Re: [CODE4LIB] Retrieving ISSN using a DOI

2014-03-05 Thread Owen Stephens
this fascinating substance", "type": "journal-article", "DOI": "10.1126/science.169.3946.635", "ISSN": [ "0036-8075", "1095-9203" ], "URL": "http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.169.3946.63

Re: [CODE4LIB] tool for finding close matches in vocabular list

2014-03-21 Thread Owen Stephens
/ might be a good starting point if you want to see what Refine can do Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 21 Mar 2014, at 18:24, Ken Irwin wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm looking for a tool

Re: [CODE4LIB] semantic web browsers

2014-03-22 Thread Owen Stephens
ed browser from Southampton *does* support content-negotiation - what makes you think it doesn't? Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 22 Mar 2014, at 20:49, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > Do you k

[CODE4LIB] Research Libraries UK Hack day

2014-04-04 Thread Owen Stephens
RLUK members The event is free and you can sign up now at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rluk-hack-day-rlukhack-tickets-11197529111 - I hope to see some of you there Best wishes Owen 1. http://www.rluk.ac.uk/news/rluk-joins-european-library/ Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web:

Re: [CODE4LIB] distributed responsibility for web content

2014-04-18 Thread Owen Stephens
lish clear policies and (perhaps!) take some of the emotion out of decision making - e.g. see http://boagworld.com/business-strategy/website-animal/ - perhaps a similar approach might help here as well. Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ost

Re: [CODE4LIB] barriers to open metadata?

2014-04-30 Thread Owen Stephens
ore-project.kmi.open.ac.uk/node/32 6 OpenDOAR http://www.opendoar.org/ Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 29 Apr 2014, at 21:06, Ben Companjen wrote: > Hi Laura, > > Here are some reasons I may have

Re: [CODE4LIB] Any good "introduction to SPARQL" workshops out there?

2014-05-01 Thread Owen Stephens
ee if there is any possibility of having it webcast if there was interest. Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 1 May 2014, at 17:23, Hutt, Arwen wrote: > We're interested in an introduction to SPARQL

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

2014-06-19 Thread Owen Stephens
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://isni-url.oclc.nl/isni/000122816316 shouldn't have both "Bell

[CODE4LIB] 'automation' tools

2014-07-04 Thread Owen Stephens
l with? Thanks, Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936

Re: [CODE4LIB] 'automation' tools

2014-07-07 Thread Owen Stephens
Thanks Riley and Andrew for these pointers - some great stuff in there Other tools and examples still very welcome :) Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 4 Jul 2014, at 15:04, Andrew Weidner wrote

Re: [CODE4LIB] coders who library? [was: Let me shadow you, librarians who code!]

2014-07-07 Thread Owen Stephens
subfields or write MODS XML freehand. http://shambrarian.org :) Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 7 Jul 2014, at 15:36, Miles Fidelman wrote: > This recent spate of message leads me to wonder: How ma

Re: [CODE4LIB] 'automation' tools

2014-07-07 Thread Owen Stephens
al at http://www.meanboyfriend.com/overdue_ideas/2013/02/introduction-to-apis/ but a change to the BL open data platform means this no longer works :(( Thanks all again - I'll be trying to put stuff from the automation workshop online at some point and I'll post here when there is some

[CODE4LIB] Automation tools - session at the "Pi and Mash" unconference

2014-08-11 Thread Owen Stephens
. There are also two accompanying files 'ISBNs.xlsx' and 'isbns.csv' which are used in the examples/exercises. All materials are available at http://bit.ly/automatedlovefolder Thanks to all who made suggestions which contributed towards the session. Best wishes, Owen Owen Ste

Re: [CODE4LIB] Automated searching of Copac/Worldcat

2014-08-13 Thread Owen Stephens
ut allows more sophisticated approach to checking and writing out information about text present/absent in web pages retrieved. Hope that is of some help Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 13 A

Re: [CODE4LIB] IFTTT and barcodes

2014-09-11 Thread Owen Stephens
- available from https://github.com/cantino/huginn Overkill for this particular problem but may be of more general interest Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 11 Sep 2014, at 08:21, Sylvain Machefert wrote

Re: [CODE4LIB] Python or Perl script for reading RDF/XML, Turtle, or N-triples Files

2014-09-30 Thread Owen Stephens
x27; error (once in ntriples, Rapper can be used for further parsing) Some slightly random advice there, but maybe some of it will be useful! Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 30 Sep 2014, at 15:54, Jere

Re: [CODE4LIB] ISSN lists?

2014-10-17 Thread Owen Stephens
. For example the RLUK release of 60m+ records at http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org/tel4/access/data/lod, or the 12million records released by Harvard http://openmetadata.lib.harvard.edu/bibdata (both CC0) Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Ema

Re: [CODE4LIB] Linux distro for librarians

2014-10-21 Thread Owen Stephens
approach (the change of direction is noted at http://dhbox.commons.gc.cuny.edu/blog/2014/dh-box-new-friend-new-platform#sthash.27THWR6E.dpbs). To be honest I'm not 100% sure where the project is right now, as although it looks like not much has been updated since May 2014. Owen Owen Ste

Re: [CODE4LIB] MARC reporting engine

2014-11-03 Thread Owen Stephens
The MARC XML seemed to be an archive within an archive - I had to gunzip to get innzmetadata.xml then rename to innzmetadata.xml.gz and gunzip again to get the actual xml Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288

Re: [CODE4LIB] Stack Overflow

2014-11-04 Thread Owen Stephens
m supportive of the idea, but I'd hate to see this go through the pain of the SE process only to fail for the same reasons as previous efforts in this area. I think we need to think about this underlying problem - but I'm not sure what the solution is/solutions are. Owen Owen Stephens

Re: [CODE4LIB] Stack Overflow

2014-11-04 Thread Owen Stephens
Thanks for that Mark. That's running on 'question2answer' which looks to have a reasonable amount of development going on around it https://github.com/q2a/question2answer/graphs/contributors (given Becky's comments about OSQA which still hold true) Owen Owen Stephens Owen

[CODE4LIB] Automatically updating documentation with screenshots

2015-01-26 Thread Owen Stephens
o use. Anyone done/tried anything like this? Cheers Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936

Re: [CODE4LIB] Automatically updating documentation with screenshots

2015-01-26 Thread Owen Stephens
Selenium2Screenshots' [https://github.com/datakurre/robotframework-selenium2screenshots] Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 > On 26 Jan 2015, at 13:16, Mads Villadsen wrote: > > I have used casperj

Re: [CODE4LIB] Automatically updating documentation with screenshots

2015-01-26 Thread Owen Stephens
b.com/ebrehault/resurrectio <https://github.com/ebrehault/resurrectio>] Cheers Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 > On 26 Jan 2015, at 13:48, Owen Stephens wrote: > > Thanks all - I'm lookin

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4LibCon video crew thanks

2015-02-17 Thread Owen Stephens
Apologies for a +1 message, but you know... +1 and some Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 > On 13 Feb 2015, at 18:00, Cary Gordon wrote: > > I want to deeply thank Ashley Blewer, Steven And

Re: [CODE4LIB] linked data question

2015-02-26 Thread Owen Stephens
pattern Generally my view would be that (1) and (2) are viable approaches for different applications, but that (3) is generally a bad idea (having been through federated search before!) Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com

Re: [CODE4LIB] eebo

2015-06-05 Thread Owen Stephens
TEI files. If there is anything I can help with I’d be happy to. The people who worked with the files in detail were a UK s/w development company Knowledge Integration (http://www.k-int.com/) - I can give you a contact there if that would be helpful. Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens

[CODE4LIB] Global Open Knowledgebase APIs

2015-06-08 Thread Owen Stephens
int/gokb-phase1/wiki/Sample-SPARQL <https://github.com/k-int/gokb-phase1/wiki/Sample-SPARQL> Feedback on any/all of this would be very welcome - either to the list for discussion, or directly to me. We want to make sure we can provide useful data and services and hope you can help us

Re: [CODE4LIB] eebo [developments]

2015-06-08 Thread Owen Stephens
272/1/Baron_Hardie.pdf [4] http://ucrel.lancs.ac.uk/vard/about/ Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 > On 7 Jun 2015, at 18:48, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > > Here some of developments with my playing with the EEBO data

Re: [CODE4LIB] eebo [perfect texts]

2015-06-09 Thread Owen Stephens
records are those in the English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) http://estc.bl.uk. There have been some great steps forward in the last few years, but I still feel libraries need to increase the amount they are doing to publish metadata under explicitly open licences. Owen Owen Stephens Owen

Re: [CODE4LIB] Desiring Advice for Converting OCR Text into Metadata and/or a Database

2015-06-18 Thread Owen Stephens
ob/master/scraper.py> Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 > On 18 Jun 2015, at 17:02, Matt Sherman wrote: > > Hi Code4Libbers, > > I am working with colleague on a side project which involves so

Re: [CODE4LIB] Processing Circ data

2015-08-05 Thread Owen Stephens
deas/2014/11/working-with-data-using-openrefine/> Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 > On 5 Aug 2015, at 21:07, Harper, Cynthia wrote: > > Hi all. What are you using to process circ data f

Re: [CODE4LIB] Protocol-relative URLs in MARC

2015-08-17 Thread Owen Stephens
Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 > On 17 Aug 2015, at 21:41, Stuart A. Yeates wrote: > > I'm in the middle of some work which includes touching the 856s in lots of > MARC records pointing to we

Re: [CODE4LIB] Protocol-relative URLs in MARC

2015-08-17 Thread Owen Stephens
Sorry - addressing the actual question, rather than the one in my head, the 856 field "is also repeated when more than one access method is used” - so my reading is you should be doing both: 856 40 $uhttp://example.com 856 70 $uhttps://example.com$2https Owen Owen Stephens Owen Ste

Re: [CODE4LIB] Job: Wine Loving Developer at University of California, Davis

2015-12-11 Thread Owen Stephens
. Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 > On 10 Dec 2015, at 23:42, James Morley wrote: > > I agree with Thomas's logic, if not the maths (surely $2,000?) > > I was going to do a few myse

Re: [CODE4LIB] searching metadata vs searching content

2016-01-28 Thread Owen Stephens
. http://historicaltexts.jisc.ac.uk/support Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 > On 27 Jan 2016, at 00:30, Laura Buchholz wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm trying to understand how digital libra

Re: [CODE4LIB] Directories of OAI-PMH repositories

2013-02-08 Thread Owen Stephens
Also see OpenDOAR http://www.opendoar.org We used this listing when building Core http://core.kmi.open.ac.uk/search - which aggregates and does full-text analysis and similarity matching across OA repositories Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email

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

2013-02-13 Thread Owen Stephens
"Shambrarian": Someone who knows enough truth about how libraries really work, but not enough to go insane or be qualified as a real librarian. (See more at http://m.urbandictionary.com/#define?term=Shambrarian) More information available at http://shambrarian.org/ And Dave Pattern has publishe

[CODE4LIB] British Library Directory of Libraries (probably of interest to UK only)

2013-04-23 Thread Owen Stephens
proving the scraper welcome (I don't usually write Python so the code is probably even ropier than my normal code :) Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936

Re: [CODE4LIB] DOI scraping

2013-05-17 Thread Owen Stephens
owser plugin). Also looking for custom database scrapers it might be worth looking at Zotero translators, as they already exist for many major sources and I guess will be grabbing the DOI where it exists if they can http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/translators Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consu

Re: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone

2013-06-12 Thread Owen Stephens
Putting the files on GitHub might be an option - free for public repositories, and 38Mb should not be a problem to host there Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 12 Jun 2013, at 02:24, Dana Pearson

Re: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone

2013-06-12 Thread Owen Stephens
On 12 Jun 2013, at 14:06, Dana Pearson wrote: > Thanks for the replies..I had looked at GitHub but thought it something > different, ie, collaborative software development...I will look again Yes - that's the main use (git is version control software, GitHub hosts git repositories) - but of cou

Re: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone

2013-06-13 Thread Owen Stephens
On 13 Jun 2013, at 02:57, Dana Pearson wrote: > quick followup on the thread.. > > github: I looked at the cooperhewitt collection but don't see a way to > download the content...I could copy and paste their content but that may > not be the best approach for my files...documentation is thin, s

Re: [CODE4LIB] Anyone have access to well-disambiguated sets of publication data?

2013-07-09 Thread Owen Stephens
les - e.g. for same person http://names.mimas.ac.uk/individual/25256.html?&outputfields=resultpublications You could then use the Crossref DOI lookup service to get journal identifiers Not sure this will get you what you need but might be worth a look Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Co

Re: [CODE4LIB] Releasing library holdings metadata openly on the web (was: Libraries and IT Innovation)

2013-07-24 Thread Owen Stephens
On the holdings front also see the work being done on a holding ontology at https://github.com/dini-ag-kim/holding-ontology (and related mailing list http://lists.d-nb.de/mailman/listinfo/dini-ag-kim-bestandsdaten) - discussion all in English Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web

Re: [CODE4LIB] netflix search mashups w/ library tools?

2013-08-19 Thread Owen Stephens
From the Netflix API Terms of Use "Titles and Title Metadata may be stored for no more than twenty four (24) hours." http://developer.netflix.com/page/Api_terms_of_use Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6

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

2013-09-04 Thread Owen Stephens
Just a recommendation for a source of information - I've found http://linkeddatabook.com/editions/1.0/ very useful especially in thinking about the practicalities of linked data publication and consumption in applications Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web:

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open Source ERM

2013-09-20 Thread Owen Stephens
. GOKb has the added complication/interest of also having a Open (was Google) Refine extension as this is the tool chose for loading messing e-journal data into the system Sorry to go on, hope the above is of some interest Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email

Re: [CODE4LIB] Library of Congress

2013-10-01 Thread Owen Stephens
+1 Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 1 Oct 2013, at 14:21, "Doran, Michael D" wrote: >> As far as I can tell the LOC is up and the offices are closed. HORRAY!! >> Let's cele

Re: [CODE4LIB] usability question: searching for a database (not in a database)

2010-08-01 Thread Owen Stephens
Agree with others about user testing, but from my experience it is better to get the application to react intelligently to what us typed in than to expect to control what a user is going to enter. Type-ahead suggestions may help, but I'm a fan of adding a bit of intelligence to the search app

[CODE4LIB] Linking Sakai 'Citation Helper' to other systems

2010-08-23 Thread Owen Stephens
ts. There is a lot more detail in the blog post at http://www.meanboyfriend.com/overdue_ideas/2010/08/sir-louie/, and I'd really welcome comments/suggestions/issues/questions to inform the project as we start developing the solutions for Sir Louie. Thanks, Owen Owen Stephens Owen Ste

Re: [CODE4LIB] Linking Sakai 'Citation Helper' to other systems

2010-08-24 Thread Owen Stephens
Thanks Karen - yes, I'm following the work of the group :) Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 23 Aug 2010, at 16:54, Karen Coombs wrote: > Owen, > > It is probably worth looking at t

[CODE4LIB] Help with DLF-ILS GetAvailability

2010-10-20 Thread Owen Stephens
be specified at the level of items Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936

Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with DLF-ILS GetAvailability

2010-10-21 Thread Owen Stephens
eral abused metadata formats to > express what I needed. > > http://bibwild.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/dlf-ils-di-dlfexpanded-service-for-horizon/ > > > http://bibwild.wordpress.com/2009/07/31/exposing-holdings-in-dlf-ils-di-standard-format-web-service/ > > > > > Owen S

Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with DLF-ILS GetAvailability

2010-10-21 Thread Owen Stephens
ve > > == > David Walker > Library Web Services Manager > California State University > http://xerxes.calstate.edu > ________ > From: Code for Libraries [code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Owen > Stephens [o...@ostephens.c

Re: [CODE4LIB] Help with DLF-ILS GetAvailability

2010-10-21 Thread Owen Stephens
OK - thanks both will pursue this - taking on board Jonathan's points on the issues around this Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 21 Oct 2010, at 22:07, Walker, David wrote: >> Yes - my

[CODE4LIB] Open Edge - Open Source in Libraries event

2010-12-16 Thread Owen Stephens
y? For further information about Open Source Library Technology visit http://helibtech.com/Open+Source Hope some of you can make it Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936

[CODE4LIB] Invitation to the Opening Data – Opening Doors Workshop, Manchester (UK), 18th April

2011-03-04 Thread Owen Stephens
. To find out more download a copy of the first RDTF newsletter at: http://rdtf.mimas.ac.uk/newsletter/rdtfnewsletter01-march2011.pdf For more information on the JISC and RLUK Resource Discovery Taskforce, visit: http://rdtf.mimas.ac.uk -- Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http

Re: [CODE4LIB] MARC magic for file

2011-04-01 Thread Owen Stephens
cific to MARC format >> >>> 0 regex/1 (^[0-9]{5})[acdnp][^bhlnqsu-z] MARC Bibliographic >>>> 0 regex/1 (^[0-9]{5})[acdnosx][z] MARC Authority >>>> 0 regex/1 (^[0-9]{5})[cdn][uvxy] MARC Holdings >>>> 0 regex/1 (^[0-9]{5})[acdn][w]MARC Classification >>>> 0 regex/1 (^[0-9]{5})[cdn][q] MARC Community >>>> >>> > > -- > William Denton, Toronto : miskatonic.org www.frbr.org openfrbr.org > -- Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com

[CODE4LIB] LCSH and Linked Data

2011-04-07 Thread Owen Stephens
thorised) 'Popular music--History and criticism--20th century' as a topical term (not authorised) And expressing all matches in our RDF. My understanding of LCSH isn't what it might be - but the ordering of terms in the combined string checking is based on what I understand to be the usua

Re: [CODE4LIB] LCSH and Linked Data

2011-04-07 Thread Owen Stephens
this stage anyway - but I do want to get something relatively functional/useful > Tom > > Thomas Meehan > Head of Current Cataloguing > University College London Library Services > > Owen Stephens wrote: > >> We are working on converting some MARC library records to RD

Re: [CODE4LIB] LCSH and Linked Data

2011-04-07 Thread Owen Stephens
just checked there > England. > Is this not the relevant VIAF entry http://viaf.org/viaf/14299580<http://viaf.org/viaf/142995804> -- Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com

Re: [CODE4LIB] LCSH and Linked Data

2011-04-07 Thread Owen Stephens
ngland 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: CODE4LIB@

Re: [CODE4LIB] LCSH and Linked Data

2011-04-08 Thread Owen Stephens
Thanks for all the information and discussion. I don't think I'm familiar enough with Authority file formats to completely comprehend - but I certainly understand the issues around the question of 'place' vs 'histo-geo-poltical entity'. Some of this makes me worry about the immediate applicability

Re: [CODE4LIB] LCSH and Linked Data

2011-04-08 Thread Owen Stephens
ntology-and-the-future-of-the-se), but on the otherhand I want to embrace the opportunity to start joining some stuff up and seeing what happens :) Owen On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 3:10 PM, Ross Singer wrote: > On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 5:02 AM, Owen Stephens wrote: > > > Then obviously I

Re: [CODE4LIB] [dpla-discussion] Rethinking the "library" part of DPLA

2011-04-10 Thread Owen Stephens
I guess that people may already be familiar with the Candide 2.0 project at NYPL http://candide.nypl.org/text/ - this sounds not dissimilar to the type of approach being suggested This document is built using Wordpress with the Digress.it plugin (http://digress.it/) Owen Owen Stephens Owen

Re: [CODE4LIB] RDF for opening times/hours?

2011-06-07 Thread Owen Stephens
I'd suggest having a look at the Goid Relations ontology http://wiki.goodrelations-vocabulary.org/Quickstart - it's aimed at businesses but the OpeningHours specification might do what you need http://www.heppnetz.de/ontologies/goodrelations/v1.html#OpeningHoursSpecification While handling publ

[CODE4LIB] PDF->text extraction

2011-06-21 Thread Owen Stephens
repositories We've tried iText but had issues with quality We moved to PDFBox but are having performance issues Any other suggestions/experience? Thanks, Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936

Re: [CODE4LIB] PDF->text extraction

2011-06-22 Thread Owen Stephens
hat? Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 22 Jun 2011, at 03:43, Bill Janssen wrote: > Simon Spero wrote: > >> Another option is to use the ABBYY FineReader >> SDK<http://www.a

[CODE4LIB] Developer Competition using Library/Archive/Museum data

2011-07-04 Thread Owen Stephens
ific competition tag on twitter is #discodev, but #devcsi and #ukdiscovery also good to follow/use Excited to see what people come up with - hope some of you are able to enter Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936

[CODE4LIB] Show reuse of library/archive/museum data and win prizes

2011-08-08 Thread Owen Stephens
ot;). The team would like to thank all the institutions involved in this initiative for their participation. The data are made available under the Open Data Commons (ODC) Public Domain Dedication and Licence and the ODC Attribution Sharealike Community Norms. Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936

Re: [CODE4LIB] CIS students, service learning, and the library

2011-10-14 Thread Owen Stephens
h s/w http://jerome.library.lincoln.ac.uk/ Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 13 Oct 2011, at 23:04, Robert Robertson wrote: > Hi Ellen, > > The event hasn't been held yet but it might be worth taking

[CODE4LIB] Mobile technologies in libraries - fact finding survey

2011-11-24 Thread Owen Stephens
-libraries.info and subscribe to updates (links in the right hand side for RSS or email subscriptions). Thanks and best wishes, Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936

Re: [CODE4LIB] Models of MARC in RDF

2011-11-28 Thread Owen Stephens
Would be really helpful if more projects published their transformations (or someone told me where to look!) Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 26 Nov 2011, at 15:58, Karen Coyle wrote: > A few of

Re: [CODE4LIB] Models of MARC in RDF

2011-12-02 Thread Owen Stephens
ts that can appear in multiple places in the hierarchy. > > -Esme > -- > Esme Cowles > > "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the > argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." -- William Pitt, 1783 > > On 11/28/2011, at

Re: [CODE4LIB] Models of MARC in RDF

2011-12-02 Thread Owen Stephens
s that can appear in multiple places in the hierarchy. > > -Esme > -- > Esme Cowles > > "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the > argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." -- William Pitt, 1783 > > On 11/28/2011,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Models of MARC in RDF

2011-12-06 Thread Owen Stephens
I'd suggest that rather than shove it in a triple it might be better to point at alternative representations, including MARC if desirable (keep meaning to blog some thoughts about progressively enhanced metadata...) Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephen

Re: [CODE4LIB] Models of MARC in RDF

2011-12-06 Thread Owen Stephens
; element to this - or at least there was for me when looking at the transformation at the Open University) Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 5 Dec 2011, at 18:56, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: > On 12/5/2011 1

Re: [CODE4LIB] Models of MARC in RDF

2011-12-07 Thread Owen Stephens
Fair point. Just instinct on my part that putting it in a triple is a bit ugly :) It probably doesn't make any difference, although I don't think storing in a triple ensures that it sticks to the object (you could store the triple anywhere as well) Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens

Re: [CODE4LIB] Models of MARC in RDF

2011-12-07 Thread Owen Stephens
ny major issues with the conversion after that period we felt confident disposing of the record. This is the type of usage I was imagining for a copy of the MARC record in this scenario. Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone:

Re: [CODE4LIB] Namespace management, was Models of MARC in RDF

2011-12-07 Thread Owen Stephens
On 7 Dec 2011, at 00:38, Alexander Johannesen wrote: > Hiya, > > Karen Coyle wrote: >> I wonder how easy it will be to >> manage a metadata scheme that has cherry-picked from existing ones, so >> something like: >> >> dc:title >> bibo:chapter >> foaf:depiction > > Yes, you're right in pointing

Re: [CODE4LIB] Namespace management, was Models of MARC in RDF

2011-12-12 Thread Owen Stephens
f I'm serious about this or not!) Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 11 Dec 2011, at 23:47, Karen Coyle wrote: > Quoting Richard Wallis : > > >> You get the impression that the BL &quo

Re: [CODE4LIB] Namespace management, was Models of MARC in RDF

2011-12-12 Thread Owen Stephens
On 11 Dec 2011, at 23:30, Richard Wallis wrote: > > There is no document I am aware of, but I can point you at the blog post by > Tim Hodson [ > http://consulting.talis.com/2011/07/british-library-data-model-overview/] > who helped the BL get to grips with and start thinking Linked Data. > Anothe

Re: [CODE4LIB] creating call number browse

2008-09-29 Thread Owen Stephens
t you can then manipulate (e.g. XML)? With a small, pre-sorted, results set, it should be relatively easy to build something that drops the user into the correct point based on their search? Owen Owen Stephens Assistant Director: eStrategy and Information Resources Central Library Imperial Colleg

Re: [CODE4LIB] Zotero, unapi, and formats?

2010-04-06 Thread Owen Stephens
y I chose unAPI over COinS. > And yeah, better documentation would be nice, thanks for looking into > it. > > -Chad > -- Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com

[CODE4LIB] OCLC UK Mashathon and 'Liver and Mash' Mashed Library event (Liverpool, May 13-14)

2010-04-14 Thread Owen Stephens
days. As Mashed Library has become a really popular event in the UK, the bookings for that are going quite quickly (we currently have 13 spaces left) but there's still plenty of room at the Mashathon. Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com

[CODE4LIB] Bibliographic data on Freebase

2010-04-22 Thread Owen Stephens
mapping place of publication to existing Freebase location information ( http://lists.freebase.com/pipermail/freebase-discuss/2010-April/001218.html) Owen -- Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com

Re: [CODE4LIB] Bibliographic data on Freebase

2010-04-22 Thread Owen Stephens
; > -Sean > > > On Apr 22, 2010, at 7:27 AM, Owen Stephens wrote: > > > Thought that some on the list might be interested in various discussions > > happening on the Freebase email list at the moment: > > > > Firstly some stuff on dealing with ISBNs >

Re: [CODE4LIB] Twitter annotations and library software

2010-04-28 Thread Owen Stephens
quot;American Quarterly", > "volume": "58", > "page": "137-158", > "issued": { "date-parts": [ [2006, 3] ] }, > "type": "article-journal" > > } > > > -- > Jakob Voß , skype: nichtich > Verbundzentrale des GBV (VZG) / Common Library Network > Platz der Goettinger Sieben 1, 37073 Göttingen, Germany > +49 (0)551 39-10242, http://www.gbv.de > -- Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com

Re: [CODE4LIB] Twitter annotations and library software

2010-04-28 Thread Owen Stephens
Services Manager > California State University > http://xerxes.calstate.edu > ____ > From: Code for Libraries [code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Owen > Stephens [o...@ostephens.com] > Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 2:26 AM > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.ED

Re: [CODE4LIB] it's cool to hate on OpenURL (was: Twitter annotations...)

2010-04-30 Thread Owen Stephens
followed enough OpenURL enabled hyperlink dead ends > to contest "it works". > > //Ed > -- Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com

Re: [CODE4LIB] Twitter annotations and library software

2010-04-30 Thread Owen Stephens
hat we need this over anything else. > > > Regards, > > Alex > -- > Project Wrangler, SOA, Information Alchemist, UX, RESTafarian, Topic Maps > --- http://shelter.nu/blog/ -- > -- http://www.google.com/profiles/alexander.johannesen --- > -- Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com

Re: [CODE4LIB] Twitter annotations and library software

2010-04-30 Thread Owen Stephens
not used much for bibliographic data > c) A rich variety of incompatible bibliographic annotation standards > d) Semantic Web will have solved every problem anyway > .. > > Cheers > Jakob > > -- > Jakob Voß , skype: nichtich > Verbundzentrale des GBV (VZG) / Common Library Network > Platz der Goettinger Sieben 1, 37073 Göttingen, Germany > +49 (0)551 39-10242, http://www.gbv.de > -- Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com

Re: [CODE4LIB] Twitter annotations and library software

2010-04-30 Thread Owen Stephens
010 at 10:33 AM, Alexander Johannesen < alexander.johanne...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 18:47, Owen Stephens wrote: > > Could you expand on how you think the problem that OpenURL tackles would > > have been better approached with existing mechanisms? > > As

Re: [CODE4LIB] it's cool to hate on OpenURL (was: Twitter annotations...)

2010-04-30 Thread Owen Stephens
issue with the standard, not the implementations. > > > > //Ed > > Eric Hellman > President, Gluejar, Inc. > 41 Watchung Plaza, #132 > Montclair, NJ 07042 > USA > > e...@hellman.net > http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/ > -- Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com

[CODE4LIB] Aquabrowser, SRU/SRW and other output formats

2010-05-26 Thread Owen Stephens
#x27;m interested in whether I can get access to search results etc. in a nice format for reuse etc. Thanks Owen -- Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com

Re: [CODE4LIB] locator

2010-06-30 Thread Owen Stephens
boyfriend.com/overdue_ideas/2009/12/mashing-and-mapping/ A JISC funded project to look at producing 'item locator' service at the LSE http://findmylibrarybook.blogspot.com/ Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone:

Re: [CODE4LIB] DIY aggregate index

2010-07-01 Thread Owen Stephens
quot;We don't need no stinkin' interfaces!" I believe a > number of European institutions have been doing this for a number of years. > I hear a few of us in the United States following suit. ++ > > -- > Eric Morgan > University of Notre Dame. > -- Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com

Re: [CODE4LIB] "universal citation index"

2010-07-21 Thread Owen Stephens
something. Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 20 Jul 2010, at 22:53, Young,Jeff (OR) wrote: > I suspect this discussion happened on code4lib before the thread got > cross-posting to LLD XG where I

Re: [CODE4LIB] URL checking for the catalog

2012-02-24 Thread Owen Stephens
from-references/6-8-3-telstar-approach/ although for some reason (my fault) this doesn't include a write up of the link checking process/code we created. Of course, this approach is in no way incompatible with regular proactive link checking. Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens

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