Re: [CODE4LIB] LCSH and Linked Data

2011-04-15 Thread Ross Singer
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Kelley McGrath kell...@uoregon.edu wrote: I’m sure this is way too much info for most (or all) on this list, but in case it is helpful, I thought I’d throw it out there. I disagree. I think this was fantastic and most enlightening. Most of us deal with this

Re: [CODE4LIB] LCSH and Linked Data

2011-04-08 Thread Ross Singer
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 5:02 AM, Owen Stephens o...@ostephens.com wrote: Then obviously I lose the context of the full heading - so I also want to look for Education--England--Finance (which I won't find on id.loc.gov as not authorised) At this point I could stop, but my feeling is that it

Re: [CODE4LIB] LCSH and Linked Data

2011-04-07 Thread Ross Singer
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Ya'aqov Ziso yaaq...@gmail.com wrote: 1. I believe id.loc.gov includes a list of MARC countries and a list for geographic areas (based on the geographic names in 151 fields. 2. cataloging rules instruct catalogers to use THOSE very name forms in 151 $a when a

Re: [CODE4LIB] Documentation request for the marc gem

2011-03-16 Thread Ross Singer
Tony, Just in case it wasn't obvious, the source code is on GitHub [1]. As Ross said, please consider forking it and sending a pull request for any documentation improvements you want to do. //Ed [1] https://github.com/ruby-marc/ruby-marc On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Ross Singer rossfsin

Re: [CODE4LIB] Documentation request for the marc gem

2011-03-15 Thread Ross Singer
Hi Tony, I'm glad that ruby-marc appears to be generally useful. Another (even simpler) way to do what you want is: record.to_marc Which, I think, would do the same thing you're doing with MARC::Writer.encode. If you want to write up a block of text to plop into the README, feel free to send

Re: [CODE4LIB] App Recommendations

2011-03-11 Thread Ross Singer
Another possible alternative to Marginalia might be Markup.io: http://markup.io/ which I'm happy to plug because besides merely being cool, it was made by some folks that live in my neighborhood. It may not be exactly what you're looking for, though, since it's not necessarily text-centric.

Re: [CODE4LIB] LAMP Hosting service that supports php_yaz?

2011-03-08 Thread Ross Singer
, I could try to compile it myself. I'll check to see if this is possible with Lunarpages, which we now have accounts with. Cindy Harper, Systems Librarian Colgate University Libraries char...@colgate.edu 315-228-7363 On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [CODE4LIB] facets in Atom feeds

2011-03-03 Thread Ross Singer
So that seems to just be using the atom:category element, which is clever, but it wouldn't give you facet counts for the total results set (just for the returned page). It's possible to have categories across the entire result set (they'd be at the feed level, rather than the entry level), but

Re: [CODE4LIB] GPL incompatible interfaces

2011-02-18 Thread Ross Singer
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 9:30 AM, Eric Hellman e...@hellman.net wrote: Since the Metalib API is not public, to my knowledge, I don't know whether it gets disclosed with an NDA. And you can't run or develop Xerxes without an ExLibris License, because it depends on a proprietary and unspecified

Re: [CODE4LIB] EZB

2011-02-17 Thread Ross Singer
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: Interesting, does their link resolver API do article-level links, or just journal title level links? I/you/one could easily write a plugin for Umlaut for their API, would be an interesting exersize. I think it would

Re: [CODE4LIB] Do you have Project Gutenberg (or other public domain e-books) MARC Records in your OPAC?

2011-02-17 Thread Ross Singer
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page Project Gutenberg is the place where you can download over 33,000 free ebooks to read on your PC, iPad, Kindle, Sony Reader, iPhone, Android or other portable device. Over 100,000 free ebooks are available through our Partners, Affiliates and Resources.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Unexpected ruby-marc behavior

2011-01-27 Thread Ross Singer
No, that's expected behavior (and how it's always been). You'd need to do reader.rewind to put your enumerator cursor back to 0 to run back over the records. It's basically an IO object (since that's what it expects as input) and behaves like one. -Ross. On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 2:03 PM, Cory

Re: [CODE4LIB] Announcing OLAC's prototype FRBR-inspired moving image discovery interface

2010-12-15 Thread Ross Singer
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote: Where I think we run into a problem is when we try to use FRBR as a record structure rather than conceptual guidance, which is what you allude to. This is the place where some implementations have decided to either merge

Re: [CODE4LIB] Announcing OLAC's prototype FRBR-inspired moving image discovery interface

2010-12-14 Thread Ross Singer
On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 4:03 PM, McDonald, Stephen steve.mcdon...@tufts.edu wrote: I couldn't really say, and I'm not sure that it matters.  Libraries have no need to worry about Works which have no Manifestation, so in practice I don't find it hard to recognize the Work-Manifestation

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib 2011: Hotel registration

2010-12-13 Thread Ross Singer
But... then I'd have to talk to a human being! -Ross. On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Ranti Junus ranti.ju...@gmail.com wrote: Folks, perhaps it'd be easier if you call the hotel instead, if the website doesn't work well. Please see the info from Andrew Darby below. thanks, ranti.

Re: [CODE4LIB] MARCXML - What is it for?

2010-10-27 Thread Ross Singer
Alex, I think the problem is data like this: http://lccn.loc.gov/96516389/marcxml And while we can probably figure out a pattern to get the semantics out this record, there is no telling how many other variations exist within our collections. So we've got lots of this data that is both hard to

Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for OAuth experts

2010-10-14 Thread Ross Singer
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 11:11 AM, MJ Ray m...@phonecoop.coop wrote: Ross Singer wrote: Unlike Twitter, however, we're starting from nothing.  There's nothing currently invested in ILS-DI clients that would break by committing solely to OAuth (or anything, for that matter). Are you sure

Re: [CODE4LIB] simple,flexible ILS for a small library.

2010-10-04 Thread Ross Singer
You know, with Jonathan's rephrasing (if it's accurate), it crossed my mind that most ILSes that support course reserves should be able to handle this. It's extremely common for course reserves to belong to the instructor that is putting them on reserve and the ILS would need to keep track of

Re: [CODE4LIB] simple,flexible ILS for a small library.

2010-09-28 Thread Ross Singer
I think your functional requirement that made this non-trivial was your mention of it needing ILL functionality. There's a definite threshold that has to be crossed before you start seeing something like that integrated into the ILS. If you've got some other way to deal with ILL, I'd suggest

Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for OAuth experts

2010-09-20 Thread Ross Singer
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: Can you give some details (or references) to justify the belief that OAuth isn't ready yet?  (The fact that Twitter implemented it poorly does not seem apropos to me, that's just a critique of Twitter, right?). I don't

Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for OAuth experts

2010-09-20 Thread Ross Singer
On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 5:21 PM, MJ Ray m...@phonecoop.coop wrote: Ross Singer wrote: Agreed on this assessment, Jonathan.  MJ, can you extrapolate on your concerns, because that Ars Technica article is not going to cut it for anything more than to avoid the choices that Twitter made. I've

Re: [CODE4LIB] content type for rdf

2010-08-20 Thread Ross Singer
It depends on how you're serving your RDF. RDF/XML is application/rdf+xml N3 is text/n3;charset=utf-8 Turtle is text/turtle NTriples are text/plain -Ross. On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 7:03 AM, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: I am in the process of creating sets of cool URLs, and I need to

Re: [CODE4LIB] open source proxy packages?

2010-08-15 Thread Ross Singer
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 8:10 PM, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote: In my experience, I haven't found anything that is as easy to use (or even close) to EZProxy. Unless you value your time at under $5/hr., or are a FLOSS zealot (I think of myself as a semi-zealot), it is a bargain at

Re: [CODE4LIB] schema for some web page

2010-07-08 Thread Ross Singer
http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/#terms-relation This term is intended to be used with non-literal values as defined in the DCMI Abstract Model (http://dublincore.org/documents/abstract-model/). As of December 2007, the DCMI Usage Board is seeking a way to express this intention with a

[CODE4LIB] MARC Codes for Forms of Musical Composition

2010-07-01 Thread Ross Singer
Hi everybody, I just wanted to let people know I've made the MARC codes for forms of musical compositions (http://www.loc.gov/standards/valuelist/marcmuscomp.html) available as http://purl.org/ontology/mo/Genres. http://purl.org/NET/marccodes/muscomp/ They follow the same naming convention as

Re: [CODE4LIB] Planet Code4Lib RSS feed

2010-06-28 Thread Ross Singer
There seems like there's a bad entry in there: http://www.feedvalidator.org/check.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplanet.code4lib.org%2Fatom.xml from the C4L Journal's feed which may be screwing up the aggregated feed as a whole. -Ross. On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu

Re: [CODE4LIB] MODS and DCTERMS

2010-05-04 Thread Ross Singer
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 vocabulary is Just Plain Inadequate, and not only for esoteric

Re: [CODE4LIB] MODS and DCTERMS

2010-05-04 Thread Ross Singer
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 10:26 AM, Mike Taylor m...@indexdata.com wrote: Ross, I think that got mangled in the sending -- either that, or it's some strange format that I've never seen before.  That said, I am tremendously impressed by all the information you obtained there. What software did you

Re: [CODE4LIB] It's cool to love milk and cookies

2010-05-03 Thread Ross Singer
But is there a NISO standard for this? On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Simon Spero s...@unc.edu wrote: I like chocolate milk.

Re: [CODE4LIB] MODS and DCTERMS

2010-05-03 Thread Ross Singer
Out of curiosity, what is your use case for turning this into DC? That might help those of us that are struggling to figure out where to start with trying to help you with an answer. -Ross. On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:46 AM, MJ Suhonos m...@suhonos.ca wrote: Thanks for your comments, guys.  I was

Re: [CODE4LIB] it's cool to hate on OpenURL

2010-04-30 Thread Ross Singer
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 4:09 AM, Jakob Voss jakob.v...@gbv.de wrote: Am I right that neither OpenURL nor COinS strictly defines a metadata model with a set of entities/attributes/fields/you-name-it and their definition? Apparently all ContextObjects metadata formats are based on non-normative

Re: [CODE4LIB] it's cool to hate on OpenURL (was: Twitter annotations...)

2010-04-30 Thread Ross Singer
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 7:59 AM, Kyle Banerjee kyle.baner...@gmail.com wrote: An obvious thing for a resolver to be able to do is return results in JSON so the OpenURL can be more than a static link. But since the standard defines no such response, the site generating the OpenURL would have to

Re: [CODE4LIB] Twitter annotations and library software

2010-04-29 Thread Ross Singer
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 8:17 AM, MJ Suhonos m...@suhonos.ca wrote: Okay, I know it's cool to hate on OpenURL, but I feel I have to clarify a few points: It's not that it's cool to hate on OpenURL, but if you've really worked with it it's easy to grow bitter. snip Maybe if I put it that way,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Twitter annotations and library software

2010-04-29 Thread Ross Singer
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Rosalyn Metz rosalynm...@gmail.com wrote: I'm going to throw in my two cents. I dont think (and correct me if i'm wrong) we have mentioned once what a user might actually put in a twitter annotation.  a book title?  an article title? a link? I think the idea

Re: [CODE4LIB] Twitter annotations and library software

2010-04-29 Thread Ross Singer
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: (Last time I looked at Bibo, I recall there was no place to put a standard identifier like a DOI.  So maybe using Bibo + URI for standard identifier would suffice. etc.) BIBO has all sorts of identifiers (including

Re: [CODE4LIB] Twitter annotations and library software

2010-04-29 Thread Ross Singer
, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Rosalyn Metz rosalynm...@gmail.com wrote: I'm going to throw in my two cents. I dont think (and correct me if i'm wrong) we have mentioned once what a user might actually put in a twitter annotation.  a book title

Re: [CODE4LIB] Microsoft Zentity

2010-04-28 Thread Ross Singer
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Houghton,Andrew hough...@oclc.org wrote: If its open source, I assume that it could be adapted to run under Mono and then you could run it on Linux, Macs, etc.  It may even run under Mono, don't know, haven't played with it. Well, it requires SQLServer, so

Re: [CODE4LIB] Microsoft Zentity

2010-04-28 Thread Ross Singer
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 10:17 AM, Ethan Gruber ewg4x...@gmail.com wrote: It seems to me that the major flaw of the software is that it isn't cross-platform, which comes as no surprise.  But I feel Microsoft didn't do their market research.  While the financial and business sectors are heavily

Re: [CODE4LIB] Twitter annotations and library software

2010-04-27 Thread Ross Singer
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 7:02 AM, Jakob Voss jakob.v...@gbv.de wrote: The purpose of description can best be served by a format that can easily be displayed for human beeings. You can either use a simple string or a well-known format. A string can be displayed but people will put all different

Re: [CODE4LIB] NoSQL - is this a real thing or a flash in the pan?

2010-04-12 Thread Ross Singer
The advantage of the NoSQL DBs is that they're schema-less which allows much more flexibility in your data going in. However, it sounds like your schema may be pretty standardized -- I'm not sure of a huge advantage (outside the aforementioned replication functionality) you'd get. -Ross. On

Re: [CODE4LIB] NoSQL - is this a real thing or a flash in the pan?

2010-04-12 Thread Ross Singer
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: The thing is, the NoSQL stuff is pretty much just a key-value store.  There's generally no way to query the store, instead you can simply look up a document by ID. Actually, this depends largely on the NoSQL DBMS in

Re: [CODE4LIB] OpenURL aggregator not doing so well

2010-04-09 Thread Ross Singer
Yes, although, the problem is actually with Connotea: http://www.connotea.org/article/4c40adbf8ecaef53b3772b5a141e229d So we either need to talk to NPG or drop Connotea from the OpenURL planet. -Ross. On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 8:00 AM, Eric Hellman e...@hellman.net wrote: Take a look at

Re: [CODE4LIB] local c4l chatter and the listserv

2010-04-09 Thread Ross Singer
Or if their regional mailing list could send the main list a digest email. Or something. -Ross. On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 6:30 PM, Frumkin, Jeremy frumk...@u.library.arizona.edu wrote: And by 'end case' of course I meant 'edge case'. -- jaf On Apr 9, 2010, at 3:26 PM, Frumkin, Jeremy wrote:

Re: [CODE4LIB] newbie

2010-03-26 Thread Ross Singer
sexy groovy - 43,200 On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 10:36 PM, Andrew Hankinson andrew.hankin...@gmail.com wrote: Just out of curiosity I tried them in quotes: sexy ruby - 72,200 sexy python - 37,900 sexy php - 25,100 sexy java - 16,100 sexy asp - 14,800 sexy perl - 8,080 sexy C++ - 177 sexy

Re: [CODE4LIB] PHP bashing (was: newbie)

2010-03-26 Thread Ross Singer
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:22 AM, Mike Taylor m...@indexdata.com wrote: For someone who is just starting out in programming, I think the very last thing you want is a verbose language that makes you spend half your time talking about types that you don't really care about.  I'm not saying

Re: [CODE4LIB] newbie

2010-03-25 Thread Ross Singer
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Aaron Rubinstein arubi...@library.umass.edu wrote: This is some of the best advice.  Reading and adapting good code has been my favorite way to learn.  There was a discussion a couple years back on a code4lib code repository of some kind[1].  I'd love to

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

2010-03-23 Thread Ross Singer
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote: the records... It might wok, I really want to try to model this. Wish we could get some folks together for a 1/2 day somewhere and JUST DO IT. +1 to this. Maybe a whole day or two, though. I totally agree we're past the

Re: [CODE4LIB] Any examples of using OAI-ORE for aggregation?

2010-03-19 Thread Ross Singer
Joe, I'm not sure if this conforms to what you're talking about, but have you seen the Library of Congress' OAI-ORE implementation for Chronicling America? http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/ http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030214.rdf -Ross. On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 1:44 PM, Joe

Re: [CODE4LIB] Vote for Code4Lib 2011 host is OPEN

2010-03-12 Thread Ross Singer
Polls close midnight EDT March 23. May the best city win, -Ross. On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Michael J. Giarlo leftw...@alumni.rutgers.edu wrote: Folks, We received three excellent proposals for hosting the 2011 conference, and now it is time to vote on them!  Voting is open for a week.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter

2010-03-05 Thread Ross Singer
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 1:10 PM, Houghton,Andrew hough...@oclc.org wrote: I certainly would be will to work with LC on creating a MARC-JSON specification as I did in creating the MARC-XML specification. Quite frankly, I think I (and I imagine others) would much rather see a more open,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter

2010-03-05 Thread Ross Singer
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Benjamin Young byo...@bigbluehat.com wrote: A CouchDB friend of mine just pointed me to the BibJSON format by the Bibliographic Knowledge Network: http://www.bibkn.org/bibjson/index.html Might be worth looking through for future collaboration/transformation

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2011 Proposals

2010-03-03 Thread Ross Singer
The date is not etched in stone. -Ross. On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:35 AM, Ethan Gruber ewg4x...@gmail.com wrote: Ithaca in February sounds kind of depressing, honestly. On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Ma, Hong h...@miami.edu wrote: Agree with Carol. Austin is good. Thanks, Hong Hong Ma

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2011 Proposals

2010-03-03 Thread Ross Singer
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Paul Joseph pjjos...@gmail.com wrote: No need to be concerned about the vendors: they're the same suspects who sponsored C4L10. Just to be clear on this -- the same suspects actually shelled out far less for C4L10 than they had in the past. And we had far fewer

Re: [CODE4LIB] Asheville Brews Cruise details payment info

2010-02-16 Thread Ross Singer
employee, Ross Singer, will be attending the event. Be sure to ask him about Platforms. [1] http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/C4L2010_social_activities#Asheville_Brews_Cruise [2] http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/C4L2010_social_activities#Wait_List [3] http://www.talis.com/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting

2010-01-14 Thread Ross Singer
Have you looked at Heroku (http://heroku.com/)? I've only used their freebie plan (so I have no idea how they compare pricewise), but it's been fantastic to get Ruby apps running there. Dreamhost also provides Passenger to their customers (http://wiki.dreamhost.com/Passenger) so that might be an

Re: [CODE4LIB] Rails Hosting

2010-01-14 Thread Ross Singer
I think one thing to consider between Heroku and something like Slicehost, is what exactly you have the resources/willingness to support. One of the things I've really liked is that to get an app running on Heroku is that I basically just have to worry about my Ruby app, not maintaining a server

Re: [CODE4LIB] Choosing development platforms and/or tools, how'd you do it?

2010-01-06 Thread Ross Singer
I definitely agree with Bill here. There is a definitely a totemistic attitude about vim or emacs being all the IDE I need. Knowing your way around vim (or possibly emacs) is certainly important -- after all, everybody has to eventually fix something remotely -- but just languages, some editors

Re: [CODE4LIB] Online PHP course?

2010-01-06 Thread Ross Singer
Seems to me that Dan's Hacker 101/201 preconfs fall into this sort of category. I think it would be really useful to see at a conference that didn't already appeal to the hacker set, like CiL or LITA or something. Even Access. -Ross. On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Tim Spalding

Re: [CODE4LIB] Choosing development platforms and/or tools, how'd you do it?

2010-01-05 Thread Ross Singer
I realize you didn't want to start a religious war nor were you interested in the abstract reasons people chose a particular language, that being said... I honestly think choosing the best* development language is very similar to how one settles on politics, religion, diet, etc. Environment plays

Re: [CODE4LIB] resource sharing/ill oss

2010-01-04 Thread Ross Singer
Has anybody followed up on Relais announcement that their products will be open sourced: http://www.relais-intl.com/relais/home/Relais%20Products%20Go%20Open%20Source%20-%20Press%20Release.pdf ? OpenILL (which was written by the University of Winnipeg in Cold Fusion) also seems to have

Re: [CODE4LIB] T-shirt Design Contest

2010-01-04 Thread Ross Singer
I've asked it before, I'll ask it again. Can we add the Roy Thong(tm)? -Ross. On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Smith,Devon smit...@oclc.org wrote: There is a cafepress store front for code4lib. There's nothing in it at the moment. http://www.cafepress.com/code4lib Last year I suggested that

Re: [CODE4LIB] T-shirt Design Contest

2010-01-04 Thread Ross Singer
I note they also have a boxer short option -- so, I'll up the ante to an entire line of Roy Tennant Undergarments -Ross. On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: I've asked it before, I'll ask it again. Can we add the Roy Thong(tm)? -Ross. On Mon, Jan 4

Re: [CODE4LIB] SVN/Mercurial hosting

2009-12-16 Thread Ross Singer
Also, Google Code offers both HG and SVN support. http://code.google.com/projecthosting/ I have several projects there (although haven't used Mercurial) and certainly find it a lot less frustrating than admin'ing Trac. -Ross. On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 2:39 PM, Mark A. Matienzo m...@matienzo.org

Re: [CODE4LIB] Auto-suggest and the id.loc.gov LCSH web service

2009-12-08 Thread Ross Singer
I suppose it would be helpful to actually know the problem that is trying to be solved here (I mean, a lot of people, including myself, are throwing out solutions to a problem that's never been actually defined). Ethan, what, exactly, are you trying to do? Do you want authorized headings? Or do

Re: [CODE4LIB] Auto-suggest and the id.loc.gov LCSH web service

2009-12-07 Thread Ross Singer
It has an OpenSearch interface: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/opensearch But I don't think there's a way to explicitly limit to, say, the beginning of a label. lcsubjects.org has a sparql interface where you could use a regex filter on the labels:

Re: [CODE4LIB] calling another webpage within CGI script - solved!

2009-11-24 Thread Ross Singer
On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Graham Stewart graham.stew...@utoronto.ca wrote: We run many Library / web / database applications on RedHat servers with SELinux enabled.  Sometimes it takes a bit of investigation and  horsing around but I haven't yet found a situation where it had to be

Re: [CODE4LIB] Assigning DOI for local content

2009-11-23 Thread Ross Singer
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Eric Hellman e...@hellman.net wrote: Does this answer your question, Ross? Yes, sort of. My question was not so much if you can resolve handles via bindings other than HTTP (since that's one of the selling points of handles) as it was do people actually use

Re: [CODE4LIB] Assigning DOI for local content

2009-11-23 Thread Ross Singer
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: Well, here's the trick about handles, as I understand it.  A handle, for instance, a DOI, is 10.1074/jbc.M004545200. Well, actually, it could be: 10.1074/jbc.M004545200 doi:10.1074/jbc.M004545200

Re: [CODE4LIB] Assigning DOI for local content

2009-11-20 Thread Ross Singer
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Eric Hellman e...@hellman.net wrote: Having incorporated the handle client software into my own stuff rather easily, I'm pretty sure that's not true. Fair enough. The technology is binding independent. So you are using and sharing handles using some protocol

Re: [CODE4LIB] Assigning DOI for local content

2009-11-19 Thread Ross Singer
[mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Ross Singer Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 8:11 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Assigning DOI for local content On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Han, Yan h...@u.library.arizona.edu wrote: Currently DOI uses Handle

Re: [CODE4LIB] Assigning DOI for local content

2009-11-18 Thread Ross Singer
On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Han, Yan h...@u.library.arizona.edu wrote: Currently DOI uses Handle (technology) with it social framework (i.e. administrative body to manage DOI). In technical sense, PURL is not going to last long. I'm not entirely sure what this is supposed to mean (re:

Re: [CODE4LIB] holdings standards/protocols

2009-11-16 Thread Ross Singer
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Chris Keene c.j.ke...@sussex.ac.uk wrote: Looks like our Talis system can't using the same process :( No, holdings aren't exported to Zebra. That being said, the opacxml format could be pretty easily added to the jangle connector. There's also something

Re: [CODE4LIB] MARC8 in marc-ruby

2009-11-02 Thread Ross Singer
ruby-marc does not have any capacity to convert MARC-8 in any ruby interpreter: MRI, JRuby, Rubinius, whatever. Given the amount of work required to include this (unless Mark Matienzo feels like hacking into ruby-marc what he did for pymarc), I think I'd need to see a really compelling need (that

Re: [CODE4LIB] Greenstone: tweaking Lucene indexing

2009-09-29 Thread Ross Singer
Yitzchak, are you interested in actually searching the fulltext? Or just highlighting the terms? If you're only interested in highlighting it, it might be a whole lot easier to implement this in javascript through something like jQuery:

Re: [CODE4LIB] A few Ruby MARC announcements

2009-09-24 Thread Ross Singer
wrote: Nice work Ross! Users of rubymarc might like to see the performance enhancements that motivated you to do the nokogiri integration:  http://paste.lisp.org/display/87529 !!! //Ed On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everybody, Apologies

[CODE4LIB] A few Ruby MARC announcements

2009-09-23 Thread Ross Singer
Hi everybody, Apologies for the crossposting. I wanted to let people know that Ruby MARC 0.3.0 was just released as a gem. This version addresses the biggest complaint about Ruby MARC, which was the fact that it could only parse MARCXML with REXML, Ruby's native XML parser (which, if you've

Re: [CODE4LIB] Implementing OpenURL for simple web resources

2009-09-15 Thread Ross Singer
Owen, I might have missed it in this message -- my eyes are starting glaze over at this point in the thread, but can you describe how the input of these resources would work? What I'm basically asking is -- what would the professor need to do to add a new: citation for a 70 year old book;

Re: [CODE4LIB] Implementing OpenURL for simple web resources

2009-09-15 Thread Ross Singer
-Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Ross Singer Sent: 15 September 2009 15:56 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Implementing OpenURL for simple web resources Owen, I might have missed it in this message

Re: [CODE4LIB] Implementing OpenURL for simple web resources

2009-09-15 Thread Ross Singer
any normal webpage, right mouse click-Copy Link Location gives the user the real URL to copy and paste, but normal behavior funnels through the link resolver. -Ross. On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 11:41 AM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: Given that the burden of creating these links is entirely

Re: [CODE4LIB] Implementing OpenURL for simple web resources

2009-09-15 Thread Ross Singer
with the by-ref negotiation. -Ross. On Sep 15, 2009, at 11:41 AM, Ross Singer wrote: I can't remember if you can include both metadata-by-reference keys and metadata-by-value, but you could have by-reference (rft_ref=http://telstar.open.ac.uk/1234rft_ref_fmt=RIS or something) point at your citation db

Re: [CODE4LIB] FW: PURL Server Update 2

2009-09-01 Thread Ross Singer
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Edward M. Corradoecorr...@ecorrado.us wrote: Thus I have to believe them that they did not have a compromised server and instead they had a hardware failure. I have no idea why they couldn't just restore from backup which would at least gotten them back to

Re: [CODE4LIB] MARC/MODS and Automating Migration to Linked-Data Standards

2009-08-12 Thread Ross Singer
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Karen Coyleli...@kcoyle.net wrote: Ross Singer wrote: 3) What, specifically, is missing from DCTerms that would make a MODS ontology needed?  What, specifically, is missing from Bibliontology or MusicOntology or FOAF or SKOS, etc. that justifies a new

Re: [CODE4LIB] MARC/MODS and Automating Migration to Linked-Data Standards

2009-08-12 Thread Ross Singer
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 1:45 PM, Karen Coyleli...@kcoyle.net wrote: Ross Singer wrote: One of the problems here is that it doesn't begin to address the DCAM -- these are 59 properties that can be reused among 22 classes, giving them different semantic meaning. Uh, no. That's the opposite

Re: [CODE4LIB] MARC/MODS and Automating Migration to Linked-Data Standards

2009-08-12 Thread Ross Singer
Whew -- just hit discard on my last message. On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 9:07 PM, Karen Coyleli...@kcoyle.net wrote: then my question is: has B changed? In other words, is B of class X the same as B of class Y? (Assuming that both B's have the same URI.). B (for our purposes we'll say it's

Re: [CODE4LIB] [Fwd: [ol-tech] Modified RDF/XML api]

2009-08-11 Thread Ross Singer
Karen, The Bio vocabulary might help with the birth/death dates: http://vocab.org/bio/0.1/.html And foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf http://xmlns.com/foaf/spec/#term_isPrimaryTopicOf might be a good way to relate to the wikipedia page. I don't have any recommendation for alternate names (and would be

Re: [CODE4LIB] Long way to be a good coder in library

2009-07-22 Thread Ross Singer
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Jon Gormanjonathan.gor...@gmail.com wrote: As far as languages, I'd probably lean towards ruby or python for starters or maybe Java.  Then move into php after you have a grasp of good programming practice.  You'll also figure out more what you like to work

[CODE4LIB] Fwd: [NGC4LIB] Integrating with your ILS through Web services and APIs

2009-07-22 Thread Ross Singer
This seems a _far_ more appropriate list for these questions. -Ross. -- Forwarded message -- From: Breeding, Marshall marshall.breed...@vanderbilt.edu Date: Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 9:53 PM Subject: [NGC4LIB] Integrating with your ILS through Web services and APIs To:

Re: [CODE4LIB] rdf files as linked data

2009-07-20 Thread Ross Singer
Oops, scratch my warning at the end of point 5. It shouldn't affect the point 1 strategy at all. Like I said, httpRange-14 is confusing :) -Ross. On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:58 PM, Ross Singerrossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: I'll pile on with a with a couple of other things: 1. I second Ed's

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open, public standards v. pay per view standards and usage

2009-07-16 Thread Ross Singer
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Ray Denenberg, Library of Congressr...@loc.gov wrote: Ross, if you're talking about the ISO 20775 xml schema: http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso20775/ISOholdings_V1.0.xsd It's free. It's also not a spec, it's a schema. If the expectation is that people are

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open, public standards v. pay per view standards and usage

2009-07-14 Thread Ross Singer
Well, it's not a great example, because I don't have a 'counter-example', but I think it will remain to be seen if ISO 20775 goes anywhere if it, too, remains behind a pay wall. If an open spec were to come along that allowed the transfer of holdings and availability information that was decent

Re: [CODE4LIB] OpenURL question

2009-06-30 Thread Ross Singer
Stuart, The short is answer is probably. The longer answer is that, yes, OpenURL is currently the best way to accomplish what you're looking for. That being said, I think your audience may make this a little more complicated and the solutions perhaps more fragile and hacky. Since you don't

Re: [CODE4LIB] HTML mark-up in MARC records

2009-06-23 Thread Ross Singer
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 9:39 AM, Casey Bisson cbis...@plymouth.edu wrote: The mistake here is presuming that (X)HTML coded data isn't (or can't be) data. I think it's a greater mistake to assume that it will be. We are talking about putting semantics into a structured data source (by people

Re: [CODE4LIB] FW: [CODE4LIB] openurl.info ?

2009-05-17 Thread Ross Singer
This was the historical (and annoying) behavior. At one point a redirect was added to http://openurl.info/registry that I suppose needs to be recreated. -Ross. On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 3:50 AM, Boheemen, Peter van peter.vanbohee...@wur.nl wrote: Hmm Roy but should it be pointing to the PURL

[CODE4LIB] Fwd: OPEN POSITION: Linked Data in Digital Libraries

2009-05-16 Thread Ross Singer
Seems like Linked Data + Library + Vienna might be of interest to somebody here. -Ross. -- Forwarded message -- From: Bernhard Haslhofer bernhard.haslho...@univie.ac.at Date: Fri, May 15, 2009 at 3:46 AM Subject: OPEN POSITION: Linked Data in Digital Libraries To: Linked Data

[CODE4LIB] Diebold-o-tron-o-matic IG

2009-05-14 Thread Ross Singer
Hi everybody. We're probably 6 months (or less) from the voting season in Code4libya and I want to preemptively counter the catcalls, jeers, the calls for the Drupal voting module, etc. prior to 4 days before the first vote opening. So, if you're interested in participating in this, let me know.

Re: [CODE4LIB] One Data Format Identifier (and Registry) to Rule Them All

2009-05-12 Thread Ross Singer
On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Jakob Voss jakob.v...@gbv.de wrote: Ross Singer wrote: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? formats xmlns=http://unapi.info/;  format name=foaf uri=http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1// /formats I generally agree with this, but what about formats that aren't XML or RDF

Re: [CODE4LIB] Formats and its identifiers

2009-05-11 Thread Ross Singer
On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Jakob Voss jakob.v...@gbv.de wrote: That's your interpretation. According to the schema, the MODS format *is* either a single mods-element or a modsCollection-element. That's exactely what you can refer to with the namespace identifier

Re: [CODE4LIB] One Data Format Identifier (and Registry) to Rule Them All

2009-05-01 Thread Ross Singer
Ideally, though, if we have some buy in and extend this outside our communities, future identifiers *should* have fewer variations, since people can find the appropriate URI for the format and use that. I readily admit that this is wishful thinking, but so be it. I do think that modeling it as

Re: [CODE4LIB] One Data Format Identifier (and Registry) to Rule Them All

2009-05-01 Thread Ross Singer
Message-   From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of   Ross Singer   Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 13:40   To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU   Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] One Data Format Identifier (and Registry) to Rule   Them All     Ideally, though, if we

Re: [CODE4LIB] registering info: uris?

2009-04-30 Thread Ross Singer
So hey, I'm nobody wanted to see this thread revived, but I'm hoping you info uri folks can clear something up for me. So I'm trying to gather together a vocabulary of identifiers to unambiguously describe the format of the data you would be getting in a Jangle feed or an UnAPI response (or any

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