Re: [CODE4LIB] Representing copyright holder in MODS

2011-06-13 Thread Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
From: Mike Taylor Any thoughts on how I might use this to express the copyright status of the item's abstract? One way, that I have heard discussed (though I don't know if anyone is doing it) is to represent the abstract as part of a related item (type = constituent). The related item could

Re: [CODE4LIB] If you were starting over, what would you learn and how would you do it?

2011-05-09 Thread Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
Along the lines of oh, you meant THIS profession Rotational vs. linear mechanics. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Nate Vack Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 4:47 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] If

Re: [CODE4LIB] mailing list administratativia

2010-10-27 Thread Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
I think the constraint is that it has to be a rational number. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Eric Hellman Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 5:58 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] mailing list

Re: [CODE4LIB] MARCXML - What is it for?

2010-10-25 Thread Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
It really is possible to make your point without being quite so obnoxious. Everyone else seems to be able to do so. --Ray -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Alexander Johannesen Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 3:38 PM To:

Re: [CODE4LIB] SRU 2.0 / Accept-Ranges (was: Inlining HTTP Headers in URLs )

2010-06-02 Thread Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
Joe Hourcle wrote: Do we have anyone affiliated with the project on this list who can make a correction before it leaves draft? Could you submit this suggestion formally See: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/index.php?wg_abbrev=search-ws (The SRU and CQL development gets

Re: [CODE4LIB] OASIS SRU and CQL, access to most-current drafts

2010-05-18 Thread Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
There is no synchronous operation in SRU. As for federated search . To digress a moment, you may recall -- I believe it was on this list -- there was discussion (maybe a year ago?) of what that even means and whether it is the same or differs from metasearch, whatever that means. That

Re: [CODE4LIB] OASIS SRU and CQL, access to most-current drafts

2010-05-18 Thread Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
On 18 May 2010 15:24, Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress r...@loc.gov wrote: There is no synchronous operation in SRU. Sorry, meant to say no asynchronous . --Ray

Re: [CODE4LIB] OASIS SRU and CQL, access to most-current drafts

2010-05-18 Thread Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
decent user experience you need to be able to present some results sooner than others. Waiting for the slowest database to respond is usually not an option. On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress r...@loc.gov wrote: On 18 May 2010 15:24, Ray Denenberg, Library

Re: [CODE4LIB] OASIS SRU and CQL, access to most-current drafts

2010-05-18 Thread Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
First, no. There are extensibility features in SRU but nothing that would help here. Actually, Jonathan, what I though you were suggesting was the creation of a (I hesitate to say it) metasearch engine. I use that term because it is what NISO called it, when they started their metasearch

Re: [CODE4LIB] OASIS SRU and CQL, access to most-current drafts

2010-05-17 Thread Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
only in a single (hard-coded) parameter. --Ray - Original Message - From: Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Sent: Monday, May 17, 2010 6:11 PM Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] OASIS SRU and CQL, access to most-current drafts Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress

Re: [CODE4LIB] SRU/ZeeRex explain question : record schemas

2010-05-03 Thread Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
From: Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu Another question though. I note when looking up schemaInfo... I'm a bit confused by the sort attribute. How could you sort by a schema? What is this attribute actually for? Well indulge me, this is best explained by the current OASIS SRU draft. (The

Re: [CODE4LIB] SRU/ZeeRex explain question : record schemas

2010-05-03 Thread Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
From: Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu But you will leave sorting as part of CQL too in any changes to CQL specs, I hope? I think CQL has a lot of use even outside of SRU proper, so I encourage you to leave it's spec not too tightly coupled to SRU. The OASIS TC firmly supports this

Re: [CODE4LIB] SRU/ZeeRex explain question : record schemas

2010-04-30 Thread Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
schemaInfo is what you're looking for I think. Look at http://z3950.loc.gov:7090/voyager. Line 74, for example, schemaInfo schema identifier=info:srw/schema/1/marcxml-v1.1 sort=false name=marcxml titleMARCXML/title /schema Is this what you're looking for? --Ray - Original Message

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Midwest?

2010-03-04 Thread Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
If you're going to host it at Notre Dame I would expect an agenda something like this (do it on Saturday, 9/11) 1. meet greet (mid-morning) 2. Tailgate (noon) 3. Notre Dame Vs. Michigan (3:30) 4. presentation to library staff 5. hack session 6. go home Can you get us in to the game, Eric?

Re: [CODE4LIB] XML schemas question

2009-07-27 Thread Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
Any element that is not a child of another. Or another way to look at it, any element that can be referenced by ref=. In the following schema: __ xs:schema xs:element name=a type=aType/ xs:element name=b type=bType/ !-- !-- xs:complexType

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open, public standards v. pay per view standards and usage

2009-07-16 Thread Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
I am not even remotely suggesting that anyone would implement the holdings standard with nothing but the schema. We're working on a solution to this. --Ray - Original Message - From: Houghton,Andrew hough...@oclc.org To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 11:26

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open, public standards v. pay per view standards and usage

2009-07-15 Thread Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
From: Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com Well, it's not a great example, because I don't have a 'counter-example', but I think it will remain to be seen if ISO 20775 goes anywhere if it, too, remains behind a pay wall. If an open spec were to come along that allowed the transfer of holdings and

Re: [CODE4LIB] WARC file format now ISO standard

2009-06-02 Thread Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
But you have to pay $200 for the document that lists changes from last draft to first official version. (Ok, Ok, it was just a joke. But you do get the point.) - Original Message - From: st...@archive.org st...@archive.org To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Sent: Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Re: [CODE4LIB] exploiting z39.50

2009-05-08 Thread Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
From: Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu 1. What MARC field/subfield might I put this string? 2. How would I go about getting the string indexed? 3. How might I go about querying the server for records with this string? I can at least talk about the third question. There was work on a

Re: [CODE4LIB] registering info: uris?

2009-04-30 Thread Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
From: Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com Except that OpenURL and SRU /already use different info URIs to describe the same things/. info:srw/schema/1/marcxml-v1.1 info:ofi/fmt:xml:xsd:MARC21 or info:srw/schema/1/onix-v2.0 info:ofi/fmt:xml:xsd:onix What is the rationale for this? None.

Re: [CODE4LIB] One Data Format Identifier (and Registry) to Rule Them All

2009-04-30 Thread Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
Thanks, Ross. For SRU, this is an opportune time to reconcile these differences. Opportune, because we are approaching standardization of SRU/CQL within OASIS, and there will be a number of areas that need to change. Some observations. 1. the 'ofi' namespace of 'info' has the advantage that

Re: [CODE4LIB] exact title searches with z39.50

2009-04-28 Thread Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
From: Mike Taylor m...@indexdata.com The irony is that Z39.50 actually make _much_ more effort to specify semantics than most other standards -- and yet still finds itself in the situation where many implementations do not respond correctly to the BIB-1 attribute 6=3 (completeness=complete

Re: [CODE4LIB] exact title searches with z39.50

2009-04-28 Thread Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
10:43 AM Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] exact title searches with z39.50 Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress writes: The irony is that Z39.50 actually make _much_ more effort to specify semantics than most other standards -- and yet still finds itself in the situation where many implementations do

Re: [CODE4LIB] exact title searches with z39.50

2009-04-28 Thread Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
From: Walker, David dwal...@calstate.edu I'm not sure it's a _big_ mess, though, at least for metasearching. I wasn't thinking specifically about metasearch, but rather, bad decisions getting replicated and you end up with an installed base of bad implementations. The best illustration

Re: [CODE4LIB] exact title searches with z39.50

2009-04-28 Thread Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
From: Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu HTML works out pretty well. If our biggest failures were 'failures' like HTML, we'd be doing pretty well. HTML is a wonderful standard. And I don't mean to take the discussion off-course. My point was simply that because early browsers did not

Re: [CODE4LIB] Serials Solutions Summon

2009-04-21 Thread Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
From: Thomas Dowling tdowl...@ohiolink.edu You can define differences between meta-, federated, and broadcast search, but every discussion on the topic will be punctuated by people asking, Wait, what's the difference again? Leaving aside metasearch and broadcast search (terms invented more

Re: [CODE4LIB] Serials Solutions Summon

2009-04-21 Thread Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
From: Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu If you want to reclaim the term federated to mean a local index, I think you have a losing battle in front of you. It's not a battle I plan to pursue, I don't fight battles anymore. I just feel obligated to observe that when vocabulary is tinkered with

Re: [CODE4LIB] resolution and identification (was Re: [CODE4LIB] registering info: uris?)

2009-04-14 Thread Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
From: Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu The difference between URIs and URLs? I don't believe that URL is something that exists any more in any standard, it's all URIs. The URL is alive and well. The W3C definition, http://www.w3.org/TR/uri-clarification/ a URL is a type of URI that

Re: [CODE4LIB] Something completely different

2009-04-09 Thread Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
From: Mike Taylor m...@indexdata.com ... anyway, all of this is far, far away from the point. MARC is old and ugly yes; but then so am I, I don't think you're old, Mike. --Ray

Re: [CODE4LIB] resolution and identification (was Re: [CODE4LIB] registering info: uris?)

2009-04-02 Thread Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
which endpoint is right for them -or arbitrarily chooses one for them. -Ross. On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 1:59 PM, Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress r...@loc.gov wrote: We do just fine minting our URIs at LC, Andy. But we do appreciate your concern. The analysis of our MODS URIs misses the point, I'm

Re: [CODE4LIB] resolution and identification (was Re: [CODE4LIB] registering info: uris?)

2009-04-02 Thread Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
You're right, if there were a web: URI scheme, the world would be a better place. But it's not, and the world is worse off for it. It shouldn't surprise anyone that I am sympathetic to Karen's criticisms. Here is some of my historical perspective (which may well differ from others').

Re: [CODE4LIB] resolution and identification (was Re: [CODE4LIB] registering info: uris?)

2009-04-01 Thread Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
From: Houghton,Andrew hough...@oclc.org The point being that: urn:doi:* info:doi:* provide no advantages over: http://doi.org/* I think they do. I realize this is pretty much a dead-end debate as everyone has dug themselves into a position and nobody is going to change their mind. It is

Re: [CODE4LIB] registering info: uris?

2009-04-01 Thread Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
From: Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu There are all sorts of useful identifiers I use in my work every day that can not be automatically dereferenced. Even more to the point: there is no sound definition of dereference. To dereference a resource means to retrieve a representation of it.

Re: [CODE4LIB] resolution and identification

2009-04-01 Thread Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
A concrete example. The MODS schema, version 3.3, has an info identifier, for SRU purposes: info:srw/schema/1/mods-v3.3 So in an SRU request you can say recordSchema=info:srw/schema/1/mods-v3.3 Meaning you want records returned in the mods version 3.3 schema. And that's really the purpose

Re: [CODE4LIB] registering info: uris?

2009-03-30 Thread Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
From: Erik Hetzner erik.hetz...@ucop.edu I believe that registering a domain would be less work than going through an info URI registration process, but I don’t know how difficult the info URI registration process would be (thus bringing the conversation full circle). [1] Leaving aside

Re: [CODE4LIB] registering info: uris?

2009-03-30 Thread Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
From: Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com nobody gives a damn about info:uris outside of libraries, Nor do people outside of libraries care about identifiers. --Ray

Re: [CODE4LIB] registering info: uris?

2009-03-30 Thread Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
From: Hilmar Lapp hl...@duke.edu Nor do people outside of libraries care about identifiers. You might be surprised: http://www.lsrn.org/ yes, I overstated, let me rephrase. There are communities who are interested in specific object classes and want identifier schemes for them. For

Re: [CODE4LIB] registering info: uris?

2009-03-27 Thread Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
you have a relationship with a counter-part at GPO that might be interested in getting involved with this? Jonathan Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress wrote: It's a fairly straightforward process, See: http://info-uri.info/registry/register.html You should look at a few examples first, go

Re: [CODE4LIB] registering info: uris?

2009-03-27 Thread Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
Correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the point of all this to be able to put the URI in an OpenURL? And info was invented (in part) to avoid putting http URIs in OpenURLs (because they are complicated enough already, why clutter them further). So I don't see that pursuing an http solution to

Re: [CODE4LIB] MIME Type for MARC, Mods, etc.?

2009-02-13 Thread Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
. Is SRU a media/document type, or is it a communications protocol using a collection of separate document types? Jonathan Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress wrote: A few points: 1. x- is commonly used in cases when an application for a mime type is pending, and when there is a reasonable

Re: [CODE4LIB] [MODS-EC] FW: [CODE4LIB] MIME Type for MARC, Mods, etc.?

2009-02-12 Thread Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress
] FW: [CODE4LIB] MIME Type for MARC, Mods, etc.? Cool! Can you post a response to CODE4LIB? Thanks, Jenn -Original Message- From: MODS Editorial Committee Forum [mailto:mods...@loc.gov] On Behalf Of Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 6:56 PM To: mods