Just in case this slipped past anyone who might be interested...
You should think about coming to work with us [1] if you...
* want to be part of a small team focused on a core set of applications
for a well-defined and appreciative user base!
* like creating things that help people find
...
[1] https://github.com/adsabs?tab=members
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Jay Luker lb...@reallywow.com wrote:
Just in case this slipped past anyone who might be interested...
You should think about coming to work with us [1] if you...
* want to be part of a small team focused
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Joshua Welker wel...@ucmo.edu wrote:
And I hate Python whitespace.
Ah-ha!
A more paranoid pythonista than I might suspect this whole thread was
simply an exercise in Ruby shilling.
--jay
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Michael Beccaria
mbecca...@paulsmiths.eduwrote:
I ended up doing a regular expression find and replace function to replace
all illegal xml characters with a dash or something.
:(
A string translation map might be a better approach. Here's what I do as
one
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Nathan Tallman ntall...@gmail.com wrote:
@Péter: The VuFind solution I mentioned is very similar to what you use
here. It uses Aperture (although soon to use Tika instead) to grab the
full-text and shoves everything inside a solr index. The import is managed
People, people.
Can we agree that lib is simply easier to say than libe due to the
shorter vowel sound?
Can we also agree than the best coders are, by nature, lazy?
Therefore, lib wins. All you. libe mohubs can go call the
wah-wah-wahmbulance.
--jay
On Wednesday, February 13, 2013, Kyle
On Friday, January 18, 2013, Gabriel Farrell wrote:
I've also been working on a new IRC bot framework in node.js called n0d3 (
https://github.com/gsf/n0d3). I introduced emerac to #code4lib as a hubot
a
year or so ago, and was planning to reintroduce it as an n0d3 bot at some
point. Could
+1 for renaming @poledance to @rsinger.
On Friday, January 18, 2013, Tim Donohue wrote:
FWIW, there are a few zoia commands I've noticed that could come across as
sexist (especially if you see Zoia as being a female bot).
I don't think they are used that frequently, but I have seen:
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Esmé Cowles escow...@ucsd.edu wrote:
I am personally looking forward to the walk. Though I live in Florida,
I've lived in colder places and have appropriate coats, etc. And I don't
have any mobility issues, and routinely walk a few miles just for fun.
But
As a conference-goer I dislike the idea of limiting proposal submissions
for the same reason I dislike term limits: it doesn't let *me* choose from
all possibilities. The restriction cuts both ways in that it doesn't just
put a limit on presenters but on my choices as well.
--jay
On Wed, Nov
Just to clarify,
+1 on only one accepted presentation per person
-1 on only one submission per person
Sorry for any confusion.
--jay
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Edward M. Corrado ecorr...@ecorrado.uswrote:
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Jay Luker lb...@reallywow.com wrote
This thread seems to have meandered a ways from what seemed like a
perfectly good suggestion from Cynthia: that the program committee be
allowed some leeway and/or encouraged to exercise some judgement with the
talk selection. I don't see why a change like that necessitates a big,
centralized,
I made the same observation recently but decided to simply set up a
filter. Pushing the jobs postings into a separate list seems like a
worse solution.
--jay
PS, in a big-picture sense, it seems like a good problem to have. I
mean, the number of postings is really remarkable!
On Wed, Aug 1,
For those who dislike the current ratio of job postings to regular
content the solution seems clear: start posting more flamewar inducing
questions. It's quite easy. Allow me to demonstrate.
Ruby on Rails? Blech, no thanks!
--jay
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Kaile Zhu kz...@uco.edu wrote:
+1 for Flask. We've started using it as an upgrade over web.py for
simple one-off stuff, and are also in the process of integrating it
into a much larger application. i.e., it scales both ways.
--jay
--
**
Jay Luker Astrophysics
Hi all,
Just a reminder: the #code4lib IRC channel will be logged and the logs made
available for viewing at http://irc.code4lib.org at some point during or
just after the conference.
Keep it civil, keep it weird.
thanks,
--jay
I agree with Ed: I like that someone is throwing out crazy ideas. I
don't particularly like this crazy idea though.
If you accept that the downside to multiple tracks is fracturing of
the audience/community, then I don't see how holding a 2nd clone of
the conference on subsequent days gets around
If only we could all be as lucky as Dmitri.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDIBKxh-5No
--jay
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Nordstrom, Kurt
kurt.nordst...@unt.edu wrote:
I suggested that all registration for C4L should go through zoia.
If you don't know who zoia is, maybe you should learn
Hi Joe,
I think there'd certainly be significant interest. IIRC, the few of us
who organized the last one--my god, was it three years ago?--figured
we'd leave it to others to step up and drive the next gathering. That
clearly never happened.
I'm happy to get involved again though. I may even
Maybe it's waiting for OCLC's sign-off?
Can you look into this, Roy?
Preish,
--jay
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Elizabeth Duell edu...@uoregon.edu wrote:
Please refrain from trying to make hotel reservation for about 30 minutes
(8:55am Pacific time).
We aren't sure why the rooms are
...or, you could look for a job that involved just writing a bunch of
IRC Supybot plugins all day.
...oh wait, my sources are telling me that's what it's like working at
Stanford.
Nevermind!
--jay
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Blake, Tom tbl...@bpl.org wrote:
...or, you could take
Forwarding this along for the benefit of anyone from a CERN member
state [1] who might enjoy working at a fascinating place with
crazy-smart people. I'm guessing there might be one or three of you
out there.
--jay
[1]
FYI
Begin forwarded message:
===
CERN Fellowships: text mining scientific documents; author
disambiguation in INSPIRE
The CERN Scientific Information Service is looking for two
enthusiastic and motivated developers with experience in text-mining
or digital libraries, to join a dynamic
Hi Anjanette,
Does this mean you've settled on dates?
--jay
On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Anjanette Young
youn...@u.washington.edu wrote:
Code4Lib Seattle 2012 update. Thanks to Elizabeth Duell of Orbis Cascade
Alliance and Cary Gordon of chillco.com, we finally have a venue with
adequate
Java - yeah, i know... the syntax I got but the other bits are always
flail and error. i'm missing a fundamental understanding of the tools,
how to actually build, package deploy an app, how to use the IDE
properly, etc
NLP
Python Testing
ePub
Tennis
How to cook an eggplant so that it is edible
Hi Eric,
The entire log for the conference can be accessed here:
http://irc.code4lib.org/c4l11/static/logs/irclog
I would have hoped that you could fetch the whole log for each day by
manipulating the url, e.g., 00:00-23:59, but for some reason that's
not working. :-(
Interested to see what you
Hi all,
I found this thread rather interesting and figured I'd try and revive
the convo since apparently some things have been happening in the
twitter annotation space in the past month. I just read on techcrunch
that testing of the annotation features will commence next week [1].
Also it
I believe there is an organization called NABISCO that is working on one.
--jay
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote:
But is there a NISO standard for this?
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Simon Spero s...@unc.edu wrote:
I like chocolate milk.
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.eduwrote:
The thing is, the NoSQL stuff is pretty much just a key-value store.
There's generally no way to query the store, instead you can simply look
up a document by ID.
Schemaless != no way to query.
Key-value stores,
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 4:04 PM, phil cryer p...@cryer.us wrote:
T-shirts should use one that says 'cutter' on the front, with code4lib
details on the back:
http://www.founditemclothing.com/t-shirts/breaking-away-cutters-shirt.html
-1
I hold that movie in high reverence. Let us not bespoil it
If PHP/python isn't a hard requirement, I think this would be fairly
simple to do in perl using a combination of the XML::Simple [1] and
JSON::XS [2] modules.
In fact it's so simple, here's the code:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use JSON::XS;
use XML::Simple;
use strict;
my $filename = shift @ARGV;
my
-1 on removing delicious
--jay
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Jodi Schneider jschnei...@pobox.com wrote:
I appreciate having delicious in the planet. Code4Lib's usage of this is one
of the few reasons I'm still using delicious (which then posts for me to
pinboard.in).
I'd appreciate more
Thanks everyone who prepaid. I'm up to twenty now, so everyone else
just have cash or a credit card on Tuesday night.
--jay
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 12:25 PM, Jay Luker jay.lu...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi again,
This message is for everyone signed up for the Asheville Brews Cruise
on the social
, 2010 at 4:38 PM, Jay Luker jay.lu...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
It is time to reveal the details about the Brews Cruise social activity
planned for next Tuesday night at the Code4Lib 2010 conference [1]. Let's
keep list noise to a minimum, so folks who have questions about the details,
please e
Hi Joyce,
Please join us at Salsas. They have several tasty vegetarian options.
Four--oops, now two--slots left! :)
--jay
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Joyce Chapman joyce.chap...@gmail.com wrote:
I heard concerns from some vegetarians that all the slots are taken at
vegetarian
Hi all,
It is time to reveal the details about the Brews Cruise social activity
planned for next Tuesday night at the Code4Lib 2010 conference [1]. Let's
keep list noise to a minimum, so folks who have questions about the details,
please e-mail me directly or, if it's discussion worthy, stick to
Hi Eric,
I don't see CDS Invenio listed [1]. It's an institutional repository
system developed at CERN. It's an impressive piece of software, but
for one reason or another doesn't seem to get much attention. I intend
to give a lightning talk on it in Asheville in February.
--jay
[1]
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:06 AM, Dan Chudnov daniel.chud...@gmail.com wrote:
- Heckle Me, based on the example/ideas behind Chick's lightning talk
last year
The PDF of chick's slides is 404-ing [1]. Can someone remind me what
this was about?
--jay
1
Those.
Slides.
Don't.
Help.
--jay
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:36 AM, Tom Keays tomke...@gmail.com wrote:
Bad URL there. The real one is
http://code4lib.org/files/chicks-lightning.pdf (that's where all the
other lightning talks were stored).
t
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Jay Luker
FYI, on my previous visits to Asheville I've flown into/out of
Greenville, SC. It's only about 1 hr driving time, so could be worth
comparing vs. Charlotte shuttles.
--jay
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:58 AM, Kevin S. Clarke kscla...@gmail.com wrote:
I wonder how many folks would be interested in
FYI.
-- Forwarded message --
From: Rebecca Tabasky rtaba...@cyber.law.harvard.edu
Date: Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 10:43 AM
Subject: Job Opportunities at the Harvard Law Library: Digital Lab
Manager and Web Developer
To: jobs-l...@eon.law.harvard.edu
Hi all,
The Harvard Law Library is
I nominate Peter Moreville.
I also suggest folks save their RMS love/hate for the voting booth.
The man's been nominated. Let's move on.
--jay
On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Kevin S. Clarkekscla...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey,
I'd find it useful if people who are submitting names would also
submit a brief description for your suggestion (what s/he is famous
for, why s/he'd be a good keynote, etc. - I know some of you already
did this)
on the
magazine site of your choice and then e-mail me with [zine] in the
subject.
--jay
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Jay Luker lb...@reallywow.com wrote:
Hi gang,
On a lark I e-mailed Doug Hellmann, EiC at Python Magazine, to ask about
the possibility of a group coupon code for code4lib. Apparently
Hi gang,
On a lark I e-mailed Doug Hellmann, EiC at Python Magazine, to ask about the
possibility of a group coupon code for code4lib. Apparently we qualify. :)
Here's the deal:
1) anyone who would like 3 free issues of either PyMag [1] or php|architect
[2] should first create an account on the
AAaaand the footnotes:
[1] http://pymag.phparch.com/c/
[2] http://www.phparch.com/
[3] https://store-pymag.phparch.com/c/account/new/account/
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 12:35 PM, Jay Luker lb...@reallywow.com wrote:
Hi gang,
On a lark I e-mailed Doug Hellmann, EiC at Python Magazine, to ask
Hi folks,
Big thanks to all who turned out for the 1st necode4lib gathering yesterday.
Hope everybody got something useful, interesting and/or fun out of it. I for
one thought it went great. We didn't do a real headcount, but it seemed we
had just enough seats for the turnout: ~20-25 folks from
I know its a bit early to start thinking of these, but in the spirit of
William Denton's talk proposal, What We Talk About When We Talk About FRBR,
I thought I'd throw out a few title suggestions to get the ideas flowing.
So Much FOAF So Close To ~/
Where I'm Context-Sensitive Searching From
The
in lightning talk form or longer even, make it known on the wiki page:
http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/NEC4L.
--jay
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 10:22 AM, Jay Luker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi folks,
The date and location are set. Our first gathering will be in the McKim
building of the Boston Public
It's looking like Tuesday, Dec 9th, is going to be the best match [1]. Are
we prepared to call it? I'd like to start discussing how we'd like to make
productive use of our eight hours of close proximity. You have until 5pm
today to voice objections.
As a possible bonus, I hear the BPL is hosting
Our wiki page got clobbered by a spambot because I never got around to
password protecting it. lbjay--
So I've slapped an http basic auth challenge in front of it for the
time being. The user/pass is code4lib/code4lib. Hopefully that will be
enough to thwart the bots for a little while. Maybe we
Sorry to leave you all in suspense all day. The results are in:
23 Boston, MA
18 Northampton, MA
14 Concord, NH
11 Portland, ME
Michael Klein has said he will now check when a suitable space will be
available at BPL. Then we'll update the WhenIsGood page and hope for
some availability
later tonight and move some
of their ballot points around if it looks like a tie is in the cards.
--jay
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 9:24 AM, Jay Luker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's time to do a quick vote on where we'd like to hold our first New
England gathering. If you are interested
It's time to do a quick vote on where we'd like to hold our first New
England gathering. If you are interested in attending please cast your
ballot at http://dilettantes.code4lib.org/voting_booth/election/index/5.
We'll keep voting open for a few days (at least through Tuesday). You
can give from
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 10:43 AM, Tim Spalding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's too bad we don't have big budgets, or we could have the New
England meeting in, say, Maui.
+1
In other news, a total of three people have indicated their
availability so far on the When Is Good page. Is everyone being
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Edward M. Corrado [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The location effects when I am available. For instance, due to costs, if it
is in Boston, I am probably never available. If it is in Western Mass, I can
make it any day of the week [1], while if it is further east, I am
(resending - original was rejected by listserv for being too similar
to a completely dissimilar message I sent about a week ago)
Hi gang,
code4libbers in the New England area are cordially invited to express
their interest in and opinions on a regional gathering, shape and size
TBD. So far our
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Tim Spalding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In general, do members think it's best—most popular but also most
productive— to meet at a *hub* or somewhere off the beaten path?
If the former, it's Boston all the way, right? If the latter,
Portland, Maine is a really
Hi gang,
code4libbers in the New England area are cordially invited to express
their interest in and opinions on a regional gathering, shape and size
TBD. So far our motives are vague and our means are humble (a single
wiki page), but you gotta start somewhere, right?
If you live in the
On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Michael J. Giarlo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If folks are in favor of someone in the community -- the list now has
over 1,000 subscribers -- rather than a professional designing the
logo, perhaps this could be a contest of sorts, much like our
conference t-shirt
+1 here too.
And -1 on the idea of requiring authors to use some kind of tag. I read the
planet to find out what the code4lib people I know are up to. I don't mind
that it's not all strictly related to coding, libraries and/or the number
4.
--lbjay
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 12:15 PM, Kevin S.
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Ross Singer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What about something like the GeSHI filter module for Drupal?
http://drupal.org/project/geshifilter
http://www.code4lib.org/ is already running Drupal, so it'd be as
simple as installing the module (although I've never
=urn:isbn:isbn1rft_id=urn:isbn:isbn2...
Also, I'd be remiss not to point you to a more authoritative list for
OpenURL questions: http://listserv.oclc.org/scripts/wa.exe?A0=OPENURL.
Although I'm sure there's plenty of overlap in interest/knowledge in
the subject between the lists.
--
Jay Luker [EMAIL
See also the Options MultiViews directive in the context of a Directory.
Here's a link with a description of how to implement. The example is for
PHP, but it should work for .cgi scripts as well.
http://www.rustyrazorblade.com/index.php/2006/10/12/nice-urls-using-multiviews/
--jay
On 7/31/07,
Figured I'd post this to possibly spare others some pain.
I was having trouble getting Zotero to save my COinS items--not discover,
just save. Like the little note icon would show up in the location bar but
when I clicked it nothing got saved.
Anyway, I think this is what was happening: when
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