I haven't personally used it but one of my colleagues used it to build
something called VivoSearchLight. It's a browser bookmarklet that uses
node.js that searches an elasticsearch index produced from a harvest of the
triple stores from instances of 7 (I think) instances of a semantic web
I've been using Fuseki for a while myself and have been using it in production.
It can be a bit tricky to configure when you want to connect to a jena SDB but
it, along with a small jar file from one of the jena developers that manages
the SDB database connection, it works pretty well.
If you
If forgot about that. That issue was created quite awhile ago and I hadn't
check on it in a long time. I've found that Jetty has worked fine in our
production environment so far. As I wrote earlier, I have it connecting to a
jena SDB that is used for a semantic web application (VIVO) that
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On Feb 17, 2013, at 11:43 AM, John Fereira wrote:
I have been writing software professionally since around 1980 and first
encounterd perl in the early 1990s of so and have *always* disliked it.
Last
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On Feb 18, 2013, at 11:17 AM, John Fereira wrote:
I
Good advice. Sometimes you have to look for opportunities to learn new skills.
Awhile back I was asked by a colleague to write a program to process some
research data (it was actually related to something I've worked on) and since
it was going to be a one off program I decided to use a noSQL
I have been writing software professionally since around 1980 and first
encounterd perl in the early 1990s of so and have *always* disliked it. Last
year I had to work on a project that was mostly developed in perl and it
reminded me how much I disliked it. As a utility language, and one
Anyone else from the list going to the LibDevConX workshop at Stanford next
month?
Here's one: http://vivosearchlight.org/
It's a bookmarklet that installs simply by dragging a button on that web site
to the menu bar in your browser. Once installed you can go to any web page on
the net, then click on the VIVO Searchlight link in the menu bar. That
action takes the text
Hi Patrick,
Yes, Jenn (from Concentra) is awesome.
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So, the keynote bomb
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:
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On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 7:44 AM, John Fereira ja...@cornell.edu wrote:
If you want to see what node.js can do to implement a search
mechanism take a look something one of my colleagues developed.
http://vivosearchlight.org
It installs a bookmarklet
If you want to see what node.js can do to implement a search mechanism take a
look something one of my colleagues developed. http://vivosearchlight.org
It installs a bookmarklet in your browser (take about 5 seconds) that will
initiate a search against a solr index that contains user profile
I found the paper about vocabularies interesting. I was in China last week at
a workshop that was discussing Linked Data, among other things, related to a
FAO initiative I have been involved in. While I was there I heard about a
recently funded project (to the tune of $12 million US)
We're also using MRBS with a customized front end and an integration with a
Library Hours service that I developed. With the library hours integration we
can prevent people from scheduling an event in a room when the library itself
is closed. There is also development underway on an Events
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On 11/15/2010 12:09 PM, Yitzchak Schaffer wrote:
We use
/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:22547256%7EpagePK:64257043%7EpiPK:437376%7EtheSitePK:4607,00.html
*
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Cornell University
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://data.worldbank.org*
I heard about and took at list site yesterday. It's done using Drupal
and apparently by the same folkes that developed the FeedApi and Feeds
modules (DevelopmentSeed). In any case, it's a really impressive site.
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John Fereira
Cornell University
Twitter: @john_fereira
Google Wave: fere
located.
Subject line tagging (i.e. C4LNorth) would make it easy to filter out
posts when planning is underway for conferences in different areas.
Moving conference related discussions to a separate conf list would
also improve signal to noise ratio on code4lib.
--
John Fereira
Cornell
Edward M. Corrado wrote:
Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
...
I was thinking it would happen on a weekday. There would be more stuff going on
here on campus, as well as give everybody a break from their normal work week.
More specifically, I would suggest such an event take place on a Friday so the
airport is about 50 miles away (an
expensive shuttle bus is available for transport to/from Ithaca).
Syracuse is also on an Amtrak line.
Tania
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John Fereira
Cornell University
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Google Wave: fere...@googlewave.com
prepared to handle winter weather. It seems that a
foot of snow can cripple transportation when it arrives in more southern
locales but it hardly gets noticed when it hits a place like Syracuse.
--
John Fereira
Cornell University
Twitter: @john_fereira
Google Wave: fere...@googlewave.com
. As an easterner (although I am formerly a west coaster) I
hadn't considered that a Vancouver code4lib conference might impact a
Code4Lib North conference in May. If at all possible I'd consider going
to both of them.
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John Fereira
Cornell University
Twitter: @john_fereira
Google Wave: fere
MJ Suhonos wrote:
+1 Thursday-Friday 6-7 May here as well.
As long as things don't get started until late afternoon or early
evening on Thursday that would give those close enough to drive the
option of driving to Kingston on Thursday morning or even working part
of the day on Thursday.
.
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John Fereira
Cornell University
Twitter: @john_fereira
Google Wave: fere...@googlewave.com
a 5.5 hour drive.
If the meeting was at the end of April I wouldn't be able to attend
anyway since I'll likely be at a conference in Montpellier, France.
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John Fereira
Cornell University
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Google Wave: fere...@googlewave.com
put their name down.
I have added my name to the list. Although I am from the US I'm only
about 3.5 hours away.
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John Fereira
Cornell University
Twitter: @john_fereira
Google Wave: fere...@googlewave.com
handles all
of them well.
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John Fereira
Cornell University
Twitter: @john_fereira
Google Wave: fere...@googlewave.com
that I'll be working on over the next year.
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John Fereira
Cornell University
Twitter: @john_fereira
Google Wave: fere...@googlewave.com
willing to start
support it.
John Fereira
Cornell University
Twitter: @john_fereira
Google Wave: fere...@googlewave.com
On 13-Nov-09, at 10:29 AM, Cary Gordon wrote:
I might be able to help with the white belt. Do I get to wear one of
those padded suits?
It should probably be mandatory. Aren't you glad they're modeling the
pre-conf after karate, and not sumo wresting?
lived
in Johnson City. It's a real nice drive, about an hour and 20 minutes,
from there to Asheville.
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Cornell University
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Kyle Banerjee wrote:
...Like it or not, many webmasters who insist on
using visual CAPTCHAs (often in combination with JavaScript) are turning
away customers. ..
And not just visually impaired people. I screw these up all the time
and my vision is fine.
It may also be worth considering
Edward Iglesias wrote:
Thanks to all of you who answered. Crowdsourcing does work if you
pick the right crowd. We have been looking at the S3 possibility but
I agree this would have to be a second copy.
There been lots of talk about hardware platorms but not much about
software to manage
Robert Fox wrote:
I heard someplace recently that APIs are the newest form of vendor
lock-in. What's your take?
If you use a design pattern like MVC on top of the API (assuming you're
building a web app on top of the API),
then it doesn't have to be a lock-in scenario.
That's exactly
Some good answers so far...
First, regarding books. While the suggestion of avoiding dumbed
downed books has some merit it is worth noting the distinction between
books that are primarily used for reference and books that are more
about theory. I haven't fund much use for reference books so
Phil Cryer wrote:
hey all - great time at the con, was bummed I didn't know about the
drupal4lib until i t was too late - but they're broadcasting live
here:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/darien-library-live
I've spoken to anarchivist - he's in the room, and they'll monitor IRC
and ask
Ranti Junus wrote:
1+
Being able to see the screen is more useful, actually. Hopefully they
can do that.
They've tried to get the camera set up so that it shows the screen a
couple of times without much success.
I was one of the developers and primary maintainer for severals years
for a TOC services at Cornell that was created about 5 years ago. The
UI is pretty dated but it still is used quite a bit although it does
note produce an RSS feed. It's only available to Cornell patrons
because it's
Ed Summers wrote:
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
Wick, Ryan wrote:
I started a new wiki page for those looking for roommates for the
conference, those who'd like to share rides, sightsee with others, or
anything else anyone wants to add related to attending the conference.
http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/RoommatesRidesEtc
While this
Jonathan Brinley wrote:
If my choices are (1) _optionally_ setting up an account with an
organization I know and trust, or (2) being _required_ to create an
account with a third party that I would rather have nothing to do
with, I choose option 1.
I understand your concern. On the other hand,
Ed Summers wrote:
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/
Thanks for posting this. I remember seeing the list from when I
submitted my proposal but didn't
mark friesner wrote:
Call to all Librarians:
I am a Master of Architecture student at Ryerson University in Toronto
writing my thesis on the future of the Library amidst the flood of today's
(and tomorrow's) digital technologies.
Just a thought but perhaps a speculation on the future
David Kane wrote:
Hi Folks,
What Digital Content management systems are there out there.
I can think of Greenstone, and various OAI repositories.
Any suggestions, particularly for something that uses Apache and ModPerl?
I can't think of anything that might not use Apache but fewer and fewer
Ed Summers wrote:
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.
I was wondering about that. If I can swing it
Birkin James Diana wrote:
Yesterday I attended a session of the DLF Fall Forum at which Ryan Chute
presented on djatoka, the open-source jpeg2008 image-server he and
Herbert Van de Sompel just released.
It's very cool and near the top of my crowded list of things to play with.
If any of you
Tim McGeary wrote:
The Open Library Environment (OLE, pronounced oh-lay) Project invites
you to apply to participate in a two day Regional Design Workshop. The
purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for representatives of
local research libraries and related institutions to discuss our
Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
Aha, funding the audio and video is a great idea. Meets Code4Lib
needs, and also meets sponsor advertising needs, because all the
videos and audio could go up with a capture of this content was
sponsored by Insert Vendor Here link. I think Bill's idea is great.
Cloutman, David wrote:
I interviewed at a company a while back that had four developers on
staff that was using the Zend Framework coupled with the Yahoo! UI
library. They seemed happy with their technology stack. I think their
choice was driven mostly by corporate backing and name recognition
Lise Brin wrote:
Have any of you done any work integrating OCS (Open Conference Systems)
with Drupal?
No, but I am using Drupal to build a conference management site for an
open source organization I'm involved in. I'm essentially porting an
old, very poorly written (not my doing) java web
jean rainwater wrote:
We're still working to line up sponsors but we hope to be able to keep
the registration fee the same as last year - $125. Room rate at the
conference hotel is $135 plus tax (free internet in guest rooms).
Along the same lines, when is the Call for Proposals going to be
Benjamin O'Steen wrote:
In a nutshell, we are building a system to capture the research
information infrastructure: linking people, departments, grants,
funders, articles, theses, books and data together.
(Technical information: using RDF and a mix of published and homegrown
ontologies, and
Ken Irwin wrote:
Hi folks,
I've got a homegrown piece of software that I'll be presenting at a
conference in a few weeks (to track title call-number request
histories using III's InnReach module). I'm trying to package it up in
such a way that other users will be able to use the software
Keith Jenkins wrote:
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Jay Luker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The reasons I threw the Northampton/Amherst area out there are a) it's
central to a lot of NE and is on or near the major highways (91 and
90)
...and if you are willing to bend the interpretation of NE to
Miriam Goldberg wrote:
I'd go with icalendar. It plays nicely with most major calendar applications.
also, at the risk of sounding like a shill, I'm helping develop a web
app (www.fusecal.com) that'll make it easier for web publishers to get
their calendar information into users personal
Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
On Aug 21, 2008, at 4:34 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
If you can figure out what the difference between an 'institutional
repository' and a 'digital library' is, let me know.
I think an institutional repository is a type of digital library.
To ma an institutional
Phil Cryer wrote:
On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 09:21 -0600, Binkley, Peter wrote:
Note that having said Fedora, you're only half-way there: you still need
a front end. Fez is popular, but Muradora was very well spoken of at
RIRI last week (http://vre.upei.ca/riri/), and UPEI is doing very
interesting
Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
The following link implements a slider, and I thought such a metaphor
would be a good one for any number of library interfaces:
http://librarycopyright.net/digitalslider/
1. For example, it could be used to gauge a Find More Like This
One function. Move slider up
James Tuttle wrote:
Trying to port my Linux experience to Solaris 10 makes my brain bleed
some days. I'd recommend, and this is probably too onerous for the
original poster, installing OpenSolaris in a virtual machine if the
installation route seems viable. The differences between Solaris (or
Alexander Johannesen wrote:
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 5:06 PM, K.G. Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I feel self-conscious about seeing posts reflected in the planet that
are not related to library technology, only because I'm not willing to
break up my blog into sub-blogs and don't know if
architecture that allows for the
rapid addition of enhancements and extensions that users may develop.
John Fereira
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ithaca, NY
At 03:41 PM 4/3/2008, you wrote:
So now I have to compile my jokes?
I have frequently uttered the phrase what a joke! when reading some
of the code I inherited that was written by others
John Fereira
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ithaca, NY
account, which is rare, I use pico...
yes, I know that makes me a sissy *and I don't care.*)
K.G. Schneider
John Fereira
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ithaca, NY
and a
services oriented architecture and it plugged in rather nicely.
John Fereira
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ithaca, NY
Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
How do I write a computer program that spawns many processes but
returns one result?
I suppose the classic example of my query is the federated search. Get
user input. Send it to many remote indexes. Wait. Combine results.
Return. In this scenario when one of the remote
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:43:04 +, Chris Awre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
FYI... This conference is an broad collection of academic software
initiatives that may be of interest to library software folk, plus a good
chance to exchange ideas/experiences.
Hello Chris,
Since I am on the planning
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