Re: [CODE4LIB] SerSol 360Link API?

2010-04-18 Thread David Pattern
Hiya We're using it to add e-holdings into to our OPAC, e.g. http://library.hud.ac.uk/catlink/bib/396817/ I've also tried using the API to add the coverage info to the "availability" text for journals in Summon (e.g. "Availability: print (1998-2005) & electronic (2000-present)"). I've made qu

Re: [CODE4LIB] calling another webpage within CGI script

2009-11-24 Thread David Pattern
Hi Ken Are you behind a web proxy server or firewall? If so, you'll probably need to specify a proxy server in the script. If the proxy is defined in the environment variables on the server, then you can use... my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new( timeout => 60 ); $ua->env_proxy(); ...otherwise

[CODE4LIB] developer competition - library usage data

2009-07-31 Thread David Pattern
Hi everyone Just a quick plug for a developer competition that's being run by the JISC funded MOSAIC ("Making Our Shared Activity Information Count") Project in the UK: http://www.sero.co.uk/jisc-mosaic-competition.html The usage data can be found for download via: http://library.hud.ac.uk/wik

[CODE4LIB] Mashed Library UK 2009 - registration now open

2009-04-30 Thread David Pattern
Hope this might be of interest to some of you. I'm not sure how feasible it'll be to stream and/or video the event, but we're currently looking into it. regards Dave Pattern University of Huddersfield - Mashed Library UK 2009: Mash Oop North! Date: Tuesday 7th July 2009 Time: 1

Re: [CODE4LIB] [Web4lib] A million free covers, from LibraryThing

2008-08-07 Thread David Pattern
> Publishers make their covers available to them and to others because > they desperately want their covers out there. You can get covers from > publishers with amazing ease. I do not suspect Amazon or Syndetics > have licensed the covers in any way. Having worked for a number of years for a child

Re: [CODE4LIB] perl recaptcha?

2008-07-01 Thread David Pattern
Something that's worked well for me on my blog (although it doesn't stop 100% of spam) is to require the user to tick a checkbox before submitting the comment. You have it box unticked by default but you can include a bit of JavaScript to autotick it once the page has loaded, so the majority of us

Re: [CODE4LIB] facebook

2008-01-07 Thread David Pattern
Thanks Eric! I had a little mess around with the Perl Facebook API last year, but didn't get very far. Out of interest, once you've got the first fortune, when you refresh your FB profile does it trigger a new fortune to be sent or do you see the same (e.g. cached) fortune? What I want to do is

[CODE4LIB] OPAC survey - initial findings

2007-04-16 Thread David Pattern
Hi all! Many thanks to everyone who responded to the recent OPAC survey -- in total there were 729 responses. I'll be publishing an informal PDF report sometime around the end of May, but I've already stated adding data, graphs and initial findings to my weblog. I'd love to know if there are any

Re: [CODE4LIB] pspell aspell: make your own word lists/dictionaries

2007-04-03 Thread David Pattern
Hi Kevin We've been using aspell for just over a year using a similar method to the one you've outlined. The command line I've been using to build the custom dictionary (on a Windows box) is: aspell.exe --lang=en_GB create master ./title.list < titlewords.txt ...where "titlewords.txt" is

[CODE4LIB] quick OPAC survey

2007-03-27 Thread David Pattern
Hi everyone I'm running a brief informal survey about web based OPACs, their ease of use, and importance of various "2.0" features. It would be great to get as many responses as possible, especially from Librarians and staff who are involved with the administration and/or development of the OPAC

Re: [CODE4LIB] munging wikimedia

2006-09-10 Thread David Pattern
Hi Eric The best place to look is probably http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Alternative_parsers I'm guessing the "non-parser dumper", which uses MediaWiki's internal code to the do rendering, might be the a good choice. regards Dave Pattern University of Huddersfield _

Re: [CODE4LIB] external linking to your images

2006-03-31 Thread David Pattern
ternal linking to your images > > > On Mar 31, 2006, at 7:37 AM, David Pattern wrote: > > > If I were you, I'd replace your "first home" picture with > one showing > > a condemned property > > I thought of this but I also thought it might be sort

Re: [CODE4LIB] external linking to your images

2006-03-31 Thread David Pattern
Hi Eric If I were you, I'd replace your "first home" picture with one showing a condemned property (e.g. http://www.annistonstar.com/gallery/2004/year_end/2004_sg45.jpg) so that it appears on their web site. If you have admin access, then you can usually set up rules to limit which referring site