[CODE4LIB] Job: Digital Initiatives Librarian at Wake Forest University
Z. Smith Reynolds (ZSR) Library, winner of the 2011 ACRL Excellence in Academic Libraries award, seeks an exceptional, digitally-focused individual for the new position of Digital Initiatives Librarian. The successful candidate will be energetic, team-oriented, and knowledgeable of best practices in digital library services and will collaborate to help ZSR achieve its mission to help our students, faculty and staff succeed. The Digital Initiatives Librarian will develop, coordinate, and guide a formal program designed to cover the wide range of digital needs that span the academic and administrative domains of the University. This person will develop a digital initiatives program framework that includes developing policies, planning and implementing workflows, prioritizing projects and building productive partnerships with internal and external collaborators. Key internal partners include the Library's Special Collections, Scholarly Communication, and Technology Team. External partners include WFU Digital Publishing, the WFU Digital Humanities initiative, and other University faculty, staff and units. The program will encompass digitization of local unique materials, as well as publication of born-digital University content, digital preservation, and data curation. This person will coordinate and oversee all aspects of the daily operation of the Library's digitization center including the training and supervision of student assistants and any grant-funded digitization technicians. This twelve month position, with Library Faculty status and rank, will be part of a newly formed Digital Scholarship unit that includes the Scholarly Communication Librarian and works in a collaborative cross-team environment. Minimum Qualifications: Candidates must possess a Master's degree in Library and Information Studies from an ALA accredited program. Excellent written and oral communications skills are essential. An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered. Desired Qualifications: At least two years' experience in an academic library; digital project management experience, knowledge of best practices in digital library services; familiarity with current and emerging metadata, digitization and online scholarship standards; knowledge of digital curation and preservation strategies; strong technical skills; experience supervising students and digitization technicians; familiarity with DSpace and Omeka. Salary and Rank: Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience. Position is appointed to Library Faculty ranks as established by Wake Forest University. Rank at appointment is based on the successful applicant's experience and relevant credentials. Review of applications begins August 15 and continues until the position is filled. Interested applicants should go to http://wakejobs.silkroad.com and submit cover letter, resume and references within the online system. The Z. Smith Reynolds Library, with a collection of over 1.7 million volumes, materials expenditures of over $4 million, and an operating budget of over $8 million, serves over 4,500 undergraduates and 2,200 graduate and professional students within the Wake Forest Schools of Business and Accountancy, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and the Wake Forest Divinity School. Wake Forest is a private university where academic excellence is consistently recognized through rankings in the top 30 of the country's finest institutions of higher education. Wake Forest offers a rare combination - the academic and technological resources, facilities and Division I Athletic Programs associated with a large university with the compact campus, small classes and individual attention only a smaller school can provide. The University has a deep institutional commitment to public service and engagement with the world, as indicated by the motto pro humanitate. The University is beautifully located between the western mountains and east coast beaches of North Carolina. Apply at[https://wake-hr.silkroad.com/epostings/index.cfm?f useaction=app.jobinfojobid=975company_id=16141version=1source=ONLINEJobOw ner=992513startflag=1](https://wake-hr.silkroad.com/epostings/index.cfm?fusea ction=app.jobinfojobid=975company_id=16141version=1source=ONLINEJobOwner= 992513startflag=1) Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/1748/
[CODE4LIB] Open data and Research Libraries UK
Hello all I've been commissioned by Research Libraries UK (RLUK) to look at the possibility of making RLUK data openly available, and the related issues and challenges. As part of this work it is important for us to understand who the audience for such open data might be, how they might use the data, and what licences, formats and mechanisms will best support this use. I hope you are able to help by completing the survey linked below. To give a bit more detail on the data we are talking about. Research Libraries UK, through JISC and MIMAS, makes available a large database of bibliographic data. RLUK estimates that approximately 16 million bibliographic records in its database are free from restrictions in terms of redistribution and open licensing. RLUK is committed to the principle of open bibliographic data, and is a signatory to the JISC Discovery Open Metadata Principles (http://discovery.ac.uk/businesscase/principles/). RLUK would therefore like to determine the most effective way of publishing the available records as open metadata, with an emphasis on enabling reuse. The survey should only take about 10 minutes to complete and is available at: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/5RH8KH8 Thanks and best wishes Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936
[CODE4LIB] Job: Postdoctoral fellowship in Text Mining, Modeling, and Prototyping at Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta
Seeking a post-doctoral fellow in Text Mining, Modeling, and Prototyping, with expertise in Data Modeling and Digital Humanities. This position is based in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, in partnership with the Orlando Project and the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory (CWRC). The position is funded by the Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) project and the Text Mining and Visualization project, funded by a Major Collaborative Research Initiative grant and a Standard Research Grant, respectively, from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), The successful candidate is anticipated to work closely with team members at U Alberta, U Toronto, Acadia U, U Saskatchewan, U Western Ontario, U Guelph, U Victoria, and beyond. The postdoctoral fellow will work with conceptual data models and new forms of knowledge expression currently developed or under development by INKE and CWRC, collaborating with INKE's Modelling and Prototyping team and others, consulting with project stakeholders and potential stakeholders, and liaising with other INKE researchers located in North America and the UK. The successful candidate will have skills and aptitudes in humanities-oriented research and data modelling, including training or demonstrated experience working with the Resource Description Framework and/or other conceptual modelling approaches. Organizational skills are essential. Interest and aptitude in research planning and management would be an asset, as would knowledge of data visualization tools (e.g., VTK, D3, or Gephi). The ability to work in concert with our existing team is a critical requirement. Experience with leveraging semantic markup for text mining, visualization, and interoperability would be an asset. Examples of technologies employed in the partner projects include: XML, XSL, XSLT, XHTML, and TEIP5 encoding; XQuery; eXist XML databases; JavaScript; and Ruby on Rails. Experience in some or all of these technologies would be an asset, but is not a requirement. Hands-on aptitude with--as distinct from merely interest in--digital tools is required. Our current team members pride themselves on a passionate interest in both the humanities and their computational engagement. Our ideal candidate is someone with similar passions who can introduce the team to new ideas and provide new perspectives on existing digital humanities issues. The salary for this position is competitive in the Canadian context, and is governed in part by SSHRC practices. Applications comprising a brief cover letter, CV, and the names and contact information for three referees may be sent electronically to Susan Brown at susan/dot/brown/at/ualberta/dot/ca. The contract can begin as early as 1 September 2012; it is for a one-year term, with the possibility of renewal. Interviews may be conducted via Skype or in person, in Edmonton, or other venues as feasible. Applications will be reviewed until the position is filled. [posted to DBWorld listserv] Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/1749/
Re: [CODE4LIB] Recommendations for a teaching OPAC?
Hi, When you talk about the OPAC, do you want them to be working with a full ILS or really just the front-end piece? If it's just the patron-facing search, you could probably do worse than to install Blacklight. It probably doesn't really meet the simple criteria - there's a lot more to it than I could talk about. But getting it out of the box, turned on, and searching against a few records is something that you and students could probably manage. I've got a year of unix/ssh/command line experience and with a bit of mucking about, googling, and asking for help I was able to get a local (non-production) instance up and running, so it's definitely easy enough. By the way, this looks like an awesome survey class. The headaches it would have saved me if someone had covered this stuff 10 years ago when I was in school, instead of teaching me how to search DIALOG! Joe Montibello, MLIS Library Systems Manager Dartmouth College Library 603.646.9394 joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edu On 8/2/12 1:54 PM, David E Mussulman mussu...@illinois.edu wrote: Hi everyone, I teach an intro to IT survey class for the LIS school at Illinois. The one-major-topic-a-week syllabus doesn't really give us time to deep dive into IT topics, but it lets us explore them and give contextual understanding to the building block pieces. Ideally, every topic has some sort of hands-on exercise that gives real life experience with the concepts/technologies. The exercises are usually independent, but I've been kicking around the idea of using a simple OSS OPAC to teach different elements of the class as a semester-long big cascading lesson. Examples: Lesson: Linux, ssh and the command shell Exercise: Installing Ubuntu, getting comfortable with that environment Lesson: OSS and software ecosystems Exercise: Get a LAMP stack setup on the OS, install the OPAC Lesson: Interfaces, usability, accessibility Exercise: Use the OPAC, populate it with some data, assess its usability Lesson: HTML/CSS Exercise: Use CSS to skin the OPAC, customize the HTML for your site Lesson: Data management, search, IR Exercise: See if we can peak under the hood about how the OPAC's search works Lesson: Interfaces to data: databases, XML, SQL Exercise: Use the OPAC as an living example to work with those interfaces Lesson: Cloud computing, 2.0/social network integration Exercise: Not sure yet... This idea primarily came from trying to get some simple XML/SQL exercises that didn't suck (the setup for these environments is almost as involved as any exercises itself), and the fact the previous classes really liked dissecting the nextgen catalogs we've explored from a software selection and 2.0 integration perspective. But here's the catch, and this is why I need your experience, Code4Lib. I'm not an OPAC admin, and have no experience running or hacking them. I'm looking for recommendations for software that would help me with the goals above, without being too difficult or overwhelming for the students or me. :) It doesn't have to be a good/complete OPAC, necessarily -- just a teaching tool to give experience with the lessons above. Should I be looking at koha and evergreen and the big ones, or are there small projects that you're aware of that might be better? My preference would be MySQL and PHP, but as long as the supplemental tools and documentation are good, I'm flexible. For example, if there are tools as good as phpmyadmin to browse postgresql, I don't think it really matters. I'm willing to sacrifice good for simple and transparent. I don't think Rails is a good place to go with this because I don't want to teach MVC/Rails. (Maybe I'm wrong?) Oh, and I'd also like a small project with great documentation, but I've been around OSS long enough to know that's a diamond in the rough. Sadly, the reality is (for most of these exercises) if the project documentation is lacking, I'll have to write that as well. What are your thoughts on this endeavor? Any recommendations? Thanks! Dave PS. This is not a job ad posting. ;)
[CODE4LIB] Job: Arts-Area Digital Librarian at Yale University
Yale University Library Seeks Applications and Nominations for Arts-Area Digital Librarian With a thorough knowledge of library software applications and academic resources available in the visual and performing arts, the successful candidate will help guide the design, implementation, and improvement of access to existing Arts-Area libraries digital collections and services. Working in close collaboration with Library and campus stakeholders, develop a clear, comprehensive, and compelling strategic vision of the technological infrastructure, and the bibliographic and metadata organization necessary for the Arts-Area Libraries to participate in University-wide digital information management strategies to ensure that current and prospective independent digital initiatives are maintained, upgraded, and successfully incorporated within the Library's growing digital landscape. Provides instructional and technical support to faculty and students in all aspects related to the use of the Library's digital collections. For a complete position description and application guidelines, please see: http://goo.gl/Qk9Tf Yale University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/1750/
Re: [CODE4LIB] Recommendations for a teaching OPAC?
Amen to this! I suspect DIALOG is still being taught to believe it or not... By the way, this looks like an awesome survey class. The headaches it would have saved me if someone had covered this stuff 10 years ago when I was in school, instead of teaching me how to search DIALOG! --- Bohyun Kim, MA, MSLIS Digital Access Librarian bohyun@fiu.edu 305-348-1471 Medical Library, College of Medicine Florida International University http://medlib.fiu.edu http://medlib.fiu.edu/m (Mobile) From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Joseph Montibello [joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edu] Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 10:56 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Recommendations for a teaching OPAC? Hi, When you talk about the OPAC, do you want them to be working with a full ILS or really just the front-end piece? If it's just the patron-facing search, you could probably do worse than to install Blacklight. It probably doesn't really meet the simple criteria - there's a lot more to it than I could talk about. But getting it out of the box, turned on, and searching against a few records is something that you and students could probably manage. I've got a year of unix/ssh/command line experience and with a bit of mucking about, googling, and asking for help I was able to get a local (non-production) instance up and running, so it's definitely easy enough. By the way, this looks like an awesome survey class. The headaches it would have saved me if someone had covered this stuff 10 years ago when I was in school, instead of teaching me how to search DIALOG! Joe Montibello, MLIS Library Systems Manager Dartmouth College Library 603.646.9394 joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edu On 8/2/12 1:54 PM, David E Mussulman mussu...@illinois.edu wrote: Hi everyone, I teach an intro to IT survey class for the LIS school at Illinois. The one-major-topic-a-week syllabus doesn't really give us time to deep dive into IT topics, but it lets us explore them and give contextual understanding to the building block pieces. Ideally, every topic has some sort of hands-on exercise that gives real life experience with the concepts/technologies. The exercises are usually independent, but I've been kicking around the idea of using a simple OSS OPAC to teach different elements of the class as a semester-long big cascading lesson. Examples: Lesson: Linux, ssh and the command shell Exercise: Installing Ubuntu, getting comfortable with that environment Lesson: OSS and software ecosystems Exercise: Get a LAMP stack setup on the OS, install the OPAC Lesson: Interfaces, usability, accessibility Exercise: Use the OPAC, populate it with some data, assess its usability Lesson: HTML/CSS Exercise: Use CSS to skin the OPAC, customize the HTML for your site Lesson: Data management, search, IR Exercise: See if we can peak under the hood about how the OPAC's search works Lesson: Interfaces to data: databases, XML, SQL Exercise: Use the OPAC as an living example to work with those interfaces Lesson: Cloud computing, 2.0/social network integration Exercise: Not sure yet... This idea primarily came from trying to get some simple XML/SQL exercises that didn't suck (the setup for these environments is almost as involved as any exercises itself), and the fact the previous classes really liked dissecting the nextgen catalogs we've explored from a software selection and 2.0 integration perspective. But here's the catch, and this is why I need your experience, Code4Lib. I'm not an OPAC admin, and have no experience running or hacking them. I'm looking for recommendations for software that would help me with the goals above, without being too difficult or overwhelming for the students or me. :) It doesn't have to be a good/complete OPAC, necessarily -- just a teaching tool to give experience with the lessons above. Should I be looking at koha and evergreen and the big ones, or are there small projects that you're aware of that might be better? My preference would be MySQL and PHP, but as long as the supplemental tools and documentation are good, I'm flexible. For example, if there are tools as good as phpmyadmin to browse postgresql, I don't think it really matters. I'm willing to sacrifice good for simple and transparent. I don't think Rails is a good place to go with this because I don't want to teach MVC/Rails. (Maybe I'm wrong?) Oh, and I'd also like a small project with great documentation, but I've been around OSS long enough to know that's a diamond in the rough. Sadly, the reality is (for most of these exercises) if the project documentation is lacking, I'll have to write that as well. What are your thoughts on this endeavor? Any recommendations? Thanks! Dave PS. This is not a job ad posting. ;)
[CODE4LIB] haititrust
If I needed/wanted to know what materials held by my library were also in the HaitTrust, then programmatically how could I figure this out? In other words, do you know of a way to query the HaitTrust and limit the results to items my library owns? --Eric Lease Morgan
Re: [CODE4LIB] haititrust
You can do an empty query in their catalog, and use the Original Location facet to filter to a holding library. Programatically, I'm not sure, but you'd probably need to use the Hathi files: http://www.hathitrust.org/hathifiles. -Jon On 08/03/2012 11:07 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: If I needed/wanted to know what materials held by my library were also in the HaitTrust, then programmatically how could I figure this out? In other words, do you know of a way to query the HaitTrust and limit the results to items my library owns? --Eric Lease Morgan
Re: [CODE4LIB] Recommendations for a teaching OPAC?
On 3 Aug 2012, at 15:56, Joseph Montibello joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edu wrote: search, you could probably do worse than to install Blacklight. It probably doesn't really meet the simple criteria - there's a lot more to it than I could talk about. But getting it out of the box, turned on, and searching against a few records is something that you and students could probably manage. I've got a year of unix/ssh/command line experience and with a bit of mucking about, googling, and asking for help I was able to get a local (non-production) instance up and running, so it's definitely easy enough. I'd agree - either Blacklight http://projectblacklight.org or VuFind http://vufind.org are straightforward to get running. I've found Blacklight setup using the Ruby Gem very easy both on Windows and OS X. Since they are both powered by Solr and use SolrMARC there are a lot of similarities on the indexing/searching side. However on the interface side they differ in terms of setup - so it might be this that would sway you one way of the other (or a preference for PHP (VuFind) or Ruby (Blacklight)). Lesson: Interfaces, usability, accessibility Exercise: Use the OPAC, populate it with some data, assess its usability Once you've got VuFind/Blacklight setup populating with data is a matter of uploading some MARC21 records - Blacklight comes with some test records bundled, I suspect VuFind does to but can't remember Lesson: HTML/CSS Exercise: Use CSS to skin the OPAC, customize the HTML for your site This is slightly more complex I guess - both systems can be highly customised, but in either case it isn't necessarily just a matter of editing CSS or HTML. Both use templating systems and both have configuration files that control certain aspects of the interface (e.g. what is searched, how facets display). CSS is probably more straightforward - VuFind you can just drop in CSS to override the default - not sure about Blacklight Lesson: Data management, search, IR Exercise: See if we can peak under the hood about how the OPAC's search works I think this would be the real strength of using Blacklight/VuFind - Solr/Lucene is a powerful combination, and used widely outside the library sector. You can also configure the indexing to a high degree - lots of options, the most basic of which I explore in http://www.meanboyfriend.com/overdue_ideas/2012/07/marc-and-solrmarc/ The thing I really like about this is students would see some of the complexity of MARC as well as some of it's utility - and where it doesn't work well Lesson: Interfaces to data: databases, XML, SQL Exercise: Use the OPAC as an living example to work with those interfaces This is less well served by Blacklight/VuFind - no database, no SQL. This idea primarily came from trying to get some simple XML/SQL exercises that didn't suck (the setup for these environments is almost as involved as any exercises itself), and the fact the previous classes really liked dissecting the nextgen catalogs we've explored from a software selection and 2.0 integration perspective. Unfortunately it may be that Blacklight/VuFind don't work for your scenario because they don't provide an environment for SQL. You could do some XML stuff (there is configuration files, and Solr can be updated via XML messages) - but I'm not clear whether this is the kind of XML work you want. However, I do think they open up some other avenues that are well worth exploring, and use technologies that are going to become more relevant in the future. Another option might be BibServer, which uses elastic search rather than Solr - but I've never tried installing it http://bibserver.readthedocs.org/en/latest/install.html
Re: [CODE4LIB] haititrust
Hi Eric, For on-the-fly queries there is a BibAPI. http://www.hathitrust.org/bib_api The hathifiles, which is a tab-delimited output of the HathiTrust items, would well for adding links to your catalog records. http://www.hathitrust.org/hathifiles -Stephanie From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Jon Stroop [jstr...@princeton.edu] Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 8:15 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] haititrust You can do an empty query in their catalog, and use the Original Location facet to filter to a holding library. Programatically, I'm not sure, but you'd probably need to use the Hathi files: http://www.hathitrust.org/hathifiles. -Jon On 08/03/2012 11:07 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: If I needed/wanted to know what materials held by my library were also in the HaitTrust, then programmatically how could I figure this out? In other words, do you know of a way to query the HaitTrust and limit the results to items my library owns? --Eric Lease Morgan
Re: [CODE4LIB] haititrust
Hi Eric I used an OCLC number match to get a sense of overlap at WFU - http://www.erikmitchell.info/2011/05/06/how-much-overlap-do-we-have-with-the-hathitrust/, http://www.erikmitchell.info/2011/05/07/more-on-hathitrust-overlap/. As I recall I simply pulled the oclc numbers from the MARC files (perhaps even just their spreadsheets) and did some simple database querying. More recently I have been working with the HT files using text similarity measures (e.g. pylevenshtein) to compare holdings across libraries. This takes a lot of CPU time but has proven to be a pretty good way to compare holdings at a title level and I suppose with a detailed enough text string (title, pub date, publisher...) you could focus the comparison on expressions/manifestations rather than just titles. Erik On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Jon Stroop jstr...@princeton.edu wrote: You can do an empty query in their catalog, and use the Original Location facet to filter to a holding library. Programatically, I'm not sure, but you'd probably need to use the Hathi files: http://www.hathitrust.org/hathifiles. -Jon On 08/03/2012 11:07 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: If I needed/wanted to know what materials held by my library were also in the HaitTrust, then programmatically how could I figure this out? In other words, do you know of a way to query the HaitTrust and limit the results to items my library owns? --Eric Lease Morgan
Re: [CODE4LIB] haititrust
Ideally, you shouldn't need the hathifiles. The HathiTrust search page links to an OpenSearch document [1], which promisingly identifies an RSS feed and a JSON serialization of the search results. Neither appears to work. In theory, doing as Jon says and then appending view=rss would get you an RSS feed. There is a contact email in the OpenSearch document you might try. FWIW, if you look at the search page HTML, there is a fixme note in an HTML comment, the same comment, incidentally, that also comments out the RSS feed link in the HTML. Yours, Kevin [1] http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Search/OpenSearch?method=describe -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Jon Stroop Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 11:15 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] haititrust You can do an empty query in their catalog, and use the Original Location facet to filter to a holding library. Programatically, I'm not sure, but you'd probably need to use the Hathi files: http://www.hathitrust.org/hathifiles. -Jon On 08/03/2012 11:07 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: If I needed/wanted to know what materials held by my library were also in the HaitTrust, then programmatically how could I figure this out? In other words, do you know of a way to query the HaitTrust and limit the results to items my library owns? --Eric Lease Morgan
[CODE4LIB] Job: Metadata and Emerging Technologies Librarian at Yale University
Yale University Library Seeks Applications and Nominations for Metadata and Emerging Technologies Librarian The Metadata and Emerging Technologies Librarian provides expertise and training to support the analysis, selection, and implementation of metadata schemas needed for the development of digital content projects and services at Yale. Reporting to the Leader of the Metadata and Catalog Management Team, the incumbent works collaboratively with metadata and catalog librarians, archivists, programmers, system librarians and library IT staff, Usability and Assessment Librarian, and colleagues throughout the library system to implement and promote metadata standards and services that address the needs of Yale user communities and support the functions to manage and provide access to the university's digital collections of text, images, and multimedia resources. For a complete position description and application guidelines, please see: http://goo.gl/9kbIa Yale University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/1760/
Re: [CODE4LIB] haititrust
There is a HathiTrust search API that you can use, in addition to RSS/OpenSearch. I can look up the details when i'm back at work next week if you can't find em googling. In fact, I think there are two seperate HT apis, one that searches HT fulltext and one that just searches metadata. I use the metadata searching one in production, and indeed use it to look up HT records by ISBN, LCCN, and OCLCnum. I am not sure if you can limit to just items your library owns using this API though. At a minimum (this may be obvious) your library would probably need to be a HT member, and have shared holdings information with HT -- otherwise HT has no idea which items your library owns. (My library is a HT member but has not yet shared holdings information with HT, because, well, we aren't able to identify our holdings reliably with OCLCnumbers, which is how HT (reasonably) wants it0. The support/question link at the top right of all HT pages, contrary to usual expectations (heh), actually does usually get directed to the right person and get a response, even for technical questions. I'd give a shot asking them directly. Jonathan From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Ford, Kevin [k...@loc.gov] Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 12:20 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] haititrust Ideally, you shouldn't need the hathifiles. The HathiTrust search page links to an OpenSearch document [1], which promisingly identifies an RSS feed and a JSON serialization of the search results. Neither appears to work. In theory, doing as Jon says and then appending view=rss would get you an RSS feed. There is a contact email in the OpenSearch document you might try. FWIW, if you look at the search page HTML, there is a fixme note in an HTML comment, the same comment, incidentally, that also comments out the RSS feed link in the HTML. Yours, Kevin [1] http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Search/OpenSearch?method=describe -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Jon Stroop Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 11:15 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] haititrust You can do an empty query in their catalog, and use the Original Location facet to filter to a holding library. Programatically, I'm not sure, but you'd probably need to use the Hathi files: http://www.hathitrust.org/hathifiles. -Jon On 08/03/2012 11:07 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: If I needed/wanted to know what materials held by my library were also in the HaitTrust, then programmatically how could I figure this out? In other words, do you know of a way to query the HaitTrust and limit the results to items my library owns? --Eric Lease Morgan
Re: [CODE4LIB] haititrust
Not an answer to your question, but if you want to share I'm curious what your use case is where you want to limit to items your library owns. If HathiTrust has em in fulltext -- why would it matter to your patrons if your library has a print copy or not? And if HT does not have them in fulltext still, why would it matter to your patrons if your library has a print copy or not? From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Eric Lease Morgan [emor...@nd.edu] Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 11:07 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] haititrust If I needed/wanted to know what materials held by my library were also in the HaitTrust, then programmatically how could I figure this out? In other words, do you know of a way to query the HaitTrust and limit the results to items my library owns? --Eric Lease Morgan
Re: [CODE4LIB] haititrust
I'm not the original poster, but I've run into this before in terms of linking library holdings to digital versions. There are a few reasons I can think of for doing this linking: 1) Your library is a selection of works that you think will best serve your readers. The library catalog is not the only place they should look, but it is a useful first place to look. 2) Other functions, like your courseware, link to your catalog; discovering additional copies in this way is useful (of course, this assumes they aren't running a service like Umlaut, right?) 3) if you don't have a good record of what was digitized from your library, HathiTrust might be the best source of that One of the big problems that I see with mass digitization and the access to those items is the loss of the role of the library in selection/collection building. I suppose if you are in a huge library like Harvard the collection is so large that it almost approaches whatever. For smaller libraries, and with certain user populations, the mass of digitized texts is overwhelming. A library like Harvard assumes highly sophisticated users; when you combine Harvard and Michigan and California together you get a library that few of us can function in. I think the challenge for us now is to make that huge collection usable by folks other than a few experts. kc On 8/3/12 11:26 AM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: Not an answer to your question, but if you want to share I'm curious what your use case is where you want to limit to items your library owns. If HathiTrust has em in fulltext -- why would it matter to your patrons if your library has a print copy or not? And if HT does not have them in fulltext still, why would it matter to your patrons if your library has a print copy or not? From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Eric Lease Morgan [emor...@nd.edu] Sent: Friday, August 03, 2012 11:07 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] haititrust If I needed/wanted to know what materials held by my library were also in the HaitTrust, then programmatically how could I figure this out? In other words, do you know of a way to query the HaitTrust and limit the results to items my library owns? --Eric Lease Morgan -- Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet
[CODE4LIB] Job: Digital Initiatives Librarian at University of Montana - Missoula
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