Re: [CODE4LIB] Language codes

I recommend reading https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5646 which seems to do what you need. cheers stuart -- ...let us be heard from red core to black sky On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 10:59 AM, Greg Lindahl wrote: > Some of the Internet Archive's library partners are asking us about >

Re: [CODE4LIB] Consortial services

Outside the US, there are a number of library-focused consortia essentially brokered and often bankrolled by central funding agencies. These are typically driven by funders seeking to make particular services available to all within their remit in the most cost-efficient manner.

[CODE4LIB] Back-of-house software

I’m looking for recommendations for software to run our much of our academic library back-of-house business-as-usual work. Things like incident management, CRM, documentation management, etc across three tiers of support. We’re looking for something more structured than a mediawiki wiki (which

Re: [CODE4LIB] [patronprivacy] Let's Encrypt and EZProxy

Will godaddy let you add scholar-google-com.librarycatalog.vts.edu to your certificate? See Option HttpsHyphens cheers stuart -- ...let us be heard from red core to black sky On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 3:43 AM, Harper, Cynthia wrote: > So, the reason we wanted to proxy

Re: [CODE4LIB] authority work with isni

Wikidata has lots of authority control info and crosswalks many, primarily based on en.wiki edits. See the list at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Authority_control / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Authority_control Wikidata can be queried of batch downloaded. cheers stuart --

Re: [CODE4LIB] Google can give you answers, but librarians give you the right answers

"Google can give you answers, Librarians can help you reflect on your questions" cheers stuart -- ...let us be heard from red core to black sky On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 8:11 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > I sincerely wonder to what extent librarians give the reader > (patrons)

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib mailing list [domain]

On Monday, 28 March 2016, Mark Sandford wrote: > > > > > > > > Everybody, please share with the rest of us your opinion about our > mailing > > list’s domain. This need to move from the University of Notre Dame is a > > possible opportunity to have our list come from the

[CODE4LIB] Every bibliographic test set should contain a reference to this work

Wali, A. (2010), Ethnography for the Digital Age: http://www.YouTube/ Digital Ethnography (Michael Wesch). American Anthropologist, 112: 147–148. doi:10./j.1548-1433.2009.01204.x http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10./j.1548-1433.2009.01204.x/full cheers stuart -- ...let us be heard from

Re: [CODE4LIB] Preserving Digital Objects with Descriptive Metadata

There is a standard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Archival_Information_System Which leads to software like fedora commons. There is also archive.org. For a low annual subscription you can have fine-grained control over regular harvests of your web spaces (including password protected web

Re: [CODE4LIB] Institutional repositories

Others have shared some useful experiences, but I think you need to be clearer about what you're looking for. (a) is this primarily an internal-facing system or for broadcasting your content to the world? (b) are you expecting users to search and find content on the IR, or are you using a

Re: [CODE4LIB] List of Database Subjects

I strongly suggest that participants of this discussion pick up a decent history of library classification systems, since many of the large-scale classification systems started with discussions very much like this History repeating and all that. cheers stuart -- ...let us be heard from red

Re: [CODE4LIB] Forming a Coalition of Libraries running Tor exit nodes: C4L 2016 Breakout Followup

I'd be interested in hearing from non-US folks doing this too. At the end of the day, the Tor network is significantly more secure if the exit nodes are distributed across jurisdictions... cheers stuart -- ...let us be heard from red core to black sky On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 7:52 AM, William

Re: [CODE4LIB] Anyone Doing Interesting Things With Digital Collection Systems?

I have a useful script for pushing OAI feeds into RePCe (http://repec.org/), effectively re-publishing repository contents in some researchers' subject-specific repository. Developed and tested for dspace, should work with other OAI feeds (let me know the OAI if there are some it doesn't work

Re: [CODE4LIB] Best way to handle non-US keyboard chars in URLs?

Use en-wiki style disambiguation? Cheers Stuart On Saturday, 20 February 2016, Andy Kohler wrote: > > > > Interested to hear if there's a 4th, best option. > > > > I don't know about the broader issue - looking forward to that discussion! > But in this example at least,

[CODE4LIB] Best way to handle non-US keyboard chars in URLs?

1) With Unicode 8, sign writing and ASL, the American / international dichotomy is largely specious. Before that there were American indigenous languages (Cheyenne etc.), but in my experience Americans don't usually think of them them as American. 2) Google and friends are more than capable of

Re: [CODE4LIB] VIAF https certs

gt; https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=dx.doi.org < > https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=dx.doi.org> > > Someone seem to be on the job there. > > > On Feb 2, 2016, at 2:32 PM, Stuart A. Yeates <syea...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Th

[CODE4LIB] http://errol.oclc.org/ down ?

http://errol.oclc.org/ appears down for me. http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/oairesolver.html implies that it should be working. cheers stuart -- ...let us be heard from red core to black sky

Re: [CODE4LIB] VIAF https certs

tps://pulse.cio.gov/https/domains/> > > On Feb 1, 2016, at 2:21 PM, Stuart A. Yeates <syea...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Does anyone know of an alerting service for HTTPS certs? Ideally one that > > covers both soon-to-expire certs and > > now-below-recommended-se

Re: [CODE4LIB] VIAF https certs

om: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of > Stuart A. Yeates > Sent: Monday, February 01, 2016 1:53 PM > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Subject: VIAF https certs > > I'm seeing people report issues with the VIAF HTTPS certs, see > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki

[CODE4LIB] VIAF https certs

I'm seeing people report issues with the VIAF HTTPS certs, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template_talk:Authority_control https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=viaf.org gives the site a fail. cheers stuart -- ...let us be heard from red core to black sky

Re: [CODE4LIB] dublin core files

> And yes, I haven’t seen any Dublin Core records “in the wild” either, but based on the information above, they apparently can exist. Thank you. Something like that is used as part of the export/import format in dspace. The Object is a zip file with the content files and metadata files within.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Configuring Koha for better search Results in Arabic

A couple of questions: (a) is 880 indexed for title, author or series in other languages? (b) do you have the arabic language packs installed for the underlying toolkits (Java, PERL, PHP, etc)? (c) have you checked that it isn't a L-to-R vs R-to-L issue? cheers stuart -- ...let us be heard

Re: [CODE4LIB] Recommendations for analytics software?

The real question here is whether any analytics tools are ALA Freedom To Read compliant. I'm reasonable confident the answer is no. Cheers Stuart On Monday, 28 September 2015, Esmé Cowles wrote: > I just wanted to chime in to say that this sounds a lot like "tell me

Re: [CODE4LIB] OCoLC conversion scripts?

Publishing the algorithm would be useful, so we can do checking / normalisation in the Wikipedia authority control scripts (in Lua). Cheers Stuart On Saturday, September 5, 2015, Tom Misilo wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if anyone knows of any scripts that would convert >

Re: [CODE4LIB] Protocol-relative URLs in MARC

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Andrew Anderson and...@lirn.net wrote: That said, there is a big push recently for dropping non-SSL connections in general (going so far as to call the protocol relative URIs an anti-pattern), so is it really worth all the potential pain and suffering to make

[CODE4LIB] Protocol-relative URLs in MARC

I'm in the middle of some work which includes touching the 856s in lots of MARC records pointing to websites we control. The websites are available on both https://example.org/ and http://example.org/ Can I put //example.org/ in the MARC or is this contrary to the standard? Note that there is a

Re: [CODE4LIB] eebo [resolved and coolness!!]

There are a number of shortcuts: 1 the oxgarage web service http://www.tei-c.org/oxgarage/ will do the DOC, HTML, ePub transformation for you (this uses the same stylesheets, I believe) or 2 you can use a web server that speaks xsl 2.0 and do an on-the-fly conversion or 3 you can publish the xml

Re: [CODE4LIB] eebo

The recently released EEBO texts are available as TEI, I suggest you ask on the TEI list. If you want real vanilla htm like conversion, Tei-boilerplate is probably a good place to start. Cheers Stuart On Saturday, June 6, 2015, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: On Jun 5, 2015, at 8:20

Re: [CODE4LIB] XSLT Advice

There are a number of experienced xslt'ers here. Post your example to the group so we can all learn. Cheers Stuart On Wednesday, June 3, 2015, Matt Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I am making a few corrections on an oai_dc.xslt file for our DSpace instance I slightly botched

Re: [CODE4LIB] LC classifications in structured format?

A couple of questions about that: * I notice that only five of the 21 letter classes are listed. Is this a work in progress of am I missing something? * Is that avaliable as a bulk download? cheers stuart -- ...let us be heard from red core to black sky On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 2:14 PM,

Re: [CODE4LIB] How to measure quality of a record

Here in .nz the national library runs a local aggregation service http://digitalnz.org/ which has quite good penetration into schools and so forth. It provides some metadata quality reports such as http://metadata.digitalnz.org/nzresearch/127 for sources it aggregates (that report is actually

Re: [CODE4LIB] making EZproxy http/https transparent

SWITCH Inc 414-382-6711 -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Stuart A. Yeates Sent: Monday, March 2, 2015 5:27 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] making EZproxy http/https transparent In the last couple

[CODE4LIB] making EZproxy http/https transparent

In the last couple of months we've had to update a number of EZproxy stanzas as either tools migrate to HTTPS-only or people try to access HTTP/HTTPS parallel resources using browsers that automatically detect HTTP/HTTPS parallel resources and switch users to the HTTPS version (think current

[CODE4LIB] Structured help platform recommendations?

I'm looking for recommendations for a structured help platform. By that I mean a tool by which a broad range of staff can create, edit, inter-link, classify and maintain a set of structured documentation for fixing problems and resolving issues. Open source, closed source and hosted solutions

[CODE4LIB] Exporting MARCXML from OJS

There is a bug report at http://pkp.sfu.ca/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9019 where a bunch of us are hammering out what changes are necessary to OJS to make it export useful authority control information in MARCXML records in the OAI feeds. If that's the kind of thing that interests you, or you know

Re: [CODE4LIB] know of guidelines for contributing to open source projects?

OSS Watch is a JISC-funded, Oxford, UK-based service that is funded to answer questions like this: http://oss-watch.ac.uk/ cheers stuart -- ...let us be heard from red core to black sky On Fri, Jan 9, 2015 at 1:22 PM, John A. Kunze j...@ucop.edu wrote: Does anyone have existing institutional

[CODE4LIB] [RESOLVED] Re: HTTPS EZproxy question / RFC 6125

at 9:24 AM, Stuart A. Yeates syea...@gmail.com wrote: Some resources are only available only via HTTPS. Previously we used a wildcard certificate, I can't swear that it was ever tested as working, but we weren't getting any complaints. Recently browser security has been tightened and RFC 6125

[CODE4LIB] HTTPS EZproxy question / RFC 6125

Some resources are only available only via HTTPS. Previously we used a wildcard certificate, I can't swear that it was ever tested as working, but we weren't getting any complaints. Recently browser security has been tightened and RFC 6125 has appeared and been implemented and proxing of https

[CODE4LIB] WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway from OCLC.org

WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway from OCLC.org from the 132.174.* subnet used to make regular appearances in my logs, but visits no more. There is a visitor Apache-HttpClient/4.0.1 (java 1.5) from a similar subnet. If this is a renaming, it's not an improvement. cheers stuart -- ...let us be

[CODE4LIB] OAI harvesters, please use URLs in User Agent Strings

I've been looking at the logs for our OAI server and I'd like to appeal to those harvesting over OAI to put URLs into the user agent string. Putting the name of your project into the user agent string seems like a great way to build profile. It also avoids the situation where the easiest way to