Re: [CODE4LIB] authority work with isni

Eric, ORCID is also available. http://orcid.org/organizations/integrators/API ORCID is mostly current authors of journal articles. Over 2 million names. David Bigwood dbigw...@hou.usra.edu Lunar and Planetary Institute http://www.lpi.usra.edu/library/ @LPI_Library -Original Message-

Re: [CODE4LIB] Interim data storage for researchers

Bittorrent Sync might be an option. It can create a personal cloud https://www.getsync.com/ I haven't tried it but it does seem to work mostly with folders, not individual files. Sincerely, David Bigwood dbigw...@hou.usra.edu Lunar and Planetary Institute @LPI_Library Flickr:

[CODE4LIB] DSpace Handle Server help

Our computer folks are stumped trying to set up the Handle Server in DSpace. Anyone willing to give them a hand or a few tips? We have registered and got our handle. Brian Fessler is the person to contact bfess...@hou.usra.edu Our DSpace repository is at

Re: [CODE4LIB] LC Cutter Generator - does this exist?

OCLC has a Dewey Cutter Program. It can create either Cutter 4-figure or Cutter Sanborn 4-figure cutters. http://www.oclc.org/support/services/dewey/program.en.html David Bigwood dbigw...@hou.usra.edu @LPI_Library https://www.flickr.com/photos/lunarandplanetaryinstitute/ -Original

[CODE4LIB] Library Hours

This looks like a decent group, but I find this statement hard to believe. Your tax-deductible donation supports adding the names, address and the hours of operation of all libraries to Range. The Institute of Museum and Library Services publishes an open data catalog which is the source we'll

Re: [CODE4LIB] Why learn Unix?

Learning UNIX is fine. However, I do think learning SQL might be a better investment. So many of our resources are in databases. Understanding indexing, sorting and relevancy ranking of our databases is also crucial. With linked data being all the rage knowing about sparql endpoints is

[CODE4LIB] Citation Publication Tool

Any suggestions for publishing citations on the Web? We have a department that has lots of publications with citations at the end of each. Keeping the citations up-to-date is a chore. Many here use Endnotes, and I know that can publish to the Web. Any examples I can view? Would Libguides be

Re: [CODE4LIB] Citation Publication Tool

, which goal is to build researchers directory. This tools often include bibliographic management : - http://bibapp.org/ - http://theopenscholar.org/ Hope this helps. -- Sylvain Machefert - Systems librarian http://geobib.fr/en Le 22/10/2014 22:10, Bigwood, David a écrit : Any

Re: [CODE4LIB] College Question!

Riley, Don't major in Library Science. As an undergrad degree it's worthless and you'll just have to take the same type of courses for a Masters. You'll miss the chance to broaden your skill set. As an undergrad either major in IT, CS, CE or the like and then minor in something in the

Re: [CODE4LIB] Job Interview : A Libcoder's Helpful Advices

Asking questions is an essential part of the interview. You are interviewing them as well as them you. But, never ask questions that can be easily answered by browsing their website or common reference works. That just makes you look either lazy or not interested enough to take a few minutes to

Re: [CODE4LIB] distributed responsibility for web content

One possibility to get rid of some of the design problems is to see if it is valid in Section 508, if you're in the U.S. That won't help with just ugly but it might get rid of some problems. There are many validators out there. Sincerely, David Bigwood dbigw...@lpi.usra.edu Lunar and

Re: [CODE4LIB] Professional Development Suggestions?

If you deal mostly with the sciences the New England Science Boot Camp might be useful. I've always thought they looked interesting. I think the Data Scientist Training for Librarians looks amazing. I don't see a session scheduled. You might contact them and see if they have one planned and

[CODE4LIB] Open Publication Distribution System

I recently became aware of Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS) Catalog format, a syndication format for e-pubs based on Atom HTTP. It is something like an RSS feed for e-books. People are using it to find and acquire books. It sounds like a natural fit for library digitization

Re: [CODE4LIB] COinS metadata format support

Is there an easy-to-use tool for schema.org microdata? I was fond of the OCLC NJ COinS tool, but it has gone. Anything of that ilk? Thanks, Dave -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Michael J. Giarlo Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014

Re: [CODE4LIB] linked data recipe

+1 for schema.org as one of the first steps. COinS are another useful simple mark-up if the data is already there. I'm looking forward to the book. Sincerely, David Bigwood Lunar and Planetary Institute -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On

Re: [CODE4LIB] image gallery management software recommendations

I've heard good things about Omeka. It has support and an active user base. David Bigwood Lunar and Planetary Institute -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ken Irwin Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 2:44 PM To:

Re: [CODE4LIB] Subject Terms in Institutional Repositories

Another way most taggers don't think in terms of LCSH is precoordinated strings. Using FAST with auto suggest and complete might be something to consider. Sincerely, David Bigwood Lunar and Planetary Institute Twitter: @Catalogablog -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries

Re: [CODE4LIB] Policies for 3D Printers

That's a question every library will have to answer for themselves. For us it makes perfect sense. Our scientists are sending out files to have 3D models of craters. When the price drops enough it will become more cost effective to do that in-house. It will just be an extension of maps and

Re: [CODE4LIB] When did OCLC's original xISBN service launch?

On Catalogablog there is an posting on Tuesday, September 21, 2004. Sincerely, David Bigwood -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of David J. Fiander Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 10:35 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject:

Re: [CODE4LIB] Representing geographic hierarchy in linked data

In MARC field 043 is a geographic area code that has a hierarchy. http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd043.html http://www.loc.gov/marc/geoareas/ An XML version is available for use in applications at: http://www.loc.gov/standards/codelists/gacs.xml This document contains a list of

Re: [CODE4LIB] Software for Capstone\Theses Projects

Mike, Omeka might be what you are looking for. I've never used it but from what I've heard about it, it would be worth a look. Sincerely, David Bigwood dbigw...@hou.usra.edu Lunar and Planetary Institute

Re: [CODE4LIB] Programmer Orientation to Library/Lib Sci

The extended ASCII character set, Latin-1, used in the old MARC systems was always something that was neglected to get mentioned and not at all obvious. Now that more systems are using UNICODE it should be less of a problem, all depends on your system and if you still have legacy data.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Programmer Orientation to Library/Lib Sci

Of Walter Lewis Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 4:12 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Programmer Orientation to Library/Lib Sci On 22 July 2011, at 1:07 PM, Bigwood, David wrote: The extended ASCII character set, Latin-1, used in the old MARC systems was always something

Re: [CODE4LIB] OIA Feeds

Nathan, I think what you want is a OAI Static Repository. Info here: http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/guidelines-static-repository.htm If I remember right, you will then need someone else to read your files. Not sure if anyone is still doing that. Sincerely, David Bigwood

Re: [CODE4LIB] Adding VIAF links to Wikipedia

I went in and added VAIF links to a bunch of planetary scientists. We are working with NASA to improve the planetary science entries. Mostly, just raising awareness among the scientists that it is important. No negative comments on the VIAF links yet. A bot is something that will get more

[CODE4LIB] COinS

I've been adding COinS to some of our pages. However, we don't have a URLResolver here, so I can't tell how they look and if they are working. Anyone willing to check a few and let me know? http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lpi/lpi_contribution.cfm Thanks, David Bigwood dbigw...@hou.usra.edu Lunar

Re: [CODE4LIB] COinS

the Zotero plug-in for Firefox, that should detect COinS and use it for harvesting citations -- that's one way to do some COinS testing of your own! - Demian -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Bigwood, David Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011

[CODE4LIB] DIY aggregate index

Well, research institutions or societies might be more willing than others to share their metadata. Here at the Lunar and Planetary Institute we want as many uses of our papers as possible. I've recently spent some time seeing if anyone would ingest our metadata. (Scopus might, ADS, GeoRef and a

Re: [CODE4LIB] Skyriver discussions?

Not very interested as a cataloging source. Not interested in OCLC either as far as that goes. I might be interested in getting our records there so they are available to others for ILL, beyond that not so much. I do a lot of original cataloging. Neither service would help with that. However, if

Re: [CODE4LIB] creating call number browse

In very few libraries are all items on the same shelf. An on-line environment has the advantage of seeing everything in one call number run. It can be much more complete. Oversized Videos Microfiche Latest Arrivals Youth Juvenile Maps Special Collections Etc Sincerely, David Bigwood [EMAIL

Re: [CODE4LIB] Roman-script to Hebrew-script automation

Here is a bit of existing work I know of in this area. MARC::Detrans De-transliterate text and MARC records http://search.cpan.org/dist/MARC-Detrans/ There is a paper Cyril: expanding the horizons of MARC21 by Jacobs, Jane W.; Summers, Ed; Ankersen, Elizabeth, Library Hi Tech, Volume 22, Number

Re: [CODE4LIB] [Web4lib] Library Staff Scheduler

Yes, some do move between branches. When I worked at Houston Public only central a few branches were open on Sunday. Staff from any of the branches could work a Sunday shift at one of those open sites. Sometimes a branch will close for a time due to a disaster or renovations and the staff will be

[CODE4LIB] OAI Static Repository

I'm hoping someone can spare the time to take a look at the OAI Static Repository file I've created and let me know where I've gone wrong. I've created an OAI Static Repository for my institution's publications. http://www.lpi.usra.edu/library/oai.xml However, it is not quite correct. I've

Re: [CODE4LIB] OAI Static Repository

Dorothea, Thanks for the reply. I had neglected to include the name spaces. Another person pointed this out and was kind enough to include them in his message. I knew another pair of eyes could spot it quick. Thanks, Dave -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [CODE4LIB] Authority records and the OSS ILS

Joshua, There is a small set you can get for testing. http://tinyurl.com/37ufz The MARC 21 Authority Records for GSAFD Genre Terms are freely available. Sincerely, David Bigwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lunar Planetary Institute http://www.lpi.usra.edu/library/whats_new.shtml -Original

Re: [CODE4LIB] tagging

Eric, I think it would be useful, in some places. Flickr only allows the person submitting the photo to add tags. Much like an author submitting something to D-Space could add keywords. Those terms, from an uncontrolled source, can be useful in searching. Our catalogs allow for this in field 653.

Re: [CODE4LIB] browser toolbars

There are some Web sites out there that have a fill in the blanks approach to IE toolbar building. http://www.effectivebrand.com/ is one I know of. It does create a decent looking toolbar, but I'm not sure if it is just more spyware. Haven't investigated them that closely. Sincerely, David