[CODE4LIB] position announcement [tulane university]

[The following position announcement is being forwarded upon request. —ELM] > We are currently hiring for the Applications Developer III position at the > Howard-Tilton Memorial Library at Tulane University located in New Orleans, > Louisiana. > > Please see the job details here:

[CODE4LIB] on hold

As of this message, I’m putting the Code4Lib mailing list “on hold” while the list’s configurations and archives get moved from one place to another. ‘More soon, and this process will take at least a day. Please be patient. —Eric Lease Morgan

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib mailing list

> Alas, the Code4Lib mailing list software will most likely need to be migrated > before the end of summer… On Monday Wayne Graham (CLIR/DLF) and I are hoping to migrate the Code4Lib mailing list to a different domain. We don’t think any archives, subscriptions, nor preferences will get lost

[CODE4LIB] mashcat

meeting, we will be holding at least one more webinar in 2016. http://bit.ly/29FuUuY Actually, the mass-editing of cataloging (MARC) data is something that is particularly interesting to me these days. Hand-crafted metadata records are nice, but increasingly unscalable. — Eric Lease Morgan

Re: [CODE4LIB] date fields

choose is all but arbitrary. I’ll use some 9xx field, just to make things easy. I can always (and easily) change it later. [1] "Catholic Portal” - http://www.catholicresearch.net — Eric Lease Morgan

[CODE4LIB] date fields

I’m looking for date fields. Or more specifically, I have been given a pile o’ MARC records, and I will be extracting for analysis the values of dates from MARC 260$c. From the resulting set of values — which will include all sorts of string values ([1900], c1900, 190?, 19—, 1900, etc.) — I

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib mailing list [clir]

On Jun 7, 2016, at 10:11 AM, Eric Lease Morgan <emor...@nd.edu> wrote: >>> Alas, the Code4Lib mailing list software will most likely need to be >>> migrated before the end of summer, and I’m proposing a number possible >>> options for the lists continued existe

Re: [CODE4LIB] Formalizing Code4Lib?

On Jun 14, 2016, at 8:01 PM, Coral Sheldon-Hess <co...@sheldon-hess.org> wrote: > Now, there kind of is. By my count, we have 4 volunteers. Chad, Tom, Galen, > and me. Anyone else? Coral, please sign me up. I’d like to learn more. —Eric Lease Morgan

Re: [CODE4LIB] Formalizing Code4Lib? [diy]

On Jun 9, 2016, at 7:55 PM, Coral Sheldon-Hess wrote: > One note about what we're discussing: when we talk about just doing the > regional events (and I mean beyond 2017, which will be a special case if a > host city can't step in), we need to realize that we have a lot

Re: [CODE4LIB] Formalizing Code4Lib? [diy]

her end of the first meeting. NASIG? DLF? ACRL? Call it a symbiotic relationship. — Eric Lease Morgan

Re: [CODE4LIB] Formalizing Code4Lib?

left out. That is what happens when formalization take place. The regional conferences are good things. I call them franchises. The annual meeting does not have to be a big deal, and the smaller it is, the less financial risk there will be. Somebody will always come forward. It will just happen. — Eric Lease Morgan

Re: [CODE4LIB] Formalizing Code4Lib?

> I'm also interested in investigating how to formalize Code4Lib as an > entity, for all of the reasons listed earlier in the thread… -1 because I don’t think the benefits will outweigh the emotional and bureaucratic expense. We already have enough rules. — ELM

[CODE4LIB] viaf and the levenshtein algorithm

] arscience - http://infomotions.com/blog/2008/07/arscience/ — Eric Lease Morgan

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib mailing list [dlf]

On May 12, 2016, at 8:30 AM, Eric Lease Morgan <emor...@nd.edu> wrote: >> Alas, the Code4Lib mailing list software will most likely need to be >> migrated before the end of summer, and I’m proposing a number possible >> options for the lists continued existence...

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib mailing list [dlf]

On Mar 24, 2016, at 10:29 AM, Eric Lease Morgan <emor...@nd.edu> wrote: > Alas, the Code4Lib mailing list software will most likely need to be migrated > before the end of summer, and I’m proposing a number possible options for the > lists continued existence... Our

[CODE4LIB] authority work with isni

minds would like to know. Fun with authorities!? And, “What’s in a name anyway?" [1] ISNI - http://isni.org [2] some documentation - http://isni.org/how-isni-works — Eric Lease Morgan Lost In Rome

Re: [CODE4LIB] Software used in Panama Papers Analysis [named entities]

he Python Natural Language Toolkit (NLTK) module. [2] The noted chapter gives a pretty good overview of the subject. [1] NER - http://nlp.stanford.edu/software/CRF-NER.shtml [2] NLTK chapter - http://www.nltk.org/book/ch07.html * ‘Story of my life. — Eric Lease Morgan

Re: [CODE4LIB] Software used in Panama Papers Analysis

On Apr 7, 2016, at 4:24 PM, Gregory Markus wrote: >> from one of the New York Times stories on the Panama Papers: "The >> ICIJ made a number of powerful research tools available to the >> consortium that the group had developed for previous leak >> investigations. Those

Re: [CODE4LIB] Google can give you answers, but librarians give you the right answers

, “Whenever you have a hammer, everything begins to look like a nail." [1] an essay elaborating on the idea of use & understand - http://infomotions.com/blog/2011/09/dpla/ — Eric Lease Morgan Artist- And Librarian-At-Large

Re: [CODE4LIB] Google can give you answers, but librarians give you the right answers

On Apr 5, 2016, at 11:12 PM, Karen Coyle wrote: > Eric, there were studies done a few decades ago using factual questions. > Here's a critical round-up of some of the studies: > http://www.jstor.org/stable/25828215 Basically, 40-60% correct, but possibly > the questions

Re: [CODE4LIB] Google can give you answers, but librarians give you the right answers

I sincerely wonder to what extent librarians give the reader (patrons) the right -- correct -- answer to a (reference) question. Such is a hypothesis that can be tested and measured. Please show me non-antidotal evidence one way or the other. --ELM

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib mailing list [domain]

On Mar 25, 2016, at 1:24 PM, Bethany Nowviskie wrote: > Dear all — I’ve been getting this as a digest, so apologies that I’m only > seeing the thread on the future of the mailing list now! > > CLIR/DLF is running the same version of ye olde LISTSERV as Notre Dame, to >

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib mailing list

Regarding the mailing list, here is what I propose to do: 1. Upgrade my virtual server to include more RAM and disk space. 2. Install and configure Mailman. 3. Ask people to subscribe to a bogus list so I/we can practice. 4. Evaluate. 5. If evaluation is successful, then migrate

[CODE4LIB] code4lib mailing list

y’all think? If we go with Option #2, then where might we host the list, who might do the work, and what software might we use? — Eric Lease Morgan Artist- And Librarian-At-Large

Re: [CODE4LIB] personalization of academic library websites

professional ethics. Too many librarians thought the implementation of the idea challenged intellectual privacy. Alas. — Eric Lease Morgan Artist- And Librarian—At-Large (574) 485-6870

[CODE4LIB] worldcat discovery versus metadata apis

I’m curious. What is the difference between the WorldCat Discovery and WorldCat Metadata APIs? Given an OCLC number, I want to programmatically search WorldCat and get in return a full bibliographic record compete with authoritative subject headings and names. Which API should I be using? —

Re: [CODE4LIB] reearch project about feeling stupid in professional communication

l become insignificant. The consequence will be a more holistic set of library collections and services. [1] I have elaborated on these ideas in a blog posting - http://bit.ly/1LDpXkc — Eric Lease Morgan

[CODE4LIB] Code4Crotaia

Code4Crotaia was alluded to in a blog posting. [1] code4crotaia++ Inquiring mind would like to know more. Please tell us about Code4Crotaia, and don’t hesitate to update http://wiki.code4lib.org with details? [1] http://blog.okfn.org/2016/03/21/codeacross-opendataday-zagreb-2016/ —Eric Morgan

Re: [CODE4LIB] onboarding developers coming from industry

On Mar 2, 2016, at 9:48 AM, LeVan,Ralph wrote: > …I've written so much bloat that didn't get used because a librarian was sure > the system would fail without it…. I’m ROTFL because just a few minutes ago, while composing an informal essay on the history of bibliographic

Re: [CODE4LIB] onboarding developers coming from industry

On Mar 2, 2016, at 9:30 AM, Tom Hutchinson <thutc...@swarthmore.edu> wrote: > ...To be honest I feel like I still don’t even really know what libraries / > librarians are yet. Tom, when you find out, please tell the rest of us. ;-) —Eric Lease Morgan

Re: [CODE4LIB] Don't Change Your Site Because of Reference Librarians RE: [CODE4LIB] Responsive website question

On Feb 8, 2016, at 11:25 AM, Katherine Deibel wrote: > From a disability accessibility perspective, magnification is not purely > about text readability but making sure that all features of a > website---images, interactive widgets, text, etc.---are of use to the user. > Merely

[CODE4LIB] oclc member code

Given an OCLC member code, such as BXM for Boston College, is it possible to use some sort of OCLC API to search WorldCat (or some other database) and return information about Boston College? —Eric Lease Morgan

Re: [CODE4LIB] Anyone familiar with XSLT? Im stuck

> I have around 1400 xml files that I am trying to copy into one xml file so > that I can then pull out three elements from each and put into a single csv > file. What are three elements you want to pull out of each XML file, and what do you want the CSV file to look like? Your XML files are

Re: [CODE4LIB] TEI->EPUB serialization testing

On Jan 14, 2016, at 10:32 AM, Ethan Gruber wrote: >>> Part of this grant stipulates that open access books be made available >>> in EPUB 3.0.1, so I got to work on a pipeline for dynamically serializing >>> TEI into EPUB... >>>

Re: [CODE4LIB] TEI->EPUB serialization testing

le thing was the creation of the TEI files in the first place. After that, everything was relatively easy. [1] Alex Lite blog posting - http://bit.ly/eazpJY [2] Alex Lite - http://infomotions.com/sandbox/alex-lite/ — Eric Lease Morgan Artist- And Librarian-At-Large (A man in a trenc

Re: [CODE4LIB] The METRO Fellowship

On Jan 5, 2016, at 1:17 PM, Nate Hill wrote: > metro.org/fellowship > > Our goal is to empower a small cohort of fellows to help solve > cross-institutional problems and to spur innovation within our membership > of libraries and archives in NYC and Westchester County

Re: [CODE4LIB] selinux [resolved]

enable httpd_can_network_connect. > > — > Michael Berkowski > University of Minnesota Libraries Michael, resolved, and thank you for the prompt and thorough reply. Yes, SELinux was doing its job, and it was configured to disallow network connections from httpd. After issuing the following command (which allows httpd to make network connections) both my rsync- and wget-based CGI scripts worked without modification: setsebool http_can_network_connect on Maybe I’ll add the -P option later. Yippie! Thank you. — Eric Lease Morgan

Re: [CODE4LIB] selinux

On Dec 26, 2015, at 8:14 PM, Childs, Riley wrote: >> How do I modify the permissions of a file under the supervision of SELunix >> so the file can be executed as a CGI script? >> >> I have two CGI scripts designed to do targeted crawls against remote >> hosts. One script uses

[CODE4LIB] selinux

missions? Maybe I need to use something like semanage (which doesn’t exist on my system) to change the user apache’s permissions? This is a level of the operating system of which I am unfamiliar. — Eric Lease Morgan

Re: [CODE4LIB] yaml/xml/json, POST data, bloodcurdling terror

Obviously, the sorts of things outlined in the presentation above are real, and they are really scary. Us developers need to take note: getting input from the ‘Net can be a really bad thing. —Eric Lease Morgan

Re: [CODE4LIB] dublin core files [and unicorns]

On Nov 24, 2015, at 8:20 PM, Eric Lease Morgan <emor...@nd.edu> wrote: >>> Do Dublin Core files exist, and if so, then can somebody show me one? Put >>> another way, can you point me to a DTD or schema denoting Dublin Core XML? >>> The closest I can co

[CODE4LIB] bibframe

[Forwarded upon request. —E “Lost In Venice” M ] > From: "Fultz, Tamara" > Subject: Question about posting > Date: October 15, 2015 at 12:43:08 AM GMT+2 > To: "code4lib-requ...@listserv.nd.edu" > > Implementing BIBFRAME > The UC

[CODE4LIB] code4lib chicago meeting

A Code4Lib Chicago meeting has been scheduled for Monday, November 23 from 8:30 to 5 o’clock at the University of Illinois-Chicago. [1] Sign up early. Sign up often. [1] meeting - http://wiki.code4lib.org/Code4Lib_Chicago — Eric Lease Morgan, Librarian-At-Large

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib chicago

On Sep 2, 2015, at 12:04 PM, Cary Gordon wrote: > http://cod4lib.com ROTFL!!! —Eric Morgan

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4libBC (Vancouver, BC) - save the date November 26/27. 2015

On Aug 31, 2015, at 9:23 PM, Cary Gordon wrote: > Perhaps this belongs on the Cod4lib list. ^^^ Yesterday, I didn’t quite understand the allusion to the East Coast, but now I see that I lost an e in Code4Lib. Cod4Lib. That's pretty funny.

Re: [CODE4LIB] "coders for libraries"

On Sep 1, 2015, at 9:42 AM, Eric Hellman wrote: > As someone who feels that Code4Lib should welcome people who don't > particularly identify as "coders", I would welcome a return to the previous > title attribute. 1++ because I believe it is more about libraries than it is

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib chicago

On Aug 28, 2015, at 11:56 AM, Allan Berry wrote: > The UIC Library would be happy to host the Code4Lib event, in November or > early December. The folks at University of Illinois-Chicago would like to sponsor a one-day Cod4Lib event, and in order to determine the best date,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2016: Philadelphia - Save the Date [url]

On Aug 10, 2015, at 11:38 AM, David Lacy david.l...@villanova.edu wrote: The 2016 conference will be held from March 7 through March 10 in the Old City District of Philadelphia. This location puts conference attendees within easy walking distance of many of Philadelphia’s historical

[CODE4LIB] code4lib chicago (chicode4lib)

As some of you in around Chicago may or may not know, there is a Code4Lib Chicago group called chicode4lib. See the Google Group: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/chicode4lib I’m simply trying to drum up business for the community. — Eric Lease Morgan

Re: [CODE4LIB] survey of image analysis packages

On Jul 22, 2015, at 6:49 PM, Peter Mangiafico pmangiaf...@stanford.edu wrote: I am conducting a survey of software used for image analysis and metadata enhancement. Examples include facial recognition, object identification, similarity matching, and so on. The goal is to understand if it

[CODE4LIB] position description

objectives and deliverables. For more detail, see: http://www.ecu.edu/cs-lib/about/job942036.cfm — Eric Lease Morgan

[CODE4LIB] eebo-tcp workset browser

to the purpose and functionality of HathiTrust Research Center Workset Browser. [1] EBO-TCP Workset Browser - https://github.com/ericleasemorgan/EEBO-TCP-Workset-Browser — Eric Lease Morgan, Librarian University of Notre Dame

Re: [CODE4LIB] Desiring Advice for Converting OCR Text into Metadata and/or a Database

On Jun 18, 2015, at 12:02 PM, Matt Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com wrote: I am working with colleague on a side project which involves some scanned bibliographies and making them more web searchable/sortable/browse-able. While I am quite familiar with the metadata and organization aspects we

[CODE4LIB] hathitrust research center user group meeting [tomorrow (thursday)]

/2015/05/htrc-workset-browser/ — Eric Lease Morgan University of Notre Dame

Re: [CODE4LIB] eebo [perfect texts]

On Jun 8, 2015, at 7:32 AM, Owen Stephens o...@ostephens.com wrote: I’ve just seen another interesting take based (mainly) on data in the TCP-EEBO release: https://scalablereading.northwestern.edu/2015/06/07/shakespeare-his-contemporaries-shc-released/ It includes mention of

Re: [CODE4LIB] eebo [developments]

/channing/about.html — Eric Lease Morgan, Librarian University of Notre Dame

[CODE4LIB] eebo

to learn of other people’s experience so I do not not re-invent the wheel (too many times). ‘Got ideas? — Eric Lease Morgan University Of Notre Dame

Re: [CODE4LIB] eebo

On Jun 5, 2015, at 8:20 AM, Ethan Gruber ewg4x...@gmail.com wrote: Does anybody here have experience reading the SGML/XML files representing the content of EEBO? Are these in TEI? Back when I worked for the University of Virginia Library, I did a lot of clean up work and migration of

Re: [CODE4LIB] eebo [resolved and coolness!!]

On Jun 5, 2015, at 8:10 AM, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: Does anybody here have experience reading the SGML/XML files representing the content of EEBO? I ultimately found the EEBO files in the form of TEI, and then I was able to transform one of them into VERY functional HTML5

[CODE4LIB] hathitrust research center user group meeting [rescheduled]

for the digital humanities and text mining. [1] HathiTrust Research Center - http://hathitrust.org/htrc [2] blog posting describing the Browser - http://blogs.nd.edu/emorgan/2015/05/htrc-workset-browser/ — Eric Lease Morgan University of Notre Dame

Re: [CODE4LIB] hathitrust research center workset browser [github]

I believe I have created a repository of my HTRC Workset Browser code (shell and Python scripts) on GitHub. [1] From the Quick Start section of the README: 1. Download the software putting the bin and etc directories in the same directory. 2. Change to the directory where the bin and etc

Re: [CODE4LIB] hathitrust research center workset browser

On Jun 1, 2015, at 10:58 AM, davesgonechina davesgonech...@gmail.com wrote: They just informed me I need a .edu address. Having trouble understanding the use of the term public domain here. Gung fhpx, naq fbhaqf ernyyl fbeg bs fghcvq!! --RYZ

Re: [CODE4LIB] hathitrust research center workset browser

On Jun 1, 2015, at 4:33 AM, davesgonechina davesgonech...@gmail.com wrote: If your *institutional* email address is not on their whitelist (not sure if it is limited to subscribing ones, they don't say) you cannot register using the signup form, instead you can only request an account by

[CODE4LIB] hathitrust research center user group meeting

and text mining. [1] HathiTrust Research Center - http://hathitrust.org/htrc [2] blog posting describing the Browser - http://ntrda.me/1FUGP2g — Eric Lease Morgan University of Notre Dame

Re: [CODE4LIB] hathitrust research center workset browser

On May 27, 2015, at 6:33 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote: In my copious spare time I have hacked together a thing I’m calling the HathiTrust Research Center Workset Browser, a (fledgling) tool for doing “distant reading” against corpora from the HathiTrust. [0, 1] ... 'Want to give

Re: [CODE4LIB] hathitrust research center workset browser [call for worksets]

On May 26, 2015, at 11:30 AM, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: In my copious spare time I have hacked together a thing I’m calling the HathiTrust Research Center Workset Browser, a (fledgling) tool for doing “distant reading” against corpora from the HathiTrust. [0] [0

[CODE4LIB] hathitrust research center workset browser

/thoreau-catalog [9] source code - http://ntrda.me/1Q8pPoI [10] HathiTrust Research Center - https://sharc.hathitrust.org — Eric Lease Morgan, Librarian University of Notre Dame

Re: [CODE4LIB] is python s l o o o w ? [resolved]

On May 18, 2015, at 9:23 PM, Galen Charlton g...@esilibrary.com wrote: I have two scripts, attached. They do EXACTLY the same thing in almost EXACTLY the same manner, but the Python script is almost 25 times slower than the Perl script: I'm no Python expert, but I think that the difference

[CODE4LIB] is python s l o o o w ?

NLTK library, but now I’m not so sure. It is just me, or is Python really s l o o o w ? Is there anything I can do to improve/optimize my Python code? — Eric Lease Morgan #!/usr/bin/env python2 # json2catalog.py - create a catalog from a set of HathiTrust json files # Eric Lease Morgan emor

Re: [CODE4LIB] Protagonists

If a peson could denote the characteristics of both the main (female) character as well as the protagonist, then bits of natural language processing (text mining) might be able to address this problem. —Eric “When You Have A Hammer, Everything Begins To Look Like a Nail” Morgan

[CODE4LIB] 3,082

Code4Lib is now 3,082 subscribers strong. Yeah! Almost time to do some analysis. —ELM

Re: [CODE4LIB] linked data question

On Feb 26, 2015, at 9:48 AM, Owen Stephens o...@ostephens.com wrote: I highly recommend Chapter 6 of the Linked Data book which details different design approaches for Linked Data applications - sections 6.3 (http://linkeddatabook.com/editions/1.0/#htoc84) summarises the approaches as:

Re: [CODE4LIB] linked data question

On Feb 25, 2015, at 3:12 PM, Sarah Weissman seweiss...@gmail.com wrote: I am kind of new to this linked data thing, but it seems like the real power of it is not full-text search, but linking through the use of shared vocabularies. So if you have data about Jane Austen in your database and

Re: [CODE4LIB] linked data question

On Feb 25, 2015, at 2:48 PM, Esmé Cowles escow...@ticklefish.org wrote: In the non-techie library world, linked data is being talked about (perhaps only in listserv traffic) as if the data (bibliographic data, for instance) will reside on remote sites (as a SPARQL endpoint??? We don't know

Re: [CODE4LIB] indexing word documents using solr [diacritics, resolved (i think) ]

On Feb 16, 2015, at 4:54 PM, Levy, Michael ml...@ushmm.org wrote: I think you can accomplish what you want by using ICUFoldingFilterFactory https://wiki.apache.org/solr/AnalyzersTokenizersTokenFilters#solr.ICUFoldingFilterFactory which should simply perform ICU (cf

Re: [CODE4LIB] indexing word documents using solr [diacritics, resolved (i think) ]

I know the documents I’m indexing are written in Spanish, and adding the following filters to my field definition, I believe I have resolved my problem: filter class=solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory/ filter class=solr.SnowballPorterFilterFactory language=Spanish / In other words, my searchable

Re: [CODE4LIB] Job Posting [assistant manager, vancouver public library]

[The following announcement is being passed on by request. —ELM] Assistant Manager – Websites and Online Engagement Digital Services Vancouver Public Library (VPL) is seeking a dynamic, strategic, and creative Assistant Manager to join the Digital Services department. Reporting to the

Re: [CODE4LIB] indexing word documents using solr

On Feb 10, 2015, at 11:46 AM, Erik Hatcher erikhatc...@mac.com wrote: bin/post -c collection_name /path/to/file.doc The almost trivial command to index a Word document in Solr, above, is most certainly appealing, but I’m wondering about the underlying index’s schema. Tika makes every effort

[CODE4LIB] indexing word documents using solr

Can somebody point me to a good tutorial on how to index Word documents using Solr? I have a few hundred Microsoft Word documents I want to search. Through the use of the Tika library it seems as if I ought to be able to index my Word documents directly into Solr, but none of the tutorials I

[CODE4LIB] joy

It is a joy to manage this mailing list, and I say that with all sincerity. —Eric Morgan

Re: [CODE4LIB] circulation statistics

The replies received have all been very helpful. Thank you! —Eric M.

[CODE4LIB] circulation statistics

Does anybody here know how to extract circulation statistics from an library catalog? Specifically, given a date range, are you able to create a list of the most frequently borrowed books ordered by the number of times they’ve been circulated? I have a colleague who wants to digitize sets of

Re: [CODE4LIB] lita

I’m curious, how large is LITA (Library and Information Technology Association)? [0] How many members does it have? Apparently it has around 3000 members this year. I found this on the ALA membership statistics page: http://www.ala.org/membership/membershipstats_files/divisionstats#lita

Re: [CODE4LIB] lita

On Jan 5, 2015, at 11:25 AM, Sylvain Machefert smachef...@u-bordeaux3.fr wrote: Interesting and thank you. Code4Lib only needs fifty more subscribers to equal LITA’s size. I think this just goes to show, with the advent of the Internet, centralized authorities are not as necessary/useful as

Re: [CODE4LIB] PBCore RDF Ontology Hackathon Wiki page

On Jan 5, 2015, at 1:35 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote: 1) Everyone should read at least the first chapters of the Allemang book, Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist:

[CODE4LIB] lita

I’m curious, how large is LITA (Library and Information Technology Association)? [0] How many members does it have? [0] LITA - http://www.ala.org/lita/ — ELM

Re: [CODE4LIB] NEC4L

It is so cool that we have “franchises”. —Eric Morgan

[CODE4LIB] linked data and open access

I don’t know about y’all, but it seems to me that things like linked data and open access are larger trends in Europe than here in the United States. Is there are larger commitment to sharing in Europe when compared to the United States? If so, is this a factor based on the nonexistence of a

Re: [CODE4LIB] Starting with Virtuoso - tutorial etc.

On Dec 17, 2014, at 9:52 AM, Nicola Carboni nic.carb...@gmail.com wrote: I am collecting some resources (beginner level) in order to start using Virtuoso (OpenSource Edition) for a project I am working with. I would like to use it both for hosting triples and for its sponger (CSV to RDF). I

Re: [CODE4LIB] Starting with Virtuoso - tutorial etc.

On Dec 17, 2014, at 10:10 AM, Mixter,Jeff mixt...@oclc.org wrote: If you want to test out a bare-bones triple store, I would suggest 4Store (http://4store.org/). It has pre-compiled installs for Unix and Unix-like systems (although not Windows). It supports SPARQL 1.1 and is relatively easy

Re: [CODE4LIB] Scanned PDF to text

On Dec 9, 2014, at 8:25 AM, Kyle Banerjee kyle.baner...@gmail.com wrote: I've just started a project that involves harvesting large numbers of scanned PDF's and extracting information from the text from the OCR output. The process I've started with -- use imagemagick to convert to tiff and

Re: [CODE4LIB] Registration for Code4Lib 2015 in Portland Oregon is NOW OPEN! [airbnb]

On Dec 8, 2014, at 12:57 PM, Dana Jemison dana.jemi...@ucop.edu wrote: Looks like the recommended hotel is already filled up. Are there any other options close by? Mine is a unsolicited comment/endorsement for AirBnB as an additional source of accommodations, if it does not hurt the

Re: [CODE4LIB] CrossRef/DOI content-negotiation for metadata lookup?

On Oct 23, 2014, at 11:45 AM, Joe Hourcle onei...@grace.nascom.nasa.gov wrote: I found this blog post talking about CrossRef's support: http://www.crossref.org/CrossTech/2011/04/content_negotiation_for_crossr.html But I know DataCite supports it to some extent too. Does anyone know

Re: [CODE4LIB] Why learn Unix?

Learning Unix is not necessarily the problem to solve. Instead it is means to an end. To my mind, there are number of skills and technologies a person needs to know in order to provide (digital) library service. Some of those skills/technologies include: indexing, content management

Re: [CODE4LIB] elsevier api program

On Jul 14, 2014, at 5:00 PM, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: Does anybody here have any experience with the Elsevier API Program? [1] [1] Elsevier API - http://www.developers.elsevier.com/cms/ I have had tiny success with the Elsevier API Program. I first created an API key

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2014 Conference accounting update

+ --ELM

[CODE4LIB] test of mr. serials

This is at test, and hopefully the only test of the Mr. Serials Process against my Code4Lib mailing list archive. Delete me. —Eric

[CODE4LIB] crowdsourcing consortium for libraries and archives

The following message about the Crowdsourcing Consortium for Libraries and Archives project is being forwarded upon request. —ELM From: Christina manzo.christ...@gmail.com Subject: Please Distribute [Crowdsourcing Consortium for Libraries and Archives project] Date: August 27, 2014 at

Re: [CODE4LIB] Hiring strategy for a library programmer with tight budget - thoughts? [out of context]

...But there are few programmer projects that would require zero maintenance once finished… This is a bit out of context, but a Buddhist monk once said, “Software is never done. If it were, then it would be called hardware.” —Eric Morgan

[CODE4LIB] doaj and code4lib journal

Albiet a bit late, I very recently learned that the DOAJ is asking journals like ours (Code4Lib Journal) to resubmit our application to be in the directory. [1] From a Nature article: Now, following criticism of its quality-control checks, the website [DOAJ] is asking all of the journals in

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