Sorry if this has already been discussed, but does anyone know when we
should expect the videos of the conference talks to be available, and
where were should look for them?
Thanks,
_/|____
/o ) \/ Mike Taylorm
makes good movies to give a Best Picture Oscar reliably, either, but
that doesn't stop them taking their best guess.
_/|____
/o ) \/ Mike Taylorm...@indexdata.comhttp://www.miketaylor.org.uk
)_v__/\ Examining Work No 88
!
_/|____
/o ) \/ Mike Taylorm...@indexdata.comhttp://www.miketaylor.org.uk
)_v__/\ I am not so much afraid of death, as ashamed thereof -- Sir
Thomas Browne (1605-1682), English physician and author.
with this?
We're talking about an identifier.
_/|____
/o ) \/ Mike Taylorm...@indexdata.comhttp://www.miketaylor.org.uk
)_v__/\ You can never go back -- only forwards, or stand still.
in similar or even identical syntax is an accident of
history. Surely our experiences with XML namespaces (which do not
exist) have taught us that?
_/|____
/o ) \/ Mike Taylorm...@indexdata.comhttp
at the location
which happens to be indicated by that URI :-)
_/|____
/o ) \/ Mike Taylorm...@indexdata.comhttp://www.miketaylor.org.uk
)_v__/\ You can also join us online at www.msnbc.com. You know,
I'm always afraid I'm
, when you can't rely on having that extra bit of data
floating around alongside the actual identifier (as in the OpenURL
rft_id example) it's nice to have identifiers that are
self-describing.
_/|____
/o ) \/ Mike Taylorm
I can tell
you:
http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/dino/pubs/
Instead of having to say:
www.miketaylor.org.uk/dino/pubs/
Oh, by the way, access this using HTTP rather than FTP.
_/|____
/o ) \/ Mike Taylor
a registration process, like I can with http:
URLs. Something like info:bydomain:miketaylor.org.uk/someSchema/1.0)
_/|____
/o ) \/ Mike Taylorm...@indexdata.comhttp://www.miketaylor.org.uk
)_v__/\ You have to take me
.
_/|____
/o ) \/ Mike Taylorm...@indexdata.comhttp://www.miketaylor.org.uk
)_v__/\ In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should
be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt -- Blair
?
Anyway, we're way off the subject now -- I guess if we want to argue
about the utility of PURL we could get a room :-)
_/|____
/o ) \/ Mike Taylorm...@indexdata.comhttp://www.miketaylor.org.uk
)_v__/\ The cladistic
the P in PURL stand for again?
_/|____
/o ) \/ Mike Taylorm...@indexdata.comhttp://www.miketaylor.org.uk
)_v__/\ Wagner's music is nowhere near as bad as it sounds -- Mark
Twain.
An account that has a depressing ring of accuracy to it.
Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress writes:
You're right, if there were a web: URI scheme, the world would be a
better place. But it's not, and the world is worse off for it.
It shouldn't surprise anyone that I am sympathetic to
was saying back at the start
of the thread. This means that I have -- *gasp* -- changed my mind!
Is this a first on the Internet? :-)
_/|____
/o ) \/ Mike Taylorm...@indexdata.comhttp://www.miketaylor.org.uk
)_v__
no difference to anything that
we actually care about.
_/|____
/o ) \/ Mike Taylorm...@indexdata.comhttp://www.miketaylor.org.uk
)_v__/\ _Scelidosaurus_ [is] vastly more important for understanding
dinosaur anatomy
Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress writes:
From: Mike Taylor m...@indexdata.com
... anyway, all of this is far, far away from the point. MARC is old
and ugly yes; but then so am I,
I don't think you're old, Mike.
And _I_ don't think _you're_ ugly
simultaneously have mass adoption and rigor.
I hope one day I can come up with eight words as pithy as that.
_/|____
/o ) \/ Mike Taylorm...@indexdata.comhttp://www.miketaylor.org.uk
)_v__/\ Good craftsmanship may not be art
? My metaphor
has skidded off the track? Oh well.
_/|____
/o ) \/ Mike Taylorm...@indexdata.comhttp://www.miketaylor.org.uk
)_v__/\ Are you suggesting that coconuts migrate? -- Monty Python and
the Holy Grail.
much Oracle
proposes to involve themselves in the maintenance and development
process.
_/|____
/o ) \/ Mike Taylorm...@indexdata.comhttp://www.miketaylor.org.uk
)_v__/\ Stay tuned for exciting news about chicken
.
_/|____
/o ) \/ Mike Taylorm...@indexdata.comhttp://www.miketaylor.org.uk
)_v__/\ Sorry if my English didn't good enough to well explain my idea
-- Ronachai Pratanaphon.
Yitzchak Schaffer writes:
Andrew Nagy wrote:
Summon is really
Eric Lease Morgan writes:
On Apr 21, 2009, at 10:40 AM, Mike Taylor wrote:
I, and most of the people I've worked with, have been using the terms
metasearch, federated search, broadcast search and distributed
search synonymously for years. Have they now settled down into
having
) are
calling local indexes?
_/|____
/o ) \/ Mike Taylorm...@indexdata.comhttp://www.miketaylor.org.uk
)_v__/\ ... about as similar as two completely dissimilar things in a
pod -- Black Adder.
) \/ Mike Taylorm...@indexdata.comhttp://www.miketaylor.org.uk
)_v__/\ Not raw -- cooked -- Monty Python's Flying Circus.
.
_/|____
/o ) \/ Mike Taylorm...@indexdata.comhttp://www.miketaylor.org.uk
)_v__/\ I try to take one day at a time, but sometimes several days
attack me at once -- Ashleigh Brilliant.
the number of implementers is likely in double figures.
_/|____
/o ) \/ Mike Taylorm...@indexdata.comhttp://www.miketaylor.org.uk
)_v__/\ Diagnosing: it is OK. -- wonderful diagnostic from _something_
in my
all of
these identifiers to the new namespace.
Oh, gosh, no, introducing yet ANOTHER set of identifiers is really not
the answer! :-)
_/|____
/o ) \/ Mike Taylorm...@indexdata.comhttp://www.miketaylor.org.uk
)_v__
, which will then be more strongly positioned
as The Right Identifiers for other initiatives to use.
_/|____
/o ) \/ Mike Taylorm...@indexdata.comhttp://www.miketaylor.org.uk
)_v__/\ You cannot really appreciate Dilbert
... it's crazy, but it might just work.
I bet no-one does it, though.
_/|____
/o ) \/ Mike Taylorm...@indexdata.comhttp://www.miketaylor.org.uk
)_v__/\ Someday, I'll show you around monster-free Tokyo -- dialogue
as a 300 dpi image.
If you want real 300 dpi images, at anything like the quality you get
from a flatbed scanner, then you're going to need cameras much more
expensive than $100.
_/|____
/o ) \/ Mike Taylorm...@indexdata.com
is not the electronics, which tends to fall rapidly in price, but the
lens, which does not. Still, fingers crossed.
_/|____
/o ) \/ Mike Taylorm...@indexdata.comhttp://www.miketaylor.org.uk
)_v__/\ It seems to me absurd
?
_/|____
/o ) \/ Mike Taylorm...@indexdata.comhttp://www.miketaylor.org.uk
)_v__/\ It takes a certain kind of bad writer to write badly sincerely
-- Richard Sherbaniuk.
to have. But since we live in a formal
world, the Topics Map approach may be more practical.
In other words, I might end up _advocating_ Topic Maps, but don't
expect me to _like_ it :-)
_/|____
/o ) \/ Mike Taylorm
to
define a separate identitifier for a format.
_/|____
/o ) \/ Mike Taylorm...@indexdata.comhttp://www.miketaylor.org.uk
)_v__/\ ... currently trading under the name Gently for reasons which it
would be otiose
.
_/|____
/o ) \/ Mike Taylorm...@indexdata.comhttp://www.miketaylor.org.uk
)_v__/\ I think there is a world market for maybe five computers --
Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM (1943, also attributed 1958).
Sol Lederman writes:
I wouldn't assume that the DNS
that version will be in a format that I can watch!
Thanks,
_/|____
/o ) \/ Mike Taylorm...@indexdata.comhttp://www.miketaylor.org.uk
)_v__/\ Two fat blokes in pub / First fat bloke says, Your round,
mate / Friend
.
_/|____
/o ) \/ Mike Taylorm...@indexdata.comhttp://www.miketaylor.org.uk
)_v__/\ Orthogonality uber alles!
Mike Taylor writes:
Nate Vack writes:
OK, here's one for y'all,
Anyone know of a source of historical journal value data? I've seen
the OMG Article Costs Will Bury Libraries graph a million times, but
I've only ever seen spotty data points for cost/article or
cost
Alpha with a dozen queries off the top of
my head, and EVERY SINGLE ONE of them gave Wolfram|Alpha isn't sure
what to do with your input.
So I was less impressed than you.
_/|____
/o ) \/ Mike Taylorm...@indexdata.com
act like a half-decent text-search engine.
_/|____
/o ) \/ Mike Taylorm...@indexdata.comhttp://www.miketaylor.org.uk
)_v__/\ The Pope claimed he'd been wrong in the past; this was a big
surprise -- Sting
,
_/|____
/o ) \/ Mike Taylorm...@indexdata.comhttp://www.miketaylor.org.uk
)_v__/\ Can't someone act COMPLETELY OUT OF CHARACTER without arousing
suspicion? -- Bob the Angry Flower, www.angryflower.com
.
_/|____
/o ) \/ Mike Taylorm...@indexdata.comhttp://www.miketaylor.org.uk
)_v__/\ When I can't fondle the hand I'm fond of, I fondle the hand at
hand -- E. Y. Harburg, Finian's Rainbow
2009/7/22 John Fereira ja...@cornell.edu:
Some good answers so far...
First, regarding books. While the suggestion of avoiding dumbed downed
books has some merit it is worth noting the distinction between books that
are primarily used for reference and books that are more about theory. I
2009/7/22 Jacob skoc...@gmail.com:
These are books that I have come back to time and time again. They
contain treasures worth a hundred time more than whatever currently
trendy Design Pattern is being pushed by this month's hot book.
You surely don't mean the GoF classic here, do you? It's a
2009/7/23 Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu:
I suggest Richard Stahlman because: 1) he has repeatedly expressed an
interest in attending, and 2) he apparently wants to tell us the real/true
meaning of free and open source software.
That would be AWESOME.
2009/9/14 O.Stephens o.steph...@open.ac.uk:
However, we also want to use OpenURL even where the reference is to a more
straightforward web resource - e.g. a web page such as http://www.bbc.co.uk.
This is in order to ensure that links provided in the course material are
persistent over time.
2009/9/14 Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu:
Seriously, don't use OpenURL unless you really can't find anything else that
will do, or you actually want your OpenURLs to be used by the existing 'in
the wild' OpenURL resolvers. In the latter case, don't count on them doing
anything in
On 25 February 2010 12:07, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote:
http://eric.clst.org/C4L/FirstLook
Alas, I tried to post a comment to your First Look but I got an error upon
submission. My comment is below:
I believe your assessment is right on target.
Code4Lib is mostly about
On 8 March 2010 17:04, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote:
As usual, I'm great at sending the WORST messages to the wrong list. My
email client is messing up all over. Please do not reply to that one on
list, please ignore it, and Eric please remove it from teh archives is
possible.
Newbie programmers (and established ones still looking to improve)
might be interested in this blog article that I wrote a few days ago
about some of the best programmers I've had the privilege of working
with:
I was going to start this post with I couldn't disagree more, but on
sober reflection I am going to go with the more conciliatory Let me
offer an alternative perspective.
For someone who is just starting out in programming, I think the very
last thing you want is a verbose language that makes you
For whatever little it may be worth, I'm finding that the (to me)
noise on this list is greatly outweighing the signal at the moment,
because of all the regional stuff. I'd welcome a splitting of the
list.
On 8 April 2010 13:28, Ranti Junus ranti.ju...@gmail.com wrote:
I have no preference
Folks,
I want to run a simple repository on a Debian Stable box -- something
that lets me and other authorized people upload PDFs and create and
edit metadata describing them, and that lets anyone search the archive
and download the PDFs. In short, I want something like DSpace or
EPrints,
Thanks to all who responded to this. I went with EPrints, using the
Debian/Ubuntu package pointed out by Thomas and others, and it seems
to be working OK.
On 8 April 2010 16:25, Thomas Krichel kric...@openlib.org wrote:
Mike Taylor writes
I was surprised to find that there seems
On 29 April 2010 13:17, MJ Suhonos m...@suhonos.ca wrote:
The OpenURL specification is a 119 page PDF - that alone is a reason to run
away as fast as you can.
The main reason for this is because OpenURL can do much, much, much more than
the simple resolve a unique copy use case that
Having read the rest of this thread, I find that nothing that's been
said changes my initial gut reaction on reading this question: DO NOT
USE DCTERMS. It's vocabulary is Just Plain Inadequate, and not only
for esoteric cases like the Alternative Chronological Designation of
First Issue or Part
On 4 May 2010 13:19, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 7:55 AM, Mike Taylor m...@indexdata.com wrote:
Having read the rest of this thread, I find that nothing that's been
said changes my initial gut reaction on reading this question: DO NOT
USE DCTERMS. It's
On 18 May 2010 15:24, Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress r...@loc.gov wrote:
There is no synchronous operation in SRU.
As for federated search .
To digress a moment, you may recall -- I believe it was on this list --
there was discussion (maybe a year ago?) of what that even means and
On 18 May 2010 16:29, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote:
Mike Taylor wrote:
What communities?
All I know is we here on this very list had some people _insisting_ that
federated search _really_ meant aggregated index, and meta search
_really_ meant broadcast search, and other people
Isn't that pretty much what dc:relation is for? From
http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/#elements-relation
Label: Relation
Definition: A related resource.
Comment:Recommended best practice is to identify the related resource
by means of a string conforming to a formal
We have now used one third of today's allocation in discussing the
size of the daily allocation. Just sayin', is all.
On 28 October 2010 01:04, Peter Murray peter.mur...@lyrasis.org wrote:
David --
I think we need to test the last assumption against the real code. While it
is a rational
On 28 October 2010 17:37, MJ Suhonos m...@suhonos.ca wrote:
Let me openly state that I've never used Turbomarc. I believe the special
case they are referring to is the subfield code with a value of η, which
is non-alphanumeric. I don't know enough about MARC to even begin guessing
what
On 14 January 2011 16:28, Joel Marchesoni jma...@email.wcu.edu wrote:
Hey Everyone,
I'm working on optimizing our CSS files and can't find anything about this on
the web. I know that some browsers/systems have issues with really long lines
in files and wanted to get some opinions about
One reason persistent IDs are better than persistent URLs is that you
can Google them. You see this with DOIs: it's true that there is a
well-known resolution service that you can use for DOIs if you're so
inclined, but actually a simple web-search for, say, 10.1144/SP343.22
will get you what you
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 definite ... but Postel's Law is a good
guideline, especially with the swamp of bad MARC, old MARC, alternate
MARC, that's out there. Valid MARC is valid
On 11 April 2011 16:40, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote:
XML well-formedness and validity checks can't find badly encoded characters
either -- char data that claims to be one encoding but is really another, or
that has been double-encoded and now means something different than
Seth Godin is not a library professional -- he's a marketing guru with
a string of best-selling books and a blog that manages to be both
insightful AND brief on an astonishingly consistent basis.
(http://sethgodin.typepad.com/ -- highly recommended). So he's
outside the library world, looking in,
On 19 May 2011 12:31, Andreas Orphanides andreas_orphani...@ncsu.edu wrote:
- I think there's a fear of a slippery slope and/or information overload: How
do you assess the whole realm of freely-available stuff?
I dunno. How do you assess the whole realm of proprietary stuff?
Wouldn't the same
...@ncsu.edu wrote:
On 5/19/2011 7:36 AM, Mike Taylor wrote:
I dunno. How do you assess the whole realm of proprietary stuff?
Wouldn't the same approach work for free stuff?
-- Mike.
A fair question. I think there's maybe at least two parts: marketing and
bundling.
Marketing is of course
On 20 May 2011 15:35, 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 lists of their
visitors' IP addresses (or hostnames) and to also allow such lists to
be indexable by search engines?
Zebra does. http://indexdata.com/zebra/
On 3 June 2011 20:19, Reese, Terry terry.re...@oregonstate.edu wrote:
Yes, but only if the server you are using supports the z39.50 extended
attributes. However, few commercial ils systems seem to support it by
default.
Tr
So far as I can make out from the element descriptions at
http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/userguide/origininfo.html
and related pages, there seems to be no way to express in MODS who the
copyright holder of a work is -- which seems strange, as you CAN state
the copyright date.
Am I
this to express the copyright status
of the item's abstract?
-- Mike.
Cheers,
Ben Florin
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Mike Taylor m...@indexdata.com wrote:
So far as I can make out from the element descriptions at
http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/userguide/origininfo.html
and related
On 13 June 2011 18:39, Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress r...@loc.gov wrote:
From: Mike Taylor
Any thoughts on how I might use this to express the copyright status of
the item's abstract?
One way, that I have heard discussed (though I don't know if anyone is doing
it) is to represent
Isn't this pretty much what FreshMeat is for?
http://freshmeat.net/
-- Mike.
On 15 July 2011 19:42, Peter Murray peter.mur...@lyrasis.org wrote:
Colleagues --
As part of the Mellon Foundation grant funding the start-up of LYRASIS
Technology Services, LTS is establishing a registry
On 20 July 2011 22:47, Laura Smart laura.j.sm...@gmail.com wrote:
Esme (and all)
Would Jenn Riley Devin Becker's metadata standards visualization
have been helpful to you if it had been available back in the day?
http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/~jenlrile/metadatamap/
Perhaps a detailed sub-set
On 29 July 2011 14:00, Cowles, Esme escow...@ucsd.edu wrote:
I think most of the focus on C in this discussion is because that's what the
OP had available. The consensus seems to be: C isn't the language you would
pick if you had your choice, but if that's what's available, it's a fine
On 2 August 2011 17:48, Nathan Tallman ntall...@gmail.com P.S.
Off-topic, but what do you prefer open source or open-source. I'm
not sure which is most correct.
Use open-source (with a hyphen) when it's functioning a compound
adjective modifying a noun, as in we prefer to use open-source
Not the kind of suggestion you're looking for, I know, but as a
broader philosophical point ...
I wonder how much of the infrastructure we're building now to manage
access rights, including dark achives like CLOCKSS, is going to end up
looking rather quaint and old-fashioned as the progress
Joann,
This is horrible news, and you have my sympathy. It's very strange to
think how recently we all thought of LibLime as being among the Good
Guys.
My position on this is that the name is probably not worth as much as
it feels that it's worth. I can understand why as the originators you
On 22 November 2011 19:32, MJ Ray m...@phonecoop.coop wrote:
Mike Taylor m...@indexdata.com
So your best bet may be to shrug and let them have the old name for
their proprietary fork. Just come up with a new name for the open
codebase, let the world know, and move on with doing more useful
I was at a one-day conference hosted by the British Library a few
months ago, on the use of Linked Data in libraries. There were about
50 people there in total. It became apparent that between us we
represented AT LAST ten separate projects (or parts of bigger project)
for converting MARC data
On 5 December 2011 13:17, Emily Lynema emily_lyn...@ncsu.edu wrote:
A colleague approached me this morning with an interesting question that I
realized I didn't know how to answer. How are open source projects in the
library community dancing around technologies that may have been patented
by
On 5 December 2011 14:34, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote:
IMHO, the idea of intellectual property on things that can be duplicated
without any sort of degradation -- like software -- is absolutely absurd and
bogus. --Eric Morgan
No argument there.
But arguably even worse is that
I have heard that it's best not to acknowledge receipt of such letters
at all. Can anyone confirm or deny that?
-- Mike.
On 6 December 2011 14:46, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com wrote:
I once got a cease and desist letter from a legal firm defending someone's
trademark for metadata. I
I'll throw in another +1 for Ubuntu. Among the mainstream
distributions, it's the one that makes the most effort to set things
in the Do What You Want way that Apple is so good at.
Regarding hardware: remember that ALL computer hardware these days is
insanely over-specced. So buy last year's
Yes, my feeling exactly.
In fact, I WAS registered, once a upon a time, but it seems the system
has forgotten my old username/password. And I really don't want to
re-register just to look at T-shirts.
-- Mike.
On 14 December 2011 17:10, LeVan,Ralph le...@oclc.org wrote:
It's a shame you
Why?
On 31 January 2012 16:41, Elizabeth Duell edu...@uoregon.edu wrote:
We are within 3 working days of the start of a national conference. It is
not an accepted business process anywhere to be changing a participant list
this close to the start of this large of an event.
We are not
Mine, too.
On 31 January 2012 22:19, Kam Woods kamwo...@gmail.com wrote:
Sharpies at the front door pretty much answered my comment.
On Jan 31, 2012, at 4:18 PM, Kyle Banerjee baner...@uoregon.edu wrote:
+1. If there is such a policy, it doesn't really seem in the spirit of
a smaller, more
Reminds me of this article, which frighteningly is now eight years old:
http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/tech/metadata.html
-- Mike.
On 14 February 2012 06:25, Kåre Fiedler Christiansen
k...@statsbiblioteket.dk wrote:
You realize, of course, that discussing the use of the word
There is no standard way in CQL to express field X is not empty.
Depending on implementations, NOT srw.dd= might work (but evidently
doesn't in this case). Another possibility is srw.dd=*, but again
that may or may not work, and might be appallingly inefficient if it
does. NOT srw.dd=null will
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