Re: [CODE4LIB] COinS in OL?

2008-12-09 Thread Hellman,Eric
True, but sad. Sent from Eric Hellman's iPhone 1-862-596-0116 On Dec 8, 2008, at 2:20 PM, Karen Coyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Hellman wrote: Yep. There's no URI for LCC. You could put LCC in the subject field of a dublin core profile metadata format ContextObject. But it's not

Re: [CODE4LIB] COinS in OL?

2008-12-09 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
Even if there was a URI for LCC, I wouldn't put it in rft_id unless an individual LCC uniquely identifies a particular manifestation--I don't _think_ it does, I think two books can share the same LCC? But I guess not when you include all the trailing 'cutter'-type numbers? At any rate, there

[CODE4LIB] Google Book Search Bibliography, Version 3

2008-12-09 Thread Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
The Google Book Search Bibliography, Version 3 is now available from Digital Scholarship. http://www.digital-scholarship.org/gbsb/gbsb.htm This bibliography presents selected English-language articles and other works that are useful in understanding Google Book Search. It primarily focuses on

[CODE4LIB] Has anyone used Mechanical Turk?

2008-12-09 Thread Aaron Rubinstein
I'm looking at Amazon's Mechanical Turk, https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome to automate checking the page order of 11,000 scanned books (some were scanned backwards by a long out-of-business vendor). Does anyone on the list have experience using Mechanical Turk? This is a time sensitive project

Re: [CODE4LIB] Has anyone used Mechanical Turk?

2008-12-09 Thread Steve Toub
I used MTurk for a data gathering project recently. Turnaround time is great: within a few hours. You can set params to only accept people whose rejection rate is 5% or less or what not (95% acceptance rate is the default) to weed out the riffraff. Pretty cost effective. My instructions were

Re: [CODE4LIB] COinS in OL?

2008-12-09 Thread William Denton
On 9 December 2008, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: ... I think two books can share the same LCC? But I guess not when you include all the trailing 'cutter'-type numbers? Not in the same library, but there's nothing to stop two different libraries from having the same call number for two different