[CODE4LIB] CERN Library publishes its book catalog as Open Data
Dear Colleges, I like to point that the CERN Library had publishing the following announcement. Sincerely Patrick Danowski Emerging Technologies Librarian CERN The CERN Library publishes its book catalog as Open Data Librarians are in general very favourable to the principles of Open Access, but surprisingly few libraries have so far set free the data they produce themselves. As one of the first scientific libraries in the world, the CERN Library offers now the bibliographic book records, held in its library catalog, to be freely downloaded by any third party. The records are provided under the Public Domain Data License, a license that permits colleagues around the world to reuse and upgrade the data for any purpose. Jens Vigen, Head of the CERN Library, says: Books should only be catalogued once. Currently the public purse pays for having the same book catalogued over and over again. Librarians should act as they preach: data sets created through public funding should be made freely available to anyone interested. Open Access is natural for us, here at CERN we believe in openness and reuse. There is a tremendous potential. By getting academic libraries worldwide involved in this movement, it will lead to a natural atmosphere of sharing and reusing bibliographic data in a rich landscape of so-called mash-up services, where most of the actors who will be involved, both among the users and the providers, will not even be library users or librarians. Our action is made in the spirit of the Berlin Declaration on Open Access to Knowledge in the Sciences and Humanities; bibliographic data belongs to the cultural heritage.All other signatories should align their policy accordingly. The data of CERN Library will be used by the Open Library Project to provide a webpage for every book and allow users to add content like table of contents, classifications and summaries. For massive reuse of data, the data will be provided soon by an open Z39.50, SRU and OAI interface via biblios.net, a repository of open bibliographic data. The whole dataset can be downloaded from http://cern.ch/bookdata The press announcement is accompanied by a YouTube Video that can be found at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CSmieTXbsk
[CODE4LIB] ACRL NE ITIG DigiCamp-Registration is now Open! Wheaton College, Friday March 19
Apologies for cross-postings... Mark your calendars for Friday, March 19th and join us for this *free* 1/2 day unConference focused on library technology @ Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts. How does ITIG's DigiCamp work? If you are interested in hearing about other library's use of technology, or if you wish to share innovative or interesting things that are happening at YOUR library, just show up and share! DigiCamp will feature a community-driven format where each session is designed and delivered by you! This format fosters spontaneous sharing, therefore, no PowerPoints allowed! Even the topics chosen for each session will be chosen by you! Is DigiCamp right for me? DigiCamp is designed for all technology levels, so come one, come all! Bookmark this page and check back to see who is coming and topics under discussion! https://sites.google.com/site/itigdigicamp/ Where: Wheaton College Library. Norton, Massachusetts When: Friday, March 19th. Registration starts @ 9am. Lightning round sessions begin @ 9:30am till 12:30pm How much? Absolutely free! That's right, zip, zero, nada! How do I register? Click herehttps://sites.google.com/site/itigdigicamp/home/registration for registration Registration Deadline: Registration ends on Friday, Feb 19th so register early! hashtag: #DigiCamp Beatrice R. Pulliam Library Commons Librarian for Technology and Access Phillips Memorial Library Providence College 1 Cunningham Square Providence, RI 02918 (t) 401.865.1622 (f) 401.865.2823 IM: rhodylibrarian (AIM/iChat/Yahoo/GoogleTalk) twitter:beatricepulliam http://www.providence.edu/Academics/Phillips+Memorial+Library/
Re: [CODE4LIB] marc documentation?
I've found this useful at times: http://www.itsmarc.com/crs/bib1468.htm It's apparently not maintained, but lists more fields as obsolete than the selected ones on the LC list - probably best to use both together. For looking up individual fields by number or keyword, http://calculate.alptown.com/ can be handy One thing to be aware of is that use of many fields is highly inconsistent and that a combination of major/minor field extraction and heuristics is often more reliable than relying on field definitions. kyle
[CODE4LIB] custom interface to SirsiDynix user account features
I have vague dusty memories of someone saying (perhaps at a Code4Lib conference) that they had built a custom PHP (?) interface to the user account features for SirsiDynix Unicorn. Sirsi provides an API that I think could be used to do this, so that doesn't seem like a completely impossible thing to remember. We have finally 'turned off' our legacy OPAC here at NCSU Libraries (after almost 4 years of using Endeca) and would be interested in being able to turn off the legacy 'My Account' features as well, in particular if someone had already built an application we could borrow from. Thought I'd throw this out to see if anyone else remembers the same conversation. -emily -- Emily Lynema Associate Department Head Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 emily_lyn...@ncsu.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] custom interface to SirsiDynix user account features
Is it possible that you are thinking of VuFind? VuFind offers a (fairly basic) set of account screens in addition to offering a discovery layer on top of your OPAC. I'm not sure how well-supported the Unicorn functionality is, but there is a whole mailing list devoted to the subject of interfacing VuFind with Unicorn, so you can probably find out more there. General information on VuFind: http://vufind.org/ The VuFind-Unicorn support group: https://lists.lehigh.edu/mailman/listinfo/vufind-unicorn-l - Demian -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Emily Lynema Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 2:50 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] custom interface to SirsiDynix user account features I have vague dusty memories of someone saying (perhaps at a Code4Lib conference) that they had built a custom PHP (?) interface to the user account features for SirsiDynix Unicorn. Sirsi provides an API that I think could be used to do this, so that doesn't seem like a completely impossible thing to remember. We have finally 'turned off' our legacy OPAC here at NCSU Libraries (after almost 4 years of using Endeca) and would be interested in being able to turn off the legacy 'My Account' features as well, in particular if someone had already built an application we could borrow from. Thought I'd throw this out to see if anyone else remembers the same conversation. -emily -- Emily Lynema Associate Department Head Information Technology, NCSU Libraries 919-513-8031 emily_lyn...@ncsu.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Kingston? And now the date (was Re: [CODE4LIB] Location of the first Code4Lib North meeting?)
+1 Thursday-Friday 6-7 May The dates of 6th and 7th work for me and I think they work for Kingston. Bill: librarian-hunting season begins in the late Fall, so we're in the clear. Wendy -- Wendy Huot Web Development Librarian Queen's University Library Kingston, Ontario Canada K7L 5C4 Phone: (613) 533-6000 ext 75250 Email: wendy.h...@queensu.ca
Re: [CODE4LIB] Kingston? And now the date (was Re: [CODE4LIB] Location of the first Code4Lib North meeting?)
On 29 Jan 10, at 5:34 PM, Wendy Huot wrote: +1 Thursday-Friday 6-7 May The dates of 6th and 7th work for me and I think they work for Kingston. Bill: librarian-hunting season begins in the late Fall, so we're in the clear. +1 for me too. I should note that while the standard librarian-hunting seasons overlap for public and academic librarians, there is a special sitting duck hunt that co-incides with the municipal budgeting process. In some communities, like ours, it is actually televised (think the worst bass-fishing show you've ever flipped past). Walter
