Re: [CODE4LIB] Answer to your question Re: [CODE4LIB] Group Decision Making (was Zoia)

2013-01-31 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
That seems like a great idea to me, Deborah. From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Fitchett, Deborah [deborah.fitch...@lincoln.ac.nz] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 10:26 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB]

Re: [CODE4LIB] Why we need multiple discovery services engine?

2013-01-31 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
So, there are two categories of solutions here -- 1) local indexes, where you create the index yourself, like blacklight or vufind (both based on a local Solr). 2) vendor-hosted indexes, where the vendor includes all sorts of things in their index that you the customer don't have local metadata

Re: [CODE4LIB] Answer to your question Re: [CODE4LIB] Group Decision Making (was Zoia)

2013-01-31 Thread Fitchett, Deborah
Thank you Becky, Karen and Gary for your answers (and excuse the delay replying; have been attempting to clear my head despite the heat and an achy ankle combining against me). The "backup" buttons are a good idea, and I definitely support both Becky and Karen's suggestions for additions to the

[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2013 in Layar

2013-01-31 Thread William Denton
I've set up a Code4Lib 2013 layer in the Android/iOS augmented reality application Layar [1] to do something that I think---I hope---will add an interesting and fun element to the conference. You can use it to scan around the city to see two kinds of things: 1) tweets using the #c4l13 or #code

[CODE4LIB] Why we need multiple discovery services engine?

2013-01-31 Thread Wayne Lam
Hi all, I saw in numerous of library website, many of them would have their own based discovery services (e.g. blacklight / vufind) and at the same time they will have vendor based discovery services (e.g. EDS / Primo / Summon). Instead of having to maintain 2 separate system, why not put everythi

[CODE4LIB] "Catalog-machine" service testing page

2013-01-31 Thread Tim Spalding
We periodically have a problem with libraries finding LibraryThing doesn't work, traced to the computers a library sets aside for catalog use only. These computers are domain-restricted, so patrons can't use them to check Facebook, or whatever. The library whitelists domains they think the catalog

Re: [CODE4LIB] usability testing software

2013-01-31 Thread David Friggens
> I may have an opportunity to put together a little bit of a usability > testing lab at my library... Have you seen GVSU's approach? http://matthew.reidsrow.com/articles/12 http://matthew.reidsrow.com/articles/13 David

Re: [CODE4LIB] usability testing software

2013-01-31 Thread Wilhelmina Randtke
Yes, Camtasia is much much smoother than CamStudio, and gets good quality videos at reasonable file size. CamStudio had given me horribly large files to get any resolution at all. (Note: Neither of these programs is usability testing software. They are just for screen casts, and screen recordin

[CODE4LIB] Job: Web Design Specialist at Stephen F. Austin State University

2013-01-31 Thread jobs
Institution: Stephen F. Austin State University Location: Nacogdoches, TX Category: Admin - Computing - Web Development Admin - Computing - Programming/Analyst Posted: 01/30/2013 Application Due: Open Until Filled Type: Full Time Posting Number: 0602165 Position Type: Non-Classified

Re: [CODE4LIB] wiki page about the chode4lib irc bot created

2013-01-31 Thread Karen Coyle
Thanks to both of you. This page is now exactly what I was looking for when I first went to the c4l IRC documentation looking for Zoia commands. I'm sure it'll all make more sense now. kc On 1/31/13 7:22 AM, Bohyun Kim wrote: Thanks so much Peter! It looks great and big thanks to all who are

[CODE4LIB] fedora at code4lib aka fedora4lib (social events/hackfest announcement)

2013-01-31 Thread Edwin Shin
Hi all, I was meaning to send this out after I had some final confirmation from our sponsors (and frankly, had a more than a few minutes to whip the website together), but it seems the well-oiled DuraSpace PR machine has already started the ball rolling, so: Please join us at the Fedora House

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

2013-01-31 Thread Tom Johnson
If you're interested using SKOS. We are working up a system for DSpace name authority in SKOS/FOAF at Oregon State. We have a simple django application prototype for editing the data, and are working up a plugin for DSpace to access it over SPARQL. I'm working on this substantially over the next w

Re: [CODE4LIB] usability testing software

2013-01-31 Thread Ian Walls
My library is about to launch into a series of quick usability testing sessions next week for our website. In terms of software, we wanted to do a screen and audio capture, but the programs we experimented with were not sufficiently stable or responsive to fit into our workflow. There was far too

Re: [CODE4LIB] usability testing software

2013-01-31 Thread Shaun Ellis
Usability Testing Lab?!? Awesome! I'm curious about your goals and your process... are you looking to publish your results? I guess why I'm asking is because I pretty much drank the Kool-aid on the more ethnographic "discount usability testing" + "rapid prototyping" approach, followed by usi

Re: [CODE4LIB] usability testing software

2013-01-31 Thread Patrick Berry
This is great for A/B https://www.optimizely.com/ On Thursday, January 31, 2013, Stephen Francoeur wrote: > If all you need is something that will capture the screen as video and add > audio from a mic, then CamStudio or SnagIt will work (I've used both). But, > I have to admit, I've had those p

Re: [CODE4LIB] usability testing software

2013-01-31 Thread Stephen Francoeur
If all you need is something that will capture the screen as video and add audio from a mic, then CamStudio or SnagIt will work (I've used both). But, I have to admit, I've had those programs crash in the middle of a test. I'm waiting to get my hands on Camtasia to see if it's more stable. Stephen

Re: [CODE4LIB] usability testing software

2013-01-31 Thread Julia Bauder
I've used this in the past: http://silverbackapp.com/. It's Mac-only (which was actually a drawback for the project I was working on!), it's cheap, and did what we needed. It doesn't do nearly as much as Morae, though, so it might not have specific features you need? Julia On Thu, Jan 31, 2013

[CODE4LIB] usability testing software

2013-01-31 Thread Nate Hill
Hi all, Years ago I had the opportunity to use Morae to do some usability testing. http://www.techsmith.com/morae.html I may have an opportunity to put together a little bit of a usability testing lab at my library, and I wonder if anyone can suggest a similar product but... I'd like it to run on M

Re: [CODE4LIB] wiki page about the chode4lib irc bot created

2013-01-31 Thread Bohyun Kim
Thanks so much Peter! It looks great and big thanks to all who are adding new content to the page! =) Cheers, ~Bohyun From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Peter Murray [peter.mur...@lyrasis.org] Sent: Thursday, January 31, 201

Re: [CODE4LIB] wiki page about the chode4lib irc bot created

2013-01-31 Thread Peter Murray
Great start, Bohyun! I added some commands, enhanced the formatting, and cleaned up some problems. http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Zoia_or_the_Code4Lib_IRC_bot Peter On Jan 24, 2013, at 3:47 PM, Bohyun Kim wrote: > Hi all~ > > I was not familiar with the code4lib IRC bot (or irc bot in

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

2013-01-31 Thread Ed Summers
Of course after sending that I noticed a mistake, the curl example should look like: curl -i --header "Accept: application/json" http://id.library.osu.edu/person/123 HTTP/1.1 303 See Other date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 10:47:44 GMT server: Apache/2.2.14 (Ubuntu) location: http://id.library.osu.

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

2013-01-31 Thread Ed Summers
Hi Jason, Heh, sorry for the long response below. You always ask interesting questions :-D I would highly recommend that vocabulary management apps like this assign an identifier to each entity, that can be expressed as a URL. If there is any kind of database backing the app you will get the iden