Re: [CODE4LIB] hotel for conf?
Over the weekend the group block sold out. The hotel is not willing to extend it . Rooms are available at the rate of $219 per night. There may be some attrition so it is worth calling the hotel (Renaissance Providence) to see a room at the group rate ($135) is available. -- 888 236-2427, 401-919-5000 Some nearby hotels (all in walking distance of the Renaissance): Courtyard Providence: http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/pvddt-courtyard-providence-downtown/ 1-800-321-2211, 1-401-272-1191 Hilton Providence: http://www1.hilton.com/en_US/hi/hotel/PVDPRHF-Hilton-Providence-Rhode-Island/index.do 1-800-HILTONS, 1-401-831-3900 Westin Providence: http://www.westinprovidence.com/ 800- WESTIN-1, (401) 598-8000 Hotel Providence http://www.hotelprovidence.com/ 800-861-8990, 401-861-8000 Providence Biltmore http://www.providencebiltmore.com/ 800-294-7709 On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Bess Sadler eo...@virginia.edu wrote: Hey, Brian. I ran into the same problem today, but I called on the phone and they were able to book me at the conference rate anyway. If anyone else runs into this problem do try telephoning. Bess On 11-Jan-09, at 12:04 AM, Brian Seitz wrote: I just tried to book a room using the discount code and the website told me there are no rooms available for that code/date. So it seems it is overbooked. Hopefully the block can be increased. Brian - jean rainwater jean.rainwa...@gmail.com wrote: We're getting very close to filling the guest block. We talked to the hotel folks yesterday about the possibility of increasing it but don't have an answer yet. Anyone who's registered and has not made a reservation yet should do asap. -- Jean On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Schneider, Wayne wschnei...@hclib.org wrote: Hey, Jonathan. That's weird - the hotel told me (well, the web site told me) that 1 king bed was not available at this time. I placed the reservation Wednesday. Have you called? I wouldn't mind swapping, since I'm not sharing the room with anyone, but I begin to suspect that the guest block may simply be overbooked. wayne -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Jonathan Rochkind Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 4:15 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] hotel for conf? So the Marriott for the conference hotel is telling me there are no rooms with two queen beds available. That's kind of a problem, since I was planning on sharing a room with a colleague. Anyone know if there's any way around that? Jonathan -- Jonathan Rochkind Digital Services Software Engineer The Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University 410.516.8886 rochkind (at) jhu.edu -- Brian Seitz Tri-College Libraries Bryn Mawr | Haverford | Swarthmore 610-526-5294
Re: [CODE4LIB] hotel for conf?
My experience in calling was that the booking person said (just minutes ago) that there are rooms available but that rooms set aside for the conference rate have all been sold out. If I want to pay $219 a night, they'll reserve a room for me. Otherwise, nope. They wouldn't negotiate the rate with me. I was going to be sharing the room with someone, so two of us are currently out of luck. If I need to book with another hotel, I need to know pretty soon. Jean: can you check on this? Tom Keays On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Bess Sadler eo...@virginia.edu wrote: Hey, Brian. I ran into the same problem today, but I called on the phone and they were able to book me at the conference rate anyway. If anyone else runs into this problem do try telephoning. Bess On 11-Jan-09, at 12:04 AM, Brian Seitz wrote: I just tried to book a room using the discount code and the website told me there are no rooms available for that code/date. So it seems it is overbooked. Hopefully the block can be increased. Brian - jean rainwater jean.rainwa...@gmail.com wrote: We're getting very close to filling the guest block. We talked to the hotel folks yesterday about the possibility of increasing it but don't have an answer yet. Anyone who's registered and has not made a reservation yet should do asap. -- Jean On Fri, Jan 9, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Schneider, Wayne wschnei...@hclib.org wrote: Hey, Jonathan. That's weird - the hotel told me (well, the web site told me) that 1 king bed was not available at this time. I placed the reservation Wednesday. Have you called? I wouldn't mind swapping, since I'm not sharing the room with anyone, but I begin to suspect that the guest block may simply be overbooked. wayne -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Jonathan Rochkind Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 4:15 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] hotel for conf? So the Marriott for the conference hotel is telling me there are no rooms with two queen beds available. That's kind of a problem, since I was planning on sharing a room with a colleague. Anyone know if there's any way around that? Jonathan -- Jonathan Rochkind Digital Services Software Engineer The Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University 410.516.8886 rochkind (at) jhu.edu -- Brian Seitz Tri-College Libraries Bryn Mawr | Haverford | Swarthmore 610-526-5294
Re: [CODE4LIB] MODS-to-citation stylesheets
Thanks, I have heard of CSL but never really worked with it. Do you know if it is specifically geared toward Zotero's SQLite data structures? We're interested in generating citations in web apps from a native XML database of MODS, preferably without going through Zotero. I've experimented with generating the citations from our eXist-based system by way of Zotero, but we run into genre-authority issues. Zotero's default MODS import translator expects mods:genre authority=marcgt and our system uses other authorities. Granted, I'm working off of some older Zotero code, so I may not have the most recent info. -Andy On 1/12/09 10:51 AM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: What I've been meaning to investigate more fully is the Citation Style Language (CSL) which is used by Zotero for citation outputting--there are some other non-Zotero engines for CSL, but I'm not sure how mature/ready for production any of them are. The Zotero engine is of course in Javascript, so inconvenient (although not impossible) to re-use that code a server side app. I haven't really investigated what's going on with CSL, but that seems to be the 'right' way to deal with this to me. Once you have a CSL engine incorporated in your app, you can output not just in Chicago or MLA, but any citation style now or in the future that Zotero (or anyone else) provides a CSL file for. Thanks to Zotero (and it's partners?) for developing this re-useable CSL format instead of just a custom Zotero solution. Jonathan Andrew Ashton wrote: Can someone point me at any good, freely-available stylesheets to convert MODS to Chicago or MLA formatted citations? It seems like something that should be readily available, but I can¹t seem to find it. I¹d rather not reinvent the wheel if possible... Thanks, Andy
Re: [CODE4LIB] MODS-to-citation stylesheets
Do you know if it is specifically geared toward Zotero's SQLite data structures? I don't believe so, since the CSL standard, such that it is, predates Zotero. I've worked with CSL a little bit in trying to create a PHP CSL rules engine. Not a trivial task, to say the least, but long-term it would serve you very well. I think there are Python and Ruby CSL libraries, but my impression, like Jonathan's, is that they are still somewhat in the works. --Dave == David Walker Library Web Services Manager California State University http://xerxes.calstate.edu From: Code for Libraries [code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Andrew Ashton [andrew_ash...@brown.edu] Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 8:06 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] MODS-to-citation stylesheets Thanks, I have heard of CSL but never really worked with it. Do you know if it is specifically geared toward Zotero's SQLite data structures? We're interested in generating citations in web apps from a native XML database of MODS, preferably without going through Zotero. I've experimented with generating the citations from our eXist-based system by way of Zotero, but we run into genre-authority issues. Zotero's default MODS import translator expects mods:genre authority=marcgt and our system uses other authorities. Granted, I'm working off of some older Zotero code, so I may not have the most recent info. -Andy On 1/12/09 10:51 AM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: What I've been meaning to investigate more fully is the Citation Style Language (CSL) which is used by Zotero for citation outputting--there are some other non-Zotero engines for CSL, but I'm not sure how mature/ready for production any of them are. The Zotero engine is of course in Javascript, so inconvenient (although not impossible) to re-use that code a server side app. I haven't really investigated what's going on with CSL, but that seems to be the 'right' way to deal with this to me. Once you have a CSL engine incorporated in your app, you can output not just in Chicago or MLA, but any citation style now or in the future that Zotero (or anyone else) provides a CSL file for. Thanks to Zotero (and it's partners?) for developing this re-useable CSL format instead of just a custom Zotero solution. Jonathan Andrew Ashton wrote: Can someone point me at any good, freely-available stylesheets to convert MODS to Chicago or MLA formatted citations? It seems like something that should be readily available, but I can¹t seem to find it. I¹d rather not reinvent the wheel if possible... Thanks, Andy
Re: [CODE4LIB] hotel for conf?
I had the same issue when I booked a couple of weeks ago. Maybe we should offer to rewrite their reservation system. ;) --- David Cloutman dclout...@co.marin.ca.us Electronic Services Librarian Marin County Free Library -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Schneider, Wayne Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 2:42 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] hotel for conf? Hey, Jonathan. That's weird - the hotel told me (well, the web site told me) that 1 king bed was not available at this time. I placed the reservation Wednesday. Have you called? I wouldn't mind swapping, since I'm not sharing the room with anyone, but I begin to suspect that the guest block may simply be overbooked. wayne -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Jonathan Rochkind Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 4:15 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] hotel for conf? So the Marriott for the conference hotel is telling me there are no rooms with two queen beds available. That's kind of a problem, since I was planning on sharing a room with a colleague. Anyone know if there's any way around that? Jonathan -- Jonathan Rochkind Digital Services Software Engineer The Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University 410.516.8886 rochkind (at) jhu.edu Email Disclaimer: http://www.co.marin.ca.us/nav/misc/EmailDisclaimer.cfm
Re: [CODE4LIB] MODS-to-citation stylesheets
Thanks for the Citeproc recommendation - it is exactly what I'm looking for. On 1/12/09 12:45 PM, Erik Hetzner erik.hetz...@ucop.edu wrote: At Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:11:59 -0800, Walker, David wrote: Do you know if it is specifically geared toward Zotero's SQLite data structures? I don't believe so, since the CSL standard, such that it is, predates Zotero. I've worked with CSL a little bit in trying to create a PHP CSL rules engine. Not a trivial task, to say the least, but long-term it would serve you very well. I think there are Python and Ruby CSL libraries, but my impression, like Jonathan's, is that they are still somewhat in the works. Hi - You might have a look at citeproc [1]. -Erik 1. http://xbiblio.sourceforge.net/citeproc/ ;; Erik Hetzner, California Digital Library ;; gnupg key id: 1024D/01DB07E3
