Re: [CODE4LIB] Job: Full-stack developer, SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System at Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Catalog
Just in case this slipped past anyone who might be interested... You should think about coming to work with us [1] if you... * want to be part of a small team focused on a core set of applications for a well-defined and appreciative user base! * like creating things that help people find other things (in new and better ways!) * enjoy experiencing all four seasons worth of weather! * want to fight the growing ruby hegemony in library software! /plug --jay On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 8:38 PM, j...@code4lib.org wrote: Job Title:IT Specialist (Software Developer), IS-2210, Grade 11, 12; $62,758 to $97,787/annually Location: Cambridge, MA The NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Project within the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory is seeking a software developer. The ADS was originally conceived and developed over 20 years ago as a system to support the discovery and retrieval of data from the NASA Astrophysics missions and the scholarly literature about them. Today, the ADS finds itself as the central discovery engine for astronomical information, used nearly every day by nearly every astronomer. Moving into its third decade, the ADS continues to serve the research community while remaining at the forefront of the massive technological and sociological changes occurring in the field of scholarly communication. By joining our group you will be actively supporting the discovery, dissemination and reuse of scientific publications and data! The ADS is currently developing the next-generation web-based platform supporting current and future services. To this end, the project is committed to re-using and enhancing public domain software modules when they exist, and developing new open-source software when necessary. The main components of the system architecture are Apache SOLR/Lucene, CERN Invenio and MongoDB. The development stack includes java, python, flask, javascript and bootstrap. The project is looking for a highly-motivated full-stack developer interested in joining a dynamic team of talented individuals architecting and implementing the new platform. The primary responsibility of the employee is the design, development, and support of the ADS front-end applications (including the new search interface) as well as the implementation of the user database, login system and personalization of the new software platform. DUTIES: Duties at the grate 11 level may include, but are not limited to: designing and developing robust software applications and components to support the ADS services, in particular the ADS user interfaces, and its interaction with the back-end system components; providing ongoing support for the ADS system's platform, including its bibliographic database, search engine, user database, and other web-based applications used by the project; defining system requirements and develop new tools to improve user submission and curation efforts; developing and/or modifing existing tools used for digital content harvesting, metadata enrichment, document conversion and indexing; participating in the maintenance of ADS data holdings by taking part in the creation, curation and enrichment of datasets and metadata records, and their ingestion in the ADS databases. Duties at the grade 12 level, in addition to those reflected at the 11 level, may include: working with members of other organizations to coordinate software development efforts and enable data exchange between ADS and its partners; designing and implementing services and Application Programming Interfaces that enable a high level of interoperability and integration between ADS and its collaborators. For more information, please see the full posting online at:[ http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/hr/postings/13-32.html](http://www.cfa.harvard.ed u/hr/postings/13-32.html) Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/10176/
Re: [CODE4LIB] Job: Full-stack developer, SAO/NASA Astrophysics Data System at Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Star Catalog
... [1] https://github.com/adsabs?tab=members On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Jay Luker lb...@reallywow.com wrote: Just in case this slipped past anyone who might be interested... You should think about coming to work with us [1] if you... * want to be part of a small team focused on a core set of applications for a well-defined and appreciative user base! * like creating things that help people find other things (in new and better ways!) * enjoy experiencing all four seasons worth of weather! * want to fight the growing ruby hegemony in library software! /plug --jay On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 8:38 PM, j...@code4lib.org wrote: Job Title:IT Specialist (Software Developer), IS-2210, Grade 11, 12; $62,758 to $97,787/annually Location: Cambridge, MA The NASA Astrophysics Data System (ADS) Project within the High Energy Astrophysics Division of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory is seeking a software developer. The ADS was originally conceived and developed over 20 years ago as a system to support the discovery and retrieval of data from the NASA Astrophysics missions and the scholarly literature about them. Today, the ADS finds itself as the central discovery engine for astronomical information, used nearly every day by nearly every astronomer. Moving into its third decade, the ADS continues to serve the research community while remaining at the forefront of the massive technological and sociological changes occurring in the field of scholarly communication. By joining our group you will be actively supporting the discovery, dissemination and reuse of scientific publications and data! The ADS is currently developing the next-generation web-based platform supporting current and future services. To this end, the project is committed to re-using and enhancing public domain software modules when they exist, and developing new open-source software when necessary. The main components of the system architecture are Apache SOLR/Lucene, CERN Invenio and MongoDB. The development stack includes java, python, flask, javascript and bootstrap. The project is looking for a highly-motivated full-stack developer interested in joining a dynamic team of talented individuals architecting and implementing the new platform. The primary responsibility of the employee is the design, development, and support of the ADS front-end applications (including the new search interface) as well as the implementation of the user database, login system and personalization of the new software platform. DUTIES: Duties at the grate 11 level may include, but are not limited to: designing and developing robust software applications and components to support the ADS services, in particular the ADS user interfaces, and its interaction with the back-end system components; providing ongoing support for the ADS system's platform, including its bibliographic database, search engine, user database, and other web-based applications used by the project; defining system requirements and develop new tools to improve user submission and curation efforts; developing and/or modifing existing tools used for digital content harvesting, metadata enrichment, document conversion and indexing; participating in the maintenance of ADS data holdings by taking part in the creation, curation and enrichment of datasets and metadata records, and their ingestion in the ADS databases. Duties at the grade 12 level, in addition to those reflected at the 11 level, may include: working with members of other organizations to coordinate software development efforts and enable data exchange between ADS and its partners; designing and implementing services and Application Programming Interfaces that enable a high level of interoperability and integration between ADS and its collaborators. For more information, please see the full posting online at:[ http://www.cfa.harvard.edu/hr/postings/13-32.html](http://www.cfa.harvard.ed u/hr/postings/13-32.html) Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/10176/
Re: [CODE4LIB] Python and Ruby
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Joshua Welker wel...@ucmo.edu wrote: And I hate Python whitespace. Ah-ha! A more paranoid pythonista than I might suspect this whole thread was simply an exercise in Ruby shilling. --jay
Re: [CODE4LIB] XML Parsing and Python
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Michael Beccaria
mbecca...@paulsmiths.eduwrote:
I ended up doing a regular expression find and replace function to replace
all illegal xml characters with a dash or something.
:(
A string translation map might be a better approach. Here's what I do as
one part of a general purpose text cleanup method.
{{{
illegal_unichrs = [ (0x00, 0x08), (0x0B, 0x1F), (0x7F, 0x84), (0x86, 0x9F),
(0xD800, 0xDFFF), (0xFDD0, 0xFDDF), (0xFFFE, 0x),
(0x1FFFE, 0x1), (0x2FFFE, 0x2), (0x3FFFE, 0x3),
(0x4FFFE, 0x4), (0x5FFFE, 0x5), (0x6FFFE, 0x6),
(0x7FFFE, 0x7), (0x8FFFE, 0x8), (0x9FFFE, 0x9),
(0xAFFFE, 0xA), (0xBFFFE, 0xB), (0xCFFFE, 0xC),
(0xDFFFE, 0xD), (0xEFFFE, 0xE), (0xE, 0xF),
(0x10FFFE, 0x10) ]
tmap = dict.fromkeys(r for start, end in illegal_unichrs for r in
range(start, end+1))
...
text = text.translate(tmap)
}}}
See the str.translate() method at
http://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#string-methods
--jay
Re: [CODE4LIB] Providing Search Across PDFs
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Nathan Tallman ntall...@gmail.com wrote: @Péter: The VuFind solution I mentioned is very similar to what you use here. It uses Aperture (although soon to use Tika instead) to grab the full-text and shoves everything inside a solr index. The import is managed through a PHP script the crawls every URL on the sitemap. The only part I don't have is removing deleted, adding new, and updating changed webpages/files. I'm not sure how to rework the script to use a list of new files rather than the sitemap, but everything is on the same server so that should work. Nathan, A first step could be to record a timestamp of when a particular URL is fetched. Then modify your PHP script to send an If-Modified-Since header with the request. Assuming the target server adheres to basic HTTP behavior, you'll get a 304 response and therefore know you don't have to re-index that particular item. (As an aside, could Google be ignoring items in your sitemap that it thinks haven't changed?) Maybe I'm misunderstanding though. The sitemap you mention has links to html pages which then link to the PDFs? So you have to parse the HTML to get the PDF URL? In that case, it still seems like recording the last-fetched timestamps for the PDF URLs would be an option. I know next to nothing about VuFind, so maybe the fetching mechanism isn't exposed in a way to make this possible. I'm surprised it's not already baked in, frankly. One other thing that's confusing is the notion of over 1000 PDFs taking a long, long time. Even on fairly milquetoast hardware, I'd expect solr to be capable of extracting and indexing 1000 PDF documents in 20-30 minutes. --jay
Re: [CODE4LIB] Lib or Libe
People, people. Can we agree that lib is simply easier to say than libe due to the shorter vowel sound? Can we also agree than the best coders are, by nature, lazy? Therefore, lib wins. All you. libe mohubs can go call the wah-wah-wahmbulance. --jay On Wednesday, February 13, 2013, Kyle Banerjee wrote: I'm going to go out on a limb and say your dad's a transplant from the midwest or the mid Atlantic states. I'm guessing you can pronounce Willamette either because you know the region, are used to crazy English spellings used to refer to Native American place names, or both. kyle
Re: [CODE4LIB] Zoia
On Friday, January 18, 2013, Gabriel Farrell wrote: I've also been working on a new IRC bot framework in node.js called n0d3 ( https://github.com/gsf/n0d3). I introduced emerac to #code4lib as a hubot a year or so ago, and was planning to reintroduce it as an n0d3 bot at some point. Could be a fun thing to work on at the conference. As a recently self-diagnosed Never-Node, this makes me a bit uncomfortable. --jay
Re: [CODE4LIB] Zoia
+1 for renaming @poledance to @rsinger. On Friday, January 18, 2013, Tim Donohue wrote: FWIW, there are a few zoia commands I've noticed that could come across as sexist (especially if you see Zoia as being a female bot). I don't think they are used that frequently, but I have seen: @poledance (have zoia display a poledancer) @euph (have zoia respond in a euphemism) This isn't meant to spoil any of the fun of having zoia around. For the most part, I don't take offense to zoia. But, I do find zoia annoying / noisy (which is why I'm rarely in code4lib IRC). Though there are some useful / helpful zoia commands in there. I like Jon Gorman's suggestion of having a friendly, helpful bot and a wise-cracking one. That way, those of us annoyed by the ongoing wise-cracking can ignore it, while still having access to the helpful stuff. (And it may be easier to turn off the wise-cracking parts during the conference if desired.) - Tim On 1/18/2013 10:26 AM, Karen Coyle wrote: Actually, I find the playing with Zoia itself offensive. As per my response to my own message. It objectifies women. Treats them as play-things. Makes me very uncomfortable. If we want to have an information bot, perhaps like the one used by W3C which takes minutes for meetings (Zakim, I believe it is), that seems reasonable. But to have a play-thing that is gendered is a really, really bad idea. In fact, to have a play-thing of any kind on the channel might not be a good idea. I know that some folks find it fun, but it is akin to the locker-room shenanigans (at least as I experience it), and it's a HUGE in-joke that makes it obvious to anyone new that they aren't in. kc
Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib 2013 location
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Esmé Cowles escow...@ucsd.edu wrote: I am personally looking forward to the walk. Though I live in Florida, I've lived in colder places and have appropriate coats, etc. And I don't have any mobility issues, and routinely walk a few miles just for fun. But if I didn't already own cold-weather gear that I would never need in Florida, I would not be looking forward to walking a mile, early in the morning or late at night, in February, in Chicago, where I could reasonably expect it to be in the ballpark of 20°F. From the overhead map I was a bit horrified, with the route running right parallel/adjacent to the huge freeway there. But I just walked the stretch from Crowne Plaza to the UIC Forum on Google Street View and it didn't seem too bad. --jay PS, I hope you like Greek food.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Proposed Changes to Future Conference Program Choosing
As a conference-goer I dislike the idea of limiting proposal submissions for the same reason I dislike term limits: it doesn't let *me* choose from all possibilities. The restriction cuts both ways in that it doesn't just put a limit on presenters but on my choices as well. --jay On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: On Nov 28, 2012, at 9:53 AM, Edward M. Corrado ecorr...@ecorrado.us wrote: I favor limiting up front. One of the issues we have been discussing is that perception that Code4Lib is not as inclusive as it can or should be. I believe having multiple proposals from the same person(s) and, for that matter, multiple proposals from the same institution(s), does nothing to help counter this perception, and possibly perpetuates it. Since I'm pretty intimately aware of the minutiae of the proposals (since I have to load them one-by-one into the diebold-o-tron every year), I am pretty sure that multiple proposal submission is not the exclusive domain of conference veterans. It is a pretty healthy mix of people I know and people I don't. While I still stick to not having a problem with multiple submissions, I can see an issue in the case of second proposals that are similar to other proposals. That said, the process is never going to be perfect, having some editorial discretion on the part of the program committee seems to me to mitigate the worst of the downsides. -Ross.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Proposed Changes to Future Conference Program Choosing
Just to clarify, +1 on only one accepted presentation per person -1 on only one submission per person Sorry for any confusion. --jay On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Edward M. Corrado ecorr...@ecorrado.uswrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Jay Luker lb...@reallywow.com wrote: As a conference-goer I dislike the idea of limiting proposal submissions for the same reason I dislike term limits: it doesn't let *me* choose from all possibilities. The restriction cuts both ways in that it doesn't just put a limit on presenters but on my choices as well. --jay I would argue that multiple submissions limits me as a voter as well. If a person with multiple proposals gets more then one accepted, the one I wanted more could be dropped, and if I knew it would have been dropped, I might have voted for a presentation from someone else on a related topic higher. Unless we have a completely open schedule, voters, presenters, and conference goers are all limited in some way. Edward On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: On Nov 28, 2012, at 9:53 AM, Edward M. Corrado ecorr...@ecorrado.us wrote: I favor limiting up front. One of the issues we have been discussing is that perception that Code4Lib is not as inclusive as it can or should be. I believe having multiple proposals from the same person(s) and, for that matter, multiple proposals from the same institution(s), does nothing to help counter this perception, and possibly perpetuates it. Since I'm pretty intimately aware of the minutiae of the proposals (since I have to load them one-by-one into the diebold-o-tron every year), I am pretty sure that multiple proposal submission is not the exclusive domain of conference veterans. It is a pretty healthy mix of people I know and people I don't. While I still stick to not having a problem with multiple submissions, I can see an issue in the case of second proposals that are similar to other proposals. That said, the process is never going to be perfect, having some editorial discretion on the part of the program committee seems to me to mitigate the worst of the downsides. -Ross.
[CODE4LIB]
This thread seems to have meandered a ways from what seemed like a perfectly good suggestion from Cynthia: that the program committee be allowed some leeway and/or encouraged to exercise some judgement with the talk selection. I don't see why a change like that necessitates a big, centralized, formal organization (like SXSW has). And -1 on anonymous proposal authors for the reasons jrochkind mentioned. --jay On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Edward M Corrado ecorr...@ecorrado.uswrote: I am not thrilled with the idea of anonymous proposals as I think that goes against the openness non-organization that is code4lib. Also based on the numbers posted earlier it seems inputs are more of an issue then the voting. However, I love the idea of X number of presentations reserved for first time presenters. I don't know what the value of X should be but Bess's idea of 15% sounds good to me. I'd personally also like to see a limit to the number of talks someone can give or propose, but I know this has been brought up before and, at least in the past, there was not overwhelming support for this. Edward -- Edward M. Corrado On Nov 27, 2012, at 18:41, Bess Sadler bess.sad...@gmail.com wrote: I am not volunteering to write the voting mechanism for this, but what if we had two rounds of voting? 1. First round, anonymous (people who follow these things avidly would of course have read everyone's names on the wiki, but I think for most people not having the names listed means you have removed the names from consideration). We use the current system of assigning points. Once you've cast that ballot, then you get ballot 2: 2. The same ballot with the names present. You now have the opportunity to change your vote, if you want to. It might be because you didn't realize that person who secretly bores you was one of the speakers. It might be because what at first looked like just another talk about marc software sounds more compelling if its from someone who's never spoken before. I wonder if we might also set aside a separate competition for first time speakers? Say, 15% of the talks? Assuming that generally speaking, offering ways for early-career folks or those new to public speaking to participate is a good thing and would benefit diversity as a bonus. Bess On Nov 27, 2012, at 3:20 PM, Kelley McGrath kell...@uoregon.edu wrote: I'll second the idea of approaching people individually and explicitly asking them to participate. It worked on me. I never would have written my first article for the Code4Lib Journal or become a member of the editorial committee if someone hadn't encouraged me individually (Thanks Jonathan!). It would also be good to find a way to somehow target the pool of lurkers who maybe aren't already connected to someone and get them more involved. As far as anonymous proposals go, we recently had a very good workshop on implicit bias here. Someone brought up that found significant changes in the gender proportions in symphony orchestras after candidates started auditioning behind screens. There are also lots of studies about the different responses to the same resume/application depending on whether a stereotypically male/female or white/black name was used. Probably it's impossible to make proposals completely anonymous, but it would be an interesting experiment to leave off the names. Kelley PS Interestingly, I wouldn't instinctively self-identify as a member of the Code4Lib community, although my first thought is that that has more to do with not being a coder than with being a woman. ** Kelley McGrath Metadata Management Librarian University of Oregon Libraries 1299 University of Oregon Eugene, OR 97403 541-346-8232 kell...@uoregon.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] It's all job postings!
I made the same observation recently but decided to simply set up a filter. Pushing the jobs postings into a separate list seems like a worse solution. --jay PS, in a big-picture sense, it seems like a good problem to have. I mean, the number of postings is really remarkable! On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 11:08 PM, Aaron Collier acoll...@csufresno.edu wrote: Perhaps it's because it's summer. Not much going on but staff searches... Aaron Collier Library Academic Systems Analyst California State University, Fresno - Henry Madden Library 559.278.2945 acoll...@csufresno.edu http://www.csufresno.edu/library - Original Message - From: Nate Vack njv...@wisc.edu To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Sent: Wednesday, August 1, 2012 6:19:33 PM Subject: [CODE4LIB] It's all job postings! So... perhaps 90% of the conversations in my Code4lib folder are job postings right now. That's not what I want. Does this mean my filters (or subscription!) are set up wrong, or that there should be a separate jobs list? Hm... -Nate
Re: [CODE4LIB] It's all job postings!
For those who dislike the current ratio of job postings to regular content the solution seems clear: start posting more flamewar inducing questions. It's quite easy. Allow me to demonstrate. Ruby on Rails? Blech, no thanks! --jay On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Kaile Zhu kz...@uco.edu wrote: How about this? Please only post the jobs that require programming skills or experience due to the nature of this list. Think before you post. For me, it doesn't bother me at all. If you don't like it, it just takes a click to delete it. You will not see the hiring phenomenon stays on peak all the time. Kelly -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Chen, Janey Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 8:49 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] It's all job postings! I am with you on this! Actually, it is encouraging to see that there are many job openings in this field. And the job descriptions give people a sense of what skills the employers are looking for. Janey -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Wilhelm Sent: August 2, 2012 9:31 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] It's all job postings! Too many job postings? I think there are fields where people would kill to have this problem. :-) --Mark On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Ed Summers e...@pobox.com wrote: Honestly, I'm surprised this hasn't come up sooner :-) In the interests of science I've created a little poll to indicate whether you think the job postings should be sent to the code4lib mailing list or not: http://bit.ly/code4lib-jobs-emails If you care either way just click yes or no and I'll report the results. But if you can't wait I made the spreadsheet public: http://bit.ly/code4lib-jobs-email-spreadsheet //Ed PS. Just fyi, shortimer will *not* re-post jobs to the discussion list if the posting was discovered there. Typically the job postings that shortimer posts to code4lib have been pulled from a source other than the mailing list, which met some curatorial criteria as being relevant for the code4lib community. If you care about influencing this criteria I encourage you to help curate [1] the jobs. [1] http://jobs.code4lib.org/curate/ -- Mark Wilhelm E-Mail: markc...@gmail.com Twitter: @markcwil Facebook: facebook.com/markcwil Read the Information Science News Blog at: http://infoscinews.blogspot.com/ **Bronze+Blue=Green** The University of Central Oklahoma is Bronze, Blue, and Green! Please print this e-mail only if absolutely necessary! **CONFIDENTIALITY** This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information. Any unauthorized disclosure or use of this information is prohibited.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Python web framework recommendations good when learning Python
+1 for Flask. We've started using it as an upgrade over web.py for simple one-off stuff, and are also in the process of integrating it into a much larger application. i.e., it scales both ways. --jay -- ** Jay Luker Astrophysics Data System (ADS) jlu...@cfa.harvard.edu Center for Astrophysics 617-495-458860 Garden Street MS 67 617-495-7356 faxCambridge, MA 02138 ** On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 4:28 AM, Robert Berry robert.be...@liverpool.ac.uk wrote: Flask is a good choice for what you want to do. I'd suggest using SQLAlchemy with it. It's an absolutely excellent DB abstraction layer / ORM. William Denton w...@pobox.com writes: I have a fairly basic web service I want to hack on that would manage some stuff (not too much) and feed out JSON in response to request. I'd like to do it in Python so I can get to know the language. StackOverflow is filled with comparisons of Python web frameworks, but I wanted to get the sense from all the Python hackers here about what framework might be a good one given their personal experiences. Django is very full-featured and well documented, and would make a complex project simple, but I think has more than I need; Flask looks pretty simple and could suit the basic service I want to do; web2py looks pretty rich. I know this isn't a particularly answerable question and the best thing to do is to try one and hack on it, and do it right the second time, but since future Python work might involve RDF and linked data, and there are so many Python people here whose opinion I value, I thought I'd throw it out. Thanks, Bill
[CODE4LIB] Conference IRC logs
Hi all, Just a reminder: the #code4lib IRC channel will be logged and the logs made available for viewing at http://irc.code4lib.org at some point during or just after the conference. Keep it civil, keep it weird. thanks, --jay
Re: [CODE4LIB] My crazed idea about dealing with registration limitations
I agree with Ed: I like that someone is throwing out crazy ideas. I don't particularly like this crazy idea though. If you accept that the downside to multiple tracks is fracturing of the audience/community, then I don't see how holding a 2nd clone of the conference on subsequent days gets around that. It might even be worse because in a parallel multi-track setups you would at least have the benefit of bumping into and networking with the entire, larger group in the off-hours. Of course, inherent in this argument is the idea that it's not the actual talks that provide the most value in attending the conference. Also I agree about the Speaker Gulag issue. --jay On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Edward M. Corrado ecorr...@ecorrado.us wrote: I agree it is a crazy idea and I'm not sure if it would work, but I like the out of the box thinking. If the site had one big space that could handle 500 people, you could just have one keynote session that both groups attended., I guess. That does restricts the options for locations, but not as much as needing a room for 500 people the whole time. Speaker wise, you'd probably only have to be there one extra day. I guess that might mean, however, that a speaker (w|c)ould participate in half of conference A and half of conference B if that is how they approached it. Edward On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Peter Murray peter.mur...@lyrasis.org wrote: That is a crazy idea. I don't know about putting the speakers on the hook for two days -- particularly keynote speakers. Still, it would be interesting for a site to flesh this out and propose something along these lines. Peter On Dec 21, 2011, at 6:44 PM, Fleming, Declan wrote: Hi - so I know this is nuts. If we start with a couple premises for the code4lib conference: 1. Single thread is crucial. 2. 250 is about the top limit of a single threaded conference. 3. 400+ people want to attend. 4. The conference takes 2.5 days. What if we ran the 2.5 day conference twice in one week? 1. Session 1 runs from Monday until noon on Weds. 2. Session 2 runs from 1p on Weds until the end of Friday. 3. Every one of the 23 accepted talks is given twice, once in each Session, in the same order. 4. Each Session is attended by a different set of attendees. We could serve 500 attendees this way. If everyone came for the week, there could be parallel seminars, hack fests, BootCamps, THATcamps, CURATEcamps, c4lcamps, etc... for the half of the 500 that wasn't in the main conference. People could also just decide to come for the 2.5 day main conference, I guess. I SAID it was crazy. ;) D -- Peter Murray Assistant Director, Technology Services Development LYRASIS peter.mur...@lyrasis.org +1 678-235-2955 1438 West Peachtree Street NW Suite 200 Atlanta, GA 30309 Toll Free: 800.999.8558 Fax: 404.892.7879 www.lyrasis.org LYRASIS: Great Libraries. Strong Communities. Innovative Answers.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Obvious answer to registration limitations
If only we could all be as lucky as Dmitri. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDIBKxh-5No --jay On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Nordstrom, Kurt kurt.nordst...@unt.edu wrote: I suggested that all registration for C4L should go through zoia. If you don't know who zoia is, maybe you should learn more about the C4L community before queuing for a conference spot. ;) -Kurt From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Fleming, Declan [dflem...@ucsd.edu] Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2011 11:34 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Obvious answer to registration limitations Hiya - ya know what the cheapest, most inclusive part of code4lib is? The IRC channel. I know it's old school, and one more thing to learn, but drop in and toss an idea around. I've found it very rewarding. D
Re: [CODE4LIB] NEcode4lib?
Hi Joe, I think there'd certainly be significant interest. IIRC, the few of us who organized the last one--my god, was it three years ago?--figured we'd leave it to others to step up and drive the next gathering. That clearly never happened. I'm happy to get involved again though. I may even have access to a venue we could use here at the CfA in Cambridge. --jay On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Joseph Montibello joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edu wrote: Hi, It looks like there was a New England regional a couple of years ago. Is there still any activity/interest in this region? I can imagine that in addition to folks who missed the registration power-hour, there might be a significant group that can't get their library to support a trip to Seattle. Just curious. Joe Montibello, MLIS Library Systems Manager Dartmouth College Library 603.646.9394 joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edumailto:joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Hotel reservations...
Maybe it's waiting for OCLC's sign-off? Can you look into this, Roy? Preish, --jay On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Elizabeth Duell edu...@uoregon.edu wrote: Please refrain from trying to make hotel reservation for about 30 minutes (8:55am Pacific time). We aren't sure why the rooms are not showing up and are checking on it. Please do wait to make your reservations at the Renaissance, as the room pick up (how many people stay there) helps our bottom line. - E Elizabeth Duell Orbis Cascade Alliance edu...@uoregon.edu (541) 346-1883 On 11/16/2011 8:49 AM, Cary Gordon wrote: When you are up on stage, you can give us a summary of the more interesting descriptions. On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 8:31 AM, Elizabeth Duelledu...@uoregon.edu wrote: The Description field is for the PARTICIPANT'S NAME. - E Elizabeth Duell Orbis Cascade Alliance edu...@uoregon.edu (541) 346-1883 On 11/16/2011 8:21 AM, Joshua Gomez wrote: Stephen are you sure it is a captcha error? When I first tried to submit it complained about the description field being empty (it's at the top of the form). I'm not sure what the description field is for, so I just typed in code4lib 2012. -Josh Westman, Stephen 11/16/11 11:12 AM For some reason, it is not accepting the captcha information. I'm typing in exactly what's showing, but I can't get the payment to submit. Stephen Westman From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Elizabeth Duell [edu...@uoregon.edu] Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 10:59 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: _[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib National 2012 Registration is now OPEN Registration is now open for Code4Lib 2012! The 2012 conference will be February 6-9 in Seattle, Washington. Code4Lib 2012 is a loosely-structured conference for library technologists to commune, gather/create/share ideas and software, be inspired, and forge collaborations. Register here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/Code4LibNational2012 Conference information can be found on the conference web page and the code4lib wiki: http://code4lib.org/conference/2012 http://wiki.code4lib.org/ Registration information as well as Transportation and Things to do in Seattle are at: http://orbiscascade.org/index/code4lib-national-2012 Hoping to give a 20-min talk or lead a pre-conference? Spots will be reserved for speakers, so please help us by noting that you have submitted a proposal for the conference in the “anything else we need to know” section of your registration form. If your registration hinges on delivering a talk, register but DO NOT PAY FOR YOUR REGISTRATION AT THAT TIME. We will contact you later for payment. *** Wait, registration has filled up already? I just got this notice. Please register for the conference and get on the wait list but DO NOT PAY FOR YOUR REGISTRATION AT THAT TIME. Because of the large number of spots reserved for speakers, we will most likely be opening up more spots after the presentations are chosen on December 9th. We will be contacting individuals on the wait list and asking for payment at that time. -- Elizabeth Duell Orbis Cascade Alliance edu...@uoregon.edu (541) 346-1883 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups code4libcon group. To post to this group, send email to code4lib...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to code4libcon+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/code4libcon?hl=en.
Re: [CODE4LIB] two open positions at Stanford
...or, you could look for a job that involved just writing a bunch of IRC Supybot plugins all day. ...oh wait, my sources are telling me that's what it's like working at Stanford. Nevermind! --jay On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Blake, Tom tbl...@bpl.org wrote: ...or, you could take advantage of our extended application deadline and reconsider one of the two developer positions open at the Boston Public Library. Salaries are more in line with municipal government than Silicon Valley - but benefits and job security are too. You'd be one of the brightest stars on our team of several whip smart librarians, and you really cannot beat the variety weather out here. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or want to discuss the positions - posted and Advanced Searchable under Job Opening ID #341652 (Web Developer) and #341650 (Repository Developer) here: www.cityofboston.gov/OHR/careercenter.asp Thomas Blake Digital Projects Manager Boston Public Library 700 Boylston St. Boston, MA 02116 617 859-2039 http://www.bpl.org/online/ Free To All -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Bess Sadler Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2011 4:23 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] two open positions at Stanford We are looking for two software developers to work on a four year grant funded digital library project. The department, Digital Library Systems and Services (DLSS) is part of the Stanford Library, and it's a great place to work. Salaries are more in line with Silicon Valley than with academia, you'd be part of a team of whip smart library programmers, and you really cannot beat the weather out here. Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or want to discuss the positions. To see more details on any of the positions, search for the Job ID at http://jobs.stanford.edu/find_a_job.html. Bess Sadler Manager for Application Development, Digital Library Systems and Services p.s. Resistance is futile. ;) Feel free to browse other great jobs at http://jobs.stanford.edu/find_a_job.html Digital Library Software Engineer, Stanford University Libraries Job ID 43757 Job Location University Libraries Job Category Library Salary 4P3 Date Posted Jul 29, 2011 Working Title: Revs Infrastructure Developer Job Classification: System Software Developer This position is double posted at the 4P3 and 4P4 levels. Job Objective: Stanford University Libraries is seeking a talented software engineer to support the digitization, collection delivery and collaboration components of the Revs Program at Stanford. This is a four-year, grant-funded position. This position is part of the Revs Program at Stanford (http://revs.stanford.edu). This program is dedicated to developing an understanding of the impact of the automobile on society, culture and technology. The Revs Program at Stanford was founded to inspire a new trans-disciplinary field connecting the past, present and future of the automobile. The Revs Program fosters an intellectual community bridging the humanities and fine arts, social sciences, design, science and engineering, and the professions. As a part of that effort, SULAIR will support the dissemination of scholarly research on the automobile; provide digital access to a collection of over two million items relating to automotive history, racing and technology; and, develop a system and service to develop and sustain an online automotive community. Members of the team will play a role in building the world's leading center on the study of the impact of the automobile on the 20th and 21st century. The Repository Developer will primarily develop digital library software to enable management, preservation, and online discovery of Revs materials. This will involve deployment of a new repository and web application using the Hydra technology stack (http://projecthydra.org). The Repository Developer will be a core contributor to the open source Hydra project in the process of building the Revs digital repository. The Repository Developerwill be a member of a core team dedicated to the successful completion of this project, and will work closely with the project manager, Revs web developer, the information architect, digital library infrastructure developers, the user experience designer and other developers involved in digital library initiatives. This particular project is highly collaborative, and will involve interactions with developers, scholars and staff across Stanford and from other institutions. As a member of SULAIR's digital library application development team, the Repository Developer will contribute to the overall development of the Stanford Library's web and digital library infrastructure, and help plan, specify, and build the technologies needed to support the
[CODE4LIB] Fwd: [inspire-dev] INSPIRE Job: Service Manager
Forwarding this along for the benefit of anyone from a CERN member state [1] who might enjoy working at a fascinating place with crazy-smart people. I'm guessing there might be one or three of you out there. --jay [1] https://ert.cern.ch/browse_www/wd_portal.show_page?p_web_site_id=1p_text_id=10 -- Forwarded message -- From: Salvatore Mele salvatore.m...@cern.ch Date: Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 10:37 AM Subject: [inspire-dev] INSPIRE Job: Service Manager To: inspire-dev List inspire-...@slac.stanford.edu All, as recently anticipated CERN is now hiring a service manager for INSPIRE. The vacancy note is now officially posted at https://ert.cern.ch/browse_www/wd_portal.show_job?p_web_site_id=1p_web_page_id=9748 Further information is available from me upon request. Please feel free to spread the voice to everyone who you think could be interested in this opportunity. Cheers, Salvatore -- Dr. Salvatore Mele CERN - Head of Open Access - http://www.cern.ch/oa SCOAP3 - Interim Project Manager - http://scoap3.org INSPIRE - Strategic Director - http://inspirebeta.net SOAP - Project co-ordinator - http://soap-fp7.eu Voice: + 41 22 767 8603 - E-mail: salvatore.m...@cern.ch Postal address: C27900, CERN, CH1211 Geneva 23, Switzerland
[CODE4LIB] Fwd: [inspire-dev] Two CERN Fellowship for INSPIRE
FYI Begin forwarded message: === CERN Fellowships: text mining scientific documents; author disambiguation in INSPIRE The CERN Scientific Information Service is looking for two enthusiastic and motivated developers with experience in text-mining or digital libraries, to join a dynamic international collaboration which is building, enhancing and operating the INSPIRE information service, a digital library which is a key working tool used by 50’000 scientists worldwide in their cutting-edge research in High-Energy Physics. We have two fellowships: the first for the text mining of scientific documents, the second for author disambiguation and management. What you will do (text mining fellowship): - Develop and expand our current text-mining of documents to extract all possible metadata: authors, affiliations, references and additional scientific content (figures, tables and more). Build infrastructure to mine in real time, leveraging user feedback, as scientists share documents, or for bulk mining of large collections of scanned/OCR’ed historical material. - Integrate, harmonize and expand all steps in the treatment of documents upon ingestion in INSPIRE from multiple sources, from extracting metadata to grabbing figures, from detecting similarities to spotting duplication. - Explore opportunities in the extraction of the contextual information provided by the location of references, figures and tables in scientific texts. What you will do (author disambiguation and management fellowship): - Expand and develop our author disambiguation and profile-claiming production infrastructure, with the aim to automatically associate every newly accessed document to the correct author profile. - Extend our author-article algorithmic and crowd-sourced tools to provide assertions about the academic affiliation of scientists - Assure seamless interoperability and bulk-data exchange with other relevant partners such as NASA-ADS, arXiv.org, ORCID and leading publishers in Physics. Other things you will do (for both fellowships): - According to your inclination and abilities, help out on other projects, such as crowdsourcing aspects of digital library curation, integrating our services with other data sources via linked open data, UI/UX design, operations of production and mining of usage data. - We require limited participation in stand-by duty for hot-fixes in the operation of the INSPIRE web service on evenings, weekends and public holidays. Your profile: - You are a citizen of one of the CERN Member states: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Citizens from Romania can now also apply. - You hold a BSc, MSc or PhD in Computer Science and have less than 10 years professional experience after your highest diploma. - You understand how scientists communicate and have either a proven track record in handling or mining technical or academic documents, or an experience in author disambiguation in a large-scale digital library. - You have a solid experience in developing in a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, Python) stack, preferably in open source projects, using git or similar DVCS, and desirably in a production environment. - Familiarity with issues and standards in information systems are an asset: XML, XSLT, RSS, OAI-PMH Who we are: CERN is the world leading laboratory in High-Energy Physics, home to the record-smashing LHC accelerator. Together with partners at SLAC/Stanford, Fermilab and DESY/Hamburg, The CERN Scientific Information Service and IT teams are building INSPIRE: a digital library serving 1 million records to 50’000 scientists in the field worldwide, which is in beta at http://inspirebeta.net. We collaborate closely with sister infrastructures arXiv at Cornell and the NASA/ADS at Harvard, as well as leading publishers in the field. We are founding members of the ORCID initiative, and stalwarts of Open Access through a myriad projects and initiatives. What we offer: - Contract duration: One year, which might be extended for a second year, conditional to performance. Further extension up to a maximum of three years can be granted under some circumstances. - Financial conditions: Fellows stipends are competitive and calculated individually according to age and qualifications, in the range 55’000-85’000 CHF per annum, net. Fellow are entitled to additional family and child allowances. International civil servants in the area are allowed to purchase discounted tax-free vehicles. - Leave: Fellows are entitled to 2.5 days paid leave per month, plus two weeks at Christmas and a few other local holidays. - Insurance: Fellows are covered by CERN’s comprehensive health scheme for themselves and their dependents. - Travel expenses: Fellows
Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2012 Seattle Update.
Hi Anjanette, Does this mean you've settled on dates? --jay On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Anjanette Young youn...@u.washington.edu wrote: Code4Lib Seattle 2012 update. Thanks to Elizabeth Duell of Orbis Cascade Alliance and Cary Gordon of chillco.com, we finally have a venue with adequate (hopefully) bandwidth and wireless access points, a reasonable food beverage minimum, and chairs! The Renaissance Hotel (515 Madison St., Seattle, WA 98104) is located in the chilly heart of downtown Seattle, still close to the University district, but even closer to the restaurants, bars, breweries and distilleries in the Belltown, Downtown, Pioneer Square, and Capitol Hill neighborhoods. We could use lots of help, please consider volunteering for a committee: http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/2012_committees_sign-up_page --Anj -- Anjanette Young | Systems Librarian University of Washington Libraries Box 352900 | Seattle, WA 98195 Phone: 206.616.2867
Re: [CODE4LIB] What do you wish you had time to learn?
Java - yeah, i know... the syntax I got but the other bits are always flail and error. i'm missing a fundamental understanding of the tools, how to actually build, package deploy an app, how to use the IDE properly, etc NLP Python Testing ePub Tennis How to cook an eggplant so that it is edible --jay
Re: [CODE4LIB] irc back channel logs
Hi Eric, The entire log for the conference can be accessed here: http://irc.code4lib.org/c4l11/static/logs/irclog I would have hoped that you could fetch the whole log for each day by manipulating the url, e.g., 00:00-23:59, but for some reason that's not working. :-( Interested to see what you do with it. --jay On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: I have seen the cool timelines made from the IRC back channel logs [1, 2], but I'm wondering how I can download the whole kit and caboodle. Such a thing is ripe for text mining. ;-) [1] 2009 timeline - http://irc.code4lib.org/c4l09/ [2] sum timeline data - http://irc.code4lib.org/c4l11/logslice/20110210/11:40-12:00 -- Eric Lease Morgan
Re: [CODE4LIB] Twitter annotations and library software
Hi all, I found this thread rather interesting and figured I'd try and revive the convo since apparently some things have been happening in the twitter annotation space in the past month. I just read on techcrunch that testing of the annotation features will commence next week [1]. Also it appears that an initial schema for a book type has been defined [2]. Have any code4libbers gotten involved in this beyond just opining on list? --jay [1] http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/02/twitter-annotations-testing/ [2] http://apiwiki.twitter.com/Annotations-Overview#RecommendedTypes
Re: [CODE4LIB] It's cool to love milk and cookies
I believe there is an organization called NABISCO that is working on one. --jay On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: 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] NoSQL - is this a real thing or a flash in the pan?
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.eduwrote: 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. Schemaless != no way to query. Key-value stores, like memcache, are just one end of what most consider the nosql spectrum. For instance, I can query my CouchDB instances through the different views I create. I thought this blog post had an interesting take on NoSQL, although this guy, Mike Stonebreaker of VoltDB, obviously has a horse in the race. http://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/50678-the-nosql-discussion-has-nothing-to-do-with-sql/fulltext --jay
Re: [CODE4LIB] Location of Code4Lib 2011
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 4:04 PM, phil cryer p...@cryer.us wrote: T-shirts should use one that says 'cutter' on the front, with code4lib details on the back: http://www.founditemclothing.com/t-shirts/breaking-away-cutters-shirt.html -1 I hold that movie in high reverence. Let us not bespoil it with our shennanigans. --jay
Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter
If PHP/python isn't a hard requirement, I think this would be fairly simple to do in perl using a combination of the XML::Simple [1] and JSON::XS [2] modules. In fact it's so simple, here's the code: #!/usr/bin/perl use JSON::XS; use XML::Simple; use strict; my $filename = shift @ARGV; my $parsed = XMLin($filename); my $json = encode_json($parsed); print $json, \n; XML::Simple, in spite of the name, actually allows for a myriad of options for how the perl data structure gets created from the xml, including attribute preservation, grouping of elements, etc. --jay [1] http://search.cpan.org/~grantm/XML-Simple-2.18/lib/XML/Simple.pm [2] http://search.cpan.org/~makamaka/JSON-2.17/lib/JSON.pm On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Joe Hourcle onei...@grace.nascom.nasa.gov wrote: On Fri, 5 Mar 2010, Godmar Back wrote: On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:59 AM, Ulrich Schaefer ulrich.schae...@dfki.dewrote: Hi, try this: http://code.google.com/p/xml2json-xslt/ I should have mentioned that I already tried everything I could find after googling - this stylesheet doesn't meet the requirements, not by far. It drops attributes just like simplexml_json does. The one thing I didn't try is a program called 'BadgerFish.php' which I couldn't locate - Google once indexed it at badgerfish.ning.com http://web.archive.org/web/20080216200903/http://badgerfish.ning.com/ http://web.archive.org/web/20071013052842/badgerfish.ning.com/file.php?format=srcpath=lib/BadgerFish.php -Joe
Re: [CODE4LIB] Planet code4lib - FLICKR
-1 on removing delicious --jay On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Jodi Schneider jschnei...@pobox.com wrote: I appreciate having delicious in the planet. Code4Lib's usage of this is one of the few reasons I'm still using delicious (which then posts for me to pinboard.in). I'd appreciate more organization of code4lib photos, if anybody wants to take stewardship of the flickr group we seem to have... -Jodi On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Michael J. Giarlo leftw...@alumni.rutgers.edu wrote: Reasonable arguments. The nice thing is that if delicious is removed, you can just subscribe to: http://feeds.delicious.com/v2/rss/tag/code4lib Ultimately this comes down to preference and jrochkind's stewardship. :) (Personally, I've always found the delicious stuff a distraction; I can already track that elsewhere.) -Mike On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 17:35, Rosalyn Metz rosalynm...@gmail.com wrote: I agree with Ranti. Delicious has become a way for us to share articles we find interesting to other people following the planet feed. I would hate for that medium to disappear. Rosalyn Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone with SprintSpeed -Original Message- From: Ranti Junus ranti.ju...@gmail.com Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 17:25:07 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Planet code4lib - FLICKR I'm a bit hesitant about removing delicious from the feed because I think this burst is a temporary only. I like the idea that anything code4lib will come in one feed package (that is, I don't have to go and check on separate places.) But one's mileage might vary. If the majority want it removed from the feed, then it's fine by me. ranti. On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Kevin S. Clarke kscla...@gmail.com wrote: +1 to all that as well Kevin On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 11:54 AM, Michael J. Giarlo leftw...@alumni.rutgers.edu wrote: +1 to removing flickr +1 to removing delicious as well +1 to jrochkind using his discretion -Mike On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 11:36, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: Yep, I agree, I'll remove flickr from the planet. CC'ing code4lib listserv in case anyone cares, you can make your case (on list or in private email to me), but at the moment as 'editor' of the planet I'm exersizing my editorial discretion to agree with Bernadette (I had the same opinion, but was waiting to see if any 'users' asked for it before doing it. :) ). [Other options for awareness of code4lib photos: 1) Someone could add a link to flickr search for tag code4lib to the code4lib home page, perhaps under 'photos'. 2) If you happen to know that there are a bunch of photos at a given time (like now), you could delicious-bookmark the _search results_ for 'code4lib' tag on flickr. Delicious tag code4lib is still on the planet. But please don't bookmark every individual photo, or we'll be back at square 1, heh. 3) Something else I haven't thought of. ] Jonathan Eric Lease Morgan wrote: On Feb 27, 2010, at 2:33 PM, Bernadette Houghton wrote: Hi Eric, all the code4lib photos currently being posted on flickr are playing havoc with my feed reader and driving me around the bend. Would it be possible to remove that feed from planet code4lib? Or at least, if photos must be posted, can they be posted to a single web page so that feed readers don't get clogged up with 200 or so photos. There must have been at least that many in these past few days. I'm sorry, but I am unable to help you in this regard. Maybe Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu will be able to help... -- Bulk mail. Postage paid.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Asheville Brews Cruise details payment info
Thanks everyone who prepaid. I'm up to twenty now, so everyone else just have cash or a credit card on Tuesday night. --jay On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Jay Luker jay.lu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi again, This message is for everyone signed up for the Asheville Brews Cruise on the social activities wiki page [1]. I am bothering you all again because I still need a few more folks to pre-pay via PayPal. I think I'm up to 13 or 14 and need to get to at least 16. Anyone who wants to can pre-pay. Instructions are in the earlier message and on the wiki [2]. The tour company is going to pre-bill my credit card for the cost of at least 16 people, but however many we can get pre-paid I'll tell them to charge me that much. Everyone else can pay cash (preferred) or credit card as we're getting on the bus. Thanks to those of you who have already pre-paid vi PayPal. I've been making sure you get marked as paid on the wiki. Speaking of the wiki, we have a few folks on the waiting list right now. Anyone who is signed up and needs to back out please do so ASAP so that the folks on standby can be notified. If you are on the waitlist it might make sense to leave an email address for notification purposes. Thanks, --jay [1] http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/C4L2010_social_activities [2] http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/C4L2010_social_activities#Cost_.26_Payment On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Jay Luker jay.lu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, It is time to reveal the details about the Brews Cruise social activity planned for next Tuesday night at the Code4Lib 2010 conference [1]. Let's keep list noise to a minimum, so folks who have questions about the details, please e-mail me directly or, if it's discussion worthy, stick to the code4libcon list. First off, the event is full. Sorry if you missed the cut. We were forced to set a limit of 48 persons due to that's the max number of folks that will fit into two party buses, plus we don't want to overwhelm the staffs at the breweries. There is, however, is a waitlist that someone started on the sign-up page [2]. Secondly, I want to thank Talis [3] for stepping up and sponsoring a portion of this event. Our first stop on the cruise will be a brewery slash pizza joint and Talis has generously offered to pay for our pizza. Yay! Cost Payment options: The cost for the cruise is $40 per person. You have two options for paying: 1) Pay in advance by sending me $40 via PayPal. 2) Bring $40 with you on the night of the cruise. I've been told they have a hand-held credit card machine for the cash-strapped. Anyone who wants to can pay via PayPal, but I need at least 16 people to choose this option because the tour company wants to pre-bill my credit card for a minimum of 16 guests. There should be no fees involved if the money comes from your PayPal account or an associated bank account. The deadline for paying in advance is EOD Sunday, February 21st. If you wish to prepay via Paypal--you know you want to--here are the instructions: 1) Go to http://paypal.com 2) Click on Send Money 3) Enter lb...@reallywow.com in the To field 4) Enter your own address in the From field (unless you're logged in) 5) Click the Personal tab and choose Payment owed from the options 6) Click Continue 7) On the next page you can specify a message Subject of Brews Cruise Itinerary: - Pickup from the hotel is tentatively scheduled for 6:15pm. Those who haven't pre-paid should try to get there a little early. - Stop #1 will be the Asheville Pizza Brewing Co. where we will sample 16-20 different beers and consume our delicious, alcohol-absorbing, Talis-sponsored pizza. - Stop #2 will be Highland Brewing Company, Asheville's 1st and largest brewing company - Stop #3 will be the French Broad Brewery which specializes in a variety of European style beers. - Expected return to the hotel is around 9:30-10pm Thanks for signing up! I think it's going to be a great time! --jay PS, did I mention Talis is paying for the pizza! Yay, Talis! PPS, Talis 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] Asheville Brews Cruise details payment info
Hi again, This message is for everyone signed up for the Asheville Brews Cruise on the social activities wiki page [1]. I am bothering you all again because I still need a few more folks to pre-pay via PayPal. I think I'm up to 13 or 14 and need to get to at least 16. Anyone who wants to can pre-pay. Instructions are in the earlier message and on the wiki [2]. The tour company is going to pre-bill my credit card for the cost of at least 16 people, but however many we can get pre-paid I'll tell them to charge me that much. Everyone else can pay cash (preferred) or credit card as we're getting on the bus. Thanks to those of you who have already pre-paid vi PayPal. I've been making sure you get marked as paid on the wiki. Speaking of the wiki, we have a few folks on the waiting list right now. Anyone who is signed up and needs to back out please do so ASAP so that the folks on standby can be notified. If you are on the waitlist it might make sense to leave an email address for notification purposes. Thanks, --jay [1] http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/C4L2010_social_activities [2] http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/C4L2010_social_activities#Cost_.26_Payment On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Jay Luker jay.lu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, It is time to reveal the details about the Brews Cruise social activity planned for next Tuesday night at the Code4Lib 2010 conference [1]. Let's keep list noise to a minimum, so folks who have questions about the details, please e-mail me directly or, if it's discussion worthy, stick to the code4libcon list. First off, the event is full. Sorry if you missed the cut. We were forced to set a limit of 48 persons due to that's the max number of folks that will fit into two party buses, plus we don't want to overwhelm the staffs at the breweries. There is, however, is a waitlist that someone started on the sign-up page [2]. Secondly, I want to thank Talis [3] for stepping up and sponsoring a portion of this event. Our first stop on the cruise will be a brewery slash pizza joint and Talis has generously offered to pay for our pizza. Yay! Cost Payment options: The cost for the cruise is $40 per person. You have two options for paying: 1) Pay in advance by sending me $40 via PayPal. 2) Bring $40 with you on the night of the cruise. I've been told they have a hand-held credit card machine for the cash-strapped. Anyone who wants to can pay via PayPal, but I need at least 16 people to choose this option because the tour company wants to pre-bill my credit card for a minimum of 16 guests. There should be no fees involved if the money comes from your PayPal account or an associated bank account. The deadline for paying in advance is EOD Sunday, February 21st. If you wish to prepay via Paypal--you know you want to--here are the instructions: 1) Go to http://paypal.com 2) Click on Send Money 3) Enter lb...@reallywow.com in the To field 4) Enter your own address in the From field (unless you're logged in) 5) Click the Personal tab and choose Payment owed from the options 6) Click Continue 7) On the next page you can specify a message Subject of Brews Cruise Itinerary: - Pickup from the hotel is tentatively scheduled for 6:15pm. Those who haven't pre-paid should try to get there a little early. - Stop #1 will be the Asheville Pizza Brewing Co. where we will sample 16-20 different beers and consume our delicious, alcohol-absorbing, Talis-sponsored pizza. - Stop #2 will be Highland Brewing Company, Asheville's 1st and largest brewing company - Stop #3 will be the French Broad Brewery which specializes in a variety of European style beers. - Expected return to the hotel is around 9:30-10pm Thanks for signing up! I think it's going to be a great time! --jay PS, did I mention Talis is paying for the pizza! Yay, Talis! PPS, Talis 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] Newcomer dinner reminder
Hi Joyce, Please join us at Salsas. They have several tasty vegetarian options. Four--oops, now two--slots left! :) --jay On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Joyce Chapman joyce.chap...@gmail.com wrote: I heard concerns from some vegetarians that all the slots are taken at vegetarian restaurants (maybe new restaurants have been added since I last looked though). Is there any way to make room for vegetarians at the vegetarian restaurants? Or maybe homeless vegetarians could put a new section for themselves at the bottom so some vets can see what kind of need there is for increased vegetarian dinner?
[CODE4LIB] Asheville Brews Cruise details payment info
Hi all, It is time to reveal the details about the Brews Cruise social activity planned for next Tuesday night at the Code4Lib 2010 conference [1]. Let's keep list noise to a minimum, so folks who have questions about the details, please e-mail me directly or, if it's discussion worthy, stick to the code4libcon list. First off, the event is full. Sorry if you missed the cut. We were forced to set a limit of 48 persons due to that's the max number of folks that will fit into two party buses, plus we don't want to overwhelm the staffs at the breweries. There is, however, is a waitlist that someone started on the sign-up page [2]. Secondly, I want to thank Talis [3] for stepping up and sponsoring a portion of this event. Our first stop on the cruise will be a brewery slash pizza joint and Talis has generously offered to pay for our pizza. Yay! Cost Payment options: The cost for the cruise is $40 per person. You have two options for paying: 1) Pay in advance by sending me $40 via PayPal. 2) Bring $40 with you on the night of the cruise. I've been told they have a hand-held credit card machine for the cash-strapped. Anyone who wants to can pay via PayPal, but I need at least 16 people to choose this option because the tour company wants to pre-bill my credit card for a minimum of 16 guests. There should be no fees involved if the money comes from your PayPal account or an associated bank account. The deadline for paying in advance is EOD Sunday, February 21st. If you wish to prepay via Paypal--you know you want to--here are the instructions: 1) Go to http://paypal.com 2) Click on Send Money 3) Enter lb...@reallywow.com in the To field 4) Enter your own address in the From field (unless you're logged in) 5) Click the Personal tab and choose Payment owed from the options 6) Click Continue 7) On the next page you can specify a message Subject of Brews Cruise Itinerary: - Pickup from the hotel is tentatively scheduled for 6:15pm. Those who haven't pre-paid should try to get there a little early. - Stop #1 will be the Asheville Pizza Brewing Co. where we will sample 16-20 different beers and consume our delicious, alcohol-absorbing, Talis-sponsored pizza. - Stop #2 will be Highland Brewing Company, Asheville's 1st and largest brewing company - Stop #3 will be the French Broad Brewery which specializes in a variety of European style beers. - Expected return to the hotel is around 9:30-10pm Thanks for signing up! I think it's going to be a great time! --jay PS, did I mention Talis is paying for the pizza! Yay, Talis! PPS, Talis 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] yaoss4ll
Hi Eric, I don't see CDS Invenio listed [1]. It's an institutional repository system developed at CERN. It's an impressive piece of software, but for one reason or another doesn't seem to get much attention. I intend to give a lightning talk on it in Asheville in February. --jay [1] http://cdsware.cern.ch/invenio/index.html On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Eric Lease Morgan eric_mor...@infomotions.com wrote: I am in the process of creating YAOSS4LL (Yet Another Open Source Software For Libraries List), and I'm hoping to garner the expertise of our communities. More specifically, I would like to create a (more or less) comprehensive list of library-related open source software in the following areas: * content management systems (CMS) * discovery systems * electronic resource management (ERM) * institutional repositories (IR) * integrated library systems (ILS) * resource sharing/interlibrary loan (ILL) Unfortunately, I am being challenged when it comes to ERMs and resource sharing/ILL applications. The other areas seem well-developed. You can see what I've done so far at the following (temporary) link: http://infomotions.com/tmp/oss/ Do you have any suggestions or additions? Is your (favorite) library-related OSS application missing from my list? -- Eric (Lease) Morgan
Re: [CODE4LIB] preconference proposals
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Dan Chudnov daniel.chud...@gmail.com wrote: - Heckle Me, based on the example/ideas behind Chick's lightning talk last year The PDF of chick's slides is 404-ing [1]. Can someone remind me what this was about? --jay 1 http://code4lib.org/conference/2009/chicks-lightning.pdf
Re: [CODE4LIB] preconference proposals
Those. Slides. Don't. Help. --jay On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Tom Keays tomke...@gmail.com wrote: Bad URL there. The real one is http://code4lib.org/files/chicks-lightning.pdf (that's where all the other lightning talks were stored). t On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Jay Luker jay.lu...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Dan Chudnov daniel.chud...@gmail.com wrote: - Heckle Me, based on the example/ideas behind Chick's lightning talk last year The PDF of chick's slides is 404-ing [1]. Can someone remind me what this was about? --jay 1 http://code4lib.org/conference/2009/chicks-lightning.pdf
Re: [CODE4LIB] Transport options from Charlotte to Asheville for c4l2010
FYI, on my previous visits to Asheville I've flown into/out of Greenville, SC. It's only about 1 hr driving time, so could be worth comparing vs. Charlotte shuttles. --jay On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Kevin S. Clarke kscla...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder how many folks would be interested in this? It might be possible to use one of the university vans to make trips. I'll look into this. Kevin On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:32 AM, Mark A. Matienzo m...@matienzo.org wrote: Charlotte to Asheville shuttles are not cheap - one Asheville-based company is advertising a $170 one-way rate. Obviously, if you were to split that, it would be cheaper. It's my understanding that Charlotte to Asheville driving time is about 2.5 hours - you may just want to get a group together to rent a car. Mark A. Matienzo Applications Developer, Strategic Planning The New York Public Library On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:19 AM, Mark Jordan mjor...@sfu.ca wrote: Hi, Can anyone recommend transportation options to get from Charlotte International Airport to Asheville? From my neck of the woods airfare to Charlotte appears to be a ~ $200 cheaper than to Asheville. TIA, Mark
[CODE4LIB] Fwd: Job Opportunities at the Harvard Law Library: Digital Lab Manager and Web Developer
FYI. -- Forwarded message -- From: Rebecca Tabasky rtaba...@cyber.law.harvard.edu Date: Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 10:43 AM Subject: Job Opportunities at the Harvard Law Library: Digital Lab Manager and Web Developer To: jobs-l...@eon.law.harvard.edu Hi all, The Harvard Law Library is in the midst of a reorganization, and in the process they're developing a Digital Lab to serve as a hub for the library's digital initiatives. They're now looking to hire both a manager and a web developer for the Digital Lab, and you can find information about and links to the positions below. The Berkman Center is not a part of the hiring process, so please be submit application materials directly through the Harvard Human Resources systems and be in touch with them directly if you have questions. More information about the library's reorganization is outlined by John Palfrey, Vice Dean of Library and Information Resources at Harvard Law and Berkman Center faculty co-director, at http://etseq.law.harvard.edu/index.php/site/reorganizing_the_harvard_law_school_library/. All best, Becca Digital Lab Manager - http://www.jobs.harvard.edu/jobs/summ_req?in_post_id=42473 Duties And Responsibilities: The Harvard Law Library is seeking a creative and experienced innovator to provide strategic and operational leadership as the Manager of our Digital Lab. The Digital Lab is the Library's focal point for a wide range of activities, including developing internet tools to promote and enhance access to legal information and coordinating the library's digitization efforts. Reporting to the Associate Director for Collection Development and Digitization, the Manager of the Digital Lab leads the design, creation, and distribution of technological tools for delivering content and services in support of learning and research at the Harvard Law School and beyond; manages the Library's digitization projects, including those produced onsite and those outsourced to the University's Digital Imaging Group or other external entities; develops and implements division policies, plans, goals, and procedures; ensures appropriate staffing levels, staff skills, and output. The Manager will supervise a current full time staff of five; two Development Programmers, a Web Development Librarian, a Digital Preservation Librarian, and a Digital Projects Assistant, as well as project fellows. Basic Qualifications: Master's degree or relevant specialized technical training, required. Additional Qualifications: A minimum of 5 years of relevant, in-depth technical experience, preferably in an academic setting. Strong administrative background with experience supervising/directly managing complex projects, fiscal, operational issues and multiple staff members. Solid understanding of the role and potential of technology for the design and delivery of information resources and services. Familiarity with extending digital resources into social networks. Strong project management skills and experience, including ability to plan assignments and monitor performance for collaborative projects that cut across organizational boundaries, Excellent organizational and communication (oral and written) skills. Demonstrated analytical and creative problem-solving skills, with a track record as a leader, manager, and strategist in a complex organizational environment. Digital Lab Web Developer - http://www.jobs.harvard.edu/jobs/summ_req?in_post_id=42559 Duties And Responsibilities: The Harvard Law Library is seeking an energetic and creative web developer to join our newly created Digital Lab team. The Digital Lab is the Library's focal point for a wide range of activities including developing internet tools to promote and enhance access to legal information. The Web Developer manages the full life cycle of development projects. Reporting to the Manager of the Digital Lab, the Web Developer will design, develop, test and deploy new applications and extensions to existing applications; research coding and infrastructure technologies in connection with application design and implementation; identify integration requirements between applications; review and modify systems programs as needed to correct utility or application programs; install or customize modules and features for open source and proprietary software packages; develop and maintain documentation, participate in third party tool and product evaluations as needed, and take on other related duties as assigned. Works closely with librarian, unit director and other programmers. Basic Qualifications: B.A. or B.S. in an appropriate area of specialization such as Computer Science or Informatics; at least 2 years of professional experience designing, implementing, testing and documenting web and other application projects. Additional Qualifications: Preferred: MCS (Master of Computer Science), MIS (Master of Information Systems), MLIS (Master of Library and Information Science) Expertise in
Re: [CODE4LIB] Suggest a keynote speaker for Code4Lib 2010!
I nominate Peter Moreville. I also suggest folks save their RMS love/hate for the voting booth. The man's been nominated. Let's move on. --jay
Re: [CODE4LIB] Suggest a keynote speaker for Code4Lib 2010!
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Kevin S. Clarkekscla...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, I'd find it useful if people who are submitting names would also submit a brief description for your suggestion (what s/he is famous for, why s/he'd be a good keynote, etc. - I know some of you already did this) Think of it as courting the lazy crowd (ie, people who won't Google a name)... with a bunch of programmers, this might be a good sized contingent. Amen. It would also be great if folks could properly spell the names of those they are nominating... Peter Morville--not Moreville--is most commonly known as the author of Ambient Findability, and co-author of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web. He's president and founder of Semantic Studios [1], teacher at UMich, and blogger at findability.org [2]. [1] http://www.semanticstudios.com [2] http://findability.org --jay
Re: [CODE4LIB] Promo for free issues of PyMag or php|architect
Just a reminder: tomorrow I'm going to forward the list of e-mail addresses I've collected to the editor at PyMag. So if you'd like to use the code4lib coupon code to get 3 free issues of either PyMag or php|architect your time is running out. All you have to do is create an account on the magazine site of your choice and then e-mail me with [zine] in the subject. --jay On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Jay Luker lb...@reallywow.com wrote: Hi gang, On a lark I e-mailed Doug Hellmann, EiC at Python Magazine, to ask about the possibility of a group coupon code for code4lib. Apparently we qualify. :) Here's the deal: 1) anyone who would like 3 free issues of either PyMag [1] or php|architect [2] should first create an account on the respective site. For example, [3]. 2) Next we need a way to collect the e-mail addresses of those account holders. I first thought, wiki page, but some folks might balk at that. Unless anyone has a better suggestion, you can just e-mail me at lb...@reallywow.com and put the string [zine] in the subject somewhere so I can filter it. 3) After two weeks I'll send the addresses to Doug at PyMag and he'll trigger the promo on those accounts. I also suggested to Doug the idea of some free subscriptions to give away at the conference along with the usual slew of O'Reilly books. He's checking with his publisher. [1] http://pymag.phparch.com/c/ [2] http://www.phparch.com/ [3] https://store-pymag.phparch.com/c/account/new/account/
[CODE4LIB] Promo for free issues of PyMag or php|architect
Hi gang, On a lark I e-mailed Doug Hellmann, EiC at Python Magazine, to ask about the possibility of a group coupon code for code4lib. Apparently we qualify. :) Here's the deal: 1) anyone who would like 3 free issues of either PyMag [1] or php|architect [2] should first create an account on the respective site. For example, [3]. 2) Next we need a way to collect the e-mail addresses of those account holders. I first thought, wiki page, but some folks might balk at that. Unless anyone has a better suggestion, you can just e-mail me at lb...@reallywow.com and put the string [zine] in the subject somewhere so I can filter it. 3) After two weeks I'll send the addresses to Doug at PyMag and he'll trigger the promo on those accounts. I also suggested to Doug the idea of some free subscriptions to give away at the conference along with the usual slew of O'Reilly books. He's checking with his publisher. Cheers, --jay PS, there *will* be O'Reilly books this year, right? Oh God, say yes. I live for that raffle.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Promo for free issues of PyMag or php|architect
AAaaand the footnotes: [1] http://pymag.phparch.com/c/ [2] http://www.phparch.com/ [3] https://store-pymag.phparch.com/c/account/new/account/ On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Jay Luker lb...@reallywow.com wrote: Hi gang, On a lark I e-mailed Doug Hellmann, EiC at Python Magazine, to ask about the possibility of a group coupon code for code4lib. Apparently we qualify. :) Here's the deal: 1) anyone who would like 3 free issues of either PyMag [1] or php|architect [2] should first create an account on the respective site. For example, [3]. 2) Next we need a way to collect the e-mail addresses of those account holders. I first thought, wiki page, but some folks might balk at that. Unless anyone has a better suggestion, you can just e-mail me at lb...@reallywow.com and put the string [zine] in the subject somewhere so I can filter it. 3) After two weeks I'll send the addresses to Doug at PyMag and he'll trigger the promo on those accounts. I also suggested to Doug the idea of some free subscriptions to give away at the conference along with the usual slew of O'Reilly books. He's checking with his publisher. Cheers, --jay PS, there *will* be O'Reilly books this year, right? Oh God, say yes. I live for that raffle.
[CODE4LIB] NEcode4lib: Thanks!
Hi folks, Big thanks to all who turned out for the 1st necode4lib gathering yesterday. Hope everybody got something useful, interesting and/or fun out of it. I for one thought it went great. We didn't do a real headcount, but it seemed we had just enough seats for the turnout: ~20-25 folks from as far away as Philly. Extra thanks to everyone who gave a talk on something: Jean, Tim, Courtney Chris, Jodi, Sand, Casey Michael. I'm looking forward to a blog post or two from those who took notes. --jay
[CODE4LIB] Lightning Talk ideas
I know its a bit early to start thinking of these, but in the spirit of William Denton's talk proposal, What We Talk About When We Talk About FRBR, I thought I'd throw out a few title suggestions to get the ideas flowing. So Much FOAF So Close To ~/ Where I'm Context-Sensitive Searching From The Third Thing That Killed My NextGen OPAC Project Off Where Metadata Comes Together With Other Metadata They're Not Your Records --jay
Re: [CODE4LIB] NEcode4lib meeting, Tuesday, Dec 9, 2008 @ BPL
Hi, Now that we have the When and Where for our 1st gathering, it's time to think about the What. Apart from an obligatory, initial 10 minutes of round-the-table introductions, how should we make use of the day? If you have ideas or would like to commit to presenting on something, either in lightning talk form or longer even, make it known on the wiki page: http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/NEC4L. --jay On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Jay Luker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, The date and location are set. Our first gathering will be in the McKim building of the Boston Public Library on Tuesday, December 9th, 2008. We have a conference room reserved from 9am-5pm. Directions and such will be on the wiki: http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/NEC4L I'd like to point out that we are settling on NEcode4lib as our moniker. We are aware that this is in contrast to Code4libNYC, but, as mbklein says, up here we have an aversion to copying New Yorkers. --jay
Re: [CODE4LIB] NEcode4lib: when's good for you?
It's looking like Tuesday, Dec 9th, is going to be the best match [1]. Are we prepared to call it? I'd like to start discussing how we'd like to make productive use of our eight hours of close proximity. You have until 5pm today to voice objections. As a possible bonus, I hear the BPL is hosting a lecture by Roy Blount, Jr.[2] at 6pm that evening. I will most likely be consuming burgers and beers at Bukowski Tavern [3] by that time, but whatever floats your boat. One other thing: Five Colleges, at the prompting of Jodi Scheider of Amherst College, wants to host something for us in late-May/early-June of 2009. There's already a WhenIsGood page: http://whenisgood.net/necode4lib/2009. --jay Oh, and one more thing. The wiki spammer struck again. I have recovered our one page of stuff and temporarily relocated it [4]. (Note to self: next time listen to Tim and move the page). 1) http://whenisgood.net/necode4lib/2008/results/LWmrQy 2) http://booktour.com/author/roy_blount_jr_ 3) http://www.pubcrawler.com/Template/ReviewWC.cfm/flat/BrewerID=102793 4) http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/NEC4L
[CODE4LIB] ne.code4lib.org wiki
Our wiki page got clobbered by a spambot because I never got around to password protecting it. lbjay-- So I've slapped an http basic auth challenge in front of it for the time being. The user/pass is code4lib/code4lib. Hopefully that will be enough to thwart the bots for a little while. Maybe we can migrate to drupal and hook into the main site's authentication using Birkin's nice hack. Also, I don't have a backup (oy, this is more embarrassing by the minute). http://ne.code4lib.org/wiki/ --jay
Re: [CODE4LIB] Vote for NE code4lib meetup location
Sorry to leave you all in suspense all day. The results are in: 23 Boston, MA 18 Northampton, MA 14 Concord, NH 11 Portland, ME Michael Klein has said he will now check when a suitable space will be available at BPL. Then we'll update the WhenIsGood page and hope for some availability intersection goodness. --jay
Re: [CODE4LIB] Vote for NE code4lib meetup location
New England code4libbers, Today's your last chance to vote your preference for where we gather. The location voting thingy will close at 11:55pm. Our current strategy in the event of a tie is to hope there isn't one. Maybe folks (like me) who are OK with any of the choices could check the results later tonight and move some of their ballot points around if it looks like a tie is in the cards. --jay On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Jay Luker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's time to do a quick vote on where we'd like to hold our first New England gathering. If you are interested in attending please cast your ballot at http://dilettantes.code4lib.org/voting_booth/election/index/5. We'll keep voting open for a few days (at least through Tuesday). You can give from 0 to 3 points to each location, so more points to your 1st choice, less to your 2nd fave, etc. You can also go back and change you votes any time. Use the same login as you would at the main code4lib.org site. Yes, this means you have to be registered at code4lib.org already. Hopefully you got all that straightened out when you cast you ballot for the 2009 conference keynotes, right? Thanks to Ross Singer and his supertastic Diebold-O-Tron for setting this up. --jay
[CODE4LIB] Vote for NE code4lib meetup location
It's time to do a quick vote on where we'd like to hold our first New England gathering. If you are interested in attending please cast your ballot at http://dilettantes.code4lib.org/voting_booth/election/index/5. We'll keep voting open for a few days (at least through Tuesday). You can give from 0 to 3 points to each location, so more points to your 1st choice, less to your 2nd fave, etc. You can also go back and change you votes any time. Use the same login as you would at the main code4lib.org site. Yes, this means you have to be registered at code4lib.org already. Hopefully you got all that straightened out when you cast you ballot for the 2009 conference keynotes, right? Thanks to Ross Singer and his supertastic Diebold-O-Tron for setting this up. --jay
Re: [CODE4LIB] New England code4lib gathering
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Tim Spalding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's too bad we don't have big budgets, or we could have the New England meeting in, say, Maui. +1 In other news, a total of three people have indicated their availability so far on the When Is Good page. Is everyone being lazy or are we witnessing a Web2.0 UI FAIL? All together now, http://whenisgood.net/necode4lib/2008 --jay
Re: [CODE4LIB] New England code4lib gathering
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Edward M. Corrado [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The location effects when I am available. For instance, due to costs, if it is in Boston, I am probably never available. If it is in Western Mass, I can make it any day of the week [1], while if it is further east, I am probably only available on a Monday or Friday because I can't justify the added time off for travel. Hi Ed, OK, point taken. I was working under the assumption that the date and day-of-week might constrain or influence where we can meet--which of course it could--but maybe it would be easier to pick the spot 1st and _then_ confirm that we can actually book the place. Going by what's been added to the wiki page, the locations that seem to have the highest degree of confirm-ability are: * Northampton, MA - location provided by Forbes library * Portland, ME - location provided or arranged by LibraryThing or jonvw @ UofSM * Concord, NH - location arranged by Mr. Bisson Let's not get to the +1/-1's just yet though. Boston belongs in that list too, but no one's stepped forward yet and committed to arranging or providing a space (/me nudges mbklien). --jay
[CODE4LIB] New England code4lib gathering
(resending - original was rejected by listserv for being too similar to a completely dissimilar message I sent about a week ago) Hi gang, code4libbers in the New England area are cordially invited to express their interest in and opinions on a regional gathering, shape and size TBD. So far our motives are vague and our means are humble (a single wiki page), but you gotta start somewhere, right? If you live in the Northeast and don't want to wait until the real thing in Providence, Feb 2009, make yourself known at http://ne.code4lib.org/wiki/. --jay
Re: [CODE4LIB] New England code4lib gathering
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Tim Spalding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In general, do members think it's best—most popular but also most productive— to meet at a *hub* or somewhere off the beaten path? If the former, it's Boston all the way, right? If the latter, Portland, Maine is a really nice place to meet, and I can put a bunch of you up at the LibraryThing house. :) Boston works well for me. Portland too. The reasons I threw the Northampton/Amherst area out there are a) it's central to a lot of NE and is on or near the major highways (91 and 90), b) has a lot of campuses that might be able to lend us a space or two, c) those spaces might already have projectors and such, d) it has a large number of bars and cafes. Of course you can say most of those things about Boston as well. Being located in Boston myself, it's all pretty easy for me. As per code4lib custom, we should probably end up putting it to a vote once folks have had a chance to chime in with offers/suggestions. Location ideas that come attached to actual, arranged hosting offers will be most welcome. --jay
[CODE4LIB] New England regional code4lib gathering
Hi gang, code4libbers in the New England area are cordially invited to express their interest in and opinions on a regional gathering, shape and size TBD. So far our motives are vague and our means are humble (a single wiki page), but you gotta start somewhere, right? If you live in the Northeast and don't want to wait until the real thing in Providence, Feb 2009, make yourself known at http://ne.code4lib.org/wiki/. --Jay
Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Logo?
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Michael J. Giarlo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If folks are in favor of someone in the community -- the list now has over 1,000 subscribers -- rather than a professional designing the logo, perhaps this could be a contest of sorts, much like our conference t-shirt contest. What's the prize? Why, free admission to code4lib 2009! Just a crazy idea. Otherwise, I like the idea of having a professional handle it with community approval. -1 on hiring a professional. What part of outsourcing creative fits right in with the c4l vibe? I'm skeptical of the need for a logo in general, but if we did it like we handled the t-shirts I don't see any downside. --jay
Re: [CODE4LIB] planet.code4lib.org -- 3 suggestions
+1 here too. And -1 on the idea of requiring authors to use some kind of tag. I read the planet to find out what the code4lib people I know are up to. I don't mind that it's not all strictly related to coding, libraries and/or the number 4. --lbjay On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Kevin S. Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Ed Summers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My advice at this point would be to identify the editor(s) of planet.code4lib.org in the page itself (like it is displayed at http://planetcataloguing.org/) and to empower the editor(s) to adjust things as needed. The editors can then go about the business of managing the planet in the way that best suits them. +1 Kevin -- There are two kinds of people in the world: those who believe there are two kinds of people and those who know better.
Re: [CODE4LIB] place for code examples?
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Ross Singer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about something like the GeSHI filter module for Drupal? http://drupal.org/project/geshifilter http://www.code4lib.org/ is already running Drupal, so it'd be as simple as installing the module (although I've never used it, so it may not be what you're looking for). This way we're not supporting another application and gives a reason for going to code4lib.org anyway. +1 My first thought on this was why not just post it via Drupal at code4lib.org . 1. Sign in 2. Create Content (blog entry, page, etc.) 3. Assign appropriate category 4. Publish If we don't want code snippets promoted to the front page maybe there could be another top-level section, e.g., ... music | planet | wiki | code snippets ... --lbjay
Re: [CODE4LIB] Multiple ISBNs in COInS?
Hi William, According to the book KEV format (defined here: ttp://tinyurl.com/2psmkq) the max occurrence of the isbn key is 1. I'm assuming that by extension that means that the rft.m-key (i.e., rft.isbn) form is also limited to one occurrence. So specifying multiple ISBNs that way is a no go. You can however specify multiple referent identifiers. From the KEV Context Object format matrix (http://tinyurl.com/2r5hsc): Multiple instances of rft_id do not indicate multiple Referents, but rather multiple ways to identify a single Referent So I *think* what you could do is this: rft_id=urn:isbn:isbn1rft_id=urn:isbn:isbn2... Also, I'd be remiss not to point you to a more authoritative list for OpenURL questions: http://listserv.oclc.org/scripts/wa.exe?A0=OPENURL. Although I'm sure there's plenty of overlap in interest/knowledge in the subject between the lists. -- Jay Luker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Software Engineer, Ex Libris Inc. (617) 332-8800, x604 http://www.exlibrisgroup.com On Feb 17, 2008 3:14 AM, William Denton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm hep to the COInS scene now and am using it in some lists of books I'm generating. For some of the books I know multiple ISBNs. Can I include them all in one COInS span somehow? Doing one individually makes my OpenURL Referrer extension clutter up the page with a lot of links. I looked at the specification but it didn't seem to cover this. generator.ocoins.info only seems to want one one ISBN. Putting multiple rft.isbn variables just makes the last one overpower the earlier ones. Any tips appreciated! Bill -- William Denton, Toronto : www.miskatonic.org www.frbr.org www.openfrbr.org
Re: [CODE4LIB] executing a cgi script in the middle of a url
See also the Options MultiViews directive in the context of a Directory. Here's a link with a description of how to implement. The example is for PHP, but it should work for .cgi scripts as well. http://www.rustyrazorblade.com/index.php/2006/10/12/nice-urls-using-multiviews/ --jay On 7/31/07, Eric Lease Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you for the prompt replies. Counting a previous message, there were three votes for using mod_rewrite and one vote for the use of an Action handler. Like Perl, there seems to be more than one way to do it. I have initially played with the handler technique and have had some success. Now I have to go back to the RESTful manual and see about turning my content into resources. 'More later, maybe much later. -- Eric Lease Morgan University Libraries of Notre Dame
[CODE4LIB] Zotero COinS
Figured I'd post this to possibly spare others some pain. I was having trouble getting Zotero to save my COinS items--not discover, just save. Like the little note icon would show up in the location bar but when I clicked it nothing got saved. Anyway, I think this is what was happening: when parsing the ctx object Zotero looks for the presence of an rft.stitle or rft.jtitle attribute to determine if the itemType is journalArticle. But I think it's not checking if there's an actual value. So if you have rft.stitle=amp;rft.jtitle=Bulletin of Blah Blahamp; then Zotero stops at the stitle param and proceeds to try and save the entry. So the moral of the story is watch out for empty OpenURL attributes in your COinS. Much thanks to rsinger for I would not have stumbled upon the solution without the umlaut's COinS for the same citation for comparison. -- Jay L.
