Re: [CODE4LIB] WANTED: Open source solution converting OST to PST and OST to MBOX

2013-06-05 Thread Friscia, Michael
OST is just a pointer to the stuff on the exchange server. You can delete that file and it will rebuild next time you open Outlook, there's not data in it. Converting that to a PST is just a matter of moving the files from the server portion of Outlook to a local email file. Given that the

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-05 Thread diego ferreyra
May be covo.js can help you: http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/5994 https://github.com/haseharu/covojs 2013/6/4 Andreas Orphanides akorp...@ncsu.edu Something something Simon Spero something something OWL something LOC hierarchy? On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 8:04 PM, Michael J. Giarlo

[CODE4LIB] Job: Integrated Technologies Librarian (revised) at Lafayette College

2013-06-05 Thread jobs
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Re: [CODE4LIB] WANTED: Open source solution converting OST to PST and OST to MBOX

2013-06-05 Thread Kari R Smith
Thanks Mike. What we are specifically looking for is a converter for .OST or .PST files that have been given to me completely separated from the ability to deal with the account live on a server. There are some good commercial solutions (Emailchemy and Aid4Mail) that do the conversions but in

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-05 Thread Joshua Welker
This would work, except I would need a way to get all the subjects rather than just biology. Any idea how to do that? I tried removing the querystring from the URL and changing Biology in the URL to with no success. Josh Welker -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-05 Thread Ethan Gruber
You'd write some javascript to query the service with every keystroke, e.g. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/suggest/?q=Hi replies with subjects beginning with hi* It looks like covo.js supports LCSH, so you could look into that. Ethan On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Joshua Welker

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-05 Thread Joshua Welker
Covo.js looks useful, but the sample proxy and example materials still leave me with the same problem I have right now: I'm not sure what URL to point my requests at to retrieve data. Covo.js is good inspiration for me, but I don't think I can use it because my autosuggest box is actually a

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-05 Thread Joshua Welker
I've seen those, but I can't figure out where on the id.loc.gov site there is actually a URL that provides a list of authority terms. All the links on the site seem to link to other pages within the site. Josh Welker -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-05 Thread Ethan Gruber
Are you referring to hierarchical sets of terms, like United States--History--War with Mexico, 1845-1848? This is an earlier established term of http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140201 (now labeled Mexican War, 1846-1848). Ed Summers or Kevin Ford are in a better position to discuss

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-05 Thread Kaile Zhu
Interesting project. Sounds like AJAX technique is used to capture and transmit every keystroke. I expect the result (automatic suggested words) to be shown down the search box while you are typing. I tested your link, but only got a download. Do I miss something? Kelly Zhu

Re: [CODE4LIB] Sign up to present at the Code4Lib virtual lightning talks -- June 14, 2013

2013-06-05 Thread Al Matthews
Seconding autumn please. Midsummers are somehow at once busy and vague. -- Al Matthews Software Developer, Digital Services Unit Atlanta University Center, Robert W. Woodruff Library email: amatth...@auctr.edu; office: 1 404 978 2057 On 6/4/13 5:48 PM, Peter Murray peter.mur...@lyrasis.org

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-05 Thread Ford, Kevin
Dear Josh, Take a look at Mike's email below, which may have quickly fell down the inbox, helped along by an unhelpful reply. It has the suggest pattern, but to repeat the general pattern: This will provide auto-suggestions for Subjects, ChildrensSubjects, GenreForms, and Names:

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-05 Thread Ford, Kevin
This would work, except I would need a way to get all the subjects rather than just biology. -- If you want all the subjects. [period], take a look at the download page: http://id.loc.gov/download/ There are bulk downloads for LCSH and the LC/NACO file of Names. The suggest service (described

Re: [CODE4LIB] htrc and the great books [potential for librarianship]

2013-06-05 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
The HTRC is the beginnings of an service providing a computable interface to some of the content of the HathiTrust. On a side note, the shear number of programatic interfaces to bibliographic information coupled with the increasing availability of full text access is creating an enormous

[CODE4LIB] htrc and the great books

2013-06-05 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
For a good time, I started playing with the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) and the Great Books Of The Western World. The HTRC is the beginnings of an service providing a computable interface to some of the content of the HathiTrust. A couple of people from the Center came to visit Notre

Re: [CODE4LIB] WANTED: Open source solution converting OST to PST and OST to MBOX

2013-06-05 Thread Friscia, Michael
We used aid4mail in an exchange conversion several years ago and I was able to script a loop around it to do bulk operations. Granted I did it in a way tied to AD, the batch/vbscript was trivial to setup. But in our case we were moving from something to exchange and only went from the legacy

Re: [CODE4LIB] htrc and the great books

2013-06-05 Thread Karen Coyle
Eric, I'm planning a similar but not identical bit of work based on the Open Library. In my case, we are hoping to produce MARC records that libraries can include in their own catalogs for open access books. Because this is aimed at public libraries, we are looking for popular reading, as well

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-05 Thread Ford, Kevin
it looks like LCSH is moving past this string-based hierarchy in favor of one expressed in terms of linked data. -- Oh, I've never received that impression. Pre-coordination - which you referred to as hierarchical sets of terms - is alive and well. A number of studies were done in the

[CODE4LIB] Job: Associate Systems Engineer at Columbia University Libraries

2013-06-05 Thread jobs
The Library Information Technology Office at Columbia University Libraries/Information Services seeks an Associate Systems Engineer for its Unix Systems Group. The incumbent assists in deploying Unix server and storage systems, performs maintenance and applies security updates, documents and

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-05 Thread Michael J. Giarlo
Josh, Can you say more about how the API isn't behaving as you expected it to? -Mike On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Joshua Welker jwel...@sbuniv.edu wrote: I went with this method and made some good progress, but the results the API was returning were not what I expected. I might have to

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-05 Thread Amanda French
Hi Josh, You might ask on the Omeka developers' list about how the Omeka development team created their LC Suggest plugin -- they could probably give you tips. Here's the listserv: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/omeka-dev and here's a description of the plugin:

[CODE4LIB] EBSCO LinkSource customers?

2013-06-05 Thread Ross Singer
Hi all, I was wondering if there was anybody on the list that works for an institution that uses EBSCO's LinkSource as their link resolver that _doesn't_ hide it behind their single sign-on service. Or, alternately, if you know of one (from somewhere other than where you work), that's

[CODE4LIB] Open Repositories 2014 - Register and Book Now!

2013-06-05 Thread John Howard
Open Repositories features a number of papers and a keynote from Victoria Stodden on data reuse and reproducible data. It promises to be a full and engaging conference! The premiere conference for digital repositories is being held in Charlottetown PEI, July 8-12. I encourage you to register and

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-05 Thread Joshua Welker
I realized since I made that comment that the API is designed to give the top 10 subject heading suggestions rather than all of them. So that part is fine. But I am once again unsure if the API will work for me. I am creating a mashup of several data sources for my auto-suggest feature, and I

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-05 Thread Ethan Gruber
I once put all of the LCSH headings into a local Solr index and used TermsComponent to power autosuggest. It was really fast. Ethan On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Joshua Welker jwel...@sbuniv.edu wrote: I realized since I made that comment that the API is designed to give the top 10

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-05 Thread Aaron Coburn
As a somewhat different approach to this, you may wish to consider using Apache Stanbol [1]. Briefly, Stanbol is a system for building semantic web applications. Among other things, it allows you to import the LOC data as n-triples (either in SKOS or MADS/RDF format) [2]. The data is stored in

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-05 Thread Joshua Welker
Hmm, that is pretty smart. I am actually hoping to roll this whole thing into a plugin for Wordpress/Drupal, so if possible I want to avoid using anything that is going to require server configuration (ie setting up Solr). But I bet I could just roll all the LCSH data into an SQLite file and

[CODE4LIB] Job: Non-English Language Metadata Librarian at University of Virginia

2013-06-05 Thread jobs
The University of Virginia Library seeks a Non-English Language Metadata Librarian for Metadata Management Services. The University of Virginia Library is place of infinite possibility! We are looking for high energy, innovative professionals with integrity and a strong work ethic. We seek

[CODE4LIB] Search Extended: Associate Dean for Strategic Technology Initiatives at Illinois State University, Milner Library

2013-06-05 Thread Rong Li
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Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-05 Thread Keith Jenkins
the LCSH master file is so big that it basically crashes the server. Do you really want to use the full LCSH, or just the subset that exists in your local catalog? Or, to put it another way: do you really want to provide the user with search suggestions that will result in zero hits? Keith

[CODE4LIB] Visualizing (public) library statistics

2013-06-05 Thread Cab Vinton
Come budget time, I invariably find myself working with the most recent compilation of public library statistics put out by our State Library -- comparing our library to peer institutions along a variety of measures (support per capita, circulation per capita, staffing levels, etc.) so I can make

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-05 Thread Karen Coyle
If you don't have to use LCSH... the Agrovoc thesaurus has a term suggester API: try http://foris.fao.org/agrovoc/ It's actually easier to use than LCSH because the terms are not pre-coordinated. kc On 6/5/13 9:58 AM, Joshua Welker wrote: Hmm, that is pretty smart. I am actually hoping to

Re: [CODE4LIB] Visualizing (public) library statistics

2013-06-05 Thread Francis Kayiwa
On Wed, Jun 05, 2013 at 03:40:29PM -0400, Cab Vinton wrote: Come budget time, I invariably find myself working with the most recent compilation of public library statistics put out by our State Library -- comparing our library to peer institutions along a variety of measures (support per

Re: [CODE4LIB] Visualizing (public) library statistics

2013-06-05 Thread scott bacon
Hi Cab, I have had a statistics dashboard project on the back burner for a while. A few dashboards that come to mind, all of which appear to use different back-end technologies: IU School of Library and Information Sciencehttp://dashboard.slis.indiana.edu Indianapolis Museum of Art

Re: [CODE4LIB] Visualizing (public) library statistics

2013-06-05 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
I recently saw a great example of exactly what you're talking about... but now I can't find it! I think it might have been a public library somewhere in michigan, but I could be misremembering that. It was pointed out on the #code4lib IRC channel, whoever was responsible for it was on channel

Re: [CODE4LIB] Visualizing (public) library statistics

2013-06-05 Thread Nick Ruest
This one? http://www.tadl.org/stats/ -nruest On 13-06-05 05:45 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: I recently saw a great example of exactly what you're talking about... but now I can't find it! I think it might have been a public library somewhere in michigan, but I could be misremembering that.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Visualizing (public) library statistics

2013-06-05 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
Aha, I found it! I was right it was Michigan. http://www.tadl.org/stats/ http://www.tadl.org/about/stats I can't remember hte name of the code4libber responsible, but they were on the #code4lib IRC channel, they are around in our community! From:

Re: [CODE4LIB] Visualizing (public) library statistics

2013-06-05 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
And to triple post myself, if you google around (I tried public library benefit statistics dashboard) you can find some other examples too, such as: http://www.library.appstate.edu/about/planning And there is in fact a Code4Lib Journal article on one implementation of library statistic

Re: [CODE4LIB] Visualizing (public) library statistics

2013-06-05 Thread Jason Stirnaman
Cab, I realize you asked for examples, not tools, and this may be overkill for what you're wanting, but http://ushahidi.com/products/ushahidi-platform. Ushahidi would be good if you wanted a geographic, time-series visualization mashed-up with social media. e.g.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Visualizing (public) library statistics

2013-06-05 Thread Friscia, Michael
I apologize if this was posted already. But I accidentally deleted the original messages in an accidental bulk cleanup http://dashboard.imamuseum.org I know it's a museum and not a library, but I think there are some things to be learned with the simplicity of the display and transparency of

[CODE4LIB] Job: Cataloging Services Librarian (temporary, part-time) at Oregon State Library

2013-06-05 Thread jobs
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[CODE4LIB] Job: Digital Content Specialist at National Archives and Records Administration

2013-06-05 Thread jobs
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2013-06-05 Thread jobs
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[CODE4LIB] Job: User Services and Multimedia Librarian at Cornell University

2013-06-05 Thread jobs
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