Re: [CODE4LIB] hathitrust research center workset browser

2015-06-01 Thread Karen Coyle
Right. Which is why *someone* copied all of the Google digitized books to the Internet Archive -- someone not associated with the library partners. So generally if you cannot download from HT you can find the same scan via openlibrary.org. Unfortunately that doesn't help with using the tool tha

Re: [CODE4LIB] hathitrust research center workset browser

2015-06-01 Thread Jimmy Ghaphery
I think we are in agreement (especially about the utility of all things HathiTrust). My one point is that any restrictions on digitized public domain works, as I understand it, are not related to copyright. On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 5:00 PM, Terry Reese wrote: > >> However, the digitizing agency ca

Re: [CODE4LIB] hathitrust research center workset browser

2015-06-01 Thread Terry Reese
>> However, the digitizing agency cannot dictate any copyright >>restrictions on the digitized copies once released to the public The digital objects have not, and as far as I understand, cannot be made available to the public if digitized as part of the google books digitization project. Most

Re: [CODE4LIB] hathitrust research center workset browser

2015-06-01 Thread Jimmy Ghaphery
Thanks Eric for posting the webinar in the other thread. I am pretty sure that digitizing something in the public domain does not change its copyright status, at least in the U.S. The digitizing agency certainly has the right to sell, restrict access, watermark, or even keep the scans locked up on

[CODE4LIB] Let's Hack a Collaborative Website, ALA Annual LITA preconference

2015-06-01 Thread Junior Tidal
Apologies for cross-posting; Feel free to share with your colleagues Going to ALA Annual? Consider signing up for our LITA preconference program. You'll get hands-on experience working with Bootstrap and Git! Best, Junior Tidal Assistant Professor Web Services and Multimedia Librarian New York

[CODE4LIB] hathitrust research center user group meeting

2015-06-01 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
Consider participating in Thursday's HathiTrust Research Center User Group Meeting: Who - anybody and everybody What - a discussion of all things HathiTrust Research Center When - this Thursday, June 4 from 3-4:00 Eastern Time Where - via the telephone: (812) 856-3600 or (317) 278-700

[CODE4LIB] International Linked Data Survey for Implementers: RSVP by 17 July 2015

2015-06-01 Thread Roy Tennant
Posted on behalf of my colleague. Roy OCLC Research is repeating its survey to learn details of specific projects or services that format metadata as linked data and/or make subsequent uses of it. Many in the libraries/archives/museum community are excited by the potential of linked data applicati

Re: [CODE4LIB] hathitrust research center workset browser

2015-06-01 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
On Jun 1, 2015, at 10:58 AM, davesgonechina wrote: > They just informed me I need a .edu address. Having trouble understanding > the use of the term "public domain" here. Gung fhpx, naq fbhaqf ernyyl fbeg bs fghcvq!! --RYZ

[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib North: Car pooling from Brock residences to downtown

2015-06-01 Thread David Fiander
I'm staying at Brock for C4LN this week, but I won't have a car with me, so who's going to be around that I could catch a ride with downtown? - David

Re: [CODE4LIB] hathitrust research center workset browser

2015-06-01 Thread Terry Reese
I know that Robert McDonald lurks around here -- so he could clarify this -- but what folks need to realize here is that the research center is providing tools that allow research access to materials within the hathitrust that are within the public domain. However, the digitized materials thems

Re: [CODE4LIB] hathitrust research center workset browser

2015-06-01 Thread davesgonechina
They just informed me I need a .edu address. Having trouble understanding the use of the term "public domain" here. On Mon, Jun 1, 2015, 9:58 PM Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > On Jun 1, 2015, at 4:33 AM, davesgonechina > wrote: > > > If your *institutional* email address is not on their whitelist (

Re: [CODE4LIB] hathitrust research center workset browser

2015-06-01 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
On Jun 1, 2015, at 4:33 AM, davesgonechina wrote: > If your *institutional* email address is not on their whitelist (not sure > if it is limited to subscribing ones, they don't say) you cannot register > using the signup form, instead you can only request an account by briefly > explaining why yo

Re: [CODE4LIB] hathitrust research center workset browser

2015-06-01 Thread davesgonechina
If your *institutional* email address is not on their whitelist (not sure if it is limited to subscribing ones, they don't say) you cannot register using the signup form, instead you can only request an account by briefly explaining why you want one. Weird, because they'd have potentially learned m