On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Joe Hourcle
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OpenLibrary has other datasets that you might be able to use / combine /
whatever to meet your requirements:
http://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/data
This'll get you the other MARC dumps that have been made available to
IA
Andrew,
I'm not sure this is the same thing that you were told about, but what
I discovered for IA after Jonathan sent out his message is here:
http://www.archive.org/advancedsearch.php#col2
It is just a redirect to a search of a Solr index so it ought to be
easy for you to see what's going on.
Thank you for documenting this. You can, though, use the
bookmark/save this search link unattended. Just change the xmlsearch
param to Search. If you create a few queries through the form you
should see how they're constructed.
Steve,
If you need citation parsing, rather than reference correction, maybe
this will work for you:
http://aye.comp.nus.edu.sg/parsCit/
I haven't had a chance to try it yet, though.
Jason
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 11:51 AM, Steve Oberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I recently became aware of a
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:10 PM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote:
You can definitely have Blacklight handle the display while still keeping the
EAD out of solr stored fields. There's no reason Blacklight can't fetch the
EAD from some external store, keyed by Solr document ID (or by
Daniel,
I don't have a solution directly from Word. If you can get the
container lists converted to a spreadsheet and exported as CSV, then a
Ruby gem I wrote might help [1]. It accepts a properly headed CSV file
and exports valid EAD XML. The implementation is basic right now, but
I'll be
Looks like a more recent version of the Ruby library can be found here:
https://github.com/summon/summon.rb
Jason
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 6:46 PM, Godmar Back god...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Unlike Link/360, Serials Solution's Summon API is extremely cumbersome to
use - requiring, for instance,
You might be interested in seeing what is possible through reverse
scaffolding. [1] I've used something like this before to get jump
started. If you only need models defined you can adjust it to only use
the generators you need. The next problem will likely be if the
database does not follow Rails
I've used Selenium with Cucumber just enough to know that I want to
try it more. I've segregated my tests into non-javascript cucumber
features that run fast and javascript tests that run much slower. I
run the fast tests with autotest as I develop features. Everything
ought to degrade nicely, so
One problem with webdriver (selenium 2) testing is that Firefox can
pop up repeatedly when auto testing which can be really annoying. One
work around is to use a virtual display. Rather than headless testing
you can do something similar on a Linux system by using an X virtual
framebuffer (Xvfb)
You might try https://gist.github.com/ for something like this.
Gist is a simple way to share snippets and pastes with others. All
gists are git repositories, so they are automatically versioned,
forkable and usable as a git repository.
Jason
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 2:05 PM, Nate Hill
Ceci,
When I was getting my MLS, I tried to turn every class project into a
programming exercise whether for class or outside of it. I knew that I
wanted to be doing software development, so took every opportunity I
could find. For instance while I was in cataloging class I learned how
to parse
One thing I would be open to is to put a disclaimer splash page before
any ballot (only to be seen the first time a person votes) briefly
explaining how the ballot works and to mention that ballot stuffing is
unethical, undemocratic and tears at the fabric that is Code4Lib or
some such. I
Nate,
From what I hear, these are increasingly common questions.
When the main stack is javascript, it just heightens the questions.
With the resurgence of javascript being used server-side with tools
like Node.js, client-side javascript MVC frameworks, and single-page
applications, lots of
Hi,
Anyone else implemented HTML5 Microdata [1] and/or Schema.org [2]?
I'm looking for examples of libraries, museums, archives, and
educational organizations that have implemented HTML5 Microdata and/or
Schema.org in any way. Even if you have just used it in a very limited
way on a site, I'd be
Analyst, Center for Biodiversity Informatics (CBI)
Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis MO
(314) 577-9473 x6396
skype: trish.rose1
On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Jason Ronallo jrona...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi,
Anyone else implemented HTML5 Microdata [1] and/or Schema.org [2]?
I'm looking
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 1:40 PM, Jerry Persons jpers...@stanford.edu wrote:
... an you'll post your collection of activities back to the list, yes?
Jerry,
Yes, I'll be compiling a list and making it available before the
code4lib conference. I'll post to the list when it is available.
--Jason
Hi,
If you signed up for the Newcomer's Dinner at Pan Africa Restaurant,
I've got some bad news. I checked with them and they're closed Tuesday
evenings. I'm sorry. I should have checked closer before picking. I'm
looking for a veg-friendly place and will put myself down on the wiki
to lead a
Hi,
If you've signed up for the Veg*n Dinner Wednesday, please send me an
email. I did not anticipate so much interest in this. We need to
decide on a place, and I'd like to accommodate as many folks as
possible. I think we can take this off-list until it is settled.
Check out the wiki. I've
for Loving Hut since I prefer walking to a bus ride.
But Cafe Flora looks good to me too. So we can go either way I think. Thx for
setting this up!
~Bohyun
From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Jason
Ronallo [jrona...@gmail.com
if you need me to do
anything.
Thanks,
Becky
On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Jason Ronallo jrona...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
If you've signed up for the Veg*n Dinner Wednesday, please send me an
email. I did not anticipate so much interest in this. We need to
decide on a place, and I'd like
to information about Microdata
and Schema.org, on my site:
http://jronallo.github.com/bookmarks/
If anyone implements Microdata and/or Schema.org in a library,
archive, or museum (or finds out about one), I'm still very interested
to learn about it.
Jason
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Jason Ronallo
Hi,
I was really looking forward to having dinner with you all tonight,
but I'm not feeling well right now. I'm uncertain whether I will make
it out tonight. Is there someone who would be willing to serve as a
backup in case I don't make it? I'll try to check back in later.
Jason
Patrick,
I wanted to come back to the initial question of sufficient metadata.
While I think there have been some good answers given, I did not see
any mention about how discoverability on the open Web figures in to
how to think about metadata. My response got long, so I posted
something to my
Appears that KCLS doesn't allow crawlers:
http://catalog.kcls.org/robots.txt
User-agent: *
Disallow: /
Jason
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 1:43 PM, todd.d.robb...@gmail.com
todd.d.robb...@gmail.com wrote:
Sean,
That's awesome. Any idea why Blacklight seems to be more discoverable? I
live in
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 2:07 PM, Baksik, Corinna M.
corinna_bak...@harvard.edu wrote:
We don't allow crawlers because it has caused serious performance issues in
the past.
There are simple solutions that may help for the performance problem.
You can use Crawl-delay:
On Thursday, February 23, 2012, Shaun Ellis wrote:
Simple todo's beat
complex task management every time.
https://trello.com/
We use Trello for some linear workflows, like digitization. I like the
model a lot for being simple and visual.
Jason
Sean,
That bounce rate may not be so bad for the kind of site that you have.
If users find what they're looking for on the page for a single
resource, they may not need to go to any other page on your site. That
would get logged as a bounce. In this case a high bounce rate (really
high exit rate)
Tod,
I've written a bit on my blog about how search engines are starting to
effect relevance for individual users based on their browsing history,
preferences, profiles, and social network. These cues could work
better than crude geographic location based boosting to get users to
relevant and
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 6:50 AM, Owen Stephens o...@ostephens.com wrote:
One obvious alternative that I keep coming back to is 'forget OAI-PMH, just
crawl the web' ...
Owen,
I'd like to bring this back to your suggestion to just forget OAI-PMH
and crawl the web. I think that's probably the
Ken,
I'm currently working on an HTML5 video project. It is not in
production yet, but inline are a few notes on what I'm doing right now
and think will work.
* Which formats do you typically include?
Right now I'm only creating an MP4 and WebM. Once Firefox and Opera
support H264, I'll
Ken,
It was not in a share-able state, but is a bit moreso now. I cleaned
up the code some (not enough to avoid embarrassment probably), added
some new features I needed, removed institution specific history, and
put it up on Github:
https://github.com/jronallo/sli_video
I haven't processed all
A vertical timeline:
http://builtbybalance.com/github-timeline/
Jason
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Walter Lewis wltrle...@gmail.com wrote:
On 2012-08-30, at 1:03 PM, miles stauffer wrote:
Is this what you are looking for?
http://selection.datavisualization.ch/
The site points to
I have a couple ideas for preconf sessions, but I am wondering whether
anyone would be interested in them before further committing by posting one
to the wiki. Would you be interested in attending or suggesting someone
attend either of these?
1. An introduction to coding through Ruby and Rails.
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 4:23 PM, Bess Sadler bess.sad...@gmail.com wrote:
On Nov 28, 2012, at 1:04 PM, Shaun Ellis sha...@princeton.edu wrote:
In that respect, I would suggest the preconference hackfests/workshops
that involve some kind of pair programming with experienced/inexperienced
Bess,
No objections from me for more help during the RailsBridge session!
Jason
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Bess Sadler bess.sad...@gmail.com wrote:
I am looking at the pre-conference sign up and here's what I notice:
- not many folks signed up for the morning Blacklight session
-
Hi,
If you've signed up for the RailsBridge preconference, please either add
your email address to the wiki page after your name [1] or send me your
email address if you don't want to add it to the wiki.
I'll be sending out a short survey soon that will help with planning the
morning. There will
Last year at the C4L conference, I gave a talk on HTML5 Microdata and
Schema.org [1]. At the time I had trouble finding many libraries or other
cultural heritage organizations that had implemented anything.
Now there are big examples like OCLC, but anyone else done anything with
this? Have you
Tracy,
I just wanted to confirm that the RailsBridge preconf was going to be
at the UIC Daley Library.
I would like to update the preconference signup page with the correct
information and include that information in the series of emails I've
been sending to workshop participants.
Thank you,
Ed,
Any suggestions or recommendations on what such an API would look
like, what response format(s) would be best, and how to advertise the
availability of a local name authority API? Who should we expect would
use our local name authority API? Are any of the examples from the big
authority
Hi,
I've seen registries for digital collections that make their metadata
available through OAI-PMH, but I have yet to see a listing of digital
collections that just make their resources available on the Web the
way the Web works [1]. Sitemaps are the main mechanism for listing Web
resources for
would probably start small before jumping to installing the Metadata
Registry, but it might be an option for you.
[1] http://www.opensearch.org
[2] http://trac.metadataregistry.org/
On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 3:47 PM, Jason Ronallo jrona...@gmail.com wrote:
Ed,
Any suggestions
Tara,
Thank you for doing this!
OK, my presentation was on HTML5 video, so let's see if I can help.
What's the source video--where did you get it? How are you planning on
making it accessible? Where will the video be hosted? (Where the video
is hosted could be different from any interface where
with a quick look seems to favor
MP4 and OGV. These two codecs would also cover all modern browsers. (I
just have come to prefer WebM.)
Jason
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Jason Ronallo jrona...@gmail.com wrote:
But I did a quick test and was not allowed to embed a video into the page
here
?
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Jason Ronallo jrona...@gmail.com wrote:
Let me correct myself. It is possible to embed a video on the code4lib
site. You can see an example here:
http://code4lib.org/conference/2013/ronallo
When editing the page the input format (in a dropdown section
Andromeda,
One way to get started is to improve documentation. Try out a library
and send in a pull request for the README with what you've learned the
hard way. Read the code and add some documentation for classes or
methods. By reading code you'll learn lots. By submitting a
documentation pull
Pat,
While my library has an institutional account we currently use for
private repos, we have released some code which is maintained under
individual accounts. The code in the individual repositories is
copyright North Carolina State University, but isn't included under
the institutional
the more
links the better.
Pat
On Saturday, February 16, 2013, Jason Ronallo wrote:
Pat,
While my library has an institutional account we currently use for
private repos, we have released some code which is maintained under
individual accounts. The code in the individual repositories
want colleagues to
be able to view some specific talks. Ideally I'd like to split them up in a
way that's useful for other folks too.
Thanks again,
Tara
On 15/02/2013 11:56 AM, Jason Ronallo wrote:
Tara,
Thank you for doing this!
OK, my presentation was on HTML5 video, so let's see
Hi, Michael,
I'd recommend using MP4 and WebM to get the greatest amount of browser
coverage at the best compression levels at the same quality without
converting to three formats. Make sure that the MP4 you're using is
Web optimized (puts the metadata at the beginning of the file). For
older
Hi,
I'm considering organizing RailsBridge [1] again or a similar workshop
for Code4Lib 2014. In order to help me make a decision whether to try
to organize something, I've created a short survey.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1J8qO8KrMEhtruK9CPPRhYxsKXfmRHLvX4euh0Jbr3Ns/viewform
Thank you,
forms and receipts must be received by May 26, 2014.
HOW TO APPLY
To apply, please send an email to Jason Ronallo (jrona...@gmail.com)
with the subject heading “Code4Lib 2014 Diversity Scholarship
Application” containing the following (combined into a single attached
PDF, if possible):
1. A brief
I regularly take the 100 bus to get to and from RDU airport when I
travel. It is my default for airport travel. The schedule doesn't
always work for my flight times. Also note that I do not believe this
bus runs on Sundays when many folks are probably going to be coming
into town. If it works for
The Scholarship Committee is pleased to announce the Code4Lib 2014
Conference Diversity Scholarship awardees. Through the generosity of
CLIR/DLF, EBSCO, ProQuest, and Sumana Harihareswara, we were able to
award nine $1,000 scholarships to defray costs associated with
attending the conference.
We
As a speaker, I've also got questions regarding the setup. Is there a page
anywhere for speaker information?
Is there anyone who is providing a laptop for the podium? I'd rather not
try to use my Linux laptop, which in any case it appears isn't supported
for streaming. [1]
If there will be a
Trip reports from Code4Lib 2014 scholarship winners have now been
published on the wiki:
http://code4lib.org/node/493
I encourage you to read them if you've never been to a Code4Lib
conference before or care about how we can improve the conference and
grow the community in future years.
Thanks
Hi,
I have two questions related to video course reserves and video
hosting more generally.
Does your library provide video course reserves? How do you host and
deliver your course reserves video?
What are you using to provide access to any video that must be
authenticated and authorized (like
Hi,
If you are like me and have a talk in the running [1] and would like to
save your F5 key (which ought to be reserved for tracking packages) [2],
you might find useful the little Ruby script I wrote to get periodic
desktop notifications. Run it as a cron job and you'll see your rank, your
Junior,
Not exactly your question, but there are sometimes reasons to proxy your
node.js app behind another Web server (say to share a domain or subdomain
with other applications or content without using a new public port). Choose
nginx in that case if you can. There are good tutorials for
.
cheers,
AC
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Jason Ronallo jrona...@gmail.com wrote:
Junior,
Not exactly your question, but there are sometimes reasons to proxy your
node.js app behind another Web server (say to share a domain or subdomain
with other applications or content
with you.
Jason Ronallo, jnron...@ncsu.edu, @ronallo
Jason Casden, jmcas...@ncsu.edu, @cazzerson
Bret Davidson, bddav...@ncsu.edu
On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 1:23 PM, j...@code4lib.org wrote:
Digital Technologies Development Librarian
North Carolina State University
Raleigh
The [NCSU Libraries](http
Charlie,
Since you've been here we've also added schema.org data for events:
http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/event/red-white-black-walking-tour-4
And for a long time we've used this for our special collections:
http://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections/catalog/mc00240-001-ff0093-001-001_0010
And for videos on a
Hi,
In case you missed it, here is a document that lists open positions
and the contact information for people who are at the conference who
you can talk to. Feel free to add more positions. Hope this is
helpful.
Hi,
The Code4Lib Conference is a great opportunity for professional
networking. Maybe you're looking to make the move to a new position or
want to figure out what skills you need to develop next to prepare you
for your next job. Maybe you're looking to fill a position and are
interested in
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