Re: [CODE4LIB] My code4lib slides
Thanks for posting this. I actually like the wordiness, particularly since the presentations at the conference whizzed by so quickly. It's nice to get to spend some time going through this at my own pace. It's a really interesting topic. -David --- David Cloutman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electronic Services Librarian Marin County Free Library -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Karen Coyle Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2008 2:50 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] My code4lib slides I ended up combining text and images and recreated my code4lib talk in a PDF that is too wordy and not terribly attractive -- however, (;-) the content is there, and now I should be able to turn it into a real document with little effort. http://www.kcoyle.net/code4lib2008_w_text.pdf If I ever learn to do voice-overs, I will do so with this talk. (I took a look at the $699 Adobe video package and did the math: $699[hardware] v. $699[software] and bought a macMini, which is now my livingroom machine. First Mac in 15 years. The best thing about it is when bash opens up or I get to solve problems by typing in smb:// ;-) Most of the time I'm in where the f**k is that mode). kc p.s. I'm speaking tomorrow at ERL in Atlanta. Any code4liber's going? I'll be around during the day before heading back to the coast. -- - Karen Coyle / Digital Library Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://www.kcoyle.net ph: 510-540-7596 fx: 510-848-3913 mo: 510-435-8234 --
Re: [CODE4LIB] Free covers from Google
Seb, The last time I built an application using the Google Java API the documentation stated a limit of 1,000 queries per day, which was in 2005. It probably hasn't changed, although I'm not sure. Perhaps a way around that is to cache queries into another file and then first query the cache before sending a query to Google. I guess that the idea is not to have cover images stored locally because of the size of the files, however. Michael - Michael Sutherland Web Services Librarian Montana State University Libraries P.O. Box 173320 Bozeman, MT, USA 59717-3320 Ph: (406) 994-6429 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sebastian Hammer Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 10:32 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Free covers from Google Is there any word on a limit to the number of hits per day on the Google API? I missed it in the docs if it's there, only saw an ominous warning that you might see the service temporarily disabled if you generated an 'unusually high number of hits' during development. --Seb Joe Atzberger wrote: Impressive! As luck would have it, I'm working on the question of book images in Koha this week... --joe atzberger On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 3:14 AM, Godmar Back [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Tim, I think this proposal suffers from the same shortcoming as LibraryThing's widgets, which is that only one per page is allowed. Aj better way may be to use spans and classes and keep the JavaScript in a library. I've attached the resulting HTML below; see http://libx.org/gbs/ for a demo. - Godmar --- index.html: !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN html head script src=http://libx.org/gbs/gbsclasses.js; type=text/javascript /script titleSimple Demo for Google Book Classes/title /head body span title=ISBN:0743226720 class=gbs-thumbnail/span span title=ISBN:0061234001 class=gbs-thumbnail/span span title=ISBN:1931798230 class=gbs-thumbnail/span span title=ISBN:0596000278 class=gbs-thumbnail/span span title=0439554934 class=gbs-thumbnail/span span title=OCLC:60348769 class=gbs-thumbnail/span span title=LCCN:2004022563 class=gbs-thumbnail/span /body /html On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 2:04 AM, Tim Spalding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Apologies for cross-posting) I just posted a simple way to get free book covers into your OPAC. It uses the new Google Book Search API. http://www.librarything.com/thingology/2008/03/free-covers-for-your-libr ary-from.php I think Google has as much cover coverage as anyone. The API is free. Most libraries pay. I'm thinking this is a big deal? We'll probably fancy it up a bit as an add-on to our LibraryThing for Libraries service, but the core idea can be implemented by anyone. I look forward to refinements. Tim -- Check out my library at http://www.librarything.com/profile/timspalding -- Sebastian Hammer, Index Data [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.indexdata.com Ph: (603) 209-6853 Fax: (866) 383-4485
[CODE4LIB] Mediawiki assist
Dear all, There seems to be a carbon monoxide leak at my desk; I am very stoopid today. Can anyone help me with this problem: A.) I am trying to revamp my centuries-old homebrew image database system; I would like my users to be able to annotate images, but would like to maintain the integrity of the image's metadata. I have opted therefore to having image metadata served up by a MySQL dynamically but will ALSO link to an editable mediawiki page. Example: http://www.pullman-museum.org/images/imageExample.html which replaces http://www.pullman-museum.org/cgi-bin/pvm/mainRecordDisplayXML.pl?recordid=10921. (BTW, I would be happy for any comments about design, etc.) An example local mediawiki page doing this can be found at http://www.finditillinois.org/wiki/index.php?title=Chapel_Cars. B.) The link at the bottom of the imageExample.html page links to a mediawiki page. If the page doesn't exist, the user is prompted to create a page from scratch. So far, so good. C.) The problem is that the page exists off all on its own; it is not linked from any other page, and hence not part of the organic wiki. I have hacked a Perl script that will allow me to move the image thumbnail to the wiki, so that the image and some fields of the metadata will appear. However, I have not been able to auto-add a link to the newly created wiki entry onto a master page (say, http://www.finditillinois.org/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page). I could, of course, keep track of it externally and serve up a list of wiki'd images as a simple pick list, but I would rather keep a list in the wiki. Any ideas? Anyone else ever try something like this? Or is my approach completely wonky? Andy Andrew Bullen Illinois State Library James R. Thompson Center 100 West Randolph Street Suite 5-400 Chicago, Illinois 60601 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Telephone: 312-814-4386 FAX: 312-814-2954 Disclaimer - This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and contain privileged or copyright information. You must not present this message to another party without gaining permission from the sender. If you are not the intended recipient you must not copy, distribute or use this email or the information contained in it for any purpose other than to notify the Office of the Illinois Secretary of State. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately, and delete this email from your system. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of the Office of the Illinois Secretary of State.
[CODE4LIB] mailing list administratativia
This is a bit of mailing list administratativia. Specifically, there was a rogue mail server in France that seems to have been redirecting mail back to our list. This was causing many duplicate postings. Weird. The address our postings were being sent to has been removed from the subscription list, and things should be normal again. Now back to our original programming. (All puns intended.) -- Eric Famous Last Words Morgan University Libraries of Notre Dame
