Re: [CODE4LIB] web video: best practices / workflow
I'm not currently working on it, but some months ago i did a research on some tools to integrate a player in a video repository. For me http://videojs.com seemed a simple and working solution with mp4/h264 video, it can display native html5 media or flash fallback. tricks that could help serving mp4 files: mp4 (encoded with ffmpeg) needs to be fixed to enable pseudo streaming (by moving metadata and offset information to the front of the file) with a tool like: https://github.com/danielgtaylor/qtfaststart http://multimedia.cx/qt-faststart.c there is also an apache module for this: http://h264.code-shop.com/trac/wiki/Mod-H264-Streaming-Apache-Version2 i'll take a look at https://github.com/jronallo/sli_video ciao -- raffaele
[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Journal Issue 17 now available!
It is my pleasure to announce that Issue 17 of the Code4Lib Journal has been published. Please go to http://journal.code4lib.org/issues/issue17 for these excellent articles: Editorial Introduction http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/7068 Tim Lepczyk Coordinating Editor Tim Lepczyk salutes change in this issue, welcoming new editors to the Journal and announcing his departure. Tools for Reducing and Managing Link Rot in LibGuideshttp://journal.code4lib.org/articles/7019 Wilhelmina Randtke and Matthew D. Burrell While creating content in LibGuides in quite easy, link maintenance is troublesome, and the built-in link checker offers only a partial solution. The authors describe a method of using PURLs and a third-party link checker to effectively manage links within LibGuides. Discovering Digital Library User Behavior with Google Analyticshttp://journal.code4lib.org/articles/6942 Kirk Hess Google Analytics has advanced features for tracking search queries, events such as clicking external links or downloading files, which you can use to track user behavior that is normally difficult to track with traditional web logging software. By tracking behavior, you can use Google Analytics API to extract data and integrate it with data from your digital repository to show granular data about individual items. Using this information, digital libraries can learn how users use the site without extensive HCI studies, and can use this information to improve the user experience. The Martha Berry Digital Archive Project: A Case Study in Experimental pEDagogy http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/6823 Stephanie A. Schlitz and Garrick S. Bodine Using the Martha Berry Digital Archive Project as an exploratory case study, this article discusses experimental methods in digital archive development, describing how and why a small project team is leveraging undergraduate student support, a participatory (crowdsourced) editing model, and free and open source software to digitize and disseminate a large documentary collection. Using Semantic Web Technologies to Collaboratively Collect and Share User-Generated Content in Order to Enrich the Presentation of Bibliographic Records–Development of a Prototype Based on RDF, D2RQ, Jena, SPARQL and WorldCat’s FRBRization Web Servicehttp://journal.code4lib.org/articles/6695 Ragnhild Holgersen, Michael Preminger, David Massey In this article we present a prototype of a semantic web-based framework for collecting and sharing user-generated content (reviews, ratings, tags, etc.) across different libraries in order to enrich the presentation of bibliographic records. The user-generated data is remodeled into RDF, utilizing established linked data ontologies. This is done in a semi-automatic manner utilizing the Jena and the D2RQ-toolkits. For the remodeling, a SPARQL-construct statement is tailored for each data source. In the data source used in our prototype, user-generated content is linked to the relevant books via their ISBN. By remodeling the data according to the FRBR model, and expanding the RDF graph with data returned by WorldCat’s FRBRization web service, we are able to greatly increase the number of entry points to each book. We make the social content available through a RESTful web service with ISBN as a parameter. The web service returns a graph of all user-generated data registered to any edition of the book in question in the RDF/XML format. Libraries using our framework would thus be able to present relevant social content in association with bibliographic records, even if they hold a different version of a book than the one that was originally accessed by users. Finally, we connect our RDF graph to the linked open data cloud through the use of Talis’ openlibrary.org SPARQL endpoint. GLIMIR: Manifestation and Content Clustering within WorldCathttp://journal.code4lib.org/articles/6812 Janifer Gatenby, Richard O. Greene, W. Michael Oskins, Gail Thornburg The GLIMIR project at OCLC clusters and assigns an identifier to WorldCat records representing the same manifestation. These include parallel records in different languages (e.g., a record with English descriptive notes and subject headings and one for the same book with French equivalents). It also clusters records that probably represent the same manifestation, but which could not be safely merged by OCLC’s Duplicate Detection and Resolution (DDR) program for various reasons. As the project progressed, it became clear that it would also be useful to create content-based clusters for groups of manifestations that are generally equivalent from the end user perspective (e.g., the original print text with its microform, ebook and reprint versions, but not new editions). Lessons from the GLIMIR project have improved OCLC’s duplicate detection program through the introduction of new matching techniques. GLIMIR has also had unexpected benefits for OCLC’s FRBR algorithm by providing new methods for identifying outliers thus
[CODE4LIB] code4lib.org down?
Paging Oregon State: do we know why code4lib.org isn't responding? http://code4lib.org/ HTTP requests currently seem to timeout. //Ed PS. Thanks to Carol Bean for noticing it, and bringing it up in #code4lib :-)
Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib.org down?
Yeah, the whole server seems to be down, including planet.code4lib.org hosted there, etc. Anyone know what individual we should bring this to their attention? On 6/25/2012 8:30 AM, Ed Summers wrote: Paging Oregon State: do we know why code4lib.org isn't responding? http://code4lib.org/ HTTP requests currently seem to timeout. //Ed PS. Thanks to Carol Bean for noticing it, and bringing it up in #code4lib :-)
Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib.org down?
Ryan Ordway here at Oregon State can fix this, and already got the first message forwarded to him. I don't have any more updates than that, sorry. Ryan Wick From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Jonathan Rochkind [rochk...@jhu.edu] Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 8:01 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib.org down? Yeah, the whole server seems to be down, including planet.code4lib.org hosted there, etc. Anyone know what individual we should bring this to their attention? On 6/25/2012 8:30 AM, Ed Summers wrote: Paging Oregon State: do we know why code4lib.org isn't responding? http://code4lib.org/ HTTP requests currently seem to timeout. //Ed PS. Thanks to Carol Bean for noticing it, and bringing it up in #code4lib :-)
[CODE4LIB] Job: Music Librarian for Audio and Digital Services at University of South Carolina
The University of South Carolina enrolls approximately 22,500 undergraduate students and 6,500 graduate students on the Columbia campus. The University Libraries owns in excess of 3.5 million volumes, 1 million manuscripts, 325,000 maps, and 944,000 government documents; and houses the University's special collections. University Libraries is a member of LYRASIS, OCLC, the Association of Research Libraries, and the Center for Research Libraries. The University of South Carolina Music Library is a branch of the main University Libraries system and is located in the School of Music. For more information about the Music Library, visit http://library.sc.edu/music/index.html. The School of Music, a program with a national reputation for artistic and scholarly excellence, features an acclaimed faculty that teach 500 undergraduate and graduate music majors, specializing in virtually every orchestra and band instrument, voice, piano, organ and guitar. The School offers more than twenty degree programs including music education, performance, jazz, composition, theory, history and conducting. The main Music building features more than 100 acoustically designed rooms for practicing, rehearsing and teaching, an intimate Recital Hall ideal for solo recitals and chamber music, a music technology center and a fully-equipped recording studio. The School of Music enriches the musical life of the university and the city of Columbia by offering approximately 250 concerts a year by such groups as the USC Symphony, the Palmetto Pans, Opera at USC and Carolina Alive, among many others. The libraries of the University of South Carolina seek a dynamic music librarian with excellent interpersonal skills to manage audio and digital services offered by the Music Library. Reporting to the head of the music library, this librarian will be responsible for: * digital projects including digital preservation of print and audio special collections * maintaining audio equipment * performing triage on music library's computer hardware and software * working with the webmaster to maintain and update the Web presence for the Music Library * liaison to the University Libraries' Systems Department for the Music Library * working closely with the University Libraries Web Development Office and with the Digital Collections Department * periodically providing instruction and reference to the School of Music and university community. Competitive benefits, including vacation and sick leave, medical/dental/life insurance plans, tuition remission, and state retirement or optional retirement plan. Full-time (37.5 hours per week) 12-month unclassified, tenure-track, faculty status position with the rank of Librarian. University of South Carolina librarians are required to fulfill faculty responsibilities, including professional service. The search committee will begin reviewing applications on August 13, 2012 and will continue until the position is filled. The cover letter, explaining the reason for your interest and qualifications, should be addressed to Chair, Music Librarian for Audio and Digital Services Search Committee. Three references submitted must include names, addresses, telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses. Minorities and women are encouraged to apply. USC is an EOE. **Minimum qualifications:** MLS from an ALA accredited library school; Bachelor's degree in music; Web design experience, including familiarity with web design and software such as Photoshop and Dreamweaver; Experience with coding languages, such as HTML, CSS, PHP, XML, and JavaScript; Proficiency with Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office Suite and Adobe Acrobat; Experience with audio digitization hardware and software as well as issues in audio preservation; Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a collegial, team work environment and maintain positive professional working relationships; Excellent communication, organizational, and time- and project-management skills. SLED background check is required. **Preferred Qualifications:** Advanced degree in music; Experience with archival and/or special collections materials strongly preferred; Familiarity with copyright law and licensing issues for sound recordings and digital images; Experience with Encoded Archival Description (EAD) finding aids and Archivists Toolkit; Familiarity with controlled vocabulary, metadata use and practice, and associated standards, such as MODS, METS, RDF, and Dublin Core; Basic understanding of database design (Access, MySQL); Experience with Innovative Millennium ILS or other ILS software; Experience with digital image management and collections, such as CONTENTdm; Knowledge of major music reference resources and databases; Reference and/or instructional experience in an academic library. Documents which must be associated with this posting Resume/CV Cover Letter List of References To view the complete job
Re: [CODE4LIB] web video: best practices / workflow
Just to throw it out there. If your campus has a google agreement, or doesn't need one, you should just use youtube, or vimeo, or some third party video service. Video on the web is superbly complicated and there are many groups already doing it well. Use them if you can! Ryan On Jun/25/12, at 5:35 AM, raffaele messuti wrote: I'm not currently working on it, but some months ago i did a research on some tools to integrate a player in a video repository. For me http://videojs.com seemed a simple and working solution with mp4/h264 video, it can display native html5 media or flash fallback. tricks that could help serving mp4 files: mp4 (encoded with ffmpeg) needs to be fixed to enable pseudo streaming (by moving metadata and offset information to the front of the file) with a tool like: https://github.com/danielgtaylor/qtfaststart http://multimedia.cx/qt-faststart.c there is also an apache module for this: http://h264.code-shop.com/trac/wiki/Mod-H264-Streaming-Apache-Version2 i'll take a look at https://github.com/jronallo/sli_video ciao -- raffaele
Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib.org down?
code4lib.org, wiki.code4lib.org and planet.code4lib.org are back up now. Ryan Wick From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ed Summers [e...@pobox.com] Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 5:30 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] code4lib.org down? Paging Oregon State: do we know why code4lib.org isn't responding? http://code4lib.org/ HTTP requests currently seem to timeout. //Ed PS. Thanks to Carol Bean for noticing it, and bringing it up in #code4lib :-)
