[CODE4LIB] Whatbird Interface Framework

Hi Michael, Taxonomic dichotomous (or binary) keys (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichotomous_key) and synoptic keys (http://pyrenomycetes.free.fr/hypoxylon/keydir/synoptickey.htm) have a number of implementations on the web and there is a significant body of research and software out there. I did

Re: [CODE4LIB] administratativia

Ditto. :-) Glen Newton Kevin Clarke wrote: Welcome John, It's nice to have more Java folks around :-) Kevin On Feb 9, 2008 11:13 AM, John Fereira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Roy's message to the web4lib list gave me a nudge that I should probably subscribed to Code4Lib. Then I had a

[CODE4LIB] many processes, one result

How do I write a computer program that spawns many processes but returns one result? I suppose the classic example of my query is the federated search. Get user input. Send it to many remote indexes. Wait. Combine results. Return. In this scenario when one of the remote indexes is slow

Re: [CODE4LIB] KR

The signal-to-noise ration is dropping on this list. Perhaps this extremely humorous discussion could be taken off-list? constructively, Glen Mark == Mark Sandford [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mark 01010111 01101000 01100101 01101110 0010 0001 Mark 0110 01110101 0010

Re: [CODE4LIB] [c4lj-articles] SPARC Europe and the DOAJ Announce the Launch of the SPARC Europe Seal for Open Access Journals

I touch on the text mining etc. needs of researchers in two recent blog entries: - FREE THE ARTICLES! (Full-text for researchers scientists and their machines) http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2008/04/free-articles-full-text-for-researchers.html - New Open Access Criterion: Support access by

[CODE4LIB] List of Digital Library Conference Proceedings

This may be tangential to this list... I've just posted list of major digital library conference proceedings: http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2008/07/list-of-digital-library-conference.html If there are any that are missing, please let me know I will add them. Thanks, Glen -- Glen Newton |

[CODE4LIB] Tag Cloud inspired HTML Select lists

This is something I did a little while ago, but thought some on this list might find it interesting: http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2007/10/tag-cloud-inspired-html-select-lists.html Glen -- Glen Newton | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Researcher, Information Science, CISTI Research NRC W3C Advisory Committee

[CODE4LIB] amazon s3?

While not a personal experience, I think that the NY Times effort to convert 4TB of TIFFS to 11 million PDFs using Hadoop + EC2 + S3 might be of interest: http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2008/02/hadoop-ec2-s3-super-alternatives-for.html Glen Hi Folks, Anybody doing mass storage for their

[CODE4LIB] Announcement: LuSql: Database to Lucene indexing

I am proud to announce LuSql: LuSql is a simple but powerful tool for building Lucene indexes from relational databases. It is a command-line Java application for the construction of a Lucene index from an arbitrary SQL query of a JDBC-accessible SQL database. It allows a user to control a

[CODE4LIB] code4lib open source software award

I also think this is a good idea. I'd like to comment on the straw man: * Regarding who is eligible, I suggest it be individuals, teams, or corporate entities. Awardees must be willing to serve on the next year's nominating committee. Awardees should be changed to nominees: If

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib open source software award

Jonathan Rochkind wrote: It might be a good idea, but maybe not with the Code4Lib name. But I worry in general we don?t collectively know enough about what makes good software to give a Software of the Year honor reliably. Karen Schneider wrote: On the one hand, I agree. On the other hand, just

[CODE4LIB] Semantic Maps of Science from Full-text

I thought this community would find this interesting: using large scale journal full-text to create a visualization of the journal space (like 'Maps of Science' thingies). 5.7M full-text STM articles from 2200+ journals. We're pretty excited about this, but I won't rant on about it any more

Re: [CODE4LIB] proxying Google Book Search and advertising networks to protect patron privacy

I should hope that Google is smart enough to look at the http Via header[1] and allowing bigger caps for proxying HTTP requests. On the other hand: 1) Google decides to have differential caps for proxying requests 2) People figure out that they could grab more pretending to be a proxy by

Re: [CODE4LIB] proxying Google Book Search and advertising networks to protect patron privacy

It may/should help protect the user's privacy from the server end (from Google), not the client end. In the original question there is an underlying (perhaps true ;-) ) assumption that librarians are more trustworthy than Google. -glen :-) Nate == Nate Vack njv...@wisc.edu writes:

[CODE4LIB] R?

William == William Denton w...@pobox.com writes: William Are any of you using R? http://www.r-project.org/ I use R for a number of things, including the multidimensional scaling (512--2) I do here: http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2009/07/project-torngat-building-large-scale.html It is fast,