[CODE4LIB] REST Fest 2010

2010-08-05 Thread Benjamin Young
18, 2010 at 6:00 PM (ET) Greenville, SC Co-Chairs: Mike Amundsen Benjamin Young REST Fest 2010 (Sep 17th 18th) REST Fest is a community unconference event focused on the REST architectural style and implementations. This year, REST Fest will encourage developers who have direct experience

Re: [CODE4LIB] Indexing MARC(-JSON) with MongoDB?

2010-05-13 Thread Benjamin Young
On 5/13/10 8:59 AM, Fernando Gómez wrote: Any suggestions? Do other document oriented databases offer a better solution for this? Hey Fernando, I'd suggest you checkout CouchDB. CouchDB uses JSON as it's document format, provides advanced indexing (anywhere in the JSON docs) via

Re: [CODE4LIB] Twitter annotations and library software

2010-04-29 Thread Benjamin Young
At #ldow2010 on Tuesday there was a presentation on semantic Twitter via TwitLogic: http://twitlogic.fortytwo.net/ You can download the full paper if you're really curious: http://events.linkeddata.org/ldow2010/papers/ldow2010_paper16.pdf Twitter Annotations system was mentioned at the end as

Re: [CODE4LIB] Twitter annotations and library software

2010-04-29 Thread Benjamin Young
I vote (heh) for d which will look a lot like c anyway, but with smatterings of owl:sameAs and Range-14 style 303's to keep things interesting. :) -- President BigBlueHat P: 864.232.9553 W: http://www.bigbluehat.com/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/benjaminyoung On 4/29/10 2:01 PM, Jakob Voss

Re: [CODE4LIB] it's cool to hate on OpenURL

2010-04-29 Thread Benjamin Young
On 4/29/10 12:32 PM, MJ Suhonos wrote: What I hope for is that OpenURL 1.0 eventually takes a place alongside SGML as a too-complex standard that directly paves the way for a universally adopted foundational technology like XML. What I fear is that it takes a place alongside MARC as an

Re: [CODE4LIB] NoSQL - is this a real thing or a flash in the pan?

2010-04-12 Thread Benjamin Young
I'd actually vote for the sensible, forward-looking approach. The BBC (for one) is already using CouchDB in a production: http://damienkatz.net/2010/03/bbc_and_couchdb.html That said, NoSQL as a movement is as wide and varied as the RDBMS world, and there are pros and cons to each. I'm

Re: [CODE4LIB] NoSQL - is this a real thing or a flash in the pan?

2010-04-12 Thread Benjamin Young
SQL-style JOINs can be done in CouchDB (can't speak for the other NoSQL DB's). In CouchDB, it's called view collation: http://chrischandler.name/couchdb/view-collation-for-join-like-behavior-in-couchdb/ It's a different way of thinking (as there are no tables, and map/reduce goes through

Re: [CODE4LIB] NoSQL - is this a real thing or a flash in the pan?

2010-04-12 Thread Benjamin Young
From my understanding of key/value stores, one can put documents on the other side of the key, but any and all parsing/processing of that value happens outside of the database. In CouchDB, the entire document is query-able from within map/reduce views. After being querying on, those keys are

Re: [CODE4LIB] NoSQL - is this a real thing or a flash in the pan?

2010-04-12 Thread Benjamin Young
On 4/12/10 4:47 PM, Ryan Eby wrote: You could put your logs, marc records broken out by fields or arrays/hashes (types in couchdb) in any of them but the approach each takes would limit you (or empower you) differently. Once there's a good marc2json script (and format) out there, it'd be

Re: [CODE4LIB] NoSQL - is this a real thing or a flash in the pan?

2010-04-12 Thread Benjamin Young
(as attributes and such make a 1-to-1 conversion complicated--though there have been attempts at general conversion scripts). Once a JSON output format for MARC is done, then converting from MARCXML to marc.json (or whatever) would be an easy first step. On 2010-04-12, at 5:00 PM, Benjamin Young wrote

Re: [CODE4LIB] newbie

2010-03-25 Thread Benjamin Young
He means JavaScript. ;) Honestly, though, PHP and all it's fault not withstanding, I highly recommend starting with a C syntax-based language such as JavaScript, PHP, Java, or even C# (and obviously C and C++). Get some basic programming concepts understood, and then pursue the language the

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter

2010-03-08 Thread Benjamin Young
On 3/6/10 6:59 PM, Houghton,Andrew wrote: From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Bill Dueber Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2010 05:11 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter Anyway, hopefully, it won't be a huge surprise that I

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter

2010-03-05 Thread Benjamin Young
On 3/5/10 8:15 AM, Godmar Back wrote: On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:59 AM, Ulrich Schaeferulrich.schae...@dfki.dewrote: Hi, try this: http://code.google.com/p/xml2json-xslt/ I should have mentioned that I already tried everything I could find after googling - this stylesheet doesn't

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter

2010-03-05 Thread Benjamin Young
On 3/5/10 1:10 PM, Houghton,Andrew wrote: From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Bill Dueber Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 12:30 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 12:01 PM,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter

2010-03-05 Thread Benjamin Young
On 3/5/10 2:46 PM, Ross Singer wrote: On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:06 PM, Benjamin Youngbyo...@bigbluehat.com wrote: A CouchDB friend of mine just pointed me to the BibJSON format by the Bibliographic Knowledge Network: http://www.bibkn.org/bibjson/index.html Might be worth looking through

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter

2010-03-05 Thread Benjamin Young
On 3/5/10 3:45 PM, Bill Dueber wrote: On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Houghton,Andrewhough...@oclc.org wrote: As you point out JSON streaming doesn't work with all clients and I am hesitent to build on anything that all clients cannot accept. I think part of the issue here is proper API

Re: [CODE4LIB] faceted browsing

2010-02-08 Thread Benjamin Young
Have you seen the Exhibit library (part of the Simile project at MIT)? It provides faceted browsing along with map integration: http://www.simile-widgets.org/exhibit/ It should be fairly easy to add to an existing project as it can consume a pretty simple JSON format that your app could

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: what is the best open source native XML database

2010-01-18 Thread Benjamin Young
Hey Godmar, I'd definitely consider CouchDB as Patrick mentioned. It's a schema-free JSON document database and replication is it's greatest strength. It does have Lucene integration: http://github.com/rnewson/couchdb-lucene Paul J. Davis of the core CouchDB team has a nice write-up: