Actually, as the maintainer of that archive,
http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/handle/10063/1710 is probably a better
URL to use, since it goes to an HTML page rather than a PDF and supports
the usual metadata stuff.
cheers
stuart
On 05/08/11 15:20, Brenda Chawner wrote:
The final version of
Several years ago I invited subscribers to this email discussion list to
complete a Web-based survey as part of my PhD research. Since the data
gathered were anonymous, I don’t know who the individual respondents were,
which means I am sending this summary of the findings to the list.
I am ver
An option to consider is using the Internet Archive's Book Reader:
http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/bookreader
http://raj.blog.archive.org/2011/03/17/how-to-serve-ia-style-books-from-your-own-cluster/
You can use it locally with your own images - JPEG 2000, JPEG, TIFF and PNG
are supported formats
Salvete!
> This is insightful, Eric. The thrust of our justification to the Mellon
> Foundation was to help take open source from early adopt to early majority
> (on
> Everett Roger's Diffusion of Innovations scale). So while early adopters
> will want to scratch an itch I don't think the
An option to consider is using the Internet Archive's Book Reader:
http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/bookreader
http://raj.blog.archive.org/2011/03/17/how-to-serve-ia-style-books-from-your-own-cluster/
You can use it locally with your own images - JPEG 2000, JPEG, TIFF and PNG
are supported formats.
On 04/08/11 13:09, Peter Murray wrote:
Thanks for the reply, Stuart. With the first question, I've updated the diagram to add an
"Association" entity. (Technically, I don't think this is an entity but rather a
specialization of a relationship.) This is based off some great work I saw at the
*Please excuse the cross-posting*
Do you love to develop and continually improve elegant, highly functional,
user-focused websites?
Can you whip up delightful, well-designed graphics in your sleep?
Wouldn't you jump at the chance to focus your work exclusively on a library's
Web services
So I take it, this would need a fast connection between Google and your
server, but would tolerate a slow connection between the user and Google?
Cindy Harper, Systems Librarian
Colgate University Libraries
char...@colgate.edu
315-228-7363
On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 6:03 AM, Richard Wallis wrote:
Thanks everyone for the feedback and emendations! I'm going to check out
libstats; sounds promising.
Best,
Nathan
On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Nathan Tallman wrote:
> Other than ATReference, does anyone know of any open-source software
> designed for tracking reference statistics? I know th
Disclaimer: I helped write this software.
You may want to look at our just-released Diva.js script. It can handle
document images up to many gigabytes in size, in many different resolutions.
The big advantage, though, is that the user only ever downloads the portion of
the document that they ar
Hello,
For a project I just finished several scripts to generate pdfs from
piles of tiffs. The process was:
In a .htaccess file have not found urls rewritten to a script that
passed the desired filename to it.
The script would then build the pdf and 'print' it to the requester
along with the
No one has mentioned accessibility issues for those using screenreaders. JPEG
would not work for them.
Bill Drew
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I've thought about using JPEG page images instead of PDFs to serve our scanned
newspapers, which also have sizes ranging upwards of 100MB+, with a link to
download the PDF as a fallback for people who really want that. The downside
is having to do the bulk conversion, manage the extra files, et
My naive thought would be to run your files through a batch PDF
compressor, something along the lines of:
http://www.cvisiontech.com/products/general/pdfcompressor.html
If the files are still too large, PDF splitters exist, giving folks
the option of downloading a page/ section at a time.
Best o
Why not let someone else, such as the Google, do the heavy lifting for you:
https://docs.google.com/viewer
~Richard.
On 4 August 2011 07:39, Dave Caroline wrote:
> One method is to dispense with PDF and just view the scanned pages online
> as
> images or OCR'd text or point the user to a direct
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