Re: [CODE4LIB] New OAI-PMH harvester project

[Roy Tennant]

This is really cool, Demian, thanks a lot! I found it extremely easy to set
up and get going, but with one minor change to the instructions. On Ubuntu
Unix I needed to call Composer like so: php composer.phar install . But
that wasn't much of a problem, as when I installed composer it told me how
to invoke it.

When I fired it up and pointed it at my photos server it downloaded over
13,000 OAI records in what seemed like a flash. I didn't realize my server
(written from scratch in Perl) would respond so quickly (I set my
resumption tokens at 100 recs).

This is now my go-to OAI harvester as it is so easy to use and works (at
least so far) without any trouble at all. Just what I like in a basic tool
like this. Thanks for spinning this off from the VuFind code.
Roy

On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 10:05 AM, Demian Katz 
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> VuFind has been bundled with an OAI-PMH harvest tool for a long time. It
> occurred to me that this tool might be of more general interest, so I have
> broken it out into a stand-alone project here:
>
> https://github.com/vufind-org/vufindharvest
>
> This provides a simple command-line interface for downloading records from
> an OAI-PMH repository into a directory, including support for incremental
> updates. All of the details are documented in the README on GitHub.
>
> The project can also be pulled in as a Composer dependency so that
> harvests can be controlled by other applications; this is how VuFind will
> continue to utilize the functionality in future releases.
>
> If anyone has questions about this project, please let me know!
>
> - Demian
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Formalizing Code4Lib?

[Roy Tennant]

All I was saying is that the effort to find/create a permanent fiduciary
agent and finding a 2017 host can be completely independent of each other,
and take parallel paths. I certainly was NOT arguing against seeking a
permanent fiduciary.
Roy

On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Salazar, Christina <
christina.sala...@csuci.edu> wrote:

> But not only that, if we have a permanent (insofar as ANYTHING is
> permanent) fiduciary agent, we'll have more flexibility in terms of WHO can
> volunteer to "host" in the future - it wouldn't just be limited to those
> institutions who are willing to take on $100k + in liability.
>
> For example, I suppose OCLC IS willing, but my lil' institution is NOT,
> though we'd be glad to host (but apparently C4L folks aren't really into
> strawberries and former mental hospitals).
>
>
> Christina Salazar
> Systems Librarian
> John Spoor Broome Library
> California State University, Channel Islands
> 805/437-3198
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Brian Rogers
> Sent: Friday, June 10, 2016 2:38 PM
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Formalizing Code4Lib?
>
> Never hurts to have a working group for 2018 and beyond.
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Formalizing Code4Lib?

[Roy Tennant]

I think it's quite likely that we will have at least one proposal for 2017
-- perhaps more. I don't think we need to worry about 2017.
Roy

On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 2:29 PM, Brian Rogers  wrote:

> Agreed on the wording. Because, while at this point I'm guessing we'll be
> able to find a physical home for 2017... if per chance that doesn't
> happen... the rollover money from last year's conference presumably has to
> go somewhere, in the interim.
>

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

[Roy Tennant]

I think that this needs to be opened up again to solicit any and all
proposals. Doing a back room deal seems quite unlike Code4Lib, even given
the need to find another host rapidly. We can do an immediate call for
proposals, end it in two weeks, and take a week to vote. Three weeks and
done, in an open and inclusive process.
Roy

On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 12:42 PM, Brian Rogers  wrote:

> Hi Francis -
>
> I sent a reply to your code4libconf Google Group post... but looks like
> it's still in moderation mode.
>
> We're speaking w/the other group on Monday afternoon in a conference call.
> We'll have concrete information to share after that.
>
> - Brian
>

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

[Roy Tennant]

I agree that a Call for Proposals should go out and other groups be invited
to apply. It is still early enough for an energized group to pull off a
Feb/Mar event.
Roy

On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 12:15 PM, Becky Yoose  wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 10, 2016 at 12:02 PM, Francis Kayiwa  wrote:
>
> >
> > 1. There is a host site that has contacted Chattanooga Planning
> > Committee and informed us they are actively seeking a fiscal host and
> > should know shortly
> >
> > Our request is can we have progress report from this other group?
> > (Deadline?)
> >
>
> I'm not sure if Brian was referring to me in terms of the other "host
> site"; however, after some shaking of the evergreen trees in Seattle I was
> unable to find a solid fiscal host prospect on our end for 2017. Long
> story...
>
> Cheers and happy to hear that others are looking at hosting 2017 this late
> in the game,
> Becky
>

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

[Roy Tennant]

In my experience, for a number of use cases, including possibly this one, a 
database is overkill. Often, flat files in a directory system indexed by 
something like Solr is plenty and you avoid the inevitable headaches of being a 
database administrator. Backup, for example, is a snap and easily automated.
Roy

> On Apr 15, 2016, at 11:37 AM, Scancella, John  wrote:
> 
> I would definitely pick postgres over mysql. It has all of the same features 
> and more, plus it is easier to use (in my own opinion).
> 
> But before I even pick a database I would consider these:
> What are the speed requirements? 
> How do you plan on doing searching? 
> How much data? 
> Does it need to be redundant? 
> What about clustering? 
> Geographically diverse for faster local retrieval? 
> What languages or other technologies do you plan on interfacing with?
> 
> and then, based on those answers more questions will arise.
> Best of luck!
> 
> From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ben Cail 
> [benjamin_c...@brown.edu]
> Sent: Friday, April 15, 2016 2:23 PM
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Good Database Software for a Digital Project?
> 
> I would suggest looking at postgresql . It
> may not be as widely used as mysql, but it is used a lot, and it's a
> high-quality piece of database software. It's also free.
> 
> -Ben
> 
>> On 04/15/2016 02:18 PM, Matt Sherman wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I am looking to pick the group brain as to what might be the most useful
>> database software for a digital project I am collaborating on.  We are
>> working on converting an annotated bibliography to a searchable database.
>> While I have the data in a few structured formats, we need to figure out
>> now what to actually put it in so that it can be queried.  My default line
>> of thinking is to try a MySQL since it is free and used ubiquitously
>> online, but I wanted to see if there were any other database or software
>> systems that we should also consider before investing a lot of time in one
>> approach.  Any advice and suggestions would be appreciated.
>> 
>> Matt Sherman

Re: [CODE4LIB] http://errol.oclc.org/ down ?

[Roy Tennant]

The service is obsolete and no longer available. We are editing the web
page that points to it.
Roy

On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Stuart A. Yeates  wrote:

> http://errol.oclc.org/ appears down for me.
>
> http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/oairesolver.html implies that it
> should be working.
>
> cheers
> stuart
>
> --
> ...let us be heard from red core to black sky
>

[CODE4LIB] Call for Papers: IFLA Satellite Meeting on Big Data & Linked Data, Chicago USA, August 2016

[Roy Tennant]

Forwarded on behalf of Ted Fons.
Roy

*From: Ted Fons *** 

*Date:* January 14, 2016 at 6:18 PM
*To:* bibfr...@loc.gov
*CC:* "Svensson, Lars"  ,
emmanuelle.ber...@bnf.fr, nthabiseng.kotsoko...@monash.edu
*Subject:* Call for Papers: IFLA Satellite Meeting on Big Data & Linked
Data, Chicago USA, August 2016

Greetings Colleagues-

The IFLA Information Technology Section and the Academic and Research
Libraries Section, Big Data Special Interest Group, and the Semantic Web
Special Interest Group are jointly sponsoring a satellite meeting that will
be of high interest to those interested in semantic web for libraries and
Big Data topics.

Please see our call for papers here:

http://2016.ifla.org/cfp-calls/information-technology-joint-with-academic-and-research-libraries-big-data-special-interest-group-and-semantic-web-special-interest-group

The title of the day-long meeting is Data In Libraries: The Big Picture.

The meeting is on Wednesday, August 10 at the University of Chicago.  The
meeting is conveniently scheduled for travelers to also attend the IFLA
world congress in Columbus, Ohio beginning the following weekend.

Please see the link above for more details on the topics and requirements
for paper submission.  Please also note that the deadline for abstracts is
21 February.  That gives you time to plan and write a proposal now, well
before the deadline.

See you in Chicago...

-Ted

Re: [CODE4LIB] Matching print and electronic editions of the same book

[Roy Tennant]

Do you have an OCLC number in your records? If so, you could call it at
WorldCat like this:

http://worldcat.org/oclc/XXX

scrape the structured linked data on the page, looking for the "Example of
Work" link, then follow it to the Work Record:

http://experiment.worldcat.org/entity/work/data/1613596711

That then will give you all of the OCLC numbers that we consider are part
of that work (under the "WorkExample" tab).

I know, not an optimal solution even if you have the OCLC number. But it
could work if you do.
Roy

On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 1:37 PM, William Denton  wrote:

> I'm looking at how to match print (p) and electronic (e) editions of the
> same book in our collection.  There is no connection between them in our
> system (VuFind in front of Symphony).
>
> For example, two catalogue entries for two versions of COMPOSING JAPANESE
> MUSICAL MODERNITY, entirely separate:
>
> + https://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/3238132
> + https://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/3311584
>
> I want know they're the same book so I can do more usage and collection
> analysis.  I've been looking at two ways of doing it with data available
> right now:
>
> 1 a) MARC 020 (ISBN) can list multiple ISBNs. We have e books where the p
> editions are listed.
>
> 1 b) MARC 776 (additional physical form entry) for e books can list a p
> ISBN or other control number. If we have that edition, great. If not, need
> to go from e -> p-we-don't-have -> p-we-do-have, which I could do with
> xISBN.
>
> 2) OCLC's xISBN. When it reports other editions of the same work, it can
> include e versions.
>
> There is also:
>
> 3) Vendors supplying data.  For example, YBP seems to have all the p and e
> editions of books tied together.  We could ask.
>
> I've been looking around but can't find any discussion about making these
> connections.  Have any of you done it?  Know of it being done in code I can
> see? Written it up?
>
> Thanks for any pointers,
>
> Bill
> --
> William Denton ↔  Toronto, Canada ↔  https://www.miskatonic.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Announcing the official Code4Lib Conference Website

[Roy Tennant]

Kudos to the team for a great job. The "CODE" play on the "LOVE" sculpture
and Franklin in sunglasses get a special mention. However, I wonder what
this might mean for preservation? In the past, when conferences have
created a we site for an individual conference they have often ended up
disappearing eventually. Did the team consider that? Are there any measures
being put in place to assure that it won't also eventually disappear? Just
wondering, as a speaker who has mourned the passing of past conference web
sites, as if they had never happened.
Roy

On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 8:36 AM, Shaun Ellis  wrote:

> Dear Code4Lib,
> We are happy to announce the official 2016 Code4Lib Conference Website!
>
> http://2016.code4lib.org
>
> It's important to note that the wiki is still there, and it will be used
> heavily, particularly by volunteers, documentarians, and organizers of the
> conference.  However, several issues prompted us to create a stand-alone
> conference site, which is focused towards our attendee and sponsor
> audiences.
>
> One reason for the new site is that many people have had difficulty
> finding information on the wiki, exacerbated by the wiki's often slow
> response time and the fact that the wiki and Drupal sites look very similar
> and can lead to confusion.  The wiki is an unconventional for the context,
> and is not optimized for mobile, which is becoming a necessity at
> conferences.
>
> Also, we want to put our best foot forward.  Sponsorships are the main way
> we can keep registration costs to a minimum and offer the best possible
> program.  We felt it was necessary to "level up our window display" for
> approaching new sponsors who may not be familiar with our community.
>
> This does not mean that we are shunning collaboration!  The site is a work
> in progress and hosted on GitHub, so we encourage everyone to help make it
> awesome.  If you see something that should be changed or could be better,
> create an issue.[1]  Better yet, read up on how to make a pull request and
> be a rock star![2]
>
> [1] https://github.com/code4lib/2016.code4lib.org/issues
> [2] https://github.com/code4lib/2016.code4lib.org/wiki
>
> A few final technical details about this site experiment:
>
> First, basic site styles and colors are built via Less, so these templates
> can be easily re-used for future conferences.  Also, the site uses Jekyll
> and much of the content (currently Speakers, Presentations, and
> Testimonials) is supplied via data files (.yml).  This could be extended to
> sponsors, registered attendees, etc.  So, we recommend committees gather
> structured data, instead of using the wiki, for anything they want to post
> to the site.  Furthermore, structured data will also be easier to load into
> the Diebold-o-matic voting app (do you really want to make Chris Beer have
> to cut and paste data in 2016?!?)! If you are on a committee that collects
> data, the Website Committee will be happy to help you set up your forms.
>
> Cheers,
> Shaun Ellis, on behalf of
> The 2016 Code4Lib Conference Website Committee:
>
>  Charlie Morris (Penn State)
>  Junior Tidal (New York City College of Technology)
>  Bill McMillin (Pratt Institute)
>  Shaun Ellis (Princeton University Library)
>  Eric Phetteplace (Cal College of the Arts)
>  Sarah Shealy (Greenville (SC) County Public Library)
>  Jennifer Colt (Cornell University Library)
>  Luke Aeschleman (UNC - Chapel Hill | Health Sciences Library)
>  Ryan Wick (OSU)
>  ... with thanks to Chad Nelson for his contributions too.
>
>
> --
> Shaun Ellis
> User Interface Developer, Digital Initiatives
> Princeton University Library
> 609.258.1698
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Announcing the official Code4Lib Conference Website

[Roy Tennant]

I think the fact that it is on github under the code4lib path is a good
enough solution. I was just worried about sites being kept by random
organizations who then lose interest in keeping the sites going. This has
happened with the Access Conference, for example. The more we can integrate
with the overall Code4Lib community the better, which I now see you have
done. Thanks,
Roy

On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Shaun Ellis <sha...@princeton.edu> wrote:

> Hi Roy,
> Thanks for the kind words! It was very much a collaborative effort.
>
> As for the preservation issue, the topic has come up although I'm not sure
> it's in the same sense that you're speaking. Is there a preservation policy
> for the current site that we should be aware of?
>
> This conference site (and presumably future ones in the same vein) exists
> as a Github repository, so making a backup of the entire site would be as
> easy as cloning it. 2016.code4lib.org will not be going anywhere, and
> next year's could be 2017.code4lib.org, etc. Regionals for the year could
> even live in subdirectories (2016.code4lib.org/northwest, etc.).
>
> Does that answer your question?
>
> -Shaun
>
>
> On 9/14/15 11:54 AM, Roy Tennant wrote:
>
>> Kudos to the team for a great job. The "CODE" play on the "LOVE" sculpture
>> and Franklin in sunglasses get a special mention. However, I wonder what
>> this might mean for preservation? In the past, when conferences have
>> created a we site for an individual conference they have often ended up
>> disappearing eventually. Did the team consider that? Are there any
>> measures
>> being put in place to assure that it won't also eventually disappear? Just
>> wondering, as a speaker who has mourned the passing of past conference web
>> sites, as if they had never happened.
>> Roy
>>
>> On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 8:36 AM, Shaun Ellis <sha...@princeton.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Code4Lib,
>>> We are happy to announce the official 2016 Code4Lib Conference Website!
>>>
>>> http://2016.code4lib.org
>>>
>>> It's important to note that the wiki is still there, and it will be used
>>> heavily, particularly by volunteers, documentarians, and organizers of
>>> the
>>> conference.  However, several issues prompted us to create a stand-alone
>>> conference site, which is focused towards our attendee and sponsor
>>> audiences.
>>>
>>> One reason for the new site is that many people have had difficulty
>>> finding information on the wiki, exacerbated by the wiki's often slow
>>> response time and the fact that the wiki and Drupal sites look very
>>> similar
>>> and can lead to confusion.  The wiki is an unconventional for the
>>> context,
>>> and is not optimized for mobile, which is becoming a necessity at
>>> conferences.
>>>
>>> Also, we want to put our best foot forward.  Sponsorships are the main
>>> way
>>> we can keep registration costs to a minimum and offer the best possible
>>> program.  We felt it was necessary to "level up our window display" for
>>> approaching new sponsors who may not be familiar with our community.
>>>
>>> This does not mean that we are shunning collaboration!  The site is a
>>> work
>>> in progress and hosted on GitHub, so we encourage everyone to help make
>>> it
>>> awesome.  If you see something that should be changed or could be better,
>>> create an issue.[1]  Better yet, read up on how to make a pull request
>>> and
>>> be a rock star![2]
>>>
>>> [1] https://github.com/code4lib/2016.code4lib.org/issues
>>> [2] https://github.com/code4lib/2016.code4lib.org/wiki
>>>
>>> A few final technical details about this site experiment:
>>>
>>> First, basic site styles and colors are built via Less, so these
>>> templates
>>> can be easily re-used for future conferences.  Also, the site uses Jekyll
>>> and much of the content (currently Speakers, Presentations, and
>>> Testimonials) is supplied via data files (.yml).  This could be extended
>>> to
>>> sponsors, registered attendees, etc.  So, we recommend committees gather
>>> structured data, instead of using the wiki, for anything they want to
>>> post
>>> to the site.  Furthermore, structured data will also be easier to load
>>> into
>>> the Diebold-o-matic voting app (do you really want to make Chris Beer
>>> have
>>> to cut and paste data in 2016?!?)! If you are on a committee that
&

Re: [CODE4LIB] Sorry for my last message

[Roy Tennant]

Pony Express. Everyone keeps talking about this "fax" thing, but I don't
hold truck with new-fangled devices. Now GET OFF MY LAWN.
Roy

On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Andreas Orphanides 
wrote:

> Cod4Lib Journal is seeking editors. Please fax your resume (and any
> relevant watercolors) to Roy.
>
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 4:38 PM, Katherine N. Deibel  wrote:
>
> > cod4lib | overfishing the Atlantic for centuries
> >
> >
> > Kate Deibel, PhD | Web Applications Specialist
> > Information Technology Services
> > University of Washington Libraries
> > http://staff.washington.edu/deibel
> >
> > --
> >
> > "When Thor shows up, it's always deus ex machina."
> >
> >
> > On 9/4/2015 1:35 PM, Rachel Shaevel wrote:
> >
> >> cod4lib | now with 50% less cod
> >>
> >> ​Rachel Shaevel
> >> Metadata Librarian
> >> Department of Technology, Content and Innovation
> >> Chicago Public Library
> >> Harold Washington Library Center
> >> 400 S. State St.
> >> Chicago, IL 60605
> >>
> >> P: (312) 747-4660
> >> rshae...@chipublib.org
> >>
> >> 
> >> From: Code for Libraries  on behalf of Shaun
> >> Ellis 
> >> Sent: Friday, September 4, 2015 3:32 PM
> >> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> >> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Sorry for my last message
> >>
> >> But what about museums and archives?
> >>
> >> "cod4lib | A bunch of unicorns, mostly."
> >>
> >> On 9/4/15 4:30 PM, Suchy, Daniel wrote:
> >>
> >>> "cod4lib | Unicorns for Libraries, Libraries for Unicorns"
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 9/4/15, 1:24 PM, "Alisak Sanavongsay" 
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Wilhelmina: Cary said cod4lib.com, not codE4lib. :-)
> 
> 
>  Regards,
>  Alisak.
> 
>  Alisak Sanavongsay
>   Digital Assets Programmer
>   http://library.ucmerced.edu
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  On 9/4/15, 1:17 PM, "Code for Libraries on behalf of Wilhelmina
> Randtke"
>   wrote:
> 
>  ASCII unicorn is a publishable article in Code4Lib Journal?
> >
> > -Wilhelmina Randtke
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 4, 2015 at 4:12 PM, Cary Gordon 
> > wrote:
> >
> > I would totally put that on the cod4lib.com website.
> >>
> >> You could also just fax it to Roy.
> >>
> >> On Sep 4, 2015, at 9:05 AM, Andreas Orphanides 
> >>>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >>>
> >>> If you are otherwise in good health and spirits, but you need more
> >>> money
> >>> for ramen and textbooks, please send a watercolor painting of a box
> >>>
> >> turtle
> >>
> >>> by US Postal Service to Cary Gordon.
> >>>
> >>
>

[CODE4LIB] Matching names to VIAF

[Roy Tennant]

My colleagues Thom Hickey and Jenny Toves published a blog post "Matching
Names to VIAF" that some on this list might find interesting:

http://outgoing.typepad.com/outgoing/2015/09/matching-names-to-viaf.html

Anyone attempting to disambiguate names may find their algorithm (and
scoring mechanism) useful.

I also want to point out that such work provides significant improvements
to our linked data work -- work that we are uniquely positioned in the
library world to perform due to the huge WorldCat aggregation. This also
benefits our member libraries, who then get richer and more useful records
from us.
Roy

Re: [CODE4LIB] Friday Humor: Stuff Business People Say

[Roy Tennant]

And then there's this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYu_bGbZiiQ

Roy

On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Chad Nelson chadbnel...@gmail.com wrote:

 Similar, but for us poor remote workers:

 http://conferencecall.biz/

 On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 1:50 PM Tim McGeary timmcge...@gmail.com wrote:

  Some Friday humor to share - I'm sure we all hear most, if not all, of
  these phrases in our day.  Perhaps we need to make a Stuff Librarians Say
  or Stuff Library IT People Say someday:
 
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHg_M_zKA6Y
 
  --
  Tim McGeary
  timmcge...@gmail.com
  GTalk/Yahoo/Skype/Twitter: timmcgeary
  484-294-7660 (cell)
 

[CODE4LIB] Interested in learning more about library linked data at ALA Annual 2015?

[Roy Tennant]

We invite you to attend the following sessions to hear from linked data
experts and library peers as they share implementation experiences, lessons
learned and real-world solutions that show library linked data in action.

· Beyond the Looking Glass: Real World Linked Data. What does it take to
make it work? http://alaac15.ala.org/node/29040

Join us to explore ontology design and data modeling in the real world.
Learn about the people, processes, metrics and yes, the technology needed
to succeed.

This preconference is intended for Non-IT library staff who have a general
understanding of linked data, and are ready to engage further in learning
and applying data modeling concepts that are central to using/creating
linked data in a production environment. Some knowledge of XML and HTML
will be assumed (although not required).

When: Friday June 26, 8:30 am – 4:00 pm

Where: Moscone Center West, Room 2016

Moderator: Laura Dawson, Product Manager, Identifier Services,
ISNI/Bowker/ProQuest

Speakers:

· Jenn Riley, Associate Dean, Digital Initiatives, McGill University Library

· Karen Smith-Yoshimura, Program Officer, OCLC

· Nannette Naught, Vice President, Strategy  Implementation, Information
Management Team (IMT), Inc.

· Steven Folsom, Discovery Metadata Librarian, Cornell University

REGISTER http://alaac15.ala.org/node/29040


· If you publish linked data, will they come? 
http://alaac15.ala.org/node/28856

Panelists from institutions that currently publish linked data will provide
insight into how they are defining the value of publishing linked data.

When: Saturday June 27, 8:30 – 10:00 am

Where: Moscone Center West, Room 2003

Speakers:

· Allison Jai O'Dell, Metadata Librarian, University of Florida

· Amber Billey, Catalog/Metadata Librarian, University of Vermont

· Barbara Bushman, Assistant Head, Cataloging  Metadata Management
Section, National Library of Medicine

· Nate Trail, Network Development and MARC Standards Office, Library of
Congress

· Roy Tennant, Senior Program Officer, OCLC Research

REGISTER http://alaac15.ala.org/node/28856


· OCLC Search Engine Visibility, Knowledge Cards and Works: Library Linked
Data in Action https://www.oclc.org/forms/ala-annual.en.html

Hear how libraries use Linked Data to improve search engine visibility for
their collections, connect searchers with libraries on the websites where
they begin their research, and give users context for library resources
identified in search results.

When: Saturday June 27, 8:30 – 10:00 am

Where: Moscone Center North, Room 125

Speaker: John McCullough, Senior Product Manager, OCLC

REGISTER https://www.oclc.org/forms/ala-annual.en.html


· OCLC Linked Data Roundtable: Stories from the Front 
https://www.oclc.org/forms/ala-annual.en.html

Linked data implementers will share their stories about what has worked and
what hasn’t, problems faced and solved, and remaining challenges and
opportunities. Speakers will be drawn from major library linked data
initiatives and their focus will be on practical considerations of linked
data implementations.

When: Saturday June 27, 10:30 – 11:30 am

Where: Moscone Center West, Room 3008

Speakers:

· Roy Tennant, Senior Program Officer, OCLC Research

· Nate Trail, Network Development and MARC Standards Office, Library of
Congress

· Phil Schreur, Stanford University  The Linked Data 4 Libraries (LD4L)
project

· Karen Smith-Yoshimura, Program Officer, OCLC

REGISTER https://www.oclc.org/forms/ala-annual.en.html


· LC BIBFRAME Update Forum http://alaac15.ala.org/node/30120

Library of Congress and collaborative partners will report progress with
BIBFRAME, the new bibliographic framework. LC will update on the status of
its BIBFRAME Pilot. A roundtable of several library system and service
vendors will share where they are with BIBFRAME and linked data.

When: Sunday, June 28, 10:30 – 11:30 am

Where: Moscone Center West, Room 2008

REGISTER http://alaac15.ala.org/node/30120

[CODE4LIB] International Linked Data Survey for Implementers: RSVP by 17 July 2015

[Roy Tennant]

Posted on behalf of my colleague.
Roy

OCLC Research is repeating its survey to learn details of specific projects
or services that format metadata as linked data and/or make subsequent uses
of it. Many in the libraries/archives/museum community are excited by the
potential of linked data applications to make new, valuable uses of
existing metadata.

If you or a colleague have implemented or are implementing linked data
projects or services-either by publishing data as linked data or ingesting
linked data resources into your own data or applications-please take the
survey at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LinkedDataSurvey2015

Expected time to complete the survey: 15-20 minutes for each project
described. We ask that responses be completed by *17 July 2015.*

As with last year’s survey, examples collected will be shared for the
benefit of others wanting to undertake similar efforts, wondering what is
possible to do and how to go about it. Participating institutions will be
identified with the projects described, but contact information will be
held confidential. Responses to this survey will be valuable to others who
are also interested in starting Linked Data projects.

If you took the survey last year, please take this year’s as well, as
things might have changed. The questions are the same, but some multiple
choice questions have additional options taken from the “other” responses
in last year’s survey, and some open-ended questions have been changed to
multiple choice, again based on last year’s responses. You can check what
you answered last year on this publicly available spreadsheet, “Results of
Linked Data Survey for Implementers
http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/activities/linkeddata/oclc-research-linked-data-implementers-survey-2014.xlsx
.”

Please feel free to share the above link to the survey. We’d like as many
responses as possible!

With thanks,

Karen Smith-Yoshimura

OCLC Research

Re: [CODE4LIB] Announcing Mirador 2.0 and projectmirador.org

[Roy Tennant]

I like the UI, but from what I can tell displaying a single JPEG 2000 image
is probably not a good use case for this tool, right? That is, no group of
images from which to select, no comparison with a different image, etc. --
just displaying a single image for pan, zoom, etc. If I'm right in this
assessment, I'll stick with the IIPMooViewer [1] for my use case. Thanks,
Roy

[1] http://iipimage.sourceforge.net/

On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Stuart Snydman snyd...@stanford.edu
wrote:

 We are excited to (officially) announce the release of Mirador version
 2.0.  Please visit our new project website at http://projectmirador.org.
 Here you will find a live demo, a four minute screencast demonstrating
 Mirador 2.0's features, and links to the code repository and documentation (
 https://github.com/IIIF/mirador/).

 The 2.0 release of Mirador builds and improves upon the first release with
 major user interface improvements and a rich feature set. These include:
 Deep zoom and pan using OpenSeadragon
 Multiple viewing modes, including single image, two-page, horizontal
 scroll and thumbnail gallery
 Synchronized navigation of multi-image objects by filmstrip or table of
 contents (when available)
 Metadata view
 Comparison of multiple images in a fully configurable workspace
 State saving and bookmarking for sharing a workspace
 Embeddable in blogs and third-party web apps
 Annotation
 Notably, Mirador now supports viewing and creation of annotations on
 regions of images. The annotation functionality is fully compatible with
 the OpenAnnotation specification (http://www.openannotation.org/), and of
 course Mirador 2.0 is fully compliant with the IIIF Image and Presentation
 API's (http://iiif.io).

 A variety of features are in the backlog for the next version, and you can
 view the updated roadmap at
 https://github.com/IIIF/mirador/wiki/Mirador-2.1-Roadmap.

 Mirador 2.0 is the result of a gratifying global collaboration. Many
 thanks and congratulations to the lead development team, which consists of
 Drew Winget from Stanford University and Rashmi Singhal from Harvard
 University. Mirador 2.0 would not have been possible without contributions
 of code, advice, testing and support by many others at Harvard, Stanford
 and the IIIF community. See a full list of acknowledgements on the project
 website.

 As we look forward to subsequent releases, improvements and extensions to
 Mirador, we invite contributions of issues, bug fixes, and new features by
 others. If you are interested, please sign up for the
 mirador-t...@googlegroups.com list, and head to Github to read the
 contributor guidelines and get started.

 -Stu Snydman

 
 Stuart Snydman
 Associate Director for Digital Strategy
 Stanford University Libraries

 ps - pardon the cross-posts!

Re: [CODE4LIB] Native MarcEdit for MacOSX

[Roy Tennant]

Better yet, get a brand-new Mac mini for what you've already raised:

http://store.apple.com/us/buy-mac/mac-mini

Roy

On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote:

 You might want to consider picking up a MacBook on Craigslist, or
 something like that. You can get a lot of only slightly vintage computer
 for $5-700.

 Cary

 Random ad:

 13 MacBook ProTurbo 2.9GHz i5 Dual-core ϟ Thunderbolt! + 500GB Storage -
 $499 (Los Angeles)
 make / manufacturer: Apple MacBook Pro
 size / dimensions: 13
 Up for sale my 13-inch Macbook Pro with free $40 case
 2.3GHz Turbo 2.9Ghz
 500GB Storage
 4GB Ram DDR3
 Thunderbolt
 USB
 FireWire

  On Apr 6, 2015, at 12:31 PM, Francis Kayiwa kay...@pobox.com wrote:
 
  Terry Reese (thanks Terry if you are reading this) has offered to write
 a Object-C version of MarcEdit. In order to this he needed access to a
 Apple Hardware. While my initial proposal on Go Fund me below was for a
 Macbook Pro, we've since realized it need not be a portable device. My
 current arithmetic puts the price of this at ~US$1300 as opposed to the
 listed ~US$2400
 
 
  Thanks for boosting this signal if you cannot otherwise help fund
 porting MarcEdit for the Mac OSX platform.
 
  http://www.gofundme.com/qtbzq4
 
 
  Cheers,
  ./fxk
  --
  Your analyst has you mixed up with another patient.  Don't believe a
  thing he tells you.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Native MarcEdit for MacOSX

[Roy Tennant]

I agree with Terry. His decisions on how to deal with his codebase has
stood the test of time. Open source doesn't mean squat if no one steps up
to maintain it (and I have some experience with that), so having someone
dedicated to maintaining it is not a bad strategy. It may not beds the most
politically correct solution, but so be it. Running (and maintained) code
trumps everything.
Roy

On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 6:13 PM, Terry Reese ree...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi Bill,

 Sure -- this has been asked before.  In fact, I wrote an article about the
 responsibilities developers and organizations have, regardless of if they
 utilize a closed or open source model in the C4L Journal back in 2012:
 http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/6393.

 In my case, it's been two things.  Until around 2006 or 2007, MarcEdit's
 code libraries were still largely written in assembly so there was very
 little interest.  But since migrating the code to something more accessible
 (C#),  I'd have to say that the main reason is that work on the project
 has, and continues to be, a hobby and avenue for me to pursue something
 that I happen to be quite passionate about.

 --tr

 -Original Message-
 From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
 William Denton
 Sent: Monday, April 6, 2015 7:46 PM
 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
 Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Native MarcEdit for MacOSX

 On 6 April 2015, Terry Reese wrote:

  What I've offered is that I'd redo the application to provide a native
  Mac App that is Mac-Native while still making use of the present
  assembly code.  This of course requires a Mac of some kind -- and
  since I'm not a Mac user, there it is.  From the users perspective, it
 should all be Mac-tastic.

 I've always been curious, and now seems a good time to ask: I'm sure
 you've considered, and been asked about, releasing MarcEdit under a free
 software license, but decided against it.  Why?

 Bill
 --
 William Denton ↔  Toronto, Canada ↔  https://www.miskatonic.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Philadelphia Bid for 2016

[Roy Tennant]

Oh gosh. The Mutter Museum or The Huntington. What a dilemma!
Roy

On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 6:48 AM, Chad Nelson chadbnel...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi All,

 On behalf of the proposal committee, I'm pleased to confirm that
 Philadelphia has now submitted a bid to host the 2016 National Conference.
 http://wiki.code4lib.org/2016_Hosting_Proposals

 Our proposal can be found at  http://c4l-phl.github.io/

 Thanks, and happy voting!
 Chad

Re: [CODE4LIB] Communications — conference and otherwise (was: [CODE4LIB] Code4LibCon video crew thanks)

[Roy Tennant]

So wouldn't this be solved by having one authoritative place to point to
all of the various pieces related to a particular conference? Perhaps all
we need to do is to be better about making sure that the Conference page on
code4lib.org points to *everything* relating to that conference. That seems
achievable to me.
Roy

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote:

 I have no issue with Google Docs or Eventbrite. My point is that it is hard
 for me to find stuff when it is in so many systems, and I am used to it. I
 think that it is time to do something about it.

 On Tuesday, February 17, 2015, Becky Yoose b.yo...@gmail.com wrote:

  Cary,
 
  I can speak to the signup for the Newcomer Dinner signup - previous years
  had the signup on the wiki, but this year we decided to try something
  different for the signup that didn't require an additional account to
 sign
  up. This should have given Ryan a bit of a break with people requesting
  wiki accounts last minute to sign up for the dinner. The link to the
 Google
  Doc was posted in the wiki, under the Newcomer dinner entry.
 Communications
  to the list and users have linked to the wiki page (though I do count one
  communication to the group that I directly linked to the Google Doc).
 
  If folks did not like the Google Docs setup for the dinners this year,
  please let me know and I can always bring the signups back to the wiki
 for
  future dinners. Again, it was an experiment for this year :c)
 
  I cannot speak for the Eventbrite pages, but my understanding that
  Eventbrite came with DLF handling registration finances this year.
 
  Thanks,
  Becky
 
  On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 1:05 PM, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com
  javascript:; wrote:
 
   This really speaks to the c4l who’s-in-charge-here / nobody is in
 charge
  /
   take the ball and run with it zeitgeist.
  
   We have one person — Ryan Wick — who carries most of the load for the
   website and the wiki. I don’t think that he, or anyone else, takes
   responsibility for organizing the content. From here,it looks like
   everything is a mix of tradition and fire prevention. Accordingly, this
   year we had:
  
   — The conference web pages on code4lib.org
   — The usual assortment of pages on wiki.code4lib.org
   — The newcomer dinner page on Google Docs
   — Stuff on Eventbrite
  
   Resulting in a mix of the usual symptoms:
  
   — No single place to find stuff
   — Conflicting information
   — Not clear editorial policy
  
   So, what do we do, and who is this “we, anyhow?
  
   The conference organizers have control, in theory, but I think that
 they
   are understandably loath to mess with the traditional mix. There is no
   place for them to ask a question and get a single, cogent,
 authoritative
   answer.
  
   Code4lib itself isn’t really a thing, just an us, and we have been
 loath
   to form standing committees, although we have done that after a fashion
  for
   scholarships and the Journal. I think that the time has come for a
  Code4lib
   communications task force —I love that name — to address the structure
 of
   our public-facing resources. Any takers.
  
   In lieu of blessings from an executive structure, the task force can do
   something with pasta to confirm its authority.
  
   Any takers?
  
   Thanks,
  
   Cary
  
On Feb 13, 2015, at 12:53 PM, Heller, Margaret mhell...@luc.edu
  javascript:; wrote:
   
I think Sarah is absolutely right that we should have updated the
   conference information page with information about streaming, as I
 don't
   think most people not attending the conference would think to look at
 the
   wiki. Even if everyone forgot to do it during the conference that's a
  note
   to the future to remember to do it during the conference, and I've
 edited
   the page at http://code4lib.org/conference/2015 to give the link to
 the
   YouTube channel.
   
And thanks so much video team!
   
Margaret Heller
Digital Services Librarian
Loyola University Chicago
773-508-2686
   
-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
  javascript:;] On Behalf Of
   Sarah Weissman
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 2:18 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU javascript:;
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4LibCon video crew thanks
   
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Francis Kayiwa kay...@pobox.com
  javascript:;
   wrote:
   
   
Planning these things is tough work with numerous moving parts.
 Could
it have been posted once we were underway? Perhaps. That said there
was 450 odd people who were there none of whom (the author included)
thought to send a message on availability of video to this listserv.
(I know for certain it was tweeted and re-tweeted)
   
   
   
I see what you are saying. I realize that logistics are tricky. I
 would
   have probably missed a mailing list message if it had come last minute.
  And
   I wasn't checking 

[CODE4LIB] Fwd: New report - Common Ground: Exploring Compatibilities Between the Linked Data Models of the Library of Congress and OCLC

[Roy Tennant]

This list might be interested in this.
Roy

  OCLC and the Library of Congress jointly released a white paper
today, *Common
Ground: Exploring Compatibilities Between the Linked Data Models of the
Library of Congress and OCLC
http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/2015/oclcresearch-loc-linked-data-2015.html*,
which compares and contrasts the compatible linked data initiatives at both
institutions.  It is an executive summary of a more detailed technical
analysis that will be released later this year.



The white paper summarizes the recent activity of the Bibliographic
Framework Initiative at the Library of Congress which proposes a data model
for future data interchange in the linked data environment that takes into
account interactions with search engines and current developments in
bibliographic description. It also provides an overview of OCLC’s efforts
to refine the technical infrastructure and data architecture for at-scale
publication of linked data for library resources in the broader Web. In
addition, it investigates the promise of Schema.org as a common ground
between the language of the information-seeking public and professional
stewards of bibliographic description.



*Key highlights:*

   - Work on the Library of Congress' BIBFRAME vocabulary has advanced
   nearly to the point of testing its use for original cataloging, which they
   will be doing later this year.
   - OCLC has published linked data on WorldCat.org using both the
   Schema.org vocabulary as well as extensions to that vocabulary.
   - LC and OCLC continue to work collaboratively to identify the different
   use cases of these efforts and how they complement each other in a rich
   bibliographic universe.

This report will be of interest to anyone wanting to know more about these
complementary linked data efforts and how they compare.

We encourage you to read the report
http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/2015/oclcresearch-loc-linked-data-2015.pdf
[pdf], share it with others and contact Jean Godby
http://www.oclc.org/research/people/godby.html with questions.



Thank you,

Melissa Renspie

Senior Communications Officer

OCLC Research



Melissa Renspie

Senior Communications Officer

OCLC Research http://www.oclc.org/research

rensp...@oclc.org

@mrenspie https://twitter.com/mrenspie

(614) 761-5231
Read our latest report, *Common Ground: Exploring Compatibilities Between
the Linked Data Models of the Library of Congress and OCLC
http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/2015/oclcresearch-loc-linked-data-2015.html*

Re: [CODE4LIB] lita

[Roy Tennant]

Also, I would point out that libraries increasingly hire non-librarians in
technology positions. That likely means that even if said persons might
eventually find Code4Lib, their allegiance to a profession as epitomized by
ALA is unlikely.
Roy

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 8:37 AM, Debra Shapiro dsshap...@wisc.edu wrote:

 LITA is now the smallest ALA division.

 Personally, as someone who’s been involved with LITA for 20 years, I think
 the decrease is due to all the reasons Kevin cites below, and also because
 of something of an identity crisis - related to the advent of the Internet,
 as Eric says.

 LITA is the technology division of the ALA. *Everything* in libraries is
 done with technology now, so ALA members who once might’ve chosen to join
 the technology division choose instead to join other divisions, related to
 their other interests. Look at the list of ALCTS (the cataloging division)
 programs for any given ALA conference, or ALCTS list of CE webinars, and
 it’s all topics that might’ve once been more the purview of LITA.

 Of course I ran for LITA prez on that platform 6 years ago and lost so
 what do I know …

 deb


 On Jan 5, 2015, at 10:28 AM, Kevin Ford k...@3windmills.com wrote:

   I think this just goes to show, with the advent of the
   Internet, centralized authorities are not as necessary/useful
   as they once
   used to be. —ELM
  
 
  -- Maybe.  I think it it recession-related.  The high water mark for
 nearly all of the groups on that list is 2007 (2006 for one or two). The
 overall stats for ALA show the same membership pattern (increasing until
 2007, decreasing thereafter):
 http://www.ala.org/membership/membershipstats_files/annual_memb_stats
 
  I'd be interested to know if LITA's membership decrease is greater (as a
 percentage) than the others.  Perhaps that would suggest forums such as
 code4lib peeled off some of those would-be LITA members.  Otherwise, it
 just looks like a broader decline in ALA membership, probably for a few
 reasons: fewer librarians in the workforce, fewer institutions willing to
 pay professional membership fees, less willingness to pay those fees out of
 pocket, etc.
 
  Yours,
  Kevin
 
 
 
 
  On 1/5/15 10:12 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
  I’m curious, how large is LITA (Library and Information Technology
  Association)? [0] How many members does it have?
 
  Apparently it has around 3000 members this year. I found this on the
 ALA
  membership statistics page:
 
  http://www.ala.org/membership/membershipstats_files/divisionstats#lita
 
 
  Interesting and thank you. Code4Lib only needs fifty more subscribers
 to equal LITA’s size. I think this just goes to show, with the advent of
 the Internet, centralized authorities are not as necessary/useful as they
 once used to be. —ELM
 

 dsshap...@wisc.edu
 Debra Shapiro
 SLIS, the iSchool at UW-Madison
 Helen C. White Hall, Rm. 4282
 600 N. Park St.
 Madison WI 53706
 608 262 9195
 mobile 608 712 6368
 FAX 608 263 4849

Re: [CODE4LIB] Novel OAI endpoints

[Roy Tennant]

Seeing as how I wrote this OAI provider from scratch in Perl, riding on top
of the code I wrote to serve up the site, it's quite likely to be buggy:

http://freelargephotos.com/oai.cgi?verb=Identify

Dubious, certainly, if not buggy.
Roy

On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 4:41 PM, Conal Tuohy conal.tu...@gmail.com wrote:

 Kia ora Stuart!

 You may be interested in a couple of OAI-PMH providers I wrote not that
 long ago.

 The code is here: https://github.com/Conal-Tuohy/Retailer and there are a
 few posts about it on my blog http://conaltuohy.com/

 Note that the providers are not available online publicly, but you can set
 them up yourself without much effort. The data they provide is sourced
 externally, via a web API, and in that sense the implementations are
 certainly different. They are stateless transforming web proxies,
 translating between OAI-PMH and upstream custom Web APIs, implemented as
 XSLT stylesheets hosted in a simple Java-based web server called Retailer.

 The upstream data providers are the digital newspaper collections of the
 National Libraries of New Zealand and Australia.

 The content types supported are also unusual; as well as the mandatory
 oai_dc, both the OAI-PMH providers provide records in XHTML format. These
 records are in fact the full text of the newspaper articles, with basic
 metadata embedded in the HTML head.

 In addition, they also proxy the native data formats provided by the
 upstream API (trove and digitalnz), with a few minor changes, such as
 to add the XML namespaces required by the OAI-PMH spec.

 A couple of years ago I wrote an OAI-PMH endpoint for a local instance of
 the archaeological repository software tDAR. This is written in Java, using
 the Struts framework. Here it is on the American tDAR site:
 https://core.tdar.org/oai-pmh/oai?verb=ListMetadataFormats which provides
 MODS.

 Further to Bernadette's suggestion of RIF-CS (research metadata) from
 Deakin, you can also reharvest this metadata, and metadata from other
 providers, from the Australian federal agency ANDS. See
 http://developers.ands.org.au/services/collections-registry-api/oai/

 You probably already have this one: the EAC-CPF records available from the
 National Library of Australia:
 http://www.nla.gov.au/apps/peopleaustralia-oai/OAIHandler

 Con

 On 7 November 2014 08:53, Stuart A. Yeates syea...@gmail.com wrote:

  I'm looking for a unusual OAI endpoints (different implementations,
  different metadata schemes or extensions to schemes, different
  structures, unusual content types, etc) to test against. I'm aware of
  the list a couple of mainstream lists of which
  http://www.base-search.net/about/en/about_sources_date_dn.php?menu=2
  is the most comprehensive  the and the live demos of dspace, eprints
  and fedora. But I'm looking for more obscure installs and corner
  cases.
 
  Does anyone know of any other candidates?
 
  Implementations known to be buggy, broken or dubious especially welcome
 :)
 
  I'll publish a list of endpoints I find useful.
 
  cheers
  stuart
 

Re: [CODE4LIB] Subject: Re: Why learn Unix?

[Roy Tennant]

I agree. I've done serious damage to my own server this way. Anyone who knows 
me knows that I'm completely capable of this. Unlike others, who are both more 
intelligent and more cautious. Down the path of the wild carded, recursive 
delete command lies DANGER. Having a little bit of knowledge is more dangerous, 
in most cases, than none at all. In Unix and in whitewater rafting.
Roy 


 On Oct 28, 2014, at 6:46 PM, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote:
 
 Well you can do a lot of damage quickly using very short commands. Deleting
 the master boot record can be quite effective, but I will demure from
 giving specific examples.
 
 
 
 On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Stuart Yeates stuart.yea...@vuw.ac.nz
 wrote:
 
 -- Because you can delete everything on the system with a very short
 command.
 
 This is actually a misconception.
 
 The very short command doesn't delete everything on the system. The
 integrity of files which are currently open (including things like the
 kernel image, executable files for currently-running programs, etc) is
 protected until they are closed (or the next reboot, whichever is first).
 These files vanish from the directory structure on the filesystem but can
 still be accessed by interacting with the running processes which have them
 open (or /proc/ for the very desperate).
 
 This is the POSIX alternative to the windows That file is currently in
 use scenario and explains why, when a runaway log file fills up a disk,
 you have to both delete the log file and restart the service to get the
 disk back.
 
 cheers
 stuart
 
 
 
 -- 
 Cary Gordon
 The Cherry Hill Company
 http://chillco.com

Re: [CODE4LIB] ISSN lists?

[Roy Tennant]

I would use this over a WorldCat.org search:

http://xissn.worldcat.org/

but I am unaware of a data dump.
Roy

On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 7:16 PM, Stuart Yeates stuart.yea...@vuw.ac.nz
wrote:

 My understanding is that there is no universal ISSN list but that worldcat
 allows querying of their database by ISSN.

 Which method of sampling the ISSN namespace is going to cause least pain?
 http://www.worldcat.org/ISSN/ seems to be the one talked about, but is
 there another that's less resource intensive? Maybe someone's already
 exported this data?

 cheers
 stuart
 --
 I have a new phone number: 04 463 5692

Re: [CODE4LIB] Official #teamharpy Statement on the case of Joseph Hawley Murphy vs. nina de jesus and Lisa Rabey

[Roy Tennant]

Just a minor point. Despite my relative index score it doesn't necessarily mean 
that I am not a shameless self-promoter, it may just mean I've been at it 
longer. Just sayin'.
Roy

 On Sep 20, 2014, at 2:12 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote:
 
 Lisa, I hadn't know about this so I just spend some time reading the items 
 you list below. I was primarily motivated to do so because I had never heard 
 of this famous librarian, Joe Murphy. (I must be in a different conference 
 circuit than he is.)
 
 I also was interested because I've recently joined the hardworking group of 
 Wikipedians who work to distinguish between notable persons and able 
 self-promoters. In doing so, I've learned a lot about how self-promotion 
 works, especially in social media. In Wikipedia, to be considered notable, 
 there needs to be some reliable proof - that is, third-party references, not 
 provided by the individual in question. In terms of accomplishments, for 
 example for academics, there is a list of measures, albeit not measurable 
 in the scientific sense. [1]
 
 Just for a lark, look at the Google scholar profiles for Joe Murphy, RoyT, 
 and for myself:
 
 http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=zW1lb04Jhl=enoi=ao
 http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LJw73cAJhl=en
 http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=m4Tx73QJhl=enoi=ao
 
 The h-index, while imprecise, is about as close as you get to something one 
 can cite as a measure. It's not a decision, but it is an indication.
 
 I put this forward not as proof of anything, but to offer that reputation is 
 extremely hard to quantify, but should be looked at with a critical eye and 
 not taken for granted. It also fits in with what we already know, which is 
 that men promote themselves in the workplace more aggressively than women do. 
 In fact, in the Wikipedia group, we mainly find articles about men whose 
 notability is over-stated. (You can see my blog post on the problems of 
 notability for women. [2])
 
 I greatly admire your stand for free speech. Beyond this, I will contact you 
 offline with other thoughts.
 
 kc
 [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_%28academics%29
 [2] http://kcoyle.blogspot.com/2014/09/wpnotability-and-women.html
 
 On 9/20/14, 9:16 AM, Lisa Rabey wrote:
 Friends:
 
 
 I know many of you have already been boosting the signal, and we thank
 you profusely for the help.
 
 For those who do not know, Joe Murphy is currently suing nina and I in
 $1.25M defamation case because
 
 From our official statement
 (http://teamharpy.wordpress.com/why-are-we-being-sued/)
 
 Mr. Murphy claims that Ms. Rabey “posted the following false,
 libelous and highly damaging tweet accusing the plaintiff of being a
 ‘sexual predator'”3. He further claims that Ms. de jesus wrote a blog
 post that “makes additional false, libelous, highly damaging,
 outrageous, malicious statements against the plaintiff alleging the
 commission of sexual harassment and sexual abuse of women and other
 forms of criminal and unlawful behaviour”4.
 
 Both Ms. Rabey and Ms. de jesus maintain that our comments are fair
 and are truthful, which we intend to establish in our defense. Neither
 of us made the claims maliciously nor with any intent to damage Mr.
 Murphy’s reputation.
 
 Right now we need the following most importantly:
 
 1. We have a call out for additional witnesses
 (http://teamharpy.wordpress.com/call-for-witnesses/), which have
 started to filter in more accounts of harrassment. Please, PLEASE, if
 you know/seen/heard anything about the plaintiff, or know someone who
 might -- please have them get in touch.
 
 2. Share our site (http://teamharpy.wordpress.com) which includes
 details of the case and updates. Please help us get the word out to as
 many people as possible about the plaintiff's attempt to silence those
 speaking up against sexual harassment and why you won't stand for it.
 
 3.
 onations: Many, many of you have asked to help donate to fund our
 mounting legal costs. We will have a donation page up soon. Even if
 you cannot help financially, please share across your social networks.
 
 We will not be silenced. We will not be shamed.
 
 Thank you again. The outpouring of support that has been happening has
 made this all very much worth while.
 
 Best,
 Lisa
 
 -- 
 Karen Coyle
 kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net
 m: +1-510-435-8234
 skype: kcoylenet/+1-510-984-3600

Re: [CODE4LIB] PDX conference: invited speakers

[Roy Tennant]

What Tara said, Certainly one of the benefits of moving this conference
around geographically must surely be the opportunity to pull on local
talent. Thanks for pointing that out!
Roy

On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Tara Robertson trobert...@langara.bc.ca
wrote:

 Hi,

 The current list of proposed invited speakers has some great ideas on it:
 http://wiki.code4lib.org/2015_Invited_Speakers_Nominations

 I'm sure there's some kickass speakers in Portland who might be willing to
 speak. After all OSCON is in Portland, Portland hosted Typecon 2013, World
 Domination Summit (ugh), and home to so many people doing traditional
 things in new ways, disrupting existing business models, creative thinkers
 and fine purveyors of bespoke just about everything. Looking for local
 talent means saving on travel and accommodation costs too, or means being
 able to pay a higher speaker fee.

 I wonder if there are locals who have ideas of people they think we would
 benefit from learning from.

 Cheers,
 Tara

[CODE4LIB] Time to solicit sponsorships for the 2015 Conference

[Roy Tennant]

The Sponsorships Committee for the 2015 conference is getting underway and
we could use some help. Specifically, we are looking for:

1) Suggestions of groups to approach about sponsoring the event. We of
course have a list based on past events, but we are always open for new
ideas, especially organizations in the area of the conference that may have
not been asked before.
2) Volunteers to contact specific organizations. Do you have a vendor
contact that you feel like you can approach about sponsorship?
Relationships are important so we want to leverage those wherever we can.

Thanks,
Roy on behalf of the committee [1]

[1]
http://wiki.code4lib.org/2015_Conference_Committees#Sponsorships_Committee

[CODE4LIB] Results from the International Linked Data Survey for Implementers

[Roy Tennant]

Forwarded on behalf of my colleague.
Roy

-- Forwarded message --

  Many thanks to all of you who participated in the international linked
data survey for implementers or disseminated the survey link! I’ve been
summarizing the results in a series of HangingTogether posts, which just
concluded today:



·Linked Data Survey results 1 – Who’s doing it
http://hangingtogether.org/?p=4137

·Linked Data Survey results 2 – Examples in production
http://hangingtogether.org/?p=4147

·Linked Data Survey results 3 – Why and what institutions are
consuming http://hangingtogether.org/?p=4155

·Linked Data Survey results 4 – Why and what institutions are
publishing http://hangingtogether.org/?p=4167

·Linked Data Survey results 5 – Technical details
http://hangingtogether.org/?p=4256

·Linked Data Survey results 6 - Advice from the implementers
http://hangingtogether.org/?p=4284



At the end of the last post is a link to the spreadsheet with the
compilation of all survey responses
http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/activities/linkeddata/oclc-research-linked-data-implementers-survey-2014.xlsx
(minus the contact information which we promised respondents we’d keep
confidential). Feel free to apply your own filters to the responses, or
look at them more closely.



We also updated OCLC Linked Data Research
http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/linkeddata.htmlactivity page to
include the link to the above spreadsheet and the hangingtogether blog
series (the sixth one to be added soon) so they’re all in one place.



I’d be interested in your reactions!



Cheers,



Karen S-Y

Re: [CODE4LIB] [code4libcon] Code4Lib 2014 Conference accounting update

[Roy Tennant]

This is worth taking the OCLC Bacon Seal of Approval out of its
velvet-lined case and affixing that stamp upon the awesome work that the
Research Triangle group did on the last conference. Congratulations and a
huge thanks!
Roy


On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Tim McGeary timmcge...@gmail.com wrote:

 Colleagues,

 I wanted to report on the financial closing of the Code4Lib 2014 account.
  All of the bills have been paid for and the reimbursements have been sent.
  This year, we have a surplus of $29,419.80 that we will be able to pass
 onto the Code4Lib 2015 committee.  I can say with great confidence that
 much of this surplus is possible through the excellent contract negotiation
 and cost management of CONCENTRA, whom we hired this year.

 The very first action CONCENTRA enabled for us was to change hotel venues
 because the first hotel contract we reviewed was overly restrictive and
 provided no incentives to the conference.  At the venue were the conference
 was located, we received a sizeable number of kick backs of hotel rooms
 that offset costs of scholarship awardees and the keynote speakers, in
 addition to CONCENTRA's experience in estimated the number of meals needed
 so that we did not overcommit.  Finally, CONCENTRA was instrumental in
 getting the hotel to not only improve the wireless, but also have the
 charges withdrawn for the days in which the wifi service was unacceptable.
  These are just a few of the examples of financial savings CONCENTRA's work
 provided.  Thank you to Ann Elsner and her staff at Duke University for
 hosting the financial services for the conference!

 I am very proud of the hosting efforts of my colleagues at Duke
 University, NC State University, and UNC Chapel Hill, most especially of my
 co-Chair Emily Lynema.  None of this would have been possible without all
 of the excellent volunteers locally, as well as those of you in the
 community who volunteered in other ways.

 If anyone has any final questions about Code4Lib 2014, please do let me
 know.  Otherwise, I look forward to a successful Code4Lib 2015 in Portland!

 Cheers,
 Tim

 --
 Tim McGeary
 Director of Library  Information Technology
 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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[CODE4LIB] Library Linked Data Survey: Who's Doing It

[Roy Tennant]

Forwarded on behalf of my colleague.
Roy

The results of the international survey on specific projects or services
that format metadata as linked data and/or make subsequent uses of it are
being posted as a series of HangingTogether blog posts.

I just posted the first of the series: Linked Data Survey results-Who’s
doing it at
http://hangingtogether.org/?p=4137

Many thanks to those of you who participated! Feel free to share the above
link to anyone who may be interested.

Other results will be posted over the next two weeks. Stay tuned!

Cheers,

Karen Smith-Yoshimura
OCLC Research

Re: [CODE4LIB] Archival File Storage

[Roy Tennant]

Perhaps these might be helpful?

You've Got to Walk Before You Can Run: First Steps for Managing
Born-Digital Content Received on Physical Media
http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/library/2012/2012-06.pdf

Walk This Way: Detailed Steps for Transferring Born-Digital Content from
Media You Can Read In-house
http://oclc.org/content/dam/research/publications/library/2013/2013-02.pdf

Roy


On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Will Martin w...@will-martin.net wrote:

 As with most libraries, we're accumulating an increasing number of digital
 holdings.  So far, our approach to storing these files consists of a
 haphazard cocktail of:

 - A ContentDM site whose contents haven't been updated in three years
 - live network storage in the form of shared drives
 - a Drobo
 - CDs and DVDs
 - hard drives stored in static-proof bags, and
 - ancient floppy disks whose contents remain a mystery that would surely
 scour the last vestiges of sanity from our minds if we had a 5 1/4 drive
 to read them with.

 In short it's a mess that has evolved organically over a long period of
 time.  I'm not entirely sure what to do about it, especially considering
 our budget for improving the situation is ... uh, zero.

 At the very least, I'd like a better sense for what is considered a good
 approach to storing archival files.  Can anyone recommend any relevant best
 practices or standards documents?  Or just share what you use.

 I'm familiar with the OAIS model for digital archiving, and it seems well
 thought-out, but highly abstract.  A more practical nuts-and-bolts guide
 would be helpful.

 Thanks.

 Will Martin

 Web Services Librarian
 University of North Dakota

Re: [CODE4LIB] Creating a Linked Data Service

[Roy Tennant]

Most of the time I'm not sure what I am supposed to be doing so I just
make a solution that works

BINGO. That describes me, and likely others, to a T.
Roy


On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Michael Beccaria mbecca...@paulsmiths.edu
wrote:

 I'm a one man shop and sometimes go to these conferences where many of you
 brilliant people are making these brilliant solutions making these
 ubiquitous black box data services that talk to one another using a
 standardized query language and I felt inspired and thought maybe I have
 been doing patch work on a job that really ought to be done a better way.
 I'm all about the bubble gum and duct tape stuff but I was at a point where
 it would have been a good time to migrate to something a little more
 robust. I'm getting the impression that for the size of the projects I'm
 working on linked data and other similar solutions are very much overkill.
 I'll have a PHP script output some custom xml that can be ingested on the
 other end and call it a day. Done :-)

 This is also, at least for me, a challenge I have with being a
 wear-a-lot-of-hats-and-sometimes-write-code person at a small institution.
 Most of the time I'm not sure what I am supposed to be doing so I just make
 a solution that works without having others to bounce ideas off of. Thanks
 for the support.

 Mike Beccaria
 Systems Librarian
 Head of Digital Initiative
 Paul Smith's College
 518.327.6376
 mbecca...@paulsmiths.edu
 Become a friend of Paul Smith's Library on Facebook today!


 -Original Message-
 From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
 Riley-Huff, Debra
 Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2014 11:52 PM
 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
 Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Creating a Linked Data Service

 I agree with Roy. Seems like something that could be easily handled with
 PHP or Python scripts. Someone on the list may even have a homegrown
 solution (improved duct tape) they would be happy to share. I fail to see
 what the project has to do with linked data or why you would go that route.

 Debra Riley-Huff
 Head of Web Services  Associate Professor JD Williams Library University
 of Mississippi University, MS 38677
 662-915-7353
 riley...@olemiss.edu


 On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 9:33 PM, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com wrote:

  I'm puzzled about why you want to use linked data for this. At first
  glance the requirement simply seems to be to fetch data from your ILS
  server, which likely could be sent in any number of simple packages
  that don't require an RDF wrapper. If you are the only one consuming
  this data then you can use whatever (simplistic, proprietary) format
  you want. I just don't see what benefits you would get by creating
  linked data in this case that you wouldn't get by doing something
  much more straightforward and simple. And don't be harshing on duct
  tape. Duct tape is a perfectly fine solution for many problems.
  Roy
 
 
  On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Michael Beccaria
  mbecca...@paulsmiths.edu
  
  wrote:
 
   I have recently had the opportunity to create a new library web page
   and host it on my own servers. One of the elements of the new page
   that I
  want
   to improve upon is providing live or near live information on
   technology availability (10 of 12 laptops available, etc.). That
   data resides on my ILS server and I thought it might be a good time
   to upgrade the bubble
  gum
   and duct tape solution I now have to creating a real linked data
   service that would provide that availability information to the web
 server.
  
   The problem is there is a lot of overly complex and complicated
   information out there onlinked data and RDF and the semantic web
   etc. and I'm looking for a simple guide to creating a very simple
   linked data service with php or python or whatever. Does such a
   resource exist? Any advice on where to start?
   Thanks,
  
   Mike Beccaria
   Systems Librarian
   Head of Digital Initiative
   Paul Smith's College
   518.327.6376
   mbecca...@paulsmiths.edu
   Become a friend of Paul Smith's Library on Facebook today!
  
 

Re: [CODE4LIB] Creating a Linked Data Service

[Roy Tennant]

I'm puzzled about why you want to use linked data for this. At first glance
the requirement simply seems to be to fetch data from your ILS server,
which likely could be sent in any number of simple packages that don't
require an RDF wrapper. If you are the only one consuming this data then
you can use whatever (simplistic, proprietary) format you want. I just
don't see what benefits you would get by creating linked data in this
case that you wouldn't get by doing something much more straightforward and
simple. And don't be harshing on duct tape. Duct tape is a perfectly fine
solution for many problems.
Roy


On Wed, Aug 6, 2014 at 2:45 PM, Michael Beccaria mbecca...@paulsmiths.edu
wrote:

 I have recently had the opportunity to create a new library web page and
 host it on my own servers. One of the elements of the new page that I want
 to improve upon is providing live or near live information on technology
 availability (10 of 12 laptops available, etc.). That data resides on my
 ILS server and I thought it might be a good time to upgrade the bubble gum
 and duct tape solution I now have to creating a real linked data service
 that would provide that availability information to the web server.

 The problem is there is a lot of overly complex and complicated
 information out there onlinked data and RDF and the semantic web etc. and
 I'm looking for a simple guide to creating a very simple linked data
 service with php or python or whatever. Does such a resource exist? Any
 advice on where to start?
 Thanks,

 Mike Beccaria
 Systems Librarian
 Head of Digital Initiative
 Paul Smith's College
 518.327.6376
 mbecca...@paulsmiths.edu
 Become a friend of Paul Smith's Library on Facebook today!

[CODE4LIB] International Linked Data Survey deadline extended

[Roy Tennant]

On behalf of my colleague:

I have been asked to extend the deadline for the international linked data
survey athttps://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LinkedDataSurvey as a number of
implementers have been on vacation. The deadline has now been extended to
Friday, 15 August.

If you started the survey, you now have time to complete it. If you
intended to respond, but didn’t, now you can.

Many thanks to those who completed their responses by the original deadline!

Cheers,

Karen Smith-Yoshimura
OCLC Research

[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Bay Area Meetup on Monday!

[Roy Tennant]

There's still time to sign up for and attend the Code4Lib Bay Area Meetup
on Monday, July 28th (only days away!) from 10am-3pm. Continental breakfast
starting at 9am.

It will be held at 777 Mariners Island Blvd., San Mateo, conveniently
located near the intersection of 92 (the San Mateo Bridge) and 101. Parking
is free and plentiful, something that almost never happens in the Bay Area.

Sign up to attend and to give a lightning talk or a 20-minute talk here:

http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Western

OCLC is providing a continental breakfast and lunch. Over 30 people from
Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCSF, Several CSUs including Fresno, and other
universities and community colleges will be attending. Hope to see you
there!
Roy

Re: [CODE4LIB] iiif compatible servers

[Roy Tennant]

I can't comment on the other options, but I've used IIP[1] for a while now
on Apache 2 and I've been quite pleased with it. I use mogrify from
ImageMagick to create the JP2s from the JPGs on the server and it serves
them up nicely. I'm also able to have the photographer's name, copyright
date, and web site display on each image. Here's an example if you want to
get all up close and personal with an Emu:

http://freelargephotos.com/photos/300112/full.jp2/David+Chudnov

Roy

[1] IIP: http://iipimage.sourceforge.net/documentation/server/


On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 2:39 PM, James, Eric eric.ja...@yale.edu wrote:

 Looking to implement a iiif compatible server, primarily for jp2s in
 fcrepo3.

 Just read the 'very large image display?' thread and looking at the
 http://iiif.io/technical-details.html, it appears options include:

 loris: https://github.com/pulibrary/loris
 IIP: http://iipimage.sourceforge.net/documentation/server/
 djatoka iiif: ( https://github.com/jronallo/djatoka)

 The iiif djatoka gem immediately caught my eye as I've implemented djatoka
 w/ fcrepo3 in a previous project, but am interested if there are any
 opinions in choosing any one of these over another.

 Thanks,
 Eric
 
 From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Esmé
 Cowles [escow...@ticklefish.org]
 Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 4:44 PM
 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
 Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] very large image display?

 We previously used the Zoomify Flash applet, but now use Leaflet.js with
 the Zoomify tileset plugin:

 https://github.com/turban/Leaflet.Zoomify

 One thing I like about this approach is that it minimizes the amount of
 Javascript code the clients have to load, since we use Leaflet.js for our
 maps and it's already loaded.

 -Esme

  -Original Message-
  From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf
 Of Jonathan Rochkind
  Sent: Friday, July 25, 2014 10:36 AM
  To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
  Subject: [CODE4LIB] very large image display?
 
  Does anyone have a good solution to recommend for display of very large
 images on the web?  I'm thinking of something that supports pan and scan,
 as well as loading only certain tiles for the current view to avoid loading
 an entire giant image.
 
  A URL to more info to learn about things would be another way of
 answering this question, especially if it involves special server-side
 software.  I'm not sure where to begin. Googling around I can't find any
 clearly good solutions.
 
  Has anyone done this before and been happy with a solution?
 
  Thanks for any info!
 
  Jonathan

[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib NorCal, July 28th!

[Roy Tennant]

I'm happy to announce that Code4Lib NorCal will be on Monday, July 28 at
777 Mariners Island Blvd, San Mateo.[1] There is no charge and lunch is
being provided by OCLC Research. Parking is free and is on both sides of
the building.

Please sign up to attend here:

http://bit.ly/1n3osOy

Also, please consider submitting a prepared talk proposal (due by this
Sunday), or a lightning talk or breakout session here:

http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Western#Code4Lib_NorCal_2014

We have a couple sessions proposed already but we can use more. Thanks,
Roy

[1] http://bit.ly/1wn30E2

[CODE4LIB] Linked Data Survey for Implementers: RSVP by 31 July 2014

[Roy Tennant]

Posted on behalf of my OCLC Research colleague.
Roy

OCLC Research is conducting a survey to learn details of specific projects
or services that format metadata as linked data and/or make subsequent uses
of it. Many in the libraries/archives/museum community are excited by the
potential of linked data applications to make new, valuable uses of
existing metadata.

If you or a colleague have implemented or are implementing linked data
projects or services-either by publishing data as linked data or ingesting
linked data resources into your own data or applications-please take the
survey at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/LinkedDataSurvey

Expected time to complete the survey: 15-20 minutes for each project
described. We ask that responses be completed by 31 July 2014.

Examples collected will be shared for the benefit of others wanting to
undertake similar efforts, wondering what is possible to do and how to go
about it. Participating institutions will be identified with the projects
described, but contact information will be held confidential. Responses to
this survey will be valuable to others who are also interested in starting
Linked Data projects.

Please feel free to share the above link to the survey. We’d like as many
responses as possible!

With thanks,

Karen Smith-Yoshimura
OCLC Research

Re: [CODE4LIB] Initial NorCal Code4Lib Meetup

[Roy Tennant]

While we are gathering input on which day to hold the Code4Lib NorCal
event, I want to begin soliciting proposals for 20-minute prepared talks.
In case we receive more proposals than we have time for, I'm suggesting a
deadline of Sunday, July 20th to afford us time to select the ones we want
to hear like we do for the annual conference.

Please submit your proposals on this wiki page:

http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Prepared_Talk_Proposals

Meanwhile, over on the Google Group where we are doing the planning we will
start discussing how we want the day to unfold. If you want to be a part of
that, please sign up here:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/code4lib-norcal

Thanks,
Roy


On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 6:29 AM, Collier, Aaron acoll...@calstate.edu
wrote:

 Good Morning,

 The NorCal group has been discussing an initial meet up and we've settled
 on a half-day (10am - 3pm) sometime during the last week of July.

 The San Mateo office of OCLC Research has offered to host the event at 777
 Mariners Island Blvd in San Mateo. Facilities include a 120-seat
 amphitheatre and multiple rooms of various sizes for breakouts. OCLC will
 also sponsor lunch.

 If you are in the area and available to attend, fill out this simple poll
 to let us know which date works best for you.

 http://doodle.com/big8ee89s8is2uk7

 Thanks!

[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib NorCal

[Roy Tennant]

Code4Lib Northern California (the SF Bay Area and surrounds, sorry Humboldt
and Del Norte, you must organize as Way Northern California), is tooling up
to organize a local get-together. So if you want to participate in the
planning, please sign up for this Google Group:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/code4lib-norcal

Any events will be announced on the main Code4Lib list, however, so if you
want to attend but not help plan you don't need to do anything. Just hang
loose until you hear from us. Thanks,
Roy for the planning group

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

[Roy Tennant]

Yay. What mjgriarlo said.
Roy


On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 6:59 PM, Michael J. Giarlo 
leftw...@alumni.rutgers.edu wrote:

 We need a survey to determine which survey tool to use? ;)

 Rosy already set one up; let's roll with that. Rough consensus, running
 code, and all that rot.
 On May 28, 2014 6:29 PM, Riley Childs ri...@tfsgeo.com wrote:

  Keep the tiara (good effort), but rather then have a ton of desperate
  polls (maybe exaggerating), we might want to have a central archive of
 the
  results. This I a big decision (at least I think it is) but the voting
  machine is there for stuff like this.
  Just my $0.02...
  //Riley
 
  Riley Childs
  Student
  Asst. Head of IT Services
  Charlotte United Christian Academy
  (704) 497-2086
  RileyChilds.net
   Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes
 
  -Original Message-
  From: Rosalyn Metz rosalynm...@gmail.com
  Sent: ‎5/‎28/‎2014 7:18 PM
  To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
  Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Ross Singer RE: [CODE4LIB] Jobs Digest
 
  sigh.
 
  if we really think a die-bold-a-tron for this is necessary i'll turn off
  the survey and i'll give back my tiara.
 
 
  On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Riley Childs rchi...@cucawarriors.com
  wrote:
 
   +1
  
   Riley Childs
   Student
   Asst. Head of IT Services
   Charlotte United Christian Academy
   (704) 497-2086
   RileyChilds.net
   Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes
   
   From: Doran, Michael Dmailto:do...@uta.edu
   Sent: ‎5/‎28/‎2014 4:53 PM
   To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDUmailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
   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 a quick glance at where the
 jobs
   are geographically and getting the digests means only one additional
  email
   a day, and I can live with that.)
  
   -- Michael
  
-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf
  Of
Riley Childs
Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2014 3:43 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Ross Singer RE: [CODE4LIB] Jobs Digest
   
Yes a poll is great, but it needs to be done though the die-bold-a
  tron,
Ross Singer can set it up...
   
Reason we like to do it though our system because then we are able to
view community consensus and plus this is how it is always done.
   
Thanks!
//Riley
   
Riley Childs
Student
Asst. Head of IT Services
Charlotte United Christian Academy
(704) 497-2086
RileyChilds.net
Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes

From: Rosalyn Metzmailto:rosalynm...@gmail.com
Sent: ‎5/‎28/‎2014 4:30 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDUmailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Jobs Digest
   
a tiara!  i'm so on that.
   
   
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 12:57 PM, Valerie Forrestal 
valerie.forres...@csi.cuny.edu wrote:
   
 god bless you rosy metz. if you give me your address
(bitly.com/TiaraMe)
 i will gladly send you a tiara for your good deed.

 ~val


 Valerie Forrestal
 Web Services Librarian/Asst. Professor
 City University of New York
 College of Staten Island Library
 2800 Victory Blvd., 1L-109I
 Staten Island, N.Y. 10314
 Phone: 718.982.4023
 valerie.forres...@csi.cuny.edu

 On 5/28/2014 1:34 PM, Rosalyn Metz wrote:

 I created a poll so this never ending thread will finally end.
Although
 I'm
 sure someone will complain about the poll and so the thread will
  live
on.

 https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/5HRS8KJ

 Y'all have a week to complete it (poll closes around midnight
  pacific)
at
 which point I will post the results and the listserv will rejoice
 in
 consensus.

 Happy poll taking!
 Rosy





 On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Tania Fersenheim 
   tan...@brandeis.edu
 wrote:

  +1 vote for a poll

 On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Valerie Forrestal
 valerie.forres...@csi.cuny.edu wrote:

 lord help us all can someone just set up an online poll and we
 can
be
 done with it?

 Valerie Forrestal
 Web Services Librarian/Asst. Professor
 City University of New York
 College of Staten Island Library
 2800 Victory Blvd., 1L-109I
 Staten Island, N.Y. 10314
 Phone: 718.982.4023
 valerie.forres...@csi.cuny.edu


 On 5/28/2014 11:48 AM, Matthew McKinley wrote:

 +1 for new format. Title, location  keywords are MUCH more
  helpful
for
 quickly perusing jobs than full job description (which is
 readily

Re: [CODE4LIB] Job Interview : A Libcoder's Helpful Advices

[Roy Tennant]

On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 10:07 AM, Kyle Banerjee kyle.baner...@gmail.comwrote:

 Hiring someone is the most important/expensive thing that organizations do.


I couldn't agree more[1]. And that's why I advocate that organizations hire
based on personality traits, not experience. I realize that justifications
must be given in terms of the candidate's qualifications vis. a vis. the
position description, but if you aren't paying attention to personality
traits then you are missing the boat.
Roy

[1] http://roytennant.com/column/?fetch=data/101.xml

Re: [CODE4LIB] Anyone know the status of MARCView (Systems Planning/OCLC Dev Network)

[Roy Tennant]

Christina,
So sorry for the delay. I consulted with colleagues and we are still
hosting the software here:

http://worldcat.org/devnet/code/MARCView-Convert/

But we can provide no support for it whatsoever. Please be sure to consult
the documentation here:

http://worldcat.org/devnet/code/MARCView-Convert/tags/3.12.2/documentation/

Please keep in mind that this is unsupported software, which means we
cannot answer any questions you may have because we neither wrote it nor
maintain it. We agreed to accept hosting responsibilities simply so it
could remain available for anyone who is interested. Thanks,
Roy Tennant
OCLC Research


On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Salazar, Christina 
christina.sala...@csuci.edu wrote:

 Hi all,

 I see that Systems Planning turned over MARCView and MARCConvert to OCLC
 Dev Network, but I cannot find any download on OCLC Dev Network. Does
 anyone know if this program is just gone, gone?

 Yes, MARCEdit is still out there, but MARCView is super simple to use.

 And yeah... MARC records... yeah...

 Christina Salazar
 Systems Librarian
 John Spoor Broome Library
 California State University, Channel Islands
 805/437-3198
 [Description: Description: CI Formal Logo_1B grad_em signature]

Re: [CODE4LIB] barriers to open metadata?

[Roy Tennant]

Also, this:

OCLC identifiers, and Linked Data URIs, are always in the public domain.
Independent of the data and/or information content (which may be subject to
individual licensing terms open or otherwise) that they identify, or link
to, OCLC identifiers (e.g. OCLC Numbers, VIAF IDs, or WorldCat Work URIs)
can be treated as if they are in the public domain and can be included in
any data exposure mechanism or activity as public domain data.

http://www.oclc.org/developer/develop/linked-data.en.html

Roy


On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Richard Wallis 
richard.wal...@dataliberate.com wrote:

 To unpack the several questions lurking in Karen’s question.

 As to being able to use the WorldCat Works data/identifiers there is no
 difference between a or b - it is ODC-BY licensed data.

 Getting a Work URI may be easier for a) as they should be able to identify
 the OCLC Number and hence use the linked data from it’s URI 
 http://worldcat.org/oclc/{ocn} to pick up the link to it’s work.

 Tools such as xISBN http://xisbn.worldcat.org/xisbnadmin/doc/api.htm can
 step you towards identifier lookups and are openly available for low volume
 usage.

 Citation lookup is more a bib lookup feature, that you could get an OCLC
 Number from. One of colleagues may be helpful on the particulars of this.

 Apologies for being WorldCat specific, but Karen did ask.

 ~Richard.


 On 30 April 2014 17:15, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote:

  My question has to do with discoverability. Let's say that I have a
  bibliographic database and I want to add the OCLC work identifiers to it.
  Obviously I don't want to do it by hand. I might have ISBNs, but in some
  cases I will have a regular author/title-type citation.
 
  and let's say that I am asking this for two different institutions:
  a) is an OCLC member institution
  b) is not
 
  Thanks,
  kc
 
 
 
 
  On 4/30/14, 8:47 AM, Dan Scott wrote:
 
  On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 11:37 PM, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com
  wrote:
 
  This has now instead become a reasonable recommendation
  concerning ODC-BY licensing [3] but the confusion and uncertainty
  about which records an OCLC member may redistribute remains.
 
  [3] http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/2012/201248.en.html
 
  Allow me to try to put this confusion and uncertainty to rest once and
  for
  all:
 
  ALL THE THINGS. ALL.
 
  At least as far as we are concerned. I think it's well past time to put
  the
  past in the past.
 
  That's great, Roy. That's a *lot* simpler than parsing the
  recommendations, WCRR, community norms, and such at [A, B] :)
 
   Meanwhile, we have just put nearly 200 million works records up as
 linked
  open data. [1], [2], [3]. If that doesn't rock the library open linked
  data
  world, then no one is paying attention.
  Roy
 
  [1] http://oclc.org/en-US/news/releases/2014/201414dublin.html
  [2]
  http://dataliberate.com/2014/04/worldcat-works-197-million-
  nuggets-of-linked-data/
  [3] http://hangingtogether.org/?p=3811
 
  Yes, that is really awesome. But Laura was asking about barriers to
  open metadata, so damn you for going off-topic with PR around a lack
  of barriers to some metadata (which, for those who have not looked
  yet, have a nice ODC-BY licensing statement at the bottom of a given
  Works page) :)
 
  A. http://oclc.org/worldcat/community/record-use.en.html
  B. http://oclc.org/worldcat/community/record-use/data-
  licensing/questions.en.html
 
 
  --
  Karen Coyle
  kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net
  m: 1-510-435-8234
  skype: kcoylenet
 



 --
 Richard Wallis
 Founder, Data Liberate
 http://dataliberate.com
 Tel: +44 (0)7767 886 005

 Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/richardwallis
 Skype: richard.wallis1
 Twitter: @rjw

Re: [CODE4LIB] barriers to open metadata?

[Roy Tennant]

Richard covered the options pretty well from our perspective. That is, if
you have an OCLC number in hand you are in really good shape, and can use
software to make appropriate linkages. If you don't have an OCLC number,
then it is (as I have experienced myself) pretty much a world of hurt.

You *might* be able to use xISBN to find one an OCLC number to try, but of
course that's only good for a part of the collections of many libraries. If
you are doing a title/author search, then lord help you. I don't know how
you could make appropriate decisions on which item to use from a software
perspective. Take the first hit? You could see how that works.

In the end there may need to be reconciliation services just like we had
similar services in the card-catalog-to-digital years.
Roy


On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote:

 Roy, the question that I have is, as I say below, about DISCOVERABILITY of
 URIs, not intellectual property issues. It's great that there are lots of
 URIs for useful things out in the world, but they don't jump into your data
 store on their own through some kind of magic. To me, the big problem today
 is that of populating legacy data with useful identifiers. I know that some
 folks have worked at making connections between subject headings in their
 catalog and the URIs available through id.loc.gov - and as I recall, it
 turns out to be fairly frustrating. It seems to be that the solution to
 this is that providers of URIs and users of URIs have to both make an
 effort to meet half-way, or at a mutally convenient location. It simply is
 not enough to say: Hey, look! I've got all of these URIs. Good luck! So
 let's talk about how we make that connection.

 kc

 On 4/30/14, 1:17 PM, Roy Tennant wrote:

 Also, this:

 OCLC identifiers, and Linked Data URIs, are always in the public domain.
 Independent of the data and/or information content (which may be subject
 to
 individual licensing terms open or otherwise) that they identify, or link
 to, OCLC identifiers (e.g. OCLC Numbers, VIAF IDs, or WorldCat Work URIs)
 can be treated as if they are in the public domain and can be included in
 any data exposure mechanism or activity as public domain data.

 http://www.oclc.org/developer/develop/linked-data.en.html

 Roy


 On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Richard Wallis 
 richard.wal...@dataliberate.com wrote:

  To unpack the several questions lurking in Karen’s question.

 As to being able to use the WorldCat Works data/identifiers there is no
 difference between a or b - it is ODC-BY licensed data.

 Getting a Work URI may be easier for a) as they should be able to
 identify
 the OCLC Number and hence use the linked data from it’s URI 
 http://worldcat.org/oclc/{ocn} to pick up the link to it’s work.

 Tools such as xISBN http://xisbn.worldcat.org/xisbnadmin/doc/api.htm
 can
 step you towards identifier lookups and are openly available for low
 volume
 usage.

 Citation lookup is more a bib lookup feature, that you could get an OCLC
 Number from. One of colleagues may be helpful on the particulars of this.

 Apologies for being WorldCat specific, but Karen did ask.

 ~Richard.


 On 30 April 2014 17:15, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote:

  My question has to do with discoverability. Let's say that I have a
 bibliographic database and I want to add the OCLC work identifiers to
 it.
 Obviously I don't want to do it by hand. I might have ISBNs, but in some
 cases I will have a regular author/title-type citation.

 and let's say that I am asking this for two different institutions:
 a) is an OCLC member institution
 b) is not

 Thanks,
 kc




 On 4/30/14, 8:47 AM, Dan Scott wrote:

  On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 11:37 PM, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com
 wrote:

  This has now instead become a reasonable recommendation

 concerning ODC-BY licensing [3] but the confusion and uncertainty
 about which records an OCLC member may redistribute remains.

 [3] http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/2012/201248.en.html

  Allow me to try to put this confusion and uncertainty to rest once
 and
 for
 all:

 ALL THE THINGS. ALL.

 At least as far as we are concerned. I think it's well past time to
 put
 the
 past in the past.

  That's great, Roy. That's a *lot* simpler than parsing the
 recommendations, WCRR, community norms, and such at [A, B] :)

   Meanwhile, we have just put nearly 200 million works records up as

 linked

 open data. [1], [2], [3]. If that doesn't rock the library open linked
 data
 world, then no one is paying attention.
 Roy

 [1] http://oclc.org/en-US/news/releases/2014/201414dublin.html
 [2]
 http://dataliberate.com/2014/04/worldcat-works-197-million-
 nuggets-of-linked-data/
 [3] http://hangingtogether.org/?p=3811

  Yes, that is really awesome. But Laura was asking about barriers to
 open metadata, so damn you for going off-topic with PR around a lack
 of barriers to some metadata (which, for those who have not looked
 yet, have a nice ODC-BY licensing

Re: [CODE4LIB] barriers to open metadata?

[Roy Tennant]

 This has now instead become a reasonable recommendation
 concerning ODC-BY licensing [3] but the confusion and uncertainty
 about which records an OCLC member may redistribute remains.

 [3] http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/2012/201248.en.html

Allow me to try to put this confusion and uncertainty to rest once and for
all:

ALL THE THINGS. ALL.

At least as far as we are concerned. I think it's well past time to put the
past in the past.

Meanwhile, we have just put nearly 200 million works records up as linked
open data. [1], [2], [3]. If that doesn't rock the library open linked data
world, then no one is paying attention.
Roy

[1] http://oclc.org/en-US/news/releases/2014/201414dublin.html
[2]
http://dataliberate.com/2014/04/worldcat-works-197-million-nuggets-of-linked-data/
[3] http://hangingtogether.org/?p=3811

Re: [CODE4LIB] Friends of code4lib (was Re: [CODE4LIB] Call for Old Conf Tshirt Logos)

[Roy Tennant]

FWIW, this has been a discussion topic since the very first Code4Lib
Conference, where I hosted a discussion on The Future of Code4Lib[1] and
the main topic of conversation was whether to incorporate as a non-profit.
And I doubt it will be going away anytime soon, as I think getting a
consensus to create a formal organization with by-laws and elected officers
is unlikely to get traction. My personal preference is to go ahead as we
have been, or -- at most -- find a group willing to act on our behalf in
fiscal matters. This way, at least, we will have a perennial topic of
conversation that has nothing to do with code in libraries. ;-)
Roy


[1]
https://wiki.library.oregonstate.edu/confluence/display/code4lib/Breakout+Session+Ideas


On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 8:18 AM, Edward M. Corrado ecorr...@ecorrado.uswrote:

 I think discussing which type of non-profit to be (501(c)3 vs. 501(c)6 vs.
 ___ is putting the cart before the horse. There are advantages and
 disadvantages to both and depending what the goals are one may be better
 than the other or they both may be unnecessary. There also needs to be
 discussion on where to incorporate (that is done, in the USA, at a state
 level). As someone who is currently on the board of a 501(c)6 and and past
 president and co-founder of a 501(c)3, I can tell you that there are lots
 of forms, accounting, legal, and other requirements. If the reason for
 doing it is to make a little profit off of t-shirts and coffee mugs, it
 isn't worth it. You'll lose more in bank fees. If it is to be a fiscal
 agent for the whole Code4Lib Conference (and thus take in and expend all of
 the money involved with the conference it may be, but it will also
 complicate things, like will you need insurance?) there needs to be boards,
 treasurers, elections, etc.

 I am not saying I'm against it. I advocated for it years ago when it was
 less popular [1]. However, I think the purposes and goals need to be
 decided first before worry about what tax status the organization would fit
 into and if incorporated is even worth it. I'd also highly recommend
 looking into partnering with some other organization such as DLF or Lyrasis
 to do this [2]. Changing the state the treasurer, president/chair, and
 other officers are located in is a big headache (how big depends on the
 constitution, bylaws, banks, and the state incorporated in).

 Edward

 [1] http://code4lib.org/conference/2008/corrado
 [2] I only mention these because they came up, but it should be noted even
 DLF isn't going it alone. They are a program of CLIR. I'm sure there are
 also many others that could be good choices.


 On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 10:05 PM, Andreas Orphanides akorp...@ncsu.edu
 wrote:

  Historically, there's resistance to forming anything like an organization
  around Code4Lib proper. A great point of pride in the community is our
  generally anarcho-communist approach to self-organization and
  self-determination -- Code4Lib is manifestly not an organization, and yet
  [X], for many values of X that are challenging for even proper
  organizations to pull off. There's definitely concern that forming an
  organization and bylaws and the like would make it harder for Code4Lib to
  do its thing as Code4Lib, up to and including potentially fundamentally
  disrupting what Code4Lib is at its core.
 
  On the other hand, there would be a definite value -- and there is a
  demonstrated need -- for some kind of ongoing structure to support the
  community's regular activities, help manage budget handoffs between
  conferences, and the like. I think the notion of a Friends of Code4Lib
  has the potential of solving the financial trust/financial continuity
 issue
  without putting the community itself at risk of being burdened by too
 much
  structure.
 
  That being said, I think even the idea of Friends of Code4lib,
 organization
  once removed, is probably worthy of serious discussion among the
 community
  so we can understand how it's going to fit in with the bigger Code4Lib
  organism.
 
  -dre.
 
 
  On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 9:51 PM, Riley Childs rchi...@cucawarriors.com
  wrote:
 
   I think someone should put together bylaws and then we should vote on
   them, if they are passed we should then vote on a board (I really don't
   know w/w/w on this) after that we should incorporate as code4lib LLC
 and
   apply for status as a 501(c)6 (members don't have to pay) or a more
   welcoming option would be a 501(c)3 which would give us access to tax
   deductible donations (yay!). just my $2 (which I will gladly give if
 this
   becomes an entity ;)
  
   Riley Childs
   Student
   Asst. Head of IT Services
   Charlotte United Christian Academy
   (704) 497-2086
   RileyChilds.net
   Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes
   
   From: Simon Speromailto:sesunc...@gmail.com
   Sent: 4/13/2014 3:33 PM
   To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDUmailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
   Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] 

Re: [CODE4LIB] Call for Old Conf Tshirt Logos

[Roy Tennant]

That's good on the tax front, but it would be nice if eventually we could
find a way to make money to help out with the conference. But that will
take an organization, and so far we've avoided that.
Roy


On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Riley Childs rchi...@cucawarriors.comwrote:

 It is running though spreadshirt set up with 0% commissions, so no monies
 are being collected. I think as long as I don't collect any money, we
 should be good.

 Riley Childs
 Junior
 IT Admin
 email: rchi...@cucawarriors.com
 office: +1 (704) 537-0031 x101
 cell: +1 (704) 497-2086

 Please Think Before Hitting Reply All
 I Do Web Design! RileyChilds.net/services
 
 From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Cary
 Gordon [listu...@chillco.com]
 Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2014 8:27 PM
 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
 Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Call for Old Conf Tshirt Logos

 I hope that the IRS doesn't put a lien on the yacht he buys with the
 proceeds.

 You're right, though. Probably better if some organization or institution
 could step up. Again we are slightly challenged by our state of
 non-organization.

 Cary

 On Apr 10, 2014, at 4:36 PM, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com wrote:

  I think one of the things that has held us back about the store in the
 past
  was the lack of a fiscal agent. That is, someone is going to be taking in
  money on behalf of Code4Lib (presumably), but where does it go? Since we
  have no organization we have no fiscal presence. No bank account,
 nothing.
  So, is Riley going to be our fiscal agent in this regard? Are there tax
  consequences to that?
  Roy
 
 
  On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Lisa Rabey academichu...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 
  Someone(s) have been hawking the METADATA shirt on various places for
 ages:
 
 
 
 http://www.redbubble.com/people/charlizeart/works/1280530-metadata?country_code=USp=t-shirtutm_campaign=shoppingutm_medium=google_productsutm_source=googlegclid=CLuSxN6G170CFYZAMgodEDoAMw
 
 http://www.cafepress.com/mf/17182533/metadata_tshirt?productId=786272784
 
 
  I would love to get a 2010 design:
  http://wiki.code4lib.org/images/9/9e/Code4lib2010_P-Hochstenbach.png
 
  On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Joe Atzberger ohioc...@gmail.com
  wrote:
  I know non #code4lib members who would gladly buy the
 METADATA/METALLICA
  shirt if available, so this is a great idea...
 
 
  On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 10:24 PM, Riley Childs 
 rchi...@cucawarriors.com
  wrote:
 
  I am trying to collect all the conf tshirt logos in a vector format
  (PDF,
  EPS, Ai, svg) if you have it I would like it to do a rerelease on the
  c4l
  store
 
  Riley Childs
  Student
  Asst. Head of IT Services
  Charlotte United Christian Academy
  (704) 497-2086
  RileyChilds.net
  Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes
 
 
 
 
  --
 
  Lisa M. Rabey | @pnkrcklibrarian
 
 
 
  http://exitpursuedbyabear.net | http://lisa.rabey.net
 

Re: [CODE4LIB] Call for Old Conf Tshirt Logos

[Roy Tennant]

We should probably toss out some ideas before approaching anyone. Getting
the right fit would be important. Which 501(c)3's in our space do we think
we may want to approach about being our fiscal agent? Maybe we should
collect a list of suggestions and then (natch) vote on who to approach? We
could then go down the list until we got a yes.
Roy


On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 8:21 PM, Riley Childs rchi...@cucawarriors.comwrote:

 That might be a better idea then a fully independent code4lib organization.

 Riley Childs
 Student
 Asst. Head of IT Services
 Charlotte United Christian Academy
 (704) 497-2086
 RileyChilds.net
 Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes
 
 From: Tom Cramermailto:tcra...@stanford.edu
 Sent: 4/10/2014 11:20 PM
 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDUmailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
 Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Call for Old Conf Tshirt Logos

 What about approaching one of the existing 501c3's in our space to see if
 they might be interested in and able to take this on for the community?

 In addition to shirt revenues and yacht maintenance fees, it would be good
 to have an agency that could help do banking for scholarships, and perhaps
 pay forward any surpluses from one year's conference to the next year's
 hosts.

 - Tom



 On Apr 10, 2014, at 8:10 PM, Riley Childs wrote:

  No, I think it should go toward my yacht ;P.
  In all seriousness, code4lib needs an entity, simply to collect money
 for this sorta thing. LegalZoom any one? ;)
 
  Riley Childs
  Student
  Asst. Head of IT Services
  Charlotte United Christian Academy
  (704) 497-2086
  RileyChilds.net
  Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes
  
  From: Alicia Cozinemailto:ali...@curationexperts.com
  Sent: 4/10/2014 11:07 PM
  To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDUmailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
  Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Call for Old Conf Tshirt Logos
 
  Could one of the scholarship sponsors adopt this as a way to fund future
 conference scholarships?
 
  Alicia
 
  On Apr 10, 2014, at 9:53 PM, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  That's good on the tax front, but it would be nice if eventually we
 could
  find a way to make money to help out with the conference. But that will
  take an organization, and so far we've avoided that.
  Roy
 
 
  On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Riley Childs rchi...@cucawarriors.com
 wrote:
 
  It is running though spreadshirt set up with 0% commissions, so no
 monies
  are being collected. I think as long as I don't collect any money, we
  should be good.
 
  Riley Childs
  Junior
  IT Admin
  email: rchi...@cucawarriors.com
  office: +1 (704) 537-0031 x101
  cell: +1 (704) 497-2086
 
  Please Think Before Hitting Reply All
  I Do Web Design! RileyChilds.net/services
  
  From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Cary
  Gordon [listu...@chillco.com]
  Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2014 8:27 PM
  To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
  Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Call for Old Conf Tshirt Logos
 
  I hope that the IRS doesn't put a lien on the yacht he buys with the
  proceeds.
 
  You're right, though. Probably better if some organization or
 institution
  could step up. Again we are slightly challenged by our state of
  non-organization.
 
  Cary
 
  On Apr 10, 2014, at 4:36 PM, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  I think one of the things that has held us back about the store in the
  past
  was the lack of a fiscal agent. That is, someone is going to be
 taking in
  money on behalf of Code4Lib (presumably), but where does it go? Since
 we
  have no organization we have no fiscal presence. No bank account,
  nothing.
  So, is Riley going to be our fiscal agent in this regard? Are there
 tax
  consequences to that?
  Roy
 
 
  On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Lisa Rabey academichu...@gmail.com
  wrote:
 
  Someone(s) have been hawking the METADATA shirt on various places for
  ages:
 
 
 
 
 http://www.redbubble.com/people/charlizeart/works/1280530-metadata?country_code=USp=t-shirtutm_campaign=shoppingutm_medium=google_productsutm_source=googlegclid=CLuSxN6G170CFYZAMgodEDoAMw
 
 
 http://www.cafepress.com/mf/17182533/metadata_tshirt?productId=786272784
 
 
  I would love to get a 2010 design:
  http://wiki.code4lib.org/images/9/9e/Code4lib2010_P-Hochstenbach.png
 
  On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Joe Atzberger ohioc...@gmail.com
  wrote:
  I know non #code4lib members who would gladly buy the
  METADATA/METALLICA
  shirt if available, so this is a great idea...
 
 
  On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 10:24 PM, Riley Childs 
  rchi...@cucawarriors.com
  wrote:
 
  I am trying to collect all the conf tshirt logos in a vector format
  (PDF,
  EPS, Ai, svg) if you have it I would like it to do a rerelease on
 the
  c4l
  store
 
  Riley Childs
  Student
  Asst. Head of IT Services
  Charlotte United Christian Academy
  (704) 497-2086
  RileyChilds.net
  Sent from my Windows Phone, please

Re: [CODE4LIB] Call for Old Conf Tshirt Logos

[Roy Tennant]

There's also CLIR, which oversees DLF[1], albeit as a program of CLIR
which is a closer alliance than we would seek. That doesn't mean a looser
alliance wouldn't be possible.
Roy

[1] http://www.diglib.org/about/


On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 8:41 PM, Tom Cramer tcra...@stanford.edu wrote:

  Is black light a 501c3?

 Nope. Just an OSS project with lots of contributors from awesome places : )

 Off the top of my head, and in alphabetical order, the obvious (to me)
 ones in this space that might be candidates are DuraSpace and Lyrasis.

 In time, DP.LA seems like a great possible candidate, though it is
 US-centric, I'm unsure of its corporate status (though they do seem to be
 able to cash and sign checks), and right now they might view C4L as a
 distraction more than an asset or timely alliance. (Others on this list
 might be in a better position to comment, ahem...)

 I'm sure I'm leaving out other possibilities.

 - Tom




  Riley Childs
  Student
  Asst. Head of IT Services
  Charlotte United Christian Academy
  (704) 497-2086
  RileyChilds.net
  Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes
  
  From: Roy Tennantmailto:roytenn...@gmail.com
  Sent: 4/10/2014 11:25 PM
  To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDUmailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
  Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Call for Old Conf Tshirt Logos
 
  We should probably toss out some ideas before approaching anyone. Getting
  the right fit would be important. Which 501(c)3's in our space do we
 think
  we may want to approach about being our fiscal agent? Maybe we should
  collect a list of suggestions and then (natch) vote on who to approach?
 We
  could then go down the list until we got a yes.
  Roy
 
 
  On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 8:21 PM, Riley Childs rchi...@cucawarriors.com
 wrote:
 
  That might be a better idea then a fully independent code4lib
 organization.
 
  Riley Childs
  Student
  Asst. Head of IT Services
  Charlotte United Christian Academy
  (704) 497-2086
  RileyChilds.net
  Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes
  
  From: Tom Cramermailto:tcra...@stanford.edu
  Sent: 4/10/2014 11:20 PM
  To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDUmailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
  Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Call for Old Conf Tshirt Logos
 
  What about approaching one of the existing 501c3's in our space to see
 if
  they might be interested in and able to take this on for the community?
 
  In addition to shirt revenues and yacht maintenance fees, it would be
 good
  to have an agency that could help do banking for scholarships, and
 perhaps
  pay forward any surpluses from one year's conference to the next year's
  hosts.
 
  - Tom
 
 
 
  On Apr 10, 2014, at 8:10 PM, Riley Childs wrote:
 
  No, I think it should go toward my yacht ;P.
  In all seriousness, code4lib needs an entity, simply to collect money
  for this sorta thing. LegalZoom any one? ;)
 
  Riley Childs
  Student
  Asst. Head of IT Services
  Charlotte United Christian Academy
  (704) 497-2086
  RileyChilds.net
  Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes
  
  From: Alicia Cozinemailto:ali...@curationexperts.com
  Sent: 4/10/2014 11:07 PM
  To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDUmailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
  Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Call for Old Conf Tshirt Logos
 
  Could one of the scholarship sponsors adopt this as a way to fund
 future
  conference scholarships?
 
  Alicia
 
  On Apr 10, 2014, at 9:53 PM, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  That's good on the tax front, but it would be nice if eventually we
  could
  find a way to make money to help out with the conference. But that
 will
  take an organization, and so far we've avoided that.
  Roy
 
 
  On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Riley Childs 
 rchi...@cucawarriors.com
  wrote:
 
  It is running though spreadshirt set up with 0% commissions, so no
  monies
  are being collected. I think as long as I don't collect any money, we
  should be good.
 
  Riley Childs
  Junior
  IT Admin
  email: rchi...@cucawarriors.com
  office: +1 (704) 537-0031 x101
  cell: +1 (704) 497-2086
 
  Please Think Before Hitting Reply All
  I Do Web Design! RileyChilds.net/services
  
  From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
 Cary
  Gordon [listu...@chillco.com]
  Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2014 8:27 PM
  To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
  Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Call for Old Conf Tshirt Logos
 
  I hope that the IRS doesn't put a lien on the yacht he buys with the
  proceeds.
 
  You're right, though. Probably better if some organization or
  institution
  could step up. Again we are slightly challenged by our state of
  non-organization.
 
  Cary
 
  On Apr 10, 2014, at 4:36 PM, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 
  I think one of the things that has held us back about the store in
 the
  past
  was the lack of a fiscal agent. That is, someone is going to be
  taking in
  money on behalf

Re: [CODE4LIB] New Zealand Chapter

[Roy Tennant]

Go All Blacks!
Roy



On Apr 9, 2014, at 12:25 PM, Kevin S. Clarke kscla...@gmail.com wrote:

 Wow, and the prize for the best regional Code4Lib design goes to... New 
 Zealand.
 
 @slowclap
 
 Kevin
 
 
 On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Jay Gattuso jay.gatt...@dia.govt.nz wrote:
 Hi all,
 
 Long time listener, first time caller.
 
 We don't have a C4L chapter over here in New Zealand, and I wondered what we 
 would need to do to align the small group of Lib  / GLAM coders with the 
 broader C4L group.
 
 One of my colleagues did make this: http://i.imgur.com/XgGP9vX.jpg
 
 We are  also setting up a two day code/hack fest, focusing on our Digital 
 Preservation concerns, in June.
 
 I'd also really like to run the hackfest under a C4L banner.
 
 Any thoughts?
 
 J
 
 Jay Gattuso | Digital Preservation Analyst | Preservation, Research and 
 Consultancy
 National Library of New Zealand | Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa
 PO Box 1467 Wellington 6140 New Zealand | +64 (0)4 474 3064
 jay.gatt...@dia.govt.nzmailto:jay.gatt...@natlib.govt.nz
 
 
 
 -- 
 There are two kinds of people in this world: those who believe there
 are two kinds of people in this world and those who know better.

Re: [CODE4LIB] New Zealand Chapter

[Roy Tennant]

Of course it's U+2163, the t-shirt just knows how to render Unicode.
Roy


On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 2:20 PM, Jay Gattuso jay.gatt...@dia.govt.nz wrote:

 Luckily we made the graphic in such a way we can easily change the
 text Any of the text.

 The maker is on leave exploring Europe, but I will check.

 -Original Message-
 From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
 Stuart Yeates
 Sent: Thursday, 10 April 2014 9:14 a.m.
 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
 Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] New Zealand Chapter

 Nice.

 The real question is whether that's U+2163, like it should be.

 cheers
 stuart

 On 04/10/2014 07:17 AM, Jay Gattuso wrote:
  Hi all,
 
  Long time listener, first time caller.
 
  We don't have a C4L chapter over here in New Zealand, and I wondered
 what we would need to do to align the small group of Lib  / GLAM coders
 with the broader C4L group.
 
  One of my colleagues did make this: http://i.imgur.com/XgGP9vX.jpg
 
  We are  also setting up a two day code/hack fest, focusing on our
 Digital Preservation concerns, in June.
 
  I'd also really like to run the hackfest under a C4L banner.
 
  Any thoughts?
 
  J
 
  Jay Gattuso | Digital Preservation Analyst | Preservation, Research
  and Consultancy National Library of New Zealand | Te Puna Mātauranga o
  Aotearoa PO Box 1467 Wellington 6140 New Zealand | +64 (0)4 474 3064
  jay.gatt...@dia.govt.nzmailto:jay.gatt...@natlib.govt.nz
 

Re: [CODE4LIB] New Zealand Chapter

[Roy Tennant]

If it were my head instead of MARC, catalogers everywhere would get it as a 
tattoo -- prison or no.
Roy

 On Apr 9, 2014, at 5:39 PM, Simon Spero sesunc...@gmail.com wrote:
 
 If DEATH were holding the severed head of MARC I would get this as a prison
 tattoo.
 
 
 On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Jay Gattuso jay.gatt...@dia.govt.nz wrote:
 
 Luckily we made the graphic in such a way we can easily change the
 text Any of the text.
 
 The maker is on leave exploring Europe, but I will check.
 
 -Original Message-
 From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
 Stuart Yeates
 Sent: Thursday, 10 April 2014 9:14 a.m.
 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
 Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] New Zealand Chapter
 
 Nice.
 
 The real question is whether that's U+2163, like it should be.
 
 cheers
 stuart
 
 On 04/10/2014 07:17 AM, Jay Gattuso wrote:
 Hi all,
 
 Long time listener, first time caller.
 
 We don't have a C4L chapter over here in New Zealand, and I wondered
 what we would need to do to align the small group of Lib  / GLAM coders
 with the broader C4L group.
 
 One of my colleagues did make this: http://i.imgur.com/XgGP9vX.jpg
 
 We are  also setting up a two day code/hack fest, focusing on our
 Digital Preservation concerns, in June.
 
 I'd also really like to run the hackfest under a C4L banner.
 
 Any thoughts?
 
 J
 
 Jay Gattuso | Digital Preservation Analyst | Preservation, Research
 and Consultancy National Library of New Zealand | Te Puna Mātauranga o
 Aotearoa PO Box 1467 Wellington 6140 New Zealand | +64 (0)4 474 3064
 jay.gatt...@dia.govt.nzmailto:jay.gatt...@natlib.govt.nz
 

Re: [CODE4LIB] 2nd meetup for code4lib LA - May 15th

[Roy Tennant]

You mean from that...uh...farm? As a Cal Alumni I am actually legally
obligated not to mention the word Stanford. So sorry, nothing personal.
;-)

All kidding aside, MY BAD. You just have so much talent gathered in one
spot the light is blinding. I can't even look your direction. :-)
Roy


On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Tom Cramer tcra...@stanford.edu wrote:

 Roy,

 As a local Northern Californian, I like this idea.

  For example, we have CDL in Oakland, several nearby UCs, CSUs, large
 publics,
  and community colleges to draw from.


 We might even get some people from a private (Leland Stanford) Junior
 University to come to a local event :)

 - Tom



 On Mar 28, 2014, at 9:17 AM, Roy Tennant wrote:

  I am definitely interested in a Northern California regional Code4Lib
  group, but my ability to jet down to LA for a two-hour meeting is
  regrettably limited. Likewise my ability to jet up to Seattle or
 Portland,
  unfortunately. Perhaps a better strategy might be to focus on a local?
 For
  example, we have CDL in Oakland, several nearby UCs, CSUs, large publics,
  and community colleges to draw from. We should be able to put together a
  decent showing on our own, I would imagine.
  Roy
 
 
  On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Collier, Aaron acoll...@calstate.edu
 wrote:
 
  Josh - it was great to see you again this year!
 
  We've got a lot of interest throughout the CSU and northern CA to form a
  regional group, Which  a few of us are starting to pull together.
 
  Is there interest in expanding the LA group throughout CA? I'm also
  wondering if we should try to expand this beyond CA into a Western
  Regional, although there is already a PNW regional or keep it somewhat
  smaller?
 
  Perhaps a discussion topic for the May meeting.
 
  Thanks!
 
  -Original Message-
  From: code4lib-los-ange...@googlegroups.com [mailto:
  code4lib-los-ange...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Joshua Nathan Gomez
  Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 6:04 PM
  To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU; code4lib-los-ange...@googlegroups.com
  Subject: 2nd meetup for code4lib LA - May 15th
 
  We had an excellent first meeting of the code4lib Los Angeles regional
  chapter last month on the USC campus.  Two dozen people from 10
  institutions across the county (and beyond) showed up to talk about
  libraries and technology.  Our second meeting is now scheduled and we
 hope
  you can join us.
 
  Date | Time:
  May 15th, 2014  |  11am to 1pm.
 
  Location:
  Santa Monica Public Library  (map: http://goo.gl/maps/8mPKC)
 
  Parking:
  An underground parking structure can be accessed from 7th Street between
  Santa Monica Blvd. and Arizona Ave.  The first thirty minutes are free.
  Rates are $1 per hour for the first two hours and thirty minutes. After
  that, the rate is $1 per thirty minutes. Weekdays the daily maximum is
 $10.
  The Library does not provide validation for parking.
 
  Agenda:
  The next meeting will again be mostly informal, but we will also have a
  few short presentations.  By request, we will have a presentation on
  continuous integration  deployment and another presentation on using
  Python and the pymarc library to work with bibliographic records.
 
  If you have something you would like to present, please send me a note
 and
  I will add it to the agenda.  We also have a shared document of topics
  requested where you can add a topic or sign up to present on one:
 
 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvhkP_NFwnOldEVqZHg3SmpvVUFtOEctUVRmZW8ya3cusp=sharing
 
  See you there!
 
  Joshua Gomez
  Library Systems Programmer
  University of Southern California
 
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Re: [CODE4LIB] 2nd meetup for code4lib LA - May 15th

[Roy Tennant]

I am definitely interested in a Northern California regional Code4Lib
group, but my ability to jet down to LA for a two-hour meeting is
regrettably limited. Likewise my ability to jet up to Seattle or Portland,
unfortunately. Perhaps a better strategy might be to focus on a local? For
example, we have CDL in Oakland, several nearby UCs, CSUs, large publics,
and community colleges to draw from. We should be able to put together a
decent showing on our own, I would imagine.
Roy


On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Collier, Aaron acoll...@calstate.eduwrote:

 Josh - it was great to see you again this year!

 We've got a lot of interest throughout the CSU and northern CA to form a
 regional group, Which  a few of us are starting to pull together.

 Is there interest in expanding the LA group throughout CA? I'm also
 wondering if we should try to expand this beyond CA into a Western
 Regional, although there is already a PNW regional or keep it somewhat
 smaller?

 Perhaps a discussion topic for the May meeting.

 Thanks!

 -Original Message-
 From: code4lib-los-ange...@googlegroups.com [mailto:
 code4lib-los-ange...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Joshua Nathan Gomez
 Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 6:04 PM
 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU; code4lib-los-ange...@googlegroups.com
 Subject: 2nd meetup for code4lib LA - May 15th

 We had an excellent first meeting of the code4lib Los Angeles regional
 chapter last month on the USC campus.  Two dozen people from 10
 institutions across the county (and beyond) showed up to talk about
 libraries and technology.  Our second meeting is now scheduled and we hope
 you can join us.

 Date | Time:
 May 15th, 2014  |  11am to 1pm.

 Location:
 Santa Monica Public Library  (map: http://goo.gl/maps/8mPKC)

 Parking:
 An underground parking structure can be accessed from 7th Street between
 Santa Monica Blvd. and Arizona Ave.  The first thirty minutes are free.
 Rates are $1 per hour for the first two hours and thirty minutes. After
 that, the rate is $1 per thirty minutes. Weekdays the daily maximum is $10.
 The Library does not provide validation for parking.

 Agenda:
 The next meeting will again be mostly informal, but we will also have a
 few short presentations.  By request, we will have a presentation on
 continuous integration  deployment and another presentation on using
 Python and the pymarc library to work with bibliographic records.

 If you have something you would like to present, please send me a note and
 I will add it to the agenda.  We also have a shared document of topics
 requested where you can add a topic or sign up to present on one:
 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvhkP_NFwnOldEVqZHg3SmpvVUFtOEctUVRmZW8ya3cusp=sharing

 See you there!

 Joshua Gomez
 Library Systems Programmer
 University of Southern California

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Re: [CODE4LIB] 2nd meetup for code4lib LA - May 15th

[Roy Tennant]

Tom,
Sure thing, we can probably accommodate a gathering. There is a small
auditorium in our building we could commandeer and we have a number of
conference rooms of different sizes for breakouts if we needed them. Only
minutes away from Stanford, a bit farther for others, but all told not a
bad location. Plus, if someone wants to fly in we are only 10 minutes away
from SFO.

Also, I'll do my best to get my jet out of the shop by the time of a
planned gathering.
Roy


On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Tom Cramer tcra...@stanford.edu wrote:

 I threw in Junior University as a sop for our UC friends--it's one of my
 favorite Stanford put downs.

 But seriously, we recently had digital librarians from Cal and UC Santa
 Barbara here for a two day session focused on GIS, Blacklight and Hydra,
 and it was enormously productive. (We met at Stanford because it was
 halfway between Santa Barbara and Berkeley -- ahem!) It made me think we
 should be doing this more regularly, especially as many of us seem to be
 converging on common tools and methods, more so than in recent years.
 Perhaps a regional C4L is the way to structure an ongoing,
 interinstitutional exchange.

 We'd be up to help plan, and even host, an event if others in NorCal are
 also interested. And OCLC does have rather nice offices, just 30 min north
 of us, so we could also meet there and see Roy's corporate jet up close
 (though I'm sad to hear it seems to be in the shop).

 - Tom


 On Mar 28, 2014, at 9:42 AM, Roy Tennant wrote:

  You mean from that...uh...farm? As a Cal Alumni I am actually legally
  obligated not to mention the word Stanford. So sorry, nothing personal.
  ;-)
 
  All kidding aside, MY BAD. You just have so much talent gathered in one
  spot the light is blinding. I can't even look your direction. :-)
  Roy
 
 
  On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Tom Cramer tcra...@stanford.edu
 wrote:
 
  Roy,
 
  As a local Northern Californian, I like this idea.
 
  For example, we have CDL in Oakland, several nearby UCs, CSUs, large
  publics,
  and community colleges to draw from.
 
 
  We might even get some people from a private (Leland Stanford) Junior
  University to come to a local event :)
 
  - Tom
 
 
 
  On Mar 28, 2014, at 9:17 AM, Roy Tennant wrote:
 
  I am definitely interested in a Northern California regional Code4Lib
  group, but my ability to jet down to LA for a two-hour meeting is
  regrettably limited. Likewise my ability to jet up to Seattle or
  Portland,
  unfortunately. Perhaps a better strategy might be to focus on a local?
  For
  example, we have CDL in Oakland, several nearby UCs, CSUs, large
 publics,
  and community colleges to draw from. We should be able to put together
 a
  decent showing on our own, I would imagine.
  Roy
 
 
  On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Collier, Aaron acoll...@calstate.edu
  wrote:
 
  Josh - it was great to see you again this year!
 
  We've got a lot of interest throughout the CSU and northern CA to
 form a
  regional group, Which  a few of us are starting to pull together.
 
  Is there interest in expanding the LA group throughout CA? I'm also
  wondering if we should try to expand this beyond CA into a Western
  Regional, although there is already a PNW regional or keep it
 somewhat
  smaller?
 
  Perhaps a discussion topic for the May meeting.
 
  Thanks!
 
  -Original Message-
  From: code4lib-los-ange...@googlegroups.com [mailto:
  code4lib-los-ange...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Joshua Nathan
 Gomez
  Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 6:04 PM
  To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU; code4lib-los-ange...@googlegroups.com
  Subject: 2nd meetup for code4lib LA - May 15th
 
  We had an excellent first meeting of the code4lib Los Angeles regional
  chapter last month on the USC campus.  Two dozen people from 10
  institutions across the county (and beyond) showed up to talk about
  libraries and technology.  Our second meeting is now scheduled and we
  hope
  you can join us.
 
  Date | Time:
  May 15th, 2014  |  11am to 1pm.
 
  Location:
  Santa Monica Public Library  (map: http://goo.gl/maps/8mPKC)
 
  Parking:
  An underground parking structure can be accessed from 7th Street
 between
  Santa Monica Blvd. and Arizona Ave.  The first thirty minutes are
 free.
  Rates are $1 per hour for the first two hours and thirty minutes.
 After
  that, the rate is $1 per thirty minutes. Weekdays the daily maximum is
  $10.
  The Library does not provide validation for parking.
 
  Agenda:
  The next meeting will again be mostly informal, but we will also have
 a
  few short presentations.  By request, we will have a presentation on
  continuous integration  deployment and another presentation on using
  Python and the pymarc library to work with bibliographic records.
 
  If you have something you would like to present, please send me a note
  and
  I will add it to the agenda.  We also have a shared document of topics
  requested where you can add a topic or sign up to present on one

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

[Roy Tennant]

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
chapter I want to take them out behind the barn and, well, do them some
serious damage. Interpret that however you wish.
Roy


On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 8:08 PM, Ashley Blewer ashleyb...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi all,

 Passing this along because it seems relevant to the interests of many on
 this list!

 See ya tomorrow or on the internet,

 - Ashley

 Fwd:
 This is a call for book chapters for  A Librarian’s Introduction to
 Programming Languages to be published  by ALA/ Neal-Schuman Publishing.

 This book will look at a variety of programming languages with the intent
 to familiarize readers with the reasons for using each language. The book
 will cover practical, real world examples to illustrate how a specific
 language can be used to enhance library services and resources.

 The target audience includes current practitioners, administrators,
 educators, and students.

 Some potential topics to be included in the book are below.

 ● Basic
 ● C#
 ● Java
 ● Javascript
 ● Perl
 ● Python
 ● Ruby

 We are also interested in other topics. For more information email the
 editors:
 Ron Brown ronbr...@sc.edu and Beth Thomsett-Scott
 beth.thomsett-sc...@unt.edu

 Apologies for cross posting.

 Please feel free to share this announcement with other listservs and
 interested parties.



 --
 Ashley Blewer
 Fox Movietone Collection Project Cataloging Manager
 Moving Image Research Collections
 University of South Carolina
 803.403.5013

Re: [CODE4LIB] tool for finding close matches in vocabular list

[Roy Tennant]

Have you considered dumping it into Open Refine? [1] I haven't used it a
lot, but it is likely a good tool to find similar data and allow you to
globally replace with a canonical entry.
Roy

[1] http://openrefine.org/


On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Ken Irwin kir...@wittenberg.edu wrote:

 Hi folks,

 I'm looking for a tool that can look at a list of all of subject terms in
 a poorly-controlled index as possible candidates for term consolidation.
 Our student newspaper index has about 16,000 subject terms and they include
 a lot of meaningless typographical and nomenclatural difference, e.g.:

 Irwin, Ken
 Irwin, Kenneth
 Irwin, Mr. Kenneth
 Irwin, Kenneth R.

 Basketball - Women
 Basketball - Women's
 Basketball-Women
 Basketball-Women's

 I would love to have some sort of pattern-matching tool that's smart about
 this sort of thing that could go through the list of terms (as a text list,
 database, xml file, or whatever structure it wants to ingest) and spit out
 some clusters of possible matches.

 Does anyone know of a tool that's good for that sort of thing?

 The index is just a bunch of MySQL tables - there is no real
 controlled-vocab system, though I've recently built some systems to suggest
 known SH's to reduce this sort of redundancy.

 Any ideas?

 Thanks!
 Ken

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

[Roy Tennant]

You kids. All about the technology.

PollEverywhere looks useful, thanks. Now GET OFF MY LAWN.
Roy


On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 6:32 AM, Sibyl Schaefer sibylschae...@gmail.comwrote:

 In lieu of index cards, may I suggest Poll Everywhere?

 http://www.polleverywhere.com/

 Questions can be submitted via text, twitter, and the World Wide Web.


 On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com
 wrote:

  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

[Roy Tennant]

So...there's an unofficial stream? I can't wait to see that one...
Roy


On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 7:00 AM, Riley Childs rchi...@cucawarriors.comwrote:

 http://YouTube.com/Code4Lib is the official stream.

 Riley Childs
 Junior
 IT Admin
 email: rchi...@cucawarriors.com
 office: +1 (704) 537-0031 x101
 cell: +1 (704) 497-2086

 Please Think Before Hitting Reply All
 I Do Web Design! RileyChilds.net/services
 
 From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Matthew
 Sherman [matt.r.sher...@gmail.com]
 Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2014 9:19 AM
 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
 Subject: [CODE4LIB] Question About Code4Lib 2014 Streaming

 I figure I should ask for those of us who sadly cannot make it this
 year, where will we be able to find the streaming of the conference?
 Thanks for everyone who is putting in the hard-work to put on the
 conference.

 Matt Sherman

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

[Roy Tennant]

Just a quick reminder, since the conference quickly approaches, to send in
your questions for Valerie Aurora[1], co-founder of the Ada Initiative[2].
She will be interviewed as our Thursday morning keynote speaker.

We will also be distributing index cards at the event and monitoring the
Twitter stream (not IRC!) for questions as well, but the best chance of
getting your question asked is to send it in ahead of time. Thanks!
Roy

[1] http://valerieaurora.org/
[2] https://adainitiative.org/

[CODE4LIB] Newcomer's dinner

[Roy Tennant]

I'm sorry for sending this to the entire list, but I've only been able to
track down the email addresses of a few of my Newcomer's Dinner
participants via Google. At least with any kind of certainty. However, I'm
sure your organizer will want your contact information so please forward
that to them.

So if you are joining me for dinner on Monday, 3/24, please bring the
following with you:

1) a business card or equivalent (so we can reconnect)
2) a personal story (because we connect over stories)
3) one thing you want to get out of this conference (so we know our
aspirations for the event)

I'd also like a way to contact you, whatever you prefer: text, phone,
email. Thanks,
Roy

Re: [CODE4LIB] #c4l14 Newcomer Dinner, Monday evening 3/24

[Roy Tennant]

I find that as the organizer of a dinner I wouldn't mind having a way to
text and/or email the people who have signed up, and likely other
organizers would like that as well. So perhaps the organizers should put a
way to be contacted on the wiki page? I have, and one of my diners has
already contacted me. That way we can all coordinate as need be. Thanks,
Roy


On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 11:32 AM, Becky Yoose b.yo...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi everyone,

 Will this be your first time at code4lib? Or are you a code4lib veteran
 looking to corrupt some newbies? Join fellow newbies and veterans for an
 evening of food, socializing, and stimulating demonstrations of the many
 uses of EZProxy alternatives at the Newcomer Dinner, Monday March 24th!

 The sign up page is at

 http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/2014_Social_Activities#Newcomer_Dinner.2C_Monday_3.2F24
 .
 There are a lot of restaurants to choose from, so there should be plenty of
 options to go around. Here are the guidelines (also listed on the wiki):

 Max of 6 per group
 Please, no waitlisting
 Some restaurants can hold multiple groups of six. It is up to you
 to investigate the venue to see if this is possible.
 ID yourselves so we can get a good mix of new people and veterans in
 each group
 New folks - n
 c4l vets - v
 One leader needed for each location (declare yourself! - Vets are
 highly encouraged to lead the group)
 Leader duties
 Make reservations if required; otherwise make sure that the
 restaurant can handle a group of 6 rowdy library tech type folks
 Herd folks from hotel to restaurant (know where you're going!)
 See a restaurant that's not listed? Feel free to add one, but please
 make sure that it is open that Monday evening.

 Go forth and sign up! Let us know if you have any questions and we'll see
 you all soon.

 Thanks again,
 Becky, on behalf of The Social Activities Committee

Re: [CODE4LIB] Shop Link

[Roy Tennant]

The price does seem high. You can sell mugs at CafePress for $12 and that
includes a commission, although not shipping and handling.
Roy


On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 2:17 AM, Ben Companjen
ben.compan...@dans.knaw.nlwrote:

 Ohh, that's a nice mug! I broke my Public Domain Review mug [1] before its
 first use at the office (I was so excited to finally get it that I dropped
 it on the way to the coffee machine), so I'm back to using the
 non-personal office mugs...

 So thanks, Riley, for bringing back the store!

 I am hesitating about spending $23.40 (incl. PP) on a mug whose purchase
 does not (financially) support a Mission for the Greater Good. (Not trying
 to fit a stereotype of the Dutch here ;))

 Setting a commission to  0 would increase the price, wouldn't it?

 Groeten van Ben

 [1]:
 http://publicdomainreview.org/shop/mugs-bags-and-more/crests-with-logo/

 On 13-03-14 04:01, Riley Childs rchi...@cucawarriors.com wrote:

 I setup a spread shirt store, I set commissions to zero. Right now it has
 a mug and a tee, but I will finish up adding designs tomorrow, let me
 know if anyone wants bags etc. And I will add them!
 Http://code4lib.spreadshirt.com
 
 //Riley
 
 Riley Childs
 Student
 Asst. Head of IT Services
 Charlotte United Christian Academy
 (704) 497-2086
 RileyChilds.net
 Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes
 
 From: Roy Tennantmailto:roytenn...@gmail.com
 Sent: 3/9/2014 5:59 PM
 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDUmailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
 Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Shop Link
 
 Someone apparently had a Code4Lib CafePress shop at one point, but now
 it's
 gone. I actually like the idea of a place where we could buy Code4Lib
 swag.
 For example, why not raise a little money selling stuff with the Code4Lib
 logo on it? But that would mean being a fiscal entity of some sort and
 that
 hasn't flown in the past. Not saying it can't now, just that it hasn't
 yet.
 For now I've disabled the link.
 Roy
 
 
 On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 6:56 AM, Riley Childs
 rchi...@cucawarriors.comwrote:
 
  Has anyone else noticed the Shop Link links to the CafePress homepage?
 
  Riley Childs
  Student
  Asst. Head of IT Services
  Charlotte United Christian Academy
  (704) 497-2086
  RileyChilds.net
  Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes
 

[CODE4LIB] For your plane reading pleasure...

[Roy Tennant]

...I thought I would point out that it is easy to find fiction that uses
Raleigh, North Carolina as a venue here:

http://experimental.worldcat.org/xfinder/FictionFinder?pl=North+Carolina--Raleigh

What better way to get into the mood for Code4Lib 2014 than to read a
murder mystery set just down the road from our hotel? I know, you can
probably think of a lot of ways that don't involve violent death, but hey,
consider the source.
Roy

Re: [CODE4LIB] Shop Link

[Roy Tennant]

Someone apparently had a Code4Lib CafePress shop at one point, but now it's
gone. I actually like the idea of a place where we could buy Code4Lib swag.
For example, why not raise a little money selling stuff with the Code4Lib
logo on it? But that would mean being a fiscal entity of some sort and that
hasn't flown in the past. Not saying it can't now, just that it hasn't yet.
For now I've disabled the link.
Roy


On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 6:56 AM, Riley Childs rchi...@cucawarriors.comwrote:

 Has anyone else noticed the Shop Link links to the CafePress homepage?

 Riley Childs
 Student
 Asst. Head of IT Services
 Charlotte United Christian Academy
 (704) 497-2086
 RileyChilds.net
 Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes

Re: [CODE4LIB] Shop Link

[Roy Tennant]

I believe the winning designs were:

2006: http://code4lib.org/files/t-shirt.png
2007: http://www.code4lib.org/files/code4lib2007-7.jpg (I still have this
one somewhere)

Roy


On Sun, Mar 9, 2014 at 4:25 PM, Esmé Cowles escow...@ticklefish.org wrote:

 I wonder, with the 10th conference coming up next year, if there would be
 any interest in re-issuing some or all of the shirts.  A while back I went
 through and added links to the wiki for all the t-shirt contests and
 winners I could find.  But for the first couple of years, I could find the
 candidate designs, but I couldn't actually find any record of which design
 won:
 http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Main_Page#Older_Conference_T-Shirt_Designs

 -Esme

 On 03/9/2014, at 6:52 PM, Francis Kayiwa fkay...@colgate.edu wrote:

  Signed PGP part
 
 
  On 03/09/2014 05:59 PM, Roy Tennant wrote:
   Someone apparently had a Code4Lib CafePress shop at one point, but
   now it's gone. I actually like the idea of a place where we could
   buy Code4Lib swag. For example, why not raise a little money
   selling stuff with the Code4Lib logo on it? But that would mean
   being a fiscal entity of some sort and that hasn't flown in the
   past. Not saying it can't now, just that it hasn't yet. For now
   I've disabled the link.
 
  That'd be me. There seemed to be eough interest in last year's
  Metadata T-Shirt that made it worth doing. The goal was to pass the
  money raised from selling t-shirts to this year's Conference. It
  didn't generate revenue (I didn't work too hard in promoting it to be
  honest) or traction so I scuppered it.
 
  Cheers,
  ./fxk
 
 
  --
  Boren's Laws:
(1) When in charge, ponder.
(2) When in trouble, delegate.
(3) When in doubt, mumble.
 

[CODE4LIB] Intro to the Conference

[Roy Tennant]

There has been some talk in the Code4Lib Conference Program committee about
an Introduction to the Conference. There isn't a specific slot for a
talk, and perhaps not even time for one, except possibly a 5 minute
lightning talk.

But we've also discussed the possibility of having a wiki page or video
introduction that could be read or viewed by anyone at any time. There is
already a How to Hack Code4Lib page by Declan Fleming and others here:

http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/How_to_hack_code4lib

What do folks think? Is the page above enough? Are there people who would
like to add to it? Is there someone who would like to put together a brief
video intro to the conference? Thanks,
Roy

Re: [CODE4LIB] Intro to the Conference

[Roy Tennant]

Peter, that's a good point and I think Tim McGeary will be able to cover
the high-points that you mention, and perhaps some others, in his initial
welcoming remarks. But if someone wants to provide a more in-depth and/or
personal introduction to the conference that would be welcome too, although
it will be easiest to accommodate it in the ways I suggested (which could
possibly be a lightning talk as part of the first day's intro if Tim is
willing).
Roy


On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 10:42 AM, Peter Murray peter.mur...@lyrasis.orgwrote:

 In the interest of being a welcoming community, I think there needs to be
 something at or near the start of the main conference that provides a
 heads-up to the format and structure of the meeting. Particularly since it
 is unlike other conferences. Something that emphasizes the participatory
 nature and how-it-is-what-you-make-of-it. How to sign up for lightning
 talks. Hospitality suite. Etc.


 Peter

 --
 Peter Murray
 Assistant Director, Technology Services Development
 LYRASIS
 peter.mur...@lyrasis.orgmailto:peter.mur...@lyrasis.org
 +1 678-235-2955tel:+1%20678-235-2955
 800.999.8558 x2955tel:800.999.8558;2955

 On Mar 3, 2014, at 12:43 PM, Becky Yoose b.yo...@gmail.commailto:
 b.yo...@gmail.com wrote:

 Also a couple of reference points of previous into into code4lib
 presentations at conferences:

 c4l13 -

 https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1UtuYRptd05KJpyjZMFuvKPJHauOUe6bIYcrV-8uF0dE/edit?usp=sharing
 c4l09 -

 http://www.slideshare.net/anarchivist/howto-meet-people-and-have-fun-at-code4lib2009

 Cheers,
 Becky


 On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 11:33 AM, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.commailto:
 roytenn...@gmail.com wrote:

 There has been some talk in the Code4Lib Conference Program committee about
 an Introduction to the Conference. There isn't a specific slot for a
 talk, and perhaps not even time for one, except possibly a 5 minute
 lightning talk.

 But we've also discussed the possibility of having a wiki page or video
 introduction that could be read or viewed by anyone at any time. There is
 already a How to Hack Code4Lib page by Declan Fleming and others here:

 http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/How_to_hack_code4lib

 What do folks think? Is the page above enough? Are there people who would
 like to add to it? Is there someone who would like to put together a brief
 video intro to the conference? Thanks,
 Roy

Re: [CODE4LIB] Fwd: RFC 7154 - IETF Guidelines for Conduct

[Roy Tennant]

Just so everyone knows, the 2014 Code4Lib Conference Code of Conduct is
here:

http://code4lib.org/conference/2014/code_of_conduct

and it is linked from the main conference page. Thanks,
Roy


On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Peter Murray peter.mur...@lyrasis.orgwrote:

 Code4LibCon is coming up in a few weeks.  I'm sure there will be reminders
 about the community-generated code of conduct (
 https://github.com/code4lib/antiharassment-policy/blob/master/code_of_conduct.md).
  I think it also useful to take a look at what just passed the IETF that
 governs their meetings.  In particular, I like how it gets past the Thou
 shalt not and gets to the Thou shall.

 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7154


 Peter
 --
 Peter Murray
 Assistant Director, Technology Services Development
 LYRASIS
 peter.mur...@lyrasis.org
 +1 678-235-2955
 800.999.8558 x2955

[CODE4LIB] Questions for Valerie Aurora

[Roy Tennant]

As I'm sure you already know, Valerie Aurora[1] has kindly assented to be
one of our two keynote speakers for the 2014 Conference. Valerie Aurora is
a writer, programmer, and feminist activist, and a co-founder of the Ada
Initiative[2], a non-profit to promote women in open technology and culture.

Valerie has requested to be interviewed rather than to give the standard
keynote speech. To facilitate that, I am soliciting questions for Valerie
now that we can have as a set of conversation starters. We will also be
taking questions from the floor, although the bulk of the time will likely
be allocated to questions solicited in advance.

Therefore, please consider what you wish to hear Valerie speak about and
send me your questions. I will collate and merge them and share them with
her in advance. Thanks,
Roy


[1] http://valerieaurora.org/
[2] http://adainitiative.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Welcome to Roy4Lib

[Roy Tennant]

That would make sense, but I think in this particular instance I was
watching bacon being cooked.
Roy


On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Michael J. Giarlo 
leftw...@alumni.rutgers.edu wrote:

 Clearly taken in the liquor store.


 On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 7:08 AM, Cindi Trainor Blyberg
 cindi...@gmail.comwrote:

  Well, I do like the photo that Roy uses everywhere, but I have to say I
  like this one better:
 
  http://www.flickr.com/photos/23341397@N00/3769032245
 
 
  On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 9:05 AM, Roy roy.zim...@wmich.edu wrote:
 
   Hmm. Call it roys4lib.org and put pictures of all the list's Roys on
   there...
   Mr. Tennant's picture would have to be first, of course, and be the
   biggest.
  
  
  
   On 2/21/2014 6:51 PM, Rosalyn Metz wrote:
  
   so tempted to buy roy4lib.org and put up a glass of scotch there.
  
  
   On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Edward M Corrado 
 ecorr...@ecorrado.us
   wrote:
  
Roy4lib has consumed to much Scotch - after all, it is Friday.
  
   --
   Edward M. Corrado
  
   On Feb 21, 2014, at 18:13, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com wrote:
  
roy4lib.org is ALWAYS down. I mean, it just makes too much sense
 for
  it
  
   to
  
   be in any other state.
   Roy
  
  
   On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Rosalyn Metz 
 rosalynm...@gmail.com
  
   wrote:
  
   it appears that roy4lib.org is also down
  
  
   On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Frumkin, Jeremy 
   frumk...@u.library.arizona.edu wrote:
  
Welcome to the Roy4Lib discussion list. This list is intended to
   facilitate discussion on Roy Tennant's new world library order,
 the
  
   role
  
   of bacon (including kosher and vegetarian based varieties) in this
   context, and the long, long, long, long, long drawn out death of
  MARC.
  
   If you believe you have subscribed to this list in error, please
  email
  
   the
  
   admin at r...@roy4lib.org.
  
  
   
  
   Jeremy Frumkin
   Assistant Dean / Chief Technology Strategist
   University of Arizona Libraries
  
   +1 520.626.7296
   frumk...@u.library.arizona.edu
   
   Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...
 It
  
   takes
  
   a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite
   direction. - Albert Einstein
  
  
 

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib.org down

[Roy Tennant]

Usually I can bring a server down in a matter if hours. I must be getting old. 
Er...older.
Roy

 On Feb 21, 2014, at 1:52 PM, Michael J. Giarlo 
 leftw...@alumni.rutgers.edu wrote:
 
 Coincidence that this happened less than a day after Roy Tennant posted to
 the list?  I think not.
 
 -Mike
 
 
 
 On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Michael Schofield mschofi...@nova.eduwrote:
 
 Are you sure it's not just cuz Drupal? Lawl.
 
 -Original Message-
 From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
 Salazar, Christina
 Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 4:26 PM
 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
 Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib.org down
 
 See what happens when you start talking about shutting the list down?
 
 Christina Salazar
 Systems Librarian
 John Spoor Broome Library
 California State University, Channel Islands
 805/437-3198
 
 
 
 
 -Original Message-
 From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
 Rosalyn Metz
 Sent: Friday, February 21, 2014 1:20 PM
 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
 Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib.org down
 
 meant to include this screenshot
 
 
 On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 1:19 PM, Rosalyn Metz rosalynm...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 
 :(
 
 

Re: [CODE4LIB] Welcome to Roy4Lib

[Roy Tennant]

roy4lib.org is ALWAYS down. I mean, it just makes too much sense for it to
be in any other state.
Roy


On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Rosalyn Metz rosalynm...@gmail.com wrote:

 it appears that roy4lib.org is also down


 On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Frumkin, Jeremy 
 frumk...@u.library.arizona.edu wrote:

  Welcome to the Roy4Lib discussion list. This list is intended to
  facilitate discussion on Roy Tennant's new world library order, the role
  of bacon (including kosher and vegetarian based varieties) in this
  context, and the long, long, long, long, long drawn out death of MARC.
 
  If you believe you have subscribed to this list in error, please email
 the
  admin at r...@roy4lib.org.
 
 
  
 
  Jeremy Frumkin
  Assistant Dean / Chief Technology Strategist
  University of Arizona Libraries
 
  +1 520.626.7296
  frumk...@u.library.arizona.edu
  
  Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes
  a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite
  direction. - Albert Einstein
 

Re: [CODE4LIB] how to unsubscribe this list?

[Roy Tennant]

On the contrary, this discussion list has the OCLC Bacon Stamp of Approval.
Carry on!
Roy


On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Michael J. Giarlo 
leftw...@alumni.rutgers.edu wrote:

 That's not what I heard Roy Tennant saying.
 ಠ_ಠ

 -Mike



 On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 12:14 PM, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu
 wrote:

   So, we're shutting it [Code4Lib] down?
 
  We interrupt this program for an important statement:
 
Before things get out of hand and rumors start flying, there are
no plans about shutting down the mailing list. An individual
simply wanted to be unsubscribed, and that has been done.
 
  Now back to our original programming.
 
  —
  ELM
 

Re: [CODE4LIB] Proquest search api?

[Roy Tennant]

This generally agrees with what I have found[1]. That is, if a second
indicator of '0' exists, then it is fairly likely the URL will lead you to
the full item. However, unfortunately an indicator of '1' is ambiguous, so
it's possible you will be leaving a lot behind if you rely on that solely.
It sure makes for easier code, though, no doubt.

Also, if people were more interested generally in what is in various 856
subfields for book/journal MARC records, they can refer to my MARC Usage
in WorldCat work[2]. It can be amusing, at least, if not instructive.
Roy

[1] http://roytennant.com/proto/856/analysis.html
[2] http://experimental.worldcat.org/marcusage/856.html


On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 9:45 AM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote:

 Interesting, thanks for the additional information, very useful!

 I don't like relying on the 'free text' in subfield 3, because it seems
 fragile, who knows if I know all the possible values or if they change them
 in the future breaking my code.

 But your example with two 'full text' links is enlightening.

 I think what I'm liking as an algorithm for my needs (any full text is
 better than none, but PDF is best) -- is first looking for an 856 with
 second indicator 0 -- if there's only one, use it. If there are more than
 one, try to find one that includes the substring PDF, if none do, just
 use the first one.

 Jonathan

 On 2/17/14 11:16 AM, Andrew Anderson wrote:

 The document you want to request from ProQuest support was called
 Federated-Search.docx when they sent it to me.  This will address many of
 your documentation needs.

 ProQuest used to have an excel spreadsheet with all of the product codes
 for the databases available for download from
 http://support.proquest.com/kb/article?ArticleId=3698;
 source=articlec=12cid=26, but it appears to no longer be available
 from that source.  ProQuest support should be able to answer where it went
 when you request the federated search document.

 You may receive multiple 856 fields for Citation/Abstract, Full Text, and
 Scanned PDF:

 =856  41$3Citation/Abstract$uhttp://search.proquest.com/docview/...
 =856  40$3Full Text$uhttp://search.proquest.com/docview/...
 =856  40$3Scanned PDF$uhttp://search.proquest.com/docview/...

 I would suggest that rather than relying on the 2nd indicator, you should
 parse subfield 3 instead to find the format that you prefer.  You see the
 multiple 856 fields in the MARC records for ProQuest holdings as well, as
 that is how ProQuest handles coverage gaps in titles, so if you have ever
 processed ProQuest MARC records before, you should be already prepared for
 this.

Re: [CODE4LIB] EZProxy changes / alternatives ?

[Roy Tennant]

When it comes to hedging bets, I'd sure rather hedge my $50,000 bet than my
$500 one. Just sayin'.
Roy


On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 6:04 PM, BWS Johnson abesottedphoe...@yahoo.comwrote:

 Salvete!

   Tisn't necessarily Socialist to hedge one's bets. Look at what Wall
 St. experts advise when one is unsure of whether to hold or sell. Monopoly
 is only ever in the interest of those that hold it.

Short term the aquarium is enticing, but do you enjoy your
 collapsed dorsal fin?

 Cheers,
 Brooke

 --
 On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 6:10 PM EST Salazar, Christina wrote:

 I think though that razor thin budgets aside, the EZProxy using community
 is vulnerable to what amounts to a monopoly. Don't get any ideas, OCLC
 peeps (just kiddin') but now we're so captive to EZProxy, what are our
 options if OCLC wants to gradually (or not so gradually) jack up the price?
 
 Does being this captive to a single product justify community developer
 time?
 
 I think so but I'm probably just a damn socialist.
 
 On Jan 31, 2014, at 1:36 PM, Tim McGeary timmcge...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  Even with razor thin budgets, this is a no brainer.  May they need
 decide
  between buying 10 new books or license EZProxy?  Possibly, but if they
 have
  a need for EZProxy, that's still a no brainer - until a solid OSS
  replacement that includes as robust a developer /support community comes
  around.  But again, at $500/year, I don't see a lot of incentive to
 invest
  in such a project.
 
 
  On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 3:55 PM, Riley Childs rchi...@cucawarriors.com
 wrote:
 
  But there are places on a razor thin budget, and things like this throw
  them off ball acne
 
  Sent from my iPhone
 
  On Jan 31, 2014, at 3:32 PM, Tim McGeary timmcge...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 
  So what's the price point that EZProxy needs to climb to make it more
  realistic to put resources into an alternative.  At $500/year, I don't
  even
  have to think about justifying it.  At 1% (or less) of the cost of
  position
  with little to no prior experience needed, it doesn't make a lot of
 sense
  to invest in an open source alternative, even on a campus that heavily
  uses
  Shibboleth.
 
  Tim
 
 
  On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 1:36 PM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com
  wrote:
 
  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
  EZProxy.  Which is self-fulfilling: vendors then cater to what EZProxy
  does
  (rather than improving access to their resources).
 
  Art Rhyno used to say that the major thing that was inhibiting the
  widespread adoption of Shibboleth was how simple and cheap EZProxy was.
  I
  think there is a lot of truth to that.
 
  -Ross.
 
 
  On Fri, Jan 31, 2014 at 1:23 PM, Kyle Banerjee 
 kyle.baner...@gmail.com
  wrote:
 
  EZproxy is a self-installing statically compiled single binary
  download,
  with a built-in administrative interface that makes most common
  administrative tasks point-and-click, that works on Linux and Windows
  systems, and requires very little in the way of resources to run.  It
  also
  has a library of a few hundred vendor stanzas that can be copied and
  pasted
  and work the majority of the time.
 
  To successfully replace EZproxy in this setting, it would need to be
  packaged in such a way that it is equally easy to install and
  maintain,
  and
  the library of vendor stanzas would need to be developed as apache
  conf.d
  files.
 
  This. The real gain with EZProxy is that configuring it is crazy easy.
  You
  just drop it in and run it -- it's feasible for someone with no
  experience
  in proxying or systems administration to get it operational in a few
  minutes. That is why I think virtualizing a system that makes
 accessing
  the
  more powerful features of EZProxy easy is a good alternative.
 
  kyle
 
 
 
  --
  Tim McGeary
  timmcge...@gmail.com
  GTalk/Yahoo/Skype/Twitter: timmcgeary
  484-294-7660 (cell)
 
 
 
  --
  Tim McGeary
  timmcge...@gmail.com
  GTalk/Yahoo/Skype/Twitter: timmcgeary
  484-294-7660 (cell)

Re: [CODE4LIB] COinS metadata format support

[Roy Tennant]

I agree that most Schema.org markup would be generated on the fly from a
database, so I'm a bit unclear on what kind of tool we (OCLC) or someone
else is being asked to develop. Perhaps someone could spell it out for this
dense person? Thanks,
Roy


On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote:

 Dave, my impression is that most schema.org code is being generated
 programmatically out of database-driven web sites. The list of tools (not
 many) is here:

 http://schema.rdfs.org/tools.html

 As OCLC is very involved in schema.org, it would make sense to encourage
 them to develop something. Looking at what they do today in WorldCat, the
 big advantage that they seem to have is that they can locate URIs for names
 (VIAF) and subjects (LCSH).

 kc

 On 1/17/14, 10:49 AM, Bigwood, David wrote:

 Is there an easy-to-use tool for schema.org microdata? I was fond of the
 OCLC NJ COinS tool, but it has gone. Anything of that ilk?

 Thanks,
 Dave

 -Original Message-
 From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
 Michael J. Giarlo
 Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 12:34 PM
 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
 Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] COinS metadata format support

 Chad,

 In that case, I wonder if you might get more mileage out of
 schema.orgmicrodata instead of COinS.  There are undoubtedly more clients
 out there that can make sense of HTML5 microdata than COinS, which is
 really showing its age and is a niche technology.

 -Mike



 On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Chad Mills cmmi...@rci.rutgers.edu
 wrote:

  Jodi,

 No.  I am working with our repository resources which is an eclectic
 mixture of resource types.  I just want to simply embed our metadata
 in our search results and record displays for other tools to use.  It
 seems cheap and reasonable to do I just didn't want to limit this
 feature to only certain resource types.

 Best,
 Chad


 - Original Message -
 From: Jodi Schneider jschnei...@pobox.com
 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
 Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 12:54:43 PM
 Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] COinS metadata format support

 Hi Chad,

 Are these subscription images/video/audio that libraries have? The
 original purpose of COinS, as I understand it, was to get people to
 subscription copies. Depending on what you're doing (i.e. the
 purpose/intended use) there might be a better standard these days.

 In case it helps there's more info here:
 http://ocoins.info/
 (though it looks like the generator isn't up any longer, maybe due to
 OCLC New Jersey hosting?)

 Hopefully you'll get some more helpful advice from others!

 -Jodi




 On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Chad Mills cmmi...@rci.rutgers.edu
 wrote:

  I was able to easily find and create COinS for books and journals.
 I started thinking about images, video, audio, etc.  I see
 references to 'info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:unknown' as a rft_val_fmt value
 some places.  I

 would

 assume if I went down that road the rft.genre would have a value of
 'unknown' as well.  Is there some other alternative I am missing
 when handling other formats?

 Thanks!

 --
 Chad Mills
 Digital Library Architect
 Ph: 848.932.5924
 Fax: 848.932.1386
 Cell: 732.309.8538

 Rutgers University Libraries
 Scholarly Communication Center
 Room 409D, Alexander Library
 169 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901

 http://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/


 --
 Karen Coyle
 kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net
 m: 1-510-435-8234
 skype: kcoylenet

Re: [CODE4LIB] Question about OAI Harvesting via Perl

[Roy Tennant]

I'd have to agree. OAI-PMH is so simple that even as poor a programmer as I
am was able to write my own data provider from scratch. Actually, not
completely from scratch in one go. Basically I was able to tweak my
existing database-driven web site to accept incoming verbs and parameters
and respond appropriately. Since I already had paging implemented
resumption tokens were easy.

But writing an aggregator from scratch is even easier, since you only need
to support the functions you actually need -- not the entire six verbs as
you must on the data provider side. Just the fact that Kyle can provide
pretty much everything you need except the record parsing bit in a simple
email message is proof enough.
Roy


On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Kyle Banerjee kyle.baner...@gmail.comwrote:

 No need for a module -- that would be using a chain saw to cut butter.

 To return to an earlier suggestion, this is precisely where just retrieving
 something via good ol' http is easiest. An OAI-PMH request is just a
 request that looks exactly like the output from a really simple HTML form.
 This means you can use the same syntax to get the data directly. For
 example, to get a single record, all you need to do is something like:


 http://drl.ohsu.edu/oai/oai.php?verb=GetRecordidentifier=oai:drl.ohsu.edu:hom%2F0metadataPrefix=oai_dc(the
 request could be POSTed too, but why bother?)

 If you want all the metadata from all the records, just use use something
 like:


 http://drl.ohsu.edu/oai/oai.php?verb=ListRecordsset=hommetadataPrefix=oai_dc

 You'll need to deal with resumption tokens, but they're brain dead to
 extract and use since they're just opaque strings that appear in
 resumptionToken tags e.g.:


 http://drl.ohsu.edu/oai/oai.php?verb=ListRecordsresumptionToken=hom:200:hom:-00-00:-99-99:oai_dc

 If you're just getting into perl, I'd recommend becoming familiar with LWP
 if you aren't already. Easy to use and very handy.

 kyle


 On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Eka Grguric egrgu...@gmail.com wrote:

  I got it working by reordering my code and initializing properly (and by
  digging through a Perl textbook...).
  Thank you all for your advice!
 
  Now I have a Net::OAI::Harvester specific question - so far I've been
 able
  to retrieve titles and identifiers for all records but is there a way to
  default to the entirety of a record? I essentially want to be able to see
  all metadata associated with a given record in a given repository. I'm
 not
  sure if this is beyond the scope of this particular harvester (which has
 so
  far been awesome) but if so, how would I go about adding that
  functionality? By adding a distinct module? If so, any advice as to
 which?
 
  Again, thanks for all the help.
 

Re: [CODE4LIB] links from finding aid to digital object

[Roy Tennant]

I'm surprised the Online Archive of California hasn't come up yet:

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/

See, for example:

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf4z09p0qg/?query=portraits

They have been doing this for quite some time, and I would consider it a
reference implementation of this kind of thing.
Roy


On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Kyle Banerjee kyle.baner...@gmail.comwrote:

 Archive Engine West http://hero.village.virginia.edu/nwda/ includes EAD
 with direct links to digital content as well as a way to search digital
 content directly that links back to finding aids.

 If you want a quick example of a search that illustrates the process, just
 type in lovejoy. This brings up a number of items from the Esther Pohl
 Lovejoy Papers. When you click on the collection, you can see all the items
 in the collection.

 Or just type in any search. On the left in the list of facets, you can
 limit by collection (i.e. EAD, repository, or whatever).

 Note that this tool indexes digital content that is not necessarily
 associated with a finding aid.

 kyle


 On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 7:38 AM, Edward Summers e...@pobox.com wrote:

  Hi all,
 
  I was wondering if anyone can point me at example(s) of finding aids
  (either EAD XML or HTML) that are linked to digital object of some kind.
  For example a container list that links to a digital image that is
  available on the Web.
 
  I’m doing a bit of an informal survey so if you see someone has
 responded,
  but you have a different example please send it along either here on list
  or to me directly.
 
  Thanks!
  //Ed
 
  PS. sorry for the duplication.
 

[CODE4LIB] Fwd: [WEB4LIB] Digital Project Manager position - UC Berkeley Library

[Roy Tennant]

-- Forwarded message --
From: Lisa WEBER lwe...@library.berkeley.edu
Date: Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 12:31 PM
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Digital Project Manager position - UC Berkeley Library
To: web4...@listserv.nd.edu


The UC Berkeley Library is hiring a Digital Project Manager. Read all about
it at:

http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/LHRD/currentjobs.html#17225

Lisa Weber
Library Systems Office
UC Berkeley Library


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2014-01-14

[CODE4LIB] Anyone working with iPython?

[Roy Tennant]

Our Wikipedian in Residence, Max Klein brought iPython [1] to my attention
recently and even in just the little exploration I've done with it so far
I'm quite impressed. Although you could call it interactive Python that
doesn't begin to put across the full range of capabilities, as when I first
heard that I thought Great, a Python shell where you enter a command, hit
the return, and it executes. Great. Just what I need. NOT. But I was SO
WRONG.

It certainly can and does do that, but also so much more. You can enter
blocks of code that then execute. Those blocks don't even have to be
Python. They can be Ruby or Perl or bash. There are built-in functions of
various kinds that it (oddly) calls magic. But perhaps the killer bit is
the idea of Notebooks that can capture all of your work in a way that is
also editable and completely web-ready. This last part is probably
difficult to understand until you experience it.

Anyway, i was curious if others have been working with it and if so, what
they are using it for. I can think of all kinds of things I might want to
do with it, but hearing from others can inspire me further, I'm sure.
Thanks,
Roy

[1] http://ipython.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Automated Embedded Metadata Extraction in Photographs: Possible or Pipedream?

[Roy Tennant]

I use EXIFTool to extract the EXIF metadata from images:

http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/

I do this dynamically for all of the 8,000+ photos on FreeLargePhotos.com.
Here is an example of the text output:

http://freelargephotos.com/photos/003805/exif.txt

From there, you could parse that into whatever you wanted for import. Since
you would have the filename that may be sufficient to map it into the right
place in DigiTool (but I'm unfamiliar with it).
Roy


On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Swauger,Shea shea.swau...@colostate.eduwrote:

 Hi all,

 I'm wondering if there is a systematic method that can extract metadata
 embedded in digital photographs and then ingest that metadata into a CMS
 and relate them to their corresponding images. We currently use DigiTool,
 if that makes a difference.

 Thanks!

 Shea Swauger
 Data Management Librarian
 Colorado State Univeristy

Re: [CODE4LIB] Mapping LCSH to DDC

[Roy Tennant]

Has anyone looked at using the Classify web service for this? [1] It
doesn't have a batch mode, but it has a web service [2].
Roy

[1] http://oclc.org/research/activities/classify.html
[2] http://classify.oclc.org/classify2/api_docs/index.html


On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Kyle Banerjee kyle.baner...@gmail.comwrote:

 This is my inclination. However, if the algorithm doesn't incorporate
 values from the tables used to synthesize Dewey numbers, identifying the
 stems of numbers may be tricky. It might be worth calling up someone at a
 major Dewey library like UIUC or Northwestern to see if they might be
 willing to provide data to add to what you get from LC.

 kyle


 On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Edward Summers e...@pobox.com wrote:

  Not a naive idea at all. If you have the stomach for it, you could
 extract
  the Subject Heading / Dewey combinations out of say the LC Catalog MARC
  data [1] to use as training data for some kind of clustering [2]
 algorithm.
  You might even be able to do something simple like keep a count of the
  Dewey ranges associated with each subject heading.
 
  I’m kind of curious myself, so I could work on getting the subject
 heading
  / dewey combinations if you want?
 
  //Ed
 
  [1] https://archive.org/details/marc_records_scriblio_net
  [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster_analysis
 
  On Dec 10, 2013, at 8:18 AM, Irina Arndt ar...@mpdl.mpg.de wrote:
 
   Hi CODE4LIB,
  
   we would like to add DDC classes to a bunch of MARC records, which
  contains only LoC Subject Headings.
   Does anybody know, if a mapping between LCSH and DDC is anywhere
  existent (and available)?
  
   I understood, that WebDewey
  http://www.oclc.org/dewey/versions/webdewey.en.html  might provide such
 a
  service, but
  
   · we are no OCLC customers or subscribers to WebDewey
  
   · even if we were, I'm not sure, if the service matches our
 needs
  
   I'm thinking of a tool, where I can upload my list of subject headings
  and get back a list, where the matching Dewey classes have been added
 (but
  a 'simple' csv file with LCSH terms and DDC classes would be helpful as
  well- I am fully aware, that neither LCSH nor DDC are simple at all...) .
  Naïve idea...?
  
   Thanks for any clues,
   Irina
  
  
   ---
  
   Irina Arndt
   Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL)
   Library System Coordinator
   Amalienstr. 33
   D-80799 Muenchen, Germany
  
   Tel. +49 89 38602-254
   Fax +49 89 38602-290
  
   Email: ar...@mpdl.mpg.demailto:ar...@mpdl.mpg.de
   http://www.mpdl.mpg.de
 

Re: [CODE4LIB] Lorem Ipsum metadata? Is there such a thing?

[Roy Tennant]

I can't help wondering what the half-life of a radioactive MARC record is.
My guess is it is either really, really short or really, really long. ;-)
Roy


On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Peter Binkley peter.bink...@ualberta.cawrote:

 Years ago Bill Moen had a set of radioactive MARC records with unique
 tokens in all fields, to test Z39.50 retrieval. I don't know whether they
 were ever released anywhere, but I see the specs are here:

 http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc111015/m1/1/

 Peter


 Peter Binkley
 Digital Initiatives Technology Librarian
 Information Technology Services
 peter.bink...@ualberta.ca

 2-10K Cameron Library
 University of Alberta
 Edmonton, Alberta
 Canada T6G 2J8

 phone 780-492-3743
 fax 780-492-9243


 On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Joshua Welker wel...@ucmo.edu wrote:

  I checked out the Eclipse option and was not able to get much use out of
  it.
  Maybe someone else will have better luck? It doesn't seem to align very
  well
  with a library use case.
 
  Josh Welker
 
 
  -Original Message-
  From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
  Ben
  Companjen
  Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 11:14 AM
  To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
  Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Lorem Ipsum metadata? Is there such a thing?
 
  Hi Josh,
 
  Before you start coding:
 
 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17106/how-to-generate-sample-xml-documen
  ts-from-their-dtd-or-xsd suggests that Eclipse can generate XML from an
  DTD
  or XSD file. First try with the EAC XSD shows I need to try other
 options,
  but it's promising.
 
  (It's still an interesting problem to try to tackle yourself, of course.)
 
  Ben
 
  On 09-12-13 17:59, Joshua Welker wel...@ucmo.edu wrote:
 
  It's hard-coded to generate the specific elements. But your way sounds
  a lot cleaner, so I might try to do that instead :) It will be more
  difficult initially but much easier once I start implementing other
  metadata formats.
  
  Josh Welker
  
  
  -Original Message-
  From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
  Ben Companjen
  Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 10:52 AM
  To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
  Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Lorem Ipsum metadata? Is there such a thing?
  
  Cool!
  My first thought on this topic was: give the program an XML schema, and
  generate possible documents with the correct datatypes etc. (Something
  like that must exist somewhere, right?) Does it happen to work anything
  like that, or is it hardcoded to generate these specific elements?
  
  Ben
  
  On 09-12-13 17:27, Joshua Welker wel...@ucmo.edu wrote:
  
  Challenge accepted.
  
  http://library.ucmo.edu/dev/metadata-generator.php
  
  Obviously in the prototype phase, but it works. Only MODS is available
  for now, and you can only select top-level elements (all child
  elements of the top-level selections will be auto-generated). I will
  try to expand it to more than just MODS. Admittedly, I know very
  little about METS, so I will need some assistance if I am going to make
  one of those.
  
  I'll eventually host this somewhere else once it's done, so don't
  bookmark it.
  
  Josh Welker
  Information Technology Librarian
  James C. Kirkpatrick Library
  University of Central Missouri
  Warrensburg, MO 64093
  JCKL 2260
  660.543.8022
  
  -Original Message-
  From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf
  Of Kevin S. Clarke
  Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2013 12:26 PM
  To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
  Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Lorem Ipsum metadata? Is there such a thing?
  
  When I first read this, I was imagining not having to give it your
  metadata but native support for most of our commonly used metadata
  records... so the interface is: Give me 100 MODS records and it
  spits that out... You could get fancy and say, Give me X number of
  METS records that wrap TIFFs and JPGs and that uses MODS, etc.
  That's not as trivial as hooking into an lorem ipsum machine, but it'd
  be pretty cool, imho.
  
  Kevin
  
  
  On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 11:51 PM, Pottinger, Hardy J. 
  pottinge...@missouri.edu wrote:
  
   Hi, I asked this on Google Plus earlier today, but I figured I'd
   better take this question here: my brain is trying to tell me that
   there's a service or app that makes fake metadata, kind of like
   Lorem Ipsum but you feed it your fields and it gives you nonsense
   metadata back. But, it looks right enough for testing. Yesterday, I
   had to make up about 50 rows of fake metadata to test some code that
   handles paging in a UI, and I had to make it all up by hand. This
   hurts my soul. Someone please tell me such a service exists, and
   link me to it, so I never have to do this again. Or else, I may just
   make such a service, to save us all. But I don't want to go coding
   some new service if it already exists, because that sort of thing is
   for chumps.
  
  
   --
   HARDY POTTINGER pottinge...@umsystem.edu 

Re: [CODE4LIB] Lorem Ipsum metadata? Is there such a thing?

[Roy Tennant]

I ask you, would you want to work all day sitting on top of a huge pile of
radioactive MARC records? I sure wouldn't...
Roy


On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Bill Dueber b...@dueber.com wrote:

 The sad thing is that the Library of Congress spent billions of dollars of
 taxpayer money building a safe storage facility in the stable caves under
 Dublin, OH, but now no one will let them bury them there.


 On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com wrote:

  I can't help wondering what the half-life of a radioactive MARC record
 is.
  My guess is it is either really, really short or really, really long. ;-)
  Roy
 
 
  On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Peter Binkley peter.bink...@ualberta.ca
  wrote:
 
   Years ago Bill Moen had a set of radioactive MARC records with unique
   tokens in all fields, to test Z39.50 retrieval. I don't know whether
 they
   were ever released anywhere, but I see the specs are here:
  
   http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc111015/m1/1/
  
   Peter
  
  
   Peter Binkley
   Digital Initiatives Technology Librarian
   Information Technology Services
   peter.bink...@ualberta.ca
  
   2-10K Cameron Library
   University of Alberta
   Edmonton, Alberta
   Canada T6G 2J8
  
   phone 780-492-3743
   fax 780-492-9243
  
  
   On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Joshua Welker wel...@ucmo.edu
 wrote:
  
I checked out the Eclipse option and was not able to get much use out
  of
it.
Maybe someone else will have better luck? It doesn't seem to align
 very
well
with a library use case.
   
Josh Welker
   
   
-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf
  Of
Ben
Companjen
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 11:14 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Lorem Ipsum metadata? Is there such a thing?
   
Hi Josh,
   
Before you start coding:
   
  
 
 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17106/how-to-generate-sample-xml-documen
ts-from-their-dtd-or-xsd suggests that Eclipse can generate XML from
 an
DTD
or XSD file. First try with the EAC XSD shows I need to try other
   options,
but it's promising.
   
(It's still an interesting problem to try to tackle yourself, of
  course.)
   
Ben
   
On 09-12-13 17:59, Joshua Welker wel...@ucmo.edu wrote:
   
It's hard-coded to generate the specific elements. But your way
 sounds
a lot cleaner, so I might try to do that instead :) It will be more
difficult initially but much easier once I start implementing other
metadata formats.

Josh Welker


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On
 Behalf
  Of
Ben Companjen
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 10:52 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Lorem Ipsum metadata? Is there such a thing?

Cool!
My first thought on this topic was: give the program an XML schema,
  and
generate possible documents with the correct datatypes etc.
 (Something
like that must exist somewhere, right?) Does it happen to work
  anything
like that, or is it hardcoded to generate these specific elements?

Ben

On 09-12-13 17:27, Joshua Welker wel...@ucmo.edu wrote:

Challenge accepted.

http://library.ucmo.edu/dev/metadata-generator.php

Obviously in the prototype phase, but it works. Only MODS is
  available
for now, and you can only select top-level elements (all child
elements of the top-level selections will be auto-generated). I
 will
try to expand it to more than just MODS. Admittedly, I know very
little about METS, so I will need some assistance if I am going to
  make
one of those.

I'll eventually host this somewhere else once it's done, so don't
bookmark it.

Josh Welker
Information Technology Librarian
James C. Kirkpatrick Library
University of Central Missouri
Warrensburg, MO 64093
JCKL 2260
660.543.8022

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On
 Behalf
Of Kevin S. Clarke
Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2013 12:26 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Lorem Ipsum metadata? Is there such a
 thing?

When I first read this, I was imagining not having to give it your
metadata but native support for most of our commonly used metadata
records... so the interface is: Give me 100 MODS records and it
spits that out... You could get fancy and say, Give me X number of
METS records that wrap TIFFs and JPGs and that uses MODS, etc.
That's not as trivial as hooking into an lorem ipsum machine, but
  it'd
be pretty cool, imho.

Kevin


On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 11:51 PM, Pottinger, Hardy J. 
pottinge...@missouri.edu wrote:

 Hi, I asked this on Google Plus earlier today, but I

Re: [CODE4LIB] problem in old etd xml files

[Roy Tennant]

For my money, the text transform should look only for exact matches (e.g.,
aacute;, nbsp;, copy;) and replace them with their numeric
counterparts.
Roy


On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 5:41 PM, jason bengtson j.bengtson...@gmail.comwrote:

 For testing purposes I just nixed them. As I noted, to rework the file a
 person would probably want to use a more critical eye with find and
 replace. Totally doable.


 On Dec 9, 2013, at 7:37 PM, Jon Gorman jonathan.gor...@gmail.com wrote:

  How did you fix the ampersands? I ask, because if you just did a simple
  text transform from  to amp;, it would mask the problem of the entity
  escaping I think...
 
  Not at work, so I don't have a good example and the file is downloading
  very slowly here, so I'll try to do one from memory.
 
  There were several aacute; in the XML which mapped to an accent
 character
  in the DTD via the Entity.
 
  If you just substituted  with amp;, you'd get amp;aacute;, which would
  render inline as accute;. It would superficially solve the issue since
  browsers would no longer give the errors about the dtd since it wouldn't
 be
  trying to load entities from the DTDs. And depending how you did it, you
  likely could also replace a correctly encoded one to make amp;amp;,
  leading to some very odd stuff.
 
  I wouldn't be surprised to find some unescaped ampersands, but the
 solution
  I posted will essentially replace the entities with their text, hopefully
  causing most characters to appear correctly. You definitely still need to
  fix some of the other stuff. (I suspect it never worked for most browsers
  and XML systems, most likely only IE).
 
  Jon Gorman
  University of Illinois

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Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for two coders to help with discoverability of videos

[Roy Tennant]

I would have to agree with this where the data exists. The data captured by
digital cameras these days can be incredibly extensive and thorough. Given
this, I recently started exposing this data for all of the 8,000 photos I
now have on my photos web site http://FreeLargePhotos.com/ . There is now a
link on the page for an individual photo that a user can click on that will
pull out the data dynamically from the image file and display it in plain
text. Here is a random example:

http://freelargephotos.com/photos/003171/exif.txt

The tricky bit is of course where the photo is actually scanned from a
slide, which of course plays havoc with items such as the creation date. So
depending on the exact situation your mileage may vary, but the basic
principle stands -- if you can allow a machine to capture the metadata then
by all means let it.
Roy


On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Kyle Banerjee kyle.baner...@gmail.comwrote:

  Is it out of the question to extract technical metadata from the
  audiovisual materials themselves (via MediaInfo et al)?


 One of the things that absolutely blows my mind is the widespread practice
 of hand typing this stuff into records. Aside from an obvious opportunity
 to introduce errors/inconsistencies, many libraries record details for the
 archival versions rather than the access versions actually provided. So
 patrons see a description for what they're not getting...

 Just for the heck of it, sometime last year I scanned thousands of objects
 and their descriptions to see how close they were. Like an idiot, I didn't
 write up what I learned because I was just trying to satisfy my own
 curiosity. However, the takeaway I got from the exercise was that the
 embedded info is so much better than the hand keyed stuff that you'd be
 nuts to consider the latter as authoritative. Curiously, I did find cases
 where the embedded info was clearly incorrect. I can only guess that was
 manually edited.

 kyle

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Conference Registration

[Roy Tennant]

OMG, this one is for the ages. rsinger++


On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 8:33 PM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote:

 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 Sean Hannan's mouth

 -Ross.
 p.s. Mick might need to work on that last line a bit
 On Nov 20, 2013 3:52 PM, John Blair john.bl...@usm.edu wrote:

  Thanks.
 
  As much as I love arguments about https and comparing notes on various
  pet-projects, I wish the website was a little more … put together. This
  list has added about 30-40+ mails per day to my inbox, and I'm only
 really
  looking for one bit of information.
 
  I might have written Hotel reservations will be able to be made after
 you
  register (sometime early-mid Janueary 2014)
  using the information provided in your registration confirmation.
 
  I'm hard to please. ;)
 
  -JLB
 
 
  On Nov 20, 2013, at 1:53 PM, Cynthia Ng cynthia.s...@gmail.com wrote:
 
   Registration hasn't opened yet. My guess is sometime in January which
 is
   when the program will be set. If you're subscribed to the list, it'll
 be
   hard to miss!
  
  
   On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 9:45 AM, John Blair john.bl...@usm.edu
 wrote:
  
   Per the website (bolding mine):
  
   Finally, the hotel has the capacity to host all of the attendees, and
   we've negotiated a rate of $159/night that includes wireless access in
  the
   hotel rooms. Hotel reservations will be able to be made after you
  register
   using the information provided in your registration confirmation. We
  will
   be publishing more details as they become available.
  
   Where? When? How? Or does registration fall under …more details…?
  
  
   -John Blair
  
 

Re: [CODE4LIB] mass convert jpeg to pdf

[Roy Tennant]

Throwing in my two cents on the IIP Image Server. I've been using it on my
photos web site[0] for a while now and it works great. I was also happy to
see that there is a version that supports the International Image
Interoperability Framework (IIIF) API [1], which I was introduced to at DLF
by Tom Cramer and company. That would make you compliant with the Mirador
multi-windowing tool that he mentioned. Sounds like a win-win to me.
Roy

[0] http://FreeLargePhotos.com/  - sample:
http://freelargephotos.com/photos/01/full.jp2/Roy+Tennant
[1] http://www-sul.stanford.edu/iiif/image-api/1.1/


On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Tom Cramer tcra...@stanford.edu wrote:

 On Nov 8, 2013, at 11:14 AM, Ethan Gruber wrote:

  On the same note, I've had good experiences with using adore djatoka to
  render jpeg2000 files. Maybe something better has since come along. I'm
 out
  of touch with this type of technology.

 For zoomable image rendering (from JPEG2000 or TIFF), you may also want to
 look at

 IIP Image Server: http://iipimage.sourceforge.net/
 Loris: https://github.com/pulibrary/loris (from Jon Stroop @ Princeton)

 Djatoka is still widely used, but does not enjoy a robust or active
 development / support community. This web page may have some useful links
 for the curious:

 http://iiif.io/apps-demos.html

 - Tom

 PS. At DLF this week, there was also a presentation on Mirador, a multi-up
 windowing environment for viewing and comparing images from different
 repositories. It might be a nice complement to an exhibits environment.

Re: [CODE4LIB] image gallery management software recommendations

[Roy Tennant]

Batch upload to Omeka (or use the API) if at all possible. I have found the 
workflow for uploading items via a web browser to be less than optimal or 
understandable.
Roy



On Nov 7, 2013, at 1:59 PM, Kyle Banerjee kyle.baner...@gmail.com wrote:

 We're in the process of moving our collections to Omeka. First impressions
 are that it's very easy to work with and reasonably slick. Base
 functionality is decent, easy to batch migrate things in, and it has a
 decent API.
 
 kyle
 
 
 On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Bigwood, David dbigw...@hou.usra.eduwrote:
 
 I've heard good things about Omeka. It has support and an active user base.
 
 David Bigwood
 Lunar and Planetary Institute
 
 -Original Message-
 From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
 Ken Irwin
 Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 2:44 PM
 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
 Subject: [CODE4LIB] image gallery management software recommendations
 
 Hi all,
 
 I'm working on a project for which we're looking for some image gallery
 management software (ie, upload, organize, tag, etc.) that's a standalone
 piece of software: ie, not part of a larger CMS like WordPress, Drupal,
 ContentDM, etc.
 
 We'd of course like something that is simple, awesome, and free. (We might
 settle for two of the three...) The only absolute requirement is that it
 needs to run on a Linux/Apache server. PHP/MySQL would be preferred, and
 something with a responsive front-end would also be nice.
 
 The world appears to be teeming with such things of various quality; I
 thought I'd ask you all for recommendations rather than just try to wade
 through the masses of junk.
 
 Any ideas?
 Thanks
 Ken
 

Re: [CODE4LIB] MARC field lengths

[Roy Tennant]

I don't even have to fire it up. That's a statistic that we generate
quarterly (albeit via Hadoop). Here you go:

100 - 30.3
245 - 103.1
600 - 41
610 - 48.8
611 - 61.4
630 - 40.8
648 - 23.8
650 - 35.1
651 - 39.6
653 - 33.3
654 - 38.1
655 - 22.5
656 - 30.6
657 - 27.4
658 - 30.7
662 - 41.7

Roy


On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Sean Hannan shan...@jhu.edu wrote:

 That sounds like a request for Roy to fire up the ole OCLC Hadoop.

 -Sean



 On 10/16/13 1:06 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote:

 Anybody have data for the average length of specific MARC fields in some
 reasonably representative database? I mainly need 100, 245, 6xx.
 
 Thanks,
 kc
 
 --
 Karen Coyle
 kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net
 m: 1-510-435-8234
 skype: kcoylenet

Re: [CODE4LIB] [CODE4LIB] HEADS UP - Government shutdown will mean *.loc.gov is going offline October 1

[Roy Tennant]

As seen on Twitter, OCLC also has our version of MARC documentation here:

http://www.oclc.org/bibformats/en.html

It's mostly exactly the same except for the places where we have inserted
small but effective messages that RESISTANCE IS FUTILE, YOU WILL BE
ASSIMILATED.
Roy


On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Becky Yoose b.yo...@gmail.com wrote:

 FYI - this also means that there's a very good chance that the MARC
 standards site [1] and the Source Codes site [2] will be down as well. I
 don't know if there are any mirror sites out there for these pages.

 [1] http://www.loc.gov/marc/
 [2] http://www.loc.gov/standards/sourcelist/index.html

 Thanks,
 Becky, about to be (forcefully) departed with her standards documentation


 On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Jodi Schneider jschnei...@pobox.com
 wrote:

  Interesting -- thanks, Birkin -- and tell us what you think when you get
 it
  implemented!
 
  :) -Jodi
 
 
  On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Birkin Diana birkin_di...@brown.edu
  wrote:
 
...you'd want to create a caching service...
  
  
   One solution for a relevant particular problem (not full-blown
  linked-data
   caching):
  
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML_Catalog
  
   excerpt: However, if they are absolute URLs, they only work when your
   network can reach them. Relying on remote resources makes XML
 processing
   susceptible to both planned and unplanned network downtime.
  
   We'd heard about this a while ago, but, Jodi, you and David Riordan and
   Congress have caused a temporary retreat from normal sprint-work here
 at
   Brown today to investigate implementing this!  :/
  
   The particular problem that would affect us: if your processing tool
   checks, say, an loc.gov mods namespace url, that processing will fail
 if
   the loc.gov url isn't available, unless you've implemented xml
 catalog,
   which is a formal way to locally resolve such external references.
  
   -b
   ---
   Birkin James Diana
   Programmer, Digital Technologies
   Brown University Library
   birkin_di...@brown.edu
  
  
   On Sep 30, 2013, at 7:15 AM, Uldis Bojars capts...@gmail.com wrote:
  
What are best practices for preventing problems in cases like this
 when
   an
important Linked Data service may go offline?
   
--- originally this was a reply to Jodi which she suggested to post
 on
   the
list too ---
   
A safe [pessimistic?] approach would be to say we don't trust
   [reliability
of] linked data on the Web as services can and will go down and to
  cache
everything.
   
In that case you'd want to create a caching service that would keep
   updated
copies of all important Linked Data sources and a fall-back strategy
  for
switching to this caching service when needed. Like archive.org for
   Linked
Data.
   
Some semantic web search engines might already have subsets of Linked
   Data
web cached, but not sure how much they cover (e.g., if they have all
 of
   LoC
data, up-to-date).
   
If one were to create such a service how to best update it,
 considering
you'd be requesting *all* Linked Data URIs from each source? An
  efficient
approach would be to regularly load RDF dumps for every major source
 if
available (e.g., LoC says - here's a full dump of all our RDF data
 ...
   and
a .torrent too).
   
What do you think?
   
Uldis
   
   
On 29 September 2013 12:33, Jodi Schneider jschnei...@pobox.com
  wrote:
   
Any best practices for caching authorities/vocabs to suggest for
 this
thread on the Code4Lib list?
   
Linked Data authorities  vocabularies at Library of Congress (
   id.loc.gov)
are going to be affected by the website shutdown -- because of lack
 of
government funds.
   
-Jodi
  
 

Re: [CODE4LIB] [CODE4LIB] HEADS UP - Government shutdown will mean *.loc.gov is going offline October 1

[Roy Tennant]

Netscape 4.0 is out? Gosh, but it sure is hard to keep up!
Roy


On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Kyle Banerjee kyle.baner...@gmail.comwrote:

 If all people need is to look up MARC tags, there is also the Cataloging
 Calculator http://calculate.alptown.com/  Unless you want to want to feel
 totally disgusted, avoid looking source code as it was my first javascript
 program which was cobbled together in a day (i.e. it is garbage) and hasn't
 been gone through a substantial revision since 1997. The good news is that
 if you're still on Netscape 4.0, it should work fine...

 kyle


 On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com wrote:

  As seen on Twitter, OCLC also has our version of MARC documentation here:
 
  http://www.oclc.org/bibformats/en.html
 
  It's mostly exactly the same except for the places where we have inserted
  small but effective messages that RESISTANCE IS FUTILE, YOU WILL BE
  ASSIMILATED.
  Roy
 
 
  On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Becky Yoose b.yo...@gmail.com wrote:
 
   FYI - this also means that there's a very good chance that the MARC
   standards site [1] and the Source Codes site [2] will be down as well.
 I
   don't know if there are any mirror sites out there for these pages.
  
   [1] http://www.loc.gov/marc/
   [2] http://www.loc.gov/standards/sourcelist/index.html
  
   Thanks,
   Becky, about to be (forcefully) departed with her standards
 documentation
  
  
   On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 11:39 AM, Jodi Schneider jschnei...@pobox.com
   wrote:
  
Interesting -- thanks, Birkin -- and tell us what you think when you
  get
   it
implemented!
   
:) -Jodi
   
   
On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Birkin Diana 
 birkin_di...@brown.edu
wrote:
   
  ...you'd want to create a caching service...


 One solution for a relevant particular problem (not full-blown
linked-data
 caching):

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML_Catalog

 excerpt: However, if they are absolute URLs, they only work when
  your
 network can reach them. Relying on remote resources makes XML
   processing
 susceptible to both planned and unplanned network downtime.

 We'd heard about this a while ago, but, Jodi, you and David Riordan
  and
 Congress have caused a temporary retreat from normal sprint-work
 here
   at
 Brown today to investigate implementing this!  :/

 The particular problem that would affect us: if your processing
 tool
 checks, say, an loc.gov mods namespace url, that processing will
  fail
   if
 the loc.gov url isn't available, unless you've implemented xml
   catalog,
 which is a formal way to locally resolve such external references.

 -b
 ---
 Birkin James Diana
 Programmer, Digital Technologies
 Brown University Library
 birkin_di...@brown.edu


 On Sep 30, 2013, at 7:15 AM, Uldis Bojars capts...@gmail.com
  wrote:

  What are best practices for preventing problems in cases like
 this
   when
 an
  important Linked Data service may go offline?
 
  --- originally this was a reply to Jodi which she suggested to
 post
   on
 the
  list too ---
 
  A safe [pessimistic?] approach would be to say we don't trust
 [reliability
  of] linked data on the Web as services can and will go down and
 to
cache
  everything.
 
  In that case you'd want to create a caching service that would
 keep
 updated
  copies of all important Linked Data sources and a fall-back
  strategy
for
  switching to this caching service when needed. Like
 archive.orgfor
 Linked
  Data.
 
  Some semantic web search engines might already have subsets of
  Linked
 Data
  web cached, but not sure how much they cover (e.g., if they have
  all
   of
 LoC
  data, up-to-date).
 
  If one were to create such a service how to best update it,
   considering
  you'd be requesting *all* Linked Data URIs from each source? An
efficient
  approach would be to regularly load RDF dumps for every major
  source
   if
  available (e.g., LoC says - here's a full dump of all our RDF
 data
   ...
 and
  a .torrent too).
 
  What do you think?
 
  Uldis
 
 
  On 29 September 2013 12:33, Jodi Schneider jschnei...@pobox.com
 
wrote:
 
  Any best practices for caching authorities/vocabs to suggest for
   this
  thread on the Code4Lib list?
 
  Linked Data authorities  vocabularies at Library of Congress (
 id.loc.gov)
  are going to be affected by the website shutdown -- because of
  lack
   of
  government funds.
 
  -Jodi

   
  
 

Re: [CODE4LIB] Access 2013 - room-mate

[Roy Tennant]

Hey, I'm staying there too! It looked like such a charming place. See you
soon,
Roy


On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 4:31 AM, Joseph Montibello 
joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edu wrote:

 Hi,

 This doesn't help Bobbi any, but along the same lines, I've got a room at
 a BB about ten minutes' walk from the Masonic Temple. Happy to have a
 male non-smoker share the room, if anyone's interested. (It's $99 a night,
 so half of that isn't too bad)

 the room: http://bit.ly/Access2013Room
 the place: http://bit.ly/therosesnl

 Take care,
 Joe Montibello, MLIS
 Library Systems Manager
 Dartmouth College Library
 603.646.9394
 joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edu








 On 9/12/13 4:59 PM, Fox, Bobbi bobbi_...@harvard.edu wrote:

 If you're a woman going to Access 2013 (http://accessconference.ca/) the
 week after next, would you like to save money by sharing a room?
 I currently have something booked at the Extended Stay St Johns --
 Downtown, but can cancel it if you have a better deal :-)
 
 Time's growing short, so please give a shout soon.
 
 Thanks,
 Bobbi

Re: [CODE4LIB] Dan Chudnov's invited speech from C4L JAPAN Conference

[Roy Tennant]

Thank you so much for this! I saw some of it, but had to leave. I will look
for the recording. Thanks for sharing,
Roy


On Sat, Aug 31, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Takanori Hayashi takanor...@gmail.comwrote:

 Hello Code4Libbers,

 Do you remember Code4Lib Japan geeks?

 We hold on Code4Lib Japan Conference 2013 at Minami-sanriku, Miyagi, JAPAN.
 Today, Dan Chudnov-san will start to speech for all code4libbers *NOW*
 Of course, it is English.

 Check our stream now! - http://www.ustream.tv/channel/code4lib-japan-2013

 --
 Takanori Hayashi
 Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Research Information Technology Center
 takanor...@gmail.com

[CODE4LIB] Access Conference history

[Roy Tennant]

I am delighted to have been asked to give the opening keynote address to
the upcoming Access Conference 2013 in St. John's, Newfoundland. Since this
is the 20th anniversary of the conference, I've been asked to speak with
that in mind. My title is What a Long Strange Trip It's Been and I aim to
look back at the last 20 years both in terms of the history of the
conference itself as well as technology.

Although I have a personal history in relation to the conference, I have
gaps in my knowledge that I'm hoping some of you can fill. I'm familiar
with the Google Doc that Peter Binkley and others have pulled together to
try to document the history of the conference, but I could also use help
with the following:

* Pictures, particularly from the early days when we had funny haircuts
* Personal anecdotes, particularly from the early days when we didn't
realize we had funny haircuts
* Thoughts about where we were back then and where we are now

Thanks in advance. I'm hoping to keep a certain piece of now legendary and
yet seldom seen piece of clothing out of this presentation, but who knows
what might happen. Please email these directly to me so it can be a
surprise next month.
Roy

Re: [CODE4LIB] Python and Ruby

[Roy Tennant]

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 9:57 AM, Peter Schlumpf pschlu...@earthlink.net wrote:
 Imagine if the library community had its own programming/scripting language, 
 at least one that is domain relevant.
 What would it look like?

Whatever else it had, it would have to have a sophisticated way to
inspect text for patterns -- that is, regular expressions.
Roy