[CODE4LIB] [JOB] Directory, Online Library Environment, University of Virginia
I'm passing this on from contacts at UVa, please use the contact info below to follow up. == DIRECTOR, ONLINE LIBRARY ENVIRONMENT University of Virginia Library The University of Virginia Library seeks a strong technical leader for the position of Director of our “online library environment,” a comprehensive suite of tools and services to provide access to the Library’s physical and digital collections. We seek candidates who can successfully architect and implement solutions providing faculty and students a cohesive, innovative environment for accessing information used in research, teaching, and learning. Environment: The University of Virginia Library (http://www.lib.virginia.edu ) is a leader in innovative customer service, an international leader in digital library research and digital scholarship, and is recognized for the strength and variety of its collections. The Library system consists of twelve libraries, with independent libraries for health sciences, law, and business. The libraries support 12,000 undergraduates, 6,000 graduate students and 1,600 teaching faculty. The University and the Library have a strong commitment to achieving diversity among faculty and staff. The Neoclassical buildings of founder Thomas Jefferson's Academical Village still serve as the center of the University's Grounds (http://www.virginia.edu/uvatours/slideshow/ ) and as a unique backdrop for teaching, learning, and research. Responsibilities: The Director of the online library environment is responsible for leading the development and implementation of emerging information technologies as well as managing daily operations for the Library’s access and delivery applications. The Director will head a newly formed department of software developers and librarians in carrying out this activity. She or he will have oversight of all aspects of the Library’s Integrated System (ILS – Sirsi/Dynix Unicorn) and will lead development of an information architecture that provides cohesive access and delivery. She or he will assess, architect, and implement new ways to provide content and workflow services traditionally provided by an ILS and develop gateways to other information resources such as the Library’s electronic resources and institutional repositories. The Director will: provide leadership and vision that ensures easy, reliable online access to a wide array of collections, information, and services in support of research, teaching and learning; provide technical leadership in the design and implementation of all aspects of the software and infrastructure for ongoing development projects. Provide technical guidance to developers and systems administrators on project requirements as needed. manage the daily operations environment for the Library’s access and delivery applications; design and implement technical enhancements to the Library’s ILS infrastructure to meet current and future needs. supervise the daily work of both faculty and classified staff positions; collaborate with and provide technical guidance to partners within the Library and among entities that require access to Library content; and engage professionally in activities related to librarianship and digital scholarship. Qualifications: Master’s degree in Library Science or master’s degree or PhD in Computer Science, Information Sciences or related area. Successful candidates should have demonstrated significant and progressively responsible experience managing positions with a range of technology-specific and administrative responsibilities. Experience in libraries or information organizations is preferred. Preferred candidates will also have: demonstrated understanding of digital library concepts and standards (e.g., metadata standards, media-specific standards); experience in systems design and systems architecture; demonstrated experience in the implementation of Open Source software and tools; these tools include, but are not limited to: Enterprise Java development Ruby scripting language or equivalent Ruby on Rails Solr Tomcat Unix, Linux, AIX preferred an understanding of and commitment to library technologies; the ability to communicate clearly, both verbally and in writing; demonstrated ability to manage and lead information technology staff and projects as well as departmental priorities; demonstrated knowledge of emerging technologies and related research; these include but are not limited to: Blacklight Fedora/DuraSpace Evergreen Koha other Open Source and proprietary systems related to online library environments strong interpersonal skills; and a customer-service orientation. Salary and Benefits: Competitive depending on qualifications. This position has general faculty status with excellent benefits, including 22 days of vacation and TIAA/CREF and other retirement plans. Review
Re: [CODE4LIB] Google buys Metaweb (freebase)
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/cartoon_when_life_gives_you_lemons_acquire_lemonade.php ??? --- Chris Markman Resource Library Coordinator Visual Performing Arts Clark University 508.793.7481 cmark...@clarku.edu On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Chris Fitzpatrick cf...@stanford.eduwrote: Dunno if this is a good thing or a bad thing http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/07/16/financial/f132526D44.DTL best,chris.
[CODE4LIB] Mike, Ryan, others, subscribe to this list under new eMail address
not sure who's taking care of this (Mike, Ryan): by the end of this week I NEED to be subscribed under a new email address; what to do, what to do, what to do? please reply to eternally thankful yaaq...@gmail.com
[CODE4LIB] dc:identifier in Google XML
HI All, I am getting data from google books that I do not understand in the dc:identifier field. I understand ISBN: ISSN: LCCN: OCLC: but UOM:, and UCSC:? Can anyone help with what these two mean. Are they Universities? Here is a snippet of xml; dc:formatbook/dc:format dc:identifierr0xMMAAJ/dc:identifier dc:identifierUOM:39015035700759/dc:identifier dc:subjectMedical/dc:subject dc:titleAbstracts [of the] annual meeting/dc:title ... generated from this URL: http://www.google.com/books/feeds/volumes?q=Abstracts%20of%20the%20annual%20meeting Thanks, David. -- David Kane, MLIS. Systems Librarian Waterford Institute of Technology Ireland http://library.wit.ie/ T: ++353.51302838 M: ++353.876693212
Re: [CODE4LIB] dc:identifier in Google XML
UOM presumably indicates some sort of identifier from the University of Michigan. UCSC is presumably University of California Santa Cruz. Try going to their library catalogs and see if the numbers that follow line up somehow. If the person who coined these identifiers understood Linked Data, we could click on them to figure it out without hassle. Jeff -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of David Kane Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 12:55 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] dc:identifier in Google XML HI All, I am getting data from google books that I do not understand in the dc:identifier field. I understand ISBN: ISSN: LCCN: OCLC: but UOM:, and UCSC:? Can anyone help with what these two mean. Are they Universities? Here is a snippet of xml; dc:formatbook/dc:format dc:identifierr0xMMAAJ/dc:identifier dc:identifierUOM:39015035700759/dc:identifier dc:subjectMedical/dc:subject dc:titleAbstracts [of the] annual meeting/dc:title ... generated from this URL: http://www.google.com/books/feeds/volumes?q=Abstracts%20of%20the%20annual%20meeting Thanks, David. -- David Kane, MLIS. Systems Librarian Waterford Institute of Technology Ireland http://library.wit.ie/ T: ++353.51302838 M: ++353.876693212
Re: [CODE4LIB] dc:identifier in Google XML
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 10:08 AM, Young,Jeff (OR) jyo...@oclc.org wrote: UOM presumably indicates some sort of identifier from the University of Michigan. UCSC is presumably University of California Santa Cruz. Try going to their library catalogs and see if the numbers that follow line up somehow. If the person who coined these identifiers understood Linked Data, we could click on them to figure it out without hassle. Based on the syntax, my guess is that those values represent barcodes. kyle
Re: [CODE4LIB] dc:identifier in Google XML
Dear David, I believe they're codes for universities. UCSC is probably Univ of Calif Santa Cruz. UOM is University of Michigan. (You'll see STANFORD and OCLC in the results also, though OCLC is not a university). I tracked one of items in the ATOM feed to the UM record: http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/Record/000680081/Details#tabs The ID you see in the ATOM feed is buried in one of the 974 fields of the UM MARC record. HTH, Kevin From: Code for Libraries [code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of David Kane [dk...@wit.ie] Sent: Monday, July 19, 2010 12:55 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] dc:identifier in Google XML HI All, I am getting data from google books that I do not understand in the dc:identifier field. I understand ISBN: ISSN: LCCN: OCLC: but UOM:, and UCSC:? Can anyone help with what these two mean. Are they Universities? Here is a snippet of xml; dc:formatbook/dc:format dc:identifierr0xMMAAJ/dc:identifier dc:identifierUOM:39015035700759/dc:identifier dc:subjectMedical/dc:subject dc:titleAbstracts [of the] annual meeting/dc:title ... generated from this URL: http://www.google.com/books/feeds/volumes?q=Abstracts%20of%20the%20annual%20meeting Thanks, David. -- David Kane, MLIS. Systems Librarian Waterford Institute of Technology Ireland http://library.wit.ie/ T: ++353.51302838 M: ++353.876693212
[CODE4LIB] universal citation index
There've been some interesting discussions on Wiki-research-l about citations
lately, including a post today about using a centralized, semantic wiki as a
repository for all the world's citations, using infobox-based citation
templates, and expressing cited by relationships as backlinks. For LLD, open
metadata repository is a nice use case (perhaps bringing indexing and
abstracting back in style!); for Code4Lib, there may be some synergy with past
projects, and note the mention of UPEI's k4all.
Beyond what's below, if you want to follow the other recent conversations, see
the thread Fwd: modern foundations of scientific consensus thread from June
[1] (one late post in July [2] by Daniel Mietchen) as well as 4 posts
yesterday/today.
-Jodi
http://jodischneider.com/
PS-If someone could share with an appropriate OpenLibrary list I'd be grateful!
[1] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wiki-research-l/2010-June/thread.html
[2] http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wiki-research-l/2010-July/thread.html
Begin forwarded message:
From: Brian J Mingus brian.min...@colorado.edu
Date: 19 July 2010 21:20:15 GMT+01:00
To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities
wiki-researc...@lists.wikimedia.org
Cc: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundatio...@lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: [Wiki-research-l] WikiCite - new WMF project? Was: UPEI's proposal
for a universal citation index
Reply-To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities
wiki-researc...@lists.wikimedia.org
I have been working with Sam and others for some time now on brainstorming a
proposal for the Foundation to create a centralized wiki of citations, a
WikiCite so to speak, if that is not the eventual name. My plan is to
continue to discuss with folks who are knowledgeable and interested in such a
project and to have the feedback I receive go into the proposal which I hope
to write this summer. The proposal white paper will then be sent around to
interested parties for corrections and feedback, including on-wiki and
mailing lists, before eventually landing at the Foundation officially. As we
know WMF has not started a new project in some years, so there is no official
process. Thus I find it important to get it right.
The basic idea is a centralized wiki that contains citation information that
other MediaWikis and WMF projects can then reference using something like a
{{cite}} template or a simple link. The community can document the citation,
the author, the book etc.. and, in one idealization, all citations across all
wikis would point to the same article on WikiCite. Users can use this wiki as
their personal bibliography as well, as collections of citations can be
exported in arbitrary citation formats. This general plan would allow
community aggregation of metadata and community documentation of sources
along arbitrary dimensions (quality, trust, reliability, etc.). The hope is
that such a resource would then expand on that wiki and across the projects
into summarizations of collections of sources (lit reviews) that make
navigating entire fields of literature easier and more reliable, getting you
out of the trap of not being aware of the global context that a particular
source sits in.
To give all a more concrete view, here is an example from some software that
I have implemented in our lab called WikiPapers. Please take note that while
this is a scientific literature example, the idea is general to *all
publications ever*. Also, while I have implemented a feature-full version of
a WikiCite, it's important to point out that for the WMF project we will need
a new extension that handles the needs of the project exactly, and in PHP (I
use Python :).
The name of the wiki article is a unique key that is a combination of the
author names and the year, in the following format:
Author1Author2Author3EtAl10b. This works for scientific articles, but we may
find we need to modify the key for other kinds of sources. The content of the
wiki article is composed of an infobox constructed via the Citation template,
and any other text and media the community determines it is useful and legal
to include in the article. Example article:
Screenshot of how this infobox renders on our wiki:
http://grey.colorado.edu/mediawiki/sites/mingus/images/0/0e/KangHsuKrajbichEtAl10_infobox.png
Title: KangHsuKrajbichEtAl09
{{Citation
|publisher=SAGE Publications
|dateadded=2010-07-17
|author=Kang M.J. and Hsu M. and Krajbich I.M. and Loewenstein G. and McClure
S.M. and Wang J.T. and Camerer C.F.
|url=http://pss.sagepub.com/content/20/8/963.full
|abstract=Curiosity has been described as a desire for learning and
knowledge, but its underlying mechanisms are not well understood. We scanned
subjects with functional magnetic resonance imaging while they read trivia
questions. The level of curiosity when reading questions was correlated with
activity in
[CODE4LIB] Job Posting: Web Developer / Designer
University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS Web Developer/Designer This person will work closely with Dykes Library (http://library.kumc.edu) staff, faculty and other Information Resources units to raise the visibility of expertise, research, publications, grey literature, and collections on the KUMC web site. Requires one to work closely with librarians and library personnel to understand information requirement needs and to then seek solutions for meeting those required needs. Requires working with diverse web applications and data sources to provide seamless user services. Duties: Extend Bibapp (http://www.bibapp.org), a Ruby on Rails and Apache Solr web application, to better meet the needs of KUMC. Customize DSpace (http://www.dspace.org) and assist with XML/XSLT theme development. Customize sites in a content management system using XSLT. Assist departments, faculty, and staff with integrating RSS feeds, Solr web services, or other application data into their websites. Provide guidance for integrating repository and discovery applications including the library catalog, journal holdings, online journals, DSpace, digital asset management, bibliographic databases, and search engines. Visit https://jobs.kumc.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/position/JobDetails_css.jsp?postingId=371769 for a complete description and application Jason Stirnaman Biomedical Librarian, Digital Projects A.R. Dykes Library, University of Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu 913-588-7319
