The Knight News Challenge grant also funded DocumentCloud ( open source
newsroom platform for uploading, annotating, sharing documents ), which
actually created Backbone.js and Underscore.js. They have a pretty active
community.
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 6:21 PM, Chad Nelson wrote:
> Tom,
>
> T
Vagrant is not a good idea for production. It's really for people to work
against a copy of the production environment.
Like you can use Vagrant, then update a ansible or puppet or chef script
then deploy that to yr VM.
Hashicorp is making something called Otto which is supposed to replace
Vagrant
Hi,
Yes, what version are you running?
b,chris.
On Tue, Jul 21, 2015 at 9:18 AM, KNOWLES Claire
wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> Have you posted to the ArchivesSpace Google Group
> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/archivesspace? I've found it
> really helpful when I've had issues with ArchivesSp
Hi everyone,
The ArchivesSpace project is considering hosting an open house during
code4lib this year in Portland, with the idea of having some meetups and
get-togethers planned.
We are looking at renting a house close to the conference and it's possible
that there's an extra bed for accommodatio
Tesseract is going to be slow, and there might not much you can do about
that.
You can do a couple of things, like set up a processes that run on AWS EC2
spot instances, so you can put a standing bid order on AWS instances and
only run your OCR when the price drops.
Or you can buy ABBYY , which i
Is this question being asked because Apple moved away from the whole
"cat-themed" OS naming convention?
I think the Nyan Cat had it's own linux for awhile...maybe you could just
use that?
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 6:40 AM, Jason Bengtson
wrote:
> We have some stuff hosted on a CentOS virtual se
ices Administrator
> IT Services
> (704) 497-2086
> rileychilds.net
> @rowdychildren
> ________
> From: Chris Fitzpatrick<mailto:chrisfitz...@gmail.com>
> Sent: 10/8/2014 7:53 AM
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU<mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.ED
So this thread started from talking about RFID ( "i'm interested!" ) to
talking about augmented reality ( "uh, ok, now less interested...") to
talking about standards ( "oh no, not again.." ) to talking about c4l (
"yep." )
So, are people using RFID? A lot? Is it working, or did it make life
helli
Solr with Koha? Now you have 2 problems.
I setup Koha to use Blacklight. I was fairly easy.It's been awhile, but if
I recall, I added a single-column table in Koha to queue bibkeys. Then I
added a db trigger to the bib table to add bibkeys to the queue table
whenever there was an create/update/del
more cowbell
On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 9:05 PM, Wilhelmina Randtke wrote:
> I prefer full ads also.
>
> -Wilhelmina Randtke
>
>
> On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 7:53 AM, Dunn, Katie wrote:
>
> > On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 10:06 PM, Joe Hourcle wrote:
> > > It looks to me like it's a change in the messages
tware; the application and its
source code are available on Github. Build instructions and technical
documentation <http://archivesspace.github.com/archivesspace/doc/> are also
provided for the more technically inclined.
ArchivesSpace is also a member-supported community. Lists of current
members are posted at http://www.archivesspace.org/members. If you are
interested in becoming a member, please send a request to
archivesspaceh...@lyrasis.org.
Chris Fitzpatrick | Developer, ArchivesSpace
Skype: chrisfitzpat | Phone: 918.236.6048
http://archivesspace.org/
ll as going over migration and plugins architecture.
All are welcome.
See you this afternoon!
best, chris fitzpatrick
ArchivesSpace Developer
http://archivesspace.org
If you are interested in awesome European conferences, it's probably hard
to beat Cycling For Libraries.
http://www.cyclingforlibraries.org
Multiple rides this year, with the main conference being from
Montpellier-Lyon and anther group doing rides in the Batlic
( https://www.facebook.com/events/4
you'd like to see in the session.
Hope to see you in Raleigh!
best regards, Chris Fitzpatrick
Chris Fitzpatrick | chris.fitzpatr...@lyrasis.org
Developer, ArchivesSpace
http://archivesspace.org/
About ArchivesSpace
Built for archives by archivists, ArchivesSpace is the open source archiv
member, please send a request to
archivesspaceh...@lyrasis.org.
Chris Fitzpatrick | chris.fitzpatr...@lyrasis.org
Developer, ArchivesSpace
http://archivesspace.org/
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 the pages.
In addition, there's a
ns, please feel free to contact me directly.
Thanks and look forward to see you all soon!
best regards,
Chris Fitzpatrick
Developer
ArchivesSpace
http://archivesspace.org
Also, last time few time I was in LA I took the Metro to/from the airport
and it was great.
I think the Green line goes to LAX and the Red Line goes to North Hollywood
and Burbank.
But you would run the danger of running into Ed Begley Jr., so there's
that.
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 12:48 AM, And
nts, please
feel free to contact me directly.
Thanks again and look forward to seeing you all soon.
best,
Chris Fitzpatrick
Developer
ArchivesSpace
Do you need OCR?
This script =>
http://bookscanner.pbworks.com/w/page/45609343/Homer%20bash%20script
will OCR a directory of TIFFs (using Tesseract) and build a PDF using
Tesseract.
It's a little old, but I still use it pretty much every day. I think you'll
need to have Ruby 1.9 installed, since t
Hi,
I think you can do this all with JS or Coffeescript.
Here's a fiddle :
http://jsfiddle.net/chrisfitzpat/t69Xs/
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Daryl Grenz wrote:
> Powell's Books provides an API (http://api.powells.com/stable) and direct
> links to their book covers by ISBN13 only.
>
Yeah...I think you're running into this:
http://lucene.472066.n3.nabble.com/field-length-normalization-tp495308p495311.html
TL;DR:
Jay Hill says fields with 3 terms and 4 terms both score at .5 in the
lengthNorm.
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 4:21 PM, Nicolas Franck wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I hav
Hi,
Would something like this work?
https://github.com/marc4j/marc4j/blob/master/src/org/marc4j/samples/StylesheetChainExample.java
On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Tod Olson wrote:
> code4lib,
>
> I'm looking for some advice on splitting and transforming XML data using
> Java. The context is
UNSUBCRIBE
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Joshua Welker wrote:
> Ah you got me. Shame on me for not checking the link first. I haven't had
> to
> dodge Rickrolls since 2010 so I am out of practice.
>
> Josh Welker
> Information Technology Librarian
> James C. Kirkpatrick Library
> University
or the right job'.
>
> Plus, as Giarlo said, they're not really that different.
>
> ________
> From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Chris
> Fitzpatrick [chrisfitz...@gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, July 29, 2013 1:3
One thing to factor in is that if you learn ruby you run the risk of
becoming one of those people who constantly talks,tweets,blogs, posts to
this mailing list about how great ruby is. This can have a very negative
impact on your work productivity.
On Monday, July 29, 2013, Dana Pearson wrote:
>
<>
I recommend looking at pdfbeads. It's in ruby and the documentation is
mostly in Russian (
http://rubyforge.org/docman/view.php/9752/10692/pdfbeads.ru.html ), but
it provides both a library and an easy to use executiable to build PDFs
out of hOCR files and images. You literally just point it at
So, yeah, new thread. Sorry (I'm not sorry).
tl;dr = it's not perfect but you'll never get access
control/revision/fulltext searching functionality even if you spend
~1000x more.
About using Google Driveyeah, we're very small ( 115 students!), so
we're very interested in keeping our ov
Hi,
In regards to handwriting, you could always train an OCR library to do
this and there are several OCR libraries that attempt to do this
out-of-the-box (probably most notable is Evernote) ...but yeah, the
results vary greatly depending on the style of writing. Most focus on
just hand print
Hi,
I recently looked into similar services...
There are some cloud based vendors that do this. Abbyy, for example,
offers one. But the cost seems rather high when working in bulk. I did
the math and it didn't make sense for usI think they market it
towards people building mobile apps, no
hi,
has anyone volunteered for the mapping feature? if not, I'd like to take a
crack at it as I am wanting to get more practical django experience under
my belt. and since this list has gotten me two jobs, I would love to give
some payback. just dont want to duplicate any work someone else has
sta
"pendantic" and "ruby" go together about as well as "brevity" and this
mailing list
class Foo
private
def bar
"Calling a private method is foobar"
end
end
$ irb
1.9.3p286 :009 > Foo.new.bar
NoMethodError: private method `bar' called for #
1.9.3p286 :010 > Foo.new.send(:bar)
=> "Callin
Hi,
I am wanting to add epub output to our scanning workflow...just like the
Internet Archive does. However, looking at their code, it appears they are
using Abbyy FineReader for OCR.
We're using Tesseract to make hOCR files, which we combine to with the
images to make PDFs. Has anyone done the c
ikea makes an adjustable motorized desk.
http://www.ikea.com/se/sv/catalog/products/S59888577/
that's what I used when the hot tub is being cleaned.
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 7:47 PM, Forrest, Stuart wrote:
> Mark
>
> It would be great to see some pictures once you are finished
>
>
> Stuart For
rg/improving-salariesstatus/resources/ala-apa-librarian-and-library-worker-salary-surveys/>
>
>
> On 11/29/12 1:19 PM, Chris Fitzpatrick wrote:
>
>> Hm. This all has been a long and really interesting conversation...but I
>> gotta ask if men really outweigh women in the
Hm. This all has been a long and really interesting conversation...but I
gotta ask if men really outweigh women in the higher paying library jobs
as much as they do in banks and K-12? I guess it depends on the definition
of "tech" vs. "non-tech" jobs in the library setting, which I'll leave to
tha
maybe i'm just being naive, but i have the feeling if we:
a) strongly stated that we support and encourage diversity and would like
to see that reflected in our presentation lineup
b) allowed people to include some information about themselves in the
proposal that increases voter awareness ( lik
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> disclosure, copying, distribution or use of any of the information
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I'm also having issues. I'm using WebTV.
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 7:27 PM, Michael B. Klein wrote:
> Results brought to you by @zalgo.
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 12:15 PM, Becky Yoose wrote:
>
> > Not a voting problem per se, but the results page in IE9 [1] in Win7
> threw
> > up up everywhe
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayre's_law
On Oct 25, 2012 3:49 PM, "Ross Singer" wrote:
> On Oct 25, 2012, at 9:20 AM, Gary McGath wrote:
>
> > Which is exactly the point I was about to make before I read your second
> > paragraph; the server, not the web page, should be fixed up to make
> > th
Hello,
Best tool I've found for pdf text extraction is Apache Tika (
http://tika.apache.org/ ). It's in java, but there's a pre-made runnable
jar application you can use to extract text...
You can just write a simple script to find all the pdf files and run it
through tika, but that would probabl
If you're just wanting a web server for a single site, having a
physical dedicated server is probably not really needed. But if it's a
requirement to have stuff, i'd look to buy something that I can set up
a small VM setup that I could deploy multiple webservers as needed, in
which case you probabl
I think it has to be a federal employee because the SCOTUS ruling left
the "experimentation on federal employees" part of Obamacare stand. I
think that was just a to placate Scalia or something (didn't work).
And they're probably looking for librarians because they'll come in
droves if there's cat
This just seems like some sort of trap. The fact that it's a craigslist ad
in all caps makes me pretty sure this person is working on a "librarian
centpede" in their basement.
On Jul 9, 2012 7:56 PM, "Simon Spero" wrote:
> On Jul 9, 2012 1:27 PM, "Joshua Gomez" wrote:
>
> > WE NEED A CAT LOVER W
Hey Ravi,
I actually learned about TinkerPop from a posting on this list from
Brian Tingle and I started playing with it and eventually started
working with it for the digital repository we're building. I actually
began with the Sail extension, but scaled back to non-RDF model on
that after realiz
Hi Ravi,
Yeah, if you haven't seen it yet, take a look at the first link
(http://www.w3.org/wiki/LargeTripleStores) in the search results that
Stefano included.
A big question is if you're going to need reasoning capabilities. If
that's the case, you'll probably want to look at the first 3 in tha
just to mention, I don't think Less works with jruby, so if you use
Bootstrap, you have to use the static assets and can't use the
generators...
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Shaun Ellis wrote:
> I have not used Foundation, but from what I can see, it offers a subset of
> the features that
ile fails, so it reverts to
"compile at runtime" mode) if anyone has insight into this, please
lemme know...I believe having them compile at runtime does slow down
the application...
b,chris.
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:49 PM, Chris Fitzpatrick
wrote:
> Hey Erik,
>
> I use
Hey Erik,
I used this AMI for solr =>
http://www.lucidimagination.com/blog/2010/02/01/solr-shines-through-the-cloud-lucidworks-solr-on-ec2/
Note : You will have to change the schema and solrconfig files on the image...
b,chris.
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 9:44 PM, Erik Mitchell wrote:
> Neat! Th
. It's pretty sizable.
>
> -Sean
>
>
> On 3/29/12 12:16 PM, "Chris Fitzpatrick" wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've deployed Blacklight on both Heroku and Elastic BeanStalk.
>>
>> Heroku is still a much better choice. The only issue I
Hi,
I've deployed Blacklight on both Heroku and Elastic BeanStalk.
Heroku is still a much better choice. The only issue I had was I
needed to make sure the sass-rails gem in installed in the :production
gem group and not just development.
I still have an issue of getting heroku to compile all m
I figured it was in Paris since that's where all the ninjas seem to be
these days.
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Lisa H Kurt wrote:
> Cary,
>
> It looks like this is a telecommuting job- location would be anywhere:
>
> "* Working from home (yes, you heard it right, though slackers need not
>
x, but I suspect as we
> become more familar with graph traversal idioms in gremlin and cypher,
> they'll become as "normal" as sql
>
> But so far, neo4j seems fast and robust, and we're optimistic!
>
> Kent Fitch
>
> On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Chris
Hej hej,
Is anyone is using neo4j in their library projects.
If the answer is "ja", I would be very interested in hearing how it's going.
How are you using it?
Is it something that is in production and is adding value or is it
more a skunkworks-type effort?
What languages are you using? Are you u
I was part of a particularly long siege during the METS offensive back in '08.
It was brutal. We pretty much ran out of everything and were fighting
hand-to-hand before the whole thing was over.
I remember toward the end, while out on requirement gathering patrol, my team
came up on a group of
+1 for Terry's idea of limiting the number of participants each institution can
send. I don't know what this number would be, but I think it would help
increase diversity, since it might get more people working in smaller
organizations into the conference.
On Dec 22, 2011, at 7:46 AM, Reese,
Easy solution : dance off.
Everyone puts a youtube video up and the community votes on who has the best
moves.
The top 250 get a ticket.
You're welcome.
On Dec 19, 2011, at 10:31 AM, Ross Singer wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 1:26 PM, Cary Gordon wrote:
>> My honest opinion is that we s
n
>
> ---
> Birkin James Diana
> Programmer, Digital Technologies
> Brown University Library
> birkin_di...@brown.edu
>
>
> On Dec 14, 2011, at 12:54 PM, Chris Fitzpatrick wrote:
>
>> Thanks everyone for all the recommendations. I know this would be this list
>>
Thanks everyone for all the recommendations. I know this would be this list to
ask.
Sounds like Ubuntu is the overwhelming favorite. In the past when I've used a
linux in a non-server computer, there are always some annoying problems...
things like the laptop not waking from sleep mode, power
I just had a Howard Beale moment with Apple. I'm mad as hell and I'm not going
to take it anymore.
I'm curious what people can suggest for linux laptop?
Any suggestions for distros and hardware?
thanks. b,chris.
Why do I have the feeling that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's presentation on test
driven development is going to get 99% of the vote?
On Nov 22, 2011, at 12:34 PM, David Uspal wrote:
> Of course, literally two seconds after sending my last email, my vote finally
> goes through...
>
>
> -Original
UNFOLLOW
On Nov 16, 2011, at 2:36 PM, Joe Atzberger wrote:
> "The site you are trying to access does not exist. Please contact the event
> organizer to report this problem."
I think that we should start over.
On Nov 16, 2011, at 9:28 AM, Frumkin, Jeremy wrote:
> Hi Elizabeth -
>
> The message you sent is confusing - could you clarify what you mean by
> "there are a multitude of reasons why you will be contacted and be able to
> get into code4lib?
>
> -- jaf
>
>
kens can cross the road without having their
> motives questioned"
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On 10/13/11 3:02 PM, "Roy Tennant" wrote:
>
>> Ross, hold him down, would you, while I cut his beard off?
>> Roy
>>
It's days like today I wish I was Amish.
On Oct 13, 2011, at 2:16 PM, Ross Singer wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Blake, Tom wrote:
>> ...or, you could take advantage of our extended application deadline and
>> reconsider one of the two developer positions open at the Boston Public
Hi Cindy,
I getting deja vu from this...we had a similar problem over a year ago. What
happened to us is that our IS&T dept (who run a mysql service) made some
changes to their load balancer and pooling configuration on their servers.
You might be running into a similar problem. The solution a c
I do think it's pretty funny that the person shrieking about some kind of
corporate conspiracy to intervene into library sovereignty is writing from a
Google Gmail account.
On Sep 28, 2011, at 1:31 PM, Karen Coyle wrote:
> That you left out Jeff Young, the only real RealWorldObject at gmail
That's just because we need young virgins to sacrifice in order appease our sun
god, who blesses us with perfect weather.
We used to just hold fake Jonas Brother's concerts on campus, but this method
has just turned out so much easier since developers really don't put up much of
a fight
I used CollectiveAccess a long time ago when it was called OpenCollection. I'm
not familiar with all the particulars, but I know there were conflicts between
some of the grant partners and the contracted software developer, which I guess
resulted in a parting of ways and both groups dropping th
On a related project, I also just pushed some major code updates to the Orbeon
xforms application we use at Stanford for MODS and TEI editing.
It's at https://github.com/cfitz/orbeon-forms .
It uses the Orbeon Form Runner forms environment, which you can read about
here: http://www.orbeon.com
That sounds like a bad idea. If there was free food in the library then all the
students (not just the nerdy, lonely, and foreign ones) would not only know
where the library is and but would also actually walk through the doors.
Chaos would ensure.
b,chris.
On Apr 28, 2011, at 6:16 AM, Bill D
Awhile back I used Bluehost, which was pretty good about installing
PHP packages if you send them a request ticket.
Looks like they're still pretty open to this:
https://www.bluehost.com/cgi/help/534
b,chris.
On Mar 7, 2011, at 10:38 AM, Han, Yan wrote:
Updating L A M is easy with Ubuntu /D
Hey Ken,
When you changed it to Content-Disposition = attachment, did you keep
the content-type still set to text/plain ?
You might try setting content-type to one (or maybe all) of these:
Content-Type = application/octet-stream
Content-Type = application/force-download
Content-Type = appl
Hi everyone,
I found out this morning not everyone watched WGN on Saturday
afternoon in the 1980s
So here are two links to contextualize tshirt option #1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1jzs6dk4bs
http://thisdistractedglobe.com/2007/04/03/breaking-away-1979/
All great designs...thanks!
A couple of years ago I missed registration and had to get my
Code4Lib ticket on StubHub.
The only downsides were I had to pay twice face value and tell
everyone my name was "Naomi Dushay" all week
On Dec 16, 2010, at 8:47 AM, Birkin James Diana wrote:
Kevin wrote:
...we did have l
Hey Brian,
This is awesome.
Awhile back I took a stab at doing something kinda similar with jruby
and google app engine. I think I still have a half finished blog post
floating around somewhere on thatfinishing that might be a good
christmas break project.
For other ruby-based projec
+1 to the "this discussion is really depressing me" camp.
On Oct 27, 2010, at 12:53 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
Alexander Johannesen wrote:
Is it to throttle spam or something? 50 seems rather low, and it's
rather depressing to have a lively discussion throttled like that.
Not
Pre
Hey,
I've written a few ingest scripts for fedora...too many,
actually...but I posted a more generic version of one I did somewhat
recently in Ruby here ==>
http://worldonawire.info/2010/07/ruby-fedora-ingestor/
I tried to clean it up a bit and a little bit of explanation as to
what it's
Dunno if this is a good thing or a bad thing
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/07/16/financial/f132526D44.DTL
best,chris.
I too have written a metadata editor in Orbeon xforms, using their new
Form Runner framework.
I put a semi-up-to-date beta demo version of it here, if anyone is
curious --> https://mdtoolkit-dev.stanford.edu/ops/fr/mods/mlm/
(Feel free to edit/delete records, as this is just a dev instance.
My favorite part is when he ask the software to return a bibliographic
record matching 245 10$aFaust.$nPart one
and the computer literally catches fire.
Artificial intelligence is no match for the MARC format.
On May 4, 2009, at 12:40 PM, Frumkin, Jeremy wrote:
Seems more like a conversati
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