Re: [CODE4LIB] StackExchange reboot?
You could set up http://www.osqa.net. On Jul 6, 2013 11:21 AM, Collie, Aaron col...@mail.lib.msu.edu wrote: Hey, So, both the Libraries http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/12432/libraries-information-science and Digital Preservation http://area51.stackexchange.com/proposals/39787/digital-preservation StackExchange sites did not pass beta. Apparently there was not enough interest (e.g. 200 vs 1,500 visits/day) and I also suspect some issues with scope (e.g. information science vs libraries vs digital preservation) and execution. Am I the only one that feels like it is something worth revisiting? I would think given this community's success with backchannels and communication, the concept might benefit from some code4lib incubation. Or maybe that already happened and there is just not enough interest in a QA site. -Aaron
Re: [CODE4LIB] Regular expression for maximum 4-digit number
Hi Cindy, You can *almost* use text to column to split the fields out from the string. Then you take the max() of the resulting range. *Except* there's a max of 256 columns. So you'll need to split the string into parts, perhaps into separate worksheets. Then do the text to columns in worksheet and put the max of that work sheet at the end. Then in a final worksheet, take the max of each max column in each worksheet. Unfortunately, there is no text to rows function, but you can roll your own following this scheme( http://www.excelforum.com/excel-formulas-and-functions/401500-how-do-you-convert-text-to-rows.html ). Either scheme would work Just had another idea: 1st open your data in Word, the convert the field delimiters to returns. Save it as plain text. Import it into Excel and you'll have all the data in one row. At the bottom of the row, you take the max of the row. God's Love, Brad --- www.maf.org/rhoads www.ontherhoads.org On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 9:02 AM, Harper, Cynthia char...@vts.edu wrote: Is there a way to return (in Excel, if possible) the largest 4-digit number (by word boundaries) in a string? I've extracted the 863 fields from Millennium for my active periodicals, and want to find the latest year in each run. I'm willing to estimate it by taking the largest 4-digit number in the string. I'm doing this in Excel. Any help? Cindy Harper Electronic Services and Serials Librarian Virginia Theological Seminary 3737 Seminary Road Alexandria VA 22304 703-461-1794 char...@vts.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Free Employee Scheduling Software
http://www.orangehrm.com/ might have what you need. --- www.maf.org/rhoads www.ontherhoads.org On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 9:15 AM, Cornel Darden Jr. corneldarde...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Does anyone know of any Free employee scheduling software for Windows; or even better, cross-plattorm (Mac, and Linux)? Thanks, -- Cornel Darden Jr. MSLIS Compound interest is the greatest invention in the history of mankind. - Albert Einstein-
Re: [CODE4LIB] Stand Up Desks
Go all the way to a treadmill desk. Check out http://officewalkers.ning.comfor info. On Feb 7, 2013 10:09 AM, Mark Pernotto mark.perno...@gmail.com wrote: Despite my best efforts of sitting up straight, getting an ergonomic chair, making sure my desk is a proper height (I'm a tall guy, so my desk is 'modified' to reflect this), and I make sure I stand up and at least stretch every 30 minutes (or so), my back still bothers me some days. I saw a Wired article a few months back hailing the benefits of stand up desks (http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/10/mf-standing-desk/), and also found an article in NY Times ( http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/business/stand-up-desks-gaining-favor-in-the-workplace.html?_r=1; ) and wondered if there were any other developers/list members who used them. In my mind, I'm trading one problem for another, and I'm not sure I want to be standing up all day long. On the other hand, my back is killing me today. Suggestions? Mark
Re: [CODE4LIB] project management system
Actually you can get it up and running on Amazon in few minutes. http://bitnami.org/stack/redmine --- www.maf.org/rhoads www.ontherhoads.org On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:45 AM, John Fink john.f...@gmail.com wrote: We use Redmine, and we're pretty happy with it. It's often used for software, but we've found it very helpful for a range of projects. It does require that you run it locally iirc, and therefore will require that you have someone who can (or can learn) to deploy Rails apps. jf On 2013-01-14 1:41 PM, Eric Phetteplace phett...@gmail.com wrote: Redmine http://www.redmine.org/ is an open source solution in this space. I haven't used it so I can't speak for its quality. Best, Eric On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Schwartz, Raymond schwart...@wpunj.edu wrote: Adam, Where is the free version of basecamp. The website only offers a 45 day free trial. All the rest are subscriptions. /Ray -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Adam Traub Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 1:33 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] project management system Hi Kun, I'm a big fan of Basecamp (http://basecamp.com/). With a small group, it is pretty easy to get by with just the free version and it handles distribution and archiving of emails. Unless you're looking for time-tracking, it has done a very good job for a couple of the projects I've worked on. I've noticed a few people get excited about the ability for it to store files and have wikis (called whiteboards in Basecamp), though it is easy to outgrow the free version quickly. I generally use it as a scheduling, to-do list (with assignments), and email system. You can always complement the file storage with Dropbox or an internal file system. Cheers, Adam Traub -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Lin, Kun Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 1:27 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] project management system Hi all, Our library is looking for a project management system. Does anyone has any suggestions on which one to choose? We only have a very small team and our main focus is to guide our librarians to submit their ideas and for record tacking purposes. Thanks Kun
Re: [CODE4LIB] project management system
You might also look at http://www.teamlab.com/saas.aspx. And FWIW, I've been collecting PM related links at https://delicious.com/bdrhoa/projectmanagement --- www.maf.org/rhoads www.ontherhoads.org On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Brad Rhoads bdr...@gmail.com wrote: Actually you can get it up and running on Amazon in few minutes. http://bitnami.org/stack/redmine --- www.maf.org/rhoads www.ontherhoads.org On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 11:45 AM, John Fink john.f...@gmail.com wrote: We use Redmine, and we're pretty happy with it. It's often used for software, but we've found it very helpful for a range of projects. It does require that you run it locally iirc, and therefore will require that you have someone who can (or can learn) to deploy Rails apps. jf On 2013-01-14 1:41 PM, Eric Phetteplace phett...@gmail.com wrote: Redmine http://www.redmine.org/ is an open source solution in this space. I haven't used it so I can't speak for its quality. Best, Eric On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Schwartz, Raymond schwart...@wpunj.edu wrote: Adam, Where is the free version of basecamp. The website only offers a 45 day free trial. All the rest are subscriptions. /Ray -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Adam Traub Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 1:33 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] project management system Hi Kun, I'm a big fan of Basecamp (http://basecamp.com/). With a small group, it is pretty easy to get by with just the free version and it handles distribution and archiving of emails. Unless you're looking for time-tracking, it has done a very good job for a couple of the projects I've worked on. I've noticed a few people get excited about the ability for it to store files and have wikis (called whiteboards in Basecamp), though it is easy to outgrow the free version quickly. I generally use it as a scheduling, to-do list (with assignments), and email system. You can always complement the file storage with Dropbox or an internal file system. Cheers, Adam Traub -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Lin, Kun Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 1:27 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] project management system Hi all, Our library is looking for a project management system. Does anyone has any suggestions on which one to choose? We only have a very small team and our main focus is to guide our librarians to submit their ideas and for record tacking purposes. Thanks Kun
Re: [CODE4LIB] Event Registration System Question
It's not open source but you might want checkout Eventbrite. It's free if ypi don't charge for the event. On Oct 18, 2012 4:08 PM, Brian McBride brian.mcbr...@utah.edu wrote: Greeting! I was wondering if anyone out there has found or knows of a good open source solution for event scheduling? We would need users to be able to register, allow instructors to set enrollment caps, and basic email reminder functions. Any information would be great! Thanks, Brian Brian McBride Head of Application Development J. Willard Marriott Library O: 801.585.7613 F: 801.585.5549 brian.mcbr...@utah.edumailto:brian.mcbr...@utah.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Issue Tracker Recommendations
I've been happy with Trac. It does have good SCM integration. Many of the options listed have VMs available at places like turnkeylinux.org or bitnami.org. You might try out this custom google search I put together: http://ontherhoads.org/brad/2012/02/vm-search-engine/ --- www.maf.org/rhoads www.ontherhoads.org On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 11:42 AM, Joe Hourcle onei...@grace.nascom.nasa.gov wrote: On Feb 22, 2012, at 12:36 PM, Cynthia Ng wrote: Hi All, We're looking at implementing an issue tracker for internal use, so I'm looking for recommendations. What's key: 1) minimal effort in install/setup i.e. ready to use out of the box 2) small scale is okay, we have a very small team 3) ideally, have an area for documentation and issue creation via email What does your institution use? What do you like and dislike most about it? Would you recommend it to others? Responses (short or detailed) would be greatly appreciated. I've only managed Bugzilla and Trac. They both were a little annoying to set up (define all of your software components and versions, and who's responsible for each one, so they'll get notified if bugs are filed). Trac has good reporting wiki for documentation, and their markup syntax makes it easy to link trouble tickets within the documentation (and it'll scratch them out as they're marked as resolved). I did get into some problems, as we had it open to the public, and someone posted an attachment*, which triggered a 'security incident' (which didn't seem to reach the 'men with guns show up and seize your machines' like it had in the past ... instead, it was 'we're going to make you rebuild your machine over and over against until we say it's okay' so I wasted 2 weeks on it) It's also a bit of a pain to strip all occurrences of the term 'wiki' and 'trac' from the software, so that I didn't show up as 7 of the top 10 results in google for 'site:nasa.gov wiki'. If you're keeping it private, it might not be so bad. I also have no idea how useful the interaction with change control is ... we were using CVS, and it was still subversion specific back then. I've also helped to configure Remedy before, it was more than a decade ago, but it left a bad taste it my mouth (and it wasn't cheap) ... As others have mentioned github, I know there's other services out there ... one project here uses launchpad.net (which is tied to Bazaar), and they seem happy with it, but I've never administered it myself. -Joe * The attachment was an image which said 'I've hacked your machine'. Years later, when we switched virus scanning software, it found a backup that had that file in it, and it turns out there was a JPEG exploit in it ... but the security gestapo had thought that *my* server had been hacked, which is what triggered it all.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Project Management Software Question
I'm in the process of doing an evaluation. SmartSheet is a great tool for creating gantt charts. Overall, Redmine is looking pretty good. Not much info yet, but at least the list of products might be helpful: https://doc.maflt.org/Reviews-Comparisons/Project_Management --- www.maf.org/rhoads www.ontherhoads.org On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Brian McBride brian.mcbr...@utah.edu wrote: Question for all the code4lib developers out there: --What project management software are you using? --What made you choose the system? --Has the system met all of your needs? If not, where does it fail? --Overall opinions? --What systems did you evaluate and decide not to recommend? Any information would be great! Thanks, Brian Brian McBride Head of Application Development J. Willard Marriott Library O: 801.585.7613 F: 801.585.5549 brian.mcbr...@utah.edumailto:brian.mcbr...@utah.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] What software for a digital library
Hi Lars, You might take a look at our recently released digital library system called Ibidem (http://www.maflt.org/products/Ibidem). Its strengths are its simplicity and its flexibility. For example, items can be in multiple collections. And you can define custom metadata sets, where you can have user friendly names that get translated to Dublin Core. Does the typical user really know what Relation or Coverage mean? BTW, it's multilingual and multitenant. I'll be modularizing the code soon to make it easier to build custom end user UIs, or you can access the data via OAI-PMH calls. Right now Ibidem is very good for administration and I'm working to make it better for the end user experience. (There will probably be a mobile interface within the next 6 months.) -Brad --- www.maf.org/rhoads www.ontherhoads.org On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 10:05 PM, Lars Aronsson l...@aronsson.se wrote: If I built this website today and not in 1994, http://runeberg.org/irescan/**0014.htmlhttp://runeberg.org/irescan/0014.html (you can see it hasn't changed much, http://web.archive.org/web/**19970227191652/http://www.** lysator.liu.se/runeberg/fstal/**1b.htmlhttp://web.archive.org/web/19970227191652/http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/fstal/1b.html ) then I would probably use CSS rather than HTML tables for layout, I would probably use a MySQL database instead of plain text files, and I would probably use some open source content management (CMS) or digital asset managment (DAM) software rather than a Perl script that generates static HTML files. But which open source framework would I use? Greenstone? XTF? DSpace? Mediawiki? Django? WordPress? I found the Mark Twain Project, which uses XTF, and it looks quite nice, http://www.marktwainproject.**org/http://www.marktwainproject.org/ Then I saw the video showing how to add a new document to an XTF website, and that didn't look so good, http://xtf.cdlib.org/getting-**started-tutorials/the-** exercises/exercise-1/http://xtf.cdlib.org/getting-started-tutorials/the-exercises/exercise-1/ 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. ... To be clear: I need a platform where regular users, logged in or not, can upload new books through a web interface. Does that leave me with anything else than Mediawiki? -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Project Runeberg - free Nordic literature - http://runeberg.org/
Re: [CODE4LIB] iPad Kiosk Statistics
I'd try using couchdb (http://www.couchbase.org/get/couchbase-mobile-for-ios/current). It would auto sync when ever you did get online. --- www.maf.org/rhoads www.ontherhoads.org On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Edward Iglesias edwardigles...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All, We are implementing iPads in our library as wayfinders or kiosks. Does anyone know of a way to get stats from them? We are using Kiosk software that loads local html pages so as to not have to worry about internet connectivity. I've thought about just exporting the history from the browser and parsing it but surely there is a more elegant solution. Thanks, Edward Iglesias
Re: [CODE4LIB] Software for Capstone\Theses Projects
I don't have that exact security model in place, but http://www.maflt.org/products/Ibidem could be modified to add it. --- www.maf.org/rhoads www.ontherhoads.org On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 6:40 AM, Michael Beccaria mbecca...@paulsmiths.edu wrote: I've been looking for an out of the box solution to archive and make accessible capstone\theses projects to web users. The caveat being that when the author submits the paper, they would be able provide permissions and metadata to the document (copyright and access) and, based on those permissions, the entire document would be made public or only the metadata. I know that there are large repository software packages like DSpace or Fedora Commons that probably do this, but I was looking for something smaller. I don't need to scale to millions of documents and have all of the potential bells and whistles. Just something that lets people create an account, upload, set permissions and the have documents show up in the search interface. Anything like this around? Mike Beccaria Systems Librarian Head of Digital Initiative Paul Smith's College 518.327.6376 mbecca...@paulsmiths.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] converting video DVDs to something that will play on the web
You can probably use http://handbrake.fr/. --- www.maf.org/rhoads www.ontherhoads.org On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Browne,Ginny brow...@oclc.org wrote: We have a bunch of DVDs that we converted from VHS tapes. And now we would like to put them on the web, but we need some sort of converter from the DVD format to a web streaming file. Has anybody done this?? (They are all our own material, so we have no copyright issues to deal with.)
Re: [CODE4LIB] audio transcription software
A great quality service is http://on-sitemedia.com/. I have no idea what she charges. Google for open source speech recognition On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Sean Hannan shan...@jhu.edu wrote: Not software, exactly, but this seems like an ideal thing to set up in Mechanical Turk. This guy did it with an audio interview: http://waxy.org/2008/09/audio_transcription_with_mechanical_turk/ -Sean On 5/12/10 2:18 PM, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: Does anybody here use or know of any audio transcription software? We have a growing number of projects here at Notre Dame that include oral histories. How can these digital files be converted into plain text? Audio transcription software may be the answer? -- --- www.maf.org/rhoads www.ontherhoads.org
Re: [CODE4LIB] OCR for handwritten pages
I'm not sure if you could use reCAPTCHA or not. If you have a large enough user base for some other application and reCAPTCHA will let you specify the source document, it could be an option. http://recaptcha.net/ On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Han, Yan h...@u.library.arizona.eduwrote: Hello, Colleagues, Does anyone know/use any OCR software working on handwritten pages? or at least think it is better than hiring a student key-in. I know these OCR software such as ABBYY, but they do not work on handwriting. Thanks, Yan --- www.maf.org/rhoads www.ontherhoads.org
Re: [CODE4LIB] Choosing development platforms and/or tools, how'd you do it?
On the IDE question, I'll just add that I find an interactive debugger to be a necessity.
Re: [CODE4LIB] University of Rochester Releases IR+ Institutional Repository System
Looks very nice. Congrats! On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Sarr, Nathan ns...@library.rochester.eduwrote: The University of Rochester is pleased to announce the 1.0 production version of its new open source institutional repository software platform, IR+. The University has been running IR+ in production since August 2009. The download can be found here: http://code.google.com/p/irplus/downloads/list http://code.google.com/p/irplus/downloads/list The website for the project can be found here: http://www.irplus.org http://www.irplus.org IR+ includes the following features: - Repository Wide Statistics: download counts at the repository collection and publication level. The statistics excludes web crawler results, and includes the ability to retroactively remove previously unknown crawlers or download counts that should not be included, for more accurate statistical reporting. - Researcher Pages, to allow users (faculty, graduate students, researchers) to highlight their work and post their CV o Example of a current researcher: https://urresearch.rochester.edu/viewResearcherPage.action?researcherId= 30 https://urresearch.rochester.edu/viewResearcherPage.action?researcherId =30https://urresearch.rochester.edu/viewResearcherPage.action?researcherId%0A=30 - Ability to create Personal publications that allows users to have full control over their work and see download counts without publishing into the repository. - An online workspace where users can store files they are working on, and if needed, share files with colleagues or their thesis advisor. - Contributor pages where users can view download counts for all publications that they are associated with in the repository. o Example of a contributor page: https://urresearch.rochester.edu/viewContributorPage.action?personNameId =20https://urresearch.rochester.edu/viewContributorPage.action?personNameId%0A=20 https://urresearch.rochester.edu/viewContributorPage.action?personNameI d=20https://urresearch.rochester.edu/viewContributorPage.action?personNameI%0Ad=20 - Faceted Searching (example search for: Graduate Student Research) o https://urresearch.rochester.edu/searchRepositoryItems.action?query=Medi cal+Image https://urresearch.rochester.edu/searchRepositoryItems.action?query=Med ical+Image - Embargos (example below embargoed until 2011-01-01) o https://urresearch.rochester.edu/institutionalPublicationPublicView.acti on?institutionalItemId=8057https://urresearch.rochester.edu/institutionalPublicationPublicView.acti%0Aon?institutionalItemId=8057 https://urresearch.rochester.edu/institutionalPublicationPublicView.act ion?institutionalItemId=8057https://urresearch.rochester.edu/institutionalPublicationPublicView.act%0Aion?institutionalItemId=8057 - Name Authority Control (Notice changes in last name) o https://urresearch.rochester.edu/viewContributorPage.action?personNameId =209https://urresearch.rochester.edu/viewContributorPage.action?personNameId%0A=209 https://urresearch.rochester.edu/viewContributorPage.action?personNameI d=209https://urresearch.rochester.edu/viewContributorPage.action?personNameI%0Ad=209 You can see the IR+ system customized for our university and in action here: https://urresearch.rochester.edu https://urresearch.rochester.edu A further explanation of highlights can be found on my researcher page here: https://urresearch.rochester.edu/researcherPublicationView.action?resear cherPublicationId=11https://urresearch.rochester.edu/researcherPublicationView.action?resear%0AcherPublicationId=11 https://urresearch.rochester.edu/researcherPublicationView.action?resea rcherPublicationId=11https://urresearch.rochester.edu/researcherPublicationView.action?resea%0ArcherPublicationId=11 The documentation for the system (install/user/administration) with lots of pictures can be found on my researcher page here: https://urresearch.rochester.edu/researcherPublicationView.action?resear cherPublicationId=16https://urresearch.rochester.edu/researcherPublicationView.action?resear%0AcherPublicationId=16 https://urresearch.rochester.edu/researcherPublicationView.action?resea rcherPublicationId=16https://urresearch.rochester.edu/researcherPublicationView.action?resea%0ArcherPublicationId=16 We would be happy to give you a personal tour of the system and the features it provides. Please feel free to contact me with any questions you may have. -Nate Nathan Sarr Senior Software Engineer River Campus Libraries University of Rochester Rochester, NY 14627 (585) 275-0692 -- --- www.maf.org/rhoads www.ontherhoads.org
Re: [CODE4LIB] EmeraldView, a PHP frontend for Greenstone
URLs of unusual size - LOL Looks very nice. Have fun storming the castle On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Yitzchak Schafferyitzchak.schaf...@gmx.com wrote: The systems team at Touro College Libraries is pleased to announce the beta release of EmeraldView, a new open-source PHP frontend for the Greenstone digital library system. More information is available at the project website at http://emeraldview.tourolib.org/ A live demo is running at http://emeraldview-demo.tourolib.org/ We would be excited if anyone has a bit of time to contribute to the project, particularly in the design department, as the user interface is still waiting for a visionary. We will also be thrilled to hear any and all feedback. We know you are checking out the site and downloading the code! Hit us up. Cheers, -- Yitzchak Schaffer Systems Manager Touro College Libraries 33 West 23rd Street New York, NY 10010 Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230 Fax (212) 627-3197 Email yitzchak.schaf...@tourolib.org -- --- www.maf.org/rhoads www.ontherhoads.org
