[CODE4LIB] Upcoming Code4libNYC Meeting Thursday, January 29th

2009-01-21 Thread Kevin Reiss
Hi List Members, Just a reminder that our regional Code4lib group, Code4libNYC, is holding our first meeting of the New Year. The time, date, and location are: Time: Thursday, January 29th from 10:00 A.M. until 12:00 noon Location: Metropolitan New York Library Council Offices Address: 57 E. 11

[CODE4LIB] ETD package for ProQuest/UMI old and new delivery platforms

2009-01-21 Thread Han, Yan
Hello, All, As mentioned before, I have received quite a few inquiries about the packages. I have created a web page so that you can download them. I have also made some fixes on the package. The software package does: * Unzip ProQuest/UMI ETD delivery Zipped files, and create one dir

Re: [CODE4LIB] BISAC Subject Headings Lookup or Crosswalk

2009-01-21 Thread Ryan Eby
Yep, I caught the license information but it appeared that they didn't really have much more than a list for you to use locally. More or less stated how you line up their headings with your local items is up to you. Probably won't pursue the cost until I know that it can be done programmatically ve

Re: [CODE4LIB] BISAC Subject Headings License fees

2009-01-21 Thread Ya'aqov Ziso
An Organization with revenue under $10 Million pays an annual fee of $195 An Organization with revenue of $10 Million or higher pays an annual fee of $395 Crosswalks to LCSH get us into the cost for LCSH+NAF. I havenĀ¹t verified that, but since LCSF/NAF are gov.docs they are not copy righted withi

[CODE4LIB] Dutch Code4Lib

2009-01-21 Thread Posthumus, Etienne
At various tech related library gatherings here in the Netherlands there have been discussion about setting up a regional Code4Lib (or something similar) So as a start, if there any subscribers on this list who are in the vicinity of Netherlands/Belgium and interested, please give me a shout. We

Re: [CODE4LIB] BISAC Subject Headings Lookup or Crosswalk

2009-01-21 Thread Roy Tennant
The BISG licenses BISAC to institutions that want to incorporate the terminology into their "internal systems"[1]. I'm not sure what this means for API access. But an email to the BISG seems the minimum of due diligence. Roy [1] http://www.bisg.org/standards/bisac_subject/license.html On 1/21/09

Re: [CODE4LIB] BISAC Subject Headings Lookup or Crosswalk

2009-01-21 Thread Rob Sanderson
And if you could get access to the catalogue, you could then train a classifier (maybe bayes?) to predict BISAC given the other types of headings (or other data) in the records. Rob On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 12:21 -0500, Andrew Nagy wrote: > I saw a great presentation by Jesse Haro from Phoenix Publi

Re: [CODE4LIB] BISAC Subject Headings Lookup or Crosswalk

2009-01-21 Thread Andrew Nagy
I saw a great presentation by Jesse Haro from Phoenix Public on their Endeca catalog. They had their catalogers go back and recatalog the entire collection with BISAC headings. You might want to see if you can get in touch with him to see if he has any information for you. http://mlamasslib.blog

[CODE4LIB] BISAC Subject Headings Lookup or Crosswalk

2009-01-21 Thread Ryan Eby
I was wondering if anyone knows of a good BISAC Subject Headings source for looking up a recommended BISAC based on ISBN, LCSH, etc. I've found some pages on oclc.org saying they were starting work on crosswalks and possibly including them in WorldCat but I haven't seen any returned in any WorldCat

Re: [CODE4LIB] PICAplus to MODS conversion

2009-01-21 Thread Jakob Voss
Joachim Neubert wrote: Has anybody built a conversion from PICA+ to MODS and is willing to share the code? First there is not one PICA+ but different variants like there are different MARC variants. Second the most PICA+ to anything conversions that I know use the "FCV" conversion language t