Re: [CODE4LIB] SerSol 360Link API?
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 quite a few tweaks to our 360 Link (mostly using jQuery), so I'm half tempted to have a go using the API to develop a complete replacement for 360 Link. If anyone's already done that, I'd be keen to hear more. regards Dave Pattern University of Huddersfield From: Code for Libraries [code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Jonathan Rochkind [rochk...@jhu.edu] Sent: 19 April 2010 03:50 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] SerSol 360Link API? Is anyone using the SerSol 360Link API in a real-world production or near-production application? If so, I'm curious what you are using it for, what your experiences have been, and in particular if you have information on typical response times of their web API. You could reply on list or off list just to me. If I get interesting information especially from several sources, I'll try to summarize on list and/or blog either way. Jonathan --- This transmission is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you receive it in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and remove it from your system. If the content of this e-mail does not relate to the business of the University of Huddersfield, then we do not endorse it and will accept no liability.
Re: [CODE4LIB] calling another webpage within CGI script
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, you might need to hardcode it into the script... my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new( timeout => 60 ); $ua->proxy(['http'], 'http://squid.wittenberg.edu:3128'); (replace "squid.wittenberg.edu:3128" with whatever the proxy server name and port number actually are) regards Dave Pattern University of Huddersfield From: Code for Libraries [code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Ken Irwin [kir...@wittenberg.edu] Sent: 23 November 2009 19:41 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] calling another webpage within CGI script Hi Joe, That's really helpful, thanks. Actually finding out what the error message is nice: HTTP Error : 500 Can't connect to www.npr.org:80 (connect: Permission denied) I've tried this with a few websites and always get the same error, which tells me that the problem is on my server side. Any idea what I can change so I don't get a permission-denied rejection? I'm not even sure what system I should be looking at. I tried Vishwam's suggestion of granting 777 permissions to both the file and the directory and I get the same response. Is there some Apache setting someplace that says "hey, don't you go making web calls while I'm in charge"? (This is a Fedora server running Apache, btw). I don't know what to poke at! Ken --- This transmission is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you receive it in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and remove it from your system. If the content of this e-mail does not relate to the business of the University of Huddersfield, then we do not endorse it and will accept no liability.
[CODE4LIB] developer competition - library usage data
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/wikis/mosaic/index.php/Project_Data
...and the "Data Collection Guide" explains the XML format of the data:
http://library.hud.ac.uk/wikis/mosaic/index.php/Project_Documentation
At present, it's just book usage data from the University of Huddersfield
that's available to play around with, but we're hoping that it will be joined
by some usage data from a few other UK academic libraries in due course.
As the XML usage data files are pretty big (i.e. opening them in Internet
Explorer is a sure fire way of killing a PC!), I've put together a quick &
dirty API for grabbing subsets of the data:
http://www.daveyp.com/blog/archives/953
Tony Hirst (from the Open University in the UK) has done a helpful blog post
here: http://bit.ly/8RjYU
In terms of the competition, it's open to anyone (i.e. not just developers
based in the UK). The prizes are in UK sterling and the competition is being
run according to UK law (just in case competition laws vary from country to
country).
Have fun!
Dave Pattern
Library Systems Manager
University of Huddersfield
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[CODE4LIB] Mashed Library UK 2009 - registration now open
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: 10.00am until late afternoon Venue: University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, HD1 3DH Web site: http://mashlib09.wordpress.com Fee: £15 (ex. vat) Speakers: Tony Hirst, Mike Ellis, Brendan Dawes, Richard Wallis and more Primary sponsor: Talis The first Mashed Library UK event, organised by Owen Stephens, was held at Birkbeck College in November 2008 with the aim of "bringing together interested people and doing interesting stuff with libraries and technology". Further details about the 2008 event are available here: http://mashedlibrary.ning.com The University of Huddersfield is proud to be hosting the second event, dubbed "Mash Oop North!", which is being sponsored by Talis. The event will take place in Huddersfield on July 7th. Mashed Library is aimed at librarians, library developers and library techies who want to learn more about Web 2.0 & 3.0, Library 2.0, creating mash-ups and generally doing interesting/cool/useful things with data. In particular, we expect the event to generate the following outcomes for all attendees: 1) Awareness of the latest developments in library technology 2) Application of Web 2.0 technologies in a library context 3) Community building and networking 4) Learn new skills and develop existing ones The event is primarily an "unconference", so attendees will be encouraged to participate throughout the day. Further information is available on the event blog: http://mashlib09.wordpress.com A small token registration fee of £15 is the only charge for the event. Places are limited to around 60 delegates, so we would advise booking early to avoid disappointment! http://www.hud.ac.uk/images/emails/neutral_navy_blue_003976.gif"; alt="Inspiring tomorrow's professionals"> --- This transmission is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you receive it in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and remove it from your system. If the content of this e-mail does not relate to the business of the University of Huddersfield, then we do not endorse it and will accept no liability.
Re: [CODE4LIB] [Web4lib] A million free covers, from LibraryThing
> 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 children's library book supplier in the mid 1990s in the UK, I can concur with Tim -- all of the publishers we dealt with (which included all of the major players) were more than happy to supply us with book cover scans to use on our web site. The only issue for us was the wide variety in quality (from tiny GIFs to massive TIFFs), so we ended up doing all of the cover scanning ourselves inhouse (again, the publishers we're happy for us do this). On the subject of copyright, wasn't there a recent case brought against Google's Image Search where the judge ruled that thumbnails do not violate the copyright of the original image? regards Dave Pattern University of Huddersfield This transmission is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you receive it in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and remove it from your system. If the content of this e-mail does not relate to the business of the University of Huddersfield, then we do not endorse it and will accept no liability.
Re: [CODE4LIB] perl recaptcha?
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 users don't need to do anything. Dave Pattern Library Systems Manager University of Huddersfield email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jonathan Rochkind Sent: 01 July 2008 14:49 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] perl recaptcha? The Recaptcha device specifically also provides an audio test. But point taken, even so it could prevent accessibility challenges. Nevertheless, when my system is currently receiving around one software powered spam per minute, I need a quick pre-built drop-in solution to this; I don't have time to write my own AI! If you have any other free or affordable pre-built drop-in solutions to spam protection to suggest, this would be a great forum to do so! My particular situation isn't even a web forum---it's a comment form that does nothing but send email to librarians. But the spam bots don't know that, and are sending 1 spam per minute to it. "Pre-moderation" is not a solution; that's what we're doing now, but we can't afford to hire an FTE just to seperate our actual user feedback from spam! Jonathan This transmission is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you receive it in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and remove it from your system. If the content of this e-mail does not relate to the business of the University of Huddersfield, then we do not endorse it and will accept no liability.
Re: [CODE4LIB] facebook
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 put together a small application that will give the user info from their library account, e.g. You have 5 books on loan, and 2 of them need returning tomorrow. Click here to go to your library account if you'd like to renew them. Obviously I'd need to figure out a secure and safe way of associating a Facebook user ID with a specific library account. regards Dave Pattern Library Systems Manager University of Huddersfield -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric Lease Morgan Sent: 07 January 2008 00:55 To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu Subject: [CODE4LIB] facebook I am having a bit of fun with Facebook. Last Friday I got a renewed interest in Facebook. Don't ask me why. I don't know. I do know though that syndicating library content to social networks (Facebook, MySpace, Delicious, etc.) seems to be a rage. To that end I have taken a stab at writing a few Facebook applications, and below is the simplest one shared here in the hopes other (Perl) hackers don't spin their wheels as much as I did. ...snip... -- Eric Lease Morgan University Libraries of Notre Dame This transmission is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you receive it in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and remove it from your system. If the content of this e-mail does not relate to the business of the University of Huddersfield, then we do not endorse it and will accept no liability.
[CODE4LIB] OPAC survey - initial findings
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 surprises in the findings, or if you think it's just telling you what you already know! http://www.daveyp.com/blog/index.php/archives/205/ http://www.daveyp.com/blog/index.php/archives/206/ http://www.daveyp.com/blog/index.php/archives/207/ http://www.daveyp.com/blog/index.php/archives/208/ http://www.daveyp.com/blog/index.php/archives/209/ http://www.daveyp.com/blog/index.php/archives/210/ The comments from respondents (which will be included in the PDF report) ran the whole spectrum of opinion -- from those who thought the OPAC is already a defunct technology, to those who obviously feel that their OPAC should be nothing more than an electronic version of a card catalog. regards Dave Pattern University of Huddersfield p.s. apologies for cross-posting this to several lists This transmission is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you receive it in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and remove it from your system. If the content of this e-mail does not relate to the business of the University of Huddersfield, then we do not endorse it and will accept no liability.
Re: [CODE4LIB] pspell aspell: make your own word lists/dictionaries
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 a file containing the unique words from the item
titles (with each word on a separate line) and "title.list" is the dictionary
file that gets created.
Unfortunately I did our implementation in mod_perl, so I'm not sure how you go
about getting PHP to pick up a custom dictionary. Anyway, using the Perl
Text::Aspell module, our code contains:
my $speller = Text::Aspell->new;
$speller->set_option('sug-mode','ultra');
$speller->set_option('master','/Apache2/modperl/HIP/title.list');
my @suggestions = $speller->suggest( $word );
If you want to see it in action, try these:
http://library.hud.ac.uk/catlink/title/newmonia
http://library.hud.ac.uk/catlink/author/newmonia
http://library.hud.ac.uk/catlink/title/gibberish
...also, be aware that using your own custom dictionaries might highlight the
typos in some of your MARC records!
http://library.hud.ac.uk/catlink/general/suckcesful
regards
Dave Pattern
University of Huddersfield
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Sent: Tue 4/3/2007 5:40 PM
To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu
Subject: [CODE4LIB] pspell aspell: make your own word lists/dictionaries
Has anyone created their own "dictionaries"
for aspell? We've created blank delimited
lists of words from our opac. One for title,
one for subjects, and one for authors. (We're thinking
of a series one as well)
We would like to use
one of these word lists to offer suggestions
depending on which search the patron is making.
We're assuming we can make better suggestions
if the words come from our actual opac.
We've got it working with the dictionary that
comes with aspell, but having problems (we can't do it!)
substituting our own "dictionaries."
Does anyone have any experience/knowledge/hints/pointers
they can share with us?
We are using linux, php 5, aspell 0.50.5, and
php -> pspell functions.
Thanks,
Kevin
TNRD Library System, Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada
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[CODE4LIB] quick OPAC survey
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 at their own library. If you have a couple of minutes to spare, then please consider responding: http://www.daveyp.com/blog/stuff/opac.html I'll post the final results before I set off for the Library and Information Show UK in mid April, but there are already some interesting trends appearing! regards Dave Pattern Library Systems Manager University of Huddersfield This transmission is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you receive it in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and remove it from your system. If the content of this e-mail does not relate to the business of the University of Huddersfield, then we do not endorse it and will accept no liability.
Re: [CODE4LIB] munging wikimedia
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 From: Code for Libraries on behalf of Eric Lease Morgan Sent: Sun 10/09/2006 14:28 To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu Subject: [CODE4LIB] munging wikimedia How do I go about munging wikimedia content? After realizing that downloadable data dumps of Wikipedia are sorted by language code, I was able to acquire the 1.6 GB compressed data, uncompress it, parse it with Parse::MediaWikiDump, and output things like article title and article text. The text contains all sorts of wikimedia mark-up: [[]], \\, #, ==, *, etc. I suppose someone has already written something that converts this markup into HTML and/or plain text, but I can't find anything. If you were to get the Wikipeda content, cache it locally, index it, and provide access to the index, then how would you deal with the Wiki mark-up? -- Eric Lease Morgan University Libraries of Notre Dame This transmission is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you receive it in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and remove it from your system. If the content of this e-mail does not relate to the business of the University of Huddersfield, then we do not endorse it and will accept no liability.
Re: [CODE4LIB] external linking to your images
Hi Eric
I'm a little rusty on Apache's Rewrite rules, but here's what I've got
set up in a .htaccess file (see
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html):
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^$
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://216.239.*/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://216.239.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://66.102.9.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://66.102.7.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^.*melanson.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^.*mindjack.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^.*google.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://daveyp.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://daveyp.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.daveyp.com/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://localhost/.*$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^http://www.daveyp.com$ [NC]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} !^.*gordian.*$ [NC]
RewriteRule (.*)\.(jpg)$ http://www.daveyp.com/cgi-bin/no.pl?$1.$2
[R,NC]
The gist of the above is:
1) if no HTTP_REFERER string is sent (!^$), then allow them to see the
image
2) if any of the remaining RewriteCond's match the HTTP_REFERER, then
allow them to see them image
3) otherwise if the user is asking for a .jpg file, perform the
RewriteRule
I've used a Perl script (no.pl) to decide which image to send to the
user, but you could easily use something like the following to redirect
to a static image file:
RewriteRule (.*)\.(jpg)$ http://www.daveyp.com/no.png [R,NC]
Basically, my site is daveyp.com so that's a valid HTTP_REFERER and the
others are sites that I'm happy to use my images.
I'm no expert on Rewrites, so there might be an easier way of doing it.
Hope that helps!
Dave
> -Original Message-
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
> Behalf Of Eric Lease Morgan
> Sent: 31 March 2006 13:59
> To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] external 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 of rude
> on my part.
>
>
> > If you have admin access, then you can usually set up rules
> to limit
> > which referring sites can directly use your images.
>
> Can you ore someone else here on this list be more specific
> about rules and referring sites? How do I configure Apache to
> do such a thing? Maybe I could get trickier and redirect such
> links to a donation page, or I could authorize certain links
> and not others, but now it is probably getting more
> complicated than it needs to be.
>
> --
> Eric Morgan
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Re: [CODE4LIB] external linking to your images
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 sites can directly use your images. In my spare time I run a fairly popular DVD site and I often get ebay vendors linking directly to DVD cover scans. So, I set up an Apache rule that should replace the image with one that suggests that if the vendor is happy to steal someone else's bandwidth they might also by happy to steal your money :-) regards Dave Pattern Library Systems Manager Computing & Library Services University of Huddersfield > -Original Message- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Eric Lease Morgan > Sent: 31 March 2006 13:08 > To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] external linking to your images > > Yep, this is exactly what is happening. > > People are linking to images directly from my site. They are > sort of "hijacking" the images, and when loaded they use my > hard disk, my processing power, and my network connection to > make it happen. This reduces the amount of resources for my > machine's more primary tasks. Mind you, it would be difficult > for me to measure the resource usage, and as a librarian, I > might say, "So what?" On the other hand sometimes people make > fun of me and my images. Other times the images are put into > an undesirable context too gross to even mention on a mailing list. > > Here is a less inocuous instance. Below is a URL. It > describes some sort of mortgage service. On the page is a > picture of a house. I took that picture and titled it "first > home". When you search Google Images for "first home" this > picture shows up as item #2: > http://www.dynastymortgageteam.com/ To what degree are the people at dynastymortgageteam.com taking advantage of me and the system? To what degree are the norms of Internet behavior too new to determine the answer to that question? What about those other people who link to me for "personal use?" While it isn't scholarship, maybe I should be "cited" and have a link back to my home page and be granted attribution. Does anybody else remember an Internet adage that said, "If you don't want it copied, then don't put it on the Internet." These are things I wonder about. Finally, I consider refusing to serving images to external referrer's, but again, some of my professional ethics get in the way. (BTW, how would I go about doing such a thing?) -- Eric Morgan This transmission is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you receive it in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and remove it from your system. If the content of this e-mail does not relate to the business of the University of Huddersfield, then we do not endorse it and will accept no liability.
