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From: Lisa S. <Lis...@uc...> - 2017-10-24 17:49:20
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The Publishing group at the California Digital Library is pleased to announce the launch of a major redesign of the eScholarship repository and publishing platform. eScholarship<https://escholarship.org> serves as the Open Access repository for the University of California system, offering tools and services to help UC scholars and researchers openly share the full range of their scholarly work. eScholarship also provides a comprehensive Open Access publishing program, currently publishing over 70 academic journals across academic disciplines. The eScholarship redesign represents a significant departure from previous technology approaches to the site: the development team has consciously moved away from custom builds and toward more widely adopted, open source technology solutions and strategies used frequently both inside and outside the academic library domain. Selected highlights include: * A server built with Sinatra + Sequel * Isomorphic JavaScript via node.js for server-side prerendering * A "single-page" application built with React and various plugins With this release, eScholarship now offers a robust consortial model: a single aggregated repository with custom access layers and a strong brand identity for each of our ten UC campus sub-repositories. The site is designed to meet the WCAG 2.0 AA standard for ADA accessibility, scales automatically for mobile and tablet devices, and features a flexible, modular design throughout the site that allows for multiple content display options and customizable landing pages through a lightweight, extensible and integrated CMS. Post-release, the team will turn its attention to creating a public API. To learn more, visit the eScholarship redesign forum<http://help.escholarship.org/support/discussions/9000052123>, read about the site's technical infrastructure<https://help.escholarship.org/support/solutions/articles/9000134074-escholarship-technical-infrastructure> at our Help Center, look at our code repository<https://github.com/eScholarship/jschol>, see our feature list<https://help.escholarship.org/support/discussions/topics/9000037642>, or sign up for project updates<http://cdlib.us8.list-manage2.com/subscribe?u=24434714c6556f731c446acf7&id=8a9ad1a72c>. It is our hope that this new model will be of interest to the community. Please visit the new eScholarship site and feel free to be in touch with any questions and feedback that you may have. Lisa ======================= Lisa Schiff, Ph.D. Technical Lead Access & Publishing Group California Digital Library<http://www.cdlib.org/> Office of the President University of California 415 20th Street, 4th Floor Oakland, CA 94612-2901 510-987-0881<tel:510-987-0881> (t) 510-893-5212<tel:510-893-5212> (f) http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3572-2981 @lschiff<https://twitter.com/lschiff> Follow eScholarship<http://www.escholarship.org/> on Facebook<http://www.facebook.com/eScholarship> and Twitter<http://twitter.com/eScholarship> |
From: Aida S. <aid...@ud...> - 2017-06-29 11:49:07
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===== Early Bird Registration (closes 30 June 2017) ===== The International UDC Seminar 2017 FACETED CLASSIFICATION TODAY: theory, technology and end users DATE: 14-15 September 2017 VENUE: Wellcome Collection 183 Euston Road London, United Kingdom WEBSITE: http://seminar.udcc.org/2017/ CONTACT: sem...@ud... UDC Seminar 2017 revisits faceted analytical theory as one of the most influential methodologies in the development of knowledge organization systems. We invite information professionals, researchers, lecturers in library and information science and computer science as well as controlled vocabulary developers and designers to join us in discussing important issues related to 'facets' and their application in information organization and discovery. Various aspects of facet analysis will be discussed by the most eminent authors in the field of knowledge organization and classification: Richard Smiraglia, Vanda Broughton, Birger Hjorland, Claudio Gnoli, Joseph Tennis, Martin Fricke, Dagobert Soergel, Rebecca Green, Rick Szostak, A.R.D. Prasad, et al. The conference proceedings will be published by Ergon and distributed at the conference. To learn more about the conference programme and to register, go to the conference website http://seminar.udcc.org/2017/ Early bird registration opens 15 May 2017: €250 early bird fee, students €220 (closes on 30 June) €290 regular fee, students €250 About the organizer: "Faceted Classification Today" is the sixth biennial conference in a series of International UDC Seminars organized by the Universal Decimal Classification Consortium (UDC Consortium). UDCC is a not-for-profit organization, based in The Hague, established to maintain and distribute the UDC and to support its use and development (http://www.udcc.org). UDC is one of the most widely used knowledge organization systems in the bibliographic domain. --- UDC Consortium PO Box 90407 2509 LK The Hague The Netherlands --- Web: http://www.udcc.org Email: ma...@ud... ______________________ * International UDC Seminar 2017 - London, 14-15 September - http://seminar.udcc.org/2017/ * UDC Online Hub (6 languages): http://www.udc-hub.com/index.php * UDC Summary (56 languages): http://www.udcsummary.info/php/index.php The Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) is the world's foremost multilingual classification scheme for all fields of knowledge, a sophisticated indexing and retrieval tool ______________________ |
From: Aida S. <aid...@ud...> - 2017-06-05 17:43:57
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===== Early Bird Registration (closes 30 June 2017) ===== The International UDC Seminar 2017 FACETED CLASSIFICATION TODAY: theory, technology and end users DATE: 14-15 September 2017 VENUE: Wellcome Collection 183 Euston Road London, United Kingdom WEBSITE: http://seminar.udcc.org/2017/ CONTACT: sem...@ud... UDC Seminar 2017 revisits faceted analytical theory as one of the most influential methodologies in the development of knowledge organization systems. We invite information professionals, researchers, lecturers in library and information science and computer science as well as controlled vocabulary developers and designers to join us in discussing important issues related to 'facets' and their application in information organization and discovery. Various aspects of facet analysis will be discussed by the most eminent authors in the field of knowledge organization and classification: Richard Smiraglia, Vanda Broughton, Birger Hjorland, Claudio Gnoli, Joseph Tennis, Martin Fricke, Dagobert Soergel, Rebecca Green, Rick Szostak, A.R.D. Prasad, et al. The conference proceedings will be published by Ergon and distributed at the conference. To learn more about the conference programme and to register, go to the conference website http://seminar.udcc.org/2017/ Early bird registration opens 15 May 2017: €250 early bird fee, students €220 (closes on 30 June) €290 regular fee, students €250 About the organizer: "Faceted Classification Today" is the sixth biennial conference in a series of International UDC Seminars organized by the Universal Decimal Classification Consortium (UDC Consortium). UDCC is a not-for-profit organization, based in The Hague, established to maintain and distribute the UDC and to support its use and development (http://www.udcc.org). UDC is one of the most widely used knowledge organization systems in the bibliographic domain. --- UDC Consortium PO Box 90407 2509 LK The Hague The Netherlands --- Web: http://www.udcc.org Email: ma...@ud... ______________________ * International UDC Seminar 2017 - London, 14-15 September - http://seminar.udcc.org/2017/ * UDC Online Hub (6 languages): http://www.udc-hub.com/index.php * UDC Summary (56 languages): http://www.udcsummary.info/php/index.php The Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) is the world's foremost multilingual classification scheme for all fields of knowledge, a sophisticated indexing and retrieval tool ______________________ |
From: Aida S. <aid...@ud...> - 2017-05-15 22:09:25
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[apologies for cross-posting] ===== Invitation for registration ===== The International UDC Seminar 2017 FACETED CLASSIFICATION TODAY: theory, technology and end users DATE: 14-15 September 2017 VENUE: Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London WEBSITE: http://seminar.udcc.org/2017/ CONTACT: sem...@ud... UDC Seminar 2017 revisits faceted analytical theory as one of the most influential methodologies in the development of knowledge organization systems. We invite information professionals, researchers, lecturers in library and information science and computer science as well as controlled vocabulary developers and designers to join us in discussing important issues related to 'facets' and their application in information organization and discovery. Various aspects of facet analysis will be discussed by the most eminent authors in the field of knowledge organization and classification: Richard Smiraglia, Vanda Broughton, Birger Hjorland, Claudio Gnoli, Joseph Tennis, Martin Fricke, Dagobert Soergel, Rebecca Green, Rick Szostak, A.R.D. Prasad, et al. The conference proceedings will be published by Ergon and distributed at the conference. To learn more about the conference programme and to register, go to the conference website http://seminar.udcc.org/2017/ Early bird registration opens 15 May 2017: €250 early bird fee, students €220 (closes on 30 June) €290 regular fee, students €250 About the organizer: "Faceted Classification Today" is the sixth biennial conference in a series of International UDC Seminars organized by the Universal Decimal Classification Consortium (UDC Consortium). UDCC is a not-for-profit organization, based in The Hague, established to maintain and distribute the UDC and to support its use and development (http://www.udcc.org). UDC is one of the most widely used knowledge organization systems in the bibliographic domain. -- Dr Aida Slavic Editor-in-Chief UDC Email: aid...@ud... --- UDC Consortium PO Box 90407 2509 LK The Hague The Netherlands --- Web: http://www.udcc.org Email: ma...@ud... ______________________ * International UDC Seminar 2017 - London, 14-15 September - http://seminar.udcc.org/2017/ * UDC Online Hub (6 languages): http://www.udc-hub.com/index.php * UDC Summary (56 languages): http://www.udcsummary.info/php/index.php The Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) is the world's foremost multilingual classification scheme for all fields of knowledge, a sophisticated indexing and retrieval tool ______________________ |
From: Aida S. <aid...@ud...> - 2017-01-29 13:18:36
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==== CALL FOR PAPERS CLOSES ON 31 January ==== International UDC Seminar 2017 FACETED CLASSIFICATION TODAY: Theory, Technology and End Users DATE: 14-15 September 2017 VENUE: London WEBSITE: http://seminar.udcc.org/2017/ CONTACT: sem...@ud... International UDC Seminar 2017 marks the anniversaries of two conferences devoted to faceted classification research: sixty years since the First International Study Conference on Classification Research (Dorking, 1957) and twenty years since the the Sixth International Study Conference (London, 1997). The objective of the conference is to revisit faceted analytical theory as a method for (re)constructing modern classifications and indexing languages and the role analytico-synthetic classifications have had in resource discovery and retrieval, from their introduction at the beginning of the 20th century to date. The conference will examine the challenges analytico-synthetic classifications represent for data modelling and interface design in the Web environment. Most importantly, it will explore potential fields of application for faceted classifications in information organization, visualization and presentation of large datasets, social networks and in the open linked data environment. High quality and innovative contributions are invited for the following topics: - The impact of faceted analytical theory and research on modern classification and indexing languages; - Data modelling, data management and data sharing of faceted and analytico-synthetic classifications; - Vocabulary mapping, semantic linking and natural language interfacing of analytico-synthetic systems; - Applications of faceted analytical theory on (re)constructing knowledge classifications and indexing languages; - End user interface design and user-friendly knowledge presentation for faceted systems; - Novel applications of faceted systems outside the bibliographic domain. CONTRIBUTIONS: Two kinds of contributions are invited: conference papers and posters. Authors should submit a paper proposal in the form of an extended abstract (1000-1200 words, including references, for papers; and 500-600 words for posters). The submission form is provided on the conference website. Proposals will be reviewed by the Programme Committee consisting of an international panel of experts. Each submission will undergo a blind review by at least three reviewers. The Conference proceedings will be published by Ergon Verlag and will be distributed at the conference. Best papers will be proposed for publishing in the Knowledge Organization journal IMPORTANT DATES: 31 Jan 2017 Submission deadline 1 Mar 2017 Notification of acceptance & paper submission instruction 15 May 2017 Papers submission (camera ready copy) ORGANIZER: The International UDC Seminar 2017 "Faceted Classification Today: Theory, Technology and End Users" is the sixth biennial conference in a series of International UDC Seminars organized by the UDC Consortium (UDCC). UDC Seminars are devoted to advances in documentary classification research and their application in a networked environment. UDCC is a not-for-profit organization, based in The Hague, established to maintain and distribute the Universal Decimal Classification and to support its use and development. UDC is one of the most widely used knowledge organization systems in the bibliographic domain. --- UDC Consortium PO Box 90407 2509 LK The Hague The Netherlands --- Web: http://www.udcc.org Email: ma...@ud... ______________________ * CFP: International UDC Seminar 2017 - London, 14-15 September - http://seminar.udcc.org/2017/ * UDC Online Hub (6 languages): http://www.udc-hub.com/index.php * UDC Summary (56 languages): http://www.udcsummary.info/php/index.php The Universal Decimal Classification (UDC) is the world's foremost multilingual classification scheme for all fields of knowledge, a sophisticated indexing and retrieval tool ______________________ |
From: Aida S. <aid...@ud...> - 2017-01-13 16:18:31
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==== CALL FOR PAPERS (2) ==== International UDC Seminar 2017 FACETED CLASSIFICATION TODAY: Theory, Technology and End Users DATE: 14-15 September 2017 VENUE: London WEBSITE: http://seminar.udcc.org/2017/ CONTACT: sem...@ud... International UDC Seminar 2017 marks the anniversaries of two conferences devoted to faceted classification research: sixty years since the First International Study Conference on Classification Research (Dorking, 1957) and twenty years since the the Sixth International Study Conference (London, 1997). The objective of the conference is to revisit faceted analytical theory as a method for (re)constructing modern classifications and indexing languages and the role analytico-synthetic classifications have had in resource discovery and retrieval, from their introduction at the beginning of the 20th century to date. The conference will examine the challenges analytico-synthetic classifications represent for data modelling and interface design in the Web environment. Most importantly, it will explore potential fields of application for faceted classifications in information organization, visualization and presentation of large datasets, social networks and in the open linked data environment. High quality and innovative contributions are invited for the following topics: - The impact of faceted analytical theory and research on modern classification and indexing languages; - Data modelling, data management and data sharing of faceted and analytico-synthetic classifications; - Vocabulary mapping, semantic linking and natural language interfacing of analytico-synthetic systems; - Applications of faceted analytical theory on (re)constructing knowledge classifications and indexing languages; - End user interface design and user-friendly knowledge presentation for faceted systems; - Novel applications of faceted systems outside the bibliographic domain. CONTRIBUTIONS: Two kinds of contributions are invited: conference papers and posters. Authors should submit a paper proposal in the form of an extended abstract (1000-1200 words, including references, for papers; and 500-600 words for posters). The submission form is provided on the conference website. Proposals will be reviewed by the Programme Committee consisting of an international panel of experts. Each submission will undergo a blind review by at least three reviewers. The Conference proceedings will be published by Ergon Verlag and will be distributed at the conference. Best papers will be proposed for publishing in the Knowledge Organization journal IMPORTANT DATES: 29 Jan 2017 Submission deadline 1 Mar 2017 Notification of acceptance & paper submission instruction 15 May 2017 Papers submission (camera ready copy) ORGANIZER: The International UDC Seminar 2017 "Faceted Classification Today: Theory, Technology and End Users" is the sixth biennial conference in a series of International UDC Seminars organized by the UDC Consortium (UDCC). UDC Seminars are devoted to advances in documentary classification research and their application in a networked environment. UDCC is a not-for-profit organization, based in The Hague, established to maintain and distribute the Universal Decimal Classification and to support its use and development. UDC is one of the most widely used knowledge organization systems in the bibliographic domain. ---- UDC Consortium PO Box 90407 2509 LK The Hague The Netherlands Web: http://www.udcc.org Email: ma...@ud... |
From: NISO A. <nis...@ni...> - 2016-04-06 13:45:15
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*It’s Just One Week From Today But You Still Have Time to Register!* *NISO Webinar: Supporting Women and Minorities in Technology* *Wednesday, April 13, 1pm – 2:30 PM EDT* Learn more and register at: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2016/webinars/apr13_webinar/ Join us for a roundtable discussion with four industry professionals regarding the challenges facing women and minorities in technology-related roles within the information community. Is your institution offering all the support that you might? Featured participants from the information community: - · *Elizabeth Caley*, Chief Operating Officer, Meta - · *Bess Sadler*, Manager, Application Development, Digital Library Systems & Services, Stanford University Library - · *Elizabeth Wickes*, Data Curation Specialist, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign - · *Amanda J. Wilson*, Director, National Transportation Library, U.S. Department of Transportation This 90-minute webinar will touch on a variety of challenges that women and minorities may face in technology work, and related solutions that organizations can consider, including: - The problem of women and minorities leaving math and science tracks early on; - Recognizing the value of alternative credentials and expertise in dealing with technology; - Following non-traditional pathways into technology jobs; - Identifying and connecting with potential mentors; - Fostering networking opportunities; - Challenges facing smaller businesses (start-ups) in trying to attract women/minorities; - Finding the elusive work/life balance. Registration information for this event may be found at: http://www.niso.org/news/events/2016/webinars/apr13_webinar/ For more information about this event, contact Jill O’Neill ( jo...@ni...) Other questions for NISO? Get in touch at: NISO 3600 Clipper Mill Road Suite 302 Baltimore, MD 21211-1948 Phone: +1.301.654.2512 Email: ni...@ni... |
From: Ron P. <ron...@ya...> - 2016-03-23 13:47:00
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Call for Papers (and apologies for cross-posting): The Code4Lib Journal (C4LJ) exists to foster community and share information among those interested in the intersection of libraries, technology, and the future. We are accepting proposals for publication in our 33rd issue. Don't miss out on this opportunity to share your ideas and experiences. To be included in the 33rd issue, which is scheduled for publication in mid July 2016, please submit articles, abstracts, or proposals at http://journal.code4lib.org/submit-proposal or to jo...@co... by Friday, April 22, 2016. When submitting, please include the title or subject of the proposal in the subject line of the email message. C4LJ encourages creativity and flexibility, and the editors welcome submissions across a broad variety of topics that support the mission of the journal. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: * Practical applications of library technology (both actual and hypothetical) * Technology projects (failed, successful, or proposed), including how they were done and challenges faced * Case studies * Best practices * Reviews * Comparisons of third party software or libraries * Analyses of library metadata for use with technology * Project management and communication within the library environment * Assessment and user studies C4LJ strives to promote professional communication by minimizing the barriers to publication. While articles should be of a high quality, they need not follow any formal structure. Writers should aim for the middle ground between blog posts and articles in traditional refereed journals. Where appropriate, we encourage authors to submit code samples, algorithms, and pseudo-code. For more information, visit C4LJ's Article Guidelines or browse articles from the first 31 issues published on our website: http://journal.code4lib.org. Remember, for consideration for the 33rd issue, please send proposals, abstracts, or draft articles to jo...@co... no later than Friday, April 22, 2016. Send in a submission. Your peers would like to hear what you are doing. Code4Lib Journal Editorial Committee |
From: Janet C. <Jan...@na...> - 2015-11-23 23:15:35
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Survey closes after November 30th! Please see below for an invitation to participate in a study related to recruiting and retaining library IT staff. Please feel free to forward to any library IT staff member who might be interested in participating. Thanks. Janet Dear Library Technology Professional, Would you like to participate in research that may help make library workplaces more pleasant and rewarding? We are writing to invite you to participate in a research study that aims to identify factors associated with recruiting and retaining IT staff in libraries in the United States and Canada. We want to know which factors-and types of factors-are most likely to attract you to a library IT job and encourage you to stay at a library IT job. There are no direct benefits to you, but we hope this information will help library and other leaders to create workplaces that are more attractive to library IT personnel. You must be over age 18 and currently employed in a library IT-related position in the United States or Canada in order to participate in this study. If you consent to participate, you will be asked to complete an online survey, which should take about 15-20 minutes to complete. This research is being conducted under the direction of Janet Crum, Northern Arizona University, Cline Library. To provide consent and participate in the survey, please visit https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/B2RVW77. To thank you for your time, you will be given the opportunity to enter a drawing for a $50 gift card: 1. Participation in the research study is not required to enter the drawing; 2. Entries are limited to one entry per person -subjects under age 18 must have written consent from a parent or lawful guardian; and 3. Participation is void where prohibited by law Janet Crum Head, Library Technology Services Northern Arizona University 928-523-4956 jan...@na... |
From: Aida S. <aid...@ud...> - 2015-10-20 07:42:19
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[apologies for cross-posting] ===Registration closes on 25 October === The International UDC Seminar entitled "Classification & Authority Control: Expanding Resource Discovery" will take place in The National Library of Portugal in Lisbon, on 29-30 October 2015. Linked data practices and techniques have opened new possibilities in exploiting controlled vocabularies and improving resource discovery. Authority data held in library systems often includes classification schemes. These knowledge structures now have the potential for being shared across the linked data environment. The objective of the conference is to explore issues in managing classification vocabulary in and between information systems. Particular emphasis will be on the possibilities for exploiting and sharing subject authority data in the linked data environment. Speakers include Michael Buckland, Barbara Tillett, Dagobert Soergel, Rebecca Green, Maja Žumer & Marcia Zeng, Nuno Freire, Maria Inês Cordeiro, Andrea Scharnhorst & Richard Smiraglia, Wolfram Sperber, Koraljka Golub, Claudio Gnoli, Marie Balikova, Victoria Francu. Conference website: http://seminar.udcc.org/2015. Contact: sem...@ud... Venue: National Library of Portugal, Campo Grande 83, Lisbon Conference fee: € 250 (students 210) (The registration fee covers lunches, refreshments, reception and the conference proceedings book) Organizer: UDC Consortium ===== |
From: Janet C. <Jan...@na...> - 2015-10-20 00:52:41
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Please see below for an invitation to participate in a study related to recruiting and retaining library IT staff. Please feel free to forward to any library IT staff member who might be interested in participating. Thanks. Janet Dear Library Technology Professional, Would you like to participate in research that may help make library workplaces more pleasant and rewarding? We are writing to invite you to participate in a research study that aims to identify factors associated with recruiting and retaining IT staff in libraries in the United States and Canada. We want to know which factors-and types of factors-are most likely to attract you to a library IT job and encourage you to stay at a library IT job. There are no direct benefits to you, but we hope this information will help library and other leaders to create workplaces that are more attractive to library IT personnel. You must be over age 18 and currently employed in a library IT-related position in the United States or Canada in order to participate in this study. If you consent to participate, you will be asked to complete an online survey, which should take about 15-20 minutes to complete. This research is being conducted under the direction of Janet Crum, Northern Arizona University, Cline Library. To provide consent and participate in the survey, please visit https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/B2RVW77. To thank you for your time, you will be given the opportunity to enter a drawing for a $50 gift card: 1. Participation in the research study is not required to enter the drawing; 2. Entries are limited to one entry per person -subjects under age 18 must have written consent from a parent or lawful guardian; and 3. Participation is void where prohibited by law Janet Crum Head, Library Technology Services Northern Arizona University 928-523-4956 jan...@na... |
From: Aida S. <aid...@ud...> - 2015-10-02 08:26:44
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[apologies for cross-posting] ===Invitation for Registration === The International UDC Seminar entitled "Classification & Authority Control: Expanding Resource Discovery" will take place in The National Library of Portugal in Lisbon, on 29-30 October 2015. Linked data practices and techniques have opened new possibilities in exploiting controlled vocabularies and improving resource discovery. Authority data held in library systems often includes classification schemes. These knowledge structures now have the potential for being shared across the linked data environment. The objective of the conference is to explore issues in managing classification vocabulary in and between information systems. Particular emphasis will be on the possibilities for exploiting and sharing subject authority data in the linked data environment. Speakers include Michael Buckland, Barbara Tillett, Dagobert Soergel, Rebecca Green, Maja Žumer & Marcia Zeng, Nuno Freire, Maria Inês Cordeiro, Andrea Scharnhorst & Richard Smiraglia, Wolfram Sperber, Koraljka Golub, Claudio Gnoli, Marie Balikova, Victoria Francu. Conference website: http://seminar.udcc.org/2015. Contact: sem...@ud... Venue: National Library of Portugal, Campo Grande 83, Lisbon Conference fee: € 250 (students 210) (The registration fee covers lunches, refreshments, reception and the conference proceedings book) Organizer: UDC Consortium ===== |
From: Christine P. <pet...@am...> - 2015-09-15 14:53:34
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Registration Ending Soon for "Open Source Software and Tools for the Library and Archive," September 17th Online Conference http://www.amigos.org/open_source The online conference will explore various success stories concerning open source software or tools used in a recent or current project. The conference will kick off with Nicole Engard's presentation, "Open Your Mind: Open Source and Libraries." Engard will introduce open source and explain why it's a great option for libraries and archives. Additionally, she will speak about her own experiences with open source and the importance of going into the community to increase awareness of open source offerings for libraries. Three concurrent sessions will run throughout the day. The variety of programming will interest staff from all library types. Remember, as a benefit of membership, Amigos members always attend our online conferences free of charge. Visit the conference website<https://www.amigos.org/open_source> for complete registration information, schedules, and session descriptions. Christine Peterson 800-843-8482 x 2891 | 972-340-2891 (direct) pet...@am...<mailto:pet...@am...> [cid:image001.png@01CF8B09.FDF19BF0] Check out our member benefits<http://www.amigos.org/benefits> [fb]<https://www.facebook.com/AmigosLibraryServices>[rss]<http://www.amigos.org/taxonomy/term/4/0/feed> [linkedin] <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/christine-peterson-amigos/0/649/1a4> |
From: Aida S. <aid...@ud...> - 2015-09-02 10:50:30
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***Invitation for Registration *** The International UDC Seminar entitled "Classification & Authority Control: Expanding Resource Discovery" will take place in The National Library of Portugal in Lisbon, on 29-30 October 2015. Conference website: http://seminar.udcc.org/2015. Contact: sem...@ud... The objective of the conference is to explore issues in managing classification vocabulary in and between information systems. Particular emphasis will be on the possibilities for exploiting and sharing subject authority data in the linked data environment. Speakers include Michael Buckland, Barbara Tillett, Dagobert Soergel, Rebecca Green, Maja Žumer & Marcia Zeng, Nuno Freire, Maria Inês Cordeiro, Andrea Scharnhorst & Richard Smiraglia, Wolfram Sperber, Koraljka Golub, Claudio Gnoli, Marie Balikova, Victoria Francu. Proceedings are published by Ergon Verlag. To learn more about conference programme and to register go to the conference website http://seminar.udcc.org/2015 Venue: National Library of Portugal, Campo Grande 83, Lisbon Conference fee: € 250 (students 210) Organizer: UDC Consortium (The Hague) ===== |
From: Christine P. <pet...@am...> - 2015-08-11 21:46:25
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Registration is now open our September 17 online conference, "Open Source Software and Tools for the Library and Archive." http://www.amigos.org/open_source The online conference will explore various success stories concerning open source software or tools used in a recent or current project. The conference will kick off with Nicole Engard's presentation, "Open Your Mind: Open Source and Libraries." Engard will introduce open source and explain why it's a great option for libraries and archives. Additionally, she will speak about her own experiences with open source and the importance of going into the community to increase awareness of open source offerings for libraries. Three concurrent sessions will run throughout the day. The variety of programming will interest staff from all library types. Remember, as a benefit of membership, Amigos members always attend our online conferences free of charge. Non-members should register by September 4 for Early Bird discount pricing. Visit the conference website<https://www.amigos.org/open_source> for complete registration information, schedules, and session descriptions. Christine Peterson Amigos eShelfSM Service Manager Amigos Library Services 14400 Midway Road | Dallas, TX 75244-3905 800-843-8482 x 2891 |972-340-2891 (direct) http://www.amigos.org<http://www.amigos.org/> | pet...@am...<mailto:pet...@am...> Open Source Software and Tools for the Library and Archive Amigos Online Conference September 17, 2015 Register<https://www.amigos.org/open_source> [cid:image001.png@01CF8B09.FDF19BF0] Check out our member benefits<http://www.amigos.org/benefits> [fb]<https://www.facebook.com/AmigosLibraryServices>[rss]<http://www.amigos.org/taxonomy/term/4/0/feed> [linkedin] <http://www.linkedin.com/pub/christine-peterson-amigos/0/649/1a4> |
From: Aida S. <aid...@ud...> - 2015-06-26 09:38:17
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=== Early Bird Registration === The International UDC Seminar entitled "Classification & Authority Control: Expanding Resource Discovery" will take place in The National Library of Portugal in Lisbon, on 29-30 October 2015. Conference website: http://seminar.udcc.org/2015. Contact: sem...@ud... Linked data practices and techniques have opened new possibilities in exploiting controlled vocabularies and improving resource discovery. Authority data held in library systems often includes classification schemes. These knowledge structures now have the potential for being shared across the linked data environment. The objective of this conference is to explore such potential, expanding the value and use of classification as an authority controlled vocabulary, from a local perspective to the global environment. The conference will be opened by Emer. Prof. Michael Buckland, well-known expert in the history and theory of documentation and bibliographic access. The topic of authority control, subject authority control and subject access in various contexts will be discussed by a series of eminent speakers speakers including Barbara Tillett, Dagobert Soergel, Rebecca Green, Maja Zumer, Marcia Zeng, Nuno Freire, Andrea Scharnhorst, Maria Ines Cordeiro, Koraljka Golub, Claudio Gnoli. To learn more about conference programme and to register go to the conference website http://seminar.udcc.org/2015 Early bird registration opened on 12 June 2015: €200 early bird fee, students €160 (to 31 July) €250 regular fee, students €210 (registration closes 20 October) About the organizer: Classification & Authority Control is the fifth biennial conference in a series of International UDC Seminars organized by the Universal Decimal Classification Consortium (UDC Consortium). UDCC is not-for-profit organization, based in The Hague, established to maintain and distribute the UDC and to support its use and development (http://www.udcc.org). UDC is one of the most widely used knowledge organization systems in the bibliographic domain. --- |
From: Thomas K. <kr...@op...> - 2015-05-16 09:41:53
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The OAI9 Workshop on Current Developments in Scholarly Communication, 17-19 June 2015, is fast approaching. For a detailed view of the Tutorials and Programme for the event, see https://indico.cern.ch/event/332370/timetable/#20150617 Applicants for the poster session have now been confirmed and over 30 posters will be available for viewing and discussion with the poster submitters in Geneva. Registration for the Workshop closes on 30 May. The OAI Workshops are well known for providing a setting where developments in the world of scholarly communication are displayed and discussed. Do join us if you would like to be part of this conversation by registering to attend the Workshop at https://indico.cern.ch/event/332370/registration/ Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel skype:thomaskrichel |
From: Thomas K. <kr...@op...> - 2015-04-11 16:11:05
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The OAI Workshop on Current Developments in Scholarly Communication is being held in the University of Geneva on 17-19 June 2015. It has a call for posters. The deadline is 17 April 2015. See http://indico.cern.ch/event/332370/page/6 for more details. The Workshop will contain 6 plenary session, focussing on the following topics: 1. A Technical Open Access/Open Science session led by Herbert Van de Sompel 2. Barriers and Impact 3. Open Science Workflows: CHORUS and SHARE 4. Quality Assurance 5. Institution as Publisher 6. Digital Curation and preservation of large and complex scientific objects Use https://indico.cern.ch/event/332370/registration/ to register. Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel skype:thomaskrichel |
From: Thomas K. <kr...@op...> - 2015-03-19 22:00:20
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You are invited to submit a description in the form of a short abstract if you wish to bring a poster to the workshop giving details of your project. The poster should be of interest to OAI9 participants and directly related to the general themes of the workshop (http://indico.cern.ch/event/332370/page/6). Posters will be displayed in Campus Biotech and an extended coffee break will take place on Thursday 18 June 2015. This will give attendees the chance to view these and discuss them with the author. Attendees will also have the opportunity to vote for the poster which delivers the most impact. Posters should be A0 in size (841 x 1189 mm) for portrait or A1 (594 x 841 mm) for landscape. Any special equipment requests should be addressed to the workshop organisers when a poster has been accepted. If your poster is accepted you should still register for the workshop as normal and you will be expected to pay your own expenses. Owing to the large demand on accommodation, we advise you to register early - you may cancel your registration later if your submission is not successful. Poster abstracts can be submitted between 16 March 2015 - 17 April 2015 after a quick Lightweight Accounts registration process (different from the conference registration). Decisions will be made on an ongoing basis (and no later than the end April) and communicated to the submitters (http://indico.cern.ch/event/332370/call-for-abstracts/) Key dates == Abstract submission opening day: 16 March 2015 Abstract submission deadline: 17 April 2015 Print service == If you wish, your poster can be printed by the University of Geneva print service and delivered at Campus Biotech on Thursday 18th June. If you are interested, send your work in PDF format to Dim...@un... before 17th May 2015. (Please note that posters created with Microsoft PowerPoint should be sent in PDF and PPT formats.) Cost of this service is CHF 33.-, to be paid on delivery at the main desk. We look forward to receiving your abstracts – and seeing your posters. Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel skype:thomaskrichel |
From: Thomas K. <kr...@op...> - 2015-02-26 19:54:33
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The OAI9 Workshop on Current Developments in Scholarly Communication is taking place in the University of Geneva and in CERN, Geneva, on 17-19 June 2015. The meeting's web site is http://indico.cern.ch/event/332370/ There are six plenary sessions * Technical developments * Barriers and impact * CHORUS and SHARE * Quality assurance * The institution as publisher * Digital curation and preservation of large and complex scientific objects The tutorials, which start the Workshop, are devoted to: * The institution as publisher: getting started * Author identification systems * Open Monograph Press * Hiberlink project * Managing a digitization project * Open Access Café 2015 Five breakout groups have been arranged so far for group discussions: * OA policy * Legal framework for innovative science - text and data mining * Research data management * Open annotations * Managing APC payments There will also be 20+ posters in the timetabled poster session. We will soon issue a call for posters. The OAI Workshops provide a space for all those interested in developments in scholarly communication to come together to learn from each other, to exchange ideas, and to hear papers from leading experts in the field. They are rather prominent European events in the year in which they are held. Registration is open at http://indico.cern.ch/event/332370/registration/register#/register The OAI Organisers (see http://indico.cern.ch/event/332370/page/7) look forward to meeting you all in Geneva in June. For the OAI9 Organising Committee with cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel http://authorprofile.org/pkr1 skype: thomaskrichel |
From: Aida S. <aid...@ud...> - 2015-02-06 18:17:24
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*** Apologies for cross-posting *** ==== CALL FOR PAPERS ==== International UDC Seminar 2015 CLASSIFICATION AND AUTHORITY CONTROL: Expanding Resource Discovery DATE: 29-30 October 2015 VENUE: National Library of Portugal Campo Grande 83 Lisbon, Portugal WEBSITE: http://seminar.udcc.org/2015/ CONTACT: sem...@ud... Linked data practices and techniques have opened new possibilities in exploiting controlled vocabularies and improving resource discovery. Authority data held in library systems, including classification schemes find new ways of expanding its potential as shared knowledge structures across the linked data environment. The objective of this conference is to explore such a potential, expanding the value and use of classification as authority controlled vocabulary, from the local perspective to the global environment. We invite experts in authority control, classification schemes and linked data to provide overviews, illustrations and analysis of classification data management and exploitation. Contributions are welcome on high quality, innovative research and practice on the following topics: • Classification as a component of subject authority control • Classification authority data formats and modeling • Classification and multilingual subject access • Sharing classification data from authority files • Classification data in the open linked data context CONTRIBUTIONS: Two kinds of contributions are invited: conference papers and posters. Authors should submit a paper proposal in the form of an extended abstract (1000-1200 words, including references, for papers; and 500-600 words for posters). The submission form is provided on the conference website. Proposals will be reviewed by the Programme Committee consisting of an international panel of experts. Each submission will undergo a blind review by at least three reviewers. The Conference proceedings will be published by Ergon Verlag and will be distributed at the conference. IMPORTANT DATES 28 February 2015 Paper proposal submission deadline 23 March 2015 Notification of acceptance & paper submission instructions 15 May 2015 Papers submission (camera ready copy) ORGANIZER: Classification & Authority Control: Expanding Resource Discovery is the fifth biennial conference in a series of International UDC Seminars organized by the UDC Consortium (UDCC). UDCC is a not-for-profit organization, based in The Hague, established to maintain and distribute the Universal Decimal Classification and to support its use and development. UDC is one of the most widely used knowledge organization systems in the bibliographic domain. === |
From: Peter M. <pet...@ly...> - 2014-10-22 14:15:55
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The Code4Lib Journal, Issue 26 is now available! http://journal.code4lib.org/issues/issue26 Here is what you will find inside: Editorial Introduction: On Being on The Code4Lib Journal Editorial Committee Kelley McGrath Behind the scenes of the The Code4Lib Journal... Archiving the Web: A Case Study from the University of Victoria Corey Davis The University of Victoria Libraries started archiving websites in 2013, and it quickly became apparent that many scholarly websites being produced by faculty, especially in the digital humanities, were going to prove very challenging to effectively capture and play back. This article will provide an overview of web archiving and explore the considerable legal and technical challenges of implementing a web archiving initiative at a research library, using the University of Victoria's implementation of Archive-it, a web archiving service from the Internet Archive, as a case study, with a special focus on capturing complex, interactive websites that scholars are creating to disseminate their research in new ways. Technical Challenges in Developing Software to Collect Twitter Data Daniel Chudnov, Daniel Kerchner, Ankushi Sharma and Laura Wrubel Over the past two years, George Washington University Libraries developed Social Feed Manager (SFM), a Python and Django-based application for collecting social media data from Twitter. Expanding the project from a research prototype to a more widely useful application has presented a number of technical challenges, including changes in the Twitter API, supervision of simultaneous streaming processes, management, storage, and organization of collected data, meeting researcher needs for groups or sets of data, and improving documentation to facilitate other institutions' installation and use of SFM. This article will describe how the Social Feed Manager project addressed these issues, use of supervisord to manage processes, and other technical decisions made in the course of this project through late summer 2014. This article is targeted towards librarians and archivists who are interested in building collections around web archives and social media data, and have a particula! r interest in the technical work involved in applying software to the problem of building a sustainable collection management program around these sources. Exposing Library Services with AngularJS Jakob Vo? and Moritz Horn This article provides an introduction to the JavaScript framework AngularJS and specific AngularJS modules for accessing library services. It shows how information such as search suggestions, additional links, and availability can be embedded in any website. The ease of reuse may encourage more libraries to expose their services via standard APIs to allow usage in different contexts. Hacking Summon 2.0 The Elegant Way Annette Bailey and Godmar Back Libraries have long been adding content and customizations to vendor-provided web-based search interfaces, including discovery systems such as ProQuest's Summon((tm)). Unlike solutions based on using an API, these approaches augment the vendor-designed user interface using library-provided JavaScript code. Recently, vendors have been implementing such user interfaces using client-centric model-view-controller (MVC) frameworks such as AngularJS, which are characterized by the use of modern software engineering techniques such as domain-specific markup, data binding, encapsulation, and dependency injection. Consequently, traditional approaches such as reverse-engineering the document model (DOM) have become more difficult or even impossible to use because the DOM is highly dynamic, the templates used are difficult to discern, the vendor-provided JavaScript code is both encapsulated and partially obfuscated, and the data binding mechanisms impose a strict separation of model and view that discourages direct DOM manipulation. In fact, practitioners have started to complain that AngularJS-based websites such as Summon 2.0 are very difficult to enhance with custom content in a robust and efficient manner. In this article, we show how to reverse-engineer the AngularJS-based Summon 2.0 interface to discover the modules, directives, controllers, and services it uses, and we explain how we can use AngularJS's built-in mechanisms to create new directives and controllers that integrate with and augment the vendor-provided ones to add desired customization and interactions. We have implemented several features that demonstrate our approach, such as a click-recording script, COinS and facet customization, and the integration of eBook public notes. Our explanation and code should be of direct use for adoption or as examples for other Summon 2.0 customers, but they may also be useful to anyone faced with the need to add enhancements to other vendor-controlled MVC-based sites. Parsing and Matching Dates in VIAF Jenny A. Toves and Thomas B. Hickey The Virtual International Authority File (OCLC Online Computer Library Center 2013) http://viaf.org is built from dozens of authority files with tens of millions of names in more than 150 million authority and bibliographic records expressed in multiple languages, scripts and formats. One of the main tasks in VIAF is to bring together personal names which may have various dates associated with them, such as birth, death or when they were active. These dates can be quite complicated with ranges, approximations, BCE dates, different scripts, and even different calendars. Analysis of the nearly 400,000 unique date strings in VIAF led us to a parsing technique that relies on only a few basic patterns for them. Our goal is to correctly interpret at least 99% of all the dates we find in each of VIAF's authority files and to use the dates to facilitate matches between authority records. Python source code for the process described here is available at https://github.com/OCLC-Developer-Network/viaf-dates. Mdmap: A Tool for Metadata Collection and Matching Rico Simke This paper describes a front-end for the semi-automatic collection, matching, and generation of bibliographic metadata obtained from different sources for use within a digitization architecture. The Library of a Billion Words project is building an infrastructure for digitizing text that requires high-quality bibliographic metadata, but currently only sparse metadata from digitized editions is available. The project's approach is to collect metadata for each digitized item from as many sources as possible. An expert user can then use an intuitive front-end tool to choose matching metadata. The collected metadata are centrally displayed in an interactive grid view. The user can choose which metadata they want to assign to a certain edition, and export these data as MARCXML. This paper presents a new approach to bibliographic work and metadata correction. We try to achieve a high quality of the metadata by generating a large amount of metadata to choose from, as well as by giv! ing librarians an intuitive tool to manage their data. Using Zapier with Trello for Electronic Resources Troubleshooting Workflow Meghan Finch Troubleshooting access problems is an important part of the electronic resources management workflow. This article discusses an opportunity to streamline and track troubleshooting using two web-based services: Trello and Zapier. Developing Applications in the Era of Cloud-based SaaS Library Systems Josh Weisman As the move to cloud-based SaaS library systems accelerates, we must consider what it means to develop applications when the core of the system isn't under the library's control. The entire application lifecycle is changing, from development to testing to production. Developing applications for cloud solutions raises new concerns, such as security, multi-tenancy, latency, and analytics. In this article, we review the landscape and suggest a view of how to be successful for the benefit of library staff and end-users in this new reality. We discuss what kinds of APIs and protocols vendors should be supporting, and suggest how best to take advantage of the innovations being introduced. |
From: Thomas K. <kr...@op...> - 2014-09-15 05:18:34
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The CERN Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI9) University of Geneva June 17th-19th 2015 This series of Workshops in Geneva has become the major community event in Europe in the year in which it is held. For these three days, librarians, IT professionals, publishers and researchers come together to network, hear presentations from keynote speakers, attend tutorials on cutting-edge themes, and congtribute their ideas through breakout/technical sessions and poster displays. The workshop is designed to provide a focus for the interchange of ideas, the building of new partnerships, the annoucement of new developments and the celebration of success in innovation in the whole scholarly communications process. The workshop will be held in the University of Geneva at the Institute of Graduate Studies and Campus Biotech. Both locations are close to each other and easily accessible on the Geneva tram network. The Programme Committee is currently drawing up an innovative programme for the meeting. Please reserve the dates for OAI9 in your diaries now. Keep an eye on the Workshop website at http://indico.cern.ch/e/oai9, which also lists the Twitter feed and hashtag for the meeting. On behalf of the OAI9 Programme Committee, I look forward to seeing you in the University of Geneva to hear news of current developments in scholarly communication. Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel skype:thomaskrichel |
From: Dan S. <de...@gm...> - 2014-07-21 18:27:37
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The 25th (wow) issue of the Code4Lib Journal is now available at http://journal.code4lib.org/issues/issues/issue25 Here is what you will find inside: Editorial introduction: On libraries, code, support, inspiration, and collaboration Dan Scott Reflections on the occasion of the 25th issue of the Code4Lib Journal: sustaining a community for support, inspiration, and collaboration at the intersection of libraries and information technology. Getting What We Paid for: a Script to Verify Full Access to E-Resources Kristina M. Spurgin Libraries regularly pay for packages of e-resources containing hundreds to thousands of individual titles. Ideally, library patrons could access the full content of all titles in such packages. In reality, library staff and patrons inevitably stumble across inaccessible titles, but no library has the resources to manually verify full access to all titles, and basic URL checkers cannot check for access. This article describes the E-Resource Access Checker—a script that automates the verification of full access. With the Access Checker, library staff can identify all inaccessible titles in a package and bring these problems to content providers’ attention to ensure we get what we pay for. Opening the Door: A First Look at the OCLC WorldCat Metadata API Terry Reese Libraries have long relied on OCLC’s WorldCat database as a way to cooperatively share bibliographic data and declare library holdings to support interlibrary loan services. As curator, OCLC has traditionally mediated all interactions with the WorldCat database through their various cataloging clients to control access to the information. As more and more libraries look for new ways to interact with their data and streamline metadata operations and workflows, these clients have become bottlenecks and an inhibitor of library innovation. To address some of these concerns, in early 2013 OCLC announced the release of a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) supporting read and write access to the WorldCat database. These APIs offer libraries their first opportunity to develop new services and workflows that directly interact with the WorldCat database, and provide opportunities for catalogers to begin redefining how they work with OCLC and their data. Docker: a Software as a Service, Operating System-Level Virtualization Framework John Fink Docker is a relatively new method of virtualization available natively for 64-bit Linux. Compared to more traditional virtualization techniques, Docker is lighter on system resources, offers a git-like system of commits and tags, and can be scaled from your laptop to the cloud. A Metadata Schema for Geospatial Resource Discovery Use Cases Darren Hardy and Kim Durante We introduce a metadata schema that focuses on GIS discovery use cases for patrons in a research library setting. Text search, faceted refinement, and spatial search and relevancy are among GeoBlacklight’s primary use cases for federated geospatial holdings. The schema supports a variety of GIS data types and enables contextual, collection-oriented discovery applications as well as traditional portal applications. One key limitation of GIS resource discovery is the general lack of normative metadata practices, which has led to a proliferation of metadata schemas and duplicate records. The ISO 19115/19139 and FGDC standards specify metadata formats, but are intricate, lengthy, and not focused on discovery. Moreover, they require sophisticated authoring environments and cataloging expertise. Geographic metadata standards target preservation and quality measure use cases, but they do not provide for simple inter-institutional sharing of metadata for discovery use cases. To this end, our schema reuses elements from Dublin Core and GeoRSS to leverage their normative semantics, community best practices, open-source software implementations, and extensive examples already deployed in discovery contexts such as web search and mapping. Finally, we discuss a Solr implementation of the schema using a “geo” extension to MODS. Ebooks without Vendors: Using Open Source Software to Create and Share Meaningful Ebook Collections Matt Weaver The Community Cookbook project began with wondering how to take local cookbooks in the library’s collection and create a recipe database. The final website is both a recipe website and collection of ebook versions of local cookbooks. This article will discuss the use of open source software at every stage in the project, which proves that an open source publishing model is possible for any library. Within Limits: mass-digitization from scratch Pieter De Praetere The provincial library of West-Vlaanderen (Belgium) is digitizing a large part of its iconographic collection. Due to various (technical and financial) reasons no specialist software was used. FastScan is a set of VBS-scripts that was developed by the author using off-the-shelf software that was either included in MS Windows (XP & 7) or already installed (imageMagick, Irfanview, littlecms, exiv2). This scripting package has increased the digitization efforts immensely. The article will show what software was used, the problems that occurred and how they were scripted together. A Web Service for File-Level Access to Disk Images Sunitha Misra, Christopher A. Lee and Kam Woods Digital forensics tools have many potential applications in the curation of digital materials in libraries, archives and museums (LAMs). Open source digital forensics tools can help LAM professionals to extract digital contents from born-digital media and make more informed preservation decisions. Many of these tools have ways to display the metadata of the digital media, but few provide file-level access without having to mount the device or use complex command-line utilities. This paper describes a project to develop software that supports access to the contents of digital media without having to mount or download the entire image. The work examines two approaches in creating this tool: First, a graphical user interface running on a local machine. Second, a web-based application running in web browser. The project incorporates existing open source forensics tools and libraries including The Sleuth Kit and libewf along with the Flask web application framework and custom Python scripts to generate web pages supporting disk image browsing. Processing Government Data: ZIP Codes, Python, and OpenRefine Frank Donnelly While there is a vast amount of useful US government data on the web, some of it is in a raw state that is not readily accessible to the average user. Data librarians can improve accessibility and usability for their patrons by processing data to create subsets of local interest and by appending geographic identifiers to help users select and aggregate data. This case study illustrates how census geography crosswalks, Python, and OpenRefine were used to create spreadsheets of non-profit organizations in New York City from the IRS Tax-Exempt Organization Masterfile. This paper illustrates the utility of Python for data librarians and should be particularly insightful for those who work with address-based data. Indexing Bibliographic Database Content Using MariaDB and Sphinx Search Server Arie Nugraha Fast retrieval of digital content has become mandatory for library and archive information systems. Many software applications have emerged to handle the indexing of digital content, from low-level ones such Apache Lucene, to more RESTful and web-services-ready ones such Apache Solr and ElasticSearch. Solr’s popularity among library software developers makes it the “de-facto” standard software for indexing digital content. For content (full-text content or bibliographic description) already stored inside a relational DBMS such as MariaDB (a fork of MySQL) or PostgreSQL, Sphinx Search Server (Sphinx) is a suitable alternative. This article will cover an introduction on how to use Sphinx with MariaDB databases to index database content as well as some examples of Sphinx API usage. Solving Advanced Encoding Problems with FFMPEG Josh Romphf Previous articles in the Code4Lib Journal touch on the capabilities of FFMPEG in great detail, and given these excellent introductions, the purpose of this article is to tackle some of the common problems users might face, dissecting more complicated commands and suggesting their possible uses. HathiTrust Ingest of Locally Managed Content: A Case Study from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Kyle R. Rimkus & Kirk M. Hess In March 2013, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library adopted a policy to more closely integrate the HathiTrust Digital Library into its own infrastructure for digital collections. Specifically, the Library decided that the HathiTrust Digital Library would serve as a trusted repository for many of the library’s digitized book collections, a strategy that favors relying on HathiTrust over locally managed access solutions whenever this is feasible. This article details the thinking behind this policy, as well as the challenges of its implementation, focusing primarily on technical solutions for “remediating” hundreds of thousands of image files to bring them in line with HathiTrust’s strict specifications for deposit. This involved implementing HTFeed, a Perl 5 application developed at the University of Michigan for packaging content for ingest into Hathi Trust, and its many helper applications (JHOVE to detect metadata problems, Exiftool to detect metadata issues and repair missing image metadata, and Kakadu to create JP2000 files), as well as a file format conversion process using ImageMagick. Today, Illinois has over 1600 locally managed volumes queued for ingest, and has submitted over 2300 publicly available titles to the HathiTrust Digital Library. |
From: Ron P. <ron...@ya...> - 2014-04-18 18:16:16
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Will you be at the American Library Association Conference in Las Vegas this June? Do you have a great new technology idea that you'd like to share informally with colleagues? The LITA Program Planning Committee (PPC) is now accepting proposals for a round of Lightning Talks to be given at ALA. To submit your idea please fill out this form: http://bit.ly/Llight14 The lightning rounds will be Saturday, June 28, 2014 from 10:30-11:30 a.m. All presenters will be given 5 minutes to speak. Proposals are due May 4 at midnight. Questions? Please contact PPC chair, Debra Shapiro, dss...@wi... Thanks! |