. Whoever runs that server, let me know ...
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where every entry looked like it
was written on a library card or in a book or something?
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junk like AddThis, but cripes,
I hadn't realized how many people pull in Javascript libraries from Google or
Yahoo. That's a harder way of tracking to avoid.
Bill
[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-monster/
[1] https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
[2] https://dis
nt. They seem to get along fine.
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omputing
power and instituional heft---and I wonder if anyone here is doing that are
their work.
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Audit
I'm sure many of you knew about it but thought I'd mention it.
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On 10 September 2014, Chris Beer wrote:
I updated code4lib.org from Drupal 4 to Drupal 7 (or, from 4 to 5, 5 to 6,
cursed Drupal repeatedly, and finally from 6 to 7).
!!! Wonderful! Thank you.
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the first time I've ever seen that, and the name
"Code2Bib" is a real delight. I'm very happy to hear about it!
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rmation in feeds, and I'm
displaying it in this theme. Most sources have no information, so it's blank,
but if you're on the Planet, have a look and make sure that information is in
your feed.
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On 4 October 2014, William Denton wrote:
http://planet.code4lib.org/
And for anyone who prefers the old view, it's here:
http://planet.code4lib.org/old.html
About Coral's question about copyright information in WordPress feeds, I had a
bit of a look around but didn'
l tool.
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easy for people from upstate New York to get to, as well.
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off the
camera and put a paper bag over it for the duration.
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e they're enjoying it and have something to do.
Having university IT developers and admins around really helps, whether they're
just doing their work or they're acting as helpers or mentors.
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x27;ve dug into it I'd be curious
to know, not just about how you parsed the logs but then what you did with
it, whether you loaded bits of data into a database, etc.
Looking around, I see a few examples of people using the system's API, but
that's it.
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, which
locations are busiest, what call number ranges get used the most) but I wonder
what others have found to be the most interesting and helpful.
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From the users perspective, it should all be Mac-tastic.
I've always been curious, and now seems a good time to ask: I'm sure you've
considered, and been asked about, releasing MarcEdit under a free software
license, but decided against it. Why?
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maintainer,
but how other people handle their code is up to them, and I'm glad to now know
the reasoning in this case.
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lly-used proprietary classification
scheme---sad not only that it did it, but that it can at all.
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there's this more recent one I saw mentioned on Planet Code4Lib a day
or two ago:
https://github.com/pulibrary/lcsort
I haven't tried it and don't know how it relates to the first, but if you want a
Ruby approach, those should help.
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te [1] yet, though maybe if we ask ...
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ake of the "I confirm that I am a lawful representative of
the journal and I have full legal capacity to apply for its inclusion in
Paperity" line, but heck, just click it.
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r and see if it works
better. Thanks for giving it a shot, though.
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n't find any discussion about making these
connections. Have any of you done it? Know of it being done in code I can see?
Written it up?
Thanks for any pointers,
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CLC numbers that we consider are part
of that work (under the "WorkExample" tab).
I know, not an optimal solution even if you have the OCLC number. But it
could work if you do.
Roy
On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 1:37 PM, William Denton wrote:
I'm looking at how to match print (p) and electro
al Message-
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Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2015 5:40 PM
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Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Matching print and electronic editions of the same book
Thanks! That opens things up. We do have a lo
Firefox has disallowed the LibX add-on because it's unsigned, and Firefox has
new rules about verifying extensions. We upgraded our LibX build to a fresh
version, but Firefox still doesn't lke it. Godmar, Annette, anyone---is this
a way I can get it working?
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On 9 February 2016, Greg Lindahl wrote:
https://blog.archive.org/2016/02/09/how-will-we-explore-books-in-the-21st-century/
And the demo itself is here:
https://books.archivelab.org/dateviz/
Very cool! I'm glad you're on the list.
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ile
at least.
See you soon,
Bill
[1] http://www.layar.com/
[2]
https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=213549257652679418473.0004ce6c25e6cdeb0319d&msa=0
and
https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=208580427660303662074.0004d00a3e083f4d160a4&msa=0
[3] As in Odysseus's father, who was one of the Argonauts and did a fair
bit of travelling, and because his name has "layer" in it.
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ing through the Art Institute of Chicago, or d) all of the above.
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http://www.miskatonic.org/
enton/playlists/2229053/Code4Lib_2013_in_Chicago/
[2] http://developer.rdio.com/
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Chicago's open data site has a lot of really interesting data sets:
https://data.cityofchicago.org/
I wish my city had as much online.
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n see only
points from a map or only tweets---having both was sometimes
overwhelming---and also add a filter so you can just see recent tweets.
I took some screenshots and I'll post about it but if you used do let me
know.
Cheers,
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supervision
* Willingness to move to DPLA permanent headquarters (TBA by April 2013)
* Knowledge of one or more of the following fields is desirable:
* Digital Humanities
* Digital Scholarship
* Data Management/Curation
* Data Modeling
* Libraries and Scholarly Communication
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Ed, does this amazing jobs site require your hand on the dial? I thought
you'd coded it all into magic and it just worked.
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ood technical skills
and a science background.
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nship Research
York University Libraries, 516 Scott Library
York University, 4700 Keele Street
Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3J 1P3
Fax 416-736-5451
yula...@yorku.ca
Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/8337/
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t will
happen to it in five years, and what will replace it.
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ps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyAkUJCgDUk
[3] https://www.spaceglasses.com/
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enter our ref
desk work into our system, but it's pretty much a one-way system and
nothing much happens with the data except for some numbers in annual
reports.
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I'm not on the search
committee.
Bill
PS again: York pays well. I estimate that if you're five years post-MLIS
you'd get close to $100,000 CDN. Our salaries are based on
years-since-MLIS.
On 17 June 2013, William Denton wrote:
This is a great opportunity to have a coupl
as default? It's one of those
slightly finicky things that on the surface isn't necessary (why bother
with a library's opening hours or address?) but deeper down is, because
everyone should be able to browse the web without being monitored.
Bill
[0] https://cert.startcom
People log in to code4lib.org and wiki.code4lib.org by sending
their passwords in the clear! That is uncool.
(Question: Why does HTTPS complicate screen-scraping? Every decent tool
and library supports HTTPS, doesn't it?)
Bill
[0] http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/2014_Prepared_Talk_Proposals
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(or
whatever is doing it) isn't available to whatever kind of account I have.
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I want
http://code4lib.org/node/388
to be
http://code4lib.org/conference/2011/schedule
but I don't see any way to set that. How is it done? If it requires some
kind of higher level access, maybe an admin can do it?
Thanks,
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streaming video---I'll be watching tomorrow with great
interest! I hope everyone there has a great time. It looks like it'll be
fun.
Bill
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On 8 February 2011, Jason Griffey wrote:
I'd like to ditto what Roy said below. I know how hard this is to do at all,
and to do it well is the sign of experience and talent.
+1
I'm watching the archive now and the video is wonderful. Thank you!
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n. I'm looking forward to it.
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how the web works. It changed how I think.
Bill
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With Code4Lib North in early May, and Code4Lib Northwest in mid-June, we
now need Code4Lib North by Northwest in late May, with Cary Grant running
through a field escaping a plane attempting to dust him with poisonous,
badly formed MARC records.
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regex [\ 12345678uz]
18 regex [\ aciu]
19 regex [\ abc] MARC Bibliographic
#>20 byte 4
#>21 byte 5
#>22 byte 0
#>23 byte 0 MARC Bibliographic
# --- end clip'n'test
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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
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content of fields, which in my opinion,
is more open to interpretation based on system usage of the data.
What do you think is the best way to recognize MARC files (up to some
level of validity, given all the MARC you've seen and parsed) that could
be made to work the way magic is defined?
lid MARC is valid MARC, but if---for the sake
of file and its magic---we can identify technically invalid but still
usable MARC, that's good.
Bill
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On 6 April 2011, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
http://zoia.library.nd.edu/tmp/tor.marc
Happily, Kevin's magic formula recognizes this as MARC!
Bill
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On 11 April 2011, LeVan,Ralph wrote:
We can't be the only ones with this problem. Does anyone have a
suggestion on how we fix it?
OCLC could buy L-Soft, who make LISTSERV ...
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eges, school systems, cities, etc.
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ith time limits, for all material (X to the
public, Y to this person, Z to students in HUM 101 for one week)
- seamless streaming of audio and video (with access controls)
# - end GRAP
Any suggestions welcome. I'll pass along and report back.
Thanks,
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ng up restricted access actually is an improvement: without it,
there'd be no (online) access at all; the person would have to physically
come to the archive and show identification to view the diary that won't
be open to the public for 50 years.
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share ratio is 9.538. :)
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techniques see other
parallels to the desk? Extreme reference would be less dangerous and
exciting than extreme ironing, but perhaps more satisfactory to users than
regular one-person ref desk encounters.
Bill
[1] http://www.pragprog.com/titles/ahptl/
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dy have all the travel mugs I want.
Funding someone's attendance--or paying a student to get the audio and
video online quickly--would be great.
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On 25 November 2008, Birkin James Diana wrote:
Voting is now open to select the presentations for the 2009 Code4Lib
conference.
<http://vote.code4lib.org/election/index/7>
Can you get a post up on the code4lib.org home page about this?
Bill
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On 25 November 2008, William Denton wrote:
Can you get a post up on the code4lib.org home page about this?
Never mind, anarchivist did it, and now I know where I could have done it
myself, through the "create content" link.
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r two different books.
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"Error establishing a database connection," it says, for all requests. :(
Bill
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tic web or
cyberinfrastructure is required. The Chair must have demonstrated success
in directing and conducting research or a large project. As a member of
the YUL complement, the successful candidate will contribute in an area of
the libraries suited to the candidate's area of expertise."
Bi
ound the world to protect sensitive information and shield
the identity of victims or witnesses who provide testimony on human rights
abuses. Martus is the Greek word for witness."
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Ball
[2] http://www.hrdag.org/
[3] http://www.martus.org/
B
s
of information, that kind of thing.
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ome to
the meetings but didn't like things later, well, they'd had their chance.
We went slowly but that's what universities are like. Think what you may
of the end result, as a project it went very smoothly.
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up for it, and if we had 30-40
people for day and a half then we could have a blast. Anyone who's
interested, speak up here or drop us a note.
Bill
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)
Is there any American holiday happening in there?
Bill
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ore time for hanging out on Friday night.
How should we do the dates? Given the April/May range, and the suggested
restrictions, I think these are the days that work. Can we vote on the
list, or should we do a Doodle thingie?
If we can vote here then I say
+1 Thursday-Friday 6-7 May
Bi
edule, but I wanted to send out a quick note to reassure people the
discussion hadn't just died.
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to the US---but I hope some small to mid-size
American cities put in too. Providence and Asheville were great to visit.
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attend.
Questions or comments? Send mail to the mailing list, or e-mail Wendy
Huot and William Denton .
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ted in giving a talk should drop a note and add themselves on
the wiki page.
Discussion of a possible hackfest/something on the Thursday continues, but
it seems like most people will be solidly there for just Friday.
Bill
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more time for informal stuff, or lightning talks, or "Ask Anything" like I
see NYC is doing? Sometimes with a smaller group people don't talk so
much, but sometimes they do.
Bill
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afternoon, etc. Mixing that with organizational details *and*
general discussion about all local chapter meetings would confuse
everything, I think.
Bill
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e.
One last note: we decided to delete the code4lib-north mailing list and
have any future discussions here on the main list. If we need to, we can
make a separate list again, but there's no demonstrated need.
Cheers,
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r! Sounds like it was a fun day.
Nice mellow hangin' out in the back yard, too. Thanks for letting us know
how it went.
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here whose opinion I value, I thought I'd throw it
out.
Thanks,
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On 26 October 2012, Francis Kayiwa wrote:
Just saw this at code4li... 'er Access 2012. ;-)
https://github.com/splurge/splurge
No open data here yet, but we're working on it ... and I'll see about
merging in existing open data.
Bill
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Toron
On 1 November 2012, Michael J. Giarlo wrote:
Not to be glib, but: code4lib.
+1
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time to go ...
be good to hear that approach too. If someone's looking to change what
they're doing in the library/technology world, getting to Code4Lib however
they can is something to seriously consider.
Bill
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a
lot clearer.
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then it's a good one to read before visiting
Chicago.
[2] If you saw the movie, which is a poor substitute for the book, you
didn't see the Newberry, because the movie was filmed in Toronto and two
different libraries here were library doubles for it.
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ing in Digital Initiatives and Conservation
Services, plus learning about what C4L-type stuff is going on there. And
perhaps seeing a treasure and getting to go down a floor on the caged
staircase.
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ia) should opt-in.
Aha, I see what you mean. I don't think there's a way to do that in IRC,
but I might be wrong.
Personally I'd be happy if zoia was restricted to a very minimal set of
what she does now, or if most of her responses were msged and not in
channel.
Bill
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:
http://www.librarything.com/wiki/index.php/LibraryThing_APIs
Bill
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s any good Python
code for handling thesauri, I'd like to hear about it.
Thanks,
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application profile. Is there a home for
that kind of article now?
The first recurring feature should be how to sort LC call numbers in
different languages!
Jeff and Roy and Art and others: what kind of articles and columns do you
imagine might run in it? Can you suggest a dozen example titles?
Bi
4lib will be like
in twenty or thirty years.
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ormally? Apache
and Perl and the BSDs, for example, have formal organizations, but I
don't. If someone wants to put out FooMumble under an MIT license, in the
hopes other people will be interested, what's the best source for advice
about what to put in the copyright statement?
Thanks
tle to see now, but it'll slowly get better.
It appears the manifesto has mildly confused some people, so if you have
any questions, ask way.
Cheers,
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red source code
repository, either.
I do think FRBR is very useful and really needs an example, if not a
reference, implementation, so that people can say, "Oh, this is why we
should bother with it. You know, I could use this for X, and for Y ..."
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the videos, and that
MP3s are available.
Now the expectations for next year are that much higher!
Bill
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ds on my inseam measurement. I don't
actually have an account at the Upper Mowat Library, but I log in to one
of their computers using my Lower Mowat-supplied OpenID identifier, and
the Upper Mowat system recognizes where I'm from and gives me access to
everything.
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On 22 March 2007, William Denton wrote:
I hadn't been too clear on OpenID but a week or two ago I listened to a
recording of a talk about that explained it well. I can't find it
again, unfortunately, but you can take my word for it that it was pretty
good.
It was Simon Willison at
right now with what's available?
What do you folks do when you need free MARC records or other information
about books?
Bill
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