We are establishing a relationship with the DLF for email purposes. Might they
be willing to be our organization?
Ralph
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Esmé
Cowles
Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2016 3:41 PM
To:
If you're comfortable using the VIAF API, then you'll find ISNI links in VIAF
records.
Ralph
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Eric
Lease Morgan
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2016 5:17 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: authority
to the code4lib blog?
You can use the wayback machine:
http://web.archive.org/web/20150905201543/http://dilettantes.code4lib.org/bl
og/2010/09/a-proposal-to-serialize-marc-in-json/
--tr
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
LeVan,Ralph
Sent
that conforms to that spec it can be done via the
Marc4J library.
If you are interested I can give specific information about how to do that.
-Bob Haschart
University of Virginia Library
On 4/12/2016 4:53 PM, LeVan,Ralph wrote:
> I'm playing around with Elasticsearch and need to convert MARC to J
I'm playing around with Elasticsearch and need to convert MARC to JSON. Of the
various proposals to do that, I liked Ross Singer's the best.
http://dilettantes.code4lib.org/blog/2010/09/a-proposal-to-serialize-marc-in-json/
Sadly, that link is dead. Any chance of reviving it?
Thanks!
Ralph
On the culture side: librarians insisting that they know what their patrons
want. I've written so much bloat that didn't get used because a librarian was
sure the system would fail without it.
Ralph
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On
Hmm. Our network folks had gotten that up to a C back in September and
promised an OS upgrade to our load balancers to fix the remaining problems.
I'll rattle their cages again.
Thanks for checking!
Ralph
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU]
I forwarded the VIAF complaint to our network folks. They were able to fix it
some, but a complete fix will not happen for a while.
Here's their message:
I changed the load balancer parameters for this farm viaf.org:443 to
raise the "grade" from "F" to "C".
To get it higher
Sorry, but I believe that's our line.
Ralph
Ralph LeVan
OCLC - Senior Research Scientist, OCLC Research
6565 Kilgour Place, Dublin, Ohio 43017
T +1.614-764-6115
www.oclc.org
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of BWS
Johnson
Sent:
This is as close to an official statement as I can find:
http://www.oclc.org/developer/news/2015/dewey-down.en.html
I've asked around, but can't add anything to that.
Ralph
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Karen
Coyle
Sent:
should be all set.
Yes, 24 hours is normal to wait, even during conference voting I only check for
new accounts about once a day.
Ryan Wick
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
LeVan,Ralph
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 1:47 PM
I have never successfully gotten an ID and I seem to be failing again. Is
24hrs a normal amount of time to have to wait for authorization? (Not
complaining, exactly, just wondering. I'd have sent this note to an
administrator if there were any indication of who that might be on the
I think this is all good stuff too, but my old Hippy soul cringes at
unnecessary paperwork. A consent form means nothing. Situations change. Even
a well-intended agreement sometimes needs to be reneged on. I think it's just
best that the presenters understand what the best hopes for their
From: openrefine-...@googlegroups.com [mailto:openrefine-...@googlegroups.com]
On Behalf Of Martin Magdinier
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2014 10:23 AM
To: openrefine-...@googlegroups.com
Subject: OpenRefine Usage Survey 2014
Hello,
Take the surveyhttp://ow.ly/zjs9G
Earlier this year the community
Hi Amy!
That sort of information is generally considered to be a security violation.
If someone is probing your system, being told that they got the ID right and
all they have left is to figure out the password is a big help.
I'm afraid that unhelpful messages are best for unverified clients.
://library.boisestate.edu
(208) 426-1625
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 12:18 PM, LeVan,Ralph le...@oclc.org wrote:
Hi Amy!
That sort of information is generally considered to be a security
violation. If someone is probing your system, being told that they
got the ID right and all they have left
Sorry, Eric!
We've known about this problem for a couple of weeks now and had the fix in
place, but touching a production system requires motivation. I'll push to get
the fix installed this week.
In the meantime, here's a pointer to the file you're supposed to get when you
ask for
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=unsubscribe+code4lib
Ralph
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Joe
Hourcle
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2014 11:41 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: how to unsubscribe this list?
On Feb 20, 2014, at
I'm confused about the supposed distinction between content negotiation and
explicit content request in a URL. The reason I'm confused is that the
response to content negotiation is supposed to be a content location header
with a URL that is guaranteed to return the negotiated content. In
OCLC Research is building an ILL Cost Calculator. We'll be asking institutions
to enter information about their ILL practices and costs and then supporting
mechanisms for generating reports based on that data. (Dennis Massie is
leading this work in Research and he really should have a page
, LeVan,Ralph wrote:
I'm confused about the supposed distinction between content negotiation and
explicit content request in a URL. The reason I'm confused is that the
response to content negotiation is supposed to be a content location header
with a URL that is guaranteed to return
I can't say anything about the horizon server. But I have a suggestion.
It's possible that server is configured to not support Booleans (either on that
index or at all) and is blowing the trivial error response. If this is the
case, there may be a workaround. Instead of explicitly ORing them
There's also an autosuggester for FAST.
http://oclc.org/developer/services/assignfast
Ralph
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Karen
Coyle
Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 4:23 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: LOC
We've had a similar, possibly related, problem with the code4lib list in the
past. Perhaps the same problem occurs with the wiki email.
The issue occurs when an email is sent out to a person, claiming to be from
that person. Postini sees that and interprets it as an attempt to spoof email
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 enough confidence level
for you.
Not saying that service exists, just
SRU version 2.0 is nearing the end of its standardization process. It
makes no reference to the SOAP version of SRU 1.2 (also known as SRW).
Does anyone actually use SOAP anymore? Is this a safe omission?
If there's still reasonable demand, I'll probably provide the WSDL and
request
been more convenient.
I won't miss SRW.
Ralph
From: LeVan,Ralph
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 4:50 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Anyone using SOAP?
SRU version 2.0 is nearing the end of its standardization process. It
makes no reference to the SOAP version of SRU 1.2
I create 50GB files of marcxml all the time. We do NOT put a wrapper
element around them, but do put a line feed at the end of each record.
Then a trivial line reading loop in java/perl/whatever can read those
records individually and process them appropriately.
That turns out the be the right
Looks like baloney to me. I wouldn't touch it.
Ralph
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
don warner saklad
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 10:44 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: How do you get plain language, plain English
So, if one were to attempt this:
-Would it be OCLC-approved?
If this doesn't meet the definition of Geek the Library, I don't know
what else would.
+1 OCLC Approval
We see Unicode data pasted into MARC8 records all the time. It happens enough
that my MARC8-Unicode converter takes a second look at illegal MARC8 bytes and
tries a UTF-8 encoding as well.
Ralph
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
In fact, I worry that the standard may pre-date UTF-8, with it's
reference to UCS --- if I understand things right, at one point
there
was only one unicode encoding, called UCS, which is basically a
backwards-compatible subset of what became UTF-16.
So I worry the standard really means
There are probably a couple of answers to that.
XML rules define what characterset is used. The encoding attribute on
the ?xml? header is where you find out what characterset is being
used.
I've always gone under the assumption that if an encoding wasn't
specified, then UTF-8 is in effect and
If I want to have a MarcXML document encoded in Marc8 -- what should
it
look like? What should be in the XML decleration? What should be in
the
MARC header embedded in the XML? Or is it not in fact legal at all?
I'm going out on a limb here, but I don't think it is legal. There is
no
No -- it is perfectly legal - -but you MUST declare the encoding to
BE Marc8 in the XML prolog,
Wait, how canyou declare a Marc8 encoding in an XML
decleration/prolog/whatever it's called?
Nope, you can't do that. There is no approved name for the MARC-8
encoding. As Andy said, the closest
I've put that code into Google code. It's been tidied slightly and I
added our junit test for it as well.
http://code.google.com/p/oclcnaconormalizer/
Ralph
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From: LeVan,Ralph
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 1:24 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: RE: Modern
with the or
later clause).
LeVan,Ralph le...@oclc.org 4/11/2012 12:04 PM
I'm pretty sure attachments don't work on the list, so I'm just pasting
my NACO normalizer below. Note that there are 2007 versions of the
normalize() method in there. This is used for all the VIAF and
Identities indexing.
Ralph
http://staff.oclc.org/~levan/PearsTraining/scifi.usmarc has 10,000 marc
records in it. They are part of the old SiteSearch system that OCLC
released as open source. They date back to 2002 and will not contain
any Unicode, if you were hoping to include that as part of your testing.
Ralph
, 2012 2:24 PM
To: LeVan,Ralph; OPORS
Subject: RE: institutional fair use policies for digitized image
collections
The Well-Intentioned Practice document!
http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/rights/practice.pdf
While focused on collections of unpublished works (which often have
complex
OCLC Research has added schema.org tags to our development copy of
WorldCat Identities. That development service can be found at
http://orlabs.oclc.org/identities.
I expect it to move to production in the next month.
Ralph
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From: Code for Libraries
It's a shame you have to be registered even to see the shirts. :(
Ralph
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
Angie Beiriger
Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 12:00 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Last Call for T-shirt voting
WAS registered, once a upon a time, but it seems the system
has forgotten my old username/password. And I really don't want to
re-register just to look at T-shirts.
-- Mike.
On 14 December 2011 17:10, LeVan,Ralph le...@oclc.org wrote:
It's a shame you have to be registered even to see
I demand that the investigation be expanded to include Andy Houghton,
Karen Coombs, Ralph LeVan, Devon Smith, Thom Hickey, Doug Loynes and
Michael Panzer! These people have clearly had a pernicious impact on
this list and the general business of libraries!
Ralph
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I think it's a fair question and appropriate for this list. (Says another OCLC
employee.)
Ralph
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
Ya'aqov Ziso
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 1:09 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject:
test
The Code4lib list server has a bug. When I send an email to the list,
it gets forwarded to the members of the list with my email address in
the FROM header. Email to OCLC goes through Postini and Postini clearly
recognizes that an email originating from ND.EDU is not email from OCLC
and rejects
I think you misunderstood that Ya'aqov.
What we do is make local authority records out of the Wikipedia records that
we've identified as names. So the adding dates and stuff is to the local
authority record of that Wikipedia record. We then use our usual VIAF matching
technology between
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf
Of
Eric Lease Morgan
Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 11:23 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] linked data endpoints
What are some of the ways to best insert Linked Data
This is too funny! Devon and I just got unsubscribed today! Probably
because our mail server rejected Jeff's messages to the list.
Ralph
From: LeVan,Ralph
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 3:32 PM
To: Code for Libraries
Subject: Listserv help desperately needed!
When an OCLC staff member
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf
Of
Eric Lease Morgan
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
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf
Of
Peter Murray
For what it is worth, my employer is using Postini, and Code4Lib
messages
seem to be a disproportionate number of the ones caught in the
held-for-
content filter. Perhaps that
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf
Of
Danielle Plumer
It's not an elegant solution, but I have a duplicate subscription
using
my Google account, for much the same reason.
I disagree! It is an elegant solution! If I can't get
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf
Of
Colford, Scot
You should just be able to ask your mail admin to whitelist list
messages from
the nd.edu mailserver, oughtn't you?
We get messages from the list just fine, as long as they
When an OCLC staff member sends a message to this list (and possibly all
lists) the rest of us in the company don't see the message. Worse yet,
the company email system rejects the email to us and the sending
listserv eventually gets tired of that and unsubscribes us from the
list.
We can't
If you look at the fields those names come from, I think they mean
England as a corporation, not England as a place.
Ralph
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf
Of
Owen Stephens
Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 11:28 AM
To:
AM
To: Code for Libraries
Cc: LeVan,Ralph; Houghton,Andrew
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LCSH and Linked Data
Ralph, Owen's pointing to a list where corporate (110) and geographic names
(151) are mixed.
Thanks Owen, I haven't seen that the first time. I guess you got that mixed
110/151 when
Can you share the record somewhere? I suspect many of us have tools we
can turn loose on it.
Ralph
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf
Of
Jonathan Rochkind
Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 4:28 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
, at 4:46 PM, LeVan,Ralph wrote:
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
Can you share the record somewhere? I suspect many of us have tools
we
can turn loose on it.
Sure
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf
Of
Jonathan Rochkind
[I agree that simply copying the Solr API for a standard like SRU is
not
the way to go -- Solr is an application that supports various
low-level
things that are not
Yes, the draft version of SRU 2.0 does include support for facets. The
functionality is based on the SOLR documentation of facets with perhaps some
slight simplification. None of the editors of the standard are active facet
users, so comments on that feature in our draft would be appreciated.
I'm not sure if you're asking for a terminology management system or database
functionality. I have the latter and we might be able to make it work for you.
I've got an Open Source SRW/U (oclcsrw.googlecode.com) server with Atom Pub
functionality built into it. The server just acts as a
As you pointed out, WorldCat does all sorts of tricky ranking. I
believe there's a dashboard that they use for tuning the ranking.
Library holdings count, term frequencies, availability, FRBR, and
locality are all facets of that ranking.
In OCLC Research we do practically nothing without some
+1
Just what I was going to say (except I didn't know about the rollover to next
year option.)
Thanks, Kevin!
Ralph
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
Kevin S. Clarke
Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 11:30 AM
To:
So excited to say marc-8 in a message that I misspoke. UTF-8 to latin-1
conversion.
Ralph
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From: LeVan,Ralph
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 10:35 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: RE: [CODE4LIB] unwanted (bogus) characters in marc
-Original
-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf
Of
Jakob Voss
Is there a nice piece of code or a tutorial or example how to easily
wrap your Solr instance to get a full SRU/SRW and/or OpenSearch
interface? Converting CQL to Solr query format
I've forwarded the issue to them. I don't remember any of the
conversation about this feature.
Ralph
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf
Of
Joe Hourcle
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 11:05 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject:
I've been sensing a flaw in HTTP for some time now. It seems like you
ought to be able to do everything through a URL that you can using a
complete interface to HTTP. Specifically, I'd love to be able to
specify values for HTTP headers in a URL.
To plug that gap locally, I'm looking for a
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of
Erik Hetzner
I am having a hard time imagining the use case for this.
A simple use case comes from OpenSearch and its use of URL templates. To
enable the return of RSS as the response to an
There's a schemaInfo element right under the explain element that
carries that data.
Here's a pointer to the Explain record for my LCNAF database.
http://alcme.oclc.org/srw/search/lcnaf
Don't let the browser fool you! View the source and you'll see the
actual XML that was returned. The
*Red Letter Day!* :-)
I agree with Mike.
Ralph
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of
Mike Taylor
Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 8:33 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Sub-mailing lists
For whatever
for.
From: Code for Libraries [code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Karen Coyle
[li...@kcoyle.net]
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 11:29 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] WorldCat Terminologies
Quoting LeVan,Ralph le...@oclc.org:
I
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] WorldCat Terminologies
Quoting LeVan,Ralph le...@oclc.org:
I hate to muddy the waters, but I can't resist here.
Research also exposes a copy of the LC NAF at
http://alcme.oclc.org/srw/search/lcnaf
It gets updated every Tuesday night
I hate to muddy the waters, but I can't resist here.
Research also exposes a copy of the LC NAF at
http://alcme.oclc.org/srw/search/lcnaf
It gets updated every Tuesday night.
This is something I've been maintaining for years and is what Identities points
at when you ask to see the NAF record
May 21 in South Bend has been picked as the central date. A Doodle Poll has
been created to see whether there is interest in some combination of whole and
half days around that date: http://www.doodle.com/a4ccm6ctucpawhyi
The details of how we'll try to fill that time are TBD. That
+1
I suspect a few of us from OCLC would attend.
Ralph
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of
Scott Garrison
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 8:37 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Midwest?
+1
-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf
Of
Bill Dueber
I really do understand the desire to make this parallel to marc-xml,
but
there's a seem between the two technologies that makes that a
problematic
approach.
As a confession, here
We've made some progress on this topic.
I have available a list of our FAST subject headings. They are derived
from LCSH and may be of some use. The folks that produced this file are
working on producing a similar file for LCSH.
The file can be found at
and you see the
results in that SRU search. The file can be found at
http://orlabs.oclc.org/FAST/AutoSuggestFAST.zip
Let me know if you have any problems or questions.
Ralph
-Original Message-
From: LeVan,Ralph
Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 11:12 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
at 4:07 PM, LeVan,Ralph le...@oclc.org wrote:
In a rare demonstration of doing as promised, I have a FAST
AutoSuggester running based on that data. An HTML demonstration of
the
service can be found at http://orlabs.oclc.org/FAST/autosuggest.html
and
the underlying AutoSuggester is running
reference
ŒWarming, global?
Ya¹aqov
On 12/10/09 4:07 PM, LeVan,Ralph le...@oclc.org wrote:
In a rare demonstration of doing as promised, I have a FAST
AutoSuggester running based on that data. An HTML demonstration of the
service can be found at http://orlabs.oclc.org/FAST
Here in OCLC Research we've been experimenting with AutoSuggester
services. The folks in charge of our copy of LCSH are considering
putting up an AutoSuggester for that. I'll let you know in the next
couple of days how that goes.
To make the service work at keystroke speeds, we've had to
That looks more like an old-style index browse than what I'd think of as a
suggestion. You've returned nothing until the user has typed enough characters
to restrict the number of index terms to be returned to a rational number.
An example of the difference between an Index Browse and
-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf
Of
Ed Summers
Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 3:39 PM
What are you using for relevancy ranking in the VIAF AutoSuggester?
For VIAF, rankings are calculated based on the number of institutions
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