Just a quickie note. Now that many VTNLISTS are installed, it is time to use them. For those titles that we decide NOT to set up with its own order, I will precede the Title Number with an “X” and (if I remember) program the algorithms to ignore (do not report) these as problems when [...]
Archive for August, 2011
VTNLIST Codes Used (quickie note about algorithms)
Posted in Order Reconciliation, Perl Programming, Summary of Publications data, Updating Order Info, Voyager Data, Weekly Data Run on August 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Hmm… Not so easy, is it?
Posted in CGI Programming, General Online Application Service Provider, Journal List Programming, Perl Programming, SFX Data, Voyager Data, Weekly Data Run on August 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
First a definition: Qwerty: 1. Made up of characters that one may type using a standard QWERTY keyboard. 2. Characters that are made up of the ASCII set of printable characters numbering from 32 to 126 that represent language/expression characters (this excludes machine commands such as Delete, Backspace, Escape etc.). I may elaborate on this [...]
Anything BUT UNIcode!
Posted in Uncategorized on August 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Okay, I finally decided to tackle the problem of non-standard characters in the journal data. I put off doing so because of the gianormous headache I knew this would be. I want to standardize journal titles for several reasons: To make them legible To make them searchable using a standard keyboard To prevent them from [...]
