Re: [CODE4LIB] Web archiving and WARC

2011-11-29 Thread raffaele messuti
to stable release use this script to compile it https://github.com/ArchiveTeam/splinder-grab/blob/master/get-wget-warc.sh ciao. [1] https://github.com/alard/wget-warc [2] http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/lh/wget/trunk/revision/2571 -- raffaele messuti raffaele.mess...@gmail.com @atomotic

Re: [CODE4LIB] Digital Object Viewer

2012-01-31 Thread raffaele messuti
On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Nathan Tallman ntall...@gmail.com wrote: Can anyone recommend a digital object viewer? Something that doesn't need an image server to be installed (like IA Book Reader). I like the Google Docs Viewer, but it's unreliable and I'd like something that placed on our

Re: [CODE4LIB] Repositories, OAI-PMH and web crawling

2012-02-27 Thread raffaele messuti
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Godmar Back god...@gmail.com wrote: May I ask a side question and make a side observation regarding the harvesting of full text of the object to which a OAI-PMH record refers? In Italy institutional repositories of theses are required to publish metadata as

Re: [CODE4LIB] archiving a wiki

2012-05-23 Thread raffaele messuti
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:04 PM, Carol Hassler carol.hass...@wicourts.gov wrote: My organization would like to archive/export our internal wiki in some kind of end-user friendly format. The concept is to copy the wiki contents annually to a format that can be used on any standard computer in

Re: [CODE4LIB] web video: best practices / workflow

2012-06-25 Thread raffaele messuti
I'm not currently working on it, but some months ago i did a research on some tools to integrate a player in a video repository. For me http://videojs.com seemed a simple and working solution with mp4/h264 video, it can display native html5 media or flash fallback. tricks that could help serving

Re: [CODE4LIB] Archival Software

2012-08-11 Thread raffaele messuti
take a look also at the following if they fits your needs (the first two are italians, and they lack english documentation, sorry) http://www.archimista.it (ruby on rails) https://github.com/codexcoop/archimista http://www.xdams.org (java) https://github.com/xdamsorg http://collectiveaccess.org

[CODE4LIB] 11th-12th December, CULTURAL HERITAGE online 2012, Florence

2012-11-24 Thread raffaele messuti
Dear Colleagues, Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale would like to draw your attention to the 3rd edition of the conference CULTURAL HERITAGE on line - TRUSTED DIGITAL REPOSITORIES TRUSTED PROFESSIONAL (www.rinascimento-digitale.it/conference2012 )that will be held on 11-12 December in Florence

Re: [CODE4LIB] Visualizing RDF graphs

2013-05-02 Thread raffaele messuti
Ethan Gruber wrote: This looks like it does what I want to do, but it requires Virtuoso and a Scala environment. I'm hesitant to dramatically modify my architecture just to accommodate a feature. I think I favor something a little simpler. take a look at LodLive, it's a simple jquery plugin

Re: [CODE4LIB] BeagleBone Black, anyone?

2013-05-21 Thread raffaele messuti
Roy Tennant wrote: Is anyone working with a BeagleBone Black? [1] Or some other Beagleboard? In perhaps a cart-before-the-horse kind of way, I'd love to do a project with one but I'm having a hard time thinking of a really good application. So I'd be interested to hear about the kinds of

Re: [CODE4LIB] mass convert jpeg to pdf

2013-11-12 Thread raffaele messuti
Roy Tennant wrote: Throwing in my two cents on the IIP Image Server. I've been using it on my photos web site[0] for a while now and it works great. I was also happy to see that there is a version that supports the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) API [1], which I was

Re: [CODE4LIB] Creating pdfs from images and their text

2014-01-17 Thread raffaele messuti
Padraic Stack wrote: What is a straightforward way to combine the text with overlaid images to create searchable pdfs? having transcription in hOCR[1] format the tool you should need is hocr2pdf[2]. i never tried for pdfs, years ago i made some djvu following this tutorial[3] [1]

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open Publication Distribution System

2014-02-07 Thread raffaele messuti
Bigwood, David wrote: I recently became aware of Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS) Catalog format, a syndication format for e-pubs based on Atom HTTP. mobile bookreaders have native opds support (i'm happy with aldiko or moonreader on android). for my personal epub collection i use

Re: [CODE4LIB] Book scanner suggestions redux

2014-03-07 Thread raffaele messuti
Chris Fitzpatrick wrote: I've used one of the DIY Bookscanners kits. Worked great and I didn't have to go into the dumpster. They did a good job on the components and assembly was rather easy. However, it is all very much a manual process. An operator has to work the machine to scan all

Re: [CODE4LIB] Book scanner suggestions redux

2014-03-07 Thread raffaele messuti
Aaron Rubinstein wrote: @rafaele: Will spreads only work with Canon A2200 cameras? spreads has a very modular architecture, so it's easy to add support for other cameras. better cameras, as canon eos, could be used with magiclantern[1] firmware . the right place where ask is the forum[2][3].

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib italy

2014-03-11 Thread raffaele messuti
Eric Lease Morgan wrote: I wonder whether there are enough people and enough interest to organize a Code4Lib Italy event. Hmmm... —Eric Lease Morgan +1 maybe is an opportunity to start an italian c4l chapter. right now some people involved in library technologies use a dedicated list[1] from

Re: [CODE4LIB] Book scanner suggestions redux

2014-03-23 Thread raffaele messuti
check this new video from Daniel Reetz (the inventor of diybookscanner) using spreads on a raspberry: http://youtu.be/xL0NmT70QL0 kudos to Daniel and Johannes for their terrific work! -- raffaele

Re: [CODE4LIB] very large image display?

2014-07-26 Thread raffaele messuti
Jonathan Rochkind wrote: For this project, there is really only a handful of big images, and simplicity of server-side is a priority -- so I think it's actually okay to pre-render all the tiles in advance, and avoid an actual image server -- to the extent tools can work with this. to make

Re: [CODE4LIB] book scanner experiences/recommendations

2014-09-22 Thread raffaele messuti
Laura Buchholz wrote: -Does anyone have a diy bookscanner that is for patron use? Do they do fine with it? I'm looking at the kits, and drooling a little over the new one http://diybookscanner.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14t=3063, but it seems more appropriate for staff use than patron use.

Re: [CODE4LIB] MARC reporting engine

2014-11-03 Thread raffaele messuti
Stuart Yeates wrote: Do any of these have built-in indexing? 800k records isn't going to fit in memory and if building my own MARC indexer is 'relatively straightforward' then you're a better coder than I am. you could try marcdb[1] from marctools[2] [1]

Re: [CODE4LIB] Stack Overflow

2014-11-04 Thread raffaele messuti
Schulkins, Joe wrote: Doing a search of the proposals shows there was one for 'Libraries and Information Science' but this closed 2 years ago as it didn't reach the required levels during the beta phase. FIY an archive of question answered on Libraries Information Science and Digital