Re: [CODE4LIB] Cover sheets and checksums

2014-04-13 Thread Kyle Banerjee
This is where the difference between access objects and archival objects is relevant. Practices involving modification of archival objects in ways like this strike me as unfortunate. It is a nonissue with access objects. Having said that, checksums introduce some challenges. For example, embedded

Re: [CODE4LIB] CFP: A Librarian's Introduction to Programming Languages

2014-03-27 Thread Kyle Banerjee
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Shaun Ellis sha...@princeton.edu wrote: Have you considered writing/editing it in public using this model for community contribution? https://github.com/addyosmani/backbone-fundamentals I went through most that book and was quite impressed with how it came

Re: [CODE4LIB] .cpd file format head scratcher

2014-03-11 Thread Kyle Banerjee
Just out of curiosity, are these files in a DAM or did you get them elsewhere? The reason I ask is that you appear to have a bunch of pharmaceutical cards in a CONTENTdm system at http://nyam.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/search/collection/p4129coll16 If you're trying to extract the image files from

Re: [CODE4LIB] Job: PERL PROGRAMMER at The Center for Research Libraries

2014-03-10 Thread Kyle Banerjee
I'm going to assume you've notified The Center for Research Libraries on their egregious behaviour on this matter so further postings will be correctly formatted per Perl's (and other programming languages natch) tightly controlled specifications. Heaven forbid you get the 'wrong crowd

Re: [CODE4LIB] EZProxy changes / alternatives ?

2014-01-31 Thread Kyle Banerjee
Many good ideas in this thread. One thing I'd just like to throw out there is that there are some ideas that may be good to distribute in the form of virtual machines and this might be one of them. Proxying is needed by practically all libraries and takes little in terms of systems resources.

Re: [CODE4LIB] EZProxy changes / alternatives ?

2014-01-31 Thread Kyle Banerjee
EZproxy is a self-installing statically compiled single binary download, with a built-in administrative interface that makes most common administrative tasks point-and-click, that works on Linux and Windows systems, and requires very little in the way of resources to run. It also has a

Re: [CODE4LIB] EZProxy changes / alternatives ?

2014-01-31 Thread Kyle Banerjee
On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 3:10 PM, Salazar, Christina christina.sala...@csuci.edu wrote: I think though that razor thin budgets aside, the EZProxy using community is vulnerable to what amounts to a monopoly. Don't get any ideas, OCLC peeps (just kiddin') but now we're so captive to EZProxy,

Re: [CODE4LIB] archiving web pages

2014-01-15 Thread Kyle Banerjee
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 8:52 AM, Andrew Darby darby.li...@gmail.com wrote: If it's doable, I think preserving the whole enchilada is desirable. For instance, at my last library, there was a regular assignment where students needed the print version of old periodicals because they were tasked

Re: [CODE4LIB] Question about OAI Harvesting via Perl

2014-01-15 Thread Kyle Banerjee
Plenty of good advice in this thread but don't be afraid to write a harvester yourself that meets your needs. It's good to avoid reinventing the wheel, but OAI-PMH is a really easy protocol to work with -- it's the same difficulty as retrieving a bunch of web pages. For simple jobs, it's often

Re: [CODE4LIB] Question about OAI Harvesting via Perl

2014-01-15 Thread Kyle Banerjee
No need for a module -- that would be using a chain saw to cut butter. To return to an earlier suggestion, this is precisely where just retrieving something via good ol' http is easiest. An OAI-PMH request is just a request that looks exactly like the output from a really simple HTML form. This

Re: [CODE4LIB] links from finding aid to digital object

2014-01-14 Thread Kyle Banerjee
Archive Engine West http://hero.village.virginia.edu/nwda/ includes EAD with direct links to digital content as well as a way to search digital content directly that links back to finding aids. If you want a quick example of a search that illustrates the process, just type in lovejoy. This brings

Re: [CODE4LIB] archiving web pages

2014-01-14 Thread Kyle Banerjee
IMO, there are many web archiving situations where it is more appropriate to just focus on the content rather than the manifestation of the content. Just as you wouldn't expect a 1995 article from the NYT to be displayed as the website was in 1995 or an article in an online database to actually

Re: [CODE4LIB] Automated Embedded Metadata Extraction in Photographs: Possible or Pipedream?

2013-12-17 Thread Kyle Banerjee
Exiftool is what you need. Easy to use and works on any platform. kyle On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Swauger,Shea shea.swau...@colostate.eduwrote: Hi all, I'm wondering if there is a systematic method that can extract metadata embedded in digital photographs and then ingest that

Re: [CODE4LIB] Mapping LCSH to DDC

2013-12-10 Thread Kyle Banerjee
This is my inclination. However, if the algorithm doesn't incorporate values from the tables used to synthesize Dewey numbers, identifying the stems of numbers may be tricky. It might be worth calling up someone at a major Dewey library like UIUC or Northwestern to see if they might be willing to

Re: [CODE4LIB] Interested in enhancing call-number browse in Millennium catalog

2013-12-04 Thread Kyle Banerjee
This is going to be tricky. AFAIK, you can't modify the call number result table on the fly without proxying since Mil doesn't let you get at the routine that renders the call numbers. If proxying is not what you had in mind and rendering the call number meanings above the table is acceptable, I

Re: [CODE4LIB] Interested in enhancing call-number browse in Millennium catalog

2013-12-04 Thread Kyle Banerjee
On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Joshua Welker wel...@ucmo.edu wrote: You could do all this with Javascript and not have to worry about mucking around with wwwoptions or any of that messy stuff. Just create a static JSON or XML file in the webpac directory containing a list of all the

Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for two coders to help with discoverability of videos

2013-12-02 Thread Kyle Banerjee
Is it out of the question to extract technical metadata from the audiovisual materials themselves (via MediaInfo et al)? One of the things that absolutely blows my mind is the widespread practice of hand typing this stuff into records. Aside from an obvious opportunity to introduce

Re: [CODE4LIB] Tab delimited file with Python CSV

2013-11-25 Thread Kyle Banerjee
Unless there's a specific reason you want to use python, the stream editor is often easier for simple transformations of individual lines. sed 's/^/\t/' infile outfile kyle On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Joshua Gomez gome...@usc.edu wrote: If all you want to do is add a tab to the

Re: [CODE4LIB] Tab delimited file with Python CSV

2013-11-25 Thread Kyle Banerjee
I found the CSV module in Python to be surprisingly confusing when I first encountered it, given Python's elegance in many other cases. The Dialect thing drove me nuts at first! What's nuts is that something as simple as delimited data still causes headaches at this point in our history. But

[CODE4LIB] mass convert jpeg to pdf

2013-11-08 Thread Kyle Banerjee
We are in the process of migrating our digital collections from CONTENTdm to Omeka and are trying to figure out what to do about the compound objects -- the vast majority of which are digitized books. The source files are actually hi res tiffs but since ginormous objects broken into hundreds of

Re: [CODE4LIB] mass convert jpeg to pdf

2013-11-08 Thread Kyle Banerjee
It is sad to me that converting to PDF for viewing off the Web seems like the answer. Isn’t there a tiling viewer (like Leaflet) that could be used to render jpeg derivatives of the original tif files in Omeka? This should be pretty easy. But the issue with tiling is that the nav process is

Re: [CODE4LIB] image gallery management software recommendations

2013-11-07 Thread Kyle Banerjee
We're in the process of moving our collections to Omeka. First impressions are that it's very easy to work with and reasonably slick. Base functionality is decent, easy to batch migrate things in, and it has a decent API. kyle On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Bigwood, David

Re: [CODE4LIB] rdf serialization

2013-11-04 Thread Kyle Banerjee
In general, people do not think very systematically nor very logically. We are humans full of ambiguity, feelings, and perceptions If we — as a whole — have this difficulty, then how can we expect to capture and encode data, information, and knowledge with the rigor that a computer

Re: [CODE4LIB] MARC field lengths

2013-10-16 Thread Kyle Banerjee
This squares with what I'm seeing. Data for all holdings of the Orbis Cascade Alliance is: 100: 30.1 245: 114.1 6XX: 36.1 My values include indicators (2 characters) as well as any delimiters but not the tag number itself. I breaking up 6XX up as Roy has as 6XX's are far from created equal and

Re: [CODE4LIB] MARC field lengths

2013-10-16 Thread Kyle Banerjee
Argh. Must learn to write at third grade level I wanted to say I like breaking up 6XX as Roy has done because 6XX fields vary in purpose and tag frequency varies considerably. On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 11:08 AM, Kyle Banerjee kyle.baner...@gmail.comwrote: This squares with what I'm seeing

Re: [CODE4LIB] MARC field lengths

2013-10-16 Thread Kyle Banerjee
245 not including $c, indicators, or delimiters, |h (which occurs before |b), |n, |p, with trailing slash preceding |c stripped for about 9 million records for Orbis Cascade collections is 70.1 kyle On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote: Thanks, Roy (and

Re: [CODE4LIB] MARC field lengths

2013-10-16 Thread Kyle Banerjee
BTW, I don't think 240 is a good substitute as the content is very different than in the regular title. That's where you'll find music, laws, selections, translations and it's totally littered with subfields. The 70.1 figure from the stripped 245 is probably closer to the mark IMO, what you stand

Re: [CODE4LIB] MARC field lengths

2013-10-16 Thread Kyle Banerjee
into about 15th place on my Giant List of Things to Worry About. On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote: On 10/16/13 12:33 PM, Kyle Banerjee wrote: BTW, I don't think 240 is a good substitute as the content is very different than in the regular title. That's

Re: [CODE4LIB] What can be done to stop deleting of records belonging to users of our Minuteman Library Network in Massachusetts?

2013-10-15 Thread Kyle Banerjee
Searching compressed files is no big deal. First of all, you can always decompress. But if they've just been compressed and not put in a tarball or some other archive format, you can just use zgrep. However, many if not most files are in structures that don't lend themselves to just scanning for

Re: [CODE4LIB] What can be done to stop deleting of records belonging to users of our Minuteman Library Network in Massachusetts?

2013-10-11 Thread Kyle Banerjee
. Users' records get deleted. No notification before some entries get deleted at My Lists http://www.mln.lib.ma.us/catalog/faq_account.htm#ma50 On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 7:49 PM, Kyle Banerjee kyle.baner...@gmail.com wrote: I thought you guys have Millennium. If that is correct, you

Re: [CODE4LIB] What can be done to stop deleting of records belonging to users of our Minuteman Library Network in Massachusetts?

2013-10-10 Thread Kyle Banerjee
I thought you guys have Millennium. If that is correct, you won't be able to change the behavior of the system and the only thing you can do is revoke delete permissions for whoever is doing it. kyle On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 4:29 PM, don warner saklad warnersak...@gmail.comwrote: What can be

Re: [CODE4LIB] [CODE4LIB] HEADS UP - Government shutdown will mean *.loc.gov is going offline October 1

2013-09-30 Thread Kyle Banerjee
If all people need is to look up MARC tags, there is also the Cataloging Calculator http://calculate.alptown.com/ Unless you want to want to feel totally disgusted, avoid looking source code as it was my first javascript program which was cobbled together in a day (i.e. it is garbage) and hasn't

Re: [CODE4LIB] [CODE4LIB] HEADS UP - Government shutdown will mean *.loc.gov is going offline October 1

2013-09-30 Thread Kyle Banerjee
was out of the question... kyle On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 2:08 PM, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com wrote: Netscape 4.0 is out? Gosh, but it sure is hard to keep up! Roy On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Kyle Banerjee kyle.baner...@gmail.com wrote: If all people need is to look up MARC tags

Re: [CODE4LIB] capturing only relevant CSS for a selection

2013-09-13 Thread Kyle Banerjee
I can't speak for the other browsers, but at least in Chrome, it's pretty easy to determine which rules are applied and which are overriden for whatever reason On Sep 13, 2013 8:36 AM, Ken Irwin kir...@wittenberg.edu wrote: Hi all, I'm looking for a tool that I hope exists, and that I hope

Re: [CODE4LIB] Way to record usage of tables/rooms/chairs in Library

2013-08-15 Thread Kyle Banerjee
Y'all are making this way too complicated. Simply cover any furniture you're interested in getting stats on with oil dyed with some color that makes it unnoticeable. Then count the complaints... On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Riley Childs ri...@tfsgeo.com wrote: Software, People can break

Re: [CODE4LIB] Python and Ruby

2013-07-30 Thread Kyle Banerjee
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 8:25 AM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.comwrote: Ok folks, we have veered into nonconstructive territory. How about we come back to the original question and help this person figure out what they need to about Ruby and Python so they can do well with what they

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Northwest

2013-07-29 Thread Kyle Banerjee
The c4l meetings in Portland all seemed to work pretty well. I'd be happy to help put another one together. kyle On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 12:06 PM, Tom Johnson johnson.tom+code4...@gmail.com wrote: There certainly is. We held a Code4Lib NW a few years ago in Portland. It was well attended.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Machine tags and flickr commons

2013-07-10 Thread Kyle Banerjee
On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Debra Shapiro dsshap...@wisc.edu wrote: I wonder if there's not more going on because many libraries, archives museums feel that the images posted to Flickr are sort of just for fun and the real thing is at the institution? Political factors could be at

Re: [CODE4LIB] Regular expression for maximum 4-digit number

2013-07-02 Thread Kyle Banerjee
AFAIK, Excel has no built in regex capabilities so you'd need to call vbscript from Excel to do this. In any case, you'll need to write an actual program to evaluate each line since multiple values can occur in the same line. This will be easier if done as text than in VBA. Besides, the data in

Re: [CODE4LIB] Regular expression for maximum 4-digit number

2013-07-02 Thread Kyle Banerjee
in excel, but I wondered if regexp had the ability to test the multiple matches in a single-line expression. But I guess that does require a multiline program - I'll use VB. Thanks. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Kyle Banerjee

Re: [CODE4LIB] FW: reviewing/ranking journals

2013-05-22 Thread Kyle Banerjee
I like the concept, but my gut reaction is that the best way to address this issue is for authors to know where they're publishing and communicate with editors. It's essential for authors to make sure a submission is appropriate and ask for timelines, feedback, or anything else that might be

Re: [CODE4LIB] Policies for 3D Printers

2013-05-21 Thread Kyle Banerjee
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 5:36 AM, Edward Iglesias edwardigles...@gmail.comwrote: These are good points however the very ineffectiveness of 3D printers is an advantage here. It takes so long to print just one very rough barbie that it would not make any sense to try and mass produce anything.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Policies for 3D Printers

2013-05-20 Thread Kyle Banerjee
This is a bit off topic, but why would a library provide 3D printing services when just printing text on paper seems to cause enough grief for many libraries? Don't get me wrong. I can see why people are interested in this. If I had access to one (i.e. I weren't too lazy/cheap to use available

Re: [CODE4LIB] EAD vs. HTML for finding aids

2013-05-12 Thread Kyle Banerjee
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 1:01 PM, Wilhelmina Randtke rand...@gmail.comwrote: EAD is the appropriate metadata schema for a finding aid. HTML is not a metadata schema. HTML in no way implies that a computer can read and process your finding aids. It has nothing to do with metadata. HTML is

Re: [CODE4LIB] Email Forwards to Database

2013-05-08 Thread Kyle Banerjee
Maybe I'm missing something, but why couldn't procmail be used to pipe the input into a program that would structure the info however you needed it and insert it? kyle On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 8:19 AM, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote: Thought: I have done something similar to this using

Re: [CODE4LIB] tiff2pdf, then back to pdf?

2013-04-28 Thread Kyle Banerjee
On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Andrew Hankinson andrew.hankin...@gmail.com wrote: As someone who works on document recognition, I have to disagree. You should always keep an uncompressed original around, since you can never recover it without (often expensive) re-imaging. JPEG, or any other

Re: [CODE4LIB] tiff2pdf, then back to pdf?

2013-04-28 Thread Kyle Banerjee
wrote: On Sun, Apr 28, 2013 at 2:43 AM, Kyle Banerjee kyle.baner...@gmail.com wrote: Every choice people make is about loss. Equipment, optics, lighting, you name it. But for some reason, the instant we're talking about bits of data on a disk, people plan as though capacity were unlimited

Re: [CODE4LIB] Tool to highlight differences in two files

2013-04-23 Thread Kyle Banerjee
Same trick will work with google docs. Or just use the compare two versions of a document feature in Word... On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Shaun Ellis sha...@princeton.edu wrote: 1. Create a gist (https://gist.github.com/{**yourUserName}https://gist.github.com/%7ByourUserName%7D) with the

Re: [CODE4LIB] Image de-duping and file identification

2013-03-20 Thread Kyle Banerjee
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 2:22 AM, chris fitzpatrick chrisfitz...@gmail.comwrote: Anyone please correct me if this is wrong. A md5/sha1 file hash would also not get any image derivatives, like crops or they added text or tweaked the contrast or photoshopped their cat into the shot... If you

Re: [CODE4LIB] Image de-duping and file identification

2013-03-19 Thread Kyle Banerjee
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 1:51 PM, Carmen Mitchell carmenmitch...@gmail.comwrote: We are now working on de-duping and assessing file size, focusing on the JPEGs first. With over 300,000 over them...it might take a while. (Of course they aren't following any kind of file naming structure,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Image de-duping and file identification

2013-03-19 Thread Kyle Banerjee
On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Carmen Mitchell carmenmitch...@gmail.comwrote: Heh, well she works with teams of students and willing volunteers from native communities. The faculty member in question has been doing documentation and revitalization of endangered languages and has worked on

Re: [CODE4LIB] Handwriting and ocr

2013-03-12 Thread Kyle Banerjee
If it's for a discrete project, I'd say scan what you need OCR'd and put it on Mechanical Turk kyle On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:56 AM, Donna Campbell dcampb...@wts.edu wrote: On a related note, I am looking for a recommendation for software that provides OCR for handwriting (print and/or

Re: [CODE4LIB] Software that recognizes buildings and/or other features

2013-03-08 Thread Kyle Banerjee
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Chad Nelson chadbnel...@gmail.com wrote: Militarizing Your Backyard with Python: Computer Vision and the Squirrel Hordes https://us.pycon.org/2012/schedule/presentation/267/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPgqfnKG_T4 tl:dw; He used some python bindings for

[CODE4LIB] Software that recognizes buildings and/or other features

2013-03-07 Thread Kyle Banerjee
I know about Google goggles, but I need something I can train using lesser known features (i.e. local stuff that's important to us but that others don't really know about) to help with processing of archival photographs. Does such software exist in a form that would be accessible to libraries?

Re: [CODE4LIB] what do you do: API accounts used by library software, that assume an individual is registered

2013-03-05 Thread Kyle Banerjee
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: Makes sense, thanks! Although leaving account/password list unencrypted on a shared drive seems potentially dangerous... Just make sure the file they're stored in is named something like Meeting minutes for [insert

Re: [CODE4LIB] Slicing/dicing/combining large amounts of data efficiently

2013-03-04 Thread Kyle Banerjee
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Andy Kohler akoh...@ucla.edu wrote: I agree with Terry: use a database. Since you're doing multiple queries, invest the time up front to import your data in a queryable format, with indexes, instead of repeatedly building comparison files... Another,

Re: [CODE4LIB] what do you do: API accounts used by library software, that assume an individual is registered

2013-03-04 Thread Kyle Banerjee
We did that all the time at the place we used to work. The business manager sets up things with a generic email and her contact whatnot as required, payment is made using the procurement card. In case of changes, you update the contact person, but the email and account info are otherwise left

[CODE4LIB] Slicing/dicing/combining large amounts of data efficiently

2013-02-27 Thread Kyle Banerjee
I'm involved in a migration project that requires identification of local information in millions of MARC records. The master records I need to compare with are 14GB total. I don't know what the others will be, but since the masters are deduped and the source files aren't (plus they contain loads

Re: [CODE4LIB] Displaying archival books on ipad and android tablets

2013-02-23 Thread Kyle Banerjee
I did PDF. There are about no studies on PDF size and usability. What I did is go to gray scale for text pages to knock down file size, played with optimizing, and broke super long (think 3K page book) files in smaller chunks When I looked at other big long books online, I found they

Re: [CODE4LIB] A newbie seeking input/suggestions

2013-02-22 Thread Kyle Banerjee
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Andreas Orphanides akorp...@ncsu.eduwrote: The right implementation is important for adoption, of course, but for a backup system to be helpful it needs to encourage compliance -- including things like having the backup folks available for monitoring,

Re: [CODE4LIB] A newbie seeking input/suggestions

2013-02-22 Thread Kyle Banerjee
On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 6:50 AM, Andreas Orphanides akorp...@ncsu.eduwrote: Staff numbers remain static, but responsibilities (and gate counts) keep increasing. As things get busier, we focus on our core responsibilities and some of the added stuff can fall to the wayside. If the overhead of

Re: [CODE4LIB] A newbie seeking input/suggestions

2013-02-21 Thread Kyle Banerjee
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Joe Hourcle onei...@grace.nascom.nasa.gov wrote: The problem is that you'd have to have it dynamically generate the list of who to text based on who's currently on duty. If an app/service is generating the messages, it can take a parameter that allows people

Re: [CODE4LIB] GitHub Myths (was thanks and poetry)

2013-02-21 Thread Kyle Banerjee
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 2:44 PM, David Friggens frigg...@waikato.ac.nzwrote: To all the people complaining about the Code4Lib 2014 conference being unwelcoming because of our new No Clothes Policy, I say you are wrong. We are entitled to enact our own conditions of entry, and if you are

Re: [CODE4LIB] Getting started with Ruby and library-ish data (was RE: [CODE4LIB] You *are* a coder. So what am I?)

2013-02-19 Thread Kyle Banerjee
On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 6:00 AM, Ethan Gruber ewg4x...@gmail.com wrote: The language you choose is somewhat dependent on the data you're working with. I don't find that Ruby or PHP are particularly good at dealing with XML. They're passable for data manipulation and migration, but I wouldn't

Re: [CODE4LIB] You *are* a coder. So what am I?

2013-02-15 Thread Kyle Banerjee
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Jason Griffey grif...@gmail.com wrote: The vast, vast, vast, vast majority of people have absolutely no clue how code translates into instructions for the magic glowing screen they look at all day. Even a tiny bit of empowerment in that arena can make huge

Re: [CODE4LIB] You *are* a coder. So what am I?

2013-02-15 Thread Kyle Banerjee
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 5:59 AM, Joe Hourcle onei...@grace.nascom.nasa.gov wrote: Last year, we targeted the beginner's track as a sort of 'Perl as a second language', assuming that you already knew the basic concepts of programming (what's a variable, an array, a function, etc.) Would it

Re: [CODE4LIB] Lib or Libe

2013-02-13 Thread Kyle Banerjee
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Ellen Wilson ewil...@southalabama.eduwrote: The same debate rages about LibGuides. At one conference, Springshare had badge ribbons that said something like Team Lib and Team Libe so you could show your allegiance. That was cute. I thought about trying to get

Re: [CODE4LIB] You *are* a coder. So what am I?

2013-02-13 Thread Kyle Banerjee
I just say I work in libraries -- that describes anyone with or without the degree. It's not as concise, but it conveys the right idea. I see no reason to preface anything you say with what you don't have. If people require your resume to decide if your ideas are any good, it's just not a good

Re: [CODE4LIB] Editing Code4lib Wiki

2013-02-11 Thread Kyle Banerjee
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 1:02 PM, MJ Ray m...@phonecoop.coop wrote: It would also be very nice to replace the reCaptcha with something that allowed people who can't pass audio-visual tests to take part! I've always wondered what percentage of the population has trouble with reCaptcha

[CODE4LIB] Adding authority control to IR's that don't have it built in

2013-01-29 Thread Kyle Banerjee
How are libraries doing this and how well is it working? Most systems that even claim to have authority control simply allow a controlled keyword list. But this does nothing for the see and see also references that are essential for many use cases (people known by many names, entities that change

Re: [CODE4LIB] personal name api

2013-01-28 Thread Kyle Banerjee
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 2:10 PM, LeVan,Ralph le...@oclc.org wrote: That would be amusing to build. Many VIAF records have a gender specified in them. We could aggregate counts for each name and report back those counts. You'd have to decide whether being male 9 times out of 10 is a high

Re: [CODE4LIB] Zoia

2013-01-22 Thread Kyle Banerjee
In every noisy forum that I participate in (BTW, none of them are tech or even work related), there are always people who dislike the noise. The concerns are analogous to the ones expressed here -- irritation factor, it keeps people away, it's all about the in crowd, etc. Likewise, the proposed

Re: [CODE4LIB] XMP Metadata to tab-delemited file

2013-01-14 Thread Kyle Banerjee
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Michael Hopwood mich...@editeur.orgwrote: I got as far as producing XMP RDF/XML files but the problem then remains; how to usefully manage these via XSLT transforms? The problem is that XMP uses an RDF syntax that comes in many flavours and doesn't result in

Re: [CODE4LIB] Metrics for measuring digital library production

2012-12-17 Thread Kyle Banerjee
, 2012 at 2:19 PM, stuart yeates stuart.yea...@vuw.ac.nzwrote: On 18/12/12 10:20, Kyle Banerjee wrote: Howdy all, Just wondering who might be willing to share what kind of stats they produce to justify their continued existence? Of course we do the normal (web activity, items and metadata

Re: [CODE4LIB] tech vs. nursing

2012-11-30 Thread Kyle Banerjee
On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 1:06 AM, Chris Fitzpatrick chrisfitz...@gmail.comwrote: But, this leads into another trend I've noticed... recent MLIS graduates are constantly lamenting the lack of jobs...meanwhile this list is flooded with jobs. It's a really odd disconnect. One thing that is very

Re: [CODE4LIB] What about Code4Lib4Women?

2012-11-29 Thread Kyle Banerjee
I would disagree that sysadmin/network admin types are considered less geeky, it's just that coders and sysadmins speak completely different languages, tend not to trust each other, and are generally working against one another (since they have different goals). Trying to figure this stuff

Re: [CODE4LIB] What is a coder?

2012-11-29 Thread Kyle Banerjee
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 6:13 AM, Christie Peterson cpeter...@jhu.eduwrote: If this were training in the sense of a seminar or a formal class on the exact same topics, I would be eligible for full funding, but since it's a conference, it's funded at a significantly lower level. I'll gladly take

Re: [CODE4LIB] Proposed Changes to Future Conference Program Choosing

2012-11-28 Thread Kyle Banerjee
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Cynthia Ng cynthia.s...@gmail.com wrote: I'm really glad to see this discussion continuing. It seems like there's a good amount of support for at least giving a certain amount of sessions over for the program committee to decide. Frankly, I'd favor letting

[CODE4LIB]

2012-11-27 Thread Kyle Banerjee
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Nathan Tallman ntall...@gmail.com wrote: This is a slightly different topic, but relates to Kelley's post: Does code4lib have a mentor program where more inexperienced geeks can pair up with someone to guide their development? I don't have anyone like that in

Re: [CODE4LIB] anti-harassment policy for code4lib?

2012-11-26 Thread Kyle Banerjee
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Jon Stroop jstr...@princeton.edu wrote: It's sad that we have to address this formally (as formal as c4l gets anyway), but that's reality, so yes, bess++ indeed, and mjgiarlo++, anarchivist++ for the quick assist. This. To that end, and as a show of

Re: [CODE4LIB] Easiest way to tag thousands of images

2012-11-20 Thread Kyle Banerjee
It seems that the thematic folders and the file names may be ok descriptive tag sources to start with. Perhaps you could try to identify patterns to extract information for tags (i.e., hall, committee, holiday, etc.) You could traverse the file system, and use the Google Data API for Picasa,

[CODE4LIB] extracting tiff info

2012-11-19 Thread Kyle Banerjee
Howdy all, I need to extract all the metadata from a few thousand images on a network drive and put it into spreadsheet. Since the files are huge (each is 100MB+) and my connection isn't that fast, I strongly prefer to not move them before working on them -- i.e. I'm using cygwin and/or windows.

Re: [CODE4LIB] extracting tiff info

2012-11-19 Thread Kyle Banerjee
://lso.umsystem.edu/~pottingerhj/ https://MOspace.umsystem.edu/ A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly. --Pablo Neruda On 11/19/12 3:31 PM, Kyle Banerjee kyle.baner...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [CODE4LIB] SRU MARC fields with indicators

2012-11-07 Thread Kyle Banerjee
In all fairness, SRU also is something I'd hope would fade out as it is based on an information retrieval model developed that saw its heydey decades ago... On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 7:49 AM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote: Owen, I think we owe it to future generations to make sure that they

Re: [CODE4LIB] Crappy AJAX

2012-10-25 Thread Kyle Banerjee
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 6:51 AM, Chris Fitzpatrick chrisfitz...@gmail.comwrote: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre's_law ++Sayre's Law

Re: [CODE4LIB] VPN EZ Proxy

2012-10-18 Thread Kyle Banerjee
I would definitely not tell them to turn off VPN since asking them to break connections to machines, services, drives, etc is a barrier to service. Much better to make sure your config supports a reasonable workflow all patrons will expect than to ask them to do something nonintuitive. kyle On

Re: [CODE4LIB] formatting citation output programmatically

2012-10-11 Thread Kyle Banerjee
As far as I'm aware, citations in published papers should always be proper case, but are there any cases where a journal should be cited without periods in the abbreviated form? I'm aware of the edge cases like PLOS, JAMA, BMJ, but what I'm wondering is if anyone knows of any instances where

Re: [CODE4LIB] formatting citation output programmatically

2012-10-11 Thread Kyle Banerjee
On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 3:25 PM, William Gunn william.g...@gmail.comwrote: Thanks for the suggestion, Kyle. Where would you suggest I go to look up the titles? I haven't read OCLC's terms and conditions for some time, but my first reaction would be to use their stuff if permitted since that's

Re: [CODE4LIB] Seeking examples of outstanding discovery layers

2012-09-20 Thread Kyle Banerjee
And likewise, that it's okay for us libraries to develop features which are used only by significant minorities of our users (important to remember what our logs show is really significant minorities of _uses_. All users using a feature 1% of the time can show up the same as 1% of users

Re: [CODE4LIB] Recommendations for a teaching OPAC?

2012-08-07 Thread Kyle Banerjee
I teach an intro to IT survey class for the LIS school at Illinois. The one-major-topic-a-week syllabus doesn't really give us time to deep dive into IT topics, but it lets us explore them and give contextual understanding to the building block pieces. Ideally, every topic has some sort of

Re: [CODE4LIB] It's all job postings!

2012-08-02 Thread Kyle Banerjee
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 There's also the option of implementing these high tech things known as email filters. They've only been around a couple

Re: [CODE4LIB] Leader in MarcXML Files ( Record Length )

2012-06-29 Thread Kyle Banerjee
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 7:04 AM, Reese, Terry terry.re...@oregonstate.eduwrote: I wouldn't. One of the benefits of marcxml is that you are not constrained by marcs record length issues. Deciding to calculate that value would add an arbitrary length limitation to the format (in my opinion).

[CODE4LIB] Best way to process large XML files

2012-06-08 Thread Kyle Banerjee
takes away many of the advantages you'd normally have with an XML structure. /rant -- -- Kyle Banerjee Digital Services Program Manager Orbis Cascade Alliance baner...@uoregon.edubaner...@orbiscascade.org / 503.999.9787

Re: [CODE4LIB] Best way to process large XML files

2012-06-08 Thread Kyle Banerjee
Since you mentioned SimpleXML, Kyle, I assume you're using PHP? Actually I'm using perl. For reasons not related to XML parsing, it is the preferred (but not mandatory) language. Based on a few tests and manual inspection, it looks like the ticket for me is going have a two stage process

Re: [CODE4LIB] Studying the email list

2012-06-05 Thread Kyle Banerjee
Wholeheartedly agree. Simply asking permission implies whoever you're asking has more business determining whether you have the right to do something than you do. It also implies you expect them to offer an opinion. People who don't know what's going on say no in such situations. The result is

Re: [CODE4LIB] Studying the email list (Charcuterie Spectrum)

2012-06-05 Thread Kyle Banerjee
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Re: [CODE4LIB] MARC Magic for file

2012-05-23 Thread Kyle Banerjee
that's been around for almost 50 years... kyle -- -- Kyle Banerjee Digital Services Program Manager Orbis Cascade Alliance baner...@uoregon.edubaner...@orbiscascade.org / 503.999.9787

Re: [CODE4LIB] whimsical homepage idea

2012-05-02 Thread Kyle Banerjee
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Re: [CODE4LIB] whimsical homepage idea

2012-05-01 Thread Kyle Banerjee
-- -- Kyle Banerjee Digital Services Program Manager Orbis Cascade Alliance baner...@uoregon.edu / 503.999.9787

Re: [CODE4LIB] MarcXML and char encodings

2012-04-17 Thread Kyle Banerjee
What's the legal thing to do? What's actually found 'in the wild' with MarcXML? In some cases, invalid XML. In an ideal world, the encoding should be included in the declaration. But I wouldn't trust it. kyle -- -- Kyle Banerjee

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