[CODE4LIB] Fwd: [pymarc] Examples added to pymarc wiki

2010-10-13 Thread Ed Summers
-- Forwarded message -- From: Mark A. Matienzo mark.matie...@gmail.com Date: Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 10:53 PM Subject: [pymarc] Examples added to pymarc wiki To: pym...@googlegroups.com I just added a bunch of links to some Gists (i.e. code snippets hosted on Github) that use pymarc

[CODE4LIB] Call for Use Cases: Library Linked Data

2010-09-10 Thread Ed Summers
My apologies if you've seen this already... //Ed -- W3C Library Linked Data Incubator Group - http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/ Call for Use Cases: Library Linked Data Are you currently using linked data technology [1] for library-related data, or considering doing it in the near future?

[CODE4LIB] opds v1.0

2010-08-30 Thread Ed Summers
In case anyone is tracking the status of the Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS), v1.0 of the specification was just released yesterday [1]. OPDS is essentially a pattern for sharing ebook URLs, and the metadata associated with them, using Atom. Hadrien Gardeur has a nice list of the

Re: [CODE4LIB] cpf2html

2010-08-12 Thread Ed Summers
On Mon, Aug 9, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Brian Tingle brian.tingle.cdlib@gmail.com wrote: Ed Summers was asking me during a break today about support for embedded linked data in the HTML view of the EAC record.  I have to admit I'm a bit of a linked data skeptic, but I'd be interested to explore

Re: [CODE4LIB] schema for some web page

2010-07-08 Thread Ed Summers
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: So dc:relation does sound like the right vocabulary element for generic related web page page, thanks.  Is the value of dc:relation _neccesarily_ a URI/URL?  I hope so, because otherwise I'm not sure dc:relation is

Re: [CODE4LIB] schema for some web page

2010-07-08 Thread Ed Summers
d'oh, s/dcterms:related/dcterms:relation/ (thanks ksclarke). I also meant to point out that rdfs:seeAlso is another option. //Ed On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 11:44 AM, Ed Summers e...@pobox.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: So dc:relation does sound

Re: [CODE4LIB] schema for some web page

2010-07-07 Thread Ed Summers
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Doran, Michael D do...@uta.edu wrote: Of course, subfield $3 values are not any kind of controlled vocabulary, so it's hard to do much with them programmatically. A few years ago I analyzed the subfield 3 values in the Library of Congress data up at the Internet

Re: [CODE4LIB] Inlining HTTP Headers in URLs

2010-06-01 Thread Ed Summers
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 2:21 PM, LeVan,Ralph le...@oclc.org wrote: I've been sensing a flaw in HTTP for some time now.  It seems like you ought to be able to do everything through a URL that you can using a complete interface to HTTP.  Specifically, I'd love to be able to specify values for

Re: [CODE4LIB] Inlining HTTP Headers in URLs

2010-06-01 Thread Ed Summers
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Erik Hetzner erik.hetz...@ucop.edu wrote: There is a time for a URI that can use content-negotiation (the Accept header, etc.) to get, e.g., PDF, HTML, or plain text. As an example:  http://example.org/RFC1 And there is a time when we want to explicitly refer

[CODE4LIB] Fwd: DCMI's Vocabulary Management Tool published as an Open Source project

2010-05-20 Thread Ed Summers
Of possible interest to someone looking to help out with some opensource hacking on a high profile project... //Ed -- Forwarded message -- From: Thomas Baker tba...@tbaker.de Date: Thu, May 20, 2010 at 2:03 PM Subject: DCMI's Vocabulary Management Tool published as an Open Source

Re: [CODE4LIB] Call for comments: OPDS Catalogs 0.9 draft, an Atom-based standard for ebook distribution

2010-05-13 Thread Ed Summers
Hi Karen, On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote: but I would have expected to see a title data element listed somewhere. Is dc assumed? Or is the bibliographic description scheme an open question? The nice thing about Atom is that it allows you to layer in

Re: [CODE4LIB] Query LCSH terms at id.loc.gov by modification date

2010-05-13 Thread Ed Summers
As Kevin said, I think you can use the Atom feed to page backwards through time. Basically this amounts to programatically following the link rel=next links in the feed, applying creates, updates and deletes as you go until you make it to Feb. 15, 2010. Currently this would involve walking from:

Re: [CODE4LIB] MODS and DCTERMS

2010-05-04 Thread Ed Summers
On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Mike Taylor m...@indexdata.com wrote: Oh, what is the solution when using it in RDF? I've been using the Bibliographic Ontology myself: http://bibliontology.com/ Lots of stuff in there for journals, etc ... and reuse of other vocabularies like event, foaf,

Re: [CODE4LIB] it's cool to hate on OpenURL (was: Twitter annotations...)

2010-04-30 Thread Ed Summers
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 9:09 AM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: I actually think this lack of any specified response format is a large factor in the stagnation of OpenURL as a technology.  Since a resolver is under no obligation to do anything but present a web page it's difficult

Re: [CODE4LIB] Twitter annotations and library software

2010-04-28 Thread Ed Summers
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 7:02 AM, Jakob Voss jakob.v...@gbv.de wrote: If you want to put bibliographic metadata into twitter annotations (good idea) you first need to clarify the basic purpose of embedding this information. I see two of them: I. Identification: To identify other tweets and

Re: [CODE4LIB] Twitter annotations and library software

2010-04-28 Thread Ed Summers
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 4:17 AM, Jakob Voss jakob.v...@gbv.de wrote: P.S: An example of a CSL record from the JavaScript client: { title: True Crime Radio and Listener Disenchantment with Network Broadcasting, 1935-1946,  author: [ {    family: Razlogova,    given: Elena  } ],  

Re: [CODE4LIB] Twitter annotations and library software

2010-04-21 Thread Ed Summers
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 6:08 AM, Tim Spalding t...@librarything.com wrote: I'm inclined to start adding it to the I'm talking about and I'm adding links on LibraryThing. I imagine it could be easily added to many library applications too—anywhere there is or could be a share this on Twitter

Re: [CODE4LIB] Twitter annotations and library software

2010-04-21 Thread Ed Summers
whoops, forgot my footnote :-) [1] http://groups.google.com/group/twitter-api-announce/browse_thread/thread/fa5da2608865453

Re: [CODE4LIB] Next-generation policy for WorldCat records—open for community review

2010-04-11 Thread Ed Summers
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Tim Spalding t...@librarything.com wrote: While the new draft is written in a much friendlier tone, and even has some improvements, it also takes away concrete rights that libraries had in the earlier drafts, including the right to consider fully theirs

Re: [CODE4LIB] Recent Digital Library/Library IT Jobs on DigitalKoans

2010-04-07 Thread Ed Summers
Hey Charles, How do these jobs end up on your blog again? It seems like you have a lot of good content. Given the number of jobs that are posted on here and on your site I wonder if it might be feasible to create a little alerting/subscription service for code4lib folks who want a technical job

[CODE4LIB] code4lib mdc (Apr 9, 2010)

2010-04-07 Thread Ed Summers
I just found out about a code4lib regional full day meeting in the DC area at the National Agriculture Library in Beltsville, Maryland. I figured it couldn't hurt to announce it on here in case you have any interest in attending. Agenda is below. asideIt would be nice if the organizers of

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib North planning continues

2010-04-07 Thread Ed Summers
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:30 PM, William Denton w...@pobox.com wrote: A quick note to anyone who's interested in Code4Lib North (6-7 May in Kingston, Ontario) and isn't on the mailing list for it:        http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/North Details about the mailing list are there.  

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib North planning continues

2010-04-07 Thread Ed Summers
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:43 PM, William Denton w...@pobox.com wrote: So far there are just three people with ideas for talks (me, Walter Lewis, Art Rhyno).  Have the other local chapters found it works well to have more time for informal stuff, or lightning talks, or Ask Anything like I see

Re: [CODE4LIB] Works API

2010-03-30 Thread Ed Summers
I realize it's of limited utility compared to yet another web2.0 API, but I think it would be good to see Works represented somehow in the RDF Linked Data views...assuming they're not already. //Ed On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:22 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote: Open Library now has Works

Re: [CODE4LIB] Works API

2010-03-30 Thread Ed Summers
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote: Ed, thanks. I'll need you to be a bit more -v on this one: are you asking for a an RDF option on the API, or that Works as a whole be represented as linked data? The Open Library doesn't present itself as linked data, as you

[CODE4LIB] wikipedia external links and linked data

2010-03-29 Thread Ed Summers
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Lars Aronsson l...@aronsson.se wrote: Wikipedia has 720 links to www.rockhall.com, which is a dream for any website, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:LinkSearch/www.rockhall.com I had no idea that Wikipedia provided a live search of external links. Up until

Re: [CODE4LIB] wikipedia external links and linked data

2010-03-29 Thread Ed Summers
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 4:34 PM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: Hmm, just because a given page is linked to from a wikipedia page, can one assume that the target of the link is about the same thing as the original page?   I'm not sure how often this assumption would be violated?

Re: [CODE4LIB] HathiTrust API

2010-02-24 Thread Ed Summers
Nice work Bill! I particularly like your use of the link element to enable auto-discovery of these resources: link rel=canonical href=/Record/005550418 link rel=alternate type=application/marc href=/Record/005550418.mrc link rel=alternate type=application/marc+xml

Re: [CODE4LIB] Auto-suggest and the id.loc.gov LCSH web service

2009-12-10 Thread Ed Summers
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 11:11 AM, LeVan,Ralph le...@oclc.org wrote: The file contains tab delimited records.  The first column is the ID number of the FAST record that the term comes from.  The second column is the MARC Authorities field that the term came from.  The third column is the term

Re: [CODE4LIB] Auto-suggest and the id.loc.gov LCSH web service

2009-12-08 Thread Ed Summers
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote: Couple of things: first, what we have at id.loc.gov is NOT LCSH, but a copy of the LC subject authority file. The entries in this file form the basis for subject headings, most of which add facets to the authority entry when

Re: [CODE4LIB] Auto-suggest and the id.loc.gov LCSH web service

2009-12-08 Thread Ed Summers
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Ethan Gruber ewg4x...@gmail.com wrote: my interest is how I (or other people developing their own autosuggest systems based on the subject headings) can pull updates of the master authority XML file into my index of terms. Take a look at the Atom feed for

Re: [CODE4LIB] Auto-suggest and the id.loc.gov LCSH web service

2009-12-07 Thread Ed Summers
In the interests of all-that-is-agile, and the HolidaySeason™ I took a quick (imperfect) stab at providing some basic suggest functionality at id.loc.gov which you can find documented in the OpenSearch Description: http://id.loc.gov/authorities/opensearch/ I used the OpenSearch Suggestions

Re: [CODE4LIB] Auto-suggest and the id.loc.gov LCSH web service

2009-12-07 Thread Ed Summers
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Ethan Gruber ewg4x...@gmail.com wrote: Ben, another problem with digestibility of the search results is that it's not XHTML, and therefore not well-formed XML, making it impossible to process with XPath. What page did you find that wasn't valid XHTML? The JSON

Re: [CODE4LIB] Auto-suggest and the id.loc.gov LCSH web service

2009-12-07 Thread Ed Summers
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 3:18 PM, LeVan,Ralph le...@oclc.org wrote: That looks more like an old-style index browse than what I'd think of as a suggestion.  You've returned nothing until the user has typed enough characters to restrict the number of index terms to be returned to a rational

Re: [CODE4LIB] Auto-suggest and the id.loc.gov LCSH web service

2009-12-07 Thread Ed Summers
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 3:43 PM, LeVan,Ralph le...@oclc.org wrote: For VIAF, rankings are calculated based on the number of institutions that have controlled that name and the amount of attention the institutions have given to that name (e.g. size of their respective name authority records).

[CODE4LIB] pymarc v2.41 on pypi

2009-11-11 Thread Ed Summers
Just a quick note to let you know pymarc v2.41 is available: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pymarc/ The change in this release is functionality from Mark Matienzo for supporting reading/writing MARC records with non-numeric tags. Thanks Mark! //Ed

Re: [CODE4LIB] MARC8 in marc-ruby

2009-10-30 Thread Ed Summers
Hi Brendan: Ahh the lovely MARC-8 :-) It's a fair bit of effort I think. One approach could be to porting the MARC8-Unicode functionality from pymarc [1,2]. It's only one-way, but that's normally what most sane people want to do anyhow. Another approach would be to look into wrapping yaz-iconv

[CODE4LIB] vocampdc oct 30-31

2009-10-29 Thread Ed Summers
My apologies for the extremely short notice. There is a Vocabulary Camp taking place at the Library of Congress all day tomorrow and part of Saturday (Oct 30-31). All are welcome to attend. More information is available at: http://vocamp.org/wiki/VoCampDCOctober2009VoCampDCOctober2009

Re: [CODE4LIB] AquaBrowser Libraries Group

2009-10-21 Thread Ed Summers
You should also feel free to discuss AquaBrowser on here too ... the code4lib discussion isn't limited to opensource software. //Ed On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Kathryn Frederick kfred...@skidmore.edu wrote: Please excuse cross-posting. I've set up an AquaBrowser Google Group to share

Re: [CODE4LIB] A few Ruby MARC announcements

2009-09-23 Thread Ed Summers
Nice work Ross! Users of rubymarc might like to see the performance enhancements that motivated you to do the nokogiri integration: http://paste.lisp.org/display/87529 !!! //Ed On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everybody, Apologies for the

[CODE4LIB] web archiving - was: Implementing OpenURL for simple web resources

2009-09-18 Thread Ed Summers
Hi Erik, all On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Erik Hetzner erik.hetz...@ucop.edu wrote: I might be misunderstanding you, but, I think that you are leaving out the implicit dimension of time here - when was the URL referenced? What can we use to represent the tuple URL, date, and how do we

Re: [CODE4LIB] GPO PURLs

2009-08-29 Thread Ed Summers
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Keith Jenkinsk...@cornell.edu wrote: Maybe someone more familiar with PURL systems can tell me... is there any way to harvest data from a PURL server, so that a backup/mirror can be available? This would be a great question for the purl-dev discussion list too:

Re: [CODE4LIB] [Fwd: [ol-tech] Modified RDF/XML api]

2009-08-13 Thread Ed Summers
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Karen Coyleli...@kcoyle.net wrote: Does it work for folks if this returns either a cover OR a blank? (1x1 jpg). It may be awkward to test first for an actual cover. Also, if it's ok to not test for a cover, does anyone have a preference over the blank or a 404

Re: [CODE4LIB] [Fwd: [ol-tech] Modified RDF/XML api]

2009-08-11 Thread Ed Summers
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Karen Coyleli...@kcoyle.net wrote: Ed, I have NO IDEA how you got to rdf/xml from the OL author link -- do tell, and I'll take a look! There is no RDF/XML export template for authors, but one could be created. The URI/URL is simply the address of the author

Re: [CODE4LIB] [Fwd: [ol-tech] Modified RDF/XML api]

2009-08-11 Thread Ed Summers
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Coombs, Karen Akacoo...@central.uh.edu wrote: I hate to say it but as someone who is working with the WorldCat Search API at this point I sure could create code that used Open Library data faster if you used one of the same metadata formats that the WorldCat

Re: [CODE4LIB] download design

2009-07-24 Thread Ed Summers
Hi Chris: Assuming your files are available in a directory like: http://ia360943.us.archive.org/1/items/talis_openlibrary_contribution/ why not use the manifest file: http://ia360943.us.archive.org/1/items/talis_openlibrary_contribution/talis_openlibrary_contribution_files.xml It will

Re: [CODE4LIB] Suggest a keynote speaker for Code4Lib 2010!

2009-07-23 Thread Ed Summers
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 4:13 PM, Lovins, Danieldaniel.lov...@yale.edu wrote: I nominate Jonathan Zittrain [1], co-founder of Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet and Society [2] (where David Weinberger is a fellow [3]) and author of The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It [4]. +1

Re: [CODE4LIB] Long way to be a good coder in library

2009-07-22 Thread Ed Summers
Hi Wayne: My advice would be to find a real, do-able, and hopefully exciting problem where you work (or elsewhere) that can be solved with a bit of automation. Once you've found something to work on, fish around for the right tools(s) to solve the problem. You can use your peers in here or

Re: [CODE4LIB] Long way to be a good coder in library

2009-07-22 Thread Ed Summers
Here's another reference to add to some of the great ones so far (hadn't seen that Norvig one before Chris!). Whatever you think about Perl, it's hard to argue with Larry Wall's 3 great virtues of a computer programmer: http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?LazinessImpatienceHubris //Ed

Re: [CODE4LIB] Long way to be a good coder in library

2009-07-22 Thread Ed Summers
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Wayne Lamwing...@gmail.com wrote: So i start browsing on the internet about what OAI, Solr and all related thing without a direction, reading books on what Semantic web is and subscribe some mailing list of interesting projects. But for a newbie like me, it was

Re: [CODE4LIB] rdf files as linked data

2009-07-21 Thread Ed Summers
Nice work Eric! You are right to focus on making the data resolvable first. Ross' advice to work on exposing and interlinking more of your own data next, instead of trying to link out elsewhere, is good I think. I noticed from your compact (and elegant) little Perl script that you are expecting

Re: [CODE4LIB] Pacific Northwest Code4Lib chapter and meeting

2009-04-02 Thread Ed Summers
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Reese, Terry terry.re...@oregonstate.edu wrote: FYI for the larger group.  Since many members in the PNW simply cannot travel to the larger C4L meeting due to budgetary restraints (this year, and very likely the next), etc -- we will be starting up a PNW local

Re: [CODE4LIB] registering info: uris?

2009-04-01 Thread Ed Summers
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:14 AM, Mike Taylor m...@indexdata.com wrote: As usual, an ounce of example is worth a ton of exposition, so: Suppose I always keep a PDF of my latest paper at        http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/latest.pdf for the benefit of people who want to keep an eye on my

Re: [CODE4LIB] registering info: uris?

2009-04-01 Thread Ed Summers
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress r...@loc.gov wrote: Even more to the point: there is no sound definition of dereference.  To dereference a resource means to retrieve a representation of it. There has never been any agreement within the w3c of what constitutes

Re: [CODE4LIB] Working with Getty vocabularies

2009-02-27 Thread Ed Summers
The TGN is still behind a pay-firewall right? Not that that means it isn't legit conversation on here (because it is) -- but just curious what the current state is. //Ed

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: AtomPub (APP) server libraries for Python?

2009-01-29 Thread Ed Summers
One other suggestion here. If the issue is that amplee, django-atompub or flatatompub lack the ability to layer in non-atom markup you might want to look at adding this functionality to your favorite among them, and seeing if the changes could be rolled back into the project. I realize this is

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: AtomPub (APP) server libraries for Python?

2009-01-28 Thread Ed Summers
Hi Godmar: Perhaps this will seem backwards, but rather than trying to adapt (or create) a generic AtomPub implementation I've been using vanilla django, and just rolling my own atom feed and service documents as standard templates. The advantage here is that my code is custom suited to my task

Re: [CODE4LIB] Dutch Code4Lib

2009-01-22 Thread Ed Summers
Wow, this sounds too good to be true. Perhaps this is premature, but do you think there might be interest in hosting a code4lib2010 in the Netherlands? (he asks selfishly). I see you started a wiki page [1]. If at any point you want nl.code4lib.org (or something) to point somewhere just say the

Re: [CODE4LIB] Dutch Code4Lib

2009-01-22 Thread Ed Summers
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Walker, David dwal...@calstate.edu wrote: Some of us can barely afford to get to the east coast of the United States, let alone Europe. Not that you have to cater to us poor state university folk, or anything. ;-) There are university folk in the Netherlands

Re: [CODE4LIB] Dutch Code4Lib

2009-01-22 Thread Ed Summers
, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: Who's making rules? It's bad to discuss things without your peers before voting on them? I think it's a fine idea to discuss things before just blindly voting on them without discussion. Leads to better informed votes, does it not? Ed Summers wrote

Re: [CODE4LIB] COinS in OL?

2008-12-07 Thread Ed Summers
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Michael Ang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From what I've been reading it sounds like abbr with title is more of a problem than span with title. So maybe span with title isn't too much of a problem in practice? I suspect that whether the span is empty doesn't make a

Re: [CODE4LIB] COinS in OL?

2008-12-05 Thread Ed Summers
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 10:50 AM, Godmar Back [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: would it. BTW, I don't see why screen readers would stumble over this when the child of the span is empty. Do they try to read empty text? And if a COinS is processed, we fix up the title so tooltips show nicely. Yeah, if

Re: [CODE4LIB] COinS in OL?

2008-12-03 Thread Ed Summers
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 3:11 PM, Godmar Back [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: COinS are still needed, in particular in situations in which multiple resources are displayed on a page (like, for instance, in the search results pages of most online systems or on pages such as http://citeulike.org, or in a

Re: [CODE4LIB] COinS in OL?

2008-12-03 Thread Ed Summers
One thing to keep in mind when looking at unAPI, COinS and Microformats in general is: http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2008/06/removing_microformats_from_bbc.shtml //Ed

Re: [CODE4LIB] COinS in OL?

2008-12-01 Thread Ed Summers
Hi Karen: I definitely think adding COinS to OpenLibrary pages could make sense. I'm curious what everyone's use case is. Is it mainly browser plugins that can inject links to a relevant OpenURL router so that you can find books in your local context? If so I think use of COinS in OpenLibrary

Re: [CODE4LIB] COinS in OL?

2008-12-01 Thread Ed Summers
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 11:05 PM, Karen Coyle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I asked about COinS because it's something I have vague knowledge of. (And I assume it isn't too difficult to implement.) However, if there are other services that would make a bigger difference, I invite you (all) to speak

Re: [CODE4LIB] Lightning Talk ideas

2008-11-26 Thread Ed Summers
Would be nice to add these ideas to the code4lib wiki somewhere... On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 11:36 AM, Jay Luker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know its a bit early to start thinking of these, but in the spirit of William Denton's talk proposal, What We Talk About When We Talk About FRBR, I thought

Re: [CODE4LIB] Lightning Talk ideas

2008-11-26 Thread Ed Summers
Yeah, but really a boring list of ideas would work well for now I think. On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 1:32 PM, Ranti Junus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder if we could make it something like this: http://electroniclibrarian.org/erlwiki/Thought_cloud ranti. On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Ed

[CODE4LIB] linked-data code4lib2009 pre-conf proposal

2008-11-25 Thread Ed Summers
I hope it's not too late to get this proposal for a Linked Data code4lib 2009 pre-conference in: http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/LinkedData //Ed

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4libNYC SIG Meeting this Wednesday

2008-11-24 Thread Ed Summers
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 4:13 PM, Jay Datema [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I suggest using http://wiki.code4lib.org. Also, it would be good to set dates and locations for these meetings collaboratively on this listserv, I think. Sorry to be late getting back on this -- so is it ok to retire

Re: [CODE4LIB] presentation proposals update

2008-11-21 Thread Ed Summers
Until Kevin Clarke happened to mention it in #code4lib I didn't know that the list of proposals so far is available at: http://library.brown.edu/code4libcon09/proposals/list/ So if you are looking for inspiration, or to see the pool of talks so far check it out. Maybe this was mentioned

Re: [CODE4LIB] Drupal4Lib Camp

2008-11-18 Thread Ed Summers
It's may be worth pointing out that drupal4lib is scheduled to happen the day after code4lib ends, and Darien, CT is quote close geographically to Providence, RI ... so you could theoretically jump from code4lib to drupal4lib. Nice planning! //Ed On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Amanda

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4libNYC SIG Meeting this Wednesday

2008-11-11 Thread Ed Summers
Joanna: Could I suggest an item for the agenda: whether the nyc.code4lib.org DNS record is necessary. Jay Datema asked me to set this up maybe a month ago--which I did. But I don't believe the group itself is using the server that this hostname resolves to. If you want to have nyc.code4lib.org

Re: [CODE4LIB] amazon s3?

2008-11-11 Thread Ed Summers
If you are interested in Hadoop's distributed filesystem HDFS [1] you might also be interested in Tahoe [2]. The downside to things like Hadoop and Tahoe as compared with S3 are that you have to manage the machines and services yourself, rather than paying someone else to do it in the cloud. But

Re: [CODE4LIB] release management

2008-10-29 Thread Ed Summers
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Jonathan Rochkind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone reccommend any good sources on how to do 'release management' in a small distributed open source project. Or in a small in-house not open source project, for that matter. The key thing is not something

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Logo?

2008-09-29 Thread Ed Summers
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Jonathan Rochkind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To me, a committee of volunteers that anyone interested can be on _is_ a community decision. Well it all depends on how the committee is selected doesn't it? If it's people who care enough to volunteer, and are

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Authority Data

2008-09-29 Thread Ed Summers
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Jonathan Rochkind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought I remembered something about Casey Bisson doing exactly that with a grant/award he received? I forget what happened to it. A snapshot would just be a snapshot of course, it wouldn't include records created or

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Logo?

2008-09-21 Thread Ed Summers
How about we allow anyone to submit ideas, and use some of the $$ like Roy suggested to get a professional one from someone--and then we vote on all of them? I nominate Roy for coordinating the pro-design, and the vote :-) //Ed

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib 2009

2008-06-25 Thread Ed Summers
Here are a few ideas., since you asked (I think?) Stefano Mazzocchi: http://www.betaversion.org/~stefano/ Creator or Cocoon, one of the people behind the Simile project, now at MetaWeb ... I think Stefano's experience with public speaking, open source software, data processing and the web would

[CODE4LIB] RepoCamp (July 25th, Washington DC)

2008-06-24 Thread Ed Summers
You are hereby invited to RepoCamp in Washington DC on July 25th. http://barcamp.pbwiki.com/RepoCamp RepoCamp is a one-day free and open event where folks who are interested in managing and creating digital repository software and their contents can gather and share ideas, innovations, trials

Re: [CODE4LIB] The Berman Catalog

2008-06-24 Thread Ed Summers
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Hahn, Harvey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Same experience here. I responded directly to Karen: See http://catalog.sanfordberman.org/ -- it refers to licensing from the Univ of Illinois Archives. When the data first became available a number of years ago, I

Re: [CODE4LIB] The Berman Catalog

2008-06-23 Thread Ed Summers
I actually created a minimal RubyOnRails view on the Berman data a few years ago. http://catalog.sanfordberman.org The src code for this is readily available if anyone is interested in helping Madeline work on it: http://inkdroid.org/bzr/berman/ The data has an interesting history, for

Re: [CODE4LIB] planet.code4lib.org -- 3 suggestions

2008-05-21 Thread Ed Summers
a conversation with Ed Summers quite a while ago and he encouraged me to go ahead and request it be added but I never followed through. Yikes, can someone add Steve's blog to the planet :-) http://www.familymanlibrarian.com/ //Ed

Re: [CODE4LIB] how to obtain a sampling of ISBNs

2008-04-30 Thread Ed Summers
-2.21 ./readloc.py - Godmar On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Ed Summers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could download a snapshot of the full LC back file at the Internet Archive (kindly donated by Scriblio). http://www.archive.org/details/marc_records_scriblio_net

Re: [CODE4LIB] how to obtain a sampling of ISBNs

2008-04-29 Thread Ed Summers
You could download a snapshot of the full LC back file at the Internet Archive (kindly donated by Scriblio). http://www.archive.org/details/marc_records_scriblio_net Then run a script using your favorite MARC parsing library (mine currently is pymarc): from pymarc import MARCReader for

Re: [CODE4LIB] KR (was: Gartner on OSS)

2008-03-31 Thread Ed Summers
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Dr R. Sanderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: my poor mailbox ;) I now open up discussion of real smtp clients, and the pros/cons of mail filtering ... Lets just get this all out of our system :-) Yours, //Ed PS shouldn't the discussion list set the From header to

Re: [CODE4LIB] KR (was: Gartner on OSS)

2008-03-31 Thread Ed Summers
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 1:54 PM, David Fiander [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vi is just as programmable as emacs. It's possible to write a vi macro that runs a turing machine. Yeah, and XSLT is Turing complete but that doesn't mean it's actually a good thing to use :-) //Ed PS does this thing go

Re: [CODE4LIB] Announcement: Open Source In Libraries Website

2008-03-27 Thread Ed Summers
I think Allen just didn't know about oss4lib: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/linuxinlibraries/message/858 Now he does, so maybe he goes forward with his plans to create a new community--or maybe he doesn't. Either way I don't see that either is a problem. On the one hand it's nice to work

Re: [CODE4LIB] Access to code4lib.org server--how to work it?

2008-03-21 Thread Ed Summers
asideSpeaking of the *.code4lib.org domain .. if there's a code4lib service you'd like to offer on your own server and want it at the code4lib domain let me know and I'll add an ARECORD for you to DNS./aside

[CODE4LIB] Fwd: Request for Comments: SKOS Reference: W3C Working Draft 25 January 2008

2008-01-30 Thread Ed Summers
Just a quick heads up about the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) Reference was just released as a W3C Public Working Draft [1]. I apologize if you've already seen this announcement elsewhere. SKOS is aimed at making a range of knowledge organization systems (classification schemes,

Re: [CODE4LIB] perl questions

2008-01-23 Thread Ed Summers
On Jan 23, 2008 6:34 PM, Doran, Michael D [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm wondering if we'll soon reach the point where the perl4lib list is not worth subscribing to. I'm not looking for any definitive answer here... I guess I'm just a little sad to see an old favorite lose its relevance. :-/

Re: [CODE4LIB] net::oai::harvester [resolved]

2007-12-17 Thread Ed Summers
fwiw, my proposed solution was to use MARC::File::XML from the marc-xml cpan module [1] use Net::OAI::Harvester; use MARC::File::SAX; my $url = 'http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/oai2_0'; my $harvester = Net::OAI::Harvester-new(baseURL = $url); my $response =

Re: [CODE4LIB] net::oai::harvester

2007-12-13 Thread Ed Summers
Hey Eric: N::O::H uses XML::SAX for XML parsing, which provides a standard interface to multiple back end XML parsers, and also provides a facility known as XML Filters [1]. Net::OAI::Record::OAI_DC is an example of a SAX filter which receives SAX events for each metadata record in a response

Re: [CODE4LIB] net::oai::harvester

2007-12-13 Thread Ed Summers
Another option if you are in Perl land would be to take a look at Tim Brody's HTTP::OAI library [1] which returns XML::DOM::Document objects for record metadata, which you can walk around in and use to evaluate xpaths: -- use HTTP::OAI; my $harvester = HTTP::OAI::Harvester-new(

[CODE4LIB] OASIS: Search Web Services v1.0 Discussion Document Public Review

2007-11-07 Thread Ed Summers
To OASIS members, Public Announce Lists: The OASIS Search Web Services TC has recently approved for public review the following Discussion Document: Search Web Services v1.0 Discussion Document This document: Search Web Services Version 1.0 - Discussion Document - 2 November 2007, was prepared

Re: [CODE4LIB] RFC 5005 ATOM extension and OAI

2007-10-22 Thread Ed Summers
On 10/22/07, Jakob Voss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I doubt that archiving weblogs is that complicated [1]! You need a harvester (partly implemented in many Feed-Reader), an archive (you could start with just saving validated ATOM-Files), an index (Solr?) and a reader (also already implemented in

Re: [CODE4LIB] RFC 5005 ATOM extension and OAI

2007-10-19 Thread Ed Summers
Thanks for posting this Jakob. I was just reading RFC 5005 on the train yesterday (literally) and the parallels between it and OAI-PMH struck me as well. It's not quite clear to me how deleted records would be handled with an atom archive feed. But I guess one could assume if the identifier is no

Re: [CODE4LIB] LC class scheme in XML or spreadsheet?

2007-09-27 Thread Ed Summers
On 9/25/07, Andrew Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This topic came up a few weeks ago on code4lib too, where were you Ed!? :) Sorry Andrew, I was probably busy executing @blockparty in #code4lib :-) I will echo something that Roy mentioned in the thread from a few weeks back, would the LOC

Re: [CODE4LIB] LC class scheme in XML or spreadsheet?

2007-09-24 Thread Ed Summers
It's funny this subject just came up on one of the open-library discussion lists this week [1]. A whiles ago now Rob Sanderson, Brian Rhea (University of Liverpool) and I pulled down the LC Classification Outline pdf files, converted them to text, wrote a python munger to convert the text into

Re: [CODE4LIB] suggestions for wiki provider for open source project?

2007-09-11 Thread Ed Summers
There is a nice list of wiki farms at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Wiki_farms //Ed

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