Re: [CODE4LIB] Accessible reCaptcha Was: Bookmarking web links - authoritativeness or focused searching

2009-10-02 Thread Casey Durfee
On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 8:39 AM, MJ Ray m...@phonecoop.coop wrote: Eric Hellman wrote: Are you arguing that reCaptcha cannot be accessible or that it is incorrectly implemented on this site? Primarily that it is incorrectly implemented. However, I've yet to see an implementation of

Re: [CODE4LIB] alpha characters used for field names

2008-06-25 Thread Casey Durfee
Why don't systems use the 900 fields for local stuff like this? That's what they're there for, right? --Casey On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Steve Oberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric, This is definitely not a feature of MARC but rather a feature of your local ILS (Aleph 500). Those are

Re: [CODE4LIB] free movie cover images?

2008-05-19 Thread Casey Durfee
One could embed the actual cataloging record data in the thumbnails using steganography... On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Peter Keane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Looked at another way: a thumbnail is just a bit of visual metadata, and you cannot copyright metadata. --peter keane

Re: [CODE4LIB] Latest OpenLibrary.org release

2008-05-07 Thread Casey Durfee
SRU is crap, in my opinion -- overengineered and under-thought, incomprehensible to non-librarians and burdened by the weight of history. The notion that it was designed to be used by all kinds of clients on all kinds of data is irrelevant in my book. Nobody in the *library world* uses it, much

Re: [CODE4LIB] Serials Solutions API and NDA

2008-04-23 Thread Casey Durfee
My opinion is that this sounds like a very odd or poorly-designed API. If some of their APIs are for unreleased or experimental features, I understand having NDA's for those. But for the most part, the API should cover the core functions of the product. What those core functions are should be

Re: [CODE4LIB] KR

2008-04-03 Thread Casey Durfee
No, you could write them in J [1]. This is how you do quicksort in J: quicksort=: (($:@(#[) , (=#[) , $:@(#[)) ({~ [EMAIL PROTECTED])) ^: (1#) --Casey [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J_programming_language On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 12:41 PM, Tim Shearer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So now I

Re: [CODE4LIB] Reminder: Code4Lib 2008 Call for Proposals

2007-11-28 Thread Casey Durfee
Sorry, I only submit to conferences where the CFP is a Petrarchan sonnet. None of that Shakespearean Sonnet 2.0 crap for me. --Casey On 11/28/07, D Chudnov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hear ye, hear ye, the deadline comes anon, but we have yet to hear from most of you. What hacks, pray tell,

[CODE4LIB] OCLC is us (was Re: [CODE4LIB] more metadata from xISBN)

2007-05-10 Thread Casey Durfee
I've said it before and I'll probably say it again: OSLC anyone? OCLC is too large and too old to substantially change their business practices. They have great people working there and do some excellent things (which is why the fact they won't share their goodies with the rest of us is so

[CODE4LIB] Job Posting: ILS Administrator at The Seattle Public Library

2007-02-02 Thread Casey Durfee
This is my current gig; I am moving into a new position at SPL. Given that Seattle is both the most literate [1] and the geekiest [2] city in the United States, this would seem to be the perfect position for a library geek. Don't hesitate to email me if you have any questions. --Casey

[CODE4LIB] Solr indexing -- why XSL is the wrong choice

2007-01-19 Thread Casey Durfee
I think there are many good reasons why XSLT is absolutely the wrong tool for the job of indexing MARC records for Solr. 1) Performance/Speed: In my experience even just transforming from MARCXML to MODS takes a second or two (using the LoC stylesheet), due to the stylesheet's complexity

Re: [CODE4LIB] Solr indexing -- why XSL is the wrong choice

2007-01-19 Thread Casey Durfee
you are saying. However I anxiously await your presentation on your successes with SOLR so you can persuade me to the dark side :) Casey Durfee wrote: I agree with your argument of abstracting your programming from your data so that a non-tech-savvy librarian could modify the solr settings

Re: [CODE4LIB] Getting data from Voyager into XML?

2007-01-17 Thread Casey Durfee
Many ILSes give the ability to export item data in the MARC record in a 9xx tag, (usually the 949 since BT and other book jobbers like to put holdings data for newly-acquired items there so the ILS can automatically create an item record when the MARC record is loaded). That is how I've been

Re: [CODE4LIB] Getting data from Voyager into XML?

2007-01-17 Thread Casey Durfee
Any Real System Guy worth their salt would know how to set up an account for you to use for SQL queries like these with read-only rights and low processing priority/throttling so there would be little to no chance of it affecting system performance. Even if they don't know, they could find out

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib lucene pre-conference

2006-11-27 Thread Casey Durfee
Lucene syntax for sorting: http://incubator.apache.org/solr/tutorial.html#Sorting I do have a layer of abstraction between the end-user search interface and Lucene -- you'd have to have such a layer no matter what search engine you were using. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 11/27/2006 2:49 PM Casey

Re: [CODE4LIB] java application on a cd

2006-10-13 Thread Casey Durfee
Jetty's [1] tiny and a breeze to embed. [1] http://jetty.mortbay.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/13/2006 1:01 PM On Oct 13, 2006, at 2:18 PM, Susan Teague Rector wrote: I'm pretty sure this is not doable this way - You'll have to use either JSP or servlets to get from a web based form to a java