Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib NE

2015-03-14 Thread Matt Sherman
and other things up soon as well. Matt Sherman On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 10:42 AM, Matt Bernhardt matt.j.bernha...@gmail.com wrote: To add to Matt's comment - that date and venue are now confirmed: Friday, May 29, 2015 MIT Campus Other details are coming - everything will be posted

Re: [CODE4LIB] talking about digital collections vs electronic resources

2015-03-18 Thread Matt Sherman
I haven't done any testing on that, but your understanding it the conventional on in the field. On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 12:22 PM, Derek Merleaux derek.merle...@gmail.com wrote: I've always been inclined to use digital collections to talk about a collection of things that have been digitized or

Re: [CODE4LIB] Mac OS 9 emulator

2015-04-22 Thread Matt Sherman
Why would you not just run an instance in Virtual Box? On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Schmitz Fuhrig, Lynda schmitzfuhr...@si.edu wrote: Hello all, Can anyone recommend a Mac OS 9 emulator that can run off 10.6.x machine or later? Thanks, Lynda Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig Electronic Records

Re: [CODE4LIB] XSLT Advice

2015-06-03 Thread Matt Sherman
is not a procedural language, you should hardly ever use xsl:for-each Peter -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Matt Sherman Sent: dinsdag 2 juni 2015 21:35 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] XSLT Advice

Re: [CODE4LIB] XSLT Advice

2015-06-04 Thread Matt Sherman
/dc:identifier On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Matt Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for all the suggestions folks, other things at work have prevented me from working on this quite yet but there is a lot of helpful advice and suggestions here so thanks. As a note on the xsl:for-each

[CODE4LIB] XSLT Advice

2015-06-02 Thread Matt Sherman
appreciate it. Thanks. Matt Sherman

Re: [CODE4LIB] XSLT Advice

2015-06-02 Thread Matt Sherman
Subject: 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

Re: [CODE4LIB] Desiring Advice for Converting OCR Text into Metadata and/or a Database

2015-06-18 Thread Matt Sherman
, 2015 at 1:04 PM, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: On Jun 18, 2015, at 12:02 PM, Matt Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com wrote: I am working with colleague on a side project which involves some scanned bibliographies and making them more web searchable/sortable/browse-able. While I am

[CODE4LIB] Desiring Advice for Converting OCR Text into Metadata and/or a Database

2015-06-18 Thread Matt Sherman
doc) and place it into another (either a database or an XML file) with some enrichment. I would appreciate any suggestions for approaches or tools to look into. Thanks for any help/thoughts people can give. Matt Sherman

Re: [CODE4LIB] Desiring Advice for Converting OCR Text into Metadata and/or a Database

2015-06-18 Thread Matt Sherman
Banerjee kyle.baner...@gmail.com wrote: How you want to preprocess and structure the data depends on what you hope to achieve. Can you say more about what you want the end product to look like? kyle On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Matt Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [CODE4LIB] Desiring Advice for Converting OCR Text into Metadata and/or a Database

2015-06-18 Thread Matt Sherman
), since that impacts how the citation is structured. I¹d be happy to provide a sample citation in each step of the process. All the best, Bonnie On 6/18/15, 1:52 PM, Matt Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com wrote: The hope is to take these bibliographies put it into more of a web searchable

[CODE4LIB] Definitional Question

2015-07-02 Thread Matt Sherman
questions: 1) How would you define digital scholarship? 2) How would you define digital humanities? 3) Are they the same thing and why or why not? Any thoughts are appreciated as I am trying to think through this myself. Matt Sherman

Re: [CODE4LIB] Regex Question

2015-07-07 Thread Matt Sherman
Thanks everyone, this really helps. I'll have to work out the italicized stuff, but this gets me much closer. On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Kyle Banerjee kyle.baner...@gmail.com wrote: Y'all are doing this the hard way. Word allows regex replacements as well as format based criteria. For

[CODE4LIB] Looking for Ideas on Line Breaks in OCR Text

2015-08-03 Thread Matt Sherman
it one block so I can manipulate it into a database. So I am wondering if anyone who has worked with OCR text before has a suggested way to clean up those line breaks without doing 300 + pages by hand? Any thoughts would be welcome. Matt Sherman

Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for Ideas on Line Breaks in OCR Text

2015-08-04 Thread Matt Sherman
. From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Matt Sherman [matt.r.sher...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2015 9:09 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for Ideas on Line Breaks in OCR Text I am on Windows machines, so I don't have

Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for Ideas on Line Breaks in OCR Text

2015-08-04 Thread Matt Sherman
From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Matt Sherman [matt.r.sher...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 03, 2015 10:29 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Looking for Ideas on Line Breaks in OCR Text Hi Code4Lib folks, I

Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for Ideas on Line Breaks in OCR Text

2015-08-04 Thread Matt Sherman
That worked pretty well. There is still come clean up I have to do but [A-z]^p[A-z] to [A-z] [A-z] did a lot of the cleanup. On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 12:17 PM, Kyle Banerjee kyle.baner...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 6:09 AM, Matt Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com wrote: I am

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2016: any date(s) yet?

2015-08-10 Thread Matt Sherman
The save the date e-mail said: The 2016 conference will be held from March 7 through March 10 in the Old City District of Philadelphia On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 12:28 PM, Ranti Junus ranti.ju...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Any dates set for Code4Lib 2016 yet? I'm working on professional development

Re: [CODE4LIB] Regex Question

2015-07-09 Thread Matt Sherman
: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Matt Sherman Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2015 12:45 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Regex Question Thanks everyone, this really helps. I'll have to work out the italicized stuff, but this gets me much

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib chicago

2015-09-02 Thread Matt Sherman
You realize that this now needs to be an event at the the conference in Philly next year. On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 3:23 PM, Cary Gordon wrote: > Catalog that! > > On Wednesday, September 2, 2015, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > > > On Sep 2, 2015, at 12:04 PM,

Re: [CODE4LIB] "coders for libraries"

2015-09-01 Thread Matt Sherman
As one who doesn't spend their day neck deep in compilers I will also vote that this is a good idea. On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 10:24 AM, David Mayo wrote: > ++ as well from me. > > On an unrelated note: as long as someone's in there changing stuff, > changing the favicon away

Re: [CODE4LIB] "coders for libraries"

2015-09-01 Thread Matt Sherman
Time to prepare for the classification system wars of 2075. On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 11:41 AM, Jason Bengtson wrote: > "Code4Lib | total world domination by libraries, courtesy of code peeps" > > Now that one, I like! > > Best regards, > *Jason Bengtson, MLIS, MA* >

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4lib 2016 Registration is Closed

2015-12-11 Thread Matt Sherman
We have round 2 to try and break it. On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 11:05 AM, Becky Yoose wrote: > I, on the other hand, was very disappointed and sad that this year's > code4lib has broken with the tradition of breaking a > registration/reservation system during the rush. > > On

Re: [CODE4LIB] Formalizing Code4Lib? [diy]

2016-06-08 Thread Matt Sherman
a chance to meet and interact with so many folks from all over, but I think you have a great point on needing to put some greater focus back into regional events and the collaborative aspects that build this community in the first place. Matt Sherman On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 2:50 PM, Eric Hellman &l

Re: [CODE4LIB] Update Regarding C4L17 in Chattanooga

2016-06-07 Thread Matt Sherman
Just listening in, part of the discussion on Slack and IRC made it sound like the financing was the bigger issue. On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 1:14 PM, Matt Connolly wrote: > > On Jun 7, 2016, at 11:26 AM, Brian Rogers > > wrote: > >

Re: [CODE4LIB] C4L17 - Potential Venue Shift to LA and Call for Proposals

2016-06-15 Thread Matt Sherman
Given what I remember just from the work it took for the program committee to do our little section I cannot imagine a local planning committee pulling it off in less time than Brian has outlined, and it is probably tricky to do it even in that time-frame. Thanks Brian and the Chattanooga folks

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

2016-02-27 Thread Matt Sherman
but I must be looking in the wrong places as I am seeing very little evidence of it being put into action. If anyone can point me to more interesting pastures I would appreciate it. Matt Sherman

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

2016-02-27 Thread Matt Sherman
ility via OAI-PMH and APIs, but I > >must be looking in the wrong places as I am seeing very little evidence of > >it being put into action. If anyone can point me to more interesting > >pastures I would appreciate it. > > > >Matt Sherman >

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

2016-02-29 Thread Matt Sherman
Thanks for the plethora of links and responses. There are some great things here to look through. On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 11:52 AM, Peter Murray wrote: > Nice! I particularly like the indication of the content type in the lower > right corner of the thumbnail... > > > Peter >

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib mailing list

2016-03-24 Thread Matt Sherman
I have no technical answers to the questions you pose, but I second Option #2. On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 5:29 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > Alas, the Code4Lib mailing list software will most likely need to be > migrated before the end of summer, and I’m proposing a number

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib mailing list

2016-03-24 Thread Matt Sherman
Sounds like a reasonable plan, so we might as well give it a shot. Thanks for all your hard work on this. On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 4:28 PM, Cary Gordon wrote: > You can get enough server for this from AWS for $5-10/mo. > > Cary > > > On Mar 24, 2016, at 1:13 PM, Thomas

Re: [CODE4LIB] Institutional repositories

2016-03-21 Thread Matt Sherman
options. If you are going to be putting in non-text materials like data sets then seriously consider Fedora Hydra, actually you might want to just look into this one anyway since a lot of places are moving to Fedora. Matt Sherman On Mon, Mar 21, 2016 at 9:41 AM, Knight, Kathryn E. <kn

[CODE4LIB] Anything Interesting Going on in Archival Metadata?

2016-05-24 Thread Matt Sherman
are working to overcome. Matt Sherman

[CODE4LIB] Good Database Software for a Digital Project?

2016-04-15 Thread Matt Sherman
approach. Any advice and suggestions would be appreciated. Matt Sherman

Re: [CODE4LIB] Good Database Software for a Digital Project?

2016-04-15 Thread Matt Sherman
; On 4/15/16, 2:18 PM, "Code for Libraries on behalf of Matt Sherman" > <CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU on behalf of matt.r.sher...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > >I am looking to pick the group brain as to what might be the most useful > >databas

Re: [CODE4LIB] Good Database Software for a Digital Project?

2016-04-15 Thread Matt Sherman
beginning > with tools that are within the area of expertise of your staff. Mapping > disparate structured formats into a single Solr instance for fast search > and retrieval is one possibility. > > On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Matt Sherman <matt.r.sher...@gmail.com> >

Re: [CODE4LIB] Good Database Software for a Digital Project?

2016-04-15 Thread Matt Sherman
Well, we've got one volume done, with about 1,250 bibliographies, but there are 3 other volumes to convert. So at the end of the day probably about 5,000 entries. Though the how is to make it intractable via the web and hopefully letting scholars in the field continue to add to the database once

Re: [CODE4LIB] Good Database Software for a Digital Project?

2016-04-16 Thread Matt Sherman
n making a particular query. > > Web-JISIS is a web application prototype that allows to browse and search > J-ISIS databases. > > I can help if you need. > > Best wishes, > > Jean-Claude > > > On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 2:07 AM, Matt Sherman <matt.r.sh

Re: [CODE4LIB] Anything Interesting Going on in Archival Metadata?

2016-05-24 Thread Matt Sherman
Thanks for the info. Good to see that there are cool things going on in archival metadata as well. On May 24, 2016 2:04 PM, "Charles Blair" wrote: > I've been applying the Europeana Data Model with some success to > digital archives. Some work has already been done in this

[CODE4LIB] Hours on Library Websites?

2016-07-07 Thread Matt Sherman
insights or suggestions are appreciated. Matt Sherman