Re: [CODE4LIB] marcdb help

2008-02-25 Thread Andrew Hankinson
Hey Ed, Sure thing! Although I suspect it's a bit late tonight, and you're all out partying in Portland! ;) I'll pop in tomorrow. Thanks again, Andrew On 25-Feb-08, at 10:33 AM, Ed Summers wrote: Heya Andrew -- this is pretty odd. Do you use irc much? Could you pop into irc://chat.freenode

Re: [CODE4LIB] oca api?

2008-02-25 Thread Steve Toub
I'll add that when IA told me about http://www.archive.org/services/search.php interface to return XML, they asked that we not send more than 100 records at time since doing more would adversely affect production services. Which made it seem like OAI-PMH was a better way to go. Chris, can you e

Re: [CODE4LIB] oca api?

2008-02-25 Thread Tim Shearer
Yup, Chris' email was exactly what I was hoping for. Now if there were a nice way to pre-screen for records that don't have empty (isbn|issn|oclc#) without all the work of looking per record (and the overhead for the server, and the overhead if more than one organization starts to do this). I g

Re: [CODE4LIB] oca api?

2008-02-25 Thread Tennant,Roy
Well, from where Chris left off it would be fairly easy to check for a file in the directory with an "marc.xml" filename extension, then XSLT for: 39004822 If such exists, and then you'll have the ISBN. To sweeten it further, send that into xISBN or ThingISBN and get other ISBNs for the same w

Re: [CODE4LIB] oca api?

2008-02-25 Thread Chris Freeland
Jonathan - No, I don't believe it's documented - at least not anywhere publicly. If any IA/OCA folks are lurking, here's an opportunity to make a bunch of techies happy... Chris -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jonathan Rochkind Sent: Mon

Re: [CODE4LIB] oca api?

2008-02-25 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
I hadn't known this "custom query interface" existed! This is welcome news. Is this documented anywhere? Jonathan >>> Chris Freeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02/25/08 2:51 PM >>> Steve & Tim, I'm the tech director for the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), which is a consortium of 10 natural hist

Re: [CODE4LIB] oca api?

2008-02-25 Thread Chris Freeland
Steve & Tim, I'm the tech director for the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL), which is a consortium of 10 natural history libraries who have partnered with Internet Archive (IA)/OCA for scanning our collections. We've just launched our revamped portal, complete with more than 7,500 books & 2.8

Re: [CODE4LIB] Wanted: Code4Lib Journal Volunteers

2008-02-25 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
On Feb 25, 2008, at 2:14 PM, Timothy Lepczyk wrote: Is there an alternate email address, I keep getting this error when I submit here [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hmmm... Try this one: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Eric Lease Morgan

Re: [CODE4LIB] Wanted: Code4Lib Journal Volunteers

2008-02-25 Thread Timothy Lepczyk
Is there an alternate email address, I keep getting this error when I submit here [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >>We're writing to let you know that the group that you tried to contact >>(code4lib-articles) doesn't exist. There are a few possible reasons why this >>happened: >> >>* You might have spelled

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib.org accounts

2008-02-25 Thread Michael J. Giarlo
Please disregard this draft e-mail. Gmail and I had a misunderstanding. -Mike On 2/25/08, Michael J. Giarlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Those of you who've registered for code4lib.org accounts during the > past two or three days should now be able to log in (to both > code4lib.org and the vot

[CODE4LIB] code4lib.org accounts

2008-02-25 Thread Michael J. Giarlo
Those of you who've registered for code4lib.org accounts during the past two or three days should now be able to log in (to both code4lib.org and the voting site). I'll be checking the new users queue every couple hours so if you keep a-registerin', I'll keep a-approvin'.

[CODE4LIB] code4lib.org accounts

2008-02-25 Thread Michael J. Giarlo
Those of you who've registered for code4lib.org accounts during the past two or three days should now be able to log in (to both code4lib.org and the voting site). I'll be checking the new users queue every couple hours so if you keep a-registerin', I'll keep, uh, a-approvin'. If your e-mail addr

Re: [CODE4LIB] marcdb help

2008-02-25 Thread Ed Summers
Heya Andrew -- this is pretty odd. Do you use irc much? Could you pop into irc://chat.freenode.net/code4lib and maybe we can try to trouble shoot it on there? //Ed On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Andrew Hankinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm wondering if someone can give me a

Re: [CODE4LIB] oca api?

2008-02-25 Thread Steve Toub
--- Tim Shearer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I'm looking into tapping the texts in the Open Content Alliance. > > A few questions... > > As near as I can tell, they don't expose (perhaps even store?) any common > unique identifiers (oclc number, issn, isbn, loc number). I poked arou