Re: [CODE4LIB] Voting is OPEN for this year's conference t-shirt

Live dangerously! -Tod On Jan 27, 2014, at 6:58 PM, Andreas Orphanides wrote: > I thought that GOTO was considered harmful. > > > On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 1:20 PM, Josh Wilson wrote: > >> Congratulations to Chris Markman for his winning idea! >> >> http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/File:Cm

Re: [CODE4LIB] Serious vulnerability in OpenSSL

There’s a nice “fork me on github” banner on the test site, so someone motivated could at least check the (purported) code and set up their own checker. So at least they have an implicit “you don’t need to trust us” sign. -Tod On Apr 8, 2014, at 10:00 AM, Francis Kayiwa wrote: > -BEGIN P

Re: [CODE4LIB] Why learn Unix?

There’s also something to be said for the Unix pipeline/filter model of processing. That way of breaking down a task into small steps, wiring little programs to filter the data for each step, building up the solution iteratively, essentially a form of function composition. Immedidately, you can

[CODE4LIB] Contract programming opportunity

are required. If you are interested, please contact me off-list for more details. Tod Olson Systems Librarian University of Chicago Library

[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Midwest 2016: possible dates

either set of dates? Best, -Tod Tod Olson Systems Librarian Interim Director for Integrated Library Systems and Administrative Desktop Systems University of Chicago Library

Re: [CODE4LIB] Editing Code4lib Wiki

I've had (and have again) the same problem. Ryan has intervened a couple times over the years, but it seems to come back, and has again. Unclear whether it is in the wiki, or somewhere in the email delivery stream (what with blacklists and such these days). -Tod On Feb 6, 2013, at 5:16 PM, Esm

Re: [CODE4LIB] barbecue & bourbon, 2/13

My wiki account is messed up, so I can't add this, but here's some info to work with: Chicago Q 1160 N Dearborn St Chicago, IL 60610 Here's a link

Re: [CODE4LIB] Lib or Libe

"cod-for-lib", anyone? -Tod On Feb 13, 2013, at 6:55 PM, Jay Luker wrote: > People, people. > > Can we agree that "lib" is simply easier to say than "libe" due to the > shorter vowel sound? > > Can we also agree than the best coders are, by nature, lazy? > > Therefore, "lib" wins. All you.

[CODE4LIB] SuDoc normalization for sorting

C4L, Does anyone have some code they'd be willing to share that normalizes SuDoc numbers for sorting? Best, -Tod Tod Olson mailto:t...@uchicago.edu>> Systems Librarian University of Chicago Library

Re: [CODE4LIB] A question about voting points

I'll also point out that the Diebolt-o-tron is used for all sorts of code4lib voting. Usually there are many options, as with conference proposals and t-shirt design. I will grant that weighted voting may seem a bit over-flexible when there are only two options, but it works quite well as a gene

Re: [CODE4LIB] Σχετ: [CODE4LIB] How get coded data values in unimarc format via code

Try the -e switch on MARCgrep. -Tod On May 16, 2013, at 5:38 AM, dasos ili wrote: > i suppose there is not anything to retrieve the values of the subfields $a, > etc > > > > > > Απο: Stefano Bargioni > Προς: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Στάλθηκε: 1:28 μ.μ.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Σχετ: [CODE4LIB] Σχετ: [CODE4LIB] How get coded data values in unimarc format via code

f the values uniq -c # print a count of value -Tod On May 16, 2013, at 6:07 AM, dasos ili wrote: > but this code cannot tell me how many times the gre value in subfield $a, > character position 7 8 9 for example > > > > > ____ > Απο:

Re: [CODE4LIB] marc4j read example

Also, be advised that current work on marc4j is happening over at Github, so for the most recent code: https://github.com/marc4j/marc4j -Tod On Aug 9, 2013, at 12:40 PM, Jonah Bull wrote: > There's a pretty good example included in the "samples" section of the > source ( > http://marc4j.tigr

Re: [CODE4LIB] MODS experts here?

rs to bibliographic information. That serves as the database of record and point of maintenance. Then we can automatically generate METS files from that. Best, -Tod Tod Olson Systems Librarian University of Chicago Library On Sep 6, 2013, at 6:15 AM, Esmé Cowles wrote: > Patrick- &g

[CODE4LIB] XML split and transform in Java

s the most straightforward for this split-and-transform scenario would be welcome. On a related note, any thoughts on your favorite light-weight key/value pair persistent storage for Java would be welcome. I expect the data to be a little large for a serialized HashMap. Best, -Tod Tod Olson Systems

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

The Horizon Z39.50 server does support boolean operations on fields like author and title, but not on the numeric identifiers like IS*N or bib number. I think it's because they are indexed differently in the underlying search engine. So in the below, the top three are fine, but as you've discove

Re: [CODE4LIB] yaz-client

I'd suggest contacting the vendor. Whoever handles your the electronic subscriptions will have some relationship with a customer rep. Explain what you're trying to do and you might get the customer rep to advocate for you. -Tod On Nov 14, 2013, at 9:30 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > Thank you

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

On protecting using Shib to protect a servlet under Tomcat: https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/NativeSPJavaInstall -Tod On Dec 2, 2013, at 11:11 AM, Simon Spero wrote: > Atlassian Crowd (if you have jira or confluence you may already have this > licensed). > > SocialAuth (

Re: [CODE4LIB] A suggested role for text mining in library catalogs?

project which may give you some ideas for additional experiments. [2,3] -Tod [1] http://digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/3/2/42/42.html [2] http://lingcog.iit.edu/pub_year.xml [3] http://code.google.com/p/philomine/wiki/Bibliography Tod Olson Systems Librarian University of Chicago

Re: [CODE4LIB] regexp for LCC?

documentation even contains an example of > "Microfilm 19072 E". > > What a mess, huh? So, yeah, regex anyone? > > [You can probably guess why I care if it's from the LC Classified > Schedule or not]. Tod Olson Systems Librarian University of Chicago Library

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

place? Or is it assuming the source was UTF-8 in the first place, >>> when in >>> fact it was Marc8? >>> >>> Not the answer you wanted, maybe someone else will have that. Debugging >>> char encoding is hands down the most annoying kind of debuggin

[CODE4LIB] DRAFT: Job posting: programmer

unity Employer. -Tod Tod Olson Systems Librarian University of Chicago Library 773-702-8764

[CODE4LIB] Job posting: programmer

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[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Journal Issue 15 Call for Papers

Call for Papers (and apologies for cross-posting): The Code4Lib Journal (C4LJ) exists to foster community and share information among those interested in the intersection of libraries, technology, and the future. We are now accepting proposals for publication in our 15 issue. Don't miss out on th

Re: [CODE4LIB] Examples of visual searching or browsing

There's the Hermitage Museum, which uses IBM's Query By Image Content: http://www.hermitagemuseum.org/fcgi-bin/db2www/qbicSearch.mac/qbic?selLang=English QBIC seems a bit long in the tooth now, but it's still kind of interesting. -Tod On Oct 27, 2011, at 3:27 PM, Julia Bauder wrote: > Dear fa

[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Journal Issue 15 is now available!

ly at coloradolibrariesjournal.org. This article will! discuss both the benefits and challenges of transitioning to an open access model and the choice Drupal as a platform over other more established journal software options. Tod Olson Coordinating Editor, Issue 15 Code4Lib Journal

Re: [CODE4LIB] Linux Laptop

On Dec 14, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Ross Singer wrote: > On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Mark A. Matienzo wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Ethan Gruber wrote: >>> How much futzing around is required on MacOS since it doesn't have a good >>> package manager? >> >> /usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl

Re: [CODE4LIB] math problem

Off the cuff, I think you're looking for f(x) = (x-m) * 255 / (M-m) where M is the maximum in the input data set, m in the minimum, and x is the number in hand. -Tod On Dec 20, 2011, at 10:57 AM, Nate Hill wrote: > Here's a brain teaser for the mathematically inclined: > > I've got a set of

Re: [CODE4LIB] Koha in the Running

other large piece of software. -Tod Tod Olson Systems Librarian University of Chicago Library On Jan 12, 2012, at 1:56 PM, Genny Engel wrote: > Todd, you might want to check out Marshall Breeding's annual ILS survey > results: > > http://www.librarytechnology.org/p

Re: [CODE4LIB] Touch Screens in the Library

debut, including a numerical analysis of most popular content areas, and a heatmap-based analysis of user interaction patterns with the kiosk's interface components. http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/5832 -Tod Tod Olson Systems Librarian University of Chicago Library On Feb 13, 201

Re: [CODE4LIB] marc21 and usmarc

. The tool is easy to compile, blindingly fast, forgiving of common MARC errors, and changes the coding correctly. It's been serving us well. -Tod Tod Olson Systems Librarian University of Chicago Library

Re: [CODE4LIB] help on displaying lcsh from MARC

Only for certain subfields: Dash (-) that precedes a subdivision in an extended 600 subject heading is not carried in the MARC record. It may be system generated as a display constant associated with the content of subfield $v, $x, $y, and $z. From http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd

Re: [CODE4LIB] help on displaying lcsh from MARC

ll be interesting to see how long it takes for someone complain about the change from the double dashes. -Tod Tod Olson wrote: Only for certain subfields: Dash (-) that precedes a subdivision in an extended 600 subject heading is not carried in the MARC record. It may be system genera

[CODE4LIB] Online PHP course?

One of our staff needs to learn PHP, and an online course is preferred. Is there an online PHP course that any of you would recommend? -Tod Tod Olson Systems Librarian University of Chicago Library

Re: [CODE4LIB] Online PHP course?

On Jan 5, 2010, at 3:36 PM, Tod Olson wrote: > One of our staff needs to learn PHP, and an online course is preferred. Is > there an online PHP course that any of you would recommend? Thanks to the list for all of the responses. Very helpful. -Tod Tod Olson Systems Librarian Univers

Re: [CODE4LIB] Splitting a large file of MARC records into smaller files

The yaz-marcdump utility[1], included in the YAZ toolkit[2], should work and I've found it to be blindingly fast. -Tod [1] http://www.indexdata.com/yaz/doc/yaz-marcdump.html [2] http://www.indexdata.com/yaz Tod Olson Systems Librarian University of Chicago Library On Jan 26, 2010, at 2:

Re: [CODE4LIB] marc documentation?

Some of that stuff is in Appendix H of the online documentation: http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bdapndxh.html -Tod On Jan 27, 2010, at 1:59 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: > I know I've seen documetnation on the LC site before for since-abandoned > marc bib tags, like 400. But I ca

Re: [CODE4LIB] A call for your OPAC (or other system) statistics! (Browse interfaces)

them which we don't actually own. It's an understandable reaction. -Tod Tod Olson Systems Librarian University of Chicago Library On May 3, 2010, at 1:08 PM, Bill Dueber wrote: > I got email from a person today saying, and I quote, > > "I must say that [the lack of a

[CODE4LIB] Web director job

THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO LIBRARY Web Program Director The University of Chicago Library is seeking an innovative, service-oriented individual for the position of Web Program Director to provide leadership and direction for the design, development, and maintenance of the University of Chicago L

[CODE4LIB] URL checking for the catalog

as part of catalog link maintenance, or if there's some link checking software that you've had good experiences with, or if there's some related experience you'd like to share, I'd like to hear about it. Thanks, -Tod Tod Olson Systems Librarian University of Chicago Library

Re: [CODE4LIB] Learning Microsoft SQL

If you do continue down the MS SQL road, bear in mind that MS SQL is basically a fork of Sybase, and they share Transact SQL. So most of the Sybase Transact-SQL documentation will apply. You can find the Sybase Transact-SQL User's Guide at: http://infocenter.sybase.com/help/index.jsp?topic=/co

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

It has to mean UTF-8. ISO 2709 is very byte-oriented, from the directory structure to the byte-offsets in the fixed fields. The values in these places all assume 8-bit character data, it's completely baked in to the file format. -Tod On Apr 17, 2012, at 6:55 PM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: > Okay

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

In practice it seems to mean UTF-8. At least I've only seen UTF-8, and I can't imagine the code that processes this stuff being safe for UTF-16 or UTF-32. All of the offsets are byte-oriented, and there's too much legacy code that makes assumption about null-terminated strings. -Tod On Apr 17,

[CODE4LIB] Applications Systems Analyst/Programmer University of Chicago

Bring your Java skills to Chicago! The University of Chicago Library is looking for an Applications Systems Analyst/Programmer to work with us as we implement Kuali OLE. Details are below. -Tod Tod Olson Systems Librarian University of Chicago Library https

[CODE4LIB] e-journals lists, database lists

s and searching of the lists come out. We could certainly build something ourselves, but if something already exists, we'd love to take a look at it. Best, -Tod Tod Olson Systems Librarian University of Chicago Library

Re: [CODE4LIB] e-journals lists, database lists

ase, you'd just need a quick script to > import into SubjectsPlus, and you could then manage it via the usual > SP admin. Drop me a line if you want more info. > > Andrew > > [1] http://www.subjectsplus.com > > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 2:44 PM, Tod Olson wrote: >> Code

Re: [CODE4LIB] Photo galleries and accessibility

t were. If that resizing is acceptable, it should solve the part of the problem. Check for div.datum, I think, in the CSS. NB: this was someone else's work. Tod Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Programmer/Analyst University of Chicago Library

Re: [CODE4LIB] Getting data from Voyager into XML?

ww.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/ecbdhold.html So it may not be totally unnatural to put your holdings-related facet info into the MARC XML alongside the bib data. (Though you may want to think about how to handle long serials runs.) I would think that the big question is how (whether?) Voyager ex

Re: [CODE4LIB] Getting data from Voyager into XML?

on- stripping nicely tucked away into a MARC Conversion Utility Stylesheet that you could use directly in a MARC XML -> Solr transformation. [2] [1] http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/MARC21slim2MODS.xsl [2] http://www.loc.gov/marcxml/xslt/MARC21slimUtils.xsl Tod Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Programmer/Analyst University of Chicago Library

Re: [CODE4LIB] Getting data from Voyager into XML?

. I woke up a long time ago in another time zone. -Tod On Jan 19, 2007, at 5:58 AM, Tod Olson wrote: On Jan 19, 2007, at 4:07 AM, Erik Hatcher wrote: On Jan 17, 2007, at 3:26 PM, Andrew Nagy wrote: One thing I am hoping that can come out of the preconference is a standard XSLT doc. I sat down

[CODE4LIB] Batch MARC-8 to UTF-8 converters?

MARC::Record and MARC::Charset are more forgiving, but my Perl is minimal. Advice, sample code, pointers and the like are welcome. Tod Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Systems Librarian University of Chicago Library

Re: [CODE4LIB] Batch MARC-8 to UTF-8 converters?

sion and not making other changes to the records, give yaz-marcdump a try. --Jason Ronallo On 7/20/07, Tod Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: code4lib, Would any of you have a script for converting MARC records from MARC ANSEL to UTF-8 that you would be willing to share? I have millions o

[CODE4LIB] LC class scheme in XML or spreadsheet?

ould prefer not to key in the whole thing. Tod Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Systems Librarian University of Chicago Library

Re: [CODE4LIB] LC class scheme in XML or spreadsheet?

You mean, feedback beyond "you guys rock"? -Tod On Sep 24, 2007, at Sep 24, 7:18 PM, Ed Summers wrote: It's funny this subject just came up on one of the open-library discussion lists this week [1]. A whiles ago now Rob Sanderson, Brian Rhea (University of Liverpool) and I pulled down the LC C

Re: [CODE4LIB] what's the best way to get from Portland to San Francisco on Feb 28?

Aside from being chronically slow, I think the Coast Starlight is still out of service due to the mudslide south of Eugene at the end of January. Apparently Union Pacific, who owns the track, had/is having problems laying new track. -Tod Tod Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Systems Lib

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code for Kosovo

://www.greenstone.org/ . It imports all sorts of formats and the Greenstone Librarian Interface lets you do the cataloging. There's lots of tutorial material. The barrier to entry is pretty low, so it is also good for just getting experience with digital library software. Tod Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: [CODE4LIB] Shibboleth

brary is closely involved. If you'd like more details or would like to put in touch with the other Shibboleth folks on campus, contact me off-list. -Tod Tod Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Systems Librarian University of Chicago Library

code4lib@listserv.nd.edu

Sure, but at least your input device was the only one talking. Not entirely true for anyone working in TECO, where a bit of line noise on the modem connection would be executed as editor commands! -Tod Tod Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Systems Librarian University of Chicago Library On

[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Midwest: call for participation and registration

can both be found on the 2016 Code4Lib Midwest page: http://wiki.code4lib.org/2016_Code4Lib_Midwest_Meeting We look forward to seeing you in July! -Tod Tod Olson mailto:t...@uchicago.edu>> Systems Librarian Interim Director for Integrated Library Systems and Administrative Desktop S

[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Midwest, July 14 & 15 - still open

Just a reminder that Code4Lib Midwest is coming up, July 14 & 15. There is space for more attendees and content! Please sign up on the wiki[1], or contact me directly and I can sign you up. -Tod [1] http://wiki.code4lib.org/2016_Code4Lib_Midwest_Meeting Tod Olson Systems Librarian Int