[CODE4LIB] Mike, Ryan, others, subscribe to this list under new eMail address
not sure who's taking care of this (Mike, Ryan): by the end of this week I NEED to be subscribed under a new email address; what to do, what to do, what to do? please reply to eternally thankful yaaq...@gmail.com
Re: [CODE4LIB] SRU indexes for Aleph
Ere, This may be the first time the issue comes up at this level with Aleph. Are YOU an ALEPH or Voyager customer? If you are on ALEPH, simply open a support_ticket requesting what you need/want. Any ALEPH customer can do that (Please!) and keep CODE4LIB up-to-date. ./Ya’aqov On 6/9/10 11:29 AM, LeVan,Ralph le...@oclc.org wrote: -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Ere Maijala Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 4:11 AM it's probably a custom YAZ Proxy. This is as far as I know the default mapping to Z39.50 (of course it could have been modified locally): Really? I find it hard to believe that the Index Data folks don't know how to make an Explain record. Are you saying that Aleph has no native SRU capability and YAZ is the only SRU access to it? Thanks! Ralph
Re: [CODE4LIB] algorithm for Summon's Recommender
Thanks Andrew, Everything's fine, and no need to go beyond documentation SerialsSolutions plan on makiing public. Ya'aqov From: Andrew Nagy [asn...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 5:00 PM To: Ziso, Ya'aqov; Code for Libraries Subject: Re: algorithm for Summon's Recommender Hi Ya'aqov - I'm about to board a plane so I don't have much time for a well formed response. We do not have anything published about Summon's relevancy algorithms nor the recommendation engine. I'd be happy to answer any specific questions offline as I don't feel it appropriate to get into details about a commericial product in this channel. Andrew On 5/6/10, Ziso, Ya'aqov z...@rowan.edu wrote: hi Andrew, bX derives from research done at Los Alamos National Laboratory by Johan Bollen and Herbert Van de Sompel. Its ranking and algorithm can be analyzed in the published article http://www.slideshare.net/hvdsomp/the-bx-project-federating-and-mining-usage-logs-from-linking-servers Can SerialsSolutions point us to something explaining Summon’s Recommender? == yaaq...@gmail.com • If you're not part of the problem, you're not part of the solution • -- Sent from my mobile device
[CODE4LIB] algorithm for Summon's Recommender
hi Andrew, bX derives from research done at Los Alamos National Laboratory by Johan Bollen and Herbert Van de Sompel. Its ranking and algorithm can be analyzed in the published article http://www.slideshare.net/hvdsomp/the-bx-project-federating-and-mining-usage-logs-from-linking-servers Can SerialsSolutions point us to something explaining Summon’s Recommender? == yaaq...@gmail.com • If you're not part of the problem, you're not part of the solution •
Re: [CODE4LIB] What do you want out of a frbrized data web service?
Here's a thought: John Riley in an authority record is linked through the 670 field (author of Cells today) where Cells today is the 245 in a bibliographic record. Let's assume there are about 4 John Riley(s) who wrote about cells, each in their own bib record. If any bibliographic record is part of a 'chain' of FRBRized manifestations where one of these manifestations includes also a date (relevant to a certain Riley John), a more detailed description of those cells, or a 502 such as Riley John submitted a dissertation on a specific branch in chemistry), or a video with John Riley's picture, I can benefit and link (via an API query) to that information to distinguish that Riley, John. Jenn, Jonathan, does my scenario make sense? Ya'aqov From: Code for Libraries [code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Jonathan Rochkind [rochk...@jhu.edu] Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2010 7:18 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] What do you want out of a frbrized data web service? I started preparing a longer answer to this, and still will provide one eventually. But first, to really answer the question, we need some more information from you. What data do you actually have of value? Just saying we have FRBRized data doesn't really tell me, FRBRized data can be almost anything, really. Can you tell us more about what value you think you've added to your data as a result of your FRBRization? What do you have that wasn't there before? Better relationships between manifestations? Something else? I forget, were you focusing on specific material types (music or moving image?) in this project, or is this just general materials, covering the gamut of what one would expect from a major academic library? If you've done special work with music or moving image, what is the nature of the value added there? Do these questions make sense? To know how I might want to use the data, I need to know a bit more about what you've actually got that's useful, which it's FRBRized doesn't really tell me. But as far as do you want real-time querries to a web service, or bulk download of the data? -- yes, I'd want both, probably. Either one will be the most convenient depending on what I'm trying to do. If you _had_ to pick one, it would be 'bulk download', because _anything_ is possible with bulk download -- but for certain uses, it can take a lot more work on my part for bulk download, so if that's all there is there, it will be a higher barrier for use than if real-time web api was available. But if _only_ real-time querries are available, then certain things are just impossible (mainly indexing-time enhancement of my data). Jonathan Riley, Jenn wrote: Hi all, At Indiana University we're working on a project that will help us see concretely what FRBRized [1] library data and discovery systems might look like. [2] One of our project goals is to share the raw FRBRized data widely so that others can look at it to see how it's structured, reuse it, improve on it, comment on the FRBRization effectiveness, etc. We're planning on allowing remote/Web Services/API/SRU/some machine-to-machine method like that access to the data. As we're starting to think about how we should set that up, we thought it would be useful to gather some use cases from the code4lib community, as it's the folks here that are experimenting with services like this. So if there were FRBRized data available to you (at least for FRBR group 1 and group 2 entities; *maybe* group 3 as well), what would you do with it? What kinds of questions would your service (discovery system, whatever) ask a service that made this data available? What kinds of information would you want in a response? Would you have uses that called for downloading of all data at once or would you instead be better off with real-time queries to a web service? It's questions like that we're interested in brainstorming with this group about. Basically, what type of access to the data we're generating is most important, since we have finite resources to expend on this right now. Thanks, all! Jenn [1] http://www.loc.gov/cds/downloads/FRBR.PDF [2] http://vfrbr.info Jenn Riley Metadata Librarian Digital Library Program Indiana University - Bloomington Wells Library W501 (812) 856-5759 www.dlib.indiana.edu Inquiring Librarian blog: www.inquiringlibrarian.blogspot.com
Re: [CODE4LIB] What do you want out of a FRBRized data web service?
Karen Coyle, By ‘create entities’ (below) is it NECESSARY to create records (and keep them up-to-date), or is it possible/preferable to create them on the fly? ./Ya’aqov It would be ideal to have an actual entity for each of the FRBR 1, 2 and 3 entities. We could even create entities that aren't exactly in FRBR, such as for publication dates, publishers, languages. And the main view is not of a single entity, but an entity in relation to other entities. What's nearby? What happens when I combine these two? (Also see WorldCat Identities as an example of data that can be shown in relation to a person entity.)
Re: [CODE4LIB] ILS short list
Ed, Eric, Bill, please confirm) to my knowledge ALEPH had API to BIB, AUTH, HOLD, ITEM since version 16+ Ya’aqov On 4/8/10 2:47 PM, Bill Dueber b...@dueber.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Ryan Eby ryan...@gmail.com wrote: Unicorn * Export Built in. MARC21 or flat file formats. Unicode support is available as an extra. ...as an extra??? This is the saddest thing I've ready all day.
Re: [CODE4LIB] WorldCat Terminologies
I'm certain that as Ralph indicated, this file has been kept weekly up-to-date. The html page header will be, eventually, fixed as well to reflect accurately the file's last update and its SRU searchability. The fact remains that for all: terminologies/identities/xISSN/xISBN WC-DEVNET is the customer support and quality control. We have no other address for maintenance, and possibly OCLC Research's dedicated staff lack such address as well. Yes, these experimental services reside on OCLC servers. Unfortunately, given this customer support model, OCLC Research will be constantly put in a defensive position and all we can do is flag problems and maintain this loop. (unless any of you has an idea for a loophole and, please, bring it on!) Ya'aqov -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries on behalf of Jonathan Rochkind Sent: Sun 3/21/2010 12:19 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] WorldCat Terminologies Yeah, the statement that it's a static copy from 2006 would have stopped me in my tracks if I had somehow happened accross the page, which I probably wouldn't have, but now I've bookmarked it so I might find it again -- but will probably forget that it's REALLY up to date even though it says 2006 on it. Nice catch Karen. Karen, that looks to me like an HTML front-end for an SRU service, I bet it's got an SRU api. Which one of these days I'll get around to figuring out how to write code for. From: Code for Libraries [code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Karen Coyle [li...@kcoyle.net] Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 11:29 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] WorldCat Terminologies Quoting LeVan,Ralph le...@oclc.org: I hate to muddy the waters, but I can't resist here. Research also exposes a copy of the LC NAF at http://alcme.oclc.org/srw/search/lcnaf It gets updated every Tuesday night. Unfortunately, that page states right up front: A static copy of LC's Name Authority File from February of 2006 That might confuse visitors. Maybe a quick revision is in order? :-) Also, API access? kc This is something I've been maintaining for years and is what Identities points at when you ask to see the NAF record associated with an Identities record. This particular service has none of the linked-data-type bells and whistles I'm putting into VIAF and Identities, but easily could, if there was interest. I believe I've made the indexing on it consistent with what I do in Identities. Looking at the configuration file for the load of this database, I am omitting records with 100$k, 100$t, 100$v, 100$x or any 130 fields. I'm sure Ya'aqov (or other similarly expert Authority Librarian) could tell you why I am omitting them, because I can't off the top of my head. This service is actually running as a long established model of how similar services should run in Research. While it is not running on a machine operated by our production staff, it is automatically monitored by them, they have restart procedures in places when the service becomes unresponsive and problems are escalated by email when the restart fails to fix the problem. (Those emails come to me and where they get treated appropriately.) Let me know if there are questions about any of this. Ralph -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Ya'aqov Ziso Sent: Friday, March 19, 2010 3:29 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] WorldCat Terminologies Jonathan, thank you, in full accord. Yes, the crux of the matter is Names (NAF being the more expensive library subscription and the one not available for free like http://id.loc.gov At http://orlabs.oclc.org/Identities/ I searched Oclapton, eric¹ and wonder: * are all WorldCat+NAF 49 retrieved headings there helpful? do we need in the list Oclayton, cecile¹ (etc.) * Names that haven¹t made it into an authority record are definitely helpful, but can we suggest a way to sort and rank them more usefully (for the user) on the page? Your thoughts? Ya¹aqov On 3/19/10 2:35 PM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: I don't think the inclusion of non-NAF headings in Identities is a flaw, it's a benefit to the purpose of Identities not to be held back by the somewhat glacial pace of change in NAF. But you're right, the right tool for the job, I don't know that any of the existing OCLC free (or included with other OCLC membership/services) services are the right tool to replace any existing purchased authorities tools or sources. It depends on what you're using them for, of course. I agree that the brochure statement was potentially misleading, but these (Identities, Terminologies, Research Terminologies) are still very interesting and useful services. From: Code for Libraries [code4...@listserv.nd.edu]
[CODE4LIB] Asheville, Wednesday: Breakout on API queries to vocabularies
Several speakers and participants touched on these services: Ross Singer, Karen Coombs, Ryan Scherle, the VuFind group all discussed yesterday working with names or subject thesauri/vocabularies. I am suggesting a Wednesday BREAKOUT session to address more specifically: combining API searches with local catalog searches for the user working with equivalencies between vocabularies maintenance issues deduping entries anything else on our minds Ya'aqov Ziso eResources Management Rowan University
Re: [CODE4LIB] good and best open source software
A few lessons learned while monitoring the vuFIND community: Documentation needs to be evolving and accurate. Someone needs to OWN that responsibility and keep documentation up to date (and vuFIND are so lucky to have Demian Katz!). UNIX/man is not the best example for this. Developer community, as we communicate, develop, ponder, annotate is also dynamic. Someone needs to OWN the responsibility of keeping track of RC1, or RC2, or Beta, or release 1.0, to TEST and determine which JIRA issues are those to be tackled, or left out, or, postponed. Support address (for the rainy days when the sys person converted to Budhism or argued with a moving truck) is needed, so maintenance doesn't crush. Even though it sounds elementary, a list of contact admins is so critical for such rainy days, and for convincing library big wigs that paying six-digits to ILS vendors is on its way out. This business model of OpenSource software becomes critical especially when something goes wrong, and preparing in advance (even if it assumes some costs) seems highly desirable. Ya'aqov Ziso -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries on behalf of Eric Lease Morgan Sent: Mon 12/28/2009 12:43 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] good and best open source software What qualities and characteristics make for a good piece of open source software? And once that question is answered, then what pieces of library-related open source software can be considered best? I do not believe there is any single, most important characteristic of open source software that qualifies it to be denoted as best. Instead, a number of characteristics need to be considered. For example, a program might do one thing and do it well, but if it is bear to install then that counts against it. Similarly, some software might work wonders but it is built on a proprietary infrastructure such as a closed source compiler. Can that software really be considered open? For my own education and cogitation, I have begun to list questions to help me address what I think is the best library-related open source software. [1] Your comments would be greatly appreciated. I have listed the questions here in (more or less) personal priority order: * Does the software work as advertised? * To what degree is the software supported? * Is the documentation thorough? * What are the licence terms? * To what degree is the software easy to install? * To what degree is the software implemented using the standard LAMP stack? * Is the distribution in question an application/system or a library/module? * To what degree does the software satisfy some sort of real library need? What sorts of things have I left out? Is there anything here that can be measurable or is everything left to subjective judgement? Just as importantly, can we as a community answer these questions in light of distributions to come up with the best of class? 'More questions than answers. [1] There are elaborations on the questions in a blog posting. See: http://tinyurl.com/ybk2bef -- Eric Lease Morgan
Re: [CODE4LIB] good and best open source software
Telling people to use what others are using is just simple propaganda to stifle competition +++ Respectfully, inviting people to an open discussion is exactly the opposite of telling people and propaganda
Re: [CODE4LIB] New WorldCat Basic API Released
Information included in results are authors, titles, ISBNs and OCLC numbers ... == Roy Tennant, no results for subjects? if yes, from which specific indexes? Ya'aqov Ziso
[CODE4LIB] vuFIND -- long term direction
As our users and we are having fun with vuFIND, I'm taking stock after 1-2 years of working with vuFIND, to send out a few general questions, 1. is vuFIND primarily an experiment? if not why havent more sites switched to production like VU or NLA? 2. is SOLR indexing satisfactory? 3. how many staff are needed for vuFINDs viable maintenance? for developing/adding features? 4. do we want vuFIND to measure up to the ILS (Voyager, Aleph, III, etc.) OPAC, or we like it as an alternative, for its discovery tools? 5. what is plan B at your institution for when the vuFIND guru leaves? 6. do we need someone to co-work with Andrew on the installation package? on keeping track of developments, road maps? 7. which collections, other than the catalog and OAI/repositories have we added? which API to other collections have we installed? are now tested? Im sure many of us cope with these questions and could benefit from the variety of our replies. Kindest thanks, Yaaqov Ziso, Electronic Resource Management Librarian, Rowan University 856 256 4804
[CODE4LIB] bad news on SKOS ?
uncool URIs (posted on December 19, 2008, 10:32 pm, by Ed Summers, under Uncategorized, lcsh, semweb) On December 18th I was asked to shut off lcsh.info by the Library of Congress. As an LC employee I really did not have much choice other than to comply. The lcsh.info domain was registered by me in order to demonstrate how the Library of Congress Subject Headings could be represented as a Semantic Web application using SKOS . In particular I was eager to get feedback on how the data was being published with respect to Linked Data best practices. I got lots of great feedback, wrote a paper which I presented at DC2008, and learned that other institutions like the W3C and the Royal Library of Sweden were beginning to use URIs for concepts from lcsh.info in their metadata . see more http://lcsh.info/ == Ya'aqov Ziso, eResources Librarian, Rowan University
Re: [CODE4LIB] NAF notification service from OCLC
Roy, OCLC gets the weekly NAF updates, can simply run a grep command to extract the 010 fields to a new file, and put the new file in a place available for OCLC members' retrieval. Explaining why OCLC needs to take 2 years for considering their competing priorities with those of their partners doesn't help much as we move in a Web 2.0 speed. Unless this proposal can be fulfilled, respectfully, let's agree to disagree on this, and move on. Ya'aqov -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries on behalf of Roy Tennant Sent: Mon 10/13/2008 10:13 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] NAF notification service from OCLC Ya'aqov, The answer is not no, it is exactly as Karen described. Since you interpret this as no, I wonder if you have a less than complete grasp on what it takes to develop an ongoing production service upon which you can rely. Also, I hope you can appreciate that we have many competing priorities that we cannot simply ignore in order to respond to a new service idea. As most institutions do, we have a procedure for weighing development priorities and making strategic decisions that we cannot simply throw aside upon a whim. Lastly, part of what we would be required to do is to work with the Library of Congress as the producer of the data before we could create such a service. Thank you for allowing me to further explain why we cannot simply implement your proposal. Roy On 10/12/08 10/12/08 . 11:39 AM, Ya'aqov Ziso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: suggestion to our list of potential new services and enhancements for consideration in our next round of planning for development in fiscal year 2010. Roy, Karen, The deferment suggested by your reply leaves out CODE4LIB's core offer, to engage timely technologies for the libraries available currently, in the pace of Web 2.0. It seems OCLC has yet to find way to cope with the pace of such offers. If there were two ways of saying No to our NAF update notification request from OCLC, I guess you opted for the second. Legitimately and respectfully I take this as a No. Regards, Ya'aqov Ziso, On 10/11/08 5:48 PM, Roy Tennant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Forwarded by permission. Roy On 10/10/08 10/10/08 . 2:57 PM, Calhoun,Karen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Ya'aqov Ziso, Your email request/proposal of 4 October 2008 to Roy Tennant (My proposal to you is that OCLC will start offering a NEW service to its members/subscribers. That service will be a simple listing of the 010 fields for Name authority records that have been CHANGED that week in the OCLC NAF, and 010 for the new Name authority records for that have been ADDED to NAF.) has been referred by OCLC Research to the OCLC Metadata Services product group for consideration. We are pleased to receive your suggestion for a new service. We will add this suggestion to our list of potential new services and enhancements for consideration in our next round of planning for development in fiscal year 2010. Thank you for sharing your ideas with us. Karen Karen Calhoun Vice President, WorldCat and Metadata Services 6565 Kilgour Place Dublin OH 43017 800-848-5878 x6441 614-764-6441 FAX: 614-718-7457 [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 10/4/08 10/4/08 . 2:02 PM, Ya'aqov Ziso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following message has been posted also in ACAT === Roy, Kindest thanks for providing language in-between systems engineers such as CODE4LIB and bibliographic control librarians such as ACAT ( http://techessence.info/tech/ ). The premise of my appeal to you was that you also represent OCLC Programs Research when contributing to CODE4LIB and ACAT. 1. CODE4LIB expressed interest in obtaining a copy of LCSH and NAF and their weekly updates (see the first eMail in the thread you're pointing at http://serials.infomotions.com/code4lib/archive/2008/200809/subject.html from Andrew Nagy, then 2 follow ups from Andrew and myself). 2. At a later point in the thread, the focus was placed on the UPDATES for NAF. OCLC are receiving weekly updates for NAF, updating and making these files current for OCLC subscribers/members. 3. My proposal to you is that OCLC will start offering a NEW service to its members/subscribers. That service will be a simple listing of the 010 fields for Name authority records that have been CHANGED that week in the OCLC NAF, and 010 for the new Name authority records for that have been ADDED to NAF. 4. Such service will assist system staff in planning their authority work and sufficient also for CODE4LIB's current purposes. If you wish to explore this opportunity for collaboration some more, I will be glad to follow up offline. Kindest thanks, Ya'aqov Ziso, Rowan University = On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Roy Tennant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ya'aqov, I'm afraid I don't have any idea to what you
