Hi Lauren,
Depending on the number and complexity of your data sources, I
recommend that you consider deploying an ETL system (ETL stands for
Extract, Transform, Load). There are a few open source and free of
cost frameworks on market, notably Pentaho's Kettle (see
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Hi Code4Libbers,
Slightly odd question for you academic library folks. Why does your
library have its website where it is on the university site? For context,
the library I currently work at has our library site hidden within the
campus intranet/portal, so that students have to log into a web
Matt,
Not odd at all! I've dealt with this issue for most of my career. In
the three academic libraries I've worked in, the library's site was
NOT part of the overall college/university portal. In fact, it was
more the case that we (me, the web person, and my supervisors) were
establishing our
This is a passion of mine, actually. I judge an institution by how easy it is
to find the link to the library on the home page of the university. Call me
picky, but if I can't find a link to the library easily on that front page,
then I think they are not serious about research. What you
This is actually becoming an announce to our employees because we have to
spend so much time explaining where the library site is. We are pretty
much an Ex Libris shop at the moment, Primo, Metalib, SFX, all locked
behind Sharepoint. I am not sure what the main campus site is using for a
CMS,
At my institution, the library's web presence predates the university as a
whole's presence. We currently share a server with the main university site
but have control over all our content and can make updates without having
to go through public relations (thank goodness). Our site is linked from
Matt,
Can totally see how this is a nuisance for staff, and it would make me
die on the inside, too! As a short term measure, could you set up and
advertise an alias (something like library.institutiondomainname.edu)
to get directly to the web site, or would that not work with the
portal?
Also,
Matt,
Our website is part of the main campus CMS (Sitecore). There are also links
to it on the intranet/student portal, which drive quite a bit of the
traffic.
A few others have alluded to this, but you can look to my library's website
as an example of how horribly wrong things can go when
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As a matter of advocacy for library services, I think you want to have the
library web site as high up the campus web site hierarchy as possible. We're
under the Academics link on the menu that appears on virtually every
university web page. While I see the point another made about needing a
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I suspect at some point every student needs to use resources from the Library.
therefore making the library central to campus and education.
There is a link to our library site on the main campus site home page, along
with the links Apply Online, Visit, Faculty Portal, Alumni, Parents and
I gave SharePoint a fair shake once, but it is a lost cause. Don't bother
trying if you have any other option.
If you are having problems with campus IT giving you more visibility, you
should work with your library to make one of its goals increasing
discoverability, and then have your library
Matt,
We actually had zero web presence until about 2006. At that time, my
predecessor developed a custom website through a simple webhosting service,
which was better than nothing.
When I got here about two years ago, I made a case for developing a new website
that was a sub-domain of the
Matt,
Our library's website is visually and navigationally part of the larger
university website, but housed on its own server. We are under the Academics
tab in the Centers of learning block along with the writing center, community
service office, etc. Being part of the larger university
This topic actually comes up pretty regularly on lists for web types;
wonder if we could put together some type of sharing resource where we
all talk about how we made the case to split off the library's web
site? I feel like it's a battle so many of us have fought and can
therfore help our
I've never heard of an entire library site being buried behind an
authentication portal. That's just crazy to me. (If you use universal
authentication, I'm sure it's nice that once students have signed in,
they can access/use all the services, but sometimes people want to look
something up
Val's post made me think of this:
http://xkcd.com/773/
Campus Photo Slideshow anyone? :D
Nina
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Valerie Forrestal
valerie.forres...@csi.cuny.edu wrote:
I've never heard of an entire library site being buried behind an
authentication portal. That's just crazy
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While it's a really good idea to make sure your library's website is
prominent on your institution's page (because I think that does send a
strong signal, even to students, that your library is important to your
campus), the really big question is how easily your students will be able
to find your
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On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 2:07 PM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote:
Hmm, this sounds weird to say, but it never occured to me that most students
would start from the institutional home page, or really ever visit the
institutional home page at all. Largely because most institutional home
Unfortunately, marketing is at the top of the food chain at many universities,
and when it is not, it is often just behind athletics.
I have seen some libraries break out by going rogue and establishing their own
sites outside of their universities, funded by petty cash or by tying web
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On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Lauren Magnuson lau...@lpmagnuson.com wrote:
While it's a really good idea to make sure your library's website is
prominent on your institution's page (because I think that does send a
strong signal, even to students, that your library is important to your
On 12/17/13 1:46 PM, Lisa Rabey wrote:
I'm with Lisa in that when checking out other institutions, I check to
see how many clicks it takes to get to the library, and if it is not
immediately on the landing page of the college OR at least a drop down
link from a parent portal, I start becoming
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 2:53 PM, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote:
While institutions often take that approach, I am not sure that people do, at
least if there is an alternative. Sure, folks might go to the home page once
or twice to get to the library home page, just as they might use
Hi Matt et al,
I just want to be sure I'm understanding: Pentaho's Kettle can extract from ANY
datastore - not just Banner?
Anyone else on this list using Pentaho or another open source ETL solution for
loading data to their ILS who can share their experiences more fully?
Thanks,
Christina
Systems Programmer Analyst
Georgetown University Library
Washington, D.C.
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expand access to information through library technology. The Systems
Programmer Analyst will report to both the Sr. Applications Programmer and
While institutions often take that approach, I am not sure that people do, at
least if there is an alternative. Sure, folks might go to the home page once or
twice to get to the library home page, just as they might use a campus map to
find a library building, but folks who use the library's
Agree - you'd still need evidence to convince the powers that be. To get
some data to that end, maybe some snapshot usability observation where you
sit down a handful of users at a computer (better yet, on a tablet/mobile
device) and ask them to find the library's website (ensuring that the
My key point, and likely the only point of note is: Your library stats should
tell the tale of how folks are getting there.
While these data won't necessarily lead to great predictions of future
behavior, as the institution might unintentionally (or intentionally) blocking
some desirable
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote:
My key point, and likely the only point of note is: Your library stats
should tell the tale of how folks are getting there.
While these data won't necessarily lead to great predictions of future
behavior, as the
On Tuesday, December 17, 2013, Lauren Magnuson wrote:
While it's a really good idea to make sure your library's website is
prominent on your institution's page (because I think that does send a
strong signal, even to students, that your library is important to your
campus), the really big
Hi all,
I'm wondering if there is a systematic method that can extract metadata
embedded in digital photographs and then ingest that metadata into a CMS and
relate them to their corresponding images. We currently use DigiTool, if that
makes a difference.
Thanks!
Shea Swauger
Data Management
I'm with Lisa in that when checking out other institutions, I check to
see how many clicks it takes to get to the library, and if it is not
immediately on the landing page of the college OR at least a drop down
link from a parent portal, I start becoming Judgey McJudgepants on
that institution.
Exiftool is what you need. Easy to use and works on any platform.
kyle
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Swauger,Shea shea.swau...@colostate.eduwrote:
Hi all,
I'm wondering if there is a systematic method that can extract metadata
embedded in digital photographs and then ingest that
++1
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Hi Shea,
Well, one option you might explore is extracting metadata from images
using exiftool (http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/) to a CSV
or TXT file and then convert this file to what ever tool or file format
(xml) you use for batch import to your CMS. So semi-automated.
We
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I use EXIFTool to extract the EXIF metadata from images:
http://www.sno.phy.queensu.ca/~phil/exiftool/
I do this dynamically for all of the 8,000+ photos on FreeLargePhotos.com.
Here is an example of the text output:
http://freelargephotos.com/photos/003805/exif.txt
From there, you could parse
Hi,
It is possible, at least the extraction part. I don;t know enough about
Digitool to know the deposit part. We wrote a series of shell scripts,
using exiftool (as I see others are suggesting). The output is then put
through a number of sed commands and outputs a file that can be deposited
into
The extraction and ingestion seem like two different coins.
Lots of tools can extract. exiftool, or imagemagick, or whatever can
extract the data.
Question then is how and where to insert it into the system you are using.
So, not a pipedream. Indeed extraction is very possible.
The harder
I remember hearing somewhere that ExifTool is pretty good for extracting image
metadata.
edsu--
Your library stats should tell the tale of how folks are getting there.
FWIW our Google Analytics stats indicate search being the primary vehicle:
45.9% Google
12.0% LMS (Moodle)
6.6% university management school subsite
4.3% OPAC
3.9% university main site
3.6% university education school
The difficulty lies in the details.
I don't understand the distinction between organic findability and direct
going to the URIs (presumably URLs, which go somewhere). While going directly
to resources would skew your stats, presumably in a good way, I don't see that
they would impact your
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