Re: [CODE4LIB] open circ data

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 06:04:35PM -0400, Jimmy Ghaphery wrote: > Are there any other repositories of circ data similar to the OhioLINK/OCLC > project (http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/ohiolink/circulation.html > ). > > I seem to remember a large set of British data, but I can't track that

Re: [CODE4LIB] open circ data

Thanks Owen and Roy for taking the time to respond. I'll share back C4L if anything curious or interesting comes of this project. --Jimmy On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Owen Stephens wrote: > The University of Huddersfield released circulation data - see > http://library.hud.ac.uk/data/usaged

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

I don't personally know they are legit. All I can say is they haven't gone wild with my credit card... yet. I learned about them here: http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/04/following-facebooks-shut-down-of-face-coms-facial-recognition-api-lambda-labs-debuts-an-open-source-alternative/ I had the same

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

Hmmm... Lambdal wants my credit card information for me to be able to sign up for the free (low monthly use) facial recognition. Do you personally know that they are legit? -Wilhelmina On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 7:54 AM, Kevin S. Clarke wrote: > You might try: > > http://api.lambdal.com/ > > Supp

Re: [CODE4LIB] open circ data

The University of Huddersfield released circulation data - see http://library.hud.ac.uk/data/usagedata/_readme.html The University of Lincoln also release some data linked from http://library.hud.ac.uk/wikis/mosaic/index.php/Project_Data (along with the Huddersfield data in a different format I

Re: [CODE4LIB] open circ data

See for one pile. Dave Pattern at the University of Huddersfield put it up back in 2008. Roy On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 3:04 PM, Jimmy Ghaphery wrote: > Are there any other repositories of circ data similar to the OhioLINK/OCLC > project (http://www.oclc.org

[CODE4LIB] open circ data

Are there any other repositories of circ data similar to the OhioLINK/OCLC project (http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/ohiolink/circulation.html ). I seem to remember a large set of British data, but I can't track that down. We have some eager IS grad students looking for data to use for a re

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Re: [CODE4LIB] Book metadata source

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Godmar Back wrote: > If it's only in the hundreds, why not just look them up in Worldcat via > their basic search API and pull the ISBNs from the xISBN service? That's > quickly scripted. Thank you, Godmar. My experience with scripting/ programming is pretty lim

Re: [CODE4LIB] Book metadata source

If it's only in the hundreds, why not just look them up in Worldcat via their basic search API and pull the ISBNs from the xISBN service? That's quickly scripted. - Godmar On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 3:05 PM, Cab Vinton wrote: > I have a list of several hundred book titles & corresponding authors,

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

You might try: http://api.lambdal.com/ Supposedly its API is the same as the old Face.com one. I haven't used it myself. Kevin On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 1:19 AM, Kam Woods wrote: > Not an API per se, but OpenCV face tagging with Python! Here's an old > and hacky example...I bet there are bette

Re: [CODE4LIB] Book metadata source

With reference to... >>> I realize that different manifestations of the same work will have >>> different ISBNs, so we'd be seeking any work in print format, ideally the >>> most commonly held. ...have you had a look at ISTC? http://www.istc-international.org/html/ If you register the "works"