[CODE4LIB] Job Posting: Web Services Emerging Technologies Librarian - Albion College
***Please excuse the cross-posting*** Web Services Emerging Technologies Librarian Albion College is seeking a user-oriented, highly skilled professional as its Web Services Emerging Technologies Librarian. This librarian has overall responsibility for leading a team effort to provide high quality information discovery systems that support teaching and learning across campus. The Web Services Emerging Technologies Librarian will provide leadership and share responsibility for planning, implementing, and maintaining the Library website, and other digital systems and services through which Library patrons locate information. The Librarian will play an important role in planning and execution of the newly approved Learning Commons, and will work closely with members of the Library and College staff to plan and support digital records management initiatives and repository systems. This librarian has overall responsibility for the installation, maintenance, and enhancement of the library's integrated library system (currently Innovative Interfaces Millennium), which functions as a shared system with the Albion District Library. The Web Services Emerging Technologies Librarian has responsibility for supporting and training relevant staff from both Libraries. *Qualifications Include:* - Masters degree in library or information science from an ALA accredited graduate program - Significant knowledge of integrated library systems, with special reference to Innovative Interfaces Millennium system - Proficiency in web authoring, information presentation and organization - Experience with web technologies to deliver information resources and external content, such as CSS, PHP, MySQL, XML, CONTENTdm (or other CMS), WordPress and Joomla - Knowledge of technologies for digital libraries, including OpenURL, Dublin Core, MARC and Web 2.0 - Excellent oral and written communication skills with a high degree of computer literacy *Application Process:* Send cover letter, resume and the names of three references including contact information. Application materials should be submitted to: Michael Van Houten Library Co-Director Albion College Library 611 E. Porter Street Albion, MI 49224 or electronically to mvanhou...@albion.edumvanhou...@albion.edu?subject=librarian%20position *Search Duration:* Applications must be received by *January 17, 2011* for full consideration. The search will remain open until position is filled. __ *Albion College is a private liberal arts college of about 1635 students. It is situated in a culturally diverse community in south-central Michigan within an hour's drive of the University of Michigan, Michigan State University, and Western Michigan University. Albion is dedicated to the highest quality in undergraduate education and committed to diversity as a core institutional value. The College is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is especially interested in candidates who will contribute to a campus climate that supports equality and diversity.** **Visit our Web site at: http://www.albion.edu/hr/component/jobgroklist/posting/posting/59/259*
[CODE4LIB] New Vocabs Added to ID.LOC.GOV
Announcement: New Vocabularies Added to LC Authorities and Vocabularies Service The Library of Congress is pleased to make available new vocabularies from its Authorities and Vocabularies web service (ID.LOC.GOV), which provides access to Library of Congress standards and vocabularies as Linked Data. The new additions include : MARC Code List for Countries MARC Code List for Geographic Areas MARC Code List for Languages The MARC Countries entries include references to their equivalent ISO 3166 codes. The MARC Languages have been cross referenced with ISOs 639-1, 639-2, and 639-5, where appropriate. Additional vocabularies will be added in the future, including additional PREMIS controlled vocabularies. The vocabulary data are published in RDF using the SKOS/RDF Vocabulary. Individual concepts are accessible via the ID.LOC.GOV web service via a web browser interface or programmatically via content-negotiation. The vocabulary data are also available for bulk download. A new bulk download of LCSH will be available tomorrow, 5 January 2011. As always, your feedback is important and welcomed. Though we are interested in all forms of constructive commentary on all topics related to ID, we're particularly interested in how the data available from ID.LOC.GOV is used. Your contributions directly inform service enhancements. The Authorities and Vocabularies web service was first made available in May 2009 and offered the Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH), the Library's initial entry into the Linked Data movement. In part by assigning each vocabulary and each data value within it a unique resource identifier (URI), the service provides a means for machines to semantically access, use, and harvest authority and vocabulary data that adheres to W3C recommendations, such as Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS). In this way, the Authorities and Vocabularies web service also makes government data publicly and freely available in the spirit of the Open Government directive. Although the primary goal of the service is to enable machine access to Library of Congress data, a web interface serves human users searching and browsing the vocabularies. Please explore it for yourself at http://id.loc.gov. * Kevin M. Ford Digital Project Coordinator Network Development MARC Standards Office Library of Congress 101 Independence Avenue, SE Washington, DC 20540-4402
Re: [CODE4LIB] An alternate presentation of Code4Lib Journal
As Peter notes below, Anthologize is a WordPress 3 plugin -- and I should add in a alpha release state -- so a WP 3 install where you can install plug-ins is a pre-requisite. But it does have a feed importer, so given a complete RSS feed it would provide a relatively plain ePub output option. There's a download on the Anthologize site Peter linked to; the code is at https://github.com/chnm/anthologize/. (Incidentally, I'll be talking about One Week | One Tool development process Anthologize came out of at code4lib 2011). -- Scott Scott Hanrath shanr...@ku.edu On 1/3/11 3:23 PM, Peter Murray peter.mur...@lyrasis.org wrote: I wonder if something like Anthologize -- http://anthologize.org/ -- would be useful for doing this. From its About page: Anthologize is a free, open-source, plugin that transforms WordPress 3.0 into a platform for publishing electronic texts. Grab posts from your WordPress blog, import feeds from external sites, or create new content directly within Anthologize. Then outline, order, and edit your work, crafting it into a single volume for export in several formats, including ‹ in this release ‹ PDF, ePUB, TEI. Peter -- Peter Murray peter.mur...@lyrasis.orgtel:+1-678-235-2955 Ass't Director, Technology Services Development http://dltj.org/about/ Lyrasis --Great Libraries. Strong Communities. Innovative Answers. The Disruptive Library Technology Jesterhttp://dltj.org/ Attrib-Noncomm-Share http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/
[CODE4LIB] ALA Midwinter: Linked Data presentation at Subject Analysis Committee
Please excuse the duplication of this message; feel free to distribute to anyone interested. The ALCTS CCS Subject Analysis Committee will meet twice during the ALA Midwinter Conference in San Diego, CA. The committee's first meeting will be on Sunday, January 9, 2011, from 8:00 to 11:00 am at the Hilton San Diego Gaslamp Quarter, Santa Rosa Room. The second meeting will take place on Monday, January 10, 2011, from 1:30 to 5:30 pm in the San Diego Convention Center, Room 27B. At the conclusion of the Monday business meeting, there will be a presentation on Linked Data. John Mark Ockerbloom, digital planner and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, will give a presentation on linked open subject authority data from the Library of Congress (http://id.loc.gov/) and how it can be used to improve subject cataloging and browsing. Mr. Ockerbloom will describe how the LC data is structured (including a brief overview of RDF and SKOS), and explain how he has used it to improve The Online Books Page (http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/) and the Penn Libraries' catalog. He will also show how he augmented and enhanced the authority data from LC, and discuss how widespread use of linked bibliographic and authority data may change how we build and use catalogs in the future. The agenda for the committee's meetings, along with reports submitted to the committee, can be found in ALA Connect: http://connect.ala.org/node/64185 On behalf of the Subject Analysis Committee, Linda Ballinger Principal Cataloging Librarian Newberry Library Chicago, IL balling...@newberry.org
Re: [CODE4LIB] An alternate presentation of Code4Lib Journal
The Journal actually is hosted on WordPress, although I'm not sure if it's a recent enough version for the plug-in. I had the impression looking at it before that Anthologize would only make an 'anthology' of your entire wordpress site. Is there any easy way to get it to, for instance, make an anthology of all the posts with a certain WordPress tag or category instead? That's what we'd want for the C4L Journal. I guess if it can take a feed, you could point it at the feed for a specific category/tag, but I'm betting it works better when it's actually functioning as a wordpress plugin integrated with the content it's exporting. In general, one of the hardest part of exporting our WordPress articles in other formats seems to be dealing with the in-line images, code-samples, tables, etc. Jonathan On 1/4/2011 11:35 AM, Hanrath, Scott wrote: As Peter notes below, Anthologize is a WordPress 3 plugin -- and I should add in a alpha release state -- so a WP 3 install where you can install plug-ins is a pre-requisite. But it does have a feed importer, so given a complete RSS feed it would provide a relatively plain ePub output option. There's a download on the Anthologize site Peter linked to; the code is at https://github.com/chnm/anthologize/. (Incidentally, I'll be talking about One Week | One Tool development process Anthologize came out of at code4lib 2011). -- Scott Scott Hanrath shanr...@ku.edu On 1/3/11 3:23 PM, Peter Murraypeter.mur...@lyrasis.org wrote: I wonder if something like Anthologize -- http://anthologize.org/ -- would be useful for doing this. From its About page: Anthologize is a free, open-source, plugin that transforms WordPress 3.0 into a platform for publishing electronic texts. Grab posts from your WordPress blog, import feeds from external sites, or create new content directly within Anthologize. Then outline, order, and edit your work, crafting it into a single volume for export in several formats, including ‹ in this release ‹ PDF, ePUB, TEI. Peter -- Peter Murray peter.mur...@lyrasis.orgtel:+1-678-235-2955 Ass't Director, Technology Services Development http://dltj.org/about/ Lyrasis --Great Libraries. Strong Communities. Innovative Answers. The Disruptive Library Technology Jesterhttp://dltj.org/ Attrib-Noncomm-Share http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/
Re: [CODE4LIB] An alternate presentation of Code4Lib Journal
As I recall, one of the editors mentioned Anthologize a while back and, at the time, we decided it wasn't a super good fit. Perhaps we ought to reconsider. We're running WordPress 3.0.4, so that's not an issue. On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: On Jan 4, 2011, at 11:40 AM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: ...Is there any easy way to get it to, for instance, make an anthology of all the posts with a certain WordPress tag or category instead?... Based on my (poor) recollection of playing with the Anthologize plug-in, the process is a bit manual. Initialize epub. Drag postings to it. Annotate/tweak titles. Click 'Go'. Get epub file. The process is not laborious, just a bit tedious. I would definitely recommend the Journal Committee experiment with Anthologize. -- Eric Morgan
[CODE4LIB] Presentation about id.loc.gov at LC exhibit booth
LC's Authorities and Vocabularies Web Service: experimenting with Linked Data Rebecca Guenther of the Library of Congress will give a presentation about LC's exploration of controlled vocabularies as Linked Data in its Authorities and Vocabularies Web Service (id.loc.gov). It will be held at the LC booth during the ALA Midwinter Conference on Sunday, Jan. 9 from 11:00-11:30 am. The presentation will give background on the types and purpose of controlled vocabularies, describe id.loc.gov and how it is being used, and show which vocabularies are available. These include LCSH, Thesaurus of Graphic Materials, MARC code lists for relators, countries, geographic area codes, ISO language codes and several PREMIS controlled vocabularies. The Library of Congress Exhibit booth is #1751 in the San Diego Convention Center exhibit hall. Rebecca Rebecca S. Guenther Senior Networking Standards Specialist Network Development MARC Standards Office Library of Congress 101 Independence Ave SE Washington, DC 20540 voice: +1.202.707.5092 fax: +1.202.707.0115 r...@loc.govmailto:r...@loc.gov
Re: [CODE4LIB] An alternate presentation of Code4Lib Journal
Anthologize lets you be as picky as you like about the content you use with it. Essentially you create multiple Anthologize 'projects', then add the whatever subset of content you need (native local WordPress content or content imported via a feed) to the project. The Anthologize content is added as copies, preserving the originals and allowing for editing specific to your output needs. Eric's right that it *is* manual and a bit tedious, but it's (hopefully) getting less so. You do need to created a 'part' structure within your project to organize your content. But when adding content you can filter by Tag/Category/Date Range/Post Type. And with the last release you can add more than one post at a time. The Anthologize dev team would certainly be interested in the code4lib journal committee's take on the tool and ways it could be improved. (Support for automated project creation and output generation would an interesting feature to see on the roadmap). -- Scott On 1/4/11 10:45 AM, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: On Jan 4, 2011, at 11:40 AM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: ...Is there any easy way to get it to, for instance, make an anthology of all the posts with a certain WordPress tag or category instead?... Based on my (poor) recollection of playing with the Anthologize plug-in, the process is a bit manual. Initialize epub. Drag postings to it. Annotate/tweak titles. Click 'Go'. Get epub file. The process is not laborious, just a bit tedious. I would definitely recommend the Journal Committee experiment with Anthologize. -- Eric Morgan
Re: [CODE4LIB] An alternate presentation of Code4Lib Journal
Given my journal2epub script's experience with the Code4Lib journal site, does Anthologize have an option to produce TOC items from post headings, modifying the HTML to add IDs where necessary? Does it map links to posts with their offline copies, preserving references? Does it try to add the largest image it can, or does it include only embedded, potentially smaller ones? (In iBooks, unlike Adobe-based readers, you can double-tap to zoom in on an automatically resized large image.) Are metadata and stylesheets specified manually? And finally, does it clean up the HTML to produce strict XHTML 1.1 as required? In the journal's case, I had to process HTML three times with manual checks to delete invalid attributes before things would mostly validate. (Turns out validation is the hardest thing about automatically producing EPUB files.) As to my script's use in producing official EPUB files, sure, that's why I made it. But if you look closely, it makes assumptions about the HTML structure of the pages, so it might need modifications if the design or templates change. Louis. Sent from my iPhone On 2011-01-04, at 12:01 PM, Hanrath, Scott shanr...@ku.edu wrote: Anthologize lets you be as picky as you like about the content you use with it. Essentially you create multiple Anthologize 'projects', then add the whatever subset of content you need (native local WordPress content or content imported via a feed) to the project. The Anthologize content is added as copies, preserving the originals and allowing for editing specific to your output needs. Eric's right that it *is* manual and a bit tedious, but it's (hopefully) getting less so. You do need to created a 'part' structure within your project to organize your content. But when adding content you can filter by Tag/Category/Date Range/Post Type. And with the last release you can add more than one post at a time. The Anthologize dev team would certainly be interested in the code4lib journal committee's take on the tool and ways it could be improved. (Support for automated project creation and output generation would an interesting feature to see on the roadmap). -- Scott On 1/4/11 10:45 AM, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: On Jan 4, 2011, at 11:40 AM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: ...Is there any easy way to get it to, for instance, make an anthology of all the posts with a certain WordPress tag or category instead?... Based on my (poor) recollection of playing with the Anthologize plug-in, the process is a bit manual. Initialize epub. Drag postings to it. Annotate/tweak titles. Click 'Go'. Get epub file. The process is not laborious, just a bit tedious. I would definitely recommend the Journal Committee experiment with Anthologize. -- Eric Morgan
Re: [CODE4LIB] An alternate presentation of Code4Lib Journal
If there are particular HTML errors you encountered as a pattern in the journal website, please feel free to let us know about them on the Journal listserv, if you're interested. On 1/4/2011 12:30 PM, Louis St-Amour wrote: Given my journal2epub script's experience with the Code4Lib journal site, does Anthologize have an option to produce TOC items from post headings, modifying the HTML to add IDs where necessary? Does it map links to posts with their offline copies, preserving references? Does it try to add the largest image it can, or does it include only embedded, potentially smaller ones? (In iBooks, unlike Adobe-based readers, you can double-tap to zoom in on an automatically resized large image.) Are metadata and stylesheets specified manually? And finally, does it clean up the HTML to produce strict XHTML 1.1 as required? In the journal's case, I had to process HTML three times with manual checks to delete invalid attributes before things would mostly validate. (Turns out validation is the hardest thing about automatically producing EPUB files.) As to my script's use in producing official EPUB files, sure, that's why I made it. But if you look closely, it makes assumptions about the HTML structure of the pages, so it might need modifications if the design or templates change. Louis. Sent from my iPhone On 2011-01-04, at 12:01 PM, Hanrath, Scottshanr...@ku.edu wrote: Anthologize lets you be as picky as you like about the content you use with it. Essentially you create multiple Anthologize 'projects', then add the whatever subset of content you need (native local WordPress content or content imported via a feed) to the project. The Anthologize content is added as copies, preserving the originals and allowing for editing specific to your output needs. Eric's right that it *is* manual and a bit tedious, but it's (hopefully) getting less so. You do need to created a 'part' structure within your project to organize your content. But when adding content you can filter by Tag/Category/Date Range/Post Type. And with the last release you can add more than one post at a time. The Anthologize dev team would certainly be interested in the code4lib journal committee's take on the tool and ways it could be improved. (Support for automated project creation and output generation would an interesting feature to see on the roadmap). -- Scott On 1/4/11 10:45 AM, Eric Lease Morganemor...@nd.edu wrote: On Jan 4, 2011, at 11:40 AM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: ...Is there any easy way to get it to, for instance, make an anthology of all the posts with a certain WordPress tag or category instead?... Based on my (poor) recollection of playing with the Anthologize plug-in, the process is a bit manual. Initialize epub. Drag postings to it. Annotate/tweak titles. Click 'Go'. Get epub file. The process is not laborious, just a bit tedious. I would definitely recommend the Journal Committee experiment with Anthologize. -- Eric Morgan
[CODE4LIB] ActiveRecord for Voyager
Any ruby guys out there bother to map Voyager's database schema with ActiveRecord? If not, I'd be interested in collaborating on such a project. Brice Stacey Digital Library Services University of Massachusetts Boston brice.sta...@umb.edu 617-287-5921
Re: [CODE4LIB] ActiveRecord for Voyager
You might be interested in seeing what is possible through reverse scaffolding. [1] I've used something like this before to get jump started. If you only need models defined you can adjust it to only use the generators you need. The next problem will likely be if the database does not follow Rails naming conventions, because you'll have to explicitly state table and column names (e.g. primary and foreign keys) in your ActiveRecord models. When I tried to do that once I found it to be quite a lot of work. I was working with a database under my control which followed no convention very well, so I decided to migrate the whole database to use Rails naming conventions instead. Jason [1] May not work with Rails 3 but should give some idea of the approach. https://github.com/ahe/reverse_scaffold On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 1:42 PM, Brice Stacey brice.sta...@umb.edu wrote: Any ruby guys out there bother to map Voyager's database schema with ActiveRecord? If not, I'd be interested in collaborating on such a project. Brice Stacey Digital Library Services University of Massachusetts Boston brice.sta...@umb.edu 617-287-5921
[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2011 Hotel Accommodations Deadline Jan 7
Hi Everyone, Just a note to remind you that we still have plenty of rooms left for our hotel at the Indiana Memorial Union for Code4Lib 2011. These rooms will be released from our block on Jan 7, 2011. If you still need a room please contact the Biddle Hotel at the IMU at the Toll-free reservation line: (800) 209-8145 and use the code “CODE4” when registering. For more on the Biddle Hotel and Accommodations please see - http://www.indiana.edu/~uits/code4lib/accommodations/index.php Thanks Robert ** Robert H. McDonald Associate Dean for Library Technologies and Digital Libraries Associate Director, Data to Insight Center-Pervasive Technology Institute Executive Director, Kuali OLE Indiana University Herman B Wells Library 234 1320 East 10th Street Bloomington, IN 47405 Phone: 812-856-4834 Email: rob...@indiana.eduapplewebdata://4D6D9232-E25C-47CB-ACDB-EFEDEA66AA98/rob...@indiana.edu Skype/GTalk: rhmcdonald AIM/MSN: rhmcdonald1
