Re: [CODE4LIB] Definitional Question

[McAulay, Elizabeth]

Bryan's answer is very well thought out and jibes with my understanding of this 
topic, too. 


From: Code for Libraries  on behalf of Bryan Brown 

Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2015 11:49 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Definitional Question

Hi Matt,

I work in the Technology & Digital Scholarship department of Florida State
University Libraries, and I spent my first few months trying to come up
answers to those exact questions. Here's what I came up with:

Digital humanities is the act of doing humanities scholarship using
research methods enabled by new technology. The archetypical digital
humanities project in my mind is text mining. If you are coming up with
humanities "data" and using data analysis tools on it, you are probably
doing DH work (IMHO).

Digital scholarship is the idea of DH, but extended outside of DH to all
scholarship. How does new technology affect scholarship in psychology?
biochemistry? law? A big problem that I see with "digital scholarship" is
that I have yet to hear anyone outside of libraries or DH communities use
it. The humanities havent always been so digital, so the term "Digital
Humanities" is a semi-useful term to differentiate this specific form of
research from more "traditional" methods. The "digital" prefix has less
utility outside of humanities; science has always been pretty digital out
of necessity and other fields have adopted digital methods as they go. I've
heard librarians use the term e-science sometimes, and it reminds me of the
term "e-business" back in the 90's but now almost all business is
e-business so the term no longer makes much sense. Most scholarship these
days is digital, which makes defining digital scholarship as something
special a bit difficult.

In our department we use digital scholarship to refer to parts of the
scholarship process that are more technology-oriented where faculty might
not be aware of general best practices. Data management, research metadata,
altmetrics, web publishing and licensing are some areas that we try to
focus on supporting faculty. We aren't a huge department and we're learning
as we go, so discussing what digital scholarship means and how we can
provide value to faculty members is a big point of discussion (although I'm
sure we all have our own definitions and ideas).

Just one person's opinion, I hope that doesn't confuse things further.
-Bryan Brown

On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 2:13 PM, Natalie Meyers 
wrote:

> this title may be of interest :
> Defining Digital Humanities A Reader Edited by Melissa Terras, Julianne
> Nyhan and Edward Vanhoutte December 2013  978-1-4094-6963-6 $44.95
>
> On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Matt Sherman 
> wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > This is a bit more philosophical question which might only apply to a few
> > people but I am trying to work out some definitions for my own
> > edification.  So for those in the digital scholarship and digital
> > humanities subset I would be interested in getting some thoughts on these
> > three questions:
> >
> > 1) How would you define digital scholarship?
> >
> > 2) How would you define digital humanities?
> >
> > 3) Are they the same thing and why or why not?
> >
> > Any thoughts are appreciated as I am trying to think through this myself.
> >
> > Matt Sherman
> >
>
>
>
> --
> *Natalie K. Meyers*
>
> *E-Research & VecNet Digital Librarian*
>
> *Hesburgh Libraries*
>
> *University of Notre Dame*
> 1136A Hesburgh Library
> Notre Dame, IN 46556
> *o:* 574-631-1546
> *f:* 574-631-6772
> *e: *natalie.mey...@nd.edu
>
> 
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Definitional Question

[McAulay, Elizabeth]

We've been thinking about using the term "Digital Scholarship" in the library, 
and I think if we did it would be a way of saying that we appeal to / offer 
services to disciplines that are not just the humanities. 

That said, digital scholarship is a pretty vague phrase, and I think digital 
humanities has come to mean something specific. 

Best,
Lisa

-
Elizabeth "Lisa" McAulay
Interim Head
UCLA Digital Library Program
email: emcaulay [at] library.ucla.edu
phone: 310-825-7657
url: http://digital.library.ucla.edu/



From: Code for Libraries  on behalf of Natalie Meyers 

Sent: Thursday, July 02, 2015 11:13 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Definitional Question

this title may be of interest :
Defining Digital Humanities A Reader Edited by Melissa Terras, Julianne
Nyhan and Edward Vanhoutte December 2013  978-1-4094-6963-6 $44.95

On Thu, Jul 2, 2015 at 1:58 PM, Matt Sherman 
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> This is a bit more philosophical question which might only apply to a few
> people but I am trying to work out some definitions for my own
> edification.  So for those in the digital scholarship and digital
> humanities subset I would be interested in getting some thoughts on these
> three questions:
>
> 1) How would you define digital scholarship?
>
> 2) How would you define digital humanities?
>
> 3) Are they the same thing and why or why not?
>
> Any thoughts are appreciated as I am trying to think through this myself.
>
> Matt Sherman
>



--
*Natalie K. Meyers*

*E-Research & VecNet Digital Librarian*

*Hesburgh Libraries*

*University of Notre Dame*
1136A Hesburgh Library
Notre Dame, IN 46556
*o:* 574-631-1546
*f:* 574-631-6772
*e: *natalie.mey...@nd.edu

Re: [CODE4LIB] Managing internal documentation

[McAulay, Elizabeth]

A late, but very enthusiastic "hurrah" on this topic. As a project manager at 
UCLA, I couldn't live without Confluence and Jira. I love them -- they are an 
essential component of communication and also help contribute to transparency 
across library departments. 

> On Apr 9, 2015, at 12:50 PM, "Gary Thompson"  wrote:
> 
> The Digital Initiatives and IT (DIIT) department at the UCLA Library 
> transformed the way we work over the last 6 years after implementing 
> Confluence.  We've got two teams of developers (3 focused on the Digital 
> Library, 6 on everything else), a team of 4 Digital Library project managers, 
> and an operations staff of 18,; we all rely on the wiki. It has proved 
> essential after a couple of recent staff departures.
> 
> Confluence supports the basic wiki model of linked and tagged documents, but 
> allows people who like to hierarchy to organize content in a tree. We make 
> heavy use of the /metadata-list/ macro to format the structure, and generate 
> views or lists of content (e.g., lists of serves, vendors, projects, etc) 
> controlled by labels (i.e., tags) using the /metadata-report/ macro. We use 
> tagging to indicate project status (definition, planning, execution), type of 
> content (server-logs, specifications), or technology (voyager, drupal).
> 
> We're running our own service; Atlassian on-demand was not an option when we 
> started. If we weren't using local LDAP authentication, we might consider 
> migrating to a hosted service. I suspect that we will eventually move to 
> hosted Confluence, but it's not currently a priority.
> 
> The wiki became so integral to the way we work that we decided to replace our 
> old ticketing system (FootPrints) with Jira to take advantage of the 
> integration.
> 
> Our DIIT implementation was so successful that other Library departments and 
> locations are starting to use it, some in very sophisticated ways. For 
> example, a cross-department digitization team uses it to accept requests, 
> prioritize the work, and track progress.
> 
> I would be happy to show anyone who is interested how we use it. A colleague 
> and I considered writing a Code4Lib Journal article on our project management 
> methodology, but that article didn't get focus. This question -- and my 
> answer -- may motivate me to get it done.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> /-- -- Gary Thompson
> -- Head of Software Development & Project Management
> -- Digital Initiatives & Information Technology
> -- UCLA Library
> -- 390 Powell
> -- voice: 310.206.5652
> --/
> 
> 
> 
>> On 4/9/2015 11:40 AM, Scott Williams wrote:
>> Apologizes for cross-posting
>> ###
>> 
>> Hi all --
>> 
>> We are investigating several software platforms for creating and managing
>> internal documentation and wanted to see what experiences others have had
>> with these packages.
>> 
>> We are evaluating
>> * MadCap Flare
>> * Adobe RoboHelp
>> * Confluence
>> 
>> Our initial goals for these systems are to replace or augment our existing
>> documentation strategy, which is a mix of private Google sites, SharePoint
>> and Word docs. We are starting with our IT department but hope to include
>> other user groups over time.
>> 
>> Things we like:
>> * SVN control with MapCap and RoboHelp. However, we have run into problems
>> with both of their implementations
>> * Write once publish everywhere functionality
>> * HTML5 support with WebHelp Plus
>> * Context aware searching
>> * Easily export and share documentation externally (PDF)
>> * Consistent theming and styling across all the documentation
>> * User/group security management for hiding more sysadmin documentation
>> 
>> Things we don't like
>> * Windows only (MadCap and RoboHelp)
>> * WebHelp requires IIS (?)
>> * Limited functionality with the hosted version of Confluence
>> 
>> 
>> What are people using to manage their internal
>> systems/architecture/application documentation? Are there other products we
>> should be considering?
>> 
>> Many thanks,
>> Scott
>> 
>> 
>> Scott Williams
>> Data & Database Administrator
>> Yale University Art Gallery

Re: [CODE4LIB] Protagonists

[McAulay, Elizabeth]

Cool set of questions! Here's a funny "cheat" -- what about querying Amazon or 
the like for a list of "Cliff's Notes" and call the subjects of the Cliff's 
Notes "the Canon"? That could serve as a the canon list. Another idea would be 
to consult a reference work, but I can't think of a good source offhand. One 
example that's not perfect is the "Dictionary of Literary Biography." The Canon 
is created by what is included in the reference work. 

As for finding lead character names, that's something I don't have an immediate 
answer for. 

Good luck!

Best,
Lisa

-
Elizabeth "Lisa" McAulay
Librarian for Digital Collection Development
UCLA Digital Library Program
http://digital.library.ucla.edu/
email: emcaulay [at] library.ucla.edu


From: Code for Libraries  on behalf of davesgonechina 

Sent: Monday, April 13, 2015 7:12 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Protagonists

So I have this idea I'd like to do for a hobby project, but it requires
finding a table that lists a classic novel, a Gutenberg.org link to an
instance of that work (first listed, one with most downloads, whichever),
the lead female character, and the lead male character (can be null). E.g.
Pride and Prejudice, http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42671, Elizabeth
Bennet, Mr. Darcy. Even leaving the Gutenberg part for another day, this
has been really difficult to find.

I've had no success with Dbpedia/Wikidata since there's no real
standardized format for novels, characters often are associated more
strongly with films or video games than original works (Cheshire Cat), and
when characters are listed they are neither prioritized nor link to a
record that clearly states gender. And then there's how to select some sort
of "Western Canon" list. ISBNs are nowhere to be found, nor any other
identifier that might help to corral a fair chunk of results.

I looked at OCLC, but WorldCat Works is still an experiment and frankly
looks like too much work to query for too little return even if it had good
coverage. Amazon? Librarything? Goodreads? No luck yet.

I raise this partly because a) I would like to make some toys with that
list, and b) I feel this is a good test case for "what developers might
want" from library data, linked or otherwise. It is the sort of request
that includes many unspoken assumptions (that there is a canon, and it is
well-defined) that app users, product managers, and developers typically
want even if it is woefully incomplete or imperfect, so long as it matches
expectations. While I appreciate what it takes to make such a list, I feel
like this really ought to be a solved problem in the library space. Not "in
the process of being solved, hopefully, by new emerging standards" solved,
but like "we solved this ages ago, here ya go" solved.

I'm posting this basically in the hopes that someone will say "No, doofus,
there's an easy way to do this, you just aren't very good at this - look:"
and show me where I'm wrong.

D

Re: [CODE4LIB] 2nd meetup for code4lib LA - May 15th

[McAulay, Elizabeth]

Yeah, totally agreed. I have a terrible habit of reading my email from the most 
recent to least recent, so I see that we're expecting to have convergence and 
specialization.

Best,
Lisa


From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Collier, Aaron 
[acoll...@calstate.edu]
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 10:33 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] 2nd meetup for code4lib LA - May 15th

I would hate to exclude anyone willing to travel to either the LA or NorCal 
meetings (from within CA or outside). The more the merrier, right?

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of 
McAulay, Elizabeth
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 10:30 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] 2nd meetup for code4lib LA - May 15th

ROAD TRIP Beware the UC Ride Share Vanpool Van!!!

On Mar 28, 2014, at 10:27 AM, "Tom Cramer"  wrote:

> You'd be welcome! We all know how much you love to drive. : )
>
> - Tom
>
>
> On Mar 28, 2014, at 10:22 AM, McAulay, Elizabeth wrote:
>
>> Great idea! Dare I threaten the inclusion of SoCalers?
>>
>> On Mar 28, 2014, at 9:57 AM, "Tom Cramer"  wrote:
>>
>>> I threw in "Junior University" as a sop for our UC friends--it's one of my 
>>> favorite Stanford put downs.
>>>
>>> But seriously, we recently had digital librarians from Cal and UC Santa 
>>> Barbara here for a two day session focused on GIS, Blacklight and Hydra, 
>>> and it was enormously productive. (We met at Stanford because it was 
>>> "halfway" between Santa Barbara and Berkeley -- ahem!) It made me think we 
>>> should be doing this more regularly, especially as many of us seem to be 
>>> converging on common tools and methods, more so than in recent years. 
>>> Perhaps a regional C4L is the way to structure an ongoing, 
>>> interinstitutional exchange.
>>>
>>> We'd be up to help plan, and even host, an event if others in NorCal are 
>>> also interested. And OCLC does have rather nice offices, just 30 min north 
>>> of us, so we could also meet there and see Roy's corporate jet up close 
>>> (though I'm sad to hear it seems to be in the shop).
>>>
>>> - Tom
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mar 28, 2014, at 9:42 AM, Roy Tennant wrote:
>>>
>>>> You mean from that...uh...farm? As a Cal Alumni I am actually
>>>> legally obligated not to mention the word "Stanford". So sorry, nothing 
>>>> personal.
>>>> ;-)
>>>>
>>>> All kidding aside, MY BAD. You just have so much talent gathered in
>>>> one spot the light is blinding. I can't even look your direction.
>>>> :-) Roy
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Tom Cramer  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Roy,
>>>>>
>>>>> As a local Northern Californian, I like this idea.
>>>>>
>>>>>> For example, we have CDL in Oakland, several nearby UCs, CSUs,
>>>>>> large
>>>>> publics,
>>>>>> and community colleges to draw from.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> We might even get some people from a private (Leland Stanford)
>>>>> Junior University to come to a local event :)
>>>>>
>>>>> - Tom
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Mar 28, 2014, at 9:17 AM, Roy Tennant wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I am definitely interested in a Northern California regional
>>>>>> Code4Lib group, but my ability to jet down to LA for a two-hour
>>>>>> meeting is regrettably limited. Likewise my ability to jet up to
>>>>>> Seattle or
>>>>> Portland,
>>>>>> unfortunately. Perhaps a better strategy might be to focus on a local?
>>>>> For
>>>>>> example, we have CDL in Oakland, several nearby UCs, CSUs, large
>>>>>> publics, and community colleges to draw from. We should be able
>>>>>> to put together a decent showing on our own, I would imagine.
>>>>>> Roy
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Collier, Aaron
>>>>>> >>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Josh - it was great to see you again this year!
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We've got a lot 

Re: [CODE4LIB] 2nd meetup for code4lib LA - May 15th

[McAulay, Elizabeth]

It is the one you bought from Alaska Airlines and Airburshed your face on the 
tail of, I hope.


From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Roy Tennant 
[roytenn...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 10:39 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] 2nd meetup for code4lib LA - May 15th

Tom,
Sure thing, we can probably accommodate a gathering. There is a small
auditorium in our building we could commandeer and we have a number of
conference rooms of different sizes for breakouts if we needed them. Only
minutes away from Stanford, a bit farther for others, but all told not a
bad location. Plus, if someone wants to fly in we are only 10 minutes away
from SFO.

Also, I'll do my best to get my jet out of the shop by the time of a
planned gathering.
Roy


On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Tom Cramer  wrote:

> I threw in "Junior University" as a sop for our UC friends--it's one of my
> favorite Stanford put downs.
>
> But seriously, we recently had digital librarians from Cal and UC Santa
> Barbara here for a two day session focused on GIS, Blacklight and Hydra,
> and it was enormously productive. (We met at Stanford because it was
> "halfway" between Santa Barbara and Berkeley -- ahem!) It made me think we
> should be doing this more regularly, especially as many of us seem to be
> converging on common tools and methods, more so than in recent years.
> Perhaps a regional C4L is the way to structure an ongoing,
> interinstitutional exchange.
>
> We'd be up to help plan, and even host, an event if others in NorCal are
> also interested. And OCLC does have rather nice offices, just 30 min north
> of us, so we could also meet there and see Roy's corporate jet up close
> (though I'm sad to hear it seems to be in the shop).
>
> - Tom
>
>
> On Mar 28, 2014, at 9:42 AM, Roy Tennant wrote:
>
> > You mean from that...uh...farm? As a Cal Alumni I am actually legally
> > obligated not to mention the word "Stanford". So sorry, nothing personal.
> > ;-)
> >
> > All kidding aside, MY BAD. You just have so much talent gathered in one
> > spot the light is blinding. I can't even look your direction. :-)
> > Roy
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Tom Cramer 
> wrote:
> >
> >> Roy,
> >>
> >> As a local Northern Californian, I like this idea.
> >>
> >>> For example, we have CDL in Oakland, several nearby UCs, CSUs, large
> >> publics,
> >>> and community colleges to draw from.
> >>
> >>
> >> We might even get some people from a private (Leland Stanford) Junior
> >> University to come to a local event :)
> >>
> >> - Tom
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mar 28, 2014, at 9:17 AM, Roy Tennant wrote:
> >>
> >>> I am definitely interested in a Northern California regional Code4Lib
> >>> group, but my ability to jet down to LA for a two-hour meeting is
> >>> regrettably limited. Likewise my ability to jet up to Seattle or
> >> Portland,
> >>> unfortunately. Perhaps a better strategy might be to focus on a local?
> >> For
> >>> example, we have CDL in Oakland, several nearby UCs, CSUs, large
> publics,
> >>> and community colleges to draw from. We should be able to put together
> a
> >>> decent showing on our own, I would imagine.
> >>> Roy
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Collier, Aaron  >>> wrote:
> >>>
>  Josh - it was great to see you again this year!
> 
>  We've got a lot of interest throughout the CSU and northern CA to
> form a
>  regional group, Which  a few of us are starting to pull together.
> 
>  Is there interest in expanding the LA group throughout CA? I'm also
>  wondering if we should try to expand this beyond CA into a "Western
>  Regional", although there is already a PNW regional or keep it
> somewhat
>  smaller?
> 
>  Perhaps a discussion topic for the May meeting.
> 
>  Thanks!
> 
>  -Original Message-
>  From: code4lib-los-ange...@googlegroups.com [mailto:
>  code4lib-los-ange...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Joshua Nathan
> Gomez
>  Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 6:04 PM
>  To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU; code4lib-los-ange...@googlegroups.com
>  Subject: 2nd meetup for code4lib LA - May 15th
> 
>  We had an excellent first meeting of the code4lib Los Angeles regional
>  "chapter" last month on the USC campus.  Two dozen people from 10
>  institutions across the county (and beyond) showed up to talk about
>  libraries and technology.  Our second meeting is now scheduled and we
> >> hope
>  you can join us.
> 
>  Date | Time:
>  May 15th, 2014  |  11am to 1pm.
> 
>  Location:
>  Santa Monica Public Library  (map: http://goo.gl/maps/8mPKC)
> 
>  Parking:
>  An underground parking structure can be accessed from 7th Street
> between
>  Santa Monica Blvd. and Arizona Ave.  The first thirty minutes are
> free.
>  Rates are $1 per hour for the first two hours and thirty minut

Re: [CODE4LIB] 2nd meetup for code4lib LA - May 15th

[McAulay, Elizabeth]

Heeheheheh!!! :) I'll make sure to have that as my ringtone when I arrive ...

From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Galen Charlton 
[g...@esilibrary.com]
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 10:32 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] 2nd meetup for code4lib LA - May 15th

Hi,

On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 10:29 AM, McAulay, Elizabeth
 wrote:
> ROAD TRIP Beware the UC Ride Share Vanpool Van!!!

I now have The Ride of the Valkyries as an earworm.

Regards,

Galen
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http://evergreen-ils.org

Re: [CODE4LIB] 2nd meetup for code4lib LA - May 15th

[McAulay, Elizabeth]

ROAD TRIP Beware the UC Ride Share Vanpool Van!!!

On Mar 28, 2014, at 10:27 AM, "Tom Cramer"  wrote:

> You'd be welcome! We all know how much you love to drive. : ) 
> 
> - Tom
> 
> 
> On Mar 28, 2014, at 10:22 AM, McAulay, Elizabeth wrote:
> 
>> Great idea! Dare I threaten the inclusion of SoCalers?
>> 
>> On Mar 28, 2014, at 9:57 AM, "Tom Cramer"  wrote:
>> 
>>> I threw in "Junior University" as a sop for our UC friends--it's one of my 
>>> favorite Stanford put downs. 
>>> 
>>> But seriously, we recently had digital librarians from Cal and UC Santa 
>>> Barbara here for a two day session focused on GIS, Blacklight and Hydra, 
>>> and it was enormously productive. (We met at Stanford because it was 
>>> "halfway" between Santa Barbara and Berkeley -- ahem!) It made me think we 
>>> should be doing this more regularly, especially as many of us seem to be 
>>> converging on common tools and methods, more so than in recent years. 
>>> Perhaps a regional C4L is the way to structure an ongoing, 
>>> interinstitutional exchange. 
>>> 
>>> We'd be up to help plan, and even host, an event if others in NorCal are 
>>> also interested. And OCLC does have rather nice offices, just 30 min north 
>>> of us, so we could also meet there and see Roy's corporate jet up close 
>>> (though I'm sad to hear it seems to be in the shop). 
>>> 
>>> - Tom
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Mar 28, 2014, at 9:42 AM, Roy Tennant wrote:
>>> 
>>>> You mean from that...uh...farm? As a Cal Alumni I am actually legally
>>>> obligated not to mention the word "Stanford". So sorry, nothing personal.
>>>> ;-)
>>>> 
>>>> All kidding aside, MY BAD. You just have so much talent gathered in one
>>>> spot the light is blinding. I can't even look your direction. :-)
>>>> Roy
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Tom Cramer  wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Roy,
>>>>> 
>>>>> As a local Northern Californian, I like this idea.
>>>>> 
>>>>>> For example, we have CDL in Oakland, several nearby UCs, CSUs, large
>>>>> publics,
>>>>>> and community colleges to draw from.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> We might even get some people from a private (Leland Stanford) Junior
>>>>> University to come to a local event :)
>>>>> 
>>>>> - Tom
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On Mar 28, 2014, at 9:17 AM, Roy Tennant wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>>> I am definitely interested in a Northern California regional Code4Lib
>>>>>> group, but my ability to jet down to LA for a two-hour meeting is
>>>>>> regrettably limited. Likewise my ability to jet up to Seattle or
>>>>> Portland,
>>>>>> unfortunately. Perhaps a better strategy might be to focus on a local?
>>>>> For
>>>>>> example, we have CDL in Oakland, several nearby UCs, CSUs, large publics,
>>>>>> and community colleges to draw from. We should be able to put together a
>>>>>> decent showing on our own, I would imagine.
>>>>>> Roy
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Collier, Aaron >>>>> wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Josh - it was great to see you again this year!
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> We've got a lot of interest throughout the CSU and northern CA to form a
>>>>>>> regional group, Which  a few of us are starting to pull together.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Is there interest in expanding the LA group throughout CA? I'm also
>>>>>>> wondering if we should try to expand this beyond CA into a "Western
>>>>>>> Regional", although there is already a PNW regional or keep it somewhat
>>>>>>> smaller?
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Perhaps a discussion topic for the May meeting.
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>>> 
>>>>>>> -Original Message-
>>>>>>> From: code4lib-los-ange...@googlegroups.com [mailto:
>>>>>>> code4lib-los-ang

Re: [CODE4LIB] 2nd meetup for code4lib LA - May 15th

[McAulay, Elizabeth]

Great idea! Dare I threaten the inclusion of SoCalers?

On Mar 28, 2014, at 9:57 AM, "Tom Cramer"  wrote:

> I threw in "Junior University" as a sop for our UC friends--it's one of my 
> favorite Stanford put downs. 
> 
> But seriously, we recently had digital librarians from Cal and UC Santa 
> Barbara here for a two day session focused on GIS, Blacklight and Hydra, and 
> it was enormously productive. (We met at Stanford because it was "halfway" 
> between Santa Barbara and Berkeley -- ahem!) It made me think we should be 
> doing this more regularly, especially as many of us seem to be converging on 
> common tools and methods, more so than in recent years. Perhaps a regional 
> C4L is the way to structure an ongoing, interinstitutional exchange. 
> 
> We'd be up to help plan, and even host, an event if others in NorCal are also 
> interested. And OCLC does have rather nice offices, just 30 min north of us, 
> so we could also meet there and see Roy's corporate jet up close (though I'm 
> sad to hear it seems to be in the shop). 
> 
> - Tom
> 
> 
> On Mar 28, 2014, at 9:42 AM, Roy Tennant wrote:
> 
>> You mean from that...uh...farm? As a Cal Alumni I am actually legally
>> obligated not to mention the word "Stanford". So sorry, nothing personal.
>> ;-)
>> 
>> All kidding aside, MY BAD. You just have so much talent gathered in one
>> spot the light is blinding. I can't even look your direction. :-)
>> Roy
>> 
>> 
>> On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Tom Cramer  wrote:
>> 
>>> Roy,
>>> 
>>> As a local Northern Californian, I like this idea.
>>> 
 For example, we have CDL in Oakland, several nearby UCs, CSUs, large
>>> publics,
 and community colleges to draw from.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> We might even get some people from a private (Leland Stanford) Junior
>>> University to come to a local event :)
>>> 
>>> - Tom
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Mar 28, 2014, at 9:17 AM, Roy Tennant wrote:
>>> 
 I am definitely interested in a Northern California regional Code4Lib
 group, but my ability to jet down to LA for a two-hour meeting is
 regrettably limited. Likewise my ability to jet up to Seattle or
>>> Portland,
 unfortunately. Perhaps a better strategy might be to focus on a local?
>>> For
 example, we have CDL in Oakland, several nearby UCs, CSUs, large publics,
 and community colleges to draw from. We should be able to put together a
 decent showing on our own, I would imagine.
 Roy
 
 
 On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 9:00 AM, Collier, Aaron >>> wrote:
 
> Josh - it was great to see you again this year!
> 
> We've got a lot of interest throughout the CSU and northern CA to form a
> regional group, Which  a few of us are starting to pull together.
> 
> Is there interest in expanding the LA group throughout CA? I'm also
> wondering if we should try to expand this beyond CA into a "Western
> Regional", although there is already a PNW regional or keep it somewhat
> smaller?
> 
> Perhaps a discussion topic for the May meeting.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: code4lib-los-ange...@googlegroups.com [mailto:
> code4lib-los-ange...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Joshua Nathan Gomez
> Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 6:04 PM
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU; code4lib-los-ange...@googlegroups.com
> Subject: 2nd meetup for code4lib LA - May 15th
> 
> We had an excellent first meeting of the code4lib Los Angeles regional
> "chapter" last month on the USC campus.  Two dozen people from 10
> institutions across the county (and beyond) showed up to talk about
> libraries and technology.  Our second meeting is now scheduled and we
>>> hope
> you can join us.
> 
> Date | Time:
> May 15th, 2014  |  11am to 1pm.
> 
> Location:
> Santa Monica Public Library  (map: http://goo.gl/maps/8mPKC)
> 
> Parking:
> An underground parking structure can be accessed from 7th Street between
> Santa Monica Blvd. and Arizona Ave.  The first thirty minutes are free.
> Rates are $1 per hour for the first two hours and thirty minutes. After
> that, the rate is $1 per thirty minutes. Weekdays the daily maximum is
>>> $10.
> The Library does not provide validation for parking.
> 
> Agenda:
> The next meeting will again be mostly informal, but we will also have a
> few short presentations.  By request, we will have a presentation on
> continuous integration & deployment and another presentation on using
> Python and the pymarc library to work with bibliographic records.
> 
> If you have something you would like to present, please send me a note
>>> and
> I will add it to the agenda.  We also have a shared document of topics
> requested where you can add a topic or sign up to present on one:
>>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AvhkP_NFwnOldEVqZHg3SmpvVUFtOEctUVRmZW8ya3c&usp=sharing
> 
> See you 

Re: [CODE4LIB] Welcome to Roy4Lib

[McAulay, Elizabeth]

we have all met Roy, search your feelings, you know it to be true. 


From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Barnes, Hugh 
[hugh.bar...@lincoln.ac.nz]
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 7:51 PM
To: 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 Randtke
Sent: ‎2/‎24/‎2014 10:24 PM
To: 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 
 wrote:
> Bacon being cooked in a liquor store?  Wow, California is awesome.
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 8:31 AM, Roy Tennant  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
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > > 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  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 
>> 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
>> > > >>
>> > > >
>> > >
>> >
>>


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Re: [CODE4LIB] A couple quick questions for Hydra or Islandora users

[McAulay, Elizabeth]

Hi all,

I am a librarian not a developer, nor am I the decision maker on software 
choices, but I thought I would comment on the Hydra and Islandora discussion to 
just add the UCLA perspective.

We decided to stop doing a home-grown digital library system a few years ago, 
and we chose Islandora over Hydra at least for the next year or so. We're 
definitely committed to Fedora in the long term, and we might try out Hydra in 
addition to Islandora.

With a small shop of talented Java developers (4 full-time when fully staffed), 
we felt like we needed to select a system that we could contract with 
additional vendors for special projects. We saw Islandora with PHP and Drupal 
as being an easier match for hiring contract workers as opposed to Ruby on 
Rails. Nor did we have any Ruby on Rails experience. In addition, the platform 
selected for the UCLA Library website and the UCLA website is Drupal, so we 
feel like there is more opportunity to collaborate.

Relative to the Drupal and Islandora issue, we contracted for the development 
of the Islandora Sync project to alleviate the Islandora restrictions on using 
Drupal to its fullest.

Best,
Lisa
--
Elizabeth "Lisa" McAulay
Librarian for Digital Collection Development
UCLA Digital Library Program

On Feb 21, 2014, at 4:31 PM, "Fleming, Declan"  wrote:

> Hiya - 
> 
> 1) after years of doing everything ourselves, we decided to join the Hydra 
> community for our discovery and display layer (and soon for simple ingest and 
> metadata edit).  We still have a custom back end repo with an API that can 
> make it look enough like Fedora that we can use stock Hydra.  We were 
> initially drawn to Islandora because we love Drupal, but found that 
> Islandora's approach to Drupal was going to be pretty code intensive to 
> modify the way we wanted.  Since we knew we'd be doing a lot of coding 
> anyway, we gave Hydra a shot and, with help from DCE (consulting firm Data 
> Curation Experts who did some of the core ActiveFedora work), we had a 
> prototype up in 3 months, and just last week we announced our public beta:
> 
> http://library.ucsd.edu/dc
> 
> DSpace didn't fit our metadata or digital object complexity needs.  We've 
> been working with complex objects for years, devolving lots of metadata 
> standards into RDF and putting them all into a central triple store.  For an 
> example of a complex research data object:  
> 
> http://library.ucsd.edu/dc/object/bb08204197
> 
> On the right panel, tweak the twiddles to see the hierarchical metadata and 
> subfiles, or click the "Data at Redshift=1.1 (RD0025) Components" link at the 
> top of the right column to see the whole structure.
> 
> The killer feature of Hydra was that our Java shop could absorb Ruby quickly 
> enough to be productive quickly, due in NO small part to the community 
> surrounding Hydra.  Forums, IRC, and github got us going very quickly.  The 
> steering committee is quite active and knows how to talk innocent 
> universities into hosting its events ;)
> 
> 2)  I think I've touched on the dev experience - Ruby has been great, and the 
> test driven mentality has made our code very strong and reusable.  We've also 
> formalized an internal Agile method with regular 2 week sprints.  Having a 
> known code base to start from helped with this.
> 
> Your migration question is interesting.  Like I said before, we've still got 
> our locally developed backed repo, but we're seriously investing in Fedora 4 
> (by committing FTE to its development) so that we could possibly move to it 
> in the future so that all of our repo work will be OSS and sharable.
> 
> I do love that there are at least two vibrant communities in this space, and 
> it kinda broke my heart to pick one over the other.  I keep a close eye on 
> the amazing work coming out of Islandora and dream of an architecture where 
> we can slap these things together with a common repo and a thick (or maybe 
> thin and smart) API.
> 
> Declan
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of 
> Brown, Jacob
> Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2014 2:43 PM
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: [CODE4LIB] A couple quick questions for Hydra or Islandora users
> 
> Greetings! A couple quick questions for Hydra or Islandora users/developers:
> 
> 1) What made you choose your framework over others (for example, DSpace)? 
> What is its "killer feature"? Flexibility? More metadata options? 
> Availability of SPARQL endpoint? Language? The community?
> 
> 2) What has your experience been like developing within that framework? If 
> you migrated from another digital asset management system, what are the 
> comparative strengths/weakness of your framework?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jacob Brown
> Digital Services Librarian
> j.h.br...@tcu.edu
> 817-257-5339

Re: [CODE4LIB] Academic Library Website Question

[McAulay, Elizabeth]

This is a passion of mine, actually. I judge an institution by how easy it is 
to find the link to the library on the home page of the university. Call me 
picky, but if I can't find a link to the library easily on that front page, 
then I think they are not serious about research. What you describe is far 
worse than I thought possible...

Lisa

-
Elizabeth "Lisa" McAulay
Librarian for Digital Collection Development
UCLA Digital Library Program
http://digital.library.ucla.edu/
email: emcaulay [at] library.ucla.edu

From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Matthew 
Sherman [matt.r.sher...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 6:40 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [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] transforming marc to rdf

[McAulay, Elizabeth]

I've been following this conversation as a non-coder. I'm really interested in 
getting a better understanding of linked data and how to use existing metadata 
for proof of concept linked data outputs. So, I totally think Eric's approaches 
are valuable and would be something I would use. I also understand there are 
many ways to do something better and more "in the flow." So, just encouraging 
you all to keep posting thoughts in both directions!

Best,
Lisa 
-
Elizabeth "Lisa" McAulay
Librarian for Digital Collection Development
UCLA Digital Library Program
http://digital.library.ucla.edu/
email: emcaulay [at] library.ucla.edu

From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Eric Lease 
Morgan [emor...@nd.edu]
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2013 8:57 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] transforming marc to rdf

On Dec 5, 2013, at 11:33 AM, Mark A. Matienzo  wrote:

>> At the very least, these applications (ArchivesSpace,
>> Archivists’ Toolkit, etc.) can regularly and systematically export their
>> data as EAD, and the EAD can be made available as linked data.
>
> Wouldn't it make more sense, especially with a system like ArchivesSpace,
> which provides a backend HTTP API and a public UI, to publish linked data
> directly instead of adding yet another stopgap?


Publishing via a content management system would make more sense, if:

  1. the archivist uses the specific content management system
  2. the content management system supported the functionality

“There is more than one way to skin a cat.” There are advantages and 
disadvantages to every software solution.

—
Eric

Re: [CODE4LIB] Subject Terms in Institutional Repositories

[McAulay, Elizabeth]

Hi Stuart,

For bullet point #2 below, how do you manage the workflow of the "creative 
spelling" correction. Is the correction handled manually or automatically, or 
somewhere in between?

Thanks,
Lisa

-
Elizabeth "Lisa" McAulay
Librarian for Digital Collection Development
UCLA Digital Library Program
http://digital.library.ucla.edu/
email: emcaulay [at] library.ucla.edu

From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of stuart yeates 
[stuart.yea...@vuw.ac.nz]
Sent: Sunday, September 01, 2013 1:36 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Subject Terms in Institutional Repositories

I run the techie side of http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/ and we use
dc.subject:

(*) We ask for at least three depositor-supplied keywords

(*) When a depositor uses creative spelling in any of the
depositor-supplied fields, we add standard spelling as a dc.subject

(*) When any field uses non-English language terms we add an English
term as a dc.subject

(*) When any field uses English language terms to refer to non-English
subjects, we add a dc.subject with the native-language term

(*) We have some hacky stuff in vuwschema.subject.* which the DSpace
development team have told use to keep hacky while they migrate to
http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/ in the next couple of releases.

We'd love to have the resources to do proper subject classification,
because it would be a huge enabler of deep interoperability.

cheers
stuart

On 31/08/13 01:36, Matthew Sherman wrote:
> 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 wrote:
>
>> 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
>> 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
>>>
>>
>


--
Stuart Yeates
Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Adding authority control to IR's that don't have it built in

[McAulay, Elizabeth]

Hi,

I've been following this thread carefully, and am very interested. At UCLA, we 
have the Frontera collection (http://frontera.library.ucla.edu/) and we have a 
local set of authorities because the performers and publishers are more 
ephemeral than what's usually in LCNAF. So, we're thinking of providing these 
values to others via API or something to help share what we know and get input 
from others. So, that's our use case for publishing out. Curious about 
everyone's thoughts.

Best,
Lisa

On Feb 1, 2013, at 9:44 AM, "Jason Ronallo" 
mailto:jrona...@gmail.com>> wrote:

Ed,

Thank you for the detailed response. That was very helpful. Yes, it
seems like good Web architecture is the API. Sounds like it would be
easy enough to start somewhere and add features over time.

I could see how exposing this data in a crawlable way could provide
some nice indexed landing pages to help improve discoverability of
related collections. I wonder though if this begs the question of who
other than my own institution would use such local authorities? Would
there really be other consumers? What's the likelihood that other
institutions will need to reuse my local name authorities?

Is the idea that if enough of us publish our local data in this way
that there could be aggregators or other means to make it easier to
reuse from a single source?

I can see the use case for a local authorities app. While I think it
would be cool to expose our local data to the world in this way, I'm
still trying to grasp at the larger value proposition.

Jason

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 5:59 AM, Ed Summers 
mailto:e...@pobox.com>> wrote:
Hi Jason,

Heh, sorry for the long response below. You always ask interesting questions :-D

I would highly recommend that vocabulary management apps like this
assign an identifier to each entity, that can be expressed as a URL.
If there is any kind of database backing the app you will get the
identifier for free (primary key, etc). So for example let's say you
have a record for John Chapman, who is on the faculty at OSU, which
has a primary key of 123 in the database, you would have a
corresponding URL for that record:

 http://id.library.osu.edu/person/123

When someone points their browser at that URL they get back a nice
HTML page describing John Chapman. I would strongly recommend that
schema.org microdata and/or opengraph protocol RDFa be 
layered into
the page for SEO purposes, as well as anyone who happens to be doing
scraping.  I would also highly recommend adding a sitemap to enable
discovery, and synchronization.

Having that URL is handy because you could add different machine
readable formats that hang off of it, which you can express as s
in your HTML, for example lets say you want to have JSON, RDF and XML
representations:

 http://id.library.osu.edu/person/123.json
 http://id.library.osu.edu/person/123.xml
 http://id.library.osu.edu/person/123.rdf

If you want to get fancy you can content negotiate between the generic
url and the format specific URLs, e.g.

 curl -i --header "Accept: application/json"
http://id.library.osu.edu/person/123
 HTTP/1.1 303 See Other
 date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:47:44 GMT
 server: Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu)
 location: http://id.library.osu.edu/person/123
 vary: Accept-Encoding

But that's gravy.

What exactly you put in these representations is a somewhat open
question I think. I'm a bit biased towards SKOS for the RDF because
it's lightweight, this is exactly its use case, it is flexible (you
can layer other assertions in easily), and (full disclosure) I helped
with the standardization of it. If you did do this you could use
JSON-LD for the JSON, or just come up with something that works.
Likewise for the XML. You might want to consider supporting JSON-P for
the JSON representation, so that it can be used from JavaScript in
other people's applications.

It might be interesting to come up with some norms here for
interoperability on a Wiki somewhere, or maybe a prototype of some
kind. But the focus should be on what you need to actual use it in
some app that needs vocabulary management. Focusing on reusing work
that has already been done helps a lot too. I think that helps ground
things significantly. I would be happy to discuss this further if you
want.

Whatever the format, I highly recommend you try to have the data link
out to other places on the Web that are useful. So for example the
record for John Chapman could link to his department page, blog, VIAF,
Wikipedia, Google Scholar Profile, etc. This work tends to require
human eyes, even if helped by a tool (Autosuggest, etc), so what you
do may have to be limited, or at least an ongoing effort. Managing
them (link scrubbing) is an ongoing effort too. But fitting your stuff
into the larger context of the Web will mean that other people will
want to use your identifiers. It's the dream of Linked Data I guess.

Lastly I recommend you have an OpenSearch API, which is pretty easy,
almost trivial, to put

[CODE4LIB] Multispectral Imaging to recover 1871 diary

[McAulay, Elizabeth]

The David Livingstone Spectral Imaging Project is delighted to announce the 
first edition publication of two digital resources:

1.   Livingstone's 1871 Field Diary: A Multispectral Critical 
Edition(http://livingstone.library.ucla.edu/1871diary/)

2.   The Livingstone Spectral Image 
Archive(http://livingstone.library.ucla.edu/livingstone_archive/)


These resources are primary documents created by David Livingstone, the 
celebrated Victorian abolitionist, missionary, and explorer of Africa. The 
primary documents published online are of significant contributions to Digital 
Humanities and Digital Library endeavors, and also are of interest to scholars 
of Victorian literature, postcolonial studies, and African history.



The beta publication of these resources last fall drew worldwide interest, with 
full-length articles appearing in The New York Times,The Washington Post, BBC 
News, and many other outlets. The UCLA Digital Library Program now presents 
these two resources in revised and expanded versions with enhanced 
functionality. Collectively the resources make the text of Livingstone's 
previously illegible diary available for the first time in 140 years. The 
resources also bring together the 1871 Field Diary with a variety of related 
manuscripts for the first time since the nineteenth century. Nearly all 
materials are published and licensed for use under the Creative Commons 
Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License.

Livingstone's 1871 Field Diary: A Multispectral Critical 
Edition(http://livingstone.library.ucla.edu/1871diary/) reveals for the first 
time the words of a unique diary kept by Livingstone in the months prior to his 
famous meeting with Henry Morton Stanley. The diary also records Livingstone's 
uncensored, first-hand impressions of a horrific slave trading massacre in the 
Congo. Thanks to a letter from Livingstone, the massacre would become an iconic 
rallying point for late-Victorian abolitionists and help spur the 
British-enforced closure of the notorious Zanzibar slave market. Livingstone 
composed the diary crosswise over old newspaper pages with ink from the seeds 
of a local African plant - an expedient that has not stood the test of time. 
Today large portions of the text are illegible and nearly invisible to the 
naked eye. However, theDavid Livingstone Spectral Imaging 
Project(http://livingstone.library.ucla.edu/) has succeeded in restoring the 
full text of the diary by using advanced imaging technology and digital 
scholarship to produce a comprehensive critical edition. The edition also 
includes an extensive "Project History & Archive" that chronicles the journey 
of Livingstone’s text from its rediscovery in 2009 to its publication today. 
This section of the site contains over 60 downloadable documents and files that 
together provide a detailed account of the production of the critical edition 
and spectral image archive.

The Livingstone Spectral Image 
Archive(http://livingstone.library.ucla.edu/livingstone_archive/) enables easy 
and direct access to the images, transcriptions, and metadata of Livingstone's 
1870 and 1871 Field Diaries as well as select letters from the period, 
including the primary materials used forLivingstone's Letter from Bambarre 
(2010-2011,http://livingstone.library.ucla.edu/bambarre/). The archive, which 
consists of "flat" digital files not dependent on any graphical user interface 
(GUI), has been created to international library standards, and reflects the 
archival model established by the Archimedes Palimpsest Project 
(http://www.archimedespalimpsest.org/). The archive includes registered 
spectral TIFF images with metadata embedded in the header; TXT metadata files; 
XML TEI P5 transcriptions; MD5 checksum files to ensure data fixity; and 
extensive documentation. In most cases, the XML transcriptions also include 
spatial data linking lines of text to corresponding spectral image areas.

The publication of these two resources represents the culmination of a two-year 
collaborative, international endeavor that brings together scholars, 
scientists, archives, and educational institutions. The U.S. National Endowment 
for the Humanities and the British Academy have made the project possible 
through generous funding. Questions and comments about the project can be sent 
to project director Adrian S. Wisnicki, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, at 
http://yahoo.com/>>.

Best regards,
Lisa


Elizabeth (Lisa) McAulay
Librarian for Digital Collection Development
UCLA Digital Library Program
http://digital.library.ucla.edu/
Email: emcau...@library.ucla.edu

[CODE4LIB] Programmer Position at UCLA Library

[McAulay, Elizabeth]

Alright cool folks -- you all will want this position. I mean, there's smog 
involved -- how can you resist?

Seriously, I can say that the UCLA Library is a great place to work and the 
Digital Library group is very active and engaged. You may have heard that UCLA 
is in the middle of a migration to the Islandora framework (Fedora + Drupal + 
cool other pieces), and it's really going to be a great opportunity to help 
shape this open source digital library solution. 

Please feel free to email me to learn more about what our groups are up to and 
what LA and UCLA are like.

-
Elizabeth "Lisa" McAulay
Librarian for Digital Collection Development
UCLA Digital Library Program
http://digital.library.ucla.edu/
email: emcaulay [at] library.ucla.edu

From: Bermudez, Araceli
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 5:02 PM
To: All Library Staff
Subject: HR UPDATE: Recruitment Initiated for Institutional Repository Project 
Programmer (Programmer/Analyst III),  Library Information Technology- Position 
Reopened

Good Afternoon,

The Library has reopened the Institutional Repository Project Programmer 
(Programmer/Analyst III) position with Library Information Technology to new 
applicants.  The new application deadline is 02/20/12.   Thank you. Araceli

Working Title (Payroll Title)

Department

Requisition #

NEW Application Deadline


Institutional Repository Project Programmer (Programmer/Analyst III)

Library Information Technology

16100

02/20/12












The complete posting, which includes the position description, complete 
qualifications and application
procedures, is available on both the UCLA Career Opportunities Website at: 
https://hr.mycareer.ucla.edu
and on the UCLA Library Employment and HR Website, at: 
http://www.library.ucla.edu/about/employment.cfm

UCLA staff members are encouraged to forward this information to potential 
applicants.

If you would like to nominate someone for this position, please contact Araceli 
Bermudez, bermu...@library.ucla.edu.

UCLA Library staff members are also asked to post this position posting to 
professional LISTSERVs as appropriate
(please copy Araceli Bermudez on such postings so we may retain a copy of the 
postings for reporting purposes).

Thank you for your assistance.


**
Araceli Bermudez
Assistant Director, Staff and Student HR
UCLA Library Human Resources
22478 YRL, Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA  90095-1575
(campus mailcode:  157511)
voice:  (310) 825-7947
fax:  (310) 825-6174
bermu...@library.ucla.edu
**

Re: [CODE4LIB] OIA Feeds > OAI feeds

[McAulay, Elizabeth]

Hi all,

UCLA Digital Library Program is running a static repository gateway for the 
Sheet Music Consortium. It's online at: http://oaigateway.library.ucla.edu/. If 
anyone wants more information, just let me know.

Thanks,
Lisa


-
Elizabeth "Lisa" McAulay
Librarian for Digital Collection Development
UCLA Digital Library Program
http://digital.library.ucla.edu/
email: emcaulay [at] library.ucla.edu

From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Robert 
Robertson [robert.robert...@strath.ac.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 8:53 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] OIA Feeds > OAI feeds

Hi,

A number of years ago the now defunct Centre for Digital Library Research at 
the University of Strathclyde ran a JISC-funded project to investigate the use 
of Static Repositories.

Details and guidance are (currently) available here:
http://cdlr.strath.ac.uk/stargate/

there are some significant limitations on the use of SRs but they are in some 
ways very elegant in particular contexts.
The key weakness of the infrastructure is the reliance on the completely 
distinct SR gateway software.
The other significant issue is that SRs had to be flawless xml - unlike 'full' 
repositories, SRs cope less well with badly formed metadata.

There is a test gateway at LANL that can be used but I think the UIUC gateway 
which Tom pointed to is the only other sustained/ supported open gateway 
[perhaps?].

There is perhaps a wider question of what the future of OAI-PMH is and what 
overlap there might be between something like an SR and OAI-ORE (in terms of 
work for a data provider) - but that's getting a bit off topic.

john

R. John Robertson
skype: rjohnrobertson
Research Fellow/ Open Education Resources programme support officer (JISC 
CETIS), Centre for Academic Practice and Learning Enhancement University of 
Strathclyde
Tel:+44 (0) 141 548 3072
http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/johnr/
The University of Strathclyde is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, 
with registration number SC015263


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Nathan 
Tallman
Sent: 21 June 2011 16:25
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] OIA Feeds

Thank you everyone for your replies.

Right now, I'm just exploring the options for a potential project. We need
to make our MARC records available as Dublin Core via OAI-PMH. We don't have
a digital repository or similar infrastructure at the moment, so I'll take a
look at the OAI Static Repository documentation.

I'd really like to upgrade our catalog to something like VuFind (no worries
about maintaining a static repository any more), but I haven't had time to
explore hooking VuFind into our existing Virtua database. It'd probably be
more efficient to just figure out and implement VuFind because of the host
of other benefits.

Thanks again. If anyone's using VuFind as a discovery interface to a Virtua
backend, let me know!

Nathan


On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 9:50 AM, Nathan Tallman  wrote:

> Greetings list,
>
> Can anyone direct me towards documentation on creating an OAI feed from
> scratch, without a repository infrastructure?
>
> Many thanks!
>
> Nathan Tallman
> Associate Archivist
> American Jewish Archives
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] how 'great' are the great books

[McAulay, Elizabeth]

I felt when I said I had a masters in Literature that I might need to tell you 
what schools I went to. What score I got on the SAT, etc. 

The fact that K-12 students read "To Kill A Mockingbird" instead of Rousseau is 
a good thing, in my opinion. And I think the majority of the very well read and 
elite educators also agree, since what was considered great in 1952 is no 
longer considered the canon anymore. 



From: Code for Libraries [code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Elizabeth 
Winter [elizabeth.win...@library.gatech.edu]
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 1:05 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] how 'great' are the great books

Gosh, I hope not.  I think it argues for better literature programs in our K-12 
and universities


--
Elizabeth L. Winter
Electronic Resources Coordinator
Collection Acquisitions & Management
Library and Information Center
Georgia Institute of Technology
email: elizabeth.win...@library.gatech.edu
phone: 404.385.0593
fax: 404.894.1723

- Original Message -
From: "Roberto Hoyle" 
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Sent: Thursday, November 4, 2010 4:03:12 PM
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] how 'great' are the great books

On Nov 4, 2010, at 11:24 AM, McAulay, Elizabeth wrote:

> i agree with keith's comments about having a 'what have you read?' portion 
> first. I had to answer "i don't know" to most of the questions because if I 
> hadn't read both of the works, i didn't want to choose one over the other. i 
> have a master's in English and i think only one out of 20 comparisons i 
> answered included two works i had read.

If you haven't read one of the books, doesn't that argue for it's lack of 
'greatness?'

r.

Re: [CODE4LIB] how 'great' are the great books

[McAulay, Elizabeth]

nope. it argues for my not having read a lot of works that used be thought of 
as really important.

From: Code for Libraries [code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Roberto Hoyle 
[roberto.j.ho...@dartmouth.edu]
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 1:03 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] how 'great' are the great books

On Nov 4, 2010, at 11:24 AM, McAulay, Elizabeth wrote:

> i agree with keith's comments about having a 'what have you read?' portion 
> first. I had to answer "i don't know" to most of the questions because if I 
> hadn't read both of the works, i didn't want to choose one over the other. i 
> have a master's in English and i think only one out of 20 comparisons i 
> answered included two works i had read.

If you haven't read one of the books, doesn't that argue for it's lack of 
'greatness?'

r.

Re: [CODE4LIB] how 'great' are the great books

[McAulay, Elizabeth]

i had a lot of fun playing with this survey. is it an infinite survey, though 
-- no end to the questions?

From: Code for Libraries [code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Eric Lease 
Morgan [emor...@nd.edu]
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 6:24 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] how 'great' are the great books

> In an effort to answer the question, "How 'great' are the Great Books?", I 
> have created the beginnings of a crowd sourced survey, and it would be 
> "great" if y'all were to beta test it for me -- http://bit.ly/bPQHIg ...So 
> far Montaigne's Essays is the "greatest" with Shakespeare's Antony And 
> Cleopatra is close behind.

Already Rousseau's Discourse Upon The Origin And The Foundation Of The 
Inequality Among Mankind has displaced Shakespeare. Keep up the good work, and 
thank you.

--
Eric Morgan

Re: [CODE4LIB] how 'great' are the great books

[McAulay, Elizabeth]

i agree with keith's comments about having a 'what have you read?' portion 
first. I had to answer "i don't know" to most of the questions because if I 
hadn't read both of the works, i didn't want to choose one over the other. i 
have a master's in English and i think only one out of 20 comparisons i 
answered included two works i had read.



From: Code for Libraries [code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Eric Lease 
Morgan [emor...@nd.edu]
Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 7:19 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] how 'great' are the great books

On Nov 4, 2010, at 10:11 AM, Keith Jenkins wrote:

>> In an effort to answer the question, "How 'great' are the Great Books?", I 
>> have created the beginnings of a crowd sourced survey, and it would be 
>> "great" if y'all were to beta test it for me -- http://bit.ly/bPQHIg
>
> ..Are you tracking how many times people choose "I don't know"?  I'm
> sure that is the most popular book.
>
> Maybe you could first ask which of the books we've read, and then have
> us vote just amongst those titles?


No, I'm not currently tracking "I don't know", but I believe that is trivial 
enough to do. Hmmm... Thanks!

--
Eric Morgan

[CODE4LIB] Job Posting : Programmer Analyst at UCLA Library

[McAulay, Elizabeth]

-cross posting -

PROGRAMMER/ANALYST III
Working Title: Digital Library Programmer
Monthly Salary: $4520 - $8140
Job Type: Contract
Department Name: 5400-GENERAL LIBRARY
Department Website URL: http://www2.library.ucla.edu/about/employment.cfm
Job Summary Statement:
Working hours may include emergency support on weekends, evenings and holidays. 
This is a 2-Year Contract Appointment.

Provides programming and systems analysis for the design, development and 
documentation of large, complex Library digital media systems. Uses web based 
system technologies, java design methodologies, and user needs specifications 
to program digital media database structures and data management software. 
Standard software tools and protocols, such as XML data structures, Oracle, 
Java, Java developer, Flash, STRUTS and JSP will be used to create large multi 
terabyte - digital media databases.

See: 
https://hr.mycareer.ucla.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/frameset/Frameset.jsp?time=1212625299864



Elizabeth "Lisa" McAulay
Librarian for Digital Collection Development
UCLA Digital Library Program
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[CODE4LIB] Position Announcement: Digital Library Programming Team Leader and System Architect - UCLA

[McAulay, Elizabeth]

This message has been cross-posted to other lists.

 

Dear Colleagues:

 

 

The UCLA Library has reopened its search for the Digital Library
Programming Team Leader and System Architect (Programmer/Analyst IV) in
Library Information Technology. This position leads development of
digital asset management systems for all formats, including text,
images, audio and video. Salary will be within the range $63,120 -
$113,544 per annum

 

Current development activities include a local system based on Oracle
10g, Java (including Struts, JSP, and JSTL), XML, and related
technologies. Systems are being developed to manage digital object
ingest and management, web delivery services, digital preservation, and
metadata transformations. The Digital Library Architect also leads the
development of open source solutions for digital asset management,
including a learning object repository based upon DSpace repository
software and OAI-based services, including data harvester, data
provider, and a service provider. Future projects are anticipated to
support learning and research activities across the University.

 

The Digital Library Architect will be aware of and involved in standards
and technologies relating to digital asset management and delivery,
Digital Library services, standards for digital asset exchange, and
digital technologies that support learning and research. The DL
Architect works with staff within the Digital Library Program to set
priorities and technical development goals to support local digital
library infrastructure needs. The DL Architect also works with other
campus groups--such as the Center for the Digital Humanities and
Academic Technology Services--on cooperative projects and with the
California Digital Library on projects across the University of
California system, including data exchange between UCLA and CDL's
Digital Preservation Repository. 

 

The DL Architect heads a development team of two full-time programmers,
and, as funding permits, one or two additional grant-funded programmers.
The DL Architect reports to the Head of Library Information Technology.
LIT is a unit of approximately 25 people, responsible for the systems
development and operations for all of the Libraries at UCLA. Systems
include both custom-built and purchased applications for both web and
client server systems. The infrastructure includes approximately 1000
workstations, 65 servers with over 100 terabyte SANs supporting
applications used worldwide via the Internet.

 

This is an unofficial job description. For the official announcement,
and to apply for this position, visit:
http://www2.library.ucla.edu/about/5363.cfm

 

For more information about this position contact:

 

Stephen Schwartz, Head of Library Information Technology
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or Stephen Davison, Head of the UCLA Digital
Library Program.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

 

UCLA Digital Library collections website:
http://digital.library.ucla.edu

 

 

 

Thank you,

Lisa

 

Elizabeth "Lisa" McAulay

Librarian for Digital Collection Development

Digital Library Program

UCLA Library

390 Powell Library Building

Box 957201

Los Angeles, CA 90095-7201

(310) 825-7657

email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]