Binkley, Peter wrote:
Bear in mind that even in UTF-8 there is more than one way to encode an
accented character. It can be precomposed (using a single character,
e.g. U0089 for lower-case e-acute: this is normalization form C) or
decomposed (using a base character and a non-spacing diacritic,
The fact that the XMLHttpRequest is a de facto standard and not an
actual standard worries me though, with out being accepted by the w3c,
it seems like a very volatile technology. But if google is using it, i
guess we are safe. :)
I'd be interested to see some examples if you create any.
.
Feel free to browse our collections and enjoy the wonderful images:
http://digital.library.villanova.edu
Enjoy,
Andrew Nagy
Bess Sadler wrote:
Enough people are interested in ILS related topics that it might be
worth forming groups around specific ILS products. If you are one of
these people, email the list if you're interested in setting up such
a thing.
Bess, this sounds like a great conversation. You can count
Bess Sadler wrote:
Hi, Andrew. Since this will be an all-day event, the session would be
starting first thing in the morning on Feb 27. I'm thinking 9am, but
I haven't confirmed that with anyone else. I'm just flying by the
seat of my pants here.
I wouldn't be able to make this then due to
Binkley, Peter wrote:
There would probably be a lot of optimizations you could do within Solr
to help with this kind of thing. Art and I talked a little about this at
the ILS symposium: why not nestle the XML db inside Solr alongside
Lucene? Solr could then manage the indexing of the contents
Erik Hatcher wrote:
What if games are mostly just guessing games in the high tech
world. Agility is the trait our projects need. Software is just
that... soft. And malleable. Sure, we can code ourselves into a
corner, but generally we can code ourselves right back out of it
too. If
Art Rhyno wrote:
I made a big mistake along the way in trying to work with Voyager's call
number setup in Oracle, and dragged Ross along in an attempt to get past
Oracle's constant quibbles with rogue characters in call number ranges.
The idea was to expose the library catalogue as a series of
Kevin S. Clarke wrote:
By the way, I see a very interesting intersection between Solr and
XQuery because both are speaking XML. You may have XQueries that
generate the XML that makes Solr do it's magic for instance. This is
an alternative to fulltext in XQuery, sure... it is something that is
Casey Durfee wrote:
I thought that was the point of using interfaces? I guess I don't get why you
need a standard to be compelled to do something you should be doing anyway --
coding to interfaces, not implementations.
Interfaces work well with like products (a database abstraction
Kevin S. Clarke wrote:
Have you had a chance yet to evaluate the 1.1 development line? It is
supposed to have solved the scaling issues. I haven't tried it myself
(and remain skeptical that it can scale up to the level that we talk
about with Lucene (but, as you point out, it is trying to do
Clay Redding wrote:
Hi Andrew (or anyone else that cares to answer),
I've missed out on hearing about incompatabilites between MARCXML and
NXDBs. Can you explain? Is this just eXist and Sleepycat, or are
there others? I seem to recall putting a few records in X-Hive with no
problems, but I
Kevin S. Clarke wrote:
Fwiw Andrew, I'd suggest you are not seeing the true spirit of your
NXDB. Try to put MARC into a RDBMS and you are going to run into the
same problem. You have to index intelligently or reorganize the data
(which is the default when you put XML into a RDBMS anyway).
Erik Hatcher wrote:
At this point, I'm planning on winging it with the datasets. By late
February I will have (high on my TODO list now!) built a light-weight
Solr mechanism for bringing in MARC data, and perhaps more (iTunes
data files would make a fun one) and doing simple skinnable front-
Sadler
People who have registered for the pre-conference:
Adam Soroka
Andrea Goethals
Andrew Darby
Andrew Nagy
Antonio Barrera
Art Rhyno
Bess Sadler
Dan Scott
Ed Summers
Edwin Sperr
Emily Lynema
Jonathan Gorman
Jonathan Rochkind
Kevin S. Clarke
Kristina Long
Michael Doran
Michael Witt
Mike Beccaria
Nathan Vack wrote:
Hey cats,
I'm starting to think (very excitedly) about the Lucene session, and
realized that I'd better get our data into an XML form, so I can do
interesting things with it.
Anyone here have experience (or code I could steal) dumping data from
Voyager into... anything? I'm
Bess Sadler wrote:
As long as we're on the subject, does anyone want to share strategies
for syncing circulation data? It sounds like we're all talking about
the parallel systems รก la NCSU's Endeca system, which I think is a
great idea. It's the circ data that keeps nagging at me, though. Is
Nathan Vack wrote:
Unless I'm totally, hugely mistaken, MARC doesn't say anything about
holdings data, right? If I want to facet on that, would it make more
sense to add holdings data to the MARC XML data, or keep separate xml
files for holdings that reference the item data?
As others have
Nathan Vack wrote:
On Jan 19, 2007, at 9:51 AM, LaJeunesse, Brad wrote:
I must strongly encourage everyone attending to bring
fully-charged laptops and spare batteries (if you have them). The
auditorium has 60 power outlets available, which gives us roughly a
2:1
ratio of outlets to people.
I have done large file uploads in PHP. Make sure you have the following
set in php.ini:
upload_max_filesize = some large size followed by M for megabyte or G
for gigabyte
file_uploads = on
post_max_size = some large size
Also, you can set these values through the set_ini function in PHP so
Andrew Nagy wrote:
I have an XSLT doc for transforming MARCXML to SOLR XML that I can
share around.
I was asked if I could post my XSLT doc, so here it is!
It is probably somewhat geared toward my collection of data and I had
some custom scripting for determining the format more accurately
as well that could be used to jumpstart the system?
Thanks!
-emily
Andrew Nagy wrote:
Andrew Nagy wrote:
I have an XSLT doc for transforming MARCXML to SOLR XML that I can
share around.
I was asked if I could post my XSLT doc, so here it is!
It is probably somewhat geared toward my collection
I am still having difficulty posting my presentation to the C4L
website. I am getting an error about my file not being authorized or
something to that extent. I did not try last night, but I will try
again tonight.
Has anyone checked to make sure that this is working?
Andrew
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Eric Lease Morgan
Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 1:53 PM
To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu
Subject: [CODE4LIB] marc2oai
Does anybody here know of a MARC2OAI program?
Eric, I have a small script that does
In case I can't make the conversation, I must suggest Bastille - a linux
package that does firewalling and IP Masquerading. I have been using it for
about 8 years now and have never had a hacked linux box running it.
I even had my ISP kill my network connection once because my server was being
Andrew, I began building a PHP OAI Client library based on a OAI Server library
that I wrote a while back. The OAI Client library is not complete, but it can
get you started. I attached it in a file called Harvester.php
Andrew
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From: Code for Libraries
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Will Kurt
One of the things that's really lacking in the library community is
something like a sourceforge.net to serve as a central repository for
all opensource library projects and this certainly
Does anyone know of a place where the LCC Callnumber classifications can be
found in a parseable format such as XML?
Thanks
Andrew
recall Ed Summers sharing the classification outline
in RDF. I may still have a copy of that around if you're interest.
Have a nice day,
Jonathan
On 8/28/07 12:16 PM, Andrew Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone know of a place where the LCC Callnumber
classifications can
This topic came up a few weeks ago on code4lib too, where were you Ed!? :)
I will echo something that Roy mentioned in the thread from a few weeks back,
would the LOC be willing to create a web service where you could supply a call
number and it would return the heirarchy of topic areas for
Nate, we use LibStats religiously here. I would be interested in joining the
community - but similiarly to you, I don't have much time to spare.
Andrew
-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Nathan Vack
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007
Library Software Development Specialist
Falvey Library, Villanova University
This position reports to the Technology Management Team and is responsible for
designing, developing, testing and deploying new technology methods, tools and
resources to extend and enhance digitally-mediated or
Does anyone know of or have an in-depth review of the access 2007 conference.
Was there video captured? I was unable to attend - but wanted to check it out
this year.
Thanks
Andrew
Eric - Have a look at some of the ajax functions I wronte for VuFind - there
are some almost identical function calls that work just fine.
http://vufind.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/*checkout*/vufind/web/services/Record/ajax.js?revision=106
See function SaveTag
Also - You might want to consider
Don't leave out the Yahoo YUI library as something to consider. Whats nice is
that you don't have to load the entire library as one big huge js file - you
can pick and choose what libraries you want to include in your page minimizing
the javascript filesize. If you want to have one little js
Hello - there was quite a bit of talk about chat bots a year or 2 back. I was
wondering if anyone knew of an open source chat bot that works with jabber?
Thanks
Andrew
and running.
Andrew
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
K.G. Schneider
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 12:18 PM
To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] open source chat bots?
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 10:14:29 -0500, Andrew Nagy
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Wayne Graham
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 12:47 PM
To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] open source chat bots?
Andrew,
Not sure if this is what you're looking for, but in
Emily - we are investingating NCIP quite a bit here for use with VuFind. Maybe
this might be an appropriate standard to standardize on?
Take care,
Andrew
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Emily Lynema
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007
It is also my understanding that while the Voyager NCIP API supports
their ILL product, it was not meant to serve as a general purpose NCIP
API. I believe that that accounts for the lack of (customer)
documentation. Back in March of 2004, the then Endeavor Voyager
Product Manager discussed
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Nathan Vack
Isn't there already an extant open-source ILS that's out there, and
reputed to be rather good?
I'm all for parallel approaches to problems... but the world of ILSes
is pretty small.
://vufind.org/demo
Or feel free to join our mailing list:
https://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/vufind-general
Enjoy!
Andrew Nagy
I think a snippet repository would be a fantastic idea that would fit well
within the code4lib website. Dokuwiki would also be a good fit for this and
would allow people to share the oai harvester in under 50 lines, etc.
snippet.code4lib.org++
Andrew
-Original Message-
From: Code
When playing around with OCLC's XISBN service, I plugged in the isbn number for
one of the gone with the wind books we have at our library - it returned
something like 150 similar isbn numbers. You could try doing that for a few
items.
Just an idea ...
Andrew
-Original Message-
Excuse me if I am late to the game on this one - but at the Code4Lib conference
either Brewster Kahle or Aaron Swartz spoke about an API to either the open
library or the internet archive. Is this available, or any plans to release
this? It seems like you are referring to some sort of API.
Yes - Please do share!
Here is my vote for an SVN server hosted at code4lib.org
Andrew
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Walker, David
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 6:00 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] III
This may be a bit too specific or complex for 1 day - but I will throw it out
there and would be more than happy to lead the event.
This is an idea I kind of formalized today:
Develop an authority control mechanism into vufind (www.vufind.org) that would
utilize the library of congress
of the LoC Authority
files in Dec of 2006. They are available at Fred 2.0:
http://www.ibiblio.org/fred2.0/wordpress/?page_id=10
Jason
On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Andrew Nagy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello - I am curious if anyone knows of a way to access the entire
collection of authority
Although note that these are only *subject* authorities.
Andrew, I think you may also be looking for name authorities (since I
assume this inquiry came from a suspiciously topically similar thread
on vufind-tech).
Yes - I would love to be able to obtain all authority files.
Also, Ed's
If only we knew someone who worked in the LOC that we could tell this
information to
From: Code for Libraries [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Summers [EMAIL
PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008 7:02 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject:
Implementing or hacking an Open Source discovery system such as VuFind or
Blacklight?
Interested in learning more about Lucene/Solr applications?
Join the development teams from VuFind and Blacklight at PALINET in
Philadelphia, November 6, 2008, for day of discussion and sharing. We hope to
I updated the wiki for the conference with a link of nearby hotels that are
suggested by PALINET.
Here is the link:
http://www.palinet.org/ourorg_directions_hotels.aspx
Andrew
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Eric Lease Morgan
Sent:
I second the notion for Fogel's book.
From: Code for Libraries [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Randy Metcalfe [EMAIL
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Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 10:42 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] release management
2008/10/29
If you do choose to use XSLT, the Library of Congress has a bunch of XSLTs
for MARCXML which will save a tremendous amount of time for you.
http://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml/xslt/
Andrew
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Jared Camins jcam...@gmail.com wrote:
Dear CODE4LIB,
I think this
Hey David - per my last posting in regards to MARCXML XSLTs - the LOC
maintains a large collection of XSLT for MARCXML that are very thorough
http://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml/xslt/
Andrew
On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Walker, David dwal...@calstate.edu wrote:
Hi All,
Anyone have an
:
Hello all:
I see that there was an Andrew Nagy-led breakout on Summon at the con.
Summon is a NGC product with the distinction of using a local copy of
indexes of licensed content (by agreement with Elsevier, JSTOR, et alia) for
federated search - rather than the traditional Z39.50 or API calls
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 5:08 AM, Laurence Lockton l.g.lock...@bath.ac.ukwrote:
--
Date:Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:36:30 -0400
From:Diane I. Hillmann metadata.ma...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: Serials Solutions Summon
...
3. Because they also have data on what
David - Keep in mind that aggregators are not the original publishers of
content - so even if an aggregator is not yet participating in Summon, the
content in their aggregated databases most often **is** indexed by the
service. To date there are already over 80 individual content providers
If you are using some sort of XSL processor in a programming language (java,
php, ruby) you can assign a variable to the xsl file and use the variable
in the file much like you would in any other scripting environment.
You can also go one step ahead and use XQuery which gives you the ability to
david_walker++
Just watched the video - great job David!
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 9:01 PM, Roy Tennant tenna...@oclc.org wrote:
DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 22 July 2009
David Walker Wins Third OCLC Research Software Contest
David Walker has won the Third OCLC Research Software Contest with Bridge,
I've had the best luck with eXist and BerkeleyDB XML.
Both support XQuery and have indexing features based on any XML structure.
Andrew
On 1/16/10, Godmar Back god...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
we're currently looking for an XML database to store a variety of
small-to-medium sized XML documents.
Hi Ya'aqov - I'm about to board a plane so I don't have much time for
a well formed response. We do not have anything published about
Summon's relevancy algorithms nor the recommendation engine. I'd be
happy to answer any specific questions offline as I don't feel it
appropriate to get into
To help better track ride share opportunities, I created a page on the
Code4Lib wiki.
http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/C4L2011_rideshare#Indianapolis_International_Airport
This way folks seeking ride share opportunities can sign up for a ride - and
those offering can list their ride.
Andrew
Hi Godmar - to help answer some of your questions about the fields - I can
help address those directly. Though it would be interesting to hear
experiences from others who are working from APIs to search systems such as
Summon or others.
In regards to the publication date - the Summon API has the
Ralph - this sounds like a very valuable process. I would imagine it could
solve the problem illustrated here:
http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/57
What would be the best path forward? Im not active in the wikipedia
community - but I understand that their is a community of editors. Perhaps
Hi Anj - I just wanted to let you know that Serials Solutions is working out
a plan to better support the conference. We'd possibly like to sponsor an
evening event, we will have more information for you later in the summer.
Cheers
Andrew
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Anjanette Young
Is anyone leading this session or is a free for all? Code4lib site is down
- so I can't see whats on the wiki.
We use Git very heavily with the engineering of Serials Solutions' Summon
and we'd be happy to have an engineer do a session on some of the ways we
use it on a fairly large
Nice job Jonathan - my first test search seemed to bring back rather
relevant materials with the first coming from the journal:
I'd like to hear more about the DPLA project - I hope we get a proposal
about that this year! I'll post it to the wiki page.
Andrew
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Anjanette Young youn...@u.washington.eduwrote:
Code4lib 2012 call for proposals.
We are now accepting proposals for Code4lib
My votes are not showing after returning to the voting page. I thought I
remembered being able to modify my votes from previous years. I went
through the first 30 or so, and wanted to come back to it to go through
more, but my votes are not persisting. Is this a bug, a change, or a
failure in
Hi All - I just added another restaurant option to the newcomer dinner list
as the options are starting to look quite full. I've listed Momiji - a new
japanese restaurant that I have been wanting to try and a very short cab
ride from the hotel. If anyone signs up, I'll make a reservation.
Will there be reserved registration slots for speakers, or do they need to
be on ready to register 2 minutes before noon-eastern like a Bruce
Springstein concert?
-- Forwarded message --
From: Francis Kayiwa kay...@uic.edu
Date: Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 1:16 PM
Subject: [CODE4LIB]
Around where I was sitting - there was myself, Dan Chudnov and Karen Coombs.
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Michael J. Giarlo
leftw...@alumni.rutgers.edu wrote:
Hi,
Every year when hands shoot up in response to the question of how many of
you have attended all code4lib conferences?, I
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