Re: [CODE4LIB] Code 4 Lib attendees, Help please

2013-02-20 Thread Peter Murray
Sorry to hear about the difficulties, Ian. The archive of #c4l13 tweets is here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsyivMoYhk87dFljMUZURWZMYzNzT2lwcEduUUJ6d1E#gid=82 I think there was also an archive made of the IRC channel, but there tends to be a lot of noise there. Peter

[CODE4LIB] SuDoc normalization for sorting

2013-02-20 Thread Tod Olson
C4L, Does anyone have some code they'd be willing to share that normalizes SuDoc numbers for sorting? Best, -Tod Tod Olson t...@uchicago.edumailto:t...@uchicago.edu Systems Librarian University of Chicago Library

[CODE4LIB] GitHub Myths (was thanks and poetry)

2013-02-20 Thread Shaun Ellis
(As a general rule, for every programmer who prefers tool A, and says that everybody should use it, there’s a programmer who disparages tool A, and advocates tool B. So take what we say with a grain of salt!) It doesn't matter what tools you use, as long as you and your team are able to

Re: [CODE4LIB] GitHub Myths (was thanks and poetry)

2013-02-20 Thread Karen Coyle
Shaun, you cannot decide whether github is a barrier to entry FOR ME (or anyone else), any more than you can decide whether or not my foot hurts. I'm telling you github is NOT what I want to use. Period. I'm actually thinking that a blog format would be nice. It could be pretty (poetry and

Re: [CODE4LIB] SuDoc normalization for sorting

2013-02-20 Thread Schneider, Wayne
Hi, Tod. No idea how well it works, but there is a perl Text::SuDocs module on CPAN: http://search.cpan.org/~cfouts/Text-SuDocs-0.014/lib/Text/SuDocs.pm Might be something you could reverse-engineer for another platform. wayne -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries

Re: [CODE4LIB] GitHub Myths (was thanks and poetry)

2013-02-20 Thread Ethan Gruber
Wordpress? On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote: Shaun, you cannot decide whether github is a barrier to entry FOR ME (or anyone else), any more than you can decide whether or not my foot hurts. I'm telling you github is NOT what I want to use. Period. I'm

Re: [CODE4LIB] GitHub Myths (was thanks and poetry)

2013-02-20 Thread Ross Singer
On Feb 20, 2013, at 11:42 AM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote: Shaun, you cannot decide whether github is a barrier to entry FOR ME (or anyone else), any more than you can decide whether or not my foot hurts. I'm telling you github is NOT what I want to use. Period. I'm actually

Re: [CODE4LIB] GitHub Myths (was thanks and poetry)

2013-02-20 Thread Karen Coyle
Sure. Although the question was more: how can we make it easy to have a bunch of accounts? Or should we have a c4l account that we share (and monitor for spam)? I think anything wysiwyg-y and familiar (wordpress certainly meets those criteria) would be fine. There does seem to be a lot of

[CODE4LIB] Providing Search Across PDFs

2013-02-20 Thread Nathan Tallman
My institution is looking for ways to provide search across PDFs through our website. Specifically, PDFs linked from finding aids. Ideally searching within a collection's PDFs or possibly across all PDFs linked from all finding aids. We do not have a CMS or a digital repository. A digital

Re: [CODE4LIB] GitHub Myths (was thanks and poetry)

2013-02-20 Thread Johnston, Leslie
It's technically breaking GitHub's terms of service to have multiple individuals sharing a single account. Leslie -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Karen Coyle Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 12:07 PM To:

Re: [CODE4LIB] Providing Search Across PDFs

2013-02-20 Thread Jason Griffey
This might not fit your need exactly, but a Google Custom Search ( http://www.google.com/cse/) should do the job. You can have the Custom Search only index a given directory, or only PDFs, whichever is more useful. Jason On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Nathan Tallman ntall...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [CODE4LIB] Providing Search Across PDFs

2013-02-20 Thread Michele R Combs
What about just a Google site search? -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Nathan Tallman Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 12:54 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Providing Search Across PDFs My institution is

Re: [CODE4LIB] GitHub Myths (was thanks and poetry)

2013-02-20 Thread Karen Coyle
WE're talking about wordpress, not github. kc On 2/20/13 9:56 AM, Johnston, Leslie wrote: It's technically breaking GitHub's terms of service to have multiple individuals sharing a single account. Leslie -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU]

Re: [CODE4LIB] GitHub Myths (was thanks and poetry)

2013-02-20 Thread Jason Stirnaman
Another option might be to set it up like the Planet. Where individuals just post their poetry to their own blogs, Tumblrs, etc., tag them, and have $PLANET_NERD_POETS aggregate them. Git and Github are great. But while I get the argument for utility, there does seem to be barrier-to-entry

Re: [CODE4LIB] GitHub Myths (was thanks and poetry)

2013-02-20 Thread Erik Hetzner
At Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:20:33 -0500, Shaun Ellis wrote: (As a general rule, for every programmer who prefers tool A, and says that everybody should use it, there’s a programmer who disparages tool A, and advocates tool B. So take what we say with a grain of salt!) It doesn't matter

[CODE4LIB] PHP YAZ

2013-02-20 Thread Brent Ferguson
Is there anyone that has experience working with PHP and YAZ on a Windows Box... Have a few questions to help clarify what is needed to get up and running... Brent Ferguson, MLS Web Developer / Reference Librarian - Elkhart Public Library http://www.myepl.org/epl

Re: [CODE4LIB] GitHub Myths (was thanks and poetry)

2013-02-20 Thread Tom Johnson
But while I get the argument for utility, there does seem to be barrier-to-entry there for someone just wanting to submit a poem. The original suggestion wasn't about utility, but about modes of writing. Git repositories would make for poems which are easily shared, copied, forked, and merged

Re: [CODE4LIB] GitHub Myths (was thanks and poetry)

2013-02-20 Thread Benjamin Armintor
You are definitely insulated from loss of material by the distributed character of git, but it would be difficult to replace the social network around the projects. You really see this when you work with a non-Github git repository: Getting a copy of it is trivial, but you have no mechanism for

[CODE4LIB] Fuseki and other SPARQL servers

2013-02-20 Thread Ethan Gruber
Hi all, I have been playing around with Fuseki ( http://jena.apache.org/documentation/serving_data/index.html) for a few months to get my feet wet with accessing and querying RDF. I quite like it. I find it well documented and easy to set up. We will soon deploy a SPARQL server in a production

Re: [CODE4LIB] Providing Search Across PDFs

2013-02-20 Thread Nathan Tallman
@Jason and @Michele: I'd rather stay away from a Google solution. The reason being that they don't index everything. Our sitemap is submitted nightly and out of about 6000 URLs only 1500 are indexed. I can't make sure Google indexes the PDFs or be sure that they always will. (If I'm

Re: [CODE4LIB] Fuseki and other SPARQL servers

2013-02-20 Thread Hugh Cayless
Hi Ethan! We've been using Jena/Fuseki in papyri.info for about a year now, iirc. We started with Mulgara, but switched. It's running in its own Jetty container in our system, but I've had no performance issues with it whatever. Best, Hugh On Feb 20, 2013, at 14:31 , Ethan Gruber

Re: [CODE4LIB] Fuseki and other SPARQL servers

2013-02-20 Thread Hugh Cayless
Jetty's performance characteristics are really very good. I'd have no hesitation in using it. Hugh On Feb 20, 2013, at 14:52 , Ethan Gruber ewg4x...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Hugh, I have investigated the possibility of deploying Fuseki as a war in Tomcat (

Re: [CODE4LIB] GitHub Myths (was thanks and poetry)

2013-02-20 Thread Tom Johnson
but it would be difficult to replace the social network around the projects. Especially difficult now that GitHub is where the community is. It's technically possible to build a social web that works on a decentralized basis, but it may no longer be culturally possible. Platforms are hard to get

Re: [CODE4LIB] Fuseki and other SPARQL servers

2013-02-20 Thread Ross Singer
On Feb 20, 2013, at 2:52 PM, Ethan Gruber ewg4x...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Hugh, I have investigated the possibility of deploying Fuseki as a war in Tomcat ( https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JENA-201) because I wasn't sure how the default Jetty container would respond in production, but

Re: [CODE4LIB] Fuseki and other SPARQL servers

2013-02-20 Thread Ethan Gruber
TDB as per the startup instruction: fuseki-server --loc=DB /DatasetPathName Ethan On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 20, 2013, at 2:52 PM, Ethan Gruber ewg4x...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Hugh, I have investigated the possibility of deploying

[CODE4LIB] Job Posting / Metadata Cataloger / Washington, DC

2013-02-20 Thread Suzanne Richards
Apologies for the cross postings . . . . . . . . LAC Group is seeking a Metadata Cataloger for a potential 5-year contract position with a federal government agency located in Washington, DC. The primary function of this position is to catalog and provide metadata for digital objects that

Re: [CODE4LIB] Fuseki and other SPARQL servers

2013-02-20 Thread John Fereira
I've been using Fuseki for a while myself and have been using it in production. It can be a bit tricky to configure when you want to connect to a jena SDB but it, along with a small jar file from one of the jena developers that manages the SDB database connection, it works pretty well. If you

Re: [CODE4LIB] Fuseki and other SPARQL servers

2013-02-20 Thread John Fereira
If forgot about that. That issue was created quite awhile ago and I hadn't check on it in a long time. I've found that Jetty has worked fine in our production environment so far. As I wrote earlier, I have it connecting to a jena SDB that is used for a semantic web application (VIVO) that

Re: [CODE4LIB] Providing Search Across PDFs

2013-02-20 Thread Wilhelmina Randtke
Yes, Google Custom Search is not too bad, if your PDFs are sorted meaningfully by directory, and if you submit a site map to Google for more complete indexing. You can use Xenu to make a site map, put the site map online as a static XML file, and then use Google Webmaster Tools to pass the

Re: [CODE4LIB] GitHub Myths (was thanks and poetry)

2013-02-20 Thread Mark A. Matienzo
Regarding forking and WordPress: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-forking/ WordPress Post Forking allows users to fork or create an alternate version of content to foster a more collaborative approach to WordPress content curation. This can be used, for example, to allow external users

Re: [CODE4LIB] GitHub Myths (was thanks and poetry)

2013-02-20 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
Probably a mistake for me to post at all, but I'm full of mistakes. You know what, if someone wants to set up a spot for nerd poetry, I think they should do so. If someone else wants to set up a different spot using different tech, I think they should do so too. I think it's mistaken to think

Re: [CODE4LIB] GitHub Myths (was thanks and poetry)

2013-02-20 Thread Johnston, Leslie
Ah, my bad. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Karen Coyle Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 1:15 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] GitHub Myths (was thanks and poetry) WE're talking about wordpress,

Re: [CODE4LIB] GitHub Myths (was thanks and poetry)

2013-02-20 Thread Erik Hetzner
At Wed, 20 Feb 2013 11:50:45 -0800, Tom Johnson wrote: but it would be difficult to replace the social network around the projects. Especially difficult now that GitHub is where the community is. It's technically possible to build a social web that works on a decentralized basis, but it

Re: [CODE4LIB] Question on CONTENTdm and Linked Data

2013-02-20 Thread Ahniwa Ferrari
I work right next to the CONTENTdm guys, so I suppose I could ask them, but I also use to work at the Washington State Library, and I like what they're doing with CONTENTdm, and they have some maps. Is this a good example of what you're trying to do at all?