Re: [CODE4LIB] links from finding aid to digital object

You could also try the EAD list if you need more examples. On Jan 15, 2014 8:45 AM, "Edward Summers" wrote: > Thanks for all the responses about linking finding aids to digital objects > yesterday — it was very helpful! I haven’t done much work (yet) looking to > see what the patterns are. But a

Re: [CODE4LIB] getty thesaurus, linked data, and sparql

You have to have some idea of what ontologies are being used and how they are used. The SPARQL endpoint gives you a list of the prefixes to prepend, but you still have to know what they are. The best way to learn about the structure of the data is to browse around. There aren't many example queries

Re: [CODE4LIB] ArchivesSpace v1.0.7 Released [linked data]

The issue here that I see is that D2RQ will expose the MySQL database structure as linked data in some sort of indecipherable ontology and the end result is probably useless. What Mark alludes to here is that the developers of ArchivesSpace could write scripts, inherent to the platform, that could

[CODE4LIB] xEAC, EAC-CPF publication framework, beta ready for testing

xEAC is an open-source XForms-based application for creating and managing EAC-CPF collections. The XForms backend allows editing of the XML documents in a web form, and relationships between source and target entities are maintained automatically. It is available at https://github.com/ewg118/xEAC.

Re: [CODE4LIB] ArchivesSpace v1.0.7 Released [linked data]

I think that RDFa provides the lowest barrier to entry. Using dcterms for publisher, creator, title, etc. is a good place to start, and if your collection (archival, library, museum) links to terms defined in LOD vocabulary systems (LCSH, Getty, LCNAF, whatever), output these URIs in the HTML inter

Re: [CODE4LIB] outside of libraryland,

LODLAM, LAWDI (linked ancient world data institute/initiative), CAA conference (computer applications in archaeology). On Mar 19, 2014 8:20 PM, "Coral Sheldon-Hess" wrote: > A co-founded and co-host a learn-to-code workshop "for women and friends," > locally. (Men are welcomed as long as they ar

[CODE4LIB] Archival linked open data: a discussion

thread in Google Groups: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/lod-lam/sIrCqZPaZ8c/discussion Ethan Gruber American Numismatic Society

[CODE4LIB] Fwd: [LAWDI] ISAW Papers 7 available

This may interest some people: current state of linked open data within classics/classical archaeology. These papers are from the NEH-funded Linked Ancient World Data Institute, held at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at NYU in 2012 and Drew University in 2013. Ethan -- F

Re: [CODE4LIB] New linked data set from North Carolina State University Libraries

This is great. I appreciate that you've included XSLT to transform MADS into other RDF serializations. I think that people will find this really useful in other projects. A minor point of contention, and it may start a debate, but I have been successfully convinced that skos:exactMatch and not owl

Re: [CODE4LIB] OAI Crosswalk XSLT

The source model seems inordinately complex. On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Matthew Sherman wrote: > I guess it is the "doc:element/doc:element/doc:field" thing that is mostly > what it throwing me. > > > On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Dunn, Katie wrote: > > > Hi Matt, > > > > The W3C Re

Re: [CODE4LIB] Creating a Linked Data Service

I agree with others saying linked data is overkill here. If you don't have an audience in mind or a specific purpose for implementing linked data, it's not worth it. On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Jason Stirnaman wrote: > Mike, > Check out > http://json-ld.org/, > http://json-ld.org/primer/lat

[CODE4LIB] xEAC advanced beta / pre-production release ready for further testing

development, as well as linked data methodologies applied to archival collections: http://eaditor.blogspot.com/ xEAC installation instructions: http://wiki.numismatics.org/xeac:xeac Ethan Gruber American Numismatic Society

Re: [CODE4LIB] Reconciling corporate names?

I would check with the developers of SNAC ( http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/), as they've spent a lot of time developing named entity recognition scripts for personal and corporate names. They might have something you can reuse. Ethan On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 3:47 PM, Galligan, Patrick wro

[CODE4LIB] Functional Archival Resource Keys

I was recently reading the wikipedia article for Archival Resource Keys (ARKs, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archival_Resource_Key), and there was a bit of functionality that a resource is supposed to deliver that we don't in our system, nor do any other systems that I've seen that implement ARK URI

Re: [CODE4LIB] Functional Archival Resource Keys

ular, the challenges posed by inflections are described in this > > DC2014 paper [0] by Sébastien Peyrard and Jean-Philippe Tramoni from the > > BNF and John A. Kunze from CDL. > > > > [0] http://dcpapers.dublincore.org/pubs/article/view/3704/1927 > > > > Cheers, &g

Re: [CODE4LIB] Functional Archival Resource Keys

7;?' by itself has no meaning in the URI spec, which means it's > > > also an opportunity to do something intuitive and important with an > > > unused portion of the "instruction space" (of strings that start out > > > looking like URLs). Any URLs (not j

Re: [CODE4LIB] rdf triplestores

I recently extended Fuseki to hook into a Solr index for geographic query for one of our linked data projects, and I'm happy with the results so far. It will open the door for us to build more sophisticated geographic visualizations. I have not extended Fuseki for Lucene/Solr based full text search

Re: [CODE4LIB] Restrict solr index results based on client IP

There are a few ways to do this, and yes, some version of #2 is desirable. I think it may depend on how specific these IP addresses are. Do you anticipate that one IP range may have access to X documents and a different IP range may have access to Y documents, or will all IP ranges have access to t

Re: [CODE4LIB] seeking linked data-based user interface examples in libraries

It depends on what you mean by interface. Are you just looking for social network visualizations or virtually any interface built on LOD (which may be quite varied and transparent to the point you don't even realize you are interacting with linked data)? Most of these social network graphs are gen

Re: [CODE4LIB] Library Hours

+1 on the RDFa and schema.org. For those that don't know the library URL off-hand, it is much easier to find a library website by Googling than it is to go through the central university portal, and the hours will show up at the top of the page after having been harvested by search engines. On Tue

Re: [CODE4LIB] XSLT Advice

You really just need to wrap the label in the xsl:text and the xsl:value of in an xsl:if that tests whether the value-of XPath returns a string. Vol. Issue If there's no name at all, you'd want to wrap an xsl:if around the dc:identifier so that you suppress an empty dc:identifier elem

Re: [CODE4LIB] eebo

Are these in TEI? Back when I worked for the University of Virginia Library, I did a lot of clean up work and migration of Chadwyck-Healey stuff into TEI-P4 compliant XML (thousands of files), but unfortunately all of the Perl scripts to migrate old garbage SGML into XML are probably gone. How ma

[CODE4LIB] Fwd: [LODLAM] seeking LODLAM Workshop Leaders

--Reusing and Building: Teach SPARQL as well as open source tools used to visualize single or multiple collections. Let us know if you can help! Please contact Jon Voss (jon.v...@shiftdesign.org.uk), Ethan Gruber ( ewg4x...@gmail.com), or Anne Gaynor (amgayn...@gmail.com) if you have any questi

[CODE4LIB] TEI->EPUB serialization testing

Hi all, I've been working on and off for a few months on a system for publishing ebooks, ETDs, and other digital library materials online to a more consolidated "Digital Library" application ( http://numismatics.org/digitallibrary). The framework ( https://github.com/AmericanNumismaticSociety/etdp

Re: [CODE4LIB] TEI->EPUB serialization testing

Thanks, Eric. Is the original code online anywhere? I will eventually write some XSL:FO to generate PDFs for people who want those, for some reason. On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 10:05 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > On Jan 13, 2016, at 4:17 PM, Ethan Gruber wrote: > > > Part of this gran

Re: [CODE4LIB] Getting started with Ruby and library-ish data (was RE: [CODE4LIB] You *are* a coder. So what am I?)

The language you choose is somewhat dependent on the data you're working with. I don't find that Ruby or PHP are particularly good at dealing with XML. They're passable for data manipulation and migration, but I wouldn't use them to render large collections of structured XML data, like EAD or TEI

Re: [CODE4LIB] GitHub Myths (was thanks and poetry)

Wordpress? On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 11:42 AM, Karen Coyle wrote: > Shaun, you cannot decide whether github is a barrier to entry FOR ME (or > anyone else), any more than you can decide whether or not my foot hurts. > I'm telling you github is NOT what I want to use. Period. > > I'm actually thin

[CODE4LIB] Fuseki and other SPARQL servers

Hi all, I have been playing around with Fuseki ( http://jena.apache.org/documentation/serving_data/index.html) for a few months to get my feet wet with accessing and querying RDF. I quite like it. I find it well documented and easy to set up. We will soon deploy a SPARQL server in a production e

Re: [CODE4LIB] Fuseki and other SPARQL servers

I've had no performance issues with it > whatever. > > Best, > Hugh > > On Feb 20, 2013, at 14:31 , Ethan Gruber wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I have been playing around with Fuseki ( > > http://jena.apache.org/documentation/serving_data/index.ht

Re: [CODE4LIB] Fuseki and other SPARQL servers

TDB as per the startup instruction: "fuseki-server --loc=DB /DatasetPathName" Ethan On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 3:02 PM, Ross Singer wrote: > On Feb 20, 2013, at 2:52 PM, Ethan Gruber wrote: > > > Hi Hugh, > > > > I have investigated the possibility of dep

Re: [CODE4LIB] Fuseki and other SPARQL servers

g the Fuseki server running on > the same machine as the SDB. > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of > Ethan Gruber > > Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 2:52 PM > > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND

Re: [CODE4LIB] You are a *pedantic* coder. So what am I?

Look, I'm sure we can list the many ways different languages fail to meet our expectations, but is this really a constructive line of conversation? -1 On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:40 PM, Justin Coyne wrote: > I did misspeak a bit. You can override static methods in Java. My major > issue is tha

Re: [CODE4LIB] Fuseki and other SPARQL servers

0,000+ SPARQL queries per day. That's not a lot by dbpedia standards, but I have no idea how that compares to average LAM systems. Thanks, Ethan On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Ethan Gruber wrote: > Thanks everyone for the info. This soothed my apprehensions of running > Fuseki

Re: [CODE4LIB] tiff2pdf, then back to pdf?

What's your use case in this scenario? Do you want to provide access to the PDFs over the web or are you using them as your archival format? You probably don't want to use PDF to achieve both objectives. Ethan On Apr 26, 2013 5:11 PM, "Edward M. Corrado" wrote: > This works sometimes. Well, it

[CODE4LIB] Visualizing RDF graphs

Hi all, I have a fair amount of data in a triplestore, and I'd like to experiment with different forms of visualization. I have found a few libraries for visualizing RDF graphs through Google, but they still seem relatively rudimentary. Does anyone on the list have recommendations? I'm looking

Re: [CODE4LIB] Visualizing RDF graphs

ark A. Matienzo wrote: > Hi Ethan, > > Have you looked at Payola? <https://github.com/payola/Payola> > > Mark > > -- > Mark A. Matienzo > Digital Archivist, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library > Technical Architect, ArchivesSpace > > > On Wed, M

Re: [CODE4LIB] Visualizing RDF graphs

Wow, that's pretty cool. I tried one of the dbpedia examples. I look forward to playing around with it with our data. Ethan On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 5:40 AM, raffaele messuti wrote: > Ethan Gruber wrote: > > This looks like it does what I want to do, but it requires Virtuoso a

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

+1 On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 3:00 PM, Richard Wallis < richard.wal...@dataliberate.com> wrote: > The Linked Data for the millions of resources in WorldCat.org is now > available as RDF/XML, JSON-LD, Turtle, and Triples via content-negotiation. > > Details: > > http://dataliberate.com/2013/06/conten

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

You'd write some javascript to query the service with every keystroke, e.g. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/suggest/?q=Hi replies with subjects beginning with "hi*" It looks like covo.js supports LCSH, so you could look into that. Ethan On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Joshua Welker wrote: > Thi

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

Are you referring to hierarchical sets of terms, like "United States--History--War with Mexico, 1845-1848"? This is an "earlier established term" of http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140201 (now labeled "Mexican War, 1846-1848"). Ed Summers or Kevin Ford are in a better position to discu

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

p on this project. > > > > Josh Welker > > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf > > Of Ethan Gruber > > Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 8:22 AM > > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU &g

[CODE4LIB] Machine tags and flickr commons

There is an enormous body of open photographs contributed by a myriad of libraries and museums to flickr. Is anyone aware of any efforts to associate machine tags with these photos, for example to georeference with geonames machine tags, tag people with VIAF ids, or categorize with LCSH ids? A qu

Re: [CODE4LIB] Python and Ruby

All languages other than assembly are boutique and must be eliminated like the cancer that they are. On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Ross Singer wrote: > What would you consider a "boutique" language? What isn't? > > -Ross. > > > On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Rich Wenger wrote: > > > Th

Re: [CODE4LIB] linked archival metadata: a guidebook

I'll implement your linked data specifications into EADitor as soon as they're ready. In fact, I began implementing Aaron Rubinstein's hybrid arch/dc ontology (http://gslis.simmons.edu/archival/arch/index.html) a few days ago. Ethan On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Stephen Marks wrote: > Hi Er

Re: [CODE4LIB] Subject Terms in Institutional Repositories

I'd hold off on AAT until the release of the Getty vocabularies as linked open data in the near future. No sense in investing time to purchase or otherwise harvest terms from the Getty's current framework when the architecture is going to change very soon. On a related note, the British Museum's

Re: [CODE4LIB] What do you want to learn about linked data?

There's a lot of really great linked data stuff going on in classical studies. The Pelagios project (http://pelagios-project.blogspot.com/) is one of the best examples because the bar for participation is set very low. The RDF model is very simple, linking objects (works of literature, sculpture,

Re: [CODE4LIB] W3C RDF Validation Workshop

RDF is not the be all end all for representing information, so I don't know if there is a point to defining a validation schema which can also be represented in RDF since requirements vary from model to model, project to project. If you were creating RDF/XML, you could enforce complex validation t

Re: [CODE4LIB] Expressing negatives and similar in RDF

+1 On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 8:51 AM, Esmé Cowles wrote: > Thomas- > > This isn't something I've run across yet. But one thing you could do is > create some URIs for different kinds of unknown/nonexistent titles: > > example:book1 dc:title example:unknownTitle > example:book2 dc:title example:no

Re: [CODE4LIB] CODE4LIB Digest - 12 Sep 2013 to 13 Sep 2013 (#2013-237)

Using SPARQL to validate seems like tremendous overhead. From the Gerber abstract: "A total of 55 rules have been defined representing the constraints and requirements of the OA Specification and Ontology. For each rule we have defined a SPARQL query to check compliance." I hope this isn't 55 SPAR

[CODE4LIB] Numismatic Data Standards and Ontologies Roundtable at CAA 2014

Andrew Meadows, Karsten Tolle, and David Wigg-Wolf invite participants for a roundtable on numismatic data standards and exchange, to be held at the Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) conference (http://caa2014.sciencesconf.org/), Paris, 22-25 April 2014. Coins sur

Re: [CODE4LIB] We should use HTTPS on code4lib.org

NSA broke it already On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 1:42 PM, William Denton wrote: > I think it's time we made everything on code4lib.org use HTTPS by default > and redirect people to HTTPS from HTTP when needed. (Right now there's an > outdated self-signed SSL certificate on the site, so someone took

Re: [CODE4LIB] rdf serialization

I think that the answer to #1 is that if you want or expect people to use your endpoint that you should document how it works: the ontologies, the models, and a variety of example SPARQL queries, ranging from simple to complex. The British Museum's SPARQL endpoint ( http://collection.britishmuseum

Re: [CODE4LIB] mass convert jpeg to pdf

I've done something like this in imagemagick, and it worked quite well, so I can vouch for this workflow. But just to clarify, I presume you will be creating static PDF files to place in the filesystem--not generate a PDF dynamically through Omeka when a user clicks to download a PDF (as in, Omeka

Re: [CODE4LIB] mass convert jpeg to pdf

On the same note, I've had good experiences with using adore djatoka to render jpeg2000 files. Maybe something better has since come along. I'm out of touch with this type of technology. On Nov 8, 2013 2:10 PM, "Edward Summers" wrote: > It is sad to me that converting to PDF for viewing off the W

Re: [CODE4LIB] mass convert jpeg to pdf

Does anyone have experience with an image zooming engine in conjunction with image annotation? I don't want end users to annotate things themselves, but allow them to click on annotations added by an archivist. Thanks, Ethan On Nov 8, 2013 4:39 PM, "Edward Summers" wrote: > I’m having trouble un

Re: [CODE4LIB] rdf triplestores

I've been using Apache Fuseki ( http://jena.apache.org/documentation/serving_data/) for almost a year, in production since the spring. It's a SPARQL server with a built in TBD. It's easy to use, and takes about 5 minutes to get working on your desktop or server. Ethan On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 1:

Re: [CODE4LIB] Charlotte, NC Code4Lib Meeting

I'm in Virginia and might attend said meeting, even if I can't help organize. On Nov 12, 2013 6:35 PM, "Riley Childs" wrote: > Is anyone in Charlotte, NC (and surrounding areas) interested in starting a > Code4Lib meeting? > Just kind of asking :{D! > *Riley Childs* > *Library Technology Manager

Re: [CODE4LIB] Charlotte, NC Code4Lib Meeting

Asheville +1 On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 4:20 PM, Simon Spero wrote: > Anyone thought about doing a code4lib in Asheville? > What about Raleigh? > :-P > On Nov 12, 2013 8:42 PM, "Kevin S. Clarke" wrote: > > > I'd be interested. I'm in Boone... not too far a drive. :) > > > > Kevin > > On Nov 12, 2

Re: [CODE4LIB] linked data recipe

I'm not sure that I agree that RDF is not a serialization. It really depends on the context of the system and intended use of the linked data. For example, TEI is designed with a specific purpose which cannot be replicated in RDF (at least, not very easily at all), but deriving RDF from highly-lin

Re: [CODE4LIB] linked data recipe

; > > On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 10:31 AM, Ethan Gruber wrote: > > > I'm not sure that I agree that RDF is not a serialization. It really > > depends on the context of the system and intended use of the linked data. > > For example, TEI is designed with a specific purpo

Re: [CODE4LIB] linked data recipe

a data model *not* a serialization. > > -Ross. > > > On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Ethan Gruber wrote: > > > I see that serialization has a different definition in computer science > > than I thought it did. > > > > > > On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 10

Re: [CODE4LIB] linked data recipe

Hasn't the pendulum swung back toward RDFa Lite ( http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-lite/) recently? They are fairly equivalent, but I'm not sure about all the politics involved. On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 11:09 AM, Karen Coyle wrote: > Eric, if you want to leap into the linked data world in the fastest,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Batch loading in fedora

What does the EAD plugin do? I haven't heard much about it. Ethan On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Adam Wead wrote: > Hardy, > > Here's the task: > > http://github.com/awead/rocklight/blob/master/lib/tasks/fedora.rake > > I just threw up the project on git, so there's not much explanation of

Re: [CODE4LIB] Batch loading in fedora

b.com/jronallo/blacklight_ext_ead_simple > > > > -Original Message- > From: Code for Libraries on behalf of Ethan Gruber > Sent: Fri 7/30/2010 10:06 AM > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Batch loading in fedora > > What does the EAD plugin do? I haven

[CODE4LIB] EADitor 0.8 beta available for download

and I'll provide a link. Comments and criticism welcome, Ethan Gruber

Re: [CODE4LIB] EAD in Blacklight (was: Re: [CODE4LIB] Batch loading in fedora)

sts' Toolkit EAD XML doc. The problem with the SAX parsing is > that you have to deal with all the craziness of EAD as it is streaming > at you. I have something basically working, if messy, which I hope to > have up on github soon. > > Please let me know if you have any other ques

Re: [CODE4LIB] EAD in Blacklight (was: Re: [CODE4LIB] Batch loading in fedora)

I also think it's better to store EAD in a separate system rather than in the Solr index, that way you can use blacklight to serialize it or store a reference to a separate delivery system. Bess's and Matt's approach to storing the whole collection (EAD file) as a solr document in addition to maki

Re: [CODE4LIB] EAD in Blacklight (was: Re: [CODE4LIB] Batch loading in fedora)

Hi Adam, I posted an update last Friday on a project I have been working on since last fall called EADitor, an XForms application for creating, managing, and publishing EAD collections. I'm using an eXist datastore, but one could adapt the XForms application to load and save data to and from anot

Re: [CODE4LIB] EAD in Blacklight (was: Re: [CODE4LIB] Batch loading in fedora)

Hey Eric, Sounds like a good plan, but I wanted to throw in my two cents on your workflow. is intended to be an optional element and describe an actual unique identifier that the object or collection has been given by the hosting institution. For example, accession number. isn't absolutely in

Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for a Word to EAD converter

Hi Daniel, I don't see how this will be possible. A program can't make semantically appropriate decisions for mapping prose to EAD tags. You'll just have to go with the copy-paste method in something like oXygen. Ethan Gruber On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Cornwall

Re: [CODE4LIB] Looking for a Word to EAD converter

I think a lot of people have hit the nail on the head. One has to weigh the time and effort for creating/modifying the script and doing QA on the result vs. the time it takes to encode the docs as text files from scratch. I think that someone who is well-trained in EAD would be much faster per do

Re: [CODE4LIB] converting video DVDs to something that will play on the web

Hi Ginny, What operating system will you be using to do this work? Ethan On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 2:34 PM, Browne,Ginny wrote: > We have a bunch of DVDs that we converted from VHS tapes. And now we > would like to put them on the web, but we need some sort of converter > from the DVD format to

Re: [CODE4LIB] converting video DVDs to something that will play on the web

It's been awhile since I've done AV stuff, but I recall handbrake being a pretty simple, but good tool for ripping the DVDs. For streaming, depending on aspect ratio of the source video, you might want something no larger than 720x480 (though probably smaller since this is more or less DVD resolut

Re: [CODE4LIB] mailing list administratativia

Come on guys, I was just getting my popcorn ready. On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 8:24 PM, Mike Taylor wrote: > We have now used one third of today's allocation in discussing the > size of the daily allocation. Just sayin', is all. > > > > > On 28 October 2010 01:04, Peter Murray wrote: > > David --

Re: [CODE4LIB] HTML Load Time

Hi Nathan, A 5 MB EAD XML file will result in an HTML file of at least that size, so certainly 5 MB will result in a long load time for people on a slower DSL connection, or God forbid, dialup (does dialup still exist?). A few questions first: Are your finding aids transformed into HTML files tha

Re: [CODE4LIB] Solr and AJAX

ynamically generated from Ajax calls to a Cocoon pipeline that queries Solr and returns results in the form of KML. Ethan Gruber American Numismatic Society On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 5:01 AM, Mike Taylor wrote: > Did you consider using an existing open-source project to provide the > AJAXy

Re: [CODE4LIB] Solr and AJAX

As an addendum to my previous email about ajax/solr/openlayers, here's a post detailing the work: http://numishare.blogspot.com/2011/02/american-numismatic-society-collection.html Ethan On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 9:10 AM, Ethan Gruber wrote: > I've done a lot of ajax/Solr stuff wi

[CODE4LIB] EADitor: XForms for EAD beta .1105 released

Apologies to those who may also be on the EAD list who would have already received this email. EADitor is one of several active XForms projects detailed in "XForms for Libraries: An Introduction", an article in the 11th issue of the code4lib journal (http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/3916) ***

Re: [CODE4LIB] exposing website visitor IP addresses to webcrawlers

My opinion is that this is a breach of privacy and very dangerous. Ethan On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Keith Jenkins wrote: > Just out of curiosity, does anyone on this list have any opinions > about whether website owners should publicly post lists of their > visitors' IP addresses (or hos

[CODE4LIB] New xforms4lib Google Group

Hi all, While I imagine that most people on the old xforms4lib list are also on code4lib and will thus get duplicative emails, I wanted to briefly announce that xforms4lib is migrating to a Google Group. This will provide greater flexibility than the old system, which required list admins to be U

Re: [CODE4LIB] mailing list

True, but I'm hesitant to post mundane bits of code that are irrelevant to most of the user base here. It may be worth discussing XForms in more detail on code4lib, though, since the xforms4lib list never quite took off with only a handful of emails in a year and a half. Ethan On Sat, May 28, 20

[CODE4LIB] A "right" way for recording a place name?

Hi all, I've just about completed a new XForms-based interface for querying geonames.org to populate the element in EAD. An XML representation of a geographical place returned by the geonames APIs includes its name, e.g., Springfield, country name, and several levels administrative names (Sangam

Re: [CODE4LIB] A "right" way for recording a place name?

ons ("MA", "PA"). > > I thought there might be some way to use id.loc.gov but for some > reason none of your example LCSHeadings show up in a search for > "springfield" -- maybe place headings are not comprehensively included > in id.loc.gov? > >

Re: [CODE4LIB] A "right" way for recording a place name?

difference between Springfield, PA the "town" and > Springfield, PA the "Township", namely, that the latter includes more than > just the town of Springfield. > > Daniel > > > -Original Message- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTS

[CODE4LIB] VIAF APIs

Hi all, I'm assuming someone who works on the VIAF project at OCLC is on the list-- Are there APIs for querying VIAF? For example, is it possible to get a query response (e.g. http://viaf.org/viaf/search?query=local.names+all+%22alexander%22&stylesheet=/viaf/xsl/results.xsl&sortKeys=holdingscoun

Re: [CODE4LIB] VIAF APIs

ing-api > > To get XML back for the query you sent just add &httpAccept=text/xml > on the end of the query. > > This will get you XML output. It will look like HTML in your browser, > but if you view source you'll see the XML. > > Karen > > On Wed, Jun 8, 2011

Re: [CODE4LIB] OCLC Search API with blank ISBN always returns The Social Network

Because Trent Reznor is the center of all things. On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 4:02 PM, Brice Stacey wrote: > When I query OCLC's Search API with a blank ISBN, I always get The > Social Network's soundtrack. Anyone want to take a guess at why that is > so? Here is the URL. You'll need to plug in your

Re: [CODE4LIB] xml stylesheet question

+1 for Shawn's example. Ethan On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Shawn Averkamp wrote: > You could also combine the best of both solutions with: > > > > >Subject > > ( > ) > > : > > > > > > > ...which would allo

[CODE4LIB] METS question for @USE in file/fileGrp

Hi all, According to the METS schema, the USE attribute is " A tagging attribute to indicate the intended use of files within this file group (e.g., master, reference, thumbnails for image files)." I'm using the mets:fileSec to capture images of a coin within a larger numismatic XML schema. The @

Re: [CODE4LIB] Examples of Web Service APIs in Academic & Public Libraries

Hi, At the American Numismatic Society (A LAM/academic research organization), we're using APIs for: geonames.org (geographic places) viaf.org (personal and corporate names) flickr id.loc.gov (Atom feed for LCSH) google docs Atom feed We're looking into Worldcat APIs and have developed some of o

Re: [CODE4LIB] Ontology Question

Have you considered EAC-CPF? On Fri, Nov 11, 2011 at 10:54 AM, Lepczyk, Timothy wrote: > Hi, > > So, what we are doing is establishing the relationships between people and > organizations from a set of court cases where slaves sued for their > freedom. Those interested can get a bit more informat

[CODE4LIB] EADitor December 2011 (.1112) beta released

s welcome! Best, Ethan Gruber American Numismatic Society

Re: [CODE4LIB] Linux Laptop

Depends on how much you want to pay. You can buy any laptop at BestBuy, Target, etc., format it when you bring it home, and put Linux on it. Unfortunately a portion of the cost of the laptop goes to the Windows 7 license, but that's almost inescapable. Even still, you can get a pretty good laptop

Re: [CODE4LIB] Linux Laptop

How much futzing around is required on MacOS since it doesn't have a good package manager? On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Dave Caroline wrote: > You just cannot do the technical futzing easily on mac or doze, I too > am a Ubuntu user on my desktop and servers > getting stuff done web wise is

[CODE4LIB] Embedding XHTML into RDF

Hi all, Suppose I have RDF describing an object, and I would like some fairly free-form human generating description about the object (let's say within ). Is it semantically acceptable to have XHTML nested directly in this element or would this be considered uncouth for LOD? Thanks, Ethan

Re: [CODE4LIB] Embedding XHTML into RDF

; On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Ethan Gruber wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > Suppose I have RDF describing an object, and I would like some > > fairly free-form human generating description about the object (let's say > > within ). Is it semantically acceptab

[CODE4LIB] Announcement for Linked Ancient World Data Institute May 31-June 2, 2012, NYC

*Applications due February 17* New York University’s Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW) will host the Linked Ancient World Data Institute (LAWDI) from May 31st to June 2nd, 2012 in New York City. “Linked Open Data” is

Re: [CODE4LIB] Why are we afraid to criticize library software in public?

+1 On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: > On 1/25/2012 1:13 PM, Kyle Banerjee wrote: > >> itself. For example, there's a system used for many digital archives that >> splits a field in two anytime a field that needs to be represented by an >> XML entity is encountered. Name

Re: [CODE4LIB] Metadata war stories...

EDIT ME http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=uva-sc/viu00888.xml;query=;brand=default#adminlink On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 6:26 PM, Roy Tennant wrote: > Oh, I should have also mentioned that some of the worst problems occur > when people treat their metadata like it will never leave

Re: [CODE4LIB] Job: Head, Digital Projects & Metadata, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University

Why are MLS degrees always required for these sorts of jobs? Ethan On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 4:21 PM, wrote: > Yale University offers exciting opportunities for achievement and growth in > New Haven, Connecticut. Conveniently located between Boston and New York, > New > Haven is the creative capit

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