[CODE4LIB] Survey on debt and the library degree

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Re: [CODE4LIB] Help me build a QA dataset for a Wayback search engine

I am almost always looking for a known website to find some lost piece of information, so I'll be interested in how a topic search interface would actually work. Of no utility to your question, but fun: the wayback_exe project, where a bot runs against the Wayback Machine API and makes a screen

[CODE4LIB] Help me build a QA dataset for a Wayback search engine

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[CODE4LIB] Final call: Study on the Organization and Structure of Cataloging Units in Academic Libraries

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Re: [CODE4LIB] "Illegal Aliens" subject heading

Salvete! Please, Sir, may we have a fork? I can only imagine that the Gay Cataloguing Mafia is with us wee folk. Cheers, Brooke - Original Message - > From: Galen Charlton > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Sent: Monday, April 18, 2016 10:59 AM > Subject:

Re: [CODE4LIB] Let's Encrypt and EZProxy

Hello, Got it. No wildcard support though. I'll go through and read everything that was posted. I've been frustrated with SSL certificates lately. Let's Encrypt looks nice. I know similar services in the past didn't hold up well. Thanks, Cornel Darden Jr. Chief Information Officer Casanova

Re: [CODE4LIB] Let's Encrypt and EZProxy

Cornel Darden wrote: > Hello, > > SSL certificates are a pain. Should there be a non-profit organization, > like a library, that can issue free trusted certficates? Should they still > cost? > That's what letsencrypt is, which is what this thread is about. https://letsencrypt.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] [patronprivacy] Let's Encrypt and EZProxy

Will godaddy let you add scholar-google-com.librarycatalog.vts.edu to your certificate? See Option HttpsHyphens cheers stuart -- ...let us be heard from red core to black sky On Tue, Apr 19, 2016 at 3:43 AM, Harper, Cynthia wrote: > So, the reason we wanted to proxy

Re: [CODE4LIB] Let's Encrypt and EZProxy

Hello, SSL certificates are a pain. Should there be a non-profit organization, like a library, that can issue free trusted certficates? Should they still cost? Thanks, Cornel Darden Jr. Chief Information Officer Casanova Information Services, LLC Office Phone: (779) 205-3105 Mobile Phone:

Re: [CODE4LIB] authority work with isni

On the note of what other formats are available, you can also throw a .rdf onto the end to get a little RDF/XML as DC/SKOS (at least for the one you mentioned--it doesn't seem terribly detailed compared to the XML). On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 12:12 PM, Bigwood, David wrote:

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Re: [CODE4LIB] OCR recommendations?

We too are using ABBYY Finereader to meet ADA compliance requirements in Special Collections. I don't know of a better product, but for older documents (e.g., weird typefaces) and those with images (e.g., advertisements in a newspaper), it does require some handholding. We use students for

Re: [CODE4LIB] OCR recommendations?

We use and like Tesseract, as well. Cary > On Apr 18, 2016, at 8:29 AM, Stefano Bargioni wrote: > > FYI, tesseract works with many languages, and more than one at the same time. > From [1]: > > -l lang > >The language to use. If none is specified, English is assumed. >

Re: [CODE4LIB] OCR recommendations?

Hi Rachel, We have been very pleased with ABBYY Finereader as a workstation solution. http://www.abbyy.com/finereader/ We are also in the midst of implementing their server product for higher volume conversions. Best, Chad

Re: [CODE4LIB] authority work with isni

Eric, ORCID is also available. http://orcid.org/organizations/integrators/API ORCID is mostly current authors of journal articles. Over 2 million names. David Bigwood dbigw...@hou.usra.edu Lunar and Planetary Institute http://www.lpi.usra.edu/library/ @LPI_Library -Original Message-

Re: [CODE4LIB] [patronprivacy] Let's Encrypt and EZProxy

So, the reason we wanted to proxy scholar.google.com is that google provides link resolver links if the requesting IP is our domain. Otherwise, each remote user will have to configure their own browser. GoDaddy wouldn't let me add scholar.google.com.librarycatalog.vts.edu to my certificate. So

Re: [CODE4LIB] "Illegal Aliens" subject heading

Yes, thank you. The "we" has to include cataloguing experts and the catloguing community of course. A fair amount of those people are already part of the Cod4Lib community. > On Apr 18, 2016, at 10:59 AM, Galen Charlton wrote: > > Hi, > > On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 10:28

Re: [CODE4LIB] OCR recommendations?

Yes, thank you, Carol! To clarify: The documents are English language with mostly simple fonts. There is some handwritten text in the more recent issues of this publication, but we're working from the 1940's forward, so we can come up with another solution for the handwriten stuff down the line,

Re: [CODE4LIB] OCR recommendations?

FYI, tesseract works with many languages, and more than one at the same time. >From [1]: -l lang The language to use. If none is specified, English is assumed. Multiple languages may be specified, separated by plus characters. Tesseract uses 3-character ISO 639-2 language codes. (See

Re: [CODE4LIB] "Illegal Aliens" subject heading

Actually - now that I think of it, maybe this is the controversy we need to get our catalogs and discovery engines to make better use of our cross-references, make them more visible and easier to use. Cindy harper -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries

Re: [CODE4LIB] "Illegal Aliens" subject heading

Images of a bi-lingual catalog - Republicanese and Democratese. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Galen Charlton Sent: Monday, April 18, 2016 11:00 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] "Illegal Aliens" subject

Re: [CODE4LIB] "Illegal Aliens" subject heading

Hi, On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 10:28 AM, Eric Hellman wrote: > I also think that Code4Lib is potentially more powerful than congress > in this situation. LC says that "all of the revisions will appear on a > Tentative List and be approved no earlier than May 2016; the > revision

[CODE4LIB] OCR recommendations?

Greetings, Might anyone have some recommendations on good OCR software that is either relatively cheap or free? We're looking to OCR some files for a digital collection (platform still to be determined...) and wonder if there's a more robust tool than Acrobat Pro that won't cost an arm and a leg.

Re: [CODE4LIB] OCR recommendations?

Hi Rachel, I assume you're talking about OCR for English language texts with simple fonts. :-) If so, we've been using Tesseract with good results. It's open source. Good luck! Best wishes, Carol On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 10:51 AM, Rachel Gravel wrote: > Greetings, >

[CODE4LIB] "Illegal Aliens" subject heading

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Re: [CODE4LIB] Good Database Software for a Digital Project?

On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 7:15 AM, Matt Sherman wrote: > Thanks for all the advice folks, this gives me a lot to look into. You all > have certainly made me table MySQL, so now to look into PostgreSQL, Solr, > XTF, and some of these other technologies to see what would

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Re: [CODE4LIB] Good Database Software for a Digital Project?

Since you mention the requirement to publish and maintain it on the web, another (NoSQL) option for your data storage would be a SPARQL graph store (such as Apache Fuseki). Loading the data would involve transforming each citation into an RDF graph and storing it as a named graph with an HTTP PUT,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Good Database Software for a Digital Project?

Thanks for all the advice folks, this gives me a lot to look into. You all have certainly made me table MySQL, so now to look into PostgreSQL, Solr, XTF, and some of these other technologies to see what would be the best fit. It is always so helpful pinging this group as you all have so many

Re: [CODE4LIB] Good Database Software for a Digital Project?

Hi Matt, You may wish to give a try to J-ISIS https://kenai.com/projects/j-isis/downloads With J-ISIS, you can create a searchable database with a couple of clicks. It uses Berkeley Database as persistence manager and Lucene for indexing and searching. The user can concentrate on the domain and

Re: [CODE4LIB] Good Database Software for a Digital Project?

Well, we've got one volume done, with about 1,250 bibliographies, but there are 3 other volumes to convert. So at the end of the day probably about 5,000 entries. Though the how is to make it intractable via the web and hopefully letting scholars in the field continue to add to the database once

Re: [CODE4LIB] Good Database Software for a Digital Project?

On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 11:53 AM, Roy Tennant wrote: > In my experience, for a number of use cases, including possibly this one, > a database is overkill. Often, flat files in a directory system indexed by > something like Solr is plenty and you avoid the inevitable

Re: [CODE4LIB] Good Database Software for a Digital Project?

We use MySQL and now mostly Maria. While I agree that PostgeSQL might be technically advantageous in some ways, its ubiquity and the easy availability of many free and paid support options make it a great choice. That said, I think you should examine and explore the possibilities offered by Solr

Re: [CODE4LIB] Good Database Software for a Digital Project?

What technologies are you comfortable with for CRUD? That may help inform your choice of data source. Do you want full text searching? Will this project live on a web page when completed? As well- are there existing databases program available for you to add yours to? How many records are

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Re: [CODE4LIB] Good Database Software for a Digital Project?

On 15 April 2016, Roy Tennant wrote: In my experience, for a number of use cases, including possibly this one, a database is overkill. Often, flat files in a directory system indexed by something like Solr is plenty and you avoid the inevitable headaches of being a database administrator.

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Re: [CODE4LIB] authority work with isni

A cautionary note. Linked data works best when the entities identified by URIs are unambiguous. That's not always the case with VIAF and ISNI. They aggregate data from other ID registries algorithmically and with limited review. High-performing algorithms still make mistakes, as do the more

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Re: [CODE4LIB] Good Database Software for a Digital Project?

In my experience, for a number of use cases, including possibly this one, a database is overkill. Often, flat files in a directory system indexed by something like Solr is plenty and you avoid the inevitable headaches of being a database administrator. Backup, for example, is a snap and easily

Re: [CODE4LIB] Good Database Software for a Digital Project?

Hi Matt, It's very hard to provide a responsible recommendation without further details, so this is just going to be a quick overview of *relational database* options. It might be that some of the other recommendations fit your needs better. For example, if your users aren't at ease with SQL,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Good Database Software for a Digital Project?

It is OCRed text that we've forced in the a delimited text file format. So there are a lot of ways we can spin it. I am just not as familiar with the storage/query systems we could put it in. On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 2:44 PM, Gregory Murray wrote: > Matt, > > If the

Re: [CODE4LIB] Good Database Software for a Digital Project?

Matt, If the annotated bibliography is already in XML form, or if the data it is suited to a hierarchical structure, you may want to consider using a native XML database (the most common open-source ones are eXist and BaseX) and querying it with XQuery. Greg On 4/15/16, 2:18 PM, "Code for

Re: [CODE4LIB] Good Database Software for a Digital Project?

Have a look at http://grimoire.ca/mysql/choose-something-else: "Considering MySQL? Use something else. Already on MySQL? Migrate. For every successful project built on MySQL, you could uncover a history of time wasted mitigating MySQL's inadequacies, masked by a hard-won, but

Re: [CODE4LIB] Good Database Software for a Digital Project?

I would definitely pick postgres over mysql. It has all of the same features and more, plus it is easier to use (in my own opinion). But before I even pick a database I would consider these: What are the speed requirements? How do you plan on doing searching? How much data? Does it need to be

Re: [CODE4LIB] Good Database Software for a Digital Project?

Well, this is a side project with just 2 of us working on it, and I have the tech skills so it is more of what I need to learn to make it work. On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 2:22 PM, Ethan Gruber wrote: > There are countless ways to approach the problem, but I suggest beginning >

Re: [CODE4LIB] Good Database Software for a Digital Project?

It might be worth checking out some existing solutions to the problem. Zotero is a pretty good tool for collecting, organizing, and sharing citation data - open source, works through a browser plug-in, collaboration capabilities (though the server code is a bit harder to get one's hands on).

Re: [CODE4LIB] Good Database Software for a Digital Project?

I would suggest looking at postgresql . It may not be as widely used as mysql, but it is used a lot, and it's a high-quality piece of database software. It's also free. -Ben On 04/15/2016 02:18 PM, Matt Sherman wrote: Hi all, I am looking to pick the group brain

Re: [CODE4LIB] Good Database Software for a Digital Project?

There are countless ways to approach the problem, but I suggest beginning with tools that are within the area of expertise of your staff. Mapping disparate structured formats into a single Solr instance for fast search and retrieval is one possibility. On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 2:18 PM, Matt

[CODE4LIB] Good Database Software for a Digital Project?

Hi all, I am looking to pick the group brain as to what might be the most useful database software for a digital project I am collaborating on. We are working on converting an annotated bibliography to a searchable database. While I have the data in a few structured formats, we need to figure

Re: [CODE4LIB] authority work with isni

Wikidata has lots of authority control info and crosswalks many, primarily based on en.wiki edits. See the list at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Authority_control / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Module:Authority_control Wikidata can be queried of batch downloaded. cheers stuart --

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Re: [CODE4LIB] authority work with isni

On Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 2:16 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > ... > My questions are: > > * What remote authority databases are available programmatically? I > already know of one from the Library of Congress, VIAF, and probably > WorldCat Identities. Does ISNI support some sort

Re: [CODE4LIB] authority work with isni

If you're comfortable using the VIAF API, then you'll find ISNI links in VIAF records. Ralph -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Eric Lease Morgan Sent: Friday, April 15, 2016 5:17 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: authority

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Re: [CODE4LIB] authority work with isni

Hi, Eric, ISNI does offer API, documentation available at http://www.isni.org/content/documents-related-database-enquiry OCLC Research task group on representing organizations in ISNI will release its report

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Re: [CODE4LIB] authority work with isni

I don't have any useful answers for most of your questions. But you might be interested to know that ISNI is working with Library of Congress to get ISNI identifiers into LC name authority records. When this gets implemented, any existing ISNI identifiers in the National Authority File will

[CODE4LIB] authority work with isni

I am thinking about doing some authority work with content from ISNI, and I have a few questions about the resource. As yo may or may not know, ISNI is a sort of authority database. [1] One can search for an identity in ISNI, identify a person of interest, get a key, transform the key into a

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Re: [CODE4LIB] LCSH, Bisac, facets, hierarchy?

Try searching "power" in Wikipedia. The result is a list of Wikipedia articles, but the semantic categories built into Wikipedia are used to organize the results, and the article titles in some cases are functioning as controlled terms, specifying what kind of power is being referenced. Within

Re: [CODE4LIB] LCSH, Bisac, facets, hierarchy?

Absolutely, and what I said somewhere above in this thread: "Note that Google does not give users an answer to this question because there is no larger context, no inherent organization. Google does not do knowledge organization. Libraries "do" it, but our user interfaces ignore it (honestly,

Re: [CODE4LIB] LCSH, Bisac, facets, hierarchy?

On 4/14/16 7:40 AM, Joseph Montibello wrote: Real use of LCSH would search the reference vocabulary as well as the preferred term headings which get into bib records. Working with LCSH bib headings alone misses the point of a sophisticated controlled vocabulary, where much of the terminological

Re: [CODE4LIB] LCSH, Bisac, facets, hierarchy?

Absolutely, and what I said somewhere above in this thread: "Note that Google does not give users an answer to this question because there is no larger context, no inherent organization. Google does not do knowledge organization. Libraries "do" it, but our user interfaces ignore it (honestly,

Re: [CODE4LIB] LCSH, Bisac, facets, hierarchy?

>Real use of LCSH >would search the reference vocabulary as well as the preferred term >headings which get into bib records. Working with LCSH bib headings alone >misses the point of a sophisticated controlled vocabulary, where much of >the terminological and semantic richness for searching is

Re: [CODE4LIB] LCSH, Bisac, facets, hierarchy?

One factor that current search systems tend to overlook is that LCSH, all of it, is intended intended to be a first class search target. The LCSH headings that get into bib records are only the tip of the iceberg. The LCSH authority for "Cuba--History--Invasion, 1961" includes a 450 "see from"

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Re: [CODE4LIB] LCSH, Bisac, facets, hierarchy?

Yes, it's exploring what advantage there may be of using overlapping search terms to help bridge the differences between LCSH and "common usage", or "what the searcher is thinking of" that motivated this subject display. For example, the person-in-the-street would reasonably think that when

Re: [CODE4LIB] LCSH, Bisac, facets, hierarchy?

From a librarian’s perspective, we know searching is messy – a researcher can’t hope to find the perfect subject heading that will reveal all their related content in one term. Searching is exploring through overlapping terms, and compiling a bibliography from the pearls found in the process.

Re: [CODE4LIB] LCSH, Bisac, facets, hierarchy?

Wow this is really interesting! want to play it with for a bit and will share any thoughts!

Re: [CODE4LIB] LCSH, Bisac, facets, hierarchy?

About ten years ago, I was wondering how to make the structure in LCSH, or at least how it was encoded in MARC subject tags more useful, so when implementing a prototype for a new library catalogue at the National Library of Australia, I tried using the subject tag contents to represent a

Re: [CODE4LIB] LCSH, Bisac, facets, hierarchy?

Clicking on the link "409" from "Philosophy & Religion > Religion" I get: Object not found! The requested URL was not found on this server. If you entered the URL manually please check your spelling and try again. If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster. Error 404

Re: [CODE4LIB] LCSH, Bisac, facets, hierarchy?

:) sounds like there is a lot of useful metadata but somewhat scattered amongst various fields, depending on when the item was cataloged or tagged. Which seems to correspond to anecdotal surfing of the Harvard data. I guess my new task is to build something that aggregates and reconciles

Re: [CODE4LIB] LCSH, Bisac, facets, hierarchy?

thank you!

Re: [CODE4LIB] LCSH, Bisac, facets, hierarchy?

> On Apr 13, 2016, at 11:35 AM, Stephen Hearn wrote: > > as does the > relative newness of LCGFT terms. LoC genre form terms have been around since the 1980s; they use to be called gmgpc, and I think were primarily used (correctly!) only by us archival photograph catalogers.

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