Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib NE
We just were discussing it this morning. We will have more details on the wiki soon. On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Whitni Watkins whitni.watk...@gmail.com wrote: Wiki Update: A tentative date of Friday May 29, 2015 on the MIT campus in Cambridge, MA has been discussed. More details will be provided in February. Is there any further confirming information on Code4Lib NE this May? Thanks! Whitni Watkins
Re: [CODE4LIB] Python PyMARC Code Club
As one who is curious to learn Python this sounds like a large and interesting group, count me in. On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Schwartz, Raymond schwart...@wpunj.edu wrote: As someone who intends to learn Python, I am interested. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Jeremy Nelson Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 10:37 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Python PyMARC Code Club As frequent user of PyMarc and Python, I would be interested in participating as well. Jeremy Nelson Metadata and Systems Librarian Colorado College -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of David Mayo Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 7:41 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Python PyMARC Code Club Also potentially interested, depending on timing. - Dave Mayo Software Engineer Harvard University On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Suda, Phillip J psu...@tulane.edu wrote: I'm interested and will contact the appropriate people. Thanks, Phil Phillip Suda Systems Librarian Howard-Tilton Memorial Library Tulane University psu...@tulane.edu 504-865-5607 -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Sean Chen Sent: Monday, February 23, 2015 9:28 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Python PyMARC Code Club For those who attended the conference in Portland there was a talk by Coral Sheldon-Hess where she introduced the idea of a Code Club. If you didn't see it check out the talk's slides and description at: http://code4lib.org/conference/2015/sheldon-hess. But, for the tl;dr version here it is: read code with other like minded individuals so you can become a better programmer. Which in turn inspires some of us who attended the conference t look for other catalogers/hackers/programmers interested in Python and MARC records. We'd like to do a club centered on the PyMARC library. If that piques your interest please send an email to Richard Tan r...@library.berkeley.edu and Sean Chen slc.c...@gmail.com. We are happy to get something started but we’d like to hear from others about this endeavor. Best regards, Sean -- Sean Chen slc.c...@gmail.com
Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4LibCon video crew thanks
Thanks all of video folks. I was re-watching a few things today and you all did a tremendous job. On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote: I want to deeply thank Ashley Blewer, Steven Anderson and Josh Wilson for running the video streaming and capture at Code4LibCon in Portland. Because of you, we had great video in real time (and I got to actually watch the presentations). I also want to again thank Riley Childs, who could not make it this year. Riley moved the bar up last year by putting together our YouTube presence. For the second year running, we requested and were not allowed to setup and test the day before, and for the second year running lost part of the opening session. Fortunately, we did capture most of what did not get streamed on Tuesday, and I will put that online next week. There is always next year. Thanks, Cary
Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2015 Newcomer Dinner Question
Thanks all, Both sound like good options. I'll look into both. If anyone else on the list is getting in a bit late or just wants to eat a little later that Monday send me an email and I will more actively pursue spearheading a group. Matt Sherman On Jan 28, 2015 7:33 PM, Becky Yoose b.yo...@gmail.com wrote: Technically, the official dinners can start anytime; the 6 pm start time is only a guideline. People can have the dinner whenever it is a good time for them to meet, either earlier or later that night You can either lead a group like Cary suggested or you can probably stop by one of the brewpub places that has a few groups since they might stay for longer than other groups. Thanks, Becky On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 6:30 PM, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote: You will likely miss the official dinners, as pretty much all of those start at 6-6:30. Of course, you could just claim a restaurant on the list and have it start whenever you want. Cary On Jan 28, 2015, at 12:15 PM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, This question is directed at folks attending Code4Lib 2015 in almost a week and a half. Are any of the groups for the dinner leaving after 7pm? I ask as sadly my flight doesn't land until about 6:30 pm that day. If anyone is eating a little later it would be great to join you guys. Thanks for any info people can give. Matt Sherman
[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2015 Newcomer Dinner Question
Hi all, This question is directed at folks attending Code4Lib 2015 in almost a week and a half. Are any of the groups for the dinner leaving after 7pm? I ask as sadly my flight doesn't land until about 6:30 pm that day. If anyone is eating a little later it would be great to join you guys. Thanks for any info people can give. Matt Sherman
Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2015 Registration Update [spots still available]
I just did the registration and reservation now. The website is still flaking out the the lady they had working reservations was able to accommodate and was incredibly helpful. Now to the wiki to list see if another guy wants to split the room I reserved. On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 11:56 PM, Heidi P Frank h...@nyu.edu wrote: hey Tom, Just an FYI, I tried calling the hotel just now to get the last night of my reservation changed to the conference rate, and the representative said there are *not* any more rooms available for Thursday night, Feb.12th. So yes, can you please ask about expanding the block of rooms when you meet with them tomorrow? Very much appreciated!! Heidi Heidi Frank Electronic Resources Special Formats Cataloger New York University Libraries Knowledge Access Resources Management Services 20 Cooper Square, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10003 212-998-2499 (office) 212-995-4366 (fax) h...@nyu.edu Skype: hfrank71 On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 10:59 PM, Tom Johnson johnson.tom+code4...@gmail.com wrote: The word from the Hilton as of 6:00 PST is that we have rooms available at the following days: 2/7 - 4 2/8 - 11 2/9 - 19 2/10 - 9 2/11 - 5 2/12 - 2 2/13 - 0 I can verify with them tomorrow and see what we can do about expanding the block. We've only just met (or are about to meet?) our obligations, so we haven't been in a big hurry to bump up the numbers. I would encourage you to negotiate with the hotel directly if you're having trouble, and we'll do what we can on our end. - Tom On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 6:36 PM, Rainwater, Jean jean_rainwa...@brown.edu wrote: I had the same experience -- got a reservation for Thursday but they said the block was sold out and I'd have to pay a higher rate. -- jean On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 8:53 PM, Heidi P Frank h...@nyu.edu wrote: Hi, I'm also needing Thursday night added. I had reserved my room about a week ago, and got Sunday-Wednesday nights at the conference rate, but couldn't get Thursday night at all. So based on suggestions on the C4L email about the hotel, I called them directly to get Thursday night added. They did add Thursday night onto my reservation, but only at the regular higher rate - they said the conference rate was not available for that night. I had seen a message that people were working on expanding the blocks, but hadn't heard any updates. If the hotel block is expanded, especially for Thursday night, can someone confirm? I still need to call the hotel back so they will change my Thursday night price to the conference rate. Thanks! heidi Heidi Frank Electronic Resources Special Formats Cataloger New York University Libraries Knowledge Access Resources Management Services 20 Cooper Square, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10003 212-998-2499 (office) 212-995-4366 (fax) h...@nyu.edu Skype: hfrank71 On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 8:30 PM, Betsy Coles bco...@library.caltech.edu wrote: I'm not panicking, but I just tried to reserve a hotel room for Sunday night through Wednesday night and the booking website says nothing is available (Sunday through Tuesday was OK). Could someone please nudge the Hilton and get some more rooms added to the block, particularly for Wednesday night? Many thanks, Betsy Coles Caltech Library bco...@caltech.edu -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Johnson Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 1:39 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2015 Registration Update [spots still available] It has come to my attention that the public perception is that Code4Lib 2015 is either sold out or at risk of selling out in the immediate future. I'm here to tell you DON'T PANIC! As of yesterday morning, there are at least 100 places available for regular (non-speaker, non-scholarship) attendees. At my latest check in, there should still be hotel rooms available at the conference rate, as well; and we have confidence that if the hotel block *does* sell out, we can expand it at least a little for all the conference days. While there's no need to drag your feet (the earlier the host committee knows rough final attendee numbers, the better!), you shouldn't be concerned at this point if you are waiting for approval (or for after the holidays) to register. Our goal is to avoid turning anyone away, and we look to be on track to do that. Happy Holidays, and hoping to see you in Portland, Tom Johnson, on behalf of the PDX host committee
Re: [CODE4LIB] what good books did you read in 2014?
Nothing professional comes to mind but here are some fun stuff in no particular order: Books: Skin Game by Jim Butcher - Another in the consistently great Dresden Files series. For those unfamiliar urban fantasy novels that are always just a fun read. The Broken Eye by Brent Weeks - The third in the Lightbringer series from a newer but really good fantasy author. Comics: Avengers vol. 5 and New Avengers vol. 3 by Jonathan Hickman - The current run on Avengers and New Avengers, both written by Jonathan Hickman who is good at playing the long game and paying off well as proven by his run on Fantastic Four. Batman vol. 2 by Scott Snyder - The current run on Batman by Scott Snyder who has been consistently a great batman author, and currently doing a very interesting Joker story. Movies: Guardians of the Galaxy - Great movie as Andromeda mentioned. As a fan of the book it was based on I was afraid this was going to be awful and was pleasantly surprised. TV: The Flash - The new Flash show has been one of the most fun TV shows I have seen in quite some time, they have a very fun dynamic and surprisingly good production values. Games: Dragon Age: Inquisition - Another great Bioware RPG, with real pay off if you have played the previous games. Even if you haven't it is a lot of fun and a pretty good story. Admittedly I am only part way in, but when it took the reviewers 80 hours to finish the story it is not something you will finish within the first month of getting it. On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 1:34 PM, Mark Pernotto mark.perno...@gmail.com wrote: Fun question - thanks! In no particular order: *What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions* by Randall Munroe - *I really enjoy the physics, as well as the absurdity.* *Two Scoops of Django 1.6* - *based on Andromeda's recommendation - thanks! Looks like I have another Django book to read now. Really appreciate it!* *Invincible Compendium Volume 2* by Robert Kirkman - *someone had gifted me Compendium 1 last Christmas - I just had to continue. I feel accomplished after reading such a large book* *Wonders of Life* by Brian Cox - *I know there's a lot of hype surrounding Neil Degrasse Tyson's Cosmos, but I prefer Cox's presentation. He also did a series Wonders of the Universe and Wonders of the Solar System years ago. If you hurry, you can get the 3-series BluRay set for $0.12 cheaper than just Wonders of Life* On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 6:47 AM, Andromeda Yelton andromeda.yel...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, code4lib! I bet you consume fascinating media. What good books did you read in 2014 that you think your colleagues would like, too? (And hey, we're all digital, so feel free to include movies and video games and so forth.) Mine: http://www.obeythetestinggoat.com/ (O'Reilly book, plus read free online) - a book on testing from a Django-centric, front end perspective. *Finally* I get how testing works. This book rewrote my brain. _The Warmth of Other Suns_ - finally got around to reading this magnum opus history of the Great Migration, am halfway through, it's amazing. If you're looking for some historical context on how we got to Ferguson, Isabel Wilkerson has you covered. _Her_ - Imma let you finish, Citzenfour and Big Hero 6 and LEGO movie and Guardians of the Galaxy - you were all good - but I walked out of the theater and literally couldn't speak after this one. Plus, funniest throwaway scene ever. Almost fell out of my chair. _Tim's Vermeer_ - wait, no, watch that one too. Weird tinkering genius who can't paint obsesses over recreating a Vermeer with startling, physics-driven results. Also, Penn Jillette. -- Andromeda Yelton Board of Directors, Library Information Technology Association: http://www.lita.org Advisor, Ada Initiative: http://adainitiative.org http://andromedayelton.com @ThatAndromeda http://twitter.com/ThatAndromeda
Re: [CODE4LIB] what good books did you read in 2014?
Hm, that series sounds interesting, I'll have to check it out after I finish The Way of Kings, which has been good from what I've read so far. Since boardgames have made the list I shall also advocate for King of Tokyo, fun quick competitive giant monster game, and Sentinels of the Multiverse, a fun cooperative super hero card game. On Dec 9, 2014 4:08 PM, Collier, Aaron acoll...@calstate.edu wrote: I'm on the 3rd book of the expanse series. Highly recommend if sci-fi/action is your thing. -- Aaron Collier Digital Repository Services Manager Systemwide Digital Library Services, California State University From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Andreas Orphanides [akorp...@ncsu.edu] Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2014 11:52 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] what good books did you read in 2014? I had fun with both the Southern Reach trilogy (Jeff VanderMeer) and The Expanse series (James S. A. Corey). If you're into sci-fi-ish stuff. On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 2:46 PM, Heather Rayl 23e...@gmail.com wrote: While I've done a lot of re-reading this past year (something that I do when I'm particularly stressed), I did read a few new things thanks to my book club. The one that sticks with me is _The Enchanted_, by Rene Denfeld. It had me reeling by the end of the book, and I am still thinking about it three months later. And I will probably end up reading it at least a second time, if I can go through it again. ~heather On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 2:33 PM, Galvan, Angela angela.gal...@osumc.edu wrote: I have an unhealthy love for William Gibson's latest novel, _The Peripheral_. Like Andromeda, I thought _Her_ was incredible. Not from this year, but _MISS DMZ_ found here: http://www.yhchang.com/MISS_DMZ.html. I learned about this from a talk Seo-Young Chu gave on representation of the DMZ in science fiction. She's also the author of _Do Metaphors Dream of Literal Sleep? A Science-Fictional Theory of Representation_ which I've been meaning to read but am terrified it will make me consider a PhD again. A.S. Galvan Digital Reformatting Specialist Head, Document Delivery The Ohio State University Health Sciences Library angela.gal...@osumc.edu -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Andromeda Yelton Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2014 9:47 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] what good books did you read in 2014? Hey, code4lib! I bet you consume fascinating media. What good books did you read in 2014 that you think your colleagues would like, too? (And hey, we're all digital, so feel free to include movies and video games and so forth.) Mine: http://www.obeythetestinggoat.com/ (O'Reilly book, plus read free online) - a book on testing from a Django-centric, front end perspective. *Finally* I get how testing works. This book rewrote my brain. _The Warmth of Other Suns_ - finally got around to reading this magnum opus history of the Great Migration, am halfway through, it's amazing. If you're looking for some historical context on how we got to Ferguson, Isabel Wilkerson has you covered. _Her_ - Imma let you finish, Citzenfour and Big Hero 6 and LEGO movie and Guardians of the Galaxy - you were all good - but I walked out of the theater and literally couldn't speak after this one. Plus, funniest throwaway scene ever. Almost fell out of my chair. _Tim's Vermeer_ - wait, no, watch that one too. Weird tinkering genius who can't paint obsesses over recreating a Vermeer with startling, physics-driven results. Also, Penn Jillette. -- Andromeda Yelton Board of Directors, Library Information Technology Association: http://www.lita.org Advisor, Ada Initiative: http://adainitiative.org http://andromedayelton.com @ThatAndromeda http://twitter.com/ThatAndromeda
Re: [CODE4LIB] Whatever Happened to the Northeast Code4Lib?
We certainly can. There are discussion of March as it gets past the holidays and some other conferences, so we can look at either a different time in March, or maybe April. On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Casey Davis casey_da...@wgbh.org wrote: Early spring sounds great! Can we make sure that the unconference doesn't interfere with the Spring NEA MARAC joint conference? The date of NEA/MARAC is March 19-21, 2015. Casey E. Davis, MLIS | Project Manager, American Archive of Public Broadcasting WGBH Media Library and Archives | WGBH Educational Foundation casey_da...@wgbh.org | 617-300-5921 | One Guest Street | Boston, MA 02135 Subscribe to the American Archive blog http://americanarchivepb.wordpress.com/ Follow the #AmericanArchive @amarchivepub On 12/5/14 9:22 AM, Christina Marie Harlow cmh2...@columbia.edu wrote: Some discussion happened off list, and the possibility of an unconference was mentioned, perhaps in the early spring when a number of holidays/events have passed. A survey and co-organizing the unconference you mention sounds like a great idea, Jennifer. On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 8:58 AM, Edward M. Corrado ecorr...@ecorrado.us wrote: ++ on the survey Edward On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Jennifer jennifer.eus...@lib.uconn.edu wrote: The first 2 or maybe the first one was at the BLC with Michael Klein who's now on the west coast. Last year, there was the Northeast Metadata Specialists unconference (NEMS U). Perhaps this group and code4lib NE can get together. I don't mind sending out a small survey to see how many people are interested. I also know of 2 or 3 people who wanted to help with organizing NEMS U and I can see if we can do it together. The NEMS U people were thinking of either having it in Boston at Northeastern or in Western Mass. This unconference is free and bring your own lunch. I also don't mind helping reviving code4lib NE on its own. How about I send out a small survey to get a sense of how many people are interested, how far they're willing to travel, when and all that jazz? Jennifer Eustis Univ. of Connecticut -- Christina Harlow Metadata Specialist Columbia University Libraries cmh2...@columbia.edu http://www.christinaharlow.com/ @cm_harlow +1 212 854 8457 102 Butler Library, MC
Re: [CODE4LIB] Update on Code4Lib 2015 registration info
Has the registration price been settled on yet? My department wants exact numbers before they will process the travel request so it would be helpful to know. On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Tom Johnson johnson.tom+code4...@gmail.com wrote: I'll update the conference page to include all of the below: 1. The block rate for the conference hotel is $129/night for a single or double. That rate is available Sunday through Thursday nights, and the link/info for the hotel rate will be included in the registration form. 2. The registration will be under $200; hopefully substantially under. We're busy finalizing this. 3. TriMet's MAX Red Line runs between the airport and a few blocks from the hotel every 15 minutes from 5 am to 11:30 pm. There is also a downtown shuttle that can be booked for extended hours right to the Hilton for $14 one-way or $24 round trip http://www.bluestarbus.com/downtown-shuttle-schedule.php. 4. Registration is planned to open Dec. 8th (next Monday). I will include a time in what I post to the conference page. 5. Beyond the vote link posted previously, the program committee is scheduled to meet later this week to finalize the schedule and presenter list. The local committee will work with them to get a final presentation list up before the 8th. We are capping the registration numbers higher than in previous years (450-500), and our hope is not to sell out (or rather, to sell out exactly and turn not a soul away). Thanks for prodding us to get this information out! - Tom On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Esmé Cowles escow...@ticklefish.org wrote: Also not on the committee, but I can help with #3: getting to the conference is very easy by train: there's a train from the airport to downtown Portland, which stops less than 1/4 mile from the hotel, and costs $2.50 each way. -Esme On Dec 1, 2014, at 5:10 PM, Coral Sheldon-Hess co...@sheldon-hess.org wrote: I'm not on the committee, but I can help with #5: http://vote.code4lib.org/election/results/33 (Also here are the keynotes: http://vote.code4lib.org/election/results/31) - Coral On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Emily Lynema emily_lyn...@ncsu.edu wrote: I suspect that it is time to start planning travel requests for Code4Lib 2015. Can the organizing committee provide some more info than what is currently available at http://code4lib.org/conference/2015/ such as: 1. Hotel price 2. Estimated registration (I know you don't know for sure yet!) 3. Travel info (are there buses, shuttles, public transit, etc.) 4. Date registration will open (again, just an idea of the timeline will help us plan for travel requests) 5. An easy link to the proposals that were submitted / results of voting. This would be immensely helpful. Thanks!! -- Emily Lynema Associate Department Head Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 emily_lyn...@ncsu.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Update on Code4Lib 2015 registration info
Thanks for asking, I was starting to put together the travel request myself. On Dec 1, 2014 4:50 PM, Emily Lynema emily_lyn...@ncsu.edu wrote: I suspect that it is time to start planning travel requests for Code4Lib 2015. Can the organizing committee provide some more info than what is currently available at http://code4lib.org/conference/2015/ such as: 1. Hotel price 2. Estimated registration (I know you don't know for sure yet!) 3. Travel info (are there buses, shuttles, public transit, etc.) 4. Date registration will open (again, just an idea of the timeline will help us plan for travel requests) 5. An easy link to the proposals that were submitted / results of voting. This would be immensely helpful. Thanks!! -- Emily Lynema Associate Department Head Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 emily_lyn...@ncsu.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Whatever Happened to the Northeast Code4Lib?
I am glad to see there is interest out there. I am all for trying to organize some helpful gatherings and what not, and do some of the grunt work. Obviously we need people to show interest, but it is good to see some exists. On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 9:03 AM, Joseph Montibello joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edu wrote: Hi, Yale hosted a C4L New England event a couple of years back ( http://wiki.code4lib.org/NECode4lib_2012_Home). I was on the planning committee - it was fun and I know I learned a lot. It was good to have a local event that folks could go to. The nice thing is that for an event like this to happen, we only need a few people willing to work on it, and a little luck in finding an institution to back it. (And of course a two-day event like the one we had at Yale is by no means the right/best/only format - there are lots of other ways that Code4Lib could take shape in New England / the northeast.) Joe Montibello, MLIS Library Systems Manager Dartmouth College 603.646.9394 joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edumailto:joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edu On Nov 24, 2014, at 3:39 PM, Abigail abigaildiscov...@gmail.commailto: abigaildiscov...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Matt, Thanks for posting - I'm new-ish to Code4Lib, and in Western MA. Would be excited to see more NE activity. Abigail Systems Librarian Hampshire College On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Christina Marie Harlow cmh2...@columbia.edumailto:cmh2...@columbia.edu wrote: Hi Matt- We have stuff going in Code4LibNYC, but I'd be happy to help get something going on in the Northeast. Thanks! Christina On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com mailto:matt.r.sher...@gmail.com wrote: While riffing on an old DC comics title the subject line is my question. I've been working in Connecticut for a little over a year now and I have heard of nothing going on with Code4Lib in this part of the US. I find this sad since I see all sorts of activity in a variety of other spots, particularly in my old beloved midwest stomping grounds. So I was wondering if anyone knows why the Code4Libbers in the northeast have been so quiet? Is the communication being done in some back channel or are there not many of us out in this part of the US? I am just curious as I would love to touch base, collaborate, and learn from other folks in the community. Matt Sherman -- Christina Harlow Metadata Specialist Columbia University Libraries cmh2...@columbia.edumailto:cmh2...@columbia.edu http://www.christinaharlow.com/ @cm_harlow +1 212 854 8457 102 Butler Library, MC -- Abigail Baines Systems Discovery Librarian Harold F. Johnson Library Hampshire College phone: 413-559-5766 email: abai...@hampshire.edumailto:abai...@hampshire.edu - - abigaildiscov...@gmail.commailto:abigaildiscov...@gmail.com web: library.hampshire.eduhttp://library.hampshire.edu blog: theharold.hampshire.eduhttp://theharold.hampshire.edu
[CODE4LIB] Whatever Happened to the Northeast Code4Lib?
While riffing on an old DC comics title the subject line is my question. I've been working in Connecticut for a little over a year now and I have heard of nothing going on with Code4Lib in this part of the US. I find this sad since I see all sorts of activity in a variety of other spots, particularly in my old beloved midwest stomping grounds. So I was wondering if anyone knows why the Code4Libbers in the northeast have been so quiet? Is the communication being done in some back channel or are there not many of us out in this part of the US? I am just curious as I would love to touch base, collaborate, and learn from other folks in the community. Matt Sherman
Re: [CODE4LIB] Metadata T-Shirt
I looked at it yesterday and it was working fine, no it isn't working today. On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Tania Fersenheim tan...@brandeis.edu wrote: I ordered a little while ago and now the link has stopped working. On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Riley Childs ri...@tfsgeo.com wrote: Huh! Several people have ordered the shirt, I can't find it either, I contact spreadshirt and investigate! Riley Childs Senior Asst. IT Services Director Library Guru Charlotte United Christian Academy Library Tech Cast (http://LibraryTechCast.com) ri...@tfsgeo.com http://RileyChilds.net @RowdyChildren *Please Think before Hitting Reply All* *I Do Web Development, Contact Me at http://RileyChilds.net/work http://RileyChilds.net/work* On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Goben, Abigail ago...@uic.edu wrote: Hi Riley! I can't get the t-shirt link to work? Help? Abigail On 11/13/2014 1:31 PM, Riley Childs wrote: At long last the Metadata T-Shirt is available from the code4lib Spreadshirt store. More Metadata products to follow! Get it at http://code4lib.spreadshirt.com/metadata-I1001657864 Don't forget to indicate your interest in code4lib stickers: https://docs.google.com/a/tfsgeo.com/forms/d/1k-bQVSduKyOVMkXpJ_ xOwk9SDjjEoX7QnQ4JTyp2BqI/viewform Details to follow regarding stickers and more store stuff! Thanks! //Riley -- Riley Childs Senior IT Admin Charlotte United Christian Academy office: +1 (704) 537-0331 x101 mobile: +1 (704) 497-2086 web: rileychilds.net twitter: @RowdyChildren Checkout our new Online Library Catalog: catalog.cucawarriors.com -- Abigail Goben, MLS Assistant Information Services Librarian and Assistant Professor Library of the Health Sciences University of Illinois at Chicago 1750 W. Polk (MC 763) Chicago, IL 60612 ago...@uic.edu -- Tania Fersenheim Manager of Library Systems Brandeis University Library and Technology Services 415 South Street, (MS 017/P.O. Box 549110) Waltham, MA 02454-9110 Phone: 781.736.4698 Fax: 781.736.4577 email: tan...@brandeis.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Metadata
That is a very vague question, would you care to elaborate a bit more? On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 1:50 PM, P.G. booksbyp...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Coders, Just wanted to see who works with metadata and what standards and protocols are you using and what platforms/softwares if any are you using? Thank you. Chris
Re: [CODE4LIB] Metadata
To answer off the cuff as others have done, currently I am using a modified version of qualified Dublin Core for the DSpace institutional repository I manage. I inherited the system which had some custom fields for publication information and event information, as well as some fields being used improperly that have since been fixed. Edits to the metadata are usually made in DSpace or in Excel with a CSV export, as well as some transforms with XSL. In previous jobs I have also used EAD in Oxygen to make a finding, created a custom schema based on Dublin Core for a CONTENTdm digital collection, and used a custom webform to create records for digitized visual materials using a custom metadata schema that the organization had. Hope this helps. Matt On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 1:50 PM, P.G. booksbyp...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Coders, Just wanted to see who works with metadata and what standards and protocols are you using and what platforms/softwares if any are you using? Thank you. Chris
Re: [CODE4LIB] Why learn Unix?
Eric hit the nail on the head, Unix is not inherently needed for many libraries, but it can be useful for more technically inclined librarians to know Linux. I am a digital content librarian at my institution and I actually know neither system, though I wish I had a better understanding of Linux. Yet I am able to do a lot of work on assorted projects due to knowledge in XML, scripting, and other such technical skills. So if you really want to promote people learning Unix, and probably actually Linux, you should help them to see where it will empower them to do more in their work. On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 10:09 AM, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: Learning Unix is not necessarily the problem to solve. Instead it is means to an end. To my mind, there are number of skills and technologies a person needs to know in order to provide (digital) library service. Some of those skills/technologies include: indexing, content management (databases), programming/scripting, HTTP server management, XML manipulation, etc. While these technologies exist in a Windows environment, they are oftentimes more robust and specifically designed for a Unix (read “Linux”) environment. — Eric Morgan
[CODE4LIB] Tablet Uses for Library Staff
Hi all, Today a few of us received our a few Surface Pros to use around the library. Being the digital content librarian for our University I really want to figure out some interesting things we can do with them. I have some thoughts on possibly working with inventory and my information literacy librarian colleague is thinking how to use them in the classroom. Yet, I wanted to poll the group and see what sorts of interesting things people are doing with tablets for their library staff, or ideas people might have for utilizing a Surface Pro in the library. Matt Sherman
Re: [CODE4LIB] Digitization Project from Scratch
There are a few options you can go with. https://foss4lib.org/package-type/digital-repository has a nice list of open source solutions. Just remember with open source you need to have some tech savy staff to support the software. I know a lot of people who like Omeka for free digital collection software. I am using DSpace right now for an institutional repository, it can be used for digital collections but it is not the best since that was not what it was built for. ContentDM is a popular pay for solution. Still, I would check out that list, and demo Omeka on their site. There are plenty of other considerations you need to make as well but these should help start you off specifically with the questions you asked. On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 4:55 PM, P.G. booksbyp...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Anyone has experience in digitizing archival materials? I need your recommendations/suggestions on how we can start with our digitization. We need to build a searchable website so the public can access our materials of images, publications and media files. What platform did you use? Open-source or fee-base? What is your experience using it? Basically, we started using Sharepoint but at this point, I believe it is only good for sharing of internal documents. We are on a limited budget so we may need to host it on our own server as well. Any feedback or persons to contact for more info is highly appreciated. Thanks. Chris
[CODE4LIB] Requesting a Little IE Assistance
For anyone who knows Internet Explore, is there a way to tell it to use word wrap when it displays txt files? This is an odd question but one of my supervisors exclusively uses IE and is going to try to force me to reupload hundreds of archived permissions e-mails as text files to a repository in a different, less preservable, file format if I cannot tell them how to turn on word wrap. Yes it is as crazy as it sounds. Any assistance is welcome. Matt Sherman
Re: [CODE4LIB] Requesting a Little IE Assistance
Thanks for the insights. I was really hoping IE had a setting. The problem is that these are txt files with copies of the permissions e-mails for our institutional repository that we store in the backend of the record in DSpace. So I do not know that I can edit the HTML to make them display properly in IE. The real frustration is that they do display, and the Firefox, Chrome, Safari, ect. display them fine, but IE does not and this supervisor only seems to use IE. On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 4:21 PM, Andrew Anderson and...@lirn.net wrote: I’ve never attempted this, but instead of linking to the text files directly, can you include the text files in an iframe and leverage that to apply sizing/styling information to the iframe content? Something like: html body iframe src=“/path/to/file.txt”/iframe /body /html That structure, combined with some javascript tricks might get you where you need to be: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4612374/iframe-inherit-from-parent Of course, if you’re already going that far, you’re not too far removed from just pulling the text file into a nicely formatted container via AJAX, and styling that container as needed, without the iframe hackery. -- Andrew Anderson, Director of Development, Library and Information Resources Network, Inc. http://www.lirn.net/ | http://www.twitter.com/LIRNnotes | http://www.facebook.com/LIRNnotes On Oct 13, 2014, at 9:59, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com wrote: For anyone who knows Internet Explore, is there a way to tell it to use word wrap when it displays txt files? This is an odd question but one of my supervisors exclusively uses IE and is going to try to force me to reupload hundreds of archived permissions e-mails as text files to a repository in a different, less preservable, file format if I cannot tell them how to turn on word wrap. Yes it is as crazy as it sounds. Any assistance is welcome. Matt Sherman
Re: [CODE4LIB] Requesting a Little IE Assistance
The question was mostly if there was an easy in browser fix for word wrap on txt files displaying in IE. Sadly that does not sound like it is the case. In this instance it is related to a hire-up who only uses IE for their browser requesting the files word wrap in their browser or be converted to another format that does. This issue is unique to IE since all other browsers are smart enough to word wrap txt files, and that these are hundreds of txt files stored in DSpace not visible to the public but archiving our e-mails which we obtained publisher permission for posting publications of our authors.The DSpace angle also complicates things a bit as they do not have any built in CSS that I could edit for this purpose. I am hoping they will be amenable to the suggestions to right click and open in notepad because txt files are darn preservation friendly and readable with almost anything since they are some of the simplest files in computing. Thanks for the input folks. On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 9:24 PM, Cornel Darden Jr. corneldarde...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I'm not sure I completely understand your question. In my library Internet explorer is a big no no. We haven't had anyone insist on using it. We've even tried to have out hidden but the IT gods won't upset their Microsoft masters like that. Is batch converting the emails to pdf or jpg not a solution? The point is just to see the content in IE right? If not, this is one of many IE issues that is well documented. Changing the code for all the email and putting them in an iframe might work as was mentioned earlier. I'm curious about this and would like to solve it, but opening IE is not something I'm prepared to do. It does sound like a white space issue that could be changed with some CSS Thanks, Cornel Darden Jr. MSLIS Library Department Chair South Suburban College 7087052945 Our Mission is to Serve our Students and the Community through lifelong learning. Sent from my iPhone On Oct 13, 2014, at 8:59 AM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com wrote: For anyone who knows Internet Explore, is there a way to tell it to use word wrap when it displays txt files? This is an odd question but one of my supervisors exclusively uses IE and is going to try to force me to reupload hundreds of archived permissions e-mails as text files to a repository in a different, less preservable, file format if I cannot tell them how to turn on word wrap. Yes it is as crazy as it sounds. Any assistance is welcome. Matt Sherman
Re: [CODE4LIB] Library Services on Small Devices (like Watches): Discuss
Michael, It is an interesting question to posit. I personally am unsure of exactly what kinds of services could be offered on something like a smart watch just because so much of what libraries provide are informational and rather wordy, which does not translate well to very small devices. That being said I can actually think of some rather neat uses to pair it up with library digital collections, particularly being able to pull up materials that have locations tagged to them. Possibly seeing some images of a place in the past or being able to control an audio tour you are listening to on your phone without pulling it out of your pocket. I am sure people have plenty more brilliant ideas on what to do with this tech though. Still, good question. Matt Sherman On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Michael Schofield mschofi...@nova.edu wrote: Alright, I have been pretty excited for small devices and what role libraries can have in that space, but the Apple Watch seems pretty exciting especially in terms of added gestures through haptic pressure (force touch), obviously all the geolocational, accelerometer stuff, and of course communicating with other devices / doors, controlling screens, etc. This doesn't really have to be about watches specifically, but hey. For the web, mobile first design really only goes so far as design for a phone, but as the device landscape gets weirder it makes more sense that users won't be interacting through a browser [on these devices], rather interaction with-say-a local library could be contextual and smart. I know that you are 100 feet from the library, here are the items available for pickup. What do you think would be cool, useful, realistic, etc.? Michael libux.co
[CODE4LIB] Discovery Solutions for Varied Library Repository Collections?
Hi Code4Lib folks, I was having a discussion with some folks at another library about their repository system and I thought a few things were interesting enough I wanted to see what others had to say. A lot of the discussion revolved around the fact that most Universities seem to either have everything in one big repository system or they have a few repositories based on content type (i.e. journal articles/thesis, data sets, archival materials). There are obviously pros and cons for each, but it did bring up an interesting question of how you provide good discovery for all your materials? Particularly when they are very different and have metadata aspects that are unique to certain ones but not others that are helpful to search, such as location data in images or publisher information in articles. Similarly, if an institution has multiple repositories for their varied content, how can you provide good discovery and show relationships between the items that are being stored in the different systems? Are there specific software or metadata solutions for this? Just a few things I thought were interesting enough concerns I would see what others thought about them. Matt Sherman
Re: [CODE4LIB] OAI Crosswalk XSLT
I guess it is the doc:element/doc:element/doc:field thing that is mostly what it throwing me. On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Dunn, Katie dun...@rpi.edu wrote: Hi Matt, The W3C Recommendation for XPath has some good explanation and examples for abbreviated XPath syntax here: http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-30/#abbrev Katie -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Matthew Sherman Sent: Friday, July 11, 2014 10:39 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] OAI Crosswalk XSLT Hi Code4Lib folks, I have a question for those of you who have worked with OAI-PMH. I am currently editing our DSpace OAI crosswalk to include a few custom metadata field that exist in our repository for publication information and port them into a more standard format. The problem I am running into is the select statements they use are not the typical XPath statements I am used to. For example: xsl:for-each select=doc:metadata/doc:element[@name='dc']/doc:element[@name='type']/doc:element/doc:element/doc:field[@name='value'] dc:typexsl:value-of select=. //dc:type /xsl:for-each I know what the . does, but the other select statement is a bit foreign to me. So my question is, does anyone know of some reference material that can help me make sense of this select? I need to understand what it is doing so I can make my own. Thanks for any insight you can provide. Matt Sherman
Re: [CODE4LIB] OAI Crosswalk XSLT
Ok, that makes sense. While I knew of OAI-PMH this is my first time really getting my hands dirty with it so I wasn't sure if this exceptionally detailed formatting was a function of the OAI protocols or a function of DSpace. I also extracted a metadata record from DSpace to see how they are formatting it and this I what I found for the type field: dcvalue element=type qualifier=none language=Poster/dcvalue On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Dunn, Katie dun...@rpi.edu wrote: Matt said: I guess it is the doc:element/doc:element/doc:field thing that is mostly what it throwing me. More DSpacey people than I can probably comment more knowledgeably on this, but this seems like less of an OAI-PMH thing than a DSpace thing. It looks like maybe DSpace stores metadata internally in a generic metadata/element/field structure like Bridger showed (with doc namespace): doc:metadata doc:element name=example !-- ignored! -- doc:element name=dc doc:element name=blahBlahBlah !-- ignored! -- doc:element name=type doc:element doc:element doc:field name=value !-- get the value of this element -- ...and the select is pulling the information it needs for the dc:type / element in the OAI-PMH output out of the internal DSpace structure. Katie -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Bridger Dyson-Smith Sent: Friday, July 11, 2014 10:56 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] OAI Crosswalk XSLT Hi Matt, Michael Kays' XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 is a great reference and is available as an eBook. Mulberry Technologies has some quick reference guides [1] that might be helpful. Cheers, Bridger doc:metadata doc:element name=example !-- ignored! -- doc:element name=dc doc:element name=blahBlahBlah !-- ignored! -- doc:element name=type doc:element doc:element doc:field name=value !-- get the value of this element -- [1] http://www.mulberrytech.com/quickref/ On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Code4Lib folks, I have a question for those of you who have worked with OAI-PMH. I am currently editing our DSpace OAI crosswalk to include a few custom metadata field that exist in our repository for publication information and port them into a more standard format. The problem I am running into is the select statements they use are not the typical XPath statements I am used to. For example: xsl:for-each select=doc:metadata/doc:element[@name='dc']/doc:element[@name='type'] /doc:element/doc:element/doc:field[@name='value'] dc:typexsl:value-of select=. //dc:type /xsl:for-each I know what the . does, but the other select statement is a bit foreign to me. So my question is, does anyone know of some reference material that can help me make sense of this select? I need to understand what it is doing so I can make my own. Thanks for any insight you can provide. Matt Sherman
Re: [CODE4LIB] OAI Crosswalk XSLT
Given the DSpace Dublin Core formatting I would like to be able to take this: dcvalue element=*publication* qualifier=*issue* language=1/dcvalue dcvalue element=*publication* qualifier=*name* language=Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance/dcvalue dcvalue element=*publication* qualifier=*volume* language= 47/dcvalue And turn during a OAI harvest turn it into: dc:identifierQuarterly Review of Economics and Finance Vol. 47 Issue 1/dc:identifier I am thinking I can just add dc:identifierxsl:value-of select=/ Vol. xsl:value-of select=/ Issue xsl:value-of select=//dc:identifier in the identifier section of the cross walk, but I am not 100% sure. Also I am not sure if I will need to use the excessively complex XPath to reference my source values. Can anyone tell me if I am on the right track? On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, that makes sense. While I knew of OAI-PMH this is my first time really getting my hands dirty with it so I wasn't sure if this exceptionally detailed formatting was a function of the OAI protocols or a function of DSpace. I also extracted a metadata record from DSpace to see how they are formatting it and this I what I found for the type field: dcvalue element=type qualifier=none language=Poster/dcvalue On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Dunn, Katie dun...@rpi.edu wrote: Matt said: I guess it is the doc:element/doc:element/doc:field thing that is mostly what it throwing me. More DSpacey people than I can probably comment more knowledgeably on this, but this seems like less of an OAI-PMH thing than a DSpace thing. It looks like maybe DSpace stores metadata internally in a generic metadata/element/field structure like Bridger showed (with doc namespace): doc:metadata doc:element name=example !-- ignored! -- doc:element name=dc doc:element name=blahBlahBlah !-- ignored! -- doc:element name=type doc:element doc:element doc:field name=value !-- get the value of this element -- ...and the select is pulling the information it needs for the dc:type / element in the OAI-PMH output out of the internal DSpace structure. Katie -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Bridger Dyson-Smith Sent: Friday, July 11, 2014 10:56 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] OAI Crosswalk XSLT Hi Matt, Michael Kays' XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 is a great reference and is available as an eBook. Mulberry Technologies has some quick reference guides [1] that might be helpful. Cheers, Bridger doc:metadata doc:element name=example !-- ignored! -- doc:element name=dc doc:element name=blahBlahBlah !-- ignored! -- doc:element name=type doc:element doc:element doc:field name=value !-- get the value of this element -- [1] http://www.mulberrytech.com/quickref/ On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Code4Lib folks, I have a question for those of you who have worked with OAI-PMH. I am currently editing our DSpace OAI crosswalk to include a few custom metadata field that exist in our repository for publication information and port them into a more standard format. The problem I am running into is the select statements they use are not the typical XPath statements I am used to. For example: xsl:for-each select=doc:metadata/doc:element[@name='dc']/doc:element[@name='type'] /doc:element/doc:element/doc:field[@name='value'] dc:typexsl:value-of select=. //dc:type /xsl:for-each I know what the . does, but the other select statement is a bit foreign to me. So my question is, does anyone know of some reference material that can help me make sense of this select? I need to understand what it is doing so I can make my own. Thanks for any insight you can provide. Matt Sherman
Re: [CODE4LIB] OAI Crosswalk XSLT
Thanks, that is very helpful. On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Bridger Dyson-Smith bdysonsm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Matthew, That looks good to me. The only thing I might suggest -- depending on your needs -- is to add xsl:text around your literals; e.g. xsl:value-of select=dcvalue[@qualifier='name']/xsl:text Vol. /xsl:textxsl:value-of select=dcvalue[@qualifier='volume']/xsl:text Issue /xsl:textxsl:value-of select=dcvalue[@qualifier='issue']/ If the processor you are using does something weird with white space, you'll avoid it by having the white space in text element. You may need a more precise XPath, depending on the context of your template, but the initial statement didn't look to bad. Hope that helps. Best, Bridger On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com wrote: Given the DSpace Dublin Core formatting I would like to be able to take this: dcvalue element=*publication* qualifier=*issue* language=1/dcvalue dcvalue element=*publication* qualifier=*name* language=Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance/dcvalue dcvalue element=*publication* qualifier=*volume* language= 47/dcvalue And turn during a OAI harvest turn it into: dc:identifierQuarterly Review of Economics and Finance Vol. 47 Issue 1/dc:identifier I am thinking I can just add dc:identifierxsl:value-of select=/ Vol. xsl:value-of select=/ Issue xsl:value-of select=//dc:identifier in the identifier section of the cross walk, but I am not 100% sure. Also I am not sure if I will need to use the excessively complex XPath to reference my source values. Can anyone tell me if I am on the right track? On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, that makes sense. While I knew of OAI-PMH this is my first time really getting my hands dirty with it so I wasn't sure if this exceptionally detailed formatting was a function of the OAI protocols or a function of DSpace. I also extracted a metadata record from DSpace to see how they are formatting it and this I what I found for the type field: dcvalue element=type qualifier=none language=Poster/dcvalue On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 11:08 AM, Dunn, Katie dun...@rpi.edu wrote: Matt said: I guess it is the doc:element/doc:element/doc:field thing that is mostly what it throwing me. More DSpacey people than I can probably comment more knowledgeably on this, but this seems like less of an OAI-PMH thing than a DSpace thing. It looks like maybe DSpace stores metadata internally in a generic metadata/element/field structure like Bridger showed (with doc namespace): doc:metadata doc:element name=example !-- ignored! -- doc:element name=dc doc:element name=blahBlahBlah !-- ignored! -- doc:element name=type doc:element doc:element doc:field name=value !-- get the value of this element -- ...and the select is pulling the information it needs for the dc:type / element in the OAI-PMH output out of the internal DSpace structure. Katie -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Bridger Dyson-Smith Sent: Friday, July 11, 2014 10:56 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] OAI Crosswalk XSLT Hi Matt, Michael Kays' XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 is a great reference and is available as an eBook. Mulberry Technologies has some quick reference guides [1] that might be helpful. Cheers, Bridger doc:metadata doc:element name=example !-- ignored! -- doc:element name=dc doc:element name=blahBlahBlah !-- ignored! -- doc:element name=type doc:element doc:element doc:field name=value !-- get the value of this element -- [1] http://www.mulberrytech.com/quickref/ On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Code4Lib folks, I have a question for those of you who have worked with OAI-PMH. I am currently editing our DSpace OAI crosswalk to include a few custom metadata field that exist in our repository for publication information and port them into a more standard format. The problem I am running into is the select statements they use are not the typical XPath statements I am used to. For example: xsl:for-each select=doc:metadata/doc:element[@name='dc']/doc:element[@name='type'] /doc:element/doc:element/doc:field[@name='value'] dc:typexsl:value-of select=. //dc:type /xsl:for-each I know what the . does, but the other select statement is a bit foreign to me. So my question is, does anyone know of some reference material that can help me make
Re: [CODE4LIB] OAI Crosswalk XSLT
Regardless, I am impressed. Thanks, this gives me some ideas to chew over and analyze. On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Bridger Dyson-Smith bdysonsm...@gmail.com wrote: And just because I'm drinking too much coffee... If you're using an XSLT 2.0 processor for this you can do some things with variables that might make things a little easier; e.g. xsl:variable name=vJournalTitle select=normalize-space(dcvalue[@qualifier='name'])/ xsl:variable name=vJournalVol select=normalize-space(dcvalue[@qualifier='volume'])/ xsl:variable name=vJournalIssue select=normalize-space(dcvalue[@qualifier='issue'])/ You can call those variables in a concat() function and you won't have to deal with wonky spacing in your output. There are almost certainly a bunch of much better ways to do this - I'll never be anything better than an XSLT apprentice - but it might be a good starting point. See the second dc_identifier for the difference in output. Cheers. -- cat sherman.xml ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? record dcvalue element=publication qualifier=issue language=1/dcvalue dcvalue element=publication qualifier=name language=Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance/dcvalue dcvalue element=publication qualifier=volume language=47/dcvalue /record -- cat sherman.xsl ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl=http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform; xmlns:xs=http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema; exclude-result-prefixes=xs version=2.0 xsl:output method=xml indent=yes/ xsl:template match=record xsl:variable name=vJournalTitle select=normalize-space(dcvalue[@qualifier='name'])/ xsl:variable name=vJournalVol select=normalize-space(dcvalue[@qualifier='volume'])/ xsl:variable name=vJournalIssue select=normalize-space(dcvalue[@qualifier='issue'])/ dc-identifierxsl:value-of select=dcvalue[@qualifier='name']/xsl:text Vol. /xsl:textxsl:value-of select=dcvalue[@qualifier='volume']/xsl:text Issue /xsl:textxsl:value-of select=dcvalue[@qualifier='issue']/ /dc-identifier dc_identifier xsl:value-of select=concat($vJournalTitle, ' Vol. ', $vJournalVol, ' Issue ', $vJournalIssue)/ /dc_identifier /xsl:template -- saxon -s:./sherman.xml -xsl:./sherman.xsl ?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8? dc-identifierQuarterly Review of Economics and Finance Vol. 47 Issue 1/dc-identifier dc_identifierQuarterly Review of Economics and Finance Vol. 47 Issue 1/dc_identifier On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, that is very helpful. On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 1:30 PM, Bridger Dyson-Smith bdysonsm...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Matthew, That looks good to me. The only thing I might suggest -- depending on your needs -- is to add xsl:text around your literals; e.g. xsl:value-of select=dcvalue[@qualifier='name']/xsl:text Vol. /xsl:textxsl:value-of select=dcvalue[@qualifier='volume']/xsl:text Issue /xsl:textxsl:value-of select=dcvalue[@qualifier='issue']/ If the processor you are using does something weird with white space, you'll avoid it by having the white space in text element. You may need a more precise XPath, depending on the context of your template, but the initial statement didn't look to bad. Hope that helps. Best, Bridger On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com wrote: Given the DSpace Dublin Core formatting I would like to be able to take this: dcvalue element=*publication* qualifier=*issue* language=1/dcvalue dcvalue element=*publication* qualifier=*name* language=Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance/dcvalue dcvalue element=*publication* qualifier=*volume* language= 47/dcvalue And turn during a OAI harvest turn it into: dc:identifierQuarterly Review of Economics and Finance Vol. 47 Issue 1/dc:identifier I am thinking I can just add dc:identifierxsl:value-of select=/ Vol. xsl:value-of select=/ Issue xsl:value-of select=//dc:identifier in the identifier section of the cross walk, but I am not 100% sure. Also I am not sure if I will need to use the excessively complex XPath to reference my source values. Can anyone tell me if I am on the right track? On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, that makes sense. While I knew of OAI-PMH this is my first time really getting my hands dirty with it so I wasn't sure if this exceptionally detailed formatting was a function of the OAI protocols or a function of DSpace. I also extracted a metadata record from DSpace to see how they are formatting it and this I what I found for the type field: dcvalue element=type qualifier=none
[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] Professional Development Suggestions?
Dang, if I had know that THAT camp was at the end of my I wouldn't have scheduled a trip then. None the less thanks everyone for your suggestions, these have been really helpful and I think give me a enough ideas I can act on. Thanks again. Matt Sherman On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 11:06 AM, Maura Carbone mau...@brandeis.edu wrote: Another good one might be THATCamp--I went to UConn's last year and got to learn quite a bit about Omeka. It's being held at BU this year: http://newengland2014.thatcamp.org/ There isn't a set schedule, but you can follow what people are proposing to present on and see if any of it appeals to you. Also, I will second the BootCamp, if only because Storrs is very nice in the summer. Swing by the dairy bar if you make the trip! But on a more 'professional' note I have heard from co-workers it is both fun and informative! Depending on the repositories you work with, you could also try checking out events focused on those. Duraspace hosts some pretty good webinars about DSpace and Fedora (older ones are archived online), and there's going to be a Hydra camp in the northeast this fall (TBD) that might be useful if you're interested in using Hydra/Fedora. ASERL has also had some good webinars on open access and scholarly communications. On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 10:47 AM, David Lowe david.l...@lib.uconn.eduwrote: 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 -- Maura Carbone Digital Initiatives Librarian Brandeis University Library and Technology Services (781) 736-4659 415 South Street, (MS 017/P.O. Box 549110) Waltham, MA 02454-9110 email: mau...@brandeis.edu
[CODE4LIB] Research Gate vs. Institutional Repositories
Hi Code4Libbers, Hope everyone is enjoying the conference. I am sad I was unable to make it but I like what I have been able to catch of the livestream. Anyway, I wanted to get some community thoughts on an issue I have been noticing lately. I have run into an assortment of faculty that are convinced the Research Gate should replace the institutional repository at their schools. Being the the repository guy at where I work this is rather disconcerting since they do very different things. Research Gate is a form of social media service, whereas the repositories are all about preservation and access. I have tried to articulate this point to them without much success. As such I wanted to consult the collective brilliance of Code4Lib to see if anyone else has also run into this or have thoughts on how to respond. This may seem like a trivial issue, but it has come up enough that I am starting to get concerned for the safety the repository. So any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks for your time and hope everyone is having a good conference. Matt Sherman
Re: [CODE4LIB] Dress
The code4lib conference shirt is always at the height of fashion in any occasion. On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Francis Kayiwa fkay...@colgate.edu wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/22/2014 07:09 PM, Justin Coyne wrote: Morning coat is suitable for the conference sessions, but be sure to bring white tie for the newcomer dinner. ;) You forgot to mention the monocle! http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/06/fashion/the-monocle-returns-as-a-fashion-accessory.html ./fxk - -- QOTD: A child of 5 could understand this! Fetch me a child of 5. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTLhoIAAoJEBKglk8SA18wyVgH/21io+MrELzTi8uXmt3GeK8c bDnouNl7hLlvqt7oeKO0ZByh/VVEQF0RnWdxYm/5kh0nGcV1brk9r89N7/w3ryBX wKqTWnMAfj/vgoyXEZdZpAF+gRanbVyaYCDnd+EoYmVrsdXr6pRIeppGTJzZjqng nRiLZS63UTz40uRuFd6/ScUGQcJ6MyEKos2MHWY3Hua1uoXFPwjb18VtDYbPWzDl EIoFi92YKTezxre36dIXpCrATmohfUfJE7MAi51JXk9yQtWIXLvOhubMxRZdxys+ V0t/32jkERXGmE3vJ3cfQTXE3leXhj4s33UpzxI25fXX75bQXQjT+H+Uth75vpQ= =jCCS -END PGP SIGNATURE-
[CODE4LIB] Question About Code4Lib 2014 Streaming
I figure I should ask for those of us who sadly cannot make it this year, where will we be able to find the streaming of the conference? Thanks for everyone who is putting in the hard-work to put on the conference. Matt Sherman
Re: [CODE4LIB] Welcome to Roy4Lib
But what if it is venison bacon? On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 8:46 AM, Caplan, Priscilla pcap...@fsu.edu wrote: You would have to ask the pig about that. p -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Riley Childs Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2014 6:38 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Welcome to Roy4Lib But bacons not meat,I consider it a soul food :D Riley Childs Student Asst. Head of IT Services Charlotte United Christian Academy (704) 497-2086 RileyChilds.net Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes From: Barnes, Hughmailto:hugh.bar...@lincoln.ac.nz Sent: 2/24/2014 10:51 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDUmailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Welcome to Roy4Lib And vegetarians, and Mormons, and folks who never met Roy :) -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Riley Childs Sent: Tuesday, 25 February 2014 4:28 p.m. To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Welcome to Roy4Lib Just a reminder there are minors on this listserv ;P Riley Childs Student Asst. Head of IT Services Charlotte United Christian Academy (704) 497-2086 RileyChilds.net Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes From: Wilhelmina Randtkemailto:rand...@gmail.com Sent: 2/24/2014 10:24 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDUmailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Welcome to Roy4Lib My neighbor made this bacon vodka, and it was amazing http://www.instructables.com/id/Bacon-Infused-Vodka/ -Wilhelmina Randtke On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 10:36 AM, Michael J. Giarlo leftw...@alumni.rutgers.edu wrote: Bacon being cooked in a liquor store? Wow, California is awesome. On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 8:31 AM, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com wrote: That would make sense, but I think in this particular instance I was watching bacon being cooked. Roy On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Michael J. Giarlo leftw...@alumni.rutgers.edu wrote: Clearly taken in the liquor store. On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 7:08 AM, Cindi Trainor Blyberg cindi...@gmail.comwrote: Well, I do like the photo that Roy uses everywhere, but I have to say I like this one better: http://www.flickr.com/photos/23341397@N00/3769032245 On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 9:05 AM, Roy roy.zim...@wmich.edu wrote: Hmm. Call it roys4lib.org and put pictures of all the list's Roys on there... Mr. Tennant's picture would have to be first, of course, and be the biggest. On 2/21/2014 6:51 PM, Rosalyn Metz wrote: so tempted to buy roy4lib.org and put up a glass of scotch there. On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Edward M Corrado ecorr...@ecorrado.us wrote: Roy4lib has consumed to much Scotch - after all, it is Friday. -- Edward M. Corrado On Feb 21, 2014, at 18:13, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com wrote: roy4lib.org is ALWAYS down. I mean, it just makes too much sense for it to be in any other state. Roy On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Rosalyn Metz rosalynm...@gmail.com wrote: it appears that roy4lib.org is also down On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Frumkin, Jeremy frumk...@u.library.arizona.edu wrote: Welcome to the Roy4Lib discussion list. This list is intended to facilitate discussion on Roy Tennant's new world library order, the role of bacon (including kosher and vegetarian based varieties) in this context, and the long, long, long, long, long drawn out death of MARC. If you believe you have subscribed to this list in error, please email the admin at r...@roy4lib.org. -- -- Jeremy Frumkin Assistant Dean / Chief Technology Strategist University of Arizona Libraries +1 520.626.7296 frumk...@u.library.arizona.edu -- -- Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. - Albert Einstein P Please consider the environment before you print this email. The contents of this e-mail (including any attachments) may be confidential and/or subject to copyright. Any unauthorised use, distribution, or copying of the contents is expressly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please advise the sender by return e-mail or telephone and then delete this
Re: [CODE4LIB] Academic Library Website Question
Wow, I am impressed by the variety of replies. A lot of good points have been made and this really helps give thought and credence to our argument to free our library website. I am in agreement with many of the general points made and find the suggestions helpful, this will be a bit of a fight to get the library site were it should be to it is a worthwhile one and your insights should help us. Thanks everyone for your input. I've sent this discussion around to my coworkers to look over as well, it really helps. Matt On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 5:28 PM, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote: The difficulty lies in the details. I don't understand the distinction between organic findability and direct going to the URIs (presumably URLs, which go somewhere). While going directly to resources would skew your stats, presumably in a good way, I don't see that they would impact your findability. It should be easy to distinguish between traffic from search engines, links from your home page and direct links, which can either be embedded in resources like courseware, papers, and others or just typed in directly or using a URL shortening service. If your system can't make those distinctions, you should move to an analytics system that does. I will dedicate next year to developing organic fundability. Cary On Dec 17, 2013, at 1:09 PM, Lisa Rabey academichu...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote: My key point, and likely the only point of note is: Your library stats should tell the tale of how folks are getting there. While these data won't necessarily lead to great predictions of future behavior, as the institution might unintentionally (or intentionally) blocking some desirable access, they should give some empirical evidence of what is happening now. Cary I don't disagree with you. But stats are not enough. The difficulty lies (lays?) that we have organic findability before the semester starts, then we teach info lit classes for 2-3 solid months where we are direct going to the URIs which then spikes AND skews the data, hence the problem of using stats. Now if you have method to separate organic fundability from our teaching classes so I have a better/bigger picture of how people are finding us, I'm all ears. Lisa M. Rabey | @pnkrcklibrarian An Unreliable Narrator: http://exitpursuedbyabear.net Cunning Tales from a Systems Librarian: http://lisa.rabey.net
[CODE4LIB] Academic Library Website Question
Hi Code4Libbers, Slightly odd question for you academic library folks. Why does your library have its website where it is on the university site? For context, the library I currently work at has our library site hidden within the campus intranet/portal, so that students have to log into a web portal to even see the search page. This was a decision by the previous director who was here before my time and an assortment of us librarians think this is a terrible setup. So I wanted to kick out to the greater community to give us good reasons for free to the website to more general access, or help us to understand why you would bury it behind a login like they did. All thoughts, insights, and opinions are welcome, they all help us develop our thinking on this and our arguments for any changes we want to make. Thanks everyone and have a good week. Matt Sherman
Re: [CODE4LIB] Academic Library Website Question
This is actually becoming an announce to our employees because we have to spend so much time explaining where the library site is. We are pretty much an Ex Libris shop at the moment, Primo, Metalib, SFX, all locked behind Sharepoint. I am not sure what the main campus site is using for a CMS, but I suspect it is more flexible than Sharepoint for web development. We only get a moderate amount of non-student or staff traffic, but where the site currently is located is not intuitive and makes it hard for students to want to use. The make the UX/IA part of me die a little inside. We have definite interest among many of the library staff to get it freed and more visible, but we are having to figure out what it takes and how to sell it to all of the requisite parties involved. Thanks for the input. On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Nina McHale n...@atendesigngroup.comwrote: Matt, Not odd at all! I've dealt with this issue for most of my career. In the three academic libraries I've worked in, the library's site was NOT part of the overall college/university portal. In fact, it was more the case that we (me, the web person, and my supervisors) were establishing our autonomy apart from the overall institutional web presence with campus IT. Library sites need separate navigation, information architecture, and content management and strategy. Administrators outside of the library and campus IT don't always understand how complex library sites have become, so explaining this is a good first step. Find some sites for similar institutions that you like, and show them as examples. If you present it as a positive move--and point out that you might be able to take some work off your IT department's hands by taking on the library site yourself--they'll likely be more willing to consider it. Approach them as partners. As far as burying the library's site behind a log in, how much non-student traffic do you have in your building? You might be able to make a case, based on that and what your mission to serve your community is/might be, to bring it out from behind authentication. Other questions for you: -Do you have any kind of proxy authentication for journal/article databases in place in addition to the portal authentication? If not, you'll obviously have to consider that. -What platform is the school on? Would you choose something similar--another instance of the same software--or go out on your own? Do you have the skills/staff to do that? Where would you host it? Nina On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Code4Libbers, Slightly odd question for you academic library folks. Why does your library have its website where it is on the university site? For context, the library I currently work at has our library site hidden within the campus intranet/portal, so that students have to log into a web portal to even see the search page. This was a decision by the previous director who was here before my time and an assortment of us librarians think this is a terrible setup. So I wanted to kick out to the greater community to give us good reasons for free to the website to more general access, or help us to understand why you would bury it behind a login like they did. All thoughts, insights, and opinions are welcome, they all help us develop our thinking on this and our arguments for any changes we want to make. Thanks everyone and have a good week. Matt Sherman -- Nina McHale @ninermac Developer, Aten Design Group atendesigngroup.com
Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4lib 2014 Diversity Scholarships: Call for Applications
Actually I am not familiar with those. I will have to look into that. Thanks. On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Keri Cascio kcas...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Matthew, have you looked into general continuing education grants? Perhaps your state library offers these for conference and workshop attendance, we have a program here in Missouri. And there is usually more money available than applications as people often forget about it. -Keri -- Keri Cascio kcas...@gmail.com 314-458-7428 (cell)
Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4lib 2014 Diversity Scholarships: Call for Applications
I am going to reiterate my push to turn this conversation to a discussion for funding options for everyone who wants to attend Code4Lib 2014. I think that will be a much better use of our time. On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Erik Hetzner erik.hetz...@ucop.edu wrote: Hi all, I can’t believe we are having this conversation again. I have nothing to add except to say that rather than feed the troll, you might do what I did, and turn your frustration at this thread arising *once again* into a donation to the Ada Initiative or similar organization. Sadly, it seems that one cannot contribute to the diversity scholarships, as I would be happy to do so. If anybody knows how, please let me know. best, Erik
Re: [CODE4LIB] Graphic Tablets
Can you define what you mean by graphic tablet? On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Fragola, Patty frago...@uww.edu wrote: Is anyone circulating graphic tablets to patrons? I'd be interested in hearing your experiences, particularly the justification for purchase and patron response. Thank you in advance, patty Patricia Fragola Head of Library Systems Automation University of Wisconsin – Whitewater Andersen Library, Room 1125e 800 West Main Street Whitewater, Wisconsin 53190 frago...@uww.edu Phone: 262-472-5673
Re: [CODE4LIB] Usability Person?
I think this depends a bit on the size of your institution. Where I am at we have barely enough funding to have a small number of librarians. I think you are right in so far is places should have a dedicated usability person, but this is not always possible. On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Andrew Darby darby.li...@gmail.comwrote: Hello, all. This is perhaps a bit off-topic, but I was wondering how many of you have a dedicated usability person as part of your development team. Right now, we have a sort of ad hoc Usability Team, and I'd like to make a pitch for hiring someone who will have the time and inclination to manage this effort more effectively. Anything you'd care to share (on-list or off-) would be welcome. I'm especially curious about whether or not this is a full-time responsibility for someone in your organization or if it's shared with another job function; if you find this position is working out well or you wish you'd spent the money on more robots instead; where this person resides in your org chart; what sort of qualifications you looked for when hiring; etc. Thanks, Andrew -- Andrew Darby Head, Web Emerging Technologies University of Miami Libraries
Re: [CODE4LIB] Patents in Institutional Repositories.
Can you provide context? I am trying to understand why you would put a patent in an IR. On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Lydia Zvyagintseva lyd...@ualberta.cawrote: Hi everyone, Forgive me if this question has been asked before on this listserv, but I'm trying to gather some info for proceeding with patents down the road. Do you have patents in your IR? What priority do they take in your repository process? What's your workflow when dealing with them? Any special considerations? Many thanks for any input! -- *Lydia Zvyagintseva* MA/MLIS Candidate Founder, HackYEG http://hackyeg.com School of Library and Information Studies Humanities Computing University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB lyd...@ualberta.ca lydiazv.com
Re: [CODE4LIB] Question for Institutional Repository Folks
Hm, the lock is tricky, when I try to print to PDF or XPS it scrambles the text. I will have look into how to use mupdf or the cover page idea if I can't get a clean copy from the professor. Thanks folks. On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Christian Pietsch chr.pietsch+web4...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Matt, if you are certain that a PDF file was encumbered with DRM restrictions by mistake, then you can easily remove DRM using a tool from the free MuPDF software which is available for all major operating systems including Windows: http://www.mupdf.com/ If you have the current version, the command line goes like this: mutool clean old.pdf new.pdf Older versions of MyPDF included a different executable for this: pdfclean old.pdf new.pdf As for editing PDF files ... this is not what they are intended for, but it is possible with tools like PDFedit http://pdfedit.cz, Gimp, Inkscape or Scribus. Cheers, Christian On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 01:13:24PM -0400, Matthew Sherman wrote: Can anyone give me some advice in how I can edit this to add the required note to the top of the PDF? Any advice is welcome. -- Christian Pietsch http://purl.org/net/pietsch
[CODE4LIB] Question for Institutional Repository Folks
Hello Code4libbers, I had a question for for others who work with institutional repositories. I have a file given by the a professor that I have permission to post if I add a note to the PDF, but the file is password locked. Has anyone else run into this problem before? Can anyone give me some advice in how I can edit this to add the required note to the top of the PDF? Any advice is welcome. Matt Sherman
Re: [CODE4LIB] Question for Institutional Repository Folks
We use DSpace for our repository so any editing to the PDFs have to be done in Acrobat before uploading. I can add a note to the metadata in DSpace, but I am not sure if that fulfills the permissions agreement. I was recently hired for this position so I do not know who provided us the file to upload in the first place. That is why I am asking if anyone else has dealt with this since I am unsure if I can ever get the password. On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Jim DelRosso jd...@cornell.edu wrote: Matt, Does the software you use generate cover pages that you can edit? Or can you add the note to the metadata page associated with the document? Jim *Jim DelRosso, MPA, MSLIS Digital Projects Coordinator* *Hospitality, Labor, and Management Library* Catherwood Library ILR School Cornell University 239D Ives Hall Ithaca, NY 14853 p 607.255.8688 f 607.255.9641 e jd...@cornell.edu www.ilr.cornell.edu *Advancing the World of Work* On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.comwrote: Hello Code4libbers, I had a question for for others who work with institutional repositories. I have a file given by the a professor that I have permission to post if I add a note to the PDF, but the file is password locked. Has anyone else run into this problem before? Can anyone give me some advice in how I can edit this to add the required note to the top of the PDF? Any advice is welcome. Matt Sherman
Re: [CODE4LIB] Question for Institutional Repository Folks
Correct, it is locked only to editing. The professor is around so I probably should contact him as you suggest. I was asking in the case I ran into something where I could not contact the professor, but asking him directly is probably the best move. As for adding it to the metadata I am just a bit unsure as the e-mail they sent me requested that I Please add this text to the pdf file: On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Jim DelRosso jd...@cornell.edu wrote: Just to clarify: the password's only necessary to *edit *the PDF? In my experience, most publishers are fine with required statements going in the metadata, so long as the metadata is visible to users. That being said, it does depend on the publisher, and their specific request. Is it possible to contact the author directly about getting the password, or a PDF that's not password-locked? Jim *Jim DelRosso, MPA, MSLIS Digital Projects Coordinator* *Hospitality, Labor, and Management Library* Catherwood Library ILR School Cornell University 239D Ives Hall Ithaca, NY 14853 p 607.255.8688 f 607.255.9641 e jd...@cornell.edu www.ilr.cornell.edu *Advancing the World of Work* On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.comwrote: We use DSpace for our repository so any editing to the PDFs have to be done in Acrobat before uploading. I can add a note to the metadata in DSpace, but I am not sure if that fulfills the permissions agreement. I was recently hired for this position so I do not know who provided us the file to upload in the first place. That is why I am asking if anyone else has dealt with this since I am unsure if I can ever get the password. On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 1:18 PM, Jim DelRosso jd...@cornell.edu wrote: Matt, Does the software you use generate cover pages that you can edit? Or can you add the note to the metadata page associated with the document? Jim *Jim DelRosso, MPA, MSLIS Digital Projects Coordinator* *Hospitality, Labor, and Management Library* Catherwood Library ILR School Cornell University 239D Ives Hall Ithaca, NY 14853 p 607.255.8688 f 607.255.9641 e jd...@cornell.edu www.ilr.cornell.edu *Advancing the World of Work* On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.comwrote: Hello Code4libbers, I had a question for for others who work with institutional repositories. I have a file given by the a professor that I have permission to post if I add a note to the PDF, but the file is password locked. Has anyone else run into this problem before? Can anyone give me some advice in how I can edit this to add the required note to the top of the PDF? Any advice is welcome. Matt Sherman
Re: [CODE4LIB] Faculty publication database
As one working on our libraries institutional repository, this can be like pulling teeth to get everyone to provide you a proper list of their works. Good luck with it, and please let us know how you pull it off, I am very curious to see your results. Matt Sherman On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Ken Varnum var...@umich.edu wrote: This has always felt like one of those easy things that's alarmingly complicated without at least one of the following A) universal faculty participation B) extensive work with the AI services relevant to your campus to mine citation lists for your current faculty C) people dedicated working with campus departments (who presumably already track this) to get the information. -- Ken Varnum | Web Systems Manager | MLibrary - University of Michigan - Ann Arbor var...@umich.edu | @varnum | http://www.lib.umich.edu/users/varnum | 734-615-3287 On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Alevtina Verbovetskaya alevtina.verbovetsk...@mail.cuny.edu wrote: Hi guys, Does your library maintain a database of faculty publications? How do you do it? Some things I've come across in my (admittedly brief) research: - RSS feeds from the major databases - RefWorks citation lists These options do not necessarily work for my university, made up of 24 colleges/institutions, 6,700+ FT faculty, and 270,000+ degree-seeking students. Does anyone have a better solution? It need not be searchable: we are just interested in pulling a periodical report of articles written by our faculty/students without relying on them self-reporting days/weeks/months/years after the fact. Thanks! Allie -- Alevtina (Allie) Verbovetskaya Web and Mobile Systems Librarian Office of Library Services City University of New York 555 W 57th St, Ste. 1325 New York, NY 10019 1-646-313-8158 alevtina.verbovetsk...@cuny.edumailto:alevtina.verbovetsk...@cuny.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] pdf2txt
Very slick, good work. I can see where this tool can be very helpful. It does have some issues with some characters, but this is rather common with most systems. On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: For a limited period of time I am making publicly available a Web-based program called PDF2TXT -- http://bit.ly/1bJRyh8 PDF2TXT extracts the text from an OCRed PDF document and then does some rudimentary distant reading against the text in the form of word clouds, readability scores, concordance features, and maps (histograms) illustrating where terms appear in a text. Here is the idea behind the application: 1. In the Libraries I see people scanning, scanning, and scanning. I suppose these people then go home and read the document. They might even print it. These documents are long. Moreover, I'll bet they have multiple documents. 2. Text mining requires digitized text, but PDF documents are frequently full of formatting. At the same time, they often have the text underneath. Our scanning software does OCR. 3. By extracting the text from PDF documents, I can facilitate a different -- additional -- type of analysis against sets of one or more documents. PDF2TXT is the first step in this process. What is really cool is that PDF2TXT works for many of the articles downloadable from the Libraries's article indexes. Search an article index. Download a full text, PDF version of the article. Feed it to PDF2TXT. Get more out of your article. PDF2TXT currently has creeping featuritis -- meaning that it is growing in weird directions. Your feedback is more than welcome. (I know. The output is ugly.) Also, please be gentle with it because it does not process things the size of the Bible. -- [cid:116F6092-2AB6-4E95-8199-25639542726A] Eric Lease Morgan Digital Initiatives Librarian University of Notre Dame Room 131, Hesburgh Libraries Notre Dame, IN 46556 o: 574-631-8604 e: emor...@nd.edumailto:emor...@nd.edu [cid:8DBE3E66-AAD0-40A0-A626-745EEEA175E5]
[CODE4LIB] Questions on Shared Digital Repositories
Hello everyone, I am working on structuring my library's institutional repository and was having a discussion as to the best way to structure it. We are using DSpace and originally I was thinking to make communities for each school in the University, but there was a concern brought up if we were to host other school's collections as well, which would make more sense to create them as sub-communities. I wanted to ask if there were libraries out there that actually this, host other schools materials in their repository as well as their own? There was also concern about being able to link into shared repository networks depending on how we structured it. Both of these seem like odd concerns to me, but I am pretty new to working with institutional repositories, I am more familiar with digital collections. So if anyone can give me insight on how to respond, how shared repositories work, or links to standards that I can show it would be much appreciated. Thanks for your time. Matt Sherman Digital Content Librarian University of Bridgeport
Re: [CODE4LIB] Collection Naming Convention Question
Thanks for the insight. I am just taking this over so I am trying to come up with ways to make the structure more user friendly. Interestingly the proceedings collection is actually one of the larger collections with proceedings and presentations our professors did from a wide variety of conferences and symposiums. I want to make it more clear but it is a matter of coming up with a term that makes sense. Hence why I was hoping for thoughts from the community. So the response is appreciated. On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Williamson, Kelsey CTR NUWC NWPT kelsey.williamson@navy.mil wrote: Hi Matt, I would wonder about the value of grouping a collection by form rather than content. Is that how everything else is grouped? Do your users actually browse by collection or do they just search for things? If your collection relies on a content type, you might look into different ways of displaying the data. You can probably identify subjects or other defining bits of metadata by which to group your objects for display. I didn't see any response on the list, it's kind of hard question to answer because it depends specifically on what your repository is for and who is using it. At the very least, conference proceedings might be more clear. But I don't think any of your users will bother accessing your collection that way unless they already know what is in there. Just my 2 cents. Good luck! Also you might try some more targeted lists for this kind of thing. These guys mostly like to argue about code. There is a metadata librarians list here: http://metadatalibrarians.monarchos.com/ R, Kelsey -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Matthew Sherman Sent: Friday, September 06, 2013 11:49 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Collection Naming Convention Question Hello Code4Libbers, I just took over responsibility for the institutional repository at my work and one of the collections is labelled proceedings. I find this to be a rather confusing term even though it is referring to conference and symposium proceedings. It is just not so obvious to someone who has not run into that item before. I was wondering if any other people have a category in their repositories for conference and symposium proceedings and what you call it. I am hoping to find a slightly more user friendly name so I wanted to see what others have done. Thanks for any thoughts you can provide. Matt Sherman Digital Content Librarian University of Bridgeport
[CODE4LIB] Collection Naming Convention Question
Hello Code4Libbers, I just took over responsibility for the institutional repository at my work and one of the collections is labelled proceedings. I find this to be a rather confusing term even though it is referring to conference and symposium proceedings. It is just not so obvious to someone who has not run into that item before. I was wondering if any other people have a category in their repositories for conference and symposium proceedings and what you call it. I am hoping to find a slightly more user friendly name so I wanted to see what others have done. Thanks for any thoughts you can provide. Matt Sherman Digital Content Librarian University of Bridgeport
[CODE4LIB] Subject Terms in Institutional Repositories
Hello Code4Libbers, I am working on cleaning up our institutional repository, and one of the big areas of improvement needed is the list of terms from the subject fields. It is messy and I want to take the subject terms and place them into a much better order. I was contemplating using Library of Congress Subject Headings, but I wanted to see what others have done in this area to see if there is another good controlled vocabulary that could work better. Any insight is welcome. Thanks for your time everyone. Matt Sherman Digital Content Librarian University of Bridgeport
Re: [CODE4LIB] Subject Terms in Institutional Repositories
Sorry, I probably should have provided a bit more depth. It is a University Institutional Repository so we have a rather varied collection of materials from engineering to education to computer science to chiropractic to dental to some student theses and posters. So I guess I need to find something at is extensible. Does that provide a better idea or should I provide more info? On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Jacob Ratliff jaratlif...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Matt, It depends on the subject area of your repository. There are dozens of controlled vocabularies that exist (not including specific Enterprise Content Management controlled vocabularies). If you can describe your collection, people might be able to advise you better. Jacob Ratliff Archivist/Taxonomy Librarian National Fire Protection Association On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.comwrote: Hello Code4Libbers, I am working on cleaning up our institutional repository, and one of the big areas of improvement needed is the list of terms from the subject fields. It is messy and I want to take the subject terms and place them into a much better order. I was contemplating using Library of Congress Subject Headings, but I wanted to see what others have done in this area to see if there is another good controlled vocabulary that could work better. Any insight is welcome. Thanks for your time everyone. Matt Sherman Digital Content Librarian University of Bridgeport
Re: [CODE4LIB] Subject Terms in Institutional Repositories
I see Ebsco uses Sears List of Subject Headings, I wonder if that would work a bit better. Not sure if anyone has tried it though. On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Jing Wang jwan...@jhu.edu wrote: That is the case with our faculty and staff here too. They don't use LCSH. Is any library maintaining/develop local taxonomy/ontology for research departments outside of library? Any tools or best practice you are willing to share? Thanks, Jing -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Michael J. Giarlo Sent: Friday, August 30, 2013 10:06 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Subject Terms in Institutional Repositories We are using LCSH in our repository, but it hasn't been very widely used because our users, largely research faculty and staff, don't think in terms of LCSH. -Mike On Aug 30, 2013 9:28 AM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Code4Libbers, I am working on cleaning up our institutional repository, and one of the big areas of improvement needed is the list of terms from the subject fields. It is messy and I want to take the subject terms and place them into a much better order. I was contemplating using Library of Congress Subject Headings, but I wanted to see what others have done in this area to see if there is another good controlled vocabulary that could work better. Any insight is welcome. Thanks for your time everyone. Matt Sherman Digital Content Librarian University of Bridgeport
[CODE4LIB] DSpace Question
Hello Code4Lib folks, I had a DSpace related question I was hoping to get an answer for. I just started my new job as the Digital Content Librarian for the University of Bridgeport and one of my main tasks in dealing with the institutional repository. This repository apparently was migrated into DSpace from another repository software. As such we want to get a number of the links in the records cleaned up so that the users can access all the information. We are using version 1.8 at the moment and I noticed in the curation tasks section there is an option to check links in metadata. I am thinking that can help me find any broken links, plus the wiki seems to indicate that as well. I wanted to know if anyone else has used this function before and can give me an idea of how it works so that I can know if it will do the job, and if I need to wait until a scheduled maintenance period in which to use it. Any other suggestions in how I can check for broken links or empty records are also welcome. Thanks for any help that can be provided. Matt Sherman
Re: [CODE4LIB] Inventory App
As a voice from the community, that sounds pretty cool. Do you know if anyone is working on an android variant? On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Jason Casden jmcas...@ncsu.edu wrote: Hi Michael, If you happen to be a Voyager user (or if you'd just like to see a nice example), check out the ShelfLister project from Michael Doran and UT Arlington: http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/shelflister/ Jason On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Michael Wright Johnson mwj1...@gmail.com wrote: I am just wondering if anyone knows of an iPad web based application that can do inventory or shelf checking? Something similar to Suma. Many thanks, Michael
Re: [CODE4LIB] Schema for Continuing (web) Resources
Off the cuff I would using a form of Dublin Core is probably going to work best, just due to the variety in the types of resources you are using. It would give you the ability to expand a bit while describing the resources. On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 5:19 AM, davesgonechina davesgonech...@gmail.comwrote: Sorry for taking a while to respond Matt, busy week. Initially the resources would be journals, databases, galleries, digital collections, language learning tools, dictionaries, statistical yearbooks, and similar online resources for China Studies. I have a Pinboard list for the sorts of things I plan to add: http://pinboard.in/u:davesgonechina/t:zongmu/ The goal is to have a curated collection of links to collections (not crawl every item, that can be a later project), with faceted search so that users can narrow down on resources of a particular format, time period, geographic region, etc. Dave On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 3:03 AM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.comwrote: Just to move your discussion along a bit, plus I think it sounds pretty interesting, what sort of resources are you talking about. Know what you are working with can give everyone a better idea on what schema's would work best. I know MARC is not so friendly for online resources, but it depends on what the item is. Just off the cuff Dublin Core is probably your best bet due it is extensiblity, but again depends what you are working with. Matt On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 10:10 AM, davesgonechina davesgonech...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to develop a curated site listing online resources for China scholars. Ideally I'd like to use a metadata schema that other libraries export as MARC, DC, or other standards they may use, and maybe also linked data-capable. Any suggestions? I'm experimenting with Drupal but my platform choice will probably be driven by my schema. Dave
Re: [CODE4LIB] Python and Ruby
Ok folks, we have veered into nonconstructive territory. How about we come back to the original question and help this person figure out what they need to about Ruby and Python so they can do well with what they want to work on. On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Ethan Gruber ewg4x...@gmail.com wrote: All languages other than assembly are boutique and must be eliminated like the cancer that they are. On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: What would you consider a boutique language? What isn't? -Ross. On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Rich Wenger rwen...@mit.edu wrote: The proliferation of boutique languages is a cancer on our community. Each one is a YAP (Yet Another Priesthood), and little else. The world does not need five slightly varying syntaxes for a substring function. If I had switched languages every time the web community recommended it, I would have rewritten a mountain of apps at least twice in the past five years. What's next, a separate language to put periods at the end of sentences? Just my $.02. That is all. Rich Wenger E-Resource Systems Manager, MIT Libraries rwen...@mit.edu 617-253-0035 -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Joshua Welker Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 9:56 AM To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Python and Ruby I am already a big user of PHP for web apps, but PHP does not make a fantastic scripting language in my experience. Josh Welker Information Technology Librarian James C. Kirkpatrick Library University of Central Missouri Warrensburg, MO 64093 JCKL 2260 660.543.8022 -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Riley Childs Sent: Tuesday, July 30, 2013 8:18 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Python and Ruby No mention of PHP? Sent from my iPhone On Jul 30, 2013, at 9:14 AM, Kurt Nordstrom doseofvitam...@gmail.com wrote: Whoohoo, late to the party! I like Python because I learned it first, and I haven't had a need to explore Ruby yet. I did briefly foray into learning Ruby in order to try to learn Rails, and I actually found that my background in Python sort of gave me brain-jam for learning Ruby, because the languages were so close together, but just different in some ways. So my mind would be 'oh, so it's just insert Python idiom here but then, it's not. If I tackle Ruby again, I will definitely try to 'empty my cup' first. -K On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 8:55 AM, Marc Chantreux m...@unistra.fr wrote: hello, Sorry comming late with it but: On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 10:43:33AM -0500, Joshua Welker wrote: Not intending to start a language flame war/holy war here, but in the library coding community, is there a particular reason to use Ruby over Python or vice-versa? Is it the only choices you have? Because I'd personnally advice none of them I tested both of them before stucking to Perl just because * it is very pleasant when it come to explore and modify datastructures and strings (which library things are). * the ecosystem is briliant: perl comes with lot of libraries and tools with a quality i haven't found in other languages. Of course, perl is not perfect and i really would like to use a modern emerging compiled language like go, rust, haskell or even something on the jvm (like clojure or the emerging perl6) but all of them miss libraries. HTH regards -- Marc Chantreux Université de Strasbourg, Direction Informatique 14 Rue René Descartes, 67084 STRASBOURG CEDEX ☎: 03.68.85.57.40 http://unistra.fr Don't believe everything you read on the Internet -- Abraham Lincoln -- http://www.blar.net/kurt/blog/
Re: [CODE4LIB] Schema for Continuing (web) Resources
Just to move your discussion along a bit, plus I think it sounds pretty interesting, what sort of resources are you talking about. Know what you are working with can give everyone a better idea on what schema's would work best. I know MARC is not so friendly for online resources, but it depends on what the item is. Just off the cuff Dublin Core is probably your best bet due it is extensiblity, but again depends what you are working with. Matt On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 10:10 AM, davesgonechina davesgonech...@gmail.com wrote: I'm trying to develop a curated site listing online resources for China scholars. Ideally I'd like to use a metadata schema that other libraries export as MARC, DC, or other standards they may use, and maybe also linked data-capable. Any suggestions? I'm experimenting with Drupal but my platform choice will probably be driven by my schema. Dave
[CODE4LIB] Libraries and IT Innovation
Hello Code4Lib folks, I was having a conversation with my father, who is an enterprise architect, a while ago when I was working on a presentation. I thought it was interesting enough that I wanted to toss out some of the ideas and see if anybody was using them in their libraries. We were discussing innovation, and he was telling me about the areas of innovation his field was looking into. He was saying how the business IT realm was seeing four main areas for innovation: mobile computing, social computing, business intelligence/analytics, and cloud computing. While these are four different areas he was noting how they all relate to making content active, having all this information do something either for the user or the institution. He provided an example of making content active through the area of big data. For those not familiar with big data Wikipedia describes it as “a collection of data sets so large and complex that it becomes difficult to process using on-hand database management tools or traditional data processing applications”. An example he mentioned of how this was useful was with Amazon.com’s search logs as they have quite a bit of information about their users and their searches. These logs and the customer information can be analyzed using big data solutions to see who was searching, what they were they searching for, the terms they used, and what worked. This information then can be taken and compared to others who have similar backgrounds or have done similar searches and provide them with suggestions for items others have found useful, as well as search results slightly more tailored to them. It also lets Amazon adjust their controlled vocabulary so all customers have better search results. All of which makes the content active. Over the course of this conversation I was thinking on how some of this could be applied to the library realm. Mobile computing is an area we as a profession are getting better at, but by no means are we there yet. I have seen some really good mobile sites for libraries, but other tools we have like CONTENTdm or DSpace are not mobile friendly. I am not trying to pick on them, they are very good toolsets, but if you have ever tried using either on a smartphone they are clunky and hard to work with. Still on the whole libraries are making progress with mobile computing. I also see the social aspect of this shining through quite well too. Many libraries have taken well to social media and have come up with some ingenious ways to utilize it to their advantage. As well the push for collaborative space in the physical building plays well into this, though I wonder if there is anything else that can be done to open up this collaborative space in the digital realm. I know many of the toolsets are providing some good social options. I was aware of some of the collaborative abilities of institutional repository software, and I just recently was introduced to Primo and really liked their shelf options and the potential for collaboration it gives. Obviously it depends on the institution, but I do wonder if there anymore things that can be done in the digital social realm to provide for the patrons. As for business intelligence and analytics I figured those do not necessarily apply in quite the same way as business IT, but there is still some cross over. Libraries and archives both take a bucket loads of statistics so there might be some interesting ways to look at those statistics that have yet to be considered? This is not an area I have much experience with but I am sure others have some interesting ideas about it. I do see ways that the big data analytics I mentioned before potentially can be useful in making the library catalog and discovery more responsive. I can see using it to examine the search terms that the patrons use to search, what they are trying to find, what worked, and what did not work to improve our thesauri so that relevant items can appear on even sub-par searches. It could also potentially be used if the system has a login to suggest materials to the user that could be relevant given their past searches. These might be a terrible ideas but I would be curious to see if big data analytics might be able to improve discovery. As for cloud computing I am rather unsure of how that can be applied to the libraries. Possibly it can be used as part of the collaborative space? Possibly it can be utilized for file redundancy in digital archives to help with preservation of born digital records? I simply am not sure but it is an area of IT innovation so it would be neat to hear people’s ideas. For those who made it this far then thank you for reading through my rambling. I know it was a long posting, but I thought it was an interesting conversation that I wanted to share it because a lot of ideas on innovation from the business IT world libraries can pick up and run with in their own unique way. I am sure some of this has been
Re: [CODE4LIB] EAD vs. HTML for finding aids
Rachel, EAD is just a metadata schema, which can be made to be read via html web pages though xslt, or some scripting that pulls out the relevant field data and makes it displayed nicer, usually in an HTML wrapper. So I guess it would be helpful if you could elaborate on your question a bit more so we can give you some useful feedback. Matt Sherman On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Rachel Shaevel rshae...@chipublib.orgwrote: Hello friendly Borg, Does anyone have anything thoughts about using EAD for finding aids vs. HTML? Or are both going the way of the dinosaurs? Thanks! Rachel Rachel Shaevel Electronic Resources Cataloger Technical Services/Catalog Department Chicago Public Library Harold Washington Library Center 400 S. State St. Chicago, IL 60605 P: (312) 747-4660 rshae...@chipublib.orgmailto:rshae...@chipublib.org
Re: [CODE4LIB] Displaying archival books on ipad and android tablets
I have no experience with this in particular but thinking on it I would think the way to make the size more user friendly would be to make 300 dpi display jpegs, possibly greyscale if without images, and stitch those together into a pdf. I imagine that would be decent sized off. Now if you wanted ocr that won't help but it should make the pdf much smaller. Matt Sherman On Feb 22, 2013 7:47 PM, Wilhelmina Randtke rand...@gmail.com wrote: I had this problem last year. I did PDF. There are about no studies on PDF size and usability. What I did is go to gray scale for text pages to knock down file size, played with optimizing, and broke super long (think 3K page book) files in smaller chunks. It does not make for a pleasant browsing experience, but files load in a timely manner even on a poor connection, and files are not large enough to be cumbersome. I also had absolutely no IT infrastructure where I was at, so prepared and prepped PDFs in static file storage were my only option. If you have a CMS that will deliver pages, like maybe current page and preload next 5, or something like that, then you have many more options for a good user experience. When I looked at other big long books online, I found they tended to use 300 dpi gray scale or 600 dpi black and white. I just looked at government documents, because that's what I worked with. -Wilhelmina Randtke On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 6:50 PM, Kyle Banerjee kyle.baner...@gmail.com wrote: We have a few digitized books, (some of them are old -- we're talking 500 years). Sizes are all over the place but the big ones are easily the size of a large briefcase. We want to make these works more accessible/usable and there's some demand to make them available for tablets. What experience do people have with stuff like that, and what software/services/methods do you recommend? Source files are 600 dpi uncompressed tiffs so they're pretty big and there's nothing special about a book being over 10GB in size. Thanks, kyle
Re: [CODE4LIB] Question on CONTENTdm and Linked Data
Thanks, both of those give me a much better idea. I know I had used CONTENTdm data with a Google map almost 2 years ago for a class project but that involved extracting the data from the admin end into an excel table, so these show marked improvement. On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 9:27 PM, Chad Nelson chadbnel...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Matt, The largest hurdle you would face with linked data and ContentDM are the inconsistently persistent URLs (to say nothing of the application specific jankyness in the url). When an item is added to a collection in ContentDM, it is assigned an ID which is used in the URL, ie http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/ajc/id/805/ . However, if at a later point, you make a change to that item, say updating the OCR text, the item is given a new ID, and thus is accessed at a new URL. However, the old URL does not redirect to the new one, it just dead ends, ironically at an error page with a 200 HTTP request status header! Wreaks havoc on search engines or any other system that relies on persistent URLs, as a Linked data system *may* want to do. :( That said, ContentDM 6 does have an API through which you can get data about any record. It's a little inconsistent, and the docs aren't amazing, but you can get most everything out of it that you'd want. So, if you had coordinates where and image was taken stored in a metadata field, you could use the API to get them and push that onto a Google map. So if you have a collection that is static, you probably don't have to worry about the URL borking feature they have included. More about the ContentDM API: http://www.contentdm.org/help6/custom/customize2f.asp Hope that helps and good luck. Chad On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.comwrote: Hello Code4Lib, I was wondering if anyone has had success in using digital data or resources that are stored in CONTENTdm in any linked data projects. I have tried utilizing CONTENTdm data for a small Google Map in the past and found it quite difficult to use. At the same time I have not used CONTENTdm in over a year so I do not know if they have made it easier to exact and utilize information from the system. I am working on an interview presentation and one of the parts I am trying to tackle involves working a set of data into a user friendly system related to a specific topic, possibly using a map. I know these folks have CONTENTdm currently so I was wondering if I would be able to present a way to work with the existing system or if I should be saying that to make this project work they need to put it into a different CMS. Any insight folks have had working with linked data in CONTENTdm would be quite welcome. Thanks. Matt Sherman
Re: [CODE4LIB] Getting started with Ruby and library-ish data (was RE: [CODE4LIB] You *are* a coder. So what am I?)
Getting back to the original point so noting some nice starting tools, I find http://www.codecademy.com to be a decent starting spot for those of us without much computer science background. I am not sure what professional developers think of the site but I find it a helpful to tutorial to start getting a basic understanding of scripting, Ruby, JavaScript, Python, JQuery, APIs, ect. Hope that helps. Matt Sherman On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 7:52 AM, Jason Stirnaman jstirna...@kumc.eduwrote: This is a terribly distorted view of Ruby: If you want to make web pages, learn Ruby, and you don't need to learn Rails to get the benefit of Ruby's awesomeness. But, everyone will have their own opinions. There's no accounting for taste. For anyone interested in learning to program and hack around with library data or linked data, here are some places to start (heavily biased toward the elegance of Ruby): http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Working_with_MaRC https://delicious.com/jstirnaman/ruby+books https://delicious.com/jstirnaman/ruby+tutorials http://rdf.rubyforge.org/ Jason Jason Stirnaman Digital Projects Librarian A.R. Dykes Library University of Kansas Medical Center 913-588-7319 From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Joe Hourcle [onei...@grace.nascom.nasa.gov] Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2013 12:52 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] You *are* a coder. So what am I? On Feb 17, 2013, at 11:43 AM, John Fereira wrote: I have been writing software professionally since around 1980 and first encounterd perl in the early 1990s of so and have *always* disliked it. Last year I had to work on a project that was mostly developed in perl and it reminded me how much I disliked it. As a utility language, and one that I think is good for beginning programmers (especially for those working in a library) I'd recommend PHP over perl every time. I'll agree that there are a few aspects of Perl that can be confusing, as some functions will change behavior depending on context, and there was a lot of bad code examples out there.* ... but I'd recommend almost any current mainstream language before recommending that someone learn PHP. If you're looking to make web pages, learn Ruby. If you're doing data cleanup, Perl if it's lots of text, Python if it's mostly numbers. I should also mention that in the early 1990s would have been Perl 4 ... and unfortunately, most people who learned Perl never learned Perl 5. It's changed a lot over the years. (just like PHP isn't nearly as insecure as it used to be ... and actually supports placeholders so you don't end up with SQL injections) -Joe
Re: [CODE4LIB] editing code4lib livestream - preferred format
Not to be snarky, but wouldn't the session on HTML5 video tell you what you need to know? On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Tara Robertson trobert...@langara.bc.cawrote: Hi, I'm editing the video from code4lib into the sesison chunks. What format should I export the videos as? Anything else I should be aware of? Thanks, Tara -- Tara Robertson Accessibility Librarian, CILS http://www2.langara.bc.ca/**cils/http://www2.langara.bc.ca/cils/ T 604.323.5254 F 604.323.5954 trobert...@langara.bc.ca mailto:Tara%20Robertson%20%** 3ctrobert...@langara.bc.catara%2520robertson%2520%253ctrobert...@langara.bc.ca %3E Langara. http://www.langara.bc.ca 100 West 49th Avenue, Vancouver, BC, V5Y 2Z6
Re: [CODE4LIB] editing code4lib livestream - preferred format
What has been done regarding save the livestream from past events? On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Jason Ronallo jrona...@gmail.com wrote: Let me correct myself. It is possible to embed a video on the code4lib site. You can see an example here: http://code4lib.org/conference/2013/ronallo When editing the page the input format (in a dropdown section of the page) needs to be changed to Full HTML. The video is pulled from IA, which with a quick look seems to favor MP4 and OGV. These two codecs would also cover all modern browsers. (I just have come to prefer WebM.) Jason On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 2:56 PM, Jason Ronallo jrona...@gmail.com wrote: But I did a quick test and was not allowed to embed a video into the page here: http://code4lib.org/conference/2013/ronallo The video tag is there in the markup that can be edited but that markup appears to be stripped out when displayed to the user. Anyone know if that is something that could be fixed or worked around?
Re: [CODE4LIB] Thoughts on Digital Library Trends
Thanks everyone, this helps. I will certainly take more input anyone else has for the next few weeks if anyone else has thoughts add, problems they see one the horizon. I know I am curious how we in the digital library corner can deal with mobile devices but I have not seen much talking about that problem. Still, thanks again for the input. On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Michael J. Giarlo leftw...@alumni.rutgers.edu wrote: All, The link I shared is now accessible for anyone to view. Since I have never made a mistake, I blame Google for this. -Mike On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Michael J. Giarlo leftw...@alumni.rutgers.edu wrote: Hi Matt, I gave a related talk in late 2009 -- with an emphasis on the repository/digital content side of the house -- and many of the slides are still relevant. Use as much or as little is helpful to you. (FWIW, I was hired for the position.) https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/15mhwNfm-Ixv43uM5-68fAPIrxzy_BAPLWaVsLK6yp5w/present#slide=id.i0 Good luck with the interview! Look forward to seeing you in the trenches. -Mike On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all Code4Lib folk, I am putting together a small presentation with the topic about trends and issues in digital libraries for an interview next month. While I am doing quite a bit of searching and reading on my own, I wanted to see if any of you would be willing to provide your thoughts on what you see as emerging trends and issues in digital library, particularly as they deal with our ability to serve our users. I think it would be helpful to have insight from those currently in the trenches. Also this topic could be of interest to others in the listserv. Any thoughts are welcome and appreciated. Matt Sherman
[CODE4LIB] Thoughts on Digital Library Trends
Hello all Code4Lib folk, I am putting together a small presentation with the topic about trends and issues in digital libraries for an interview next month. While I am doing quite a bit of searching and reading on my own, I wanted to see if any of you would be willing to provide your thoughts on what you see as emerging trends and issues in digital library, particularly as they deal with our ability to serve our users. I think it would be helpful to have insight from those currently in the trenches. Also this topic could be of interest to others in the listserv. Any thoughts are welcome and appreciated. Matt Sherman
Re: [CODE4LIB] Archival Software
I think you need to provide a little more context as to what you are trying to do. The trouble is that the term archive is used in a variety of different ways right now so we need to know what you mean to be able to give you the best suggestions. On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Joselito Dela Cruz jdelac...@hodges.eduwrote: Any suggestions for inexpensive easy to use archival software? Thanks, Jay Dela Cruz, MLIS Electronic Resources Librarian Hodges University | 2655 Northbrooke Drive, Naples, FL 34119-7932 (239) 598-6211 | (800) 466-8017 x 6211 | f. (239) 598-6250 jdelac...@hodges.edu | www.hodges.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] It's all job postings!
Well Ruby was written for zombies ( http://railsforzombies.com/ ). Still, for one who has been on the job search for months it is nice to have so many options, though such a wall of postings takes a while to work through. It is very helpful for us young bucks to have both the content solutions and the job postings so we can learn from you established folks and try to get our own full-time work. On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 9:07 AM, Jay Luker lb...@reallywow.com wrote: For those who dislike the current ratio of job postings to regular content the solution seems clear: start posting more flamewar inducing questions. It's quite easy. Allow me to demonstrate. Ruby on Rails? Blech, no thanks! --jay On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 10:01 AM, Kaile Zhu kz...@uco.edu wrote: How about this? Please only post the jobs that require programming skills or experience due to the nature of this list. Think before you post. For me, it doesn't bother me at all. If you don't like it, it just takes a click to delete it. You will not see the hiring phenomenon stays on peak all the time. Kelly -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Chen, Janey Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2012 8:49 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] It's all job postings! I am with you on this! Actually, it is encouraging to see that there are many job openings in this field. And the job descriptions give people a sense of what skills the employers are looking for. Janey -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Wilhelm Sent: August 2, 2012 9:31 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] It's all job postings! Too many job postings? I think there are fields where people would kill to have this problem. :-) --Mark On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 9:16 AM, Ed Summers e...@pobox.com wrote: Honestly, I'm surprised this hasn't come up sooner :-) In the interests of science I've created a little poll to indicate whether you think the job postings should be sent to the code4lib mailing list or not: http://bit.ly/code4lib-jobs-emails If you care either way just click yes or no and I'll report the results. But if you can't wait I made the spreadsheet public: http://bit.ly/code4lib-jobs-email-spreadsheet //Ed PS. Just fyi, shortimer will *not* re-post jobs to the discussion list if the posting was discovered there. Typically the job postings that shortimer posts to code4lib have been pulled from a source other than the mailing list, which met some curatorial criteria as being relevant for the code4lib community. If you care about influencing this criteria I encourage you to help curate [1] the jobs. [1] http://jobs.code4lib.org/curate/ -- Mark Wilhelm E-Mail: markc...@gmail.com Twitter: @markcwil Facebook: facebook.com/markcwil Read the Information Science News Blog at: http://infoscinews.blogspot.com/ **Bronze+Blue=Green** The University of Central Oklahoma is Bronze, Blue, and Green! Please print this e-mail only if absolutely necessary! **CONFIDENTIALITY** This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information. Any unauthorized disclosure or use of this information is prohibited.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Job: Digital Projects and Technology Librarian at Yale University
So even though it says closed to further applications one is actually able to submit? On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 5:27 AM, Friscia, Michael michael.fris...@yale.eduwrote: I just asked, our internal locks are only for the first 7 days during which the jobs won't even appear in the system unless you work for Yale. ___ Michael Friscia Manager, Digital Library Programming Services Yale University Library (203) 432-1856 On 7/19/12 11:47 PM, Simon Spero sesunc...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe it's just closed to internal applicants- some sort of Yale lock? On Jul 19, 2012 11:25 PM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com wrote: There is a slight problem here. The posting says it is *closed to further applications*. Can someone from Yale explain/look into that? I would very much like to apply. On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Simon Spero sesunc...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 6:35 PM, j...@code4lib.org wrote: * May be required to assist with disaster recovery efforts. PREFERRED EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS * Advanced degree in theology or a related field. Rise, take up they bed, and walk
Re: [CODE4LIB] Job: Digital Projects and Technology Librarian at Yale University
After calling up library HR, it appears external applicants a able to apply, but they were so flooded the week prior before most people even knew it existed that anyone who applies now is put in a pool for second round consideration if the initial ones do not work out. On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Ranti Junus ranti.ju...@gmail.com wrote: If I understand it correctly, internal locks usually means they're allowing other employees (usually from either within the same department or a different one within the same institution) to get a chance to apply first. ranti. On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 8:46 AM, Friscia, Michael michael.fris...@yale.edu wrote: No, it is not possible to submit when the job is closed. I'm trying to get clarification if closing it was intentional. Sorry for the confusion. I should add that I don't have anything to do with the job except my department is named in the description as a collaborating partner. ___ Michael Friscia Manager, Digital Library Programming Services Yale University Library (203) 432-1856 -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Matthew Sherman Sent: Friday, July 20, 2012 8:36 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Job: Digital Projects and Technology Librarian at Yale University So even though it says closed to further applications one is actually able to submit? On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 5:27 AM, Friscia, Michael michael.fris...@yale.eduwrote: I just asked, our internal locks are only for the first 7 days during which the jobs won't even appear in the system unless you work for Yale. ___ Michael Friscia Manager, Digital Library Programming Services Yale University Library (203) 432-1856 On 7/19/12 11:47 PM, Simon Spero sesunc...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe it's just closed to internal applicants- some sort of Yale lock? On Jul 19, 2012 11:25 PM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com wrote: There is a slight problem here. The posting says it is *closed to further applications*. Can someone from Yale explain/look into that? I would very much like to apply. On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Simon Spero sesunc...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 6:35 PM, j...@code4lib.org wrote: * May be required to assist with disaster recovery efforts. PREFERRED EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS * Advanced degree in theology or a related field. Rise, take up they bed, and walk -- Bulk mail. Postage paid.
Re: [CODE4LIB] old stuff
Sadly that often is the problem in the archival setting, though it ends up being kind of a crap shoot.. In my experience as an intern at a university archive we often ran accross floppies that I would hand off to a fulltime archivist who had a backlog that would eventually require hunting down a pc that could run them. As such it is not uncommon to seeing seeing completely unreadable media in a collection due to the potential information they may have stored, that same archive had a archival box or two of recording wire. If the donor can give you an idea of what is on the media it might get kept even though you don't have the tech to run it simply because the information is valuable enough that one day you might potentially be able to retrieve it. At the same time I remember tossing some tapes because we could not play them and it was figured the information probably was not archival. So as with processing papers it tends to be a gut descision heavily informed by practices of the field. Matt Sherman On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Al Matthews amatth...@auctr.edu wrote: That seems to me an excellent answer, especially since my question was too broadly set. Thank you. I think what still bothers me is that it requires a trip to ebay, or a vm or two, and some maybe not-quite-trivial forensics generally, to establish whether there is worthwhile data on a disk (or magnetic reel, whatever) for starters. Archives are already in perpetual backlog, and based on some past work I'd say only a leading subset of these have sufficiently technical staff. I'm surprised that hardware-sharing hasn't emerged as an initiative (assuming it already takes place as a service). Thank you, -- Al Matthews, Software Dev, Atlanta University Center -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of David Uspal Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 5:53 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] old stuff Al, I'm not an archivist by trade, but I had some thoughts on the subject, (and the person who sits behind me is, so I bounced my ideas off her to make sure I'm not talking inanities). Anyway, here goes: I think when people look into archiving/storing digital media, they look at it as one question -- is it worthwhile to save/catalog/store this item? To me though, there are really two completely separate questions being asked here: 1.) Is the data on the disk unique or special in a way that makes the data itself (i.e the ones and zeros) valuable. 2.) Is the physical object itself unique or special in any way (including it being a unique copy, marginalia, notable owner, etc) that makes the physical object valuable or makes the item an object d'arte. 2a.) As part of two, if the object itself is not unique or special, is it part of a larger collection or set that is unique or special (a complete collection of first print Sierra games, a disk used in a Cray that was used in some big scientific discovery, etc) Answering yes to one of these will probably incur a completely difference response than if yes was answered to the other. Some generic examples: 1.) I have a 5 1/4 with some of my old high school papers on them. In terms of data value, because it's the only copy of these items, the value of the data is high. Since the disks are generic floppies without significant markings, I'd value the worth of the physical object as low. Therein, best bet would be to transfer the data off using an old 5 1/4 drive and put the data into a more long-term archivable solution (cloud storage, steady state drive, etc). You can see how this example can be used on university or corporate archival materials -- the physical object has much less worth than the data contained therein. 2.) I have a first edition copy of Zork I on 5 1/4 disk (may even have box/instructions/box fluff). Here, the data on the disk is of low value -- there are copies of Zork I all over the internet and I essentially download a copy to my hard drive for free (or even play on my browser if I so choose). On the other hand, its an original copy of Zork I with box/fluff, so the value lies not in the data but the physical object itself. In this example, I would store the disk as per best practices (good tips found here: http://dlis.dos.state.fl.us/archives/preservation/magnetic/index.cfm). 3.) I have a copy of a Final Fantasy cartridge for the original Nintendo. Again, you can get the data pretty readily for a large pool of resources, so the data itself is of little value. Final Fantasy carts are pretty common too, so the value of the object itself is pretty low. On the otherhand, the cart is part of a complete collection of Nintendo cartridges and licensed merchandise, so the value in this object now lies in the fact that it exists within a collection, and has value due to that collection.
Re: [CODE4LIB] What time of year do you look for jobs?
Post graduation is always good for us up and comers. On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Tania Fersenheim tan...@brandeis.eduwrote: I am trying to find out if there is a time of year that techie librarians are more likely to look for new jobs. When do your thoughts turn to greener pastures? Fall? Spring? Right after a difficult support call? Tania -- Tania Fersenheim Manager of Library Systems Brandeis University Library and Technology Services 415 South Street, (MS 017/P.O. Box 549110) Waltham, MA 02454-9110 Phone: 781.736.4698 Fax: 781.736.4577 email: tan...@brandeis.edu
