Re: [CODE4LIB] how to unsubscribe this list?

2014-02-20 Thread LeVan,Ralph
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=unsubscribe+code4lib Ralph -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Joe Hourcle Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2014 11:41 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: how to unsubscribe this list? On Feb 20, 2014, at 9

Re: [CODE4LIB] viaf

2014-04-08 Thread LeVan,Ralph
Sorry, Eric! We've known about this problem for a couple of weeks now and had the fix in place, but touching a production system requires motivation. I'll push to get the fix installed this week. In the meantime, here's a pointer to the file you're supposed to get when you ask for viaf.org/au

Re: [CODE4LIB] Ez proxy -deliver message saying why not authenticated

2014-05-12 Thread LeVan,Ralph
Hi Amy! That sort of information is generally considered to be a security violation. If someone is probing your system, being told that they got the ID right and all they have left is to figure out the password is a big help. I'm afraid that unhelpful messages are best for unverified clients.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Ez proxy -deliver message saying why not authenticated

2014-05-12 Thread LeVan,Ralph
niversity, L212 http://library.boisestate.edu (208) 426-1625 On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 12:18 PM, LeVan,Ralph wrote: > Hi Amy! > > That sort of information is generally considered to be a security > violation. If someone is probing your system, being told that they > got the ID

[CODE4LIB] FW: OpenRefine Usage Survey 2014

2014-07-18 Thread LeVan,Ralph
From: openrefine-...@googlegroups.com [mailto:openrefine-...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Martin Magdinier Sent: Friday, July 18, 2014 10:23 AM To: openrefine-...@googlegroups.com Subject: OpenRefine Usage Survey 2014 Hello, Take the survey Earlier this year the communit

Re: [CODE4LIB] Conference photography policy

2015-01-26 Thread LeVan,Ralph
I think this is all good stuff too, but my old Hippy soul cringes at unnecessary paperwork. A consent form means nothing. Situations change. Even a well-intended agreement sometimes needs to be reneged on. I think it's just best that the presenters understand what the best hopes for their pr

Re: [CODE4LIB] Vote for Code4lib 2016 location

2015-02-24 Thread LeVan,Ralph
I have never successfully gotten an ID and I seem to be failing again. Is 24hrs a normal amount of time to have to wait for authorization? (Not complaining, exactly, just wondering. I'd have sent this note to an administrator if there were any indication of who that might be on the Conference

Re: [CODE4LIB] Vote for Code4lib 2016 location

2015-02-24 Thread LeVan,Ralph
should be all set. Yes, 24 hours is normal to wait, even during conference voting I only check for new accounts about once a day. Ryan Wick -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of LeVan,Ralph Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 1:47 PM To

Re: [CODE4LIB] Auto discovery of Dewey, UDC

2015-06-12 Thread LeVan,Ralph
This is as close to an official statement as I can find: http://www.oclc.org/developer/news/2015/dewey-down.en.html I've asked around, but can't add anything to that. Ralph -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Karen Coyle Sent: Frid

Re: [CODE4LIB] Auto discovery of Dewey, UDC

2015-06-14 Thread LeVan,Ralph
?June? ?14?, ?2015 ?11?:?17? ?AM To: Code for Libraries<mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU> On 12 June 2015, LeVan,Ralph wrote: > This is as close to an official statement as I can find: > > http://www.oclc.org/developer/news/2015/dewey-down.en.html "We've decided to take D

Re: [CODE4LIB] "coders for libraries"

2015-09-01 Thread LeVan,Ralph
Sorry, but I believe that's our line. Ralph Ralph LeVan OCLC - Senior Research Scientist, OCLC Research 6565 Kilgour Place, Dublin, Ohio 43017 T +1.614-764-6115 www.oclc.org -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of BWS Johnson Sent: T

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib services and https

2015-09-17 Thread LeVan,Ralph
I forwarded the VIAF complaint to our network folks. They were able to fix it some, but a complete fix will not happen for a while. Here's their message: I changed the load balancer parameters for this farm viaf.org:443 to raise the "grade" from "F" to "C". To get it higher wi

Re: [CODE4LIB] VIAF https certs

2016-02-01 Thread LeVan,Ralph
Hmm. Our network folks had gotten that up to a C back in September and promised an OS upgrade to our load balancers to fix the remaining problems. I'll rattle their cages again. Thanks for checking! Ralph -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On

Re: [CODE4LIB] personal name api

2013-01-28 Thread LeVan,Ralph
That would be amusing to build. Many VIAF records have a gender specified in them. We could aggregate counts for each name and report back those counts. You'd have to decide whether being male 9 times out of 10 is a high enough confidence level for you. Not saying that service exists, just that

Re: [CODE4LIB] Editing Code4lib Wiki

2013-02-07 Thread LeVan,Ralph
We've had a similar, possibly related, problem with the code4lib list in the past. Perhaps the same problem occurs with the wiki email. The issue occurs when an email is sent out to a person, claiming to be from that person. Postini sees that and interprets it as an attempt to spoof email hea

Re: [CODE4LIB] LOC Subject Headings API

2013-06-06 Thread LeVan,Ralph
There's also an autosuggester for FAST. http://oclc.org/developer/services/assignfast Ralph -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Karen Coyle Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 4:23 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: LOC Subject

Re: [CODE4LIB] "or" queries against Horizon Z39.50 servers?

2013-09-20 Thread LeVan,Ralph
I can't say anything about the horizon server. But I have a suggestion. It's possible that server is configured to not support Booleans (either on that index or at all) and is blowing the trivial error response. If this is the case, there may be a workaround. Instead of explicitly ORing them

Re: [CODE4LIB] The lie of the API

2013-12-01 Thread LeVan,Ralph
I'm confused about the supposed distinction between content negotiation and explicit content request in a URL. The reason I'm confused is that the response to content negotiation is supposed to be a content location header with a URL that is guaranteed to return the negotiated content. In othe

[CODE4LIB] User Registration and Authentication for a Tomcat webapp?

2013-12-01 Thread LeVan,Ralph
OCLC Research is building an ILL Cost Calculator. We'll be asking institutions to enter information about their ILL practices and costs and then supporting mechanisms for generating reports based on that data. (Dennis Massie is leading this work in Research and he really should have a page abo

Re: [CODE4LIB] The lie of the API

2013-12-01 Thread LeVan,Ralph
of a redirect status code. Ralph From: Code for Libraries on behalf of Joe Hourcle Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2013 6:39 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: The lie of the API On Dec 1, 2013, at 3:51 PM, LeVan,Ralph wrote: > I'm confu

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

2010-10-07 Thread LeVan,Ralph
> -Original Message- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of > Ross Singer > > Eric, is this your source file? > > http://ia341306.us.archive.org/1/items/bienfaitsducatho00pina/bienfaitsd ucatho0 > 0pina_meta.mrc If that is the record you're looking at,

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

2010-10-07 Thread LeVan,Ralph
So excited to say marc-8 in a message that I misspoke. UTF-8 to latin-1 conversion. Ralph > -Original Message- > From: LeVan,Ralph > Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 10:35 AM > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Subject: RE: [CODE4LIB] unwanted (bogus) cha

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Community Sponsorship

2011-01-13 Thread LeVan,Ralph
+1 Just what I was going to say (except I didn't know about the rollover to next year option.) Thanks, Kevin! Ralph > -Original Message- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of > Kevin S. Clarke > Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2011 11:30 AM > To: CODE4LI

Re: [CODE4LIB] Ranking factors for library resources: Who really uses what?

2011-02-16 Thread LeVan,Ralph
As you pointed out, WorldCat does all sorts of tricky ranking. I believe there's a dashboard that they use for tuning the ranking. Library holdings count, term frequencies, availability, FRBR, and locality are all facets of that ranking. In OCLC Research we do practically nothing without some sor

Re: [CODE4LIB] Controlled Vocabulary DB: RESTful CRU[D]

2011-03-01 Thread LeVan,Ralph
I'm not sure if you're asking for a terminology management system or database functionality. I have the latter and we might be able to make it work for you. I've got an Open Source SRW/U (oclcsrw.googlecode.com) server with Atom Pub functionality built into it. The server just acts as a protoc

Re: [CODE4LIB] dealing with Summon

2011-03-02 Thread LeVan,Ralph
Yes, the draft version of SRU 2.0 does include support for facets. The functionality is based on the SOLR documentation of facets with perhaps some slight simplification. None of the editors of the standard are active facet users, so comments on that feature in our draft would be appreciated.

Re: [CODE4LIB] facets in Atom feeds

2011-03-03 Thread LeVan,Ralph
> -Original Message- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of > Jonathan Rochkind > > [I agree that simply copying the Solr API for a standard like SRU is not > the way to go -- Solr is an application that supports various low-level > things that are not ap

Re: [CODE4LIB] utf8 "\xC2" does not map to Unicode

2011-04-06 Thread LeVan,Ralph
Can you share the record somewhere? I suspect many of us have tools we can turn loose on it. Ralph > -Original Message- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of > Jonathan Rochkind > Sent: Wednesday, April 06, 2011 4:28 PM > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU >

Re: [CODE4LIB] utf8 "\xC2" does not map to Unicode

2011-04-06 Thread LeVan,Ralph
t map to Unicode > > On Apr 6, 2011, at 4:46 PM, LeVan,Ralph wrote: > > >> Ack! While using the venerable Perl MARC::Batch module I get the > >> following error while trying to read a MARC record: > >> > >> utf8 "\xC2" does not map to Unic

Re: [CODE4LIB] LCSH and Linked Data

2011-04-07 Thread LeVan,Ralph
If you look at the fields those names come from, I think they mean England as a corporation, not England as a place. Ralph > -Original Message- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of > Owen Stephens > Sent: Thursday, April 07, 2011 11:28 AM > To: CODE4LI

Re: [CODE4LIB] LCSH and Linked Data

2011-04-07 Thread LeVan,Ralph
11:56 AM To: Code for Libraries Cc: LeVan,Ralph; Houghton,Andrew Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LCSH and Linked Data Ralph, Owen's pointing to a list where corporate (110) and geographic names (151) are mixed. Thanks Owen, I haven't seen that the first time. I guess you got that mixe

[CODE4LIB] Listserv help desperately needed!

2011-04-11 Thread LeVan,Ralph
When an OCLC staff member sends a message to this list (and possibly all lists) the rest of us in the company don't see the message. Worse yet, the company email system rejects the email to us and the sending listserv eventually gets tired of that and unsubscribes us from the list. We can't be

Re: [CODE4LIB] Listserv help desperately needed!

2011-04-12 Thread LeVan,Ralph
This is too funny! Devon and I just got unsubscribed today! Probably because our mail server rejected Jeff's messages to the list. Ralph From: LeVan,Ralph Sent: Monday, April 11, 2011 3:32 PM To: Code for Libraries Subject: Listserv help desperately needed! When an OCLC staff m

Re: [CODE4LIB] Listserv help desperately needed!

2011-04-12 Thread LeVan,Ralph
> -Original Message- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of > Eric Lease Morgan > > > This is too funny! Devon and I just got unsubscribed today! Probably > > because our mail server rejected Jeff's messages to the list. > > > And too weird. I will take

Re: [CODE4LIB] Listserv help desperately needed!

2011-04-12 Thread LeVan,Ralph
> -Original Message- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of > Peter Murray > > For what it is worth, my employer is using Postini, and Code4Lib messages > seem to be a disproportionate number of the ones caught in the "held-for- > content" filter. Perhap

Re: [CODE4LIB] Listserv help desperately needed!

2011-04-12 Thread LeVan,Ralph
> -Original Message- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of > Danielle Plumer > > It's not an elegant solution, but I have a duplicate subscription using > my Google account, for much the same reason. I disagree! It is an elegant solution! If I can't g

Re: [CODE4LIB] Listserv help desperately needed!

2011-04-12 Thread LeVan,Ralph
> -Original Message- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of > Colford, Scot > > You should just be able to ask your mail admin to whitelist list messages from > the nd.edu mailserver, oughtn't you? We get messages from the list just fine, as long as they

Re: [CODE4LIB] Listserv help desperately needed!

2011-04-12 Thread LeVan,Ralph
Michael Kreyche > Systems Librarian / Associate Professor > University Libraries > Kent State University > 330-672-1918 > > > -Original Message- > > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf > Of > > LeVan,Ralph > > Sent: Mo

Re: [CODE4LIB] linked data endpoints

2011-05-17 Thread LeVan,Ralph
> -Original Message- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of > Eric Lease Morgan > Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 11:23 AM > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] linked data endpoints > > > What are some of the ways to best insert Linked Dat

Re: [CODE4LIB] wikipedia/author disambiguation

2011-05-23 Thread LeVan,Ralph
I think you misunderstood that Ya'aqov. What we do is make local authority records out of the Wikipedia records that we've identified as names. So the adding dates and stuff is to the local authority record of that Wikipedia record. We then use our usual VIAF matching technology between those

[CODE4LIB] Test

2011-07-15 Thread LeVan,Ralph
The Code4lib list server has a bug. When I send an email to the list, it gets forwarded to the members of the list with my email address in the FROM header. Email to OCLC goes through Postini and Postini clearly recognizes that an email originating from ND.EDU is not email from OCLC and rejects i

[CODE4LIB] yet another test

2011-07-18 Thread LeVan,Ralph
test

[CODE4LIB] listserv test

2011-08-25 Thread LeVan,Ralph
If anyone from OCLC gets this in their company email, let me know. It will mean that we've worked around the listserv problem. Thanks! Ralph

Re: [CODE4LIB] Job Posting: Digital Library Repository Developer, Boston Public Library (Boston, MA)

2011-09-27 Thread LeVan,Ralph
I think it's a fair question and appropriate for this list. (Says another OCLC employee.) Ralph > -Original Message- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of > Ya'aqov Ziso > Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 1:09 PM > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Subj

Re: [CODE4LIB] Job Posting: Digital Library Repository Developer, Boston Public Library (Boston, MA)

2011-09-28 Thread LeVan,Ralph
I demand that the investigation be expanded to include Andy Houghton, Karen Coombs, Ralph LeVan, Devon Smith, Thom Hickey, Doug Loynes and Michael Panzer! These people have clearly had a pernicious impact on this list and the general business of libraries! Ralph > -Original Message- > Fr

Re: [CODE4LIB] Last Call for T-shirt voting

2011-12-14 Thread LeVan,Ralph
It's a shame you have to be registered even to see the shirts. :( Ralph -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Angie Beiriger Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2011 12:00 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Last Call for T-shirt voting

Re: [CODE4LIB] Last Call for T-shirt voting

2011-12-14 Thread LeVan,Ralph
exactly. > > In fact, I WAS registered, once a upon a time, but it seems the system > has forgotten my old username/password. And I really don't want to > re-register just to look at T-shirts. > > -- Mike. > > > > On 14 December 2011 17:10, LeVan,Ralph wrote: &

Re: [CODE4LIB] implemented Microdata and/or Schema.org?

2012-01-04 Thread LeVan,Ralph
OCLC Research has added schema.org tags to our development copy of WorldCat Identities. That development service can be found at http://orlabs.oclc.org/identities. I expect it to move to production in the next month. Ralph -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LIS

[CODE4LIB] FW: institutional fair use policies for digitized image collections

2012-01-05 Thread LeVan,Ralph
ry 04, 2012 2:24 PM To: LeVan,Ralph; OPORS Subject: RE: institutional fair use policies for digitized image collections The Well-Intentioned Practice document! http://www.oclc.org/research/activities/rights/practice.pdf While focused on collections of unpublished works (which often have compl

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open datasets

2012-01-11 Thread LeVan,Ralph
http://staff.oclc.org/~levan/PearsTraining/scifi.usmarc has 10,000 marc records in it. They are part of the old SiteSearch system that OCLC released as open source. They date back to 2002 and will not contain any Unicode, if you were hoping to include that as part of your testing. Ralph -Or

Re: [CODE4LIB] Auto-suggest and the id.loc.gov LCSH web service

2009-12-07 Thread LeVan,Ralph
Here in OCLC Research we've been experimenting with AutoSuggester services. The folks in charge of our copy of LCSH are considering putting up an AutoSuggester for that. I'll let you know in the next couple of days how that goes. To make the service work at keystroke speeds, we've had to precalc

Re: [CODE4LIB] Auto-suggest and the id.loc.gov LCSH web service

2009-12-07 Thread LeVan,Ralph
That looks more like an old-style index browse than what I'd think of as a suggestion. You've returned nothing until the user has typed enough characters to restrict the number of index terms to be returned to a rational number. An example of the difference between an Index Browse and AutoSugge

Re: [CODE4LIB] Auto-suggest and the id.loc.gov LCSH web service

2009-12-07 Thread LeVan,Ralph
> -Original Message- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of > Ed Summers > Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 3:39 PM > > What are you using for relevancy ranking in the VIAF AutoSuggester? For VIAF, rankings are calculated based on the number of institutio

Re: [CODE4LIB] Auto-suggest and the id.loc.gov LCSH web service

2009-12-10 Thread LeVan,Ralph
We've made some progress on this topic. I have available a list of our FAST subject headings. They are derived from LCSH and may be of some use. The folks that produced this file are working on producing a similar file for LCSH. The file can be found at http://orlabs.oclc.org/FAST/fastOutput.zi

Re: [CODE4LIB] Auto-suggest and the id.loc.gov LCSH web service

2009-12-10 Thread LeVan,Ralph
the moral equivalent of Lucene and you see the results in that SRU search. The file can be found at http://orlabs.oclc.org/FAST/AutoSuggestFAST.zip Let me know if you have any problems or questions. Ralph > -----Original Message- > From: LeVan,Ralph > Sent: Thursday, De

Re: [CODE4LIB] Auto-suggest and the id.loc.gov LCSH web service

2009-12-10 Thread LeVan,Ralph
ed. It's extremely fast, so I have no doubt I can use it for > autosuggest per keystroke. > > Ethan > > On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 4:07 PM, LeVan,Ralph wrote: > > > In a rare demonstration of doing as promised, I have a FAST > > AutoSuggester running based on that data.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Auto-suggest and the id.loc.gov LCSH web service

2009-12-10 Thread LeVan,Ralph
> 3. is there anything in the process that I missed also the indication of the > relationship between main heading ŒGlobal warming¹ and cross reference > ŒWarming, global? > > Ya¹aqov > > > > > On 12/10/09 4:07 PM, "LeVan,Ralph" wrote: > > > In a

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Midwest?

2010-03-05 Thread LeVan,Ralph
+1 I suspect a few of us from OCLC would attend. Ralph > -Original Message- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of > Scott Garrison > Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 8:37 AM > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Midwest? > > +1

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q: XML2JSON converter

2010-03-05 Thread LeVan,Ralph
> -Original Message- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of > Bill Dueber > > I really do understand the desire to make this parallel to marc-xml, but > there's a seem between the two technologies that makes that a problematic > approach. As a confession

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib midwest conference call NOW

2010-03-11 Thread LeVan,Ralph
May 21 in South Bend has been picked as the central date. A Doodle Poll has been created to see whether there is interest in some combination of whole and half days around that date: http://www.doodle.com/a4ccm6ctucpawhyi The details of how we'll try to fill that time are TBD. That conversati

Re: [CODE4LIB] WorldCat Terminologies

2010-03-19 Thread LeVan,Ralph
I hate to muddy the waters, but I can't resist here. Research also exposes a copy of the LC NAF at http://alcme.oclc.org/srw/search/lcnaf It gets updated every Tuesday night. This is something I've been maintaining for years and is what Identities points at when you ask to see the NAF record a

Re: [CODE4LIB] WorldCat Terminologies

2010-03-21 Thread LeVan,Ralph
get around to figuring out how to write code for. From: Code for Libraries [code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Karen Coyle [li...@kcoyle.net] Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 11:29 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] WorldCat Termin

Re: [CODE4LIB] WorldCat Terminologies

2010-03-21 Thread LeVan,Ralph
alf Of Karen Coyle [li...@kcoyle.net] Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 11:29 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] WorldCat Terminologies Quoting "LeVan,Ralph" : > I hate to muddy the waters, but I can't resist here. > > Research also exposes

Re: [CODE4LIB] WorldCat Terminologies

2010-03-25 Thread LeVan,Ralph
n Coyle > Sent: Saturday, March 20, 2010 11:30 AM > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] WorldCat Terminologies > > Quoting "LeVan,Ralph" : > > > I hate to muddy the waters, but I can't resist here. > > > > Research also exposes a

Re: [CODE4LIB] Sub-mailing lists

2010-04-08 Thread LeVan,Ralph
*Red Letter Day!* :-) I agree with Mike. Ralph > -Original Message- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of > Mike Taylor > Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2010 8:33 AM > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Sub-mailing lists > > For whateve

Re: [CODE4LIB] SRU/ZeeRex explain question : record schemas

2010-04-30 Thread LeVan,Ralph
There's a element right under the element that carries that data. Here's a pointer to the Explain record for my LCNAF database. http://alcme.oclc.org/srw/search/lcnaf Don't let the browser fool you! View the source and you'll see the actual XML that was returned. The schemaInfo element is to

Re: [CODE4LIB] OASIS SRU and CQL, access to most-current drafts

2010-05-17 Thread LeVan,Ralph
I'd code it. (I have already coded to it.) For me, the httpAccept parameter and support for content negotiation on responses is a wonderful addition to the standard. It lets us be OpenSearch compliant finally. The virtue of coding to the draft is that there's a chance we can fix any problems yo

[CODE4LIB] Inlining HTTP Headers in URLs

2010-06-01 Thread LeVan,Ralph
I've been sensing a flaw in HTTP for some time now. It seems like you ought to be able to do everything through a URL that you can using a complete interface to HTTP. Specifically, I'd love to be able to specify values for HTTP headers in a URL. To plug that gap locally, I'm looking for a jav

Re: [CODE4LIB] Inlining HTTP Headers in URLs

2010-06-01 Thread LeVan,Ralph
> -Original Message- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of > Erik Hetzner > > I am having a hard time imagining the use case for this. A simple use case comes from OpenSearch and its use of URL templates. To enable the return of RSS as the response to

Re: [CODE4LIB] SRU 2.0 / Accept-Ranges (was: Inlining HTTP Headers in URLs )

2010-06-02 Thread LeVan,Ralph
I've forwarded the issue to them. I don't remember any of the conversation about this feature. Ralph > -Original Message- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of > Joe Hourcle > Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 11:05 AM > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Sub

[CODE4LIB] SRU indexes for Aleph

2010-06-08 Thread LeVan,Ralph
I'm trying to access an Aleph SRU server and have no idea what indexes they are exposing. Their Explain record is absolutely worthless! Any help would be appreciated! Ralph

Re: [CODE4LIB] SRU indexes for Aleph

2010-06-09 Thread LeVan,Ralph
-Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Ere Maijala Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2010 4:11 AM > it's probably a custom YAZ Proxy. This is as far as I know the default > mapping to Z39.50 (of course it could have been modified locally): Re

Re: [CODE4LIB] SRU indexes for Aleph

2010-06-10 Thread LeVan,Ralph
-Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Ere Maijala Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2010 2:59 AM > It's not about Index Data, they sure know their stuff. For some reason > the configuration that comes with Aleph just doesn't come with an > e

Re: [CODE4LIB] new version of cql-ruby

2010-06-16 Thread LeVan,Ralph
> -Original Message- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of > Jakob Voss > > Is there a nice piece of code or a tutorial or example how to easily > wrap your Solr instance to get a full SRU/SRW and/or OpenSearch > interface? Converting CQL to Solr query f

Re: [CODE4LIB] Modern NACO Normalization (esp. in java?)

2012-04-11 Thread LeVan,Ralph
under the GPL v2 with the "or later" clause). >>> "LeVan,Ralph" 4/11/2012 12:04 PM >>> I'm pretty sure attachments don't work on the list, so I'm just pasting my NACO normalizer below. Note that there are 2007 versions of the normalize() m

Re: [CODE4LIB] Modern NACO Normalization (esp. in java?)

2012-04-12 Thread LeVan,Ralph
I've put that code into Google code. It's been tidied slightly and I added our junit test for it as well. http://code.google.com/p/oclcnaconormalizer/ Ralph -Original Message----- From: LeVan,Ralph Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 1:24 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject:

Re: [CODE4LIB] MarcXML and char encodings

2012-04-17 Thread LeVan,Ralph
There are probably a couple of answers to that. XML rules define what characterset is used. The "encoding" attribute on the header is where you find out what characterset is being used. I've always gone under the assumption that if an encoding wasn't specified, then UTF-8 is in effect and that h

Re: [CODE4LIB] MarcXML and char encodings

2012-04-17 Thread LeVan,Ralph
> If I want to have a MarcXML document encoded in Marc8 -- what should it > look like? What should be in the XML decleration? What should be in the > MARC header embedded in the XML? Or is it not in fact legal at all? I'm going out on a limb here, but I don't think it is legal. There is no fo

Re: [CODE4LIB] MarcXML and char encodings

2012-04-17 Thread LeVan,Ralph
>> No -- it is perfectly legal - -but you MUST declare the encoding to BE Marc8 in the XML prolog, > Wait, how canyou declare a Marc8 encoding in an XML > decleration/prolog/whatever it's called? Nope, you can't do that. There is no approved name for the MARC-8 encoding. As Andy said, the clos

Re: [CODE4LIB] more on MARC char encoding: Now we're about ISO_2709 and MARC21

2012-04-18 Thread LeVan,Ralph
> In fact, I worry that the standard may pre-date UTF-8, with it's > reference to "UCS" --- if I understand things right, at one point there > was only one unicode encoding, called "UCS", which is basically a > backwards-compatible subset of what became UTF-16. > So I worry the standard really

Re: [CODE4LIB] more on MARC char encoding

2012-04-19 Thread LeVan,Ralph
We see Unicode data pasted into MARC8 records all the time. It happens enough that my MARC8->Unicode converter takes a second look at illegal MARC8 bytes and tries a UTF-8 encoding as well. Ralph -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of

Re: [CODE4LIB] whimsical homepage idea

2012-05-01 Thread LeVan,Ralph
> So, if one were to attempt this: > -Would it be OCLC-approved? If this doesn't meet the definition of "Geek the Library", I don't know what else would. +1 OCLC Approval

Re: [CODE4LIB] How do you get plain language, plain English out of the .sgstn stenograph stenonote record of the public meeting?... [see other message]

2012-05-23 Thread LeVan,Ralph
Looks like baloney to me. I wouldn't touch it. Ralph -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of don warner saklad Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 10:44 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: How do you get plain language, plain English

Re: [CODE4LIB] Best way to process large XML files

2012-06-08 Thread LeVan,Ralph
I create 50GB files of marcxml all the time. We do NOT put a wrapper element around them, but do put a line feed at the end of each record. Then a trivial line reading loop in java/perl/whatever can read those records individually and process them appropriately. That turns out the be the right wa

[CODE4LIB] Anyone using SOAP?

2012-09-20 Thread LeVan,Ralph
SRU version 2.0 is nearing the end of its standardization process. It makes no reference to the SOAP version of SRU 1.2 (also known as SRW). Does anyone actually use SOAP anymore? Is this a safe omission? If there's still reasonable demand, I'll probably provide the WSDL and request schem

Re: [CODE4LIB] Anyone using SOAP?

2012-09-20 Thread LeVan,Ralph
just been more convenient. I won't miss SRW. Ralph From: LeVan,Ralph Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 4:50 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Anyone using SOAP? SRU version 2.0 is nearing the end of its standardization process. It makes no reference to the SOAP version

Re: [CODE4LIB] onboarding developers coming from industry

2016-03-02 Thread LeVan,Ralph
On the culture side: librarians insisting that they know what their patrons want. I've written so much bloat that didn't get used because a librarian was sure the system would fail without it. Ralph -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf

[CODE4LIB] What happened to the code4lib blog?

2016-04-12 Thread LeVan,Ralph
I'm playing around with Elasticsearch and need to convert MARC to JSON. Of the various proposals to do that, I liked Ross Singer's the best. http://dilettantes.code4lib.org/blog/2010/09/a-proposal-to-serialize-marc-in-json/ Sadly, that link is dead. Any chance of reviving it? Thanks! Ralph

Re: [CODE4LIB] What happened to the code4lib blog?

2016-04-12 Thread LeVan,Ralph
that conforms to that spec it can be done via the Marc4J library. If you are interested I can give specific information about how to do that. -Bob Haschart University of Virginia Library On 4/12/2016 4:53 PM, LeVan,Ralph wrote: > I'm playing around with Elasticsearch and need to convert

Re: [CODE4LIB] What happened to the code4lib blog?

2016-04-12 Thread LeVan,Ralph
code4lib blog? You can use the wayback machine: http://web.archive.org/web/20150905201543/http://dilettantes.code4lib.org/bl og/2010/09/a-proposal-to-serialize-marc-in-json/ --tr -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of LeVan,Ralph Sent

Re: [CODE4LIB] authority work with isni

2016-04-15 Thread LeVan,Ralph
If you're comfortable using the VIAF API, then you'll find ISNI links in VIAF records. Ralph -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Eric Lease Morgan Sent: Friday, April 15, 2016 5:17 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: authority

Re: [CODE4LIB] Formalizing Code4Lib?

2016-06-07 Thread LeVan,Ralph
We are establishing a relationship with the DLF for email purposes. Might they be willing to be our organization? Ralph -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Esmé Cowles Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2016 3:41 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.E