[CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author
Hi list, What are some good API options for retrieving a list of scholarly publications by author? I would like to be able to grab them and display them on a website along with other information about each author. Google Scholar does not have a public API as far as I can tell. CrossRef metadata search does not allow to search by author. Orcid seems promising. I would have to ask the users I have in mind to add or import their publications to Orcid, as most of them are not on there already. That's doable, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to do what I described above with their public (as opposed to their member) API. Any other ideas or thoughts? Best, Alex Armstrong
Re: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author
The Scopus API: http://dev.elsevier.com/sc_apis.html -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Alex Armstrong Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 6:59 AM To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu Subject: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author Hi list, What are some good API options for retrieving a list of scholarly publications by author? I would like to be able to grab them and display them on a website along with other information about each author. Google Scholar does not have a public API as far as I can tell. CrossRef metadata search does not allow to search by author. Orcid seems promising. I would have to ask the users I have in mind to add or import their publications to Orcid, as most of them are not on there already. That's doable, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to do what I described above with their public (as opposed to their member) API. Any other ideas or thoughts? Best, Alex Armstrong
[CODE4LIB] free HTML text editors - a compilation of responses
Thank you to everyone who weighed in on free HTML text editors for my old Macs running 10.5.8. The only one that seemed to work is Thimble. My Macs at school are just too old - even for cloud-based editors. I looked into CodeAnywhere and Codio, which both worked on my Mac at home but not at work. Just in case anyone is interested in a compilation, I have compiled. I really appreciate everyone's help and forgive me if I missed one or two responses: There is no reason to install an editor for this purpose. Mozilla has a suite of free apps for this purpose at Webmaker: https://webmaker.org Thimble is the editor, and I think it's very nice for students that there is immediate feedback so you can see how your change affects the rendering: https://thimble.webmaker.org/ -- As a bit of a left field alternative there’s always Vim. Ok it might not be the best introduction to text editors, but given it exists on pretty much every platform (including Android and iPhone/iPad - http://www.vim.org/download.php) there’d be no excuses for not doing the homework. The main Mac port (https://code.google.com/p/macvim/) has legacy versions back to 10.4. However, this might be more of an extra credit editor given that it takes *some* getting used to. There is a game (http://vim-adventures.com/) which can help with learning some of the basic Vim controls. -- I used to use Smultron (http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/15114/smultron) on my PowerBook G3. It's no Sublime text, but it does a pretty good job as far as GUI based text editors goes. I think someone forked the project and it's known as Fraise now. Depending on your computer's capabilities, that might be better or worse to run. -- Well... you could see if SeaMonkey runs - it includes Composer which gives you both WYSIWIG and HTML source editing - or it's later derivatives NVU and Komposer. Since those are relatively old, they should run on a circa 2008 Mac. Of course any text editor will let you edit HTML - and, assuming you're running OS X, you've got unix underneath. You've pretty much got your pick of anything that will run in a console window or an X-window. Your real problem might be running a browser that's new enough to support HTML5 and CSS3. Otherwise, editing HTML isn't going to do you much good. Apple won't let the most recent version of Safari run on 10.6.8 (you're stuck at 5.1.10), but Firefox (38.0.1) and Chrome (42.0.2311.152) are both fine. -- Another thing you might want to check out - my alma mater has a CS MOOC that's aimed at supporting middle/high school CS classes and teachers - http://www.muddx.com/courses/HMC/MyCS/Middle-years_Computer_Science/about . -- You might want to check out https://openhatch.org/wiki/Boston_Python_Workshop_6/Friday/OSX_text_editor - Boston Python Workshop has spent a while coming up with bulletproof instructions for people with a wide range of experience. The links at that page no longer work but the files are still available at Sourceforge, so you can make an amended version easily enough. -- If you do not need all the bells and whistles I would recommend TextWrangler. Free versions should still be available online and its bigger brother BBEdit is overkill for basic web editing. Actually, the significant difference between TextWrangler and BBEdit is that BBEdits has a number of features that are specifically for web design, that don't exist in TextWrangler. Looking at the version of BBEdit 9.1 that I have installed, the majority of it is in the 'Markup' menu: * Close current tag / Balance tags * Check syntax * Check links * Check accessibility * Cleaners for GoLive/PageMill/HomePage/DreamWeaver * Convert to HTML / XHTML * Menu items to insert tags (which then give what attributes are allowed) * Menu item to insert CSS * Preview in ... (gives a list of installed web browsers) ... That said, TextWrangler is still a good free editor -- and I personally rarely ever use the insert tags/CSS items (as I've been writing HTML for ... crap ... I feel old ... 20+ years). But to say that BBEdit is overkill for web editing is just wrong -- the majority of the feature differences are *specifically* for web editing. -- There is always the good old standby of emacs: http://aquamacs.org/ -- The Macs are from 2008 and running I believe 10.6.8. I can double check that when I get to work, but I am right now working on a 2007 Mac running 10.6.8 so the ones at work might be running a slightly newer version, but they are definitely running OS 10 something. This eliminates Atom.io and Sublime Text 3 (emphases on 3 because it *may* work with Sublime Text 2). I'm having a hard time calling those old ;-) but that's computing for you these days. I'm thinking TextWrangler will be your best bet to be honest. Patricia Sarles, MA (Anthropology), MLS Librarian Jerome
Re: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author
The National Library of Medicine has some great apis for use with PubMed and their other databases. That's only health science, but it's a good start. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/api/ Best regards, *Jason Bengtson, MLIS, MA* Innovation Architect *Houston Academy of MedicineThe Texas Medical Center Library* 1133 John Freeman Blvd Houston, TX 77030 http://library.tmc.edu/ www.jasonbengtson.com On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 6:22 AM, Pikas, Christina K. christina.pi...@jhuapl.edu wrote: The Scopus API: http://dev.elsevier.com/sc_apis.html -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Alex Armstrong Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 6:59 AM To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu Subject: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author Hi list, What are some good API options for retrieving a list of scholarly publications by author? I would like to be able to grab them and display them on a website along with other information about each author. Google Scholar does not have a public API as far as I can tell. CrossRef metadata search does not allow to search by author. Orcid seems promising. I would have to ask the users I have in mind to add or import their publications to Orcid, as most of them are not on there already. That's doable, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to do what I described above with their public (as opposed to their member) API. Any other ideas or thoughts? Best, Alex Armstrong
Re: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author
I've been doing a lot of work lately with EuropePMC's API - http://europepmc.org/RestfulWebService It's been super useful for my purposes, though I've been searching based on article DOIs, not on authors. You might need to do a bit more parsing of the results to make sure you don't have false hits with author names. -Christine Mayo On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 8:24 AM, Jason Bengtson j.bengtson...@gmail.com wrote: The National Library of Medicine has some great apis for use with PubMed and their other databases. That's only health science, but it's a good start. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/api/ Best regards, *Jason Bengtson, MLIS, MA* Innovation Architect *Houston Academy of MedicineThe Texas Medical Center Library* 1133 John Freeman Blvd Houston, TX 77030 http://library.tmc.edu/ www.jasonbengtson.com On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 6:22 AM, Pikas, Christina K. christina.pi...@jhuapl.edu wrote: The Scopus API: http://dev.elsevier.com/sc_apis.html -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Alex Armstrong Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 6:59 AM To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu Subject: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author Hi list, What are some good API options for retrieving a list of scholarly publications by author? I would like to be able to grab them and display them on a website along with other information about each author. Google Scholar does not have a public API as far as I can tell. CrossRef metadata search does not allow to search by author. Orcid seems promising. I would have to ask the users I have in mind to add or import their publications to Orcid, as most of them are not on there already. That's doable, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to do what I described above with their public (as opposed to their member) API. Any other ideas or thoughts? Best, Alex Armstrong
Re: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author
I've used the arXiv API for a similar purpose: http://arxiv.org/help/api/index. Margaret Heller Digital Services Librarian Loyola University Chicago 773-508-2686 -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Pikas, Christina K. Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 6:22 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author The Scopus API: http://dev.elsevier.com/sc_apis.html -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Alex Armstrong Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 6:59 AM To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu Subject: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author Hi list, What are some good API options for retrieving a list of scholarly publications by author? I would like to be able to grab them and display them on a website along with other information about each author. Google Scholar does not have a public API as far as I can tell. CrossRef metadata search does not allow to search by author. Orcid seems promising. I would have to ask the users I have in mind to add or import their publications to Orcid, as most of them are not on there already. That's doable, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to do what I described above with their public (as opposed to their member) API. Any other ideas or thoughts? Best, Alex Armstrong
Re: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author
Thanks for the responses so far. One thing that I forgot to mention is that the authors I'm going to be needing data for are faculty, librarians and technologists at liberal arts universities. So there's not a whole lot of medicine; which is unfortunate as they seem to have robust APIs in place. Alex On 05/20/2015 04:38 PM, Christine Mayo wrote: I've been doing a lot of work lately with EuropePMC's API - http://europepmc.org/RestfulWebService It's been super useful for my purposes, though I've been searching based on article DOIs, not on authors. You might need to do a bit more parsing of the results to make sure you don't have false hits with author names. -Christine Mayo On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 8:24 AM, Jason Bengtsonj.bengtson...@gmail.com wrote: The National Library of Medicine has some great apis for use with PubMed and their other databases. That's only health science, but it's a good start.http://www.nlm.nih.gov/api/ Best regards, *Jason Bengtson, MLIS, MA* Innovation Architect *Houston Academy of MedicineThe Texas Medical Center Library* 1133 John Freeman Blvd Houston, TX 77030 http://library.tmc.edu/ www.jasonbengtson.com On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 6:22 AM, Pikas, Christina K. christina.pi...@jhuapl.edu wrote: The Scopus API:http://dev.elsevier.com/sc_apis.html -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Alex Armstrong Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 6:59 AM To:CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu Subject: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author Hi list, What are some good API options for retrieving a list of scholarly publications by author? I would like to be able to grab them and display them on a website along with other information about each author. Google Scholar does not have a public API as far as I can tell. CrossRef metadata search does not allow to search by author. Orcid seems promising. I would have to ask the users I have in mind to add or import their publications to Orcid, as most of them are not on there already. That's doable, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to do what I described above with their public (as opposed to their member) API. Any other ideas or thoughts? Best, Alex Armstrong
Re: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author
Hi, Alex. re: ORCID, available author info depends on what Bio information the ID owner makes publicly visible. See the READ section at https://members.orcid.org/api/api-calls I was about to send some old Ruby code for searching NLM Eutils (PubMed) until I saw your last message. If you want to manage a local bibliography, then try Zotero and their API: https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/web_api/v3/start Jason Jason Stirnaman, MLS Application Development, Library and Information Services, IR University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319 On May 20, 2015, at 5:59 AM, Alex Armstrong alehand...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list, What are some good API options for retrieving a list of scholarly publications by author? I would like to be able to grab them and display them on a website along with other information about each author. Google Scholar does not have a public API as far as I can tell. CrossRef metadata search does not allow to search by author. Orcid seems promising. I would have to ask the users I have in mind to add or import their publications to Orcid, as most of them are not on there already. That's doable, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to do what I described above with their public (as opposed to their member) API. Any other ideas or thoughts? Best, Alex Armstrong
Re: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author
Hi again. Here are some examples implementing the ORCID API: using jQuery with the ORCID Public API to fetch publications for specific IDs: https://github.com/jstirnaman/Orcid-Profiles-jQuery-Widget a Ruby client for Public and Member: https://github.com/jstirnaman/BibApp/blob/kumc/lib/orcid_client.rb Jason Jason Stirnaman, MLS Application Development, Library and Information Services, IR University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319 On May 20, 2015, at 9:06 AM, Jason Stirnaman jstirna...@kumc.edu wrote: Hi, Alex. re: ORCID, available author info depends on what Bio information the ID owner makes publicly visible. See the READ section at https://members.orcid.org/api/api-calls I was about to send some old Ruby code for searching NLM Eutils (PubMed) until I saw your last message. If you want to manage a local bibliography, then try Zotero and their API: https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/web_api/v3/start Jason Jason Stirnaman, MLS Application Development, Library and Information Services, IR University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319 On May 20, 2015, at 5:59 AM, Alex Armstrong alehand...@gmail.com wrote: Hi list, What are some good API options for retrieving a list of scholarly publications by author? I would like to be able to grab them and display them on a website along with other information about each author. Google Scholar does not have a public API as far as I can tell. CrossRef metadata search does not allow to search by author. Orcid seems promising. I would have to ask the users I have in mind to add or import their publications to Orcid, as most of them are not on there already. That's doable, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to do what I described above with their public (as opposed to their member) API. Any other ideas or thoughts? Best, Alex Armstrong
Re: [CODE4LIB] Standards for Library Websites
There was a start on a collaborative set of web standards for libraries. I (sheepishly) admit I stopped following it, so I'm not sure of its current status, but it might be worth a look: https://github.com/jswelker/library-web-guidelines -- Coral Sheldon-Hess On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Amy Vecchione amyvecchi...@boisestate.edu wrote: Hello, I have a few questions, and I've done some investigating, but am hoping to hear from your group wisdom on this topic. I am looking for standards that apply to the parts of library work that cover emerging tech, web sites, maker stuff, and/or user experience. I have looked at the ACRL standards for academic libraries, and think that I might just apply those, but not all of the performance indicators relate to my work: http://www.ala.org/acrl/standards/standardslibraries I don't think this exists, but I'm wondering if maybe you all use standards from some other area. Other standards that relate that I'm considering as benchmarks: accessibility like WCAG, the user experience checklist in this book: http://boisestate.worldcat.org/oclc/878812623 My goal in securing a set of standards is so that I can indicate what percentages of questions are coming up every semester or every year in an annual report to show how needs and interests fluctuate. Thanks in advance for considering this request, and apologies for cross posting, Amy Amy Vecchione, Digital Access Librarian/Associate Professor http://works.bepress.com/amy_vecchione/ Albertsons Library, Boise State University, L212 http://library.boisestate.edu (208) 426-1625
Re: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author
Possibly the Mendeley API? http://dev.mendeley.com/getting_started/common_tasks.html It might also make a difference to know the domain in which these authors publish. Scopus indexes primarily scientific, technical, medical content. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Heller, Margaret Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 7:27 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author I've used the arXiv API for a similar purpose: http://arxiv.org/help/api/index. Margaret Heller Digital Services Librarian Loyola University Chicago 773-508-2686 -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Pikas, Christina K. Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 6:22 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author The Scopus API: http://dev.elsevier.com/sc_apis.html -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Alex Armstrong Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 6:59 AM To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu Subject: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author Hi list, What are some good API options for retrieving a list of scholarly publications by author? I would like to be able to grab them and display them on a website along with other information about each author. Google Scholar does not have a public API as far as I can tell. CrossRef metadata search does not allow to search by author. Orcid seems promising. I would have to ask the users I have in mind to add or import their publications to Orcid, as most of them are not on there already. That's doable, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to do what I described above with their public (as opposed to their member) API. Any other ideas or thoughts? Best, Alex Armstrong
[CODE4LIB] Job: Position Announcement_Core Systems DLP Project Manager, Emory University at Emory University
Position Announcement_Core Systems DLP Project Manager, Emory University Emory University Atlanta The Emory University Libraries seek an energetic, service-oriented and collaborative professional to serve as a full-time Core Systems DLP Project Manager in the Robert W. Woodruff Library. **University Job Summary Statement** Oversees technical initiatives with cross-departmental or enterprise-wide applicability. Works with potential customers to understand their requirements. Proposes technical solutions, gathers information for estimates, manages vendor relations, and coordinates project from proposal stage through installation. Assumes responsibility for success of specific technology deployment at Emory. The above statements are intended to describe the work being performed by people assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of the personnel so classified. **Library Position Summary** Reporting to the Director of Library Core Systems, and in close collaboration with the Digital Library Program Coordinator, the Library Software Engineering Team, and Central IT resources, the Digital Program Project Manager will provide technical leadership and assist in product development during the implementation of the Hydra Repository Framework, transition of the framework into an operationalized service, and will assume responsibility for the operational support of the DLP applications and infrastructure. **Key Responsibilities Duties** • Provides technical vision and engineering support for the Emory Digital Library Program • Collaborates with the Digital Library Program Coordinator and key stakeholders to build requirements • Collaborates with library software engineering, central IT systems engineering resources, and the broader Hydra community on the design and implementation of a repository solution based on the Hydra framework • Collaborates with central IT on the service management requirements of Digital Library Program applications and infrastructure • Leverages DevOps integration principles to enhance releases, maintenance, and testing • Maintains strong Hydra community relationships and expertise in the state of the art and emerging best practices • Leads operational support of current and future Digital Library Program applications To view the full position posting, visit [http://web.library.emory.edu/about/e mployment/staff.html.](http://web.library.emory.edu/about/employment/staff.htm l) Applications/resumes must be submitted online through [Emory Careers](https:// sjobs.brassring.com/1033/ASP/TG/cim_home.asp?partnerid=25066siteid=5042) and looking for job posting #52846BR. **Please include a letter of interest along with your resume.** For more information, contact Nydia Charles-Huggins at 404 727-6885, [nech...@emory.edu](mailto:nech...@emory.edu). Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/20977/ To post a new job please visit http://jobs.code4lib.org/
[CODE4LIB] Job: University Archivist, University of California, Davis at University of California, Davis
University Archivist, University of California, Davis University of California, Davis Davis, California University Archivist University of Califonia, Davis, University Library The University Library of the University of California, Davis seeks a proactive, innovative, user-focused, University Archivist serving as a team leader, who understands the challenges of acquiring and managing faculty and institutionally created content and of describing and preserving digital and print content. The incumbent pursues informed experiments, and guides the Archives Institutional Assets Program personnel within a complex university research environment. Operating within a framework of the Library's Strategic Plan, AIAP integrates UC Davis created and commissioned content with theLibrary's exisiting collections and leverages library services in serving research, educational, patient care, and knowledge application priorities of the campus. The AIAP capitalizes on the expertise of many as it collaborates with campus units to help the University demonstrate and document its impact, regionally, nationally, and iternationally. Together with other library and campus units the AIAP provides an infrastructure of content, tools, and servicesto assist UC Davis faculty, staff, and researchers in making informed decisions regarding reusing, sharing, archiving, or preserving content created in the course of doing research, teaching/learning, andpatient care activities, so that UC Davis-created content is easily discoverable andquickly recognized. Salary: Associate Librarian to Librarian ($67,509 - $93,083) For additionaldeatils and information on how to submit an online application, please visit http://lib.ucdavis.edu/ul/about/jobs/ Candidates applying by July 22, 2015 will recieve first consideration. The position will remain open until filled. UC Davis is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer UC Davis is a smoke and tobacco free campis effective July 1, 2014 Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/20983/ To post a new job please visit http://jobs.code4lib.org/
Re: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author
If you're looking to compile your own data, Zotero is a great way to do it and provides an API. I recently moved our faculty publications database into it. If you're looking to compile data, though I hate to suggest it, is there an API for google scholar? It's not a perfect resource, but for humanities and social sciences, I've found some publications for our faculty that they hadn't given me themselves. Laura Pope Robbins Professor/Reference Librarian Dowling College On May 20, 2015, at 11:33 AM, Bornheimer, Bee eborn...@qualcomm.com wrote: Possibly the Mendeley API? http://dev.mendeley.com/getting_started/common_tasks.html It might also make a difference to know the domain in which these authors publish. Scopus indexes primarily scientific, technical, medical content. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Heller, Margaret Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 7:27 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author I've used the arXiv API for a similar purpose: http://arxiv.org/help/api/index. Margaret Heller Digital Services Librarian Loyola University Chicago 773-508-2686 -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Pikas, Christina K. Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 6:22 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author The Scopus API: http://dev.elsevier.com/sc_apis.html -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Alex Armstrong Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 6:59 AM To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu Subject: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author Hi list, What are some good API options for retrieving a list of scholarly publications by author? I would like to be able to grab them and display them on a website along with other information about each author. Google Scholar does not have a public API as far as I can tell. CrossRef metadata search does not allow to search by author. Orcid seems promising. I would have to ask the users I have in mind to add or import their publications to Orcid, as most of them are not on there already. That's doable, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to do what I described above with their public (as opposed to their member) API. Any other ideas or thoughts? Best, Alex Armstrong
[CODE4LIB] Deadline for DLF proposals - One month to go!
The deadline for DLF proposals is fast approaching. Proposals are due June 22, just about a month away. - The DLF Forum http://www.diglib.org/forums/2015forum/ is an annual meeting where the digital library community comes together to discover better methods of working through sharing and collaboration. It serves as a resource and catalyst among digital library developers, project managers, and all who are invested in digital library issues. The 2015 DLF Forum http://www.diglib.org/forums/2015forum/ will be held in Vancouver, BC, October 26-28. We are currently seeking proposals for the 2015 DLF Forum program. The Program Planning Committee requests proposals within the broad framework of digital collections, infrastructure, resources, and organizational priorities. You do not need to be part of a member organization in order to submit a proposal. The Forum traditionally has no overarching theme so that we can craft a program that speaks to current issues of interest to our community. We depend on contributors to focus proposals on action-oriented topics targeted towards a practitioner audience, considering the aspects of design, management, implementation, assessment, and collaboration. Suggested topical areas for 2015 include: - Linked data implementations - Collaborative digital projects across GLAM institutions - Innovative approaches to engaging users and reusing data and collections (e.g., data visualization, mapping, crowdsourcing, citizen science) - Systems architecture, both hardware and code - Open data, open access, or open educational resources This is not a prescriptive list; we encourage you to be creative, collaborative, and collegial. Proposals are due June 22. For more information and to submit your proposal, please visit http://www.diglib.org/forums/2015forum/cfp/ The call for proposals http://www.diglib.org/forums/2015forum/affiliated-events/dlflac/cfp/ for the DLF Liberal Arts Colleges Preconference http://www.diglib.org/forums/2015forum/affiliated-events/dlflac/ is also open until June 22. Please share widely. Apologies for cross-posting. 2015 DLF Forum http://www.diglib.org/forums/2015forum/, Vancouver, October 26-28 Call for Proposals http://www.diglib.org/forums/2015forum/cfp/ – Due June 22 Registration http://www.diglib.org/forums/2015forum/registration/ – Early bird until May 31
[CODE4LIB] Job: Course Reserves Coordinator at California Polytechnic State University
Course Reserves Coordinator California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo Course Reserves Coordinator As a member of the community whether student, professor or staff member, you will learn, lead, teach, do at Cal Poly. Our alumni carry the Learn by Doing philosophy with them in their careers into their communities. The Robert E. Kennedy Library is the 2014 ACRL Excellence in Academic Libraries award winner. We are the first university library in California to receive the award since it was first given in 2000. We are the campus hub for information resources, integrating traditional library resources technology to support the University's evolving academic programs, research interests, user needs. The Opportunity: Access Services facilitates Checkout desk functions that include borrowing, creating managing your library records. We also provide access to course reserves, interlibrary loan. We make sure books are in their proper places on the shelves. We manage library-wide lost found, answer general questions, keep the building open safe. Access Services also boasts the most student employees of any library department. Under general supervision of the Access Services Manager, this position contributes to the fulfillment of the Course Reserves functions of this unit, as well as contributing to the overall services programs of Access Services the library. LSS III The incumbent will have oversight for database maintenance. It will develop, implement, edit patron data, checks for database cataloging errors, inspects the LMS for check-out check-in errors. It will also coordinate all billing of lost books overdue fines for LINK+, Circulation, Course Reserves Poly Connect for Cal Poly other community users. This position also will keep statistics on the processing of print electronic reserve materials, be responsible for developing innovations that will improve course reserves management. LSS IV The incumbent will provide extensive functional support for the LMS circulation module. It will represent the library on CSU Library system wide committees work closely with a team of library technical functional staff to thoroughly review technical documentation to determine system business process impacts, develop perform scenario testing, update LMS business process guides, notify library staff of changes through various communication methods. With oversight for implementations, maintenance, modifications, customizations, configuration, enhancements in the circulation module, this position will work closely with other technical functional staff to develop, test, implement, edit data, including loan rules patron database updates, participate in reviewing supporting system improvement initiatives technology efforts, perform regular data integrity audits. • oversee daily course reserves operations • consult with provide assistance to faculty about course materials to be placed on reserve • ensure that copyright requirements are met for all reserve items • maintain reserve collection, e-reserves, related Web pages; administer Library Management System (LMS) reserve module • staff the circulation desk oversee daily circulation operations; • check library materials in out using LMS • update maintain the patron database; prepare circulation reports; follow- up on overdue materials collect fines • handle lost damaged materials • oversee stack maintenance • assist patrons in finding materials with questions related to circulation policies procedures • resolve patron problems related to circulation functions Required qualifications Classification level will be determined by experience background of selected candidate Demonstrated expertise/strong ability to gain expertise (LSS III)/Comprehensive knowledge (LSS IV): • Of automated academic library programs, online resources, databases systems, especially circulation department modules to perform assigned duties, technical work /or assist patrons Working (III)/Thorough (IV): • Knowledge of/ability to quickly understand the library collection its organization, as well as classification schemes Thorough (III)/Comprehensive (IV): • Knowledge of/ability to quickly learn institution's library's policies practices associated with the ethical use of access to library on-line resources Strong (III)/Effective (IV): • Communication interpretive skills to be able to interview patrons regarding their information needs guide them in the use of more complex library on-line resources Working (III)/General (IV): • Knowledge of financial procedures processes, ability to apply this knowledge to track monitor departmental expenditures, patrons accounts, student payroll, office supplies contribute to the annual budget planning process Working (III)/Comprehensive (IV): • Knowledge of national standards pertaining to library operations, including a thorough knowledge of
Re: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author
Good timing for this discussion! On Wed, 20 May 2015 at 17:03 Laura Robbins pope...@gmail.com wrote: If you're looking to compile your own data, Zotero is a great way to do it and provides an API. I recently moved our faculty publications database into it. We're embarking on a self-compilation exercise and are going the Zotero route as well, relying on the power of student labour to take the bibliography section of each faculty member's CV and add them to Zotero group libraries. I'm cobbling together a super-simple Flask-on-PostgreSQL web app that will take the Zotero export as RIS, migrate it into a relational database, and enable us to clean up / enrich the data from there ( https://github.com/dbs/ris2web if you want to peek at it's very early, very much in progress state). One thing I've learned is that I reay wish is that Zotero offered linked data authority control, so that I could assert that this Smith, Jane is either different or the same as that Smith, Jane at the time of creating or editing the bibliography entry, but for now we're going to do the deduping URI addition after the fact. The URIs will be exposed as RDFa in the HTML of course. If you're looking to compile data, though I hate to suggest it, is there an API for google scholar? It's not a perfect resource, but for humanities and social sciences, I've found some publications for our faculty that they hadn't given me themselves. There is no API for Google Scholar, alas. There is an API for Microsoft Academic Search at http://academic.research.microsoft.com/About/Help.htm#4 which might be of interest. Haven't tried it myself. The Mendeley API looks quite interesting as well. Wasn't aware of that, even--thanks Bee!
[CODE4LIB] Job: Science Software Engineer at University of California, Santa Barbara
Science Software Engineer University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara **Science Software Engineers** We seek two talented Science Software Engineers to join our open science team to create a software infrastructure enabling ecological and environmental synthesis at global scales. Projects focus on federated approaches to share and manage scientific data, analysis code, and other products to enable open, reproducible science and facilitate synthetic research. Projects will include building software for data analysis and integration in systems like R and Matlab that incorporate modern approaches to semantics and provenance modeling. Current and past projects have built systems like the KNB Data Repository, theDataONE federation of repositories, the Kepler scientific workflow system, and Ecological Metadata Language, among others. Principal duties include: systems analysis, design, and development for server, web-based, and desktop scientific data management and analysis applications; web-design and development for web sites; creation of end-user documentation and training materials; community outreach and training. Research projects are conducted at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis at UC Santa Barbara. Established in 1995, the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) is a research center of the University of California, Santa Barbara and was the first national synthesis center of its kind. There is broad acknowledgement that NCEAS has significantly altered the way ecological science is conducted, towards being more collaborative, open, integrative, relevant, and technologically informed. Different from the scientific tradition of solitary lab or fieldwork, NCEAS fosters collaborative synthesis research - assembling interdisciplinary teams to distill existing data, ideas, theories, or methods drawn from many sources, across multiple fields of inquiry, to accelerate the generation of new scientific knowledge at a broad scale. NCEAS is located in downtown Santa Barbara, just a 10-minute walk away from the beach, and in a beautiful city filled with activities--downtown, on the beaches, and in the mountains. Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/20994/ To post a new job please visit http://jobs.code4lib.org/
[CODE4LIB] DCMI/ASIST Webinar: Digital Preservation Metadata and Improvements to PREMIS in Version 3.0
**Please excuse the cross postings** *Digital Preservation Metadata and Improvements to PREMIS in Version 3.0* *A DCMI/ASIST Joint Webinar* *:: Presenter:* Angela Dappert *:: Date:* Wednesday, 27 May 2015 *:: Time:* 10:00am - 11:15am EDT (World Clock: 14:00 UTC http://bit.ly/Webinar-Dappert) *:: Registration:* http://dublincore.org/resources/training/#2015dappert *ABOUT THE WEBINAR:* The PREMIS Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata is the international standard for metadata to support the preservation of digital objects and ensure their long-term usability. Developed by an international team of experts, PREMIS is implemented in digital preservation projects around the world, and support for PREMIS is incorporated into a number of commercial and open-source digital preservation tools and systems. The PREMIS Editorial Committee coordinates revisions and implementation of the standard, which consists of the Data Dictionary, an XML schema, and supporting documentation. The PREMIS Data Dictionary is currently in version 2.2. A new major release 3.0 is due out this summer. This webinar gives a brief overview of why digital preservation metadata is needed, shows examples of digital preservation metadata, shows how PREMIS can be used to capture this metadata, and illustrates some of the changes that will be available in version 3.0. *SPEAKER:* Dr. Angela Dappert is Senior Research Fellow at the University of Portsmouth. She has widely researched and published on digital preservation. She has consulted for archives and libraries on digital life cycle management and policies, led and conducted research in the EU-co-funded Planets, Scape, TIMBUS, and E-ARK projects, and applied digital preservation practice at the British Library through work on digital repository implementation, digital metadata standards, digital asset registration, digital asset ingest, preservation risk assessment, planning and characterization, and data carrier stabilization. Angela holds a Ph.D. in Digital Preservation, an M.Sc. in Medical Informatics and an M.Sc. in Computer Sciences. She serves on the PREMIS Editorial Committee and the Digital Preservation Programme Board of National Records Scotland. For more information and to register, visit the event webpage: http://dublincore.org/resources/training/#2015dappert
[CODE4LIB] Open Data, Open Heritage - June 12 in Toronto
Look at the amazing people on this program[1], talking about amazing things in the beautiful George Brown Waterfront campus on June 12th at the annual event they call Digital Odyssey: * Aure Moser from CartoDB sharing her experiences as a map-making developer librarian in New York City wrangling open source citizen journalism applications like Ushahidi and curricula developer for Girls Develop IT NYC and co-organizer of Nodebots NYC (they program robots with Node.js) and E_TOO_AWESOME_TO_DESCRIBE_GRAMMATICALLY * Mita Williams from the University of Windsor who will be leading participants on an open data-wielding map-making learning expedition. Mita sets up Hackforges for breakfast [2], is a gamer, orator, deep thinker and instant favourite of any librarian--code-slinging or not--who has met her. * Cathy Leekum and Sarah Warner, who are going to teach attendees the art of conducting an oral interview based on their experiences at the Multicultural Historical Society of Ontario (http://mhso.ca/) and previous gigs at cultural institutions. * Loren Fantin and Jess Posgate from OurDigitalWorld.ca who will provide advice on how to capture and share content sustainably, drawing on their adventures (and misadventures!) to inform and entertain. * An all-star panel of open data experts, including Sameer Vasta from MaRS Data Catalyst (who in his spare time has co-hosted 24 episodes of the Open Government Podcast [3]; Pamela Robinson from Ryerson University who researches hackathons with open data and is working on a paper about the library as the civic centre of the community; Keith McDonald who led the City of Toronto's initial open data efforts and wrote and performs The Open Data Song [4]; and Bianca Wylie, who founded the Open Data Institute Toronto and (to select just one piece of recent experience) facilitated the community engagement process which fed into the 21st Century Library Service in Allegheny County report [5] from 2014. Oh, and you! All of these sessions will be interactive, so that you can wring the most value out of them, go back home or to your place of work, and start publishing, organizing, and facilitating access to open data and open heritage cultural artifacts. Because *we* are information professionals, and these is some of the most exciting developments to cut across the boundaries of GLAM institutions, citizens, developers, and governments in quite some time. You can register at https://goo.gl/nqGtfn today--don't wait! Get in before space runs out! Dan (who is really, really looking forward to what is going to be an amazing day) 1. https://www.accessola.org/web/OLAWEB/OLITA/Digital_Odyssey/Program.aspx 2. http://hackf.org/ 3. http://ogtpod.tumblr.com/ 4. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcLU2i2A2mY 5. http://www.clpgh.org/about/background/County-CityLibraryServicePanelReport.pdf
Re: [CODE4LIB] free HTML text editors - a compilation of responses
Patricia, I'm sorry to be late to the discussion, but I was excited to see that Mozilla Webmaker's Thimble was included in the list of free editors. I've used it in instruction and it's a great tool. But I wanted to add a quick note about Thimble- the entire Webmaker site is being revamped along with Thimble (https://blog.webmaker.org/whats-next-for-webmaker-tools). It will be updated and will be moved to the teach.mozilla.org site later this year (https://blog.webmaker.org/whats-next-for-thimble). So keep an eye out for these updates and know that the URL will change. I'd also recommend three other web-based editors (or code playgrounds): JSBin (http://jsbin.com/), JSFiddle (http://jsfiddle.net/), and Bootply (http://www.bootply.com/). These three are all very similar to Thimble except that they have separate input fields for HTML, CSS and JS. They also allow you to quickly link various frameworks and libraries by simply selecting options from dropdown menus. I have used JSBin in teaching web development and have found to it be very useful for setting up exercises, remixable templates and examples. I have even created informational webpages for workshops on the fly. JSBin also features very simple URLs that are 'pronounceable' and easy to remember and share. Since JSBin is open source, it can also be downloaded (https://github.com/jsbin/jsbin) and installed locally, though I've never done this so I can't speak to the difficulty or ease of setting it up. JSFiddle has very similar functionality- I prefer JSBin's UI and the fact that it's ! open source, but they're really very similar. Bootply is basically the same as JSFiddle but allows you to plug in Bootstrap elements and build Bootstrap templates quickly and easily. This program makes it very easy to teach and demo Bootstrap. All of these programs are all free to use, with or without accounts. Tim Timothy W. Miller General Instruction Reference Librarian Kinesiology, Recreation Administration, and Environmental Science Humboldt State University Library One Harpst Street, Arcata, CA 95521 707.826.4959 Office: Library 2 timothy.mil...@humboldt.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] free HTML text editors - a compilation of responses
vi On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 8:24 AM, Sarles Patricia (18K500) psar...@schools.nyc.gov wrote: Thank you to everyone who weighed in on free HTML text editors for my old Macs running 10.5.8. The only one that seemed to work is Thimble. My Macs at school are just too old - even for cloud-based editors. I looked into CodeAnywhere and Codio, which both worked on my Mac at home but not at work. Just in case anyone is interested in a compilation, I have compiled. I really appreciate everyone's help and forgive me if I missed one or two responses: There is no reason to install an editor for this purpose. Mozilla has a suite of free apps for this purpose at Webmaker: https://webmaker.org Thimble is the editor, and I think it's very nice for students that there is immediate feedback so you can see how your change affects the rendering: https://thimble.webmaker.org/ -- As a bit of a left field alternative there’s always Vim. Ok it might not be the best introduction to text editors, but given it exists on pretty much every platform (including Android and iPhone/iPad - http://www.vim.org/download.php) there’d be no excuses for not doing the homework. The main Mac port (https://code.google.com/p/macvim/) has legacy versions back to 10.4. However, this might be more of an extra credit editor given that it takes *some* getting used to. There is a game (http://vim-adventures.com/) which can help with learning some of the basic Vim controls. -- I used to use Smultron (http://www.macupdate.com/app/mac/15114/smultron) on my PowerBook G3. It's no Sublime text, but it does a pretty good job as far as GUI based text editors goes. I think someone forked the project and it's known as Fraise now. Depending on your computer's capabilities, that might be better or worse to run. -- Well... you could see if SeaMonkey runs - it includes Composer which gives you both WYSIWIG and HTML source editing - or it's later derivatives NVU and Komposer. Since those are relatively old, they should run on a circa 2008 Mac. Of course any text editor will let you edit HTML - and, assuming you're running OS X, you've got unix underneath. You've pretty much got your pick of anything that will run in a console window or an X-window. Your real problem might be running a browser that's new enough to support HTML5 and CSS3. Otherwise, editing HTML isn't going to do you much good. Apple won't let the most recent version of Safari run on 10.6.8 (you're stuck at 5.1.10), but Firefox (38.0.1) and Chrome (42.0.2311.152) are both fine. -- Another thing you might want to check out - my alma mater has a CS MOOC that's aimed at supporting middle/high school CS classes and teachers - http://www.muddx.com/courses/HMC/MyCS/Middle-years_Computer_Science/about . -- You might want to check out https://openhatch.org/wiki/Boston_Python_Workshop_6/Friday/OSX_text_editor - Boston Python Workshop has spent a while coming up with bulletproof instructions for people with a wide range of experience. The links at that page no longer work but the files are still available at Sourceforge, so you can make an amended version easily enough. -- If you do not need all the bells and whistles I would recommend TextWrangler. Free versions should still be available online and its bigger brother BBEdit is overkill for basic web editing. Actually, the significant difference between TextWrangler and BBEdit is that BBEdits has a number of features that are specifically for web design, that don't exist in TextWrangler. Looking at the version of BBEdit 9.1 that I have installed, the majority of it is in the 'Markup' menu: * Close current tag / Balance tags * Check syntax * Check links * Check accessibility * Cleaners for GoLive/PageMill/HomePage/DreamWeaver * Convert to HTML / XHTML * Menu items to insert tags (which then give what attributes are allowed) * Menu item to insert CSS * Preview in ... (gives a list of installed web browsers) ... That said, TextWrangler is still a good free editor -- and I personally rarely ever use the insert tags/CSS items (as I've been writing HTML for ... crap ... I feel old ... 20+ years). But to say that BBEdit is overkill for web editing is just wrong -- the majority of the feature differences are *specifically* for web editing. -- There is always the good old standby of emacs: http://aquamacs.org/ -- The Macs are from 2008 and running I believe 10.6.8. I can double check that when I get to work, but I am right now working on a 2007 Mac running 10.6.8 so the ones at work might be running a slightly newer version, but they are definitely running OS 10 something. This eliminates Atom.io and Sublime Text 3 (emphases on 3 because it *may* work with Sublime Text 2). I'm having a hard time calling those old ;-) but that's computing for you
