Re: [CODE4LIB] Mobile emulators and sites to search

2010-03-10 Thread Graham, Wayne (wsg4w)
The Android SDK includes an emulator 
(http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html), but I like the one from Phonegap 
(http://phonegap.com) written in AIR. It allows you two switch between 
different mobile device skins and has a simulated accelerometer and geolocation 
service.

HTH,
Wayne

--
Wayne Graham
Head of Research and Development
Department of Digital Research and Scholarship
Alderman Library
University of Virginia
434.924.6265



On 3/10/10 2:56 PM, "Michael Silver"  wrote:

I don't know nothing 'bout birthing no babies or android apps, but the
android developer site lists an emulator and virtual machines on the
page at
http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/index.html

Michael

On 10/03/2010 12:37 PM, Jill Ellern wrote:
> Code4Lib folks,
> I was very impressed with the talks at the conference on Mobile Catalog 
> searching and what to do a show and tell for my library staff.  However, Kim 
> Griggs presentation doesn't appear to be up yet...:(  (I really liked your 
> presentation!  Others did great too...) And I didn't take good enough notes 
> because I was hoping to play that presentation to my library folks...
>
> So we were wondering,  Is there a mobile emulator for the Android phone you 
> would recommend?
>
> Is there a list somewhere of sites that show off Mobile searching well that 
> you would recommend?
>
> Jill
>
>


--
Michael Silver
MLIS Student
School of Library and Information Studies
University of Alberta
michael.sil...@ualberta.ca


Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib.hu meetup

2010-03-10 Thread Király Péter

Dear Jonathan and Edward,

Thank you for your kindness. I will let you know, if the initiative
were successfull.

Regards,
Péter

ps. Edward: if you come to Hungary, and you would like to hear some
advice about nice places here, drop me a private email, maybe I can
help you.


- Original Message - 
From: "Edward M. Corrado" 

To: 
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 5:14 PM
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib.hu meetup


As Jonathan pointed out, there is nobody to ask formal permission - just 
go ahead and do it. Personally, I would love to see some of these regional 
code4lib conferences/meetups/symposium/whatever happen around the world. 
Who knows, I might even show up to one :-).


Edward - who actually plans to be in Hungry for a day or two in late June 
on his way to Romania.




Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
There's nobody to ask formal permission for, but I think you've done the 
right thing by suggesting it on this listserv and seeing what "the 
community" thinks.


As one member of the community, I think that's a great idea and an 
appropriate use of the code4Lib name, and I expect that everyone else 
will think so too.
You are also welcome to use the Code4Lib wiki if it's useful for your 
local group/meeting.  You can see that other local/regional/national 
Code4Lib meetups very similar to what you envision have already listed 
themselves on the wiki and make use of the wiki. Look under "Local / 
Regional Groups" on http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Main_Page  .   You 
are welcome to list your group on the wiki and use the wiki if you like.


Jonathan

Király Péter wrote:

Hi,

I would like to ask you, whether is there somebody, from whom I can ask
permissions, to use the name code4lib.hu for an unconference meetup, 
where
Hungarian library coders could talk, and pair-program in a style of a 
Drupal

codesprint or OCLC mashaton?

Péter
eXtensible Catalog





Re: [CODE4LIB] Mobile emulators and sites to search

2010-03-10 Thread Doran, Michael D
Hi Jill,

> So we were wondering,  Is there a mobile emulator for the Android phone
> you would recommend?

Yes.  Your best bet is to use the emulator that comes with the Android Software 
Development Kit (SDK).  One of the other code4lib presentations included some 
screenshots showing some of the steps to download that SDK and create and start 
up an emulator instance [1].

> Is there a list somewhere of sites that show off Mobile searching well
> that you would recommend?

I would recommend taking a look at the M-Libraries wiki [2].

There are also some eclectic, but useful, links under the "mobile" tag in my 
delicious account [3].  The focus is on the development end, but there are some 
links to good mobile interfaces, too.

-- Michael

[1] "Mobile Web App Design: Getting Started"
Presentation can be downloaded from 
http://code4lib.org/conference/2010/doran

[2] http://www.libsuccess.org/index.php?title=M-Libraries

[3] http://delicious.com/michaeldoran/mobile


# Michael Doran, Systems Librarian
# University of Texas at Arlington
# 817-272-5326 office
# 817-688-1926 mobile
# do...@uta.edu
# http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/
 

> -Original Message-
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of
> Jill Ellern
> Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2010 1:38 PM
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: [CODE4LIB] Mobile emulators and sites to search
> 
> Code4Lib folks,
> I was very impressed with the talks at the conference on Mobile Catalog
> searching and what to do a show and tell for my library staff.
> However, Kim Griggs presentation doesn't appear to be up yet...:(  (I
> really liked your presentation!  Others did great too...) And I didn't
> take good enough notes because I was hoping to play that presentation
> to my library folks...
> 
> So we were wondering,  Is there a mobile emulator for the Android phone
> you would recommend?
> 
> Is there a list somewhere of sites that show off Mobile searching well
> that you would recommend?
> 
> Jill


Re: [CODE4LIB] Mobile emulators and sites to search

2010-03-10 Thread Michael Silver
I don't know nothing 'bout birthing no babies or android apps, but the 
android developer site lists an emulator and virtual machines on the 
page at

http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/index.html

Michael

On 10/03/2010 12:37 PM, Jill Ellern wrote:

Code4Lib folks,
I was very impressed with the talks at the conference on Mobile Catalog 
searching and what to do a show and tell for my library staff.  However, Kim 
Griggs presentation doesn't appear to be up yet...:(  (I really liked your 
presentation!  Others did great too...) And I didn't take good enough notes 
because I was hoping to play that presentation to my library folks...

So we were wondering,  Is there a mobile emulator for the Android phone you 
would recommend?

Is there a list somewhere of sites that show off Mobile searching well that you 
would recommend?

Jill

   



--
Michael Silver
MLIS Student
School of Library and Information Studies
University of Alberta
michael.sil...@ualberta.ca


[CODE4LIB] Mobile emulators and sites to search

2010-03-10 Thread Jill Ellern
Code4Lib folks,
I was very impressed with the talks at the conference on Mobile Catalog 
searching and what to do a show and tell for my library staff.  However, Kim 
Griggs presentation doesn't appear to be up yet...:(  (I really liked your 
presentation!  Others did great too...) And I didn't take good enough notes 
because I was hoping to play that presentation to my library folks...

So we were wondering,  Is there a mobile emulator for the Android phone you 
would recommend?

Is there a list somewhere of sites that show off Mobile searching well that you 
would recommend?

Jill


Re: [CODE4LIB] Any examples of using OAI-ORE for aggregation?

2010-03-10 Thread Matt Jones
Hi Joe,

I'm interested in that same issue.  I've been trying to research if there
are standardized ways to serialize an ORE ResourceMap with all of its linked
resources into a single container for transport, but I haven't found
anything yet.  I did notice that the BagIt RFC [1] is a closer match to this
use case as it explicitly deals with serialization and transport in section
8.  But BagIt doesn't have the web resource orientation that ORE has.

If you get suggestions offlist on how to do this with ORE, could you send a
summary?

Thanks,
Matt

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kunze-bagit-01

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Joe Hourcle
wrote:

> Most of the examples I've seen of OAI-ORE seem to assume that you're
> ultimately interested in only one object within the resource map --
> effectively, it's content negotiation.
>
> Has anyone ever played with using ORE to point at an aggregation, with the
> expectation that the user will be interested in all parts, and automatically
> download them?
>
> ...
>
> Let me give a concrete example:
>
>A user searches for some data ... we find (x) number of records
>that match their criteria, and they then weed the list down to 10
>files of interest.
>
>We then save this request as a Resource Map, as part of an OAIS
>"order".  I then want to be able to hand this off to a browser /
>downloader / whatever to try to obtain the individual files.
>
> Currently, I have something that can take the request, and create a tarball
> on the fly, but we have the unfortunate situation when some of the data is
> near-line and/or has to be regenerated -- I'm trying to find a good way to
> effectively fork the request into multiple smaller request, some of which I
> can service now, and some for which I can return an HTTP 503 status (service
> unavailable) w/ a retry-after header.
>
> ...
>
> Has anyone ever tried doing something like this?  Should I even be looking
> at ORE, or is there something that better fits with what I'm trying to do?
>
> Thanks for any advice / insight you can give
>
> -Joe
>
> -
> Joe Hourcle
> Programmer/Analyst
> Solar Data Analysis Center
>


[CODE4LIB] Any examples of using OAI-ORE for aggregation?

2010-03-10 Thread Joe Hourcle
Most of the examples I've seen of OAI-ORE seem to assume that you're 
ultimately interested in only one object within the resource map -- 
effectively, it's content negotiation.


Has anyone ever played with using ORE to point at an aggregation, with the 
expectation that the user will be interested in all parts, and 
automatically download them?


...

Let me give a concrete example:

A user searches for some data ... we find (x) number of records
that match their criteria, and they then weed the list down to 10
files of interest.

We then save this request as a Resource Map, as part of an OAIS
"order".  I then want to be able to hand this off to a browser /
downloader / whatever to try to obtain the individual files.

Currently, I have something that can take the request, and create a 
tarball on the fly, but we have the unfortunate situation when some of the 
data is near-line and/or has to be regenerated -- I'm trying to find a 
good way to effectively fork the request into multiple smaller request, 
some of which I can service now, and some for which I can return an HTTP 
503 status (service unavailable) w/ a retry-after header.


...

Has anyone ever tried doing something like this?  Should I even be looking 
at ORE, or is there something that better fits with what I'm trying to do?


Thanks for any advice / insight you can give

-Joe

-
Joe Hourcle
Programmer/Analyst
Solar Data Analysis Center


Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Midwest? [conference call]

2010-03-10 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
Thank you for completing the Doodle poll, and based on that information, there 
will be a Code4Lib "Midwest" Regional Meeting conference call tomorrow 
(Thursday):

Who: anybody who wants to participate
   What: conference call
   When: Thursday, March 10 from 4 - 5 o'clock (Eastern time)
  Where: on the phone
Why: because planning is a good thing

If you want to participate, then you need to call the following telephone 
number and use the access code:

  * phone number - (866) 469-3239
  * access code - 214 555 48 

Let's try to keep the call to less then thirty minutes, and let's try to answer 
the following questions, in priority order:

  * Where will the regional meeting take place?
  * When will the regional meeting take place, and for how long?
  * What is a rough agenda of topic?

To help with decision-making, see the wiki where there is a list of possible 
attendees as well as a map of where they might be coming. [1]

[1] wiki - http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Midwest

-- 
Eric "What Am I Getting Into" Morgan
University of Notre Dame

(574) 631-8604


Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib.hu meetup

2010-03-10 Thread Edward M. Corrado
As Jonathan pointed out, there is nobody to ask formal permission - just 
go ahead and do it. Personally, I would love to see some of these 
regional code4lib conferences/meetups/symposium/whatever happen around 
the world. Who knows, I might even show up to one :-).


Edward - who actually plans to be in Hungry for a day or two in late 
June on his way to Romania.




Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
There's nobody to ask formal permission for, but I think you've done 
the right thing by suggesting it on this listserv and seeing what "the 
community" thinks.


As one member of the community, I think that's a great idea and an 
appropriate use of the code4Lib name, and I expect that everyone else 
will think so too.
You are also welcome to use the Code4Lib wiki if it's useful for your 
local group/meeting.  You can see that other local/regional/national 
Code4Lib meetups very similar to what you envision have already listed 
themselves on the wiki and make use of the wiki. Look under "Local / 
Regional Groups" on http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Main_Page  .   
You are welcome to list your group on the wiki and use the wiki if you 
like.


Jonathan

Király Péter wrote:

Hi,

I would like to ask you, whether is there somebody, from whom I can ask
permissions, to use the name code4lib.hu for an unconference meetup, 
where
Hungarian library coders could talk, and pair-program in a style of a 
Drupal

codesprint or OCLC mashaton?

Péter
eXtensible Catalog
  


Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib.hu meetup

2010-03-10 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
There's nobody to ask formal permission for, but I think you've done the 
right thing by suggesting it on this listserv and seeing what "the 
community" thinks.


As one member of the community, I think that's a great idea and an 
appropriate use of the code4Lib name, and I expect that everyone else 
will think so too. 

You are also welcome to use the Code4Lib wiki if it's useful for your 
local group/meeting.  You can see that other local/regional/national 
Code4Lib meetups very similar to what you envision have already listed 
themselves on the wiki and make use of the wiki. Look under "Local / 
Regional Groups" on http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Main_Page  .   
You are welcome to list your group on the wiki and use the wiki if you 
like.


Jonathan

Király Péter wrote:

Hi,

I would like to ask you, whether is there somebody, from whom I can ask
permissions, to use the name code4lib.hu for an unconference meetup, where
Hungarian library coders could talk, and pair-program in a style of a Drupal
codesprint or OCLC mashaton?

Péter
eXtensible Catalog 

  


[CODE4LIB] code4lib.hu meetup

2010-03-10 Thread Király Péter

Hi,

I would like to ask you, whether is there somebody, from whom I can ask
permissions, to use the name code4lib.hu for an unconference meetup, where
Hungarian library coders could talk, and pair-program in a style of a Drupal
codesprint or OCLC mashaton?

Péter
eXtensible Catalog 


Re: [CODE4LIB] Conference followup; open position at Google Cambridge

2010-03-10 Thread Will Brockman
Mike,

Thanks for the feedback!  That does sound (to me) like something we
should fix - I'm looking into it.

All the best,
Will

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 5:15 PM, KREYCHE, MICHAEL  wrote:
> Will--
>
> Please see what you can do about https access to the GBS api.
>
> http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/booksearch-apis/thread?fid=3916426dca77fa5200047e2911dc75c5&hl=en
>
> Mike
> --
> Michael Kreyche
> Systems Librarian / Associate Professor
> Libraries and Media Services
> Kent State University
> 330-672-1918
>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On
>> Behalf Of Will Brockman
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 5:02 PM
>> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
>> Subject: [CODE4LIB] Conference followup; open position at
>> Google Cambridge
>>
>> As a first-time Code4Lib attendee, let me say thanks for a fun
>> conference - a very interesting and creative group of people!
>>
>> A question I posed to some of you in person, and would love to hear
>> more answers to: What are you doing with Google Books?  Do you have a
>> new way of using that resource?  Are there things you'd like to do
>> with it that aren't possible yet?
>>
>> Also, a couple of people asked if Google is hiring.  Not only are we
>> hiring large numbers of software engineers, but we're now seeking a
>> librarian / software developer (below).  I'm happy to take questions
>> about either.
>>
>> All the best,
>> Will
>> brock...@google
>>
>>
>> Metadata Analyst
>>
>> Google Books is looking for a hybrid librarian/software developer to
>> help us organize all the world's books.  This person would work
>> closely with software engineers and librarians on a variety of tasks,
>> ranging from algorithm evaluation to designing and implementing
>> improvements to Google Books.
>>
>> Candidates should have:
>> * An MLS or MLIS degree, ideally with cataloguing experience
>> * Programming experience in Python, C++, or Java
>> * Project management experience a plus, but not required
>>
>> This position is full-time and based in Cambridge, MA.
>>
>