Re: [CODE4LIB] Visualization of the Metadata Universe

2010-06-21 Thread Tim Spalding
Jenn, It's really beautiful. Like a good map or timetable, you can pore over it for hours. I want a big copy for the office. Can you explain it to me a little? For example, what does it mean to say that XML or MPEG-21 has a much stronger connection to the library community—as defined by uptake, i

Re: [CODE4LIB] Visualization of the Metadata Universe

2010-06-21 Thread stuart yeates
Hello Jenn It's a great diagram, lovely and shiny and clearly the work of someone with a creative vision for their work. Alas I think it's substantially less useful than it could be, because that sea of acronyms (we do love our acronyms, don't we?) is a sea of dead-ends. The work could be ma

Re: [CODE4LIB] Facebook JSON results and the privacy problem

2010-06-21 Thread Michael J. Giarlo
Also, MARC is dead. On Jun 21, 2010 9:04 PM, "Ethan Gruber" wrote: All social networks follow the same path. They become popular and are then inundated with spam. Myspace still exists, but it is essentially "dead" because it fails to grow its population. When was the last time you saw a movie

Re: [CODE4LIB] Facebook JSON results and the privacy problem

2010-06-21 Thread Ethan Gruber
All social networks follow the same path. They become popular and are then inundated with spam. Myspace still exists, but it is essentially "dead" because it fails to grow its population. When was the last time you saw a movie trailer that provided a link to its myspace page? At least three yea

Re: [CODE4LIB] Facebook JSON results and the privacy problem

2010-06-21 Thread Genny Engel
Seems to honor privacy settings, though. Otherwise http://graph.facebook.com/search?q=poopiness would retrieve WAY more records. Genny Engel >>> ranti.ju...@gmail.com 06/21/10 03:31PM >>> For example: http://graph.facebook.com/search?q=whatever ranti. -- Bulk mail. Postage paid.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Facebook JSON results and the privacy problem

2010-06-21 Thread Nick Ruest
It is what youropenbook is using: http://youropenbook.org/ -nruest On 10-06-21 07:40 PM, Bill Dueber wrote: On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Ethan Gruber wrote: Hmm, interesting. Facebook is on the way out, anyway. The question is what social network, if any, will replace it. M

Re: [CODE4LIB] Facebook JSON results and the privacy problem

2010-06-21 Thread Bill Dueber
On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Ethan Gruber wrote: > Hmm, interesting. Facebook is on the way out, anyway. The question is > what > social network, if any, will replace it. > My Geek Ire is as aroused as anyone else's over privacy concerns and such, but with half a billion users, all but rou

[CODE4LIB] Visualization of the Metadata Universe

2010-06-21 Thread Riley, Jenn
(This message is being sent to multiple lists; please excuse duplication.) The sheer number of metadata standards in the cultural heritage sector is overwhelming, and their inter-relationships further complicate the situation. A new resource, Seeing Standards: A Visualization of the Metadata Uni

Re: [CODE4LIB] Facebook JSON results and the privacy problem

2010-06-21 Thread Ethan Gruber
Hmm, interesting. Facebook is on the way out, anyway. The question is what social network, if any, will replace it. On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 6:31 PM, Ranti Junus wrote: > For example: > http://graph.facebook.com/search?q=whatever > > > ranti. > > -- > Bulk mail. Postage paid. >

[CODE4LIB] ALA Session on MODS and MADS: Current implementations and future directions

2010-06-21 Thread Riley, Jenn
(This message is being sent to multiple lists; please excuse duplication.) Please join us at the ALA session MODS and MADS: Current implementations and future directions, sponsored by LITA. 10:30-12:00, Sunday June 27 Washington Convention Center, Room 143 B/C Over the last few years, the use o

[CODE4LIB] Facebook JSON results and the privacy problem

2010-06-21 Thread Ranti Junus
For example: http://graph.facebook.com/search?q=whatever ranti. -- Bulk mail. Postage paid.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Get together in DC during ALA?

2010-06-21 Thread Joshua Gomez
+1 >>> Cary Gordon 6/21/2010 2:02 PM >>> +1 On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Bryan Baldus wrote: > On Wednesday, June 16, 2010 11:55 AM, Joe Hourcle wrote: >>We had pretty good turn out the last time we had a code4lib dinner during an >>ALA meeting in DC a few years back. >>Are there enough c

Re: [CODE4LIB] Get together in DC during ALA?

2010-06-21 Thread Cary Gordon
+1 On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 10:02 AM, Bryan Baldus wrote: > On Wednesday, June 16, 2010 11:55 AM, Joe Hourcle wrote: >>We had pretty good turn out the last time we had a code4lib dinner during an >>ALA meeting in DC a few years back. >>Are there enough code4lib people either going to ALA or local

[CODE4LIB] PDF: Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography: 2008 Annual Edition

2010-06-21 Thread Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
This June is the twenty-first anniversary of PACS-L, an early mailing list. PACS-L facilitated the establishment in August 1989 of The Public-Access Computer Systems Review (PACS Review), one of the first open access journals published on the Internet. In turn, a PACS Review experiment resulted in