[CODE4LIB] Early Bird Registration for Red Island Repository Institute
Apologies for cross-posting: Register now for The Red Island Repository Institute on Prince Edward Island - August 11-15, 2008. Register by May 16 and reserve your spot at the Fedora-focused Repository Institute on Prince Edward Island, one of Canada’s premiere travel destinations known for its sandy beaches, golfing, seafood and iconic red dirt roads. The 1-week hands-on workshop will be led by well-known Fedora “natives” Sandy Payette, Fedora Commons Executive Director; Richard Green, Manager, RIDIR, REMAP and RepoMMan Projects, e-SIG, Academic Services, University of Hull, and; Matt Zumwalt, MediaShelf. The Institute is hands-on and is targeted at individuals from institutions planning or running a repository program and is intended for users with a wide range of experience, from managers to programmers. Attendees will be provided all the information and tools needed to implement and maintain a flexible repository program using Fedora. Since the Institute is a combination of lecture and hands-on experience, we encourage all participants to bring their own laptops. This will allow participants to return to their place of work with a fully-functional Fedora installation for further development and testing. Those participants who are not able to bring a laptop will be provided with one to use for the duration of the Institute. Register by May 16 for the reduced early-bird fee of $1,500 - after that the fee is $1,800. Registration includes meals (except dinners for Tuesday to Thursday), special events and all materials. A preliminary workshop agenda and registration form are now available at http://vre.upei.ca/riri/. If you have questions about the Red Island Repository Institute, please contact Mark Leggott at [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Paul Pound Systems Programmer Robertson Library - UPEI
[CODE4LIB] how to obtain a sampling of ISBNs
Hi, for an investigation/study, I'm looking to obtain a representative sample set (say a few hundreds) of ISBNs. For instance, the sample could represent LoC's holdings (or some other acceptable/meaningful population in the library world). Does anybody have any pointers/ideas on how I might go about this? Thanks! - Godmar
Re: [CODE4LIB] how to obtain a sampling of ISBNs
When playing around with OCLC's XISBN service, I plugged in the isbn number for one of the gone with the wind books we have at our library - it returned something like 150 similar isbn numbers. You could try doing that for a few items. Just an idea ... Andrew -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Godmar Back Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 9:35 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] how to obtain a sampling of ISBNs Hi, for an investigation/study, I'm looking to obtain a representative sample set (say a few hundreds) of ISBNs. For instance, the sample could represent LoC's holdings (or some other acceptable/meaningful population in the library world). Does anybody have any pointers/ideas on how I might go about this? Thanks! - Godmar
Re: [CODE4LIB] how to obtain a sampling of ISBNs
Hi, thanks to everybody who's replied with offers to provide ISBNs. I need to clarify that I'm looking for a sample of ISBNs that is representative of some larger population, such as all books cataloged by LoC, or all books in library X's catalog, or all books sold by Amazon. It could be, for instance, a simple random sample [1]. What will not work are ISBNs coming from a FRBR service, from a specialized collections, or the first n ISBNs coming from a catalog dump (unless that order in which the catalog database is dumped is explicitly random). - Godmar [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_random_sample On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Shanley-Roberts, Ross A. Mr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I could give you any number of sets of isbns. What kind of material are you interested in: videos, books, poetry, electronic resources, etc., or I could supply a set of isbns for any subject area or LC classification area that you might be interested in. Ross Ross Shanley-Roberts Special Projects Technologist Miami University Libraries Oxford, OH 45056 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847 672-9609 847 894-3911 cell -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Godmar Back Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 8:35 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] how to obtain a sampling of ISBNs Hi, for an investigation/study, I'm looking to obtain a representative sample set (say a few hundreds) of ISBNs. For instance, the sample could represent LoC's holdings (or some other acceptable/meaningful population in the library world). Does anybody have any pointers/ideas on how I might go about this? Thanks! - Godmar
Re: [CODE4LIB] how to obtain a sampling of ISBNs
You can get a compete list of the ISBNs on LibraryThing—about six months ago, but hey—from this page: http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/LibraryThing_APIs Then you can grab random ones. T On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Godmar Back [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, thanks to everybody who's replied with offers to provide ISBNs. I need to clarify that I'm looking for a sample of ISBNs that is representative of some larger population, such as all books cataloged by LoC, or all books in library X's catalog, or all books sold by Amazon. It could be, for instance, a simple random sample [1]. What will not work are ISBNs coming from a FRBR service, from a specialized collections, or the first n ISBNs coming from a catalog dump (unless that order in which the catalog database is dumped is explicitly random). - Godmar [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_random_sample On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 10:40 AM, Shanley-Roberts, Ross A. Mr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I could give you any number of sets of isbns. What kind of material are you interested in: videos, books, poetry, electronic resources, etc., or I could supply a set of isbns for any subject area or LC classification area that you might be interested in. Ross Ross Shanley-Roberts Special Projects Technologist Miami University Libraries Oxford, OH 45056 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847 672-9609 847 894-3911 cell -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Godmar Back Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 8:35 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] how to obtain a sampling of ISBNs Hi, for an investigation/study, I'm looking to obtain a representative sample set (say a few hundreds) of ISBNs. For instance, the sample could represent LoC's holdings (or some other acceptable/meaningful population in the library world). Does anybody have any pointers/ideas on how I might go about this? Thanks! - Godmar -- Check out my library at http://www.librarything.com/profile/timspalding
