Re: [CODE4LIB] clarification about file visualization

2012-08-30 Thread Lars Aronsson
. Maybe a handful of those files are 95% of your traffic, and the rest is odd or peculiar long tail information. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se

Re: [CODE4LIB] Corrections to Worldcat/Hathi/Google

2012-08-28 Thread Lars Aronsson
from four different libraries. I didn't see any patterns. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Project Runeberg - free Nordic literature - http://runeberg.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Corrections to Worldcat/Hathi/Google

2012-08-25 Thread Lars Aronsson
without knowing much about a language. If you find that records for books in Czech often contain č (c-hacek), but almost never ĉ (c-circumflex), you can look at the records that contain the unusual letter and see if they are errors or perhaps intentional uses of Esperanto words. -- Lars Aronsson (l

Re: [CODE4LIB] Corrections to Worldcat/Hathi/Google

2012-08-21 Thread Lars Aronsson
, afhandling means treatise or dissertation, and brings up 32,000 hits in a Worldcat search (the modern spelling avhandling yields 140,000), but åfhandling is not in any dictionary. (It's obvious that Google Books never tried this.) -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Project Runeberg - free Nordic

[CODE4LIB] Corrections to Worldcat/Hathi/Google

2012-08-20 Thread Lars Aronsson
? And does Worldcat discover new (misspelled) authors and titles in Hathi Trust, and import them rather than reporting the errors? -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Project Runeberg - free Nordic literature - http://runeberg.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Namespace management, was Models of MARC in RDF

2011-12-11 Thread Lars Aronsson
library cataloging? I have seen old card catalogs digitized with photos of each card, but I have not yet seen a catalog with photos of title pages. (Unless you count digitization projects like Google Books.) -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se

[CODE4LIB] What software for a digital library

2011-12-09 Thread Lars Aronsson
that leave me with anything else than Mediawiki? -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Project Runeberg - free Nordic literature - http://runeberg.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] how 'great' are the great books

2010-11-05 Thread Lars Aronsson
of citation analysis, has anybody developed an algorithm for recognizing literary references in plain text? If I write to code or not to code, that is clearly a reference (a link) to Hamlet's monologue, and should contribute to its Page rank, don't you think? -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se

Re: [CODE4LIB] universal citation index

2010-07-20 Thread Lars Aronsson
, if the user interface isn't already intelligble.) Just click CITE, and a list of citations appear, that you can cut-and-paste. At the bottom is the Swedish version of Wikipedia's cite book template, which is quite popular. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http

Re: [CODE4LIB] need a plan for what to code

2010-03-29 Thread Lars Aronsson
website. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se

Re: [CODE4LIB] wikipedia external links and linked data

2010-03-29 Thread Lars Aronsson
/nfap/0745.html Runeberg.org has 2000 links from the English Wikipedia, which puts it between catalog.loc.gov and nobelprize.org. If you want many links from Wikipedia, try to digitize an old encyclopedia and make one plain HTML page for each book page. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson

Re: [CODE4LIB] Durability of PDFs

2009-07-01 Thread Lars Aronsson
scanned images with OCR text? -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se

Re: [CODE4LIB] Recommend book scanner?

2009-05-02 Thread Lars Aronsson
? -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Project Runeberg - free Nordic literature - http://runeberg.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Recommend book scanner?

2009-05-01 Thread Lars Aronsson
is $100-400 per package of 50 sheets. I wouldn't pay more for the calibration targets than for the camera, if I could avoid it. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se Project Runeberg - free Nordic literature - http://runeberg.org/

[CODE4LIB] MediaWiki / Wikipedia developer meet-up, April 3-5

2009-03-09 Thread Lars Aronsson
, and/or how library integration with Wikipedia could be improved, you should come and tell. -- Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se

Re: [CODE4LIB] [Web4lib] A million free covers, from LibraryThing

2008-08-10 Thread Lars Aronsson
Commons. The description on its description page there is shown below, which doesn't appear for that Star Wars movie poster. -- Lars Aronsson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se

Re: [CODE4LIB] [Web4lib] A million free covers, from LibraryThing

2008-08-07 Thread Lars Aronsson
books, so people buy new books instead. Back in 1932, Aldous Huxley wrote: We don't want people to be attracted by old things. We want them to like the new ones. -- Lars Aronsson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se

Re: [CODE4LIB] coverage of google book viewability API

2008-05-06 Thread Lars Aronsson
. -- Lars Aronsson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se