Re: [CODE4LIB] Expressing negatives and similar in RDF

2013-09-17 Thread Meehan, Thomas
Karen, Yes, I mean that if you have something like: - example:book1 dc:title example:unknownTitle . - example:book2 dc:title example:noTitle . then this approach only works for the dc:title element (putting aside for now what you said about dc:title requiring a literal). For any other elements

Re: [CODE4LIB] Expressing negatives and similar in RDF

2013-09-17 Thread aj...@virginia.edu
I don't think anyone would want to use one ontology for all work, especially not a public ontology. I can imagine people using ontology extensions that are specific to the purpose of validation, and I've found them useful myself. I'm not arguing against using SPARQL for validation. I do think

[CODE4LIB] Institutional Repository Costs

2013-09-17 Thread scott bacon
It may be a fool's errand to ask how much it would cost to implement an open source institutional repository, but here goes! Let's first focus on open source and say that there won't be vendor costs for ingesting or downloading materials, that we already have our own purchased servers dedicated

Re: [CODE4LIB] Institutional Repository Costs

2013-09-17 Thread Kirsta Stapelfeldt
Hi Scott, No numbers here, but I recommend budgeting for either a) ongoing programmer involvement (staff), or b) support costs with an appropriate company for the platform you choose. Minimizing the amount of unique code a programmer has to write can also go a distance to reducing ongoing costs.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Institutional Repository Costs

2013-09-17 Thread Sullivan, Mark V
Scott, Depending on the primary technologies you are using at your institution, you could look at implementing the open source solution SobekCM. ( http://sobek.ufl.edu ) We are using this at our institution ( http://ufdc.ufl.edu/ufir ). We developed the system in-house over the last

Re: [CODE4LIB] Institutional Repository Costs

2013-09-17 Thread Mark Jordan
Scott, I agree with Kirsta, but in addition to technical staff you will absolutely need someone who can develop and oversee policies associated with the IR, and work with the communities who will be contributing contents. IRs are a service, not a website or CMS (although the technology

Re: [CODE4LIB] Institutional Repository Costs

2013-09-17 Thread Edward M. Corrado
Having done some research in this area for a chapter in soon-to-be-published book, I concur with C. Sean Burns, Amy Lana and John M. Budd that Little is known about the costs academic libraries incur to implement and manage institutional repositories and the value these institutional repositories

Re: [CODE4LIB] Expressing negatives and similar in RDF

2013-09-17 Thread Karen Coyle
On 9/17/13 1:14 AM, Meehan, Thomas wrote: Karen, Yes, I mean that if you have something like: - example:book1 dc:title example:unknownTitle . - example:book2 dc:title example:noTitle . Thomas, this does not work because the object of dc:title is the title of the work (actually, the

[CODE4LIB] Ruby zoom for z39.50

2013-09-17 Thread Little, James Clarence IV
Hey all, I'm wondering if there are any libraries out there using ruby zoom for z39.50 access. It looks like the last version of the gem was released in 2007, and I haven't been able to get it to work with recent versions of Ruby. I'm trying to get it to build on Ruby 1.9.3. Has anybody else

Re: [CODE4LIB] Expressing negatives and similar in RDF

2013-09-17 Thread Karen Coyle
Agreed that SPARQL is ugly, and there was discussion at the RDF validation workshop about the need for friendly interfaces that then create the appropriate SPARQL queries in the background. This shouldn't be surprising, since most business systems do not require users to write raw SQL or even

Re: [CODE4LIB] Institutional Repository Costs

2013-09-17 Thread Rosalyn Metz
It sounds like you're saying that you're going to make a one year commitment to develop software and then you're going to walk away from the code/software/what have you, is that correct? If that is correct, my question to you is: would you purchase software from a vendor that said, Yeah we built

Re: [CODE4LIB] Ruby zoom for z39.50

2013-09-17 Thread Terrell, Trey
Hey James, Yeah - we're using it for our LibraryFind to Blacklight conversion. We're using the repo at https://github.com/bricestacey/ruby-zoom . Should just be able to put it in your Gemfile as gem 'zoom', '~0.4.1', :git = 'https://github.com/bricestacey/ruby-zoom.git' and have it work. If

[CODE4LIB] Job: Assistant Dean of University Libraries for Learning and Outreach Services at Seton Hall University

2013-09-17 Thread jobs
The Assistant Dean of University Libraries for Learning and Outreach Services assists the Dean and works closely with administrative and Library faculty colleagues to carry out the mission of the Libraries and to provide leadership, direction and oversight for the planning and operations of the

Re: [CODE4LIB] Expressing negatives and similar in RDF

2013-09-17 Thread Riley, Jenn
Hi Tom, I think it comes down to what you really mean by a book not having a title. A few options I can think of: 1) This book was published without a title (or whatever verb you want there if you want to cover unpublished material) 2) The author did not give this work a title 3) I've never

Re: [CODE4LIB] Expressing negatives and similar in RDF

2013-09-17 Thread stuart yeates
On 13/09/13 23:32, Meehan, Thomas wrote: However, it would be more useful, and quite common at least in a bibliographic context, to say This book does not have a title. Ideally (?!) there would be an ontology of concepts like none, unknown, or even something, but unspecified: This book has