Re: [CODE4LIB] Open datasets

2012-01-12 Thread Alexander Johannesen
Hiya, Thanks for the all the pointers; just what I wanted, and gives me plenty of ways to test the generic meta data handling. Great! Regards, Alex On Jan 12, 2012 3:19 AM, Simon Spero s...@unc.edu wrote: You can get anything you want At Brewster Kahle's restaurant.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Embedding XHTML into RDF

2012-01-12 Thread John Fereira
We're doing this in VIVO (www.vivoweb.org). I developed service layer that integrates with VIVO that exposes the RDF as XML (or JSON) and it handles properties which include HTML (some of it is pretty ugly) that is used to render faculty profile pages like this:

Re: [CODE4LIB] Embedding XHTML into RDF

2012-01-12 Thread Robert Sanderson
+1 Rob On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 9:26 AM, aj...@virginia.edu aj...@virginia.edu wrote: My inclination would be to keep the descriptive snippets in some kind of content store with a good RESTful Web exposure and just use those URLs as the values of description triples in your RDF. Then your

Re: [CODE4LIB] Embedding XHTML into RDF

2012-01-12 Thread aj...@virginia.edu
My inclination would be to keep the descriptive snippets in some kind of content store with a good RESTful Web exposure and just use those URLs as the values of description triples in your RDF. Then your RDF is genteel Linked Data and your XHTML can be easily available to integrating services.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Embedding XHTML into RDF

2012-01-12 Thread Ross Singer
Not sure I would like running across dcterms:description with a URI as its object. Not that dcterms:description has a defined range, but I don't think most agents would expect anything other than some kind of text. Linked data is based at least as much on convention as schema - doing something

[CODE4LIB] wikimedia foundation for frontend software developer

2012-01-12 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
The following is a specific position description that may be of interest to our community. 'Past along by request. --ELM https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings/Software_Developer_Frontend Job Title: Software Developer Reports To: Director of Features Job Purpose As a software

Re: [CODE4LIB] Embedding XHTML into RDF

2012-01-12 Thread Ross Singer
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: Oops, dcterms:title, does have a range -- nevermind. Well, nevermind on that example, I still don't like URIs for dcterms:description. -Ross. -Ross. On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com

Re: [CODE4LIB] Embedding XHTML into RDF

2012-01-12 Thread Ross Singer
Oops, dcterms:title, does have a range -- nevermind. -Ross. On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: Not sure I would like running across dcterms:description with a URI as its object.  Not that dcterms:description has a defined range, but I don't think most

[CODE4LIB] wikimedia foundation

2012-01-12 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
Here is a link to additional position announcements, again, forwarded by request. --ELM https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings Senior Software Engineer Frontend Systems Engineer - Data Analytics Software Developer Backend Software Developer Frontend QA Lead

[CODE4LIB] CAS authentication with ILLiad

2012-01-12 Thread Friscia, Michael
Anyone still interested in the topic of remote authentication for ILLiad using CAS? (for sites that host their own ILLiad instance) I just completed integration this morning without using the various UofA or UC Davis ISAPI filters out there. If there's interest I'd be happy to share how it was

Re: [CODE4LIB] CAS authentication with ILLiad

2012-01-12 Thread Cindy Harper
How opportune! Colgate wants to do this, but I'm offered a one-week timeframe. We have CAS all set up. Does it look like it's doable in that time? Cindy Harper, Systems Librarian Colgate University Libraries char...@colgate.edu 315-228-7363 On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Friscia, Michael

Re: [CODE4LIB] CAS authentication with ILLiad

2012-01-12 Thread Friscia, Michael
Took me 4 hours start to finish, 10 minutes to make it work, 3 hours 50 minutes to convert 24k user accounts to work with it. So yes, I think it is doable. I'll see what I can put together for documentation. It will be written assuming using Windows server 2008 with IIS7. It can be done with

[CODE4LIB] Koha in the Running

2012-01-12 Thread todd.d.robb...@gmail.com
Hello all, I'm curious to know of this lists current thoughts on Koha as an ILS. Where would you rank it among the various options, open source and vendor? Cheers, Tod PS: If this has been addressed recently and I just happened to miss it in the archives: my apologies. -- Tod Robbins iSchool

[CODE4LIB] Announcement for Linked Ancient World Data Institute May 31-June 2, 2012, NYC

2012-01-12 Thread Ethan Gruber
*Applications due February 17* New York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAWhttp://isaw.nyu.edu/) will host the Linked Ancient World Data Institute (LAWDI) from May 31st to June 2nd, 2012 in New York City. “Linked Open Datahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked_Data” is an

Re: [CODE4LIB] Koha in the Running

2012-01-12 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
The only thing I can say is be careful of PTFS/LibLime as a vendor. There are other vendors that provide Koha support in the US, however. http://bibwild.wordpress.com/2011/09/20/koha-support-or-hosting-options/ On 1/12/2012 1:19 PM, todd.d.robb...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I'm curious to

Re: [CODE4LIB] Koha in the Running

2012-01-12 Thread Jon Gorman
I'm curious to know of this lists current thoughts on Koha as an ILS. Where would you rank it among the various options, open source and vendor? I'm confused, what do you mean by open source and vendor? There's vendors/companies that develop for and support Koha. Open source and

Re: [CODE4LIB] Register for the free LITA Mobile Computing IG 'Virtual' Meeting: 1/11 Noon EST

2012-01-12 Thread Bohyun Kim
*** Apologies for cross-posting *** The link to meeting recording / chat log is now available at: http://connect.ala.org/node/162629 The presentation slides are also found at the link above in the comments section. On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Bohyun Kim bohyun.kim@gmail.com wrote: ***

Re: [CODE4LIB] CAS authentication with ILLiad

2012-01-12 Thread Cindy Harper
We're running 2008 w/ IIS7. Cindy Harper, Systems Librarian Colgate University Libraries char...@colgate.edu 315-228-7363 On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 1:11 PM, Friscia, Michael michael.fris...@yale.eduwrote: Took me 4 hours start to finish, 10 minutes to make it work, 3 hours 50 minutes to

Re: [CODE4LIB] Koha in the Running

2012-01-12 Thread Genny Engel
Todd, you might want to check out Marshall Breeding's annual ILS survey results: http://www.librarytechnology.org/perceptions2010.pl He compiles responses from many hundreds of libraries re: open source and proprietary ILSs. Genny Engel Sonoma County Library gen...@sonoma.lib.ca.us 707

Re: [CODE4LIB] Koha in the Running

2012-01-12 Thread Tod Olson
Also, suitability of any particular ILS will depend in part on the nature of the organization using. Academic libraries have different needs from publics, scale of the environment, staff resources and skill sets and willingness to learn, these all come in to play when evaluating an ILS or any

Re: [CODE4LIB] Koha in the Running

2012-01-12 Thread Oscar Gaona
http:/ Also, you may read the List of Paid Support Companies for Koha: http://koha-community.org/support/paid-support/  Oscar Gaona oscar.ga...@organizadatos.com www.organizadatos.com From: Tod Olson t...@uchicago.edu To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Sent: