[CODE4LIB] Visualizing textual similiarity

2013-07-01 Thread Will Kurt
Hey code4lib! I've been working on some text visualizations recently and realized that there's probably at least a few people on this list who might find this work interesting. The first is a visualization of line similarity in T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets" http://willkurt.github.io/four_quartets_

[CODE4LIB] Millions of Harvard Library Catalog Records Publicly Available

2012-04-24 Thread Will Kurt
Apologies if this is old news, but I was very excited to see Harvard making all this data public: http://isites.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k77982&pageid=icb.page498373 Tons of cool data analysis / machine learning work to be done here! Warm up your SVMs ;) --Will

Re: [CODE4LIB] Examples of Web Service APIs in Academic & Public Libraries

2011-10-13 Thread Will Kurt
Hey Jason! I always think that Brown's FreeCite api is under utilized. http://freecite.library.brown.edu/ It's far from perfect, but I'm sure more use could be made of it. A few months back I threw together a copy/paste citation look-up with it: CiteBox http://willkurt.github.com/CiteBox/ Of cou

Re: [CODE4LIB] Let's go somewhere [was PHP vs. Python...]

2010-11-01 Thread Will Kurt
This is one of my favorite passage from SICP: "It is no exaggeration to regard this as the most fundamental idea in programming: The evaluator, which determines the meaning of expressions in a programming language, is just another program. To appreciate this point is to change our images of ours

Re: [CODE4LIB] creating call number browse

2008-09-21 Thread [Will Kurt]
out having to worry about overly complex solutions. --Will Will Kurt Applications Development Librarian University of Nevada, Reno Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center phone: 775 682-5679 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Be

Re: [CODE4LIB] code.code4lib.org

2007-08-14 Thread Will Kurt
Andrew, the pear.php.net repository site really seems to be essentially what I was envisioning (especially with the proposals section). Erik, there are several good reasons to build our own rather than use space available in other domains. The first and foremost is that the library community is

Re: [CODE4LIB] code.code4lib.org

2007-08-13 Thread Will Kurt
One of the things that's really lacking in the library community is something like a sourceforge.net to serve as a central repository for all opensource library projects and this certainly sounds like a step in the right direction (maybe there already is such a thing and I don't know about it). I