Re: [CODE4LIB] talking about digital collections vs electronic resources

2015-03-18 Thread Derek Merleaux
I've always been inclined to use digital collections to talk about a collection of things that have been digitized or perhaps including born digital things that are part of a collection in an archival sort of way. I prefer the term electronic resources for the databases and other things... -Derek

Re: [CODE4LIB] Hosting services for Wikimedia

2014-12-16 Thread Derek Merleaux
Hi Jeremy, I was recently recommended to Digital Ocean for simple low-cost hosting and have been quite pleased with the service. They also have some very easy-to-follow documentation and instructions for setting up all sorts of basic server-side software including mediawiki

Re: [CODE4LIB] Digitization Project from Scratch

2014-10-14 Thread Derek Merleaux
I've built digital collections on Omeka and on SobekCM (both on that helpful foss4lib list) Omeka is definitely easy to get up and running and you can even host a small collection free on the omeka.net site. The drawback is in the back-end management - if you want to import a lot of items in bulk

[CODE4LIB] CD auto-loader machine and/or services to rip CD's to disk

2014-04-30 Thread Derek Merleaux
I have few thousand CD's and DVD's of images scanned back in the days of more expensive server storage. I want the files on these transferred to a hard-drive or cloud storage where I can get at the them and sort out the keepers etc. I have seen a lot of great home-built auto-loader machines, but

Re: [CODE4LIB] Digital Collections Browser Kiosk Software Options

2014-01-22 Thread Derek Merleaux
) - that way you can use a less expensive non-touch screen and get the same or better effect. Been meaning to try this out but the time it keeps getting away from me. Would love to hear of someone making it work. -Derek Derek Merleaux @dmer On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Andrew Gordon agor...@nyam.org

[CODE4LIB] coder needed: JavaScript / Google Maps API V.3 Programming project

2013-12-05 Thread Derek Merleaux
staff – google docs or fusion tables is fine – we are open to suggestions. Please contact Derek Merleaux [de...@thewolf.fiu.edu] – we are seeking direct contacts from coders only please, no solicitations on behalf of third-parties, also you must be willing and able to become an approved vendor

Re: [CODE4LIB] Metadata war stories...

2012-01-25 Thread Derek Merleaux
I will contribute one particularly heartbreaking bit from my own current metadata saga - I'm in one of these hybrid museum/research library institutions where the library side has a aging MARC catalog with its own issues that I won't go into at the moment. The museum side has a commercial

Re: [CODE4LIB] FW: institutional fair use policies for digitized image collections

2012-01-05 Thread Derek Merleaux
' rights? Ralph -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Derek Merleaux Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 1:39 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: institutional fair use policies for digitized image collections I'm working

[CODE4LIB] institutional fair use policies for digitized image collections

2012-01-04 Thread Derek Merleaux
could point me in the direction of such documentation or someone who would know how to locate it I would be much obliged. Derek Merleaux

Re: [CODE4LIB] CODE4LIB Conference Lodging

2011-11-16 Thread Derek Merleaux
The City Hostel http://www.cityhostelseattle.com/ looks pretty interesting and not too far away for the more adventurous or budgetarily challenged. -Derek On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Elizabeth Duell edu...@uoregon.edu wrote: I am working with the hotel now. There WILL be rooms. I'm not