Re: [CODE4LIB] Q.: MARC8 vs. MARC/Unicode and pymarc and misencoded III records

2012-03-09 Thread Brian Kennison
On Mar 8, 2012, at 1:46 PM, Terray, James wrote: UnicodeDecodeError: 'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xe8 in position 9: ordinal not in range(128) Hello everyone, I just ran into this the other day when trying to write to a file. I searched the documentation and found this: fp =

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q.: MARC8 vs. MARC/Unicode and pymarc and misencoded III records

2012-03-09 Thread Tom Keays
I'm out of my depth here, but I'm curious how this all works. Is it true that, in MARC8 records, there is supposed to be an 066 field included that defines non-Latin character sets? I'm making this conclusion from some things I read on the LOC website. ANSEL is mentioned as one of the instances

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q.: MARC8 vs. MARC/Unicode and pymarc and misencoded III records

2012-03-09 Thread Mark A. Matienzo
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 7:23 AM, Godmar Back god...@gmail.com wrote: Mark, while I would be able to contribute code to pymarc, I probably won't (unless my collaborators' needs in respect to pymarc become urgent.) Such is our conundrum. Most of my uses of pymarc only involve reading records, not

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q.: MARC8 vs. MARC/Unicode and pymarc and misencoded III records

2012-03-09 Thread Michael B. Klein
The internal discussion then becomes, I have a need, and I've written something that satisfies it. I think it could also be useful to others, but I'm not going to have time to make major changes or implement features others need. Should I open source this or keep it to myself? Does freeing my code

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q.: MARC8 vs. MARC/Unicode and pymarc and misencoded III records

2012-03-09 Thread Godmar Back
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 10:37 AM, Michael B. Klein mbkl...@gmail.com wrote: The internal discussion then becomes, I have a need, and I've written something that satisfies it. I think it could also be useful to others, but I'm not going to have time to make major changes or implement features

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q.: MARC8 vs. MARC/Unicode and pymarc and misencoded III records

2012-03-09 Thread Jon Gorman
It used to be that way, at least it was this way when I grew up in open source (in the 90s, before Eric Raymond invented the term). And it makes sense, for successful projects that have at least a moderate number of users. Just dumping your code on github helps very few people. You realize

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q.: MARC8 vs. MARC/Unicode and pymarc and misencoded III records

2012-03-09 Thread Godmar Back
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 11:48 AM, Jon Gorman jonathan.gor...@gmail.comwrote: Can't we all just shake hands virtually or something? Here's my hand ||*( [1]. I overreacted, for which I'm sorry. (Also, I didn't see the entire github conversation until I just now visited the website, the github

Re: [CODE4LIB] Sharing code

2012-03-09 Thread Whitworth, Cliff
NOOB to list and am appreciative of this discussion. My boss is encouraging me to share code and pointed me to code4lib. the majority of my code is recycled / repurposed from others so I've had reservations about sharing mainly because of what's taken from others. At the least, I'm mindful

[CODE4LIB] Job: Metadata and Taxonomy Librarian at Library of Parliament

2012-03-09 Thread jobs
**Metadata and Taxonomy Librarian** **Information and Document Resource Service** Indeterminate Position Classification: LS-3 ($69,866 - $83,554) (bilingual imperative: CBC/CBC) Closing Date: 2012/03/26 **The ideal candidate possesses the following:** * Knowledge of MARC

[CODE4LIB] Job: Software Developer (Java) at University of Maryland, College Park

2012-03-09 Thread jobs
**Note: this is a reposting of[http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/801/](http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/801/) because the close date has been extended to March 23.** An opportunity exists for one or more experienced software developers to work within the team environment of the University of