SSL is security theatre unless people start doing it better.
SSL is a layer of complexity, it's easy to get wrong and the library
community is systematically getting it wrong (picking on some big names,
because they're tough enough to take it, not because they noticeably do
it any better or
On 17/12/14 04:23, Tania Fersenheim wrote:
I have some staff interested in a pilot of Open Journal Systems.
http://openjournalsystems.com/
Anyone here have experiences with the software they'd like to share, either
installed locally or hosted by the OJS folks?
I'm especially interested in how
raffaele.mess...@gmail.com
Sent: Monday, 3 November 2014 11:39 p.m.
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] MARC reporting engine
Stuart Yeates wrote:
Do any of these have built-in indexing? 800k records isn't going to fit in
memory and if building my own MARC indexer is 'relatively
, Nov 3, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Brian Kennison kennis...@wcsu.edu wrote:
On Nov 2, 2014, at 9:29 PM, Stuart Yeates stuart.yea...@vuw.ac.nzmailto:
stuart.yea...@vuw.ac.nz wrote:
Do any of these have built-in indexing? 800k records isn't going to fit in
memory and if building my own MARC indexer
I have ~800,000 MARC records from an indexing service
(http://natlib.govt.nz/about-us/open-data/innz-metadata CC-BY). I am trying to
generate:
(a) a list of person authorities (and sundry metadata), sorted by how many
times they're referenced, in wikimedia syntax
(b) a view of a person
.
From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Stuart Yeates
[stuart.yea...@vuw.ac.nz]
Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2014 5:48 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] MARC reporting engine
I have ~800,000 MARC records from an indexing service
(http
All but the cats should be available thought the standard API, I believe.
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page
cheers
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-- Because you can delete everything on the system with a very short
command.
This is actually a misconception.
The very short command doesn't delete everything on the system. The integrity
of files which are currently open (including things like the kernel image,
executable files for
rafting.
Roy
On Oct 28, 2014, at 6:46 PM, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote:
Well you can do a lot of damage quickly using very short commands. Deleting
the master boot record can be quite effective, but I will demure from
giving specific examples.
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Stuart
Learning UNIX is a dreadful idea.
If you think you want to learn UNIX, you probably should learn POSIX.
Implementations are transient; if we're lucky standards are durable.
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Turning this question on it's head:
Is there any group / page / etc doing coordination of which library software is
packaged for which distros and the chasing of distro-level bugs?
At least some interoperability issues would be mitigated if all the appropriate
libraries installed and worked
Some of you may know of teaching staff using, or looking to use, wikipedia in
their courses; if you do, I implore you to forward them
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Education_program Wikipedia has active
assistance that can be provided in such cases, but assistance is less useful
My understanding is that there is no universal ISSN list but that worldcat
allows querying of their database by ISSN.
Which method of sampling the ISSN namespace is going to cause least pain?
http://www.worldcat.org/ISSN/ seems to be the one talked about, but is there
another that's less
Others in this thread have all made useful comments, but I think it would pay
to take a step back first and ask yourself some questions about your situation:
(*) what's your volume of material? Do you have a single book? a shelf of
contents? a room of content? a multi-site organisation full of
libraries, each with one book.
Cary
On Oct 14, 2014, at 4:57 PM, Stuart Yeates stuart.yea...@vuw.ac.nz wrote:
Others in this thread have all made useful comments, but I think it would pay
to take a step back first and ask yourself some questions about your
situation:
(*) what's your
I'm currently spending a chunk of time attempting to balance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:New_Zealand_academics for
recentism, gender imbalance and racial imbalance, creating 100
biographies so far.
I can tell you that google scholar is a really crappy measure once you
move outside
On 23/09/14 10:01, Fitchett, Deborah wrote:
Morning, all,
We have a small dilemma:
1. Our brand new Alma system provides access to a bunch of data via
RESTful API. It’s on The Cloud so we’re not going to be getting direct access
to the database anytime soon.
Is there a reason reason
First up, I've got to say that I'm unaware of anyone using these over
HTTPS in production, so issues are forward-looking and largely hypothetical.
The good news is that both use DNSSEC:
http://dnssec-debugger.verisignlabs.com/hdl.handle.net
http://dnssec-debugger.verisignlabs.com/dx.doi.org
Authors in OL have already been linked to Wikipedia, and Wikipedia has
been linked to VIAF, and the OCLC number, when present, has been taken
from the MARC record. Therefore the OL record in some cases already has
these connections.
It's not just about authors. It's also about the work
There are a stack of great free ebook repositories available on the web,
things like https://unglue.it/ http://www.gutenberg.org/
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page http://www.gutenberg.net.au/
https://www.smashwords.com/books/category/1/newest/0/free/any etc, etc
What there doesn't
I'd like to see is a way to create a list or bibliography in OL
that then is imported into a program that will find MARC records for
those books. The list function is still under development, though.
kc
On 8/18/14, 3:04 PM, Stuart Yeates wrote:
There are a stack of great free ebook repositories
-12 16:38, Stuart Yeates wrote:
So I just ran my EZproxy through an SSL checker and was shocked by the
outcome:
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=login.helicon.vuw.ac.nz
Finding other EZproxy installs in google and checking them gave a
range of answers, some MUCH better, some MUCH
So I just ran my EZproxy through an SSL checker and was shocked by the
outcome:
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=login.helicon.vuw.ac.nz
Finding other EZproxy installs in google and checking them gave a range
of answers, some MUCH better, some MUCH worse. Clearly secure EZproxy
We had complaints from students about other students using the limited
resource (in this case student computers) to do facebook / youtube.
We negotiated with the students union that certain sites would be
blocked from those machines for a certain busy period during the day.
Negotiation with
I'd just like to remind posters of announcements that it's not really
helpful post announcements that don't actually say what it is that
product / service / event you're announcing is.
The following case is particularly egregious, since the project home
page at
There exists a code at:
https://github.com/code4lib/antiharassment-policy/blob/master/code_of_conduct.md
I believe it applies here.
cheers
stuart
On 07/03/2014 12:54 PM, Coral Sheldon-Hess wrote:
I was under the impression that we had a code of conduct/anti-harassment
policy in place for IRC
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On 18 Jun 2014, at 23:28, Stuart Yeates stuart.yea...@vuw.ac.nz wrote:
My reading of that suggests that http://isni-url.oclc.nl/isni/000122816316 shouldn't have both
Bell
On 15-06-14 23:11, Stuart Yeates stuart.yea...@vuw.ac.nz wrote:
Could someone with access to the official text of ISO 27729:2012 tell me
whether an ISNI is a name identifier or an entity identifier? That is,
if someone changes their name (adopts a pseudonym, changes their name by
to marriage
://isni.org/isni/000121370797 )
[Here goes the reference list…]
Hope this helps :)
Groeten van Ben
On 15-06-14 23:11, Stuart Yeates stuart.yea...@vuw.ac.nz wrote:
Could someone with access to the official text of ISO 27729:2012 tell me
whether an ISNI is a name identifier or an entity
Anyone thinking about these things is encouraged to read the thread
[CODE4LIB] EZProxy changes / alternatives ? in the archives of this list.
cheers
stuart
On 06/19/2014 05:28 AM, Andrew Anderson wrote:
EZproxy already handles HTTPS connections for HTTPS enabled services today, and
on modern
On 06/17/2014 08:49 AM, Galen Charlton wrote:
On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Stuart Yeates stuart.yea...@vuw.ac.nz wrote:
As I read it, 'Freedom to Read' means that we have to take active steps to
protect that rights of our readers to read what they want and in private.
[snip]
* building
On 06/18/2014 12:36 PM, Brent E Hanner wrote:
Stuart Yeates wrote:
Compared to other contributors to this thread, I appear to be (a) less
worried about state actors than our commercial partners and (b) keener
to see relatively straight forward technical fixes that just work 'for
free' across
Could someone with access to the official text of ISO 27729:2012 tell me
whether an ISNI is a name identifier or an entity identifier? That is,
if someone changes their name (adopts a pseudonym, changes their name by
to marriage, transitions gender, etc), should they be assigned a new
As I read it, 'Freedom to Read' means that we have to take active steps
to protect that rights of our readers to read what they want and in
private.
Triggered by discussions at a bar-camp on NLNZ on Friday I'm thinking
that in a digital world this means systematically privileging HTTPS over
On a similar note, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pigsonthewing has
just (today / yesterday depending on timezone) been appointed Wikipedian
in residence at ORCID. He has tons of experience in museums, galleries
and archives and is a great person to get in touch with in this kind of
area.
Has anyone had an success using Selenium or other web testing systems
for testing and monitoring of complex outsourced web services?
I'm thinking of a system that is the integration of a website, an
authentication service, a discovery service and a repository and
monitoring that end-to-end
On 05-06-14 00:14, Stuart Yeates stuart.yea...@vuw.ac.nz wrote:
Others have made excellent contributions to this thread, which I won't
repeat, but I feel it's worth asking the question:
Who is systematically cross walking these identifiers?
The only party I'm aware of doing this in a large-scale
On 06/06/2014 12:51 AM, Gary Thompson wrote:
I also hope to convince our campus Shibboleth IdP to add ORCID as a new
attribute.
If I understand correctly, what we need is ISNI added to the next
release of EduPerson, per
Others have made excellent contributions to this thread, which I won't
repeat, but I feel it's worth asking the question:
Who is systematically cross walking these identifiers?
The only party I'm aware of doing this in a large-scale fashion is
Wikipedia, via
I'm sending this on the off-chance that people happen to have the travel
budget for it: http://www.ndf.org.nz/programme/
It's a great cross-GLAM event hosted by the Museum of New Zealand Te
Papa Tongarewa, which you may be familiar with for their kōiwi tangata
Māori repatriation program.
If
We have been using google analytics since October 2008 and by and large
we're pretty happy with it.
Recently I noticed that we're getting 100 hits a day from the
Pinterest/0.1 +http://pinterest.com/; bot which I understand is a
reasonably reliable indicator of activity from that site. Much of
On 05/14/2014 01:23 PM, Barnes, Hugh wrote:
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Sent: Wednesday, 14 May 2014 1:04 p.m.
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] statistics for image sharing sites?
[snip]
My
On 05/14/2014 01:39 PM, Joe Hourcle wrote:
On May 13, 2014, at 9:04 PM, Stuart Yeates wrote:
We have been using google analytics since October 2008 and by and large we're
pretty happy with it.
Recently I noticed that we're getting 100 hits a day from the Pinterest/0.1
+http://pinterest.com
Your first step is to pin down the format. TIFF is a container form (like zip)
and can contain pretty much anything. Likely candidates for you format include
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPTC_Information_Interchange_Model and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Metadata_Platform
Your
Context: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIYvD9DI1ZA
Cheers
stuart
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Fitchett, Deborah
Sent: Monday, 12 May 2014 9:53 a.m.
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Withdraw my post was:
On 05/09/2014 02:44 AM, Susan Kane wrote:
Obviously, we must now task someone in CODE4LIB with writing a Python
script to convert New Zealand English to International English.
Yes, because tasking people with AI-complete programming tasks (see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI-complete ) is
On 05/09/2014 10:04 AM, Jodi Schneider wrote:
On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 9:54 PM, Coral Sheldon-Hess wrote:
I have another, maybe minor, point to add to this: I've posted a job to
Code4Lib, and I did it wrong. I have no idea how I'm supposed to make a job
show up correctly, and now that I have
The fact that the only person who has given any acknowledgement of
understanding my message was someone else in .ac.nz suggests that
despite my best efforts my message content was effectively shredded by
the implicit conversion from New Zealand English to International English.
My apologies;
On 05/07/2014 04:59 AM, Richard Sarvas wrote:
Not to be a jerk about this, but why is the answer always No? There seem to
be more posts on this list relating to job openings than there are relating to code
discussions. Are job postings a part why this list was originally created? If so, I'll
On 04/30/2014 09:38 AM, David Friggens wrote:
Hi Laura
I'd like to find out from as many people as are interested what barriers
you feel exist right now to you releasing your library's bibliographic
metadata openly.
One issue is that we pay for enrichments (tables of contents etc) for
Nice.
The real question is whether that's U+2163, like it should be.
cheers
stuart
On 04/10/2014 07:17 AM, Jay Gattuso wrote:
Hi all,
Long time listener, first time caller.
We don't have a C4L chapter over here in New Zealand, and I wondered what we
would need to do to align the small
Currently there is a funding proposal for cataloguing Telugu works up
before the Wikimedia foundation. If anyone has experience with Telugu or
knows of any tools that are likely to be useful, please give your input:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Making_telugu_content_accessible
...@hou.usra.edumailto:dbigw...@hou.usra.edu
Lunar and Planetary Institute
https://twitter.com/Catalogablog
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to the latest
version or turn the software off.
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is needed is for techies to do
experiments, document and share the results. These could either follow
on from the example of Andrew Anderson earlier in this thread or strike
out in different directions.
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sources]
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easy is a good alternative.
kyle
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[and yes, the article is still in need of secondary sources]
Thanks to User:Eveross1 (who may or may not be a code4libber) for stepping up
and fixing this.
cheers
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don't need.
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of HTTPd, which
should be available in RHEL7/CentOS7 soon, so about the time that hard
decisions are to be made regarding EZproxy vs something else, that something
else may very well be Apache HTTPd with vendor-specific configuration files.
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We've just received notification of forth-coming changes to EZProxy,
which will require us to pay an arm and a leg for future versions to
install locally and/or host with OCLC AU with a ~ 10,000km round trip.
What are the alternatives?
cheers
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It's a product from OCLC, see http://www.oclc.org/en-US/ezproxy.html
cheers
stuart
On 29/01/14 15:05, Riley Childs wrote:
Ok, what exactly is EZProxy, I could never figure that out, if I knew I could
help :)
Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 28, 2014, at 9:04 PM, stuart yeates stuart.yea...@vuw.ac.nz
config for site Z looked like B?
I'm aware of this good article:
http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/7470
cheers
stuart
On 29/01/14 15:24, stuart yeates wrote:
We've just received notification of forth-coming changes to EZProxy,
which will require us to pay an arm and a leg for future
them to add metadata to the F1 or to connect them with
other items in the collection.
cheers
stuart
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Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2013 1:36 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Subject Terms in Institutional Repositories
I run the techie side of http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/ and we use
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the standard or these two implementations?
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times a day.
The current solution I have seen is a pen and paper task, and then
someone will have to manually put the data into a spreadsheet for
analysis.
Thanks!
Tom
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) Login as admin and Goto: Menu - Administration - Database maintance -
Update SPARQL endpoint.
Best Regards and apologies for cross-posting
diego ferreyra
temat...@r020.com.ar
http://www.vocabularyserver.com
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of looking at an
open source alternative can easily outweigh the multi-year licensing fee.
cheers
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On 04/06/13 11:18, Karen Coyle wrote:
Ta da! That did it, Kyle. Why on earth do we all them smart quotes ?!
Because they look damn sexy when printed on pulp-of-murdered-tree, which
we all know is authoritative form of any communication.
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of a
tool for holding two files side by side and noting what is the same and
what is different between the files?
It seems like any simple script to note differences in two strings of text
would work, but I don't know a tool to use.
-Wilhelmina Randtke
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that can be customised to remove all the
item-level stuff?
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be cool if others -who care about the bot -
add more content to this page.
http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Zoia_or_the_Code4Lib_IRC_bot
Looking at that, the only absolutely library-specific content there
appears to be the MARC plugin (which isn't documented in detail).
cheers
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, 'Lightning talks Session 2')
Capsule summary: we claim to value user engagement. Making that claim
and then failing to attempt to measure it is unprofessional.
cheers
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If you decide you'll be hanging out on #libtechwomen a lot (or on
irc.freenode.net in general), it might be a good idea to register your nick
as explained here http://freenode.net/faq.shtml#userregistration because the
short answer is, sometimes people are assholes.
Another important
with non-western names (there is more
than one kind of diversity) and those people whose experience of gender
in the workplace have led them to use non-gender-specific identifiers.
cheers
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But who is deciding the LCC or Dewey Classification code ? Should it
be the publisher's initiative ? Is there a way to get those
information automatically ?
For books published in the US except for those categories listed at
http://www.loc.gov/publish/cip/about/ineligible.html , the
this right. You want to track users after they have expressed
an explicit desire not to be tracked? The link you're after is
http://www.ala.org/offices/oif/statementspols/ftrstatement/freedomreadstatement
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to
encourage trans-Tasman rivalry.
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.
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have any stats for how many ONIX data elements in the wild
actually use these elements in non-trivial ways? I've never seen any.
cheers
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giants shoulders to stand on.
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://www.librarything.com/work/683408/editions/11795335
Wikipedia / dbpedia have redirects which tend in the same direction, but
only for titles and not ISBNs.
cheers
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The wiki software with the largest user base is undoubtedly media wiki (i.e.
wikiepdia).
We're moving to it as a platform precisely because to leverage the skills that
implies.
We're not far enough into our roll out to tell whether it's going to be a
success
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suspect that it
won't make it in today. Of course it's now grandfathered in and removing
support seems very, very, unlikely.
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is available.
sed 's/www.example.net/example.com/gI' IN_FILE OUT_FILE
Will stream IN_FILE to OUT_FILE replacing all instances of
www.example.net with example.com
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of Disapproval
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There's a discussion going on on Wikipedia that may be of interest to
subscribers of this list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Authority_control#More_VIAF_Integration
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is not such a platform.
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graphs,
upload data, etc.
kyle
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for MARC. This, of course, is only productively conducted with a sound
understanding of the causes of the complexity in MARC. I'll leave it to
the reader to consider whether various proponents' arguments are
persuasive on this point.
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), which says it can do 'foldouts',
thought I haven't found an example of HOW to do that ... nor exactly what the
metadata schema is.
Sounds like an ideal use for HTML, javascript and image transparency
using OnMouseOver as trigger.
cheers
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the version of the standard we use to make them compatible with iTunesU.]
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