[CODE4LIB] Job: Web Applications Developer at Roper Center for Public Opinion Research

2014-04-18 Thread jobs
Web Applications Developer Roper Center for Public Opinion Research Storrs Web Applications Developer DESCRIPTION The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research seeks a Web Applications Developer to work in a collaborative team environment applying expertise and knowledge of web development and

Re: [CODE4LIB] distributed responsibility for web content

2014-04-18 Thread Pikas, Christina K.
Laughing and feeling your pain... we have a communications person (that's her job) who keeps using bold, italics, h1, in pink (yes pink), randomly in pages... luckily she only does internal pages, and not external. You could schedule some writing for the web sessions, but I don't know that it

Re: [CODE4LIB] distributed responsibility for web content

2014-04-18 Thread Ross Singer
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 10:37 PM, Riley Childs rchi...@cucawarriors.comwrote: designate someone to be the copy editor, Well, I kind of got the impression from the original question that this was kind of out of the question. However, I think it might be useful to look at development practices

[CODE4LIB] Job: Electronic Resources and Web Services Librarian [Substitute] at Lehman College

2014-04-18 Thread jobs
Electronic Resources and Web Services Librarian [Substitute] Lehman College The Bronx **JOB/POSTING TITLE** Electronic Resources and Web Services Librarian [Substitute] **LOCATION** Lehman College **FULL / PART TIME** Full-Time **REGULAR / TEMPORARY** Regular **GENERAL

Re: [CODE4LIB] distributed responsibility for web content

2014-04-18 Thread Scott Prater
Can you automate some of the checking, using tools such as HTML/CSS lint, validators, checkstyle-like parsers? -- Scott On 04/18/2014 08:50 AM, Ross Singer wrote: On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 10:37 PM, Riley Childs rchi...@cucawarriors.comwrote: designate someone to be the copy editor, Well,

Re: [CODE4LIB] distributed responsibility for web content

2014-04-18 Thread Erin White
Develop a brief content and design style guide, then have it approved by your leadership team and share it with your organization. (Easier said than done, I know.) Bonus points if you work with your (typically) print-focused communications person to develop this guide and get his/her buy-in on

Re: [CODE4LIB] distributed responsibility for web content

2014-04-18 Thread Bigwood, David
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

[CODE4LIB] Call for Proposals and Vice-Chair for the MARC Formats Transition Interest Group

2014-04-18 Thread Sarah Weeks
** Please Forgive Cross-Posting** The LITA/ALCTS Marc Formats Transition Interest Group invites proposals for presentations for its session at the 2014 ALA Annual Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada. The meeting will take place on Saturday, June 28th, from 3pm to 4pm. It will be held in the Las Vegas

Re: [CODE4LIB] distributed responsibility for web content

2014-04-18 Thread Sean Hannan
What¹s worked for us is education. I¹ve moaned about trying to implement publishing workflows and other automation-type solutions, but there are always edge cases (³This needs to go up RIGHT NOW!²) that break such things or turn it into such a bottleneck that everyone starts looking for ways

[CODE4LIB] Job: Head, Information Technology at North Carolina State University

2014-04-18 Thread jobs
Head, Information Technology North Carolina State University Raleigh The NCSU Libraries has a well-earned reputation for creating adventurous library spaces and innovative services that delight today's students and researchers. The new James B. Hunt Jr. Library, located on NC State's Centennial

Re: [CODE4LIB] distributed responsibility for web content

2014-04-18 Thread Owen Stephens
I'd second the suggestions from Erin with regards establishing style guides and Ross's suggestion of peer review. While not quite directly about the issue you have, Paul Boag a UK web designer has spoken and blogged on how clear policies relying on quantitative measures can help establish clear

[CODE4LIB] Job: Digital Assets Coordinator at Texas State Library and Archives Commission

2014-04-18 Thread jobs
Digital Assets Coordinator Texas State Library and Archives Commission Austin The Digital Assets Coordinator oversees the digitization of archival materials, manage the digital assets of the State Archives and perform high resolution scans on archival collections. Working with the Assistant

[CODE4LIB] Job: Data Curation Librarian at Indiana State University

2014-04-18 Thread jobs
Data Curation Librarian Indiana State University Terre Haute This 12-month, tenure-track position provides technical leadership for the creation, management, preservation of and access to digital assets and scholarship. The incumbent will manage, develop and migrate digital application systems

[CODE4LIB] Job: Galileo Programmer/Analyst at University of Georgia

2014-04-18 Thread jobs
Galileo Programmer/Analyst University of Georgia Athens **Job Summary:** The GALILEO Programmer/Analyst is responsible to the IT Senior Manager of the GALILEO/GIL Technical Support Group of the Libraries' Systems Department for programming web applications to specification using Perl, CGI

[CODE4LIB] Job: Archivist for Digital Content Information Management at Archives of the Episcopal Church

2014-04-18 Thread jobs
Archivist for Digital Content Information Management Archives of the Episcopal Church Austin We seek an individual who relishes the challenges of building solutions and managing risk in innovationin an information-intensive business environment. The Archivist has primary responsibility

Re: [CODE4LIB] Usage Statistics Question

2014-04-18 Thread Brian McBride
Thank you to everyone who responded to my question, your input is very much appreciated. -Brian Brian McBride Head of Application Development J. Willard Marriott Library University of Utah O: 801.585.7613 F: 801.585.5549 brian.mcbr...@utah.edumailto:brian.mcbr...@utah.edu On Apr 3, 2014, at

[CODE4LIB] Job: Associate Director of Libraries for Academic and Scholarly Technologies at University of New Brunswick

2014-04-18 Thread jobs
Associate Director of Libraries for Academic and Scholarly Technologies University of New Brunswick Fredericton The University of New Brunswick Libraries invites applications for the position of Associate Director of Libraries for Academic and Scholarly Technologies. Reporting to the Director of

Re: [CODE4LIB] distributed responsibility for web content

2014-04-18 Thread Mark Vega
While 'letting chaos reign' might seem the best solution, we've found that it also presents unforeseen accessibility and general readability issues, e.g, entire pages of bolded or inappropriately colored text, not to mention making entire websites look like, well, crap! We also use a CMS (here

Re: [CODE4LIB] distributed responsibility for web content

2014-04-18 Thread Nathan Rogers
One interesting thing to keep in mind wit the ‘Magic Number Seven’ is that it is one of those things that everybody believes to be true but has little basis in practice. Here’s a nice summary of why it is not particularly relevant for visual design (as are many of the things on this site if you

Re: [CODE4LIB] distributed responsibility for web content

2014-04-18 Thread Kyle Banerjee
While 'letting chaos reign' might seem the best solution, we've found that it also presents unforeseen accessibility and general readability issues, e.g, entire pages of bolded or inappropriately colored text, not to mention making entire websites look like, well, crap! This is a serious

Re: [CODE4LIB] distributed responsibility for web content

2014-04-18 Thread Ian Walls
If you're using TinyMCE as the WYSIWYG editor, you could configure it so that particularly offensive HTML tags or attributes are stripped out, reset or replaced: http://www.tinymce.com/wiki.php/configuration:valid_elements If you stripped out 'style' from the list of valid attributes in elements,

[CODE4LIB] The Code4Lib Journal, Issue 24 is now available!

2014-04-18 Thread Sara Amato
Apologies for re-posting (first posting from an @yahoo address ended up in spam for many of us!) The Code4Lib Journal, Issue 24 is now available! http://journal.code4lib.org/issues/issue24 Here is what you will find inside: Editorial Introduction: Seeking a Diversity of Voices Ron Peterson