Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: Discovery products and authentication (esp Summon)

2012-10-25 Thread Laurence Lockton
Hi Jonathan, My library colleagues consider this to be an very important issue. For Primo, users must be authenticated by login or IP address for Web of Science results to be included from Primo Central, and they must be logged in for EBSCO results to be included (i.e. even on campus.) The Web

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: Discovery products and authentication (esp Summon)

2012-10-25 Thread Gary McGath
On 10/24/12 8:58 PM, Ross Singer wrote: On Oct 24, 2012, at 6:06 PM, Gary McGath develo...@mcgath.com wrote: On 10/24/12 4:00 PM, Ross Singer wrote: On Oct 24, 2012, at 3:48 PM, Gary McGath develo...@mcgath.com wrote: With AJAX, a resource can be brought up by refreshing part of an

[CODE4LIB] Crappy AJAX (was: [CODE4LIB] Q: Discovery products and authentication (esp Summon))

2012-10-25 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Oct 25, 2012, at 6:46 AM, Gary McGath wrote: On 10/24/12 8:58 PM, Ross Singer wrote: On Oct 24, 2012, at 6:06 PM, Gary McGath develo...@mcgath.com wrote: On 10/24/12 4:00 PM, Ross Singer wrote: On Oct 24, 2012, at 3:48 PM, Gary McGath develo...@mcgath.com wrote: Also, why wouldn't your

[CODE4LIB] Oral History Metadata Best Practices

2012-10-25 Thread Jacobs, Jane W
Hi Library-Coders, My colleagues and I are researching best practices in recording metadata for Oral Histories for an article tentatively accepted for publication. We're looking for input from practicing librarians, archivists, and historians. In particular we'd like to know what encodings

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: Discovery products and authentication (esp Summon)

2012-10-25 Thread Brad Baxter
We at GALILEO have thought about this. We authenticate everyone. If they're on campus it's by IP, if not, by password. So everyone sees everything. This also lets us define which EDS profile to direct the user to. -- Brad On 10/24/12, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: On

Re: [CODE4LIB] Oral History Metadata Best Practices

2012-10-25 Thread Priscilla Caplan
You might want to look at the section on Cataloging in the best practices guide on Florida Voices: http://www.fcla.edu/FloridaVoices/index.htm Priscilla On 10/25/2012 8:57 AM, Jacobs, Jane W wrote: Hi Library-Coders, My colleagues and I are researching best practices in recording metadata

Re: [CODE4LIB] Crappy AJAX

2012-10-25 Thread Gary McGath
On 10/25/12 7:37 AM, Joe Hourcle wrote: You didn't answer the question -- why would you not have some sort of check on the AJAX application (or any application, web or otherwise) to do at least minimal sanity checking on the result of an external call? Because putting the onus of sanity

Re: [CODE4LIB] Guide on the Side

2012-10-25 Thread Ross Singer
I haven't tried Guide on the Side, but looking over the requirements (and source: https://github.com/ualibraries/Guide-on-the-Side) there's nothing about it that I can see that wouldn't run on my cheap, shared Dreamhost account (or the Site5 account I used for a project a few years ago). It

Re: [CODE4LIB] Oral History Metadata Best Practices

2012-10-25 Thread Ross Singer
Since I didn't see this crossposted there, it might be worthwhile asking over on the metadataLibrarians listserv (http://metadatalibrarians.monarchos.com/). -Ross. On Oct 25, 2012, at 8:57 AM, Jacobs, Jane W jane.w.jac...@queenslibrary.org wrote: Hi Library-Coders, My colleagues and I are

Re: [CODE4LIB] Crappy AJAX

2012-10-25 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Oct 25, 2012, at 9:20 AM, Gary McGath wrote: On 10/25/12 7:37 AM, Joe Hourcle wrote: You didn't answer the question -- why would you not have some sort of check on the AJAX application (or any application, web or otherwise) to do at least minimal sanity checking on the result of an

Re: [CODE4LIB] Crappy AJAX

2012-10-25 Thread Ross Singer
On Oct 25, 2012, at 9:20 AM, Gary McGath develo...@mcgath.com wrote: Which is exactly the point I was about to make before I read your second paragraph; the server, not the web page, should be fixed up to make things work sensibly. http://www.google.com/search?q=Postel's+law -Ross.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Crappy AJAX

2012-10-25 Thread Chris Fitzpatrick
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre's_law On Oct 25, 2012 3:49 PM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: On Oct 25, 2012, at 9:20 AM, Gary McGath develo...@mcgath.com wrote: Which is exactly the point I was about to make before I read your second paragraph; the server, not the web page,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Oral History Metadata Best Practices

2012-10-25 Thread Michael Hopwood
PS - there is also a paper on oral traditions in FRBR... archivesic.ccsd.cnrs.fr/docs/00/06/26/91/PDF/sic_1629.pdf -Original Message- From: Michael Hopwood Sent: 25 October 2012 14:44 To: 'Jacobs, Jane W'; 'Priscilla Caplan' Cc: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: RE: [CODE4LIB] Oral

Re: [CODE4LIB] Oral History Metadata Best Practices

2012-10-25 Thread Michael Hopwood
Hello Jane, Priscilla, I would recommend looking at www.lido-schema.org as more interoperable, extensible and generally longer-term value-adding schema for collection of a lot of historical / heritage data. It has the same capabilities and easy entry level (only three mandatory sections;

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: Discovery products and authentication (esp Summon)

2012-10-25 Thread Ken Varnum
At MIchigan, we direct users to an interface within our library site. Over the last week, a bit more than 28% of searches against the Summon service were from on-campus (hardwired) computers. An additional 25% of searches were conducted from authenticated campus wireless networks. So slightly more

[CODE4LIB] Call for Manuscripts: Journal of Web Librarianship, Special Issue on Data

2012-10-25 Thread JWL Special Issue Data-Driven Decision Making
Please excuse cross posting. The *Journal of Web Librarianship* is pleased to announce an upcoming special issue on the topic of *data-driven decision making for the library web*, edited by Meris A Mandernach. Data-driven decision-making in the realm of library web sites is an emerging and

Re: [CODE4LIB] Guide on the Side

2012-10-25 Thread Alisak Sanavongsay
We are trying out Guide on the Side. We use a virtual private server for our website, and it works fine. I don't see anything in the requirements that says you need a dedicated server. We tried it out on one of our shared-hosting sites and it works fine there, too. The installation does require

Re: [CODE4LIB] Crappy AJAX

2012-10-25 Thread Kyle Banerjee
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 6:51 AM, Chris Fitzpatrick chrisfitz...@gmail.comwrote: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre's_law ++Sayre's Law

Re: [CODE4LIB] Oral History Metadata Best Practices

2012-10-25 Thread Bert Lyons
Also, a nice resource (for information and for people having similar discussions) is Oral History in the Digital Age (http://ohda.matrix.msu.edu/), a recently-finished project funded by IMLS and others. - Bert Bertram Lyons, CA Folklife Specialist / Digital Assets Manager American Folklife

Re: [CODE4LIB] Crappy AJAX

2012-10-25 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Thu, 25 Oct 2012, Chris Fitzpatrick wrote: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre's_law I'm guessing the other people participating in this thread have never had men with guns show up to take your server because of a 'security incident'. Or block your server's IP address, and then make

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: Discovery products and authentication (esp Summon)

2012-10-25 Thread David Friggens
But we do encourage (promote) an interface that forces off-campus authentication to our Summon instance. With an explanation that it's because of pirates! :-) https://auth.lib.unc.edu/ezproxy_auth.php?url=http://unc.summon.serialssolutions.com/search?s.q= And one we would need to revisit if

[CODE4LIB] Job: Web Developer (UI/UX) at Pennsylvania State University

2012-10-25 Thread jobs
Digital Library Technologies (DLT), a unit of Information Technology Services (ITS) at The Pennsylvania State University provides IT systems and services to support the teaching, research, and outreach mission of the University Libraries and Penn State. DLT is seeking a Web Developer to be a

[CODE4LIB] Are any facial recognition APIs available?

2012-10-25 Thread Wilhelmina Randtke
I used face.com 's facial recognition API, when it was available, to do a project where I tagged some people in a set of photos and then it suggested who unidentified people might be. I want to do something similar for a digitization project, but face.com was bought by Facebook, so no more API

Re: [CODE4LIB] Are any facial recognition APIs available?

2012-10-25 Thread Kam Woods
Not an API per se, but OpenCV face tagging with Python! Here's an old and hacky example...I bet there are better ones out there now. http://creatingwithcode.com/howto/face-detection-in-static-images-with-python/ Kam On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 12:59 AM, Wilhelmina Randtke rand...@gmail.com wrote: