[CODE4LIB] Link Header for Linked Data was Re: [CODE4LIB] The lie of the API

2013-12-02 Thread Brian Tingle
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 7:50 AM, Robert Sanderson wrote: > I'm not advocating arbitrary APIs, but instead just to use link headers > between the different representations. > This seems like such a good idea... content negotiation is not something I want to have to deal with (no matter how easy a

[CODE4LIB] cpf2html

2010-08-09 Thread Brian Tingle
Hi, A couple of you on the list may have been at the EAC-CPF: Moving forward with Authority thing at NARA today. I can't post a link to the demo site yet, but all the source for my part of the EAC-CPF XTF prototype for the Social Networking in Archival Context project http://socialarchive.iath.vi

Re: [CODE4LIB] open source proxy packages?

2010-08-14 Thread Brian Tingle
apache httpd has a mod_proxy module can let apache act as a proxy server. http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_proxy.html You should be able to use this with htpasswd files you would use to secure a web directory with apache. On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 10:05 AM, phoebe ayers wrote: > Hello

[CODE4LIB] Reimagining METS

2010-10-27 Thread Brian Tingle
ve about METS and would hate to see changed? Thanks for any thoughts on this subject, -- Brian Tingle, METS Editorial Board some more METS related thoughts and links http://tingletech.tumblr.com/tagged/mets

Re: [CODE4LIB] HTML Load Time

2010-12-06 Thread Brian Tingle
> Does anyone have any tricks or tips to decrease > the load time? You could try server side gzip compression https://github.com/paulirish/html5-boilerplate/blob/master/.htaccess#L101 At a certain point, all you can do is try to split it up into multiple pages. On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:49 AM,

Re: [CODE4LIB] HTML Load Time

2010-12-06 Thread Brian Tingle
> If I split the page into say three parts and then combined them on one page > using the include function of PHP, would I still have to same problem? I don't think this will really help any, because the files would still be combined together on your side of the server and the large file will go o

[CODE4LIB] collengine, the collection engine; runs on django-nonrel / app engine

2010-12-16 Thread BRIAN TINGLE
Having been several months since I've tried to run django on the google app engine, I took a crack at it today with Django appengine http://www.allbuttonspressed.com/projects/djangoappengine Since it is based on django-nonrel, in theory it does not have vendor lock in to app engine, so you coul

[CODE4LIB] graph processing stack

2010-12-20 Thread BRIAN TINGLE
I saw an interesting article on hackernews (news.ycombinator.com) yesterday published by AT&T interactive -- article summary -- A Graph Processing Stack http://engineering.attinteractive.com/2010/12/a-graph-processing-stack/ "[...] AT&Ti along with other collaborators (see acknowledgments), ha

Re: [CODE4LIB] javascript testing?

2011-01-12 Thread BRIAN TINGLE
Mark Redar at CDL has some selenium tests for calisphere.org/mapped but they are not automatically run I've been wanting to play around with selenium grid on EC2 but never had the time / real reason to -- but if it is as advertised it might speed up running the tests by executing them in parall

Re: [CODE4LIB] best persistent url system

2011-01-14 Thread Brian Tingle
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Michael J. Giarlo wrote: > > Has anyone thought through, or put into practice, using Apache > mod_rewrite tables for this simple "redirect one URL to another" use > case? I do mod_rewrite redirects with a RewriteMap https://bitbucket.org/btingle/dsc-role-account

[CODE4LIB] METS Editorial Board accepting applications

2011-02-01 Thread Brian Tingle
forwarded... Apologies for any duplication! The METS Editorial Board (MEB) is seeking applicants to fill two positions on the Board. Board membership criteria and procedures for filling the Board vacancies are documented on the METS website: METS Editorial Board Membership Criteria: http://www.l

Re: [CODE4LIB] Apache URL redirect

2011-02-03 Thread Brian Tingle
Redirect does not look the hostname, just the path I think you have two options; 1) set up a "named based virtual host" for www.partnersinreading.org In that name based virtual host, set up your Redirect / http://www.sjpl.org/par 2) if you are using mod_rewrite, you could do something like this.

[CODE4LIB] graphML of a social network in archival context

2011-02-17 Thread Brian Tingle
Hi, As a part of our work on the Social Networks and Archival Context Project [1], the SNAC team is please to release more early results of our ongoing research. A property graph [2] of correspondedWith and associatedWith relationships between corporate, personal, and family identities is made av

Re: [CODE4LIB] graphML of a social network in archival context

2011-02-18 Thread Brian Tingle
> How have you been liking neo4j so far? Is the neo4j > graph database something that you have been using in SNAC? Have you > been interacting with it mainly via gremlin, the REST API, and/or > Java? I've been using the tinkerpop graph processing stack, and the first example I found in the documen

Re: [CODE4LIB] Blogs/news you follow

2011-05-02 Thread Brian Tingle
This perltree is called "daily reading" but some are more like weekly or monthly http://pear.ly/tSgr { http://highscalability.com/ http://slashdot.org/ http://planet.code4lib.org/ http://planetdjango.org/ -- currently down http://news.ycombinator.com/ http://thedailywtf.com/ } plus I

[CODE4LIB] json4lib / API for Calisphere

2011-05-09 Thread Brian Tingle
I've started work on a project that I'm envisioning partly as sort of a JSON profile of METS optimized for access. I've implemented this JSON format for search results in calisphere by adding an rmode=json to the calisphere/oac branch of xtf. Here is some documentation about it http://json4lib.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Job Posting: Digital Library Repository Developer, Boston Public Library (Boston, MA)

2011-09-27 Thread BRIAN TINGLE
I know I should not take the bait... but if anything we say on this list -- however stupid or pedantic -- is taken as representing our employers and not our personal opinions; then I'm not sure this is a list I can participate in. It is chilling to see veiled legal threats thrown around on this

[CODE4LIB] Open Position at California Digital Library Access Group

2011-10-12 Thread Brian Tingle
The California Digital Library’s Access Group is seeking a programmer analyst to help build and provide access to a world-class collection of scholarly publications and datasets, and historical and primary source materials. We need your expertise to develop platforms and tools for distributing the

Re: [CODE4LIB] Plea for help from Horowhenua Library Trust to Koha Community

2011-11-22 Thread BRIAN TINGLE
FWIW, the discussion on hackernews http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3264378 On Nov 21, 2011, at 4:51 PM, Joann Ransom wrote: > Horowhenua Library Trust is the birth place of Koha and the longest serving > member of the Koha community. Back in 1999 when we were working on Koha, > the idea that

[CODE4LIB] Library News (à la ycombinator's hackernews)

2011-11-23 Thread BRIAN TINGLE
I'm not sure how many of y'all read hackernews (news.ycombinator.com, I'm addicted to it) but I just saw on there that there is a similar style site for Library News that somebody launched. http://news.librarycloud.org/news

Re: [CODE4LIB] Models of MARC in RDF

2011-12-06 Thread BRIAN TINGLE
On Dec 6, 2011, at 5:52 PM, Montoya, Gabriela wrote: > ... > I'd much rather see resources invested in data synching than spending it in > saving text dumps that will most likely not be referred to again. > ... In a MARC-as-the-record-of-record scenario; storing the original raw MARC might be h

Re: [CODE4LIB] Sending html via ajax -vs- building html in js (was: jQuery Ajax request to update a PHP variable)

2011-12-08 Thread BRIAN TINGLE
returning JSONP is the the cool hipster way to go (well, not hipster cool anymore, but the hipsters were doing it before it went mainstream), but I'm not convinced it is inherently a problem to return HTML for use in "AJAX" type development in a non--ironic-retro way. On Dec 7, 2011, at 2:19

Re: [CODE4LIB] Sending html via ajax -vs- building html in js (was: jQuery Ajax request to update a PHP variable)

2011-12-08 Thread BRIAN TINGLE
Maybe I fully misunderstood this conversation; but I was assuming a scenario where the developer has full control of the script and the server. > If you blindly include whatever you get back directly into the page, > it might include either badly performing, out of date, or potentially > maliciou

Re: [CODE4LIB] Sending html via ajax -vs- building html in js (was: jQuery Ajax request to update a PHP variable)

2011-12-08 Thread Brian Tingle
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Godmar Back wrote: > > Let me give you an example for why returning HTML is a difficult > approach, to say the least, when it comes to rich AJAX applications. I > had in my argument referred to a trend, connected to increasing > richness and interactivity in AJAX a

Re: [CODE4LIB] copyright/fair use considerations for re-using Seattle World's Fair images

2011-12-09 Thread BRIAN TINGLE
these guys might own the copyright http://seattlecenter.org/ https://www.facebook.com/pages/1962-Seattle-Worlds-Fair/106938462090 On Dec 9, 2011, at 12:53 PM, Doran, Michael D wrote: > Hi Trish, > > Thank you for the referral. I looked through that but I don't think my > intended use (an uno

[CODE4LIB] automatic greeking of sample files

2011-12-09 Thread BRIAN TINGLE
Hi, I'm now in the group that produces XTF, and for XTF4.0, I'm thinking about updating the EAD XSLT based on the Online Archive of California's stylesheets. For our EAD samples that we distribute with the XTF tutorial, we are using 6 EAD files from the library of congress (which presumably are

Re: [CODE4LIB] What software for a digital library

2011-12-09 Thread BRIAN TINGLE
On Dec 9, 2011, at 9:05 PM, Lars Aronsson wrote: > in particular I didn't like these steps: >5. Shut down tomcat. >6. Do an incremental re-index (2) to include the new document. >7. Start up tomcat. >... I'm not sure why this step is in the tutorial -- XTF does not normally require

Re: [CODE4LIB] automatic greeking of sample files

2011-12-12 Thread Brian Tingle
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Michael B. Klein wrote: > Here's a snippet that will completely randomize the contents of an > arbitrary string while replacing the general flow (vowels replaced with > vowels, consonants replaced with consonants (with case retained in both > instances), digits re

Re: [CODE4LIB] automatic greeking of sample files

2011-12-12 Thread Brian Tingle
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Nate Vack wrote: > On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Brian Tingle > wrote: > > > Potential contributors of specimens would have to be okay with the fact > > that a determined person could recreate their original records. > > To mak

Re: [CODE4LIB] automatic greeking of sample files

2011-12-13 Thread BRIAN TINGLE
On Dec 12, 2011, at 6:35 PM, Michael B. Klein wrote: > I've altered my previous function (https://gist.github.com/1468557) into > something that's pretty much a straight letter-substitution cipher. This is what I ended up using https://github.com/tingletech/greeker.py/blob/3ba1e84bc1ea51fa501c1a4

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: best practices for *simple* contributor IP/licensing management for open source?

2011-12-15 Thread BRIAN TINGLE
> > Does something along those lines end up working legally, or is it worthless, > no better than just continuing to ignore the problem, so you might as well > just continue to ignore the problem? Or if it is potentially workable, does > anyone have examples of projects using such a system, ide

Re: [CODE4LIB] Obvious answer to registration limitations

2011-12-22 Thread BRIAN TINGLE
On Dec 22, 2011, at 10:04 AM, Karen Schneider wrote: > On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Chris Fitzpatrick wrote: > >> +1 for Terry's idea of limiting the number of participants each >> institution can send. I don't know what this number would be, but I think >> it would help increase diversity, s

Re: [CODE4LIB] Google Analytics w/ Sub-sub-domains

2012-02-06 Thread BRIAN TINGLE
This can be really tricky to get right when you have a more complicated site with lots of domains. Since you are all on .yale.edu it should be easier than crossing .cdlib.org to .universityofcalifornia.edu. If I understand correctly, you should be able to _gaq.push(['_setDomainName', '.yale.e

Re: [CODE4LIB] Google Analytics w/ Sub-sub-domains

2012-02-06 Thread Brian Tingle
Henry, that is what you need to do if you want to track the same page to two different google analytics properties and you are using the legacy synchronous code. It sounds like yale wants to collect all this use under one UA- google analytics property (it is just that the property spans multiple s

Re: [CODE4LIB] neo4j

2012-02-13 Thread Brian Tingle
My proposal for code4lib on this topic was not selected, but I was invited to give the same talk at the Berkeley Information School Friday afternoon seminar last week (but I had about 40 mins rather than 20). Here are the notes from my talk last Friday: http://tingletech.github.com/296a-1-2012/

[CODE4LIB] @xlink:role URI attributes for corporateBody family and person

2010-07-21 Thread Brian Tingle
Hi, I'm working on a project where I have some XML that has @xlink:role="person" @xlink:role="corporateBody" or @xlink:role="family" on a certain element. I just learned that @xlink:role is supposed to be a URL [1] So I took a look at http://id.loc.gov/ and I could not find anything that looked

[CODE4LIB] Job Opening: Programmer/Analyst Digital Special Collections California Digital Library

2010-07-26 Thread Brian Tingle
let me know if there are any questions I can answer about the position, and please forward this if you know of someone who might be interested in the position. Thanks -- -- Brian Tingle Technical Lead, Digital Special Collections California Digital Library brian.tin...@ucop.edu