[CODE4LIB] Looking for an Elag 2010 workshop moderator

2010-03-18 Thread Boheemen, Peter van
The program for Elag 2010 is almost completed, but we are still looking for somebody who would be willing to moderate a workshop on: 'Tweaking search results relevance ranking' A workshop leader at Elag conferences prepares a starting document that will help to discuss a topic during the workshop

Re: [CODE4LIB] Variations/FRBR project relases FRBR XML Schemas

2010-03-18 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
Karen Coyle wrote: Quoting Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu: So there's no way to call an aggregate a Work/Expression _instead of_ a manifestation, if that aggregate is an actual physical item in your hand. No, no one said instead of. What the RDA folks (that is, the folks who

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter [MARC-JSON]

2010-03-18 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
So do you think the marc-hash-to-json proto-spec should suggest that the encoding HAS to be UTF-8, or should it leave it open to anything that's legal JSON? (Is there a problem I don't know about with expressing characters outside of the Basic Multilingual Plane in UTF-8? Any unicode char

Re: [CODE4LIB] Variations/FRBR project relases FRBR XML Schemas

2010-03-18 Thread Karen Coyle
Quoting Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu: Karen Coyle wrote: I think the confusion is that I believe there are MORE THAN ONE wemi element involved in an agregate. Collected Works of John Doe (Work1) expressed by: Collected Works of John Doe (first edition) (Expression1)

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter [MARC-JSON]

2010-03-18 Thread Dan Scott
I hate Groupwise for forcing me to top-post. Yes, you are right about everything. Limiting MARC-HASH to just UTF8, rather than supporting the full range of encodings allowed by JSON, probably makes it easier to generate and parse; it will bloat the size of the format for characters outside of

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter [MARC-JSON]

2010-03-18 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
Oh, I wasn't actually suggesting limiting to UTF-8 was the right way to go, I was asking your opinion! It's not at all clear to me, but if your opinion is that UTF-8 is indeed the right way to go, that's comforting. :) Bandwidth _does_ matter I think, it's primarily intended as a

Re: [CODE4LIB] Variations/FRBR project relases FRBR XML Schemas

2010-03-18 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: Karen Coyle wrote: naturally favors the package over the contents. So we'll have some works that are what users think of as works, and other works that represent the publisher's package -- which sometimes will be something that makes sense

Re: [CODE4LIB] Variations/FRBR project relases FRBR XML Schemas

2010-03-18 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
Joe Hourcle wrote: The group's two proposals were to model aggregates as works, or as manifestatons, so RDA seems to be on their own modeling them as expressions: See, this is what I don't understa.d As works, or as manifestations?? In the FRBR model, every single manifestation belongs

Re: [CODE4LIB] Variations/FRBR project relases FRBR XML Schemas

2010-03-18 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: Joe Hourcle wrote: The group's two proposals were to model aggregates as works, or as manifestatons, so RDA seems to be on their own modeling them as expressions: See, this is what I don't understa.d As works, or as manifestations?? In the