Re: [CODE4LIB] what's friendlier & less powerful than phpMyAdmin?

2008-08-10 Thread Tim Shearer
Hi All, It ain't free, but there's a lovely client for mysql called navicat (http://www.navicat.com/) that we've been using. And even though I *can* do command line queries, gotta say I love pulling lines between tables to set them up. It's not too expensive and I find that for light to medi

Re: [CODE4LIB] creating call number browse

2008-09-21 Thread Tim Shearer
Hi, One approach to the UI might be to use Cooliris (was piclens) and generate a media rss file in call number order. It's limited (to people who have installed cooliris) but it's essentially a coverflow. You can do other things within the browser, but few are going to feel as immediate and

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Authority Data

2008-09-29 Thread Tim Shearer
Socialized medicine? Sure. *We* have authority files! -t On Tue, 23 Sep 2008, David Fiander wrote: One of the most important pages in the print volumes of the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), is the title page verso, which includes publication and copyright details. The folks at

Re: [CODE4LIB] creating call number browse

2008-09-30 Thread Tim Shearer
Owen, Unless I'm misunderstanding, what's being asked for is a visualization tool for the *classification*. Faceted browsing by subject is dandy, but is not at all the same thing (though arguments can be made that the lines are blurring). Books that sit next to each other in a classification

[CODE4LIB] amazon s3?

2008-11-10 Thread Tim Shearer
Hi Folks, Anybody doing mass storage for their library/consortium on amazon s3? Anybody rejected it as an idea? Willing to share? Please do. Tim +++ Tim Shearer Web Development Coordinator The University Library University of North Carolina at Chapel

[CODE4LIB] OCA API

2009-05-15 Thread Tim Shearer
here is significant overlap). *When we do open it up it is the API we are offering, we are not prepared to be crawled for data. If you want the data, get in touch and we will see what we can do. If you are interested in being an early partner, please drop me a line and I will be in touc

Re: [CODE4LIB] Setting users google scholar settings

2009-07-15 Thread Tim Shearer
FWIW, this is what we do as well... for the few people who think "I want to use Google Scholar, I'll go to the UNC Library website." Still, folks have learned that to get easy access (after that first hoop) it's worth it. -t ++++++++

[CODE4LIB] find in page, diacritics, etc

2009-08-28 Thread Tim Shearer
Hi Folks, Looking for help/perspectives. Anyone got any clever solutions for allowing folks to find a word with diacritics in a rendered web page regardless of whether or not the user tries with or without diacritics. In indexes this is usually solved by indexing the word with and without,

Re: [CODE4LIB] find in page, diacritics, etc

2009-08-28 Thread Tim Shearer
span styled in such a way as to make it findable but not intrusive. -t Keith On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 12:17 PM, Tim Shearer wrote: Hi Folks, Looking for help/perspectives. Anyone got any clever solutions for allowing folks to find a word with diacritics in a rendered web page regardless

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2011 Proposals

2010-03-03 Thread Tim Shearer
A big old thank you to OCLC for the support! It is deeply appreciated. -t On 3/3/10 10:34 AM, Roy Tennant wrote: On 3/3/10 3/3/10 € 7:22 AM, "Ross Singer" wrote: On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Paul Joseph wrote: No need to be concerned about the vendors: they're the same suspects who spo

[CODE4LIB] PREMIS question

2010-03-04 Thread Tim Shearer
Hi folks, Ignoring, for the moment, the utility of doing so...has anyone written (or does anyone know of) an xsl tranform from PREMIS to HTML? I'm finding PREMIS transforms, but nothing that produces output for consumption in a webpage. The idea is to let folks more easily parse the PREMIS

Re: [CODE4LIB] newbie

2010-03-25 Thread Tim Shearer
Warning: regular expressions can become addictive. And, for some of us batch manipulation of large text sets can provide a whole lot of satisfaction. Finally, I never would have put the strings "PHP" and "sexiness" in a sentence together (though I guess I just did). -t On 3/25/10 4:46 PM, E

Re: [CODE4LIB] parse an OAI-PHM response

2007-07-30 Thread Tim Shearer
have planned. -t +++ Tim Shearer Web Development Coordinator The University Library University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] 919-962-1288 +++ On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, John McGrath wrote: You could

[CODE4LIB] library find and bibliographic citation export?

2007-09-27 Thread Tim Shearer
Hi, I'm interested to know if anyone working with LibraryFind has begun work to create a tool for bibliographic export to citation management tools like refworks, etc. Thanks! Tim +++++++ Tim Shearer Web Development Coordinator The University Li

Re: [CODE4LIB] OpenContent SRU search of OAISter, weirdness?

2007-10-25 Thread Tim Shearer
Dumb question, no experience with the syntax, but should there be a wildcard -or- use of something other than equals (sorry, if I'm way off base, but most query syntax I use requires "like" or wildcarding). -t On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: That was a typo in my problem report,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Library Software Manifesto

2007-11-06 Thread Tim Shearer
Hi Roy, Not sure how to make this succinct enough to be elegant (i.e. a bullet point) but... We have a large enough staff to "break into" software when necessary. A typical scenario is: We need a feature added (or bug removed) to make workflow tenable We request the feature (bug fix) We hear "

[CODE4LIB] oca api?

2008-02-24 Thread Tim Shearer
ance I can't find any UNC records and we're fairly new to the game. Again, I'm looking for unique identifiers in what I can get back and it's slim pickings. Anyone cracked this nut? Got any life lessons for me? Thanks! Tim +++++++ Tim Sheare

Re: [CODE4LIB] oca api?

2008-02-25 Thread Tim Shearer
ref what IA has scanned with your catalog - THAT I KNOW OF. Big caveat on that last part. Happy to help with any other questions I can, Chris Freeland -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Toub Sent: Sunday, February 24, 2008 11:20 PM

Re: [CODE4LIB] oca api?

2008-02-27 Thread Tim Shearer
#x27;s no simple way to crossref what IA has scanned with your catalog - THAT I KNOW OF. Big caveat on that last part. Happy to help with any other questions I can, Chris Freeland -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Toub Sent:

[CODE4LIB] musing on oca apiRe: [CODE4LIB] oca api?

2008-03-06 Thread Tim Shearer
y to get standard identifiers (ISBN, ISSN, OCLC, LCCN) for these scanned books is to grab them out of the MARC record. So the long-winded answer to your question, Tim, is no, there's no simple way to crossref what IA has scanned with your catalog - THAT I KNOW OF. Big caveat on that last par

[CODE4LIB] more musing/clarification on oca apiRe: [CODE4LIB] oca api?

2008-03-07 Thread Tim Shearer
provided by an Open Library API (but we don't know when that might come about). As OCA moves forward, folks may well be digitizing identical books. So there may not be a one to one relationship between unique catalog identifier, unique oca identifier, and isbn/lccn/oclc number. -emily ---

Re: [CODE4LIB] dict protocol

2008-03-31 Thread Tim Shearer
Hi Eric, Given the likely need to map back from an alternate name (string search in the definition?) to the auth name (maybe the most common use for such a service?), I think this route might be on the inefficient side. I've been wondering about names as handles, with a crossref-like middleman p

code4lib@listserv.nd.edu

2008-04-03 Thread Tim Shearer
So now I have to compile my jokes? -t On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, Ryan Ordway wrote: #include main(t,_,a) char *a; { return!0 ..- .-.. .-.. .. .. -- --. --- .. -. --. - --- ... .- -.-- .- -... --- ..- - - .. ... - .-. . .- -.. .. ... - .- - -. --- -. . --- ..-.