[CODE4LIB] Microsoft Zentity

2010-04-28 Thread Andrew Ashton
I¹m looking for some background information on Microsoft¹s Zentity (their digital repository software). If anyone has first-hand experience working with it, or if you know of institutions that have implemented it, please contact me. Thanks, Andy Ashton Senior Research Programmer Center for

Re: [CODE4LIB] XForms EAD editor sandbox available

2009-11-13 Thread Andrew Ashton
Nice job, Ethan. This looks really cool. We have an Orbeon-based MODS editor, but I have found Orbeon to be a bit tough to develop/maintain and more heavyweight than we really need. We're considering more Xforms implementations, but I would love to find a more lightweight Xforms application.

Re: [CODE4LIB] preconference proposals

2009-11-10 Thread Andrew Ashton
This isn't enough for a whole session or workshop, but we've been using Solr for a lot of small-to-medium-sized projects, and I've been interested in ways to optimize an environment to host a lot of little Solr instances (multicore?). I've also been working a bit with Solango (Solr Django) and

Re: [CODE4LIB] METS and TEI?

2009-11-04 Thread Andrew Ashton
Chris, In general I would say keep the documents separate, and build some sort of process that combines the relevant parts of the documents for ingestion into MarkLogic. However, not having any idea how MarkLogic works, that solution may not be an option. We're doing quite a bit with TEI and

[CODE4LIB] Addressing fragments of a resource in RDF

2009-11-02 Thread Andrew Ashton
between this case and the typical http://domain/name#identifier example is that #identifier is assumed to be a stable entity, whereas the xpath in this case is fuzzy ­ there could be many, or no, persName elements. So, any good options aside from Xpointer? Thanks, Andy -- Andrew Ashton Senior

Re: [CODE4LIB] How to access environment variables in XSL

2009-06-19 Thread Andrew Ashton
Depending on how you're using the XSL, Cocoon-XQuery-XSL is one option - although I don't know how Xquery would get access to your environment variables directly. But you could use XQuery to stream the values into the source XML as nodes just like the rest of your data, then deal with them how

Re: [CODE4LIB] MODS-to-citation stylesheets

2009-01-12 Thread Andrew Ashton
Zotero solution. Jonathan Andrew Ashton wrote: Can someone point me at any good, freely-available stylesheets to convert MODS to Chicago or MLA formatted citations? It seems like something that should be readily available, but I can¹t seem to find it. I¹d rather not reinvent the wheel

Re: [CODE4LIB] MODS-to-citation stylesheets

2009-01-12 Thread Andrew Ashton
Thanks for the Citeproc recommendation - it is exactly what I'm looking for. On 1/12/09 12:45 PM, Erik Hetzner erik.hetz...@ucop.edu wrote: At Mon, 12 Jan 2009 08:11:59 -0800, Walker, David wrote: Do you know if it is specifically geared toward Zotero's SQLite data structures? I don't

Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for your thoughts on the future of Libraries

2008-11-26 Thread Andrew Ashton
The discussion of the value MLIS/MLS is interesting, and familiar. It is a discussion that always seems to go in one direction: namely, why do library technologists need MLS degrees? There are some pretty compelling arguments that they don't, but I'm curious what that means for librarians going

[CODE4LIB] Job Posting: Research Programmer - Humanities; Scholarly Technology Group, Brown University

2008-07-31 Thread Andrew Ashton
Research Programmer, and a Research Programmer. STG also employs several student programmers and designers and works with graduate students who provide content expertise. For more information: www.stg.brown.edu or [EMAIL PROTECTED] To apply, http://careers.brown.edu, look for job B01052 -- Andrew

[CODE4LIB] Position Available: Systems Librarian - Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY (Search Extended)

2008-07-14 Thread Andrew Ashton
-tenured 12-month faculty appointment reporting to the College Librarian. For more information or to apply, please go to: jobs.skidmore.edu Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. -- Andrew Ashton Systems Librarian Scribner Library, Skidmore

[CODE4LIB] Position available: Systems Librarian - Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

2008-05-08 Thread Andrew Ashton
information or to apply, please go to: jobs.skidmore.edu Review of applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position is filled. Ideal start date is summer 2008. -- Andrew Ashton Systems Librarian Scribner Library, Skidmore College (518)580-5505

Re: [CODE4LIB] Serials Solutions 360 API - PHP classes?

2008-04-03 Thread Andrew Ashton
that means in practice. -- Andrew Ashton Systems Librarian Scribner Library, Skidmore College (518)580-5505 -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cloutman, David Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 2:43 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re

Re: [CODE4LIB] Library Software Manifesto

2007-11-06 Thread Andrew Ashton
manifesto, but I think it is worth mentioning in the context of this conversation... -- Andrew Ashton Systems Librarian Scribner Library, Skidmore College (518)580-5505 -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roy Tennant Sent: Tuesday, November 06

Re: [CODE4LIB] Conference feedback

2007-03-06 Thread Andrew Ashton
, which I also loved. All in all, I just want to thank the planners of the conference - it was my first Code4Lib and it was simply one of the best and most fun conferences I've attended. -- Andrew Ashton Systems Librarian Scribner Library, Skidmore College (518)580-5505

Re: [CODE4LIB] search analytics, part deux

2007-02-05 Thread Andrew Ashton
that in the form of a lightning talk... See y'all in a few weeks! [1]http://www.skidmore.edu/library/aashton/Ppt/ashtonB103_paper.doc -- Andrew Ashton Systems Librarian Scribner Library, Skidmore College (518)580-5505