Re: [CODE4LIB] A ticketing system for internal troubleshooting purpose

[Boheemen, Peter van]

We are a very satisfied 'FogBugz' user. A very well designed trouble 
shooting/case management system.

Peter

Van: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] namens McHale, Nina 
[mchal...@cde.state.co.us]
Verzonden: maandag 24 maart 2014 16:57
Aan: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Onderwerp: Re: [CODE4LIB] A ticketing system for internal troubleshooting 
purpose

Jenny,

It's been a while, and there might be better alternatives out there now, but at 
the last academic library I worked at, we used Bugzilla. Web-based, requires a 
local installation, but pretty easy to customize/use. We tried replacing it 
with ticketing from a larger suite of products that we purchased, but that was 
overly complicated and more difficult to use.

I wrote a code4lib article about it: http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/3814

Nina

Nina McHale | Digital Experience Consultant | Colorado State Library - Colorado 
Department of Education | 201 E. Colfax Ave., Denver, CO 80203 | tel 
303.866.6906 | www.cde.state.co.us/cdelib




-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Jenny 
Jing
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 9:44 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] A ticketing system for internal troubleshooting purpose

Hi, All:

We are in the process of replacing our internal ticketing system. We need it to 
be web-based, and staff can attach screenshots when they report an issue, and 
we can run reports to get the usage statistics.

We also want to use it as a reference question knowledge base in the future if 
the system is flexible for us to customize.
For example, users can send us questions and we can keep track of what kind of 
questions we get, who is working on it, etc.

It could be an open source or commercial tool.

Does anyone know of something which is good to use?

Thanks.

Jenny

Jenny Jing
Information Systems Librarian
Discovery Systems
Queen's University Library
Kingston ON, K7L 5C4
jenny.j...@queensu.ca
613-533-6000 x 75302

[CODE4LIB] Anybody out there using Primo with worldcat link resolver ?

[Boheemen, Peter van]

Even though it should be no problem, I have not seen a library that is using 
Primo as a discovery system, combined with the WorldCat link resolver.
In the Netherlands we are moving with almost all university libraries and the 
national library to a shared cataloguing environment based on the WorldShare 
platform.
This does involve using the WorldCat knowledgebase. One obvious question 
libraries need to answer is, which link resolver they will start using.
I am trying to identify problems and pitfalls when one starts using a link 
resolver of one vendor and a discovery solution of another.
At this moment i am specifically interested in libraries that use the WorldCat 
link resolver in combination with a non OCLC discovery solution, for example 
Primo.
Anybody out there doing this ?

Peter van Boheemen
Wageningen UR Library
The Netherlands

[CODE4LIB] Registration for Elag 2014 is now open

[Boheemen, Peter van]

Dear Code4Lib colleagues,

I would like to inform you that registration for Elag 2014, that will take 
place in Bath, United Kingdom, is now open !
Use this year's conference to get in touch with your ELAG colleagues, follow 
interesting bootcamps and workshops and listen to engaging speakers.
To see the program and register, please visit the web site at 
http://elag2014.org


Peter van Boheemen
Elag chair

[CODE4LIB] Elag 2015 calls for proposals

[Boheemen, Peter van]

Dear Code4Lib colleagues,

I would like to inform you all that we would be very pleased by receiving your 
proposals for Elag 2015.
ELAG is Europe's premier conference on the application of information 
technology in libraries and documentation centres.
The 39th ELAG conference will be in Stockholm (Sweden), June 8 - 11, 2015

You can find all about our calls for proposals at http://elag.org

Best regards,

Peter van Boheemen
Elag chair

[CODE4LIB] Deadline for Elag 2015 proposals moved

[Boheemen, Peter van]

Dear Colleagues,

We have extended the deadline for proposals for Elag 2015 with two more weeks. 
We are very eager to receive your proposals as soon as possible though :)
Find all about Elag 2015 at http://elag.org

Best regards

Peter van Boheemen
Elag chair




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Re: [CODE4LIB] XSLT Advice

[Boheemen, Peter van]

You should use a template that is only applied when the specified field is 
there. These templates in xslt are applied automatically only if the field is 
there:


  Vol. 


If the field is defined, but empty you should do:


  
 Vol. 
  


Xslt is not a procedural language, you should hardly ever use 

Peter


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Matt 
Sherman
Sent: dinsdag 2 juni 2015 21:35
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] XSLT Advice

Cool.  I talked to Ron via phone so I am getting a better picture, but I am 
still happy to take more insights.

So the larger context.  I inherited a DSpace instance with three custom 
metadata fields which actually have some useful publication information, though 
they improperly titled them in by associating them with a dc prefix but there 
were two many to fix quickly and they haven't broken DSpace yet so we continue. 
 So I added to the XSL to pull the data within the the custom fields to display 
"publication name" Vol. "publication volume" Issue "publication issue".  That 
worked really well until I realized that there was no conditional so even when 
the fields are empty I still get: Vol.
Issue

So here are the Custom Metadata fields:

dc.publication.issue
dc.publication.name
dc.publication.volume


Here is the customized XSLT, with dc.identifier added for context of what the 
rest of the sheet looks like.








 


 
Vol. 
Issue 


Ron suggested that using choose and when and that does seem to make the most 
sense.  The other trickiness is that I have found that some of these fields as 
filled when others are blank, such as their being a volume but not an issue.  
So I need to figure out how to test multiple fields so that I can have it 
display differently dependent on what has data or not at all none of the fields 
are filled, which is the case in items such as posters.

So any thoughts would help.  Thanks.

On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 2:50 PM, Wick, Ryan  wrote:
> I agree with Stuart, post the example here.
>
> Or if you want more real-time chat there's always #code4lib IRC.
>
> For an XSLT resource, Dave Pawson's site is great: 
> http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xsl/sect2/sect21.html
>
> Ryan Wick
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf 
> Of Stuart A. Yeates
> Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2015 11:46 AM
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] XSLT Advice
>
> There are a number of experienced xslt'ers here. Post your example to the 
> group so we can all learn.
>
> Cheers
> Stuart
>
> On Wednesday, June 3, 2015, Matt Sherman  wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am making a few corrections on an oai_dc.xslt file for our DSpace 
>> instance I slightly botched modifying to integrate some custom 
>> metadata into a dc.identifier citation in the OAI-PMH harvest.  I 
>> need to get proper conditionals so it can display and harvest the 
>> metadata correctly and not run when there is no data in those fields.  
>> I have a pretty good idea what I need to do, and if this were like 
>> JavaScript or Python I could probably muddle through.  The trouble is 
>> that I don't know the conditional syntax for XSLT quite well enough 
>> to know what I can do and thus need to do.  Plus the online resources 
>> for learning/referencing XSLT for this are a bit shallow for what I 
>> need hence asking the group.  So if there is anyone who knows XSLT 
>> really well that would be willing to talk with me for a bit to help 
>> me work through what I need to get the syntax to work like I want I 
>> would appreciate it.  Thanks.
>>
>> Matt Sherman
>>
>
>
> --
> --
> ...let us be heard from red core to black sky

Re: [CODE4LIB] Bibframe and FRBRization

[Boheemen, Peter van]

Maybe not 'the Bibframe way', but i guess the only existing service for that 
now would be the Worldcat Work description

see:


https://www.oclc.org/developer/develop/linked-data/worldcat-entities/worldcat-work-entity.en.html

Peter



Van: Code for Libraries  namens Harper, Cynthia 

Verzonden: donderdag 4 juni 2015 15:12
Aan: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Onderwerp: [CODE4LIB] Bibframe and FRBRization

I am fairly uninformed, but my understanding is that Bibframe is designed to 
allow distinguishing between work and manifestation as in FRBR.  Will there be 
some resource that we can send an ISBN for the manifestation, and get back a 
permanent unique identifier for the work? (I hope I've got my FRBR concepts 
straight)?   And if not now, when?  I'm in the thougt-experiment phase of 
planning a dataset that would be based on works, and looking for a good 
identifier for it.

Cindy Harper
E-services and periodicals librarian
Virginia Theological Seminary
Bishop Payne Library
3737 Seminary Road
Alexandria VA 22304
char...@vts.edu
703-461-1794

[CODE4LIB] ELAG 2016 is now open for proposals !

[Boheemen, Peter van]

Are your proud of the work you have been doing ? Do you think you know stuff 
you should share ? Do you have a great idea ? Are you able to teach your 
colleagues something ? Make yourself heard by doing a presentation, moderate a 
workshop or lead a bootcamp at Elag 2016 !

The theme that was chosen for this year conference is 'EXIT'. We talk a lot 
about future developments, but not so much about what we leave behind. We 
transition data and applications. We stop doing some things and start doing new 
things. What effort do we put in transitioning data? How do we implement new 
services ? How do we implement new data models and architecture and what 
problems do we encounter in that process ? How do we evaluate the effect of 
transitions ?

We hope this quite general theme will inspire you to present your thoughts and 
work.
Please visit http://elag.org for futher details 

Best regards,

Peter van Boheemen
Elag chair

[CODE4LIB] Deadline for cal for proposals Elag 2016 getting near

[Boheemen, Peter van]

Dear colleagues,

The deadline for Elag 2016 proposals is getting near. You have only a few days 
left.
We think we have chosen a challenging theme: EXIT 
(http://elag.org/2015/12/08/sub-themes-elag-2016/) and invite you to come and 
speak, moderate a workshop or a bootcamp !
Hope to see your proposals soon !

Best regards,

Peter van Boheemen
Elag chair

[CODE4LIB] Deadline for Elag 2013 proposals extended to 15 February

[Boheemen, Peter van]

We have extended the deadline for your ELAG 2031 proposals ! Send them in 
before 15 february

Peter van Boheemen
Elag Chair

Re: [CODE4LIB] Deadline for Elag 2013 proposals extended to 15 February

[Boheemen, Peter van]

Oops, but the subject is at least correct

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Richard 
Wallis
Sent: vrijdag 8 februari 2013 11:59
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Deadline for Elag 2013 proposals extended to 15 February

I know conferences like proposals in early, but 18 years before is pushing
it a bit!   ;-)


On 8 February 2013 10:31, Boheemen, Peter van wrote:

> We have extended the deadline for your ELAG 2031 proposals ! Send them 
> in before 15 february
>
> Peter van Boheemen
> Elag Chair
>



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Re: [CODE4LIB] Lib or Libe

[Boheemen, Peter van]

As a person who's mother tongue is Dutch. I would suggest to accept the 'libe' 
abbreviation if you can convince everybody to spell 'library' as 'liberary'

Peter

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Tod 
Olson
Sent: donderdag 14 februari 2013 11:26
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Lib or Libe

"cod-for-lib", anyone?

-Tod

On Feb 13, 2013, at 6:55 PM, Jay Luker 
 wrote:

> People, people.
> 
> Can we agree that "lib" is simply easier to say than "libe" due to the 
> shorter vowel sound?
> 
> Can we also agree than the best coders are, by nature, lazy?
> 
> Therefore, "lib" wins. All you. "libe" mohubs can go call the 
> wah-wah-wahmbulance.
> 
> --jay
> 
> On Wednesday, February 13, 2013, Kyle Banerjee wrote:
> 
>> I'm going to go out on a limb and say your dad's a transplant from 
>> the midwest or the mid Atlantic states.
>> 
>> I'm guessing you can pronounce Willamette either because you know the 
>> region, are used to crazy English spellings used to refer to Native 
>> American place names, or both.
>> 
>> kyle
>> 

Re: [CODE4LIB] Lib or Libe

[Boheemen, Peter van]

I guess you all have installed your 'libe applications' in your 'bine 
directory'?

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Thomas 
Bennett
Sent: woensdag 13 februari 2013 17:18
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Lib or Libe

After voting I am surprised at the results, its a library as in libe, not a 
leebrary as in lib, ryght or is that reeght or rit ?.

Thomas or is it Thoomas

you say tomato I say tomato
pecan or pecan
In these two examples maybe pronounce it as you wish or weesh or woosh, what 
ever.



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On Feb 13, 2013, at 11:08 AM, Fleming, Declan wrote:

> Hi - at the conference, there has been much foment about how to pronounce the 
> end of "code4lib".
> 
> Please go to:
> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1lseCc2gwQUXL6oC8aLB7N8YMRnjsl90SfPHAmX5EA_w/viewform
> 
> and vote.
> 
> D

[CODE4LIB] Elag 2013 registration is now open !!

[Boheemen, Peter van]

Official registration for ELAG 2013 has now started at 
http://elag2013.org/registration-2
Check this page for all practical details regarding workshops, bootcamps and 
social events (you'll have to indicate some of your choices at registration). 
You'll also find the link to the registration form there.
You will find the programme of ELAG 2013 at http://elag2013.org/programme/

If you have any questions, please contact us at 
i...@elag2013.org
The ELAG 2013 organization is looking forward to seeing you in Ghent!

Peter van Boheemen
Elag Chair

Re: [CODE4LIB] Table of contents service suggestions

[Boheemen, Peter van]

We are using the service of journaltocs. For each journal in our catalog our 
users subscribe to, we save the RSS feed weekly and compare it with the RSS 
feed of the week before. If there are new publications we will mail a formatted 
overview of new titles using an xslt.
It is a very popular service. 

Peter

Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPete

Op 24 jun. 2013 om 23:07 heeft "Larson, Catherine" 
 het volgende geschreven:

> Hello all,
> 
> Has anyone used PubMed to create a table of contents service?
> 
> We're looking for a way to search what's new in journals and then set it
> up to email specific individuals. The idea is similar to products such as
> JournalTOCs (http://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk/) but we are looking for
> other suggestions or ideas.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Catherine Larson
> Web Services Librarian
> NYU Health Sciences Libraries
> http://hsl.med.nyu.edu
> 

Re: [CODE4LIB] Tools to manage Authority Data

[Boheemen, Peter van]

What kind of authority data ?
Are you looking for something like this: 
http://library.wur.nl/WebQuery/thesaurus/thesman

Peter

Verstuurd vanaf mijn iPete

Op 15 aug. 2013 om 17:13 heeft "diego ferreyra" 
mailto:temat...@r020.com.ar>> het volgende geschreven:

Hi, we looking for a web tool to manage  Authority Data with this general
desirable featrues:
- Web tool
- Open source
- Capabilities to expose web services or document API
- Manage data about persons and institutions


Someone knows or can recommend any tool?

thank in advance :)

--
Diego Ferreyra

[CODE4LIB] ELAG 2014 call for proposals is now opeen !

[Boheemen, Peter van]

Are your proud of the work you have been doing ? Do you think you know stuff 
you should share ? Do you have a great idea ? Are you able to teach your 
colleagues something ? Make yourself heard by doing a presentation at Elag 2014 
!

Elag 2014 will take place in Bath, United Kingdom in June next year. This 
year's theme is 'Lingering gold'. You can read all about it at 
http://www.elag.org

You can also find all information on how to propose for a presentation, 
workshop or bootcamp.
The Elag program committee is looking forward to all of your proposals !!

Best regards,

Peter van Boheemen
Elag 2014 chair

Re: [CODE4LIB] MARCXML - What is it for?

[Boheemen, Peter van]

I think:

1. Marc must die.  It has lived long enough. 
2. But everybody uses Marc (which is in fact good), too many people are keeping 
it alive.
3. MARC in XML does not solve the problem, but it makes the suffering so much 
less painful 


Peter

[CODE4LIB] Call for prosoals Elag 2011, 24 - 27 May, Prague

[Boheemen, Peter van]

Dear colleagues,

The ELAG (European Library Automation Group) conference is Europe's premier 
conference on the application of information technology in libraries.  For over 
thirty years, the ELAG Conference has provided library and IT professionals 
with the opportunity to discuss new technologies, to review on-going 
developments and to exchange best practice.

The title of ELAG 2011 "It's the context, 
stupid!"
 is taken from the title of a 1994 article by Paul Saffo in Wired magazine. In 
the article, Saffo wrote "it is not content but context that will matter most a 
decade or so from now. The scarce resource will not be stuff, but point of 
view."  More than fifteen years later, context has never been so important in 
providing information to library users.

Context is critical in many aspects of library services. Libraries serve 
different kinds of organisations and users with different needs and 
capabilities. How do we know what information to supply, in what format and 
with what relevancy ranking without identifying and adapting to ever-changing 
contexts? Even the technical environment -- service-oriented architecture, 
cloud computing and linked data -- provides a context essential to decisions 
about current and future services.

 To help us make ELAG 2011 happen, we are inviting proposals for:

*Pre-Conference Bootcamps: http://www.elag.org/callbc.htm

Half or full-day hands-on, fast-paced workshops prior to the conference

*Conference Presentations: http://www.elag.org/callp.htm

25 minute presentations with 5 minutes for questions from the audience

*Conference Workshops: http://www.elag.org/callw.htm

4 - 5 hour workshops (split into 2 sessions) with a plenary report on the final 
day of the conference

We would like to receive proposals on the following sub-themes:

*   Individual information needs: providing services for specific user 
contexts

*   Serving users in specific library contexts

*   Context sensitive relevance ranking

*   Blending the Library Management System

*   Library services in the cloud

*   Libraries and Linked Data

*   Product specifics: Sharing your implementation experiences

Further information about these sub-themes is available at: 
http://www.elag.org/subthemes.htm

Perhaps you have another library technology topic that you would love to tell 
us about, but it doesn't fall neatly into one of the sub-themes.  Don't be shy; 
tell us anyway!

The deadline for proposals is Monday 31st January 2011.

The results of the review process will be sent by Friday 18th February 2011.

If you have any questions concerning the Call for Proposals, please contact:

Peter van Boheemen (peter.vanbohee...@wur.nl)

Chair of the ELAG 2011 Programme Committee

We look forward to receiving your proposals!

With best wishes

Peter van Boheemen

On behalf of the ELAG Programme Committee 2011

Follow @elag2011 on Twitter or 
#elag2011

[CODE4LIB] Reminder : Call for prosoals Elag 2011, 24 - 27 May, Prague

[Boheemen, Peter van]

Please send us your proposals for Elag 2011. You still have a few weeks left !!

The ELAG (European Library Automation Group) conference is Europe's premier 
conference on the application of information technology in libraries.  For over 
thirty years, the ELAG Conference has provided library and IT professionals 
with the opportunity to discuss new technologies, to review on-going 
developments and to exchange best practice.

The title of ELAG 2011 "It's the context, 
stupid!"
 is taken from the title of a 1994 article by Paul Saffo in Wired magazine. In 
the article, Saffo wrote "it is not content but context that will matter most a 
decade or so from now. The scarce resource will not be stuff, but point of 
view."  More than fifteen years later, context has never been so important in 
providing information to library users.

Context is critical in many aspects of library services. Libraries serve 
different kinds of organisations and users with different needs and 
capabilities. How do we know what information to supply, in what format and 
with what relevancy ranking without identifying and adapting to ever-changing 
contexts? Even the technical environment -- service-oriented architecture, 
cloud computing and linked data -- provides a context essential to decisions 
about current and future services.

 To help us make ELAG 2011 happen, we are inviting proposals for:

*Pre-Conference Bootcamps: http://www.elag.org/callbc.htm

Half or full-day hands-on, fast-paced workshops prior to the conference

*Conference Presentations: http://www.elag.org/callp.htm

25 minute presentations with 5 minutes for questions from the audience

*Conference Workshops: http://www.elag.org/callw.htm

4 - 5 hour workshops (split into 2 sessions) with a plenary report on the final 
day of the conference

We would like to receive proposals on the following sub-themes:

*   Individual information needs: providing services for specific user 
contexts

*   Serving users in specific library contexts

*   Context sensitive relevance ranking

*   Blending the Library Management System

*   Library services in the cloud

*   Libraries and Linked Data

*   Product specifics: Sharing your implementation experiences

Further information about these sub-themes is available at: 
http://www.elag.org/subthemes.htm

Perhaps you have another library technology topic that you would love to tell 
us about, but it doesn't fall neatly into one of the sub-themes.  Don't be shy; 
tell us anyway!

The deadline for proposals is Monday 31st January 2011.

The results of the review process will be sent by Friday 18th February 2011.

If you have any questions concerning the Call for Proposals, please contact:

Peter van Boheemen (peter.vanbohee...@wur.nl)

Chair of the ELAG 2011 Programme Committee

We look forward to receiving your proposals!

With best wishes

Peter van Boheemen

On behalf of the ELAG Programme Committee 2011

Follow @elag2011 on Twitter or 
#elag2011

[CODE4LIB] Call for proposals Elag 2011

[Boheemen, Peter van]

This is your final chance to submit a proposal for Elag 2011.

Are your proud of the work you have been doing ? Do you think you know stuff 
you should share ?
Do you have a great idea ? Are you able to teach your colleagues something ?
Make yourself heard by doing a presentation at Elag 2011 ! 

The theme of this year's conference is taken from the title of a 1994 article 
by Paul Saffo in Wired magazine. In the article, Saffo wrote "It  is not 
content but context that will matter most a decade or so from now. The scarce 
resource will not stuff, but point of view."  More than fifteen years later, 
context has never been so important in providing information to library 
customers.

Go to http://www.elag.org and submit your proposal to do a presentation, 
moderate a workshop or lead a pre-conference bootcamp at Elag 2011

See you in Prague !!!

Peter van Boheemen
Chair Elag

[CODE4LIB] ELAG 2011 in May: now open for registration !

[Boheemen, Peter van]

Registration is now open for the 2011 ELAG conference.

Theme: "It's the context, stupid!"
Dates: 24 May (Pre-conference), 25 - 27 May 2011 (Conference)
Place: National Technical Library, Prague, Czech Republic.

To register, please visit the conference website at http://elag2011.techlib.cz/

The theme of the 35th annual conference is taken from the title of a 1994 
article by
Paul Saffo in Wired magazine. In the article, Saffo wrote "It is not content 
but context
that will matter most a decade or so from now. The scarce resource will not be 
stuff,
but point of view." More than fifteen years later, context has never been so 
important
in providing information to library customers.

ELAG (European Library Automation Group) is Europe's premier conference on the
application of information technology in libraries and documentation centres. 
For
more information on ELAG, visit the ELAG web site: http://www.elag.org

Peter van Boheemen
Elag chair

Re: [CODE4LIB] PDF->text extraction

[Boheemen, Peter van]

The most used open source software for this (and many other mime types) is 
tika: http://tika.apache.org/

Van: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] namens Bill Janssen 
[jans...@parc.com]
Verzonden: dinsdag 21 juni 2011 19:19
Aan: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Onderwerp: Re: [CODE4LIB] PDF->text extraction

Owen Stephens  wrote:

> The CORE project at The Open University in the UK is doing some work on 
> finding similarity between papers in institutional repositories (see 
> http://core-project.kmi.open.ac.uk/ for more info).  The first step in the 
> process is extracting text from the (mainly) pdf documents harvested from 
> repositories
>
> We've tried iText but had issues with quality
> We moved to PDFBox but are having performance issues
>
> Any other suggestions/experience?

UpLib uses xpdf's pdftotext, which works well.  There's also code in
UpLib to find similarities between papers :-).

Bill

[CODE4LIB] Call for workshop proposal: ELAG 2012 Workshops 15-17 May 2012

[Boheemen, Peter van]

Call for workshop proposals
ELAG 2012 Workshops 16-18 May 2012, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Would you like to lead a stimulating discussion with a group of library 
technologists?
Do you prefer encouraging audience participation rather giving a formal lecture?
Do you have a specific area of expertise that you would like to discuss with 
like-minded colleagues?
Then lead a workshop during ELAG 2012!

Workshops are a unique feature and an important part of the ELAG conference. 
They give participants an opportunity to acquire new skills, enhance their 
knowledge and get a more in-depth view of a specific topic.
The keyword for ELAG conferences is participation, so ELAG workshops strive to 
be interactive, hands-on and solution-based in order to draw from the 
experience and knowledge of participants and produce useful advances, solutions 
or recommendations for the library community.

A workshop leader will have a good grasp or some experience of the subject, but 
it is not necessary to be a top expert in the field (though in the past many 
renowned experts have run ELAG workshops). A good workshop leader will present 
a topic and then stimulate discussion and exchange of views and experiences 
rather than lecture.

Past topics have included: Indexing with SOLR, Discovery interfaces, FRBR and 
Identifiers and Web services.
Elag 2012 will be hosted by the Universitat de les Illes Balears 
(www.uib.es)
 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

Further guidelines for workshop leaders and participants are available 
at:http://www.elag.org/guidew.htm

For inspiration about topics for your workshop, see the sub-themes page: 
http://www.elag.org/callw.htm.
 But don't be afraid to propose another idea!

To propose a workshop, please complete the form below and send it to:
Peter van Boheemen (peter.vanbohee...@wur.nl), 
Chair of the ELAG 2012 Programme Committee.

All proposals will be reviewed by the ELAG 2012 Programme Committee.


The deadline for proposals is Wednesday 1st February 2012.

The results of the review process will be sent by Thursday 16th February 2012.
Format
Workshop Title:
Name(s):
Audience:
Short description (up to 250 words):
Workshop outcomes:

[CODE4LIB] \Call for presentation proposal: ELAG 2012 Conference, 15-17 May 2012

[Boheemen, Peter van]

Call for presentation proposals
ELAG 2012 Conference presentations 16-18 May 2012, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Are your proud of the work you have been doing ?
Do you think you know stuff you should share ?
Do you have a great idea ? Are you able to teach your colleagues something ?
Make yourself heard and contribute to ELAG 2012 by giving a presentation!

The theme of this year's conference is 'Libraries everywhere'. Libraries are 
moving outside the walls of their buildings and the firewalls of their networks 
in order to provide information to users wherever they happen to be. They are 
applying mobile technology so that users can find information, whether they are 
in the street or the classroom or travelling to work or study. Libraries are 
participating in social networks in order to be present in the virtual places 
that users visit everyday. They are opening up and sharing library data so it 
can be discovered via external systems and they are expanding beyond 
traditional roles, curating raw research data from the laboratories to ensure 
that results are verifiable and data can be re-used. As well, whilecomputing 
resources shift to the cloud or connect to grid networks, libraries are moving 
beyond local systems and information silos to discover, access and re-use 
information resources located anywhere in the world.


The ELAG 2012 conference welcomes proposals for presentations, workshops and 
preconference "hands-on" boot camps that address how new technologies are 
extending the reach of the library and allowing library services to be provided 
everywhere library users are found.

Elag 2012 will be hosted by the Universitat de les Illes Balears 
(www.uib.es)
 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

Guidelines for conference presentations are available at: 
http://www.elag.org/guidep.htm

For inspiration about topics for your presentation, see the sub-themes page: 
http://www.elag.org/callp.htm
To propose a presentation, please complete out the form below and send to: 
Peter van Boheemen (peter.vanbohee...@wur.nl), 
Chair of the ELAG 2012 Programme Committee

All proposals will be reviewed by the ELAG 2012 Programme Committee

The deadline for proposals is Wednesday 1st February 2012.

The results of the review process will be sent by Thursday 16th February 2012.
Format
Title:
Name of presenter(s):
About the presenter(s):
Intended audience:
Abstract:

[CODE4LIB] Call for Pre-Conference Bootcamps proposals: ELAG 2012 - 14 May, 2012

[Boheemen, Peter van]

Call for Pre-Conference Bootcamp proposals:
ELAG 2012 Pre-Conference Bootcamps - 15 May, 2012, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Are you a library hacker who has found new ways to leverage library data to 
build 21st century services?
Are you a systems implementer boosting productivity by rapidly building 
innovative applications?
Do you think you've found a better way to create or deliver information for 
library users?
A programme of optional Bootcamps offer ELAG participants the opportunity to 
learn new skills or enhance their knowledge of specific topics related to 
library technology. These Bootcamps provide participants a way to learn from 
experts and veterans in a particular domain. Hands-on and fast-paced,  these 
Bootcamps give a primer on the most up-to-date practices in library automation 
and provide insights into new, upcoming technologies. Bootcamp leaders have the 
opportunity to present their work, test their applications in new contexts and 
find collaboration partners.
Please share your expertise, show what you can do, and meet with other library 
enthusiasts.
Elag 2012 will be hosted by the Universitat de les Illes Balears 
(www.uib.es)
 in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

Guidelines for Bootcamp leaders are available at: 
http://www.elag.org/guidebc.htm

Last year's event saw lively discussions and developments on topics such as 
Solr indexing, RDFa, Digital curation and the jQuery library. For inspiration 
about topics for your workshop at this year's ELAG conference, see the 
sub-themes page: 
http://www.elag.org/callbc.htm
To propose a Bootcamp, please complete out the form below and send to: Peter 
van Boheemen (peter.vanbohee...@wur.nl), Chair 
of the ELAG 2012 Programme Committee

All proposals will be reviewed by the ELAG 2012 Programme Committee


The deadline for proposals is Wednesday 1st February 2012.

The results of the review process will be sent by Thursday 16th February 2012.

Format
Pre-conference Bootcamp Title:
Name(s):
Expected time slot:
Audience:
Expertise:
Required:
Programming experience:
Short description:

[CODE4LIB] Join us in Mallorca for Elag 2012 in May !!

[Boheemen, Peter van]

We are still waiting for more presentation, workshop or bootcamp proposals.
Join us in Spain in May and send in your proposals 
You can find more information at http://www.elag.org

Cheers.

Peter

[CODE4LIB] Last call for proposals: Elag 2011

[Boheemen, Peter van]

The Elag 2012 program committee wants to thank everybody for their proposals 
for our next conference in Palma de Mallorca.

Although we do have a large range of presentations to select from, we could do 
with a few more workshop proposals. Other proposals are still welcome as well. 
That is why we extend the deadline to send in your proposals until 10 February 
2012. For more information: http://www.elag.org



Cheers,



Peter

Re: [CODE4LIB] Issue Tracker Recommendations

[Boheemen, Peter van]

A few years back we selected FogBugz (http://www.fogcreek.com/fogbugz/) as the 
best issue tracking system available. It integrates well with versioning 
systems, has an integrated wiki and project management abilities. We are very 
satisfied. It is not an open source product however, but not extremely 
expensive.

Peter


  Drs. P.J.C. van Boheemen
  Business IT consultant Library and Search
  FB - IT - Wageningen UR
  tel. +31 317 48 25 17  




-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Jonathan Rochkind
Sent: woensdag 22 februari 2012 23:18
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Issue Tracker Recommendations

On 2/22/2012 5:10 PM, Sebastian Karcher wrote:
> Because Trac and Git have come up: Zotero has switched from Trac/SVN 
> to Git and I (and I think everyone else involved) much prefers git, 
> not least because of it's better issue handling. I found Trac slow, 
> clumsy, and ugly.

I'm confused. Git is a source control repo, like svn.

Trac is an issue tracker.

Okay, you switched from svn to git (which to me seems somewhat orthogonal to 
issue tracker, although it's true that certain issue tracker software 
integrates with some versioning control systems and not others, like trac does 
with svn).

But what are you using for issue tracking now, instead of Trac?  git is not an 
issue tracker, so I'm not sure what you mean by "git's better issue handling", 
git doesn't do issue handling (any more than svn does). 
Do you mean you're using github.com as your git host, and their issue tracker? 
Or something else?

Jonathan

> If, as you say, the code repository function isn't important, there 
> may very well be better products for issue tracking only, but between 
> Trac and github the latter is imho much superior.
>
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Sarr, Nathan 
>   wrote:
>> You might want to take a look at asana:
>>
>> http://asana.com/
>>
>> -Nate
>>
>> Nathan Sarr
>> Senior Software Engineer
>> River Campus Libraries
>> University of Rochester
>> Rochester, NY  14627
>> (585) 275-0692
>> ns...@library.rochester.edu
>>
>>
>>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf 
>> Of Cynthia Ng
>> Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 3:46 PM
>> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
>> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Issue Tracker Recommendations
>>
>> Thanks for all the responses, everyone. If there are any more, I'd still 
>> like to hear them.
>>
>> Should probably add that
>> 4) it's more for issue tracking/documentation i.e. code 
>> versioning/repository is not a priority right now (though it's great 
>> if it has that feature)
>>
>> There will be discussions with the rest of the team and we'll have to talk 
>> to the programmer/server admin to see what he thinks is easier to implement, 
>> but we're likely to go with Redmine or Trac based on recommendations/needs.
>
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Google books js api, oclc/lccn, any problems?

[Boheemen, Peter van]

Hmm, records in our catalogue, lacking an ISBN still have the Google
Books link. I checked some books form the 1920's.

Peter

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Jonathan Rochkind
Sent: woensdag 15 oktober 2008 21:04
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Google books js api, oclc/lccn, any problems?

Anyone else noticed any problems with the GBS javascript api?

It seems to have stopped returning hits for me for LCCN or OCLCnum,
where it used to work. Seems to work now only for ISBN. 

Here's a URL call that used to return hits, and now doesn't:

http://books.google.com/books?jscmd=viewapi&callback=gbscallback&bibkeys
=OCLC%3A2416076%2CLCCN%3A34025476

Jonathan

---
Jonathan Rochkind
Digital Services Software Engineer
The Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
410.516.8886
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [CODE4LIB] Dutch Code4Lib (ELAG 2009)

[Boheemen, Peter van]

It is good to hear people from the code4Lib community will attend ELAG this 
year.
We organized ELAG last year in Wageningen (http://library.wur.nl/elag2008/)
ELAG has been around for 32 years now and I have been visiting it for quite a 
few years now.
I think ELAG originated as a get together of the European National Libraries, 
to share their experiences regarding the relative new topic of library 
automation.
ELAG is a loosely organized group of enthusiastic people, like code4lib is. The 
conferences were a mixture of more and less technical attendants and 
presentations.
Besides the presentations of papers it always had workshops. You take part in 
one of the workshops. They come together on several occasions during the 
conference to discuss their topic. Each workshop presents their conclusions on 
the last day.
Some of us would like Elag to develop in an even more technical direction like 
code4lib. 
Last year we introduced Lightning Talks, which were received very well.
So please come an join us in Bratislava in april 
(http://indico.ulib.sk/MaKaC/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=5)
We will be very happy with your participation.

And for what concerns a Dutch Code4Lib group as Etienne suggested. I am all for 
it and may be we can ELAG as the European platform for code4lib like activities.

Peter


Drs. P.J.C. van Boheemen
Hoofd Applicatieontwikkeling en beheer - Bibliotheek Wageningen UR
Head of Application Development and Management - Wageningen University and 
Research Library
tel. +31 317 48 25 17   
 http://library.wur.nl




-Oorspronkelijk bericht-
Van: Code for Libraries namens Edward M. Corrado
Verzonden: zo 25-1-2009 2:46
Aan: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Onderwerp: Re: [CODE4LIB] Dutch Code4Lib
 
I really don't know much about ELAG besides I'm going there. I think
they have the program set, or just about set, for this year so I don't
know if anything could me done formally in 2009 but maybe an informal
thing could be arranged the day before or the day after? At the least
maybe contacts can be made for 2010?

Does anyone know more about ELAG?

Edward


On 1/23/09, Hamparian,Don  wrote:
> Do you see any opportunities to partner with them for an European meeting?
> Or is that more trouble then its worth?
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Code for Libraries on behalf of Ross Singer
> Sent: Thu 1/22/2009 4:06 PM
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Dutch Code4Lib
>
> Eric, this is a good point.  I will be at ELAG this year, and I think
> Ed Corrado will, too.
>
> Past presentations look to be very in line with Code4lib and, in fact,
> it was billed to me as "If you think of Access or Code4Lib but in a
> scenic European setting with great beer then you'll have a good idea
> of what we are planning" by Ron Davies, one of the coordinators.
>
> -Ross.
>
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Eric Lease Morgan  wrote:
>> On 1/22/09 1:02 PM, "Ed Summers"  wrote:
>>
>>> Wow, this sounds too good to be true. Perhaps this is premature, but
>>> do you think there might be interest in hosting a code4lib2010 in the
>>> Netherlands? (he asks selfishly).
>>
>> On another note, there is already a library conference that is apparently
>> very similar to the Access tradition and Code4Lib that takes place in
>> Europe, and I think it is called European Library Automation Group (ELAG).
>> See:
>>
>>  http://indico.ulib.sk/MaKaC/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=5
>>
>> While I would love to have a Code4Lib "thang" in Europe, maybe there is
>> something already in place. This year it is in Bratislava (Slovakia). Next
>> year I believe it takes place somewhere in Norway.
>>
>> --
>> Eric Morgan
>>
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] ticTOCs makes its data available to developers

[Boheemen, Peter van]

This is great !!! But don't forget the API !

Peter 

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of
Bucknell, Terry
Sent: woensdag 11 februari 2009 23:12
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] ticTOCs makes its data available to developers

As you may know, ticTOCs is a project funded by JISC in the UK to create
a single, freely available source of RSS feeds for tables of contents -
see http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/ . Our database now contains over 12,000
journals from over 430 publishers. Up until now the only way to get
feeds out of ticTOCs has been to use our web interface to search for
feeds and then export them as an OPML file, or one at a time to a feed
reader of your choice.

We are working on creating APIs to let groups like the code4lib
community extract our data in more flexible ways, but it has been
pointed out to us - see
http://robotlibrarian.billdueber.com/tictocs-give-us-a-file-pretty-prett
y-pretty-please/ - that all you really need (at least at first) is a
simple tab-delimited file that contains titles, ISSNs, and feed URIs for
all of the journals in tocTOCs. We now provide precisely this at
http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/text.php.

We hope that you will use this data to populate your catalog, A-Z
journals list or whatever with RSS feed icons/links, or embedded TOCs.
We look forward to the day when SFX, SerialsSolutions and the like are
all using our data!

Although the project phase of ticTOCs is very nearly at end end, we are
confident that we are very close to ensuring that the future of ticTOCs
is assured for at least the next three years, and will continue to be
free.


Share and enjoy.



Terry Bucknell
Electronic Resources Manager
Sydney Jones Library
University of Liverpool
Chatham St, PO Box 123
Liverpool, L69 3DA, UK
Tel: +44 (0)151 794 2692
Fax: +44 (0)151 794 2681

Re: [CODE4LIB] ticTOCs makes its data available to developers

[Boheemen, Peter van]

Terry,
 
I was very pleased with the tab delimited file. I have read it into a table and 
joined it to our catalog, that is now showing rss buttons in the A-Z list and 
'recent articles' when presenting a full record presentation of a single 
catalog record.
I discovered two problems with the file however.
1. I found two lines containing carriage returns, messing up these rows. (see 
2. There are titles in the list that do have a title and an issn, but that do 
not have a url of a rss feed. (e.g. Cell Differentiation)
 
Do you know of these problems ?
 
Regards,
 
Peter
 
Drs. P.J.C. van Boheemen
Hoofd Applicatieontwikkeling en beheer - Bibliotheek Wageningen UR
Head of Application Development and Management - Wageningen University and 
Research Library
tel. +31 317 48 25 17   
 http://library.wur.nl  
P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail



From: Code for Libraries on behalf of Bucknell, Terry
Sent: Wed 11-2-2009 23:11
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] ticTOCs makes its data available to developers



As you may know, ticTOCs is a project funded by JISC in the UK to create a 
single, freely available source of RSS feeds for tables of contents - see 
http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/ . Our database now contains over 12,000 journals from 
over 430 publishers. Up until now the only way to get feeds out of ticTOCs has 
been to use our web interface to search for feeds and then export them as an 
OPML file, or one at a time to a feed reader of your choice.

We are working on creating APIs to let groups like the code4lib community 
extract our data in more flexible ways, but it has been pointed out to us - see 
http://robotlibrarian.billdueber.com/tictocs-give-us-a-file-pretty-pretty-pretty-please/
 - that all you really need (at least at first) is a simple tab-delimited file 
that contains titles, ISSNs, and feed URIs for all of the journals in tocTOCs. 
We now provide precisely this at http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/text.php.

We hope that you will use this data to populate your catalog, A-Z journals list 
or whatever with RSS feed icons/links, or embedded TOCs.  We look forward to 
the day when SFX, SerialsSolutions and the like are all using our data!

Although the project phase of ticTOCs is very nearly at end end, we are 
confident that we are very close to ensuring that the future of ticTOCs is 
assured for at least the next three years, and will continue to be free.


Share and enjoy.



Terry Bucknell
Electronic Resources Manager
Sydney Jones Library
University of Liverpool
Chatham St, PO Box 123
Liverpool, L69 3DA, UK
Tel: +44 (0)151 794 2692
Fax: +44 (0)151 794 2681

[CODE4LIB] Announcement - New code4lib local group for the Dutch speaking community

[Boheemen, Peter van]

We have started a community for the Dutch and Belgian community at 
http://groups.google.com/group/code4bib



Peter 

[CODE4LIB] Use of ticTOC in lbrary catalog

[Boheemen, Peter van]

 
For those that are interested.
Just wrote a blog about our use of the ticTOCs file Terry Bucknell made
us aware of last month.

http://webquery.blogspot.com/

Peter

[CODE4LIB] Vacancy at Wageningen UR Library

[Boheemen, Peter van]

We are looking for:

- An enthusiastic developer, interested in search and retrieve
technology
- Familiar with indexing of metadata repositories.
  Knowledge of indexing algorithms and (full text) indexing techniques,
such as used in the Lucene project. 
  Familiar with 'relevance ranking' and 'facetting' techniques; 
  Knowledge of SOLR is a plus.
- A good understanding of XML and the conceptual framework around it,
such as Xpath, XML namespaces, XML schema, XML stylesheet language. 
- Ability to use of one or more programming languages. We are currently
working in an Open Source environment. User interfaces are based on
XSLT. 
  Client side javascript relies on a JQuery framework. As a programming
language for the back-end we are using C. 
  Other software is written in Perl, Python, Java and PHP. 
- Good communication skills and an open attitude towards technology. 
- Good command of English. 
- Knowledge of library systems, Open URL resolvers, meta search engines
and institutional repositories is a plus. 

Anyone interested can contact me by email or phone.

Peter

Drs. P.J.C. van Boheemen
Hoofd Applicatieontwikkeling en beheer - Bibliotheek Wageningen UR
Head of Application Development and Management - Wageningen University
and Research Library
tel. +31 317 48 25 17
http://library.wur.nl

Re: [CODE4LIB] FW: [CODE4LIB] openurl.info ?

[Boheemen, Peter van]

Hmm Roy but should it be pointing to the PURL site ?

http://www.openurl.info/ = http://purl.oclc.org/

Peter

Drs. P.J.C. van Boheemen
Hoofd Applicatieontwikkeling en beheer - Bibliotheek Wageningen UR
Head of Application Development and Management - Wageningen University and 
Research Library
tel. +31 317 48 25 17   
 http://library.wur.nl
P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail



-Oorspronkelijk bericht-
Van: Code for Libraries namens Roy Tennant
Verzonden: zo 17-5-2009 2:03
Aan: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Onderwerp: [CODE4LIB] FW: [CODE4LIB] openurl.info ?
 
-- Forwarded Message
From: Karen Wetzel 
Reply-To: "A discussion listserv for topics surrounding the Open URL NISO
standard Z39.88." 
Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 12:11:01 -0400
To: 
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] openurl.info ?

Greetings,

I just wanted to send a quick follow-up on my last note to confirm that
we've worked to fix this error and that the www.openurl.info
  domain is now working again. If you are still
experiencing problems with the URL, please do send me a note and I'll be
sure to look into it.

Again, I apologize on behalf of NISO for this error, and appreciate all your
feedback and patience as we worked to resolve this problem.

Truly,
Karen
 
--
Karen A. Wetzel
Standards Program Manager
National Information Standards Organization (NISO)
One North Charles Street, Suite 1905
Baltimore, MD 21201
Tel.: 301-654-2512
Fax: 410-685-5278
E-mail: kwet...@niso.org



 

On May 15, 2009, at 11:13 AM, Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress wrote:

> Yes apparently NISO is (was) the owner. I've sent them a note (and anyone else
> who feels so inclined should too: Email:nis...@niso.org
>   ).
> --Ray
>> - Original Message -
>> From: Venicio 
>> To: open...@oclc.org
>> Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 11:05 AM
>> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] openurl.info ?
>> 
>> FYI:
>> 
>> Domain ID:D2132192-LRMS
>> Domain Name:OPENURL.INFO 
>> Created On:10-May-2002 17:49:32 UTC
>> Last Updated On:15-May-2009 14:56:44 UTC
>> Expiration Date:10-May-2010 17:49:32 UTC
>> Sponsoring Registrar:DSTR Acquisition PA I, LLC d/b/a Domainbank.com
>> (R107-LRMS)
>> Status:OK
>> Registrant ID:C4373421-LRMS
>> Registrant Name:NISO - NATIONAL INFORMATION STANDARD ORGANIZATION
>> Registrant Organization:NISO - NATIONAL INFORMATION STANDARD ORGANIZATION
>> Registrant Street1:4733 Bethesda Ave.
>> Registrant Street2:STE 300
>> Registrant Street3:
>> Registrant City:Bethesda
>> Registrant State/Province:MD
>> Registrant Postal Code:20814
>> Registrant Country:US
>> Registrant Phone:+1.3016542512
>> Registrant Phone Ext.:
>> Registrant FAX:
>> Registrant FAX Ext.:
>> Registrant Email:nis...@niso.org 
>> Admin ID:DOT-3Q02W1748WCF
>> Admin Name:Pat Stevens
>> Admin Organization:NISO - NATIONAL INFORMATION STANDARD ORGANIZATION
>> Admin Street1:4733 Bethesda Ave.
>> Admin Street2:
>> Admin Street3:
>> Admin City:Bethesda
>> Admin State/Province:MD
>> Admin Postal Code:20814
>> Admin Country:BE
>> Admin Phone:+32.3016542512
>> Admin Phone Ext.:
>> Admin FAX:
>> Admin FAX Ext.:
>> Admin Email:nis...@niso.org 
>> Billing ID:DOT-132FHTD2SCKP
>> Billing Name:Patricia Stevens
>> Billing Organization:NISO - NATIONAL INFORMATION STANDARD ORGANIZATION
>> Billing Street1:4733 Bethesda Ave.
>> Billing Street2:
>> Billing Street3:
>> Billing City:Bethesda
>> Billing State/Province:MD
>> Billing Postal Code:20814
>> Billing Country:BE
>> Billing Phone:+32.3016542512
>> Billing Phone Ext.:
>> Billing FAX:
>> Billing FAX Ext.:
>> Billing Email:nis...@niso.org 
>> Tech ID:DOT-IQIOP5LKRKM0
>> Tech Name:Pat Stevens
>> Tech Organization:NISO - NATIONAL INFORMATION STANDARD ORGANIZATION
>> Tech Street1:4733 Bethesda Ave.
>> Tech Street2:
>> Tech Street3:
>> Tech City:Bethesda
>> Tech State/Province:MD
>> Tech Postal Code:20814
>> Tech Country:BE
>> Tech Phone:+32.3016542512
>> Tech Phone Ext.:
>> Tech FAX:
>> Tech FAX Ext.:
>> Tech Email:nis...@niso.org 
>> Name Server:DNS.OCLC.ORG 
>> Name Server:DNS2.OCLC.ORG 
>> Name Server: 
>> Name Server: 
>> Name Server: 
>> Name Server: 
>> Name Server: 
>> Name Server: 
>> Name Server: 
>> Name Server: 
>> Name Server: 
>> Name Server: 
>> Name Server:
>> 
>> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Phil Adams  wrote:
>>> I heard via twitter that:
>>> 
>>> "openurl.info   domain name expired on sunday! somebody
>>> messed up"
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Philip Adams
>>> Senior Assistant Librarian (Electronic Services Development)
>>> De Montfort University Library
>>> 0116 250 6397
>>> 
>>> -Original Message-
>>> From: A discussion listserv for topics surrounding

Re: [CODE4LIB] web services and widgets: MAJAX 2, ticTOC lookup, Link/360 JSON, and Google Book Classes

[Boheemen, Peter van]

Clever idea to put the TicToc stuff 'in the cloud'. How are you going to
keep it up-to-date ?

Peter 

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of
Godmar Back
Sent: dinsdag 19 mei 2009 6:03
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] web services and widgets: MAJAX 2, ticTOC lookup,
Link/360 JSON, and Google Book Classes

Hi,

I would like to share a few pointers to web services and widgets Annette
and I recently collaborated on. All are available under an open source
license.

"Widgets" are CSS-styled HTML elements ( or ) that provide
dynamic behavior related to the underlying web service. These are
suitable for non-JavaScript programmers familiar with HTML/CSS.

1. MAJAX 2: Includes a JSON web service (e.g.,
http://libx.lib.vt.edu/services/majax2/isbn/1412936373 or
http://libx.lib.vt.edu/services/majax2/isbn/006073132x?opacbase=http%3A%
2F%2Flibcat.lafayette.edu%2Fsearch&jsoncallback=majax.processResults
) and a set of widgets to include results into web pages, see
http://libx.lib.vt.edu/services/majax2/  Supports the same set of
features as MAJAX 1 (libx.org/majax) Source is at
http://code.google.com/p/majax2/

2. ticTOC lookup: is a Google App Engine app that provides a REST
interface to JISC's ticTOC data set that maps ISSN to URLs of table of
contents RSS feeds. See http://tictoclookup.appspot.com/
Example: http://tictoclookup.appspot.com/0028-0836 and optional
refinement by title:
http://tictoclookup.appspot.com/0028-0836?title=Nature
A widget library is available; see
http://laurel.lib.vt.edu/record=b1251610~S7 for a demo (shows floating
tooltips with table of contents preview via Google Feeds and places a
link to RSS feeds)  The source is at
http://code.google.com/p/tictoclookup/ and includes a stand-alone
version of the web service which doesn't use GAE. The widget library
includes support for integration into III's record display.

3. Google Book Classes at http://libx.lib.vt.edu/services/googlebooks/
- these are widgets for Google's Book Search Dynamic Links API.
Noteworthy is support for integration into III's OPAC on the search
results page ("briefcit.html"), on the so-called bib display page
("bib_display.html") and their "WebBridge" product via field selectors,
all without JavaScript. Source is at
http://code.google.com/p/googlebooks/

4. A Link/360 JSON Proxy.  See
http://libx.lib.vt.edu/services/link360/index.html
This one takes Serials Solution's Link/360 XML Service and proxies it as
JSON. Currently does not include a widget set. Caches results 24 hours
to match db update frequency.  Source is at
http://code.google.com/p/link360/  Could be combined with a widget
library, or programmed to directly, to weave Link/360 holdings data into
pages.

All JSON services accept 'jsoncallback=' for cross-domain client-side
integration.  The libx.lib.vt.edu URLs are ok to use for testing, but
for production use we recommend your own server. All modules are written
in Python as WSGI scripts, requiring setup as simple as mod_wsgi +
.htaccess.

 - Godmar

Re: [CODE4LIB] Newbie asking for some suggestions with javascript

[Boheemen, Peter van]

Or use the modified xissn service of OCLC: 
http://xissn.worldcat.org/webservices/xid/issn/1095-9203?method=getMetadata&fl=issnl,rssurl
 
Peter
 
Drs. P.J.C. van Boheemen
Hoofd Applicatieontwikkeling en beheer - Bibliotheek Wageningen UR
Head of Application Development and Management - Wageningen University and 
Research Library
tel. +31 317 48 25 17   
 http://library.wur.nl  
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From: Code for Libraries on behalf of Godmar Back
Sent: Fri 12-6-2009 5:55
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Newbie asking for some suggestions with javascript



Yes - see this email
http://serials.infomotions.com/code4lib/archive/2009/200905/0909.html

If you can host yourself, the stand-alone version is efficient and easy to
keep up to date - just run a cronjob that downloads the text file from JISC.
My WSGI script will automatically pick up if it has changed on disk.

 - Godmar

On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Annette Bailey  wrote:

> Godmar Back wrote a web service in python for ticTOC with an eye to
> incorporating links into III's Millennium catalog.
>
> http://code.google.com/p/tictoclookup/
>
> http://tictoclookup.appspot.com/
>
> Annette
>
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Derik Badman wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Just joined the list, and I'm hoping to get a suggestion or two.
> >
> > I'm working on using the ticTOCs ( http://www.tictocs.ac.uk/ ) text file
> of
> > rss feed urls for journals to insert links to those feeds in our Serials
> > Solution Journal Finder.
> >
> > I've got it working using a bit of jQuery.
> >
> > Demo here: http://155.247.22.22/badman/toc/demo.html
> > The javascript is here: http://155.247.22.22/badman/toc/toc-rss.js
> >
> > Getting that working wasn't too hard, but I'm a bit concerned about
> > efficiency and caching.
> >
> > I'm not sure the way I'm checking isbns against the text file is the most
> > efficient way to go. Basically I'm making an ajax call to the file that
> > takes the data and makes an array of objects. I then query the isbn of
> each
> > journal on the page against the array of objects. If there's a match I
> pull
> > the data and put it on the page. I'm wondering if there's a better way to
> do
> > this, especially since the text file is over 1mb. I'm not looking for
> code,
> > just ideas.
> >
> > I'm also looking for any pointers about using the file itself and somehow
> > auto-downloading it to my server on a regular basis. Right now I just
> saved
> > a copy to my server, but in the future it'd be good to automate grabbing
> the
> > file from ticTOCs server on a regular basis and updating the one on my
> > server (perhaps I'd need to use a cron job to do that?).
> >
> > Thanks for much for any suggestions or pointers. (For what it's worth, I
> can
> > manage with javascript or php.)
> >
> >
> > --
> > Derik A. Badman
> > Digital Services Librarian
> > Reference Librarian for Education and Social Work
> > Temple University Libraries
> > Paley Library 209
> > Philadelphia, PA
> > Phone: 215-204-5250
> > Email: dbad...@temple.edu
> > AIM: derikbad
> >
> > "Research makes times march forward, it makes time march backward, and it
> > also makes time stand still." -Greil Marcus
> >
>

[CODE4LIB] 34 th ELAG conference, 9-11th June 2010, Helsinki, Finland

[Boheemen, Peter van]

Call for papers for the 34th ELAG conference, 9-11th June 2010, 
"Meeting New User Expectations"
Helsinki, Finland

The ELAG (European Library Automation Group) Conference is Europe's
premier conference for library and information management technology.
The meetings aim at in depth discussions of particular library
automation topics and at the promotion of informal exchange of ideas and
experience. The topics covered are technical and meant for participants
with an appropriate technical background.

We invite you to submit a paper on this year's main topic "Meeting New
User Expectations". 

You will find more information about ELAG, the topic and its sub-themes
in the document attached.

Information about the conference can be found at:
http://elag2010.nationallibrary.fi/ .

There will be a pre-conference meeting of one day, unconference style,
on "Using Solr to index your bibliographic data". This will be held on
the 8th June 2010. More information will be available later at the
website mentioned above.


Peter


Call for papers for the 34th ELAG conference.rtf
Description: Call for papers for the 34th ELAG conference.rtf

Re: [CODE4LIB] change management system

[Boheemen, Peter van]

We have chosen to use FogBugz. A great product. Very easy to use.
Integrates well with version control systems, can also be used as agile
project management system and can create wiki's to write documentation.
It is great to be able to search documentation and all case history with
one search interface. Not open source, but very reasonably priced. 

Peter

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of
Fleming, Declan
Sent: vrijdag 12 februari 2010 0:52
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] change management system

Hi - Service Desk Express (SDE) from BMC.  Not cheap, but I bet an OSS
could do similar stuff.

D

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of
Walker, David
Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 11:57 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] change management system

What are you using for that ticketing system?

--Dave

==
David Walker
Library Web Services Manager
California State University
http://xerxes.calstate.edu

From: Code for Libraries [code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of
Fleming, Declan [dflem...@ucsd.edu]
Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 11:52 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] change management system

Hi - it's primarily designed for things we develop.

We have a Change Management ticketing system following ITIL principles
that tracks change requests for anything in production, from working
apps we've developed, to III, to the public infestations, and even
account adds/moves/changes.

Tickets from this system will sometimes be moved into JIRA when they ask
for a change to something we've developed.

D

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of
Walker, David
Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 9:49 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] change management system

Hey Declan,

Does that process only apply to applications you develop yourselves?
How about the Innovative system, or open source applications developed
elsewhere?

--Dave

==
David Walker
Library Web Services Manager
California State University
http://xerxes.calstate.edu

From: Code for Libraries [code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of
Fleming, Declan [dflem...@ucsd.edu]
Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 9:31 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] change management system

Hey Dave!  We need to go grab lunch sometime...

We use JIRA for our bug tracking and tracking feature requests (to some
extent).

UCSD Libraries IT has a strict Development/Operations split, with a weak
Test phase in the middle - weak because I don't have a QA or config
manager, and I'm teaching academics the processes I learned while
working in the software industry.

We follow a 2 week deploy process where Dev can submit any packages to
Ops every other Friday.  On Monday or Tuesday (depending on what's on
fire in Ops), these packages are then staged to a Test server that only
Ops has admin privs on.   If the project people have a test plan, they
have the rest of the week to say whether the package passes or not.  If
yes, we roll the package to production on the next Monday or Tuesday.
If not, we kick the package back to Dev and they do their fixes and unit
tests and wait for the next cycle.

This system keeps production (and thus, customers) from being thrashed
with not-quite-ready builds.  There is a lot of natural tension in our
system, especially with the lack of a QA manager, and most of the config
management being done by Ops.  We require a high degree of communication
between the Ops and Dev managers on dates, test pass/fail conditions,
code quality, process mgt, etc.  This can be a challenge as Ops and Dev
have different missions at times.

D

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of
Walker, David
Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 8:55 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] change management system

Thanks to everyone who responded.  The comments have been very helpful!

Is anyone using RT? [1]

Also, I'm curious how many academic libraries are following a formal
change management process?

By that, I mean: Do you maintain a strict separation between developers
and operations staff (the people who put the changes into production)?
And do you have something like a Change Advisory Board that reviews
changes before they can be put into production?

Just as background to these questions:

We've been asked to come-up with a change management procedure/system
for a variety of academic technology groups here that have not
previously had such (at least nothing formal).  But find the process
that the "business" (i.e., PeopleSoft ) folks here follow to be a bit
too elaborate for our purposes.  They use Remedy.

--Dave

[1] http:/

Re: [CODE4LIB] change management system

[Boheemen, Peter van]

Never experienced any problem with FogBugz sending email.
Mail integration is fabulous. Ofcourse you can send email notifications,
but it also accepts mails and automatically creates cases from them. It
can even learn to categorize these cases as belonging to certain
projects and also uses bayesian filtering to detect spam.
You can send an email from a case and replies will automatically be
linked to this case.
If you send an email to fogBugz it will be added to the case when it
finds the case number preceded by the word 'case' in the subject. It is
certainly useful to try it out. We run the mono version of FogBugz on
Linux, but you can ofcourse use the windows version or use it as a
hosted service at fogcreek.
I am beginning to sound like a salesperson. Should ask CEO Joel Spolsky
for a bonus.
Anyway, we are very pleased with it.

Peter

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of
MJ Ray
Sent: dinsdag 16 februari 2010 2:22
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] change management system

marijane white 
> FogBugz seems really fabulous.  In my previous career as a QA 
> engineer, my team was planning to try it out, but our employer went 
> out of business before we had a chance to pilot it.

Is FogBugz able to send RFC-conformant emails?  The only supplier I've
met that used it hadn't got it to sent good emails, so they got
spam-filtered far too often, so we changed supplier.

Our co-op uses RT, but not in a very visible-to-clients way.

Hope that helps,
-- 
MJ Ray (slef)  Webmaster and LMS developer at | software
www.software.coop http://mjr.towers.org.uk|   co
IMO only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html |   op

Re: [CODE4LIB] elag

[Boheemen, Peter van]

We are expecting to start registration early april. I will anounce this
on this list as well.
If you're to lazy to submit a paper, you may want to give a lightning
talk in Helsinki.  

Peter van Boheemen

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of
Karen Coombs
Sent: vrijdag 12 maart 2010 3:23
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] elag

Eric,

Based on the fact that presentation acceptances/rejections have gone
out, I'm fairly sure that a program and registration should be coming
out soon. I attended last year as well and it was a great conference.
Lots of fun and small.

Karen

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Eric Lease Morgan 
wrote:

> Does anybody here know the status of the ELAG conference taking place 
> in Helsinki this year? [1] I would like to attend, but I haven't seen 
> anything but a call for papers. (I'm too lazy to submit a paper 
> proposal.)
>
> [1] conference site - http://elag2010.nationallibrary.fi/
>
> --
> Eric Morgan
> University of Notre Dame
>

[CODE4LIB] Looking for an Elag 2010 workshop moderator

[Boheemen, Peter van]

The program for Elag 2010 is almost completed, but we are still looking
for somebody who would be willing to moderate a workshop on:
'Tweaking search results relevance ranking'
A workshop leader at Elag conferences prepares a starting document that
will help to discuss a topic during the workshop breaks at the
conference.
At the end of the conference each workshop will present their results at
a plenary session. The presenter does not have to be the workshop
leader.
So if you are interested in this topic and you were already coming to
helsinki in June or if this would be a good reason for you to go
there,please let me know asap. The theme is described as follows:

"Google has proved that having the most relevant results on the first
page works. So users expect any discovery tool to perform this way.
Google's pagerank algorithm is based on references between pages. Pages
that get linked to often are supposed to be important.
Traditional relevance ranking methods, using word frequencies etc, do
help but do not work as well. These algorithms are even less effective
in resources that lack full text, but only consists of metadata. On the
other hand, this metadata could be used to improve relevance ranking.
Knowledge about year of publication, loans frequency or impact factors
and lots of other meta data could be used to improve relevance ranking
in library catalogs and other bibliographies. And what about indexing
full text to improve relevance ranking ?"

P.S. If you have any other interesting topic that you would see a
workshop on and are willing to moderate, you may still suggest something
as well.

Peter


Drs. P.J.C. van Boheemen
Hoofd Applicatieontwikkeling en beheer - Bibliotheek Wageningen UR
Head of Application Development and Management - Wageningen University
and Research Library
tel. +31 317 48 25 17
http://library.wur.nl
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[CODE4LIB] Registration for ELAG 2010 is now open

[Boheemen, Peter van]

Invitation to the 34th ELAG conference, 9-11th June 2010, 
"Meeting New User Expectations"
Helsinki, Finland


 

The ELAG (European Library Automation Group) Conference is Europe's premier 
conference for library and information management technology. The meetings aim 
at in depth discussions of particular library automation topics and at the 
promotion of informal exchange of ideas and experience. The topics covered are 
technical and meant for participants with an appropriate technical background.

 

Users' perspective on information retrieval is largely shaped by web 
experiences. Accordingly libraries are feeling pressure to adapt their services 
in line with new user expectations.

 

We invite you to attend this year's conference "Meeting New User Expectations". 

 

The conference takes place 9-11th June 2010 in Helsinki, Finland.

There will be a pre-conference 8th June with two tracks: "Solr boot camp" and 
"Web services boot camp".

 

You will find information about the conference at: 
http://indico.cern.ch/event/elag2010  

Here you may also register for the conference. 

 

Further information about the conference can be found at: 
http://elag2010.nationallibrary.fi/   

If you have any questions, please send an email to: elag-2...@helsinki.fi 
   

We look forward to meet you in Helsinki!

Re: [CODE4LIB] New books RSS feed / "badge" with cover images?

[Boheemen, Peter van]

Invitation to the 34th ELAG conference, 9-11th June 2010, 
"Meeting New User Expectations"
Helsinki, Finland


 

The ELAG (European Library Automation Group) Conference is Europe's premier 
conference for library and information management technology. The meetings aim 
at in depth discussions of particular library automation topics and at the 
promotion of informal exchange of ideas and experience. The topics covered are 
technical and meant for participants with an appropriate technical background.

 

Users' perspective on information retrieval is largely shaped by web 
experiences. Accordingly libraries are feeling pressure to adapt their services 
in line with new user expectations.

 

We invite you to attend this year's conference "Meeting New User Expectations". 

 

The conference takes place 9-11th June 2010 in Helsinki, Finland.

There will be a pre-conference 8th June with two tracks: "Solr boot camp" and 
"Web services boot camp".

 

You will find information about the conference at: 
http://indico.cern.ch/event/elag2010  

Here you may also register for the conference. 

 

Further information about the conference can be found at: 
http://elag2010.nationallibrary.fi/   

If you have any questions, please send an email to: elag-2...@helsinki.fi 
   

We look forward to meet you in Helsinki!

 

Peter

[CODE4LIB] Elag 2010 open for registration

[Boheemen, Peter van]

Invitation to the 34th ELAG conference, 9-11th June 2010, 
“Meeting New User Expectations”
Helsinki, Finland

The ELAG (European Library Automation Group) Conference is Europe’s premier 
conference for library and information management technology. The meetings aim 
at in depth discussions of particular library automation topics and at the 
promotion of informal exchange of ideas and experience. The topics covered are 
technical and meant for participants with an appropriate technical background.

Users’ perspective on information retrieval is largely shaped by web 
experiences. Accordingly libraries are feeling pressure to adapt their services 
in line with new user expectations.

We invite you to attend this year’s conference “Meeting New User Expectations”. 

The conference takes place 9-11th June 2010 in Helsinki, Finland.
There will be a pre-conference 8th June with two tracks: “Solr boot camp” and 
“Web services boot camp”.

You will find information about the conference at: 
http://indico.cern.ch/event/elag2010
Here you may also register for the conference. 

Further information about the conference can be found at: 
http://elag2010.nationallibrary.fi/ 
If you have any questions, please send an email to: elag-2...@helsinki.fi  
We look forward to meet you in Helsinki!

Peter

Re: [CODE4LIB] it's cool to hate on OpenURL (was: Twitter annotations...)

[Boheemen, Peter van]

> But all the flaws of XML can be traced back to SGML which is 
> why we now use JSON despite all of its limitations. 
excuse me, but JSON is something completely different. It is an object notation 
and in not at all usable to structure data. XML is great to describe complex 
data, but it is often badly used, like in MARC XML (ISO 2709 described in XML). 
And it is musunderstood by a lot of programmmers that only thing in strings, 
integers and the lot 

[CODE4LIB] Elag 2012 now open for registration

[Boheemen, Peter van]

You may now register for Elag 2012 at www.elag2012.com 
!!

ELAG is Europe's premier conference on the application of information 
technology in libraries and documentation centres. For over thirty years, the 
ELAG (European Library Automation Group) Conference has provided library and IT 
professionals with the opportunity to discuss new technologies, to review 
on-going developments and to exchange best practices. The ELAG conference 
consists of presentations, workshops, lightning talks and a choice of 5 
pre-conference bootcamps.

See you all in May on the island of Mallorca.

Peter van Boheemen
Elag 2012 chair

[CODE4LIB] If you want to be there, act soon

[Boheemen, Peter van]

For those of you interested in participating in the Elag (European Librar 
Automation Group) 2012 conference in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Book your hotel and register at http://www.elag2012.com

Cheers,
Peter

[CODE4LIB] Elag 2013: Call for proposals

[Boheemen, Peter van]

Are you proud of the work you have been doing? Do you think you know stuff you 
should share? Do you have a great idea ? Are you able to teach your colleagues 
something? Make yourself heard by doing a presentation at ELAG 2013, 28-31 May 
in Ghent, Belgium ! 

The theme of this year's conference is 'The INSIDE-OUT Library'. This theme was 
chosen at last year's conference, because we concluded:

Libraries have been focusing on bringing the world to their users. Now 
information is globally available
Libraries have been producing metadata for the same publications in 
parallel. Now they are faced with deduplicating redundancy
Libraries have been selecting things for their users. Now the users select 
things themselves
Libraries have been supporting users by indexing things locally. Now 
everything is being indexed in global, shared indexes

Instead of being an OUTSIDE-IN library, libraries should try and stay relevant 
by shifting their paradigm 180 degrees. Instead of only helping users to find 
what is available globally, they should also focus on making local collections 
and production available to the world. Instead of doing the same thing 
everywhere, libraries should focus on making unique information accessible. 
Instead of focusing on information trapped in publications, libraries should 
try and give the world new views on knowledge.

For inspiration about topics for your presentation, see the sub-themes page: 
http://www.elag.org/subthemes.htm

If you are interested in doing a presentation, follow the instructions at: 
http://www.elag.org/callp.htm
You may also be interested in leading a pre conference event. If so, look at 
http://www.elag.org/callbc.htm 
Another way to participate in Elag is to moderate a workshop. For this you can 
fine more at: http://www.elag.org/callw.htm

Hope to see you all next year in Ghent,

Peter van Boheemen
Elag Chair

Re: [CODE4LIB] Free covers from Google

[Boheemen, Peter van]

Thanks Tim.
I noticed the service and It thought your script was small and just does all it 
needs to do.
Pasted it into our OPAC. But I only take the covers from Google, when Amazon 
does not have it.
I like the ones from amazon better :)
For those interested: http://library.wur.nl/desktop/catalog/


Peter 

Drs. P.J.C. van Boheemen
Hoofd Applicatieontwikkeling en beheer - Bibliotheek Wageningen UR
Head of Application Development and Management - Wageningen University and 
Research Library
tel. +31 317 48 25 17   
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-Oorspronkelijk bericht-
Van: Code for Libraries namens Tim Spalding
Verzonden: za 15-3-2008 7:04
Aan: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Onderwerp: [CODE4LIB] Free covers from Google
 
(Apologies for cross-posting)

I just posted a simple way to get free book covers into your OPAC. It
uses the new Google Book Search API.

http://www.librarything.com/thingology/2008/03/free-covers-for-your-library-from.php

I think Google has as much cover coverage as anyone. The API is free.
Most libraries pay. I'm thinking this is a big deal?

We'll probably fancy it up a bit as an add-on to our LibraryThing for
Libraries service, but the core idea can be implemented by anyone.

I look forward to refinements.

Tim

--
Check out my library at http://www.librarything.com/profile/timspalding

Re: [CODE4LIB] Free covers from Google

[Boheemen, Peter van]

As i wrote earlier, I have implemented a link using the Google API in
our library catalog.
It worked . for a while :)

What we notice now is, that Google responds with an error message. It
thinks that it has detected spyware or some virus.
i see the same effect now when I click on the examples Godmar and Tim
created.
When I go to Google books directly with my browser now, I get the same
message and get the request to enter a non machine readable
string and then I can go on. My API calls however, still fail.
This has probably got to do with the fact that anybody who is accessing
Google from the university campus exposes the same IP adress to Google.
This is probably a trigger for Google to respond with this error.
Does anybody have any ideas about what to do about this, before I try to
get in touch with Google?

Peter van Boheemen
Wageningen University and Research Library
The Netherlands

Re: [CODE4LIB] Free covers from Google

[Boheemen, Peter van]

Godmar,
It did not shut down during development, yesterday, when I developed it from 
home. It broke down today, when people started to use it. All university 
desktop computer have got dynamic 10.*.*.* adresses. The gateway does NAT so 
they are exposed to google with about three possible IP adresses. Or, if they 
use SFX, the IP adress of the Open URL resolver, or in the case of citrix, the 
IP adress of that machine. Anyway, all these approaches suffer from the same 
problem with Google's policy. 
Besides all that, I prefer a clean XML interface like Amazon provides above the 
JSON approach of Google. 
And I do prefer server side handling, since I got control over what the user is 
presented and I do not have problems with javascript support of the specific 
browser that the user is equiped with.
 
Peter
 
 
Drs. P.J.C. van Boheemen
Hoofd Applicatieontwikkeling en beheer - Bibliotheek Wageningen UR
Head of Application Development and Management - Wageningen University and 
Research Library
tel. +31 317 48 25 17   
 http://library.wur.nl  
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Van: Code for Libraries namens Godmar Back
Verzonden: ma 17-3-2008 16:21
Aan: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Onderwerp: Re: [CODE4LIB] Free covers from Google



On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Tim Spalding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >  limits. I don't think it's a strict hits-per-day, I think it's heuristic
>  >  software meant to stop exactly what we'd be trying to do, server-side
>  >  machine-based access.
>
>  Aren't we still talking about covers? I see *no* reason to go
>  server-side on that. Browser-side gets you what you want-covers from
>  Google-without the risk they'll shut you down over overuse.
>

But Peter's experience says otherwise, no?
His computer was shut down during development - I don't see how Google
would tell his use from the use of someone doing research using a
library catalog. Especially if NAT is used with a substantial number
of users as in Giles's use case.

 - Godmar

Re: [CODE4LIB] Free covers from Google

[Boheemen, Peter van]

I found a response form on the google books site. It is meant to be for people 
who want their books published I am afrais, but this was not all to clear. 
Anyway, it accepted my Google account and I submitted this problem
 
Peter
 
Drs. P.J.C. van Boheemen
Hoofd Applicatieontwikkeling en beheer - Bibliotheek Wageningen UR
Head of Application Development and Management - Wageningen University and 
Research Library
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Van: Code for Libraries namens Jonathan Rochkind
Verzonden: ma 17-3-2008 21:05
Aan: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Onderwerp: Re: [CODE4LIB] Free covers from Google



Interesting that these problems arise even when using the API as Google
intends on the client side.

I would encourage people to tell Google about this. If only we knew a
way to tell Google about it. If you can find a public email address
anywhere or comment form, let us know. And if you are having problems in
production even when using the API client side as intended, let Google
know. Maybe there will be a miracle and they'll care. Chances are higher
here, because it seems like they created this feature in large part for
libraries. If libraries are finding it does not work in production...

Jonathan

Boheemen, Peter van wrote:
> Godmar,
> It did not shut down during development, yesterday, when I developed it from 
> home. It broke down today, when people started to use it. All university 
> desktop computer have got dynamic 10.*.*.* adresses. The gateway does NAT so 
> they are exposed to google with about three possible IP adresses. Or, if they 
> use SFX, the IP adress of the Open URL resolver, or in the case of citrix, 
> the IP adress of that machine. Anyway, all these approaches suffer from the 
> same problem with Google's policy.
> Besides all that, I prefer a clean XML interface like Amazon provides above 
> the JSON approach of Google.
> And I do prefer server side handling, since I got control over what the user 
> is presented and I do not have problems with javascript support of the 
> specific browser that the user is equiped with.
>
> Peter
>
>
> Drs. P.J.C. van Boheemen
> Hoofd Applicatieontwikkeling en beheer - Bibliotheek Wageningen UR
> Head of Application Development and Management - Wageningen University and 
> Research Library
> tel. +31 317 48 25 17 
>http://library.wur.nl <http://library.wur.nl/>  
> <http://library.wur.nl/>
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>
> 
>
> Van: Code for Libraries namens Godmar Back
> Verzonden: ma 17-3-2008 16:21
> Aan: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Onderwerp: Re: [CODE4LIB] Free covers from Google
>
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:13 AM, Tim Spalding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>>  limits. I don't think it's a strict hits-per-day, I think it's heuristic
>>>
>>  >  software meant to stop exactly what we'd be trying to do, server-side
>>  >  machine-based access.
>>
>>  Aren't we still talking about covers? I see *no* reason to go
>>  server-side on that. Browser-side gets you what you want-covers from
>>  Google-without the risk they'll shut you down over overuse.
>>
>>
>
> But Peter's experience says otherwise, no?
> His computer was shut down during development - I don't see how Google
> would tell his use from the use of someone doing research using a
> library catalog. Especially if NAT is used with a substantial number
> of users as in Giles's use case.
>
>  - Godmar
>
>

--
Jonathan Rochkind
Digital Services Software Engineer
The Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
410.516.8886
rochkind (at) jhu.edu

Re: [CODE4LIB] Free covers from Google

[Boheemen, Peter van]

Hmm, just found an example where Google clearly does something wrong:
Look at: http://library.wur.nl/WebQuery/catalog/lang/948125
 
It shows a cover and links to the wrong book !!!
The look up is based on isbn 0851992544, but this book has got isbn 0851993575 
and this is also clearly stated in the Google book info !!
 
If you just go to Google book search and type isbn:0851992544 in the search 
box. You will find 4 titles !! of which the first one is the one I get from the 
service I use. The second one is the correct one. If you type isbn:0851993575 
you even get 6 hits and they all seem to share this ISBN !!!
 
I don't know if it does a lot of these mistakes. I just ran into them and I 
only request covers if Amazon can not provide them, so occasionally, so I 
suspect this must happen pretty often or I am just lucky this time (as opposed 
to any lottery I have ever been in.)
 
Peter
 
 
 
Drs. P.J.C. van Boheemen
Hoofd Applicatieontwikkeling en beheer - Bibliotheek Wageningen UR
Head of Application Development and Management - Wageningen University and 
Research Library
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Re: [CODE4LIB] Free covers from Google

[Boheemen, Peter van]

It gets its metadata in different ways. the strange thing about this
example however, is that in the metadata of this specific book at Google
the correct ISBN is shown !! (well I presume ii ts the correct isbn
(ISBN 0851993575) However, it can not be found with a query on this
ISBN, but it is found on an incorrect isbn:0851992544

Peter

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Karen Coyle
Sent: dinsdag 18 maart 2008 1:16
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Free covers from Google

I've seen this frequently in publisher data -- especially from small
publishers. Their metadata goes out with the same ISBN for every book
they publish. I don't know if this gets corrected later (I assume it
does to make the ordering process work). My guess is that they send out
the first metadata before they've gotten an ISBN assigned to the book,
so they just re-use one because the ISBN is required.

In the few examples I saw, the Amazon records had the correct ISBN, but
the Library of Congress records had the wrong ISBN that was originally
(presumably) transmitted. The publishers have an incentive to keep
Amazon up to date and correct (and perhaps also the bookstore databases
and Books in Print).

The real question is: where is Google getting its metadata, and what is
it doing with metadata from different sources for the same item?

kc

Boheemen, Peter van wrote:
> Hmm, just found an example where Google clearly does something wrong:
> Look at: http://library.wur.nl/WebQuery/catalog/lang/948125
>
> It shows a cover and links to the wrong book !!!
> The look up is based on isbn 0851992544, but this book has got isbn
0851993575 and this is also clearly stated in the Google book info !!
>
> If you just go to Google book search and type isbn:0851992544 in the
search box. You will find 4 titles !! of which the first one is the one
I get from the service I use. The second one is the correct one. If you
type isbn:0851993575 you even get 6 hits and they all seem to share this
ISBN !!!
>
> I don't know if it does a lot of these mistakes. I just ran into them
> and I only request covers if Amazon can not provide them, so
> occasionally, so I suspect this must happen pretty often or I am just
> lucky this time (as opposed to any lottery I have ever been in.)
>
> Peter
>
>
>
> Drs. P.J.C. van Boheemen
> Hoofd Applicatieontwikkeling en beheer - Bibliotheek Wageningen UR
> Head of Application Development and Management - Wageningen University
and Research Library
> tel. +31 317 48 25 17
http://library.wur.nl <http://library.wur.nl/>
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>
>
>
>

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fx.: 510-848-3913
mo.: 510-435-8234

[CODE4LIB] Restricted access fo free covers from Google :)

[Boheemen, Peter van]

 For what concerns Google's policy concerning NAT calls being treated as
spyware activity. I am now proxying Google for the JSON call, so it will
see the IP adress of our web server in stead of the Network Adress
Translator. It helps for the moment. Now I wonder if our own calls will
make Google complain as well, we will see.

One thing I noticed, when encountering the "we're sorry ... you have
spyware" message from google is the following link in this message:

http://www.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=86640

very interesting !! I guess lots of you are using meta search enigine to
search Google.
This message explicitly states this is against Google's terms of service
(http://www.google.com/terms_of_service.html)

Peter

Re: [CODE4LIB] Restricted access fo free covers from Google :)

[Boheemen, Peter van]

I don't think I do anything sophisticated like X-forwarder-for. I just have a 
ProxyPass directive in the apache configuration teeling it to reverse proxy a 
directory to google
 
ProxyPass /googlebooks http://books.google.com/books
 
But what if Google did something with a X-forwarded-for header? It can not see 
where the actual user is located. Behind a NAT usually 10.0.0.0 adresses are 
used. In fact it is trivial what Ip adresses are used behind the NAT. Since 
they are not exposed to the outside world it is only relevant if they are 
unique within the network behind the NAT.
 
Anyway, since we only hit google books form the server when a user asks for 
display of a full record, I hardly expect that will cause the Google triggers. 
I suspect that the few thousand PC's within the university campus hitting 
Google cause the problem, which especially Google books reacts upon. (I can 
still search Google when Google books rejects accces from my IP adress.)
I'll keep you informed.
 
Peter

 
Drs. P.J.C. van Boheemen
Hoofd Applicatieontwikkeling en beheer - Bibliotheek Wageningen UR
Head of Application Development and Management - Wageningen University and 
Research Library
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Van: Code for Libraries namens Jonathan Rochkind
Verzonden: di 18-3-2008 18:48
Aan: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Onderwerp: Re: [CODE4LIB] Restricted access fo free covers from Google :)



Nice. X-Forwarded-For would also allow google to deliver availability
information suitable for the actual location of the end-user.  If their
software chooses to pay attention to this. Which is the objection to
server-side API requests voiced to me by a Google person. (By proxying
everything through the server, you are essentially doing what I wanted
to do in the first place but Google told me they would not allow. Ironic
if you have more luck with that then the actual client-side AJAXy
requests that Google said they required!)

Thanks for alerting us to X-forwarded-for, that's a good idea.

Jonathan

Joe Hourcle wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Mar 2008, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
>
>> Wait, now ALL of your clients calls are coming from one single IP?
>> Surely that will trigger Googles detectors, if the NAT did. Keep us
>> updated though.
>
> I don't know what Peter's exact implementation is, but they might relax
> the limits when they see an 'X-Forwarded-For' header, or something
> else to
> suggest it's coming through a proxy.  It used to be pretty common when
> writing rate limiting code to use X-Forwarded-For in place of
> HTTP_ADDR so
> you didn't accidentally ban groups behind proxies.  (of course, I don't
> know if the X-Forwarded-For value is something that's not routable (in
> 10/8), or the NAT IP, so it might still look like 1 IP address behind a
> proxy)
>
> Also, by using a caching proxy (if the responses are cachable), the total
> number of requests going to Google might be reduced.
>
> I would assume they'd need to have some consideration for proxies, as I
> remember the days when AOL's proxy servers channeled all requests through
> less than a dozen unique IP addresses.  (or at least, those were the only
> ones hitting my servers)
>
> -Joe
>

--
Jonathan Rochkind
Digital Services Software Engineer
The Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
410.516.8886
rochkind (at) jhu.edu

Re: [CODE4LIB] Journal cover source?

[Boheemen, Peter van]

We use this from Bowker:
 
http://images.bowker.com/cgi-bin/ulr_cover.pl?issn=03468755
 
it will return transparent one pixel image (as amazon does) when no picture is 
found.
Not a clean API and not a lot of coverage
 
Peter
 
Drs. P.J.C. van Boheemen
Hoofd Applicatieontwikkeling en beheer - Bibliotheek Wageningen UR
Head of Application Development and Management - Wageningen University and 
Research Library
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Van: Code for Libraries namens Bob Duncan
Verzonden: di 18-3-2008 22:17
Aan: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Onderwerp: Re: [CODE4LIB] Journal cover source?



At 04:27 PM 03/18/2008, Jonathan wrote:
>This is something some of us have been wanting for a while too. I don't
>know of any API source (I wonder if Bowker's soon-to-be Books In Print
>API, which I've been told has cover images, will have that? I'm still
>trying to figure out, in communication with Bowker, what their cost
>model is going to be for this service).
>
>Ulrich's Periodicals Directory does have many journal cover images, but
>doesn't have any API to access them


Ulrich's does use a predictable URL as the value of the img src
attribute;  it returns a cover image when one is available and
nothing when one is not:

http://ulrichsweb2.serialssolutions.com/cgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
/>

Example:

http://ulrichsweb2.serialssolutions.com/cgi-bin/url_cover.pl?issn=01612492";
/>

I'm not sure if the links work sans an Ulrich's/SS subscription, nor
what the ethics are of using something like this (subscription or not), but


Bob Duncan


~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~!~
Robert E. Duncan
Systems Librarian
Editor of IT Communications
Lafayette College
Easton, PA  18042
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.library.lafayette.edu/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Free covers from Google

[Boheemen, Peter van]

Hooray for Google customer response !

It was not easy to find an appropriate response form on Google's web
site to complain about my problems using the Google Books API. I found a
form that was supposedly for authors and publishers wanting to advocate
their book on Google Books and used it. Google responded today:

Thank you for notifying us of this problem regarding our API. I have
forwarded these issues on to our specialists, who will look into the
matter. Please feel free to reply to this email if you have any further
details about the difficulties you are experiencing.

Sincerely,
Greg
The Google Book Search Team



I noticed earlier (when Google introduced URL resolving in Google
Scholar) that they can be quite responsive. Of course I havan't got a
solution yet. But have you ever had a response on your problems with
Microsoft, even though we pay them for their products ?

If you want to read about my experiences you mary want to read my blog
at http://webquery.blogspot.com/

Peter

[CODE4LIB] European Library Automation Group conference

[Boheemen, Peter van]

This post is a bit late, but that is because I joined this list just
recently.
 
For those who are interested. On 14-16 april we will host the 32nd
Library  Systems seminar of the European Library Automation Group over
here in Wageningen in our beuatifull new library building. Please look
at the web site http://library.wur.nl/elag2008/
  for further information.  ELAG is not
about listening to presentations only. You participate in one workshop
during the conference and discuss a subject. Workshop reports are
presented on the last day. You can also express your ideas in 5 minute
lightning talks.So join us. Be fast. Convenient hotel accomodation
nearby is limited.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Restricted access fo free covers from Google :)

[Boheemen, Peter van]

Hi Jonathan,

It is indeed working with the proxypass directive in Apache.
Now Google sees the Ip adres of the server and apparently, this does not create 
too much trafic. However, when it is busy the user might see the we're sorry 
page when they click on the link the API creates and travel through the NAT 
gateway. At least they can then enter the captcha and continue.
Today I have upscaled the service for books that do not have an ISBN. Google 
also accepts LCC and OCLC numbers as an id for books, but both numbers are not 
present in our catalog. All of our books are in Worldcat, so there must be a 
link. I have asked OCLC PICA (the dutch branch of OCLC) to provide me with a 
service that will return an OCLC number when I present it our national catalog 
number. They were very cooporative 
(http://webquery.blogspot.com/2008/03/hooray-for-oclc-pica-customer-response.html)
 and build this service (first they answered with a plain text return, but they 
altered this into a true XML service on my request) So now I call this service 
for the OCLC number and use this to invoke Google books API when and ISBN is 
missing from the catalog record. It works fine. I only find that Google's 
service is very slow. When I watch the response with firebug I see that the 
Google API takes about 10 - 20 times as much time (130 -250 msec) as the local 
parts of the page !
 and twice as much as an Amazon book cover lookup. However, this is when it all 
goes well. Around mid day response slows down to 1,6 seconds and at some 
moments to over 30 seconds. Five minutes later response can be back to normal. 
I checked google.books.com at such a moment and it does not respond at all. I 
guess they have heavily underpowered Google books. Have you noticed this as 
well ?

Google got in touch with me about the problem and asked me where they could see 
the service. That won't help, since they will not pass our NAT gateway. 
However, I will contact them, also about the poor response. The way we have 
implemented it now our full record presentation performance is heavily 
influenced by the Google books response times.
I haven't had time to get back to them, because I have been busy organizing the 
yearly European Library Automation Group (ELAG) meeting which we will host next 
week. http://library.wur.nl/elag2008

I'll CC this message to the list, it ay be of use to others and I wonder how 
others experience the Google Books performance

Peter

Drs. P.J.C. van Boheemen
Hoofd Applicatieontwikkeling en beheer - Bibliotheek Wageningen UR
Head of Application Development and Management - Wageningen University and 
Research Library
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Van: Jonathan Rochkind [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Verzonden: di 8-4-2008 18:33
Aan: Boheemen, Peter van
Onderwerp: Re: [CODE4LIB] Restricted access fo free covers from Google :)



Hi Pete, I'd be interested in an update on this. Is your ProxyPass with
Apache to access Google Books search API still working well for you, and
not running into Google traffic limiters?You haven't actually
communicated with Google on this to set up something special or
anything, have you?

I'm interested in trying a similar thing here.

Jonathan

Boheemen, Peter van wrote:
> I don't think I do anything sophisticated like X-forwarder-for. I just have a 
> ProxyPass directive in the apache configuration teeling it to reverse proxy a 
> directory to google
>
> ProxyPass /googlebooks http://books.google.com/books
>
> But what if Google did something with a X-forwarded-for header? It can not 
> see where the actual user is located. Behind a NAT usually 10.0.0.0 adresses 
> are used. In fact it is trivial what Ip adresses are used behind the NAT. 
> Since they are not exposed to the outside world it is only relevant if they 
> are unique within the network behind the NAT.
>
> Anyway, since we only hit google books form the server when a user asks for 
> display of a full record, I hardly expect that will cause the Google 
> triggers. I suspect that the few thousand PC's within the university campus 
> hitting Google cause the problem, which especially Google books reacts upon. 
> (I can still search Google when Google books rejects accces from my IP 
> adress.)
> I'll keep you informed.
>
> Peter
>
>
> Drs. P.J.C. van Boheemen
> Hoofd Applicatieontwikkeling en beheer - Bibliotheek Wageningen UR
> Head of Application Development and Management - Wageningen University and 
> Research Library
> tel. +31 317 48 25 17 
>http://library.wur.nl <http://library.wur.n

[CODE4LIB] Elag 2008 conference in Wageningen The Netherlands broadcasted live

[Boheemen, Peter van]

Dear Code4Lib-ers,

14 - 16 april we will hold the yearly conference of the European Library 
Automation Group in Wageningen, The Netherlands.

We have arranged for you to follow all plenary meetings and presentations live 
on The Web.

When you visit the conference web site at http://library.wur.nl/elag2008 you 
will find a link to the place where you can follow
this live broadcast. Unfortunately this is for Internet Explorer users only.

Regards, 
Peter



Drs. P.J.C. van Boheemen
Hoofd Applicatieontwikkeling en beheer - Bibliotheek Wageningen UR
Head of Application Development and Management - Wageningen University and 
Research Library
tel. +31 317 48 25 17 

Drs. P.J.C. van Boheemen
Hoofd Applicatieontwikkeling en beheer - Bibliotheek Wageningen UR
Head of Application Development and Management - Wageningen University and 
Research Library
tel. +31 317 48 25 17   
 http://library.wur.nl

[CODE4LIB] looking for Thesaurus management software

[Boheemen, Peter van]

I am looking for code for lib :)
We want to implement thesaurus management software. Up untill now we
have worked with home grown stuff, but we did not really maintain a
thesaurus, since we build on an existing one and our major work was to
translate it to Dutch. We are now thinking of expanding the thesaurus
with new branches as well, so we need something more sophisticated. We
have been looking around a bit, but have not found the right thing yet.
Does anybody know of a nice product. Preferably Open Source, so we can
adjust and contribute ourselves, but if not we could work with a
'closed' solution if necessary.

Peter

Drs. P.J.C. van Boheemen
Hoofd Applicatieontwikkeling en beheer - Bibliotheek Wageningen UR
Head of Application Development and Management - Wageningen University
and Research Library
tel. +31 317 48 25 17
http://library.wur.nl