I spoke too soon, I wasn't able to actually add a comment, "Your comment
has been queued for moderation by site administrators and will be
published after approval," but I'm not sure if there's anyone actually
looking at that moderation queue. Sigh.
But my account has 'edit' abilities on the wiki page itself, I'll try
adding it there. No idea if all accounts have that. I'm about running
out of time/energy for this attempt at good samaritan-ness, heh.
On 9/14/2011 2:05 PM, Jason Stirnaman wrote:
I'll try to update a few more. You can adjust the starttime parameter (in
seconds) in the URL accordingly for each talk. Of course, you have to watch to
figure out where they start.
Jason Stirnaman
Biomedical Librarian, Digital Projects
A.R. Dykes Library, University of Kansas Medical Center
jstirna...@kumc.edu
913-588-7319
On 9/14/2011 at 12:58 PM, in message<4e70eb3b.9090...@jhu.edu>, Jonathan
Rochkind<rochk...@jhu.edu> wrote:
Thanks, I added this as a comment on the code4lib talk page from the conf.
If anyone else happens to be looking for a video and finds it, and you
want to add it to the code4lib talk page in question, it would probably
be useful for findability.
In the past I think someone bulk added the URLs to all the talk pages,
but I guess that didn't happen this time, I guess actually cause there
aren't split videos of each talk but just video of the whole session?
Hmm, I guess that makes it harder to figure out what the URL to the
right minute of the talk should be, unless you're Jason. Oh well. Thanks
Jason!
On 9/14/2011 1:49 PM, Jason Stirnaman wrote:
PS, Here's the link for jumping to Thomas Browning's Metridoc talk:
http://www.indiana.edu/~video/stream/launchflash.html?format=MP4&folder=vic&filename=C4L2011_session_2_20110208.mp4&starttime=3600
Jason Stirnaman
Biomedical Librarian, Digital Projects
A.R. Dykes Library, University of Kansas Medical Center
jstirna...@kumc.edu
913-588-7319
On 9/14/2011 at 11:13 AM, in message<4e70d292.7000...@jhu.edu>, Jonathan
Rochkind<rochk...@jhu.edu> wrote:
Yeah, I think it ends up being pretty hard to create general-purpose
solutions to this sort of thing that are both not-monstrous-to-use and
flexible enough to do what everyone wants. Which is why most of the
'data warehouse' solutions you see end up being so terrible, in my
analysis.
I am not sure if there is any product specifically focused on library
usage/financial data -- that might end up being somewhat less monstrous,
it seems the more you focus your use case (instead of trying to provide
for general "data warehouse and analysis"), the more likely a software
provider can come up with something that isn't insane.
At the 2011 Code4Lib Conf, Thomas Barker from UPenn presented on some
open source software they were developing (based on putting together
existing open source packages to be used together) to provide
library-oriented 'data warehousing'. I was interested that he talked
about how their _first_ attempt at this ended up being the sort of
monstrous flexible-but-impossible-to-use sort of solution we're talking
about, but they tried to learn from their experience and start over,
thinking they could do better. I'm not sure what the current status of
that project is. I'm not sure if any 2011 code4lib conf video is
available online? If it is, it doesn't seem to be linked to from the
conf presentation pages like it was in past years:
http://code4lib.org/conference/2011/barker
On 9/13/2011 5:37 PM, Jason Stirnaman wrote:
Thanks, Shirley! I remember seeing that before but I'll look more closely now.
I know what I'm describing is also known, typically, as a data warehouse. I
guess I'm trying to steer around the usual solutions in that space. We do have
an Oracle-driven data warehouse on campus, but the project is in heavy
transition right now and we still had to do a fair amount of work ourselves
just to get a few data sources into it.
Jason Stirnaman
Biomedical Librarian, Digital Projects
A.R. Dykes Library, University of Kansas Medical Center
jstirna...@kumc.edu
913-588-7319
On 9/13/2011 at 04:25 PM, in
message<can7tqjapw78rpgzpu1l5qvoj6iw9rrkmzl+yeygqbov-gzo...@mail.gmail.com>, Shirley
Lincicum<shirley.linci...@gmail.com> wrote:
Jason,
Check out: http://www.needlebase.com/
It was not developed specifically for libraries, but it supports data
aggregation, analysis, web scraping, and does not require programming
skills to use.
Shirley
Shirley Lincicum
Librarian, Western Oregon University
linc...@wou.edu
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Jason Stirnaman<jstirna...@kumc.edu> wrote:
Does anyone have suggestions or recommendations for platforms that can
aggregate usage data from multiple sources, combine it with financial data, and
then provide some analysis, graphing, data views, etc?
From what I can tell, something like Ex Libris' Alma would require all
"fulfillment" transactions to occur within the system.
I'm looking instead for something like Splunk that would accept log data, circulation
data, usage reports, costs, and Sherpa/Romeo authority data but then schematize it
for data analysis and maybe push out reporting dashboards<nods to Brown Library
http://library.brown.edu/dashboard/widgets/all/>
I'd also want to automate the data retrieval, so that might consist of
scraping, web services, and FTP, but that could easily be handled separately.
I'm aware there are many challenges, such as comparing usage stats, shifts in
journal aggregators, etc.
Does anyone have any cool homegrown examples or ideas they've cooked up for
this? Pie in the sky?
Jason
Jason Stirnaman
Biomedical Librarian, Digital Projects
A.R. Dykes Library, University of Kansas Medical Center
jstirna...@kumc.edu
913-588-7319
