With just a week to go we've still got some tickets for edUi 2012 (
http://eduiconf.org) available. We sold out last year and we'd love to
repeat that success again this year. We still have space in three of our
workshops: LeanUX, jQuery, Web Accessibility (one is included with your
registration).
Yale University Library Seeks Applications and Nominations
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Acquisitions Systems Librarian
Maintains and enhances the Library's core production systems and services,
particularly Orbis, and ancillary applications as they relate to Acquisitions.
Handles systems development, implementation,
To be responsible for the creation of metadata, associated authority and
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**Minimum Qualifications**
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Virginia Military Institute is accepting applications for a Cataloging and
Metadata Librarian.
Position Summary: This position provides organization and bibliographic
control of library resources in all formats. Responsible for cataloging,
metadata, quality control, knowledge of changing
We recently wrapped up a project to develop a set of components for SEASR
to do TEI analysis[1]. There are a couple of ways to call SEASR flows -
you can either use ZigZag[2] to script flow construction execution, or
you can set up a flow as a web service using their web service endpoint
We use the Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names for coding place names in our
museum and archival cataloguing systems. We're currently struggling with the
best way to display and make these terms searchable in our online database.
Currently we're just displaying the term itself, which is
On Sep 17, 2012, at 3:12 PM, ddwigg...@historicnewengland.org wrote:
But I'm having trouble coming up with an algorithm that can consistently spit
these out in the form we'd want to display given the data available in TGN.
A dense but rich, just-published article from D-Lib Magazine about
I use Geonames for this sort of thing a lot. With cities and
administrative divisions being offered in a machine-readable format, it's
pretty easy to encode places in a format that adheres to AACR2 or other
cataloging rules. There are of course problems disambiguating city names
when no country
From the examples you've given how about:
1. Start with the first (most detailed) element in the hieararchy.
2. Moving up the hieararchy, add on the first inhabited place found,
if any.
3. Continuing to move up the hieararchy, add on the first nation
found, if any.
On 9/17/2012 3:12 PM,
This may be of interest...
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All,
I'm currently putting together the schedule for the October 17th Code4Lib
Mid-Atlantic kickoff meeting
(http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Code4lib_Mid-Atlantic) and have a few slots
left for presentations. If you'll be in the Philadelphia/Tri-State area on
October 17th and have a
Hi David,
I am posting a reply from Patricia Harpring. Managing Editor, Getty
Vocabularies
Regards,
Joe Shubitowski
Getty Research Institute
David,
You ask a good question. At the Getty Vocabulary Program, we recommend
that you concatenate a recommended Label to identify the place.
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