Re: [CODE4LIB] Python web framework recommendations good when learning Python

2012-07-11 Thread Robert Berry
Flask is a good choice for what you want to do. I'd suggest using SQLAlchemy with it. It's an absolutely excellent DB abstraction layer / ORM. William Denton w...@pobox.com writes: I have a fairly basic web service I want to hack on that would manage some stuff (not too much) and feed out JSON

Re: [CODE4LIB] Python web framework recommendations good when learning Python

2012-07-11 Thread Jay Luker
+1 for Flask. We've started using it as an upgrade over web.py for simple one-off stuff, and are also in the process of integrating it into a much larger application. i.e., it scales both ways. --jay -- ** Jay Luker Astrophysics

Re: [CODE4LIB] Worldcat schema.org search API

2012-07-11 Thread Karen Coyle
That only returns a short citation but nothing says how short that citation is, nor if it is formatted. I assume that citation means citation format, which isn't useful. kc On 7/10/12 7:32 PM, Ross Singer wrote: Worldcat does have the basic API, which is more open (assuming your situation

Re: [CODE4LIB] responsiveness and Wordpress

2012-07-11 Thread Cynthia Ng
A responsive catalogue would definitely be interesting to see. I imagine what can make this very difficult to do is the fact that many (if not most) libraries have a proprietary ILS/OPAC, which can make it very difficult to customize. I've seen some mobile versions of faceted interfaces (mostly

Re: [CODE4LIB] responsiveness and Wordpress

2012-07-11 Thread Michael Schofield
We might be able to take inspiration from responsive shopping cats like Tiffany's - designed by Brad Frost. I saw where somewhere on the web he authored a step-by-step, this-is-why-he-did-what breakdown look into his design of a shopping cart. Of course, as I write this I see it's not in his usual

Re: [CODE4LIB] responsiveness and Wordpress

2012-07-11 Thread Misty De Meo
Are the responsive shopping cat positions for LC employees? On 12-07-11 9:10 AM, Michael Schofield mschofi...@nova.edu wrote: We might be able to take inspiration from responsive shopping cats like Tiffany's ... // Michael -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries

Re: [CODE4LIB] Worldcat schema.org search API

2012-07-11 Thread Ross Singer
Every entry has a link href=http://worldcat.org/oclc/{oclcnumber}/ that will take you to the schema.org. -Ross. On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 9:08 AM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote: That only returns a short citation but nothing says how short that citation is, nor if it is formatted. I assume

Re: [CODE4LIB] responsiveness and Wordpress

2012-07-11 Thread Ryan Freng
In May we (University of Wisconsin - Madison Libraries) released a front end to our catalog that is responsive. It's built on blacklight with twitter bootstrap. It works well regardless of screen size (tested by opening in all browsers and minimizing and maximizing the width of the window).

[CODE4LIB] complex drupal taxonomy question

2012-07-11 Thread Laurie Allen
Hi, I'm working on a drupal site with a very complicated taxonomy. Backstory: A polisci professor and team of students designed this project first as a theoretcal exercise as part of a senior thesis double major in political science and computer science, and then as the project of a very devoted

Re: [CODE4LIB] complex drupal taxonomy question

2012-07-11 Thread Andrew Hankinson
Just taking a stab in the dark: -- set up a copy field in Solr. This basically takes the content from an existing field and creates a mirror of it. -- apply some extra string processing to your copy field so that it splits and tokenizes the content on the - (e.g., enemy of islam and haverford

Re: [CODE4LIB] complex drupal taxonomy question

2012-07-11 Thread Cary Gordon
The issue is that child terms (contexts) are not reusable, so the term, enemy of islam is actually going to be a different entry for each parent (keyword) if you use a parent/child relationship. You should probably use separate vocabularies for contexts and keywords, then a module that establish

Re: [CODE4LIB] Primo Metadata

2012-07-11 Thread Kaile Zhu
Primo 4 is said to support RIS better and you'll find it much easier to implement Zotero and EndNote. - Kelly -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Sebastian Karcher Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 5:04 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU

Re: [CODE4LIB] complex drupal taxonomy question

2012-07-11 Thread Laurie Allen
Thanks very much, Cary. I'll check out that module and repost on drupal4lib. Laurie

Re: [CODE4LIB] [DRUPAL4LIB] taxonomy question

2012-07-11 Thread Cary Gordon
Also excerpted from Code4lib: The issue is that child terms (contexts) are not reusable, so the term, enemy of islam is actually going to be a different entry for each parent (keyword) if you use a parent/child relationship. You should probably use separate vocabularies for contexts and

Re: [CODE4LIB] [DRUPAL4LIB] taxonomy question

2012-07-11 Thread Cary Gordon
oops On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote: Also excerpted from Code4lib: The issue is that child terms (contexts) are not reusable, so the term, enemy of islam is actually going to be a different entry for each parent (keyword) if you use a parent/child

[CODE4LIB] Guide on the Side tutorial software open-source release

2012-07-11 Thread Hagedon, Mike
Please excuse cross-postings. The University of Arizona Libraries are pleased to announce the open-source release of the Guide on the Side web-based tutorial creation software. The Guide on the Side software is a freely available tool that allows librarians to quickly and easily create online,

[CODE4LIB] Dublin Core commonly required elements

2012-07-11 Thread Wilhelmina Randtke
My understanding of what elements are required to make a Dublin Core record are that none are required innately by the standard (all are optional), but that different federated search projects will require certain elements. Is there a good survey of federated search projects which will say which

[CODE4LIB] Code4lib 2013 Chicago Update

2012-07-11 Thread Francis Kayiwa
Thanks to the hardwork of too many people to list here (most of them aren't on this list) we nailed down dates. Come to Chicago IL. February 11-14 The conference will be at the UIC Forum [0] As usual we are looking for you to volunteer to make it better. There's still lots to do but few have

[CODE4LIB] LC Class to OCLC Conspectus hash table? Anyone?

2012-07-11 Thread Sam Kome
Bueller? We'll work with http://www.oclc.org/collectionanalysis/support/conspectus.xls unless there's something more rdbms/api friendly. Thanks! Sam Kome | RD Librarian |The Claremont Colleges Library Claremont University Consortium |800 N. Dartmouth Ave |Claremont, CA  91711 Phone (909)

[CODE4LIB] Job posting: Web Applications Developer (Library)

2012-07-11 Thread Diane Butler
Please consider this and pass on to those who might be interested. Rice University's Fondren Library invites applications for the following position: Web Applications Developer (Library) The Library Web Applications Developer designs, develops, codes, tests, implements and manages innovative

[CODE4LIB] ATOM/RSS Feed Archiving Question

2012-07-11 Thread Brian McBride
Code4lib team! I was wondering if anyone has worked on a projects relating to harvesting and archiving RSS/ATOM feeds from third party sites. Any information would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Brian Brian McBride Head of Application Development J. Willard Marriott Library O:

[CODE4LIB] Looking for geotagged book data sources

2012-07-11 Thread John Miedema
Looking for geotagged book data sources, available as (in order of preference): apis, share-able dataset, crawl source. Ideally this data is indexed by lat/long, but any geographical groupings are valuable. Here’s what I have so far. http://openbooklab.com/looking-for-geotagged-book-data-sources/

Re: [CODE4LIB] ATOM/RSS Feed Archiving Question

2012-07-11 Thread Jason Griffey
Many moons ago (longer than I care to admit) I did a bit of work setting up an RSS harvester/dashboard for myself. The engine taht I used was Magpie (http://magpierss.sourceforge.net/) at the time. Magpie was (is?) used as the RSS reader/parser for Wordpress, so is pretty stable and robust. Jason

Re: [CODE4LIB] Storing lat / long

2012-07-11 Thread Peter Neish
Not sure if you said where the lats and longs came from, but if any of your geocodes are historical, or worked out from looking at paper maps rather than a GPS then you should probably think about storing the Datum that was used as the basis for the geocode. Different datums can vary by up to a