Re: [CODE4LIB] using drupal for a document repository

[Tom Cramer]

Kelsey,

If you’re looking for a web-based app where you can capture metadata, store 
files, and find and retrieve them again, Drupal seems totally workable. But I 
think the issue that might concern me most about using Drupal for a document 
repository is that it’s relatively fluid. In my experience document 
repositories last a good decade or more and migrating them is a pain, and not 
undertaken lightly. Drupal evolves relatively quickly, and persistence isn’t 
one of it’s focal points. (This is why Fedora is Islandora’s special sauce, 
from a Drupal perspective.)

If you are interested in Hydra-in-a-Box, there will be some (doubtless 
smashing) presentations and maybe even a demo at Open 
Repositories
 next month. There is much work left to do, but it’s beginning to take shape.

In addition to the videos Mark cited, we’re sending regular updates to the 
Hydra lists; you might find 
hydra-t...@googlegroups.com or 
hydra-commun...@googlegroups.com worth 
joining. (Cary—you might also like to join if you’d like to keep current. We 
have a good set of discussions and information exchange going on with many in 
the Islandora community.)

Best,

- Tom





On May 5, 2016, at 5:08 PM, Mark A. Matienzo 
mailto:mark.matie...@gmail.com>> wrote:

Hi Cary,

Hydra-in-a-Box has already started development as of the last week of
March. To that end, we've released demo videos on a weekly basis at the end
of each of our sprints, which we've posted to YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDs5eqwVjfb7dIA6KWffdUlSASYMtZQcL

Best,

Mark A. Matienzo 
Project Manager, Hydra-in-a-Box
Director of Technology, Digital Public Library of America

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 7:15 PM, Cary Gordon  wrote:

To be clear, Hydra-in-a-box is in the planning stage at this point, and
has not AFAIK, begun development. While planning to offer a much friendlier
install than earlier incarnations of Hydra, is still a Fedora-based
solution, and won’t come with a Fedora-expert-in-the-box. It will address
metadata management issues, but exactly how that will happen is not yet
defined.

The good news is that both Islandora, the tool I work with, and Hydra will
be moving to Fedora 4, and that will make them both easier to use in many
respects. In fact, they should become interoperable.

Thanks,

Cary




On May 5, 2016, at 2:38 PM, Kerchner, Daniel 
wrote:

Although you might not have the level of technical expertise required to
support Fedora-based applications in their current incarnations, you
might
want to keep an eye on progress on the Hydra-In-A-Box project.
Hydra-In-A-Box is meant to provide the benefits of Hydra but would
actually
be easy to install (i.e. not requiring a software developer on staff)
and/or can be used as a hosted solution.  I think a major driver is to
provide a solution that is just as much an option for "small, scrappy
institutions" :)

http://hydrainabox.projecthydra.org/

- Dan







*Dan KerchnerSenior Software Developer, Scholarly Technology GroupThe
George Washington University LibrariesGelman Library2130 H Street,
NWWashington, DC 20052kerch...@gwu.edu *


On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 5:15 PM, Kelsey Williamson <
kelseyfayesaw...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi code4lib,
I was hoping to get some input on this. My small, scrappy institution is
considering using drupal as a repository, primarily via the Biblio
module.

Obviously this is not ideal, but for reasons I won't get into, our tech
environment won't support ePrints or dspace, and hosted services are
not an
option either. We do not really have the level of technical expertise
required to support any fedora-based applications, and cannot hire any
additional support. There's a chance existing staff could stretch to get
there, but it would not be a pretty process.

With all that said, do any red flags come to mind? I looked through both
code4lib and drupal4lib listserv archives and poked around google, but
didn't find much evidence of anyone else using drupal in this way. Seems
suspicious. While my gut tells me it's a bad idea (metadata! standards!
preservation!), I'm having trouble articulating this to my group in a
way
that sticks, because using Biblio would be easy. I would appreciate
hearing
any other thoughts or opinions on this.

Thanks!
Kelsey

Re: [CODE4LIB] Software used in Panama Papers Analysis

[Tom Cramer]

The IJNet article is particularly interesting—thanks for posting this. Excerpts 
like the one below make me wonder if there is a “Code4News” community, and if 
so, how do we find and connect with them. It seems we have a lot in common, and 
maybe a lot to offer each other.


MC: What we’ve achieved is pretty remarkable. Newsrooms are in an economic 
crisis. No newsroom right now--except for maybe The New York Times and a few 
others--have the capability to do something major like this at a global scale. 
But we’re showing it’s possible. We share data, we produce tools for 
communication, we share our stories and our interactives, to make it happen.

- Tom






On Apr 7, 2016, at 7:24 AM, Gregory Markus 
mailto:gmar...@beeldengeluid.nl>> wrote:

Hey Sebastian,

They go into a lot of detail in this article

https://ijnet.org/en/blog/how-icij-pulled-large-scale-cross-border-investigative-collaboration

Indeed this is pretty interesting stuff and a good shout out for Blacklight
and other OS tools!

-greg

On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 4:21 PM, Sebastian Karcher <
karc...@u.northwestern.edu> wrote:

Hi everyone,

from one of the New York Times stories on the Panama Papers:
"The ICIJ made a number of powerful research tools available to the
consortium that the group had developed for previous leak investigations.
Those included a secure, Facebook-type forum where reporters could post the
fruits of their research, as well as database search program called
“Blacklight” that allowed the teams to hunt for specific names, countries
or sources."

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/06/business/media/how-a-cryptic-message-interested-in-data-led-to-the-panama-papers.html

I assume this is http://projectblacklight.org/, which is pretty cool to
see
used that way. Does anyone know or have read anything about the other tools
they used? What did they use for OCR? Did they use qualitative data
analysis software? Some type of annotation tools? It seems like there's a
lot to learn from this effort.

Thanks,

--
Sebastian Karcher, PhD
Qualitative Data Repository, Syracuse University
qdr.syr.edu




--

*Gregory Markus*

Project Assistant

*Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision*
*Media Parkboulevard 1, 1217 WE  Hilversum | Postbus 1060, 1200 BB
Hilversum | *
*beeldengeluid.nl* 
*T* 0612350556

*Aanwezig:* - ma, di, wo, do, vr

Re: [CODE4LIB] Interim data storage for researchers

[Tom Cramer]

FigShare also includes active storage / management space for individuals and 
institutions.

https://figshare.com/features

I know several universities are looking at using FigShare for these purposes, 
and then feeding “finished” data into their existing IR or preservation repo.

- Tom




On Apr 12, 2016, at 6:54 AM, Christine Mayo mailto:ma...@bc.edu>> 
wrote:

Dryad and FigShare are both preservation repositories, not collaboration
spaces like what the OP is looking for. I'm afraid I don't have any
recommendations of a good collaborative working space, but Dryad in
particular is only for data in a finished state which are associated with a
specific peer-reviewed publication. Nature recommends those repositories
for storing data associated with their articles, most journals don't have
info or recommendations on how to manage data before you get to the
archiving point of the lifecycle.

We're working on implementing DataVerse here at BC, but I get the
impression that it's much the same, that a depositor can self-submit
depending on the settings, but the only real option then is to publish it,
I don't know that other members of the research team can easily get in and
modify things. Which is too bad, as it does meet the need of being
something that you can host locally if you choose.

I would absolutely +1 Open Science Framework, but that does have the issue
of being cloud storage rather than a framework you can set up on a local
server.

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 9:42 AM, Tom Keays 
mailto:tomke...@gmail.com>> wrote:

Nature magazine recommends figshare or the Dryad Digital Repository. They
also list others by subject.

http://www.figshare.com/
http://www.datadryad.org/
http://www.nature.com/sdata/data-policies/repositories

On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 8:25 AM, K. Godfrey 
wrote:

Hi all

We've been approached by a researcher who would like our assistance in
storing data (various file types) on an on-going project (not at a data
preservation stage yet). The researcher wants to be able to access, add
and
change this data from their project site and allow her fellow research
partners (not necessarily at our institution) access as well. Are any
other
folks offering this kind of service? Have you partnered with campus IT to
make this happen? Are you using particular software, such as DataVerse or
Pydio to facilitate such a service? Thanks!

Krista

K r i s t a G o d f r e y




Interim Head, Library Information Technology Services/
Web Services Librarian
Library IT Services
Queen Elizabeth II Library
Memorial University of Newfoundland
St. John's, NL
A1B 3Y1
t:709-864-3753




"He's like Super Librarian, y'know?
Everyone forgets, Willow, that knowledge is the ultimate weapon."
-  Buffy the Vampire Slayer





--
Christine Mayo
Digital Production Librarian
Thomas P. O'Neill, Jr. Library
Boston College
christine.m...@bc.edu

Re: [CODE4LIB] ISO: State of the art in video annotation

[Tom Cramer]

Stuart,

It may be useful to also cross-post this question to the IIIF-discuss list [1]. 
There is a lot of interest in developing a IIIF-like approach to presenting 
video via a common API, and one that lends itself to web-based annotation. This 
would allow theoretically allow users to annotate videos with their tool of 
choice, and to be able to reuse / export the annotations to any other tool.

I expect this will be a topic at the next IIIF meetings, in New York City (May 
10-13, 2016). [2]

- Thomas


[1] iiif-disc...@googlegroups.com
[2] http://iiif.io/event/2016/newyork/






On Mar 16, 2016, at 8:33 PM, Greg Lindahl 
mailto:lind...@pbm.com>> wrote:

This may or may not be relevant to the "annotation" that the original
poster had in mind, but the Internet Archive embedded video player
takes subtitles in the common SubRip .srt format, which is apparently
supported by many video players & subtitling programs.

Instead of using this for closed captioning, you could use it for
annotations. Each video can have multiple .srt files, with the user
being able to pick which one is shown. I'm not 100% sure if our embed
code allows the embedder to choose one .srt to be shown by default,
that's where my knowledge ends.

https://archive.org/help/video.php
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SubRip

-- greg

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 02:06:46PM +0100, Gregory Markus wrote:
Hi Stuart,

A colleague of mine has just recently recommended Clipper (
http://blog.clippertube.com/index.php/clipper-prototype-3/) they're
currently experimenting with it in the EUscreenXL project.

Might be worth checking out for you as well.

Curious as to what others will suggest as well.

Cheers,

greg

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 11:11 PM, Andrew Gordon 
wrote:

Thanks for sending out that document, Erwin.

This is a really interesting topic and I feel like video annotation on the
web should be more of a thing.

On top of what Erwin already provided (OVA looks particularly like A
project that might be good to look at for your needs) there are also:

http://mith.us/OACVideoAnnotator/ - which is a proof of concept using the
open annotation specification (http://www.openannotation.org/). The
specification is format agnostic, intending annotatation of objects with
text, media, web resources etc. - the genius.com folks seem to be
involved.

http://cowlog.org/ - pretty basic, but appears to get the job done and is
web based.

There are scads of proprietary and open source desktop video
coding/annotating software that I will spare you the burden of going
through. Full disclosure, I work on a project whose sibling project is a
desktop video coding tool for psychology researchers.

From my vantage point, video annotation software generally seems to be
developed around a specific set of user needs (a type of researcher and
research subject, for example). More specific target audience gets a more
robust set of tools targeted at those needs.

The biggest issues come down to diversity of encoding for video and the
ability for operating systems to support the playback of them. This said,
the web has even more limitations around what video formats it will
support, but if you control the source of the video, this might not be such
a big deal.

It would really be great to see video annotation for specifically DH
projects warm up.

Have a look at all the resources and determine whether you think it might
be useful just to roll your own annotator using HTML5, some sophisticated
JS libraries for handling media, and hopefully wrapping in a standard like
the Open Annotation Data model (linked above).

Would love to hear what others think/may have experienced.

Drew





On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 5:04 PM, Erwin Verbruggen <
everbrug...@beeldengeluid.nl> wrote:

Dear Stuart,

A few years ago we started an overview of video annotation projects and
tools for the EUscreen network. We haven't been able to turn it into a
state of the art document as of yet, but I'm hoping it would be useful
for
such an endeavour:


https://docs.google.com/document/d/1t6CIL8oQjkAtUe2LGInrUgxpNzj5k9s17Mihz6UotIM/edit?usp=sharing

Kind regards,
Erwin

Erwin Verbruggen
Project lead R&D

Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Media Parkboulevard 1, 1217 WE  Hilversum | Postbus 1060, 1200 BB
Hilversum | beeldengeluid.nl


On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 9:38 PM, Stuart Snydman 
wrote:

I am doing some discovery for a DH project that, at its center, needs
to
annotate digital video (locally produced videos that will be hosted and
streamed on the web in our local environment).  We are still gathering
requirements, but it needs to:


 *   have a user friendly interface for creating annotations, better
on
the web but not an absolute requirement
 *   create annotations at specific timestamps, or across spans of
time,
and have those annotations associated with regions of the video image.
 *   annotations could include, text, audio, video, image, URL, etc.

We’d prefer open sou

Re: [CODE4LIB] Anyone Doing Interesting Things With Digital Collection Systems?

[Tom Cramer]

Off the top of my head, in addition to NYPL, I would look at

University of British Columbia’s Open Collections site

https://open.library.ubc.ca/

See this release announcement from Paul Joseph about features & APIs:
https://www.mail-archive.com/code4lib@listserv.nd.edu/msg28980.html

the World Digital Library
https://www.wdl.org/en/
see also the APIs page: http://api.wdl.org/


Both of these sites strike me as exemplary for putting as much thought into the 
APIs as they do their front ends. And both support IIIF, the International 
Image Interoperability Framework  and its APIs. If you are 
serving digital collections, please (PLEASE!) consider also supporting IIIF’s 
2.x APIs.

You might also be interested in Blacklight, and 
its digital collections / exhibits plug-in 
Spotlight. Blacklight is open source, 
responsive, and can include a number of add ons / APIs, like 
 
OAI-PMH, SiteMaps, oEmbed, 
and Map views. It has hundreds of instances worldwide, and is used for a 
variety of purposes, including catalogs, digital repository front-ends, 
presentation of digital collections, and a front-end to 
Hydra.

Spotlight is an extension of Blacklight, and provides curators and collection 
managers with a self-service UI for building a digital collection showcase. It 
adds context, order, narrative and customizable search, facets and display 
fields to a digital collection site through a WYSIWG UI. Some Spotlight sites 
can be found at Stanford’s exhibits page: https://exhibits.stanford.edu/

I look forward to seeing UNT’s new Texas Portal; they do good work. (No 
pressure, Mark :)

- Tom





On Feb 27, 2016, at 1:26 PM, Matt Sherman 
mailto:matt.r.sher...@gmail.com>> wrote:

Hi all,

I am asking about interesting digital collection tech due to some personal
research I am doing.  I have looked a bunch of digital collection sites
lately and outside of NYPL , I have
mostly seen bland, non-responsive but functional CONTENTdm sites or old
late 90s early 2000s static HTML exhibit sites.  Given the kind of web
tools and UX methods we have now I am curious if people can point me to, or
tell me about, more interesting user friendly designs/systems?  I see talk
of responsive design and data interoperability via OAI-PMH and APIs, but I
must be looking in the wrong places as I am seeing very little evidence of
it being put into action.  If anyone can point me to more interesting
pastures I would appreciate it.

Matt Sherman

[CODE4LIB] article discovery platforms -- post-implementation assessment?

[Tom Cramer]

I’ve seen many reviews of article discovery platforms (Ebsco Discovery Service, 
Ex Libris Primo Central, Serials Solutions Summon) before an implementations as 
part of a selection process—typically covering things like content coverage, 
API features, integrability with other content / sites. I have not seen any 
assessments done after an implementation.

- what has usage of the article search been like?
- what is the patron satisfaction with the service?
- has anyone gone from blended results to bento box, or bento box to blended, 
based on feedback?
- has anyone switched from one platform to another?
- knowing what you know now, would you do anything different?

I’m particularly interested in the experiences of libraries who use their own 
front ends (like Blacklight or VUFind), and hit the discovery platform via an 
API.

Does anyone have a report or local experience they can share? On list or 
directly?

It would be great to find some shoulders to stand on here. Thanks!

- Tom

[CODE4LIB] PASIG (Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group) meeting -- 9-11 March 2016 in Prague

[Tom Cramer]

Registration is open for the next PASIG (Preservation and Archiving Special 
Interest Group) event, March 9-11, at the Czech National Library of Technology 
in Prague. Note that the attendee cost is 200€ until the end of January and 
250€ February 1 on. To view the agenda and register, go to 
http://pasig.schk.sk/wordpress/registration. A list of local hotels is 
available on the website.

This is a great opportunity for organizations setting up preservation 
repositories to collaborate and work directly with leaders in the field. PASIG 
focuses on 1) addressing practical preservation questions, 2) hearing about 
best practices and new technologies from global experts, 3) investigating the 
convergence of on-premise architectures and the Cloud, 4) how to set up, 
initiate, and audit the metrics of a preservation project, 5) key global 
project updates, and 6) solution provider and end customer collaboration. PASIG 
is a highly collaborative and interactive forum and generally attracts a large 
contingent of new participants.

Sessions will include:

Digital Preservation Bootcamp
Training in concepts, issues, tools, strategies & approaches for Digital 
Preservation and Archiving, designed as an introduction for those new to the 
field, or a refresher for longer term practitioners.

Open Preservation Foundation (OPF) Workshop: veraPDF
Definitive, open source PDF/A validation for digital preservationists

Long-term Preservation Hardware & Systems
Presentations from and discussions with industry experts on the architectures, 
technology, and commercial trends relevant to the design of long-term and 
large-scale storage.

PKX: Practitioners Knowledge Exchange
Case studies in Preservation & Archiving architectures and operations from 
institutions in many fields.

Lightning Talks
A mix of prepared and spontaneous 5-minute presentations on work in progress, 
compelling breakthroughs or burning issues from the PASIG Community (archives & 
industry; practitioners and thought-leaders).

The Frontiers of Preservation
Discussions on the recent developments and challenges facing those who are 
tackling new challenges in digital preservation.

Industry Forum: Highlights from Solution Providers & Vendors
Industry experts and technology providers give overviews their systems, 
services and vision for the future of preservation and archiving, followed by a 
panel discussion on select topics.

Digital Preservation Community Developments
The digital preservation community is advancing across a broad front. This 
session will provide an opportunity on updates from some of the most important 
organizations, initiatives and and consortial efforts across the globe.

Hardening Existing Systems with Preservation Capabilities
While some sites have dedicated systems for digital archiving, many others have 
existing digital asset management systems and workflows, and are seeking how to 
make these more archive-worthy. This session will explore how different sites 
are maximizing their existing systems to maximize their preservation functions.


We would like to thank both the committee members and sponsors: Arkivum, Cray, 
The Digital Preservation Network, Ex Libris, Oracle, Preservica, P&A Consult, 
and T-Systems.

Participating/attending organizations as of January 16 include:

  *   Arkivum
  *   AVPreserve
  *   Bibliotheca Alexandrina
  *   Bibliotheque nationale de France
  *   Charles U., Prague
  *   CSC Finland
  *   Czech Library of the Academy of Sciences
  *   Czech National Library of Technology
  *   Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC)
  *   Digital Preservation Network (DPN)
  *   Ex Libris
  *   German National Library of Science and Technology
  *   FernUniversitaet in Hagen
  *   FIZ Karlsruhe
  *   King's College London
  *   LOCKSS
  *   Masaryk U.
  *   Moravska Zemska Knihovna
  *   Moravian Library
  *   Museum of Modern Art
  *   Open Preservation Foundation
  *   Oracle
  *   Oxford U.
  *   P&A Consult
  *   Preservica
  *   Princeton U.
  *   Qatar National Library
  *   Slovak Center of Scientific and Technical Information
  *   Slovak Chemistry Library
  *   Stanford U.
  *   T-Systems
  *   Tamco
  *   UC San Diego
  *   U. Freiburg
  *   U. Hull
  *   U. Oklahoma

Re: [CODE4LIB] Blacklight Community Survey Results

[Tom Cramer]

Forwarding to C4L on behalf of Rob Cartolano. - Tom


Thanks Jonathan, great timing as we prepare for the upcoming Blacklight Summit 
at Princeton in November.

I would like to collect more information about all production instances of 
Blacklight.  At a minimum, I just need three fields from this survey; 
institution name, service name, and URL.  If you can provide the additional few 
items like service type and contact name and email, that would be most 
appreciated.  Please fill this out, and pass along this survey form so that we 
can get a more comprehensive listing of production Blacklights:

http://goo.gl/forms/xRBNrY95W2

I will summarize the information at the November meeting.

Thanks in advance for your assistance,
Rob

Robert Cartolano
AVP for Digital Programs and Technology Services
Columbia University Libraries/Information Services
508 Butler Library
535 West 114th Street
New York, NY 10027
r...@columbia.edu
212-854-3356


On Oct 20, 2015, at 4:40 PM, Jonathan Rochkind  wrote:

In late August/early September you may recall I released a Blacklight Community 
Survey. I got 18 responses.

The survey covered nature or organizations implementing BL, rough categories of 
usage of the BL apps, versions of dependencies in use, and free form likes and 
dislikes about BL.

Just posted on my blog, I have links to the raw data, as well my some of my own 
summary, interpretation, and analysis.

https://bibwild.wordpress.com/2015/10/20/blacklight-community-survey-results/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Blacklight Summit November 4-6, 2015 @ Princeton University

[Tom Cramer]

Nikitas, 

Thanks for expanding on the event and its objectives. This sounds excellent; 
we’ve only had one other Blacklight Summit before (that I can recall) at Johns 
Hopkins, many years ago. As Chris said, if we can get a critical mass of 
contributors / committers there, the Princeton summit should be a rare 
opportunity to synthesize a roadmap for the architecture and features of core 
BL, in addition to the growing list of add ons and complementary projects. 

Stanford will definitely be there. Many thanks to Princeton for stepping up to 
organize this,   

- Tom



> On Sep 3, 2015, at 10:17 AM, Nikitas Tampakis  wrote:
> 
> Hi Chris,
> 
> Thanks for asking. The intent of this summit is not to attract potential
> adopters, but to share existing work and knowledge surrounding Blacklight.
> This means developers who have built applications on top of Blacklight as
> well as those who have worked on the Blacklight codebase. I would hope that
> every institution represented would be prepared to present its
> Blacklight-related work. We will split the time between presentations and
> coding sessions depending on the ultimate list of delegates in attendance,
> and have every intention of allotting time to both.
> 
> I hope this clarifies things for you and all who are interested.
> 
> Best,
> Nikitas
> 
> On 09/02/2015 06:55 PM, Chris Beer wrote:
> 
> Hi Nikitas,
> 
> Thanks for making this happen, it sounds like a great event. Could you
> clarify the audience you’re trying to pull in? Is this an event for
> potential adopters, developers building on top of blacklight, and/or
> developers working in and around the blacklight codebase?
> 
> It would be great if we could carve out some time for developers working
> directly on Blacklight and the surrounding ecosystem to think about the
> roadmap, technical architecture, and future directions for the project.
> 
> Thanks,
> Chris
> 
> On Aug 31, 2015, at 7:34 AM, Nikitas Tampakis 
>  wrote:
> 
> Apologies for cross-posting
> 
> The Princeton University Library is hosting a 2.5-day summit this
> November dedicated to Blacklight and its moving parts. We are sending
> out this survey to gather information about prospective attendees to
> assist us in planning for the event. The survey will close September
> 11th.
> 
> https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1FHMV2WXzniFWi66UPHL73yjReP_xFtyUFQXwnm6AjAE/viewform
> 
> Blacklight Summit @ Princeton University
> Wednesday, November 4th - Friday, November 6th 2015
> Wed, Thurs: 9AM-5PM, Friday: 9AM-12:30PM
> Princeton University Library
> Princeton, NJ 08540
> 
> Registration information will be sent soon. Please feel free to
> contact me at tampa...@princeton.edu with any questions.
> 
> Nikitas Tampakis
> Ruby on Rails Developer
> Princeton University Library
> 
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Re: [CODE4LIB] "coders for libraries"

[Tom Cramer]

You can tell it’s a public library because you get a 404. At a private library, 
you’d get a 403. 

- Tom




> On Sep 1, 2015, at 2:07 PM, Michael J. Giarlo  
> wrote:
> 
> DPLA is the finest library of 404s I've seen.
> 
> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 2:00 PM Tom Johnson 
> wrote:
> 
>> Eric, your suggestion simply won't do:
>> http://dp.la/item/e637ec0731c3129dc4f6ff4c5e528bda is a 404.
>> 
>> - Tom
>> 
>> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 1:07 PM, Eric Phetteplace 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> "code4lib | e637ec0731c3129dc4f6ff4c5e528bda"
>>> 
>>> In all seriousness, I think coming up with an inclusive tagline is a
>> great
>>> idea. How about "people, libraries, code"?
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 12:25 PM Laura Smart 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
 Rotating slogans FTW.
 Laura
 
 On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 12:03 PM, Sarah Shealy <
>> sarah.she...@outlook.com>
 wrote:
 
> +1 to both
> 
>> Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 11:58:39 -0700
>> From: dei...@uw.edu
>> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] "coders for libraries"
>> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
>> 
>> Code4Lib | Libers for Codaries
>> 
>> 
>> Kate Deibel, PhD | Web Applications Specialist
>> Information Technology Services
>> University of Washington Libraries
>> http://staff.washington.edu/deibel
>> 
>> --
>> 
>> "When Thor shows up, it's always deus ex machina."
>> 
>> On 9/1/2015 11:39 AM, scott bacon wrote:
>>> Code4Lib | We Are The Wind Beneath Your Wings
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 2:31 PM, Wilhelmina Randtke <
 rand...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
 In general, it's not great to refer to people as nouns.  It's
>>> better
> to say
 people with an adjective, so the person isn't replaced or given
>>> just
> one
 identity.  I support not calling people coders or other noun.
 
 -Wilhelmina Randtke
 
 On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Eric Hellman 
> wrote:
 
> Between September and November of 2008, the title attribute of
>>> the
> Code4lib homepage was changed from "code4lib | Code for
>>> Libraries"
 to
> "code4lib | coders for libraries, libraries for coders".
> 
> Dave Winer, who could be considered the inventor of the blog,
> recently
> tweeted about us:
> 
> "code4lib: coders for libraries, libraries for coders. (I
>> really
> hate the
> word "coders.") code4lib.org "
> 
> As someone who feels that Code4Lib should welcome people who
>>> don't
> particularly identify as "coders", I would welcome a return to
>>> the
 previous
> title attribute.
> 
> Eric Hellman
> President, Free Ebook Foundation
> Founder, Unglue.it https://unglue.it/
> http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/
> twitter: @gluejar
> 
 
> 
 
>>> 
>> 

Re: [CODE4LIB] Indie Preserves

[Tom Cramer]

Scott, Norie,

Kudos to you for starting this up, and sharing this on list. This seems to me 
exactly the kind of  work that 
librarians & archivists can do in the age of the Internet to help preserve and 
provide access to our cultural heritage.  I will definitely pass along the blog 
to my colleagues at Stanford doing related work.

Speaking of which, the Internet Archive has recenlty been doing some very 
impressive work on capturing, preserving and serving music. See 
https://archive.org/details/etree and 
https://blog.archive.org/2014/10/28/building-music-libraries/, e.g. If you 
haven’t yet reflected IA’s efforts in your blog (and I don’t see it, though 
that may be an oversight on my part), it might be a worthy addition. With the 
IA’s new focus on “Building Libraries Together”, they could be a great online 
host and library for materials that might otherwise be lost.

Cheers,

- Tom









On Jul 30, 2015, at 5:19 AM, Karen Coyle 
mailto:li...@kcoyle.net>> wrote:

I recommend a look at Pop Up Archive [1] - digital archiving for the 
non-archivist. It's heavily based on the archiving of sound files.

kc
[1] https://www.popuparchive.com/

On 7/29/15 9:13 PM, Scott Carlson wrote:
Apologies for any cross-posting, and please excuse the shameless 
self-promotion... Norie Guthrie (an archivist/special collections librarian) 
and myself have started a website/blog to help DIY & born-digital music labels 
with the digital/physical preservation of their materials. We hope to provide 
practical archiving tips and solutions to those putting out music on a 
shoestring budget.

This past spring, we conducted a survey to understand what types of materials 
record labels were saving and how they were saving them. We hope to formally 
present on this data some time in the future.

If you have time, please stop by the blog: http://www.indiepreserves.info/

Feel free to look us up on Twitter as well: https://twitter.com/IndiePreserves

Thanks,
Scott Carlson
Metadata Coordinator
Rice University, Fondren Library
scarl...@rice.edu

--
Karen Coyle
kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net
m: +1-510-435-8234
skype: kcoylenet/+1-510-984-3600

Re: [CODE4LIB] Public list of Institutions and openURL servers

[Tom Cramer]

Alberto, 

> Thanks, this is useful information although it does not help us in allowing
> the user to select from a list via autocomplete (which is what we are
> aiming for).

Just out of curiosity, can I ask you to expand on what you’re trying to 
accomplish with such a list, and why it’s useful? 

- Tom





> On Jul 15, 2015, at 8:42 PM, Accomazzi, Alberto  
> wrote:
> 
> Hi Xiaoming,
> 
> Thanks, this is useful information although it does not help us in allowing
> the user to select from a list via autocomplete (which is what we are
> aiming for).
> 
> But checking the info available on the dev pages, I was reminded of your
> lookup by IP address service which could help us guess the proper resolver:
> https://platform.worldcat.org/api-explorer/registryPlatformSRU/OpenURLResolver/LookupByIPAddress
> 
> However, I could not get it to work with any of the IPs in our institution,
> e.g.
> http://www.worldcat.org/registry/lookup?IP=131.142.185.29
> 
> Am I doing something wrong or is the service not behaving correctly?
> 
> Thanks,
> -- Alberto
> 
> 
> 
>> Alberto,
>> The information is available through OCLC's institution registry API if you
>> happen to know the library's registry id, such as:
>> 
>> http://www.worldcat.org/webservices/registry/enhancedContent/Institutions/3003
>> It has XML fragment like:
>> 
>> http://jt8rt5xt7v.search.serialssolutions.com/
>> 
>> serialsSolutions
>> 
>> I think the official document about this feature is at:
>> 
>> http://www.oclc.org/developer/develop/web-services/worldcat-registry/sruxsd-interface/organization-resource.en.html
>> Xiaoming
>> 
>> On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 11:32 PM, Accomazzi, Alberto <
>> aaccoma...@cfa.harvard.edu> wrote:
>>> Is there a (somewhat complete) list of the OpenURL servers out there? We
>>> maintain a short list based on the information we have collected from
>>> electronic resource librarians who took the time to contact us, but I
>> would
>>> think that OCLC or code4lib could do a much better job at it.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> -- Alberto
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Dr. Alberto Accomazzi
>>> Program Manager
>>> NASA Astrophysics Data System - http://ads.harvard.edu
>>> Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics - http://www.cfa.harvard.edu
>>> 60 Garden St, MS 83, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
>>> 

Re: [CODE4LIB] Fedora 4 repositories with open API?

[Tom Cramer]

Hi Patrick,

To my knowledge, Penn State has one of the current Fedora 4 repositories in 
production; a few others are close (including the Royal Library of Denmark). 
You might also want to post th is query on the fedora-t...@googlegroups.com 
and/or fedora-commun...@googlegroups.com list.

Hope this helps, 

- Tom

PS. Has there been any thought that Omeka S might also be IIIF-friendly 
, and able to present image-based resources from any 
IIIF-compatible repository by consuming both the IIIF image and presentation 
APIs ? I can muster up some live IIIF 
API endpoints, if you are interested. 





> On Jul 8, 2015, at 9:07 AM, Patrick Murray-John  
> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> The Omeka  web publication tool for GLAMs is working on a 
> new version, Omeka S, that will include modules for connecting to various 
> other systems, including Fedora 4.
> 
> Does anyone have a Fedora 4 installation with open API that we could use to 
> test the basic reading and import mechanisms against? This would be for 
> development and testing purposes only.
> 
> Many thanks,
> 
> Patrick Murray-John
> Omeka Director of Developer Outreach

Re: [CODE4LIB] Academic consortium with blacklight as discovery layer

[Tom Cramer]

I believe that University of Wisconsin-Madison has done something similar for 
the University of Wisconsin system. Perhaps Scott Prater or Peter Gorman can 
comment with more detail. 

http://search.library.wisc.edu/?uwsystem=on

- Tom




On Apr 8, 2015, at 6:19 PM, Jiao, Dazhi wrote:

> We customized blacklight to add a campus based view for each of our 9 
> campuses. In the campus view, the search results are restricted to only the 
> records available at that campus. You can take a look at our catalog at 
> http://iucat.iu.edu. Click on the “Change Location” button to choose a campus 
> view.
> 
> David
> 
> --
> David Jiao
> Senior System Analyst
> Enterprise Library Systems, Indiana University
> dj...@iu.edu
> 
> 
> 
> On Apr 8, 2015, at 4:48 PM, Daniel Sifton 
> mailto:daniel.sif...@viu.ca>> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> Before I dive into the Blacklight development list, is anyone aware of 
> instances where this is happening?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> D.
> [VIU-full-text-and-tagline]_
> Daniel Sifton | Coordinator, Library Automation and Technical Services | 
> Vancouver Island University Library | 900 Fifth St,
> Nanaimo, BC V9R 5S5 | Tel: 250.753.3245, x2444  | Email: 
> daniel.sif...@viu.ca
>  | Twitter
> 
> 
> 

Re: [CODE4LIB] UPC to IMDb

[Tom Cramer]

Jamie, (adding in Blacklight-development list)...

This is cool. Super cool. Would you be willing to add UDVD to the Project 
Blacklight list of exemplar apps in the wiki? 

https://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight/wiki/Examples

I'd be happy to do it for you, but in the spirit of the wiki (and hoping always 
to get more contributors!) it would be awesome to see you self-list. 

- Tom





On Mar 30, 2015, at 1:37 PM, Little, James Clarence IV wrote:

> At the UM libraries, we created a special Blacklight instance for browsing 
> our film collection (http://library.miami.edu/udvd). We used a variety of 
> sources to pull in extra data about  films:
> 
> http://www.omdbapi.com/
> DBpedia
> https://www.themoviedb.org
> SolrMarc scripts to extract data from MARC
> 
> Our code is in GitHub (https://github.com/UMiamiLibraries/UDVD) and may be of 
> use for anyone wanting to get some of this kind of data. One issue we did run 
> into was slow response time/unreliability for our DBpedia SPARQL queries.  
> 
> If not directly, I'm sure that you can go from UPC to another identifier that 
> one of these data sources uses. 
> 
> Thanks,
> Jamie Little
> University of Miami Libraries
> 
> From: Code for Libraries  on behalf of Amy Drayer 
> 
> Sent: Monday, March 30, 2015 2:48 PM
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] UPC to IMDb
> 
> Dear Lucas and Code4Libbers:
> 
> I've been interested in this, and Linked Data might offer some possibility
> around accessing content similar to what IMDB has.  I haven't investigated
> yet, but I'd love to hear if anyone has worked with the Linked Movie DB
> (which includes the IMDB URL):
> http://linkedmdb.org/
> 
> In peace,
> 
> Amy M. Drayer, MLIS
> Senior IT Specialist, Web Developer
> amost...@gmail.com
> http://www.puzumaki.com
> 
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Mak, Lucas Wing Kau 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Does anyone know if there is an API or website out there that can return
>>> IMDb ID based on a UPC?
>>> Thanks,
>>> Lucas
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Lucas (Wing Kau) Mak
>>> Metadata and Catalog Librarian
>>> Michigan State University Libraries
>>> 366 W. Circle Drive
>>> East Lansing, MI 48824
>>> email: m...@mail.lib.msu.edu
>>> Tel: (517) 884-0822
>>> Fax: (517) 432-3693
>>> 
>> 

Re: [CODE4LIB] Inventory of Free, Libre, Open Source Software

[Tom Cramer]

Greg, 

Thanks for the invitation to give input to the inventory. Can you compare and 
contrast the EuropeanaTech FLOSS inventory with https://foss4lib.org/? (And/or 
perhaps someone from Lyrasis might also chime in?) Just wondering if they are 
two different approaches with the same objective, or two somewhat different 
approaches with some overlapping names / software titles. 

For the record, I'm not necessarily suggesting trying to consolidate, but 
rather understand any differences and overlaps between them. It seems like 
there is plenty of room for more than a single tools registry. I.e., there are 
at least three overlapping, current digital preservation tool lists:

- COPTR, the Community Owned digital Preservation Tool Registry: 
http://coptr.digipres.org/Main_Page
- POWRR's "tool grid" for digital preservation software: 
http://digitalpowrr.niu.edu/tool-grid/
- the IIPC's Web Archiving Tools & Software tools list: 
http://netpreserve.org/web-archiving/tools-and-software

each of which seems to have its niche (and more importantly, maintainers!)

Thanks, 

- Tom


On Feb 23, 2015, at 1:29 AM, Gregory Markus wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> Last week there were a few posts about finding a list of open source
> projects. I would like to point everyone towards the EuropeanaTech FLOSS
> Inventory
> .
> 
> 
> The list features almost 300 OS tools that are relevant for the digital
> cultural heritage/digital humanities sector.
> 
> Currently I am the only one actively managing the list. As you could
> imagine, staying up-to-date with new releases and new additions is quite
> difficult.
> 
> So feel free to browse around the inventory, if you see some of your own
> work on there and it needs updating feel free to tell me! If some of your
> favorite tools aren't on the list feel free to send me links to their
> github and I will add them.
> 
> Thanks everyone and I look forward to your contributions.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> greg
> 
> -- 
> 
> *Gregory Markus*
> 
> Project Assistant
> 
> EuropeanaTech Community Manager
> 
> *T* 0612350556
> 
> *Aanwezig:* - ma, di, wo, do, vr

[CODE4LIB] Fwd: IMLS-SURVEY ON CROWDSOURCING

[Tom Cramer]

I had the opportunity to attend a workshop on crowdsourcing last week run by 
the Crowdsourcing Consortium (http://www.crowdconsortium.org/), which is 
attempting to rationalize the space for libraries & archives. Those on these 
lists may find both the news of the consortium and the survey, below, to be of 
interest. - Tom

--=-===--=--=

From: Mary Flanagan 
Date: February 10, 2015 10:53:07 AM PST
Subject: IMLS-SURVEY ON CROWDSOURCING 

 Dear Colleagues,

The IMLS-funded Crowdsourcing Consortium for Libraries and Archives (CCLA) 
needs your help!
  We’re conducting a *quick* survey to gain greater insights about the key 
challenges faced by libraries and archives in designing and implementing 
crowdsourcing initiatives.  Responses to the survey will directly inform 
national conversations about crowdsourcing
 and help shape the direction of the CCLA.  We’d love you to offer your own 
unique insights!

You can access the survey here:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/CCLASurvey2

Please forward this message to any individuals, groups, or listservs who have 
an interest
 in crowdsourcing for libraries and archives. 


Thanks in advance for your help!
Mary Flanagan, for the CCLA
www.crowdconsortium.org



+ + + + + +

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Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities
Professor,  Department of Film & Media Studies
247 Black Family Visual Arts Center,  HB 6194
Dartmouth College  Hanover NH 03755
http://www.maryflanagan.com;   mary.flana...@dartmouth.edu
Follow me:  Facebook | Twitter

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Re: [CODE4LIB] state of the art in virtual shelf browse?

[Tom Cramer]

Jenn,

You can make your own conclusions about "state of the art", but here is 
Stanford's virtual shelf browse integrated into SearchWorks: 

- embedded in a record view as a film strip (see the "browse related items" 
section of the page)
- a full page, gallery view of related items, grouped together by call number

By design, this virtual shelf browse is across Stanford's entire holdings, 
regardless of physical location of the books. 

Another implementation to look at is Harvard's Stacklife: 
http://stacklife.harvard.edu/

- Tom




On Jan 25, 2015, at 4:30 PM, Jenn Riley wrote:

> At my library, we're starting to think about virtual shelf browsing options. 
> Who's doing a really good job with this now? What organizations can I look to 
> for state of the art implementations for inspiration?
> 
> Thanks for any suggestions.
> 
> Jenn
> 
> 
> ---
> Jenn Riley
> Associate Dean, Digital Initiatives | Vice Doyenne, Initiatives numériques
> 
> McGill University Library | Bibliothèque Université McGill
> 3459 McTavish Street | 3459, rue McTavish
> Montreal, QC, Canada H3A 0C9 | Montréal (QC) Canada  H3A 0C9
> 
> (514) 398-3642
> jenn.ri...@mcgill.ca

Re: [CODE4LIB] know of guidelines for contributing to open source projects?

[Tom Cramer]

John,

Here are the relevant source docs at Stanford:  

Research Policy Handbook, Section 9.2: Copyright Policy, which states that the 
copyright of artistic, scholarly and pedagogical works remain with the creator, 
unless the work is a work-for-hire, or an institutional work. (We interpret 
that our work is generally if not always work-for-hire.) 

Office of Technology Licensing, Software, which states that 
Stanford-copyrighted software can be licensed to the academic or commercial 
community under an open source license. (It can also be put in the public 
domain.) 

Office of Technology Licensing, Open Source Primer, which states that Stanford 
staff may open source software with the appropriate departmental approval. 

Based on the university policies, our departmental policy states:
> As a matter of practice, we publish software into publicly accessible code 
> repositories. This facilitates the review, exchange, reuse and possible code 
> contributions from other sites--a key part of our development strategy and 
> methodology. As best practice, we endeavor to put a clear license on this 
> code so others know what they may and may not do with it.
> 
> Staff should release it under an open source license.
> 
> If it is a contribution to a current codebase that has an approved OSS 
> license, we should contribute the code back under the this same license.
> If it is new Stanford code, then it should use an Apache 2 license as the 
> default.
> Why Apache 2? It is desirable to have a single license to consistently to 
> apply across all our products:
> so developers and managers need not try and follow a (potentially complex) 
> decision tree on which license to apply
> so potential collaborators can encounter a single, well-known OSS license on 
> our code, which facilitates adoption and contribution
> most if not all current projects (e.g., Hydra, Blacklight, Fedora, solr, 
> grant-funded development is licensed under an Apache 2 license, either due to 
> an IP agreement (with the funder), or Contributor License Agreements (CLA's) 
> and project convention with other project stakeholders
> as software created in one project / effort often makes it way into reuse in 
> another project (by design); a single license allows for this portability 
> (i.e., local Stanford code could easily become Hydra code without a relicense 
> or rewrite)
> How to License the Code: Follow the instructions here: 
> http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html The name of the Copyright 
> Owner is "The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University"
> 
> Copyright  The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
> 
> Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
> you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
> You may obtain a copy of the License at
> 
> http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
> 
> Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
> distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
> WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
> See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
> limitations under the License.
> 



Finally, the Hydra Project has put considerable effort into defining a clear, 
repeatable licensing procedure for the community's efforts, which is 
particulalry useful for community-sourced efforts. (A lot of our work is 
contributing to shared projects, not stand-alone projects.) The Hydra community 
software licensing mechanics are outlined here: 
https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/hydra/Code+Copyright+Statement. (FYI, there 
is much current discussion within UC about how to legally and effectively 
contribute to Hydra, so this may be particularly germane.) 

Hope this helps, 

- Tom





On Jan 9, 2015, at 12:11 PM, John Kunze wrote:

> Hi Tom,
> 
> This sounds terrific.  Yes, it would be very useful if you could share the
> source docs.  I assume that the Research Policy Handbook is at
> https://doresearch.stanford.edu/policies/research-policy-handbook ?
> 
> -John
> 
> On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Tom Cramer  wrote:
> 
>> John,
>> 
>> At Stanford, this is governed by the Research Policy Handbook; there is
>> some tech transfer and copyright detail, but essentially it says staff may
>> release University-funded code with with an open source license with
>> officer (Dean-level) approval.
>> 
>> At Stanford, we have put this into place with blanket approval for
>> releasing any code we deem shareable under a license (Apache 2 being
>> default, but not required). We have similar approval under the same terms
>> to release non-code artifacts under a CC license.
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] know of guidelines for contributing to open source projects?

[Tom Cramer]

John,

At Stanford, this is governed by the Research Policy Handbook; there is some 
tech transfer and copyright detail, but essentially it says staff may release 
University-funded code with with an open source license with officer 
(Dean-level) approval. 

At Stanford, we have put this into place with blanket approval for releasing 
any code we deem shareable under a license (Apache 2 being default, but not 
required). We have similar approval under the same terms to release non-code 
artifacts under a CC license. 

Based on this, we have templates for inserting license files into repos on 
Github, and default text to use for copyright statements. 

I can dig up source docs if that's useful.

- Tom




On Jan 8, 2015, at 4:22 PM, John A. Kunze wrote:

> Does anyone have existing institutional policy guidelines for staff who
> contribute to open source software projects?
> 
> A group at the California Digital Library is looking to learn from prior
> art in dealing appropriately with non-technical things like licensing,
> intellectual property, legal policy, cost/benefit issues, etc.
> 
> It would be great if any of you have something like that to share.
> 
> -John

Re: [CODE4LIB] Is Anyone Doing RFID Book Location or Stack Mapping?

[Tom Cramer]

We don't use RFID, but we do use a tool called StackMap to give a sense of the 
general location of books in our main library.  

For an example of the patron UX, click on the "map" link in a sample catalog 
record, such as http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/10474501. (Center column, 
in the "At the Library" panel.)

The back end system (where Access Services updates call number range locations) 
is, IMO, very nice and easy to use. 

Technical implementation time was quite short on our end (a few weeks?), but 
took longer on the specification, training and set up on StackMap / Access 
Services' side. 

HTH, 

- Tom



On Aug 28, 2014, at 10:15 AM, Jarrell, Mark wrote:

> Are there any libraries out there that are making use of RFID 
> hardware/software to help patrons know the precise location of books/items on 
> the shelves? Or is anyone use other stack mapping software to help patrons 
> know the general location of items on the shelf? If so, I have a few 
> questions for you. Please feel free to message me directly and I can compile 
> the results into an anonymous set to share with the group.
> 
>  1.  Name of software & vendor
>  2.  Approximate time to implement
>  3.  Approximate cost to implement
>  4.  What types of hardware/software is involved in the process that wasn't 
> used previously?
>  5.  How does the customer locate the item on the shelf (e.g. Via handheld 
> tool, map linked to catalog record, etc.)
>  6.  Is there a way for the patron to find out the location of items that are 
> shelved in non-public areas (if a library branch is undergoing renovations)?
>  7.  Would you recommend this software/hardware method to other libraries? 
> Why or why not?
> 
> [cid:B062E8AC-43B8-4564-9851-3B3E64D2EDF1]
> Mark W. Jarrell
> Online Applications Developer | Richland Library
> 1431 Assembly St.  | Columbia, SC 29201
> (p) 803.553.9818 | (GTalk, Skype) mark.jarrell
> Access Freely at RichlandLibrary.com.
> Interested in helping to shape RichlandLibrary.com? Join an advisory 
> group.
> 
> Watch Freely:
> My Pick | The Boy in the Striped 
> Pajamas

Re: [CODE4LIB] best practices for keeping / using library circ data

[Tom Cramer]

This email provoked zero responses on list. Was my timing off, is it a poorly 
framed question, or are people just not doing much in this realm? (By 
resending, I'm controlling for the timing factor...) 

- Tom


On Jun 7, 2014, at 3:20 AM, Tom Cramer wrote:

> I'm looking for best practices for keeping and using library usage data--real 
> life examples of libraries gathering and using things like circulation data 
> or e-resource traffic statistics to inform service and strategy decisions 
> while safeguarding patron privacy. 
> 
> I'm less interested in operational logging for security / authorization 
> purposes, and more interested in things like gathering data to make 
> recommendations (people who checked this out also checked this out...), 
> collection management / licensing / deaccessioning decisions, or overall 
> library / collection usage reporting--especially if the data are tracked and 
> used at more than a gross level (i.e., faculty v. graduate v. undergrad 
> usage). 
> 
> What usage data do you keep that may be correlated to patron identity?
> How do you use it? 
> What do you do to anonymize / aggregate / cleanse / protect patron privacy? 
> 
> Does anyone have an approach that they regard as state of the art? Or 
> pointers to previous work done in this space? 
> 
> Thanks in advance, 
> 
> - Tom
> 

[CODE4LIB] best practices for keeping / using library circ data

[Tom Cramer]

I'm looking for best practices for keeping and using library usage data--real 
life examples of libraries gathering and using things like circulation data or 
e-resource traffic statistics to inform service and strategy decisions while 
safeguarding patron privacy. 

I'm less interested in operational logging for security / authorization 
purposes, and more interested in things like gathering data to make 
recommendations (people who checked this out also checked this out...), 
collection management / licensing / deaccessioning decisions, or overall 
library / collection usage reporting--especially if the data are tracked and 
used at more than a gross level (i.e., faculty v. graduate v. undergrad usage). 

What usage data do you keep that may be correlated to patron identity?
How do you use it? 
What do you do to anonymize / aggregate / cleanse / protect patron privacy? 

Does anyone have an approach that they regard as state of the art? Or pointers 
to previous work done in this space? 

Thanks in advance, 

- Tom

Re: [CODE4LIB] Media-rich DM software

[Tom Cramer]

Bernadette, 

You might also want to take a look at Spotlight, a Blacklight-based plugin for 
showcasing digital objects in a structured presentation, along with commentary, 
narrative and whizzy page features (like carousels, media players, etc.) It's 
just about to have its 0.1 release (expected this month) so it's very early, 
but other than that I think you'll find it has some Omeka-like features, along 
with very good integration with the Blacklight-Hydra-Fedora stack, and a strong 
prospective user base from those communities, and all the Hydra-Fedora goodness 
of a full DAM solution. 

https://github.com/sul-dlss/spotlight

There will be a Spotlight preso at Open Repositories 2014 next week, which will 
serve as a public debut of a first Spotlight app. 

Cheers, 

- Tom



On Jun 2, 2014, at 7:39 PM, Bernadette Houghton wrote:

> We are currently investigating software to exhibit our special collections 
> materials. We are looking for something with a wide and active user base; 
> Omeka is one on our list. Are there any others worth investigating?
> 
> Omeka does appear to have some disadvantages; one being that it seems to be 
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Re: [CODE4LIB] separate list for jobs

[Tom Cramer]

In the great growing tradition of 21st century political debate, I will avoid 
the questions in this thread entirely, and "pivot" to points that I personally 
find gratifying to discuss, as I'm enjoying the observations of others:

1.) For the record, though I've never been to New Zealand (still waiting my 
invite... ahem), I found Stuart's email a wonderfully self-conscious allusion 
to C4L's "the answer is technology" personality that (at times) emerges. (And 
+2 points for the double entendre Internet2 pun--intentional or not). I guess 
it's true that email does not adequately convey tongueness-in-cheek

2.) Ditto to what Charles says..., plus

3.) More than once, the C4L jobs I've found out about jobs my own organization 
was posting from this list that were a surprise to me. (Left hand, meet right 
hand!)

4.) More than once, I've found out from the C4L jobs feed that our own HR 
system has successfully posted a position in my own department. Yes, this can 
take weeks, and no, our "awesome" HR system doesn't have an internal email 
notification system

5.) Charles--did you say you were interested in a linked data position at 
Stanford, or know someone who is? Call me! : ) 

- Tom




On May 7, 2014, at 4:56 PM, Charles Blair wrote:

> I don't mind having them both in the same feed. They're easy enough to
> tell apart even w/o a filter. The reason I say this is that when I see
> something like "Job: Digital Assets Librarian", or " Job: Linked Data
> Technologist, Metadata at Stanford University", just to pick two at
> random, that's a good way for me (as a hiring manager) to see what new
> kinds of positions are being posted (as opposed to those I'm already
> familiar with), what new responsibilities they might entail, how a
> position might be pitched in a new way, or, as in the case of
> Stanford, what in particular they (as a leader in some of the sorts of
> things I care about) might be up to. At the very least it adds useful
> pieces to my current awareness in a convenient way, but it also has
> the potential of influencing how we define the next position we post
> here, and since we would like to hire from the community, it has
> potential benefit for the community as well. Of course, I'm speaking
> for myself, but in case this is a potentially useful perspective, that
> some others might hold as well, I post it.
> 
> -- 
> Charles Blair, Director, Digital Library Development Center, University of 
> Chicago Library
> 1 773 702 8459 | c...@uchicago.edu | http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/~chas/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Call for Old Conf Tshirt Logos

[Tom Cramer]

> Is black light a 501c3?

Nope. Just an OSS project with lots of contributors from awesome places : ) 

Off the top of my head, and in alphabetical order, the obvious (to me) ones in 
this space that might be candidates are DuraSpace and Lyrasis.

In time, DP.LA seems like a great possible candidate, though it is US-centric, 
I'm unsure of its corporate status (though they do seem to be able to cash and 
sign checks), and right now they might view C4L as a distraction more than an 
asset or timely alliance. (Others on this list might be in a better position to 
comment, ahem...)

I'm sure I'm leaving out other possibilities.

- Tom




> 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: Roy Tennant<mailto:roytenn...@gmail.com>
> Sent: ‎4/‎10/‎2014 11:25 PM
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU<mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Call for Old Conf Tshirt Logos
> 
> We should probably toss out some ideas before approaching anyone. Getting
> the right fit would be important. Which 501(c)3's in our space do we think
> we may want to approach about being our fiscal agent? Maybe we should
> collect a list of suggestions and then (natch) vote on who to approach? We
> could then go down the list until we got a "yes".
> Roy
> 
> 
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 8:21 PM, Riley Childs wrote:
> 
>> That might be a better idea then a fully independent code4lib organization.
>> 
>> 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: Tom Cramer<mailto:tcra...@stanford.edu>
>> Sent: 4/10/2014 11:20 PM
>> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU<mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
>> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Call for Old Conf Tshirt Logos
>> 
>> What about approaching one of the existing 501c3's in our space to see if
>> they might be interested in and able to take this on for the community?
>> 
>> In addition to shirt revenues and yacht maintenance fees, it would be good
>> to have an agency that could help do banking for scholarships, and perhaps
>> pay forward any surpluses from one year's conference to the next year's
>> hosts.
>> 
>> - Tom
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Apr 10, 2014, at 8:10 PM, Riley Childs wrote:
>> 
>>> No, I think it should go toward my yacht ;P.
>>> In all seriousness, code4lib needs an entity, simply to collect money
>> for this sorta thing. LegalZoom any one? ;)
>>> 
>>> 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: Alicia Cozine<mailto:ali...@curationexperts.com>
>>> Sent: 4/10/2014 11:07 PM
>>> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU<mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU>
>>> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Call for Old Conf Tshirt Logos
>>> 
>>> Could one of the scholarship sponsors adopt this as a way to fund future
>> conference scholarships?
>>> 
>>> Alicia
>>> 
>>> On Apr 10, 2014, at 9:53 PM, Roy Tennant  wrote:
>>> 
>>>> That's good on the tax front, but it would be nice if eventually we
>> could
>>>> find a way to make money to help out with the conference. But that will
>>>> take an organization, and so far we've avoided that.
>>>> Roy
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Riley Childs >> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> It is running though spreadshirt set up with 0% commissions, so no
>> monies
>>>>> are being collected. I think as long as I don't collect any money, we
>>>>> should be good.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Riley Childs
>>>>> Junior
>>>>> IT Admin
>>>>> email: rchi...@cucawarriors.com
>>>>> office: +1 (704) 537-0031 x101
>>>>> cell: +1 (704) 497-2086
>>>>> 
>>>>> Please Think Before Hitting Reply All
>>>>> I Do Web Design! RileyChilds.net/services
>>>>> 
>>>>> From: Code for Libraries [

Re: [CODE4LIB] Call for Old Conf Tshirt Logos

[Tom Cramer]

What about approaching one of the existing 501c3's in our space to see if they 
might be interested in and able to take this on for the community? 

In addition to shirt revenues and yacht maintenance fees, it would be good to 
have an agency that could help do banking for scholarships, and perhaps pay 
forward any surpluses from one year's conference to the next year's hosts. 

- Tom



On Apr 10, 2014, at 8:10 PM, Riley Childs wrote:

> No, I think it should go toward my yacht ;P.
> In all seriousness, code4lib needs an entity, simply to collect money for 
> this sorta thing. LegalZoom any one? ;)
> 
> 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: Alicia Cozine
> Sent: ‎4/‎10/‎2014 11:07 PM
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Call for Old Conf Tshirt Logos
> 
> Could one of the scholarship sponsors adopt this as a way to fund future 
> conference scholarships?
> 
> Alicia
> 
> On Apr 10, 2014, at 9:53 PM, Roy Tennant  wrote:
> 
>> That's good on the tax front, but it would be nice if eventually we could
>> find a way to make money to help out with the conference. But that will
>> take an organization, and so far we've avoided that.
>> Roy
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Riley Childs 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> It is running though spreadshirt set up with 0% commissions, so no monies
>>> are being collected. I think as long as I don't collect any money, we
>>> should be good.
>>> 
>>> Riley Childs
>>> Junior
>>> IT Admin
>>> email: rchi...@cucawarriors.com
>>> office: +1 (704) 537-0031 x101
>>> cell: +1 (704) 497-2086
>>> 
>>> Please Think Before Hitting Reply All
>>> I Do Web Design! RileyChilds.net/services
>>> 
>>> From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Cary
>>> Gordon [listu...@chillco.com]
>>> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2014 8:27 PM
>>> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
>>> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Call for Old Conf Tshirt Logos
>>> 
>>> I hope that the IRS doesn't put a lien on the yacht he buys with the
>>> proceeds.
>>> 
>>> You're right, though. Probably better if some organization or institution
>>> could step up. Again we are slightly challenged by our state of
>>> non-organization.
>>> 
>>> Cary
>>> 
>>> On Apr 10, 2014, at 4:36 PM, Roy Tennant  wrote:
>>> 
 I think one of the things that has held us back about the store in the
>>> past
 was the lack of a fiscal agent. That is, someone is going to be taking in
 money on behalf of Code4Lib (presumably), but where does it go? Since we
 have no organization we have no fiscal presence. No bank account,
>>> nothing.
 So, is Riley going to be our fiscal agent in this regard? Are there tax
 consequences to that?
 Roy
 
 
 On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Lisa Rabey 
>>> wrote:
 
> Someone(s) have been hawking the METADATA shirt on various places for
>>> ages:
> 
> 
> 
>>> http://www.redbubble.com/people/charlizeart/works/1280530-metadata?country_code=US&p=t-shirt&utm_campaign=shopping&utm_medium=google_products&utm_source=google&gclid=CLuSxN6G170CFYZAMgodEDoAMw
> 
>>> http://www.cafepress.com/mf/17182533/metadata_tshirt?productId=786272784
> 
> 
> I would love to get a 2010 design:
> http://wiki.code4lib.org/images/9/9e/Code4lib2010_P-Hochstenbach.png
> 
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Joe Atzberger 
> wrote:
>> I know non #code4lib members who would gladly buy the
>>> METADATA/METALLICA
>> shirt if available, so this is a great idea...
>> 
>> 
>> On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 10:24 PM, Riley Childs <
>>> rchi...@cucawarriors.com
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> I am trying to collect all the conf tshirt logos in a vector format
> (PDF,
>>> EPS, Ai, svg) if you have it I would like it to do a rerelease on the
> c4l
>>> store
>>> 
>>> 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
>>> 
> 
> 
> 
> --
> 
> Lisa M. Rabey | @pnkrcklibrarian
> 
> 
>>> 
> http://exitpursuedbyabear.net | http://lisa.rabey.net
> 
>>> 

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

[Tom Cramer]

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-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
>>&g

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

[Tom Cramer]

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 there!
>> 
>> Joshua Gomez
>> Library Systems Programmer
>> University of Southern California
>> 
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Re: [CODE4LIB] 2nd meetup for code4lib LA - May 15th

[Tom Cramer]

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 a

Re: [CODE4LIB] Tallying needs

[Tom Cramer]

Aaron,

In JIRA and a few other systems, there is a "vote" feature. If used with an 
agile schema, it seems to me that you could use it to tally the number of times 
an unaddressed story might address a real instance of a user need. We do 
something else though.

We use different projects (in JIRA) to track different forms of contacts / 
needs for some of our projects that have high patron support / patron contacts. 
One queue is used to track support requests and feedbacks; these then spawn the 
creation of a new ticket in an engineering queue for work (stories, bug fixes, 
technical tasks) to be done by the dev team. If a new patron feedback comes in 
that is already represented by a story (or bug) in the dev queue, we link them. 
Dev tickets that link to multiple customer feedback tickets essentially have 
multiple "votes". 

In addition to help weighting the stories, this approach also lets us 1) keep 
track of testing and acceptance criteria (i.e., did we actually address the 
original request from a patron), and 2.) contact patrons / issue submitters 
after we release a feature or bug fix, to let them know our most recent release 
addresses their issue (sometimes months or years after the fact). 

HTH, 

- Tom


On Mar 6, 2014, at 6:54 AM, Collie, Aaron wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Pardon my ignorance here, but we were discussing use cases and user stories 
> and noting how static they are (in our implementation of them) for capturing 
> user needs for more general library services. Im my experience, there is one 
> story per need, and additional expressions of that particular need don't 
> really get "counted" to assist with prioritization.
> 
> I'm curious if anyone has used any sort of ticketing system for a more 
> traditional library function like reference or instruction that might "tally" 
> expressions of need (e.g. we've heard a request for an NVIVO course 4 times 
> in the last semester). Maybe something like Agile or Kanban already account 
> for accumulation of stories or prioritization based on stats, and I'm just 
> not aware of it?
> 
> -Aaron
> 
> 
> W. Aaron Collie
> Digital Curation Librarian
> MSU Libraries
> tel: 517.884.0867 email: col...@msu.edu
> tweet: aaroncollie site: http://staff.lib.msu.edu/collie/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Job: Programmer at DTU Library

[Tom Cramer]

Christian,

Sounds like fun indeed, and perhaps one of the happiest places on earth to 
work. We've been floating this link around work the last week: 
http://huff.to/1dZgoUB Maybe you can start using it in your international job 
ads. 

Are you (officially) moving towards Hydra?

- Tom

 | Tom Cramer
 | Chief Technology Strategist & Associate Director 
 | Digital Library Systems & Services
 | Stanford University Libraries
 | tcra...@stanford.edu

On Feb 5, 2014, at 4:18 AM, Christian Tønsberg wrote:

> Apologies for cross-postings!!
> 
> Hi everyone,
> 
> There is a job opening at DTU Library as programmer.
> 
> Please see more here: 
> http://www.dtu.dk/english/career/job?id=ec169f33-1830-4200-8963-2691da4a8044
> 
> Keywords:  blacklight, solr, hydra, large amounts of data, …. aside from good 
> fun, hard work and great colleagues, of course :-)
> 
> Cheers, Christian

Re: [CODE4LIB] Lorem Ipsum metadata? Is there such a thing?

[Tom Cramer]

> 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. ;-)

It's 42, but Z39.50 will accelerate the rate of decay.

- T

Re: [CODE4LIB] mass convert jpeg to pdf

[Tom Cramer]

On Nov 8, 2013, at 11:14 AM, Ethan Gruber wrote:

> On the same note, I've had good experiences with using adore djatoka to
> render jpeg2000 files. Maybe something better has since come along. I'm out
> of touch with this type of technology.

For zoomable image rendering (from JPEG2000 or TIFF), you may also want to look 
at 

IIP Image Server: http://iipimage.sourceforge.net/
Loris: https://github.com/pulibrary/loris (from Jon Stroop @ Princeton)

Djatoka is still widely used, but does not enjoy a robust or active development 
/ support community. This web page may have some useful links for the curious: 

http://iiif.io/apps-demos.html

- Tom

PS. At DLF this week, there was also a presentation on Mirador, a multi-up 
windowing environment for viewing and comparing images from different 
repositories. It might be a nice complement to an exhibits environment. 

Re: [CODE4LIB] Usability Person?

[Tom Cramer]

We have been lucky to have a full time interaction designer within our library 
IT group for about 6 years. It makes a world of difference in the quality of 
our products; it also helps with letting the engineers focus on engineering, 
and the librarians focus on being librarians (rather than trying to design for 
patrons). 

- Tom


On Oct 30, 2013, at 8:24 AM, Andrew Darby wrote:

> 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] Faculty publication database

[Tom Cramer]

My understanding of VIVO is that it's more of the "faculty profiles" 
application, and that you still need a source of publications data in order to 
populate that portion of each faculty member's profile. With VIVO (and 
certainly with other faculty profile applications), I believe this is typically 
done through a mix of manual data entry and harvesting / autoloading from open 
(Pubmed) or commercial services (Syndetics, Thomson Reuters, etc.). The 
harvesting & autoloading introduce issues of deduplicating citations (when they 
may come from more than one source) and disambiguating authors. I.e., it's 
messy. 

If someone feels like their institution has nailed this problem, I'd sure like 
to hear how they did it. 

- Tom




On Oct 25, 2013, at 11:30 AM, Michael J. Giarlo wrote:

> Have you looked at VIVO yet?  http://vivoweb.org/
> 
> It's an open-source project that was initially developed by Cornell and is
> now being incubated by DuraSpace.
> 
> -Mike
> 
> 
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 8:35 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.edu
>> 

Re: [CODE4LIB] ANNOUNCEMENT: Traject MARC->Solr indexer release

[Tom Cramer]

Jonathan, Bill, 

Very interesting--thanks for the replies. While I'm not sure I understand what 
indexing arbitrary XML into solr might look like, this does prompt me to think 
it would be interesting to look at Trajecting up some EAD (may I use it as a 
verb?) into solr, for finding aid searchability. It is my impression that most 
of the effort in making finding aids searchable is in the indexing, and I'm not 
aware of a general purpose tool / approach for those of us using solr yet, 
though there have been plenty of successful approaches at individual sites. 
(Happy to have my ignorance rectified.)

Mike Giarlo is organizing a DLF hackfest for ArchivesSpace / Hydra integration. 
I wonder if Traject for EAD might be touched on there? 

- Tom



On Oct 15, 2013, at 10:28 AM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:

> Yep, what Bill said, I have had thoughts of extending it to other types of 
> input too, it was part of my original design goals.
> 
> In particular, I was thinking of extending it to arbitrary XML.
> 
> Unlike MARC, there are many other options for indexing XML into Solr 
> (assuming that's your end goal), so you may or may not find traject to be 
> better than those, although for myself there might be some benefit in using 
> the same tool accross formats too.
> 
> There are a number of built-in 'macros' that are MARC-specific; you wouldn't 
> use those. And might need some others that are, say, XML-specific. (Probably 
> just a single one, extract_xpath, for XML).
> 
> Same could be done for MODS, sure -- or you could handle MODS with a 
> (hypothetical) generic XML setup.
> 
> But yeah, if you want to take input records, and transform them into 
> hash-like data structures -- I was thinking from the start of structuring 
> traject to support such use cases, yep. (If you want to go to something other 
> than a hash-like data structure, well, it might still be possible, but it's 
> straying from traject's target a bit more).
> 
> [Oh, and I just made up 'traject'. I was looking for a word (made up or real) 
> not already being used for any popular software, and thinking about 
> 'projections' in the sense of mathematical transformations; and about 
> 'trajectory' in the sense of things sent through outer space, with the 
> Solr/Solar connection. I actually had originally decided to call it 
> "transject", but then accidentally wrote "traject" when I created the github 
> project, and then figured that was easier to pronounce and write anyhow.]
> 
> On 10/15/13 1:02 PM, Bill Dueber wrote:
>> 'traject' means "to transmit" (e.g., "trajectory") -- or at least it did,
>> when people still used it, which they don't.
>> 
>> The traject workflow is incredibly general: *a reader* sends *a record* to 
>> *an
>> indexing routine* which stuffs...stuff...into a context object which is
>> then sent to *a writer*. We have a few different MARC readers, a few useful
>> writers (one of which, obviously, is the solr writer), and a bunch of
>> shipped routines (which we're calling "macros" but are just well-formed
>> ruby lambda or blocks) for extracting and transforming common MARC data.
>> 
>> [see
>> http://robotlibrarian.billdueber.com/announcing-traject-indexing-software/for
>> more explanation and some examples]
>> 
>> But there's no reason why a reader couldn't produce a MODS record which
>> would then be worked on. I'm already imagining readers and writers that
>> target databases (RDBMS or NoSQL), or a queueing system like Hornet, etc.
>> 
>> If there are people at Stanford that want to talk about how (easy it is) to
>> extend traject, I'd be happy to have that conversation.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Tom Cramer  wrote:
>> 
>>> ++ Jonathan and Bill.
>>> 
>>> 1.) Do you have any thoughts on extending traject to index other types of
>>> data--say MODS--into solr, in the future?
>>> 
>>> 2.) What's the etymology of 'traject'?
>>> 
>>> - Tom
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On Oct 14, 2013, at 8:53 AM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Jonathan Rochkind (Johns Hopkins) and Bill Dueber (University of
>>> Michigan), are happy to announce a robust, feature-complete beta release of
>>> "traject," a tool for indexing MARC data to Solr.
>>>> 
>>>> traject, in the vein of solrmarc, allows you to define your indexing
>>> rules using simple macro and translation files. However, traject runs under
>>> JRuby and is &qu

Re: [CODE4LIB] ANNOUNCEMENT: Traject MARC->Solr indexer release

[Tom Cramer]

++ Jonathan and Bill.

1.) Do you have any thoughts on extending traject to index other types of 
data--say MODS--into solr, in the future?

2.) What's the etymology of 'traject'?

- Tom


On Oct 14, 2013, at 8:53 AM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:

> Jonathan Rochkind (Johns Hopkins) and Bill Dueber (University of Michigan), 
> are happy to announce a robust, feature-complete beta release of "traject," a 
> tool for indexing MARC data to Solr.
> 
> traject, in the vein of solrmarc, allows you to define your indexing rules 
> using simple macro and translation files. However, traject runs under JRuby 
> and is "ruby all the way down," so you can easily provide additional logic by 
> simply requiring ruby files.
> 
> There's a sample configuration file to give you a feel for traject[1].
> 
> You can view the code[2] on github, and easily install it as a (jruby) gem 
> using "gem install traject".
> 
> traject is in a beta release hoping for feedback from more testers prior to a 
> 1.0.0 release, but it is already being used in production to generate the 
> HathiTrust (metadata-lookup) Catalog (http://www.hathitrust.org/). traject 
> was developed using a test-driven approach and has undergone both continuous 
> integration and an extensive benchmarking/profiling period to keep it fast. 
> It is also well covered by high-quality documentation.
> 
> Feedback is very welcome on all aspects of traject including documentation, 
> ease of getting started, features, any problems you have, etc.
> 
> What we think makes traject great:
> 
> * It's all just well-crafted and documented ruby code; easy to program, easy 
> to read, easy to modify (the whole code base is only 6400 lines of code, more 
> than a third of which is tests)
> * Fast. Traject by default indexes using multiple threads, so you can use all 
> your cores!
> * Decoupled from specific readers/writers, so you can use ruby-marc or marc4j 
> to read, and write to solr, a debug file, or anywhere else you'd like with 
> little extra code.
> * Designed so it's easy to test your own code and distribute it as a gem
> 
> We're hoping to build up an ecosystem around traject and encourage people to 
> ask questions and contribute code (either directly to the project or via 
> releasing plug-in gems).
> 
> [1] 
> https://github.com/traject-project/traject/blob/master/test/test_support/demo_config.rb
> [2] http://github.com/traject-project/traject

[CODE4LIB] survey -- les éditeurs XML TEI/EAD

[Tom Cramer]

Colleagues at the Bibliotheque nationale de France are conducting a survey on 
XML editing requirements for TEI and EAD. They are exploring writing an open 
source XML editor that is 'skinned' and tailored to producing TEI/EAD for 
non-expert users. If you have a moment, they'd greatly appreciate your input. 
Feel free to answer in French, English or German... 

> version anglaise : 
> http://www.biblissima-condorcet.fr/limesurvey/index.php/229321/lang-en
> version française : 
> http://www.biblissima-condorcet.fr/limesurvey/index.php/229321/lang-fr
> version allemande : 
> http://www.biblissima-condorcet.fr/limesurvey/index.php/229321/lang-de


- Tom

 | Tom Cramer
 | Chief Technology Strategist & Associate Director 
 | Digital Library Systems & Services
 | Stanford University Libraries
 | tcra...@stanford.edu

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4LibCon 2013 T-Shirt Contest Winner

[Tom Cramer]

> Wait, were they a sponsor this year?

Yep



> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Suchy, Daniel  wrote:
> 
>> BLACKLIGHT even.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 1/16/13 8:55 AM, "Cynthia Ng"  wrote:
>> 
>>> Curious, is code4lib 2013 going to be added to that design? Seems a
>>> bit ... odd that it's for c4l13 but doesn't say that anywhere.
>>> 
>>> On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Shaun Ellis 
>>> wrote:
 On behalf of the T-Shirt Committee, I'm pleased to announce the winner
 of
 the t-shirt design contest is Joshua Gomez, with "Metadata":
 
 http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Image:Metadata.jpg
 
 Rock on, Josh! \m/ \m/
 
 It was a tight race this year, and the winner was decided by a single
 vote.
 We want to thank everyone for all the great submissions, votes, help,
 and
 participation.
 
 See you in Chicago,
 Shaun
 
 --
 Shaun Ellis
 User Interace Developer, Digital Initiatives
 Princeton University Library
>> 

[CODE4LIB] Open Repositories 2013: Registration Open and Call for Proposals

[Tom Cramer]

Open Repositories 2013: Registration Open and Call for Proposals
 
This year’s Open Repositories Conference takes place in Charlottetown, Prince 
Edward Island, Canada between Monday, July 8 and Friday, July 12.
 
Registration is now open at http://or2013.net/registration - register early and 
reserve your accommodation as soon as you can! 
 
We invite you to contribute to the conference program.
 
This year’s conference theme is Use, Reuse, Reproduce. One of the most 
important roles of repositories is to enable greater use and reuse of their 
contents— whether those contents are library collections, scholarly articles, 
research data, or software—and metadata. The notion of use and reuse can be 
extended to repository infrastructure as well. Many repositories are based on 
open source software that can be freely reused and adapted to serve local 
needs; other efforts are also emerging both in conjunction with and outside 
traditional repository platforms to encourage discipline or community specific 
reuse and sharing of software, services, and infrastructure. In addition there 
is a growing interest and need to document and share the code and workflows 
used to produce research results - particularly in computationally intensive 
fields - in order to promote reproducible research.
 
Some specific areas of interest for OR2013 are:
 
• Effective re-use of content--particularly research data--enabled by embedded 
repository tools and services
• Effective re-use of software, services, and infrastructure to support 
repository development
• Facilitation of reproducible research through access to data, workflows, and 
code
• Services making use of repository metadata
• Focused, disciplinary or community-based software, services, and 
infrastructure for use and reuse of content
• Integration of data, including linked data, and external services with 
repositories to provide solutions to specific domains
• Added-value services for repositories
• Long-term preservation of repositories and their contents
• Role and impact of repositories in the research ecosystem
 
The aim of the Open Repositories Conference is to bring those responsible for 
the development, implementation and management of digital repositories together 
with stakeholders, such as researchers, librarians, publishers and others, to 
address theoretical, practical, and strategic issues across the entire 
lifecycle of information, from the creation and management of digital content, 
to enabling use, re-use, and interconnection of information, and ensuring 
long-term preservation and archiving. The current economic climate dictates 
that repositories operate across administrative and disciplinary boundaries and 
to interact with distributed computational services and social communities.
 
Submissions can take the form of proposals for presentations, panels, posters, 
demonstrations, and workshops. We will consider any submission that seems to us 
sufficiently original and repository-related to merit attention at this event, 
but we’ll give preference to submissions that address our primary theme. In 
some cases, papers submitted to the general conference may be referred to user 
groups if appropriate.
 
Key dates and contacts
 
- 22 February 2013: Deadline for submissions
- 12 April 2013: Submitters notified of acceptance to general conference
- 19 April 2013: Submitters notified of acceptance to user groups
- 8-12 July 2013: OR2013 conference:
- 8 July 2013: Pre-conference workshops
- 9-11 July 2013: General Conference
- 11-12 July 2013: DSpace, EPrints, and Fedora 
user group meetings
 
Submission process
 
Conference Papers and Panels
We welcome two- to four-page proposals for presentations or panels that deal 
with organizational, theoretical, practical, or administrative issues of 
digital repositories and repository services that are not specific to a 
particular technical platform. Abstracts of accepted papers will be made 
available through the conference’s web site, and later they and associated 
materials will be made available in a repository intended for current and 
future OR content. In general, sessions are an hour and a half long with three 
papers per session; panels may take an entire session. Relevant papers 
unsuccessful in the main track will automatically be considered for inclusion, 
as appropriate, as a User Group presentation.
 
User Group Presentations
One to two-page proposals for presentations or panels that focus on use of one 
of the major repository platforms (EPrints, DSpace and Fedora) are invited from 
developers, researchers, repository managers, administrators and practitioners 
describing novel experiences or developments in the construction and use of 
repositories involving issues specific to these technical platforms.
 
24x7 Presentation Proposals
We welcome one- to two-page proposals for 7 minute presentations c

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open source project questions

[Tom Cramer]

Donna,  

The Hydra Project is a distributed, open source software project that started 
in the library community for digital asset management. We have spent a fair 
amount of time defining and polishing our approach to many of the questions you 
have asked about your proposed project. 

You may find it helpful to look over how we've structured (and documented) our 
approach to defining developer skills, development infrastructure, community 
infrastructure (for effective collaboration, outreach and social mechanisms), 
and licensing issues. 

Project website: http://projecthydra.org/
Project wiki: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/hydra/The+Hydra+Project
Developer Infrastructure & Norms: 
https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/hydra/Developers

If you're looking to establish a collaborative, open source effort, my main 
suggestion to you would be that you spend at least as much time focusing on the 
community and social mechanisms of the project as you do on the code. If you 
take care of the institutions and people in the project, they can take care of 
the code. This is the way the Apache Software Foundation works, and we've found 
it to also be true in our own projects. 

Good luck!

- Tom

 | Tom Cramer
 | Chief Technology Strategist & Associate Director 
 | Digital Library Systems & Services
 | Stanford University Libraries
 | tcra...@stanford.edu



On Dec 7, 2012, at 11:58 AM, Donna Campbell wrote:

> Dear Colleagues,
> 
> I understand from a professional colleague, who referred me to this list,
> that there are some experienced open source programmers here. I am in the
> early stages of planning for a conference session/open source project in
> June 2013 for a different professional library organization. Here is the
> session title and description:
> 
> Open Source Platform Project for E-book Lending
> 
> Facilitate a discussion between interested collaborators of how to create
> an alternative model that allows theological research libraries to
> permanently own their e-books "without concern over rising licensing fees
> or changing terms from aggregators and distributors." (Matt Enis, "Harris
> County PL to Test DCL Ebook Model" Library Journal 137, no. 16 (October 1,
> 2012):16). This is a preliminary step to construct a team to design or
> tailor an ideal e-book platform akin to Douglas County Libraries
> (Colorado) or Harris County Public Library (Houston, TX) where libraries
> purchase to own e-books and lend to users as with print books
> (one-copy/one-user) in a seamless fashion in their OPAC. We will assess
> the human, financial, and technological resources that are needed to
> create and maintain the platform. The platform would be library-owned and
> library-managed and available to share with other ATLA member libraries.
> System administrators, programmers, IT specialists, electronic resource
> managers, and others who desire to make this project happen are encouraged
> to attend. Different perspectives are also welcomed.
> 
> I have corresponded with Douglas County Libraries but I also want to ask
> this group if you have any suggestions for the following elements for a
> successful project like this:
> 
> 1. What kind of skill sets (esp. programming) should I be seeking?
> 2. Where would the best place to host an open source project (e.g.,
> Sourceforge.net, Google, etc.) to draw expertise and to avoid malicious
> code?
> 3. What software/hardware would you recommend that would be a means to a
> quality end-product as well as provide efficiency?
> 4. Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Cordially,
> 
> Donna R. Campbell
> Technical Services & Systems Librarian
> (215) 935-3872 (phone)
> (267) 295-3641 (fax)
> Mailing Address (via USPS):
> Westminster Theological Seminary Library
> P.O. Box 27009
> Philadelphia, PA 19118  USA
> Shipping Address (via UPS or FedEx):
> Westminster Theological Seminary Library
> 2960 W. Church Rd.
> Glenside, PA 19038  USA

[CODE4LIB] Fwd: Stanford Prize for Innovation in Research Libraries

[Tom Cramer]

C4Lers, 

This announcement and call for nominations is not specific to coding, but I can 
certainly think of several innovations from this community that would qualify 
for nominations. Please spread the word to others as you see fit.  

- Tom


From: University Librarian 
Date: December 4, 2012 11:30:33 AM PST

Dear Colleagues and Friends,
 
Today Stanford University Libraries announces the Stanford Prize for Innovation 
in Research Libraries - SPIRL, an award that is intended to recognize and 
celebrate individual research libraries for sustained and significant 
innovation in any operational area.  Nominations with documentation may be made 
by institutions or individuals and are due by 5:00pm Pacific Standard Time on 
Tuesday 15 January 2013.  A full explanation of the intent and process for 
SPIRL may be found at 
http://library.stanford.edu/prizes/spirl .  It is expected that the first 
prize(s) will be announced in mid- to late-February 2013.
 
Please re-distribute this announcement widely.  Thanks very much.
 
Cheers,
 
M A K
 
Michael A. Keller
  University Librarian
  Founder/Publisher HighWire Press
  Publisher Stanford University Press
Stanford University
 
101 Green Library
Stanford, CA 94305-6004
U.S.A.

Re: [CODE4LIB] anti-harassment policy for code4lib?

[Tom Cramer]

+1 for Bess's motion
+1 for Roy's expansion to C4L online interactions as well as face to face
+1 for Karen's focus on general inclusivity and fair play

> For me the hardest thing is how one monitors and resolves issues that arise. 
> As a group with no formal management, I suppose the conference organizers 
> become the "deciders" if such a necessity arises. If it's elsewhere (email, 
> IRC) -- that's a bit trickier. The Ada project's detailed guides should help, 
> but if there is a policy it seems that there necessarily has to be some 
> responsible "body" -- even if ad hoc.


It seems to me that there would be tremendous benefit in having 

1.) an explicit statement of the community norms around harassment and fair 
play in general. In the best case, this would help avoid uncomfortable or 
inappropriate situations before they occur.

2.) a defined process for handling any incidents that do arise, which in the 
case of this community I would imagine would revolve around reporting, 
communication, negotiation and arbitration rather than adjudication by a 
standing body (which I agree is hard to see in this crowd). I know several high 
schools have adopted peer arbitration networks for conflict resolution rather 
than referring incidents to the Principal's Office--perhaps therein lies a 
model for us for any incidents that may not be resolved simply through 
dialogue. 

- Tom



On Nov 26, 2012, at 2:32 PM, Karen Coyle wrote:

> Bess and Code4libbers,
> 
> I've only been to one c4l conference and it was a very positive experience 
> for me, but I also feel that this is too valuable of a community for us to 
> risk it getting itself into crisis mode over some unintended consequences or 
> a "bad apple" incident. For that reason I would support the adoption of an 
> anti-harassment policy in part for its consciousness-raising value. Ideally 
> this would be not only about sexual harassment but would include general 
> goals for inclusiveness and fair play within the community. And it would also 
> serve as an acknowledgment that none of us is perfect, but we can deal with 
> it.
> 
> For me the hardest thing is how one monitors and resolves issues that arise. 
> As a group with no formal management, I suppose the conference organizers 
> become the "deciders" if such a necessity arises. If it's elsewhere (email, 
> IRC) -- that's a bit trickier. The Ada project's detailed guides should help, 
> but if there is a policy it seems that there necessarily has to be some 
> responsible "body" -- even if ad hoc.
> 
> kc
> 
> 
> On 11/26/12 2:16 PM, Bess Sadler wrote:
>> Dear Fellow Code4libbers,
>> 
>> I hope I am not about to get flamed. Please take as context that I have been 
>> a member of this community for almost a decade. I have contributed software, 
>> support, and volunteer labor to this community's events. I have also 
>> attended the majority of code4lib conferences, which have been amazing and 
>> life-changing, and have helped me do my job a lot better. But, and I've 
>> never really known how to talk about this, those conferences have also been 
>> problematic for me a couple of times. Nothing like what happened to Noirin 
>> Shirley at ApacheCon (see 
>> http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Noirin_Shirley_ApacheCon_incident if 
>> you're unfamiliar with the incident I mean) but enough to concern me that 
>> even in a wonderful community where we mostly share the same values, not 
>> everyone has the same definitions of acceptable behavior.
>> 
>> I am watching the toxic fallout from the BritRuby conference cancellation 
>> with a heavy heart (go search for "britruby conference cancelled" if you 
>> want to catch up and/or get depressed). It has me wondering what more we 
>> could be doing to promote diversity and inclusiveness within code4lib. We 
>> have already had a couple of harassment incidents over the years, which I 
>> won't rehash here, which have driven away members of our community. We have 
>> also had other incidents that don't get talked about because sometimes one 
>> can feel that membership in a community is more important than one's 
>> personal boundaries or even safety. We should not be a community where 
>> people have to make that choice.
>> 
>> I would like for us to consider adopting an anti-harassment policy for 
>> code4lib conferences. This is emerging as a best practice in the larger open 
>> source software community, and we would be joining the ranks of many other 
>> conferences: 
>> http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Conference_anti-harassment/Adoption. The 
>> Ada Initiative has a great discussion of why adopting an Anti-Harrassment 
>> policy is a good choice for a conference to make, as well as some example 
>> policy statements, here: 
>> http://adainitiative.org/what-we-do/conference-policies/ Here is a summary:
>> 
>>> Why have an official anti-harassment policy for your conference? First, it 
>>> is necessary (unfortunately). Harassment at conferences is incred

Re: [CODE4LIB] e-journals lists, database lists

[Tom Cramer]

Tod,

We catalog our 1100 "curated" databases in our ILS, and then created a custom 
view in Blacklight to show these to patrons and librarians alike. This way they 
are integrated into the next generation catalog, but the tailored view lets us 
decorate their presentation with short summaries of what's in each database, 
off-campus access instructions, "not sure where to start" information, and a 
link to our federated search tool.

http://searchworks.stanford.edu/?f[format][]=Database

This replaced a one off application that held the same information, but with 
its own data store, app logic and distinct UI. 

We continue to maintain SFX for e-journals title searching & browsing. 

- Tom


On May 24, 2012, at 11:44 AM, Tod Olson wrote:

> Code4Lib,
> 
> What, short of a full-blown ERM, are you using to manage and provide your 
> e-journals lists and database lists?
> 
> We're looking for something that we can use for just a couple years. We 
> already have the data in a database, and would like to dump it into something 
> and have the lists and searching of the lists come out. We could certainly 
> build something ourselves, but if something already exists, we'd love to take 
> a look at it.
> 
> Best,
> 
> -Tod
> 
> 
> Tod Olson 
> Systems Librarian 
> University of Chicago Library

Re: [CODE4LIB] Representing geographic hiearchy in linked data

[Tom Cramer]

Ethan, all, 

This thread appears to have progressed to the point where you have a good 
answer, but I wanted to highlight one other potentially useful resource for 
like needs. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) manages data for 
agricultural issues that don't map neatly to geopolitical boundaries. If there 
is a "famine in the Sahel", e.g., it may touch on a dozen countries, or be 
limited to specific regions in those countries. 

They maintain a geopolitical ontology to assist these types of mappings: 
http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles/geoinfo.asp

I suspect it doesn't go into ancient history, but a few of the examples they 
cite include recent shifts in geography (such as USSR dissolution, East + West 
Germany = Germany). 

- Tom


On Apr 8, 2012, at 7:43 AM, Ethan Gruber wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for the info, but it's not quite what I'm looking for.  We've
> established authority control for ancient places, but I'm looking for an
> ontology I can use to describe the child:parent relationship between city
> and region or region and larger region (in any way that isn't
> dcterms:partOf).  Geonames has defined their own vocabulary that can't
> really be reused in other geographic contexts, e.g. with gn:countryCode,
> gn:parentCountry.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ethan
> 
> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 11:40 AM, Karen Coyle  wrote:
> 
>> Also, there is Geonames (http://www.geonames.org), which is the primary
>> geographic data set on the Semantic Web. Here is the link to Athens:
>> 
>> http://www.geonames.org/**search.html?q=athens&country=**GR
>> 
>> kc
>> 
>> 
>> On 4/6/12 4:54 PM, Karen Miller wrote:
>> 
>>> Ethan, have you considered Getty's Thesaurus of Geographic Names?  It
>>> does provide a geographic hierarchy, although the data for Athens they
>>> provide isn't quite the one you've described:
>>> 
>>> http://www.getty.edu/vow/**TGNHierarchy?find=athens&**
>>> place=&nation=&prev_page=1&**english=Y&subjectid=7001393
>>> 
>>> This vocabulary is available in XML here:
>>> 
>>> http://www.getty.edu/research/**tools/vocabularies/obtain/**index.html
>>> 
>>> I have looked at it but not used it; it's a big tangled mess of XML.
>>> 
>>> MODS mimics a hierarchy (the subject/hierarchicalGeographic element has
>>> these children: continent, country, province, region, state, territory,
>>> county, city, island, area, extraterrestrialArea, citySection). The VRA
>>> Core location element provides a similar mapping.
>>> 
>>> I try to stay away from Dublin Core, but I did venture onto the DC Terms
>>> page just now and saw TGN listed in the vocabulary encoding schemes there,
>>> so probably someone has implemented it.
>>> 
>>> Karen
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Karen D. Miller
>>> Monographic/Digital Projects Cataloger
>>> Bibliographic Services Dept.
>>> Northwestern University Library
>>> Evanston, IL
>>> k-mill...@northwestern.edu
>>> 847-467-3462
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -Original Message-
>>> From: Code for Libraries 
>>> [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.**EDU]
>>> On Behalf Of Ethan Gruber
>>> Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2012 12:49 PM
>>> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
>>> Subject: [CODE4LIB] Representing geographic hiearchy in linked data
>>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>> 
>>> I have a dilemma that needs to be sorted out.  I'm looking for an
>>> ontology that can describe geographic hierarchy, and hopefully someone on
>>> the list has experience with this.  For example, if I have an RDF record
>>> that describes Athens, I want to point Athens to Attica, and Attica to
>>> Greece, and so on.  The current proposal is to use dcterms:partOf, but the
>>> problem with this is that our records will also use dcterms:partOf to
>>> describe a completely different type of relational concept, and it will be
>>> almost impossible for scripts to recognize the difference between these two
>>> uses of the same DC term.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Ethan
>>> 
>> 
>> --
>> Karen Coyle
>> kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net
>> ph: 1-510-540-7596
>> m: 1-510-435-8234
>> skype: kcoylenet
>> 

[CODE4LIB] Stanford metadata analyst job opening

[Tom Cramer]

We're looking for a metadata specialist to focus on data set description and 
management as part of campus-wide GIS and research data curation projects. A 
summary of the position is below, and the full description is online at  
jobs.stanford.edu (search for Job ID 46849).

- Tom

 


> Metadata Analyst, Stanford University Libraries 
> 
> Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources (SULAIR) is 
> looking for a Metadata Analyst to help curate datasets from selected domains, 
> with a primary focus on describing these information resources to enable 
> management, preservation, discovery and re-use. The goal of this hands-on 
> position is to advance SULAIR’s capacity and the Stanford response to the NSF 
> Data Management Plan mandate by developing strategies through practice to 
> curate data efficiently and effectively. The candidate will, over the course 
> of a 2-year term project, work across the Digital Library Systems and 
> Services group, other staff in the Metadata Unit, and user-facing library 
> personnel to create and sustain a general workflow for submission of science 
> and engineering data into the Stanford Digital Repository. Working with pilot 
> data sets and use cases from GIS and other domains, the selected candidate 
> will help produce and enter the metadata necessary to populate the repository 
> and access systems. In doing so, s/he will also produce a landscape view of 
> the metadata needs, roles, tools, standards and processes necessary to 
> provide and scale data services throughout the Stanford University Libraries. 
> Standard operating procedures and best practices for dealing with non-MARC 
> metadata in the context of scientific data are ideal outcomes. The position 
> will be supervised by the Science Data Librarian.
> 
> Throughout the life of the project there will be opportunity for interesting 
> sub-projects that will include: creating, remediating and working on ingest 
> models for the Stanford Geoportal, an online search engine for geospatial 
> data, and its supporting Spatial Data Infrastructure; working with Stanford 
> faculty and researchers to acquire, transform and ingest the metadata for 
> their data into the Stanford Digital Repository; working with other metadata 
> experts on in-depth examination of data-set- and domain-specific schema, 
> mappings and crosswalking amongst standards; and data transformations across 
> library systems. For each of these, the Metadata Analyst will apply 
> expertise, methods and tools to digital materials deposited by Stanford 
> researchers into the Stanford Digital Repository. S/he will also help 
> identify requirements and specifications for, and validate development of, a 
> next generation metadata toolkit for the description of data sets and 
> geospatial resources. S/he will also assist in specifying the fields and 
> attributes for domain-specific forms for the deposit of digital resources 
> into a Hydra-based Stanford Digital Repository user interface. Projects will 
> be decided based on faculty interest, subject specialist availability, the 
> interests and skill set of the applicant, and needs as they emerge.
> 
> To apply for the position, please go to jobs.stanford.edu and search for Job 
> ID 46849.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Project Management Software Question

[Tom Cramer]

Matt--

I have the same question for you as for Gary: could you possibly share screen 
shots of your Confluence templates, and the projects dashboard? Is the latter 
generated automatically, or through human data entry?

- Tom


On Feb 23, 2012, at 9:48 AM, Critchlow, Matt wrote:

> Hi Brian,
> 
> ---
> --What project management software are you using?
> 
> --What made you choose the system?
> 
> ---
> Some of our IT Projects use MS Project only, and for some groups that
> works fine.
> 
> Nearly two years ago we installed Confluence as an internal, collaborative
> tool for our staff. Shortly after launch, I worked with our Digital
> Library Program (DLP) manager, Cristela Garcia-Spitz, to create a simple
> PM template using a small set of Confluence plugins. The template was
> intentionally designed to be generic enough so it could cover a wide range
> of projects. We also added a field to associate a project to one, or more,
> of our strategic directions.
> 
> Since other groups in the organization are now also using the PM template
> in Confluence, I was able to create a Projects Dashboard which allows
> staff to see the all the current and completed projects related to the
> strategic directions of our organization. While it's not 100%
> comprehensive, it does give a really interesting view into where a lot of
> the workload is focused.
> 
> Our DLP and development group also use JIRA, which we hope to eventually
> integrate with Confluence to enrich the PM process.
> 
> --What made you choose the system?
> 
> 
> We chose Confluence because it was a system we were already using and the
> simplicity of use allowed us to include a wide audience of users.
> 
> --Has the system met all of your needs? If not, where does it fail?
> 
> 
> I wouldn't want to speak for all staff using the system, but I think along
> with project specific documentation it is meeting our current needs as a
> whole. One downside is our dependence on the Confluence plugins to make
> all this work. It is currently holding us up from migrating to Confluence
> 4.
> 
> Great thread, it's very interesting to hear what others are doing.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Matt Critchlow
> Web Technical Manager
> UC San Diego Libraries
> mcritch...@ucsd.edu
> (858) 534-6822
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 2/22/12 7:04 PM, "Brian McBride"  wrote:
> 
>> Question for all the code4lib developers out there:
>> 
>> --What project management software are you using?
>> 
>> --What made you choose the system?
>> 
>> --Has the system met all of your needs? If not, where does it fail?
>> 
>> --Overall opinions?
>> 
>> --What systems did you evaluate and decide not to recommend?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Any information would be great!
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Brian
>> 
>> Brian McBride
>> Head of Application Development
>> J. Willard Marriott Library
>> 
>> O: 801.585.7613
>> F:  801.585.5549
>> brian.mcbr...@utah.edu

Re: [CODE4LIB] Project Management Software Question

[Tom Cramer]

Gary,

This is very, very interesting. Thank you for sharing this with the list. Would 
it be possible for you to share screenshots of your Confluence views using the 
metadata-report macro? We use Confluence for the same purpose, but maintain an 
independent list of projects in its own table. This tends to break down, as 
Confluence (or any wiki) seems to be great for generating a list, but keeping 
it up to data and in sync with items as they evolve in status requires 
duplicate data entry (and therefore doesn't happen efficiently / at all). 

We have found the JIRA-Confluence link to be an excellent bridge between the 
two systems. For example, we track collections that need to be ingested to the 
repository as individual tickets in JIRA; we reflect this list in Confluence as 
a list. When JIRA tickets are updated, the list is automatically updated. It's 
very DRY, and helps keep people who don't use JIRA regularly out of 
JIRA--something everyone involved appreciates. 

- Tom

 | Tom Cramer
 | Chief Technology Strategist & Associate Director 
 | Digital Library Systems & Services
 | Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources
 | Stanford University
 | tcra...@stanford.edu

On Feb 23, 2012, at 9:02 AM, Gary Thompson wrote:

> At UCLA, we've been trying to get a better handle on project management, and 
> have developed a set of practices using a suite of tools.
> 
> We begin projects with a One-Pager, a project proposal or description.  It 
> includes description of the problem, proposed solution, scope, deliverables, 
> risks, and fiscal impact.  The project manager and management sponsors are 
> identified, along with other staff resources.
> 
> The One-Pager goes in Confluence (a wiki from Atlassian), where we keep our 
> technical documentation.  We use the label feature and the metadata-report 
> macro to provide numerous views of our projects according to status (pending, 
> approved, complete, canceled), by team, by priority, and by fiscal year, and 
> various combinations of those factors.
> 
> Once a project is approved, the project manager uses MS Project to develop 
> the WBS/task list and schedule, and identify sequence and dependencies.  This 
> tool works well for the project manager planning, and provides good Gannt 
> charts, reports and views. Its main limitation is the amount of work needed 
> to keep it current.
> 
> To make it easier to keep project plans up-to-date, we found the Ceptah 
> Bridge (a plug-in for MS Project) and Jira, a task/ticket tracking product 
> from Atlassian.  The Ceptah Bridge allows the project manager to generate 
> Jira tickets from MS Project, and to update MS Project on demand as 
> programmers update the tickets.
> 
> This might sound complex, but the division of labor works out nicely.  The 
> project manager only needs to work in MS Project.  Programmers can update 
> individual tasks in Jira without having to mess with MS Project.  Schedule 
> problems are reflected in MS Project as a result of a programmer updating a 
> Jira ticket.
> 
> Atlassian provides plug-in that link Confluence and Jira, but we have not yet 
> explored that linkage.  We expect to find value in adding such links, but are 
> still adjusting the the workflow described above.
> 
> I did not evaluate many PM products.  Because we had a large body of 
> technical documentation in Confluence when started improving our PM 
> practices, we looked for tools that would integrate well in that existing 
> context.  Jira seemed like a reasonable component, and the MS Project and the 
> Ceptah Bridge filled in the gaps to make the workflow easier.  Our practices 
> are not yet complete, but we've made big progress over the past 18 months.
> 
> cheers,
> -- 
> -- Gary Thompson
> -- Web Services Development Supervisor
> -- UCLA Library Information Technology
> -- 
> 
> On 2/23/2012 7:32 AM, Patrick Berry wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Brian McBridewrote:
>> 
>>> Question for all the code4lib developers out there:
>>> 
>>> --What project management software are you using?
>>> 
>>> 
>> We're getting into Asana.
>> 
>> 
>>> --What made you choose the system?
>>> 
>> Other departments had tried it and actually stuck with it, as opposed to
>> everything else they tried for two weeks and forgot about.
>> 
>> 
>>> --Has the system met all of your needs? If not, where does it fail?
>>> 
>> Pretty much.  I'm not sure this is a "fail", but it doesn't do management
>> charts.  It's more about getting it done than anything else.  If you've
>> ever read Getting Things Done, it will seem very fami

Re: [CODE4LIB] After we left Seattle...

[Tom Cramer]

"most edible" is a category? really? it seems like they're not taking this very 
seriously.  

- Tom


On Feb 22, 2012, at 6:24 PM, Nick Ruest wrote:

> Is there a declicorn bounty on that last image?
> 
> -nruest
> 
> On 12-02-22 09:02 PM, Michael B. Klein wrote:
>> ...the Faerie Convention moved into our conference space.
>> 
>> http://slog.thestranger.com/slog/archives/2012/02/13/seattle-faeriecon-2012-a-retrospective
>> 
>> Unfortunately (for them), they didn't have Corey streaming their
>> festivities.
> 
> -- 
> --
> Nick Ruest
> Digital Preservation Librarian, Repository Architect, and Digitization 
> Coordinator
> President - McMaster University Academic Librarians' Association
> 
> McMaster University
> Mills Memorial Library
> 1280 Main Street West
> Hamilton, ON L8S 4L6
> Phone: 905.525.9140 ext. 21276
> Email: rue...@mcmaster.ca
> http://library.mcmaster.ca/contact/ruest-nicholas
> http://ruebot.net/
> 
> 
> "Revolution is not something fixed in ideology, nor is it something fashioned 
> to a particular decade.  It is a personal process embedded in the human 
> spirit." - Abbie Hoffman

[CODE4LIB] OR2012 submission deadline extended to March 5th

[Tom Cramer]

Good news for those working hard on proposals for this year’s Open Repositories 
Conference in Edinburgh – we’re extending the submission deadline for papers & 
workshops by 2 weeks until March 5th. Whether your proposal is for the general 
conference track, or more suited to the user group tracks for EPrints, DSpace 
and Fedora, you’ve got 14 more days to refine your ideas for papers. The 
remaining dates in the process are not expected to shift, so you’ll still have 
plenty of time to make arrangements to attend.

5th Mar 2012 Deadline for papers, workshops& user group sessions
31st Mar 2012 Deadline for posters, Pecha Kucha and demos
6th Apr 2012 Workshop/paper submitters notified
11th May 2012 Poster/demo/Pecha Kucha submitters notified
9th Jul 2012 Conference pre-workshops begin

Workshop proposals can be made now by email to or2...@ed.ac.uk; we’ve already 
received a number of exciting ideas so we would encourage you not to wait until 
the deadline if you haven’t already been in touch.

Due to a glitch with the submission system we can’t yet take paper submissions 
but we expect this to be resolved next week, and we’ll make an announcement at 
that time. Full details will be provided on the OR2012 web site at 
http://or2012.ed.ac.uk/ 

This year’s event will also have more space for informal, unconference-style 
contributions as well as the Developer Challenge. If a full paper isn’t for 
you, consider contributing in another way. We’ll be releasing more details 
nearer the event. This will include Pecha Kuchas and poster sessions with a 
deadline of the 31st of March.

Kevin Ashley
OR2012 Programme Chair

Re: [CODE4LIB] OCLC Seal of Approval

[Tom Cramer]

This thread almost makes the original one worth the pain. Thank you for 
redeeming it, Michael.

- Tom



On Nov 18, 2011, at 9:03 AM, Wilfred Drew wrote:

> Which came first, the OCLC approval of the OCLC Seal of Approval or the OCLC 
> Seal of Approval?
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of David 
> Uspal
> Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 12:02 PM
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] OCLC Seal of Approval
> 
> Can the OCLC Seal of Approval be given the official OCLC Seal of Approval, or 
> would that do bad things to the space-time continuum?
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Matt 
> McCollow
> Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 11:56 AM
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] OCLC Seal of Approval
> 
> Hey now, even abominable bacon is bacon.
> 
> Matt McCollow
> Web Developer
> Mills Library, McMaster University
> 
> On 2011-11-18, at 11:44 AM, Doran, Michael D wrote:
> 
>> Roy,
>> 
>>> ...turkey bacon has not yet achieved that distinction.
>> 
>> And rightly so!  What an abomination.
>> 
>> And I really wanted to include "Neck Ferrets" in the inspection and approval 
>> bureau, but there just wasn't room enough on the seal.
>> 
>> -- Michael
>> 
>> 
>>> -Original Message-
>>> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Roy
>>> Tennant
>>> Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 10:38 AM
>>> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
>>> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] OCLC Seal of Approval
>>> 
>>> Y'all may be wondering how bacon could ever fail to receive my coveted
>>> approval, but I have to say that turkey bacon has not yet achieved
>>> that distinction. Just sayin'
>>> Roy
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 8:34 AM, Doran, Michael D  wrote:
 Hi Michael,
 
> Please put this on a t-shirt.
 
 I am thinking about making stickers or temporary tattoos and bringing
>>> them to Seattle... anybody else who wants to use the image is welcome
>>> to.  I have released it under a Creative Commons License that allows for
>>> commercial use and have made a higher resolution version available here:
 
   http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/oclc/
 
 While I have doubts that the image would be appropriate for the official
>>> code4lib 2012 t-shirt, I do think it would be neat if a small version of
>>> the Seal was *included* on the t-shirt.
 
 As an aside, I wanted to mention that this image was created using
>>> PowerPoint and SnagIt. "Photoshop? We don't need no stinkin'
>>> Photoshop!"  If it looks vaguely familiar, it's probably because design
>>> clues were taken from current and historical versions of the Good
>>> Housekeeping seal of approval.
 
 I don't often do graphic work, so I appreciate the positive comments.
 
 -- Michael
 
 # Michael Doran, Systems Librarian
 # University of Texas at Arlington
 # 817-272-5326 office
 # 817-688-1926 mobile
 # do...@uta.edu
 # http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/
 
 
> -Original Message-
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Michael J. Giarlo
> Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2011 7:28 PM
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] OCLC Seal of Approval
> 
> Please put this on a t-shirt.
> 
> -Original message-
> From: "Doran, Michael D" 
> To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu
> Sent: Fri, Nov 18, 2011 01:17:40 GMT+00:00
> Subject: [CODE4LIB] OCLC Seal of Approval
> 
> Hi Roy,
> 
> I took the liberty of designing an official OCLC seal-of-approval (see
> attachment) for code4lib mailing list position announcements and any
>>> other
> purposes you see fit.
> 
> -- Michael
> 
> # Michael Doran, Systems Librarian
> # University of Texas at Arlington
> # 817-272-5326 office
> # 817-688-1926 mobile
> # do...@uta.edu
> # http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/
 

[CODE4LIB] SAVE THE DATES: Open Repositories Conference in Edinburgh July 9-13, 2012

[Tom Cramer]

All: The dates and location for OR12 are now set. Hope to see you there,  - Tom
--

The University of Edinburgh Information Services, EDINA, and the Digital 
Curation Centre are delighted to announce that the University of Edinburgh has 
been selected to host the Seventh International Conference on Open Repositories 
(OR12) July 9-13th July, 2012.

The call for proposals will be available from the conference web site soon: 
or2012.ed.ac.uk

The University George Square Campus is located in the centre of Edinburgh a 
short distance from the iconic Edinburgh Castle in the Old Town and numerous 
attractions, venues, restaurants and pubs.

Open Repositories is run by an international steering committee of experts, and 
has been the pre-eminent conference for repository managers, researchers and 
developers to share developments across national boundaries and technical 
platforms since 2006. OR 2011 was hosted at the University of Texas, Austin 
USA; OR 2010 was hosted in Madrid.

The theme and title of the 2012 conference at Edinburgh - Open Services for 
Open Content: Local In for Global Out - reflects the current move towards open 
content, ‘augmented content’, distributed systems, microservices and data 
delivery infrastructures. Kevin Ashley, Director of the Digital Curation Centre 
(DCC) will chair the Programme Committee.

The conference will feature both general conference sessions and user group 
meetings for the three main open source repository platforms: DSpace, Fedora, 
and EPrints.  There will also be a strand for the popular ‘Repository Fringe’, 
an informal, creative gathering of repository managers and developers which has 
been hosted at the University of Edinburgh each year since 2008 – to coincide 
with the internationally well known Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Whether integrated into external research, or teaching and learning workflows, 
repositories form a key component to ensure that digital output within academic 
institutions can be accessed more widely. They are changing the nature of 
scholarly communication across universities, research laboratories, libraries 
and publishers. Repositories are now being deployed across sectors (education, 
research, science, cultural heritage) and at all levels (national, regional, 
institutional, project, lab, personal). The aim of the Open Repositories 
Conference is to bring those responsible for the development, implementation 
and management of digital repositories together with stakeholders to address 
theoretical, practical, and strategic issues: across the entire lifecycle of 
information, from the creation and management of digital content, to enabling 
use, re-use, and interconnection of information, and ensuring long-term 
preservation and archiving. The current economic climate dictates th!
 at repositories operate across administrative and disciplinary boundaries and 
to interact with distributed computational services and social communities.

The University of Edinburgh retains a unique position in the UK’s repository 
landscape, serving as home to:

  * The Digital Curation Centre, the UK’s leading hub of expertise and national 
focus for research and development into digital curation. The DCC promotes good 
practice and training in the management of all research outputs in digital 
format. See http://www.dcc.ac.uk/ for more.

  * EDINA, the JISC-funded national data centre at the University, supporting 
all universities and colleges across the UK. EDINA delivers a range of online 
data services including a number of repository initiatives: Open Access 
Repository Junction, OpenDepot.org, and ShareGeo Open. See http://edina.ac.uk/ 
for more.

  * The Digital Library Section and Edinburgh University Data Library serve 
researchers and students at the University as part of its Information Services. 
See 
http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/information-services/about/organisation
o The Data Library provides research data support for university 
researchers and hosts the Edinburgh DataShare repository service for 
researchers to deposit and share research data.
o DLS supports repositories of research publications to support the 
University’s Open Access Publications Policy and is currently implementing a 
Current Research Information System (CRIS). DLS also provides technical and 
administrative support to the Scottish Digital Library Consortium (SDLC), which 
provides repository services to universities across Scotland.

  * The University’s School of Informatics supports IDEALab, a virtual 
laboratory that facilitates prototyping of novel applications of state-of-art 
informatic technologies, forming part of the New Institute for eResearch. See 
http://idea.ed.ac.uk/IDEA/Welcome.html for more.

For further information visit URL: or2012.ed.ac.uk or email: 
or2...@ed.ac.uk; Google Groups: http://groups.google.com/group/open-repositories

[CODE4LIB] Job opportunities: project manager & developers for Revs Program at Stanford

[Tom Cramer]

Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources (SULAIR) is 
seeking to hire three positions to support the Revs Program at Stanford 
(http://revs.stanford.edu). This program is a transdisciplinary research 
program, dedicated to the study of the past, present and future of the 
automobile, arguably the most important technological innovation of the 20th 
century. The program will explore the automobile's relation to and impact on 
the history, culture, economy, science and technology of modern society. 

SULAIR has posted three positions to staff the Libraries' four year engagement 
in the program: 

- Academic Technology Project Manager (Job ID 43760), to serve as the 
project manager and functional lead

- Digital Library Software Engineer (Job ID 43758), to develop web 
applications and a collaboration site for the program

- Digital Library Software Engineer (Job ID 43757), to build the 
repository infrastructure and services to handle the digital output of the 
program

As a part of the program, SULAIR will support the dissemination of scholarly 
research on the automobile; provide digital access to a collection of over two 
million items relating to automotive history, racing and technology; and 
develop a system and service to build and sustain an online automotive 
community. Members of the team will play integral roles in building the world’s 
leading center on the study of the impact of the automobile on the 20th and 
21st century. They will also join Stanford's vibrant digital library 
development program, and adopt and contribute to the development of innovative 
open source software to meet the full needs of the program and academic 
community it supports. 

This program presents a unique blend of academics, technology, library & 
archival practice, mass digitization, and digital library development. 
Candidates with intellectual curiosity, a drive for technical innovation, and 
an interest in automobilia are particularly encouraged to apply. 

To see more details on any of the positions, search for the Job ID at 
http://jobs.stanford.edu/find_a_job.html

- Tom

 | Tom Cramer
 | Associate Director, Digital Library Systems & Services
 | Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources
 | Stanford University
 | tcra...@stanford.edu

Re: [CODE4LIB] does your OPAC pass HTML validation?

[Tom Cramer]

Ken,

I think you'll find that most Blacklight instances have fairly low error rates, 
though are not error free. At Stanford, we are blessed to have a strong 
accessibility expert (not in the libraries), and we've been channeling his 
feedback [1] to continue to improve the accessibility of SearchWorks [2] for 
the last couple of years. 

Others in the Blacklight community share this interest [3, 4], and vanilla 
VuFind seems to have similary low (but not perfect) error rate.  Given the 
earlier remark about Koha, it appears to me that this is a case where a rising 
tide raises all ships, and the impact of a few good accessibility people on a 
single OSS project is leveraged across a whole community. 

- Tom

[1] http://studentaffairs.stanford.edu/soap
[2] http://searchworks.stanford.edu
[3] http://search.lib.virginia.edu/ 
[4] https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/


On Jun 20, 2011, at 7:10 AM, Ken Irwin wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I'm curious: does ANYONE have an OPAC that passes an HTML validator test?
> 
> I've know mine doesn't, and none of the ones I spot-checked do either. (TPD: 
> OhioLINK gets a prize for coming way closer than anyone, by at least an order 
> of magnitude and sometimes several!)
> 
> Do catalogs even validate out-of-the-box? (I've never set up an OPAC before, 
> I have no idea what "out-of-the-box" might actually look like.)
> 
> I'm presently writing an article about working up a mobile OPAC and am a 
> little embarrassed to be talking about validation despite the fact that my 
> own catalog doesn't validate. I'm glad to see (?) I'm not alone in this, 
> but...
> 
> What do we think about this?
> 
> Ken

[CODE4LIB] Hydra Camp & Hydra Partners Quarterly Meeting - November 4-6, 2010

[Tom Cramer]

All, 

There will be a Hydra Partners meeting on November 4, 5 & 6th  at Stanford 
University; these meetings are open to the Hydra community, and both current 
and prospective members are encouraged to participate.

* Thursday, November 4th will be dedicated to a one day Hydra Camp, 
introducing the concepts, technology stack, and development environment for the 
project . This day will build upon this month's successful & energetic Hydra 
Camp in Minneapolis, and will be tailored to those curious about or new to 
Hydra, and wanting to come up to speed or accelerate their adoption.

* Friday, November 5th and Saturday, November 6th will be the regular 
quarterly meeting for Hydra partners, with collaborative specification, 
planning and development for the open source project. Participation in these 
discussions is open to those who are actively developing and working towards 
adopting Hydra, and will contribute to advancing the project core. The Hydra 
Steering Group will also have a closed meeting on Saturday, November 6th. 

RSVP to hydra-col...@lists.stanford.edu if you are interested in participating.

- Tom

 | Tom Cramer
 | Associate Director, Digital Library Systems & Services
 | Stanford University LIbraries & Academic Information Resources
 | Stanford University
 | tcra...@stanford.edu



PS. Note that this meeting immediately follows the Digital Library Federation 
Fall Forum, November 1-3, in Palo Alto, CA. Registration for DLF is also open 
to any interested party.

Re: [CODE4LIB] EAD in Blacklight (was: Re: [CODE4LIB] Batch loading in fedora)

[Tom Cramer]

Adam,

Is the EAD-to-RDF "graphinator" code you describe shareable? I'd like to 
experiment with it for some ongoing work that involves ingesting archival 
collections into Fedora, and then editing them with Hydra and viewing them via 
Blacklight. 

- Tom


On Aug 8, 2010, at 8:13 AM, [Your Name] wrote:

> I'd like to share an alternative approach that we're pursuing here at UVa. It 
> doesn't speak quite directly to operations on finding aids by themselves, 
> with no attention to representing on-line the collection so described, but 
> more to those situations where you make an attempt at a full digital 
> surrogate for a collection, using repository machinery. I hope, though, that 
> it might be useful to hear about. We started from a few principles as 
> follows. (All of them have exceptions, of course. {grin})
> 
> 1) EAD is a wonderful markup language, but not always an optimal metadata 
> standard. 
> 
> 2) XML is for serializing, not for storage.
> 
> 3) Solr is a fantastic indexing tool, but it's neither a datastore nor a 
> database.
> 
> 4) Collections do not have an absolutely correct structure. Archivists and 
> scholars disagree sometimes.
> 
> 5) The best ways to describe an individual entity are not necessarily the 
> best ways to describe the relationships between entities.
> 
> We assemble digital surrogates for archival collections as assemblages of 
> Fedora objects linked together by RDF. When we start with a finding aid, we 
> disassemble the EAD to develop a graph of documents, containers, series, etc. 
> in Fedora, with RDF predicates along the lines of "isConstituentOf", 
> "hasCollectionMember", etc. When we haven't got a finding aid, we build up 
> the graph from annotations on the physical objects (boxes, folders, etc.) as 
> they are processed for scanning. Obviously, we get a much simpler graph that 
> way, because no claims have been made by archivists about the structure of 
> the collection. Descriptive and other metadata is stored with each object in 
> MODS and other good -metadata- formats. A document object has metadata that 
> pertain only to the document (along with any data that permits us to 
> represent the document on-line, e.g. a scanned image or TEI text ), a folder 
> object has metadata for that folder, etc. Since we want to offer EAD for a 
> collection (!
 or!
>  any piece thereof), we supply a Fedora behavior (dissemination) against any 
> object, which behavior assembles a collection structure as "seen" from that 
> object (by following the RDF graph), then recursively assembles the 
> appropriate metadata and transforms it to produce EAD.
> 
> We like this approach because it offers a great deal of extensibility (we 
> could imagine using more sophisticated RDF to account for different opinions 
> about a collection, or offering a METS or other structured view as well) and 
> it keeps the repository contents "idiomatic". We haven't yet figured out 
> entirely how we bring this kind of content to Blacklight, but we'll be aided 
> by the fact that we have appropriately-attached metadata for anything that 
> should appear as a record in our indexes.
> 
> We're bringing the first part of this scheme (the assembly of object graphs) 
> to production in the next fortnight or so. We've got the code ready and 
> tested and are now enjoying the really fun stuff-- moving servers around and 
> tinkering with clustering and the like. The second part (producing EAD 
> "live") is waiting to go to production on some work from our cataloging 
> dep't, who have assigned some staff to polish up the mappings involved. We 
> have very simple mappings in place now, but not ones good enough to publish 
> publicly. They're working away, and we hope to see something in production 
> later this fall. As for how we provide discoverability, we'll start simply by 
> indexing all these objects into our local Blacklight instance. There's no 
> need to consider how to index highly-structured XML because we're not storing 
> it. We can move on to providing special views for records with awareness of 
> the relationships that Fedora has recorded on those objects and tools for 
> discovering,!
  v!
> isualizing, and following them. Unfortunately, our one Blacklight developer 
> has plenty on her plate already, so I don't know how quickly we'll be able to 
> look at that. In the meanwhile, we can simply style out the 
> dynamically-constructed EAD as part of a Blacklight view for a given record, 
> which isn't particularly exciting, but is useful.
> 
> ---
> A. Soroka
> Digital Research and Scholarship R & D
> the University of Virginia Library

Re: [CODE4LIB] World Bank opens up data and developer API

[Tom Cramer]

Our govdocs librarian reports that this release has generated a ton of buzz in 
the documents community, and forwarded the message below from the Wold Bank 
pubs office. Note that: 

> the Bank authorizes and encourages free use of it's data both for 
> non-commercial and commercial use. Therefore you are absolutely free to 
> incorporate our data in library catalogs and any other data application or 
> mash-up. We only request to provide attribution to the World Bank.

- Tom


> >>
> 
> Dear all, 
> 
> As you may be aware, the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors recently 
> approved a new Access to Information policy, which will become effective July 
> 1, 2010. In keeping with this new policy, I am pleased to inform you that the 
> World Bank Group now provides free, open, and easy access to its 
> comprehensive set of data on living standards around the globe—some 2,000 
> indicators, including hundreds that go back 50 years— through its new data 
> portal at http://data.worldbank.org
> 
> This new site currently contains the full World Development Indicators (WDI), 
> Global Development Finance (GDF), and Africa Development Indicators (ADI) as 
> well as several other World Bank databases such as Global Economic Monitor 
> (GEM), Education Statistics, etc... For a full list of data sets available 
> please go tohttp://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog Most of the data is 
> available in Arabic, French, and Spanish in addition to English.
> 
> To read the terms of use for the Bank data please go to: 
> www.worldbank.org/terms-datasets. The Bank authorizes and encourages free use 
> of it's data both for non-commercial and commercial use. Therefore you are 
> absolutely free to incorporate our data in library catalogs and any other 
> data application or mash-up. We only request to provide attribution to the 
> World Bank. We have created a restricted category for indicators for which we 
> do not hold copyright. For now no indicators fall in this category but we 
> encourage you to regularly check: www.worldbank.org/terms-datasets-restricted
> 
> We invite you to visit the new site. It is rich with new functionality both 
> for the lay user that simply wishes to access basic data by country, topic or 
> region, as well as for the advance user that wishes to download the datasets 
> in excel, csd, xml as well as other formats. Advance users can also access 
> and retrieve data via the DataBank, a platform similar to the previous WDI, 
> GDF and ADI platform. To access the DataBank simply go to the catalog page 
> and click on the icon "Databank" next to each dataset. Among other features 
> the site also includes a link to the World Bank Data API and encourages 
> developers to create new applications with the data. It also has a link to 
> DataFinder, the new World Bank iphone application. 
> 
> Libraries that currently hold a subscription to the WDI, GDF, ADI or GEM are 
> entitled to receive a prorated refund for their subscription fees. We sent on 
> April 20 personalized e-mails to all existing subscribers with detailed 
> information. If you are a subscriber and did not hear from us please let me 
> know ASAP. The previous WDI, GDF, and ADI platform will remain functional 
> until the end of the year, and probably well into 2011. Existing customers 
> have the option of maintaining access to the previous platform, switching to 
> the new free one and receive a refund or witching to the new one applying the 
> funds to a subscription to the World Bank e-Library 
> (www.worldbank.org/newelibrary) that will remain a subscription product. 
> 
> I will be attend the IDTF round table meeting at ALA annual conference in DC 
> in June and I will be happy to answer any questions. In the meantime feel 
> free to contact me or my colleague Devika Levy (dl...@worldbank.org). I can 
> be reached at the e-mail and phone number below.
> 
> We will appreciate your help in spreading the news. If you think I should 
> contact any other listserv, discussion forums or anyone else in particular 
> please let me know. We are very excited about this new development and we 
> want to spread the good news! 
> 
> Kind regards
> Jose
> 
> 
> Jose de Buerba
> Marketing Manager
> World Bank Publications
> 1818 H Street NW, MSN U11-1104
> Washington, DC, 20433 - USA
> ' Work: +1.202.473.0393 * jdebue...@worldbank.org  þ 
> http://www.worldbank.org/publications
> www.facebook.com/worldbank | www.twitter.com/WBPubs
> 
> WORLD BANK PUBLICATIONS | The Reference of Choice on Development
> 
> 





On Apr 22, 2010, at 9:16 AM, Roy Tennant wrote:

> Seen via my colleague Stu Weibel:*
> 
> April 20, 2010*—The World Bank Group said today it will offer free access to
> more than 2,000 financial, business, health, economic and human development
> statistics that had mostly 

Re: [CODE4LIB] need a plan for what to code

[Tom Cramer]

Adam,

Just over a year ago, we were in a similar position to yours, and wanted both a 
discovery layer and a Fedora-based digital asset management system for 
Stanford. 

We ended up adopting Blacklight for both our next generation catalog [1] and as 
the UI providing discovery / viewing component of our repository. To complement 
BL's strong searching / browsing / multi-format object viewing capabilities, we 
are building a Ruby-on-Rails-based repository front end application to provide 
the deposit / editing / object management capabilities. 

This architecture and overall approach is a multi-institutional project called 
Hydra [2], with Stanford, University of Virginia and University of Hull being 
the primary contributors at this point. The app makes use of ActiveFedora [3] 
as the bridge between the Fedora and the Rails apps. 

By our calculations, this gave us the best of three worlds--Blacklight provides 
a single platform both for discovery and part of our repository front end, we 
leverage Fedora for its asset management capabilities, and the Hydra / 
ActiveFedora components let us do rapid application and flexible application 
development for our DAM needs. 

The project is still young, but all the project code is open source, and 
adopters/contributors/partners are welcome. 

- Tom

  | Tom Cramer
  | Stanford University 
  | tcra...@stanford.edu


[1] http://searchworks.stanford.edu
[2] www.fedora-commons.org/confluence/display/hydra
[3] www.yourmediashelf.com/activefedora/





On Mar 29, 2010, at 12:37 PM, Adam Wead wrote:

> Ethan,
> 
> Thanks, yes, I did take a look at this.  I have to pick my battles here.  A 
> discovery interface is one of the things that we could buy "off the shelf" 
> and get a lot of good mileage out of.  I'm devoted to open source and I would 
> love nothing more than to roll our own with Blacklight, but that's more work 
> on top of the DAM issue.  I chose not to delve into the Blacklight option to 
> save myself more time to focus on the asset manager issue, which is where I 
> *think* I'll be having to work the most.
> 
> Of course, I'm open to suggestions.  Does anyone think it's easier to do your 
> own discovery layer than a DAM? Potentially, the money we save not buying a 
> discovery layer could go towards buying a DAM.  However, the products we're 
> looking have some really great interfaces.  I think I'd be looking at an 
> equally difficult challenge trying to emulate some of those features on my 
> own.
> 
> thoughts?
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Code for Libraries on behalf of Ethan Gruber
> Sent: Mon 3/29/2010 3:00 PM
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] need a plan for what to code
> 
> Instead of purchasing a discovery system, I recommend using
> blacklight<http://projectblacklight.org/>
> 
> Ethan
> 
> 
> 
>  
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> and attitude, music with a good beat and --- often --- loud guitars.© 2005 
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>  
> This communication is a confidential and proprietary business communication. 
> It is intended solely for the use of the designated recipient(s). If this 
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[CODE4LIB] Position available: Technical Manager, Stanford Digital Repository

[Tom Cramer]

[x-posted]

The Stanford University Libraries seek a Technical Manager for the  
Stanford Digital Repository. Interested candidates should apply  
online via


   http://jobs.stanford.edu/find_a_job.html , job # 28586


Job Description:
The Technical Manager for the Stanford Digital Repository leads the  
development, operation, and continuous enhancement of the Stanford  
University Libraries’ (SUL’s) preservation repository for digital  
information. The Stanford Digital Repository (SDR) provides  
preservation services to the students, faculty and researchers of the  
university, helping ensure the integrity and usability of data and  
digital information over decades to centuries for future research,  
teaching & learning. The SDR is integral to Stanford’s burgeoning  
digital library environment; it will be a critical component of the  
cyberinfrastructure that supports scholarship in the 21st century.


The Technical Manager for the SDR serves as chief architect and  
software development manager for the repository, as well as oversees  
its smooth operation and scaling to support tens of thousands of  
users, hundreds of millions of digital objects and petabytes of data.  
The position will manage a dedicated team of developers, analysts and  
operations staff, with a focus on growing the repository into a  
robust and reliable digital preservation infrastructure for the  
Libraries and the University.


This position also provides intellectual, technical and  
organizational leadership within Stanford’s broader digital library  
program. As a manager and architect within the Digital Libraries  
Systems and Services (DLSS) unit, the incumbent will help define,  
steer and deliver on the development of the library of the future at  
Stanford, a nationally and internationally recognized leader in this  
arena.


Responsibilities:
Determine the overall architecture, technologies, development  
practices and plan to meet the SDR’s objectives, and manage a cross  
functional team of 8 - 12 developers, analysts and operational staff  
to that plan.
Ensure the rapid scaling and smooth operation of the SDR as trusted,  
reliable digital repository for the priceless data and intellectual  
assets of Stanford University.
Work with other groups in DLSS and the Libraries to identify and  
develop information systems that will define the library of the  
future, and will be integral to supporting scholarship in the digital  
age. Ensure that SDR provides services that are valued, complementary  
and interoperable with these systems.
Ultimately, lead the ongoing development and operation of the  
Stanford Digital Repository to ensure its success in meeting the  
programmatic needs of Stanford University Libraries and Academic  
Information Resources, and those of the University overall, for  
digital preservation services.


The successful candidate will bring to this position:
Demonstrated success in managing software development projects and teams
Demonstrated experience in the development and scaling of complex  
information systems
Demonstrated experience with successfully operating enterprise-scale  
information systems as reliable infrastructure, and balancing between  
competing demands of new feature development and ongoing operations
Proven capability as a senior level software developer in a J2EE  
environment, and experience in contributing to and/or defining the  
technical architecture of complex systems
Wide ranging knowledge of current and emerging technologies and  
information architectures
Familiarity with best practices in systems development life cycle,  
and capability for instilling industry standard practices and tools  
for software development

Experience and facility working in an academic environment
Experience in digital libraries and digital preservation, or a proven  
ability to quickly come up to speed in new arenas
Ability to track and participate in the digital library and digital  
preservation communities, identifying technologies, practices and  
theory critical to the SDR

Excellent organizational, management and communication skills
Demonstrated ability to deliver results in a complex and demand  
driven environment.
Ten years plus of applicable professional experience in software  
development, information technology, library science or related fields.
A four year college degree in computer science or related discipline,  
or equivalent experience.


- Tom

  | Tom Cramer
  | Associate Director, Digital Library Systems & Services
  | Stanford University LIbraries & Academic Information Resources
  | Stanford University
  | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  | (650) 723-5270