Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib.org down?

[Wick, Ryan]

code4lib.org, wiki.code4lib.org and planet.code4lib.org are back up now.

Ryan Wick


From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ed Summers 
[e...@pobox.com]
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 5:30 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] code4lib.org down?

Paging Oregon State: do we know why code4lib.org isn't responding?

http://code4lib.org/

HTTP requests currently seem to timeout.

//Ed

PS. Thanks to Carol Bean for noticing it, and bringing it up in #code4lib :-)

Re: [CODE4LIB] web video: best practices / workflow

[Ryan Freng]

Just to throw it out there. If your campus has a google agreement, or doesn't 
need one, you should just use youtube, or vimeo, or some third party video 
service. Video on the web is superbly complicated and there are many groups 
already doing it well. Use them if you can!

Ryan


On Jun/25/12, at 5:35 AM, raffaele messuti wrote:

> I'm not currently working on it, but some months ago i did a research
> on some tools to integrate a player in a video repository. For me
> http://videojs.com seemed a simple and working solution with mp4/h264
> video, it can display native html5  or flash fallback.
> 
> tricks that could help serving mp4 files:
> mp4 (encoded with ffmpeg) needs to be fixed to enable pseudo streaming
> (by moving metadata and offset information to the front of the file)
> with a tool like:
> https://github.com/danielgtaylor/qtfaststart
> http://multimedia.cx/qt-faststart.c
> 
> there is also an apache module for this:
> http://h264.code-shop.com/trac/wiki/Mod-H264-Streaming-Apache-Version2
> 
> i'll take a look at https://github.com/jronallo/sli_video
> 
> ciao
> 
> --
> raffaele

[CODE4LIB] Job: Music Librarian for Audio and Digital Services at University of South Carolina

[jobs]

The University of South Carolina enrolls approximately 22,500 undergraduate
students and 6,500 graduate students on the Columbia campus. The University
Libraries owns in excess of 3.5 million volumes, 1 million manuscripts,
325,000 maps, and 944,000 government documents; and houses the University's
special collections. University Libraries is a member of LYRASIS, OCLC, the
Association of Research Libraries, and the Center for Research Libraries. The
University of South Carolina Music Library is a branch of the main University
Libraries system and is located in the School of Music. For more information
about the Music Library, visit http://library.sc.edu/music/index.html.

  
The School of Music, a program with a national reputation for artistic and
scholarly excellence, features an acclaimed faculty that teach 500
undergraduate and graduate music majors, specializing in virtually every
orchestra and band instrument, voice, piano, organ and guitar. The School
offers more than twenty degree programs including music education,
performance, jazz, composition, theory, history and conducting. The main Music
building features more than 100 acoustically designed rooms for practicing,
rehearsing and teaching, an intimate Recital Hall ideal for solo recitals and
chamber music, a music technology center and a fully-equipped recording
studio. The School of Music enriches the musical life of the university and
the city of Columbia by offering approximately 250 concerts a year by such
groups as the USC Symphony, the Palmetto Pans, Opera at USC and Carolina
Alive, among many others.

  
The libraries of the University of South Carolina seek a dynamic music
librarian with excellent interpersonal skills to manage audio and digital
services offered by the Music Library. Reporting to the head of the music
library, this librarian will be responsible for:

  * digital projects including digital preservation of print and audio special 
collections
  * maintaining audio equipment
  * performing triage on music library's computer hardware and software
  * working with the webmaster to maintain and update the Web presence for the 
Music Library
  * liaison to the University Libraries' Systems Department for the Music 
Library
  * working closely with the University Libraries Web Development Office and 
with the Digital Collections Department
  * periodically providing instruction and reference to the School of Music and 
university community.
Competitive benefits, including vacation and sick leave, medical/dental/life
insurance plans, tuition remission, and state retirement or optional
retirement plan. Full-time (37.5 hours per week) 12-month unclassified,
tenure-track, faculty status position with the rank of Librarian. University
of South Carolina librarians are required to fulfill faculty responsibilities,
including professional service.

  
The search committee will begin reviewing applications on August 13, 2012 and
will continue until the position is filled.

  
The cover letter, explaining the reason for your interest and qualifications,
should be addressed to Chair, Music Librarian for Audio and Digital Services
Search Committee. Three references submitted must include names, addresses,
telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses.

  
Minorities and women are encouraged to apply. USC is an EOE.

  
**Minimum qualifications:**  
MLS from an ALA accredited library school; Bachelor's degree in music; Web
design experience, including familiarity with web design and software such as
Photoshop and Dreamweaver; Experience with coding languages, such as HTML,
CSS, PHP, XML, and JavaScript; Proficiency with Microsoft Windows, Microsoft
Office Suite and Adobe Acrobat; Experience with audio digitization hardware
and software as well as issues in audio preservation; Ability to work both
independently and collaboratively in a collegial, team work environment and
maintain positive professional working relationships; Excellent communication,
organizational, and time- and project-management skills. SLED background check
is required.

  
**Preferred Qualifications:**  
Advanced degree in music; Experience with archival and/or special collections
materials strongly preferred; Familiarity with copyright law and licensing
issues for sound recordings and digital images; Experience with Encoded
Archival Description (EAD) finding aids and Archivists Toolkit; Familiarity
with controlled vocabulary, metadata use and practice, and associated
standards, such as MODS, METS, RDF, and Dublin Core; Basic understanding of
database design (Access, MySQL); Experience with Innovative Millennium ILS or
other ILS software; Experience with digital image management and collections,
such as CONTENTdm; Knowledge of major music reference resources and databases;
Reference and/or instructional experience in an academic library.

  
Documents which must be associated with this posting

Resume/CV

Cover Letter

List of References

  
To view the complete job announcement

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib.org down?

[Wick, Ryan]

Ryan Ordway here at Oregon State can fix this, and already got the first 
message forwarded to him. I don't have any more updates than that, sorry.

Ryan Wick


From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Jonathan 
Rochkind [rochk...@jhu.edu]
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 8:01 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib.org down?

Yeah, the whole server seems to be down, including planet.code4lib.org
hosted there, etc.

Anyone know what individual we should bring this to their attention?

On 6/25/2012 8:30 AM, Ed Summers wrote:
> Paging Oregon State: do we know why code4lib.org isn't responding?
>
>  http://code4lib.org/
>
> HTTP requests currently seem to timeout.
>
> //Ed
>
> PS. Thanks to Carol Bean for noticing it, and bringing it up in #code4lib :-)
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib.org down?

[Jonathan Rochkind]

Yeah, the whole server seems to be down, including planet.code4lib.org 
hosted there, etc.


Anyone know what individual we should bring this to their attention?

On 6/25/2012 8:30 AM, Ed Summers wrote:

Paging Oregon State: do we know why code4lib.org isn't responding?

 http://code4lib.org/

HTTP requests currently seem to timeout.

//Ed

PS. Thanks to Carol Bean for noticing it, and bringing it up in #code4lib :-)

[CODE4LIB] code4lib.org down?

[Ed Summers]

Paging Oregon State: do we know why code4lib.org isn't responding?

http://code4lib.org/

HTTP requests currently seem to timeout.

//Ed

PS. Thanks to Carol Bean for noticing it, and bringing it up in #code4lib :-)

[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Journal Issue 17 now available!

[Carol Bean]

It is my pleasure to announce that Issue 17 of the Code4Lib Journal has
been published.

Please go to http://journal.code4lib.org/issues/issue17 for these excellent
articles:

Editorial Introduction 

Tim Lepczyk

Coordinating Editor Tim Lepczyk salutes change in this issue, welcoming new
editors to the Journal and announcing his departure.
Tools for Reducing and Managing Link Rot in
LibGuides

Wilhelmina Randtke and Matthew D. Burrell

While creating content in LibGuides in quite easy, link maintenance is
troublesome, and the built-in link checker offers only a partial solution.
The authors describe a method of using PURLs and a third-party link checker
to effectively manage links within LibGuides.
Discovering Digital Library User Behavior with Google
Analytics

Kirk Hess

Google Analytics has advanced features for tracking search queries, events
such as clicking external links or downloading files, which you can use to
track user behavior that is normally difficult to track with traditional
web logging software. By tracking behavior, you can use Google Analytics
API to extract data and integrate it with data from your digital repository
to show granular data about individual items. Using this information,
digital libraries can learn how users use the site without extensive HCI
studies, and can use this information to improve the user experience.
The Martha Berry Digital Archive Project: A Case Study in Experimental
pEDagogy 

Stephanie A. Schlitz and Garrick S. Bodine

Using the Martha Berry Digital Archive Project as an exploratory case
study, this article discusses experimental methods in digital archive
development, describing how and why a small project team is leveraging
undergraduate student support, a participatory (crowdsourced) editing
model, and free and open source software to digitize and disseminate a
large documentary collection.
Using Semantic Web Technologies to Collaboratively Collect and Share
User-Generated Content in Order to Enrich the Presentation of Bibliographic
Records–Development of a Prototype Based on RDF, D2RQ, Jena, SPARQL and
WorldCat’s FRBRization Web Service

Ragnhild Holgersen, Michael Preminger, David Massey

In this article we present a prototype of a semantic web-based framework
for collecting and sharing user-generated content (reviews, ratings, tags,
etc.) across different libraries in order to enrich the presentation of
bibliographic records. The user-generated data is remodeled into RDF,
utilizing established linked data ontologies. This is done in a
semi-automatic manner utilizing the Jena and the D2RQ-toolkits. For the
remodeling, a SPARQL-construct statement is tailored for each data source.
In the data source used in our prototype, user-generated content is linked
to the relevant books via their ISBN. By remodeling the data according to
the FRBR model, and expanding the RDF graph with data returned by
WorldCat’s FRBRization web service, we are able to greatly increase the
number of entry points to each book. We make the social content available
through a RESTful web service with ISBN as a parameter. The web service
returns a graph of all user-generated data registered to any edition of the
book in question in the RDF/XML format. Libraries using our framework would
thus be able to present relevant social content in association with
bibliographic records, even if they hold a different version of a book than
the one that was originally accessed by users. Finally, we connect our RDF
graph to the linked open data cloud through the use of Talis’
openlibrary.org SPARQL endpoint.
GLIMIR: Manifestation and Content Clustering within
WorldCat

Janifer Gatenby, Richard O. Greene, W. Michael Oskins, Gail Thornburg

The GLIMIR project at OCLC clusters and assigns an identifier to WorldCat
records representing the same manifestation. These include parallel records
in different languages (e.g., a record with English descriptive notes and
subject headings and one for the same book with French equivalents). It
also clusters records that probably represent the same manifestation, but
which could not be safely merged by OCLC’s Duplicate Detection and
Resolution (DDR) program for various reasons. As the project progressed, it
became clear that it would also be useful to create content-based clusters
for groups of manifestations that are generally equivalent from the end
user perspective (e.g., the original print text with its microform, ebook
and reprint versions, but not new editions). Lessons from the GLIMIR
project have improved OCLC’s duplicate detection program through the
introduction of new matching techniques. GLIMIR has also had unexpected
benefits for OCLC’s FRBR algorithm by providing new methods for identifying
outl

Re: [CODE4LIB] web video: best practices / workflow

[raffaele messuti]

I'm not currently working on it, but some months ago i did a research
on some tools to integrate a player in a video repository. For me
http://videojs.com seemed a simple and working solution with mp4/h264
video, it can display native html5  or flash fallback.

tricks that could help serving mp4 files:
mp4 (encoded with ffmpeg) needs to be fixed to enable pseudo streaming
(by moving metadata and offset information to the front of the file)
with a tool like:
https://github.com/danielgtaylor/qtfaststart
http://multimedia.cx/qt-faststart.c

there is also an apache module for this:
http://h264.code-shop.com/trac/wiki/Mod-H264-Streaming-Apache-Version2

i'll take a look at https://github.com/jronallo/sli_video

ciao

--
raffaele