[CODE4LIB] Job Posting: Academic Applications Manager, Wheaton College (MA)

2011-06-03 Thread Elliot Brandow
Academic Applications Manager, Wheaton College, Norton, MA *QUAL:* Education/Experience: - Bachelor's degree required, Master's preferred, with studies and/or experience in Library or in Information Technology. - Experience developing web-based applications, including proficiency with

[CODE4LIB] Precision and Recall

2011-06-03 Thread Fleming, Declan
Hi folks! I got an interesting question from one of our librarians working on a paper, and we want to include a bit about the qualities of a database, such as precision and recall. She is looking for references. I did the Google/Wikipedia lookups, but I'm sure she's done that too.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Precision and Recall

2011-06-03 Thread Dave Caroline
The questions seem related to search engines or should you be googling for full text indexes or the other more correct name inverted index. Because in the normal scheme of events databases return exactly what you ask for. Dave Caroline On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 4:18 PM, Fleming, Declan

Re: [CODE4LIB] Precision and Recall

2011-06-03 Thread Alain Borel
Dave Caroline dave.thearchiv...@gmail.com a écrit : The questions seem related to search engines or should you be googling for full text indexes or the other more correct name inverted index. Because in the normal scheme of events databases return exactly what you ask for. One could argue that

Re: [CODE4LIB] Precision and Recall

2011-06-03 Thread Fleming, Declan
Hi - I'm wondering if she is using a definition of database that seems to be common in libraries, that means a resource on the web that we pay for. D -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Alain Borel Sent: Friday, June 03, 2011 10:24

[CODE4LIB] z39.50 and write operations

2011-06-03 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
Does Z39.50 support write operations? We here at Notre Dame may be working with a vendor in the near future who will be reading our MARC bibliographic records via Z39.50. I have also been told, not necessarily by the vendor, that these same records will be updated and reinserted back into our

Re: [CODE4LIB] z39.50 and write operations

2011-06-03 Thread Reese, Terry
Yes, but only if the server you are using supports the z39.50 extended attributes. However, few commercial ils systems seem to support it by default. Tr * Terry Reese Gray Family Chair for Innovative Library Services 121 Valley Library Corvallis, OR 97331 phone:

Re: [CODE4LIB] z39.50 and write operations

2011-06-03 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
On Jun 3, 2011, at 3:19 PM, Reese, Terry wrote: Does Z39.50 support write operations? Yes, but only if the server you are using supports the z39.50 extended attributes. However, few commercial ILS systems seem to support it by default. Well, you learn something new everyday. Thank you.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Precision and Recall

2011-06-03 Thread marijane white
I think that's quite possible. Here are a couple references I am familiar with. Walker/Janes/Tenopir's Online Retrieval is a bit dated but it does discuss the subject of precision and recall in bibliographic database searching.

Re: [CODE4LIB] z39.50 and write operations

2011-06-03 Thread Simon Spero
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 3:22 PM, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: On Jun 3, 2011, at 3:19 PM, Reese, Terry wrote: Does Z39.50 support write operations? Yes, but only if the server you are using supports the z39.50 extended attributes. However, few commercial ILS systems seem to

Re: [CODE4LIB] z39.50 and write operations

2011-06-03 Thread Mike Taylor
Zebra does. http://indexdata.com/zebra/ On 3 June 2011 20:19, Reese, Terry terry.re...@oregonstate.edu wrote: Yes, but only if the server you are using supports the z39.50 extended attributes.  However, few commercial ils systems seem to support it by default. Tr

Re: [CODE4LIB] Is there a (current) CONTENTdm support group?

2011-06-03 Thread Simon Spero
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: On 6/2/2011 2:25 PM, Rod McFarland wrote: If Omeka had a desktop client I would fight to have it replace CDM here, but I don't think CDM would go away even if we brought in Omeka. Just curious why you prefer a