But look at the library advocacy opportunity: he's writing from a library cafe!
Karen G. Schneider
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On Jun 17, 2011, at 6:49 AM, Janet Stewart jstew...@shawnee.edu wrote:
Thomas,
Could you please let me know when your Nigerian oil money comes through.
From one Ohioan to
Actually, I didn't think the observations about the Aquabrowser mailing
list were snarky, and I think the comments were interesting and
list-appropriate. It's great that Aquabrowser will have a community
list--that will only help its users/implementors/customers. But once a
mailing list is closed
...Today is the last day to nominate/defend/decry nominees for
Code4Lib2010 in Asheville...
Is it pointless to nominate Tim O'Reilly?
Tim
No; all he can say is no, and he might be flattered to be asked.
Karen G. Schneider
In one of my alternative incarnations, I am a zoological taxonomist.
One of the big issues for taxonomy right now is whether to accept as
nomenclaturally valid papers that are published only in electronic
form, i.e. not printed on paper by a publisher.
In a discussion of this matter, a
If you are planning to attend the Evergreen International Conference
(May 20-22, Athens, Georgia), please note that Early Bird registration
ends tomorrow, Friday, April 3. Also note the NEW conference web
address:
http://www.lyrasis.org/evergreen
We have 18 great programs lined up and two great
A green travel mug, announced in advance, would be nice and would make
a great green statement.
By travel mug, I assume we mean with a lid and nonbreakable. (The
nonbreakable part is as much for Talis as for C4L... way back in another
job I once inherited boxes and boxes of ceramic mugs, which
On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 23:39:46 -0500, Nate Vack [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Naomi Dushay [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
1. The user is not broken. Our faculty are very vocal in desiring a
virtual shelf list that will allow them to, given a specific item, look
for
Sittin' in a tree? Anyone have comments on that implementation activity?
Karen G. Schneider
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My advice at this point would be to identify the editor(s) of
planet.code4lib.org in the page itself (like it is displayed at
http://planetcataloguing.org/) and to empower the editor(s) to adjust
things as needed. The editors can then go about the business of
managing the planet in the
it.
K.G. Schneider
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certainly willing to experiment and if
need be even change themes -- mine has poor SEO optimization, methinks.)
K.G. Schneider
On Thu, 22 May 2008 08:29:08 -0400, Edward M. Corrado
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K.G. Schneider wrote:
I wonder if the planet can be configured to display only blog posts
Outstanding job -- I'm watching Karen Coyle right now. Worth the wait!
Thanks for doing this -- this video collection is a national treasure!
Karen G. Schneider
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:50:28 -0700, Noel Peden [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Hi all,
Video is a little over half done. Thanks to Ryan Eby
choice, I used emacs exactly once, during which I
removed every instance of the letter m from a lengthy document. (When
I have to edit a file in my shell account, which is rare, I use pico...
yes, I know that makes me a sissy *and I don't care.*)
K.G. Schneider
Sorry, Alexander, I disagree. Gartner may sound creaky but under the starchy
language, this is pretty revolutionary advice.
Look for a sustainable community - yes, for any product, that's key.
Cultural match - that one is an interesting observation. Introducing open
source development in
But that fact leads me to the thought that perhaps Gartner isn't as
revolutionary as one might think.
Revolutionary *for Gartner* -- and therefore important in that sense, for
the people whose opinions are shaped by the Gartner Weltanschauung. These
people aren't reading NGC4LIB. (Um, neither
Keep in mind that anti-OSS FUD has reached new levels, now that vendors
see that it is gaining traction. So OSS has to be presented
strategically and in context of the dumb statements I hear, which
include all the stereotypes and b.s. I discussed in my 2007 c4l keynote
but now go beyond it.
K.G
If you have been involved in investigating or implementing Shibboleth --
or alternative approaches -- I'd like to hear from you.
Wearing my official chapeau I am,
Karen G. Schneider
Research Development
College Center for Library Automation
http://www.cclaflorida.org
Voice: 850-922-6044
licensed Digitool. Besides its obvious uses for digital
library services, is it in use anywhere simply as a local Digital Access
Management system?
K.G. Schneider
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But was it videotaped?!
Karen G. Schneider
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Karen Coyle
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To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] My code4lib slides
I ended up combining text and images
File me under the I don't care as long as it happens camp --
Karen G. Schneider
On Tue, 4 Mar 2008 09:44:26 -0500, Dan Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
In IRC a few of us kicked around the idea of uploading the video to the
Internet Archive and letting them handle backup / streaming bandwidth /
But why are there hurdles?
Karen G. Schneider
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 07:29:57 -0600, Chris Freeland
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Roy, do you have an answer in mind?
To me my project it's the content that is open, which is why it's worth
the hurdles. Once you 'crack the nut' you can grab metadata,
I had another thought (ouch... hurts...) which is this: if OCLC had to
open up its data, then it would have to improve its services to survive.
K.G. Schneider
On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 10:28:14 -0600, Danielle Plumer
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Kevin Kelly had an interesting post on The Technium last week
Murray
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On Feb 5, 2008, at 12:11 PM, K.G. Schneider wrote:
Has your library considered contributing records to Open Library (
http
:11 PM, K.G. Schneider wrote:
Has your library considered contributing records to Open Library (
http://www.openlibrary.org/ )? If so I'd like to hear from you on or
off
list.
How would that work? Most of the records in OhioLINK are probably
derived from OCLC Worldcat. Isn't
I was thinking this morning about an appliance solution -- Koha or
Evergreen in a box -- something to make it as stir-and-pour as possible
for libraries with minimal resources.
K.G. Schneider
On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 08:54:15 -0500, Edward Corrado [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
Hi Johnathan,
I've been
the conference scholarships a plug last
night on my blog)
K.G. Schneider
is:
#code4lib
I guess we'll see in a minute if that works for you,
-Ross.
On Jan 7, 2008 3:55 PM, K.G. Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yeah, I even saw my nick, but when I tried to type the error page showed
up.
From trying the ircatwork.com site I got:
*** Welcome to CGI:IRC
It's really quite excellent. Kudos! It's a tough week to grab anyone's
attention, but I'll try.
K.G. Schneider
On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 16:19:11 -0500, Teresa Victoriana Sierra
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Nice job Jonathan!
Teri Sierra, Assistant Chief
Serial and Government Publications Division
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 10:14:29 -0500, Andrew Nagy
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Hello - there was quite a bit of talk about chat bots a year or 2 back.
I was wondering if anyone knew of an open source chat bot that works with
jabber?
Thanks
Andrew
I'm afraid this isn't an answer, but several times
complexities underlying decision-making.
K.G. Schneider
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(Bonnie Buzzell) conferences.
Jean Rainwater
Co-leader, Integrated Technology Services
Brown University Library
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401.863.9031
On 9/26/07, K.G. Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Originally posted elsewhere. Despite the direction of my original
request, I'm getting
Originally posted elsewhere. Despite the direction of my original
request, I'm getting such good developer-level responses to this
question that I'm reposting to code4lib to say if you are doing
something interesting, I'm interested.
Karen G. Schneider
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 13:13:32 -0400, K.G
Yes, I have a concern about a university hosting arrangement like what
you've described, though it doesn't have anything to do with OSU or
you. :) ibiblio is in the business of being a neutral hosting space
for sites like this (and, yes, they're at a university, but, their
long-lived
Concur, adding that going with #3 or #2 (no preference from me formally
between the 2, you guys know better here) adds a much-needed release valve
so you don't have to make a decision about the permanent home under
pressure.
Don't know that you need a formal RFP for permanent (well, longterm
Why does it matter what librarians think about the change in formats?
Ah hah! That, sir, is the point. You are absolutely correct about the
readers needing a voice in this. But I guess what I am getting at is that so
far it has not worked out that way, at least in the humanities, and that has
Karen,
I suspect one could find a parallel for the loss of the wholeness of a
journal issue in the world of popular music. Does the album as those
of us of a certain age knew it still exist when most music is acquired
(I'd like to say purchased, but spend too much time around college-aged
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 10:49:22AM -0700, Robin Speer wrote:
Please remove my email from your mailing list. Thanks.
Robin Speer
Oregon State Library
phone: 503-378-2464, fax: 503-585-8059
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Look what y'all did, arguing about munging email headers. Robin was
Credit absolutely goes to SerialSolutions for starting the discussion.
Part of what we're trying to do w/ERAMs.org is to broaden the dialogue
outside simply the business product category of ERMs. There seems also to
be a need to rethink the way we do things within libraries and consortia
to
On Mar 16, 2007, at 7:09 PM, K.G. Schneider wrote:
A library on campus is purchasing the Mediasite portable webcasting
setup,
which is sneezy-expensive if pretty cool. It would be interesting
to see if
it really works, and how well, and how easily, and if so, this being a
library
that is so forgiving.
A library on campus is purchasing the Mediasite portable webcasting setup,
which is sneezy-expensive if pretty cool. It would be interesting to see if
it really works, and how well, and how easily, and if so, this being a
library conference...
K.G. Schneider
I think one of our greatest challenges as a group is how to enable such
ad
hoc involvement while not letting things fall through the cracks with
too
little planning and forethought. I guess a part of it is making sure
everyone knows that there is no such thing as an in group that
nota bene... for anyone taking notes for lessons learned to apply next
year, you may want to phrase those posting agreements as broadly as
possible.
As a speaker, I thought the conference was wonderful. Most of the
presentations were too techy for me, but we all knew that going in, and
sometimes
A mention of the Flamenco project (open source faceted navigation) on
Catalogablog made me wonder if anyone on c4l had looked at this:
http://flamenco.berkeley.edu/
Karen G. Schneider
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I love that. thought I should add that, as one of the speakers. :) Not even
sure what +1 means and it's too late to email our lone developer, but +1,
indeed.
Karen G. Schneider
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Ed wrote:
On Mar 7, 2007, at 7:32 PM, David J. Fiander wrote:
How about sending it to the
I just wondered, are the videos going online anywhere?
Karen G. Schneider
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Hey c4l folks, I was sitting here pondering C4L's program lineup when it hit
me no one was covering a topic dear to me-roll-your-own search analytics.
Admittedly, said topic would quickly get beyond *my* skill level, in terms
of implementation, but I'm still interested in it and we definitely have
Someone wrote to ask me what I mean by search analytics. Fair question.
The blurb for Lou Rosenfeld and Rich Wiggins' forthcoming book pretty much
does a good job of describing what I mean:
http://www.rosenfeldmedia.com/books/searchanalytics/
Any organization that has a searchable web site or
Let this be a strong plea to your readers to choose nice, generic
hostnames for their public-facing servers to help them avoid vendor
lock-in.
Dan Scott
You mean like Huey, Dewey and Louie? (I'll never tell where...'twas a long
time ago...and the servers were named pre-Internet and suddenly
Ryan's point is that because the RSS feeds on the first site aren't enabled
for media enclosures the files aren't rendered available through
aggregators. You can certainly save the files from the first site (and the
annotations are excellent), but they aren't actually syndicated.
Karen G.
The following position announcement from PALINET (Philadelphia, PA)
was brought to my attention:
Technology Consultant
PALINET seeks a technologist, who is a leader and visionary to
define and develop innovative technology solutions for its 600
member libraries in the
of LAMP software could be an interesting
alternative to... *you know who.*
Sorry if I overreacted to the featuritis comment--I live and die by search
these days... I've already had to explain to more than one stakeholder why
we can't just use Jimbob's Crapola Indexer or whatever.
K.G. Schneider
Don't apologize--I feel the same way, it was fun to see you go get 'em.
We've all made that mistake. (Now, if you did it again next week...)
For VOLT and RAIN BIRD, don't use their copy to describe what they are. It
seemed jarring. Say temporary agency or whatever. I was also curious about
when
Right. The observation had more to do with how to order the items within
a workset. The visitor was suggesting that a combination of popularity
and currency ought to be considered for determining display. So between
titles, you could show those titles that were more widely held first.
Then
Although, at the same time, I think Google has taught us that our result
set
order doesn't have to be perfect. It just has to be 'relatively accurate'
and present enough information to let the user determine its relevance.
Do users actually determine relevance or do they have faith in Google
I'd agree with this.
Actually, though, 'relevancy' ranking based on where terms occur in the
record and how many times they occur is of minor help compared to some
sort of popularity score. WorldCat holdings work fairly well for that,
as should circulation data. The primary example of this
be a value-added service that I'd consider
paying for (if I had a budget to do such things...).
Peter
On 3/28/06 5:33 PM, K.G. Schneider wrote:
The library I've been talking to has said they are interested in showing
LII
content on their site. I have spoken briefly with their developers
Well, I'm not sure that's it at all. You folks are smart... help me out
here.
Wearing my LII hat (http://lii.org ) I have been approached by a
library--and had suggestions on our user survey--for something I've wanted
to offer from LII as an added value service (as in, we do it and you pay for
as a writer.
K.G. Schneider
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