[CODE4LIB] ELAG 2011 in May: now open for registration !

2011-03-01 Thread Boheemen, Peter van
Registration is now open for the 2011 ELAG conference. Theme: It's the context, stupid! Dates: 24 May (Pre-conference), 25 - 27 May 2011 (Conference) Place: National Technical Library, Prague, Czech Republic. To register, please visit the conference website at http://elag2011.techlib.cz/ The

[CODE4LIB] Call for Participation – ALA Annual, 2011

2011-03-01 Thread Val Waldron
Call for Participation – ALA Annual, 2011 (Apologies for cross-posting) The RUSA MARS Hot Topics in Electronic Reference Discussion Group would like to know: How are we measuring up? Using new technologies to schedule, standardize, and assess reference services. Has your library used new

[CODE4LIB] Code4libbers at DrupalCon

2011-03-01 Thread Kevin Reiss
Hi, Any code4lib members attended Drupal Con next week? I was wondering if there might enough library focused attendees to try and have a breakout BOF session at some point during the meeting. Contact me off list if you are interested. Regards, Kevin Reiss

[CODE4LIB] Controlled Vocabulary DB: RESTful CRU[D]

2011-03-01 Thread Bobbi Fox
I have been tasked with coming up with a RESTful Create, Read, Update [we're not Deleting] API to our home-grown controlled vocabulary database, WordShack. WordShack was developed as part of our Email Archiving Pilot, where we control not only for subject, but for person, organization, email

Re: [CODE4LIB] Controlled Vocabulary DB: RESTful CRU[D]

2011-03-01 Thread William Denton
On 1 March 2011, Bobbi Fox wrote: I have been tasked with coming up with a RESTful Create, Read, Update [we're not Deleting] API to our home-grown controlled vocabulary database, WordShack. I can't help you with your actual question---except to wish you good luck---but have you read RESTful

Re: [CODE4LIB] dealing with Summon

2011-03-01 Thread Andrew Nagy
Hi Godmar - to help answer some of your questions about the fields - I can help address those directly. Though it would be interesting to hear experiences from others who are working from APIs to search systems such as Summon or others. In regards to the publication date - the Summon API has the

Re: [CODE4LIB] Controlled Vocabulary DB: RESTful CRU[D]

2011-03-01 Thread Luciano Ramalho
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 5:07 PM, Luciano Ramalho luci...@ramalho.org wrote: On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 4:31 PM, William Denton w...@pobox.com wrote: On 1 March 2011, Bobbi Fox wrote: I have been tasked with coming up with a RESTful Create, Read, Update [we're not Deleting] API to our home-grown

Re: [CODE4LIB] Controlled Vocabulary DB: RESTful CRU[D]

2011-03-01 Thread Luciano Ramalho
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 4:31 PM, William Denton w...@pobox.com wrote: On 1 March 2011, Bobbi Fox wrote: I have been tasked with coming up with a RESTful Create, Read, Update [we're not Deleting] API to our home-grown controlled vocabulary database, WordShack. I can't help you with your

Re: [CODE4LIB] Excel file to Dublin Core?

2011-03-01 Thread Michael J. Giarlo
Edward, Because I already have some code lying around that does more or less the same thing, I'd probably sling some Python using the xlrd library (N.B. works on xls files but not xlsx files). It'd look similar to this method, perhaps a little simpler, though this method doesn't write out a DC

Re: [CODE4LIB] Controlled Vocabulary DB: RESTful CRU[D]

2011-03-01 Thread LeVan,Ralph
I'm not sure if you're asking for a terminology management system or database functionality. I have the latter and we might be able to make it work for you. I've got an Open Source SRW/U (oclcsrw.googlecode.com) server with Atom Pub functionality built into it. The server just acts as a

Re: [CODE4LIB] Excel file to Dublin Core?

2011-03-01 Thread Edward M. Corrado
Hi Mike, Yes, by Dublin Core, I mean OAI Dublin Core XML. Edward On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Michael J. Giarlo leftw...@alumni.rutgers.edu wrote: Edward, Because I already have some code lying around that does more or less the same thing, I'd probably sling some Python using the xlrd

Re: [CODE4LIB] Excel file to Dublin Core?

2011-03-01 Thread Corey A Harper
Hi Edward, Like Mike, I have some existing tools that do this in perl - though very hack-ish. Basically, I set the Windows default field separator to pipe (because I hate comma separated data) and save the spreadsheet as .csv, though a pipe delimited one. My perl then reads that in, and

Re: [CODE4LIB] Excel file to Dublin Core?

2011-03-01 Thread Klish, Heather J
What about using a vba macro? I have one that you could modify very easily. It will run through the excel data and output a file at the end. Let me know if you'd like to take a look at it. Heather Heather Klish Systems Librarian University Library Technology Services Tufts University

Re: [CODE4LIB] Solr and AJAX

2011-03-01 Thread Yitzchak Schaffer
On 2011-02-28 17:53, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: But I dunno, I guess it could work. Personally I generally don't like writing interfaces that _only_ work via javascript, which is what that approach would result in. I prefer writing an interface that works with plain HTML, with some AJAX on top,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Excel file to Dublin Core?

2011-03-01 Thread Hanrath, Scott
You might take a look at GoogleRefine (FreeBase GridWorks). It has a Templating Export feature that's pretty slick. It outputs JSON by default, but it's flexible and could do XML-ish stuff pretty easily. Here's Google's docs for outputting YAML instead that you adapt:

[CODE4LIB] Gluejar is hiring

2011-03-01 Thread Eric Hellman
Hi, Everyone! http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/2011/03/gluejar-is-hiring.html Eric Hellman President, Gluejar, Inc. 41 Watchung Plaza, #132 Montclair, NJ 07042 USA e...@hellman.net http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/ @gluejar

Re: [CODE4LIB] Excel file to Dublin Core?

2011-03-01 Thread Pottinger, Hardy J.
You might take a look at GoogleRefine +1 Google Refine, watch the videos on the home page of the project, they're not too long, and give a good overview. http://code.google.com/p/google-refine/ --Hardy

[CODE4LIB] Low Cost Digitization of Manuscript Collections

2011-03-01 Thread Jody DeRidder
(Apologies for cross posting) For Immediate Release Contact Person: Jody L. DeRidder Email: jlderid...@ua.edu Phone: (205) 348-0511 Completed UA Libraries Grant Project Provides Model for Low-Cost Digitization of Cultural Heritage Materials The University of Alabama Libraries has completed a

Re: [CODE4LIB] Low Cost Digitization of Manuscript Collections

2011-03-01 Thread Ed Summers
Hi Jody, Thanks for sending along this information about Cabaniss. I'd be curious to hear how your per-page costs compare with other projects, such as Oregon State [1] (which I just wandered across in Google). The notes from your project wiki [2] are really interesting. In particular the details

Re: [CODE4LIB] dealing with Summon

2011-03-01 Thread Roy Tennant
On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Godmar Back god...@gmail.com wrote: Similarly, the date associated with a record can come in a variety of formats. Some are single-field (20080901), some are abbreviated (200811), some are separated into year, month, date, etc. Some records have a mixture of

[CODE4LIB] Final call for papers: Open Repositories 2011

2011-03-01 Thread John Howard
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