On 12 June 2010, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
Inaugural Code4Lib "Midwest" Regional Meeting
I believe the Inaugural Code4Lib "Midwest" Regional Meeting (June 11 &
12, 2010 at the University of Notre Dame) was a qualified success.
Congratulations on getting this together! Sounds like it was a fu
Thank you, one and all, for participating.
Let us also extend a big thank-you to Eric and the University of Notre
Dame for organizing the event and providing their hospitality!
Kevin
Code4Lib Northwest was held June 7 at the White Stag building in Portland,
OR.
Registration was closed and a waiting list established at least a month
before the event because the room capacity of 65 was reached. Ten 20 minute
sessions and 13 lightning talks listed at
http://groups.google.com/grou
I know it is possible to sent OpenURL requests to the WorldCat Registry
service and have it chose a local OpenURL resolver based on what IP address
you are coming from.
WorldCat OpenURL endpoint: http://worldcat.org/registry/gateway
What I don't know is if WorldCat has an OpenURL resolver or can
I've heard from OCLC staff that this is something they'd _like_ to do,
but I don't believe they have it yet.
The trick here is that traditional library metadata practices make it
_very hard_ to tell if a _specific volume/issue_ is held by a given
library. And those are the most common use cas
> So, the purpose of this would be to discover where a given item represented
> by the OpenURL was held. A secondary purpose would be as a source of
> bibliographic citation information This could be quite useful discovery
> tool, especially for materials that are not widely held.
>
Still trying t
Author, title, and publication year won't get you many false
positives, but might get you lots of false negatives.
It's certainly true that there is no good "naive" approach to matching
without identifiers and getting a good balance of minimal false
positives and false negatives. There are
> Author, title, and publication year won't get you many false positives,
> but might get you lots of false negatives.
>
> It's certainly true that there is no good "naive" approach to matching
> without identifiers and getting a good balance of minimal false positives
> and false negatives. Th
Wow, this looks like it was a great event. I don't suppose any of the
talks were recorded, or that any slides are available? I'm
particularly interested in Karen Estlund's talk about NoCode: Digital
Preservation of Electronic Records...and well, all of the talks :-)
//Ed
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 2
