Re: [CODE4LIB] Lorem Ipsum metadata? Is there such a thing?
It all takes me back to the heady days of "MARC Must Die, and Be Disposed of with Minimal Impact on the Environment". Now we're leaving the next generation to deal with the North Pacific Subfield Whorl. Sad. Peter Peter Binkley Digital Initiatives Technology Librarian Information Technology Services peter.bink...@ualberta.ca 2-10K Cameron Library University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta Canada T6G 2J8 phone 780-492-3743 fax 780-492-9243 On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Roy Tennant wrote: > I ask you, would you want to work all day sitting on top of a huge pile of > radioactive MARC records? I sure wouldn't... > Roy > > > On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Bill Dueber wrote: > > > The sad thing is that the Library of Congress spent billions of dollars > of > > taxpayer money building a safe storage facility in the stable caves under > > Dublin, OH, but now no one will let them bury them there. > > > > > > On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Roy Tennant > wrote: > > > > > I can't help wondering what the half-life of a radioactive MARC record > > is. > > > My guess is it is either really, really short or really, really long. > ;-) > > > Roy > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Peter Binkley < > peter.bink...@ualberta.ca > > > >wrote: > > > > > > > Years ago Bill Moen had a set of "radioactive" MARC records with > unique > > > > tokens in all fields, to test Z39.50 retrieval. I don't know whether > > they > > > > were ever released anywhere, but I see the specs are here: > > > > > > > > http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc111015/m1/1/ > > > > > > > > Peter > > > > > > > > > > > > Peter Binkley > > > > Digital Initiatives Technology Librarian > > > > Information Technology Services > > > > peter.bink...@ualberta.ca > > > > > > > > 2-10K Cameron Library > > > > University of Alberta > > > > Edmonton, Alberta > > > > Canada T6G 2J8 > > > > > > > > phone 780-492-3743 > > > > fax 780-492-9243 > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Joshua Welker > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > I checked out the Eclipse option and was not able to get much use > out > > > of > > > > > it. > > > > > Maybe someone else will have better luck? It doesn't seem to align > > very > > > > > well > > > > > with a library use case. > > > > > > > > > > Josh Welker > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -Original Message- > > > > > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On > Behalf > > > Of > > > > > Ben > > > > > Companjen > > > > > Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 11:14 AM > > > > > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU > > > > > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Lorem Ipsum metadata? Is there such a > thing? > > > > > > > > > > Hi Josh, > > > > > > > > > > Before you start coding: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17106/how-to-generate-sample-xml-documen > > > > > ts-from-their-dtd-or-xsd suggests that Eclipse can generate XML > from > > an > > > > > DTD > > > > > or XSD file. First try with the EAC XSD shows I need to try other > > > > options, > > > > > but it's promising. > > > > > > > > > > (It's still an interesting problem to try to tackle yourself, of > > > course.) > > > > > > > > > > Ben > > > > > > > > > > On 09-12-13 17:59, "Joshua Welker" wrote: > > > > > > > > > > >It's hard-coded to generate the specific elements. But your way > > sounds > > > > > >a lot cleaner, so I might try to do that instead :) It will be > more > > > > > >difficult initially but much easier once I start implementing > other > > > > > >metadata formats. > > > > > > > > > > > >Josh Welker > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >-Original Message- > > > > > >From: Code fo
Re: [CODE4LIB] Lorem Ipsum metadata? Is there such a thing?
Years ago Bill Moen had a set of "radioactive" MARC records with unique tokens in all fields, to test Z39.50 retrieval. I don't know whether they were ever released anywhere, but I see the specs are here: http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc111015/m1/1/ Peter Peter Binkley Digital Initiatives Technology Librarian Information Technology Services peter.bink...@ualberta.ca 2-10K Cameron Library University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta Canada T6G 2J8 phone 780-492-3743 fax 780-492-9243 On Mon, Dec 9, 2013 at 12:50 PM, Joshua Welker wrote: > I checked out the Eclipse option and was not able to get much use out of > it. > Maybe someone else will have better luck? It doesn't seem to align very > well > with a library use case. > > Josh Welker > > > -Original Message- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of > Ben > Companjen > Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 11:14 AM > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Lorem Ipsum metadata? Is there such a thing? > > Hi Josh, > > Before you start coding: > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17106/how-to-generate-sample-xml-documen > ts-from-their-dtd-or-xsd suggests that Eclipse can generate XML from an > DTD > or XSD file. First try with the EAC XSD shows I need to try other options, > but it's promising. > > (It's still an interesting problem to try to tackle yourself, of course.) > > Ben > > On 09-12-13 17:59, "Joshua Welker" wrote: > > >It's hard-coded to generate the specific elements. But your way sounds > >a lot cleaner, so I might try to do that instead :) It will be more > >difficult initially but much easier once I start implementing other > >metadata formats. > > > >Josh Welker > > > > > >-Original Message- > >From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of > >Ben Companjen > >Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 10:52 AM > >To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU > >Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Lorem Ipsum metadata? Is there such a thing? > > > >Cool! > >My first thought on this topic was: give the program an XML schema, and > >generate possible documents with the correct datatypes etc. (Something > >like that must exist somewhere, right?) Does it happen to work anything > >like that, or is it hardcoded to generate these specific elements? > > > >Ben > > > >On 09-12-13 17:27, "Joshua Welker" wrote: > > > >>Challenge accepted. > >> > >>http://library.ucmo.edu/dev/metadata-generator.php > >> > >>Obviously in the prototype phase, but it works. Only MODS is available > >>for now, and you can only select top-level elements (all child > >>elements of the top-level selections will be auto-generated). I will > >>try to expand it to more than just MODS. Admittedly, I know very > >>little about METS, so I will need some assistance if I am going to make > >>one of those. > >> > >>I'll eventually host this somewhere else once it's done, so don't > >>bookmark it. > >> > >>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 Kevin S. Clarke > >>Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2013 12:26 PM > >>To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU > >>Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Lorem Ipsum metadata? Is there such a thing? > >> > >>When I first read this, I was imagining not having to give it your > >>metadata but native support for most of our commonly used metadata > >>records... so the interface is: "Give me 100 MODS records" and it > >>spits that out... You could get fancy and say, "Give me X number of > >>METS records that wrap TIFFs and JPGs and that uses MODS, etc." > >>That's not as trivial as hooking into an lorem ipsum machine, but it'd > >>be pretty cool, imho. > >> > >>Kevin > >> > >> > >>On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 11:51 PM, Pottinger, Hardy J. < > >>pottinge...@missouri.edu> wrote: > >> > >>> Hi, I asked this on Google Plus earlier today, but I figured I'd > >>> better take this question here: my brain is trying to tell me that > >>> there's a service or app that makes "fake" metadata, kind of like
Re: [CODE4LIB] repository migration
We migrated from DSpace to Fedora a couple of years ago, using basically the process that Edwin outlines. One issue to consider is identifiers and permalinks: we were using handles in DSpace, and had to make sure that all the old handles continued to work against Fedora and that we could mint new ones properly. Apart from that, it was a fairly straight-forward scripting job, using the Fedora API. Peter Peter Binkley Digital Initiatives Technology Librarian Information Technology Services peter.bink...@ualberta.ca 2-10K Cameron Library University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta Canada T6G 2J8 phone 780-492-3743 fax 780-492-9243 On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 10:18 PM, Edwin Shin wrote: > Kelsey, > > I can't speak to the ePrints side of things, but on the Fedora side, there > are nominally two options to consider: > > 1) create your records programmatically, via the REST API > 2) create FOXML serializations of your ePrints records and then ingest > those into Fedora > > There are a number of variations on either approach, depending on the > number/size of records involved to optimize ingest times. My general > preference would be for #1. > > Some best practices (not specific to migration) to consider in your Fedora > repository: > i) use (M)anaged datastreams rather than Inline (X)ML datastreams where > possible > ii) use Akubra and not the legacy low-level store > iii) unless you have a fairly small repository, update the > HashIdPathMapper config (in akubra-llstore.xml) to have a deeper hierarchy > (e.g. "#/##" or "##/##) rather than just "##". > > I'd recommend joining the Fedora users mailing list for any > Fedora-specific follow-on. > > -Eddie > > On May 9, 2013, at 12:16 AM, "Williamson, Kelsey CTR NUWC NWPT" < > kelsey.williamson@navy.mil> wrote: > > > Good afternoon, > > > > I was hoping someone might be willing to talk about migration projects. > I am getting ready to migrate records from an ePrints repository into a > fedora repository- but I've never done anything like this before. I have an > abstract plan, but I think hearing other people's experiences would be very > helpful; particularly any lessons learned? > > > > Best regards, > > > > Kelsey > >
[CODE4LIB] Preservation Librarian position
Just a reminder that tomorrow is the closing date for the Digital Preservation Officer/Librarian position at the University of Alberta. Have a look if digital preservation is something you'd like to pursue: http://www.careers.ualberta.ca/Competition/A101713958/ Peter
