Re: [CODE4LIB] ticTOCs makes its data available to developers

2009-02-19 Thread Roy Tennant
Terry, I appreciate you making this data available. FWIW (and that wouldn't be much) I integrated your RSS data with my somewhat stale data of peer-reviewed journals at Roy > As you may know, ticTOCs is a project funded by JISC in the UK to create a > single

Re: [CODE4LIB] Cancelled hotel room for conf

2009-02-19 Thread jean rainwater
There's no waiting list for the hotel but they'll move someone who got the higher rate to the discounted rate when there's a c4l cancellation. They do this in the order in which the reservation was made. So someone should be getting a break. -- Jean On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Yitzchak Sch

[CODE4LIB] Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Science and Metadata Community (SAM)

2009-02-19 Thread Sarah Carrier
Apologies for any duplication: We are pleased to introduce the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Science and Metadata Community, and welcome participation from individuals and organizations interested in all aspects of metadata relating to scientific data. Funders of scientific research are increas

Re: [CODE4LIB] APIs that an OPAC should provide ...

2009-02-19 Thread Andrew Nagy
OAI-PMH! Andrew On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Matthias Einbrodt < matthias.einbr...@meinbrodt.net> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm interested in your opinion regarding the question which (kind of) > APIs an OPAC should provide nowadays and in the near or maybe not so > near future! > > Thanks in adva

Re: [CODE4LIB] APIs that an OPAC should provide ...

2009-02-19 Thread Ross Singer
I am hardly impartial, but I think Jangle makes a worthy API. http://jangle.org/ If you're attending the Code4lib conference next week, you can learn all about it. -Ross. On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Matthias Einbrodt wrote: > Hello, > > I'm interested in your opinion regarding the questio

Re: [CODE4LIB] APIs that an OPAC should provide ...

2009-02-19 Thread Matthias Einbrodt
Eric and Jonathan, thank you very much for the lead! Matthias Eric Lease Morgan schrieb: > On 2/19/09 4:08 PM, "Matthias Einbrodt" > wrote: > > >> I'm interested in your opinion regarding the question which (kind of) >> APIs an OPAC should provide nowadays and in the near or maybe not so >> n

Re: [CODE4LIB] APIs that an OPAC should provide ...

2009-02-19 Thread Cloutman, David
>From my perspective, as someone working in a public library, I really want to be able to hit our OPAC with marketing type queries to provide promotion of library materials using real-time, or near real-real time data. Fundamentally, the Holy Grail of API queries for me is as follows: For a given

[CODE4LIB] Voting for the 2010 Code4lib Conference Location is now open

2009-02-19 Thread Ross Singer
http://vote.code4lib.org/election/index/9 The formatting is a little ugly, highlighting the perils of cut and paste. Voting is open through 4:30 PM EST on Wednesday, February 25th. If there's a tie, we'll have a runoff that ends sometime before the conference ends on Thursday. May the best loca

Re: [CODE4LIB] APIs that an OPAC should provide ...

2009-02-19 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
On 2/19/09 4:08 PM, "Matthias Einbrodt" wrote: > I'm interested in your opinion regarding the question which (kind of) > APIs an OPAC should provide nowadays and in the near or maybe not so > near future! "Should" is a strong word, but be that as it may, you might take a gander at the things a D

Re: [CODE4LIB] APIs that an OPAC should provide ...

2009-02-19 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
I think the DLF Task Force answered this question admirably. http://diglib.org/architectures/ilsdi/ Jonathan Matthias Einbrodt wrote: Hello, I'm interested in your opinion regarding the question which (kind of) APIs an OPAC should provide nowadays and in the near or maybe not so near future

[CODE4LIB] APIs that an OPAC should provide ...

2009-02-19 Thread Matthias Einbrodt
Hello, I'm interested in your opinion regarding the question which (kind of) APIs an OPAC should provide nowadays and in the near or maybe not so near future! Thanks in advance and best regards Matthias Einbrodt

[CODE4LIB] Importing MARC records into Drupal 6 and/or the Biblio module

2009-02-19 Thread Phil Cryer
I've been working with Drupal 6, along with the Biblio module and have imported articles, this works great. However now that I'm trying some MARC records it's failing. I've read posts on drupal.org and I see that the functionality to import MARC -> Biblio is no longer there (?) The thing is, I c

[CODE4LIB] Cancelled hotel room for conf

2009-02-19 Thread Yitzchak Schaffer
All: I've just cancelled my reservation for the conference next week. Not sure if there's a waiting list, but have at it! Cheers, -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Librarian Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230 Fax (212) 627-3197 yitzc...@touro.e

Re: [CODE4LIB] ticTOCs makes its data available to developers

2009-02-19 Thread Bucknell, Terry
Yes, we're aware that we have feeds for dead journals too and are working on a mechanism to strip those out - but thanks for checking that we knew! Terry Terry Bucknell Electronic Resources Manager Sydney Jones Library University of Liverpool Chatham St, PO Box 123 Liverpool, L69 3DA, UK Tel:

Re: [CODE4LIB] ticTOCs makes its data available to developers

2009-02-19 Thread Bob Duncan
At 05:57 PM 2/18/2009, Terry wrote: . . . We have been busy developing more flexible APIs and in the course of that today we realised that we were including some records that don't have feeds (and that don't appear in our web interface). We will make sure that we tidy those up. We also appreci