Re: [CODE4LIB] neo4j

2012-02-13 Thread Brian Tingle
My proposal for code4lib on this topic was not selected, but I was invited to give the same talk at the Berkeley Information School Friday afternoon seminar last week (but I had about 40 mins rather than 20). Here are the notes from my talk last Friday: http://tingletech.github.com/296a-1-2012/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Google Analytics w/ Sub-sub-domains

2012-02-06 Thread BRIAN TINGLE
This can be really tricky to get right when you have a more complicated site with lots of domains. Since you are all on .yale.edu it should be easier than crossing .cdlib.org to .universityofcalifornia.edu. If I understand correctly, you should be able to _gaq.push(['_setDomainName',

Re: [CODE4LIB] Google Analytics w/ Sub-sub-domains

2012-02-06 Thread Brian Tingle
Henry, that is what you need to do if you want to track the same page to two different google analytics properties and you are using the legacy synchronous code. It sounds like yale wants to collect all this use under one UA- google analytics property (it is just that the property spans multiple

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: best practices for *simple* contributor IP/licensing management for open source?

2011-12-15 Thread BRIAN TINGLE
Does something along those lines end up working legally, or is it worthless, no better than just continuing to ignore the problem, so you might as well just continue to ignore the problem? Or if it is potentially workable, does anyone have examples of projects using such a system, ideally

Re: [CODE4LIB] automatic greeking of sample files

2011-12-13 Thread BRIAN TINGLE
On Dec 12, 2011, at 6:35 PM, Michael B. Klein wrote: I've altered my previous function (https://gist.github.com/1468557) into something that's pretty much a straight letter-substitution cipher. This is what I ended up using

Re: [CODE4LIB] automatic greeking of sample files

2011-12-12 Thread Brian Tingle
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Michael B. Klein mbkl...@gmail.comwrote: Here's a snippet that will completely randomize the contents of an arbitrary string while replacing the general flow (vowels replaced with vowels, consonants replaced with consonants (with case retained in both

Re: [CODE4LIB] copyright/fair use considerations for re-using Seattle World's Fair images

2011-12-09 Thread BRIAN TINGLE
these guys might own the copyright http://seattlecenter.org/ https://www.facebook.com/pages/1962-Seattle-Worlds-Fair/106938462090 On Dec 9, 2011, at 12:53 PM, Doran, Michael D wrote: Hi Trish, Thank you for the referral. I looked through that but I don't think my intended use (an

[CODE4LIB] automatic greeking of sample files

2011-12-09 Thread BRIAN TINGLE
Hi, I'm now in the group that produces XTF, and for XTF4.0, I'm thinking about updating the EAD XSLT based on the Online Archive of California's stylesheets. For our EAD samples that we distribute with the XTF tutorial, we are using 6 EAD files from the library of congress (which presumably

Re: [CODE4LIB] What software for a digital library

2011-12-09 Thread BRIAN TINGLE
On Dec 9, 2011, at 9:05 PM, Lars Aronsson wrote: in particular I didn't like these steps: 5. Shut down tomcat. 6. Do an incremental re-index (2) to include the new document. 7. Start up tomcat. ... I'm not sure why this step is in the tutorial -- XTF does not normally require

Re: [CODE4LIB] Sending html via ajax -vs- building html in js (was: jQuery Ajax request to update a PHP variable)

2011-12-08 Thread BRIAN TINGLE
returning JSONP is the the cool hipster way to go (well, not hipster cool anymore, but the hipsters were doing it before it went mainstream), but I'm not convinced it is inherently a problem to return HTML for use in AJAX type development in a non--ironic-retro way. On Dec 7, 2011, at 2:19

Re: [CODE4LIB] Sending html via ajax -vs- building html in js (was: jQuery Ajax request to update a PHP variable)

2011-12-08 Thread Brian Tingle
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Godmar Back god...@gmail.com wrote: Let me give you an example for why returning HTML is a difficult approach, to say the least, when it comes to rich AJAX applications. I had in my argument referred to a trend, connected to increasing richness and

Re: [CODE4LIB] Models of MARC in RDF

2011-12-06 Thread BRIAN TINGLE
On Dec 6, 2011, at 5:52 PM, Montoya, Gabriela wrote: ... I'd much rather see resources invested in data synching than spending it in saving text dumps that will most likely not be referred to again. ... In a MARC-as-the-record-of-record scenario; storing the original raw MARC might be

[CODE4LIB] Library News (à la ycombinator's hackernews)

2011-11-23 Thread BRIAN TINGLE
I'm not sure how many of y'all read hackernews (news.ycombinator.com, I'm addicted to it) but I just saw on there that there is a similar style site for Library News that somebody launched. http://news.librarycloud.org/news

Re: [CODE4LIB] Plea for help from Horowhenua Library Trust to Koha Community

2011-11-22 Thread BRIAN TINGLE
FWIW, the discussion on hackernews http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3264378 On Nov 21, 2011, at 4:51 PM, Joann Ransom wrote: Horowhenua Library Trust is the birth place of Koha and the longest serving member of the Koha community. Back in 1999 when we were working on Koha, the idea that

[CODE4LIB] Open Position at California Digital Library Access Group

2011-10-12 Thread Brian Tingle
The California Digital Library’s Access Group is seeking a programmer analyst to help build and provide access to a world-class collection of scholarly publications and datasets, and historical and primary source materials. We need your expertise to develop platforms and tools for distributing

Re: [CODE4LIB] Job Posting: Digital Library Repository Developer, Boston Public Library (Boston, MA)

2011-09-27 Thread BRIAN TINGLE
I know I should not take the bait... but if anything we say on this list -- however stupid or pedantic -- is taken as representing our employers and not our personal opinions; then I'm not sure this is a list I can participate in. It is chilling to see veiled legal threats thrown around on

[CODE4LIB] json4lib / API for Calisphere

2011-05-09 Thread Brian Tingle
I've started work on a project that I'm envisioning partly as sort of a JSON profile of METS optimized for access. I've implemented this JSON format for search results in calisphere by adding an rmode=json to the calisphere/oac branch of xtf. Here is some documentation about it

Re: [CODE4LIB] Blogs/news you follow

2011-05-03 Thread Brian Tingle
This perltree is called daily reading but some are more like weekly or monthly http://pear.ly/tSgr { http://highscalability.com/ http://slashdot.org/ http://planet.code4lib.org/ http://planetdjango.org/ -- currently down http://news.ycombinator.com/ http://thedailywtf.com/ } plus I

Re: [CODE4LIB] graphML of a social network in archival context

2011-02-18 Thread Brian Tingle
How have you been liking neo4j so far? Is the neo4j graph database something that you have been using in SNAC? Have you been interacting with it mainly via gremlin, the REST API, and/or Java? I've been using the tinkerpop graph processing stack, and the first example I found in the

[CODE4LIB] graphML of a social network in archival context

2011-02-17 Thread Brian Tingle
Hi, As a part of our work on the Social Networks and Archival Context Project [1], the SNAC team is please to release more early results of our ongoing research. A property graph [2] of correspondedWith and associatedWith relationships between corporate, personal, and family identities is made

Re: [CODE4LIB] Apache URL redirect

2011-02-03 Thread Brian Tingle
Redirect does not look the hostname, just the path I think you have two options; 1) set up a named based virtual host for www.partnersinreading.org In that name based virtual host, set up your Redirect / http://www.sjpl.org/par 2) if you are using mod_rewrite, you could do something like this.

[CODE4LIB] METS Editorial Board accepting applications

2011-02-01 Thread Brian Tingle
forwarded... Apologies for any duplication! The METS Editorial Board (MEB) is seeking applicants to fill two positions on the Board. Board membership criteria and procedures for filling the Board vacancies are documented on the METS website: METS Editorial Board Membership Criteria:

Re: [CODE4LIB] best persistent url system

2011-01-14 Thread Brian Tingle
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Michael J. Giarlo leftw...@alumni.rutgers.edu wrote: Has anyone thought through, or put into practice, using Apache mod_rewrite tables for this simple redirect one URL to another use case? I do mod_rewrite redirects with a RewriteMap

Re: [CODE4LIB] javascript testing?

2011-01-12 Thread BRIAN TINGLE
Mark Redar at CDL has some selenium tests for calisphere.org/mapped but they are not automatically run I've been wanting to play around with selenium grid on EC2 but never had the time / real reason to -- but if it is as advertised it might speed up running the tests by executing them in

[CODE4LIB] graph processing stack

2010-12-20 Thread BRIAN TINGLE
I saw an interesting article on hackernews (news.ycombinator.com) yesterday published by ATT interactive -- article summary -- A Graph Processing Stack http://engineering.attinteractive.com/2010/12/a-graph-processing-stack/ [...] ATTi along with other collaborators (see acknowledgments), have

[CODE4LIB] collengine, the collection engine; runs on django-nonrel / app engine

2010-12-16 Thread BRIAN TINGLE
Having been several months since I've tried to run django on the google app engine, I took a crack at it today with Django appengine http://www.allbuttonspressed.com/projects/djangoappengine Since it is based on django-nonrel, in theory it does not have vendor lock in to app engine, so you

Re: [CODE4LIB] HTML Load Time

2010-12-06 Thread Brian Tingle
Does anyone have any tricks or tips to decrease the load time? You could try server side gzip compression https://github.com/paulirish/html5-boilerplate/blob/master/.htaccess#L101 At a certain point, all you can do is try to split it up into multiple pages. On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:49 AM,

[CODE4LIB] Reimagining METS

2010-10-27 Thread Brian Tingle
hate to see changed? Thanks for any thoughts on this subject, -- Brian Tingle, METS Editorial Board some more METS related thoughts and links http://tingletech.tumblr.com/tagged/mets

Re: [CODE4LIB] open source proxy packages?

2010-08-14 Thread Brian Tingle
apache httpd has a mod_proxy module can let apache act as a proxy server. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_proxy.html You should be able to use this with htpasswd files you would use to secure a web directory with apache. On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 10:05 AM, phoebe ayers

[CODE4LIB] cpf2html

2010-08-09 Thread Brian Tingle
Hi, A couple of you on the list may have been at the EAC-CPF: Moving forward with Authority thing at NARA today. I can't post a link to the demo site yet, but all the source for my part of the EAC-CPF XTF prototype for the Social Networking in Archival Context project