Re: [CODE4LIB] Is there a (current) CONTENTdm support group?

[Kevin S. Clarke]

I'm sure there are folks on this mailing list who use ContentDM.  You
could always post advances, trials, and tribulations here.

Kevin


On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:31 PM, Rod McFarland  wrote:
> Subject tells it all really, I've found some really old wikis and a bunch of
> unhelpful Powerpoints via Google. The forum on the official page seems to be
> pretty much dormant. Is there an untainted forum for CONTENTdm
> users/hackers/victims out there? I've pretty much given up on the OCLC
> support, but I've made some advances to share, and met some roadblocks to
> ask about.
>
> If there isn't one, I could probably set something up, if there's interest.
>

[CODE4LIB] Is there a (current) CONTENTdm support group?

[Rod McFarland]

Subject tells it all really, I've found some really old wikis and a 
bunch of unhelpful Powerpoints via Google. The forum on the official 
page seems to be pretty much dormant. Is there an untainted forum for 
CONTENTdm users/hackers/victims out there? I've pretty much given up on 
the OCLC support, but I've made some advances to share, and met some 
roadblocks to ask about.


If there isn't one, I could probably set something up, if there's interest.

Re: [CODE4LIB] New xforms4lib Google Group

[Michael J. Giarlo]

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 18:47, MJ Ray  wrote:
>
> Could you make it so that people can subscribe by email, without
> signing up for a Google account, please?
>
> code4lib readers - anyone know what setting(s) to make that happen?

No.  But if that doesn't work out for y'all, you can always use the
code4lib list.  XForms is code, eh?

-Mike

Re: [CODE4LIB] New xforms4lib Google Group

[MJ Ray]

Ethan Gruber wrote:
> While I imagine that most people on the old xforms4lib list are also on
> code4lib and will thus get duplicative emails, I wanted to briefly announce
> that xforms4lib is migrating to a Google Group.  This will provide greater
> flexibility than the old system, which required list admins to be U.Va.
> members, I think, and will also allow the archives to be indexed by search
> engines.

Could you make it so that people can subscribe by email, without
signing up for a Google account, please?

code4lib readers - anyone know what setting(s) to make that happen?

Thanks,
-- 
MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op.
http://koha-community.org supporter, web and LMS developer, statistician.
In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html
Available for hire for Koha work http://www.software.coop/products/koha

Re: [CODE4LIB] Adding VIAF links to Wikipedia

[Bigwood, David]

I went in and added VAIF links to a bunch of planetary scientists. We
are working with NASA to improve the planetary science entries. Mostly,
just raising awareness among the scientists that it is important.

No negative comments on the VIAF links yet. A bot is something that will
get more attention though.

Sincerely,
David Bigwood
dbigw...@hou.usra.edu
Lunar and Planetary Institute

[CODE4LIB] New xforms4lib Google Group

[Ethan Gruber]

Hi all,

While I imagine that most people on the old xforms4lib list are also on
code4lib and will thus get duplicative emails, I wanted to briefly announce
that xforms4lib is migrating to a Google Group.  This will provide greater
flexibility than the old system, which required list admins to be U.Va.
members, I think, and will also allow the archives to be indexed by search
engines.

The new URL is https://groups.google.com/group/xforms4lib

Early next week, I will begin to gather a list of current and active XForms
projects so that the information is more easily accessible.

Ethan

Re: [CODE4LIB] Adding VIAF links to Wikipedia

[Ed Summers]

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Ralph LeVan  wrote:
> OCLC Research would desperately love to add VIAF links to Wikipedia
> articles, but it seems to be very difficult.  The OpenLibrary folks tried to
> do it a while back and ended up getting their plans severely curtailed.  The
> discussion at Wikipedia is captured here:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bots/Requests_for_approval/OpenlibraryBot

Ralph if you read that entire discussion it sounds like the bot was
approved. Am I missing something?

//Ed

Re: [CODE4LIB] Adding VIAF links to Wikipedia

[Ed Summers]

On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Mark A. Matienzo  wrote:
> I would suggest engaging with the GLAM-WIKI project within Wikimedia
> .  They held an unconference
> recently in New York .

I second Mark's advice. The GLAM-WIKI folks are actively seeking
participation in Wikipedia from libraries. I would recommend you
specifically talk to Liam Wyatt and Katie Filbert (cc'd here) about
the ins and outs of library bots on Wikipedia. They helped organize
the recent event in NYC. Liam was the Wikipedian in Residence at the
British Museum.

//Ed

PS. some context for Liam and Katie: folks from OCLC are asking about
policies regarding bots adding links to viaf.org for name authorities,
similar to what Wikimedia-Germany have done. Full thread here:
http://www.mail-archive.com/code4lib@listserv.nd.edu/msg10562.html

Re: [CODE4LIB] What does my solr index have against carbon dioxide?

[Bill Dueber]

There's some weridness with synonym expansion at query time when some of
them are phrases.

http://wiki.apache.org/solr/AnalyzersTokenizersTokenFilters#solr.SynonymFilterFactory

Looks like the suggested practice is to do synonym expansion at index time
(e.g., the synonym filter with expand="true"), but I've never dealt with it.

On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 7:43 AM, Thomas Dowling wrote:

> Greetings--
>
> I'm trying to flesh out my synonyms.txt file for a couple of Solr indexes,
> and I stumbled across something weird.  I added these lines to
> synonyms.txt:
>
> co2, carbon dioxide
> ch4, methane
>
>
> The second line worked as expected: I restarted Solr, reindexed, and could
> search ch4 and methane as synonyms of each other.
>
> The first line did something weird.  Before the change, I can get results
> for both CO2 and for "CARBON DIOXIDE" (just different results).  After the
> change, searching CO2 got zero results, as did "CARBON DIOXIDE".  So at
> least they're acting like synonyms, right?  But why in the world do they
> both stop finding hits?
>
> Pre-change:
>  CO2   225 hits
>  "CARBON DIOXIDE"  130 hits
>  CARBON DIOXIDE1030 hits
>
> Post-change:
>  CO2   0 hits
>  "CARBON DIOXIDE"  0 hits
>  CARBON DIOXIDE1030 hits
>
>
> Also, if I want to be able to search for Greek letters by name (alpha,
> beta, etc.), is there a better way than to use synonmyms.txt?
>
>  Δ,δ,delta
>
>
> TIA
>
> --
> Thomas Dowling
> tdowl...@ohiolink.edu
>



-- 
Bill Dueber
Library Systems Programmer
University of Michigan Library

[CODE4LIB] Access 2011: Registration is open

[Mark Jordan]

Registration is now open for the Access 2011 Conference, to be held October 
19-22 in Vancouver, British Columbia. See 
http://access2011.library.ubc.ca/registration/ for more details.
 
Some other goodies now available on the conference website include a 
preliminary schedule, information on the preconference event "Open Source for 
Library Decision Makers," information on social events, and a link to the 
Hyatt's room reservation form. We're also accepting suggestions for the 
Hackfest (http://access2011.library.ubc.ca/hackfest/).
 
The organizing committee gratefully acknowledges the following sponsors for 
their kind support (in alphabetical order):
 
Gold: Canadiana.org, Gibson Library Connections, Serials Solutions, Simon 
Fraser University Library, University of British Columbia, University of 
Victoria
 
Silver: Discovery Garden, Equinox Software, OCLC Digital Collection Services
 
Bronze: Andornot Consulting, BC Electronic Library Network, BC Libraries 
Cooperative, Dell Canada, Innovative Interfaces, Microcom, Relais 
International, Richmond Public Library, Vancouver Community College.
 
On behalf of the organizing committee,

Mark

Mark Jordan
Head of Library Systems
W.A.C. Bennett Library, Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada
Voice: 778.782.5753 / Fax: 778.782.3023 / Skype: mark.jordan50
mjor...@sfu.ca

Re: [CODE4LIB] What does my solr index have against carbon dioxide?

[Palian, Bob]

I don't use Solr but the obvious difference between the two synonyms is that 
methane is one word and carbon dioxide is two. Is there some phrase qualifier 
one needs to use with the Solr synonyms file?

Bob Palian

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Mike 
Graves
Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 10:25 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] What does my solr index have against carbon dioxide?

You'll probably get a better response from solr-users. In any case, posting the 
relevant fieldtype definition from your schema.xml and, for good measure, the 
results of a query with debugQuery on would be helpful. Off the top of my head, 
I'd say it may be a combination of not using index time expansion on the 
synonym filter (query time expansion on multi-word synonyms can be wonky) and a 
word delimiter filter that's configured to split on numerics, i.e. "co2" => 
"co", "2".

M

On 05/27/2011 07:43 AM, Thomas Dowling wrote:
> Greetings--
>
> I'm trying to flesh out my synonyms.txt file for a couple of Solr 
> indexes, and I stumbled across something weird.  I added these lines to 
> synonyms.txt:
>
> co2, carbon dioxide
> ch4, methane
>
>
> The second line worked as expected: I restarted Solr, reindexed, and 
> could search ch4 and methane as synonyms of each other.
>
> The first line did something weird.  Before the change, I can get 
> results for both CO2 and for "CARBON DIOXIDE" (just different 
> results).  After the change, searching CO2 got zero results, as did 
> "CARBON DIOXIDE".  So at least they're acting like synonyms, right?  
> But why in the world do they both stop finding hits?
>
> Pre-change:
>CO2225 hits
>"CARBON DIOXIDE"   130 hits
>CARBON DIOXIDE 1030 hits
>
> Post-change:
>CO20 hits
>"CARBON DIOXIDE"   0 hits
>CARBON DIOXIDE 1030 hits
>
>
> Also, if I want to be able to search for Greek letters by name (alpha, 
> beta, etc.), is there a better way than to use synonmyms.txt?
>
>Δ,δ,delta
>
>
> TIA
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] What does my solr index have against carbon dioxide?

[Mike Graves]

You'll probably get a better response from solr-users. In any case, 
posting the relevant fieldtype definition from your schema.xml and, for 
good measure, the results of a query with debugQuery on would be 
helpful. Off the top of my head, I'd say it may be a combination of not 
using index time expansion on the synonym filter (query time expansion 
on multi-word synonyms can be wonky) and a word delimiter filter that's 
configured to split on numerics, i.e. "co2" => "co", "2".


M

On 05/27/2011 07:43 AM, Thomas Dowling wrote:

Greetings--

I'm trying to flesh out my synonyms.txt file for a couple of Solr indexes,
and I stumbled across something weird.  I added these lines to synonyms.txt:

co2, carbon dioxide
ch4, methane


The second line worked as expected: I restarted Solr, reindexed, and could
search ch4 and methane as synonyms of each other.

The first line did something weird.  Before the change, I can get results
for both CO2 and for "CARBON DIOXIDE" (just different results).  After the
change, searching CO2 got zero results, as did "CARBON DIOXIDE".  So at
least they're acting like synonyms, right?  But why in the world do they
both stop finding hits?

Pre-change:
   CO2  225 hits
   "CARBON DIOXIDE"   130 hits
   CARBON DIOXIDE   1030 hits

Post-change:
   CO2  0 hits
   "CARBON DIOXIDE"   0 hits
   CARBON DIOXIDE   1030 hits


Also, if I want to be able to search for Greek letters by name (alpha,
beta, etc.), is there a better way than to use synonmyms.txt?

   Δ,δ,delta


TIA

[CODE4LIB] What does my solr index have against carbon dioxide?

[Thomas Dowling]

Greetings--

I'm trying to flesh out my synonyms.txt file for a couple of Solr indexes,
and I stumbled across something weird.  I added these lines to synonyms.txt:

co2, carbon dioxide
ch4, methane


The second line worked as expected: I restarted Solr, reindexed, and could
search ch4 and methane as synonyms of each other.

The first line did something weird.  Before the change, I can get results
for both CO2 and for "CARBON DIOXIDE" (just different results).  After the
change, searching CO2 got zero results, as did "CARBON DIOXIDE".  So at
least they're acting like synonyms, right?  But why in the world do they
both stop finding hits?

Pre-change:
  CO2   225 hits
  "CARBON DIOXIDE"  130 hits
  CARBON DIOXIDE1030 hits

Post-change:
  CO2   0 hits
  "CARBON DIOXIDE"  0 hits
  CARBON DIOXIDE1030 hits


Also, if I want to be able to search for Greek letters by name (alpha,
beta, etc.), is there a better way than to use synonmyms.txt?

  Δ,δ,delta


TIA

-- 
Thomas Dowling
tdowl...@ohiolink.edu