[CODE4LIB] Call for Proposals: ALA Annual Conference Poster Session

2014-10-29 Thread Melanie Griffin
**Please excuse cross postings** Dear colleagues, Share your best ideas and work with the national library community by presenting a poster session at the 2015 ALA Annual Conference in San Francisco! The poster session committee encourages submissions from all types of libraries and on

[CODE4LIB] Advanced Collaborative Support for the HathiTrust Research Center

2014-10-29 Thread McDonald, Robert H.
The HathiTrust Research Centerhttp://www.hathitrust.org/htrc/ is seeking proposals for Advanced Collaborative Support (ACS) projects. ACS is a newly launched scholarly service at the HTRC offering collaboration between external scholars and HTRC staff to solve challenging problems related to

[CODE4LIB] Digital Preservation Network (DPN) Launches Member Content Pilot

2014-10-29 Thread Carol Minton Morris
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 29, 2014 Read it online: http://bit.ly/ZZCJSK Digital Preservation Network (DPN) Launches Member Content Pilot A step toward establishing an operational, long-term preservation system shared across the academy The Digital Preservation Network (DPN) is a

[CODE4LIB] Metadata

2014-10-29 Thread P.G.
Hello Coders, Just wanted to see who works with metadata and what standards and protocols are you using and what platforms/softwares if any are you using? Thank you. Chris

Re: [CODE4LIB] Metadata

2014-10-29 Thread Matthew Sherman
That is a very vague question, would you care to elaborate a bit more? On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 1:50 PM, P.G. booksbyp...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Coders, Just wanted to see who works with metadata and what standards and protocols are you using and what platforms/softwares if any are you using?

Re: [CODE4LIB] Metadata

2014-10-29 Thread Pottinger, Hardy J.
Here you go: http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/~jenlrile/metadatamap/ --Hardy From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of P.G. [booksbyp...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2014 12:50 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject:

Re: [CODE4LIB] Metadata

2014-10-29 Thread Brian Zelip
I don't work with metadata for the library, but from metadata class I know we (UIUC) use at least MARC, MARCXML, and MODS. Oxygen is a commonly used application around here to process xml. Brian Zelip --- MS Student, Graduate School of Library Information Science Graduate Assistant, Scholarly

Re: [CODE4LIB] Metadata

2014-10-29 Thread Matthew Sherman
To answer off the cuff as others have done, currently I am using a modified version of qualified Dublin Core for the DSpace institutional repository I manage. I inherited the system which had some custom fields for publication information and event information, as well as some fields being used

Re: [CODE4LIB] Metadata

2014-10-29 Thread todd.d.robb...@gmail.com
Hardy++ That's what I was going to send! On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Brian Zelip bze...@gmail.com wrote: I don't work with metadata for the library, but from metadata class I know we (UIUC) use at least MARC, MARCXML, and MODS. Oxygen is a commonly used application around here to

Re: [CODE4LIB] Metadata

2014-10-29 Thread Eric Phetteplace
Of course, MARC. I use Millennium ILS' bulk editing modules (Rapid|Global Update) or pymarc. We have a digital repository, EQUELLA, which lets you use custom metadata schemas or preconfigured ones. We use a heavily modified MODS schema. Format is XML. I haven't done a ton of XML processing but I

Re: [CODE4LIB] Metadata

2014-10-29 Thread Kari R Smith
Depending if you are asking about descriptive, administrative, technical or preservation, there are a lot f metadata standards and schema. Some that haven't been yet mentioned are: VRA Core 3.0 (Visual Resources Association, Core 3.0) for visual material PREMIS (Preservation Metadata

[CODE4LIB] Job: Manager, Digital Library Services at Florida Virtual Campus

2014-10-29 Thread jobs
Manager, Digital Library Services Florida Virtual Campus Gainesville,Florida The Florida Virtual Campus (FLVC) is a statewide academic support organization. As a joint service of the Florida College System and the State University System, FLVC supports the distance learning, degree completion,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Metadata

2014-10-29 Thread Kyle Banerjee
On Oct 29, 2014, at 1:52 PM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com wrote: That is a very vague question, would you care to elaborate a bit more? This. If we just mention standards we use, you'll get drowned in alphabet soup of acronyms. If you could say a few words about what you have

Re: [CODE4LIB] Metadata

2014-10-29 Thread Wilhelmina Randtke
If it's a homework assignment, http://www.niso.org/publications/press/UnderstandingMetadata.pdf to start and Wikipedia to retrieve more detail on standards can give you a good start. -Wilhelmina Randtke On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: I'm guessing