Just a reminder that Code4Lib Midwest is coming up, July 14 & 15. There is
space for more attendees and content!
Please sign up on the wiki[1], or contact me directly and I can sign you up.
-Tod
[1] http://wiki.code4lib.org/2016_Code4Lib_Midwest_Meeting
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can both be found on the 2016 Code4Lib
Midwest page:
http://wiki.code4lib.org/2016_Code4Lib_Midwest_Meeting
We look forward to seeing you in July!
-Tod
Tod Olson <t...@uchicago.edu<mailto:t...@uchicago.edu>>
Systems Librarian
Interim Director for Integrated Lib
for either set of dates?
Best,
-Tod
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There’s also something to be said for the Unix pipeline/filter model of
processing. That way of breaking down a task into small steps, wiring little
programs to filter the data for each step, building up the solution
iteratively, essentially a form of function composition. Immedidately, you can
There’s a nice “fork me on github” banner on the test site, so someone
motivated could at least check the (purported) code and set up their
own checker. So at least they have an implicit “you don’t need to trust
us” sign.
-Tod
On Apr 8, 2014, at 10:00 AM, Francis Kayiwa fkay...@colgate.edu
Live dangerously!
-Tod
On Jan 27, 2014, at 6:58 PM, Andreas Orphanides akorp...@ncsu.edu wrote:
I thought that GOTO was considered harmful.
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Josh Wilson joshwilso...@gmail.com wrote:
Congratulations to Chris Markman for his winning idea!
On protecting using Shib to protect a servlet under Tomcat:
https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/NativeSPJavaInstall
-Tod
On Dec 2, 2013, at 11:11 AM, Simon Spero sesunc...@gmail.com
wrote:
Atlassian Crowd (if you have jira or confluence you may already have this
licensed).
I'd suggest contacting the vendor. Whoever handles your the electronic
subscriptions will have some relationship with a customer rep. Explain what
you're trying to do and you might get the customer rep to advocate for you.
-Tod
On Nov 14, 2013, at 9:30 AM, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu
straightforward for this split-and-transform scenario
would be welcome.
On a related note, any thoughts on your favorite light-weight key/value pair
persistent storage for Java would be welcome. I expect the data to be a little
large for a serialized HashMap.
Best,
-Tod
Tod Olson t...@uchicago.edu
to bibliographic
information. That serves as the database of record and point of maintenance.
Then we can automatically generate METS files from that.
Best,
-Tod
Tod Olson t...@uchicago.edu
Systems Librarian
University of Chicago Library
On Sep 6, 2013, at 6:15 AM, Esmé Cowles escow...@ucsd.edu
Also, be advised that current work on marc4j is happening over at Github, so
for the most recent code:
https://github.com/marc4j/marc4j
-Tod
On Aug 9, 2013, at 12:40 PM, Jonah Bull jonahb...@gmail.com
wrote:
There's a pretty good example included in the samples section of the
source (
Try the -e switch on MARCgrep.
-Tod
On May 16, 2013, at 5:38 AM, dasos ili dasos_...@yahoo.gr
wrote:
i suppose there is not anything to retrieve the values of the subfields $a,
etc
Απο: Stefano Bargioni bargi...@pusc.it
Προς:
# print a count of value
-Tod
On May 16, 2013, at 6:07 AM, dasos ili dasos_...@yahoo.gr
wrote:
but this code cannot tell me how many times the gre value in subfield $a,
character position 7 8 9 for example
Απο: Tod Olson t...@uchicago.edu
Προς
I'll also point out that the Diebolt-o-tron is used for all sorts of
code4lib voting. Usually there are many options, as with conference
proposals and t-shirt design. I will grant that weighted voting may
seem a bit over-flexible when there are only two options, but it works
quite well as a
C4L,
Does anyone have some code they'd be willing to share that normalizes SuDoc
numbers for sorting?
Best,
-Tod
Tod Olson t...@uchicago.edumailto:t...@uchicago.edu
Systems Librarian
University of Chicago Library
cod-for-lib, anyone?
-Tod
On Feb 13, 2013, at 6:55 PM, Jay Luker lb...@reallywow.com
wrote:
People, people.
Can we agree that lib is simply easier to say than libe due to the
shorter vowel sound?
Can we also agree than the best coders are, by nature, lazy?
Therefore, lib wins. All
My wiki account is messed up, so I can't add this, but here's some info to work
with:
Chicago Q
1160 N Dearborn St
Chicago, IL 60610
Here's a
I've had (and have again) the same problem. Ryan has intervened a couple times
over the years, but it seems to come back, and has again. Unclear whether it is
in the wiki, or somewhere in the email delivery stream (what with blacklists
and such these days).
-Tod
On Feb 6, 2013, at 5:16 PM,
and searching of the lists come out. We could certainly build
something ourselves, but if something already exists, we'd love to take a look
at it.
Best,
-Tod
Tod Olson t...@uchicago.edu
Systems Librarian
University of Chicago Library
into SubjectsPlus, and you could then manage it via the usual
SP admin. Drop me a line if you want more info.
Andrew
[1] http://www.subjectsplus.com
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Tod Olson t...@uchicago.edu wrote:
Code4Lib,
What, short of a full-blown ERM, are you using to manage and provide
Bring your Java skills to Chicago! The University of Chicago Library is looking
for an Applications Systems Analyst/Programmer to work with us as we implement
Kuali OLE. Details are below.
-Tod
Tod Olson t...@uchicago.edu
Systems Librarian
University of Chicago Library
https
It has to mean UTF-8. ISO 2709 is very byte-oriented, from the directory
structure to the byte-offsets in the fixed fields. The values in these places
all assume 8-bit character data, it's completely baked in to the file format.
-Tod
On Apr 17, 2012, at 6:55 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
In practice it seems to mean UTF-8. At least I've only seen UTF-8, and I can't
imagine the code that processes this stuff being safe for UTF-16 or UTF-32. All
of the offsets are byte-oriented, and there's too much legacy code that makes
assumption about null-terminated strings.
-Tod
On Apr
If you do continue down the MS SQL road, bear in mind that MS SQL is basically
a fork of Sybase, and they share Transact SQL. So most of the Sybase
Transact-SQL documentation will apply. You can find the Sybase Transact-SQL
User's Guide at:
of catalog link maintenance, or
if there's some link checking software that you've had good experiences with,
or if there's some related experience you'd like to share, I'd like to hear
about it.
Thanks,
-Tod
Tod Olson t...@uchicago.edu
Systems Librarian
University of Chicago Library
debut,
including a numerical analysis of most popular content areas, and a
heatmap-based analysis of user interaction patterns with the kiosk's interface
components.
http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/5832
-Tod
Tod Olson t...@uchicago.edu
Systems Librarian
University of Chicago Library
other large
piece of software.
-Tod
Tod Olson t...@uchicago.edu
Systems Librarian
University of Chicago Library
On Jan 12, 2012, at 1:56 PM, Genny Engel wrote:
Todd, you might want to check out Marshall Breeding's annual ILS survey
results:
http://www.librarytechnology.org
Off the cuff, I think you're looking for
f(x) = (x-m) * 255 / (M-m)
where M is the maximum in the input data set, m in the minimum, and x is the
number in hand.
-Tod
On Dec 20, 2011, at 10:57 AM, Nate Hill wrote:
Here's a brain teaser for the mathematically inclined:
I've got a set of
On Dec 14, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Ross Singer wrote:
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Mark A. Matienzo m...@matienzo.org wrote:
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Ethan Gruber ewg4x...@gmail.com wrote:
How much futzing around is required on MacOS since it doesn't have a good
package manager?
at coloradolibrariesjournal.org. This article will!
discuss both the benefits and challenges of transitioning to an open access
model and the choice Drupal as a platform over other more established journal
software options.
Tod Olson
Coordinating Editor, Issue 15
Code4Lib Journal
Call for Papers (and apologies for cross-posting):
The Code4Lib Journal (C4LJ) exists to foster community and share
information among those interested in the intersection of libraries,
technology, and the future.
We are now accepting proposals for publication in our 15 issue.
Don't miss out on
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-Tod
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-Tod
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University of Chicago Library
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this error allowing me to move on, or 2) figure out how to open the file
correctly.
Tod Olson t...@uchicago.edu
Systems Librarian
University of Chicago Library
can probably guess why I care if it's from the LC Classified
Schedule or not].
Tod Olson t...@uchicago.edu
Systems Librarian
University of Chicago Library
project which may give you some ideas for additional experiments. [2,3]
-Tod
[1] http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/3/2/42/42.html
[2] http://lingcog.iit.edu/pub_year.xml
[3] http://code.google.com/p/philomine/wiki/Bibliography
Tod Olson t...@uchicago.edu
Systems Librarian
University
don't actually own. It's an understandable reaction.
-Tod
Tod Olson t...@uchicago.edu
Systems Librarian
University of Chicago Library
On May 3, 2010, at 1:08 PM, Bill Dueber wrote:
I got email from a person today saying, and I quote,
I must say that [the lack of a browse interface] come
Some of that stuff is in Appendix H of the online documentation:
http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bdapndxh.html
-Tod
On Jan 27, 2010, at 1:59 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
I know I've seen documetnation on the LC site before for since-abandoned
marc bib tags, like 400. But I
The yaz-marcdump utility[1], included in the YAZ toolkit[2], should work and
I've found it to be blindingly fast.
-Tod
[1] http://www.indexdata.com/yaz/doc/yaz-marcdump.html
[2] http://www.indexdata.com/yaz
Tod Olson t...@uchicago.edu
Systems Librarian
University of Chicago Library
On Jan 26
On Jan 5, 2010, at 3:36 PM, Tod Olson wrote:
One of our staff needs to learn PHP, and an online course is preferred. Is
there an online PHP course that any of you would recommend?
Thanks to the list for all of the responses. Very helpful.
-Tod
Tod Olson t...@uchicago.edu
Systems
One of our staff needs to learn PHP, and an online course is preferred. Is
there an online PHP course that any of you would recommend?
-Tod
Tod Olson t...@uchicago.edu
Systems Librarian
University of Chicago Library
Only for certain subfields:
Dash (-) that precedes a subdivision in an extended 600 subject
heading is not carried in the MARC record. It may be system generated
as a display constant associated with the content of subfield $v, $x,
$y, and $z.
From
from the double dashes.
-Tod
Tod Olson wrote:
Only for certain subfields:
Dash (-) that precedes a subdivision in an extended 600 subject
heading is not carried in the MARC record. It may be system
generated as a display constant associated with the content of
subfield $v, $x, $y
, forgiving of common MARC
errors, and changes the coding correctly. It's been serving us well.
-Tod
Tod Olson t...@uchicago.edu
Systems Librarian
University of Chicago Library
Aside from being chronically slow, I think the Coast Starlight is
still out of service due to the mudslide south of Eugene at the end of
January. Apparently Union Pacific, who owns the track, had/is having
problems laying new track.
-Tod
Tod Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Systems Librarian
University
You mean, feedback beyond you guys rock?
-Tod
On Sep 24, 2007, at Sep 24, 7:18 PM, Ed Summers wrote:
It's funny this subject just came up on one of the open-library
discussion lists this week [1]. A whiles ago now Rob Sanderson, Brian
Rhea (University of Liverpool) and I pulled down the LC
not to key in
the whole thing.
Tod Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Systems Librarian
University of Chicago Library
and not making other changes to the records, give
yaz-marcdump a try.
--Jason Ronallo
On 7/20/07, Tod Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
code4lib,
Would any of you have a script for converting MARC records from MARC
ANSEL to UTF-8 that you would be willing to share?
I have millions of MARC records
in another time zone.
-Tod
On Jan 19, 2007, at 5:58 AM, Tod Olson wrote:
On Jan 19, 2007, at 4:07 AM, Erik Hatcher wrote:
On Jan 17, 2007, at 3:26 PM, Andrew Nagy wrote:
One thing I am hoping that can come out of the preconference is a
standard XSLT doc. I sat down with my metadata librarian
is acceptable, it should
solve
the table part of the problem. Check for div.datum, I think, in the
CSS.
NB: this was someone else's work.
Tod Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Programmer/Analyst
University of Chicago Library
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