[CODE4LIB] San Jose State: Sch. Lib & Inf. Science: Instructor

[Linda Main]

I am looking for an instructor for Summer 2013 who would teach a
class for our Masters in Library and Information Science (MLIS) students on 
developing Web pages and interactive applications for the iPad -- based on 
existing iPhone and Touch coding techniques. (Students can use the Apple iPhone 
Developer Program for free). We are also hoping for a class in future 
semesters on developing apps for the Android platform.


We are the School of Library and Information Science at San Jose State 
University. Our Masters degree in library and information science is delivered 
in a 100% online format so location is unimportant.


Summer runs around 10 weeks and start in early June.

We use D2L Learning Management System and Blackboard Collaborate web
conferencing. Though any instructor is free to build or use their own
platforms.

The class caps at 30. Salary for an instructor with a Ph.d degree is:
$5,950.80; for a masters degree:  $4,971.60 payable at the end

Here is some information about our school

http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/

http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/about-slis

http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/prospective-students/discover-online-learning


Thanks for considering this.  Linda Main -linda.m...@sjsu.edu

Linda Main Ph.D.
Associate Director
Coordinator of Admissions and Academic Advising

School of Library and Information Science
San Jose State University
http://slisweb.sjsu.edu

[CODE4LIB] Job: Numeric & Spatial Data Specialist at California Polytechnic State University

[jobs]

Library Services (Kennedy Library) is responsible for planning, implementing
and managing campus-wide information resources and related services with an
annual budget of $6+ million and approximately 45 staff. Library Services has
five departments: Academic Services, Information Resources and Archives,
Communication and Special Initiatives, Library Information Technology, and
Administrative Services.

  
The Data Services program in the Academic Services Department at the Kennedy
Library promotes the discovery, exploration, creation, and sharing of data in
support of Cal Poly's programs of learning, and research.

  
Under the general direction of the Data Services Librarian, the Numeric and
Spatial Data Specialist provides technical expertise and support for
developing and evolving library services that assist students, staff and
faculty with finding, using, managing, and visualizing numeric and spatial
data.

  
To apply, visit WWW.CALPOLYJOBS.ORG to complete the required online staff
application and apply to requisition #102681. Applicants will have the option
of attaching a Cover Letter, Resume and three Letters of Recommendation via
the online employment system. Applicants needing computer/internet access may
contact Cal Poly Human Resources at: (805) 756-2236, for information on
available resources. Cal Poly is strongly committed to achieving excellence
through cultural diversity & actively encourages applications of all qualified
individuals. EEO



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[CODE4LIB] Job: Evergreen Systems Admin and Migration Specialist at University of Missouri

[jobs]

We're looking for a skilled Linux systems administrator who's trained in the
ways of Perl and Postgres to maintain the Missouri Evergreen system and
perform data migrations for the incoming libraries. We've got a great team
here already, so people who are not seriously awesome need not apply.

  
If you weren't sold by the above paragraph and would instead prefer the usual
sort of job description, you'll find that here:

  
http://mobiusconsortium.org/jobs/2012/08/20/systems-administrator-mobius-
evergreen

  
  



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Re: [CODE4LIB] email to FTP or something?

[Nate Hill]

thank you all for this information.  was away from email for the day and
came back to find all the help!  yes!
N

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 1:30 PM, Eric Lease Morgan  wrote:

> > The traditional Unix tool for this job is procmail[1].
>
>   procmail++  That cool little email filter thing was the core of my Mr.
> Serials Process "way back" in 1994 or so. And it still works great! The
> syntax of its recipes is a bit obtuse, but still… --ELM
>



-- 
Nate Hill
nathanielh...@gmail.com
http://4thfloor.chattlibrary.org/
http://www.natehill.net

Re: [CODE4LIB] email to FTP or something?

[Eric Lease Morgan]

> The traditional Unix tool for this job is procmail[1].

  procmail++  That cool little email filter thing was the core of my Mr. 
Serials Process "way back" in 1994 or so. And it still works great! The syntax 
of its recipes is a bit obtuse, but still… --ELM

Re: [CODE4LIB] email to FTP or something?

[Esmé Cowles]

The traditional Unix tool for this job is procmail[1].  You can configure it to 
process all incoming mail in an account with a shell script -- decoding the 
attachment and saving it to a file would be very easy to do, assuming the 
server is also a FTP or web server.  Of course, the script could also just 
decode the attachment and load it directly into MySQL.

1. http://partmaps.org/era/procmail/mini-faq.html#rtfm

-Esme
--
Esme Cowles 

"I don't need to be forgiven." -- The Who, Baba O'Reilly


On 10/17/2012, at 11:46 AM, Nate Hill  wrote:

> Maybe someone can offer me a suggestion here...
> I bought a nifty new gadget that records data and spits out csv files as
> email attachments.
> I want to go from csv > MySQL and build a web application to do cool stuff
> with the data.
> The thing is, the device can only email the files as attachments, it
> doesn't give me the ability to upload them to a server.
> Can anyone suggest how I can securely email a file directly to a folder on
> a server?
> 
> The scenario is nearly identical to what is described here:
> http://www.quora.com/How-can-I-upload-to-an-FTP-site-via-email
> 
> -- 
> Nate Hill
> nathanielh...@gmail.com
> http://4thfloor.chattlibrary.org/
> http://www.natehill.net

Re: [CODE4LIB] email to FTP or something?

[Joe Hourcle]

On Oct 17, 2012, at 12:15 PM, Cary Gordon wrote:

> The "securely" part is a gotcha. I would venture a guess that whatever
> the gadget does to produce emails doesn't include encryption or key
> verification.

What do you qualify as 'securely'?

You scan the message & attachment to make sure it's valid, process it, and then 
either put it in place (if local) or scp over to the server that's doing the 
hosting.

If you're concerned about the e-mail itself being unsecure, then you have to 
look into what protocols the appliance supports.  If it does ASMTP 
(Authenticated SMTP) over TLS, then you're fine:

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2554.txt

If it doesn't, well, then you set up a local mail relay that's firewalled off 
so that only the appliance can talk to it, and have that one do the processing 
/ transfer.

...

We used to use these sorts of things at the university where I used to work.

One would process the class schedules (generated as a nightly report from the 
registration system), and make a series of pages for gopher (later modified to 
generate HTML).  Another was used so that authorized users could modify the 
'university status' message (eg, closed due to snow) years before there were 
protocols such as webdav.

It's also quite useful for generating status pages based on cronjob messages.

-Joe




> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Joe Hourcle
>  wrote:
>> On Oct 17, 2012, at 11:46 AM, Nate Hill wrote:
>> 
>>> Maybe someone can offer me a suggestion here...
>>> I bought a nifty new gadget that records data and spits out csv files as
>>> email attachments.
>>> I want to go from csv > MySQL and build a web application to do cool stuff
>>> with the data.
>>> The thing is, the device can only email the files as attachments, it
>>> doesn't give me the ability to upload them to a server.
>>> Can anyone suggest how I can securely email a file directly to a folder on
>>> a server?
>>> 
>>> The scenario is nearly identical to what is described here:
>>> http://www.quora.com/How-can-I-upload-to-an-FTP-site-via-email
>> 
>> 
>> It depends if you're hosting the mail server or not.  If you are,
>> and it's a unix box, you change your .forward file to pipe into
>> a program to do the processing, eg:
>> 
>>|/path/to/program
>> 
>> 
>> If you're already using procmail for local mail delivery, you
>> can do more complex things with a .procmailrc file.  (eg, only
>> pass along to the processing program messages that match
>> certain characteristics):
>> 
>>http://www.procmail.org/
>> 
>> 
>> If you're not hosting your own mail server, you might be able
>> to cobble something together with fetchmail, which retrieves
>> mail from IMAP or *POP* services and then processes it for
>> local delivery:
>> 
>>http://www.fetchmail.info/
>> 
>> -Joe
>> 
>> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Cary Gordon
> The Cherry Hill Company
> http://chillco.com

Re: [CODE4LIB] email to FTP or something?

[Jing Xiao]

And I don't think you can do it directly from email to file unless you 
can hack the device or program it inside.


Here is my way if I do it, and you might find a better solution.
1) You need a Mail server, either setup by you own or use a existed one.
2) Access the mail.
a) If you setup your own as a Linux mail server, you can directly 
access it from the mbox file. For PHP you can use 
http://pear.php.net/package/Mail/redirected I believe there are 
libraries for other program language as well.
b) If you use a existed server, you might need to use a mail client 
to do it. This is a little bit difficult than a). Because you need to 
know the protocol of the mail server POP3/IMAP and etc. One tool you can 
use in Linux is FetchExc in Java
3) Once you can access the mail, you can extract the data from CSV and 
pipe to MySQL, or use script language to ftp and etc. This is not that 
difficult. Tool for Java can be http://opencsv.sourceforge.net/


Trick steps are 1) and 2).

On 10/17/2012 1:16 PM, Nate Hill wrote:

Maybe someone can offer me a suggestion here...
I bought a nifty new gadget that records data and spits out csv files as
email attachments.
I want to go from csv > MySQL and build a web application to do cool stuff
with the data.
The thing is, the device can only email the files as attachments, it
doesn't give me the ability to upload them to a server.
Can anyone suggest how I can securely email a file directly to a folder on
a server?

The scenario is nearly identical to what is described here:
http://www.quora.com/How-can-I-upload-to-an-FTP-site-via-email




--
Jing Xiao

Senior Programmer
L-1005, System, QEII Library
Memorial University, St. John's, NL, A1B 3Y1
T: (709)864-2698
F: (709)864-4034


This electronic communication is governed by the terms and conditions at
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Re: [CODE4LIB] email to FTP or something?

[Gary McGath]

On 10/17/12 11:46 AM, Nate Hill wrote:
> Maybe someone can offer me a suggestion here...
> I bought a nifty new gadget that records data and spits out csv files as
> email attachments.
> I want to go from csv > MySQL and build a web application to do cool stuff
> with the data.
> The thing is, the device can only email the files as attachments, it
> doesn't give me the ability to upload them to a server.
> Can anyone suggest how I can securely email a file directly to a folder on
> a server?

One possibility would be to create a Thunderbird add-on that would check
messages as they came in and save attachments that met certain criteria.
I can't find anything like that in looking at the existing listing of
add-ons, but might be able to write one. Get in touch with me off-list
if you're interested.

What do you mean by "securely"? I'd guess you don't have much control
over the gadget. Are you just concerned with separating the mail from
the spam, or do you need to encrypt the files? The latter could be a
problem.

-- 
Gary McGath, Professional Software Developer   http://www.garymcgath.com

Re: [CODE4LIB] email to FTP or something?

[Cary Gordon]

The "securely" part is a gotcha. I would venture a guess that whatever
the gadget does to produce emails doesn't include encryption or key
verification.

Cary

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Joe Hourcle
 wrote:
> On Oct 17, 2012, at 11:46 AM, Nate Hill wrote:
>
>> Maybe someone can offer me a suggestion here...
>> I bought a nifty new gadget that records data and spits out csv files as
>> email attachments.
>> I want to go from csv > MySQL and build a web application to do cool stuff
>> with the data.
>> The thing is, the device can only email the files as attachments, it
>> doesn't give me the ability to upload them to a server.
>> Can anyone suggest how I can securely email a file directly to a folder on
>> a server?
>>
>> The scenario is nearly identical to what is described here:
>> http://www.quora.com/How-can-I-upload-to-an-FTP-site-via-email
>
>
> It depends if you're hosting the mail server or not.  If you are,
> and it's a unix box, you change your .forward file to pipe into
> a program to do the processing, eg:
>
> |/path/to/program
>
>
> If you're already using procmail for local mail delivery, you
> can do more complex things with a .procmailrc file.  (eg, only
> pass along to the processing program messages that match
> certain characteristics):
>
> http://www.procmail.org/
>
>
> If you're not hosting your own mail server, you might be able
> to cobble something together with fetchmail, which retrieves
> mail from IMAP or *POP* services and then processes it for
> local delivery:
>
> http://www.fetchmail.info/
>
> -Joe
>
>



-- 
Cary Gordon
The Cherry Hill Company
http://chillco.com

Re: [CODE4LIB] email to FTP or something?

[Joe Hourcle]

On Oct 17, 2012, at 11:46 AM, Nate Hill wrote:

> Maybe someone can offer me a suggestion here...
> I bought a nifty new gadget that records data and spits out csv files as
> email attachments.
> I want to go from csv > MySQL and build a web application to do cool stuff
> with the data.
> The thing is, the device can only email the files as attachments, it
> doesn't give me the ability to upload them to a server.
> Can anyone suggest how I can securely email a file directly to a folder on
> a server?
> 
> The scenario is nearly identical to what is described here:
> http://www.quora.com/How-can-I-upload-to-an-FTP-site-via-email


It depends if you're hosting the mail server or not.  If you are,
and it's a unix box, you change your .forward file to pipe into
a program to do the processing, eg:

|/path/to/program


If you're already using procmail for local mail delivery, you
can do more complex things with a .procmailrc file.  (eg, only
pass along to the processing program messages that match
certain characteristics):

http://www.procmail.org/


If you're not hosting your own mail server, you might be able
to cobble something together with fetchmail, which retrieves
mail from IMAP or *POP* services and then processes it for
local delivery:

http://www.fetchmail.info/

-Joe

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q.: software for vendor title list processing

[Owen Stephens]

> 
> This leads to three follow-up questions.
> 
> First, is there software to translate/normalize existing vendor lists from
> vendors that have not yet adopted either of these standards into these
> formats? I'm thinking of a collection of adapters or converters, perhaps.
> Each would likely constitute small effort, but there would be benefits from
> sharing development and maintenance.

Not that I'm aware of, but if I understand you then this is one of the tasks 
GoKB is undertaking in partnership with KB+ (the work I mentioned using Refine)

> 
> Second, if holdings lists were provided in, or converted to, for instance
> the KBART format, what software understands these formats to further
> process them? In other words, is there immediate bang for the buck of
> adopting these standards?

The KBART format was aimed at Link Resolver population - so I'd hope there was 
some immediate payback on this front, but I don't have any information on this

> 
> Third, unsurprisingly, these efforts arose in the managements of serials
> because holdings there change frequently depending on purchase agreements,
> etc. It is my understanding that eBooks are now posing similar collection
> management challenges. Are there separate normative efforts for eBooks or
> is it believed that efforts such as KBART/ONIX can encompass eBooks as well?
> 

KBART definitely has ambitions to encompass eBooks as well. There are already 
some hooks for this (e.g. 'first author' field), and the working group is 
looking at how ebooks will work I think

> - Godmar

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q.: software for vendor title list processing

[Godmar Back]

Thanks for everyone who replied to my question.

>From a brief examination, if I understand it correctly, KBART and ONIX
create normative standards for how holdings data should be represented,
which vendors (increasingly) follow.

This leads to three follow-up questions.

First, is there software to translate/normalize existing vendor lists from
vendors that have not yet adopted either of these standards into these
formats? I'm thinking of a collection of adapters or converters, perhaps.
Each would likely constitute small effort, but there would be benefits from
sharing development and maintenance.

Second, if holdings lists were provided in, or converted to, for instance
the KBART format, what software understands these formats to further
process them? In other words, is there immediate bang for the buck of
adopting these standards?

Third, unsurprisingly, these efforts arose in the managements of serials
because holdings there change frequently depending on purchase agreements,
etc. It is my understanding that eBooks are now posing similar collection
management challenges. Are there separate normative efforts for eBooks or
is it believed that efforts such as KBART/ONIX can encompass eBooks as well?

 - Godmar

Re: [CODE4LIB] Q.: software for vendor title list processing

[Owen Stephens]

There are things that could be improved about the KBART guidelines (and you've 
picked on one here I definitely agree with). 

There is an interest group mailing list which can be used for 
discussion/feedback http://www.niso.org/lists/kbart_interest/

I suspect that for both approaches at the moment the question of 
uptake/compliance is the bigger issue.

Owen

Owen Stephens
Owen Stephens Consulting
Web: http://www.ostephens.com
Email: o...@ostephens.com
Telephone: 0121 288 6936

On 17 Oct 2012, at 14:48, Jonathan Rochkind  wrote:

> I've always been a fan of ONIX for SOH, although never had the chance to use 
> it -- but the spec is written nicely, based on my experience with this stuff, 
> it actually accomplishes the goal of machine-readable statement of serial 
> holdings (theoretically useful for print or online holdings) well.
> 
> KBART, I have some concerns about, when it comes to holdings. Is there a 
> place to send feedback to KBART?  Just on a quick skim of the parts of 
> interest to me, I am filled with alarm at how much missing the point this is: 
>   " we recommend that the ISO 8601 date syntax should be used...  For 
> simplicity, '365D' will always be equivalent to one year, and '30D' will 
> always be equivalent to one month, even in leap years and months that do not 
> have 30 days."
> 
> Totally missing the point of ISO 8601 to allow/encourage this when 1Y and 1M 
> are available -- dealing with calendar dates is harder than one might naively 
> think, and by trying to 'improve' on ISO 8601 like this, you just create a 
> mess of ambiguous and difficult to deal with data.
> 
> On 10/17/2012 5:11 AM, Owen Stephens wrote:
>> Are there any examples of data in this format in the wild we can look at?
>> 
>> Also given KBART and ONIX for Serials Online Holdings have NISO involvement, 
>> is there any view on how these two activities complement each other?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Owen
>> 
>> Owen Stephens
>> Owen Stephens Consulting
>> Web: http://www.ostephens.com
>> Email: o...@ostephens.com
>> Telephone: 0121 288 6936
>> 
>> On 17 Oct 2012, at 09:47, Michael Hopwood  wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Godmar,
>>> 
>>> There is also ONIX for Serials Online Holdings 
>>> (http://www.editeur.org/120/ONIX-SOH/). I'm copying in Tim Devenport who 
>>> might say more.
>>> 
>>> Best wishes,
>>> 
>>> Michael
>>> 
>>> -Original Message-
>>> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of 
>>> Owen Stephens
>>> Sent: 16 October 2012 23:09
>>> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
>>> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Q.: software for vendor title list processing
>>> 
>>> I'm working on the JISC KB+ project that Tom mentioned.
>>> 
>>> As part of the project we've been collating journal title lists from 
>>> various sources. We've been working with members of the KBART steering 
>>> group and have used KBART where possible, although we've been collecting 
>>> data not covered by KBART.
>>> 
>>> All the data we have at this level is published under a CC0 licence at 
>>> http://www.kbplus.ac.uk/kbplus/publicExport - including a csv that uses the 
>>> KBART data elements. The focus so far has been on packages negotiated by 
>>> JISC in the UK - although in many cases the title lists may be the same as 
>>> are made available in other markets. We also include what we call 'Master 
>>> lists' which are an attempt to capture the complete list of titles and 
>>> coverage offered by a content provider. We'd very much welcome any feedback 
>>> on these exports, and of course be interested to know if anyone makes use 
>>> of them.
>>> 
>>> So far a lot of the work on collating/coverting/standardising the data has 
>>> been done by hand - which is clearly not ideal. In the next phase of the 
>>> project the KB+ project is going to work with the GoKB project 
>>> http://gokb.org - as part of this collaboration we are currently working on 
>>> ways of streamlining the data processing from publisher files or other 
>>> sources, to standardised data. While we are still working on how this is 
>>> going to be implemented, we are currently investigating the possibility of 
>>> using Google/Open Refine to capture and re-run sets of rules across data 
>>> sets from specific sources. We should be making progress on this in the 
>>> next couple of months.
>>> 
>>> Hope that's helpful
>>> 
>>> Owen
>>> 
>>> Owen Stephens
>>> Owen Stephens Consulting
>>> Web: http://www.ostephens.com
>>> Email: o...@ostephens.com
>>> Telephone: 0121 288 6936
>>> 
>>> On 16 Oct 2012, at 20:23, Tom Pasley  wrote:
>>> 
 You might also be interested in the work at http://www.kbplus.ac.uk .
 The site is up at the moment, but I can't reach it for some reason...
 they have a public export page which you might want to know about
 http://www.kbplus.ac.uk/kbplus/publicExport
 
 Tom
 
 On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Jonathan Rochkind  
 wrote:
 
> I think KBART is such an effort.  As with most library standards

[CODE4LIB] Job: Senior Associate for Archival Processing at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Re: [CODE4LIB] Q.: software for vendor title list processing

[Jonathan Rochkind]

I've always been a fan of ONIX for SOH, although never had the chance to 
use it -- but the spec is written nicely, based on my experience with 
this stuff, it actually accomplishes the goal of machine-readable 
statement of serial holdings (theoretically useful for print or online 
holdings) well.


KBART, I have some concerns about, when it comes to holdings. Is there a 
place to send feedback to KBART?  Just on a quick skim of the parts of 
interest to me, I am filled with alarm at how much missing the point 
this is:   " we recommend that the ISO 8601 date syntax should be 
used...  For simplicity, '365D' will always be equivalent to one year, 
and '30D' will always be equivalent to one month, even in leap years and 
months that do not have 30 days."


Totally missing the point of ISO 8601 to allow/encourage this when 1Y 
and 1M are available -- dealing with calendar dates is harder than one 
might naively think, and by trying to 'improve' on ISO 8601 like this, 
you just create a mess of ambiguous and difficult to deal with data.


On 10/17/2012 5:11 AM, Owen Stephens wrote:

Are there any examples of data in this format in the wild we can look at?

Also given KBART and ONIX for Serials Online Holdings have NISO involvement, is 
there any view on how these two activities complement each other?

Thanks,

Owen

Owen Stephens
Owen Stephens Consulting
Web: http://www.ostephens.com
Email: o...@ostephens.com
Telephone: 0121 288 6936

On 17 Oct 2012, at 09:47, Michael Hopwood  wrote:


Hi Godmar,

There is also ONIX for Serials Online Holdings 
(http://www.editeur.org/120/ONIX-SOH/). I'm copying in Tim Devenport who might 
say more.

Best wishes,

Michael

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Owen 
Stephens
Sent: 16 October 2012 23:09
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Q.: software for vendor title list processing

I'm working on the JISC KB+ project that Tom mentioned.

As part of the project we've been collating journal title lists from various 
sources. We've been working with members of the KBART steering group and have 
used KBART where possible, although we've been collecting data not covered by 
KBART.

All the data we have at this level is published under a CC0 licence at 
http://www.kbplus.ac.uk/kbplus/publicExport - including a csv that uses the 
KBART data elements. The focus so far has been on packages negotiated by JISC 
in the UK - although in many cases the title lists may be the same as are made 
available in other markets. We also include what we call 'Master lists' which 
are an attempt to capture the complete list of titles and coverage offered by a 
content provider. We'd very much welcome any feedback on these exports, and of 
course be interested to know if anyone makes use of them.

So far a lot of the work on collating/coverting/standardising the data has been 
done by hand - which is clearly not ideal. In the next phase of the project the 
KB+ project is going to work with the GoKB project http://gokb.org - as part of 
this collaboration we are currently working on ways of streamlining the data 
processing from publisher files or other sources, to standardised data. While 
we are still working on how this is going to be implemented, we are currently 
investigating the possibility of using Google/Open Refine to capture and re-run 
sets of rules across data sets from specific sources. We should be making 
progress on this in the next couple of months.

Hope that's helpful

Owen

Owen Stephens
Owen Stephens Consulting
Web: http://www.ostephens.com
Email: o...@ostephens.com
Telephone: 0121 288 6936

On 16 Oct 2012, at 20:23, Tom Pasley  wrote:


You might also be interested in the work at http://www.kbplus.ac.uk .
The site is up at the moment, but I can't reach it for some reason...
they have a public export page which you might want to know about
http://www.kbplus.ac.uk/kbplus/publicExport

Tom

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Jonathan Rochkind  wrote:


I think KBART is such an effort.  As with most library standards
groups, there may not be online documentation of their most recent
efforts or successes, but: http://www.uksg.org/kbart

http://www.uksg.org/kbart/s5/**guidelines/data_format



On 10/16/2012 2:16 PM, Godmar Back wrote:


Hi,

at our library, there's an emerging need to process title lists from
vendors for various purposes, such as checking that the titles
purchased can be discovered via discovery system and/or OPAC. It
appears that the formats in which those lists are provided are
non-uniform, as is the process of obtaining them.

For example, one vendor - let's call them "Expedition Scrolls" -
provides title lists for download to Excel, but which upon closer
inspection turn out to be HTML tables. They are encoded using an odd
mixture of CP1250 and HTML entities. Other vendors use entirely different 
formats.

My question is whether there 

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Re: [CODE4LIB] Q.: software for vendor title list processing

[Owen Stephens]

Are there any examples of data in this format in the wild we can look at?

Also given KBART and ONIX for Serials Online Holdings have NISO involvement, is 
there any view on how these two activities complement each other?

Thanks,

Owen

Owen Stephens
Owen Stephens Consulting
Web: http://www.ostephens.com
Email: o...@ostephens.com
Telephone: 0121 288 6936

On 17 Oct 2012, at 09:47, Michael Hopwood  wrote:

> Hi Godmar,
> 
> There is also ONIX for Serials Online Holdings 
> (http://www.editeur.org/120/ONIX-SOH/). I'm copying in Tim Devenport who 
> might say more.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Michael
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Owen 
> Stephens
> Sent: 16 October 2012 23:09
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Q.: software for vendor title list processing
> 
> I'm working on the JISC KB+ project that Tom mentioned.
> 
> As part of the project we've been collating journal title lists from various 
> sources. We've been working with members of the KBART steering group and have 
> used KBART where possible, although we've been collecting data not covered by 
> KBART.
> 
> All the data we have at this level is published under a CC0 licence at 
> http://www.kbplus.ac.uk/kbplus/publicExport - including a csv that uses the 
> KBART data elements. The focus so far has been on packages negotiated by JISC 
> in the UK - although in many cases the title lists may be the same as are 
> made available in other markets. We also include what we call 'Master lists' 
> which are an attempt to capture the complete list of titles and coverage 
> offered by a content provider. We'd very much welcome any feedback on these 
> exports, and of course be interested to know if anyone makes use of them.
> 
> So far a lot of the work on collating/coverting/standardising the data has 
> been done by hand - which is clearly not ideal. In the next phase of the 
> project the KB+ project is going to work with the GoKB project 
> http://gokb.org - as part of this collaboration we are currently working on 
> ways of streamlining the data processing from publisher files or other 
> sources, to standardised data. While we are still working on how this is 
> going to be implemented, we are currently investigating the possibility of 
> using Google/Open Refine to capture and re-run sets of rules across data sets 
> from specific sources. We should be making progress on this in the next 
> couple of months.
> 
> Hope that's helpful
> 
> Owen
> 
> Owen Stephens
> Owen Stephens Consulting
> Web: http://www.ostephens.com
> Email: o...@ostephens.com
> Telephone: 0121 288 6936
> 
> On 16 Oct 2012, at 20:23, Tom Pasley  wrote:
> 
>> You might also be interested in the work at http://www.kbplus.ac.uk . 
>> The site is up at the moment, but I can't reach it for some reason... 
>> they have a public export page which you might want to know about 
>> http://www.kbplus.ac.uk/kbplus/publicExport
>> 
>> Tom
>> 
>> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Jonathan Rochkind  wrote:
>> 
>>> I think KBART is such an effort.  As with most library standards 
>>> groups, there may not be online documentation of their most recent 
>>> efforts or successes, but: http://www.uksg.org/kbart
>>> 
>>> http://www.uksg.org/kbart/s5/**guidelines/data_format>> .org/kbart/s5/guidelines/data_format>
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 10/16/2012 2:16 PM, Godmar Back wrote:
>>> 
 Hi,
 
 at our library, there's an emerging need to process title lists from 
 vendors for various purposes, such as checking that the titles 
 purchased can be discovered via discovery system and/or OPAC. It 
 appears that the formats in which those lists are provided are 
 non-uniform, as is the process of obtaining them.
 
 For example, one vendor - let's call them "Expedition Scrolls" - 
 provides title lists for download to Excel, but which upon closer 
 inspection turn out to be HTML tables. They are encoded using an odd 
 mixture of CP1250 and HTML entities. Other vendors use entirely different 
 formats.
 
 My question is whether there are efforts, software, or anything 
 related to streamlining the acquisition and processing of vendor 
 title lists in software systems that aid in the collection 
 development and maintenance process. Any pointers would be appreciated.
 
 - Godmar
 
 
 

[CODE4LIB] FW: [CODE4LIB] Q.: software for vendor title list processing

[Michael Hopwood]

Hi Godmar,

There is also ONIX for Serials Online Holdings 
(http://www.editeur.org/120/ONIX-SOH/). I'm copying in Tim Devenport who might 
say more.

Best wishes,

Michael

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Owen 
Stephens
Sent: 16 October 2012 23:09
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Q.: software for vendor title list processing

I'm working on the JISC KB+ project that Tom mentioned.

As part of the project we've been collating journal title lists from various 
sources. We've been working with members of the KBART steering group and have 
used KBART where possible, although we've been collecting data not covered by 
KBART.

All the data we have at this level is published under a CC0 licence at 
http://www.kbplus.ac.uk/kbplus/publicExport - including a csv that uses the 
KBART data elements. The focus so far has been on packages negotiated by JISC 
in the UK - although in many cases the title lists may be the same as are made 
available in other markets. We also include what we call 'Master lists' which 
are an attempt to capture the complete list of titles and coverage offered by a 
content provider. We'd very much welcome any feedback on these exports, and of 
course be interested to know if anyone makes use of them.

So far a lot of the work on collating/coverting/standardising the data has been 
done by hand - which is clearly not ideal. In the next phase of the project the 
KB+ project is going to work with the GoKB project http://gokb.org - as part of 
this collaboration we are currently working on ways of streamlining the data 
processing from publisher files or other sources, to standardised data. While 
we are still working on how this is going to be implemented, we are currently 
investigating the possibility of using Google/Open Refine to capture and re-run 
sets of rules across data sets from specific sources. We should be making 
progress on this in the next couple of months.

Hope that's helpful

Owen

Owen Stephens
Owen Stephens Consulting
Web: http://www.ostephens.com
Email: o...@ostephens.com
Telephone: 0121 288 6936

On 16 Oct 2012, at 20:23, Tom Pasley  wrote:

> You might also be interested in the work at http://www.kbplus.ac.uk . 
> The site is up at the moment, but I can't reach it for some reason... 
> they have a public export page which you might want to know about 
> http://www.kbplus.ac.uk/kbplus/publicExport
> 
> Tom
> 
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 8:12 AM, Jonathan Rochkind  wrote:
> 
>> I think KBART is such an effort.  As with most library standards 
>> groups, there may not be online documentation of their most recent 
>> efforts or successes, but: http://www.uksg.org/kbart
>> 
>> http://www.uksg.org/kbart/s5/**guidelines/data_format> .org/kbart/s5/guidelines/data_format>
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 10/16/2012 2:16 PM, Godmar Back wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> at our library, there's an emerging need to process title lists from 
>>> vendors for various purposes, such as checking that the titles 
>>> purchased can be discovered via discovery system and/or OPAC. It 
>>> appears that the formats in which those lists are provided are 
>>> non-uniform, as is the process of obtaining them.
>>> 
>>> For example, one vendor - let's call them "Expedition Scrolls" - 
>>> provides title lists for download to Excel, but which upon closer 
>>> inspection turn out to be HTML tables. They are encoded using an odd 
>>> mixture of CP1250 and HTML entities. Other vendors use entirely different 
>>> formats.
>>> 
>>> My question is whether there are efforts, software, or anything 
>>> related to streamlining the acquisition and processing of vendor 
>>> title lists in software systems that aid in the collection 
>>> development and maintenance process. Any pointers would be appreciated.
>>> 
>>>  - Godmar
>>> 
>>> 
>>>