Re: [CODE4LIB] How to create an EAD file from delimited data, then import into Archivist Toolkit?

I'd give Marcedit a shot. It can convert your delimited file to MARC which you can then run through its MARC to EAD converter. kyle On Fri, May 4, 2018, 12:37 PM Yamil Suarez wrote: > Hello everyone, > > At our library we need to import an archival collection's EAD data file > into Archivist To

[CODE4LIB] Best way to partially anonymize data?

Howdy all, We need to share large datasets containing medical imagery without revealing PHI. The images themselves don't present a problem due to their nature but the embedded metadata does. What approaches might work ? Our first reaction was to encrypt problematic fields, embed a public key for

Re: [CODE4LIB] API for book descriptions?

Hi Christina, One possibility would just be to find a catalog likely to have what you need via SRU or Z39.50 -- the quality of metadata will probably be considerably better than what you can get off Amazon. I think Marcedit has a batch mode that will let you do this so you don't even need to do an

Re: [CODE4LIB] Best way to partially anonymize data?

On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 6:01 PM, John Pellman wrote: > Disclaimer: Some of this is probably going to be redundant with respect to > what Becky K has already said. > > Are you using DICOMs? If so, it's pretty straightforward to anonymize > Yes (or at least a lot of it is). I'm still waiting for

Re: [CODE4LIB] Trustworthy way to get server ID# from CONTENTdm

Hi Craig, Have you tried using nslookup? That should return the CNAME entry containing what you seek. Also, curiosity is killing me as to why knowing server numbers for machines you don't control would be useful. kyle On Tue, Jul 3, 2018 at 10:17 AM, Craig Dietrich wrote: > Hi all, > > This h

Re: [CODE4LIB] Trustworthy way to get server ID# from CONTENTdm

r. > > Here is a list of the parsers I've already created: > https://github.com/craigdietrich/tensor-profiles/tree/master/parsers > > Once a parser is created, any archive that uses that platform can be > accessed. > > I've attached a couple screengrabs, not sure

Re: [CODE4LIB] Web Server Specs?

It might be worthwhile having a conversation to get a feel for what they're equipped to support and what the cost structure will look like for the library. Sometimes, resources that are easy and cheap to provision on the open market can be difficult and (very) expensive to obtain locally. Also find

Re: [CODE4LIB] Digital archive software package

We use MerlinOne and our foundation uses Extensis for what sounds like a similar purpose. We reviewed a number of other options in the past, but my knowledge is too stale to be useful. A few thoughts: 1) The most important thing for the researcher to envision how she hope she and others will inte

Re: [CODE4LIB] indexing & searching chinese text using solr

Hi Eric, If you're pretty sure you indexed the characters properly and are getting garbage no matter what you do, my first thought is that this is a localization issue. Can you cat/grep/sed/vi/whatever these characters in a terminal window? If not, that is at least part of your problem. Running

Re: [CODE4LIB] Are you a coder/programmer or a systems analyst or?

On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 4:02 PM Salazar, Christina < christina.sala...@csuci.edu> wrote: > I think a part of why I'm asking is it seems sometimes (oftentimes?) the > folks who are doing the hiring or job postings don't really KNOW what all > is involved in many of the techie type librarian positio

Re: [CODE4LIB] Are you a coder/programmer or a systems analyst or?

On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 6:51 AM Carol Kassel wrote: > .. I know I'd love to hear that > someone wants to make things better and not just build shiny new things! > Amen. Just as you need to watch out for seagull managers, you also have to be wary of seagull systems people. A lot of the most

Re: [CODE4LIB] Recommendations for the New Kid

Hi Athina, As far as building your knowledge base goes, I've personally found it most useful to learn things as you need them because only those things that you actively use will stick. Then look for commonalities with other things you need and build on that. I don't recommend learning any partic

Re: [CODE4LIB] BIBFRAME, IFLA LRM, and PREMIS

Also not an expert on any of this stuff, but my understanding is that PREMIS is a dictionary that allows you to describe who owns something, whether the thing is legit, what's done to preserve it, what you need to use it, and rights management information. It's a flexible standard -- i.e. there ar

Re: [CODE4LIB] ai in libraries

Helpful metadata places things in a conceptual universe. As such, the point is to impose bias whether humans or machines designed by humans make the determinations. Needs, understandings, etc evolve with time so these problems will endure. For example, history probably won't look kindly on a good

Re: [CODE4LIB] Sharing Test Data Resources Around 1-2 GB

The S3 option seems reasonable, lends itself to the permissions sharing you need, and is easily automatable. This solution has the added benefit that developers can simplify transfer by working directly in AWS if they like. In the case at hand, 1-2 GB is downloadable. For stuff that's too big to d

Re: [CODE4LIB] UUIDs in MARC 001

I would advise against using 001 for this purpose and using 035 instead. Although use of 001 varies, it's most often used as an internal matchpoint. This means using it all but guarantees that the field already has a competing use in the system -- making it a questionable idea to accept them. Be aw

[CODE4LIB] Controlled vocab useful for describing skin tone

Howdy all, I'm trying to wrap my mind around an image project that allows clinicians and students to see how different medical conditions visually manifest themselves on different skin tones and types. I suspect we'll use ICD-10 to describe conditions, but I'm curious as to what recommendations p

Re: [CODE4LIB] Controlled vocab useful for describing skin tone

; > On Thu, Jan 3, 2019 at 4:18 PM Kirby, Jasmine S [LIB] > > wrote: > > > Maybe https://www.fentybeauty.com/shade-finder.html since it has > numbers. > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Code for Libraries On Behalf Of Kyle > > Banerjee &g

Re: [CODE4LIB] rdf and doi's

Hi Eric, I'd spin that around and ask how you'd exploit a set of CSV or files in any other format since regardless of how data is obtained, the structure and methods you use should be driven by the problem you want to solve. This is not to say that it's not sometimes fun to have a tool in your ha

Re: [CODE4LIB] PDF Combine Pro Software Alternative

If command line tools are acceptable, one option to is to use the convert utility to get everything into PDF and merge them with the pdfunite utility. Usage is simple and you can find examples on the interwebz. HTH kyle On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 12:36 PM Faust, Brad wrote: > Hello, > > We have a

Re: [CODE4LIB] hathitrust api

Haven't used the Hathi API before. Is multithreading possible or do tech/policy constraints make that approach a nonstarter or otherwise not worth pursuing? Peeking the documentation, I noticed a htd:numpages element. If that is usable, it would prevent the need to rely on errors to detect the doc

Re: [CODE4LIB] COinS

If you have to ask, you have your answer :) On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 8:00 AM Bigwood, David wrote: > Are COinS still of any value? Or should I clean-up my pages by getting rid > of them? I haven't heard them mentioned in years. > > Thanks, > David Bigwood > dbigw...@lpi.usra.edu

Re: [CODE4LIB] CONTENTdm Migration - words.txt files

Hi Sara, What are you migrating to? It's generally easiest to start with what your new system expects and then figure out how to get it that. There's a good chance that the most straightforward approach will be to perform OCR as part of the ingest/migration process. kyle On Mon, Mar 25, 2019 at

Re: [CODE4LIB] named entities as metadata

I tried to populate metadata using entity extraction in a project some years ago and encountered the same issues as you. To cut straight to the chase, regex normalization routines based on eyeballing several thousand entries worked as well as anything. We were unable to come up with an effective w

Re: [CODE4LIB] Workflows/tools question for massive weeding project

Haven't helped with a major weeding project in a long time, but my gut reaction when I saw the desired workflow is that you might find it easier/faster to go lower tech. Weeding is a very physical process that is ergonomically difficult to integrate with equipment and apps requiring precise use of

Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with XML files?

On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 7:44 PM Mackenzie M. Salisbury < suzanne.salisb...@mail.waldenu.edu> wrote: > It might just take some minor updates to the Java to make the JAR file > work (I honestly don’t know if it’s just some tweaks or if the whole thing > need to be rewritten) Hi Mackenzie, Diagnos

Re: [CODE4LIB] nsf api and citations

On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 6:55 AM Kevin Hawkins < kevin.s.hawk...@ultraslavonic.info> wrote: > Publishers are increasingly storing such data in article > metadata as well, so in the long run, I expect this kind of searching on > publications will become easier. My confidence in this is tempered. H

Re: [CODE4LIB] Online data transformation tools

On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 11:20 AM Thomas Dunbar wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm working on a proof of concept web application for common library data > conversions with support for large files. > The application is build using a serverless architecture, which allows me > do this at scale and at l

Re: [CODE4LIB] Remote Work Policies

Hi Jenny, Every place I've worked except one over the past 20 years allows remote work. No two policies were the same -- not a surprise given that the missions, duties, and environments were different. What appears most effective in my experience is for the manager to determine what's appropriate

Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for lightweight tool to identify PII

Hi Kim, Could you say a bit more about the documents, the scanning process, and how reliable the OCR is? I'd be leery of relying on OCR for identifying PII except as a secondary check (which may be already be your plan). PII takes many forms which often require a trained eye to spot -- particular

Re: [CODE4LIB] ArchivesSpace reCAPTCHA

Captchas are like frequently expiring passwords with ridiculous validation requirements and canned security questions people can't remember the answers to -- great examples of solutions built around administrative concerns at the expense of the users they're meant to serve. I cannot fathom how di

Re: [CODE4LIB] pattern libraries

On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 11:36 AM Birkin Diana wrote: > ... > Inspired by a University web redesign, a few of us in the Library are > beginning to investigate "pattern-libraries" to help us make and keep the > look & feel of our disparate systems more in-sync with one another > ... > > To thos

[CODE4LIB] Checking out and supporting equipment for patrons

If your library does this, how do you manage the myriad of batteries, remotes, cables, cards, mounts, instructions, etc. and what support to you provide for its use? We will make GoPro equipment available to patrons soon. But simply handing this stuff over to people who are unfamiliar with it soun

Re: [CODE4LIB] [EXTERNAL] [CODE4LIB] Checking out and supporting equipment for patrons

rmation Technology Technical Associate > Brookens Library > University of Illinois Springfield > (217)206-7115 > Pronouns: He/Him<https://pronoun.is/he> > > > > -Original Message- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG] On Behalf

Re: [CODE4LIB] recommendations for/advice re: Wordpress managed hosting

On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 5:46 AM Andrew L Hickner wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > We are exploring moving the Wordpress website for the local chapter of our > library association to managed hosting. I'd appreciate any advice and/or > provider reviews you are willing to share, and would be happy to su

Re: [CODE4LIB] recommendations for/advice re: Wordpress managed hosting

On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 11:50 AM Josh Welker wrote: > I agree with everything Kyle said except that it doesn't make you better at > other things. The sysadmin skills I learned in figuring out self-hosting > have transferred to many parts of my career inside and outside libraries > and have helped

Re: [CODE4LIB] From the Community Support Squad wrt "Note [admiistratativia]"

On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 1:55 PM Anne Slaughter < anne.slaugh...@railslibraries.info> wrote: > I hear you. Personally my web dev past is so ancient I'm officially not a > coder and have to work to get my head around GitHub every time I touch it. > A number of people have shared similar sentiments

Re: [CODE4LIB] From the Community Support Squad wrt "Note [admiistratativia]"

On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 4:21 PM Fitchett, Deborah < deborah.fitch...@lincoln.ac.nz> wrote: > ...If a dog has something useful to post to Code4Lib, why shouldn't they > be judged on the merits of their email? > Anonymity doesn't work in all environments, but it tends to work in small relatively st

Re: [CODE4LIB] From the Community Support Squad wrt "Note [admiistratativia]"

On Sun, Jul 14, 2019 at 7:26 PM Stuart A. Yeates wrote: > I was personally ambivalent about anonymity on the mailing list. > > However, the fact that it appears to be predominantly men arguing for > banning anonymity and women arguing for allowing it is a tell that us > men folk might have our lo

Re: [CODE4LIB] ORCID

On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 8:16 AM Bigwood, David wrote: > ORCID provides an API that can be queried by ORCID or institution name (I > think). Has anyone written code to query the API on a regular basis to pull > down articles by their faculty? Is it something you'd care to share? I've > not the fai

Re: [CODE4LIB] Keyword Extraction from Text

Hi Athina, The extractors are very different in terms of what they're optimized to work with and what they're designed to extract -- you need one designed for your purposes, and you may need more than one. A few years back, I experimented with a number of extractors before settling on Alchemy a

Re: [CODE4LIB] Identifying description sources across a large corpus of MARC records

I like the concept and think the signals you're already looking at (length, evaluative adjectives, etc.) are a solid way to go. If you haven't already looked at several thousand 520s to see what jumps out, I'd definitely do that. I would expect a combo of publisher and date of imprint (perhaps als

Re: [CODE4LIB] Identifying description sources across a large corpus of MARC records

The question of intentional addition of promotional, misleading, or low value information to catalog records is an interesting one. Makes me wonder how often DOIs or shortened URLs resolve to paywalls or even worse, affiliate links. On Thu, Sep 19, 2019, 11:30 McDonald, Stephen wrote: > I think

Re: [CODE4LIB] Identifying description sources across a large corpus of MARC records

Hi Tim (and apologies to everyone for being so chatty on this topic) After your post, I've had your question in the back of my mind while working on other things -- the problem of identifying/improving low quality data is interesting given our growing reliance on publisher data. References to the

Re: [CODE4LIB] Piecing together an offline search interface?

On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 10:06 AM Kyle Breneman wrote: > My university has a program that offers classes at a nearby prison, and > this program is about to get a bunch of new laptops. As many of you know, > prisons are pretty restrictive and inflexible regarding technology... > My gut reaction

Re: [CODE4LIB] matching brief cataloging to OCLC records - scores

Hi Cindy, Could you say a bit more about your project -- i.e. how many items you're dealing with, uniqueness of records you need to match against, reliability of the individual data points you're using for your key? As an abstract proposition, dirty matches are tricky. The basic approaches are to

Re: [CODE4LIB] matching brief cataloging to OCLC records - scores

28 that matches this number (not the same > composer/title though). > > Thanks, > Cindy > > -Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries On Behalf Of Kyle > Banerjee > Sent: Monday, January 06, 2020 5:55 PM > To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG > Subject: Re: [

[CODE4LIB] Universal viewer woes

Hi all, After a recent upgrade to our Samvera installation, we've been dogged with "Your log-in attempt did not appear to be successful. Please try again" errors in the IIIF viewing window. When the error occurs, it occurs with everything. But sometimes everything works. I haven't been able to fi

Re: [CODE4LIB] RegEx for public services/public-facing librarians

On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 6:43 AM Mike Monaco wrote: > Good morning, > A colleague and I are planning a workshop on using regular expressions and > expect an audience of primarily public services librarians. I was hoping > other users here could suggest some applications of regex that would be > us

Re: [CODE4LIB] kernel threads

Hi Eric, A few random thoughts -- basically all in agreement with what you've already heard. Agreed that subshells and I/O are what cost (I suspect disk IO in your case) and that playing with the number of parallel processes may help. Rewriting will only help if the dependencies and whatnot you'r

Re: [CODE4LIB] MS word doc table to Excel

Hi Amy, The easiest way I can think of is just convert the table to text (click in the tablek and use the table layout tools to get to the function). That can either be saved as its own document which can be imported into a spreadsheet or pasted in. kyle On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 8:12 AM Amy Schul

Re: [CODE4LIB] is there a service to reconcile publishers' names?

Hi Sergio, As Debra mentions, it's a mess -- what you're basically asking for is an authority file for a field that's not authorized. The publisher field is transcribed from what's on the piece so there will be variations even before you consider splits, merges, acquisitions, name changes, etc wh

Re: [CODE4LIB] how our vocabulary is changing

Looks like a shift from operational to general concepts (except a few that point at other things like https and doi). With much greater complexity everywhere, one would hope discussion isn't dominated by super basic stuff. But with greater specialization, such terms may simply represent lowest com

Re: [CODE4LIB] DDC is like an API specification so it can be used freely

A couple quick thoughts: - DDC isn't a structure in the same way that those other things are. DDC defines a conceptual universe (portions of which are regularly redefined) as well as ways of navigating it. In this sense, the navigation has more in common with menuing and the content ha

Re: [CODE4LIB] Library of Congress releases data

The Cataloging Calculator has relied on free LC data from the beginning. What they provide now is so much easier to work with than it was in the beginning (literally scanning and parsing stuff off paper) Haven't used much in terms of tools to work with it, sed and vi for manipulation (Marcedit for

Re: [CODE4LIB] Library of Congress releases data

The data of interest is always a few years old. I assume this is because there are subscriptions for the new stuff. If you wanted to keep collecting the new stuff, I assume this would be possible via OAI or SRU with appropriate limiters. kyle On Wed, Sep 8, 2021 at 12:18 AM Michael Lackhoff wrot

Re: [CODE4LIB] Do we have any OAI programmers here? I have questions.

Hi Jill, I did a CONTENTdm to Omeka migration many years back. Wilhelmina pretty much covered what you need to be thinking about, but first thing to know is that OAI is rarely an appropriate migration tool. The second is that the whole point of migrating is that the new system works differently th

Re: [CODE4LIB] using dublin core to express size measured in words

On Mon, Oct 18, 2021, 07:03 Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > > Using Dublin Core, is there a way to express size measured in words? > Tldr; using the word "words" is totally legit as is doing anything that makes sense to you. DC is a container standard like MARC or HTML -- you can think of it as a fo

Re: [CODE4LIB] ethics of screenscraping library opacs?

A screen scrape harvest will likely generate more search activity than all actual searches combined while being really slow. Assuming a process where every call gets you a non duplicated record, a catalog of a relatively modest 2.5 million records would take you a month to retrieve at one record pe

Re: [CODE4LIB] ethics of screenscraping library opacs?

Regarding Z39.50, they may have SRU enabled which would make this really easy. Even if searches have to be passed through the UI, Primo interfaces allow you to retrieve a structured PNX record via GET query parameter. With the small number of searches, the harvest plan should work well. kyle On M

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib mailing list over the years

On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 2:45 PM Tim Spalding wrote: > "Mailing lists aren't what they used to be. Of the mailing lists in which I > subscribe, zero discussion happens. There are really only announcements. I > suppose the Code4Lib mailing list is no different." > > At the risk of starting a discus

Re: [CODE4LIB] Learning English Conversationally

I can't speak to learning English specifically, but anyone who's had to learn another tounge they didn't grow up with knows it's hard. My normal recommendation would be that reading and watching stuff that she already knows in English (English subtitles is OK, but no translations) can help develop

[CODE4LIB] Send control characters from an Android keyboard

My actual objective is to use my phone to perform simple tasks on EC2 assets (ugly, but still very useful). Connections are only permitted via Session Manager or terminal within Node Actions of the AWS GUI -- no ssh. The AWSU GUI terminal option works pretty well and makes connecting to bookmarked

Re: [CODE4LIB] Send control characters from an Android keyboard

pport every character and special key available on a physical keyboard: > https://github.com/Julow/Unexpected-Keyboard > > Andrew > > On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 7:27 PM Joe Hourclé wrote: > > > On Jun 21, 2022, at 2:44 PM, Kyle Banerjee > > wrote: > > > > >

Re: [CODE4LIB] Tricking the Dragon

Tricking is probably not an option here. What Dragon interacts with (i.e. 64bit system and programs) is probably your limiting factor. Is there a reason Windows Speech Recognition wouldn't be an option? Kyle On Sat, Jun 25, 2022, 7:25 AM charles meyer wrote: > My esteemed listmates, > > > > I

Re: [CODE4LIB] Certifications for library IT people?

> > > As far as certification, my humble opinion after 25+ years in academic > (and now Library) IT work, is that certifications are only for hiring > managers who want something to check off on an applicant or pointy-haired > bosses who don't actually understand IT ...I would be suspicious

Re: [CODE4LIB] Certifications for library IT people?

rom such a course. On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 4:28 PM Kyle Banerjee wrote: > >> As far as certification, my humble opinion after 25+ years in academic >> (and now Library) IT work, is that certifications are only for hiring >> managers who want something to check off on an appli

Re: [CODE4LIB] Digital Asset Management systems

Hi Elizabeth, If you're looking for the right DAM, I'd recommend getting some face time with different people to talk about their experiences and then see what sounds like it might be the best fit for your situation. This is a great bar discussion -- few say anything of substance if there's a chan

Re: [CODE4LIB] "The rows are not all the same number of columns."

CSV is an unfortunate format because there's not a single accepted way to do quoting and escaping. Excel is a problematic tool because it often does things to your data that you don't want. Counting commas won't work unless none of your data fields contain commas. However, if that happens to be a

Re: [CODE4LIB] "The rows are not all the same number of columns."

> loadablefile.csv On Mon, Jan 16, 2023 at 4:53 PM Kyle Banerjee wrote: > CSV is an unfortunate format because there's not a single accepted way to > do quoting and escaping. Excel is a problematic tool because it often does > things to your data that you don't want. > &g

Re: [CODE4LIB] Systems - to librarian or not to librarian?

Delivering good service is all about understanding pain and joy points -- which those without library experience won't have. My consistent observation both working in libraries and as a vendor rep with systems personnel with all kinds of institutions is that library experience is very important fo

Re: [CODE4LIB] Graphics - modifying

If you mean you want to reduce the dimensions, the Microsoft Windows Powertoys are great for this -- you can do large batches at once. Imagemagick is much less friendly, but can convert, resize, change compression, and a bunch of other things. kyle On Fri, May 5, 2023 at 9:13 AM charles meyer w

Re: [CODE4LIB] tar without compression? General comments welcome

Tar works fine with or without compression. If space isn't an issue and you have a fast connection, it can be faster to simply transfer uncompressed than to go through the compression/decompression overhead. kyle On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 11:35 AM Esmé Cowles wrote: > That seems like a reasonable

Re: [CODE4LIB] QR Code replacement for business card

> > Maybe one day these miscreants will phish our QR code business cards for > their benefit? > It's great that people are conscientious about putting safe info out there. However, the people scanning codes are the ones who need to worry. Even if everyone considers you 100% trustworthy, they still

Re: [CODE4LIB] University libraries supporting research databases/websites?

Howdy Ben, Scoping what needs you need to cover may be even more important than figuring out the tech. Researcher needs are all over the place and there's no way you can realistically cover more than a few of them. Otherwise, as a practical matter, you're apt to wind up with a hodge podge of effec

Re: [CODE4LIB] New listserv config?

>- The sending IP must have a PTR record (i.e., a reverse DNS of the >sending IP) and it should match the IP obtained via the forward DNS >resolution of the hostname specified in the PTR record. Otherwise, mail >will be marked as spam or possibly rejected. > Question: Are all peopl

Re: [CODE4LIB] Post-election statement draft - also waiting for merge

On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 3:12 PM, Salazar, Christina < christina.sala...@csuci.edu> wrote: > I do think it's too long. I actually think we could cut it to the last > paragraph and leave it at that. > > I also think that the opening paragraph makes it look as though we're > apologizing for restating

Re: [CODE4LIB] 46 gigabytes

> > Taking things like cost, convenience, and the knowledge that my solution > will always include migrating forward, there is what I think I will do: > > 1. buy a pile o’ SD cards, put multiple copies > of my data on each, and physically store > some here and some there > > 2. buy a

Re: [CODE4LIB] MARCXML help again

Howdy Julie, Depending on your specific needs, it's often easier/faster to use string rather than XML operations to work with XML. Especially if you have a large number of files and/or the files are very big, stripping the whitespace between elements and then performing a simple string substituti

Re: [CODE4LIB] MARCXML help again

On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 3:34 PM, Kevin S. Clarke wrote: > Yes, the YMMV was intentional because people do do it and we all have our > own paths to follow, but there are a lot of "if"s that need to be in place > (a few of which you mention) to make it a painless process. > Many systems and data s

Re: [CODE4LIB] MARCXML help again

Howdy Julie, There are many things people use linux for that don't require a VM. There is cygwin, the win32 ports for many utilities, and you can use saxon for XML stuff which doesn't have dependencies that require you to be running linux. When you truly need a linux system, you can configure an

Re: [CODE4LIB] All LOC subject headings in a list or table

Howdy Julian, Could you say a bit more about what you need to do? As Steve mentions, LCC and LCSH have very different purposes. A list that you'd get from stitching together the files you were looking at and a list of officially enumerated LCSH headings will look totally different. For starters,

Re: [CODE4LIB] CODE4LIB Digest - 4 Feb 2017 to 5 Feb 2017 (#2017-29)

Howdy Alexis, Are hosted services an option? No matter which path you take, you need to think about what relationships the system needs to express, how people need to interact with the system, and how you'll get everything into and out of the system since nothing lasts forever. Tracking horse pe

Re: [CODE4LIB] Fingerprint Tool Suggestions

Modern filesystems are good at detecting and repairing corruption. They need to be because it would cause loads of problems if bits were regularly getting flipped or lost. I've never understood why we only worry about corruption in the information objects we manage? After all, corruption in the OS

Re: [CODE4LIB] Are you paying royalty fees for the articles deposited to the institutional repository?

Gotta admit, I was taken aback by this. I don't see why we'd even consider it. If we're paying fees, someone else should be doing the work. kyle On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 4:29 PM, Tiewei Liu wrote: > Good points! It seems that most libraries are not paying royalty fees for > the IR. The discussion

Re: [CODE4LIB] Experience migrating to Alma or OCLC WMS?

On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 8:56 AM, Josh Welker wrote: > We are > looking at Alma and WMS specifically because they are entirely cloud-based > and redesigned from the ground up for modern workflows involving > e-resources, knowledgebases, discovery, etc Alma and WMS are very different pro

Re: [CODE4LIB] Experience migrating to Alma or OCLC WMS?

On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 11:05 AM, Josh Welker wrote: > ...Alma and WMS ... have essentially the same > core features, albeit quite different workflows and interfaces. After > viewing several hours of demos for Alma and WMS, I can say pretty > confidently that they are two products trying to solve

Re: [CODE4LIB] Experience migrating to Alma or OCLC WMS?

Let me give this some thought as I believe this could be helpful and appreciate such information myself. I don't work for OCLC or Ex Libris, but I have personal and professional relationships at both that are important to me and wouldn't want a poorly expressed sentiment to convey the wrong impres

Re: [CODE4LIB] Experience migrating to Alma or OCLC WMS?

rkflows and KBs is quite > > different from what other ILS systems do. > > > > Given that these two products are sort of in their own class, I was > hoping > > to learn what other libraries think about working with them compared to > > working with old ILS systems. I thin

Re: [CODE4LIB] ISBD punctuation (related to [CODE4LIB] rda)

I never could believe there was ever any mandated terminating punctuation for any field or subfield since even computers from days of yore could handle this. I am leery of relying on fixed fields as they often are not encoded correctly -- I'd guess electronic records encoded as paper cause headach

Re: [CODE4LIB] memorandums of understanding, copyrights, & acknowledgements

On Wed, May 3, 2017 at 9:04 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > ... > > The center’s services are free, as in free beer. But the services > represent real scholarly effort. As such there is a desire to make explicit > our contributions. Such is part of the academic tradition > > On the other hand,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Functional requirements for open-source repositories

Hi Paige, Most libraries (including every one I've worked at) create a list of required, preferred, and optional requirements. The basic idea is you make a grid and check off which of those requirements is supported and move forward from there. However, the devil is in the details and the meaning

Re: [CODE4LIB] [lita-l] Public institutions using Let's Encrypt for security certificates?

There are a few other catches. For example, you need to be able to run an appropriate ACME client and set up automatic certificate renewal since the maximum length you can get is 90 days. You also can't get wildcard certificates which makes doing things like proxying by host name (e.g. ezproxy). Yo

Re: [CODE4LIB] [lita-l] Public institutions using Let's Encrypt for security certificates?

trying to > bypass any organizational processes here, just doing some legwork in hopes > of handing campus IT a suggestion that will save them money. > > Kyle > > On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 9:51 AM, Kyle Banerjee > wrote: > > > There are a few other catches. For example, you n

Re: [CODE4LIB] [lita-l] Public institutions using Let's Encrypt for security certificates?

> > I am not sure what Kyle means by "encryption hides attacks". Interfaces designed for humans are frequent targets for attack. Network monitoring tools are incredibly helpful for identifying compromised machines, bots, and humans trying to bust in. So yes, encryption does hide attack activity j

Re: [CODE4LIB] Fiscal Continuity IG report redux [silence has been deafening]

On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 11:05 AM, Eric Hellman wrote: > > ...Also, the new CODE4LIB could grow and prosper based on its superior > anarchistic management culture, then acquire CLIR/DLF, LITA and OLF. Then > the end result would be the same. > > While we're at it, we could stage a hostile takeover

Re: [CODE4LIB] Fiscal Continuity IG report redux [silence has been deafening]

On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 9:54 AM, Becky Yoose wrote: > > ...There's a reason why many who organize code4lib conferences take several > steps back from the community after their work is done - if they even come > back to the community, that is > This is an interesting and important observation

Re: [CODE4LIB] Fiscal Continuity IG report redux [silence has been deafening]

On Jul 24, 2017 11:28, "Tod Olson" wrote: If we go the fiscal sponsor route, the fiscal sponsor would be able to receive such payments, assuming the Journal is part of Code4Lib for these purposes. Of the things issues surrounding governance and finances, I wouldn't invest much energy in journa

Re: [CODE4LIB] What's so bad about bylaws?

On Jul 24, 2017 18:07, "Eric Lease Morgan" wrote: Again, I advocate incorporating, even if incorporation means not necessarily becoming a non-profit organization. The process is almost trivial, and it costs a trivial amount of money. Once code4lib.com exists, then it/we can have a bank account, a

Re: [CODE4LIB] Non-networked computer advice

On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 9:42 AM, James Fournie wrote: > Hi Sarah, > > I think what you are asking about is an "air gap". > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_gap_(networking) > > Here's a blog entry from Bruce Schneier with some best practices: > > https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/10/ai

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