[CODE4LIB] EZProxy changes / alternatives ?

2014-01-28 Thread stuart yeates
We've just received notification of forth-coming changes to EZProxy, which will require us to pay an arm and a leg for future versions to install locally and/or host with OCLC AU with a ~ 10,000km round trip. What are the alternatives? cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates Library Techn

Re: [CODE4LIB] EZProxy changes / alternatives ?

2014-01-28 Thread stuart yeates
, etc. It's a product from OCLC, see http://www.oclc.org/en-US/ezproxy.html cheers stuart On 29/01/14 15:05, Riley Childs wrote: Ok, what exactly is EZProxy, I could never figure that out, if I knew I could help :) Sent from my iPhone On Jan 28, 2014, at 9:04 PM, "stuart yeates"

Re: [CODE4LIB] EZProxy changes / alternatives ?

2014-01-28 Thread stuart yeates
h, my X config for site Z looked like B"? I'm aware of this good article: http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/7470 cheers stuart On 29/01/14 15:24, stuart yeates wrote: We've just received notification of forth-coming changes to EZProxy, which will require us to pay an arm

Re: [CODE4LIB] EZProxy changes / alternatives ?

2014-01-29 Thread stuart yeates
I see no need to start paying now for updates you don't need. -Andy Andy Ingraham Dwyer Infrastructure Specialist State Library of Ohio 274 E. 1st Avenue Columbus, OH 43201 library.ohio.gov -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of st

Re: [CODE4LIB] EZProxy changes / alternatives ?

2014-01-29 Thread stuart yeates
decisions are to be made regarding EZproxy vs something else, that something else may very well be Apache HTTPd with vendor-specific configuration files. -- Stuart Yeates Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/

Re: [CODE4LIB] EZProxy changes / alternatives ?

2014-02-02 Thread stuart yeates
at is needed is for techies to do experiments, document and share the results. These could either follow on from the example of Andrew Anderson earlier in this thread or strike out in different directions. cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/

[CODE4LIB] Southeastern Library Association

2014-02-02 Thread stuart yeates
heers stuart -- Stuart Yeates Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Southeastern Library Association

2014-02-02 Thread stuart yeates
ed of secondary sources] cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/

Re: [CODE4LIB] EZProxy changes / alternatives ?

2014-02-02 Thread stuart yeates
oxy easy is a good alternative. kyle -- Tim McGeary timmcge...@gmail.com GTalk/Yahoo/Skype/Twitter: timmcgeary 484-294-7660 (cell) -- Tim McGeary timmcge...@gmail.com GTalk/Yahoo/Skype/Twitter: timmcgeary 484-294-7660 (cell) -- Stuart Yeates Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Southeastern Library Association

2014-02-02 Thread Stuart Yeates
> [and yes, the article is still in need of secondary sources] Thanks to User:Eveross1 (who may or may not be a code4libber) for stepping up and fixing this. cheers stuart

Re: [CODE4LIB] EZProxy changes / alternatives ?

2014-02-03 Thread stuart yeates
the latest version or turn the software off. cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open Publication Distribution System

2014-02-09 Thread stuart yeates
anks, David Bigwood dbigw...@hou.usra.edu<mailto:dbigw...@hou.usra.edu> Lunar and Planetary Institute https://twitter.com/Catalogablog -- Stuart Yeates Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/

[CODE4LIB] Cataloguing Telugu

2014-04-07 Thread Stuart Yeates
Currently there is a funding proposal for cataloguing Telugu works up before the Wikimedia foundation. If anyone has experience with Telugu or knows of any tools that are likely to be useful, please give your input: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Making_telugu_content_accessible ch

Re: [CODE4LIB] New Zealand Chapter

2014-04-09 Thread Stuart Yeates
Nice. The real question is whether that's U+2163, like it should be. cheers stuart On 04/10/2014 07:17 AM, Jay Gattuso wrote: Hi all, Long time listener, first time caller. We don't have a C4L chapter over here in New Zealand, and I wondered what we would need to do to align the small group

Re: [CODE4LIB] barriers to open metadata?

2014-04-29 Thread Stuart Yeates
On 04/30/2014 09:38 AM, David Friggens wrote: Hi Laura I'd like to find out from as many people as are interested what barriers you feel exist right now to you releasing your library's bibliographic metadata openly. One issue is that we pay for enrichments (tables of contents etc) for records

Re: [CODE4LIB] separate list for jobs

2014-05-06 Thread Stuart Yeates
On 05/07/2014 04:59 AM, Richard Sarvas wrote: Not to be a jerk about this, but why is the answer always "No"? There seem to be more posts on this list relating to job openings than there are relating to code discussions. Are job postings a part why this list was originally created? If so, I'll

[CODE4LIB] Withdraw my post was: Re: [CODE4LIB] separate list for jobs

2014-05-07 Thread Stuart Yeates
The fact that the only person who has given any acknowledgement of understanding my message was someone else in .ac.nz suggests that despite my best efforts my message content was effectively shredded by the implicit conversion from New Zealand English to International English. My apologies; I

Re: [CODE4LIB] Withdraw my post was: Re: [CODE4LIB] separate list for jobs

2014-05-08 Thread Stuart Yeates
On 05/09/2014 02:44 AM, Susan Kane wrote: Obviously, we must now task someone in CODE4LIB with writing a Python script to convert New Zealand English to International English. Yes, because tasking people with AI-complete programming tasks (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI-complete ) is onl

Re: [CODE4LIB] how to post jobs (was Re: [CODE4LIB] separate list for Jobs)

2014-05-08 Thread Stuart Yeates
On 05/09/2014 10:04 AM, Jodi Schneider wrote: On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 9:54 PM, Coral Sheldon-Hess wrote: I have another, maybe minor, point to add to this: I've posted a job to Code4Lib, and I did it wrong. I have no idea how I'm supposed to make a job show up correctly, and now that I have real

Re: [CODE4LIB] Withdraw my post was: Re: [CODE4LIB] separate list for jobs

2014-05-11 Thread Stuart Yeates
Context: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIYvD9DI1ZA Cheers stuart -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Fitchett, Deborah Sent: Monday, 12 May 2014 9:53 a.m. To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Withdraw my post was: Re

Re: [CODE4LIB] Extracting Text From .tiff Files

2014-05-12 Thread Stuart Yeates
Your first step is to pin down the format. TIFF is a container form (like zip) and can contain pretty much anything. Likely candidates for you format include https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPTC_Information_Interchange_Model and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Metadata_Platform Your sec

[CODE4LIB] statistics for image sharing sites?

2014-05-13 Thread Stuart Yeates
We have been using google analytics since October 2008 and by and large we're pretty happy with it. Recently I noticed that we're getting >100 hits a day from the "Pinterest/0.1 +http://pinterest.com/"; bot which I understand is a reasonably reliable indicator of activity from that site. Much

Re: [CODE4LIB] statistics for image sharing sites?

2014-05-13 Thread Stuart Yeates
On 05/14/2014 01:23 PM, Barnes, Hugh wrote: -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Stuart Yeates Sent: Wednesday, 14 May 2014 1:04 p.m. To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] statistics for image sharing sites? [snip] My

Re: [CODE4LIB] statistics for image sharing sites?

2014-05-13 Thread Stuart Yeates
On 05/14/2014 01:39 PM, Joe Hourcle wrote: On May 13, 2014, at 9:04 PM, Stuart Yeates wrote: We have been using google analytics since October 2008 and by and large we're pretty happy with it. Recently I noticed that we're getting >100 hits a day from the "Pi

[CODE4LIB] 2014 National Digital Forum conference

2014-05-19 Thread Stuart Yeates
I'm sending this on the off-chance that people happen to have the travel budget for it: http://www.ndf.org.nz/programme/ It's a great cross-GLAM event hosted by the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, which you may be familiar with for their kōiwi tangata Māori repatriation program. If

Re: [CODE4LIB] orcid and researcherid and scopus, oh my

2014-06-04 Thread Stuart Yeates
Others have made excellent contributions to this thread, which I won't repeat, but I feel it's worth asking the question: Who is systematically cross walking these identifiers? The only party I'm aware of doing this in a large-scale fashion is Wikipedia, via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Templ

Re: [CODE4LIB] orcid and researcherid and scopus, oh my

2014-06-05 Thread Stuart Yeates
<#thing> dc:creator "Eric Lease Morgan" . Hope this helps :) Groeten van Ben On 05-06-14 00:14, "Stuart Yeates" wrote: Others have made excellent contributions to this thread, which I won't repeat, but I feel it's worth asking the question: Who is systemat

Re: [CODE4LIB] orcid and researcherid and scopus, oh my

2014-06-05 Thread Stuart Yeates
On 06/06/2014 12:51 AM, Gary Thompson wrote: I also hope to convince our campus Shibboleth IdP to add ORCID as a new attribute. If I understand correctly, what we need is ISNI added to the next release of EduPerson, per http://software.internet2.edu/eduperson/internet2-mace-dir-eduperson-201

[CODE4LIB] Selenium testing for outsourced library services?

2014-06-09 Thread Stuart Yeates
Has anyone had an success using Selenium or other web testing systems for testing and monitoring of complex outsourced web services? I'm thinking of a system that is the integration of a website, an authentication service, a discovery service and a repository and monitoring that end-to-end use

Re: [CODE4LIB] orcid

2014-06-10 Thread Stuart Yeates
On a similar note, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pigsonthewing has just (today / yesterday depending on timezone) been appointed Wikipedian in residence at ORCID. He has tons of experience in museums, galleries and archives and is a great person to get in touch with in this kind of area.

[CODE4LIB] Is ISNI / ISO 27729:2012 a name identifier or an entity identifier?

2014-06-15 Thread Stuart Yeates
Could someone with access to the official text of ISO 27729:2012 tell me whether an ISNI is a name identifier or an entity identifier? That is, if someone changes their name (adopts a pseudonym, changes their name by to marriage, transitions gender, etc), should they be assigned a new identifie

[CODE4LIB] Does 'Freedom to Read' require us to systematically privilege HTTPS over HTTP?

2014-06-15 Thread Stuart Yeates
As I read it, 'Freedom to Read' means that we have to take active steps to protect that rights of our readers to read what they want and in private. Triggered by discussions at a bar-camp on NLNZ on Friday I'm thinking that in a digital world this means systematically privileging HTTPS over

Re: [CODE4LIB] Does 'Freedom to Read' require us to systematically privilege HTTPS over HTTP?

2014-06-17 Thread Stuart Yeates
On 06/17/2014 08:49 AM, Galen Charlton wrote: On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 4:03 PM, Stuart Yeates wrote: As I read it, 'Freedom to Read' means that we have to take active steps to protect that rights of our readers to read what they want and in private. [snip] * building HTTPS Every

Re: [CODE4LIB] Does 'Freedom to Read' require us to systematically privilege HTTPS over HTTP?

2014-06-17 Thread Stuart Yeates
On 06/18/2014 12:36 PM, Brent E Hanner wrote: Stuart Yeates wrote: Compared to other contributors to this thread, I appear to be (a) less worried about state actors than our commercial partners and (b) keener to see relatively straight forward technical fixes that just work 'for free&#x

Re: [CODE4LIB] Is ISNI / ISO 27729:2012 a name identifier or an entity identifier?

2014-06-18 Thread Stuart Yeates
pseudonyms: they are just listed under one ISNI. Maybe because he is dead, or because all other databases already know and connected the pseudonyms to the birth name? (I just sent a comment asking about the record at http://isni.org/isni/000121370797 ) [Here goes the reference list…] Hope

Re: [CODE4LIB] Is ISNI / ISO 27729:2012 a name identifier or an entity identifier?

2014-06-18 Thread Stuart Yeates
just sent a comment asking about the record at http://isni.org/isni/000121370797 ) [Here goes the reference list…] Hope this helps :) Groeten van Ben On 15-06-14 23:11, "Stuart Yeates" wrote: Could someone with access to the official text of ISO 27729:2012 tell me whether an ISNI

Re: [CODE4LIB] Does 'Freedom to Read' require us to systematically privilege HTTPS over HTTP?

2014-06-18 Thread Stuart Yeates
Anyone thinking about these things is encouraged to read the thread "[CODE4LIB] EZProxy changes / alternatives ?" in the archives of this list. cheers stuart On 06/19/2014 05:28 AM, Andrew Anderson wrote: EZproxy already handles HTTPS connections for HTTPS enabled services today, and on moder

Re: [CODE4LIB] Is ISNI / ISO 27729:2012 a name identifier or an entity identifier?

2014-06-19 Thread Stuart Yeates
in_Waddell) (although oddly not the ISNI for Martin Waddell under his own name). Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 18 Jun 2014, at 23:28, Stuart Yeates wrote: My reading of that suggests that http:/

[CODE4LIB] ANNOUNCEMENT REMINDER (Was: Re: [CODE4LIB] NOW AVAILABLE: VIVO Release 1.7

2014-07-02 Thread Stuart Yeates
I'd just like to remind posters of announcements that it's not really helpful post announcements that don't actually say what it is that product / service / event you're announcing is. The following case is particularly egregious, since the project home page at https://wiki.duraspace.org/displ

Re: [CODE4LIB] Community anti-harassment policy

2014-07-02 Thread Stuart Yeates
There exists a code at: https://github.com/code4lib/antiharassment-policy/blob/master/code_of_conduct.md I believe it applies here. cheers stuart On 07/03/2014 12:54 PM, Coral Sheldon-Hess wrote: I was under the impression that we had a code of conduct/anti-harassment policy in place for IRC

Re: [CODE4LIB] Bandwidth control

2014-08-05 Thread Stuart Yeates
We had complaints from students about other students using the limited resource (in this case student computers) to do facebook / youtube. We negotiated with the students union that certain sites would be blocked from those machines for a certain busy period during the day. Negotiation with th

[CODE4LIB] EZProxy ssl security

2014-08-12 Thread Stuart Yeates
So I just ran my EZproxy through an SSL checker and was shocked by the outcome: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=login.helicon.vuw.ac.nz Finding other EZproxy installs in google and checking them gave a range of answers, some MUCH better, some MUCH worse. Clearly secure EZproxy i

Re: [CODE4LIB] EZProxy ssl security

2014-08-13 Thread Stuart Yeates
his helps. Will Martin On 2014-08-12 16:38, Stuart Yeates wrote: So I just ran my EZproxy through an SSL checker and was shocked by the outcome: https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=login.helicon.vuw.ac.nz Finding other EZproxy installs in google and checking them gave a range of a

[CODE4LIB] metadata for free ebook repositories

2014-08-18 Thread Stuart Yeates
There are a stack of great free ebook repositories available on the web, things like https://unglue.it/ http://www.gutenberg.org/ https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ https://www.smashwords.com/books/category/1/newest/0/free/any etc, etc What there doesn't appea

Re: [CODE4LIB] metadata for free ebook repositories

2014-08-18 Thread Stuart Yeates
o select all open access ebooks. What I'd like to see is a way to create a list or bibliography in OL that then is imported into a program that will find MARC records for those books. The list function is still under development, though. kc On 8/18/14, 3:04 PM, Stuart Yeates wrote: There are a st

Re: [CODE4LIB] metadata for free ebook repositories

2014-08-19 Thread Stuart Yeates
> Authors in OL have already been linked to Wikipedia, and Wikipedia has > been linked to VIAF, and the OCLC number, when present, has been taken > from the MARC record. Therefore the OL record in some cases already has > these connections. It's not just about authors. It's also about the work (+m

[CODE4LIB] handle and doi HTTPS infrastructure

2014-09-11 Thread Stuart Yeates
First up, I've got to say that I'm unaware of anyone using these over HTTPS in production, so issues are forward-looking and largely hypothetical. The good news is that both use DNSSEC: http://dnssec-debugger.verisignlabs.com/hdl.handle.net http://dnssec-debugger.verisignlabs.com/dx.doi.org Th

[CODE4LIB] Wikipedia notability (was Re: [CODE4LIB] Official #teamharpy Statement on the case of Joseph Hawley Murphy vs. nina de jesus and Lisa Rabey)

2014-09-22 Thread Stuart Yeates
I'm currently spending a chunk of time attempting to balance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:New_Zealand_academics for recentism, gender imbalance and racial imbalance, creating >100 biographies so far. I can tell you that google scholar is a really crappy measure once you move outside

Re: [CODE4LIB] REST vs ODBC

2014-09-22 Thread Stuart Yeates
On 23/09/14 10:01, Fitchett, Deborah wrote: Morning, all, We have a small dilemma: 1. Our brand new Alma system provides access to a bunch of data via RESTful API. It’s on The Cloud so we’re not going to be getting direct access to the database anytime soon. Is there a reason reason t

Re: [CODE4LIB] wget archiving for dummies

2014-10-06 Thread Stuart Yeates
A number of others have suggested other approaches, but since you started with wget, here are the two wget commands I recently used to archive a wordpress-behind-exproxy site. The first logs into ezproxy and saves the login as a cookie. The second uses to cookie to access a site through exproxy

Re: [CODE4LIB] Digitization Project from Scratch

2014-10-14 Thread Stuart Yeates
Others in this thread have all made useful comments, but I think it would pay to take a step back first and ask yourself some questions about your situation: (*) what's your volume of material? Do you have a single book? a shelf of contents? a room of content? a multi-site organisation full of c

Re: [CODE4LIB] Digitization Project from Scratch

2014-10-14 Thread Stuart Yeates
Oct 14, 2014, at 4:57 PM, Stuart Yeates wrote: > Others in this thread have all made useful comments, but I think it would pay > to take a step back first and ask yourself some questions about your > situation: > > (*) what's your volume of material? Do you have a sin

[CODE4LIB] ISSN lists?

2014-10-16 Thread Stuart Yeates
My understanding is that there is no universal ISSN list but that worldcat allows querying of their database by ISSN. Which method of sampling the ISSN namespace is going to cause least pain? http://www.worldcat.org/ISSN/ seems to be the one talked about, but is there another that's less resou

[CODE4LIB] Wikipedia in teaching

2014-10-20 Thread Stuart Yeates
Some of you may know of teaching staff using, or looking to use, wikipedia in their courses; if you do, I implore you to forward them https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Education_program Wikipedia has active assistance that can be provided in such cases, but assistance is less useful once

Re: [CODE4LIB] Linux distro for librarians

2014-10-21 Thread Stuart Yeates
Turning this question on it's head: Is there any group / page / etc doing coordination of which library software is packaged for which distros and the chasing of distro-level bugs? At least some interoperability issues would be mitigated if all the appropriate libraries installed and worked rel

Re: [CODE4LIB] Why learn Unix?

2014-10-27 Thread Stuart Yeates
Learning UNIX is a dreadful idea. If you think you want to learn UNIX, you probably should learn POSIX. Implementations are transient; if we're lucky standards are durable. cheers stuart -- I have a new phone number: 04 463 5692 From: Code for Librarie

Re: [CODE4LIB] Subject: Re: Why learn Unix?

2014-10-28 Thread Stuart Yeates
> -- Because you can delete everything on the system with a very short > command. This is actually a misconception. The very short command doesn't delete everything on the system. The integrity of files which are currently open (including things like the kernel image, executable files for curr

Re: [CODE4LIB] Subject: Re: Why learn Unix?

2014-10-28 Thread Stuart Yeates
Roy > > >> On Oct 28, 2014, at 6:46 PM, Cary Gordon wrote: >> >> Well you can do a lot of damage quickly using very short commands. Deleting >> the master boot record can be quite effective, but I will demure from >> giving specific examples. >> >>

Re: [CODE4LIB] content inventory of mediawiki site?

2014-10-30 Thread Stuart Yeates
All but the cats should be available thought the standard API, I believe. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API:Main_page cheers stuart -- I have a new phone number: 04 463 5692 From: Code for Libraries on behalf of Shearer, Timothy Sent: Friday, 31 Octo

[CODE4LIB] MARC reporting engine

2014-11-02 Thread Stuart Yeates
I have ~800,000 MARC records from an indexing service (http://natlib.govt.nz/about-us/open-data/innz-metadata CC-BY). I am trying to generate: (a) a list of person authorities (and sundry metadata), sorted by how many times they're referenced, in wikimedia syntax (b) a view of a person authori

Re: [CODE4LIB] MARC reporting engine

2014-11-02 Thread Stuart Yeates
_ From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Stuart Yeates [stuart.yea...@vuw.ac.nz] Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2014 5:48 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] MARC reporting engine I have ~800,000 MARC records from an indexing service (http://natlib.govt.nz/abo

Re: [CODE4LIB] MARC reporting engine

2014-11-03 Thread Stuart Yeates
: Monday, 3 November 2014 11:39 p.m. To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] MARC reporting engine Stuart Yeates wrote: > Do any of these have built-in indexing? 800k records isn't going to fit in > memory and if building my own MARC indexer is 'relatively straightfo

Re: [CODE4LIB] MARC reporting engine

2014-11-03 Thread Stuart Yeates
Jean-Claude On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 4:24 PM, Brian Kennison wrote: > On Nov 2, 2014, at 9:29 PM, Stuart Yeates stuart.yea...@vuw.ac.nz>> wrote: > > Do any of these have built-in indexing? 800k records isn't going to fit in > memory and if building my own MARC indexer is '

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open Journal Systems - experiences?

2014-12-16 Thread stuart yeates
On 17/12/14 04:23, Tania Fersenheim wrote: I have some staff interested in a pilot of Open Journal Systems. http://openjournalsystems.com/ Anyone here have experiences with the software they'd like to share, either installed locally or hosted by the OJS folks? I'm especially interested in how r

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib services and https

2015-09-06 Thread stuart yeates
SSL is security theatre unless people start doing it better. SSL is a layer of complexity, it's easy to get wrong and the library community is systematically getting it wrong (picking on some big names, because they're tough enough to take it, not because they noticeably do it any better or wo

[CODE4LIB] RDA software for managing authorities

2013-03-05 Thread stuart yeates
here a RDA-based LMS that can be customised to remove all the item-level stuff?" cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Tool to highlight differences in two files

2013-04-23 Thread stuart yeates
ed. Does anyone here know of a tool for holding two files side by side and noting what is the same and what is different between the files? It seems like any simple script to note differences in two strings of text would work, but I don't know a tool to use. -Wilhelmina Randtke -- Stuart Yeates Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/

Re: [CODE4LIB] On-going support for DL projects

2013-05-19 Thread stuart yeates
cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/

Re: [CODE4LIB] WorldCat Implements Content-Negotiation for Linked Data

2013-06-03 Thread stuart yeates
On 04/06/13 11:18, Karen Coyle wrote: Ta da! That did it, Kyle. Why on earth do we all them "smart quotes" ?! Because they look damn sexy when printed on pulp-of-murdered-tree, which we all know is authoritative form of any communication. cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates Library

Re: [CODE4LIB] Lightweight Autocomplete Application

2013-07-08 Thread stuart yeates
om_alternative_languages‎ which allow you to autocomplete across languages. The rules around redirects only allow such redirects from languages with a direct connection to the subject matter. In theory wikidata could be use to build something more complete. cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/

Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides: I don't get it

2013-08-11 Thread stuart yeates
l capability, the cost of looking at an open source alternative can easily outweigh the multi-year licensing fee. cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/

Re: [CODE4LIB] TemaTres 1.7 released: now with meta-terms and SPARQL endpoint

2013-08-13 Thread stuart yeates
et as ENABLE SPARQL endpoint (by default is disable). 2) Login as admin and Goto: Menu -> Administration -> Database maintance -> Update SPARQL endpoint. Best Regards and apologies for cross-posting diego ferreyra temat...@r020.com.ar http://www.vocabularyserver.com -- Stuart Yeates L

Re: [CODE4LIB] Way to record usage of tables/rooms/chairs in Library

2013-08-15 Thread stuart yeates
ple times a day. The current solution I have seen is a pen and paper task, and then someone will have to manually put the data into a spreadsheet for analysis. Thanks! Tom -- Stuart Yeates Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/

Re: [CODE4LIB] text mining software

2013-08-27 Thread stuart yeates
ience using the standard or these two implementations? cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/

Re: [CODE4LIB] The Wikipedia Library

2013-08-29 Thread stuart yeates
m Skype: jorlowitz Cell: (484) 684-2104 Home: (484) 380-3940 -- Stuart Yeates Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Subject Terms in Institutional Repositories

2013-09-01 Thread stuart yeates
, but I wanted to see what others have done in this area to see if there is another good controlled vocabulary that could work better. Any insight is welcome. Thanks for your time everyone. Matt Sherman Digital Content Librarian University of Bridgeport -- Stuart Yeates Library Techn

Re: [CODE4LIB] Subject Terms in Institutional Repositories

2013-09-02 Thread stuart yeates
__ From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of stuart yeates [stuart.yea...@vuw.ac.nz] Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2013 1:36 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Subject Terms in Institutional Repositories I run the techie side of http://researcharch

Re: [CODE4LIB] Expressing negatives and similar in RDF

2013-09-17 Thread stuart yeates
r need not mention any of these, unless they wish to use them to add metadata to the F1 or to connect them with other items in the collection. cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Free/Open OCR solutions?

2010-08-02 Thread stuart yeates
y/aa167607(office.11).aspx Notice the "OCR" method in the document. Could someone comment on the efficacy of this OCR on languages with non-latin characters? cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates http://www.nzetc.org/ New Zealand Electronic Text Centre http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.n

[CODE4LIB] Security frameworks

2010-09-20 Thread stuart yeates
way I can use OAuth with httpd's authentication modules? Google shows some preliminary rumblings about a mod_auth_oauth, but nothing recent. Is there some fundamental reason OAuth is incompatible with the tried and true mod_auth_* approach? cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates http://www.nze

Re: [CODE4LIB] unwanted (bogus) characters in marc

2010-10-10 Thread stuart yeates
re are tools such as http://www.let.rug.nl/~vannoord/TextCat/ which provide very reliable guessing of languages. A minor adaptation might be needed to make it guess twice, once for each of ISO-8859-1 and ISO-8859-2 and then you take the highest ranked. cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates http://www.nzetc.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] wikipedia/author disambiguation

2011-05-22 Thread stuart yeates
On 21/05/11 16:29, Ya'aqov Ziso wrote: - Ludvig van Beethoven doesn't need much disambiguation. Are you sure? http://toolserver.org/~dispenser/cgi-bin/rdcheck.py?page=Ludwig_van_Beethoven cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/

Re: [CODE4LIB] wikipedia/author disambiguation

2011-05-23 Thread stuart yeates
e the likelihood of matches? I'm thinking in particular of the representation of uncertain dates. Are there perhaps 'ground truth' URLs such as links into identities / VIAF which we can use? If so, what is the exact form of those URLs? cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates Library Tech

Re: [CODE4LIB] wikipedia/author disambiguation

2011-05-24 Thread stuart yeates
ers stuart -- Stuart Yeates Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/

Re: [CODE4LIB] wikipedia/author disambiguation

2011-05-26 Thread stuart yeates
/ I don't see you there yet though :-) //Ed On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 5:03 PM, Karen Coyle wrote: Hi, Ed. Do you pick up user pages or just wikipedia entry pages? (I added mine to my user page, just for fun.) kc -- Stuart Yeates Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/

Re: [CODE4LIB] wikipedia/author disambiguation

2011-06-01 Thread stuart yeates
lly update some of the en.wikipedia articles based on the viaf links in de.wikipedia. Could hurt to see how many there are I suppose. //Ed -- Stuart Yeates Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/

Re: [CODE4LIB] BibTeX, Refworks and Summon

2011-07-21 Thread stuart yeates
s likely to be your problem. BibTex is manipulated using a stack-based language not unlike PostScript. Likely the second '}' is popping an extra frame off the stack. cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Advice on a class

2011-07-26 Thread stuart yeates
er than this or that technology, I recommend that you start at http://csunplugged.org/ cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/

Re: [CODE4LIB] opds specification

2011-07-31 Thread stuart yeates
p://www.nzetc.org/etexts/Ba04Spo/Ba04SFco(t120).jpg"/> http://opds-spec.org/cover"; type="image/jpg" href="http://www.nzetc.org/etexts/Ba04Spo/Ba04SFco.jpg"/> Our system lets people use their eBook readers to subscribe to searches for things like &quo

Re: [CODE4LIB] opds specification

2011-07-31 Thread stuart yeates
t that explains the basic philosophy, and that doesn't use the term 'books' anywhere. I can't speak for anyone else, but I'm waiting for RDA (see http://www.loc.gov/bibliographic-future/rda/ ) in the hope that it solves all our representation problems. We may then hav

Re: [CODE4LIB] Seeking feedback on database design for an open source software registry

2011-08-03 Thread stuart yeates
Standards. They appear not to be mentioned at all. cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Seeking feedback on database design for an open source software registry

2011-08-04 Thread stuart yeates
dspace / fedora run in a servlet container (which is a standard) which depends on Java (which is both a standard and a project) would you be expecting to break those out? If so, that's a lot of entities and your proposed mockups are going to have to be redone; If not, you can’t do proper d

Re: [CODE4LIB] Summary of PhD findings and a final thank you!

2011-08-04 Thread stuart yeates
Chawner Senior Lecturer School of Information Management Victoria University of Wellington P O Box 600, Wellington NEW ZEALAND (04) 463 5780 | fax (04) 463 5446 | Room RH423 | brenda.chaw...@vuw.ac.nz -- Stuart Yeates Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Seeking feedback on database design for an open source software registry

2011-08-07 Thread stuart yeates
t visualisation is such a huge trend at the moment, good luck with that. cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Seeking feedback on database design for an open source software registry

2011-08-09 Thread stuart yeates
the "is the code commented?" metric. The more metrics are used, the more motivation there is to use tools (which admittedly have other motivations) which make a project look good. On Aug 7, 2011, at 4:10 PM, stuart yeates wrote: On 06/08/11 10:27, Peter Murray wrote: Well,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Names Added to ID.LOC.GOV

2011-08-10 Thread stuart yeates
, and Preservation Level Roles The above code lists also contain links with appropriate LCSH and LC/NAF headings. Additional vocabularies will be added in the future, including additional PREMIS controlled vocabularies. -- Stuart Yeates Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Web platform for digitized books

2011-09-08 Thread stuart yeates
ot withstanding the already proffered recommendations from various parties on the list. cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/

[CODE4LIB] MARC and Wikipedia

2011-11-06 Thread stuart yeates
Those with an interest in both MARC and Wikipedia may be interested in my latest blog post discussing work to munge MARC into Wikipedia. http://opensourceexile.blogspot.com/2011/11/recreational-authority-control.html cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates Library Technology Services http

Re: [CODE4LIB] Models of MARC in RDF

2011-12-06 Thread stuart yeates
istake before? cheers stuart -- Stuart Yeates Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Models of MARC in RDF

2011-12-06 Thread Stuart Yeates
> > A dream-team have no basis in reality, hence the "dream" part. > > Tell that to the 1992 U.S. Men's Olympic Basketball Team. So, the response to my suggestion of an unhelpful US bias is a US-based metaphor? I'll just consider my point proved. cheers stuart

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