On Jul 28, 2011, at 4:04 PM, Ed Summers wrote:
> http://opds-spec.org/2011/06/15/opds-1-1-call-for-comments/
Ed, thank you for bringing this to our attention. From the document's
Introduction:
The Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS) Catalog format is
a syndication format for electro
rchivist for the later
two. Thanks for asking.
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it or not, SRU.
In short, I believe I have applied the principles of librarianship to mailing
list content.
[1] Mr. Serials - http://bit.ly/q8v9Wo
[1] His collection - http://bit.ly/qhBNjT
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In this, the briefest of replies, I have yet to see very many pure REST
interface implementations -- ones that exploit all of the HTTP methods GET,
POST, PUT, DELETE, etc. in the manner in which they were originally designed.
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The list of possible use cases was quite long
demonstrating the great potential usefulness of LLD. [3]
[1] draft report - http://bit.ly/jtPrL0
[2] vocabularies - http://bit.ly/ksioyK
[3] use cases - http://bit.ly/m7Lf0A
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uch more useful and relevant. Instead, we continue to license our rights away,
buy back the stuff we've already paid someone to create, and in the end have
very little to show for it. Grrr...
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On Jun 3, 2011, at 3:19 PM, Reese, Terry wrote:
>> Does Z39.50 support write operations?
>
> Yes, but only if the server you are using supports the z39.50 extended
> attributes. However, few commercial ILS systems seem to support it by default.
Well, you learn something new everyday. Thank you.
catalog by the vendor. I am quite familiar with
Z39.50's ability to search and download content, but I am not familiar with its
ability to write back to the server. Is this possible?
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k I can speak for many people when I say there is a desire for the Code4Lib
mailing list to have a broader scope as opposed to a narrower one. If folks
want to create lists about other topics such as ContentDM or XForms, then more
power to them. At the same time, I doubt such discussions wil
On May 17, 2011, at 11:22 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
>> What are some of the ways to best insert Linked Data endpoints into an
>> XML file?... Given a name -- say, Plato or Thoreau -- how would one go about
>> identifying good endpoints?
>
> When and if I do this
On May 16, 2011, at 9:13 AM, Arash.Joorabchi wrote:
> If you think wikipedia articles could be used as good endpoints for your
> purposes then have a look at this opensource tool
>
> http://wikipedia-miner.sourceforge.net/
Wikipedia-miner is a pretty cool tool; it is a good example of various
e of the
content they have, and enriching texts in the way outlined above may be one way
of going about it.
[1] lookup service - http://bit.ly/jbg0I6
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What are some of the ways to best insert Linked Data endpoints into an XML file?
I have been playing lately with named-entity recognition/extraction technology.
[1] Feed a text file, such as a novel, into the recognition program. Get back a
rudimentary XML file where things like names, places, a
ent
Similarly, I wrote a piece for the LITA Blog a few years ago that might be
relevant -- http://bit.ly/hGqNm1 In a nutshell, it advocates learning:
* XML
* relational databases
* computer-aided indexing
* programming/scripting
HTH
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Notre Dame is well known for the quality of its physical plant and the beauty
of its campus.
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I have been following ProfHacker from the Chronicle of Higher Education:
http://chronicle.com/blogs/profhacker/
It is a group effort advocating different ways to use computer technology in
academia.
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On May 2, 2011, at 10:43 AM, Mark A. Matienzo wrote:
>> Does the -t flag in yaz-marcdump tell the program to convert characters in
>> MARC records to specific character sets, or does merely change the value in
>> a MARC leader to denote the character set of the record as a whole? In other
>> wo
Does the -t flag in yaz-marcdump tell the program to convert characters in MARC
records to specific character sets, or does merely change the value in a MARC
leader to denote the character set of the record as a whole? In other words,
will yaz-marcdump do its best to convert MARC-8 characters fo
> Sounds like we need a guitar teacher at the next conference.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
I can do that if somebody will teach me how to read minds.
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On Apr 17, 2011, at 10:58 AM, Bill Dueber wrote:
> OK, so I've been trying to follow all of this, and have to say, I'm finding
> it all very interesting. I want to give a special shout-out to the cataloger
> who have joined in; I (and, I think, much of code4lib) need this kind of
> input on a much
On Apr 12, 2011, at 10:36 AM, LeVan,Ralph wrote:
> This is too funny! Devon and I just got unsubscribed today! Probably
> because our mail server rejected Jeff's messages to the list.
And too weird. I will take a closer look at these things. I promise.
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s all that you have seen and
heard. We will dutifully journey from village to village
spreading the tales of your heroic deeds.
http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/4892
Who says geeks can't be humanists too! ++
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to the
standard, then just like XML processors, they should be used. Garbage in.
Garbage out.
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Great Books Survey -- http://bit.ly/auPD9Q
s and dissertation market?
Our profession is still not exploiting the technology and the available
content. Our Acquisitions Departments are really the Purchasing Departments. We
seemingly think we need to buy our content in order for it to be valuable.
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le the licensed content. The processes should have more things in common
than differences.
No one said libraries should center their collections solely around public
domain works.
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I suspect many of us have tools we
> can turn loose on it.
Sure, thanks. Try:
http://zoia.library.nd.edu/tmp/tor.marc
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Ack! While using the venerable Perl MARC::Batch module I get the following
error while trying to read a MARC record:
utf8 "\xC2" does not map to Unicode
This is a real pain, and I'm hoping someone here can help me either: 1) trap
this error allowing me to move on, or 2) figure out how to open
[Forwarded on behalf of Nancy McGovern --ELM]
Call for Applications
We are very pleased that our colleagues at the University at Albany, SUNY will
host the five-day
Digital Preservation Management workshop this June in Albany, New York.
Application form available on April 13, 2011 at 1:00pm
arwin Core. They must also
understand how to provide and exploit access to data through an
HTTP server.
http://bit.ly/gyrEIs
For more information, email Parker Ladwig .
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On Mar 25, 2011, at 1:40 PM, Keith Jenkins wrote:
>> For a good time I geo-located the email domains of Code4Lib subscribers,
>> plotted them on a Google map, and discovered that us Code4Libbers use Gmail
>> in greater proportions than a couple of my other mailing lists (NGC4Lib and
>> Usabilit
On Mar 24, 2011, at 6:33 PM, David Friggens wrote:
> Disappointed not to show up in there though. The are 6 subscribers with a
> New Zealand domain, but no mark on the map. (In comparison NGC4Lib has 17
> and has a mark over Wellington.)
Last night I tweaked the interactive maps. [1] The result
On Mar 24, 2011, at 1:02 PM, Walker, David wrote:
>>> http://bit.ly/hdL55U
>
> But doesn't the large circle over the Bay Area come from all the gmail
> accounts hosted in Mountain View?
No, not exactly.
Yes, much of the area is centered around Mountain View (Gmail), but as you zoom
in you see
On Mar 24, 2011, at 12:45 PM, Roy Tennant wrote:
>> http://bit.ly/hdL55U
>
> Wow, who knew there was such an epicenter of subscribers in Northern
> California, and that we would eclipse our Southern California
> colleagues? Maybe we need to hold a regional Code4Lib here in the Bay
> Area.
Actual
, the Google Maps API, and mailing lists.
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The following announcement describes a THATCamp event taking place at the end
of April in East Lansing (Michigan). --ELM
Announcing Great Lakes THATCamp 2011
Held on the campus of Michigan State University on April 30th and May 1st,
Great Lakes THATCamp (The Humanities And Technology Camp) is
On Mar 2, 2011, at 12:22 PM, Ed Summers wrote:
> Oh, and I think it's great to see this thread on code4lib, where other
> people have been known to create an API or three. So thanks Godmar,
> for asking here...
I concur. I hope others more or less feel comfortable discussing
product-specific i
adata is numeric in
nature, it lends itself to visualization. (Think Karen C's presentation at
Code4Lib.) And this whole thing is good fodder for search, discovery, and
evaluation. Too much of our metadata is qualitative.
[1] foray's into POS - http://bit.ly/aM2eZx
[2] color words in Walden - http://t.co/hlg5ibL
[3] color words in Pride - http://t.co/VflNf3n
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On Feb 18, 2011, at 10:48 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
> How does a person go about exporting MARC records from a III system?
Thank you for all of the very helpful replied regarding the exporting of MARC
records from a III system. I'm well on my way to resolving the problem, and
I
On Feb 21, 2011, at 10:49 AM, Nate Vack wrote:
>> For example, Thoreau was dominated by first-person male pronouns
>> but Austen was dominated by second person female pronouns.
>
> Pardon my denseness here, but what's a first-person male pronoun and
> second-person female pronoun? I though first-
On Feb 19, 2011, at 11:26 AM, Cindy Harper wrote:
> I just was testing our discovery engine for any technical issues after a
> reboot. I was just using random single words, and one word I used was
> "correct". Looking at the first ranked items, I wondered if there's some
> role for parts-of-speec
ill help me out in this regard?
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..
[1] initial hacks - http://bit.ly/gMO4op
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On Feb 12, 2011, at 9:01 AM, Jay Luker wrote:
> The entire log for the conference can be accessed here:
> http://irc.code4lib.org/c4l11/static/logs/irclog
Thank you. Downloaded, and almost done parsing...
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c4l11/logslice/20110210/11:40-12:00
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* Job Posting Date (Public) - 01-24-2011
* Job Closing Date - 02-07-2011
* URL - http://jobs.nd.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=56369
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Please keep in mind the existence of a mailing list called code4libcon:
http://groups.google.com/group/code4libcon
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After careful consideration, Patrick Force is the recipient of this year's
Angel Fund For Code4Lib award.
Patrick is employed at Columbia University in the Center for Digital Research
and Scholarship. Solr has played a large part in his work, and he is interested
in learning more about it from
. Sorry.
Consider publishing some of your work in Code4Lib Journal?
Can you point us more specifically to the Web Services-based API documentation?
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Great Books Survey -- http://bit.ly/auPD9Q
On Jan 4, 2011, at 11:40 AM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
> ...Is there any easy way to get it to, for instance, make an anthology of
> all the posts with a certain WordPress tag or category instead?...
Based on my (poor) recollection of playing with the Anthologize plug-in, the
process is a bit ma
On Dec 17, 2010, at 9:28 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
> Does anybody here know how Archivematica is similar & different from Fedora?
> For example, to what degree could Fedora be used as a component of
> Archivematica?
I'll answer my own question, "Very little.
//code4lib.org/conference/2011/
[2] addtional scholarships - http://bit.ly/dLGnnx
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Michael J. Giarlo, and
Eric Hellman
onent of Yaz. [1] Once compiled and installed you do
something like this from the command line:
yaz-marcdump -i marcxml -o marc file.xml > file.xml
[1] Yaz - http://www.indexdata.com/yaz/
BTW, say hello to James N. for me.
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On Nov 7, 2010, at 3:24 PM, Andy Kelly wrote:
> I'd just come across the term for this sort of phrase recycling. A
> *snowclone* [1] is a type of cliché and phrasal template [2] originally
> defined as "a multi-use, customizable, instantly recognizable, time-worn,
> quoted or misquoted phrase o
On Nov 4, 2010, at 4:56 PM, Peter Murray wrote:
> http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/mjs3/finding-best-ideas-world
Peter, thanks!
The blog posting inspired me to map where in the world people have voted.
First, using a Perl module called Geo::IP I converted IP addresses into
latitudes and l
estern
civilization.
Consequently, a great book can be one that no one has read but elaborates on
many of the great ideas.
[1] Hutchins, Robert Maynard. 1952. Great books of the Western World. Chicago:
Encyclopædia Britannica. Volume 3, page 1220.
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On Nov 4, 2010, at 11:37 AM, Ken Irwin wrote:
> Are you capturing the "losses" as well as the wins here? Can you tell the
> difference between "no one has read this book" and "this book is not as
> great"?
Ken, you are the second person to mention this. Hmmm... Good thing this is only
beta.
On Nov 4, 2010, at 11:21 AM, Paul Butler (pbutler3) wrote:
> I would imagine this gets to the larger issue that the majority of people
> taking the survey haven't read these books. (Or perhaps this is a personal
> bias...but I think I am responsibly well read.) If you were to use a more
> mode
On Nov 4, 2010, at 11:22 AM, McAulay, Elizabeth wrote:
>> http://bit.ly/bPQHIg
>
> i had a lot of fun playing with this survey. is it an infinite survey, though
> -- no end to the questions?
Correct, it is an endless survey. 8-)
BTW, Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and Shakespeare's Macbeth are
On Nov 4, 2010, at 10:11 AM, Keith Jenkins wrote:
>> In an effort to answer the question, "How 'great' are the Great Books?", I
>> have created the beginnings of a crowd sourced survey, and it would be
>> "great" if y'all were to beta test it for me -- http://bit.ly/bPQHIg
>
> ..Are you trackin
> In an effort to answer the question, "How 'great' are the Great Books?", I
> have created the beginnings of a crowd sourced survey, and it would be
> "great" if y'all were to beta test it for me -- http://bit.ly/bPQHIg ...So
> far Montaigne's Essays is the "greatest" with Shakespeare's Antony
l the model coincides with
people's perceptions.
I'm also looking for ways to make the survey more fun to use. If y'all could
give me any suggestions, then at would be... great.
Vote early. Vote often. It's easy. If everybody here answered 10 survey
questions, that wou
On Oct 30, 2010, at 10:50 AM, Peter Schlumpf wrote:
> And you are correct in pointing out that the natural response of librarians
> to a problem is to seek consensus in a self-absorbed way. Form committees
> and all that nonsense which never goes anywhere. They are happy enough going
> around
I have written a couple of blog postings as well as bunches o' hacks
surrounding VUFind, EAD files, harvesting content, and text mining that may be
of interest to us coders:
1. EAD files - The first posting and set of Perl scripts describes how I am
currently indexing MARC records, but more i
on Monday
6) I let the list rest for a day
7) the list has been restarted, obviously
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On Oct 25, 2010, at 8:56 PM, Walker, David wrote:
> Your criticisms of MARC-XML all seem to presume that MARC-XML is the goal,
> the end point in the process. But MARC-XML is really better seen as a
> utility, a middle step between binary MARC and the real goal, which is some
> other "useful a
On Oct 14, 2010, at 3:28 PM, Roy Tennant wrote:
> ...I went to the data mining workshop with my librarian hat on and
> was quickly disabused of my notions of mining out personal names,
> locations, etc., from large piles of text. Nope. It was pretty
> much all about word frequency, etc...
Yep, wo
On Oct 14, 2010, at 8:11 AM, Raymond Yee wrote:
> I was at THATCamp SF last weekend. Any particular area you are
> interested in? I co-presented with Roy Tennant a "bootcamp" on the OCLC
> WorldCat APIs (and web APIs in general). I also got a chance to talk to
> a small group of people about
I believe a couple of us attended #THATCampSF. It sounded interesting. Could
y'all share some of your take-aways?
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On Oct 7, 2010, at 1:53 PM, Nathan Tallman wrote:
> Chances are you would have to reformat all your finding aids to
> the new format, which may be as time consuming as hand coding
>
> ...If faced with these two options, I would opt for hand coding. You will
> learn so much more about EAD and
close MARC;
Are they sufficient for correctly saving the MARC records locally? Should/can I
do some sort of check of $response->content before I call binmode and print?
Should I use $response->decode_content instead?
[1] script - http://infomotions.com/tmp/harvest.pl
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code.pm line 162.
What is going on here? Am I saving my files incorrectly? Is the original MARC
data inherintly incorrect? Is there some way I can fix the MARC record in
question?
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we have too many lists
anyway; I sincerely believe we all have more things in common than differences.
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mpressed with the functionality of "Datatables"
> from that list. I have not used it in anger yet, but it does a lot of what
> you are looking for.
Yes, Datatables does have a lot to offer, and I have begun to implement it at
the following URL:
http://infomotions.com/sandbox/gre
This is a JSON challenge, or a hackers wanted call. Specifically, I am looking
for leads on how to slurp up a JSON file and create a cool (or "kewl") Web
interface to the data. Let me explain.
I have created a small matrix consisting of about 125 rows by 125 columns. Each
row represents a book
[Forwarded upon request. --ELM]
**
GRINNELL COLLEGE – LIBRARIES (SYSTEMS LIBRARIAN) – REGULAR POSITION (START
SUMMER OR FALL 2011)
GRINNELL COLLEGE. The Grinnell College Libraries seek a user-oriented Systems
Librarian committed to critical experimentation with new
ething to learn from the other.
http://www.catholicresearch.net/blog/2010/09/vufind-2-0-conference/
The VUFind community is most certainly alive and well.
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> <http://vote.code4lib.org/election/index/16>
>
> Voting will remain open until...well...until Ross trips over the power cord
> or until further notice. As you can see, we don't stand on ceremony around
> here.
Vote early. Vote often. :-)
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l
agreed that the implementation of VUFind in our institutions
represents a giant step forward compared to where we were at
least a few years ago. oss++
http://tinyurl.com/283n4kq
Any errors in interpretation are mine and mine alone.
P.S. "Thanks folks, it was both fun and useful.&q
[Sent to the list on behalf of Elizabeth Bedord. --ELM]
***Apologies for cross-posting***
Digital Preservation Management: Topical Workshops
We are very excited to be offering a set of new topical workshops the week of
Nov 1-5 in Ann Arbor, MI – registration will open on September 8 at 9am E
I am in the process of creating sets of "cool" URLs, and I need to know the
best ("correct") content type of RDF. Is it "application/rdf+xml"?
Similarly, is the "correct" content type for HTML equal to "text/html"?
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On Aug 10, 2010, at 11:59 AM, Ethan Gruber wrote:
> Sounds like a good plan, but I wanted to throw in my two cents on your
> workflow. is intended to be an optional element and describe an
> actual unique identifier that the object or collection has been given by the
> hosting institution. For
splay the EAD files. I see a
whole lot of XPath queries in my future.
[1] Catholic Portal - http://www.catholicresearch.net
[2] indexing EAD -
http://serials.infomotions.com/code4lib/archive/2010/201007/1957.html
[3] Archon - http://www.archon.org/
[4] (Don't ya just gotta love Unicode.)
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On Jul 30, 2010, at 12:01 PM, Andrew Darby wrote:
> As others have noted, a little user testing goes a long way
FYI, the folks on Usability4Lib may be helpful when it comes to learning how to
address usability issues:
http://dewey.library.nd.edu/mailing-lists/usability4lib/
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On Jun 30, 2010, at 8:43 PM, Blake, Miriam E wrote:
> We have locally loaded records from the ISI databases, INSPEC,
> BIOSIS, and the Department of Energy (as well as from full-text
> publishers, but that is another story and system entirely.) Aside
> from the contracts, I can also attest to the
Riley, Jenn wrote:
> http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/~jenlrile/metadatamap/
Fun! Library Land needs more illustrations. We may know how to organize
information bibliographically, but, in general, we don't know how to organize
information graphically. Nice job!
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icago.
For more detail about Code4Lib "Midwest", see the wiki. [3]
[1] blog posting - http://tinyurl.com/342e8pc
[2] cheesy movie - http://infomotions.com/tmp/code4lib/
[3] wiki - http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Midwest
Thank you, one and all, for participating.
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n
5. present the solution back to employees at a later time
Or something like that. Wish us luck, and we'll let y'all know how it goes.
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web service
* FRBR, facets, and moving images
* jQuery + OPACs
* offline catalog
* preparing Hathi Trust and Project Gutenberg records for loading
* tei2epub
* XC
Keep them coming. See the wiki for details:
http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Midwest
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On Jun 3, 2010, at 9:36 AM, Michael Kreyche wrote:
> This group has been pretty quiet! What's the status of the meeting,
> Eric? How many people are signed up?
Michael, to date, twelve people have "registered":
* Francis Kayiwa
* JC Ducom
* Jonathan Brinley
* Jonathan Shank
* Julia Ba
> Using Perl, how can I convert the author/title combination into some sort of
> integer, checksum, or unique value that is the same every time I run my
> script? I don't want to have to remember what was used before because I don't
> want to maintain a list of previously used keys. Should I use
Given a list of unique strings, how can I generate a list of short, unique
integers?
I have a list of about 250 unique author/title combinations, such as:
Aeschylus / Prometheus Bound
Aeschylus / Suppliant Maidens
American State / Articles of confederation
American State / Declaration of
ou here.
[1] wiki - http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Midwest
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to
install making the ongoing evaluation process pleasurable. At first glance, all
three seem to be mature open source implementations. oss++
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On May 17, 2010, at 12:22 PM, Mark A. Matienzo wrote:
> www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2010/2010-04.pdf
Again, re-added to my reading list. Thank you. I had read this a number of
months ago, but I appreciate you bring it back to my attention.
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On May 17, 2010, at 12:12 PM, Aaron Rubinstein wrote:
> http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/spiro2009.html
> http://archivalsoftware.pbworks.com/FrontPage
Added to my reading list. Thank you.
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now I need a more
elegant way to allow the user to read and navigate the files in a Web browser.
Does such a list of methods/tools exist, and if so then where is it?
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