use out of the box
2) small scale is
This should fill some gaps:
http://cynng.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/code4lib-day-keynote-on-code4libcon/
-Sean
From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Benjamin
Florin [benjamin.flo...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012
On Dec 1, 2011, at 8:34 AM, Richard, Joel M richar...@si.edu wrote:
In the end, the conference organizers can invite whoever they want to speak.
The voting ends up being a courtesy to the rest of us.
--Joel
Joel Richard
Lead Web Developer, Web Services Department
Smithsonian
The draft schedule (http://code4lib.org/conference/2012/schedule) says we're
done at 12:15.
-Sean
On 11/16/11 12:00 PM, Lepczyk, Timothy tlepc...@wustl.edu wrote:
Hi,
Any idea when things wrap up on the 9th? I'm trying to gauge leaving that day
vs the 10th.
Best,
Tim
- -
How about we call it a generously free preconference instead?
-Sean
On 11/9/11 4:29 PM, Timothy McGeary timmcge...@gmail.com wrote:
So based on these responses - can the costs of the pre-confs be separated
out? Is there lunch provided? Is it only room rental?
Either way, if it's going
GitHub search knows all:
https://github.com/zapnap/isbn_validation/blob/master/lib/isbn_validation.rb
-Sean
On 10/21/11 1:44 PM, Kozlowski,Brendon bkozlow...@sals.edu wrote:
Hi all.
I'm somewhat surprised that I've never had to validate an ISBN manually up
until now. I suppose that's
Sorry for the vague title, but ‘LAN Administrator III’ (the official title)
doesn’t really describe the position...
BUT THIS DOES:
The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) is a leading
graduate school of international affairs, educating students for professional
*Apologies for cross-posting.*
Want do do some fun work exposing special collections/repository materials with
Solr/Blacklight? Sure you do.
Come work with us.
This is a one-year full time position.
-Sean
Details:
Software Engineer
General Description:
Position will perform a major role
This assumes that you want a CMS.
I don't.
http://www.slideshare.net/MrDys/lets-get-small-a-microservices-approach-to-l
ibrary-websites
-Sean
On 9/9/11 3:21 PM, Varnum, Ken var...@umich.edu wrote:
* Apologies for cross-posting *
We are doing a presentation at Internet Librarian
FYI, y’all.
Big, big thanks to dfunk for getting the lion’s share of the code working in
Rails 3.
-Sean
-- Forwarded Message
From: Dan Funk daniel.h.f...@gmail.com
Reply-To: blacklight-developm...@googlegroups.com
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2011 18:11:02 -0400
To:
Honestly, I'm the most concerned that there was only one proposal last year.
Let's try to solve that problem.
-Sean
On 6/15/11 1:46 PM, Kevin S. Clarke kscla...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote:
Heresy I know, but I wonder if we
I think in many circumstances, this sort of disclosure is covered by a
site's privacy policy (or it should be).
-Sean
On 5/20/11 10:35 AM, Keith Jenkins k...@cornell.edu wrote:
Just out of curiosity, does anyone on this list have any opinions
about whether website owners should publicly post
If I were doing this, I'd use the Freebase (freebase.com) API and write a
little app that returns the IMDB title stem (ex: tt0460791) for each of the
films you're trying to match up.
-Sean
On 4/27/11 10:56 AM, R. Levi rrlevi1...@yahoo.com wrote:
I would like to add a link to IMDB for the
http://i.imgur.com/6WtA0.png
(Sorry, it's Friday. Also, blame dchud for the idea.)
-Sean
On 4/6/11 4:53 PM, Mike Taylor m...@indexdata.com wrote:
On 6 April 2011 19:53, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote:
On 4/6/2011 2:43 PM, William Denton wrote:
Validity does mean something
We’re looking for a sysadmin at Hopkins. Come work with me. It’ll be cool, I
promise.
-Sean
---
https://hrnt.jhu.edu/jhujobs/job_view.cfm?view_req_id=46964
The Systems Engineer will provide systems administration and, to a lesser
extent, programming support for the Systems department’s
So, it looks like the Wednesday Afternoon archive video cuts off at lunch. Did
the afternoon talks get recorded.?
-Sean
On 12/8/10 12:45 PM, Westman, Stephen srwes...@uncc.edu wrote:
There seems to be a great deal of interest in the conference opening time. It
almost reminds me of people lining up for the IPhone. ;-)
Is there a reason for this? Not having gone to code4lib before, do slots fill
up quickly?
It really depends on the use case. If I'm trying to get something up
quickly and it isn't too involved, CodeIgniter. If it's going to be a much
more fully developed application that is to be maintained for a lengthy
amount of time, Symfony.
-Sean
On 11/15/10 6:19 AM, David Kane dk...@wit.ie
Not software, exactly, but this seems like an ideal thing to set up in
Mechanical Turk.
This guy did it with an audio interview:
http://waxy.org/2008/09/audio_transcription_with_mechanical_turk/
-Sean
On 5/12/10 2:18 PM, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote:
Does anybody here use or know
After poking around, it seems that there is: Wt (http://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt).
After looking through the source of the Hello World example[1], I'm not sure
why anyone would go through the trouble, but then again, I feel that way about
a lot of lower-level compiled languages.
-Sean
[1]
Also, David Huynh (of Gridworks and Freebase Parallax fame) dropped into IRC
last week asking about MARC4J and its possible use with Gridworks.
Things are afoot.
-Sean
On Apr 22, 2010, at 7:27 AM, Owen Stephens wrote:
Thought that some on the list might be interested in various discussions
Apologies for cross-posting...
On April 26 at 1pm (EST)/10am (PST) Blacklight
(http://www.projectblacklight.org/) developers will be having an hour-long
Skype call open to anyone that cares to participate. If you have any questions
or concerns or things you want to discuss with Blacklight
I would suggest using Yahoo! Pipes (http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/) for
something like this. You can feed it your RSS feed, and add in some logic to
strip out extraneous information and the grey boxes.
-Sean
---
Sean Hannan
Web Developer
Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
On Apr 9
Not to mention that the SkyTrain will get you to Main in 3 minutes, and there
your options increase exponentially.
-Sean
On Mar 14, 2010, at 5:35 PM, Paul Joseph wrote:
Here's a few pubs and brewpubs that have decent beers and are within easy
walking distance to the proposed hotel in
As someone who has done a lot of US-Vancouver travel, here's a protip: Fly
into Sea-Tac and then take the Quick Shuttle (http://www.quickcoach.com/)
across the border ($40ish USD). You won't get dinged on airport international
travel fees and you will have a lot more flight options. Just in
/code4lib/attendees-2010
Vielen dank.
Sean Hannan
Code4Lib Twitter Wrangler
Apart from the steakhouse, all of the remaining restaurants have vegetarian
(and some vegan) options. Check out their menus, they look tasty.
-Sean
(Token Vegetarian)
On Feb 17, 2010, at 11:12 AM, Joyce Chapman wrote:
I heard concerns from some vegetarians that all the slots are taken at
If I'm remembering correctly, NBC is opting to show Ice Dancing over the
USA/Canada game.
Yay, NBC.
-Sean
On Feb 17, 2010, at 2:53 PM, David Fiander wrote:
Seriously, are any other sports going to be broadcast during that time slot?
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 14:51, Julia Bauder
, 2010, at 1:00 PM, Godmar Back wrote:
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Sean Hannan shan...@jhu.edu wrote:
I've had the best experience (query speed, primarily) with BaseX. This was
primarily for large XML document processing, so I'm not sure how much it
will satisfy your transactional needs
I've had the best experience (query speed, primarily) with BaseX. This was
primarily for large XML document processing, so I'm not sure how much it will
satisfy your transactional needs.
I was initially using eXist, and then switched over to BaseX because the speed
gains were very noticeable.
/index.asp) and book
(http://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/webforms/info/description/) might be other
good places to look for inspiration.
-Sean
Sean Hannan
Web Developer
Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
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Walker, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/14/2008 4:48 PM
I'm working
,
but it tends to be overkill for most things PHP.
Sean Hannan
Web Developer
Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
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Susan Teague Rector [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/27/08 4:50 PM
Hi All,
We're exploring Zend as a framework for php based Web applications. I'm
curious to see if anyone
There's some good skeleton code (not sure how far it will get you) in Omeka's
SVN: https://omeka.org/svn/plugins/OaiPmhImport/trunk/
Sean Hannan
Web Developer
Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
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Walker, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/06/08 4:52 PM
Hi all,
Anyone
emolanphy++
I, too, being a closet design nerd, would also volunteer to be on some sort of
committee.
-Sean
Emily Molanphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/29/08 4:51 PM
Ignite, Drupal, Ubuntu, OLPC and lots of other tech groups have logos and
brand identities. Actually some of the best- known logos
homepage: http://davidhuynh.net/
Sean Hannan
Web Developer
Sherdian Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
jean rainwater [EMAIL PROTECTED] 09/10/08 11:33 AM
I don't think we're doing an official vote but if you want to add your
endorsement to a name mentioned below or suggest
I was in a similar situation and I just used CodeIgniter's scaffolding
(http://codeigniter.com/user_guide/general/scaffolding.html ) feature to allow
my users to add/edit data. It's pretty safe, and it looks neat and clean, too.
Sean Hannan
Web Developer, Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins
Reserves Direct (http://www.reservesdirect.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page) is the
only one that I am aware of. I'd be very interested if people know of any
others.
Sean Hannan
Web Content Coordinator
The Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
410-516-7642
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