Re: [CODE4LIB] Citation parsing?

2007-07-17 Thread Godmar Back
use, Google would object for large scale batch uses. - Godmar [1] Annette Bailey and Godmar Back, Retrieving Known Items with LibX. The Serials Librarian, 2007. To appear. On 7/17/07, Jonathan Rochkind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone have any decent open source code to parse a citation?

Re: [CODE4LIB] Citation parsing?

2007-07-18 Thread Godmar Back
On 7/18/07, Steve Toub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Agreed that a lookup against something like Google Scholar, Web of Science, or a set of federated search targets instance may yield better results. We've discussed by haven't done any testing. Use your LibX edition, Steve. I can also send a dra

Re: [CODE4LIB] Citation parsing?

2007-07-18 Thread Godmar Back
On 7/18/07, Jonathan Rochkind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nice, that might be what I need. Maybe I'll take a look at the LibX code, it's open source, right? Google Scholar has no API--you're screen scraping it? Yes and yes. - Godmar

[CODE4LIB] LibX edition builder ready

2007-08-02 Thread Godmar Back
Hi, to offer some distraction from the code4lib.org topic (*), I'd like to drop a pointer to our LibX edition builder interface, which allows anybody to create and maintain LibX editions. It is located at http://libx.org/editionbuilder A more lengthy description can be found here: http://www.mozd

Re: [CODE4LIB] Interesting uses of WorldCat affiliate tools and search extensions

2007-09-26 Thread Godmar Back
That's easy. Just build a LibX edition, configure Worldcat as a catalog, and hit "make live". It took me all of 60 seconds to build this. It can be download from here: http://libx.org/editions/download.php?edition=6B89FDBE A version for IE can be downloaded from: http://libx.org/editions/libxtest

Re: [CODE4LIB] library find and bibliographic citation export?

2007-09-27 Thread Godmar Back
FWIW, if we really wanted to, we could process COinS even if they show up via AJAX (at least in FF via DOMChanged event.) - Godmar On 9/27/07, Reese, Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > COINs are included in the output, but because the current pages are loaded > via AJAX, the data isn't visible

Re: [CODE4LIB] httpRequest javascript.... grrr

2007-11-29 Thread Godmar Back
You're using IE, which means you need to issue the open() before adding the onreadystatechange handler. Otherwise, open will trigger a call to your handler, and IE's implementation won't have reset the readyState to 0. In either event, you should double-check that the status of the request is 200

Re: [CODE4LIB] arg! classpaths! [resolved]

2008-01-26 Thread Godmar Back
To add a bit of experience gained from 13 years of Java programming: I strongly recommend against setting CLASSPATH in the shell. Instead, use either the -cp switch to java, as in java -cp lucene-core...jar:lucene-demo-.jar or use the "env" command in Unix, as in env CLASSPATH=/home/eric/l

Re: [CODE4LIB] arg! classpaths! [resolved]

2008-01-26 Thread Godmar Back
On Jan 26, 2008 10:12 AM, Godmar Back <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Note, however, that this rule does not apply to shell scripts: inside > shell scripts, it's okay to export CLASSPATH because such settings > will be valid only for the shell executing the script; in Unix, &

Re: [CODE4LIB] xml java package

2008-02-01 Thread Godmar Back
On Jan 27, 2008 5:40 PM, Eric Lease Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is the most respected (useful, understandable) XML Java package? > > In a few fits of creative rage, I have managed to write my first Java > programs. I can now index plain text files with Lucene and search the > index. I

Re: [CODE4LIB] xml java package

2008-02-01 Thread Godmar Back
I haven't used Castor for mixed content, but obviously, mixed content is more difficult to map to Java types, even if you have a schema. I probably wouldn't use Castor in those situations. Otherwise, it - or a tool like it that can map schemata to Java types for automatic parsing, generation, and v

Re: [CODE4LIB] many processes, one resultCode for Libraries [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2008-02-18 Thread Godmar Back
If you're doing this in Java, use the java.util.concurrent package and its Executor and Future framework, instead of using Thread.start/join, synchronized etc. directly. Get the book "Concurrent Programming in Java: Design Principles and Patterns" (ISBN 0-201-31009-0) written by the master himsel

Re: [CODE4LIB] Free covers from Google

2008-03-15 Thread Godmar Back
Hi Tim, I think this proposal suffers from the same shortcoming as LibraryThing's widgets, which is that only one per page is allowed. A better way may be to use spans and classes and keep the JavaScript in a library. I've attached the resulting HTML below; see http://libx.org/gbs/ for a demo. -

Re: [CODE4LIB] Free covers from Google

2008-03-17 Thread Godmar Back
FWIW, realize that this is client-side mashup. Google will see individual requests from individual IP addresses from everybody viewing your page. For each IP address from which it sees requests it'll decide whether to block or not. It'll block if it thinks you're harvesting their data. Wageningen

Re: [CODE4LIB] Free covers from Google

2008-03-17 Thread Godmar Back
Although I completely agree that server-side queryability is something we should ask from Google, I'd like to follow up on: On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Jonathan Rochkind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The > architecture of SFX would make it hard to implement Google Books API > access as pure

Re: [CODE4LIB] Free covers from Google

2008-03-17 Thread Godmar Back
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?

Re: [CODE4LIB] Free covers from Google

2008-03-17 Thread Godmar Back
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Jonathan Rochkind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, the SFX architecture has a feature called "display logic" that > let's you on the server side determine how the menu will display based > on what services are available. This is more obviously relevant to > "d

Re: [CODE4LIB] Free covers from Google

2008-03-17 Thread Godmar Back
JavaScript as a language has a number of severe limitations regarding name spaces, dependencies, etc., but well-written, object-oriented JavaScript as that you'd produce when you build an application using a library such as prototype actually isn't too bad and (I believe) provides reasonably good s

Re: [CODE4LIB] jquery plugin to grab book covers from Google and link to Google books

2008-03-17 Thread Godmar Back
Good, but why limit it to 1 class per span? My proposal separates different functionality in multiple classes, allowing the user to mix and match. If you limit yourself to 1 class, you have to provide classes for all possible combinations a user might want, such as: "gbsv-link-to-preview-with-thum

Re: [CODE4LIB] Google Book Search API - JavaScript Query

2008-03-20 Thread Godmar Back
Have you tried placing your code in an window.onload handler? Read the example I created at libx.org/gbs and if that works for you in IE6, use the technique there. (Or you may just use the entire script - it seems you're reimplementing a lot of it anyway.) - Godmar On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 9:09

Re: [CODE4LIB] Google Book Search API - JavaScript Query

2008-03-20 Thread Godmar Back
l wait until after Easter). > > Cheers, > > David > > > > On 20/03/2008, Godmar Back <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Have you tried placing your code in an window.onload handler? Read > > the example I created at libx.org/gbs and

Re: [CODE4LIB] Google Book Search API - JavaScript Query

2008-03-25 Thread Godmar Back
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 12:44 PM, KREYCHE, MICHAEL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > > Behalf Of Godmar Back > > Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 10:45 AM > > To: CO

Re: [CODE4LIB] K&R (was: Gartner on OSS)

2008-03-31 Thread Godmar Back
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:50 PM, Joe Hourcle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 31 Mar 2008, Ed Summers wrote: > > > FWIW, I agree with Karen and Alexander. The whole point (to my > > recollection) of creating code4lib in the first place was to create a > > venue where any aspect of computer

Re: [CODE4LIB] Serials Solutions 360 API - PHP classes?

2008-04-03 Thread Godmar Back
Could you share, briefly, what this API actually does (if doing so doesn't violate your NDA?) - Godmar On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Yitzchak Schaffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > From: Code for Libraries on behalf of Yitzchak Schaffer > > Sent: Wed 4/2/2008 12:28 PM > > To: CODE4LIB@LIS

Re: [CODE4LIB] [ils-di] Re: DLF ILS Discovery Interface recommendations and community participation

2008-04-08 Thread Godmar Back
Although there are many factors that determine the success or failure of an open source project, experience has shown that open source projects are highly successful only if at least one of the following two applies: a) They use a "implement first, then share, then standardize" approach (think: ea

[CODE4LIB] how to obtain a sampling of ISBNs

2008-04-28 Thread Godmar Back
Hi, for an investigation/study, I'm looking to obtain a representative sample set (say a few hundreds) of ISBNs. For instance, the sample could represent LoC's holdings (or some other acceptable/meaningful population in the library world). Does anybody have any pointers/ideas on how I might go ab

Re: [CODE4LIB] how to obtain a sampling of ISBNs

2008-04-28 Thread Godmar Back
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Re: [CODE4LIB] how to obtain a sampling of ISBNs

2008-04-29 Thread Godmar Back
_records_scriblio_net > > Then run a script using your favorite MARC parsing library (mine > currently is pymarc): > > from pymarc import MARCReader > > for record in MARCReader(file('part01.dat')): > if record['020'] and record['020']['

[CODE4LIB] google books for III millennium

2008-05-06 Thread Godmar Back
Hi, here's a pointer to follow up on the earlier discussion on how to integrate Google books viewability API into closed legacy systems that allow only limited control regarding what is being output, such as III's Millennium system. Compared to other solutions, no JavaScript programming is require

[CODE4LIB] coverage of google book viewability API

2008-05-06 Thread Godmar Back
Hi, to examine the usability of Google's book viewability API when lookup is done via ISBN, we did some experiments, the results of which I'd like to share. [1] For 1000 randomly drawn ISBN from 3,192,809 ISBN extracted from a snapshot of LoC's records [2], Google Books returned results for 852 I

Re: [CODE4LIB] google books for III millennium

2008-05-06 Thread Godmar Back
ogle's given reason]: It doesn't allow Google to tailor the > > results to the end-users location (determined by IP). > > > > Including an x-forwarded-for header _may_ get around #2 or #3. Including > > an x-forwarded-for header should probably be conside

Re: [CODE4LIB] google books for III millennium

2008-05-06 Thread Godmar Back
rver-side in general, but I'm still > nervous about doing this, and wish that Google would just plain say they > allow server-side calls. > > > > > > Godmar Back wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > here's a pointer to follow up on the earlier discussion on

Re: [CODE4LIB] coverage of google book viewability API

2008-05-06 Thread Godmar Back
ps: the distribution of the full text availability for the sample considered was as follows: No preview: 797 (93.5%) Partial preview: 53 (6.2%) Full text: 2 (0.2%) - Godmar On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 6:09 PM, Godmar Back <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > to examine the usabil

Re: [CODE4LIB] coverage of google book viewability API

2008-05-06 Thread Godmar Back
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 8:24 PM, Tim Spalding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 0.2% full text? Yowch! > > Do academic libraries with full-text versions of the book on their > shelves really want to point people to no-preview pages on Google. In the example I show on the slides to which I pointed, the

Re: [CODE4LIB] coverage of google book viewability API

2008-05-06 Thread Godmar Back
On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 11:02 PM, Michelle Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there something in the code that prevents the link from being > offered unless it goes to at least a partial preview (which I take to > mean scanned pages), or have I just been lucky in my searching? I > can't c

Re: [CODE4LIB] google books and OCLC numbers

2008-05-08 Thread Godmar Back
Mark, I'll answer this one on list, but let's take discussion that is specifically related to GBS classes off-list since you're asking questions about this particular software --- I had sent the first email to Code4Lib because I felt that our method of integrating the Google Book viewability API i

Re: [CODE4LIB] Latest OpenLibrary.org release

2008-05-08 Thread Godmar Back
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Dr R. Sanderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Like what? The current API seems to be concerned with search. Search > is what SRU does well. If it was concerned with harvest, I (and I'm > sure many others) would have instead suggested OAI-PMH. > No, the API p

[CODE4LIB] Q.: "deep-linking" syntax for Encore?

2008-05-14 Thread Godmar Back
Hi, may I tap the collective wisdom of this list? Is anybody using III's Encore system and happens to know if there is a deep-linking syntax, either documented or inferred, for it? Thanks. - Godmar

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open Source Repositories

2008-05-16 Thread Godmar Back
Generally, you won't find a credible site that would allow you to upload unvetted binaries of adapted versions of low-volume software. The obvious risks are just too high. My recommendation would be a personal webpage, hosted on a site that's associated with a real-world institution, and a real-wo

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