Re: [CODE4LIB] Question about OAI Harvesting via Perl

I'd have to agree. OAI-PMH is so simple that even as poor a programmer as I am was able to write my own data provider from scratch. Actually, not completely from scratch in one go. Basically I was able to tweak my existing database-driven web site to accept incoming verbs and parameters and

Re: [CODE4LIB] COinS metadata format support

I agree that most Schema.org markup would be generated on the fly from a database, so I'm a bit unclear on what kind of tool we (OCLC) or someone else is being asked to develop. Perhaps someone could spell it out for this dense person? Thanks, Roy On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Karen Coyle

Re: [CODE4LIB] EZProxy changes / alternatives ?

When it comes to hedging bets, I'd sure rather hedge my $50,000 bet than my $500 one. Just sayin'. Roy On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 6:04 PM, BWS Johnson abesottedphoe...@yahoo.comwrote: Salvete! Tisn't necessarily Socialist to hedge one's bets. Look at what Wall St. experts advise when one

Re: [CODE4LIB] Proquest search api?

This generally agrees with what I have found[1]. That is, if a second indicator of '0' exists, then it is fairly likely the URL will lead you to the full item. However, unfortunately an indicator of '1' is ambiguous, so it's possible you will be leaving a lot behind if you rely on that solely. It

Re: [CODE4LIB] how to unsubscribe this list?

On the contrary, this discussion list has the OCLC Bacon Stamp of Approval. Carry on! Roy On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Michael J. Giarlo leftw...@alumni.rutgers.edu wrote: That's not what I heard Roy Tennant saying. ಠ_ಠ -Mike On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Eric Lease Morgan

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib.org down

Usually I can bring a server down in a matter if hours. I must be getting old. Er...older. Roy On Feb 21, 2014, at 1:52 PM, Michael J. Giarlo leftw...@alumni.rutgers.edu wrote: Coincidence that this happened less than a day after Roy Tennant posted to the list? I think not. -Mike

Re: [CODE4LIB] Welcome to Roy4Lib

roy4lib.org is ALWAYS down. I mean, it just makes too much sense for it to be in any other state. Roy On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Rosalyn Metz rosalynm...@gmail.com wrote: it appears that roy4lib.org is also down On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Frumkin, Jeremy

Re: [CODE4LIB] Welcome to Roy4Lib

ecorr...@ecorrado.us wrote: Roy4lib has consumed to much Scotch - after all, it is Friday. -- Edward M. Corrado On Feb 21, 2014, at 18:13, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com wrote: roy4lib.org is ALWAYS down. I mean, it just makes too much sense

[CODE4LIB] Questions for Valerie Aurora

As I'm sure you already know, Valerie Aurora[1] has kindly assented to be one of our two keynote speakers for the 2014 Conference. Valerie Aurora is a writer, programmer, and feminist activist, and a co-founder of the Ada Initiative[2], a non-profit to promote women in open technology and culture.

[CODE4LIB] Intro to the Conference

There has been some talk in the Code4Lib Conference Program committee about an Introduction to the Conference. There isn't a specific slot for a talk, and perhaps not even time for one, except possibly a 5 minute lightning talk. But we've also discussed the possibility of having a wiki page or

Re: [CODE4LIB] Intro to the Conference

://www.slideshare.net/anarchivist/howto-meet-people-and-have-fun-at-code4lib2009 Cheers, Becky On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.commailto: roytenn...@gmail.com wrote: There has been some talk in the Code4Lib Conference Program committee about an Introduction to the Conference

Re: [CODE4LIB] Fwd: RFC 7154 - IETF Guidelines for Conduct

Just so everyone knows, the 2014 Code4Lib Conference Code of Conduct is here: http://code4lib.org/conference/2014/code_of_conduct and it is linked from the main conference page. Thanks, Roy On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Peter Murray peter.mur...@lyrasis.orgwrote: Code4LibCon is coming up

Re: [CODE4LIB] Shop Link

Someone apparently had a Code4Lib CafePress shop at one point, but now it's gone. I actually like the idea of a place where we could buy Code4Lib swag. For example, why not raise a little money selling stuff with the Code4Lib logo on it? But that would mean being a fiscal entity of some sort and

Re: [CODE4LIB] Shop Link

any record of which design won: http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Main_Page#Older_Conference_T-Shirt_Designs -Esme On 03/9/2014, at 6:52 PM, Francis Kayiwa fkay...@colgate.edu wrote: Signed PGP part On 03/09/2014 05:59 PM, Roy Tennant wrote: Someone apparently had a Code4Lib

[CODE4LIB] For your plane reading pleasure...

...I thought I would point out that it is easy to find fiction that uses Raleigh, North Carolina as a venue here: http://experimental.worldcat.org/xfinder/FictionFinder?pl=North+Carolina--Raleigh What better way to get into the mood for Code4Lib 2014 than to read a murder mystery set just down

Re: [CODE4LIB] Shop Link

The price does seem high. You can sell mugs at CafePress for $12 and that includes a commission, although not shipping and handling. Roy On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 2:17 AM, Ben Companjen ben.compan...@dans.knaw.nlwrote: Ohh, that's a nice mug! I broke my Public Domain Review mug [1] before its

Re: [CODE4LIB] #c4l14 Newcomer Dinner, Monday evening 3/24

I find that as the organizer of a dinner I wouldn't mind having a way to text and/or email the people who have signed up, and likely other organizers would like that as well. So perhaps the organizers should put a way to be contacted on the wiki page? I have, and one of my diners has already

[CODE4LIB] Newcomer's dinner

I'm sorry for sending this to the entire list, but I've only been able to track down the email addresses of a few of my Newcomer's Dinner participants via Google. At least with any kind of certainty. However, I'm sure your organizer will want your contact information so please forward that to

[CODE4LIB] Reminder: Send in your questions for Valerie!

Just a quick reminder, since the conference quickly approaches, to send in your questions for Valerie Aurora[1], co-founder of the Ada Initiative[2]. She will be interviewed as our Thursday morning keynote speaker. We will also be distributing index cards at the event and monitoring the Twitter

Re: [CODE4LIB] Question About Code4Lib 2014 Streaming

So...there's an unofficial stream? I can't wait to see that one... Roy On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 7:00 AM, Riley Childs rchi...@cucawarriors.comwrote: http://YouTube.com/Code4Lib is the official stream. Riley Childs Junior IT Admin email: rchi...@cucawarriors.com office: +1 (704) 537-0031

Re: [CODE4LIB] Reminder: Send in your questions for Valerie!

via text, twitter, and the World Wide Web. On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 8:22 PM, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com wrote: We will also be distributing index cards at the event and monitoring the Twitter stream

Re: [CODE4LIB] tool for finding close matches in vocabular list

Have you considered dumping it into Open Refine? [1] I haven't used it a lot, but it is likely a good tool to find similar data and allow you to globally replace with a canonical entry. Roy [1] http://openrefine.org/ On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Ken Irwin kir...@wittenberg.edu wrote: Hi

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

Basic? Seriously? I mean, the very first language I learned, in the early 1980s, was BASIC. But come on. If you can find a person to write the chapter I want to take them out behind the barn and, well, do them some serious damage. Interpret that however you wish. Roy On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 8:08

Re: [CODE4LIB] 2nd meetup for code4lib LA - May 15th

(Leland Stanford) Junior University to come to a local event :) - Tom On Mar 28, 2014, at 9:17 AM, Roy Tennant wrote: I am definitely interested in a Northern California regional Code4Lib group, but my ability to jet down to LA for a two-hour meeting is regrettably limited. Likewise my

Re: [CODE4LIB] 2nd meetup for code4lib LA - May 15th

I am definitely interested in a Northern California regional Code4Lib group, but my ability to jet down to LA for a two-hour meeting is regrettably limited. Likewise my ability to jet up to Seattle or Portland, unfortunately. Perhaps a better strategy might be to focus on a local? For example, we

Re: [CODE4LIB] 2nd meetup for code4lib LA - May 15th

even get some people from a private (Leland Stanford) Junior University to come to a local event :) - Tom On Mar 28, 2014, at 9:17 AM, Roy Tennant wrote: I am definitely interested in a Northern California regional Code4Lib group, but my ability to jet down to LA for a two-hour

Re: [CODE4LIB] New Zealand Chapter

Go All Blacks! Roy On Apr 9, 2014, at 12:25 PM, Kevin S. Clarke kscla...@gmail.com wrote: Wow, and the prize for the best regional Code4Lib design goes to... New Zealand. @slowclap Kevin On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Jay Gattuso jay.gatt...@dia.govt.nz wrote: Hi all, Long

Re: [CODE4LIB] New Zealand Chapter

Of course it's U+2163, the t-shirt just knows how to render Unicode. Roy On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Jay Gattuso jay.gatt...@dia.govt.nz wrote: Luckily we made the graphic in such a way we can easily change the text Any of the text. The maker is on leave exploring Europe, but I will

Re: [CODE4LIB] New Zealand Chapter

If it were my head instead of MARC, catalogers everywhere would get it as a tattoo -- prison or no. Roy On Apr 9, 2014, at 5:39 PM, Simon Spero sesunc...@gmail.com wrote: If DEATH were holding the severed head of MARC I would get this as a prison tattoo. On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 5:20 PM,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Call for Old Conf Tshirt Logos

PM, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com wrote: I think one of the things that has held us back about the store in the past was the lack of a fiscal agent. That is, someone is going to be taking in money on behalf of Code4Lib (presumably), but where does it go? Since we have no organization we

Re: [CODE4LIB] Call for Old Conf Tshirt Logos

:07 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDUmailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Call for Old Conf Tshirt Logos Could one of the scholarship sponsors adopt this as a way to fund future conference scholarships? Alicia On Apr 10, 2014, at 9:53 PM, Roy Tennant roytenn

Re: [CODE4LIB] Call for Old Conf Tshirt Logos

for Old Conf Tshirt Logos Could one of the scholarship sponsors adopt this as a way to fund future conference scholarships? Alicia On Apr 10, 2014, at 9:53 PM, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com wrote: That's good on the tax front, but it would be nice if eventually we could find

Re: [CODE4LIB] Friends of code4lib (was Re: [CODE4LIB] Call for Old Conf Tshirt Logos)

FWIW, this has been a discussion topic since the very first Code4Lib Conference, where I hosted a discussion on The Future of Code4Lib[1] and the main topic of conversation was whether to incorporate as a non-profit. And I doubt it will be going away anytime soon, as I think getting a consensus to

Re: [CODE4LIB] barriers to open metadata?

This has now instead become a reasonable recommendation concerning ODC-BY licensing [3] but the confusion and uncertainty about which records an OCLC member may redistribute remains. [3] http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/2012/201248.en.html Allow me to try to put this confusion and

Re: [CODE4LIB] barriers to open metadata?

: a) is an OCLC member institution b) is not Thanks, kc On 4/30/14, 8:47 AM, Dan Scott wrote: On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 11:37 PM, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com wrote: This has now instead become a reasonable recommendation concerning ODC-BY licensing [3

Re: [CODE4LIB] barriers to open metadata?

and users of URIs have to both make an effort to meet half-way, or at a mutally convenient location. It simply is not enough to say: Hey, look! I've got all of these URIs. Good luck! So let's talk about how we make that connection. kc On 4/30/14, 1:17 PM, Roy Tennant wrote: Also, this: OCLC

Re: [CODE4LIB] Anyone know the status of MARCView (Systems Planning/OCLC Dev Network)

is interested. Thanks, Roy Tennant OCLC Research On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Salazar, Christina christina.sala...@csuci.edu wrote: Hi all, I see that Systems Planning turned over MARCView and MARCConvert to OCLC Dev Network, but I cannot find any download on OCLC Dev Network. Does anyone know

Re: [CODE4LIB] Job Interview : A Libcoder's Helpful Advices

On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Kyle Banerjee kyle.baner...@gmail.comwrote: Hiring someone is the most important/expensive thing that organizations do. I couldn't agree more[1]. And that's why I advocate that organizations hire based on personality traits, not experience. I realize that

Re: [CODE4LIB] Ross Singer RE: [CODE4LIB] Jobs Digest

Yay. What mjgriarlo said. Roy On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 6:59 PM, Michael J. Giarlo leftw...@alumni.rutgers.edu wrote: We need a survey to determine which survey tool to use? ;) Rosy already set one up; let's roll with that. Rough consensus, running code, and all that rot. On May 28, 2014

[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib NorCal

Code4Lib Northern California (the SF Bay Area and surrounds, sorry Humboldt and Del Norte, you must organize as Way Northern California), is tooling up to organize a local get-together. So if you want to participate in the planning, please sign up for this Google Group:

Re: [CODE4LIB] Initial NorCal Code4Lib Meetup

While we are gathering input on which day to hold the Code4Lib NorCal event, I want to begin soliciting proposals for 20-minute prepared talks. In case we receive more proposals than we have time for, I'm suggesting a deadline of Sunday, July 20th to afford us time to select the ones we want to

[CODE4LIB] Linked Data Survey for Implementers: RSVP by 31 July 2014

Posted on behalf of my OCLC Research colleague. Roy OCLC Research is conducting a survey to learn details of specific projects or services that format metadata as linked data and/or make subsequent uses of it. Many in the libraries/archives/museum community are excited by the potential of linked

[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib NorCal, July 28th!

I'm happy to announce that Code4Lib NorCal will be on Monday, July 28 at 777 Mariners Island Blvd, San Mateo.[1] There is no charge and lunch is being provided by OCLC Research. Parking is free and is on both sides of the building. Please sign up to attend here: http://bit.ly/1n3osOy Also,

[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Bay Area Meetup on Monday!

There's still time to sign up for and attend the Code4Lib Bay Area Meetup on Monday, July 28th (only days away!) from 10am-3pm. Continental breakfast starting at 9am. It will be held at 777 Mariners Island Blvd., San Mateo, conveniently located near the intersection of 92 (the San Mateo Bridge)

Re: [CODE4LIB] iiif compatible servers

I can't comment on the other options, but I've used IIP[1] for a while now on Apache 2 and I've been quite pleased with it. I use mogrify from ImageMagick to create the JP2s from the JPGs on the server and it serves them up nicely. I'm also able to have the photographer's name, copyright date, and

[CODE4LIB] International Linked Data Survey deadline extended

On behalf of my colleague: I have been asked to extend the deadline for the international linked data survey athttps://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LinkedDataSurvey as a number of implementers have been on vacation. The deadline has now been extended to Friday, 15 August. If you started the survey,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Creating a Linked Data Service

I'm puzzled about why you want to use linked data for this. At first glance the requirement simply seems to be to fetch data from your ILS server, which likely could be sent in any number of simple packages that don't require an RDF wrapper. If you are the only one consuming this data then you can

Re: [CODE4LIB] Creating a Linked Data Service

Associate Professor JD Williams Library University of Mississippi University, MS 38677 662-915-7353 riley...@olemiss.edu On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 9:33 PM, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com wrote: I'm puzzled about why you want to use linked data for this. At first glance the requirement

Re: [CODE4LIB] Archival File Storage

Perhaps these might be helpful? You've Got to Walk Before You Can Run: First Steps for Managing Born-Digital Content Received on Physical Media http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/library/2012/2012-06.pdf Walk This Way: Detailed Steps for Transferring Born-Digital Content from

[CODE4LIB] Library Linked Data Survey: Who's Doing It

Forwarded on behalf of my colleague. Roy The results of the international survey on specific projects or services that format metadata as linked data and/or make subsequent uses of it are being posted as a series of HangingTogether blog posts. I just posted the first of the series: Linked Data

Re: [CODE4LIB] [code4libcon] Code4Lib 2014 Conference accounting update

This is worth taking the OCLC Bacon Seal of Approval out of its velvet-lined case and affixing that stamp upon the awesome work that the Research Triangle group did on the last conference. Congratulations and a huge thanks! Roy On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Tim McGeary timmcge...@gmail.com

[CODE4LIB] Results from the International Linked Data Survey for Implementers

Forwarded on behalf of my colleague. Roy -- Forwarded message -- Many thanks to all of you who participated in the international linked data survey for implementers or disseminated the survey link! I’ve been summarizing the results in a series of HangingTogether posts, which

[CODE4LIB] Time to solicit sponsorships for the 2015 Conference

The Sponsorships Committee for the 2015 conference is getting underway and we could use some help. Specifically, we are looking for: 1) Suggestions of groups to approach about sponsoring the event. We of course have a list based on past events, but we are always open for new ideas, especially

Re: [CODE4LIB] PDX conference: invited speakers

What Tara said, Certainly one of the benefits of moving this conference around geographically must surely be the opportunity to pull on local talent. Thanks for pointing that out! Roy On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Tara Robertson trobert...@langara.bc.ca wrote: Hi, The current list of

Re: [CODE4LIB] Official #teamharpy Statement on the case of Joseph Hawley Murphy vs. nina de jesus and Lisa Rabey

Just a minor point. Despite my relative index score it doesn't necessarily mean that I am not a shameless self-promoter, it may just mean I've been at it longer. Just sayin'. Roy On Sep 20, 2014, at 2:12 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote: Lisa, I hadn't know about this so I just spend

Re: [CODE4LIB] ISSN lists?

I would use this over a WorldCat.org search: http://xissn.worldcat.org/ but I am unaware of a data dump. Roy On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 7:16 PM, Stuart Yeates stuart.yea...@vuw.ac.nz wrote: My understanding is that there is no universal ISSN list but that worldcat allows querying of their

Re: [CODE4LIB] Subject: Re: Why learn Unix?

I agree. I've done serious damage to my own server this way. Anyone who knows me knows that I'm completely capable of this. Unlike others, who are both more intelligent and more cautious. Down the path of the wild carded, recursive delete command lies DANGER. Having a little bit of knowledge is

Re: [CODE4LIB] Novel OAI endpoints

Seeing as how I wrote this OAI provider from scratch in Perl, riding on top of the code I wrote to serve up the site, it's quite likely to be buggy: http://freelargephotos.com/oai.cgi?verb=Identify Dubious, certainly, if not buggy. Roy On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Conal Tuohy

Re: [CODE4LIB] Communications — conference and otherwise (was: [CODE4LIB] Code4LibCon video crew thanks)

So wouldn't this be solved by having one authoritative place to point to all of the various pieces related to a particular conference? Perhaps all we need to do is to be better about making sure that the Conference page on code4lib.org points to *everything* relating to that conference. That seems

[CODE4LIB] Fwd: New report - Common Ground: Exploring Compatibilities Between the Linked Data Models of the Library of Congress and OCLC

This list might be interested in this. Roy OCLC and the Library of Congress jointly released a white paper today, *Common Ground: Exploring Compatibilities Between the Linked Data Models of the Library of Congress and OCLC

Re: [CODE4LIB] lita

Also, I would point out that libraries increasingly hire non-librarians in technology positions. That likely means that even if said persons might eventually find Code4Lib, their allegiance to a profession as epitomized by ALA is unlikely. Roy On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 8:37 AM, Debra Shapiro

Re: [CODE4LIB] Philadelphia Bid for 2016

Oh gosh. The Mutter Museum or The Huntington. What a dilemma! Roy On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 6:48 AM, Chad Nelson chadbnel...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, On behalf of the proposal committee, I'm pleased to confirm that Philadelphia has now submitted a bid to host the 2016 National Conference.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Announcing Mirador 2.0 and projectmirador.org

I like the UI, but from what I can tell displaying a single JPEG 2000 image is probably not a good use case for this tool, right? That is, no group of images from which to select, no comparison with a different image, etc. -- just displaying a single image for pan, zoom, etc. If I'm right in this

Re: [CODE4LIB] Native MarcEdit for MacOSX

Better yet, get a brand-new Mac mini for what you've already raised: http://store.apple.com/us/buy-mac/mac-mini Roy On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote: You might want to consider picking up a MacBook on Craigslist, or something like that. You can get a lot

Re: [CODE4LIB] Native MarcEdit for MacOSX

I agree with Terry. His decisions on how to deal with his codebase has stood the test of time. Open source doesn't mean squat if no one steps up to maintain it (and I have some experience with that), so having someone dedicated to maintaining it is not a bad strategy. It may not beds the most

[CODE4LIB] Interested in learning more about library linked data at ALA Annual 2015?

of Vermont · Barbara Bushman, Assistant Head, Cataloging Metadata Management Section, National Library of Medicine · Nate Trail, Network Development and MARC Standards Office, Library of Congress · Roy Tennant, Senior Program Officer, OCLC Research REGISTER http://alaac15.ala.org/node/28856

[CODE4LIB] International Linked Data Survey for Implementers: RSVP by 17 July 2015

Posted on behalf of my colleague. Roy OCLC Research is repeating its survey to learn details of specific projects or services that format metadata as linked data and/or make subsequent uses of it. Many in the libraries/archives/museum community are excited by the potential of linked data

Re: [CODE4LIB] Friday Humor: Stuff Business People Say

And then there's this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYu_bGbZiiQ Roy On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Chad Nelson chadbnel...@gmail.com wrote: Similar, but for us poor remote workers: http://conferencecall.biz/ On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 1:50 PM Tim McGeary timmcge...@gmail.com wrote:

[CODE4LIB] Matching names to VIAF

My colleagues Thom Hickey and Jenny Toves published a blog post "Matching Names to VIAF" that some on this list might find interesting: http://outgoing.typepad.com/outgoing/2015/09/matching-names-to-viaf.html Anyone attempting to disambiguate names may find their algorithm (and scoring

Re: [CODE4LIB] Sorry for my last message

Pony Express. Everyone keeps talking about this "fax" thing, but I don't hold truck with new-fangled devices. Now GET OFF MY LAWN. Roy On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Andreas Orphanides wrote: > Cod4Lib Journal is seeking editors. Please fax your resume (and any > relevant

Re: [CODE4LIB] Announcing the official Code4Lib Conference Website

Kudos to the team for a great job. The "CODE" play on the "LOVE" sculpture and Franklin in sunglasses get a special mention. However, I wonder what this might mean for preservation? In the past, when conferences have created a we site for an individual conference they have often ended up

Re: [CODE4LIB] Announcing the official Code4Lib Conference Website

a backup of the entire site would be as > easy as cloning it. 2016.code4lib.org will not be going anywhere, and > next year's could be 2017.code4lib.org, etc. Regionals for the year could > even live in subdirectories (2016.code4lib.org/northwest, etc.). > > Does that answer your que

Re: [CODE4LIB] Matching print and electronic editions of the same book

Do you have an OCLC number in your records? If so, you could call it at WorldCat like this: http://worldcat.org/oclc/XXX scrape the structured linked data on the page, looking for the "Example of Work" link, then follow it to the Work Record:

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4lib 2017 is dead; Long Live Code4lib 2017

I agree that a Call for Proposals should go out and other groups be invited to apply. It is still early enough for an energized group to pull off a Feb/Mar event. Roy On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 12:15 PM, Becky Yoose wrote: > On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 12:02 PM, Francis Kayiwa

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4lib 2017 is dead; Long Live Code4lib 2017

I think that this needs to be opened up again to solicit any and all proposals. Doing a back room deal seems quite unlike Code4Lib, even given the need to find another host rapidly. We can do an immediate call for proposals, end it in two weeks, and take a week to vote. Three weeks and done, in an

Re: [CODE4LIB] Formalizing Code4Lib?

I think it's quite likely that we will have at least one proposal for 2017 -- perhaps more. I don't think we need to worry about 2017. Roy On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 2:29 PM, Brian Rogers wrote: > Agreed on the wording. Because, while at this point I'm guessing we'll be > able

Re: [CODE4LIB] Formalizing Code4Lib?

All I was saying is that the effort to find/create a permanent fiduciary agent and finding a 2017 host can be completely independent of each other, and take parallel paths. I certainly was NOT arguing against seeking a permanent fiduciary. Roy On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Salazar, Christina <

Re: [CODE4LIB] http://errol.oclc.org/ down ?

The service is obsolete and no longer available. We are editing the web page that points to it. Roy On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Stuart A. Yeates wrote: > http://errol.oclc.org/ appears down for me. > > http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/oairesolver.html implies that

[CODE4LIB] Call for Papers: IFLA Satellite Meeting on Big Data & Linked Data, Chicago USA, August 2016

Forwarded on behalf of Ted Fons. Roy *From: Ted Fons *** *Date:* January 14, 2016 at 6:18 PM *To:* bibfr...@loc.gov *CC:* "Svensson, Lars" , emmanuelle.ber...@bnf.fr, nthabiseng.kotsoko...@monash.edu *Subject:*

Re: [CODE4LIB] Good Database Software for a Digital Project?

In my experience, for a number of use cases, including possibly this one, a database is overkill. Often, flat files in a directory system indexed by something like Solr is plenty and you avoid the inevitable headaches of being a database administrator. Backup, for example, is a snap and easily

Re: [CODE4LIB] New OAI-PMH harvester project

This is really cool, Demian, thanks a lot! I found it extremely easy to set up and get going, but with one minor change to the instructions. On Ubuntu Unix I needed to call Composer like so: php composer.phar install . But that wasn't much of a problem, as when I installed composer it told me how

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