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On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Barnes, Hugh hugh.bar...@lincoln.ac.nzwrote:
+1 to all of Richard's points here. Making something easier for you to
develop is no justification for making it harder to consume or deviating
from well supported standards.
I just want to point out that as much
Is it out of the question to extract technical metadata from the
audiovisual materials themselves (via MediaInfo et al)? It would minimize
the amount of MARC that needs to be processed and give more
accurate/complete data than relying on old cataloging records.
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 12:37 AM,
Hi Richard,
On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Richard Wallis
richard.wal...@dataliberate.com wrote:
It's harder to implement Content Negotiation than your own API, because
you
get to define your own API whereas you have to follow someone else's rules
Don't wish your implementation problems on
Hi,
I was poking around in MARC4J over the break and I was intrigued by the
setId()/getId() functions on many of the classes. The documentation says
they're intended to provide a unique number for persistence (vs. hashCode()
which wouldn't necessarily be unique). I see it was added to the
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On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 5:57 PM, Barnes, Hugh hugh.bar...@lincoln.ac.nzwrote:
+1 to all of Richard's points here. Making something easier for you to
develop is no justification for making it harder to consume or deviating
from well supported standards.
I'm not suggesting deviating from well
On 12/2/13 10:50 AM, Robert Sanderson wrote:
On Sun, Dec 1, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Richard Wallis
richard.wal...@dataliberate.com wrote:
As to discovering then using the (currently implemented) URI returned from
a content-negotiated call - The standard http libraries take care of that,
like any
Yeah, I'm going to disagree a bit with the original post in this thread,
and with Richard's contribution too. Or at least qualify it.
My experience is that folks trying to be pure and avoid an API do _not_
make it easier for me to consume as a developer writing clients. It's
just not true
Is it out of the question to extract technical metadata from the
audiovisual materials themselves (via MediaInfo et al)?
One of the things that absolutely blows my mind is the widespread practice
of hand typing this stuff into records. Aside from an obvious opportunity
to introduce
Does anyone have a recommendation for a website backup service?
I would like something where I provide FTP and MySQL connection info, and
they do something like make a monthly backup, keep backups for about a
year, and will do a roll back from their end. How frequently they do a
backup doesn't
Though I have some quibbles with Seth's post, I think it's worth
drawing attention to his repeatedly calling out API keys as a very
significant barrier to use, or at least entry. Most of the posts here
have given little attention to the issue API keys present. I can say
that I have quite
Atlassian Crowd (if you have jira or confluence you may already have this
licensed).
SocialAuth (supports, but relies on oauth sources).
Apache Shiro (requires external account provider- see demo).
Shibboleth?
On Dec 1, 2013 4:09 PM, LeVan,Ralph le...@oclc.org wrote:
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I would have to agree with this where the data exists. The data captured by
digital cameras these days can be incredibly extensive and thorough. Given
this, I recently started exposing this data for all of the 8,000 photos I
now have on my photos web site http://FreeLargePhotos.com/ . There is now
I'm not going to defend API keys, but not all APIs are open or free. You
need to have *some* way to track usage.
There may be alternative ways to implement that, but you can't just hand
wave away the rather large use case for API keys.
-Ross.
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Kevin Ford
On protecting using Shib to protect a servlet under Tomcat:
https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/NativeSPJavaInstall
-Tod
On Dec 2, 2013, at 11:11 AM, Simon Spero sesunc...@gmail.com
wrote:
Atlassian Crowd (if you have jira or confluence you may already have this
licensed).
There are plenty of non-free API's, that need some kind of access
control. A different side discussion is what forms of access control are
the least barrier to developers while still being secure (a lot of
services mess this up in both directions!).
However, there are also some free API's
I think the best compromise is what Google ends up doing with many of
their APIs. Allow access without an API key, but with a fairly minimal
number of accesses-per-time-period allowed (couple hundred a day, is
what I think google often does).
-- Agreed.
I certainly didn't mean to suggest
Happy Monday
If you have your own linux server with Apache, mysql and bind and have
another linux server for a back and a replication of web services this
attached open source script will work great.
I used this for years and will backup both data and sql for a 12 month
rotation 1st of each month
I've been working with embedded metadata for some years and there are great
tools out there for embedding, extracting and reusing metadata (technical,
administrative, and descriptive). The tools allow for batch data entry, use
metadata schema or standards. As a digital archivist whose job is
To be (more) controversial...
If it's okay to require headers, why can't API keys go in a header rather
than the URL.
Then it's just the same as content negotiation, it seems to me. You send a
header and get a different response from the same URI.
Rob
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Edward
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I do frequently see API keys in header, it is a frequent pattern.
Anything that requires things in the header, in my experience makes the
API more 'expensive' to develop against. I'm not sure it is okay to
require headers.
Which is why I suggested allowing format specification in the URL,
Amazon Web Services (which is probably the most heavily used API on the Web)
use HTTP headers for authentication. But I guess developers typically use
software libraries to access AWS rather than making the HTTP calls directly.
//Ed
A key (haha) thing that keys also provide is an opportunity
to have a conversation with the user of your api: who are they,
how could you get in touch with them, what are they doing with
the API, what would they like to do with the API, what doesn’t
work? These questions are difficult to ask
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Kelley,
The work you are proposing is interesting and overlaps somewhat both
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I have been the primary contributor to the Marc4j java project for the
past several years and am the creator of the project SolrMarc
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umm... it's called HTTP-AUTH, and if you really want to be cool, use an
X.509 client cert for authorization (see geoserver as an example that
works very cleanly -
http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/security/tutorials/cert/index.html;
the freebxml registry-repository also uses X.509 based
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On Dec 2, 2013, at 1:25 PM, Kevin Ford wrote:
A key (haha) thing that keys also provide is an opportunity
to have a conversation with the user of your api: who are they,
how could you get in touch with them, what are they doing with
the API, what would they like to do with the API, what
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Environment Canterbury has a click-through screen making you accept their terms
and conditions before you get access to the API, and they use that as an
opportunity to ask some questions about your intended use. Then once you've
answered those you get direct access to the API as beautiful plain
i was looking to see if yo_bj and i had any sign ups for Managing Projects
(brief plug: join us!) and i noticed a bunch of the proposals were missing
(like half of them).
I trolled through the history and put back the page as I think it should be
(best guess really). so if you've made changes
Well, that would be much easier, but most of what I am working with are records
for physical items (DVD, VHS, film) or licensed streaming video. The sample
records are also not all UO records so I don't necessarily even have access to
the source material (our goal is to build a general purpose
Robert,
Your work also sounds very interesting and definitely overlaps with some of
what we want to do. It seems like a lot of people are trying to get useful
format information out of MARC records and it's unfortunate that it is so
complicated. I would be very interested to see your logic for
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