Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for Bib and LC subject authority data

2008-02-08 Thread Clay Redding
Hi Charles-Antoine, I can't be terribly specific about timing, but ranging anywhere between "eventually" and "in the near future", we here at LC will have an alpha offering of LCSH data as SKOS RDF that should be available to the public. The SKOS data should be able to help with your thesaurus h

Re: [CODE4LIB] xml java package

2008-02-01 Thread Clay Redding
I don't know if it's still the case, but I know a recent EAD project that tried to use Castor said that it had problems with mixed content models. -- Clay On Feb 1, 2008, at 10:50 AM, Riley, Jenn wrote: -Original Message- I now need to read XML. Unlike indexing and doing OAI-PMH, ther

Re: [CODE4LIB] [Metadatalibrarians] Georeferencing with open source tools

2007-12-10 Thread Clay Redding
Many thanks Keith, putting control points on the intersections is a great idea. I'll give that a try. Clay On Dec 7, 2007, at 11:25 AM, Keith Jenkins wrote: Hi, Clay. Your details are daunting, but I'll try to help :) Since your map is lucky enough to have them, I'd suggest using the inter

Re: [CODE4LIB] Georeferencing with open source tools

2007-12-05 Thread Clay Redding
On Dec 5, 2007, at 3:18 PM, Michael J. Giarlo wrote: I think I understood about four words of this. That sounds about right. (/me ducks, jokingly) Good luck, and rock on! -Mike I'm not even sure if *I* understand it. I'm beginning to take a Homer Simpson-esque (as Sanitation Commissioner

[CODE4LIB] Georeferencing with open source tools

2007-12-05 Thread Clay Redding
Hi all, This is for any of you GIS specialists out there! Please help me if possible, and feel free to email backchannel since this is somewhat off-topic for both listservs. I'm a bit of a newbie to doing GIS and geomatics work. As part of an effort to enable geographical browse, search, and r

Re: [CODE4LIB] RFC 5005 ATOM extension and OAI

2007-10-24 Thread Clay Redding
Hi Peter, I completely agree with everything you just wrote, especially about Atom + APP being more than just a technology for blogs. APP is a great lightweight alternative to WebDAV, and promising for all sorts of data transfer. The fact that it has developer groundswell is a huge plus. Durin

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib.org hosting discussion transcript

2007-08-02 Thread Clay Redding
So what was agreed to keep on anvil? I don't really want any aspect of c4l on it. On Aug 2, 2007, at 12:36 PM, Gabriel Farrell wrote: Okay, no objections, and it's afternoon in Philly, so here it is. I think the following snippet pretty much covers yesterday's discussion. I don't think anyon

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib.org hosting

2007-08-01 Thread Clay Redding
D Chudnov wrote: It would be helpful if somebody could post a transcript of this discussion. -Dan Ditto.

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib lucene pre-conference

2006-11-28 Thread Clay Redding
Hi Andrew (or anyone else that cares to answer), I've missed out on hearing about incompatabilites between MARCXML and NXDBs. Can you explain? Is this just eXist and Sleepycat, or are there others? I seem to recall putting a few records in X-Hive with no problems, but I didn't put it through

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib lucene pre-conference

2006-11-28 Thread Clay Redding
I'm sure most of you have seen this, but there is a lot of good work going on regarding XQuery full text searching by the W3C. LC is pushing a lot of the activity in this group, and using hefty document-centric EAD examples in the testing. http://www.w3.org/TR/xquery-full-text/ FWIW, traditiona

[CODE4LIB] Programmers for digital library projects

2006-09-07 Thread Clay Redding
Hi all, For those of you at institutions that are working on digital library projects of some nature (whether text, audiovisual, images, etc.), I'm curious to find out: 1) Are the digital library efforts at your institution centralized into a formal group or decentralized? If centralized, do th

[CODE4LIB] Princeton University Library job posting

2006-03-03 Thread Clay Redding
us of this position. The full job description can be found on the Princeton Library HR website: http://library.princeton.edu/hr/positions/JobDigitalLibrSpec12mth.html Thanks, Clay Redding [1] http://diglib.princeton.edu