Re: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author

2015-05-23 Thread Alex Armstrong
into ResearcherID from there. Not an endorsement by any means! Christina -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Alex Armstrong Sent: Friday, May 22, 2015 4:47 PM To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly

Re: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author

2015-05-22 Thread Alex Armstrong
would allow users to tag a few representative items. Alex On 05/22/2015 10:32 PM, Dan Scott wrote: Hi Alex: On Thu, 21 May 2015 at 09:28 Alex Armstrong alehand...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the responses; keep them coming, if you have other ideas. It's hard to demarcate domains, but my

Re: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author

2015-05-21 Thread Alex Armstrong
Thanks for the responses; keep them coming, if you have other ideas. It's hard to demarcate domains, but my userbase consists largely of librarians and liberal arts faculty. I wasn't at all aware of Microsoft Academic Search. Their content looks thorough, though it doesn' include books:

[CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author

2015-05-20 Thread Alex Armstrong
with their public (as opposed to their member) API. Any other ideas or thoughts? Best, Alex Armstrong

Re: [CODE4LIB] API to retrieve scholarly publications by author

2015-05-20 Thread Alex Armstrong
AM, Pikas, Christina K. christina.pi...@jhuapl.edu wrote: The Scopus API:http://dev.elsevier.com/sc_apis.html -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Alex Armstrong Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2015 6:59 AM To:CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu

Re: [CODE4LIB] Metadata

2014-10-30 Thread Alex Armstrong
Cvskit looks very interesting. Thanks for posting! Alex On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 9:29 PM, Eric Phetteplace phett...@gmail.com wrote: Of course, MARC. I use Millennium ILS' bulk editing modules (Rapid|Global Update) or pymarc. We have a digital repository, EQUELLA, which lets you use custom

Re: [CODE4LIB] Conference site backend

2014-10-16 Thread Alex Armstrong
://www.drupal.org/project/ableorganizer Drupal COD is well established. I wouldn't tar COD for some external BS. That makes no sense. We use it for out local Drupal events. On Oct 15, 2014, at 9:06 AM, Alex Armstrong alehand...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for pitching in. COD looks good. On their site (http

Re: [CODE4LIB] Conference site backend

2014-10-16 Thread Alex Armstrong
in WordPress. On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 5:36 AM, Alex Armstrong alehand...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Mark. Both of these look promising. Cary, I wasn't trying to tar COD. (That's a nice verb right there :) My comment about the table of unfair feature comparison was about this design pattern in general

Re: [CODE4LIB] Conference site backend

2014-10-15 Thread Alex Armstrong
looking for a multi-purpose platform or a platform I can wrangle to serve multiple purposes. P.S. Confusingly, I switched my CODE4LIB subscription to a different email. Alex On October 10, 2014 4:23:57 PM EEST, Francis Kayiwa kay...@pobox.com wrote: On 10/10/2014 09:13 AM, Alex Armstrong wrote

Re: [CODE4LIB] Conference site backend

2014-10-11 Thread Alex Armstrong
This looks interesting. If anything it's too full-featured. I was thinking more along the lines of a Wordpress plugin or something. But maybe I'm not thinking through this properly. Alex On 10/10/2014 04:23 PM, Francis Kayiwa wrote: On 10/10/2014 09:13 AM, Alex Armstrong wrote: Hi list

[CODE4LIB] Conference site backend

2014-10-10 Thread Alex Armstrong
under one umbrella. Any recommendations for a conference backend? I'm looking for an open source solution I can deploy on a shared hosting plan. I'm not picky about the CMS. The current iteration is put together locally using a static site generator, so I can switch to whatever. Alex Armstrong

Re: [CODE4LIB] wget archiving for dummies

2014-10-06 Thread Alex Armstrong
I wanted a quick-and-dirty solution to archiving our old LibGuides site a few months ago. wget was my first port of call also. I don't have good notes as to what went wrong, but I ended up using httrack: http://www.httrack.com/ It basically worked out of the box. HTH, Alex On 10/06/2014

Re: [CODE4LIB] Library community web standards (was: LibGuides v2 - Templates and Nav)

2014-10-03 Thread Alex Armstrong
TMI? Sweating the details IS how you get good user experience design. I am sometimes reminded of the Oscar Wilde quote:I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. If you replace poem with site and comma with

Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides v2 - Templates and Nav

2014-09-26 Thread Alex Armstrong
level who aren't on this list (or are you? :) ). I'd also second the Lounge (springsharelounge.com) as a good group. There's an academic libraries group there, which is quite active. Cheers. On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 1:07 PM, Alex Armstrong aarmstr...@acg.edu wrote: The web content workflow

Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides v2 - Templates and Nav

2014-09-25 Thread Alex Armstrong
The web content workflow and governance issues that were brought up are really important. I would love to discuss them at excruciating length. But content ownership conundrums and the frustrations of WYSIWYG editors are broader issues that can be usefully taken up in other threads. I

Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides v2 - Templates and Nav

2014-09-24 Thread Alex Armstrong
at 3:29 PM, Joshua Welker wel...@ucmo.edu wrote: I was just curious in general. I'm always interested in data on web usability. Josh Welker -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Alex Armstrong Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2014 12:34

Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides v2 - Templates and Nav

2014-09-20 Thread Alex Armstrong
like the simplicity. Let me know how the usability testing goes. Josh Welker -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Alex Armstrong Sent: Friday, September 19, 2014 10:28 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides

Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides v2 - Templates and Nav

2014-09-19 Thread Alex Armstrong
. Hope this helps, Alex -- Alex Armstrong E-Resource/Reference Assistant The American College of Greece Libraries, John S. Bailey Library 6 Gravias Street | GR 153 42 Agia Paraskevi | Athens, Greece Phone: +30 210 600 9800 ext. 1274, 1267 | Fax: +30 210 601 7795 Email: aarmstr...@acg.edu

Re: [CODE4LIB] EBSCO LinkSource customers?

2013-06-06 Thread Alex Armstrong
Hi Ross, An FYI -- maybe not useful. We're using an archaic authentication system that doesn't play that well with LinkSource (or anything else for that matter). So, I actually tried to set up LinkSource without hiding it behind authentication. This turned out to be a fool's errand because