Terry’s Worklog

  • Translating Project Gutenberg records

    I wrote this up some time ago, but I still occasionally get questions about it (in fact, I got one today, hence this note).  The Project Gutenberg (PG) provides its metadata for download in RDF format on it’s website at: http://www.gutenberg.org/feeds/catalog.rdf.zip.  I wrote an XSLT transformation for this data (fairly basic) when I was visiting…

  • EAD => MARC tutorial

    Just an FYI, since some people ask how we go about generating MARC records from our EAD records using MarcEdit…I’ve posted a short video tutorial.  What I didn’t include was the EAD translation (it’s somewhat specific to OSU), but I’m happy to add a link to it if anyone is interested. Anyway, you can find…

  • LF WorldCat Connector

    I’m going to spend some time getting the WorldCat API gem that I created before code4lib uploaded to rubyforge — but in the mean time, I’ve created a worldcat connector using this gem that is now in the LF 0.9 branch.  For LF 0.9.5 — the big change will be something that I learned about…

  • MarcEdit 5.1 Update

    Getting this last update out has taken a little more time than I would have liked, but I really wanted to think some of the issues that this update raised through so that the update process would be seamless.  Realistically, were I versioning MarcEdit in any realistic versioning process, this would likely be at the…

  • Top take-aways from Code4lib 2009

    This is a very abbreviated list that I’ll expand with a longer, more formal report, but this years code4lib left me with a few specific take-aways: I need to spend some more serious time considering how Linked Data projects currently being developed could impact my library.  I followed peripherally the work that Ed Summers did…

  • Yann Martel’s Life of Pi

    I find that anymore, it’s very rare that I get an opportunity to really sit down and read a book simply for the fun of it.  As former English major and current librarian, this might seem sacrilegious, but I generally don’t have the time.  And when I do, I like to know that the books…

  • ‡biblios.net MarcEdit Plug-in

    So, one of the presentations at Code4Lib this year discussed one of the latest initiatives to come out of the LibLime company, ‡biblios.net.  ‡biblios.net is a repository of ~30 million MARC records released under an Open Data license.  From my perspective, one of the things that I found most interesting about the ‡biblios.net platform is…

  • Finally in Providence

    Whew — made it in early enough to make my afternoon meetings and chat with a few folks.  The flight today was great.  Got upgraded to first class for the lion’s share of the trip, and got to get in some reading (the Life of Pi — so far, so good).  After my meetings, got…

  • On my way to Providence

    So, while my trip to Providence got off to a rocky start yesterday, I must say that I had a fantastic experience working with the Delta representatives getting it resolved, and as a bonus — this is the first time travelling as a Gold Medallion member — so when I checked in, I was automatically…

  • WorldCat API: draft ruby gem

    Since the WorldCat Grid API became available, I’ve spent odd periods of time playing with the services to see what kinds of things I could do and not do with the information being made available.  This was partly due to a desire to create an open source version of WorldCat Local.  It wouldn’t have been…

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