Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib mailing list

2016-03-24 Thread Thomas Krichel
ding factor. -- Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel skype:thomaskrichel

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib mailing list

2016-03-24 Thread Thomas Krichel
needs a few hours of work and a commitment to some maintenance. 5 is the job that dwarfs everything else. But if Paul is volunteering (or could be sponsored) to lead that forward then you have a realistic case to run it on a community and open-source base. -- Cheers, Th

Re: [CODE4LIB] Job: Wine Loving Developer at University of California, Davis

2015-12-10 Thread Thomas Krichel
els done in 1h, we are talking $200. The visit you are planning for your developer will cost that much. -- Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel skype:thomaskrichel

[CODE4LIB] OAI9 registrations close on 30 May

2015-05-16 Thread Thomas Krichel
and discussed. Do join us if you would like to be part of this conversation by registering to attend the Workshop at https://indico.cern.ch/event/332370/registration/ Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel

[CODE4LIB] OAI9 poster submission deadline

2015-04-11 Thread Thomas Krichel
of large and complex scientific objects Use https://indico.cern.ch/event/332370/registration/ to register. Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel skype:thomaskrichel

[CODE4LIB] OAI9: Call for Posters

2015-03-19 Thread Thomas Krichel
your abstracts – and seeing your posters. Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel skype:thomaskrichel

[CODE4LIB] OAI9 Workshop in Geneva 17-19 June 2015

2015-02-26 Thread Thomas Krichel
/registration/register#/register The OAI Organisers (see http://indico.cern.ch/event/332370/page/7) look forward to meeting you all in Geneva in June. For the OAI9 Organising Committee with cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel

[CODE4LIB] announcing OAI9 in Geneva 17-19 June 2015

2014-09-15 Thread Thomas Krichel
lists the Twitter feed and hashtag for the meeting. On behalf of the OAI9 Programme Committee, I look forward to seeing you in the University of Geneva to hear news of current developments in scholarly communication. Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home

Re: [CODE4LIB] Research Gate vs. Institutional Repositories

2014-03-25 Thread Thomas Krichel
that Elsevier are interested in buying it. -- Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel skype:thomaskrichel

Re: [CODE4LIB] Canberra event -- Ed Summers at NLA, 2 December

2013-11-21 Thread Thomas Krichel
Rosalyn Metz writes not sure if i should be jealous of nla for getting ed to speak, or of ed for getting to go to australia. For me, definitely the former. I have much respect for Ed, and for me Australia is a boring place to go to. -- Cheers, Thomas Krichel http

Re: [CODE4LIB] ERIC mirror during government shutdown

2013-10-03 Thread Thomas Krichel
Jared Camins-Esakov writes Thanks to the USA's federal government shutdown, the ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is unavailable. Gets me thinking: I have a copy of PubMed XML data... in case anybody needs it just contact me. Cheers, Thomas Krichel

Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides: I don't get it

2013-08-13 Thread Thomas Krichel
on Galen, you raise the important (IMHO) issue. Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel skype:thomaskrichel

Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides: I don't get it

2013-08-11 Thread Thomas Krichel
in because you can rewrite everything? Hmm... Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel skype:thomaskrichel

Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides: I don't get it

2013-08-11 Thread Thomas Krichel
of the 21st century, no in-house technical capability will be the same thing as having no space for books in the middle of the twentieth century. Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel skype:thomaskrichel

Re: [CODE4LIB] Python and Ruby

2013-07-29 Thread Thomas Krichel
Ed Summers writes Ok, I think I'm going to have nightmares about that. It will have to support tippex on screens. Cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel skype:thomaskrichel

Re: [CODE4LIB] Anyone have access to well-disambiguated sets of publication data?

2013-07-09 Thread Thomas Krichel
want. Cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel skype:thomaskrichel

Re: [CODE4LIB] Anyone have access to well-disambiguated sets of publication data?

2013-07-09 Thread Thomas Krichel
Thomas Krichel writes The RePEc Author service (created by yours truly in the late 90s) was the first author claiming service. Its data is freely available, bar email addresses. Actually DBLP can also be of interest to you. The site has identified authors. I presume they are done

Re: [CODE4LIB] Get building with Trove at GovHack (AU) 2013

2013-05-20 Thread Thomas Krichel
of data and reduced elements that I need. Cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel http://authorprofile.org/pkr1 skype: thomaskrichel

Re: [CODE4LIB] On-going support for DL projects

2013-05-17 Thread Thomas Krichel
into a growing activity. Cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel http://authorprofile.org/pkr1 skype: thomaskrichel

Re: [CODE4LIB] programme for OAI8 in Geneva 19-21 June 2013

2013-04-07 Thread Thomas Krichel
Thomas Krichel writes The Programme can be found at http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=3D211600. This contains an extra 3D from quoted-printable encoding. The correct URL is http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=211600. Sorry! Cheers, Thomas Krichel

[CODE4LIB] programme for OAI8 in Geneva 19-21 June 2013

2013-04-06 Thread Thomas Krichel
=3D7confId=3D211600) looks forward to meeting you all in Geneva in June For the OAI8 Organising Committee with cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel http://authorprofile.org/pkr1

[CODE4LIB] call for posters at OAI8 in Geneva 19-21 June 2013

2013-03-06 Thread Thomas Krichel
=211600 The committee looks forward to welcoming you to Geneva. For the OAI8 Organising Committee with cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel http://authorprofile.org/pkr1

Re: [CODE4LIB] back to minorities question, seeking guidance

2013-02-22 Thread Thomas Krichel
can't do that. Cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel http://authorprofile.org/pkr1 skype: thomaskrichel

[CODE4LIB] registration open for OAI8 in Geneva 19-21 June 2013

2013-02-14 Thread Thomas Krichel
looks forward to welcoming you to Geneva. For the OAI8 Organising Committee with cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel http://authorprofile.org/pkr1 skype: thomaskrichel

Re: [CODE4LIB] How to configure subdomain hosting without domain hosting?

2012-11-27 Thread Thomas Krichel
but it may still be helpful. Cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel http://authorprofile.org/pkr1 skype: thomaskrichel

[CODE4LIB] OAI8 at the University of Geneva. 19-21 June 2013

2012-10-18 Thread Thomas Krichel
, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel http://authorprofile.org/pkr1 skype: thomaskrichel

Re: [CODE4LIB] PDF manipulation

2012-08-07 Thread Thomas Krichel
HTML parser to read the resulting HTML (if any) into Perl. Maybe I am heading in a wrong direction for this project? Direction seems right but the task is tough. PDF is where text goes to die. Cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel

Re: [CODE4LIB] Recommendations for a teaching OPAC?

2012-08-04 Thread Thomas Krichel
, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel http://authorprofile.org/pkr1 skype: thomaskrichel

Re: [CODE4LIB] Recommendations for a teaching OPAC?

2012-08-04 Thread Thomas Krichel
of technology is taught/used in the LIS curriculum. But that's a topic for another day. Margaret Kipp and I have talked about this a lot in the past. Cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel http://authorprofile.org

Re: [CODE4LIB] Any libraries have their sites hosted on Amazon EC2?

2012-02-22 Thread Thomas Krichel
but the cost structure is much simpler. Cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel http://authorprofile.org/pkr1 skype: thomaskrichel

Re: [CODE4LIB] Any libraries have their sites hosted on Amazon EC2?

2012-02-22 Thread Thomas Krichel
with them, other than being a customer. Cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel http://authorprofile.org/pkr1 skype: thomaskrichel

Re: [CODE4LIB] Why are we afraid to criticize library software in public?

2012-01-25 Thread Thomas Krichel
Kyle Banerjee writes Our profession is very risk averse. But fortunately we don't have any stereotypes around here. ;-) Isn't the vendor the one the name of which starts with O, and the product name ends with M? Cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open datasets

2012-01-11 Thread Thomas Krichel
1000 records, but less than a million, maybe? Look at RePEc at http://repec.org. You can mirror the dataset from ftp://repec.org but for efficiency we can set up some rsync delivery for you. Cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel

[CODE4LIB] conference on The Value of Unique Scholarly Identifiers to Academics, Institutions and Countries

2012-01-05 Thread Thomas Krichel
the conference at http://uniqueids.org. If you wish to contact the organizers write to Eleonora Dagiene, Chair of Council, Director of VGTU Press, eleon...@serials.lt. Cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel http

Re: [CODE4LIB] What software for a digital library

2011-12-10 Thread Thomas Krichel
what you want to do. Cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel http://authorprofile.org/pkr1 skype: thomaskrichel

Re: [CODE4LIB] Patents and open source projects

2011-12-06 Thread Thomas Krichel
Joann Ransom writes LibLime Koha is not Koha. The rest of the community use Koha. Misunderstanding of this issue is wide-spread. Case in point http://lists.webjunction.org/wjlists/web4lib/2010-September/052195.html Cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home

Re: [CODE4LIB] Automatic Content Classification recommendations?

2011-11-27 Thread Thomas Krichel
would switch to LibSVM in NEP since it LibSVM is still actively being developed. Just using a simple binary term weighing scheme and default SVM parameters should get you a long way. Cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel

Re: [CODE4LIB] Plea for help from Horowhenua Library Trust to Koha Community

2011-11-23 Thread Thomas Krichel
the Horowhenua Library Trust. That sounds promising. Has LibLime seen reason, or am I misinterpreting things? As much reason as somebody who comes to steal your belongings and then offers them to hand them back to you may be at some stage. Cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp

Re: [CODE4LIB] Domain lookup madness

2011-11-09 Thread Thomas Krichel
lookup timed out * Couldn't resolve host 'www.questionpoint.org' * Closing connection #0 curl: (6) name lookup timed out Cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel http://authorprofile.org/pkr1

Re: [CODE4LIB] Job Posting: Digital Library Repository Developer, Boston Public Library (Boston, MA)

2011-09-27 Thread Thomas Krichel
Roy Tennant writes So BPL is developing its own digital repository system? Mind if I ask why? Why not? Do you suggest they should stick to print? Cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel http

[CODE4LIB] open bibliographic principles

2011-09-08 Thread Thomas Krichel
, to sign up to the principles. Cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel http://authorprofile.org/pkr1 skype: thomaskrichel

Re: [CODE4LIB] Net::OAI::Harvester

2011-08-11 Thread Thomas Krichel
repository data into AuthorClaim. That source is documented at http://wotan.liu.edu/base Take care, Enjoy, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel http://authorprofile.org/pkr1

Re: [CODE4LIB] Net::OAI::Harvester

2011-08-10 Thread Thomas Krichel
suggest you use HTTP::OAI instead. Cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel http://authorprofile.org/pkr1 skype: thomaskrichel

Re: [CODE4LIB] Is there a (current) CONTENTdm support group?

2011-06-02 Thread Thomas Krichel
. Cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel http://authorclaim.org/profile/pkr1 skype: thomaskrichel

Re: [CODE4LIB] unwanted (bogus) characters in marc

2010-10-10 Thread Thomas Krichel
stuart yeates writes Thomas Krichel wrote: ... It will try to guess between UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1. This can be done because UTF-8 has many invalid byte sequences. But say if you wanted to guess between ISO-8859-1 and ISO-8859-2, you'd be out of luck. Not necessarily. I

Re: [CODE4LIB] unwanted (bogus) characters in marc

2010-10-08 Thread Thomas Krichel
Ere Maijala writes On 7.10.2010 15:17, Thomas Krichel wrote: ... use Encode::Guess qw/latin-1/; $decoded=decode(Guess, $dodgy_input); $decoded then should be a utf-8 string with utf8 flag on. Would that work for a predominantly proper utf-8 input with some mistakes thrown

Re: [CODE4LIB] unwanted (bogus) characters in marc

2010-10-07 Thread Thomas Krichel
Ere Maijala writes # Fix non-UTF-8 characters with two highest bits set (we assume they are actually ISO-8859-1) What about use Encode::Guess qw/latin-1/; $decoded=decode(Guess, $dodgy_input); $decoded then should be a utf-8 string with utf8 flag on. Cheers, Thomas Krichel

Re: [CODE4LIB] Running a repository on Debian Stable

2010-04-08 Thread Thomas Krichel
. This setup in inimical to the Debian setup. Most of all, I want something that I can install from the standard operating system packages, using apt-get. I suggest you use aptitude instead. It has superior dependency resolution. Cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org

Re: [CODE4LIB] valueforkey in javascript

2010-03-28 Thread Thomas Krichel
'); alert id_attribute; } Disclaimer: I had a class of mead with mixed with sherry before typing this. I don't know what an iphone is. Cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel http://authorclaim.org/profile/pkr1

Re: [CODE4LIB] Online PHP course?

2010-01-05 Thread Thomas Krichel
Joe Hourcle writes ps. yes, I could've used this response as an opportunity to bash PHP ... and I didn't, because they might be learning PHP to migrate it to something else. controversial ;-) what's the problem(s) with PHP? Cheers, Thomas Krichelhttp

Re: [CODE4LIB] good and best open source software

2009-12-29 Thread Thomas Krichel
, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel http://authorclaim.org/profile/pkr1 skype: thomaskrichel

Re: [CODE4LIB] good and best open source software

2009-12-29 Thread Thomas Krichel
, Thomas Krichelhttp://openlib.org/home/krichel http://authorclaim.org/profile/pkr1 skype: thomaskrichel