I would be interested in a pro-Drupal dinner as well. Just not on Monday since
I'm a code4lib noob.
--Joel
Joel Richard
IT Specialist, Web Services Department
Smithsonian Institution Libraries | http://www.sil.si.edu/
(202) 633-1706 | (202) 786-2861 (f) | richar...@si.edu
If I remember correctly, the latest versions of Firefox had problems, but I
don't know if it's related to performance necessarily. More like bloat.
http://bit.ly/c1c3m1
Either way, I definitely find Firefox too slow to use after the switch to
Chrome, which took all of 5 minutes to completely
On Oct 25, 2010, at 10:31 PM, Alexander Johannesen wrote:
Political? For sure. Engineering? Not so much.
Ok. Solve it. Let us know when you're done.
Wow, lamest reply so far. Surely you could muster a tad bit better? I
was excited about getting a list of the hardest problems, for example,
I've been using CodeIgniter for the past few months. It's simple, relatively
elegant and forgiving if you end up not doing things their way. I'm quite
happy with it. It's also relatively lightweight.
The cleverest thing I found was a 3rd-party extension (or maybe just a simple
technique) to
Maybe it's just my poor human-powered search skills, but I cannot find any
indication of the registration cost or any page that would likely reference
this information.
Robert, do you have have this information? The sooner we government people have
this info, the sooner we can submit our
I'll venture a guess that the room block for the hotel is exactly the 7th to
the 10th and that using the code outside of the causes it the error.
FWIW, I had no trouble at all for 7th-10th, about three hours ago.
--Joel
Joel Richard
IT Specialist, Web Services Department
Smithsonian
Woah, that was fast. I guess I'll go on the waiting list. *fingers crossed*
Is this code4lib larger or smaller than last year? I seem to remember
registering weeks after the registration opened. Maybe it's getting popular, eh?
Thanks,
--Joel
Joel Richard
IT Specialist, Web Services Department
I sort of agree with Mike on this, but I could play devil's advocate and say...
If you include comments in your CSS (which I'm sure you do, because we're all
conscientious developers and practice good coding standards. :), then removing
them and condensing the file down can make it
Thanks for the update, Robert!
One thing that comes to mind is the weather. Specifically, winter weather. I'm
not terribly concerned about getting to IND (air, train, car, hitchhiking,
skateboard, etc.), but how much impact might the weather have on the roads,
specifically with respect to the
:
On 1/18/2011 9:05 AM, Richard, Joel M wrote:
Our central wireless group has recommended that if everyone has an 802.11n
card (5Ghz radio spectrum) in their device that they will likely have a
much better experience for connectivity – it does not mean that you have to
have one
I would be amenable to a wiki page. My schedule means I'm going to either
sprint to make a 10:40 shuttle or wait roughly two hours waiting for the 12:40
shuttle, but I know that's monday and some (most) people will be arriving
sunday. (I couldn't swing the extra hotel night)
--Joel
Joel
FYI, this is already set up and has been for some time.
http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/C4L2011_rideshare
--Joel
On Jan 24, 2011, at 8:58 AM, Ken Irwin wrote:
Hi all,
Is there any effort currently underway to help folks get from the airport
to/from the conference? If not, shall we
Just a general question, how are team leaders contacting their attendees? I
have no one's email addresses, so for Crazy Horse, I've put mine in the Wiki.
--Joel
Joel Richard
IT Specialist, Web Services Department
Smithsonian Institution Libraries | http://www.sil.si.edu/
(202) 633-1706 |
, 2011, at 2:52 PM, Roberto Hoyle roberto.j.ho...@dartmouth.edu
wrote:
On Feb 2, 2011, at 11:11 AM, Richard, Joel M wrote:
Just a general question, how are team leaders contacting their attendees? I
have no one's email addresses, so for Crazy Horse, I've put mine in the
Wiki.
FYI, I'm
I've used Maxmind in the past and it is a very capable tool... And that was a
few years ago. I hope that it's only gotten better since then. Good luck!
--Joel
On Feb 9, 2011, at 1:24 PM, Peter Murray peter.mur...@lyrasis.org wrote:
GeoIP from MaxMind will do the trick, I think:
I sincerely hope these are averages but I suspect that DEX stat is pretty low
anyway. Perhaps our balance is off due to the side conference, Beer4Lib, but I
know the gamers out there have fantastic hand-eye coordination, fine motor
skills and quick reflexes.
:)
--Joel
Joel Richard
IT
Morning, all!
I thought I'd crowdsource this question. 8+ hours of beating up on this and I
haven't found a good solution.
We have some software that processes the scanned pages of a book. They come to
me as TIFF and I am converting to JP2 in order to upload to the Internet
Archive. The
a
newbie when it comes to exiftool.
--Joel
On Mar 23, 2011, at 10:31 AM, Dave Rice wrote:
On Mar 23, 2011, at 10:26 AM, Dave Rice wrote:
Hi Joel,
On Mar 23, 2011, at 9:45 AM, Richard, Joel M wrote:
Morning, all!
I thought I'd crowdsource this question. 8+ hours of beating up
I agree with this sentiment. Do talk to your IT department. That's what they
are there for, after all. Right?
And I'm also of the mindset of do it right the first time. Budgets being what
they are, it's better to spend 20% more up front for a better system/product
than to go cheap and spend
Dave,
That seems to work in the same way as copying from the TIFF to the JP2.
Surprising that I didn't think of trying this :) Apparently either there are
too many choices or the one I was using was not correct for what I was trying
to achieve.
It seems that exiftool is more powerful than I
Good morning,
I know that Seattle has been chosen for the next code4lib conference, but I
can't find any info on dates. I'm really hoping it doesn't fall on the week of
Mardi Gras (Feb 21, 2012). Does anyone have info on this?
Thanks!
--Joel
Joel Richard
IT Specialist, Web Services
I wish I had time to definitively remove should from my vocabulary. :) If it
were only as easy as: s/should/could/
That said I want to (and probably will) learn
All things Drupal
More advanced PHP
RDF
Whatever the semantic web is and the magic it offers
XSLT (this seems to be a common theme)
It's obvious, isn't it? 1962 was the Best. Year. Ever. And it's all be downhill
since then. :)
--Joel
On May 17, 2011, at 11:45 AM, Keith Jenkins wrote:
I always get suspicious when an author converts current prices into
1962 dollars for no apparent reason, and without explanation.
Keith
The Smithsonian Institution Libraries is recruiting for a web developer
position. We are in the midst of many interesting projects right now, including
working with linked open data, building a new digital library, moving to
Drupal, mass-digitization, and other projects.
The Libraries serves a
Dear hive-mind,
Does anyone know why the Library of Congress-supplied MARCXML to MODS XSLT [1]
does not handle the MARC 590 Local Notes field? It seems to handle everything
else, not that I've done an exhaustive search... :)
Granted, I could copy/create my own XSLT and add this functionality
I'm no MARC expert, but I've learned enough to say that yes, this is valid in
that what you're seeing is the $q (Electronic format type) and $u (Uniform
Resource Identifier ) subfields of the 856 field.
http://www.oclc.org/bibformats/en/8xx/856.shtm
You'll see other things when you get
On 05/19/2011 11:45 AM, Richard, Joel M wrote:
Dear hive-mind,
Does anyone know why the Library of Congress-supplied MARCXML to MODS XSLT
[1] does not handle the MARC 590 Local Notes field? It seems to handle
everything else, not that I've done an exhaustive search... :)
Granted, I
Hi Everyone,
I'm posting this for a colleague. If you are interested, please contact Abby
McDermott below. This position is local to the DC Metro Area.
--Joel
Subject: New UMCP iSchool research center is looking for a part-time Web
systems
Heather,
Since Jason wasn't very verbose in his response :) I thought I'd elaborate.
Drupal is a good choice for this kind of activity. It has a number of features
that come ready or nearly ready to do what you're looking to do. With two
thousand modules, you're also likely to get other needed
Good afternoon,
We're in the process of planning our new Digital Library website, which will
provide a fair bit of Linked Open Data through the features available in Drupal
7 (RDF, RDFx, SPARQL, etc)
Aside from standard bibliographic data, one of the large chunks of what we are
going to
Anjanette,
Do you have an approximate dollar amount as to the cost of registration? We
government types need to start getting our paperwork in order sooner rather
than later. ;)
Thanks!
--Joel
Joel Richard
IT Specialist, Web Services Department
Smithsonian Institution Libraries |
Laura,
Before I registered at the Renaissance, I'd been looking at the Hilton Garden
Inn, which is 2-3 blocks away and had reasonable rates. There was one other
hotel nearby with good rates, but I don't remember the name.
--Joel
Joel Richard
IT Specialist, Web Services Department
Smithsonian
I disagree with this suggestion. Personally I vote for only those I find
interesting and useful to me, but I don't put an response for every talk
listed. I only respond on those I'm interested. Everyone else gets 0 points. I
would expect that others do this, too. Katherine's suggestion also
On Dec 1, 2011, at 8:47 AM, Ross Singer wrote:
I am absolutely opposed to:
1) Setting weights on voting. 0 is just as valid a vote as 3.
2) Publicly shaming the offenders in Code4Lib. If you run across
impropriety in a forum, make a friendly, yet firm, reminder that
ballot stuffing is
Hopefully I have not stepped upon any toes, but I was looking to add my name to
the roster and the page didn't exist. So I created it!
http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/2012_Lightning_Talks_Signup
It is basically a copy of what we used for 2011 and 2010 and 2009 and...
--Joel
Joel Richard
I'll second this amen. It was only when I entered the library world that I
learned about the concept of metadata. Of course, I'd been using metadata for
12 years, but I'd never labeled it as such. To me it was just data. Useful
information. It took time for this concept of metadata to mesh with
Genny,
I agree that the actual data is not in the catalog per se, but it IS in a
database somewhere. And the beauty of that digital information (which is where
we are all headed) is that all of it can really now be mashed together to
produce something new. The contents of _A Tale of Two
The museum (and rare-book-archive) world probably already has solutions for
this, given that displaying artifacts in the museum requires constant
monitoring of temperature and humidity. Of course, I expect those solutions to
be expensive due to the critical nature of the components contained
Good afternoon, everyone.
I am slated to give a talk in July at the SLA Annual Conference in Chicago on
the topic of Linked Open Data (LOD). The purpose of my email is to solicit from
you what concepts you think would be important to cover in the talk. Generally
speaking, I am focusing on the
I agree with Clinton. Above all else, security is important and you want
something that handles credentials properly. Chances are, your sites are
getting scanned by potential hackers every day and you may not know it. They
don't try to hack in because of who you are, only because you are there.
Assuming you're asking about storing them in the database, I will differ from
Roy here and suggest saving them into to floating-point-number fields. That's
always seemed to me to be to be the bets way to go (one discrete data element
per field).
I also feel combining is easier than parsing,
I thought that the Smithsonian was working with ... someone on this. Maybe
Google since they are mapping the insides of some of our museums. The process
they used goes something like this:
They send a person to walk around the building with a laptop measuring the
varying strengths of signal
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