22:01 < edsu> i would try to separate them now before it’s
too late :)
22:02 < erikhatcher> it’s never too late, but i certainly want
to keep this clean from the start
New Years Resolution #9 – never underestimate the power of a positive attitude…
Here’s to making sure that code4libcon 2007 is a watershed moment for women library technologists.
code4libcon 2006 in Corvallis wasn’t all male, but it was largely…and I can only remember two women speaking to the audience. To a large extent code4libcon was modeled after technology conferences like yapc, pycon, oscon, barcamp, etc–which have much the [...]
Since the code4lib conference the #code4lib irc channel has gained a lot of new voices with new ideas. In fact dsalo and ksclarke have already said all I can think of saying on the topic of the changing culture of the #code4lib channel.
Some people have suggested that some of the ideas, such as a journal, [...]
Thom Hickey mentioned a new page at OCLC which lists some real time stats for worldcat: total holdings, last record added, etc. Perhaps this is in honor of the total holdings getting very close to crossing the 1 billion mark.
So of course I had to add a plugin for panizzi to scrape the page. [...]
A bunch of #code4lib folks will be converging on Chicago this summer for the annual American Library Association conference. Several of us thought it would be fun to get together for a sprint on a project that has yet to be decided. A potential project is building a framework for metadata translation similar to [...]
As a joke dchud suggested that panizzi (the friendly neighborhood bot in #code4lib) should have a plugin for querying the Library of Congress Name Authority File that OCLC provides. The Name Authority File allows librarians the world over to use the same established names when cataloging books, etc. It would serve no purpose [...]
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