[CODE4LIB] EasyBib and Innovative proxy
Hi all, Is anyone using EasyBib with the III proxy solution? One of our customers is experiencing problems creating and deleting projects while proxied. Many thanks, -- Yitzchak Schaffer Software Engineer Imagine Easy Solutions / EasyBib yitzc...@imagineeasy.com
[CODE4LIB] NYC chapter meeting Oct 14
Hello all, I'm pleased to announce on behalf of the METRO code4lib-nyc SIG that we have scheduled our first meeting of the year for Thursday, October 14, from 10am-noon at METRO headquarters, 57 E 11th Street. -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries (212) 463-0400 x5230 http://www.tourolib.org/
Re: [CODE4LIB] LDAP Issues
On 10/6/2010 10:44, Amy wrote: We are having a problem with a single student whose account was deleted from LDAP by Technology, and then had her account re-established. She has the same username and status as she used to have. She is now unable to login to any of the library resources that use LDAP to authenticate patrons. This includes our catalog& e-resources (through III) and a Ruby on Rails group study room web application that uses LDAP authentication. In situations like these, I find you just have to keep digging at it until you figure out what the problem is. If you have access to the LDAP queries in III and the RoR app, check them to make sure there isn't anything the systems are expecting to find that wasn't regenerated. Like when the record was created, or some default settings or something. Also, check whatever mechanism is used for batch-creation (assuming there is one) to see if it sets anything differently than whoever did the re-creation. -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries (212) 463-0400 x5230 http://www.tourolib.org/ Access Problems? Contact systems.libr...@touro.edu
[CODE4LIB] NYC meeting next Thursday
Hello all, This is a reminder for the first meeting of the year for the METRO code4lib-nyc SIG next Thursday, October 14, from 10am to noon at METRO headquarters, 57 E 11th Street. -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries (212) 463-0400 x5230 http://www.tourolib.org/
Re: [CODE4LIB] PHP MVC frameworks
On 11/15/2010 6:19 AM, David Kane wrote: I am interested to hear if anyone is using PHP MVC frameworks to help with their code. From what I have learned, they seem to be a very good idea indeed. We use symfony here, such that it's our go-to framework if we have a fairly standard web app to write. I used CodeIgniter (and migrated to Kohana 2) for our Greenstone front-end, which is not MVC. -- Yitzchak Schaffer
Re: [CODE4LIB] PHP MVC frameworks
On 11/15/2010 12:09 PM, Yitzchak Schaffer wrote: We use symfony here, such that it's our go-to framework if we have a fairly standard web app to write. I used CodeIgniter (and migrated to Kohana 2) for our Greenstone front-end, which is not MVC. Actually, it really is MVC, just not based on a relational database. -- Yitzchak Schaffer http://phoenixorganist.blogspot.com/ The ideas in man's heart are many; It is God's plan that prevails. - Proverbs 19
[CODE4LIB] NYC Spring Forum: Web Frameworks, March 16
The code4lib-nyc METRO SIG is pleased to announce our Spring Forum on Wednesday, March 16, 2011, 10am-noon at METRO (57 E 11th Street). The Forum will explore web frameworks, and will consist of a series of presentations, similar to last year's program on project management. If you have experience with a framework and would like to share, or even give a crash course in your framework of choice, please be in touch with me or kevin.re...@gmail.com Thank you! -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 212.742.8770 ext. 2432 http://www.tourolib.org/
[CODE4LIB] EmeraldView release: Greenstone front-end
The EmeraldView team is pleased to announce the first release of our second major series: version 0.2.0 EmeraldView is a PHP frontend for the Greenstone Digital Library software. Building on the successes of Greenstone, it offers an environment that we think library staff and current web professionals will find more familiar and easy to customize. EmeraldView uses version 2.3 of the Kohana PHP framework. EmeraldView 0.2.0 includes many enhancements, including preliminary support for Solr. Our main wiki: http://yitznewton.org/emeraldview/ Demo: http://yitznewton.org/emeraldview/demo/ Our collection in production: http://www.tidhar.tourolib.org/ Download: http://bitbucket.org/yitznewton/emeraldview/get/0.2.0.tar.gz http://bitbucket.org/yitznewton/emeraldview/get/0.2.0.zip -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 212.742.8770 ext. 2432 http://www.tourolib.org/
Re: [CODE4LIB] experiences with Liferay/Unicon and/or CampusEAI
I don't (yet) have any personal experience, but our IT dept is in the midst of implementing campusEAI. We plan on integrating our stuff with CAS. If you want I can put you in touch with the PM. -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 212.742.8770 ext. 2432 http://www.tourolib.org/ Access problems? Contact systems.libr...@touro.edu On Dec 21, 2010, at 14:34, Rob Casson wrote: > our university is currently evaluating products/vendors for our campus > portal, and i'd be interested in hearing anyone's opinions/experiences > with Liferay/Unicon and/or CampusEAI.
[CODE4LIB] c4l-NYC Spring Forum: Web Frameworks
Hello all, I hope everyone enjoyed the con - I wasn't personally able to go, but I almost felt like I was there thanks to the stream + #code4lib - hats off to the live stream organizer(s). We are one month away from the METRO code4lib-nyc SIG spring meeting, Wed. March 16, 10a-noon, at METRO HQ (57 E 11th Street). We hope to have several presenters speaking about web frameworks. At this point we are short on presenters, so if you are proficient in a framework (or in proud c4l tradition want to crash-course it and talk about how it went), drop a line to me or kevin.re...@gmail.com and we will put you in the lineup. -- Yitzchak Schaffer
[CODE4LIB] Solr and AJAX
Hello all, We are working on creating a public-facing biographical index. We're planning on using Solr with faceting, and building an AJAXy search frontend. We have experience with symfony for overall framework, so we have begun the project using that. The only robust-looking material I was able to find on Solr with AJAX tonight was https://github.com/evolvingweb/ajax-solr/wiki Can anyone offer any alternate projects or approaches? I'm just getting my feet wet in both advanced JS/frontend dev techniques, and Solr. Thanks! -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 212.742.8770 ext. 2432 http://www.tourolib.org/
Re: [CODE4LIB] Solr and AJAX
On 2011-02-28 17:53, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: But I dunno, I guess it could work. Personally I generally don't like writing interfaces that _only_ work via javascript, which is what that approach would result in. I prefer writing an interface that works with plain HTML, with some AJAX on top, but degrading fine if there is no JS. But that's not the approach you are talking about taking, and apparently you are not alone! In truth I had AJAX on my brain from another (gracefully degrading) area of the project, and it was late at night; but upon later brain reboot, I realized that AJAX is not necessary for what we want to do. And regarding Mike Taylor's earlier comment about VuFind and Blacklight, I'll have a look at how much we can peel off of VuFind. I don't think we're equipped to consider a non-PHP solution at this point. -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 212.742.8770 ext. 2432 http://www.tourolib.org/
[CODE4LIB] code4lib-nyc METRO SIG Spring Forum, March 16
Apologies for cross-post. Co-conveners Joanna DiPasquale, Kevin Reiss and Yitzchak Schaffer are pleased to announce the code4lib-nyc METRO SIG Spring Forum, next Wednesday, March 16, at METRO (Metropolitan New York Library Council), 57 E. 11th Street, New York. Please register (it's free) at http://www.metro.org/en/cev/59 Web frameworks [1] are a great facilitator for building web projects, allowing the coder to focus on the problem domain by outsourcing common web processing tasks to the framework, and often steering it into a standardized architecture (such as MVC). In the code4lib SIG Spring Forum, we will be introducing the web framework, and examining symfony (PHP) [2] and Sinatra (Ruby) [3]. symfony is a full-scale MVC framework, while Sinatra is a micro-framework designed for quickly creating web applications in Ruby with minimal effort. After the presentations and Q&A, there will be time available for lightning talks - you will have the chance to share your framework experience in a 5-minute session. We will also facilitate a discussion of Drupal (PHP) [4]. Sharing some of the characteristics of both frameworks and content management systems (CMS), Drupal has also found much use in the library world. See you there! Please register (it's free) at http://www.metro.org/en/cev/59 [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_application_framework [2] http://www.symfony-project.org/ [3] http://www.sinatrarb.com/ [4] http://drupal.org/ -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 212.742.8770 ext. 2432 http://www.tourolib.org/
[CODE4LIB] code4lib-nyc meeting, May 17; one-day conf in fall?
The next meeting of the METRO code4lib SIG (aka code4lib-nyc) is scheduled for Tuesday, May 17 from 10a-12n at METRO, 57 E 11th Street. In response to interest from folks in the greater-greater New York area, for whom a two-hour event doesn't justify the travel, we are also proposing a one-day mini-conference to take place in the second half of 2011. More details to follow; feel free to send your ideas to myself or kevin.re...@gmail.com -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 212.742.8770 ext. 2432 http://www.tourolib.org/
Re: [CODE4LIB] What do you wish you had time to learn?
On 2011-04-26 08:30, Edward Iglesias wrote: I am doing a presentation at RILA (Rhode Island Library Association) on changing skill sets for Systems Librarians. I did a formal survey a while back (if you participated, thank you) but this stuff changes so quickly I thought I would ask this another way. What do you wish you had time to learn? Git (I use Git and hg, but to really learn them properly) C++ Real solid networking BDD (I'm slithering in that direction) -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 212.742.8770 ext. 2432 http://www.tourolib.org/
[CODE4LIB] Blogs/news you follow
Hello all, In the spirit of last week's inspiring and procrastination-enhancing thread on what-to-learn, a new survey: what tech/library news outlets and blogs do folks follow? My list follows, in the sections I use in my reader. I used to follow more tech news outlets, but it was too overwhelming, so I scrolled through all of them to get their vibe, and chose Ars and RWW. Coyle's InFormation (kcoyle) Infomotions Mini-Musings (Eric Lease Morgan) Library Stuff ResourceShelf Ars Technica ReadWriteWeb UX Myths Coding Horror A List Apart -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 212.742.8770 ext. 2432 http://www.tourolib.org/
[CODE4LIB] code4lib-nyc meeting, May 17
The next meeting of the METRO code4lib SIG (aka code4lib-nyc) is scheduled for Tuesday, May 17 from 10a-12n at METRO, 57 E 11th Street. All are invited free of charge, to share and discuss library software that you are working with or developing, or want to know more about. See you there! -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 212.742.8770 ext. 2432 http://www.tourolib.org/
Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib-nyc meeting, May 17
On 2011-05-05 13:52, Yitzchak Schaffer wrote: The next meeting of the METRO code4lib SIG (aka code4lib-nyc) is scheduled for Tuesday, May 17 from 10a-12n at METRO, 57 E 11th Street. If you plan to come, please hit up the registration (free) at http://www.metro.org/en/cev/86 -- Yitzchak Schaffer
[CODE4LIB] Version control and local changes
Hello all, We primarily use Mercurial for version control, having migrated from SVN over the past year or so. I am currently trying to figure out the best way to version local (production) changes to controlled libraries. I'm still trying to understand the different branching possibilities of hg and git; this helped: http://stevelosh.com/blog/2009/08/a-guide-to-branching-in-mercurial/ Seems to me like the best thing would be to maintain a production clone of the main, public repo, separate from the actual production code, and push/pull to and from this clone. This way it would be possible to test without polluting the production code and creating the mess of tweaks we have on our server now. Does anyone have any success stories with this or another method? Thx, -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 212.742.8770 ext. 2432 http://www.tourolib.org/
[CODE4LIB] code4lib NYC SIG meeting Tuesday
Apologies for cross-post. Just a last-minute reminder of the code4lib NYC METRO SIG meeting tomorrow morning, Tues May 17, 10a-12n at METRO, 57 East 11th Street in New York. Come hang out, share your latest project, etc. etc. code4lib is: http://code4lib.org/about Free! Register at: http://www.metro.org/en/cev/86 -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 212.742.8770 ext. 2432 http://www.tourolib.org/
Re: [CODE4LIB] Seth Godin on The future of the library
On 2011-05-18 20:30, Eric Hellman wrote: Exactly. I apologize if my comment was perceived as coy, but I've chosen to invest in the possibility that Creative Commons licensing is a viable way forward for libraries, authors, readers, etc. Here's a link the last of a 5 part series on open-access ebooks. I hope it inspires work in the code4lib community to make libraries more friendly to free stuff. http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2011/05/open-access-ebooks-part-5-changing.html Here's a post from a Jewish Studies scholar about his own decision to self-publish under a CC license http://www.rationalistjudaism.com/2011/05/changing-world-of-jewish-scholarship.html -- Yitzchak Schaffer
[CODE4LIB] code4lib New York one-day minicon, Mon Sept 26
Hello everybody, Plans are underway for a one-day code4lib [1] mini-conference in New York, in conjunction with METRO [2], which has graciously hosted our local "chapter" for several years as a SIG. After ruling out large swaths of time this fall for various reasons, we arrived at Monday, Sept. 26 as the potential date. Kevin Reiss [kevin.re...@gmail.com], Joanna DiPasquale and I are co-conveners of the local group. We would like to confirm that the date is not evil before concretizing it, so: if you know of some conflict that would prevent people attending, please let one of us know. More information should be forthcoming. [1] http://code4lib.org/ [2] http://metro.org/ Many thanks, -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 212.742.8770 ext. 2432 http://www.tourolib.org/
Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib New York one-day minicon, Mon Sept 26
On 2011-07-07 13:44, Wilfred Drew wrote: New York City? Please be more specific than just New York. There is a lot of New York State north and west of Manhattan. We expect the event to take place at METRO Training Center 57 E 11th Street New York NY -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 212.742.8770 ext. 2432 http://www.tourolib.org/ Access Problems? Contact systems.libr...@touro.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib NYC one-day minicon - date
Hello all, We heard about a conflict with DC-2011 on our proposed date of Mon Sept 26. We also have the date Mon Oct 3 available. Does anyone have known issues with Oct 3? Thanks, -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 212.742.8770 ext. 2432 http://www.tourolib.org/ Access Problems? Contact systems.libr...@touro.edu
[CODE4LIB] code4lib nyc mini-con postponed
The one-day mini-conference event planned for October has been POSTPONED to a Spring 2012 date TBD, for lack of time to organize. We will hold a regular meeting on the date announced earlier, Monday Oct. 3, from 10:00 am to 12:00 noon at: METRO Training Center 57 E 11th Street New York, NY The meeting is free of charge. Come talk about what you're working on, curious about, whatever. Meetings are informal and interactive. Apologies if we've disappointed anyone. Let myself or kevin.re...@gmail.com know if you would like to join us in planning the spring event, or have suggestions of swathes of dates to avoid. We are thinking late April into May to give folks time to recover from the (inter)?national conference. -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 212.742.8770 ext. 2432 http://www.tourolib.org/
[CODE4LIB] Puppet module for EZproxy on Ubuntu
Hello all, For your sys-adminning enjoyment, a Puppet module for administering one or more instances of EZproxy on Ubuntu. Modular config.txt entries. Should be easy enough to mod for other *Nix flava's. BSD 3-clause license. https://github.com/yitznewton/puppet-ezproxy -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 212.742.8770 ext. 2432 http://www.tourolib.org/ Access Problems? Contact systems.libr...@touro.edu
[CODE4LIB] Web platform for digitized books
Hello all, Can anyone suggest projects or general approaches for providing access to digitized books on the web? We're not interested in CONTENTdm, Greenstone has worked for us in the past but will not work for our ongoing projects. I don't have real experience with DSpace and such repository products, but they seemed ill-suited for this purpose when I've examined them in the past. Omeka (at last evaluation) is not compatible with hierarchic objects (like books). I am rather amazed that I have not been able to find any FOSS dedicated to this. I am currently favoring the idea of creating a web app using a decent framework (symfony2) designed for this purpose (web presentation of hierarchic text-based entities). Many thanks, -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 212.742.8770 ext. 2432 http://www.tourolib.org/
Re: [CODE4LIB] Web platform for digitized books
Rephrase to avoid ambiguity: On 09/08/2011 14:22, Yitzchak Schaffer wrote: I am currently favoring the idea of using a decent framework (symfony2) > to create a web app designed for this purpose (web presentation of hierarchic text-based entities). -- Yitzchak Schaffer
Re: [CODE4LIB] Web platform for digitized books
On 09/08/2011 14:38, todd.d.robb...@gmail.com wrote: The Internet Archive's Book Reader might also fit into your model: http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/bookreader http://code.google.com/p/iabv/ I recall finding this and thinking it cool, but that it's only a frontend library (i.e. JS/CSS); I'm chiefly interested (at this point) in the backend data storage, metadata, structure, indexing, etc. Thanks to the recommenders of XTF, looks like this is what I hadn't stumbled across before. Calibre seems to be a tool to manage and perhaps share one's personal ebook collection, but not for hosting. Forgot to mention in my initial salvo: I tried toying around with Drupal. We built our main website in D6. I looked at D7 for this, and was left with the impression that the D7 data model and Field API (really the API) is complex enough that it's not worth learning it unless you're going to be developing Drupal apps on a serious and continuous basis. I truly could not fathom the API calls involved in doing anything interesting with content types, etc. Like spending 45 minutes wading through docs and tuts to write a few lines of field-definition code. And not being able to do it again the next day. May as well just create my own tables, but that defeats the whole point of using the Drupal APIs. Sorry for hijacking my own thread into a Drupal rant :) If anybody knows of any magical tutorials, let me know. -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 212.742.8770 ext. 2432 http://www.tourolib.org/ Access Problems? Contact systems.libr...@touro.edu
[CODE4LIB] c4l NYC chapter meetup Oct 3
Hi all, The code4lib METRO SIG (aka chapter) is scheduled to meet Monday, Oct. 3 10a-12m at METRO HQ, 57 E 11th Street, NYC Come talk about code. Or sysadmin. Or.. whatever. Fun! Coffee! Free! Let us know you're coming via: http://www.metro.org/en/cev/99 -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 212.742.8770 ext. 2432 http://www.tourolib.org/ Access Problems? Contact systems.libr...@touro.edu
[CODE4LIB] Release: PHP/symfony1 faculty publications app
Hello all, We have just released the code for our faculty publications site. Written on symfony-1.4 (PHP) Production with branding: http://facpubs.tourolib.org/ Demo (includes admin): http://yitznewton.org/facpubs-demo github: https://github.com/yitznewton/facpubs BSD 2-clause license. Enjoy! -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 212.742.8770 ext. 2432 http://www.tourolib.org/ Access Problems? Contact systems.libr...@touro.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Can a library automate without a computer yet?
On 09/24/2011 18:45, Roy Tennant wrote: Actually, I have an even better option from OCLC: Web Site for Small Libraries (WSSL) http://experimental.worldcat.org/lib/ "Weasel?" -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 212.742.8770 ext. 2432 http://www.tourolib.org/ Access Problems? Contact systems.libr...@touro.edu
[CODE4LIB] Domain lookup madness
Hello all, Mystified. A drupal module on our site makes a call to an OCLC server to get status of chat service. This has been working fine until this morning. I can open a browser and successfully browse the URL of the status service. But when I use file_get_contents() or php-curl (or command-line curl for that matter), on the same box, I get a domain lookup error, see below. What the heck is going on? TIA! yitzchas@ubu-dev:/www/websites/drupal/sites/all$ dig www.questionpoint.org +short 132.174.11.16 yitzchas@ubu-dev:/www/websites/drupal/sites/all$ curl "http://www.questionpoint.org/crs/servlet/org.oclc.chat.QPWOnlineStatus?library=10253&rid=0"; -m 3 -v * name lookup timed out * Couldn't resolve host 'www.questionpoint.org' * Closing connection #0 curl: (6) name lookup timed out -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 212.742.8770 ext. 2432 http://www.tourolib.org/ Access Problems? Contact systems.libr...@touro.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Domain lookup madness
On 11/09/2011 16:01, Michael Della Bitta wrote: Have you tried running dig or nslookup on the server from the command line? Maybe your server is using DNS that is broken or has cached a bad record. Look again at my msg ;) that's the mystifying part yitzchas@ubu-dev:/www/websites/drupal/sites/all$ dig www.questionpoint.org +short 132.174.11.16 yitzchas@ubu-dev:/www/websites/drupal/sites/all$ curl "http://www.questionpoint.org/crs/servlet/org.oclc.chat.QPWOnlineStatus?library=10253&rid=0"; -m 3 -v * name lookup timed out * Couldn't resolve host 'www.questionpoint.org' * Closing connection #0 curl: (6) name lookup timed out
Re: [CODE4LIB] Domain lookup madness
On 11/09/2011 16:03, Chad Benjamin Nelson wrote: I upped it to ten and it still failed, but when I dropped the "-m 3" it does return the same as the browser. So it's just real slow, that's all. When I use dig to resolve it, it's as good as instantaneous (from my human perspective). That's what I don't understand. -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 212.742.8770 ext. 2432 http://www.tourolib.org/ Access Problems? Contact systems.libr...@touro.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Domain lookup madness
On 11/09/2011 16:33, Roy Tennant wrote: OCLC staff says "We changed the way questionpoint.org DNS resolution was performed last night and the graceful handling of IPv6 lookups was inadvertently left off. That has been corrected so please try again. Confirmed working. For once I shoulda talked to the vendor before tearing out my hair and posting to code4lib :) -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 212.742.8770 ext. 2432 http://www.tourolib.org/ Access Problems? Contact systems.libr...@touro.edu
[CODE4LIB] Chaos created by a butterfly in Ohio
This is just a reflection on the earlier name resolution incident. I find it remarkable how much goes into solving a problem, and the corollary, how much impact a simple problem can have. Just my braindump as a relatively novice sysadmin. Here's the chain of events: - This morning at 9am, our web server chokes. I see apache is using up MaxClients - After poking around the various daemons and looking at logs, I figure out that everything is running correctly - I somehow narrow it down to the script that pings the OCLC chat availability service waiting for 20+ seconds and finally timing out, *despite* the fact that I thought it was set up with a 2-second timeout (I don't remember how I got it down to that) - I shut that down temporarily and disabled our chat function, which got the server back to normal. - I browsed the service manually, which worked, and tried two different techniques in the PHP (file_get_contents() and curl), both of which failed. - I went to Brooklyn to do some vigilante digitization and have lunch with my boss - I got back to the office, saw nothing had changed, and started digging deeper into the curl request - I found the name resolution error, which blew my mind - I tried resolving multiple ways, and failing that, came here Thanks to all who contributed ideas... amazing how one change to a vendor DNS server can lead to our web server DOS'ing itself. More networking knowledge... must get more networking knowledge... -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 212.742.8770 ext. 2432 http://www.tourolib.org/ Access Problems? Contact systems.libr...@touro.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Experience with codeIgniter?
On 12/14/2011 08:14, Karen Coyle wrote: I'm helping some folks find a new platform for their web site, and someone has suggested codeIgniter as being simpler than Drupal or Wordpress. Anyone here have anything to say about it, good or bad? The site is small and light weight but it does have a database that needs to be managed. I built an app several years ago [1] in Kohana 2.3, which was a fork of CodeIgniter. Since then CI has become more of what made me opt for Kohana instead of CI to begin with: they dropped legacy support for PHP4 (which they had been ideologically hanging onto) and became more OO. I liked it. It was a lean full framework, featured without being a massive superpower like symfony. (FTR most of my work is in symfony.) It's easy to grok and extend core, and includes utility classes to help, for example, construct forms. syfmony2 and CI are both very flexible, but CI is much simpler, so miles easier to jump into. That said, I don't think any framework (as one usually understands the term) will work well for a small library to build a "regular" content website - hosted WordPress sounds typical of a good match for these folks. [1] https://github.com/yitznewton/emeraldview -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 212.742.8770 ext. 2432 http://www.tourolib.org/ Access Problems? Contact systems.libr...@touro.edu
[CODE4LIB] Hash table vulnerability - PHP solution
Hi all, In case y'all haven't heard, there's this mega-evil hash table DDoS domesday thing? Right. The NY PHP list pointed out that the problem can be handled deftly on PHP servers by using the Suhosin extension (not the patch) with the suhosin.request.max_vars setting (default should work). http://www.hardened-php.net/suhosin/ More on this issue: http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2011/Dec/486 -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 212.742.8770 ext. 2432 http://www.tourolib.org/
[CODE4LIB] NYC regional mtg: Weds Apr 25
Hello all, The next meeting of the code4lib NYC regional / METRO SIG is scheduled for Wednesday, April 25, 10a-12m at the METRO Training Center, 57 E 11th Street. -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 212.742.8770 ext. 2432 http://www.tourolib.org/ Access Problems? Contact systems.libr...@touro.edu
[CODE4LIB] WorldCat API account
Greetings CODE4LIBers: Does anyone know how to get a test account for the WorldCat API? The wiki, last I checked, instructed to "contact OCLC," but my e-mail to their generic address yielded no response. Thanks, -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Librarian Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x230 Fax (212) 627-3197 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [CODE4LIB] Ser Sol 360 Search
Walker, David wrote: I'm giving a conference presentation later this month on metasearch. If your library licenses Serial Solutions' metasearch system, would you mind contacting me off-list? I'd like to ask a couple of questions. Thanks! We do. As it happens I was working on a PHP class for the 360 Search API a couple months ago. Inasmuch as there's an NDA involved, I don't know how much you'll be able to include about it, but I'd be happy to share the ambiguous and vague. -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Librarian Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x230 Fax (212) 627-3197 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [CODE4LIB] local Code4Lib group -- opinions?
Joanna DiPasquale wrote: Although we're called the Library 2.0 group, we really like to come together to focus more on coding techniques and software implementation. This would be awesome. I doubt this is the best forum, but let me interject my interest in exploring the possibility of alternative meeting times... (on the wiki I see that meetings have in the past been convened on Friday afternoons) Thanks for getting the word out! -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Librarian Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230 Fax (212) 627-3197 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[CODE4LIB] Roman-script to Hebrew-script automation
BS"D
Greetings all:
It occurs to me now that I might have checked for existing work on the
lists before I did this, but anyway -- we are in the finishing stages of
creating scripts that will automatically convert a library's existing
Romanized MARC Hebrew fields (e.g. "Sefer {dotb}Hatan Torah") into
Hebrew-script, and add them to the records already in the ILS. It's
quite accurate; not bulletproof, but at least it's a way to quickly get
Hebrew script into thousands of Roman-only records, where many Hebrew
users (including staff) may not understand the transliteration rules 100%.
The Hebrew conversion itself is done by a PHP script (haven't finished
learning Perl) acting on a MARC dump of Roman-only Hebrew records in MRK
(broken MARCedit) format. This outputs two files of converted fields:
an XML file for proofing, and a tab-delimited text file for the
inputting script to devour. This inputting is done by an Expect script
using the character-based ILS client.
We are an III shop. This could presumably be adapted easily enough for
another ILS, whether using Expect or direct manipulation of database
tables. (I'm not volunteering, though...) It would probably be easy
enough to adapt to another language also, assuming that language were at
least as predictable in MARC as Hebrew. (It's pretty good - my list of
"manual override" words that the auto-algorithm botches is now totaling
about 35 in preliminary testing.)
Note that I can't imagine automating the other direction, Hebrew- to
Roman-script, unless there's some algorithm for this already floating
around out there.
If anyone's interested, I'll clean up the code and open-source it.
Cheers, Shabbat shalom,
--
Yitzchak Schaffer
Systems Librarian
Touro College Libraries
33 West 23rd Street
New York, NY 10010
Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230
Fax (212) 627-3197
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Re: [CODE4LIB] Roman-script to Hebrew-script automation
Mark A. Matienzo wrote: This is great news! I'd love to see you share the code with the greater community. This may prove particularly useful for the automated addition of non-Roman data into authority records for NACO members (see [1]; see also [2]). Okay, y'all can check out the code at http://code.google.com/p/lc-hebrew-detransliteration/source/browse/#svn/trunk or svn checkout http://lc-hebrew-detransliteration.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ lc-hebrew-detransliteration-read-only The more reusable file is the .class.php file; hebrify.php is a messier file that pulls certain fields out of MARC-broken files and spits out the XML- and III/OPAC-encoded renditions I mentioned earlier. I'll have to clean up the Expect scripts later. -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Librarian Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230 Fax (212) 627-3197 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[CODE4LIB] Position: Systems Librarian - Maine State Library
Original Message Subject: [Web4lib] Fwd: [Publib] Systems Librarian Needed Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:13:22 -0400 From: Rachel Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - CAREER OPPORTUNITY BULLETIN MAINE STATE LIBRARY SYSTEMS LIBRARIAN (AGENCY TECHNOLOGY OFFICER - LIBRARY AUTOMATION MANAGER -PUBLIC SERVICES MANAGER II) Code: MH30 Salary Range 30 (Confidential) Salary:* $52,000 - $72,529.60 *Includes a 10% Recruitment and Retention Stipend Value of State-paid Health & Dental - $336.80/bi-weekly Retirement Benefits $24.52% of pay Re-Opened to Applications: August 15, 2008 Date Closed to Applications September 19, 2008 The Maine State Library seeks applications for the position of Systems Librarian (Agency Technology Officer (ATO)) located in Bangor/Orono, Me. The Systems Librarian (ATO) is a key member of the 6_FTE Maine InfoNet team and will report to its Executive Director. The successful candidate will: (a) provide technology management and leadership; (b) build and maintain momentum in the effective use of information technology among libraries utilizing Maine InfoNet services; (c) assist in understanding and taking advantage of new technological developments that bear on library operations statewide and help Maine InfoNet achieve its mission and realize its plans; and (d) establish and maintain effective cooperative and collaborative relationships with a variety of constituencies statewide in support of Maine InfoNet technological goals. Statewide travel is required. APPLICATIONS: Interested candidates may call Lynn Kimmel, Personnel Specialist at (207) 624-7412 for a full job description and direct hire application or access the Division of Financial and Personnel Services web page ([ http://www.maine.gov/fps/opportunities ]http://www.maine.gov/fps/opportunities) The State of Maine is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. ___ Publib mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.webjunction.org/mailman/listinfo/publib ___ Web4lib mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.webjunction.org/web4lib/
Re: [CODE4LIB] PHP Frameworks
Susan Teague Rector wrote: We're exploring Zend as a framework for php based Web applications. I'm curious to see if anyone out there is using this framework (or another MVC framework). Also, I wondering how many full-time developers you have on staff programming. We're working on a project in Symfony. I'm quite happy with it - I rolled out a non-work-related project a couple weeks ago, and it went quite smoothly. There are two of us on the systems team, programming when we don't have anything else that needs taking care of. -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Librarian Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230 Fax (212) 627-3197 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[CODE4LIB] Javascript trees
Coders: Have you had any successful experiences with trees in JS frameworks? I'm trying to find one for the site I'm building, in order to "entree" the results of an API search; here's what I've found: Treeview (standalone) http://www.treeview.net/ old, no built-in support for asynch loading? YUI TreeView http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/treeview/ don't remember exactly the problem, but there seemed some mismatch between versions in the docs and downloads Ext http://extjs.com/deploy/dev/examples/tree/reorder.html the JS files are pretty hefty (smallest possible arrangement looked like 180k) jQuery http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Tree appears abandoned other than that, I found a couple of plugins, but nothing too confidence-inspiring. I'm tentatively working with Drupal, so perhaps there's a way to repurpose the native menu tree code... In any case, TIA for any input! -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Librarian Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230 Fax (212) 627-3197 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [CODE4LIB] Javascript trees
Joe Hourcle wrote: jQuery http://docs.jquery.com/UI/Tree appears abandoned other than that, I found a couple of plugins, but nothing too confidence-inspiring. As has already been mentioned -- jQuery is _not_ dead, but there's also a plugin for a more fully featured tree: Didn't mean to imply that jQuery were dead, rather just the Tree widget. I'll take a look at treeview. Thanks! -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Librarian Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230 Fax (212) 627-3197 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[CODE4LIB] Job Posting: Programmer Analyst, Yale University Library
*Programmer Analyst II * *Systems Office* *Yale University * * * *The University and the Library * One of the world's leading research libraries, Yale University Library is a full partner in teaching, research, and learning at Yale and is visited by scholars from around the world. A distinctive strength is its rich spectrum of resources, including approximately thirteen million volumes and information in all media, ranging from ancient papyri to early printed books to electronic databases. The Library is engaging in numerous projects to expand access to its physical and digital collections. Housed in twenty-two buildings including the Sterling Memorial Library, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and the new Bass Library, it employs a dynamic and diverse staff of nearly six-hundred who offer innovative and flexible services to library readers. To learn more about Yale University Library and its collections and services, visit http://www.library.yale.edu. *The Position * Reporting to the Programmer Analyst III in Library Access Integration Services, the Programmer Analyst is responsible for the design, development, testing, installation, and maintenance of Library web and database applications and analyzes the technical needs of staff, faculty and readers, and develops proposals to acquire or develop the tools to answer those needs. *Responsibilities* Plans and implements project scope, schedule and budgetary requirements. Creates and maintains the databases that support and make possible the successful implementation of Library’s Digital Collections. Works with other Library technology staff and IT staff across the University, collaborates on the development and implementation of a variety of automation and digitization projects conducted in and for the Library. Produces related documentation and user manuals as needed. May design and conduct technical training sessions for Library staff. Provides high-level support for the use of ILLiad. May be required to assist with disaster recovery efforts. May be assigned to work on the West Campus. *Qualifications * Bachelor's degree in a relevant area and three years of programming experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Demonstrated expertise in MS SQL Server 2005/2008 database development. Demonstrated high-level expertise supporting Windows XP or Vista. Demonstrated experience developing web sites using HTML, CSS and XML. Experience with object oriented programming using one or more of the following: VBScript, java, Visual Basic, ASP or C#. Experience in developing SOAP and REST Web Service applications. Experience with MS SQL Server 2005/2008 programming and development. Experience with digital asset management systems used at Yale such as Luna Insight, Extensis Portfolio, ContentDM, etc. Experience using image creation / manipulation tools including PhotoShop. Experience with classroom presentation tools including PowerPoint or Keynote. Demonstrated experience assisting users with various levels of technical expertise. Well developed analytical and problem solving skills. Excellent oral and written communication skills, particularly a demonstrated ability to conduct technical training sessions and prepare appropriate on-line documentation for use by non-technical and technical staff. Skill at working with and leading teams of IT and non-IT staff. Excellent planning and organizational skills. Advanced knowledge of HTML and Web programming and scripting languages such as VBScript, Visual Basic, ASP and [dot]Net. Experience with MS SQL Server 2005 programming and development. Demonstrated experience developing database-driven web sites. Demonstrated success in network and/or workstation application development using Microsoft .NET using either Visual Basic or C#. Strong service orientation and excellent analytical, organizational, and problem resolution skills. Solid working knowledge of Windows Server 2003/2008, IIS. Solid working knowledge of Windows XP. Demonstrated ability to work well independently and with others in a rapidly changing and demanding environment. *Preferred:* Experience with MS SQL Server 2005/2008 programming and development; experience creating stored procedures and user defined types. Experience in the use of Windows Active Directory infrastructure and MAC OS. Experience with XSL and XSLT. Experience in application development with one of more of the following: C/C++, Delphi, Java/J# or F#. Experience with Visual Studio 2005/2008, .NET 2/3, LINQ. Formal project management training or PMP certification. *Salary and Benefits* Rank and competitive salary will be based upon the successful candidate's qualifications and experience. Full benefits package including pro-rated 22 vacation days; 18 holiday, recess and personal days; comprehensive health care; TIAA/CREF or Yale retirement plan; and relocation assistance. Applications will be accepte
[CODE4LIB] [Fwd: Drupal 6 version of Millennium module available for download]
Original Message Subject: Drupal 6 version of Millennium module available for download Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:28:28 -0600 From: Alejandro Garza Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Next generation catalogs for libraries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: Dirección de Biblioteca, Tecnológico de Monterrey Campus Monterrey To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just a quick note... The development version (e.g. "still changing") of the Millennium integration module for Drupal 6 is now out. http://drupal.org/project/millennium This module imports bibliographic information from the Millennium WebOpac (library catalog) and generates Drupal pages which include real-time holdings information. The module was already available for Drupal 5, but some told me they were meaning to use or already using Drupal 6 in their institutions. Enjoy! =) Module Features * auto-crawl or manual import of items with each cron run * support for external book jacket image services * imports Library of Congress book description and Table of Contents along with item, available for searching * choose between real-time holdings information or just a link to the original item in your WebOpac * maps MARC fields to taxonomy vocabularies for navigation and RSS * Google Books links for items available online We are currently using the Drupal 5 version of the module at our Library, which is also using Apache Solr. For a demo search, try this link: http://biblioteca.mty.itesm.mx/pasteur/en/search/apachesolr_search/history -- _ ___ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *Ing. Alejandro Garza González* Coordinación de proyectos y desarrollo de sistemas Centro [EMAIL PROTECTED], Centro para la Innovación en Tecnología y Educación Tecnológico de Monterrey Tel. +52 [81] 8358.2000, Ext. 6751 Enlace intercampus: 80.689.6751, 80.788.6106 http://www.itesm.mx/innovate/ El contenido de este mensaje de datos no se considera oferta, propuesta o acuerdo, sino hasta que sea confirmado en documento por escrito que contenga la firma autógrafa del apoderado legal del ITESM. El contenido de este mensaje de datos es confidencial y se entiende dirigido y para uso exclusivo del destinatario, por lo que no podrá distribuirse y/o difundirse por ningún medio sin la previa autorización del emisor original. Si usted no es el destinatario, se le prohíbe su utilización total o parcial para cualquier fin. The content of this data transmission must not be considered an offer, proposal, understanding or agreement unless it is confirmed in a document signed by a legal representative of ITESM. The content of this data transmission is confidential and is intended to be delivered only to the addressees. Therefore, it shall not be distributed and/or disclosed through any means without the authorization of the original sender. If you are not the addressee, you are forbidden from using it, either totally or partially, for any purpose. -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Librarian Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230 Fax (212) 627-3197 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [CODE4LIB] T-Shirt Design Contest
Eek! A humble request that submitters post graphics online rather than attaching, as my box only holds 50M total... -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Librarian Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230 Fax (212) 627-3197 yitzc...@touro.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4libNYC January 29th Meeting - Call for Speakers
Kevin Reiss wrote: All are welcome to attend. If you are thinking of coming please RSVP to me so we can have a general head count prior to the meeting. Hi Kevin -- We're planning on sending two. I'd like to talk about our open-source ERMS project, FreERMS. Yours, -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Librarian Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230 Fax (212) 627-3197 yitzc...@touro.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] PHP Frameworks: An informal survey.
Cloutman, David wrote: This morning I was curious to see how the battle for domination between PHP frameworks was shaping up, and which one was most economically sensible for a developer with limited time to learn. I thought I'd share my results with the list, as this may be of interest to some of you. I found this post and comments to be of value: http://www.plentyofcode.com/2008/04/symfony-vs-zend-framework-vs-cakephp-vs.html FWIW I have been working with symfony (to the exclusion of other framewords) for... about a year now, I think? I'm very pleased, particularly with the amount of new functionality that's come with each of the major new releases (1.1 and 1.2) Cheers, -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Librarian Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230 Fax (212) 627-3197 yitzc...@touro.edu
[CODE4LIB] Cancelled hotel room for conf
All: I've just cancelled my reservation for the conference next week. Not sure if there's a waiting list, but have at it! Cheers, -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Librarian Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230 Fax (212) 627-3197 yitzc...@touro.edu
[CODE4LIB] Serials Solutions Summon
Hello all: I see that there was an Andrew Nagy-led breakout on Summon at the con. Summon is a NGC product with the distinction of using a local copy of indexes of licensed content (by agreement with Elsevier, JSTOR, et alia) for federated search - rather than the traditional Z39.50 or API calls to vendor servers. Can anyone offer a brief summary of what was discussed? I am particularly interested in the feasibility of obtaining local indexes for use in an OSS product. Best, -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230 Fax (212) 627-3197 Email yitzc...@touro.edu Twitter /torahsyslib
Re: [CODE4LIB] Serials Solutions Summon
Andrew Nagy wrote: Summon is really more than an NGC as we are selling it as a service - a unified discovery service. This means that it is a single repository of the library's content ( subscription content, catalog records, IR data, etc.). Federated search is not apart of Summon Well, if we understand "federated" to mean "bringing stuff together by searching all of it at once," then it is, as opposed to "broadcast searching," a term you used later in this sentence. As in, "Origin: 1665–75; < L foederātus leagued together, allied, equiv. to foeder- (nom. s. foedus) league" from http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=federated It is, though, a great *breakthrough* in the area of federated search, which is why we ordered an onsite demo immediately on hearing about this product. But I don't think I was clear with my question in any case; it occurs to me now that my true question wasn't code-related, but seeing Summon on the conf agenda prompted me to bring it up here. Namely: has anyone investigated whether the arrangements SerSol has with content vendors are easily duplicable by institutions for home-baked/potential OSS products -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230 Fax (212) 627-3197 Email yitzc...@touro.edu Twitter /torahsyslib
Re: [CODE4LIB] Serials Solutions Summon
Jonathan Rochkind wrote: It _would_ be great if SerSol would actually give you (if you were subscribed) a feed of their harvested and normalized metadata, so you could still pay them to collect and normalize it, but then use it for your own purposes outside of Summon. I hope SerSol will consider this down the line, if Summon is succesful. This is available as a dump for their traditional holdings product, which makes it possible to do just this (i.e. use SerSol cleaned holdings/access info in a local system). My working with SerSol has brought me to see them as essentially a great data aggregation service with some OK software bundled in. We are looking ahead to possibly using this technique by loading their data into a local ERMS. Agreed that such an availability of data would be a great service with the Summon metadata as well. -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230 Fax (212) 627-3197 Email yitzc...@touro.edu Twitter /torahsyslib
[CODE4LIB] EmeraldView, a new frontend for Greenstone
code4libbers, Have you ever worked with Greenstone, the open-source collection hosting solution Greenstone? Ever try to do anything more that superficial customization of the interface? Have you ever held your breath, waiting for someone's reaction when you nonchalantly send a link to a page of your collection (in the pre-tinyurl days) looking something like http://emeraldview.tourolib.org/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?e=d-0-00---off- 0demo--00-00-10-0---0---0direct-10---4---0-1l--11-en-50---20- about---00-0-1-00-0-0-11-1-0utfZz-8-00&a=d&c=demo&cl=CL1 &d=HASHa891721179ce8bc74b905a.6.1 We needed the proven Unicode support of Greenstone, but shuddered at this and similar issues arising out of the antiquity of Greenstone's codebase. [cue triumphant music] So we set out to create: EmeraldView! a new lightweight (for now) PHP frontend for Greenstone, using the CodeIgniter framework. The above URL becomes http://emeraldview-demo.tourolib.org/greenstone-demo/ courier-n-160-nov-dec-1996-dossier/6/1 Happily, Greenstone collections can be configured out of the box to build using Sqlite for metadata storage, and Lucene for indexing, as opposed to default MG or MG++ [http://www.cs.mu.OZ.AU/mg/]. This makes it surprisingly easy to tap into the backend. Using EmeraldView requires no modifications to the native Greenstone code; it simply sits on top. Theming and i18n/l10n are supported, though we're still working out the details. Check us out at http://emeraldview.tourolib.org/ - there's a demo there which reflects our current stage of development. (We don't have a designer working on it yet, so it still looks rather brutish.) We'd love to hear your suggestions or Greenstone hacking stories. You can checkout the code using $ svn co https://svn.tourolib.org/emeraldview/trunk dest-dir Cheers, -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230 Fax (212) 627-3197 Email yitzchak.schaf...@tourolib.org
[CODE4LIB] EmeraldView, a PHP frontend for Greenstone
The systems team at Touro College Libraries is pleased to announce the beta release of EmeraldView, a new open-source PHP frontend for the Greenstone digital library system. More information is available at the project website at http://emeraldview.tourolib.org/ A live demo is running at http://emeraldview-demo.tourolib.org/ We would be excited if anyone has a bit of time to contribute to the project, particularly in the design department, as the user interface is still waiting for a visionary. We will also be thrilled to hear any and all feedback. We know you are checking out the site and downloading the code! Hit us up. Cheers, -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230 Fax (212) 627-3197 Email yitzchak.schaf...@tourolib.org
[CODE4LIB] Greenstone: tweaking Lucene indexing
Hello, Sorry for any cross-posting annoyance. I have a request for a Greenstone collection I'm working on, to add context snippets to search results; for example a search for "yak culture" might return this in the list of results: ... addressing the fine points of yak culture, the zoosociologists took into account ... Sounds like a pretty basic feature, say our sponsors, and I agree. (Ah, it's also an old Trac ticket at http://trac.greenstone.org/ticket/444) I see that GS out-of-the-box is set *not* to store the fulltext in the index, which seems to be a prerequisite for this kind of thing, as in http://bit.ly/ljNkL . Has anyone modified the Lucene indexing wrapper locally to do this? Given that we don't have any Java coders on staff, I've started porting the Lucene wrapper to PHP for use with a custombuilder.pl and Zend_Search_Lucene. I already have a PHP frontend, so adjusting that to display the results shouldn't be a problem; OTOH because the frontend is PHP, I'm restricted to using buildtype lucene, or something else with good PHP support. Many thanks, -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230 Fax (212) 627-3197 Email yitzchak.schaf...@gmx.com
Re: [CODE4LIB] Greenstone: tweaking Lucene indexing
Erik Hatcher wrote: The Lucene Highlighter doesn't require that the text you want highlighted be stored. In fact, you can pass in any arbitrary text to the Highlighter. Thanks Erik, What I'm looking for is to return the context of the search result, not just the ID of the containing document - e.g. when all I input is "yak culture," I get back the context from the document as a search result, without having to retrieve the doc itself: ... addressing the fine points of yak culture, the zoosociologists took into account ... GS out of the box does not appear to support this, as it does not store the fulltext in the index. So yes, I can highlight stuff, but as it stands, I don't have the text to work with. IANA Lucene guru, so correct me if I misunderstand. -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230 Fax (212) 627-3197 Email yitzchak.schaf...@gmx.com
Re: [CODE4LIB] Greenstone: tweaking Lucene indexing
Erik Hatcher wrote: I'm a bit confused then. You mentioned that somehow Zend Lucene was going to help, but if you don't have the text to highlight anywhere then the Highlighter isn't going to be of any use. Again, you don't need the full text in the Lucene index, but you do need it get it from somewhere in order to be able to highlight it. Erik, I started to port the native Greenstone Java Lucene wrapper to PHP, so I could then modify it to add this feature, as I don't know Java. This would mean using Zend Lucene for the actual indexing implementation. My question is whether anyone's already done it, in Java or otherwise. Thanks for the clarification, -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230 Fax (212) 627-3197 Email yitzchak.schaf...@gmx.com
Re: [CODE4LIB] Greenstone: tweaking Lucene indexing
Ross Singer wrote: Yitzchak, are you interested in actually searching the fulltext? Or just highlighting the terms? Sorry this wasn't clearer. Let me re-summarize, and report on a new development: - Greenstone allows for Lucene as one of the indexing plugins - I took advantage of this for use in our PHP frontend, EmeraldView (http://emeraldview.tourolib.org/) - Greenstone includes a Java wrapper class for Lucene which indexes documents as the collection is built - This wrapper class indexes but does not store the document full text; thus a search only returns document IDs of hits. This means that, in order to place search terms in context, we have to load the actual documents. I want the search API itself to return the surrounding text. New info: I was in fact able to hack the Java to include the full text in the index. Just a matter of adding a line of code and an "if" statement, once I'd been immersed in the code long enough. Trying to port it to PHP (i.e. rewrite it) was instrumental in figuring out why in the world the Greenstone indexing code is structured the way it is. -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230 Fax (212) 627-3197 Email yitzchak.schaf...@gmx.com
Re: [CODE4LIB] Greenstone: tweaking Lucene indexing
Ross Singer wrote: Yitzchak, are you interested in actually searching the fulltext? Or just highlighting the terms? Just in case my earlier response didn't make it crystal clear: we're trying to search the fulltext, and put the search string in context within the document which includes it. -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230 Fax (212) 627-3197 Email yitzchak.schaf...@gmx.com
[CODE4LIB] NYC Carpool?
Hi all, apologies for cross-post from con list: My conference proposal last year was turned down b/c of our budget crunch, and I'm wondering what I can do to increase the likelihood of approval this year. I'm wondering if anyone in a similar situation would be interested in the idea of an NYC metro carpool for the ~12 hour drive to and from Asheville in Feb? If someone has a car available (I don't) we could use it, or else rent a car if we had at least, say, 4 people. (Also perhaps this wouldn't be as feasible for the luggage-heavy travelers among us.) We would have to discuss whether to go for the precons or not. My estimation of car rental + gas is roughly $500 total for a 5- seater, so figure about $100 per person with five. Airfare, by contrast, is about $300. I would suggest that each person put in a deposit of $75, so in case of one or more bailouts, no one gets stuck paying for (much) more than expected. If all bail, all get the money back. There's no telling until prob. after registration whether MPOW will give me registration & hotel money, so I might myself bail; if it does go through, I'd be up for renting & driving. Any interested parties? -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230 Fax (212) 627-3197 Email yitzchak.schaf...@gmx.com
Re: [CODE4LIB] NYC Carpool?
Mark A. Matienzo wrote: Hi Yitzchak - I might be interested. A few code4lib folks and I did this for code4lib 2007 in Athens, Georgia; our carpool started in Philadelphia, went through DC, and picked up a few folks along the way in Virginia. Even if you can't get a whole lot of people from New York proper, you may be able to snag some others along the way. Hi Mark, Good point. Aside from the direct route through Allentown and along I-81 to Harrisburg PA and through VA, the route could alternately follow I-95 through Philly, Balto/DC and Richmond, then cut west through NC without too much extra mileage. -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230 Fax (212) 627-3197 Email yitzchak.schaf...@gmx.com Access Problems? Contact systems.libr...@touro.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] NYC Carpool?
I started a new RoommatesRidesEtc wiki page at http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/C4L2010planning:RoommatesRidesEtc I included the names of those who have expressed interest; feel free to obfuscate if you don't want your full name there. -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230 Fax (212) 627-3197 Email yitzchak.schaf...@gmx.com Access Problems? Contact systems.libr...@touro.edu
[CODE4LIB] Web analytics for POST data
Hello coders, I'm looking at tracking our III OPAC usage via a Google Analytics-like tool. As far as I can tell, GA itself doesn't track POST data for privacy reasons. Anyone here know of something for this? I found an open-source GA-like, on-your-own-server PHP project called Piwik [http://piwik.org] which I imagine does this, or could be modified easily enough. -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230 Fax (212) 627-3197 Email yitzchak.schaf...@tourolib.org
[CODE4LIB] MongoDB slides
FYI, a posting with slides from a presentation on MongoDB (I didn't go) http://www.nyphp.org/PHP-Presentations/145_Recovering-Mongos-MongoDB-PHP From mongodb.org: "MongoDB (from "humongous") is a scalable, high-performance, open source, schema-free, document-oriented database. Written in C++, MongoDB features: ..." "MongoDB bridges the gap between key-value stores (which are fast and highly scalable) and traditional RDBMS systems (which provide structured schemas and powerful queries)." -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230 Fax (212) 627-3197 Email yitzchak.schaf...@tourolib.org
Re: [CODE4LIB] Web analytics for POST data
Alejandro Garza Gonzalez wrote: 1) You *can* use GA and some Javascript embedded in your III pages to log "events" (as they´re called in GA lingo). The javascript (depending on your coding wizardry level) could track anything from hovers over elements, form submission, "next page" events, etc. Hi Alejandro, Thanks for a great suggestion. I tried poking around at it; it seems to me like Events aren't built for what I'm really interested in doing, namely systematic exploration and analysis of the search sessions. IOW, let's say a form looks like t=finn a=twain l=circ,reserve It looks like I could log this as three separate events, or one; but either way, how would one analyze this? I'm not interested (solely) in how many times this particular query was entered. I started looking at ways to funnel the params into my own tracking script, the prototype of which just writes a line to a text file with a JSON serialization of the form data; but I'm not a JS ninja, so I'm still trying to figure out how to get around the XSS problems. Ruddy III turnkey... -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230 Fax (212) 627-3197 Email yitzchak.schaf...@tourolib.org
[CODE4LIB] SVN/Mercurial hosting
Hello all, As I was considering whether to migrate our SVN repositories to Mercurial (or possibly Bazaar) so as to allow for distributed control (like if I'm on the train or otherwise off the grid), I got word from our IT higher-ups that they want us to stop hosting our code on our domain and server. Before I start trekking around looking for hosting, does anyone in the crowd here have a server set up, and is potentially willing to host Trac+SVN or Trac+HG for our open-source projects? We currently have two. Alternately, I'd love to hear suggestions on regular hosting providers - particularly for Trac+Mercurial. Many thanks, -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230 Fax (212) 627-3197 Email yitzchak.schaf...@gmx.com Access Problems? Contact systems.libr...@touro.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] NYC carpool?
On 12/16/2009 2:27 PM, Schwartz, Raymond wrote: Anyone in the New York City area interested in this? /Ray As an addendum, the wiki page for updates on the carpool is http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/C4L2010planning:RoommatesRidesEtc I am still planning to go, pending getting funding approval. I do *not* plan on attending the preconferences; if this were a breaking factor in the carpool, I would reconsider. -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230 Fax (212) 627-3197 Email yitzchak.schaf...@gmx.com Access Problems? Contact systems.libr...@touro.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] ipsCA Certs
On 12/18/2009 12:03 PM, John Wynstra wrote: We are going to purchase a certificate elseware, because we can't wait for ipsCA root Cert to get into popular browsers. Ergh. Anyone have any fresh research on cheap education wildcard certs? We're using SSL on three (soon to be four) publicly-used hosts. TLD is .org though. -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230 Fax (212) 627-3197 Email yitzchak.schaf...@gmx.com Access Problems? Contact systems.libr...@touro.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] ipsCA Certs
Whew. Just survived an Ubuntu dist-upgrade which broke our Apache SSL virtual hosts configuration. I had thought the foulup on the test server was because we were testing various certs in the wake of the root CA expiration! We estimate that 15-25% of our users will be affected (the new root CA seems to work in Google Chrome as well as IE), and that a new wildcart cert could be had for $40 or $80 from StartSSL for two years - not quite sure yet what level verification we'd need, hence the 40/80 doubt. We're running multiple name-based hosts at one IP address (for encryption), hence the reliance on the wildcart cert. We could conceivably get more IP addresses, but I don't know if I want to take that one up with IT. Methinks we're going to try scraping together 40/80 bucks, which isn't as simple here as it may sound. Twitter's been very helpful in keeping up with this. -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230 Fax (212) 627-3197 Email yitzchak.schaf...@gmx.com Access Problems? Contact systems.libr...@touro.edu
[CODE4LIB] OOP architecture, Greenstone/EmeraldView
Hello all, A question on MVC-like architecture for EmeraldView, the Greenstone PHP frontend I'm working on. First, a crash-course in the Greenstone data model... The biggest unit of content in Greenstone is the "collection." Within each collection, G references content in "documents" which are broken into "sections." Each document and section (I've taken to calling them nodes) is represented in a datastore by a record with metadata. So for example, represented in YAML: DOC123: Title: "Pigs in space" Subject: "pigs, space" Contains: DOC123.1,DOC123.2 DOC123.1: Title: "The mission begins" Contains: DOC123.1.1 DOC123.1.1: Title: "More of the mission beginning" DOC123.2: Title: "The mission continues" Browse trees can be created on arbitrary metadata fields, and are called "classifiers." They also consist of a root "node" and subnodes; for example: CL1: Title: "Author" Contains: CL1.1,CL1.2 CL1.1: Title: "Aardvark, Larry" Contains: DOC123,DOC456 CL1.2: Title: "Milton, John" Contains: DOC789,DOC654 Okay, now for the question. I have written a Node class to represent this most basic level of organization, with subclasses Node_Document (representing a document or section thereof) and Node_Classifier (for a classifier or subnode thereof). This makes sense to me for representing the metadata, as described above. http://bitbucket.org/yitznewton/emeraldview/src/tip/application/libraries/Node.php http://bitbucket.org/yitznewton/emeraldview/src/tip/application/libraries/Node/Classifier.php http://bitbucket.org/yitznewton/emeraldview/src/tip/application/libraries/Node/Document.php What happens when I need to deal with the *web page* representing the content of a node? In Greenstone (and thus in EmeraldView), each classifier, document, and section has a page view associated with it. There are certain behaviors that apply to a web page and not a "Model"-level node, such as getUrl(), getSourceDocumentUrl(), getHTML()... I have been using wrapper classes for the Nodes (Classifier and DocumentSection), and, realizing that there is much duplicate functionality between the two, thought to make them inherit from a common class. [there are a couple of obsolete duplicate methods in here that I haven't cleaned out yet] http://bitbucket.org/yitznewton/emeraldview/src/tip/application/libraries/Classifier.php http://bitbucket.org/yitznewton/emeraldview/src/tip/application/libraries/DocumentSection.php When I came to the question of what to call this parent class, I took a step back, wondering, what sort of class is this, exactly? Does it merit a distinct class apart from Node? I looked through Gang of Four, but couldn't find anything that really reflected what I'm trying to do - this seems simpler than most of their patterns. Intuitively it feels to me like this should indeed be a separate class from Node, as Node is for metadata, and this class is to be for web page behavior. Perhaps: NodeWrapper NodePage NodePageWrapper NodeView Thoughts? Thanks so much! -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230 Fax (212) 627-3197 Email yitzchak.schaf...@tourolib.org
[CODE4LIB] PTFS to Acquire LibLime
http://www.librarytechnology.org/ltg-displaytext.pl?RC=14463 -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230 Fax (212) 627-3197 Email yitzchak.schaf...@tourolib.org Access Problems? Contact systems.libr...@touro.edu
[CODE4LIB] EmeraldView 0.2 beta release
Hello all, We are excited to announce the first beta release in the 0.2 branch of EmeraldView, a PHP frontend for Greenstone. EmeraldView is now built on the Kohana framework, and adds search snippet functionality. The project homepage is http://yitznewton.org/emeraldview/ - feel free to send questions my way. If you're at the code4lib conference, check out my lightning talk this afternoon. -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230 Fax (212) 627-3197 Email yitzchak.schaf...@tourolib.org Access Problems? Contact systems.libr...@touro.edu
[CODE4LIB] The conf; my EmeraldView presentation
Hi all, thanks for a great conference! Special thanks to Naomi Dushay, Jessie Keck, and Bess Sadler and the rest of the Blacklight team for an awesome precon which gave me a good kick in the pants in terms of TDD, and more goodies. I notice that Solr has gone from preconference curiosity a few years back (IIRC) to a de facto standard in so much of our best software. In terms of my own lightning talk, apologies if it lacked coherency and direction; I spent most of my prep time bashing out the last of the pre-beta bug fixes & enhancements, and getting the wiki up on the hosting site, etc. My main intention was to share an approach to dealing with a showstopping problem in an otherwise-useful mature OSS app, that worked for us. I was also hoping to demo the blasted thing, but ran out of time. So, the closing remarks I didn't get to give: if you have some product, part of which works, and part of which is useless, see if you can manage to get your tentacles into the working part and hack it. Once I discovered that Greenstone collections can be configured to use Lucene (for fulltext and metadata indexing) and SQLite (descriptive and structural metadata store), and PHP has good support for those technologies, I figured it was worth a shot - and a few thousand lines of code later, it works. We hope. Bonus points for hacking in a foreign language - I wanted to add search result snippet support, and after rummaging around in the Greenstone collection-building code (and giving up in despair buried to my waist in mind-bending, weirdly-formatted OOP Perl code, then discovering perl-tidy and going back to it again), I discovered that the indexing tweak I needed involved some Java that works with the native Lucene libraries. I don't really know Java, but who cares - I read the code, added a line, did a make - and it works! Try the impossible. -- Yitzchak Schaffer (yitznewton) Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230 Fax (212) 627-3197 Email yitzchak.schaf...@tourolib.org Access Problems? Contact systems.libr...@touro.edu
[CODE4LIB] New Nagios PHP plugin library
Hello all, I've just posted a couple of PHP classes for Nagios; so far there is functionality for an EZproxy proxy-ready check (virtual hosts not exceeded, etc.) that scrapes the web admin interface. http://bitbucket.org/yitznewton/nagios-php-plugins If anyone wants to contribute, just let me know. -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230 Fax (212) 627-3197 Email yitzchak.schaf...@tourolib.org Access Problems? Contact systems.libr...@touro.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] newbie
On 3/25/2010 10:24, Brian Stamper wrote: On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 17:51:38 -0400, Mark Tomko wrote: I wouldn't recommend PHP to learn as a programming language, if your goal is to have a general purpose programming language at your disposal. PHP is a fine language for building dynamic web pages, but it won't help you to slice and dice a big text file or process a bunch of XML or do some other "odd job" that you don't want to do by hand. To be precise, PHP can indeed do these kind of things, particularly in command line mode. I certainly don't recommend it, but if you're used to PHP for other reasons, and you already have it available to you, you can do 'odd jobs' with PHP. You can also use your teeth to open a tight bottle cap, the edge of a knife as a screwdriver, and duct tape to perform auto repairs. ++ Especially if you're doing or thinking of doing things in the general web arena, PHP is widely used, well-supported by a variety of open-source libraries/frameworks/other projects, and webhosts. It can probably do X, though something else might do it better. That's why I adopted PHP: overall success. See also http://i.imgur.com/pG3q7.jpg -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230 Fax (212) 627-3197 Email yitzchak.schaf...@tourolib.org Access Problems? Contact systems.libr...@touro.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] newbie
On 3/24/2010 17:43, Joe Hourcle wrote: I know there's a lot of stuff written in it, but *please* don't recommend PHP to beginners. Yes, you can get a lot of stuff done with it, but I've had way too many incidents where newbie coders didn't check their inputs, and we've had to clean up after them. Another way of looking at this: part of learning a language is learning its vulnerabilities and how to deal with them. And how to avoid security holes in web code in general. -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230 Fax (212) 627-3197 Email yitzchak.schaf...@tourolib.org Access Problems? Contact systems.libr...@touro.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Running a repository on Debian Stable
On 4/8/2010 11:14, Mike Taylor wrote: I want to run a simple repository on a Debian Stable box -- something that lets me and other authorized people upload PDFs and create and edit metadata describing them, and that lets anyone search the archive and download the PDFs. In short, I want something like DSpace or EPrints, although I don't need anything like the full power of those packages. Most of all, I want something that I can install from the standard operating system packages, using apt-get. (I am not looking to invest time in becoming an expert in the archive system, and don't want to mess about installing from source.) I was surprised to find that there seems to be no package for DSpace, EPrints, Fedora, or any of the other half-dozen names that I tried. Hi Mike, http://wiki.eprints.org/w/Installing_EPrints_3_via_apt_(Debian/Ubuntu) http://www.fedora-commons.org/confluence/display/FCKB/Prepackaging+Fedora+Commons+2.2.1+for+Debian+Etch http://www.fedora-commons.org/confluence/display/FCKB/Fedora+Commons+3+on+Debian+Etch # not sure if this is like "from source" http://www.fedora-commons.org/confluence/dosearchsite.action?queryString=debian -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230 Fax (212) 627-3197 Email yitzchak.schaf...@tourolib.org Access Problems? Contact systems.libr...@touro.edu
[CODE4LIB] New open-source inventory system
Hello all, apologies for cross-posting. We have just released a PHP/symfony application for processing the inventory of ILS item, under the new BSD license. This is great for those of us with an ILS that can do data export, but lacks an inventory module. Code is included for importing items from III export files, as well as checking LC shelf-order. http://bitbucket.org/yitznewton/ils-inventory Have fun; let me know if you want to contribute. -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230 Fax (212) 627-3197 Email yitzchak.schaf...@tourolib.org Access Problems? Contact systems.libr...@touro.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] A call for your OPAC (or other system) statistics! (Browse interfaces)
On 5/3/2010 16:26, Tod Olson wrote: In addition to known-item searching, our grad students also use title browse to be confident that we do _not_ own something. In our relevance-ranked interface, sometimes the scholar may blame relevance ranking for "hiding" a title from them which we don't actually own. It's an understandable reaction. Yeah, I do this too. III. -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230 Fax (212) 627-3197 Email yitzchak.schaf...@tourolib.org Access Problems? Contact systems.libr...@touro.edu
[CODE4LIB] EZproxy startup scripts and ezproxy.lck
Hi all, Just wanted to pass on some info folks may know already. Sorry about the cross-post. The Linux box running our EZproxy instances crashed hard last night. (Not sure why yet, I don't admin the hardware.) When this happens, the ezproxy.lck file remains. EZproxy will not start with that file in place, and apparently fails silently as far as STDERR is concerned (i.e. no mention in the logs). I had to try running the ezproxy binary manually to see the STDOUT output. So: your startup script needs to take that into account. Our custom script didn't :\ Not sure if the one generated by [ezproxy -si] does. (P.S. Nagios FTW!) -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 212.742.8770 ext. 2432 http://www.tourolib.org/ Access Problems? Contact systems.libr...@touro.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Transcription/dictation software?
On 02/27/2012 15:22, Nathan Tallman wrote: Is Amazon Mechanical Turk expensive? Anyone know an average cost for an hour of audio? I used to do transcriptions on the worker side. I preferred clips of 30-60 seconds; there seemed to be a better going rate. Often there would be a big set of such clips, and I would end up doing a bunch of them. I think they went for 10 or 20 cents a clip. But there's a wide range. You'll probably want to double them up, i.e. get two or three workers to do each bit, and then normalize and diff them for QA. -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 212.742.8770 ext. 2432 http://www.tourolib.org/ Access Problems? Contact systems.libr...@touro.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] symfony
On 03/08/2012 17:36, Nate Hill wrote: 2. tight with the Symfony PHP framework I presume you're interested in v2.0? (I'm neither going nor up to speed on 2) -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 212.742.8770 ext. 2432 http://www.tourolib.org/ Access Problems? Contact systems.libr...@touro.edu
[CODE4LIB] NYC code4lib meetup: next Weds April 25
Hello all, The code4lib-nyc chapter in conjunction with METRO is holding our somewhat-quarterly jam session: next Wednesday, April 25 10am-noon at the METRO Training Center, 57 E 11th Street, NYC. Come talk about your projects, and find out what everybody's working on! Folks without technical background are welcome to join us. No charge; please register at http://metro.org/events/144/ -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 212.742.8770 ext. 2432 http://www.tourolib.org/ Access Problems? Contact systems.libr...@touro.edu
[CODE4LIB] Job: Mid-level LAMP Developer, Touro College (Lower Manhattan)
Mid-level LAMP Developer (Lower Manhattan) == Reports to: Associate Director of Libraries Status: Full Time/35 hrs. per week FLSA: Exempt Location: Lower Manhattan About Touro College --- Touro is a system of Jewish-sponsored non-profit institutions of higher and professional education. Touro College was chartered in 1970 primarily to enrich the Jewish heritage, and to serve the larger American community. Approximately 19,000 students are currently enrolled in its various schools and divisions. Touro College has branch campuses, locations and instructional sites in the New York area, as well as branch campuses and programs in Berlin, Jerusalem, Moscow, Paris, and Florida. Touro University California and its Nevada branch campus, as well as Touro College Los Angeles and Touro University Worldwide, are separately accredited institutions within the Touro College and University System. For further information on Touro College, please go to: http://www.touro.edu/media/. Job Summary --- Touro seeks a self-directed developer/sysadmin committed to excellent user service, to maintain and grow our web presence. Management is non-technical, so the Developer will be required to take initiative in planning the Libraries' web projects and overall direction, as well as keeping up to date on web and mobile practice, and bringing it to our sites. Our week is 35 hours with no expectation of working after hours, excepting server emergencies. We run Drupal 6, Mediawiki and several MVC applications on a single Ubuntu server. Our stack includes nginx, symfony, Kohana, jQuery, Apache Solr, MySQL, Nagios, and Puppet. One full-time support technician reports to this position. Some of our sites are: - http://www.tourolib.org/ (Drupal) - http://www.tidhar.tourolib.org/ (Kohana, Solr search) - http://facpubs.tourolib.org/ (symfony) Job Responsibilities Includes the following but not limited to: - web development - systems administration - user support - occasional training of non-technical library staff - participation in college-wide IT committee Requirements ### Education, Preparation, and Training - Bachelor's degree ### Skills - Project management experience - User support background - Desirable but not required: library experience, especially integrated library systems (we use III); knowledge of Hebrew ### Physical Demands - Extensive Use of Computers - Extensive time sitting - Ability to lift 5 lbs. ### Computer Skills - 2+ years PHP experience on LAMP - Hand-coding of HTML, CSS, JavaScript - DVCS (we use git) - Linux command line - Apache or nginx configuration - Experience with CMS, including management of contributed modules - Desirable but not required: Drupal, symphony, nginx configuration, Basic Perl experience, Experience compiling software from source (we do this for PHP and nginx) ### Travel None --- To apply, send resume, cover letter, and code samples to michoel.rotenf...@touro.edu No calls or third parties, please. --- Touro College is committed to the principles of equal employment opportunity. Our practices and employment decisions regarding employment, hiring, assignment, promotion, compensation, and other terms and conditions of employment are not to be based on an employee's race, color, sex, age, religion, national origin, disability, ancestry, military discharge status, sexual orientation, marital status, genetic predisposition, housing status, or any other protected status, in accordance with applicable law. Our policies are in conformance with Title IX, 1972 Education Amendments
Re: [CODE4LIB] Job: Head of Web Services (Ohio University Libraries, Ohio) at Ohio University
On 12/13/2012 10:40 AM, j...@code4lib.org wrote: Head of Web Services The Ohio University Libraries seeks applications and nominations for an innovative and collaborative professional to provide leadership and direction as Head of Web Services. This recently formed department will bring vision and expertise to planning, developing, implementing and maintaining robust web technology supporting the Libraries' mission. More details from the Univ site: LocationAthens Campus [45701] Typically 8-5, M-F. Some evenings and weekends may be required Pay Grade Admin & Professional |87| Posting End Date01/27/2013
Re: [CODE4LIB] Job: Systems Librarian at 3M
On 12/17/2012 09:02 PM, j...@code4lib.org wrote: For more details and to apply for this position online, visit http://3m.com/careers and search for Job Number 1210368. Location USA Region-United States-Minnesota-Maplewood, USA
[CODE4LIB] Position Opening: Entry Web Developer, Touro College Libraries, New York, NY
TOURO COLLEGE LIBRARIES
Technical & Electronic Services
33 West 23rd Street
New York, NY 10010
Position Opening (available immediately)
*** Entry Level Web Developer (FT) ***
No library experience necessary. Reporting to the Systems Librarian, the
Web Developer will work with the Systems Librarian and other staff to
design, implement, and maintain the electronic services managed by Technical
& Electronic Services (TES). Our department provides expert cataloging and
web-based applications and content to Touro Libraries and their users
worldwide. We are a quiet office of nine professionals and clerical staff.
Although we work independently on specialized tasks most of the time,
collaboration at key points in our projects is critical. Given the
complexity and specialized nature of library services and their supporting
technology, the Web Developer will have a particular need to maintain close
consultation with colleagues within and beyond TES.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Participate in a redesign of the Libraries' website, including development
and maintenance of public areas, as well as intranet services to optimize
workflow and staff communication within the Libraries.
- Develop and maintain an Electronic Resource Management System (complex
database-driven web application integrated with EZproxy servers
<http://www.usefulutilities.com/> for access management and administration
of licensed e-content.
- Implement and maintain an OAIS-minded digital repository (e.g. Fedora
Commons <http://www.fedora-commons.org/> to archive and provide access to
the Libraries' growing digital collections.
- Maintain the web-based front end ("catalog") of the Libraries' Innovative
Interfaces Integrated Library System <http://www.iii.com/>.
- Ensure ongoing access to licensed e-content services. Perform regular
updates to the Libraries' Serials Solutions e-content discovery system.
REQUIREMENTS FOR CONSIDERATION
==
- Strong knowledge of current (X)HTML and CSS standards and accepted
standards-based web design practices. Knowledge of XML standards.
- Knowledge of scripting languages such as JavaScript, PHP, ASP, Perl.
- Proven ability to develop database-driven websites (i.e. WAMP/LAMP),
taking into account appropriate security considerations.
- Ability to acquire a working knowledge of new languages and environments
quickly and independently.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
- BA/BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- Demonstrated design of database-driven websites which successfully meet
the needs of clients or users. "Clients or users" is freely interpretable
but is understood to refer to parties other than the applicant.
=
Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. For immediate
consideration, please submit your resume via e-mail, postal mail, or fax.
No calls, please.
Yitzchak Schaffer, MLS
Systems Librarian
Touro College Libraries
Technical & Electronic Services
33 West 23rd Street
New York, NY 10010
Fax (212) 627-3197
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Touro College does not currently sponsor graduated foreign students to
obtain "H" status.
Touro College is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
[CODE4LIB] 2008 Conference - registration?
Greetings all -- I've been following the conference site, and haven't seen any mention of registration. I just want to make sure I don't miss the boat - is registration happening yet? Thanks, -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Librarian Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x230 Fax (212) 627-3197 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[CODE4LIB] Evergreen preconference at code4lib 2008
Greetings: Is there any information available on the specifics of the Evergreen pre-conference workshop? I'd very much like to attend, but the idea of red-eyeing it or being away an extra day for the 9:00 am session is less than joysome. Thanks, -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Librarian Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x230 Fax (212) 627-3197 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[CODE4LIB] Conference cancellation fee
All: Might be useful for you to know - from the confirmation letter returned upon registering: "[Cancellation] requests made on or before February 4, 2008 will receive a full refund of their conference registration (*minus a $45 administrative fee*)..." (emphasis mine) -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Librarian Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x230 Fax (212) 627-3197 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [CODE4LIB] perl questions
I second this - especially for those of us who aren't currently learning Perl, but who expect they probably will at some point. Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Librarian Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x230 Fax (212) 627-3197 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cloutman, David wrote: I don't code PERL, but I enjoy reading about languages that aren't in my toolkit. Often I find that I can learn something more high-leve from such discussion. The PERL 6 thread on Web4lib was particularly interesting this week. - David --- David Cloutman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Electronic Services Librarian Marin County Free Library
[CODE4LIB] Open-source ERMS?
Greetings -- We are finally working on putting together a proper ERMS. Our internal structure is consortium-like, with member institutions able to buy into our resources; so although we are a Serials Solutions client, it seems their system is not capable of handling this. I know from experience that we've had to stretch the custom-name fields in the user display to indicate which members have access to which resources. We are following the DLF ERM report closely, at least in designing the database, which is where we're at now. My questions: firstly, are there any other such projects going on out there? I've looked at the HERMES webpage [http://hermes.mse.jhu.edu:8008/hermesdocs/] which was helpful, but it seems that they stopped releasing code with 0.1 who knows how long ago. The DLF report itself refers to that project. My pokings-around haven't yielded any recent open-source/other homegrown projects informed by their initiative. Secondly: would anyone out there be potentially interested in using our ERMS if we would end up releasing it as open-source? (FreERMS[tm]?) Up until now we have been steering towards a implementation-specific database design, omitting parts of the DLF report prototype, but if others are interested, perhaps it makes sense to extend it to include other elements. Any thoughts and suggestions are welcome. Thanks! -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Librarian Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x230 Fax (212) 627-3197 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[CODE4LIB] SKOS?
Greetings all: Many thanks to all the presenters for a great conference! One thing that people kept mentioning was SKOS. That was a duhh point for me; I just took a look at the w3.org and Wikipedia pages on it, but it doesn't look like something I can spend time trying to figure out right now. Does anyone have a quick explanation comparing this to other projects/concepts in Libraryland? Many thanks, -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Librarian Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x230 Fax (212) 627-3197 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [CODE4LIB] SKOS?
Jon Phipps wrote: Hi Yitzchak, Probably the quickest explanation is to look at the first few slides from a presentation that I gave on SKOS at the Open Forum on Metadata Registries last year... http://www.slideshare.net/jonphipps/skos-2007-open-forum-on-metadata- registries-nyc/ Just what I needed. Thanks Jon! -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Librarian Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x230 Fax (212) 627-3197 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
