gnujake download

[Daniel Chudnov]

(pardon xposts)


This is by many measures quite premature, but what the heck.  Those of you
interested in gnujake can -- if you want -- grab a copy of what's in it
now.  There's a hefty tarball available at the gnujake page:

  http://www.med.yale.edu/library/oss4lib/projects/gnujake.php3


As the page says:  This is big (5MB download, 31MB unzipped), and is
really only for folks interested in bringing up the data locally.  What
you get is all of the data and the php3 script that implements the
gnujake:union search screen at:

  http://www.med.yale.edu/library/gnujake
  (try it --  you'll like it)


A few words about the data:  to seed the database, we put together a few
scripts that auto-generated a bunch of title authority records -- by no
means a complete list, but a useful one.  The algorithm was essentially
"if there are at least 4 titlelist records with the same issn, create a
titleAuthority record and create 1..m titleAuthorityRelationships between
the two."  The "at least 4" part was to get most of the widely-indexed
titles without introducing too many errors, and it generated about 9500
titlesAuthority records, for which about 56000 title cross-references were
created.

If this doesn't make sense, wait for a later download.  :)

About the project:  gnujake is free software (and data).  Its purpose is
to support the management of and linking between online resources.  See
the README and COPYING files for details.


  Regards,

  -Dan


Daniel Chudnov
Cushing/Whitney Medical Library
Yale University
(203) 785-4347