Re: [CODE4LIB] Very frustrated with Drupal
Ah, yep. I've never done a full rant about Drupal because it would take days and run into many virtual pages. I gave it a good go, almost full time, for a couple of years, even went to a regional conference. It's a train wreck beyond that first easy 80% – especially if you care about detail – but unfortunately also one of the best CMSs around. It's a while since I've resurveyed though. By far the worst ones in my experience are also the most expensive of the enterprise variety. Your revolution is over, Mr Lebowski. Condolences! The bums lost. – for some reason that came to mind (Context: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nw_nJJrSg3s ) I suspect frameworks are where it's at if you are technically competent, but choose carefully. I like Rails but don’t accept many of its choices, and it sucks to administer if on anything but Ubuntu or Mac. I used to like web.py and am keen to test out Flask, Sinatra and other lightweight choices. Cheers Hugh -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Joshua Welker Sent: Thursday, 15 May 2014 1:35 p.m. To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Very frustrated with Drupal Warning: incoming wall of text. I've been working for the past several months on building a library website with Drupal. This is my second try building a website with Drupal. I chose Drupal for two main reasons: CCK/content types, and its ubiquity in the library community. Theme development was going relatively well, if a little overly complicated. But once I started trying to do anything beyond developing static pages, I have become more and more frustrated with Drupal. Drupal supports custom content types out-of-the-box, which is great, but if you want to actually do anything with that custom content other than have it function as a plain page, you have to use the Views module. Views is great, but views can easily become very complicated, with custom rewrites, grouping, relations, contextual filters, etc. Plus, a lot of functionality in Views requires more modules (for instance, basic data manipulation). This is to build rather run-of-the-mill list features like a database list or a list of events. And a lot of the advanced features in Views require a solid understanding of SQL (groups, distinct, joins, etc), which kind of defeats the notion that it is easy for non-developers to administer. Now, at this point, I have modules extending my modules. And those modules have multiple dependencies on other modules. I am getting worried now. It feels like my website is a house of cards. I've run into several instances already where one of these plugins is updated and breaks compatibility with the whole stack, and there is nothing to do in this case but open an issue on the project tracker and pray for the best. I have looked into building my own modules, but the umpteen APIs and hooks required to do something simple as perform some regex on field data completely overwhelmed me (and I am fairly experience with web app development). It's not just Views, either. Anything more complicated than static pages and navigation menus requires relying on the module ecosystem. Not only is the whole thing quite precarious, but it defeats one of the two main purposes of a CMS: ease of administration. I want to know that if I get hit by a bus tomorrow, someone will be able to come in and take over without too much difficulty. But when I go back and look at my views, I can sometimes barely understand the work I did a week ago. It is very difficult to keep straight which functions are coming from which modules, and all those modules have separate (often poor) documentation. At this point, I am seriously contemplating dumping Drupal and moving to a full-fledged framework like Django, Flask, or Laravel and adding some WYSIWYG CRUD controls for pseudo-CMS functionality. ActiveRecord-like systems are much easier to use IMO than fiddling for hours with Views, and I have full control of what is happening. I honestly think it would be just as easy for someone to inherit a custom-built framework app as it would be to inherit my already-convoluted Drupal site. At least the framework is well-documented and should allow my app to be understandable to anyone with some programming experience. Does anyone want to talk me off the ledge here? I know a lot of you are using Drupal for your websites. What are the killer features that keep you using Drupal? If any of you have experience building websites using frameworks, what are your experiences? I really want to like Drupal, but it seems to be more trouble than it's worth. -- Josh Welker Information Technology Librarian James C. Kirkpatrick Library University of Central Missouri Warrensburg, MO 64093 JCKL 2260 660.543.8022 P Please consider the environment before you print this email. The contents of this e-mail (including any attachments)
Re: [CODE4LIB] statistics for image sharing sites?
-Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Stuart Yeates Sent: Wednesday, 14 May 2014 1:04 p.m. To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] statistics for image sharing sites? [snip] My secondary question is whether any httpd gurus have recipes for redirecting by agent string from low quality images to high quality. So when AGENT = Pinterest/0.1 +http://pinterest.com/; and the URL matches a pattern redirect to a different pattern. For example: http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/etexts/MakOldT/MakOldTP022a%28w100%29.jpg to http://nzetc.victoria.ac.nz/etexts/MakOldT/MakOldTP022a.jpg This sounds totally doable, but what are you trying to achieve? To my mind, it has unintended consequences and chaos writ all over it. Cheers Hugh P Please consider the environment before you print this email. The contents of this e-mail (including any attachments) may be confidential and/or subject to copyright. Any unauthorised use, distribution, or copying of the contents is expressly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please advise the sender by return e-mail or telephone and then delete this e-mail together with all attachments from your system.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Job: Digital Librarian at White House Historical Association
Take back my distinction between job postings and discussion! By extension, shall we say that if they are posted here, they are fair game for ridicule, expressing interest, +1, and other kinds of comment? (For clarity, the tone of this email is: possibly provocative, not entirely serious) -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of todd.d.robb...@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, 8 May 2014 11:03 a.m. To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Job: Digital Librarian at White House Historical Association Well that sounds like a hoot! On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 9:23 AM, j...@code4lib.org wrote: Digital Librarian White House Historical Association Washington, D.C. Description:The White House Historical Association invites applications for the position of Digital Librarian. This role requires one to three years of progressively responsible experience with digital projects, digital scholarship and/or digital repositories. This full- time position is career conditional and the selected candidate will be reviewed after a six-month trial period. A conditional employee who demonstrates promise and a passion for developing digital library systems will be given serious consideration for a permanent position. The Digital Librarian will take a lead role in the advancement of the association's digital collections, institutional archives, and will contribute to publishing efforts. Job Requirements: * Working knowledge of technologies and standards needed to manage digitization activities including capture (for still and moving images, text, audio, and born-digital formats), ingest and presentation (into digital asset management and institutional repository systems), metadata creation, and preservation. Experience with digital imaging file formats, conversion, and software such as Adobe Photoshop CS. Understanding of and experience with enterprise digital library applications and their role in higher education (e.g. Digital Commons, CONTENTdm, Omeka, DSpace, etc.). * Knowledge of public and technical services operations, as well as library standards (Dublin Core, OAI-PMH, EAD, etc.). Required: ALA-accredited graduate degree or accredited graduate degree in another appropriate discipline. Competitive salary commensurate with experience and benefits include life, health, and long-term disability insurance, retirement plan, and vacation and sick leave. Send letter and resume by June 15, 2014 to: Digital Librarian Search Committee White House Historical Association P.O. Box 27624 Washington, D.C. 20038-7624 202-789-0440 facsimiles [wbush...@whha.org](mailto:webmas...@whha.org) No telephone calls Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/14390/ -- Tod Robbins Digital Asset Manager, MLIS todrobbins.com | @todrobbins http://www.twitter.com/#!/todrobbins P Please consider the environment before you print this email. The contents of this e-mail (including any attachments) may be confidential and/or subject to copyright. Any unauthorised use, distribution, or copying of the contents is expressly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please advise the sender by return e-mail or telephone and then delete this e-mail together with all attachments from your system.
Re: [CODE4LIB] separate list for jobs
Point of logic: the fact that you (or others) find them useful is orthogonal to whether they should be from the same source. That was the original question. No, wait, it was about discussing (discussing) whether they should be together :) -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Charles Blair Sent: Thursday, 8 May 2014 11:56 a.m. To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] separate list for jobs I don't mind having them both in the same feed. They're easy enough to tell apart even w/o a filter. The reason I say this is that when I see something like Job: Digital Assets Librarian, or Job: Linked Data Technologist, Metadata at Stanford University, just to pick two at random, that's a good way for me (as a hiring manager) to see what new kinds of positions are being posted (as opposed to those I'm already familiar with), what new responsibilities they might entail, how a position might be pitched in a new way, or, as in the case of Stanford, what in particular they (as a leader in some of the sorts of things I care about) might be up to. At the very least it adds useful pieces to my current awareness in a convenient way, but it also has the potential of influencing how we define the next position we post here, and since we would like to hire from the community, it has potential benefit for the community as well. Of course, I'm speaking for myself, but in case this! is a potentially useful perspective, that some others might hold as well, I post it. -- Charles Blair, Director, Digital Library Development Center, University of Chicago Library 1 773 702 8459 | c...@uchicago.edu | http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/~chas/ P Please consider the environment before you print this email. The contents of this e-mail (including any attachments) may be confidential and/or subject to copyright. Any unauthorised use, distribution, or copying of the contents is expressly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please advise the sender by return e-mail or telephone and then delete this e-mail together with all attachments from your system.
Re: [CODE4LIB] separate list for jobs
It's not conversation though, it's more like broadcast. Surely I don't have to explain on this particular list why this channel is not the perfect broadcast outlet. Further, it's quite distinct subject matter. Let me not generalise about librarians, but don't these ideas resonate?: * separating out discrete information usefully ... ? * giving users the tools to choose ... ? (OK, we can set up filters. Note that I don't do that for any other lists. This is a common enough filtering requirement that the onus of effort should be looked at. You filter it, user is only OK IMO for unusual filtering requirements - this seems to have weight behind it.) And if there's, say, a job feed, I probably _will_ subscribe, but I'll check it less often. A feed will let us apply metadata (do we know what that is?), which means we could potentially filter it to our own regions too. Oh, the possibilities! This organising information stuff isn't just a theory we test on our patrons. If this group can't provide an exemplar, then ... [insert calamity]. Cheers :) -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Riley Childs Sent: Wednesday, 7 May 2014 9:10 a.m. To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] separate list for jobs I vote no the separation, even though I am a high school student I still enjoy reading the postings and seeing what jobs are out there, people with solid jobs likely agree with me 100%, plus it lets me know what type of degree(s) I may need in this field! Riley Childs Junior IT Admin email: rchi...@cucawarriors.com office: +1 (704) 537-0031 x101 cell: +1 (704) 497-2086 Please Think Before Hitting Reply All I Do Web Design! RileyChilds.net/services From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ruth Frasur [direc...@hagerstownlibrary.org] Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2014 4:53 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] separate list for jobs I rarely post anything to this list because honestly I'm not qualified in most cases. For this, however, I'm qualified. While I didn't see the initial question, I've figured it through its replies. Some of those responses have been pretty disheartening. While most of what goes through this list is more Code than Libraries, I'd just like to remind people that at the heart of libraries is The Question. We're not the parents that say Because I said so or Because that's how it's always been done. So, thanks to those who responded to the question with grace and information. And thanks to people willing to ask questions knowing that replies may demonstrate a misunderstanding or disregard for the original question. On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Richard Sarvas richard.sar...@lib.uconn.edu wrote: Actually, I am not complaining. I am just wondering why I am receiving so may job postings on a list serve that I though was supposed to be relating to Code4Lib conferences and coding in library environments. Had the list been called Code4LibJobs I suspect I never would have asked the question in the first place. As that is not the title of this list I felt it was a reasonable question, mostly because every time this topic comes up people simply respond No without explaining why. When the topic was proposed by another member I took the time to seek clarification. Still, thanks for taking the time to explain reason why so many job postings appear on this list. Rick -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Stuart Yeates Sent: Tuesday, May 06, 2014 3:51 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] separate list for jobs On 05/07/2014 04:59 AM, Richard Sarvas wrote: Not to be a jerk about this, but why is the answer always No? There seem to be more posts on this list relating to job openings than there are relating to code discussions. Are job postings a part why this list was originally created? If so, I'll stop now. The answer is always no because we are collectively using the the possession of an email client with filtering capability and the personal knowledge of how to use it as a Shibboleth for group membership. Those who find it easier to complain than write a filter mark themselves as members of the outgroup intruding on the ingroup. cheers stuart -- Ruth Frasur Director of the Historic(ally Awesome) Hagerstown - Jefferson Township Library 10 W. College Street in Hagerstown, Indiana (47346) p (765) 489-5632; f (765) 489-5808 Our Kickin' Website http://hagerstownlibrary.org Our Rockin' Facebook Page http://facebook.com/hjtplibrary and Stuff I'm Readinghttp://pinterest.com/hjtplibrary/ruth-reads/ P Please consider the environment before you print this email. The contents of this e-mail (including any attachments) may be confidential and/or subject
Re: [CODE4LIB] Welcome to Roy4Lib
Roy must be quite the guy, love to meet him. D'ya think this thread has maybe passed it's useful-by date? Constructive suggestion: take it onto Twitter, where I am not, with a hashtag ... ?? /grump -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Forrest, Stuart Sent: Tuesday, 25 February 2014 12:56 p.m. To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Welcome to Roy4Lib Dumb question. Who is Roy ;-) Excuse my brevity Sent from my iPad Stuart Forrest Library Systems Specialist Beaufort County Library On Feb 24, 2014, at 6:15 PM, Schwartz, Raymond schwart...@wpunj.edu wrote: Roy won't ask the bar, they don't carry Geritol From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Michael J. Giarlo [leftw...@alumni.rutgers.edu] Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 5:59 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Welcome to Roy4Lib Roy usually asks the bartender. On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 2:15 PM, Rosalyn Metz rosalynm...@gmail.com wrote: amazing. how does one make pull requests? On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Ranti Junus ranti.ju...@gmail.com wrote: Whoa... On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Brad Baxter b...@mail.libs.uga.edu wrote: Is it? On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 5:31 PM, Rosalyn Metz rosalynm...@gmail.com wrote: it appears that roy4lib.org is also down -- Bulk mail. Postage paid. P Please consider the environment before you print this email. The contents of this e-mail (including any attachments) may be confidential and/or subject to copyright. Any unauthorised use, distribution, or copying of the contents is expressly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please advise the sender by return e-mail or telephone and then delete this e-mail together with all attachments from your system.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Welcome to Roy4Lib
And vegetarians, and Mormons, and folks who never met Roy :) -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Riley Childs Sent: Tuesday, 25 February 2014 4:28 p.m. To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Welcome to Roy4Lib Just a reminder there are minors on this listserv ;P Riley Childs Student Asst. Head of IT Services Charlotte United Christian Academy (704) 497-2086 RileyChilds.net Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes From: Wilhelmina Randtkemailto:rand...@gmail.com Sent: 2/24/2014 10:24 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDUmailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Welcome to Roy4Lib My neighbor made this bacon vodka, and it was amazing http://www.instructables.com/id/Bacon-Infused-Vodka/ -Wilhelmina Randtke On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Michael J. Giarlo leftw...@alumni.rutgers.edu wrote: Bacon being cooked in a liquor store? Wow, California is awesome. On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 8:31 AM, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com wrote: That would make sense, but I think in this particular instance I was watching bacon being cooked. Roy On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Michael J. Giarlo leftw...@alumni.rutgers.edu wrote: Clearly taken in the liquor store. On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 7:08 AM, Cindi Trainor Blyberg cindi...@gmail.comwrote: Well, I do like the photo that Roy uses everywhere, but I have to say I like this one better: http://www.flickr.com/photos/23341397@N00/3769032245 On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 9:05 AM, Roy roy.zim...@wmich.edu wrote: Hmm. Call it roys4lib.org and put pictures of all the list's Roys on there... Mr. Tennant's picture would have to be first, of course, and be the biggest. On 2/21/2014 6:51 PM, Rosalyn Metz wrote: so tempted to buy roy4lib.org and put up a glass of scotch there. On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Edward M Corrado ecorr...@ecorrado.us wrote: Roy4lib has consumed to much Scotch - after all, it is Friday. -- Edward M. Corrado On Feb 21, 2014, at 18:13, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com wrote: roy4lib.org is ALWAYS down. I mean, it just makes too much sense for it to be in any other state. Roy On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Rosalyn Metz rosalynm...@gmail.com wrote: it appears that roy4lib.org is also down On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Frumkin, Jeremy frumk...@u.library.arizona.edu wrote: Welcome to the Roy4Lib discussion list. This list is intended to facilitate discussion on Roy Tennant's new world library order, the role of bacon (including kosher and vegetarian based varieties) in this context, and the long, long, long, long, long drawn out death of MARC. If you believe you have subscribed to this list in error, please email the admin at r...@roy4lib.org. -- -- Jeremy Frumkin Assistant Dean / Chief Technology Strategist University of Arizona Libraries +1 520.626.7296 frumk...@u.library.arizona.edu -- -- Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. - Albert Einstein P Please consider the environment before you print this email. The contents of this e-mail (including any attachments) may be confidential and/or subject to copyright. Any unauthorised use, distribution, or copying of the contents is expressly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please advise the sender by return e-mail or telephone and then delete this e-mail together with all attachments from your system.
Re: [CODE4LIB] The lie of the API
+1 to all of Richard's points here. Making something easier for you to develop is no justification for making it harder to consume or deviating from well supported standards. [Robert] You can't just put a file in the file system, unlike with separate URIs for distinct representations where it just works, instead you need server side processing. If we introduce languages into the negotiation, this won't scale. [Robert] This also makes it much harder to cache the responses, as the cache needs to determine whether or not the representation has changed -- the cache also needs to parse the headers rather than just comparing URI and content. Don't know caches intimately, but I don't see why that's algorithmically difficult. Just look at the Content-type of the response. Is it harder for caches to examine headers than content or URI? (That's an earnest, perhaps naïve, question.) If we are talking about caching on the client here (not caching proxies), I would think in most cases requests are issued with the same Accept-* headers, so caching will work as expected anyway. [Robert] Link headers can be added with a simple apache configuration rule, and as they're static are easy to cache. So the server side is easy, and the client side is trivial. Hadn't heard of these. (They are on Wikipedia so they must be real.) What do they offer over HTML link elements populated from the Dublin Core Element Set? --- My ideal setup would be to maintain a canonical URL that always serves the clients' flavour of representation (format/language), which could vary, but points to other representations (and versions for that matter) at separate URLs through a mechanism like HTML link elements. My whatever it's worth . great topic, though, thanks Robert :) Cheers Hugh Barnes Digital Access Coordinator Library, Teaching and Learning Lincoln University Christchurch New Zealand p +64 3 423 0357 -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Richard Wallis Sent: Monday, 2 December 2013 12:26 p.m. To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] The lie of the API It's harder to implement Content Negotiation than your own API, because you get to define your own API whereas you have to follow someone else's rules Don't wish your implementation problems on the consumers of your data. There are [you would hope] far more of them than of you ;-) Content-negotiation is an already established mechanism - why invent a new, and different, one just for *your* data? Put your self in the place of your consumer having to get their head around yet another site specific API pattern. As to discovering then using the (currently implemented) URI returned from a content-negotiated call - The standard http libraries take care of that, like any other http redirects (301,303, etc) plus you are protected from any future backend server implementation changes. ~Richard On 1 December 2013 20:51, LeVan,Ralph le...@oclc.org wrote: I'm confused about the supposed distinction between content negotiation and explicit content request in a URL. The reason I'm confused is that the response to content negotiation is supposed to be a content location header with a URL that is guaranteed to return the negotiated content. In other words, there *must* be a form of the URL that bypasses content negotiation. If you can do content negotiation, then you should have a URL form that doesn't require content negotiation. Ralph From: Code for Libraries CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU on behalf of Robert Sanderson azarot...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, November 29, 2013 2:44 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: The lie of the API (posted in the comments on the blog and reposted here for further discussion, if interest) While I couldn't agree more with the post's starting point -- URIs identify (concepts) and use HTTP as your API -- I couldn't disagree more with the use content negotiation conclusion. I'm with Dan Cohen in his comment regarding using different URIs for different representations for several reasons below. It's harder to implement Content Negotiation than your own API, because you get to define your own API whereas you have to follow someone else's rules when you implement conneg. You can't get your own API wrong. I agree with Ruben that HTTP is better than rolling your own proprietary API, we disagree that conneg is the correct solution. The choice is between conneg or regular HTTP, not conneg or a proprietary API. Secondly, you need to look at the HTTP headers and parse quite a complex structure to determine what is being requested. You can't just put a file in the file system, unlike with separate URIs for distinct representations where it just works, instead you need server side processing. This also makes it much harder to cache the
Re: [CODE4LIB] The lie of the API
-Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Joe Hourcle (They are on Wikipedia so they must be real.) Wikipedia was the first place you looked? Not IETF or W3C? No wonder people say libraries are doomed, if even people who work in libraries go straight to Wikipedia. It was a humorous aside, regrettably lacking a smiley. I think that comment would be better saved to pitch at folks who cite and link to w3schools as if authoritative. Some of them are even in libraries. Your other comments were informative, though. Thank you :) Cheers Hugh P Please consider the environment before you print this email. The contents of this e-mail (including any attachments) may be confidential and/or subject to copyright. Any unauthorised use, distribution, or copying of the contents is expressly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please advise the sender by return e-mail or telephone and then delete this e-mail together with all attachments from your system.
[CODE4LIB] calibr: a simple opening hours calendar
Hi folks I took a calendar script posted to this list by Andrew Darby some time ago and made some changes. I don't think there is any of Andrew's code left, so I've rebranded it with an acknowledgement. (If I had my time again, I might have coded it from scratch rather than built it over Andrew's script, but that's somewhat academic.) The whole scoop is in the readme on Github: http://github.com/LincolnUniLTL/calibr TLDR: With PHP, MySQL, some fiddling and data entry, you can publish a library opening hours calendar on your website in more than one language if you wish. It's a little quicker to enter common period patterns than it used to be in Google Calendar. The output is more accessible, customisable, multilingual, semantic, and hopefully more extensible (iCal etc) than previously. Here's a branded reference implementation: http://library2.lincoln.ac.nz/hours - it won't necessarily reflect the latest version. Use it, improve it, feed back, or log issues right there on Github if that works for you. Many thanks to Andrew for providing the foundation! Cheers Hugh Barnes Digital Access Coordinator Library, Teaching and Learning Lincoln University Christchurch New Zealand p +64 3 423 0357 P Please consider the environment before you print this email. The contents of this e-mail (including any attachments) may be confidential and/or subject to copyright. Any unauthorised use, distribution, or copying of the contents is expressly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please advise the sender by return e-mail or telephone and then delete this e-mail together with all attachments from your system.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Tool for managing subscription content metadata
Thanks Jeff, this looks like a pretty good fit. Unfortunately I am constrained to non-Linux/Apache platforms. CORAL's documentation is silent about WIMP support, but it does assume Apache in a few places. I'll know for sure when I have a chance to do a trial install. Thanks to you too, Raffaelle, I'll check out the Mediawiki extension and other possibility. No promises I'll remember, but will endeavour to report back on how this goes. Cheers -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Dycus, Jeff A Sent: Thursday, 21 November 2013 9:53 a.m. To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Tool for managing subscription content metadata Hi Hugh- You may want to check out CORAL http://erm.library.nd.edu/ It is an open source MySQL/PHP system that seems like it would do most of what you want it to do, and could probably be modified to do it all. Jeff Dycus Library Specialist, Electronic Resources University of Kentucky William T. Young Library 500 S. Limestone Lexington, KY 40506-0456 (859) 218-0678 jeff.dy...@uky.edu -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Barnes, Hugh Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 10:27 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Tool for managing subscription content metadata Hi An exercise we've just been through (don't ask!) has revealed a dire need to track information about subscription service vendors (e.g. serials, databases, e-book publishers) in a better way than Office documents. I am looking for a tool, ideally one to rule them all. Throwing it out here. The sort of information I am wanting to manage and give everyone an easy reference to is: * name * previous and variant names (they do like to re-brand) * login details (I can probably live with this being in a separate tool) * contact names and numbers * remote host URLs and URL patterns * ways we interact with them (e.g. do we change registered IP addresses by online form or by email notification?) * license information, maybe copies of them * how we authenticate our users * conditions of access (e.g. on/off campus, students/staff/alumni/walk-ins) * a simple activity log or just notes field Excluded or at least hidden from ordinary users: * invoicing and financial information * passwords (seems risky, happy to use a password safe for this) Essentially it's a catalogue/inventory of subscriptions we have. In some respects it's a lightweight CRM. Bonus points, I think, for having citable entries that we can share in emails (URLs probably, so a web interface). It would be brilliant if salient information was structured enough to export summaries or, say, generate EZProxy configuration files. I have been thinking along the lines of Mediawiki, maybe with a good template. From experience though, I worry about the willingness of new users to edit wiki content, especially in templates with lots of curly braces. I don't know if there is an actively maintained plug-in to turn a template into a non-threatening online form. Evan Prodromou's extension seems long abandoned [1]. Solving that issue, I think Mediawiki would be a good fit. So what do folks in this list use for the above functionality and how does it work? Or what _would_ you use? All insight appreciated. Cheers [1] http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Form Hugh Barnes Digital Access Coordinator Library, Teaching and Learning Lincoln University Christchurch New Zealand p +64 3 423 0357 P Please consider the environment before you print this email. The contents of this e-mail (including any attachments) may be confidential and/or subject to copyright. Any unauthorised use, distribution, or copying of the contents is expressly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please advise the sender by return e-mail or telephone and then delete this e-mail together with all attachments from your system.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Online validator for RelaxNG or Schematron?
For RNG, as long as your schema is reachable and referenced correctly, it looks like this should work: http://validator.nu . Please let us know how you find it. Nothing known or found in a quick scan for Schematron. Somewhat surprised at the apparent lack of options. Cheers Hugh Barnes Digital Access Coordinator Library, Teaching and Learning Lincoln University Christchurch New Zealand p +64 3 423 0357 -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Wolfe, Mark D Sent: Friday, 18 October 2013 2:54 a.m. To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Online validator for RelaxNG or Schematron? Does anyone know of an online validator for either Relax NG or Schematron? Thanks, Mark Mark Wolfe Curator of Digital Collections M. E. Grenander Department of Special Collections Archives Science Library 355, University at Albany, SUNY 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany NY 1 Phone: (518) 437-3934 Email: mwo...@albany.edu P Please consider the environment before you print this email. The contents of this e-mail (including any attachments) may be confidential and/or subject to copyright. Any unauthorised use, distribution, or copying of the contents is expressly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please advise the sender by return e-mail or telephone and then delete this e-mail together with all attachments from your system.
