From looking at the LC website, it looks like there is a one-time cost
of $30,450 for all the retrospective records from 1968-2005. But then
it's $21,025 for weekly updates throughout the 2006, or $24,025 for
daily updates. (One year is estimated to include 1,000,000 records,
including 387,000
I'm with you, Peter, in not being there. But I renamed the section to
lurkers, because stalkers just sounded too creepy...
-Keith
On 2/23/07, Binkley, Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've taken the liberty of adding a stalkers section at the end, for
those of us who will be there in spirit but
On 8/28/07, Roy Tennant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the files at http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/
The files Roy mentions are a great start, and might be enough for your purposes.
But they don't go into the full gory detail of the classification.
For example, if you are interested in QA934, you
http://www.worldcat.org/issn/00253154
This link brings up an article record, apparently from ArticleFirst.
(FYI, worldcat.org is including results from the GPO, ArticleFirst,
Medline and ERIC databases -- I just found that out now.)
On 9/4/07, Jonathan Rochkind [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Would
jQuery++
I like to do things from scratch, but have never regretted moving to
jQuery. Whatever time it takes you to check it out will be paid back
a thousand times, at least.
Keith
On 11/29/07, Ewout Van Troostenberghe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To point out why the use of a Javascript
I've seen various Javascript libraries mentioned on this list from
time to time, and would like to get a better sense which major
Javascript libraries are being used within the Code4Lib community.
So I've set up a quick, informal poll here:
http://doodle.ch/sr5z4vusiwi4yssi
Just enter your
As of right now, the results of the informal poll of Javascript
libraries stands as follows:
jQuery = 23 votes
Prototype = 17 votes
Scriptaculous = 10 votes
YUI = 9 votes
ExtJS = 5 votes
Dojo = 2 votes
MooTools = 2 votes
MochiKit = 1 votes
LowPro = 0 votes
Note that these poll results are
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Peter Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
IMDB has cover art for films, but I haven't looked to see if they
provide an API to get to them /a la/ Google Books.
I don't think IMDB is an option...
All pictures and videos found on our site (including movie stills,
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 12:21 AM, Godmar Back [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Aside from the limitations imposed by the index model, the problem
then is fundamentally similar to how you index MARC data for use in
any discovery system.
I think Godmar is referring to GAE's lack of keyword searching.
Thanks for sharing that, Doug. It's not mentioned at all in the
Developer's Guide (contains everything you need to know):
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/
I'll have to take a closer look at the src docs...
Keith
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Doug Chestnut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think that one advantage of browsing a physical shelf is that the
shelf is linear, so it's very easy to methodically browse from the
left end of the shelf to the right, and have a sense that you haven't
accidentally missed anything. (Ignore, for the moment, all the books
that happen to be
On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Jay Luker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The reasons I threw the Northampton/Amherst area out there are a) it's
central to a lot of NE and is on or near the major highways (91 and
90)
...and if you are willing to bend the interpretation of NE to mean
not just New
Relatedly, just today Fedora Commons and DSpace have announced a
project called DuraSpace:
'''Over the next six months funding from the planning grant will allow
the organizations to jointly specify and design DuraSpace, a new
web-based service that will allow institutions to easily distribute
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Cloutman, David
dclout...@co.marin.ca.us wrote:
The results were pretty lopsided:
Unnamed: 8
Zend: 11
CakePHP: 4
Symfony: 4
Code Igniter: 2
Interestingly, these numbers match up pretty well with what Google
Trends shows for 2008:
On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 8:37 AM, Mike Taylor m...@indexdata.com wrote:
Worse, consider how the actionable-identifier approach would translate
to other non-actionable identifiers like ISBNs. If I offer the
non-actionable identifier
info:isbn/025490
which identified Farlow and
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 9:38 AM, Nate Vack njv...@wisc.edu wrote:
Anyone know of a source of historical journal value data?
I know that, for historical prices of specific journal titles, a
former colleague would consult our old paper copies of Ulrich's. (The
online version of Ulrich's only has
I agree with Ed. It would be best to omit the statement about the
cover image if it doesn't actually exist.
Keith
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 9:39 PM, Ed Summerse...@pobox.com wrote:
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Karen Coyleli...@kcoyle.net wrote:
Does it work for folks if this returns either
Is it just me, or is the GPO PURL resolver down? I keep getting a
timeout error...
For example:
http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS4468
Does anyone know of any alternate place to lookup the real URL for GPO PURLs?
Keith
Thanks to everyone who helped me confirm that the GPO PURL server is
down. An official announcement on the GPO Listserv said:
The PURL Server is currently inaccessible. GPO is working with IT
staff to restore service as soon as possible. We regret any
inconvenience caused by the server
Hi, Tim.
Are you are referring to a find in page, where a user presses CTRL-F
in the browser?
If so, it will depend on the browser. Google Chrome 2.0 will find
matches regardless of the diacritics (i.e. user can type placa and
it matches plaça, and vice versa). This doesn't seem to work in
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Jonathan Rochkindrochk...@jhu.edu wrote:
Of course, one failure in X (10?) years is fairly good reliability...
depending on how long it takes them to get everything back working 100%. If
it's back by tomorrow, one outage in 10 years pretty good. If it takes a
I haven't read any of them yet, but O'Reilly has a new series of books
that might be of interest. They all have titles like Beautiful
Teams, Beautiful Architecture, Beautiful Data, Beautiful
Testing, etc.
Maybe someone else has read one and can comment on their usefulness?
Keith
On Wed, Sep 9,
Using -- before subfields $v, $x, $y, and $z should work well for
all the standard MARC 6XX fields.
The only exception might be in any locally-defined fields 690-699.
Keith
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote:
Thanks! So $v, $x, $y, and $z should always
AbleGrape.com is a good example of a focused search engine that aims
to index only authoritative sources within a particular disciple --
in this case it's wine, enology, and viticulture. It currently crawls
about 40,000 vetted websites.
It's a great search engine for the subject area it serves,
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Tim Cornwell tc...@cornell.edu wrote:
41,000 sites and 21 million pages (http://www.ablegrape.com/en/about.html) is
a lot of
vetting.
...
Authoratative vetting of a large volume of resources is a hard problem. I
haven't seen
any good solutions, but am
There's also SUSHI (Standardized Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative):
http://www.niso.org/workrooms/sushi
Keith
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Brandon Dudley bran...@discontent.com wrote:
Apologies for cross-posting. My institution is currently evaluating methods
of collecting
On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Ed Summers e...@pobox.com wrote:
It would be great to have some external dataset to use in
ranking LCSH suggestions at id.loc.gov. But at the moment it's a
simple mysql db loaded up with some MARC LCSH data. I guess it could
do something smart with PageRank-like
A few years ago, there was some work being done in Portugal for
UNIMARC and MARC21 validation via XML schemas:
http://www.bookmarc.pt/unimarc/
http://www.bookmarc.pt/documentation/marcdoc.html
Cheers,
Keith
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 2:14 PM, Houghton,Andrew hough...@oclc.org wrote:
Does
Who is presenting at the ducttape4lib conference this year?
Keith
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Jason Stirnaman jstirna...@kumc.edu wrote:
Oh, and please never use duck tape for stage applications like taping
extension cords and mic cables to the floor. Gaff tape is tougher and
leaves no
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote:
My question about WorldCat records has to do with whole v. parts -- I can
understand that a full MARC record, with holdings, downloaded from WC could
be considered a WC record. After that, there is a lot of distance between
I tried Dragon Naturally Speaking a couple of years ago. (After
breaking a wrist in a cycling accident, I figured it might be easier
than one-hand typing, which wasn't true in the case of typing
programming code with lots of curly brackets, indentation, etc.)
Speech-to-text software works best
if you want the floorplan to
display as an overlay over the regular GMaps basemaps.
Keith
Keith Jenkins
GIS/Geospatial Applications Librarian
Mann Library, Cornell University
Ithaca, New York 14853
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Tom Vanmechelen
tom.vanmeche...@libis.kuleuven.be wrote:
We're
Hi, Eric.
I suspect that many of us have only read a (small) fraction of these
books. (But since your survey links directly to the full text, we can
now only claim the limits of time as our excuse.)
Are you tracking how many times people choose I don't know? I'm
sure that is the most popular
Roberto Hoyle roberto.j.ho...@dartmouth.edu wrote:
If you haven't read one of the books, doesn't that argue for it's lack of
'greatness?'
Elizabeth Winter elizabeth.win...@library.gatech.edu wrote:
Gosh, I hope not. I think it argues for better literature programs in our
K-12 and
Hopefully the 4th edition of Programming Python will be out in time
for the conference.
Keith
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Kevin S. Clarke kscla...@gmail.com wrote:
If you have particular O'Reilly titles that you'd like for us to ask
O'Reilly for, send them to me and I'll put them in our
On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 6:14 AM, graham gra...@theseamans.net wrote:
We've just gone live with OpenRoom, got a lot of student response - and
have run into a problem I think is due to incorrect handling of the
change to daylight saving time (this is in the UK). The problem is the
display is out
Hi, Eric.
While you're at it... what's the percentage overlap between those lists?
Keith
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote:
For a good time I geo-located the email domains of Code4Lib subscribers,
plotted them on a Google map, and discovered that us
The Google Code regex looks like it will accept any 1-3 letters at the
start of the call number. But LCC has no I, O, W, X, or Y
classifications.
So you might want to use something more like ^[A-HJ-NP-VZ] at the
start of the regex.
Also, there are only a few major classifications that use three
* Google App Engine
* PostGIS
* Drums
I've also heard many people use the term searchable PDF for a text-based PDF.
Keith
On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 12:43 PM, Peter Murray peter.mur...@lyrasis.org wrote:
That is the same terminology I use as well -- image-based versus text-based.
I find that works most times because people can
I always get suspicious when an author converts current prices into
1962 dollars for no apparent reason, and without explanation.
Keith
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Roy Zimmer roy.zim...@wmich.edu wrote:
I think 50 cents would be right in the ballpark. My earliest scifi
paperbacks cost
Just out of curiosity, does anyone on this list have any opinions
about whether website owners should publicly post lists of their
visitors' IP addresses (or hostnames) and to also allow such lists to
be indexable by search engines?
For example:
Thanks for all the responses so far. My thoughts are pretty much
summed up by Mike and Nate, although I would suggest that no one is
going out of their way to make these IPs accessible -- rather, they
aren't going out of their way to make them inaccessible.
Luckily, most websites don't make
1 and 2 probably represent two different geographic levels with the
same name. There is a township (county subdivision) called
Springfield, which also contains a city called Springfield.
If you are planning to generate LCSH placenames, one thing to note is
that LCSH typically uses old-style
schema.org may have some potential, but it's not clear to me how the
LocalBusiness/openingHours is supposed to work with anything but
regular hours...
Here's how openingHours are described at http://schema.org/LocalBusiness
The opening hours for a business. Opening hours can be specified as a
We are using Confluence here, campus-wide -- not just for the
libraries. The campus installation has over 200 spaces (projects),
some of which are public, some private. You can also have private
pages within a public space, and vice versa. You can change
permissions on any page, and pages
Does Solr support Soundex? (Soundex was originally developed to
assist with alternate spellings of names)
Keith
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 8:08 PM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote:
In a Solr-based search, stemming is done at indexing time, into fields with
stemmed tokens.
It seems
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote:
On 6/22/2011 11:25 PM, Ross Singer wrote:
Can't you use:
http://www.loc.gov/standards/codelists/gacs.xml
Yes, I can! I didn't know about/hadn't found that one either hadn't been
mentioned until now. Thanks! Where did
Unless it has changed, I think the official posting policy is here:
https://listserv.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0311L=CODE4LIBD=0T=0P=3396
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Gabriel Farrell gsf...@gmail.com
wrote: I suspect newline-delimited will win this race.
Yes. Everyone please cast a vote for newline-delimited JSON.
Is there any consensus on the appropriate mime type for ndj?
Keith
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 11:57 AM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote:
Last year we had 129
unique voters for the proposals, roughly unchanged from Asheville
(119). Both cases FAR fewer than the number of delegates (and more
importantly, the number of people that wanted to be delegates).
The Massachusetts Historical Society had to deal with the flap issue
when presenting Thomas Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia.
Jefferson had inserted blocks of text into the manuscript by gluing a
flap at the point of insertion. Some of the flaps have text on both
sides, others on one
Many organizations are using Archive-It, the Internet Archive's
service for harvesting and preserving specific websites. I think it
can be used to produce public or private archives.
http://www.archive-it.org/
Keith
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 5:04 PM, Carol Hassler
carol.hass...@wicourts.gov
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Mark Jordan mjor...@sfu.ca wrote:
What's the best (i.e., most standardized and flexible) format for storing
single-point geocoordinates?
Definitely stick with decimal degrees (-122.61458), because dealing
with minutes and seconds (122° 36' 52.5 W) is a real
It's not a library, but the McMaster-Carr product catalog is a classic:
http://www.mcmaster.com/
Keith
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 3:00 PM, Tania Fersenheim tan...@brandeis.edu wrote:
Got a favorite discovery interface? Send me the URL
I am doing some quick dirty investigation into
be interested in knowing how that online course turns out, and
would be happy to try to help out if you run into any stumbling
blocks.
Cheers,
Keith
Keith Jenkins
GIS/Geospatial Applications Librarian, Cornell University
On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 6:28 PM, Bess Sadler bess.sad...@gmail.com wrote
Just wondering who might be willing to share what kind of stats they
produce to justify their continued existence?
Although it's more anecdotal (rather than statistical), fan mail can
help make a convincing argument that certain services are worth
continuing. Here at our library, I've seen
Does anyone here have any experience with browser emulators such as
BrowserStack? http://www.browserstack.com/
If so, have you come across any significant differences between the
emulators and the real thing?
Keith
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 5:34 PM, Ron Gilmour rgilmou...@gmail.com wrote:
Can't believe no one has yet mentioned Chicago band I Fight Dragons
-- they mix NES-controller chiptunes with electric guitars, playing
rockin' covers of Mario Bros., Legend of Zelda, Contra, etc. in
addition to some originals that have been remixed by other Chicago
musicians. They just got back
Code4'brary
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:40 AM, Jessie Keck jk...@stanford.edu wrote:
Wait, you're telling me it's not Code4Liberty?
- Jessie
On Feb 13, 2013, at 10:18 AM, Thomas Bennett wrote:
After voting I am surprised at the results, its a library as in libe, not a
leebrary as in lib,
I just learned that the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health
actually has public walkstations that can be reserved by faculty,
staff, and students. The walkstations are treadmills with
adjustable-height desks.
the LCSH master file is so big that it basically crashes the server.
Do you really want to use the full LCSH, or just the subset that
exists in your local catalog?
Or, to put it another way: do you really want to provide the user with
search suggestions that will result in zero hits?
Keith
I was a bit surprised that these techniques from 2005 still work...
http://aaugh.com/imageabuse.html
Basically, Amazon cover images can be manipulated via the URL. Of
course, you'll probably want to check Amazon's terms of use.
Keith
So, any bets on which book cover image provider will be the first to
implement IIIF?
http://www-sul.stanford.edu/iiif/image-api/1.1/
Keith
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote:
Open Library book covers come in S, M and L -
http://www.addthis.com/privacy/opt-out
Is this satire?
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