We just were discussing it this morning. We will have more details on
the wiki soon.
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Whitni Watkins
wrote:
> Wiki Update: A tentative date of Friday May 29, 2015 on the MIT campus in
> Cambridge, MA has been discussed. More details will be provided in February.
As one who is curious to learn Python this sounds like a large and
interesting group, count me in.
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Schwartz, Raymond
wrote:
> As someone who intends to learn Python, I am interested.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LIST
Thanks all of video folks. I was re-watching a few things today and you
all did a tremendous job.
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Cary Gordon wrote:
> I want to deeply thank Ashley Blewer, Steven Anderson and Josh Wilson for
> running the video streaming and capture at Code4LibCon in Portland.
as pretty much all of those
> > start at 6-6:30. Of course, you could just claim a restaurant on the list
> > and have it start whenever you want.
> >
> > Cary
> >
> > > On Jan 28, 2015, at 12:15 PM, Matthew Sherman <
> matt.r.sher...@gmail.com>
> &
Hi all,
This question is directed at folks attending Code4Lib 2015 in almost a week
and a half. Are any of the groups for the dinner leaving after 7pm? I ask
as sadly my flight doesn't land until about 6:30 pm that day. If anyone is
eating a little later it would be great to join you guys. Tha
I just did the registration and reservation now. The website is still
flaking out the the lady they had working reservations was able to
accommodate and was incredibly helpful. Now to the wiki to list see if
another guy wants to split the room I reserved.
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 11:56 PM, Heidi
Hm, that series sounds interesting, I'll have to check it out after I
finish "The Way of Kings", which has been good from what I've read so far.
Since boardgames have made the list I shall also advocate for King of
Tokyo, fun quick competitive giant monster game, and Sentinels of the
Multiverse, a
Nothing professional comes to mind but here are some fun stuff in no
particular order:
Books:
Skin Game by Jim Butcher
- Another in the consistently great Dresden Files series. For those
unfamiliar urban fantasy novels that are always just a fun read.
The Broken Eye by Brent Weeks
- The third
Has the registration price been settled on yet? My department wants exact
numbers before they will process the travel request so it would be helpful
to know.
On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Tom Johnson
wrote:
> I'll update the conference page to include all of the below:
>
> 1. The block rate f
We certainly can. There are discussion of March as it gets past the
holidays and some other conferences, so we can look at either a different
time in March, or maybe April.
On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Casey Davis wrote:
> Early spring sounds great! Can we make sure that the unconference doe
Thanks for asking, I was starting to put together the travel request myself.
On Dec 1, 2014 4:50 PM, "Emily Lynema" wrote:
> I suspect that it is time to start planning travel requests for Code4Lib
> 2015. Can the organizing committee provide some more info than what is
> currently available at h
On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Christina Marie Harlow <
> cmh2...@columbia.edu<mailto:cmh2...@columbia.edu>> wrote:
>
> Hi Matt-
>
> We have stuff going in Code4LibNYC, but I'd be happy to help get something
> going on in the Northeast.
>
> Thanks!
> Chr
While riffing on an old DC comics title the subject line is my question.
I've been working in Connecticut for a little over a year now and I have
heard of nothing going on with Code4Lib in this part of the US. I find
this sad since I see all sorts of activity in a variety of other spots,
particula
I looked at it yesterday and it was working fine, no it isn't working today.
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Tania Fersenheim
wrote:
> I ordered a little while ago and now the link has stopped working.
>
> On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Riley Childs wrote:
>
> > Huh! Several people have or
To answer off the cuff as others have done, currently I am using a modified
version of qualified Dublin Core for the DSpace institutional repository I
manage. I inherited the system which had some custom fields for
publication information and event information, as well as some fields being
used im
That is a very vague question, would you care to elaborate a bit more?
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 1:50 PM, P.G. wrote:
> Hello Coders,
>
> Just wanted to see who works with metadata and what standards and protocols
> are you using and what platforms/softwares if any are you using?
>
> Thank you.
>
Eric hit the nail on the head, Unix is not inherently needed for many
libraries, but it can be useful for more technically inclined librarians to
know Linux. I am a digital content librarian at my institution and I
actually know neither system, though I wish I had a better understanding of
Linux.
Hi all,
Today a few of us received our a few Surface Pros to use around the
library. Being the digital content librarian for our University I really
want to figure out some interesting things we can do with them. I have
some thoughts on possibly working with inventory and my information
literacy
There are a few options you can go with.
https://foss4lib.org/package-type/digital-repository has a nice list of
open source solutions. Just remember with open source you need to have
some tech savy staff to support the software. I know a lot of people who
like Omeka for free digital collection s
oes sound like a white space issue that could be changed with some CSS
>
> Thanks,
>
> Cornel Darden Jr.
> MSLIS
> Library Department Chair
> South Suburban College
> 7087052945
>
> "Our Mission is to Serve our Students and the Community through lifelong
> learn
hackery.
>
> --
> Andrew Anderson, Director of Development, Library and Information
> Resources Network, Inc.
> http://www.lirn.net/ | http://www.twitter.com/LIRNnotes |
> http://www.facebook.com/LIRNnotes
>
> On Oct 13, 2014, at 9:59, Matthew Sherman
> wrote:
>
>
For anyone who knows Internet Explore, is there a way to tell it to use
word wrap when it displays txt files? This is an odd question but one of
my supervisors exclusively uses IE and is going to try to force me to
reupload hundreds of archived permissions e-mails as text files to a
repository in
Michael,
It is an interesting question to posit. I personally am unsure of exactly
what kinds of services could be offered on something like a smart watch
just because so much of what libraries provide are informational and rather
wordy, which does not translate well to very small devices. That b
Hi Code4Lib folks,
I was having a discussion with some folks at another library about their
repository system and I thought a few things were interesting enough I
wanted to see what others had to say. A lot of the discussion revolved
around the fact that most Universities seem to either have ever
; select="normalize-space(dcvalue[@qualifier='name'])"/>
> select="normalize-space(dcvalue[@qualifier='volume'])"/>
> select="normalize-space(dcvalue[@qualifier='issue'])"/>
>
> select="dcvalue[@qualifier='name
gt; Best,
> Bridger
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Matthew Sherman <
> matt.r.sher...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Given the DSpace Dublin Core formatting I would like to be able to take
> > this:
> >
> > > language=""&g
section of the cross walk, but I am not 100% sure. Also
I am not sure if I will need to use the excessively complex XPath to
reference my source values. Can anyone tell me if I am on the right track?
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Matthew Sherman
wrote:
> Ok, that makes sense. While I knew
.0 is a great reference and is available
> as an eBook. Mulberry Technologies has some quick reference guides [1] that
> might be helpful.
>
> Cheers,
> Bridger
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
: http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-30/#abbrev
>
> Katie
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Matthew Sherman
> Sent: Friday, July 11, 2014 10:39 AM
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: [CODE4LIB] OAI C
Hi Code4Lib folks,
I have a question for those of you who have worked with OAI-PMH. I am
currently editing our DSpace OAI crosswalk to include a few custom metadata
field that exist in our repository for publication information and port
them into a more standard format. The problem I am running
> to be with driving or T distance to Cambridge.
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> David Bigwood
>> dbigw...@hou.usra.edu
>> Lunar and Planetary Institute
>>
>> Twitter @LPI_Library
>>
>>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: Code for Librari
Hi Code4Libbers,
I wanted to solicit some ideas from the community. I was recently
told I have about 500 bucks in professional development funds I can
make use of, but the deadline to submit things for approval for this
budget year is in the front half of next week. As such I wanted to
find out
Hi Code4Libbers,
Hope everyone is enjoying the conference. I am sad I was unable to
make it but I like what I have been able to catch of the livestream.
Anyway, I wanted to get some community thoughts on an issue I have
been noticing lately. I have run into an assortment of faculty that
are conv
The code4lib conference shirt is always at the height of fashion in
any occasion.
On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Francis Kayiwa wrote:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
>
>
> On 03/22/2014 07:09 PM, Justin Coyne wrote:
>> Morning coat is suitable for the conference sessions, b
I figure I should ask for those of us who sadly cannot make it this
year, where will we be able to find the streaming of the conference?
Thanks for everyone who is putting in the hard-work to put on the
conference.
Matt Sherman
But what if it is venison bacon?
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 8:46 AM, Caplan, Priscilla wrote:
> You would have to ask the pig about that.
>
> p
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Riley Childs
> Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2014
Wow, I am impressed by the variety of replies. A lot of good points have
been made and this really helps give thought and credence to our argument
to free our library website. I am in agreement with many of the general
points made and find the suggestions helpful, this will be a bit of a fight
to
? If not,
> you'll obviously have to consider that.
> -What platform is the school on? Would you choose something
> similar--another instance of the same software--or go out on your own?
> Do you have the skills/staff to do that? Where would you host it?
>
> Nina
>
>
> O
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 po
I am going to reiterate my push to turn this conversation to a discussion
for funding options for everyone who wants to attend Code4Lib 2014. I
think that will be a much better use of our time.
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Erik Hetzner wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I can’t believe we are having thi
Actually I am not familiar with those. I will have to look into that.
Thanks.
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Keri Cascio wrote:
> Hi, Matthew, have you looked into general continuing education grants?
> Perhaps your state library offers these for conference and workshop
> attendance, we hav
As someone who does not qualify for these scholarships but works for an
institution that has squat for conference or professional development funds
would like to spring off of this conversation to ask if there is any type
of scholarships for folks from small underfunded schools? I would love
make
Can you define what you mean by graphic tablet?
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Fragola, Patty wrote:
> Is anyone circulating graphic tablets to patrons?
>
> I'd be interested in hearing your experiences, particularly the
> justification for purchase and patron response.
>
> Thank you in adva
Can you provide context? I am trying to understand why you would put a
patent in an IR.
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Lydia Zvyagintseva wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Forgive me if this question has been asked before on this listserv, but I'm
> trying to gather some info for proceeding with pate
I think this depends a bit on the size of your institution. Where I am at
we have barely enough funding to have a small number of librarians. I
think you are right in so far is places should have a dedicated usability
person, but this is not always possible.
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:24 AM, An
r,
> but it is possible with tools like PDFedit <http://pdfedit.cz>, Gimp,
> Inkscape or Scribus.
>
> Cheers,
> Christian
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 01:13:24PM -0400, Matthew Sherman wrote:
> > Can anyone give me some advice in how I can edit this to add
cornell.edu
> www.ilr.cornell.edu
> *Advancing the World of Work*
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Matthew Sherman
> wrote:
>
> > We use DSpace for our repository so any editing to the PDFs have to be
> done
> > in Acrobat before uploading. I can add a note
4853
> p 607.255.8688
> f 607.255.9641
> e jd...@cornell.edu
> www.ilr.cornell.edu
> *Advancing the World of Work*
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Matthew Sherman
> wrote:
>
> > Hello Code4libbers,
> >
> > I had a question for for others who
Hello Code4libbers,
I had a question for for others who work with institutional repositories.
I have a file given by the a professor that I have permission to post if I
add a note to the PDF, but the file is password locked. Has anyone else
run into this problem before? Can anyone give me some a
As one working on our libraries institutional repository, this can be like
pulling teeth to get everyone to provide you a proper list of their works.
Good luck with it, and please let us know how you pull it off, I am very
curious to see your results.
Matt Sherman
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:19 P
Very slick, good work. I can see where this tool can be very helpful. It
does have some issues with some characters, but this is rather common with
most systems.
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
>
> For a limited period of time I am making publicly available a Web-ba
Hello everyone,
I am working on structuring my library's institutional repository and was
having a discussion as to the best way to structure it. We are using
DSpace and originally I was thinking to make communities for each school in
the University, but there was a concern brought up if we were
st my 2
> cents. Good luck!
> Also you might try some more targeted lists for this kind of thing. These
> guys mostly like to argue about code. There is a metadata librarians list
> here: http://metadatalibrarians.monarchos.com/
>
> R,
> Kelsey
>
> -----Original Message
Hello Code4Libbers,
I just took over responsibility for the institutional repository at my work
and one of the collections is labelled "proceedings". I find this to be a
rather confusing term even though it is referring to conference and
symposium proceedings. It is just not so obvious to someon
aculty and staff, don't think in terms
> of LCSH.
>
> -Mike
> On Aug 30, 2013 9:28 AM, "Matthew Sherman"
> wrote:
>
> > Hello Code4Libbers,
> >
> > I am working on cleaning up our institutional repository, and one of
> > the big areas of i
you're looking for? I highly recommend sitting down
> and defining what your goals are for the controlled vocabulary you want to
> implement, because that will inform that type of vocabulary you use.
>
> Jacob Ratliff
> Archivist/Taxonomy Librarian
> National Fire Protection As
c Enterprise
> Content Management controlled vocabularies). If you can describe your
> collection, people might be able to advise you better.
>
> Jacob Ratliff
> Archivist/Taxonomy Librarian
> National Fire Protection Association
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 9:26 A
Hello Code4Libbers,
I am working on cleaning up our institutional repository, and one of the
big areas of improvement needed is the list of terms from the subject
fields. It is messy and I want to take the subject terms and place them
into a much better order. I was contemplating using Library o
Hello Code4Lib folks,
I had a DSpace related question I was hoping to get an answer for. I just
started my new job as the Digital Content Librarian for the University of
Bridgeport and one of my main tasks in dealing with the institutional
repository. This repository apparently was migrated into
As a voice from the community, that sounds pretty cool. Do you know if
anyone is working on an android variant?
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Jason Casden wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> If you happen to be a Voyager user (or if you'd just like to see a nice
> example), check out the ShelfLister pr
time period,
> geographic region, etc.
>
> Dave
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 3:03 AM, Matthew Sherman
> wrote:
>
> > Just to move your discussion along a bit, plus I think it sounds
> > pretty interesting, what sort of resources are you talking about.
>
Ok folks, we have veered into nonconstructive territory. How about we
come back to the original question and help this person figure out
what they need to about Ruby and Python so they can do well with what
they want to work on.
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Ethan Gruber wrote:
> All languag
Just to move your discussion along a bit, plus I think it sounds
pretty interesting, what sort of resources are you talking about.
Know what you are working with can give everyone a better idea on what
schema's would work best. I know MARC is not so friendly for online
resources, but it depends on
Hello Code4Lib folks,
I was having a conversation with my father, who is an enterprise architect,
a while ago when I was working on a presentation. I thought it was
interesting enough that I wanted to toss out some of the ideas and see if
anybody was using them in their libraries. We were discus
Rachel,
EAD is just a metadata schema, which can be made to be read via html web
pages though xslt, or some scripting that pulls out the relevant field data
and makes it displayed nicer, usually in an HTML wrapper. So I guess it
would be helpful if you could elaborate on your question a bit more
I have no experience with this in particular but thinking on it I would
think the way to make the size more user friendly would be to make 300 dpi
display jpegs, possibly greyscale if without images, and stitch those
together into a pdf. I imagine that would be decent sized off. Now if you
wanted
you could
> use the API to get them and push that onto a Google map. So if you have a
> collection that is static, you probably don't have to worry about the URL
> borking feature they have included.
> More about the ContentDM API:
> http://www.contentdm.org/help6/custom/customize
Hello Code4Lib,
I was wondering if anyone has had success in using digital data or
resources that are stored in CONTENTdm in any linked data projects. I have
tried utilizing CONTENTdm data for a small Google Map in the past and found
it quite difficult to use. At the same time I have not used CO
Getting back to the original point so noting some nice starting tools, I
find http://www.codecademy.com to be a decent starting spot for those of us
without much computer science background. I am not sure what professional
developers think of the site but I find it a helpful to tutorial to start
g
What has been done regarding save the livestream from past events?
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Jason Ronallo wrote:
> Let me correct myself. It is possible to embed a video on the code4lib
> site. You can see an example here:
>
> http://code4lib.org/conference/2013/ronallo
>
> When editing
Not to be snarky, but wouldn't the session on HTML5 video tell you what you
need to know?
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Tara Robertson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm editing the video from code4lib into the sesison chunks.
>
> What format should I export the videos as? Anything else I should be aware
>
> Good luck with the interview! Look forward to seeing you in the
> trenches.
> >
> > -Mike
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Matthew Sherman <
> matt.r.sher...@gmail.com
> > > wrote:
> >
> >> Hello all Code4Lib folk,
&g
Hello all Code4Lib folk,
I am putting together a small presentation with the topic about trends and
issues in digital libraries for an interview next month. While I am doing
quite a bit of searching and reading on my own, I wanted to see if any of
you would be willing to provide your thoughts on
I think you need to provide a little more context as to what you are trying
to do. The trouble is that the term archive is used in a variety of
different ways right now so we need to know what you mean to be able to
give you the best suggestions.
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Joselito Dela Cruz
Well Ruby was written for zombies ( http://railsforzombies.com/ ). Still,
for one who has been on the job search for months it is nice to have so
many options, though such a wall of postings takes a while to work through.
It is very helpful for us young bucks to have both the content solutions
an
brary
> > (203) 432-1856
> >
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Matthew Sherman
> > Sent: Friday, July 20, 2012 8:36 AM
> > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB]
x27;s just closed to internal applicants- some sort of Yale lock?
> >On Jul 19, 2012 11:25 PM, "Matthew Sherman"
> >wrote:
> >
> >> There is a slight problem here. The posting says it is "*closed to
> >>further
> >> applications*"
There is a slight problem here. The posting says it is "*closed to further
applications*". Can someone from Yale explain/look into that? I would
very much like to apply.
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Simon Spero wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 6:35 PM, wrote:
>
> > * May be required to
Sadly that often is the problem in the archival setting, though it ends up
being kind of a crap shoot.. In my experience as an intern at a university
archive we often ran accross floppies that I would hand off to a fulltime
archivist who had a backlog that would eventually require hunting down a p
Post graduation is always good for us up and comers.
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Tania Fersenheim wrote:
> I am trying to find out if there is a time of year that techie
> librarians are more likely to look for new jobs.
>
> When do your thoughts turn to greener pastures? Fall? Spring? Righ
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