Re: [CODE4LIB] Formalizing Code4Lib?

age- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of > Ross Singer > Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2016 11:51 AM > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Formalizing Code4Lib? > > I kind of agree with Shaun's point: why on eart

Re: [CODE4LIB] Formalizing Code4Lib?

I kind of agree with Shaun's point: why on earth would some organization want to assume this? In the interest of not limiting ourselves to one solution to this problem, I'll throw another possibility that I haven't seen raised (and definitely has downsides, but they all do): what if we to set

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4lib 2017 is dead; Long Live Code4lib 2017

Sorry about the delay in moderating that: Google jumped into the moderation screen with my work account (which doesn't have permission for that) which was then empty (but didn't obviously say "you're in the wrong account and don't have permission to do this, dummy") so I assumed it was Francis'

Re: [CODE4LIB] What happened to the code4lib blog?

For future reference: https://rossfsinger.com/blog/2010/09/a-proposal-to-serialize-marc-in-json/ A series of missteps and ambivalence is causing the code4lib domain to not redirect. Anyway, good to see the community work around that! -Ross. On Tuesday, April 12, 2016, LeVan,Ralph

Re: [CODE4LIB] Chattanooga Bid for 2017

BEST PROPOSAL EVAR On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 10:07 AM, Mary Jinglewski wrote: > On behalf of our proposal committee, I am pleased to confirm that > Chattanooga has now submitted a bid to host Code4Lib 2017. > > Our proposal can be found at http://lab.lib.utc.edu/c4l-cha >

Re: [CODE4LIB] OCLC shutting down xISBN and xID (was Re: [CODE4LIB] Matching print and electronic editions of the same book)

Rachel, for what it's worth, it had nothing to do with your email (we were notified of it a couple of weeks ago, I guess because we were one of the few paying customers of the service). -Ross. On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Maderik, Rachel A wrote: > Yes, thanks Bill for

Re: [CODE4LIB] Get It Services / Cart

Actually it doesn't seem like a terribly obvious use case: how would a user be in a position to send multiple things for enrichment? What happens after they're enriched? Ümlaut seems kind of a perfect intermediary for this, but you'll need to work out the before and after (mainly the use case!)

Re: [CODE4LIB] linked data question

We have taken a somewhat different approach to how we manage our RDF data: after years of using a native triple store, we found that it was actually extremely impractical for the way we actually used our data. Triple stores are fine for ad-hoc queries over arbitrary data, but that didn't reflect

Re: [CODE4LIB] lita

On Jan 6, 2015, at 5:01 PM, Cindi Blyberg cindi...@gmail.com wrote: Based on previous experience, I doubt this truly captures whether someone thinks of themselves as a librarian. I've always found those categories arbitrary (an MLS does not a librarian make) and sometimes divisive. An MLS

Re: [CODE4LIB] Forwarding blog post: Apple, Android and NFC – how should libraries prepare? (RFID stuffs)

I guess there’s “what do you mean by ‘C4L'” and “what do you mean by ‘standards’” that need to be clarified here. Cary is right, this list/community/whatever is definitely well represented by people who sit on formal standards committees or are involved in the organizations that create them,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Technology for Librarians / Libraries for Technologians

On Sep 4, 2014, at 8:25 PM, Kyle Banerjee kyle.baner...@gmail.com wrote: I think some of these issues are distractions as they aren't specific to libraries, aren't really different than any IT work involving private information (i.e. virtually all IT work), and don't require library

Re: [CODE4LIB] College Question!

If you want to be a systems librarian, I wouldn't bother with the MLIS, honestly. Yes, it's still a requirement on a lot of job postings _now_, but more and more that's being dropped from systems roles in lieu of relevant experience. The other sad reality is that an entry level systems librarian

Re: [CODE4LIB] Jobs Digest - I definitely didn't rip off someone else's job posting

THIS IS NOT EXACTLY WHAT WE AGREED TO On May 29, 2014 7:38 AM, Andreas Orphanides akorp...@ncsu.edu wrote: YAY FULL JOB POSTINGS On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 11:40 PM, BWS Johnson abesottedphoe...@yahoo.com wrote: Research Analyst I Royt's Treehouse The prestigious Tennant's Treehouse is

Re: [CODE4LIB] Ross Singer RE: [CODE4LIB] Jobs Digest

Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Ross Singer RE: [CODE4LIB] Jobs Digest I would request a third option in the poll(s): [ ] I prefer to receive both the old and new formats of job emails (And no, this isn't a joke. I mainly like the old, individual format; however I also like the digest offering

Re: [CODE4LIB] distributed responsibility for web content

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 10:37 PM, Riley Childs rchi...@cucawarriors.comwrote: designate someone to be the copy editor, Well, I kind of got the impression from the original question that this was kind of out of the question. However, I think it might be useful to look at development practices

Re: [CODE4LIB] Carolina Regional Group?

http://vote.code4lib.org/election/30 Runs until next Monday at ~11:45PM PDT -Ross. On Mar 31, 2014, at 12:11 PM, Sarah Shealy sarah.she...@outlook.com wrote: Anyone know how to do that? I could make that Google survey, but the Diboldatron is beyond me. Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:01:11

Re: [CODE4LIB] Carolina Regional Group?

On Mar 31, 2014, at 12:45 PM, Kevin S. Clarke kscla...@gmail.com wrote: rsinger++ Runs until next Monday at ~11:45PM PDT Though I am a bit curious why an East coast meeting gets a PDT deadline... :-) Well, that's because that's where my shared hosting server is and I'm too lazy to do

Re: [CODE4LIB] Carolina Regional Group?

I can set up diebold-o-tron ballot, if we have some candidates. (I'd also probably be in for Greeneville or vicinity). -Ross. On Friday, March 28, 2014, Riley Childs rchi...@cucawarriors.com wrote: Does anyone know how to setup a vote? Riley Childs Student Asst. Head of IT Services

Re: [CODE4LIB] Dress

While certainly every conference attendee's thoughts are of Who is he or she wearing?, it's not uncommon for delegates to opt for a sporty and sassy pret-a-porter look from Levi Strauss, perhaps paired with a top from American Apparel. Depending on the weather or temperature at the conference

Re: [CODE4LIB] Reminder: Send in your questions for Valerie!

On Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 8:22 PM, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com wrote: We will also be distributing index cards at the event and monitoring the Twitter stream (not IRC!) for questions as well You've changed, man. -Ross.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Question About Code4Lib 2014 Streaming

Vine or GTFO. -Ross. On Wednesday, March 19, 2014, Riley Childs rchi...@cucawarriors.com wrote: It零 will be recoreded an streamed in 15 sec intervals on instagram ;P On 3/19/14, 10:41 AM, Michael Schofield mschofi...@nova.edujavascript:; wrote: It's the video feed with some sort of

Re: [CODE4LIB] Welcome to Roy4Lib

When you're alone and you think you hear the tinkling of ice cubes in a glass and the faint smell of Scotch, that was Roy. That person building a treehouse as you drive past, that was Roy. Out of the corner of your eye, there was a mustached man, that was Roy. When you delete a MARC record,

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib.org down

But what is the status of roy4lib.org? -Ross. On Friday, February 21, 2014, Wick, Ryan ryan.w...@oregonstate.edu wrote: We should be back up now. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU javascript:;] On Behalf Of Rosalyn Metz Sent: Friday,

Re: [CODE4LIB] how to unsubscribe this list?

Move over, Worldcat, I want something leaner! -Ross. On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Rosalyn Metz rosalynm...@gmail.com wrote: http://bacolicio.us/http://oclc.org/en-US/home.html On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com wrote: On the contrary, this discussion

Re: [CODE4LIB] EZProxy changes / alternatives ?

Not only that, but it's also expressly designed for the purpose of reverse proxying subscription databases in a library environment. There are tons of things vendors do that would be incredibly frustrating to get working properly in Squid, nginx, or Apache that have already been solved by

Re: [CODE4LIB] EZProxy changes / alternatives ?

This is amazing! Maybe a github repo for config blocks is in order? I figure the only way to work out the myriad kinks in this would be scale. -Ross. On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 6:00 PM, Andrew Anderson and...@lirn.net wrote: When OCLC first announced their purchase of EZproxy, we started a low

Re: [CODE4LIB] EZProxy changes / alternatives ?

I hate to say it, but Squid will not be simple to get the kind of results EZProxy gets. Shibboleth can take care of a handful (of probably some of your larger, more commonly accessed?) resources. Maybe Squid can take care of the rest, but my guess is it's the smaller, more niche resources

Re: [CODE4LIB] Job: Test Post at Anonymous

HELLO, IS THERE AN OPTION FOR TELECOMMUTING. ASKING FOR A FRIEND WITH LOTS OF EXPERIENCE AS A TEST POSTER. -ROSS. On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 11:51 AM, j...@code4lib.org wrote: Test Post Anonymous New London This is a test post. Brought to you by code4lib jobs:

Re: [CODE4LIB] Job: Test Post at Anonymous

No, it's cool. I've learned about mocking objects since then. -Ross. On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Michael B. Klein mbkl...@gmail.comwrote: I am interested in the post testing job. Please send details. Do not be fooled by Ross Singer; he is dangerous. The last post he tested caused

Re: [CODE4LIB] transforming marc to rdf

Eric, I'm having a hard time figuring out exactly what you're hoping to get. Going from MARC to RDF was my great white whale for years while Talis' main business interests involved both of those (although not archival collections). Anything that will remodel MARC to (decent) RDF is going be:

Re: [CODE4LIB] transforming marc to rdf

On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: “There is more than one way to skin a cat.” There are advantages and disadvantages to every software solution. I think what Mark and I are trying to say is that the first step to this solution is not by applying

Re: [CODE4LIB] The lie of the API

I'm not going to defend API keys, but not all APIs are open or free. You need to have *some* way to track usage. There may be alternative ways to implement that, but you can't just hand wave away the rather large use case for API keys. -Ross. On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Kevin Ford

Re: [CODE4LIB] calibr: a simple opening hours calendar

I generally agree that hours have unnecessary complexities, I would also say that some of that is because libraries (at least, large, research academic libraries) are fairly complex organisms with *lots* of disparate services. I think it's more analogous to a shopping mall: the stores generally

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Conference Registration

I went to the code4lib list To get my share of abuse asked about the conf registration Or any information of use Now John, you can't always get what you want No you can't always get what you want But with a pull request Or thoughts on https You get a disturbing image of rainbows shooting from

Re: [CODE4LIB] linked data recipe

That's still not a serialization. It's just a similar data model. Pretty huge difference. -Ross. On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Ethan Gruber ewg4x...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure that I agree that RDF is not a serialization. It really depends on the context of the system and intended

Re: [CODE4LIB] linked data recipe

that serialization has a different definition in computer science than I thought it did. On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: That's still not a serialization. It's just a similar data model. Pretty huge difference. -Ross. On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 10:31

Re: [CODE4LIB] rdf triplestores

I've used Fuseki a lot and really like it, although configuration for things like LARQ (full text indexing) historically has been a little underdocumented (and it can be a little difficult to understand what component is in charge of what task). 4-Store is super simple to get up and running with,

Re: [CODE4LIB] We should use HTTPS on code4lib.org

OK! Uncle! Just let's do something! I don't care *that* much about it! -Ross. On Nov 6, 2013 11:34 PM, Chad Fennell fenne...@umn.edu wrote: On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 8:49 PM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: I guess I just don't see why http and https can't coexist. They can

Re: [CODE4LIB] Canadian WordPress Hosting

I assume it's not about speed, but about the PATRIOT Act. For example, we don't host any of our customer data in the US (and aren't allowed to). -Ross. On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 9:17 PM, Riley Childs ri...@tfsgeo.com wrote: I take that back, did a bit more research, I think there are plenty of

Re: [CODE4LIB] rdf serialization

Hugh, I don't think you're in the weeds with your question (and, while I think that named graphs can provide a solution to your particular problem, that doesn't necessarily mean that it doesn't raise more questions or potentially more frustrations down the line - like any new power, it can be used

Re: [CODE4LIB] rdf serialization

the way down, etc. But I'd like to hear more about why you think SPARQL availability has less value, and if you see an alternative to SPARQL for querying. kc On 11/6/13 8:11 AM, Ross Singer wrote: Hugh, I don't think you're in the weeds with your question (and, while I think that named

Re: [CODE4LIB] rdf serialization

like it would almost do what we need it to. I do not, and cannot, assume a closed world. The open world assumption is one of the attractive things about RDF, in fact :-) Hugh On Nov 6, 2013, at 11:11 , Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: My question for you, however, is why are you

Re: [CODE4LIB] We should use HTTPS on code4lib.org

How is security getting thrown under the bus? -Ross. On Wednesday, November 6, 2013, Cary Gordon wrote: It sounds like we are willing to throw security under the bus for an edge case, although I am sure that I am missing some subtlety Cary On Nov 5, 2013, at 10:27 AM, Ross Singer rossfsin

Re: [CODE4LIB] We should use HTTPS on code4lib.org

to scrape the site does not seem like a compelling reason not to do it. The cost issue, on the other hand, would be a more compelling consideration. Thanks, Cary On Nov 6, 2013, at 6:17 PM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: How is security getting thrown under the bus? -Ross

Re: [CODE4LIB] We should use HTTPS on code4lib.org

On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 12:07 PM, William Denton w...@pobox.com wrote: (Question: Why does HTTPS complicate screen-scraping? Every decent tool and library supports HTTPS, doesn't it?) Birkin asked me this same question, and I realized I should clarify what I meant. I was mostly referring

Re: [CODE4LIB] rdf serialization

On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Ed Summers e...@pobox.com wrote: On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: This is hard. The Semantic Web (and RDF) attempt at codifying knowledge using a strict syntax, specifically a strict syntax of triples. It is very

Re: [CODE4LIB] rdf serialization

And yet for the last 50 years they've been creating MARC? For the last 20, they've been making EAD, TEI, etc? As with any of these, there is an expectation that end users will not be hand rolling machine readable serializations, but inputting into interfaces. That is not to say there aren't

Re: [CODE4LIB] rdf serialization

. On Nov 4, 2013 6:29 AM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: And yet for the last 50 years they've been creating MARC? For the last 20, they've been making EAD, TEI, etc? As with any of these, there is an expectation that end users will not be hand rolling machine readable serializations

Re: [CODE4LIB] We should use HTTPS on code4lib.org

While I'm not opposed to providing code4lib.org via HTTPS, I don't think it's as simple as let's just do it!. Who will be responsible for making sure the cert is up to date? Who will pay for certs (if we don't go with startcom)? Also, forcing all traffic to HTTPS unnecessarily complicates some

Re: [CODE4LIB] Ruby on Windows

It's probably also possible to get these working within Cygwin. Assuming the libraries you need to compile against are available in Cygwin, of course. -Ross. On Oct 1, 2013, at 4:28 PM, Michael J. Giarlo leftw...@alumni.rutgers.edu wrote: Our Windows-based devs all do their Ruby work on

Re: [CODE4LIB] Ruby on Windows

out earlier, but would you mind sending some of the C Header Blather our way? It's probably got some clues as to what's going on. Also - which versions of Windows, RubyInstaller, and DevKit are you using? On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.comjavascript

Re: [CODE4LIB] Good MARC PHP Libraries,

Try: pear install file_marc-beta -Ross. On Wednesday, September 25, 2013, Riley Childs wrote: I have been having some troubles with the installation (some random undescriptive exit error) Riley Childs Junior and Library Tech Manager Charlotte United Christian Academy +1 (704) 497-2086

Re: [CODE4LIB] New perl module MARC::File::MiJ -- marc-in-json for

This serialization would actually be awful for the OP's use case, which (as I understand it) is to put it in MongoDB and Elasticsearch (which are exactly the use cases marc-in-json is designed for). In this array of arrays approach, where the tag name is just another value (as opposed to a key),

Re: [CODE4LIB] Σχετ: [CODE4LIB] New perl module MARC::File::MiJ -- marc-in-json for

for example, simpler to implement. If anyone has any examples of how make use of this marc - in - json output in order to use ES, it would be much appreciated. thank you Απο: Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com Προς: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Στάλθηκε

Re: [CODE4LIB] or queries against Horizon Z39.50 servers?

) -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ross Singer Sent: Friday, September 20, 2013 2:10 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: or queries against Horizon Z39.50 servers? Hi everyone, I was wondering if anybody knew

[CODE4LIB] or queries against Horizon Z39.50 servers?

Hi everyone, I was wondering if anybody knew if there was some secret attribute combination to successfully do a or-ed ISBN or ISSN query against a SirsiDynix Z39.50 server. I've tried it against quite a few different implementations, but they all fail. From yaz-client, it goes something

Re: [CODE4LIB] PHP HTTP Client preference

Hey Karen, We use Guzzle: http://guzzlephp.org/ It's nice, seems to work well for our needs, is available in packagist, and is the HTTP client library in the official AWS SDK libraries (which was a big endorsement, in our view). We're still in the process of moving all of our clients over to

Re: [CODE4LIB] Subject Terms in Institutional Repositories

I think the argument is that librarians think in LCSH/academics think in discipline-specific vocabularies. How many medical collections use LCSH over MeSH, for example? -Ross. On Aug 30, 2013, at 11:24 AM, Shaun Ellis sha...@princeton.edu wrote: Mike, what do you mean when you say don't

Re: [CODE4LIB] public computers- Mac mini and Bootcamp?

If you want to go with Mac Minis (which, having had to use one as my primary work machine for the last two weeks while my Macbook was in the shop, seems like a perfectly inexpensive and awesome choice), I would probably just max out the RAM on them and opt for putting Windows in VirtualBox (or

Re: [CODE4LIB] public computers- Mac mini and Bootcamp?

. Please report back. Thanks, Cary On Aug 12, 2013, at 10:13 AM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: If you want to go with Mac Minis (which, having had to use one as my primary work machine for the last two weeks while my Macbook was in the shop, seems like a perfectly inexpensive

Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides: I don't get it

I don't think the remedy to a lack of technology skills is to make librarians into shade tree sysadmins. *That's* the expense that gets swept under the rug in the open source argument. Most advocates have systems administrators and infrastructure to support implementing things themselves and

Re: [CODE4LIB] Python and Ruby

What would you consider a boutique language? What isn't? -Ross. On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Rich Wenger rwen...@mit.edu wrote: The proliferation of boutique languages is a cancer on our community. Each one is a YAP (Yet Another Priesthood), and little else. The world does not need

Re: [CODE4LIB] Python and Ruby

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 1:08 PM, jimm wetherbee j...@wingate.edu wrote: On 7/29/2013 1:04 PM, Ed Summers wrote: Ok, I think I'm going to have nightmares about that. //Ed Over the code or the manual? Over the NISO standardization process required to form the exploratory committee. -Ross.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Python and Ruby

I can only answer for the Ruby support, I can't compare Ruby libs to Python libs on these, but: MARC: there's Ruby-MARC. I helped write it, so I'm biased. XML tools: depends on what you need. In general, Ruby doesn't have great support for sophisticated XML problems. Nokogiri has a great API

Re: [CODE4LIB] Python and Ruby

Muahahahahahahaha! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHA! And you walked right into it! You fools! -Ross. On Monday, July 29, 2013, Jay Luker wrote: On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 4:38 PM, Joshua Welker wel...@ucmo.edujavascript:; wrote: And I hate Python whitespace. Ah-ha! A more paranoid pythonista than I

Re: [CODE4LIB] StackExchange reboot?

What, exactly, is the intended goal for the stack exchange sites? We have pretty established and highly active forums of communication in our field. What does SE bring to the table that's enough of an advantage to pull people away from the existing forums? These SE sites really seemed to be

Re: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone

Or the Internet Archive, since there are also a whole bunch of other MARC dumps there. -Ross. On Jun 12, 2013, at 4:25 AM, Owen Stephens o...@ostephens.com wrote: Putting the files on GitHub might be an option - free for public repositories, and 38Mb should not be a problem to host there

Re: [CODE4LIB] EBSCO LinkSource customers?

Hockenberry and Eric Phetteplace for helping me out with this. Now if I can only figure out a way to disable LinkSource's 'direct linking', I'm set. Thanks! -Ross. On Jun 5, 2013, at 11:25 AM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I was wondering if there was anybody on the list

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

Do FAST headings match anything? I guess what I mean is, do you have data that uses FAST headings? If not, what is it matching? -Ross. On Thursday, June 6, 2013, Joshua Welker wrote: I finished the project. Thanks to everyone for the suggestions! I ended up using the OCLC Fast API

[CODE4LIB] EBSCO LinkSource customers?

Hi all, I was wondering if there was anybody on the list that works for an institution that uses EBSCO's LinkSource as their link resolver that _doesn't_ hide it behind their single sign-on service. Or, alternately, if you know of one (from somewhere other than where you work), that's

Re: [CODE4LIB] ElasticSearch

On Mar 14, 2013, at 2:46 PM, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote: Anyone using it? We do, what are you looking to know? -Ross. Thanks, Cary -- Cary Gordon The Cherry Hill Company http://chillco.com

Re: [CODE4LIB] ElasticSearch

So the main advantages to ES over Solr that I can think of offhand are the fact that you can store and search on complex JSON documents (that is, documents with nested objects, etc.) making it an effective standalone document database and the fact that it will automatically replicate and shard

Re: [CODE4LIB] Slicing/dicing/combining large amounts of data efficiently

I'd also consider using a document db (e.g. MongoDb) with the marc-in-JSON format for this. You could run jsonpath queries or map/reduce to get your answers. Mongo runs best in memory, but I think you'll be fine since you don't need immediate answers. -Ross. On Wednesday, February 27, 2013,

Re: [CODE4LIB] A newbie seeking input/suggestions

The intercom is a little different because, presumably, that's building-wide. The doorbell's chime could be located in a staff area. Although, I do think she said she's hearing-impaired, which would imply the need for a multimodal alert. -Ross. On Friday, February 22, 2013, Kyle Banerjee wrote:

[CODE4LIB] Project Ride Share Breakout Google Group created

Hi everybody. On the Wednesday breakout sessions in Chicago, we had a breakout that was titled Project Rideshare Board, which was about trying to come up with a solution to help libraries find cross-institutional development partners; advertise specs, needs and membership; and foster learning

Re: [CODE4LIB] GitHub Myths (was thanks and poetry)

On Feb 20, 2013, at 11:42 AM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote: Shaun, you cannot decide whether github is a barrier to entry FOR ME (or anyone else), any more than you can decide whether or not my foot hurts. I'm telling you github is NOT what I want to use. Period. I'm actually

Re: [CODE4LIB] Fuseki and other SPARQL servers

On Feb 20, 2013, at 2:52 PM, Ethan Gruber ewg4x...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Hugh, I have investigated the possibility of deploying Fuseki as a war in Tomcat ( https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JENA-201) because I wasn't sure how the default Jetty container would respond in production, but

Re: [CODE4LIB] Libraries Sharing Code: The List Making

Hi Pat, While I like the idea of this, I'm having a hard time seeing how this is going to stay up to date or how it will be able to deal with growth, etc. I mean, I'm not too familiar with Ohloh or Masterbranch or their ilk, but it seems like it would make more sense to carve out a spot on a

Re: [CODE4LIB] Conference all-timers?

On Feb 15, 2013, at 1:57 PM, Michael B. Klein mbkl...@gmail.com wrote: I'm an (n-2)-timer. You (n-2)-timing dog, you! -Ross. On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:59 AM, Andrew Nagy asn...@gmail.com wrote: Around where I was sitting - there was myself, Dan Chudnov and Karen Coombs. On Fri,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Linked data [was: Why we need multiple discovery services engine?]

On Feb 4, 2013, at 10:34 AM, Donna Campbell dcampb...@wts.edu wrote: In mentioning pushing to break down silos more, it brings to mind a question I've had about linked data. From what I've read thus far, the idea of breaking down silos of information seems like a good one in that it makes

Re: [CODE4LIB] Group Decision Making (was Zoia)

On Jan 25, 2013, at 11:01 AM, Becky Yoose b.yo...@gmail.com wrote: Here is your raw MARC record: 01105nmm 2200277Ia450001001300030006000130050017000190080041000 36040001300077096001300090049000900103245005200112256001900164260005

Re: [CODE4LIB] Group Decision Making (was Zoia)

On Jan 24, 2013, at 6:50 PM, Fitchett, Deborah deborah.fitch...@lincoln.ac.nz wrote: People did raise specific issues with Zoia which can reasonably be fit into the code of conduct's definition of harassment (many of which have therefore been addressed) so saying no one has spoken up seems

Re: [CODE4LIB] Anybody using the Open Library APIs?

On Jan 21, 2013, at 8:04 PM, David Fiander da...@fiander.info wrote: The documentation for the APIs is weak, and it looks like it hasn't been updated for a while. Has anybody used them much, or know what the state of ongoing development of them is? I am pretty sure that there is no ongoing

Re: [CODE4LIB] A gentle proposal: slim down zoia during the conference

Karen, I don't think there's any way we could do that. zoia is just another participant in the channel, just like you or I would be, so it's exactly like interacting with another person. And one thing that I think is *somewhat* important to note before we give zoia the bum's rush or something

Re: [CODE4LIB] A gentle proposal: slim down zoia during the conference

in the past: jive, markov, etc.) then ditch the bot altogether. I guess that was what I was trying to get at. Focus on the messages rather than the messenger :) -Ross. /dev On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 10:49 AM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: Karen, I don't think there's any way we could

Re: [CODE4LIB] A gentle proposal: slim down zoia during the conference

On Jan 18, 2013, at 11:03 AM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: The offensive and/or annoying plugins don't serve any real purpose besides entertainment value. I would much rather cut them away (we've done it plenty of times in the past: jive, markov, etc.) then ditch the bot

Re: [CODE4LIB] A gentle proposal: slim down zoia during the conference

I'd be loathe to gag @tdih, because it's educational and only gets called once or twice a day, but that's me. @blockparty is pretty spammy, as is @alpha Also @urbandict is probably the most offensive command. -Ross. On Jan 17, 2013, at 3:12 PM, Adam Wead aw...@rockhall.org wrote: At the

Re: [CODE4LIB] T-Shirt voting is now open!

On Jan 7, 2013, at 7:25 AM, MJ Ray m...@phonecoop.coop wrote: dre wrote: There's a sign-in button at the upper right of the voting page. This uses your code4lib.org username and password (not your wiki user/pass). Once you're logged in you should see the voting options. Thanks for the

Re: [CODE4LIB] Question abt the code4libwomen idea

Joshua, I don't think there is anything I can really add to what you've, in my mind, summed up perfectly. Six years ago, after a regrettable incident of insensitivity that I was directly involved in [1], we had a similar period of reflection and discussion about the culture we wanted to foster

Re: [CODE4LIB] Gender Survey Summary and Results

Thanks, Rosalyn for setting this up and compiling the results! While it doesn't change my default position, yes we need more diversity among Code4lib presenters!, I'm not sure, statistically speaking, that you can draw the conclusions you have based on the sample size, especially given the

Re: [CODE4LIB] Gender Survey Summary and Results

%), confidence level (95%), and confidence interval (+/- 4.6%). Rosalyn On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Rosalyn for setting this up and compiling the results! While it doesn't change my default position, yes we need more diversity among

Re: [CODE4LIB] Choosing fora. was: Proliferation of Code4Lib Channels

On Dec 4, 2012, at 9:47 AM, Tom Keays tomke...@gmail.com wrote: Or just use Reddit's OS codebase*. https://github.com/reddit Unless you're volunteering to host and maintain this... Seriously, folks, if we can't even figure out how to upgrade our Drupal instance to a version that was

Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with WordPress for Code4Lib Journal

contribute in other ways. -Shaun On 12/4/12 10:27 AM, Tom Keays wrote: On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 9:53 AM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: Seriously, folks, if we can't even figure out how to upgrade our Drupal instance to a version that was released this decade, we shouldn't

Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with WordPress for Code4Lib Journal

On Dec 4, 2012, at 11:38 AM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: While I agree with ross in general about suggesting technical solutions without suggesting how they are going to be maintained -- agree very strongly -- and would further re-emphasize that it's improtant to remember that

Re: [CODE4LIB] What is a coder? / Coursera fork

I started taking the Functional Programming in Scala course offered a couple of months ago, but it was an enormous time commitment. I had a week-long trip to the office (in the UK - my job is a long and confusing story) which got me so far behind (two weeks, the way the lessons ran), that I

Re: [CODE4LIB] What is a coder?

On Nov 29, 2012, at 9:10 AM, Mark Pernotto mark.perno...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 6:04 AM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: Dude, I'm positive I'm a coder because I spend a whole lot of time coding, and I think I do it pretty decently -- and search in Google is a key

[CODE4LIB]

On Nov 27, 2012, at 7:49 PM, Nick Ruest rue...@gmail.com wrote: Matt McCollow proposed something like this a while back. We have a page up and everything! But, it never got much traction. http://www.mail-archive.com/code4lib@listserv.nd.edu/msg14270.html

Re: [CODE4LIB] Proposed Changes to Future Conference Program Choosing

On Nov 28, 2012, at 8:53 AM, Cynthia Ng cynthia.s...@gmail.com wrote: How often do people send in more than two proposals anyway? A lot. A whole lot. That said, I don't think we should limit this. If the program committee is comfortable with weeding the second (third, fourth!) elected

Re: [CODE4LIB] Mentorship Buddies

On Nov 27, 2012, at 9:33 PM, Cynthia Ng cynthia.s...@gmail.com wrote: Getting traction for mentoring online is always difficult, but what about starting that mentorship at code4libcon? +1 - being face-to-face might help ease the tension. Having a sort of speed dating setup might help make

Re: [CODE4LIB] Proposed Changes to Future Conference Program Choosing

On Nov 28, 2012, at 9:53 AM, Edward M. Corrado ecorr...@ecorrado.us wrote: I favor limiting up front. One of the issues we have been discussing is that perception that Code4Lib is not as inclusive as it can or should be. I believe having multiple proposals from the same person(s) and, for

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