Re: [CODE4LIB] Usability Person?

2013-10-30 Thread Ranti Junus
Our library has a User Experience group. This is not a unit, but consists of 4 people whose part of work is related to user experience. This group's main focus primarily on the online experience: website, catalog, e-resources, and accessibility. We did quite a number of usability tests, shared the

Re: [CODE4LIB] Usability Person?

2013-10-30 Thread Cynthia Ng
I've worked at numerous places in the past few years: 1. Dedicated Designer + UX person (non-librarian, large academic library). The web team consisted of 4-5 people, one of which was solely dedicated to design (including graphics design), user interface, and user experience. It made a really big

Re: [CODE4LIB] Patents in Institutional Repositories.

2013-10-30 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete!     I've oft thought it'd be nice if there were more crossover betwixt CODE4LIB and the GOVDOCLers. You should easily be able to hit http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html     and get your details. :) Cheers, Brooke     Well, a faculty member approaches the repository

[CODE4LIB] Job: Tech Team Leader and System Administrator for the Texas Digital Library at Texas Digital Library

2013-10-30 Thread jobs
The Texas Digital Library seeks a Senior Systems Analyst and Tech Team Lead to help us manage the systems and digital environment that brings the research of Texas universities to the world. Your work will enable universities to bring their research data and digital library collections online, not

Re: [CODE4LIB] Patents in Institutional Repositories.

2013-10-30 Thread Wilhelmina Randtke
The intellectual property is a patent, not a copyright. The actual patent that was granted can be retrieved from the US Patent and Trademark Office. The paper documentation can be copied and posted freely by anyone. Copyright is not an issue here. -Wilhelmina Randtke On Oct 30, 2013 2:45 PM, "Lydi

Re: [CODE4LIB] Patents in Institutional Repositories.

2013-10-30 Thread Lydia Zvyagintseva
Sure, apologies for out-of-the-blue questions. Well, a faculty member approaches the repository with their CV and asks us to investigate all their publications to see how much of their work we can deposit. They list their patents as part of their scholarly output on their CV. My understanding is t

Re: [CODE4LIB] Patents in Institutional Repositories.

2013-10-30 Thread Matthew Sherman
Can you provide context? I am trying to understand why you would put a patent in an IR. On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Lydia Zvyagintseva wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Forgive me if this question has been asked before on this listserv, but I'm > trying to gather some info for proceeding with pate

[CODE4LIB] Patents in Institutional Repositories.

2013-10-30 Thread Lydia Zvyagintseva
Hi everyone, Forgive me if this question has been asked before on this listserv, but I'm trying to gather some info for proceeding with patents down the road. Do you have patents in your IR? What priority do they take in your repository process? What's your workflow when dealing with them? Any sp

Re: [CODE4LIB] Usability Person?

2013-10-30 Thread Notess, Mark
We are spinning up a UX team at IU Bloomington Libraries—below is the current opening for the initial hire. More are anticipated. As library collections and services move increasingly online, we need to invest in the kind of staffing needed to create successful online experiences. We did former

Re: [CODE4LIB] Usability Person?

2013-10-30 Thread Shaun Ellis
It is nice to see a growing appreciation for UX in our domain. Michael, librarians ARE users, but I understand what you're saying in that they've had too much influence, and have unfortunately brought bias to the design process that has created obstacles for other users. Andrew, your original

Re: [CODE4LIB] Usability Person?

2013-10-30 Thread Michael Schofield
I think, where budgets allow, this is an increasingly common function / position. I am a Front End Librarian and I oversee development, user experience, and content strategy. I am part of systems but I liaise most often with our Marketing Department [because we have one ... ]. My friend Amanda i

Re: [CODE4LIB] Usability Person?

2013-10-30 Thread Matt Connolly
Here at Cornell, we have a usability group of about 15 people that includes librarians, developers, designers, and other staff. We serve as a centralized resource for usability testing for new or returning websites and other development projects. A few of the members have 10% of their time forma

Re: [CODE4LIB] Usability Person?

2013-10-30 Thread Ken Varnum
We are exceptionally fortunate to have a 3-person User Experience department to support the developers who work on the website, the catalog, the digital library, and the repository. http://www.lib.umich.edu/library-information-technology/user-experience-department -- Ken Varnum | Web Systems Mana

Re: [CODE4LIB] Usability Person?

2013-10-30 Thread Tom Cramer
We have been lucky to have a full time interaction designer within our library IT group for about 6 years. It makes a world of difference in the quality of our products; it also helps with letting the engineers focus on engineering, and the librarians focus on being librarians (rather than tryin

Re: [CODE4LIB] Usability Person?

2013-10-30 Thread Matthew Sherman
I think this depends a bit on the size of your institution. Where I am at we have barely enough funding to have a small number of librarians. I think you are right in so far is places should have a dedicated usability person, but this is not always possible. On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:24 AM, An

Re: [CODE4LIB] Usability Person?

2013-10-30 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
On Oct 30, 2013, at 11:24 AM, Andrew Darby wrote: > Hello, all. This is perhaps a bit off-topic, but I was wondering how many > of you have a dedicated usability person as part of your development team… I do not think we have a usability person, per se. The position is sort of vacant. You can

[CODE4LIB] Usability Person?

2013-10-30 Thread Andrew Darby
Hello, all. This is perhaps a bit off-topic, but I was wondering how many of you have a dedicated usability person as part of your development team. Right now, we have a sort of ad hoc Usability Team, and I'd like to make a pitch for hiring someone who will have the time and inclination to manage

[CODE4LIB] Biodiversity Specimen Label Transcription Hackathon, applications due Nov 1

2013-10-30 Thread Ben Brumfield
For those interested in exploring crowdsourcing, transcription tools, and OCR, this is a really neat opportunity to see what's going on in natural science collections. I attended the Augmenting OCR hackathon in February and learned a tremendous amount about OCR. Better yet, one of the tools I

[CODE4LIB] ALA Midwinter Hackathon - Jan. 24

2013-10-30 Thread Bohyun Kim
Sharing for the Code4Lib-ers who are going to be at ALA MW and interested in programming. This is a beginner-friendly event and does NOT require ALA Midwinter registration. ~Bohyun ALA Midwinter Hackathon – 1/24, Philly http://www.libhack.org/schedule-logistics/ Registration

Re: [CODE4LIB] pdf2txt [tika]

2013-10-30 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
On Oct 15, 2013, at 10:44 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > For a limited period of time I am making publicly available a Web-based > program called PDF2TXT --http://bit.ly/1bJRyh8 On Oct 14, 2013, at 7:56 AM, Nicolas Franck wrote: > Could this also be done by Apache Tika? Or do I miss a crucia

[CODE4LIB] Job: Web Developer at Missouri History Museum

2013-10-30 Thread jobs
The Missouri History Museum seeks a Web Developer that will be responsible for back-end web development and maintenance of Drupal-based web applications. The Developer will also interface with internal departments to develop exhibit sites, integrate internal management systems, and provide technica