of very popular titles. Resolving only one ISSN could
easily lead people to think an issue they need is not available when
it is on hand.
kyle
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except in those cases where multiple connections are necessary.
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should also have isbns.
When such conditions are not met, it is a sign of a record containing
unreliable information.
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, but once you get too much bad data in the system you have a
real problem.
kyle
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easy to use, and everyone wins.
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. I would hope that it would
be a community that feels more welcoming to the librarians who usually hand
off anything related to technology to the people who are supposed to handle
those kinds of things for us.
It concerns me that technology is seen as belonging to another
discipline
But if you're in a hurry, you can speed up the process by using a
random-number generator to output random files of code, test them with
a batch script, and discarding those that generate errors...
We should all be mindful that some vendors get really touchy when you
share their proprietary
We should all be mindful that some vendors get really touchy when you
share their proprietary methods on open lists
I'm quite sure the 1 million monkeys method is not a proprietary method.
It was originally, but the patent expired. The method would be be used
more often, but
According to the combined brainstorming of Jonathan Rochkind and
myself, the ideal record set should:
1. contain about 10k records, enough to really see the features, but
small enough that you could index it in a few minutes on a typical
desktop...
5. contain a distribution of typical
Sounds like you have some experience of this, Kyle!
Do you have a list of the screwball stuff? Even an offhand one would
be interesting...
I don't have the list with me, but just to rattle a few things off,
some extra short records rank high because so much of a search term
matches the whole
Is anybody using III's Encore system and happens to know if there is a
deep-linking syntax, either documented or inferred, for it?
I'm not actually using this, but you can reference an individual
record using the syntax
http://encore.scottsdaleaz.gov/iii/encore/record/C|Rb1425309
where
To some extent, they have. Specifically, they have built their own
feature for automating creating lists (and record loading and output):
Millennium Load Scheduler. And they'll be happy to sell that to you
... for tens of thousands of dollars.
Has III shown any interest in building in
If you like book learning, I'd suggest Unix System Administration
Handbook (ISBN 978-0130206015).
I highly recommend this book. Read it. Learn it. Hold it close to your
heart during times of despair...
Does anyone have any experience with any of these programs they'd be
willing to share?...
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I find this debate interesting.
In the regular world, whenever there is a revolution somewhere, the
new government typically spends insane amounts of energy renaming
streets and other symbols. Anyone that's been involve in a website
design knows that you'll spend an eternity in font and color
University of Virginia
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with 'em. Can't shoot 'em
kyle (ex-cataloger who created literally thousands of original records
in OCLC during a former lifetime)
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So, um, could librarians everywhere start being just a tad bit more
demanding about this stuff? You know, before your profession becomes
obsoleted from this planet?
The basic problem is that the real value of a catalog is its
consistency, and the legacy data in these fields is already too
, addresses, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses of three references
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the vast majority of information resources that people
actually use. A bunch of old books can't be more than a tiny cut of
the action.
kyle
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Don't think for a second that purity of the data format in any shape
or form is the definition of its usefulness.
We'd be screwed if that was the case. ISBD punctuation has been in the
MARC record from the very beginning. Theoretically, it should be
totally unnecessary since the data is already
appliances like this one
http://www.drobo.com/products/index.php
but I am wary of the proprietary RAID system.
Thanks in advance,
~
Edward Iglesias
Systems Librarian
Central Connecticut State University
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RAID system.
Thanks in advance,
~
Edward Iglesias
Systems Librarian
Central Connecticut State University
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Has anyone been able to give a projection to their management on what the
total cost per TB is for preservation over even a short horizon of 10 years?
The trick is that the cost varies drastically with the model employed.
Preservation is insurance, plain and simple. If you buy more coverage,
4) Server compromised. Worst case scenario. They need to preserve all
the drives so they can analyze them and turn over information to
police.
This is where written policies and reality often diverge. Getting LE
involved is tantamount to throwing away production equipment making a
bad
The best way to learn good code design and architecture is to work
with code someone already wrote (open source, libraries, frameworks,
etc) that uses good design and architecture.
Or having to debug code that someone else wrote that *wasn't* written
well. It's one thing to learn the good
...Like it or not, many webmasters who insist on
using visual CAPTCHAs (often in combination with JavaScript) are turning
away customers. ..
And not just visually impaired people. I screw these up all the time
and my vision is fine.
Logic puzzles,
presented as simple text, are the
questions, you can send them to either Terry Reese
(terry.re...@oregonstate.edu), Kyle Banerjee (baner...@uoregon.edu) or
submit them to the pnwcode4lib Google Group.
kyle
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I've found this useful at times:
http://www.itsmarc.com/crs/bib1468.htm
It's apparently not maintained, but lists more fields as obsolete
than the selected ones on the LC list - probably best to use both
together.
For looking up individual fields by number or keyword,
But I'm not sure schemas exist that will actually validate the semantic
content you want validated.
I'm not sure such a thing would even be desirable.
Even ignoring that there will be plenty of invalid data that you just
have to find a way of dealing with, MARC is hopelessly complex and
needs
://groups.google.com/group/pnwcode4lib/web/code4lib-northwest-2010
Presentation ideas can be submitted to the Google Group or to Kyle
Banerjee (kyle.baner...@gmail.com) or Terry Reese
(terry.re...@oregonstate.edu) directly. Presentations will be
solicited until April 1st, 2010 to fill in the remainder
rusmarc Russian MARC
canmarc Canadian MARC Replaced by marc21
ukmarc UK MARC Replaced by marc21
cmarc Chinese MARC
unimarc Uni-MARC
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, learn what you need. It's dang hard to remember
anything you don't actively use.
kyle
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Just as important as the actual language may be the programming
techniques
you will have to learn. Now-a-day knowing how to read and write XML is
almost
imperative. Knowing how to do I/O against a database is all but
necessary.
Understanding how to send URL's to remote resources and
I don't know if anyone on this list can give me a hand, but I'm trying to
configure sendmail on our library's LAMP server. I have to use a different IP
address specifically used for outgoing email instead of the box's IP. Does
anyone know where/how I can configure this?
I don't know how
Alternatively, just do it anytime and suggest a temporary network issue that
you don't have time to investigate probably was to blame if anyone
whines
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Edward M. Corrado ecorr...@ecorrado.uswrote:
I vote for Christmas morning.
Dead ends from OpenURL enabled hyperlinks aren't a result of the standard
though, but rather an aspect of both the problem they are trying to solve,
and the conceptual way they try to do this.
I'd content these dead ends are an implementation issue.
Absolutely. There is no inherent reason
Is there even a C webapp framework available?
C is for wussy. Real hombres only need assembly.
mujeres sir!!
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Date: Monday, May 10, 2010 9:18 pm
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] OCLC Service Outage Update
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Is there even a C webapp framework available?
C is for wussy. Real hombres only
Oh wow, want a shovel to help dig you out of the gross generalisations
hole?
Nah -- I'm totally secure in my idiocy.
If I really step in it, I'll get loads of hate mail. If I'm really unlucky
and it takes on a life of it's own, I may even be forced to issue a
groveling public apology. Been
On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Keith Jenkins k...@cornell.edu wrote:
I tried Dragon Naturally Speaking a couple of years ago. (After
breaking a wrist in a cycling accident, I figured it might be easier
than one-hand typing, which wasn't true in the case of typing
programming code with
Code4Lib Northwest was held June 7 at the White Stag building in Portland,
OR.
Registration was closed and a waiting list established at least a month
before the event because the room capacity of 65 was reached. Ten 20 minute
sessions and 13 lightning talks listed at
The trick here is that traditional library metadata practices make it
_very
hard_ to tell if a _specific volume/issue_ is held by a given library.
And
those are the most common use cases for OpenURL.
Yep. That's true even for individual library's with link resolvers. OCLC is
not
, Kyle Banerjee kyle.baner...@gmail.com
wrote:
Code4Lib Northwest was held June 7 at the White Stag building in
Portland,
OR.
Registration was closed and a waiting list established at least a month
before the event because the room capacity of 65 was reached. Ten 20
minute
sessions
Oh you really do mean complete like complete publication run? Very few
of our journal holdings are complete in that sense, they are definitely in
the minority. We start getting something after issue 1, or stop getting it
before the last issue. Or stop and then start again.
Is this really
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On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Young,Jeff (OR) jyo...@oclc.org wrote:
UOM presumably indicates some sort of identifier from the University of
Michigan. UCSC is presumably University of California Santa Cruz. Try going
to their library catalogs and see if the numbers that follow line up
, if
you're going to share it. Thanks!
--Hardy
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Information Technology Manager
Eugene, OR
Closes: Sept. 15, 2010
The Orbis Cascade Alliance seeks a collaborative and technically strong
colleague for the position of Information Technology Manager. This new
position is responsible for leadership in evaluating technologies and
technical support
On this 256th day of 2010 -- and yes cheesy e-cards are available. Just in
case you weren't familiar with this
holidayhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmers'_Day
kyle
I really don't think you're going to have any luck using any traditional
ILS software for what you describe, it's not what it was designed for.
This.
Traditional ILS software is an inventory control system built around the
workflows associated with certain materials. The proposed application
And after those exportation, are there any way to automate the process? For
example, catalog librarian created
a new record, what is the proper way to auto-update XML record without
using
Create List function?
Detecting new records is pretty brain dead. Because record numbers are
generated
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 12:38 PM, Tim Spalding t...@librarything.com wrote:
Does processing speed of something matter anymore? You'd have to be
doing a LOT of processing to care, wouldn't you?
Data migrations and data dumps are a common use case. Needing to break or
make hundreds of thousands
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Eric Hellman e...@hellman.net wrote:
I think you'd have a very hard time demonstrating any speed advantage to
MARC over MARCXML. XML parsers have been speed optimized out the wazoo; If
there exists a MARC parser that has ever been speed-optimized without
standard in the first place,
convincing all the vendors to adopt it, and retrofitting the systems to work
with it. Problems are easiest to solve when it's someone else's job to make
it happen.
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I'm also looking for ways to make the survey more fun to use. If y'all
could give me any suggestions, then at would be... great.
I like the concept.
One thing that jumps out at me is that there is an issue if a person has
read only one of the books mentioned and votes for it. If a person
I would imagine this gets to the larger issue that the majority of people
taking the survey haven't read these books.
I'm guessing few people have. But then again, the news is full of detailed
statistics on how peoples' opinions on complex economic, policy, scientific,
etc issues that hardly
If you haven't read one of the books, doesn't that argue for it's lack of
'greatness?'
That would imply the most widely read books are great. I shudder to think
what the list would look like...
We want to use urls in our MARC records and EAD to link to content in our
Fedora repository as well as things like web pages on our company's website.
What are you folks using out there for this? The Handle System seems to be
a good choice, or a purl service. I might also use it to link to
This attitude makes sense only if you are used to very bad “persistent
URL” systems. A URI is an identifier. Making it persistent is our job.
Using a different identifier scheme won’t make our job easier.
I totally agree with all these statements as well as with the sentiment that
the
I would say that it's SOMETIMES better than nothing. It depends on what
you're doing, what your requirements and goals are. Not every application
needs long-term persistence of URLs -- whether through an 'abstraction
layer' or not. ('abstraction layer' is just an implementation detail to get
recommend against Data Exchange not because it doesn't work (though the
last time I checked it didn't work well with large sets), but because you
can't automate it and it forces you to work though a java gui client.
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3) Did they purchase the XML Server product [3] when it was available?
XML server is not required to get bib records in XML. This can simply be
enabled in WWWOPTIONS. XML Server is another product that contains
significant additional features, but any system can display certain record
types in
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EVENT INFORMATION:
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End: 4:00 PM, with evening gathering for those interested at one of
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Where: White Stag, Portland, Oregon
Cost: $60 for early registration
, much of the area is centered around Mountain View (Gmail), but as
you
zoom in you see there is a contingent of folks in the Bay Area --
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.. Maybe we have different understandings of valid.
If leader bytes 20-23 are not 4500, I suggest that is _by definition_ not
a valid Marc21 file. It violates the Marc21 specification.
Now, they may still be _usable_, by software that ignores these bytes
anyway or works around them. We
Well, the problem is when the original Marc4J author took the spec at it's
word, and actually _acted upon_ the '4' and the '5', changing file semantics
if they were different, and throwing an exception if it was a non-digit.
At least the author actually used the values rather than checking to
There is a lot of redundant data in MARC that is an encoded form of
something that elsewhere is expressed as text -- somewhat controlled text,
but text Much of this redundant input (think of the time!) could
be eliminated if we quit keying text strings but allowed the display to
and the sending
listserv eventually gets tired of that and unsubscribes us from the
list.
We can't be the only ones with this problem. Does anyone have a
suggestion on how we fix it?
Thanks!
Ralph
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The short version of this lengthy post is that there's really no value in
worrying about how to handle precoordinated strings except for purposes of
busting them up.
The Rube Goldberg style precoordination rules that cause so many headaches
were developed to address challenges brought about by
notices?
Pat in Chico
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On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Joe Atzberger ohioc...@gmail.com wrote:
I would just say image-based or text-based. Sorry if you wanted something
more hifalutin.
When will people realize that they should never use two simple words when
six technical terms will suffice?
kyle
6pm
onwards.
More information about code4lib Northwest is available at
http://sites.google.com/site/code4libnorthwest
Looking forward to seeing everyone there!
kyle
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On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Gabriel Farrell gsf...@gmail.com wrote:
Spare-time projects definitely get respect.
They can make a monstrous difference. Most of the time, what you can
convince people you know is far more important than what your pedigree says.
Employers want to know what
On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 8:05 AM, Elisa Graydon egray...@moore.edu wrote:
Does anyone have any experience transferring records from Millennium to
OCLC for batch load updating? I need to transfer records and every time I
try, the transfer fails. I have called OCLC and Millennium multiple times
for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
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On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 8:05 AM, Elisa Graydon egray...@moore.edu wrote:
Does
Is it really true that newline characters are not allowed in a marc value?
I thought they were, not with any special meaning, just as ordinary data.
If they're not, that's useful to know, so I don't put any there!
This is also my understanding.
However, what would be the use case for
I think in many circumstances, this sort of disclosure is covered by a
site's privacy policy (or it should be).
About as many people read these as read software licenses. A lot of people
who complain about scamware don't notice that the software license often
explains that you agree to have
Or maybe the conf has gotten more expensive such that we need more
money and thus more incentive to sponsor. (First priority -- try to keep the
conf from getting more expensive so this doesn't happen)
Costs can be kept down by securing sponsorships, reducing what is provided,
and/or
So what I'm curious about, is how did the first 3-4 Code4Lib's manage to
happen in a way that satisfied us, had low conf registration, and had lower
sponsorship contributions and lower sponsor privileges than it is suggested
is now required?
I can't speak with authority as I wasn't involved
, if they wanted it. I don't know if they'd want it
or not. But that would be a benefit unlikely to upset anyone. probably.
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it. Certainly I knew that scraping HTML was a bad thing to rely on... which
is why I hope LC provides this in some format less likely to change?)
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to rewrite).
kyle
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Kyle Banerjee baner...@uoregon.edu wrote:
I went through a process similar to what you describe sometime back for a
tool I made (i.e. I could find no easily downloadable info). You can
download something that will be easier to parse from
to label. I'll be looking
up from code, so I don't even care about alternate labels, really.
On 6/22/2011 5:57 PM, Kyle Banerjee wrote:
I went through a process similar to what you describe sometime back for a
tool I made (i.e. I could find no easily downloadable info). You can
download something
of Minnesota
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*SYSTEMS/METADATA LIBRARIAN*
Whitman College invites applications for the position of Systems/Metadata
Librarian. We seek a dynamic, creative and technically proficient
individual who will help provide leadership as the Library transitions to an
expanding digital presence.
This librarian
easy to plug in external peripherals like keyboards, mice, and monitors.
kyle
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Egoboo. No, there is not a prize per se. :) --j
Good work is its own reward ;)
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 11:53 AM, Park,Go-Woon gop...@nwmissouri.eduwrote:
Hi, I finally have a chance to attend the conference in Seattle 2012,
and I am planning early for it. However, I cannot find the information
for the registration. The hotel reservation says that they don't know
the
] Question - [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2012 Seattle
Are we supposed to book a hotel already before the registration opens?!
~Bohyun
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to work?
~Bohyun
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Question - [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2012 Seattle
I'm told that you
OK, we think it should be working now. Please try:
https://resweb.passkey.com/Resweb.do?mode=welcome_ei_neweventID=3420882
if you're registering online. Let me know if you're still encountering
issues.
kyle
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 5:09 PM, Kyle Banerjee baner...@uoregon.edu wrote:
Calling
step for
conference registration or will there be an additional registration
requirement?
Thanks,
Sean
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not come out ahead with automation.
kyle
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