[CODE4LIB] "Repositories", OAI-PMH and web crawling

2012-02-24 Thread Owen Stephens
eader The latter has the advantage of being an existing way of doing it, but I wonder how fiddly it might be to implement, while a simple file in a known location might be easier. Anyway, thoughts appreciated - and alternatives to these of course. One obvious alternative that I keep coming back to

Re: [CODE4LIB] "Repositories", OAI-PMH and web crawling

2012-02-24 Thread Owen Stephens
thinking, maybe we should just use a web crawler and ignore OAI-PMH but I guess this was we maybe get the best of both worlds). Thanks again (and of course further thoughts welcome) Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 01

Re: [CODE4LIB] "Repositories", OAI-PMH and web crawling

2012-02-26 Thread Owen Stephens
On 24 Feb 2012, at 16:52, Ian Ibbotson wrote: > Sorry.. late to the discussion... > > Isn't this a little apples and oranges? > > Surely robots.txt exists because many static resources are served directly > from a tree structured filesystem? > > (Nearly) all OAI requests are responded to by spe

Re: [CODE4LIB] "Repositories", OAI-PMH and web crawling

2012-02-26 Thread Owen Stephens
On 24 Feb 2012, at 18:20, Joe Hourcle wrote: > On Feb 24, 2012, at 9:25 AM, Kyle Banerjee wrote: > I see it like the people who request that their pages not be cached elsewhere > -- they want to make their object 'discoverable', but they want to control > the access to those objects -- so it's o

Re: [CODE4LIB] "Repositories", OAI-PMH and web crawling

2012-02-26 Thread Owen Stephens
at both web crawlers, and any other mechanisms like OAI-PMH can follow I realise these may not be achievable, but just my thoughts Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 25 Feb 2012, at 22:18, Peter Noerr

Re: [CODE4LIB] "Repositories", OAI-PMH and web crawling

2012-02-26 Thread Owen Stephens
On 24 Feb 2012, at 18:20, Joe Hourcle wrote: > > I see it like the people who request that their pages not be cached elsewhere > -- they want to make their object 'discoverable', but they want to control > the access to those objects -- so it's one thing for a search engine to get a > copy, but

Re: [CODE4LIB] "Repositories", OAI-PMH and web crawling

2012-02-27 Thread Owen Stephens
e two wrongs don't make a right, it seems to us that if repositories are not preventing Google (or others - for example notably CiteSeerX is in the business of crawling repositories http://csxstatic.ist.psu.edu/about/crawler) crawling/indexing/caching their content, then we hope that a n

Re: [CODE4LIB] "Repositories", OAI-PMH and web crawling

2012-02-27 Thread Owen Stephens
On 27 Feb 2012, at 13:31, Diane Hillmann wrote: > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 5:25 AM, Owen Stephens wrote: > >> > providers provide such intermediate pages (arxiv.org, for instance). The > other issue driving providers towards intermediate pages is that it allows > them

Re: [CODE4LIB] "Repositories", OAI-PMH and web crawling

2012-03-01 Thread Owen Stephens
question of the indexing of library catalogues by search engines. Thanks again to all who have contributed to the discussion - very useful Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 1 Mar 2012, at 11:42, Ed Summer

Re: [CODE4LIB] "Repositories", OAI-PMH and web crawling

2012-03-01 Thread Owen Stephens
embargoed papers (as per Raffaele's suggestion); how to deal with >multi-part resources etc. Anything coming out of the project would, of course, >be just one projects recommendations for JISC to consider not more than that. Cheers, Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web:

[CODE4LIB] Code and Catalogue data event

2012-04-26 Thread Owen Stephens
ng supported by DevCSI (http://devcsi.ukoln.ac.uk/about/) I hope some of you can make it Owen -- Owen Stephens Consulting http://ostephens.com e: o...@ostephens.com t: 0121 288 6936 skype: owen.stephens

Re: [CODE4LIB] isoncampus service

2012-06-14 Thread Owen Stephens
es. > Though > mapping from an IP address to its owner is not the same as listing IP > ranges associated with an organization (many include multiple discontiguous > CIDR ranges), I note that some of this information is also public via the > BGP-advertised IP-prefixes for an institutio

[CODE4LIB] Open data and Research Libraries UK

2012-08-03 Thread Owen Stephens
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/5RH8KH8 Thanks and best wishes Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936

Re: [CODE4LIB] Recommendations for a teaching OPAC?

2012-08-03 Thread Owen Stephens
On 3 Aug 2012, at 15:56, Joseph Montibello wrote: > search, you could probably do worse than to install Blacklight. It > probably doesn't really meet the "simple" criteria - there's a lot more to > it than I could talk about. But getting it out of the box, turned on, and > searching against a f

Re: [CODE4LIB] Corrections to Worldcat/Hathi/Google

2012-08-28 Thread Owen Stephens
The JISC funded CLOCK project did some thinking around cataloguing processes and tracking changes to statements and/or records - e.g. http://clock.blogs.lincoln.ac.uk/2012/05/23/its-a-model-and-its-looking-good/ Not solutions of course, but hopefully of interest Owen Owen Stephens Owen

Re: [CODE4LIB] Seeking examples of outstanding discovery layers

2012-09-21 Thread Owen Stephens
s%20upload/ica12Final00423.pd f Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936

Re: [CODE4LIB] CODE4LIB equivalent in UK?

2012-10-08 Thread Owen Stephens
s it that the code4lib list doesn't satisfy that people would like to see from a UK based list? Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 8 Oct 2012, at 09:14, Richard Wallis wrote: &

Re: [CODE4LIB] Citation manager --> ??? --> BePress Bulk-upload Excel spreadsheet

2012-10-15 Thread Owen Stephens
No idea if this is useful, but just to note that RefWorks also has an API in case that offers any more options to you in terms of pushing the data around http://rwt.refworks.com/rwapireference/ Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q.: software for vendor title list processing

2012-10-16 Thread Owen Stephens
run sets of rules across data sets from specific sources. We should be making progress on this in the next couple of months. Hope that's helpful Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 16 Oct 2012, a

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q.: software for vendor title list processing

2012-10-17 Thread Owen Stephens
Are there any examples of data in this format in the wild we can look at? Also given KBART and ONIX for Serials Online Holdings have NISO involvement, is there any view on how these two activities complement each other? Thanks, Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q.: software for vendor title list processing

2012-10-17 Thread Owen Stephens
t the moment the question of uptake/compliance is the bigger issue. Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 17 Oct 2012, at 14:48, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: > I've always been a fan of ONIX for SOH, a

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q.: software for vendor title list processing

2012-10-17 Thread Owen Stephens
> > This leads to three follow-up questions. > > First, is there software to translate/normalize existing vendor lists from > vendors that have not yet adopted either of these standards into these > formats? I'm thinking of a collection of adapters or converters, perhaps. > Each would likely cons

Re: [CODE4LIB] open circ data

2012-10-26 Thread Owen Stephens
recommender API based on the data http://copac.ac.uk/innovations/activity-data/?page_id=227 Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 26 Oct 2012, at 23:04, Jimmy Ghaphery wrote: > Are there any ot

Re: [CODE4LIB] SRU & MARC fields with indicators

2012-11-06 Thread Owen Stephens
According to the MARC spec, 035 doesn't support '9' as a valid indicator. My very uneducated guess would be the invalid indicator is causing the underlying system not to index it? Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Tele

Re: [CODE4LIB] SRU & MARC fields with indicators

2012-11-07 Thread Owen Stephens
Thanks Karen - probably should have known that! That's the nice thing about MARC - always some new thing to cope with :) Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 6 Nov 2012, at 19:37, Karen Coyle

Re: [CODE4LIB] COinS

2012-11-21 Thread Owen Stephens
ists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-schemabibex/ or wiki http://www.w3.org/community/schemabibex/wiki/Main_Page Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 21 Nov 2012, at 07:37, Dave Caroline wrote: &g

Re: [CODE4LIB] OpenURL linking but from the content provider's point of view

2012-11-21 Thread Owen Stephens
of the question is 'what metadata should be included in the OpenURL to give it the best chance of working with a link resolver'? Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 20 Nov 2012, at 19:39, Da

Re: [CODE4LIB] OpenURL linking but from the content provider's point of view

2012-11-21 Thread Owen Stephens
Failure rate on resolving DOIs via CrossRef is high enough that I'd argue for belt && braces Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 21 Nov 2012, at 15:08, "Young,Jeff (OR)" wrote:

Re: [CODE4LIB] What is a "coder"?

2012-11-30 Thread Owen Stephens
el? Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 29 Nov 2012, at 22:51, William Denton wrote: > On 29 November 2012, Cary Gordon wrote: > >> Obviously, we need to offer trainings on how to get funding to

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

2013-01-14 Thread Owen Stephens
I'm not familiar with what XMP RDF/XML looks like but it might be worth using an RDF parser rather than using XSLT? Graphite (http://graphite.ecs.soton.ac.uk/) is pretty easy to use if you are comfortable with PHP Owen On 14 Jan 2013, at 19:09, Kyle Banerjee wrote: > On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at

Re: [CODE4LIB] Software used in Panama Papers Analysis

2016-04-12 Thread Owen Stephens
Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 > On 12 Apr 2016, at 16:05, Tom Cramer wrote: > > The IJNet article is particularly interesting—thanks for posting this. > Excerpts like the one below make me wo

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