[CODE4LIB] Something is messed up with the code4lib wiki main page
The main page (http://wiki.code4lib.org/Main_Page) is displaying as blank, and the history does not indicate any changes that would cause it to be so. In fact, the history for EARLIER changes (eg, my change to remove the new! text from the link to C4LN) are not displaying properly in the diffs. So, I suspect that something is scrambled. - David
Re: [CODE4LIB] Something is messed up with the code4lib wiki main page
Could a glitch in the last upgrade be the culprit? http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:Project:Support_desk/Pages_not_displaying_properly Best regards, *Jason Bengtson, MLIS, MA* Head of Library Computing and Information Systems Assistant Professor, Graduate College Department of Health Sciences Library and Information Management University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center 405-271-2285, opt. 5 405-271-3297 (fax) jason-bengt...@ouhsc.edu http://library.ouhsc.edu www.jasonbengtson.com NOTICE: This e-mail is intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise exempt from disclosure. If the reader of this e-mail is not the intended recipient or the employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify us by replying to the original message at the listed email address. Thank You. j.bengtson...@gmail.com On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Becky Yoose b.yo...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, something must have happened with the last edit. However, when I compare the two revisions before the last one, the diffs show up fine on my end: http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php?title=Main_Pagediff=42811oldid=42726 I'll hold off on doing the undo option for the last edit to see if that fixes things if folks want to prod this a bit more. On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 9:51 AM, David Fiander da...@fiander.info wrote: The main page (http://wiki.code4lib.org/Main_Page) is displaying as blank, and the history does not indicate any changes that would cause it to be so. In fact, the history for EARLIER changes (eg, my change to remove the new! text from the link to C4LN) are not displaying properly in the diffs. So, I suspect that something is scrambled. - David
Re: [CODE4LIB] Something is messed up with the code4lib wiki main page
Jason et al., It looks like the problem was introducing a new category: http://screencast.com/t/mXqaLDuiz4q I reverted the main page back to the edits done on February 12th. The only thing lost was the the c4l16 changes. Thanks, Becky On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 10:08 AM, Jason Bengtson j.bengtson...@gmail.com wrote: Could a glitch in the last upgrade be the culprit? http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Thread:Project:Support_desk/Pages_not_displaying_properly Best regards, *Jason Bengtson, MLIS, MA* Head of Library Computing and Information Systems Assistant Professor, Graduate College Department of Health Sciences Library and Information Management University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center 405-271-2285, opt. 5 405-271-3297 (fax) jason-bengt...@ouhsc.edu http://library.ouhsc.edu www.jasonbengtson.com NOTICE: This e-mail is intended solely for the use of the individual to whom it is addressed and may contain information that is privileged, confidential or otherwise exempt from disclosure. If the reader of this e-mail is not the intended recipient or the employee or agent responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify us by replying to the original message at the listed email address. Thank You. j.bengtson...@gmail.com On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Becky Yoose b.yo...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, something must have happened with the last edit. However, when I compare the two revisions before the last one, the diffs show up fine on my end: http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php?title=Main_Pagediff=42811oldid=42726 I'll hold off on doing the undo option for the last edit to see if that fixes things if folks want to prod this a bit more. On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 9:51 AM, David Fiander da...@fiander.info wrote: The main page (http://wiki.code4lib.org/Main_Page) is displaying as blank, and the history does not indicate any changes that would cause it to be so. In fact, the history for EARLIER changes (eg, my change to remove the new! text from the link to C4LN) are not displaying properly in the diffs. So, I suspect that something is scrambled. - David
Re: [CODE4LIB] Something is messed up with the code4lib wiki main page
Yeah, something must have happened with the last edit. However, when I compare the two revisions before the last one, the diffs show up fine on my end: http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php?title=Main_Pagediff=42811oldid=42726 I'll hold off on doing the undo option for the last edit to see if that fixes things if folks want to prod this a bit more. On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 9:51 AM, David Fiander da...@fiander.info wrote: The main page (http://wiki.code4lib.org/Main_Page) is displaying as blank, and the history does not indicate any changes that would cause it to be so. In fact, the history for EARLIER changes (eg, my change to remove the new! text from the link to C4LN) are not displaying properly in the diffs. So, I suspect that something is scrambled. - David
Re: [CODE4LIB] Changing Ezproxy Log Format
Any chance you have another LogFormat directive somewhere later in config.txt or any file includes through the IncludeFile directive? If there are multiples, the last one wins. Chris Zagar Librarian Estrella Mountain Community College -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of David Kane Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2015 1:55 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Changing Ezproxy Log Format Dear Code4Libbers, This has me vexed. I can change the preferred log format in the config file for Ezproxy, but the thing just keeps on logging in the old format. For example, I might want to add an extra parameter, or a tab or something small. My default config: LogFormat %h %l %u %t %r %s %b LogFile -strftime ezp%Y%m.log Why does it go right on logging as before after saving the changes in the config file and restarting. I would be grateful for any advice on this. For example, is ezproxy throwing up config errors somewhere else that I am not wise to. Ubuntu 12.04.5 LTS EZproxy 5.7.44 GA Thanks, David. -- David F. Kane, MSc (Econ). ILS. Systems Librarian Waterford Institute of Technology Ireland http://library.wit.ie/ T: ++353.51302838 M: ++353.876693212
Re: [CODE4LIB] linked data question
On Feb 26, 2015, at 9:48 AM, Owen Stephens o...@ostephens.com wrote: I highly recommend Chapter 6 of the Linked Data book which details different design approaches for Linked Data applications - sections 6.3 (http://linkeddatabook.com/editions/1.0/#htoc84) summarises the approaches as: 1. Crawling Pattern 2. On-the-fly dereferencing pattern 3. Query federation pattern Generally my view would be that (1) and (2) are viable approaches for different applications, but that (3) is generally a bad idea (having been through federated search before!) And at the risk of sounding like a broken record, owen++ because the Linked Data book” is a REALLY good read!! [0] While it is computer science-y, it is also authoritative, easy-to-read, full of examples, and just plain makes a whole lot of sense. [0] linked data book - http://linkeddatabook.com/ — Eric M.
Re: [CODE4LIB] linked data question
I apologize to both lists for this observation. I don't mean to offend anyone,
and now it's clear to me that this will potentially do so. I don't plan on
commenting further. I do hold both new technologists and traditional
librarians in respect - I just may generalize too much in trying to describe to
myself where the viewpoints differ.
Cindy Harper
-Original Message-
From: Harper, Cynthia
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 10:22 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Cc: 'AUTOCAT'
Subject: RE: [CODE4LIB] linked data question
So the issue being discussed on AUTOCAT was the availability/fault tolerance of
the database, given that it's spread over numerous remote systems, and I
suppose local caching and mirroring are the answers there.
The other issue was skepticism about the feasibility of indexing all these
remote sources, which led me to thinking about remote indexes, but I see the
answer is that that's why we won't be using single-site local systems so much,
but instead using Google-like web-scale indexes. That's putting pressure on
the old vision of the library catalog as our database.
Is that a fair understanding?
Cindy Harper
char...@vts.edu
-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Eric
Lease Morgan
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 9:44 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] linked data question
On Feb 25, 2015, at 3:12 PM, Sarah Weissman seweiss...@gmail.com wrote:
I am kind of new to this linked data thing, but it seems like the real
power of it is not full-text search, but linking through the use of
shared vocabularies. So if you have data about Jane Austen in your
database and you are using the same URI as other databases to
represent Jane Austen in your data (say
http://dbpedia.org/resource/Jane_Austen), then you (or rather, your
software) can do an exact search on that URI in remote resources vs. a
fuzzy text search. In other words, linked data is really
^
supposed to be linked by machines and discoverable through URIs. If
you
visit the URL: http://dbpedia.org/page/Jane_Austen you can see a
human-interpretable representation of the data a SPARQL endpoint would
return for a query for triples {http://dbpedia.org/page/Jane_Austen ?p ?o}.
This is essentially asking the database for all
subject-predicate-object facts it contains where Jane Austen is the subject.
Again, seweissman++ The implementation of linked data is VERY much like the
implementation of a relational database over HTTP, and in such a scenario, the
URIs are the database keys. —ELM
Re: [CODE4LIB] linked data question
So the issue being discussed on AUTOCAT was the availability/fault tolerance of
the database, given that it's spread over numerous remote systems, and I
suppose local caching and mirroring are the answers there.
The other issue was skepticism about the feasibility of indexing all these
remote sources, which led me to thinking about remote indexes, but I see the
answer is that that's why we won't be using single-site local systems so much,
but instead using Google-like web-scale indexes. That's putting pressure on
the old vision of the library catalog as our database.
Is that a fair understanding?
Cindy Harper
char...@vts.edu
-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Eric
Lease Morgan
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 9:44 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] linked data question
On Feb 25, 2015, at 3:12 PM, Sarah Weissman seweiss...@gmail.com wrote:
I am kind of new to this linked data thing, but it seems like the real
power of it is not full-text search, but linking through the use of
shared vocabularies. So if you have data about Jane Austen in your
database and you are using the same URI as other databases to
represent Jane Austen in your data (say
http://dbpedia.org/resource/Jane_Austen), then you (or rather, your
software) can do an exact search on that URI in remote resources vs. a
fuzzy text search. In other words, linked data is really
^
supposed to be linked by machines and discoverable through URIs. If
you
visit the URL: http://dbpedia.org/page/Jane_Austen you can see a
human-interpretable representation of the data a SPARQL endpoint would
return for a query for triples {http://dbpedia.org/page/Jane_Austen ?p ?o}.
This is essentially asking the database for all
subject-predicate-object facts it contains where Jane Austen is the subject.
Again, seweissman++ The implementation of linked data is VERY much like the
implementation of a relational database over HTTP, and in such a scenario, the
URIs are the database keys. —ELM
Re: [CODE4LIB] linked data question
I highly recommend Chapter 6 of the Linked Data book which details different design approaches for Linked Data applications - sections 6.3 (http://linkeddatabook.com/editions/1.0/#htoc84) summarises the approaches as: 1. Crawling Pattern 2. On-the-fly dereferencing pattern 3. Query federation pattern Generally my view would be that (1) and (2) are viable approaches for different applications, but that (3) is generally a bad idea (having been through federated search before!) Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 26 Feb 2015, at 14:40, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: On Feb 25, 2015, at 2:48 PM, Esmé Cowles escow...@ticklefish.org wrote: In the non-techie library world, linked data is being talked about (perhaps only in listserv traffic) as if the data (bibliographic data, for instance) will reside on remote sites (as a SPARQL endpoint??? We don't know the technical implications of that), and be displayed by your local catalog/the centralized inter-national catalog by calling data from that remote site. But the original question was how the data on those remote sites would be access points - how can I start my search by searching for that remote content? I assume there has to be a database implementation that visits that data and pre-indexes it for it to be searchable, and therefore the index has to be local (or global a la Google or OCLC or its bibliographic-linked-data equivalent). I think there are several options for how this works, and different applications may take different approaches. The most basic approach would be to just include the URIs in your local system and retrieve them any time you wanted to work with them. But the performance of that would be terrible, and your application would stop working if it couldn't retrieve the URIs. So there are lots of different approaches (which could be combined): - Retrieve the URIs the first time, and then cache them locally. - Download an entire data dump of the remote vocabulary and host it locally. - Add text fields in parallel to the URIs, so you at least have a label for it. - Index the data in Solr, Elasticsearch, etc. and use that most of the time, esp. for read-only operations. Yes, exactly. I believe Esmé has articulated the possible solutions well. escowles++ —ELM
Re: [CODE4LIB] linked data question
On Feb 25, 2015, at 3:12 PM, Sarah Weissman seweiss...@gmail.com wrote:
I am kind of new to this linked data thing, but it seems like the real
power of it is not full-text search, but linking through the use of shared
vocabularies. So if you have data about Jane Austen in your database and
you are using the same URI as other databases to represent Jane Austen in
your data (say http://dbpedia.org/resource/Jane_Austen), then you (or
rather, your software) can do an exact search on that URI in remote
resources vs. a fuzzy text search. In other words, linked data is really
^
supposed to be linked by machines and discoverable through URIs. If you
visit the URL: http://dbpedia.org/page/Jane_Austen you can see a
human-interpretable representation of the data a SPARQL endpoint would
return for a query for triples {http://dbpedia.org/page/Jane_Austen ?p ?o}.
This is essentially asking the database for all subject-predicate-object
facts it contains where Jane Austen is the subject.
Again, seweissman++ The implementation of linked data is VERY much like the
implementation of a relational database over HTTP, and in such a scenario, the
URIs are the database keys. —ELM
Re: [CODE4LIB] linked data question
On Feb 25, 2015, at 2:48 PM, Esmé Cowles escow...@ticklefish.org wrote: In the non-techie library world, linked data is being talked about (perhaps only in listserv traffic) as if the data (bibliographic data, for instance) will reside on remote sites (as a SPARQL endpoint??? We don't know the technical implications of that), and be displayed by your local catalog/the centralized inter-national catalog by calling data from that remote site. But the original question was how the data on those remote sites would be access points - how can I start my search by searching for that remote content? I assume there has to be a database implementation that visits that data and pre-indexes it for it to be searchable, and therefore the index has to be local (or global a la Google or OCLC or its bibliographic-linked-data equivalent). I think there are several options for how this works, and different applications may take different approaches. The most basic approach would be to just include the URIs in your local system and retrieve them any time you wanted to work with them. But the performance of that would be terrible, and your application would stop working if it couldn't retrieve the URIs. So there are lots of different approaches (which could be combined): - Retrieve the URIs the first time, and then cache them locally. - Download an entire data dump of the remote vocabulary and host it locally. - Add text fields in parallel to the URIs, so you at least have a label for it. - Index the data in Solr, Elasticsearch, etc. and use that most of the time, esp. for read-only operations. Yes, exactly. I believe Esmé has articulated the possible solutions well. escowles++ —ELM
[CODE4LIB] OAI9 Workshop in Geneva 17-19 June 2015
The OAI9 Workshop on Current Developments in Scholarly Communication is taking place in the University of Geneva and in CERN, Geneva, on 17-19 June 2015. The meeting's web site is http://indico.cern.ch/event/332370/ There are six plenary sessions * Technical developments * Barriers and impact * CHORUS and SHARE * Quality assurance * The institution as publisher * Digital curation and preservation of large and complex scientific objects The tutorials, which start the Workshop, are devoted to: * The institution as publisher: getting started * Author identification systems * Open Monograph Press * Hiberlink project * Managing a digitization project * Open Access Café 2015 Five breakout groups have been arranged so far for group discussions: * OA policy * Legal framework for innovative science - text and data mining * Research data management * Open annotations * Managing APC payments There will also be 20+ posters in the timetabled poster session. We will soon issue a call for posters. The OAI Workshops provide a space for all those interested in developments in scholarly communication to come together to learn from each other, to exchange ideas, and to hear papers from leading experts in the field. They are rather prominent European events in the year in which they are held. Registration is open at http://indico.cern.ch/event/332370/registration/register#/register The OAI Organisers (see http://indico.cern.ch/event/332370/page/7) look forward to meeting you all in Geneva in June. For the OAI9 Organising Committee with cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel http://authorprofile.org/pkr1 skype: thomaskrichel
Re: [CODE4LIB] Python PyMARC Code Club
We’ve had a fantastic number of responses and In the interest of saving the other C4L subscriber’s bandwidth, we are going to contact everyone who contacted us with a separate email including instructions so we can scale this! If you still want to jump in we’d be happy to hear from you: just email Sean Chen slc.c...@gmail.com mailto:slc.c...@gmail.com and Richard Tan r...@library.duke.edu mailto:r...@library.duke.edu Sean On Feb 25, 2015, at 3:04 PM, Jeffrey Sabol jeffreystephensa...@gmail.com wrote: I would be interested in joining as well. Thanks, Jeffrey
