Re: [CODE4LIB] Formalizing Code4Lib?

2016-06-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
On 6/14/16 12:43 PM, Kyle Banerjee wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2016 at 9:05 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: I'm rather surprised that nobody has suggested contacting: - the American Library Association (particularly the LITA division) - the Internet Archive Or... the Tides Foundation (tides.org i

Re: [CODE4LIB] Formalizing Code4Lib?

2016-06-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
I'm rather surprised that nobody has suggested contacting: - the American Library Association (particularly the LITA division) - the Internet Archive Or... the Tides Foundation (tides.org in San Francisco) has been known to act as fiscal agent and "umbrella" for small non-profit projects/groups.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Good Database Software for a Digital Project?

2016-04-15 Thread Miles Fidelman
ds on). For database, you might also look at noSQL options. eXist (http://exist-db.org) is an open source XML database that's pretty extensively used for cataloguing type applications. CouchDB is also kind of interesting, and easy to use. Miles Fidelman On 4/15/16 2:22 PM, Ethan Gr

Re: [CODE4LIB] free html editors

2015-05-16 Thread Miles Fidelman
Sarles Patricia (18K500) wrote: I just this minute subscribed to this list after reading Andromeda Yelton's column in American Libraries from yesterday with great interest since I would like to teach coding in my high school library next year. I purchased Andy Harris' HTML5 and CSS3 All-in-One

Re: [CODE4LIB] disk doubler anyone? - solution found, details follow

2015-05-15 Thread Miles Fidelman
anted to expand). From there, it expanded files perfectly. Of course then I had to use Word 2008 to open the resulting files, under Word 2011, I just got blank pages. Thanks, Miles Fidelman Benjamin Florin wrote: Supposedly the Linux package MacUtil ( http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/opensu

[CODE4LIB] disk doubler anyone?

2015-05-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
I figure someone here might know how to retrieve a file in an ancient format. Anybody know of a tool that will uncompress a file compressed with disk doubler, that doesn't require dredging up an old Mac running OS 9 (or trying to emulate one?). Thanks very much, Miles Fidelman -- In t

Re: [CODE4LIB] MARC reporting engine

2014-11-02 Thread Miles Fidelman
It looks like the dataset is available in XML format. Perhaps you can import it into an XML database (eXist - exist-db.org comes to mind), and then generate a report via its query capabilities. Miles Fidelman Jonathan Rochkind wrote: If you are, can become, or know, a programmer, that would

Re: [CODE4LIB] Linux distro for librarians

2014-10-18 Thread Miles Fidelman
rlying one - in the case of Docker, that's Linux. ("Zones" are a solaris term. "Jail" is a BSD term.) Miles Fidelman Cornel Darden Jr. wrote: Hello, Docker is awesome. But an operating system is more about the packaged software, look, and feel right? Docket is lik

Re: [CODE4LIB] Linux distro for librarians

2014-10-18 Thread Miles Fidelman
before that, there were some dial-up freenets, and that was it. (Thanks also to then Continental Cablevision - our connectivity was the alpha test of their cable modem service.) Still the best project I ever worked on! Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and p

Re: [CODE4LIB] Job: Records Information Manager at Secret Intelligence Service

2014-08-08 Thread Miles Fidelman
j...@code4lib.org wrote: Records Information Manager Secret Intelligence Service London It's not April 1st. Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra

[CODE4LIB] coders who library? [was: Let me shadow you, librarians who code!]

2014-07-07 Thread Miles Fidelman
: Computer scientist and systems engineer, did some early Internet-in-public library deployments, got to write a book about it. Not actively doing library related work at the moment. Miles Fidelman Dot Porter wrote: I'm a medieval manuscripts curator who codes, in Philadelphia, and I'd

Re: [CODE4LIB] distributed responsibility for web content

2014-04-17 Thread Miles Fidelman
supreme? Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra

Re: [CODE4LIB] CFP: A Librarian's Introduction to Programming Languages

2014-03-25 Thread Miles Fidelman
This thread is getting interesting! A few comments, inline. Joe Hourcle wrote: On Mar 25, 2014, at 9:03 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: Come to think of it, there's nothing there to frame the intent and scope of the book - is it aimed at librarians who write code, or at librarians who are t

Re: [CODE4LIB] CFP: A Librarian's Introduction to Programming Languages

2014-03-25 Thread Miles Fidelman
choice of language use as much as the language itself - "non-language languages" - e.g., sql/nosql, spreadsheet macros and other platforms that one builds on Miles Fidelman p.s. I wrote a book for ALA Editions, they were great to work with. The acquisitions editor I worked with is no

Re: [CODE4LIB] CFP: A Librarian's Introduction to Programming Languages

2014-03-25 Thread Miles Fidelman
Visual Basic is still going strong. Conspicuous by their absence: COBOL and Fortran - also still going strong. Miles Fidelman Roy Tennant wrote: Basic? Seriously? I mean, the very first language I learned, in the early 1980s, was BASIC. But come on. If you can find a person to write the

Re: [CODE4LIB] A ticketing system for internal troubleshooting purpose

2014-03-24 Thread Miles Fidelman
s aimed at software developers, RT at IT/network operations, for example). Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Yogi Berra

Re: [CODE4LIB] Academic Library Website Question

2013-12-19 Thread Miles Fidelman
, start at the University's homepage and then click on the link for the library. Next in line is googling for "UNCW library" (our institution + library). Then again, how many university libraries can't be found by library..edu Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no dif

Re: [CODE4LIB] The lie of the API

2013-12-02 Thread Miles Fidelman
umm... it's called HTTP-AUTH, and if you really want to be cool, use an X.509 client cert for authorization (see geoserver as an example that works very cleanly - http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/security/tutorials/cert/index.html; the freebxml registry-repository also uses X.509 based

Re: [CODE4LIB] Drupal and Shibboleth

2012-02-07 Thread Miles Fidelman
Rich Wenger wrote: Is anyone using Drupal with Shibboleth authentication? If so, and if you wouldn't mind a bit of Q&A, please contact me off-list. Thanks, Rich Wenger E-Resource Systems Manager, MIT Libraries rwen...@mit.edu 617-253-0035 if you find out anything, how about sharing? -- In

Re: [CODE4LIB] What software for a digital library

2011-12-10 Thread Miles Fidelman
Thomas Krichel wrote: Lars Aronsson writes 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? Try http://omeka.org. I use it for teaching purposes. Omeka looks interes

Re: [CODE4LIB] "Citation Analysis" - like projects for print resources

2011-11-17 Thread Miles Fidelman
y the original system and the needs of the research community, a new architecture and data model was developed for the "Next Generation CiteSeer," or CiteSeer^x , in order to continue the CiteSeer legacy into the foreseeable future. --- Miles Fidelman -- In theory, there is no