[CODE4LIB] code4lib journal site statistics
Just a quick note to let you know that site statistics for Code4lib Journal [1] are going to be emailed regularly to the c4lj-discuss Google Group [2]. The stats are provided as CSV attachments from Google Analytics, which include page views, visitors and traffic sources. If you have any suggestions/ideas please let us know at jour...@code4lib.org or on c4lj-discuss. Thanks to Jason Ronallo for the idea to do this. //Ed [1] http://journal.code4lib.org [2] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/c4lj-discuss/J-kqRtyrcnM/WYxLbw9YncUJ
Re: [CODE4LIB] Author authority records to create publication feed?
Two other projects that are worth taking a look at are VIVO [1] and BibApp [2]. Both take the approach of enabling institutions to manage information about their faculty, which can then be federated more widely. I guess the reality is that there will be lots of identifiers for faculty, and simple systems that allow them to be collaboratively and meaningfully linked together are a good way forward. //Ed [1] http://vivoweb.org/ [2] http://bibapp.org/ On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Paul Butler (pbutler3) pbutl...@umw.edu wrote: Thank you all for your suggestions! Kevin's excellent email confirms my suspicions. I am working on plans to transform our digital repository to a more broadly defined IR, so that will likely be our focus down the road. However, any solution that requires faculty input without an immediate, tangle benefit will likely gain slow traction. I will pass along the suggestions and go from there. Cheers, Paul +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Paul R Butler Assistant Systems Librarian Simpson Library University of Mary Washington 1801 College Avenue Fredericksburg, VA 22401 540.654.1756 libraries.umw.edu Sent from the mighty Dell Vostro 230. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ford, Kevin Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 10:50 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Author authority records to create publication feed? Hi Paul, I can't really offer any suggestions but to say that this is a problem area presently. In fact, there was a recent workshop, held in connection with the Spring CNI Membership Meeting, designed specifically to look at this problem (and author identity management more generally). You can read more about it from the announcement here [1], but the idea was to bring a number of the larger actors (Web of Science, arXiv, ORCID, ISNI, VIAF, LC/NACO, and a few more) involved in managing authorial identity together to learn about the work being done, and to discuss improved ways, to disambiguate scholarly identities and then diffuse and share that information within and across the library and scholarly publishing realms. Clifford Lynch, who moderated the meeting, will publish a post-workshop report in a few weeks [2]. Perhaps of additional interest, [2] also contains a link to the report of a similar workshop held in London about international author identity. Inititatives like ISNI [3] and ORCID [4], which mint identifiers for (public, authorial) identities, and VIAF, which has done so much to aggregate the authority records of the participating libraries (while also assigning them an identifier), are essential to disambiguating one identity from another and assigning unique identifiers to those identities. For identifiers like ORCIDs, the faculty member's sponsoring organization might acquire the ORCID for him/her, after which the faculty member will/may know and use the identifier in situations such as grant applications, publishing, etc. (though it might also be early days for this activity also). Part of the process, however, is diffusing the identifier across the library and scholarly publishing domains, all the while matching it with the correct identity (and identifer) in another system. That said, when ISNIs and ORCIDs and, perhaps, VIAF identifiers start to make their ways into Web of Science, arXiv, LC/NACO file, ! an! d many other places, we - developers looking to creating RSS feeds of author publications across services but without having to deal with same-name problems or variants - might then have the hook we need to generate RSS feeds for author publications from such services as JSTOR, EBSCO, arXiv, Web Of Science, etc. Alternatively, you'd have to get your faculty members to submit their entire publication history to academia.edu (as Ethan suggested), after which the community would have to request an RSS feed of that history, or an institutional repository (as Chad suggested), but I understand these types of things are an uphill battle with (often busy, underpaid) faculty. Cordially, Kevin [1] http://www.cni.org/news/cni-workshop-scholarly-id/ [2] https://mail2.cni.org/Lists/CNI-ANNOUNCE/Message/113744.html [3] http://www.isni.org/ [4] http://about.orcid.org/ -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Butler (pbutler3) Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 9:25 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Author authority records to create publication feed? Howdy All, Some folks from across campus just came to my door with this question. I am still trying to work through the possibilities and problems, but thought others might have encountered something similar. They are looking for a way to create a feed (RSS, or anything else that might work) for each faculty member on campus to
[CODE4LIB] free source for issn-periodical-type data?
Hi folks, Does anyone know of a free data source that correlates ISSNs with data that includes what kind of publication is this? e.g. *Academic journal (+/- peer review?) *Popular magazine *Newspaper *Trade journal *Etc Obviously, there's some wiggle room in these designations, and I don't need a super-solid answer. I've been asked to supply information about our academic journal collection, and I don't have a particularly good way of differentiating between our e-journals and e-magazines, for instance. Individual suppliers might make these distinctions, but I'm really hoping that a query-able (or, better: downloadable) file exists. Any ideas? Thanks Ken
Re: [CODE4LIB] Author authority records to create publication feed?
Hi, Paul. As Ed said, BibApp is one approach to addressing your problem. We've been using it and hacking on it at KU Medical Center for a few years now. I'd be happy to answer any questions. Jason - Reply message - From: Ed Summers e...@pobox.com To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Author authority records to create publication feed? Date: Mon, Apr 16, 2012 8:00 am Two other projects that are worth taking a look at are VIVO [1] and BibApp [2]. Both take the approach of enabling institutions to manage information about their faculty, which can then be federated more widely. I guess the reality is that there will be lots of identifiers for faculty, and simple systems that allow them to be collaboratively and meaningfully linked together are a good way forward. //Ed [1] http://vivoweb.org/ [2] http://bibapp.org/ On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Paul Butler (pbutler3) pbutl...@umw.edu wrote: Thank you all for your suggestions! Kevin's excellent email confirms my suspicions. I am working on plans to transform our digital repository to a more broadly defined IR, so that will likely be our focus down the road. However, any solution that requires faculty input without an immediate, tangle benefit will likely gain slow traction. I will pass along the suggestions and go from there. Cheers, Paul +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Paul R Butler Assistant Systems Librarian Simpson Library University of Mary Washington 1801 College Avenue Fredericksburg, VA 22401 540.654.1756 libraries.umw.edu Sent from the mighty Dell Vostro 230. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ford, Kevin Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 10:50 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Author authority records to create publication feed? Hi Paul, I can't really offer any suggestions but to say that this is a problem area presently. In fact, there was a recent workshop, held in connection with the Spring CNI Membership Meeting, designed specifically to look at this problem (and author identity management more generally). You can read more about it from the announcement here [1], but the idea was to bring a number of the larger actors (Web of Science, arXiv, ORCID, ISNI, VIAF, LC/NACO, and a few more) involved in managing authorial identity together to learn about the work being done, and to discuss improved ways, to disambiguate scholarly identities and then diffuse and share that information within and across the library and scholarly publishing realms. Clifford Lynch, who moderated the meeting, will publish a post-workshop report in a few weeks [2]. Perhaps of additional interest, [2] also contains a link to the report of a similar workshop held in London about international author identity. Inititatives like ISNI [3] and ORCID [4], which mint identifiers for (public, authorial) identities, and VIAF, which has done so much to aggregate the authority records of the participating libraries (while also assigning them an identifier), are essential to disambiguating one identity from another and assigning unique identifiers to those identities. For identifiers like ORCIDs, the faculty member's sponsoring organization might acquire the ORCID for him/her, after which the faculty member will/may know and use the identifier in situations such as grant applications, publishing, etc. (though it might also be early days for this activity also). Part of the process, however, is diffusing the identifier across the library and scholarly publishing domains, all the while matching it with the correct identity (and identifer) in another system. That said, when ISNIs and ORCIDs and, perhaps, VIAF identifiers start to make their ways into Web of Science, arXiv, LC/NACO file, ! an! d many other places, we - developers looking to creating RSS feeds of author publications across services but without having to deal with same-name problems or variants - might then have the hook we need to generate RSS feeds for author publications from such services as JSTOR, EBSCO, arXiv, Web Of Science, etc. Alternatively, you'd have to get your faculty members to submit their entire publication history to academia.edu (as Ethan suggested), after which the community would have to request an RSS feed of that history, or an institutional repository (as Chad suggested), but I understand these types of things are an uphill battle with (often busy, underpaid) faculty. Cordially, Kevin [1] http://www.cni.org/news/cni-workshop-scholarly-id/ [2] https://mail2.cni.org/Lists/CNI-ANNOUNCE/Message/113744.html [3] http://www.isni.org/ [4] http://about.orcid.org/ -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Butler (pbutler3) Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 9:25 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject:
Re: [CODE4LIB] free source for issn-periodical-type data?
Hi Ken, A source that readily comes to mind is OCLC webservices, specifically xISSN, which includes 742,395 ISSNshttp://xissn.worldcat.org/xissnadmin/doc/stat.htm . http://www.oclc.org/xissn/default.htm It's be free for up to 1000 requests per day without subscription; and for * fee* after that. cheers, Tom On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 1:33 AM, Ken Irwin kir...@wittenberg.edu wrote: Hi folks, Does anyone know of a free data source that correlates ISSNs with data that includes what kind of publication is this? e.g. *Academic journal (+/- peer review?) *Popular magazine *Newspaper *Trade journal *Etc Obviously, there's some wiggle room in these designations, and I don't need a super-solid answer. I've been asked to supply information about our academic journal collection, and I don't have a particularly good way of differentiating between our e-journals and e-magazines, for instance. Individual suppliers might make these distinctions, but I'm really hoping that a query-able (or, better: downloadable) file exists. Any ideas? Thanks Ken
Re: [CODE4LIB] free source for issn-periodical-type data?
Hi Ken, Actually, I'm not sure this will answer all of your needs - although it does cover peer-review: Metadata fields for an ISSN A number of metadata fields can be associated with an ISSN number: - form: Each ISSN has a production form, indicated by an ONIX production form code http://www.editeur.org/onixserials.html. Current supported values include: JB ( Printed serial ), JC ( Serial distributed electronically by carrier ) ,JD ( Electronic serial distributed online ), MA ( Microform ) - oclcnum: Oclcnum - peerreview: Peerreview, 'Y' if the ISSN is peer-reviewed, 'N' if the ISSN is not peer-reviewed. - publisher: Publisher - rawcoverage: Human-readable Coverage - title: Title - issnl: Linking ISSN, as defined herehttp://www.issn.org/2-22637-What-is-an-ISSN-L.php - rssurl: Journal feed URL, data obtained from ticTOCShttp://www.tictocs.ac.uk/ T. On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 1:33 AM, Ken Irwin kir...@wittenberg.edu wrote: Hi folks, Does anyone know of a free data source that correlates ISSNs with data that includes what kind of publication is this? e.g. *Academic journal (+/- peer review?) *Popular magazine *Newspaper *Trade journal *Etc Obviously, there's some wiggle room in these designations, and I don't need a super-solid answer. I've been asked to supply information about our academic journal collection, and I don't have a particularly good way of differentiating between our e-journals and e-magazines, for instance. Individual suppliers might make these distinctions, but I'm really hoping that a query-able (or, better: downloadable) file exists. Any ideas? Thanks Ken
[CODE4LIB] code4lib Ottawa Meetup - April 24, 2012
Hi all, Our first code4lib Ottawa meetup had a great turnout and more than few calls for it to to be repeated. So to keep things rolling along, I'm proposing a second event: Date: Tuesday April 24th, 5pm Location: The Exchange Pub, 50 Rideau Street (entrance inside Rideau Centre) The reservation is under Warren / code4lib and the reserved room is downstairs. While the first meeting was more of a meet-and-greet, I thought it might be fun to add an educational component for this second gathering. To that end, we'll start with a Show and Tell session. Anyone who wants to demo what they're working on or something interesting related to libraries and technology is encouraged to take the floor, even if it's five minute lightning talk. An HDTV with an HDMI input is available if you want to show something on screen. We'll likely have about an hour or so of talks followed by the usual social gathering. We already have a few volunteers: * Max Neuvians from the uOttawa ESIS program will be talking about Social-biblio.ca : An approach to Twitter data visualization, archiving, and the larger narrative. * Mary Beth Baker will provide a quick intro to Girl Develop It Ottawa (http://www.meetup.com/Girl-Develop-It-Ottawa/) and also seek some input for the wireless-friendly Reading Garden at the upcoming Canadian Library Association conference. * Warren Layton will give a quick demo of LibraryBox, a wireless filesharing device, which may have interesting applications in government and other libraries where security restrictions can limit network use. Please send an RSVP to warren.lay...@gmail.com if you're wish to attend and/or present. See you at the meetup! Cheers, Warren Layton
[CODE4LIB] API now available for Trove
Hi Everyone, The National Library of Australia has released an API for its search service Trove. http://trove.nla.gov.au/general/api The API allows searching and downloading of metadata for books, images, maps, music, sound, video, archives, journal articles, digitised Australian newspaper articles up to 1954 and lists created by other users. Full text is also available for newspaper articles. A stack of examples and other technical documentation can be found here: http://trove.nla.gov.au/general/api-technical Here's a graphing application that one of our beta testers has already implemented: http://wraggelabs.com/shed/querypic/ An individual agreement is required if using the API for commercial purposes. Regards, The Trove IT Team National Library of Australia
