[CODE4LIB] modeling library types

[David Lowe]

Hi C4L--
Just thought this might be a fun group to ping on this--sorry if it's off a
bit.

I'm looking for data sources that would help to portray aspects of the
differences between academic, national, and public libraries.  I think
academic rigor would be a big facet, but not sure how to represent that
quantifiably, other than audience level distinctions, and maybe cost
somehow.  Tentatively working with the idea for a model in 3D that has an
ontology spectrum (call # range?) as x-axis, some measure of quantity
(volumes held?) as y-axis, and academic rigor (per unit costs?) as the
z-axis.

If either the model or its data points tickle your fancy (or give it a
rash, for that matter), or if you've seen something done along these lines,
please let me know.

Much obliged,
--DBL

David B. Lowe
Data Librarian
Florida Institute of Technology

Re: [CODE4LIB] seeking linked data-based user interface examples in libraries

[David Lowe]

I consider SNAC and its radial graph view one of the leaders in this space:
http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/xtf/search
--DBL

On 2/11/15, Sheila M. Morrissey  wrote:
> Do you know if the relationship-viewer source code open source and
> available?
> Thanks,
> sheila
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Kevin Hawkins
> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2015 11:27 PM
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] seeking linked data-based user interface examples in
> libraries
>
> Here's one that I heard about at a presentation at ALA Midwinter:
>
> http://civilwaronthewesternborder.org/content/relationship-viewer
>
> People also like to cite this one, though it's not, strictly speaking, based
> in a library:
>
> https://linkedjazz.org/
>
> --Kevin
>
> On 2/10/15 12:39 PM, Adam L. Chandler wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>> I am working on a presentation about linked data and I need some help. My
>> talk is about examples of linked data-based user interfaces in libraries,
>> wireframes, demos, or working systems. I am having difficulty finding
>> them. Please send me your examples.
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Adam Chandler
>>
>

[CODE4LIB] Fwd: NISO February 11 Webinar: Authority Control: Are You Who We Say You Are?

[David Lowe]

Of possible interest to the group, per past traffic on this list regarding
ORCID and ISNI.
--DBL
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Date: Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 1:53 PM
Subject: NISO February 11 Webinar: Authority Control: Are You Who We Say
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identities of contributors to media content such as books, television
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Identity issues and disambiguating authors, researchers, other content
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Re: [CODE4LIB] quiz software

[David Lowe]

Turns out, it's free for K-12 teachers only.  My bad, but good for you if the 
shoe fits.
--DBL

From: David Lowe
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 4:49 PM
To: jeremy.shellh...@humboldt.edu; CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: RE: [CODE4LIB] quiz software

Just saw this on the NPR site by chance:
http://www.socrative.com/
Not OSS, but appears to cover the functionality in mind at their free level.  
Anybody use Socrative?
--DBL

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Jeremy 
C. Shellhase
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 4:43 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] quiz software

Val,

It's old and unsupported, but If you can code php there are "some good bones" 
in Quirex.  http://www.thomastsoi.com/software/quirex/
I put it through a bunch of modifications and used it for years, just retired 
it a year or so ago for less useful and functional software.

Jeremy C. Shellhase
Systems Librarian
Bibliographer/Instructor for Business, Economics, Psychology Humboldt State 
University Library One Harpst Street Arcata, California 95521
707-826-3144 (voice)
707-826-3441 (fax)
jeremy.shellh...@humboldt.edu

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Valerie Forrestal < 
valerie.forres...@csi.cuny.edu> wrote:

> Hello friends! I was wondering if anyone could point me towards
> web-based open source software for library instruction that would let
> me administer quizzes, grade the quizzes and return a score, and then,
> preferably, keep some basic statistics. We're looking into a Google
> Forms/Spreadsheets hack, but I didn't know if there was anything a bit
> more elegant out there that could do the job.
>
> Thanks
>
> ~val
>
> --
> Valerie Forrestal
> Web Services Librarian/Asst. Professor City University of New York
> College of Staten Island Library
> 2800 Victory Blvd., 1L-109I
> Staten Island, N.Y. 10314
> Phone: 718.982.4023
> valerie.forres...@csi.cuny.edu
>
>
> 
> Celebrate Italian Heritage with a Special Broadway Benefit Concert by
> the World's Longest Running Phantom in support of the CSI Italian
> Studies
> program><http://csitoday.com/events/franc-dambrosios-
> broadway-the-phantom-unmasked/>
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] quiz software

[David Lowe]

Just saw this on the NPR site by chance:
http://www.socrative.com/
Not OSS, but appears to cover the functionality in mind at their free level.  
Anybody use Socrative?
--DBL

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Jeremy 
C. Shellhase
Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 4:43 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] quiz software

Val,

It's old and unsupported, but If you can code php there are "some good bones" 
in Quirex.  http://www.thomastsoi.com/software/quirex/
I put it through a bunch of modifications and used it for years, just retired 
it a year or so ago for less useful and functional software.

Jeremy C. Shellhase
Systems Librarian
Bibliographer/Instructor for Business, Economics, Psychology Humboldt State 
University Library One Harpst Street Arcata, California 95521
707-826-3144 (voice)
707-826-3441 (fax)
jeremy.shellh...@humboldt.edu

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Valerie Forrestal < 
valerie.forres...@csi.cuny.edu> wrote:

> Hello friends! I was wondering if anyone could point me towards 
> web-based open source software for library instruction that would let 
> me administer quizzes, grade the quizzes and return a score, and then, 
> preferably, keep some basic statistics. We're looking into a Google 
> Forms/Spreadsheets hack, but I didn't know if there was anything a bit 
> more elegant out there that could do the job.
>
> Thanks
>
> ~val
>
> --
> Valerie Forrestal
> Web Services Librarian/Asst. Professor City University of New York 
> College of Staten Island Library
> 2800 Victory Blvd., 1L-109I
> Staten Island, N.Y. 10314
> Phone: 718.982.4023
> valerie.forres...@csi.cuny.edu
>
>
> 
> Celebrate Italian Heritage with a Special Broadway Benefit Concert by 
> the World's Longest Running Phantom in support of the CSI Italian 
> Studies
> program> broadway-the-phantom-unmasked/>
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Professional Development Suggestions?

[David Lowe]

Thanks for the plug, David!  Registration just opened yesterday for June 11-13 
in lovely Storrs, CT:
http://guides.library.umass.edu/BootCamp2014/
--DBL

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Bigwood, David
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2014 10:16 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Professional Development Suggestions?

If you deal mostly with the sciences the New England Science Boot Camp might be 
useful. I've always thought they looked interesting. I think the Data Scientist 
Training for Librarians looks amazing. I don't see a session scheduled. You 
might contact them and see if they have one planned and figure a way to 
encumber the funds. It is a weekly class, so you would have to be with driving 
or T distance to Cambridge.

Sincerely,
David Bigwood
dbigw...@hou.usra.edu
Lunar and Planetary Institute

Twitter @LPI_Library


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Matthew 
Sherman
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2014 8:26 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Professional Development Suggestions?

Hi Code4Libbers,

I wanted to solicit some ideas from the community.  I was recently told I have 
about 500 bucks in professional development funds I can make use of, but the 
deadline to submit things for approval for this budget year is in the front 
half of next week.  As such I wanted to find out from the group if they knew of 
any good webinars, work shops, or small conferences in the northeast that could 
be helpful to a librarian who works with repositories and digital collections.  
Or if people know of other good ways to make use of professional development 
funds.  I would like to make good use of these to grow, but I am at a loss as 
to where I could apply them with the time I have to look.  I appreciate any 
thoughts people can provide.  Thanks and I hope everyone has a good day.

Matt Sherman

Re: [CODE4LIB] text mining software

[David Lowe]

More often seen as a tool for the social sciences, NVivo from 
QSRI has some respectable 
text manipulation capabilities (stemming, counting, proximity, clouds, etc.), 
and since it is an established tool in certain disciplines, it's either cheap 
or free on lots of campuses, via institutional licensing.  And they have free 
trials as well.

--DBL



-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of 
Pottinger, Hardy J.
Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 11:51 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] text mining software



Hi, Eric, I don't have any experience in this field, but I went looking a while 
ago when the topic came up, and these two links are in my notes for further 
exploration, if the topic ever comes around again:



http://wordseer.berkeley.edu/



http://mininghumanities.com/





May they serve you well.



--

HARDY POTTINGER mailto:pottinge...@umsystem.edu>> 
University of Missouri Library Systems http://lso.umsystem.edu/~pottingerhj/

https://MOspace.umsystem.edu/

"A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has 
lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly."

--Pablo Neruda











On 8/27/13 10:24 AM, "Eric Lease Morgan" 
mailto:emor...@nd.edu>> wrote:



>What sorts of text mining software do y'all support / use in your

>libraries?

>

>We here in the Hesburgh Libraries at the University of Notre Dame have

>all but opened a place called the Center For Digital Scholarship. We

>are / will be providing a number of different services to a number of

>different audiences. These services include but are not necessarily

>limited exactly to:

>

> * data management consultation

> * data analysis and visualization

> * geographic information systems support

> * text mining investigations

> * referrals to other "centers" across campus

>

>I am expected to support the text mining investigations. I have

>traditionally used open source tools do to my work. Many of these tools

>require some sort of programming in order to exploit. To some degree I

>am expected mount text mining software on our local Windows and

>Macintosh computers here in our Center. I am familiar with the lists of

>tools available at Bamboo as well as Hermeneuti.ca. [0, 1] TAPoRware is

>good too, but a bit long in the tooth. [2]

>

>Do you know of other sets of tools to choose from? Are you familiar

>with SAS(r) Text Analytics, STATISTICA Data Miner, or RapidMiner? [3, 4,

>5]

>

>[0] Bamboo Dirt - http://dirt.projectbamboo.org [1] Hermeneuti.ca -

>http://hermeneuti.ca/voyeur/tools

>[2] TAPoRware - http://taporware.ualberta.ca [3] Text Analytics -

>http://www.sas.com/text-analytics/

>[4] Data Miner -

>http://www.statsoft.com/Products/STATISTICA/Data-Miner/

>[5] RapidMiner - http://rapid-i.com/content/view/181/190/

>

>--

>Eric Lease Morgan, Digital Initiatives Librarian Hesburgh Libraries

>University of Notre Dame

>

>574/631-8604

[CODE4LIB] Open Source release policies

[David Lowe]

All-
If you work at an organization that releases open source software that your 
staff coders develop, I would be interested in reading your policy on that, if 
you have one written up that you can share, or otherwise in hearing your common 
practice, if that's not too much trouble. On or off list as your preference 
would have it.

 I've located the following so far:
UCSD
https://confluence.crbs.ucsd.edu/display/CRBS/Releasing+Open+Source+Software+at+UCSD

Stanford
http://otl.stanford.edu/inventors/resources/inventors_opensource.html

Texas   
http://www.utexas.edu/cio/policies/pdfs/Procedure%20for%20Releasing%20Software%20as%20Open%20Source%20or%20Contributing%20Software%20to%20Existing%20Projects%20Licensed%20Under%20the%20GNU%20General%20Public%20License.pdf

Austrailian Computer Society
http://people.oregonstate.edu/~alhasheh/ose/sources/OpenSourcePolicy.pdf

Much obliged,
--DBL

[CODE4LIB] FW: reviewing/ranking journals

[David Lowe]

C4L folk-
To be comprehensive, the project this guy suggests would be a big undertaking, 
but I'm thinking about running the idea past some possible library-land funders 
and getting back to him:
http://chronicle.com/blogs/conversation/2013/05/17/its-time-for-journals-to-be-author-reviewed/?cid=pm&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en

Funding aside, anyone interested in the concept?  Happy to hear your thoughts, 
online or off.

Just have this wild notion that, if done right, we could connect regular 
(annual?) qualitative metrics from such a portal and other sources to metrics 
for content in our repository and become a depended-upon component of the 
measuring infrastructure related to tenure, promotion, and the like--in 
addition to the preservation/archival role we serve.
--DBL