Re: [CODE4LIB] transforming marc to rdf

2013-12-05 Thread Christian Pietsch
Hi Eric, you seem to have missed the Catmandu tutorial at SWIB13. Luckily there is a basic tutorial and a demo online: http://librecat.org/ The demo happens to be about transforming MARC to RDF using the Catmandu Perl framework. It gives you full flexibility by separating the importer from the

Re: [CODE4LIB] transforming marc to rdf [comet]

2013-12-05 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
On Dec 4, 2013, at 10:29 PM, Corey A Harper corey.har...@nyu.edu wrote: Have you had a look at Ed Chamberlain's work on COMET: https://github.com/edchamberlain/COMET It's been a while since I've run this, but if I remember correctly, it was fairly easy-to-use. Thank you for the pointer. I

Re: [CODE4LIB] transforming marc to rdf [mods_rdfizer]

2013-12-05 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
On Dec 4, 2013, at 10:29 PM, Corey A Harper corey.har...@nyu.edu wrote: Also, though much older, I seem to remember the Simile MARC RDFizer being a pretty straightforward one to run: http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/MARC/MODS_RDFizer MODS aficionados will point to some problems with some of it's

Re: [CODE4LIB] transforming marc to rdf [mods_rdfizer]

2013-12-05 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
On Dec 5, 2013, at 6:54 AM, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/MARC/MODS_RDFizer ...The distribution includes a possibly cool stylesheet — mods2rdf.xslt. Ah ha! The MODS_RDFizer’s mods2rdf.xslt file functioned very well against one of my MODS files: $

Re: [CODE4LIB] transforming marc to rdf [catmandu]

2013-12-05 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
On Dec 5, 2013, at 3:07 AM, Christian Pietsch chr.pietsch+web4...@googlemail.com wrote: you seem to have missed the Catmandu tutorial at SWIB13. Luckily there is a basic tutorial and a demo online: http://librecat.org/ I did attend SWIB13, and I really wanted to go to the Catmandu workshop,

Re: [CODE4LIB] transforming marc to rdf

2013-12-05 Thread Ross Singer
Eric, I'm having a hard time figuring out exactly what you're hoping to get. Going from MARC to RDF was my great white whale for years while Talis' main business interests involved both of those (although not archival collections). Anything that will remodel MARC to (decent) RDF is going be:

Re: [CODE4LIB] Discovery layer for Primo

2013-12-05 Thread Patrick Hartsfield
Everything I've heard from Ex Libris is that Alma is discovery layer agnostic, though they understandably want you to use Primo since it's their product. Perhaps the differentiation is that they won't host third-party discovery layers at this time? If you wanted to use Blacklight/VuFind/etc. it

Re: [CODE4LIB] transforming marc to rdf [to batch or not to batch]

2013-12-05 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
When exposing sets of MARC records as linked data, do you think it is better to expose them in batch (collection) files or as individual RDF serializations? To bastardize the Bard — “To batch or not to batch? That is the question.” Suppose I am a medium-sized academic research library. Suppose

Re: [CODE4LIB] book cover api

2013-12-05 Thread Kaile Zhu
On a second thought, IIIF won't work for my situation either, though it offers much more flexible manipulation on an individual base. My situation is: I have a loop to list many books, wanting a book cover image for each book. Kelly -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries

Re: [CODE4LIB] transforming marc to rdf

2013-12-05 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
On Dec 5, 2013, at 8:55 AM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: Eric, I'm having a hard time figuring out exactly what you're hoping to get. Going from MARC to RDF was my great white whale for years while Talis' main business interests involved both of those (although not archival

Re: [CODE4LIB] transforming marc to rdf

2013-12-05 Thread Mark A. Matienzo
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: I’m hoping to articulate and implement a simple and functional method for exposing EAD and MARC metadata as linked data. Isn't the point of this to expose archival description as linked data? What about description

Re: [CODE4LIB] transforming marc to rdf

2013-12-05 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
On Dec 5, 2013, at 11:17 AM, Mark A. Matienzo mark.matie...@gmail.com wrote: I’m hoping to articulate and implement a simple and functional method for exposing EAD and MARC metadata as linked data. Isn't the point of this to expose archival description as linked data? What about description

[CODE4LIB] Job: Database Administrator/IT Specialist, BDLSS at University of Oxford

2013-12-05 Thread jobs
Database Administrator/IT Specialist, BDLSS University of Oxford Oxford We are seeking an experienced Database Administrator, to join our established Bodleian Digital Library Systems and Support team. The team provides support and development services for the libraries' core service applications

Re: [CODE4LIB] transforming marc to rdf

2013-12-05 Thread Mark A. Matienzo
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: Good question! At the very least, these applications (ArchivesSpace, Archivists’ Toolkit, etc.) can regularly and systematically export their data as EAD, and the EAD can be made available as linked data. It would be

Re: [CODE4LIB] transforming marc to rdf

2013-12-05 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
On Dec 5, 2013, at 11:33 AM, Mark A. Matienzo mark.matie...@gmail.com wrote: At the very least, these applications (ArchivesSpace, Archivists’ Toolkit, etc.) can regularly and systematically export their data as EAD, and the EAD can be made available as linked data. Wouldn't it make more

Re: [CODE4LIB] transforming marc to rdf

2013-12-05 Thread Corey A Harper
With apologies to Eric to others from the LiAM project, I feel like I want to jump in here with a little more context. Eric, or Aaron, or Anne, please feel free to correct any of what I say below. I agree with the points made and concerns raised by both Ross Mark -- most significantly, that a

Re: [CODE4LIB] transforming marc to rdf

2013-12-05 Thread McAulay, Elizabeth
I've been following this conversation as a non-coder. I'm really interested in getting a better understanding of linked data and how to use existing metadata for proof of concept linked data outputs. So, I totally think Eric's approaches are valuable and would be something I would use. I also

Re: [CODE4LIB] transforming marc to rdf

2013-12-05 Thread Mark A. Matienzo
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: On Dec 5, 2013, at 11:33 AM, Mark A. Matienzo mark.matie...@gmail.com wrote: Wouldn't it make more sense, especially with a system like ArchivesSpace, which provides a backend HTTP API and a public UI, to publish

Re: [CODE4LIB] transforming marc to rdf

2013-12-05 Thread Ross Singer
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: “There is more than one way to skin a cat.” There are advantages and disadvantages to every software solution. I think what Mark and I are trying to say is that the first step to this solution is not by applying

Re: [CODE4LIB] transforming marc to rdf

2013-12-05 Thread Kevin Ford
* BIBFRAME Tools [6] - sports nice ontologies, but the online tools won’t scale for large operations -- The code running the transformation at [6] is available here: https://github.com/lcnetdev/marc2bibframe We've run several million records through it at one time. As with

Re: [CODE4LIB] transforming marc to rdf

2013-12-05 Thread Kevin Ford
Anything that will remodel MARC to (decent) RDF is going be: - Non-trivial to install - Non-trivial to use - Slow - Require massive amounts of memory/disk space Choose any two. -- I'll second this. Frankly, I don't see how you can generate RDF that anybody would want to

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

2013-12-05 Thread Derek Merleaux
know any folks w/ Google Maps API skills looking for an odd job? pls. fwd thanks! =Derek *JavaScript / Google Maps API V.3 Programming Job : Wolfsonian – FIU (www.wolfsonian.org http://www.wolfsonian.org)* We are putting together a site to provide public access to the high-resolution

[CODE4LIB] Job: Front-End Web Designer / UI Specialist at East Carolina University

2013-12-05 Thread jobs
Front-End Web Designer / UI Specialist East Carolina University Greenville, NC The East Carolina University Libraries are looking for a Front-End Web Designer / UI Specialist. The qualifications we're looking for are the following: This individual works collaboratively with library

Re: [CODE4LIB] WASSAIL / Assessment Tools

2013-12-05 Thread Hagedon, Mike
Here's what one of our instructional librarians said in response to this: At the University of Arizona Libraries, we piloted WASSAIL in 2012. There were a number of usability issues. The user interface was not intuitive; you couldn't preview created question items without creating a test - I

[CODE4LIB] Online Course: Responsive Web Design for Libraries

2013-12-05 Thread Matthew Reidsma
Please feel free to share on other appropriate listservs, blogs, and with colleagues. Responsive Web Design for Librarieshttps://infopeople.org/civicrm/event/info?reset=1id=281 An Infopeople online course, January 28 to February 24,

[CODE4LIB] Fwd: PASIG Webinar - Digital Forensics and BitCurator

2013-12-05 Thread Jodi Schneider
Possibly of interest: Digital Forensics webinar about Bitcurator ( http://wiki.bitcurator.net ) software. -- Forwarded message -- From: ASIST Continuing Education educat...@asis.org Date: Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 1:51 AM Subject: PASIG Webinar - Digital Forensics and BitCurator To:

Re: [CODE4LIB] REMINDER: Voting for Code4Lib 2014 Prepared Talks ends December 6th

2013-12-05 Thread Wick, Ryan
I've activated all of the new code4lib.org accounts I could find over the last couple weeks. If you registered at code4lib.org but the account has not been activated yet, let me know what your username is. Or if you have any other account login issues. Ryan Wick ryanw...@gmail.com