Re: [CODE4LIB] Islandora & Vagrant - Development use only?

I disagree with the statement that "Vagrant is not a good idea for production.” Vagrant is a terrible idea for production, and it is not designed for that. We use Ansible to build Islandora, and, after three years of talking about it we are starting to use it with Docker. We are an AWS shop, so

Re: [CODE4LIB] Google can give you answers, but librarians give you the right answers

This is librarians fighting a PR battle we can't win. I doubt most people care about these assertions, and I certainly don't think they stand a chance of swaying anyone. This is like the old "librarians need to promote themselves better" chestnut. Losing strategies, in my opinion. Rather than

Re: [CODE4LIB] Google can give you answers, but librarians give you the right answers

I think some should get off their pedestals and think how the unknown to you patron is to find you, your library and your content. To assume the user has come and ask you is to put too much burden on the user to find and access what you have. This weeks furthest patron for me was the other side

Re: [CODE4LIB] Google can give you answers, but librarians give you the right answers

On Apr 6, 2016, at 12:44 PM, Jason Bengtson wrote: > This is librarians fighting a PR battle we can't win. I doubt most people > care about these assertions, and I certainly don't think they stand a > chance of swaying anyone. This is like the old "librarians need to

Re: [CODE4LIB] including data from static JSON file in Javascript

If all you want to do is load external json as a string, you can do it using syntax almost identical to what you suggest. Just change your data.json file so the content is var data = ' [include your json here, be sure to escape things properly]'; Then just load this file before your external

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Re: [CODE4LIB] Google can give you answers, but librarians give you the right answers

Amen to the need to help people narrow down, focus their searches; amen to BT/NT in LCSH. I'm working in a smaller subject domain now than I used to, theology and religion. It makes the idea of projects like mining seminary reserve lists for recommended works, [I really wish ATLA would let us

Re: [CODE4LIB] including data from static JSON file in Javascript

Ken, you can make a synchronous request with XMLHttpRequest if you need to (though it's not commonly done): var request = new XMLHttpRequest(); request.open('GET', 'data.json', false); // false implies synchronous request.responseType="json"; request.send(null); But do consider the option of

[CODE4LIB] including data from static JSON file in Javascript

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Re: [CODE4LIB] including data from static JSON file in Javascript

Thanks Kyle -- that's exactly what I needed for the current circumstance. It might not be the best, but it looks like the simplest by a long shot. Thanks to Conal too. I'm so glad to have a community of folks who can help spare us from hours of anguish and frustration! Ken

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Re: [CODE4LIB] Google can give you answers, but librarians give you the right answers

On Apr 5, 2016, at 11:12 PM, Karen Coyle wrote: > Eric, there were studies done a few decades ago using factual questions. > Here's a critical round-up of some of the studies: > http://www.jstor.org/stable/25828215 Basically, 40-60% correct, but possibly > the questions

Re: [CODE4LIB] Google can give you answers, but librarians give you the right answers

There is at least some new evidence that for at least some users...discovery patterns are moving toward library interfaces after having a steady decline [1]. It seems plausible to me that this shift may correlate to the change in tools and attitudes that has led to integrated discovery layers

[CODE4LIB] Islandora & Vagrant - Development use only?

Hi, all, Can anyone provide a technical explanation as to why it is not appropriate to install Islandora on a public server with Vagrant? Despite all the documentation instructing that Vagrant is for development only, my university's IT department thinks Vagrant makes Islandora more secure for

Re: [CODE4LIB] Islandora & Vagrant - Development use only?

Vagrant is not a good idea for production. It's really for people to work against a copy of the production environment. Like you can use Vagrant, then update a ansible or puppet or chef script then deploy that to yr VM. Hashicorp is making something called Otto which is supposed to replace Vagrant

Re: [CODE4LIB] Google can give you answers, but librarians give you the right answers

On 4/6/16 4:04 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: Instead, I think the problem to solve surrounds assisting the reader in using & understanding the stuff they find. I'd like to see innovation a step before find, but I think in a sense we're on the same wavelength. My take is that bibliographic

Re: [CODE4LIB] Islandora & Vagrant - Development use only?

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Re: [CODE4LIB] Google can give you answers, but librarians give you the right answers

On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 7:42 AM, Karen Coyle wrote: > ... Libraries "do" it, but our user interfaces ignore it (honestly, does > anyone NOT think that the whole BT/NT relationship in LCSH is completely > wasted in today's systems?). Google searches "work" best on proper nouns >

Re: [CODE4LIB] Google can give you answers, but librarians give you the right answers

On Wed, Apr 06, 2016 at 07:42:11AM -0700, Karen Coyle wrote: > Also, without the links that fuel pagerank, the ranking is very > unsatisfactory - cf. Google Book searches, which are often very > unsatisfying -- and face it, if Google can't make it work, what are > the odds that we can? Karen, I