[CODE4LIB] VUFind and authority control

[Ya'aqov Ziso]

November 6, 2008 seems so long ago! But some questions there found follow
ups.  I volunteered for authority control in VUFind.  Did anyone else follow
up on that? Perhaps we can exchange some very good news, especially on the
saving part.
Ya¹aqov Ziso, Bibliographic Systems Librarian, Rowan University 856 256 4804


> 
> 
> On 11/6/08 10:01 PM, "Bess Sadler"  wrote:

> Dear Code4Lib Community,
> 
> Some of us met today at the Palinet offices in Philadelphia for Open
> Source Discovery Portal Camp. You can read more about the meeting
> here: http://opensourcediscovery.pbwiki.com/ and I've posted a first
> draft of the notes from the meeting here:
> 
http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Notes_from_Open_Source_Discovery_Portal_Cam>
p
> 
> It was a fun and productive meeting, and many of us left with lists of
> tasks we plan to work on in the next several months. If you were
> there, please expand on the notes.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Bess

[CODE4LIB] iPRES 2009: Call for Abstracts

[Perry Willett]

iPRES 2009: Call for Papers

 

http://www.cdlib.org/iPres/call_for_abstracts.html

 

Moving Into the Mainstream, Enabling Our Digital Future

 

Digital technology has become indispensible to modern

culture, commerce, science, education, and

entertainment. As our dependence on the digital

ecosystem increases, so does the need for effective and

sustainable digital preservation policies, strategies,

and practices so that the digital assets of our time

will remain viable and useful to future generations.

 

Digital preservation is considered broadly as a

continuum of intentions and activities leading to

long-lived digital assets that can be used, re-used, and

re-imagined in conventional and novel contexts now and

into the future. The theme of the iPRES 2009 conference

is "Moving into the mainstream, enabling our digital

future," which is intended to spark discussion of:

 

* Re-positioning preservation awareness and services

further upstream in the digital lifecycle so that

"born-archival" replaces "born-digital" as the norm

 

* Re-emphasizing that digital preservation problems and

solutions encompass legal, economic, and social as well

as technological dimensions

 

* Re-asserting the need for comprehensive integration of

preservation analysis and activities into the

organizational planning and operations of institutions

that produce, manage, or exploit digital resources

 

* Bringing preservation issues to the attention of the

broader public in order to change minds, policies, and

expectations

 

* Stressing the importance of seeing digital

preservation as an outcome resulting in usability

 

iPRES is a series of international conferences that

seeks to address issues and further the art and science

of digital preservation by bringing together experts and

practitioners from across the spectrum of preservation

disciplines. We invite you to submit papers and posters

that present new research findings or novel applications 

of digital preservation, particularly those that

demonstrate the mainstreaming of digital preservation

activities and practices.

 

A selection of the outstanding papers from the iPRES

2009 conference will be submitted for publication to the

International Journal of Digital Curation

, a leading peer-reviewed journal

of digital curation and preservation.

 

Important Dates

* June 5, 2009: Submission of paper and poster abstracts

* July 1, 2009: Notification of acceptance

* September 11, 2009: Submission of camera-ready papers

* October 5-6, 2009: iPRES 2009 conference

 

Format and Submission

Abstracts are due on June 5, 2009, and should be

submitted to perry.will...@ucop.edu in PDF format. Paper 

abstracts should be between 300 and 1,000 words; poster

abstracts should be between 200 and 500 words. All

abstracts should include the names, titles,

affiliations, and contact information for all authors.

 

Final papers can be up to eight pages in length

(including references) in the AAAI style. See

http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/author.php for

more information. Full papers, and poster and paper

abstracts, will be made available to conference

attendees in paper and electronic form.

 

Perry Willett

Digital Preservation Services Manager

California Digital Library

415 20th St., 4th Floor

Oakland CA 94612-2901

Ph: 510-987-0078

Fax: 510-893-5212

Email: perry.will...@ucop.edu

 

 

Re: [CODE4LIB] Serials Solutions Summon

[Yitzchak Schaffer]

Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
It _would_ be great if SerSol would actually give you (if you were 
subscribed) a feed of their harvested and normalized metadata, so you 
could still pay them to collect and normalize it, but then use it for 
your own purposes outside of Summon. I hope SerSol will consider this 
down the line, if Summon is succesful.


This is available as a dump for their traditional holdings product, 
which makes it possible to do just this (i.e. use SerSol cleaned 
holdings/access info in a local system).  My working with SerSol has 
brought me to see them as essentially a great data aggregation service 
with some OK software bundled in.  We are looking ahead to possibly 
using this technique by loading their data into a local ERMS.


Agreed that such an availability of data would be a great service with 
the Summon metadata as well.


--
Yitzchak Schaffer
Systems Manager
Touro College Libraries
33 West 23rd Street
New York, NY 10010
Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230
Fax (212) 627-3197
Email yitzc...@touro.edu
Twitter /torahsyslib

Re: [CODE4LIB] Serials Solutions Summon

[Andrew Nagy]

On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 5:08 AM, Laurence Lockton wrote:

> --
>> Date:Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:36:30 -0400
>> From:"Diane I. Hillmann" 
>> Subject: Re: Serials Solutions Summon
>>
>>  ...
>
>> 3. Because they also have data on what journals any particular library
>> customer has subscribed to, they can customize the product for each
>> library, ensuring that the library's users aren't served a bunch of
>> results that they ultimately can't access.
>>
>
> This is one of the great advantages of a local aggregated index, being able
> to flag which documents are actually available to your users, and giving
> them the choice of searching only for these. Lund University's ELIN does
> this and it's really popular. (See a picture <
> http://people.bath.ac.uk/lislgl/elin.png>)
>
> Is this being offered in Summon and WorldCat Local?
>

Laurence - Summon does have fulltext access as well as "scholary or
peer-reviewed" as available facets in Summon to allow users to narrow their
search results by these two facets.  And it is great that you point this out
- this is one of the great benefits of having a single unified index.  You
get to pull all sorts of gems out of the boulders of content.  I am
personnally getting really excited for what our community (code4lib) will be
able to invent on top of services such as Summon.  I think we are going to
be able to find many more gems as well as mashups that allow for some
fanatastic tools.

Andrew

Re: [CODE4LIB] Serials Solutions Summon

[Laurence Lockton]

--
Date:Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:36:30 -0400
From:"Diane I. Hillmann" 
Subject: Re: Serials Solutions Summon


...

3. Because they also have data on what journals any particular library
customer has subscribed to, they can customize the product for each
library, ensuring that the library's users aren't served a bunch of
results that they ultimately can't access.


This is one of the great advantages of a local aggregated index, being able 
to flag which documents are actually available to your users, and giving 
them the choice of searching only for these. Lund University's ELIN does 
this and it's really popular. (See a picture 
)


Is this being offered in Summon and WorldCat Local?

--
Laurence Lockton
University of Bath
UK