Re: [CODE4LIB] CODE4LIB Digest - 10 Jun 2013 to 11 Jun 2013 (#2013-147)
Thanks, Debra, for encouraging participants to report out. The distributed conversations are tough to summarize (based on my limited experience) but if they include good links, people can try to follow along at a distance. The seed conversations sound like they'd be worth the trouble! -- Date:Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:10:49 -0500 From:Debra Shapiro dsshap...@wisc.edu Subject: Re: LITA/ALCTS Library Linked Data IG managed discussion at ALA Annual in Chicago Hi Karen, and others who might be interested; apologies to those who are not The problem with streaming is that, after Jackie's short presentation - which could be captured, and I will try - it's going to be table discussions, and there might be 12 tables. So the noise level is going to be high, and we could only get fragments. We are going to ask table facilitators to post short messages to todaysmeet (http://todaysmeet.com/) about summarizing their table's talk. I will set up a room, and share the link to the transcript of those text messages. Folks might tweet as well; I'll establish some hash tag at the start of the session. thanks for your interest, debra On Jun 10, 2013, at 1:06 PM, Karen Coyle wrote: Debra - this looks very interesting, and makes me wish I were going to be there. But I'm not. If anyone in the audience is able to stream this, even without great AV quality, please send a message to the list. And for those of you who are going, could you brainstorm about informal streaming? Thanks, kc On Mon Jun 10 11:00:42 2013, Debra Shapiro wrote: Linked Data IG managed discussion at ALA Annual in Chicago When: Sunday, June 30, 2013 8:30 am to 10:00 am Where: McCormick Place Convention Center, Room N129 What: The LITA/ALCTS Library Linked Data Interest Group invites you to attend a managed discussion on Sunday, June 30, from 8:30-10:00 AM, at the McCormick Place Convention Center, Room N129. Jackie Shieh of George Washington University, one of the BIBFRAME Early Experimenters (EEs - http://bibframe.org/faq/#q13), will give a short presentation designed to kick off table discussions, on her institution's experience converting MARC data to BIBFRAME. Please contact Theo Gerontakos (t...@uw.edu) or Debra Shapiro (dsshap...@wisc.edu) if you'd like to volunteer as a table facilitator. http://ala13.ala.org/node/11059 Questions? Please send to Debra Shapiro (dsshap...@wisc.edu), not the list thanks dsshap...@wisc.edu Debra Shapiro UW-Madison SLIS Helen C. White Hall, Rm. 4282 600 N. Park St. Madison WI 53706 608 262 9195 mobile 608 712 6368 FAX 608 263 4849 -- Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net ph: 1-510-540-7596 m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet dsshap...@wisc.edu Debra Shapiro UW-Madison SLIS Helen C. White Hall, Rm. 4282 600 N. Park St. Madison WI 53706 608 262 9195 mobile 608 712 6368 FAX 608 263 4849 -- Date:Tue, 11 Jun 2013 09:16:07 -0600 From:Sam Popowich sam.popow...@ualberta.ca Subject: Code4Lib YEG Meetup this Thursday Apologies for cross-posting. This is just a reminder that the 2nd Edmonton Code4Lib Meetup will take place this Thursday, June 13th at the Underground Tap and Grill, 10004 Jasper Ave, Edmonton. We'll be building on some of the ideas we had last time to start planning an event for late summer or early fall. Thanks, Sam. -- Sam Popowich Discovery Systems Librarian University of Alberta Library Edmonton, Alberta sam.popow...@ualberta.ca 780-492-5753 -- Date:Tue, 11 Jun 2013 20:13:07 - From:j...@code4lib.org Subject: Job: Manager, IT Infrastructure and Client Services at Yale University Library Information Technology Yale University Library New Haven, CT Salary Grade: 25 Requisition: #21569BR www.yale.edu Schedule: Full-time (37.5 hours per week); Standard Work Week (M-F, 8:30 - 5:00) The University and the Library: The Yale University Library, as one of the world's leading research libraries, collects, organizes, preserves, and provides access to and services for a rich and unique record of human thought and creativity. It fosters intellectual growth and is a highly valued partner in the teaching and research missions of Yale University and scholarly communities worldwide. A distinctive strength is its rich spectrum of resources, including more than 15 million volumes and information in all media, ranging from ancient papyri to early printed books to electronic databases. The Library is engaged in numerous digital initiatives designed to provide access to a full array of scholarly information. Housed in 15 libraries, including Sterling Memorial, Beinecke, and Bass libraries, it employs a dynamic, diverse, and innovative staff of over 500 who have the opportunity to work with the highest caliber of faculty and students, participate on committees, and who are involved in other areas of staff development. For
Re: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone
Putting the files on GitHub might be an option - free for public repositories, and 38Mb should not be a problem to host there Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 12 Jun 2013, at 02:24, Dana Pearson dbpearsonm...@gmail.com wrote: I have crosswalked the Project Gutenberg RDF/DC metadata to MARC. I would like to make these files available to any library that is interested. I thought that I would put them on my website via FTP but don't know if that is the best way. Don't have an ftp client myself so was thinking that that may be now passé. I tried using Google Drive with access available via the link to two versions of the files, UTF8 and MARC8. However, it seems that that is not a viable solution. I can access the files with the URLs provided by setting the access to anyone with the URL but doesn't work for some of those testing it for me or with the links I have on my webpage.. I have five folders with files of about 38 MB total. I have separated the ebooks, audio books, juvenile content, miscellaneous and non-Latin scripts such as Chinese, Modern Greek. Most of the content is in the ebook folder. I would like to make access as easy as possible. Google Drive seems to work for me. Here's the link to my page with the links in case you would like to look at the folders. Works for me but not for everyone who's tried it. http://dbpearsonmlis.com/ProjectGutenbergMarcRecords.html thanks, dana -- Dana Pearson dbpearsonmlis.com
[CODE4LIB] Job: Information Technology Specialist (Web Archiving) at Library of Congress
The Library of Congress serves the Congress in fulfilling its duties and preserves and promotes knowledge and creativity for the benefit of the American people. It is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and the world's largest library, with more than 151 million items in its physical collections (including books, manuscripts, prints, photos, film, video, and sound recordings) and almost 20 million items online. Located primarily on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., the Library is the home of the U.S. Copyright Office, the Congressional Research Service (CRS), the Law Library of Congress, and the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped. The Information Technology Specialist (Data Specialist) provides technical support to the Office of Strategic Initiatives in a wide variety of activities related both to the transfer of digital data from sources outside and inside the Library, and to the movement of data across multiple applications and data stores within the Library. The data spans multiple content types including text, graphic, photographic, moving image, cartographic, sound/audio, and mixed media data, including website content. The position involves applying technical expertise in digital data and digital data management, developing and adhering to best practices for data transfer, as well as working collaboratively with managers, technical staff, and subject matter experts both inside and outside of the Library. This position is located in the Office of Strategic Initiatives, Directorate of the Associate Librarian for Strategic Initiatives. The position description number for this position is 128812. The salary range indicated reflects the locality pay adjustments for the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan area. The incumbent of this position will work a flextime work schedule. This is a non-supervisory, bargaining unit position. Relocation expenses will not be authorized for the person(s) selected under this vacancy announcement. KEY REQUIREMENTS DUTIES: Serves as a technical expert, trouble-shooter, or consultant in a team transferring or moving digital content and the metadata related to the content. Works with Library staff to plan, test and execute imports to, and exports from, Library of Congress (LC) systems. Works with Library staff on data management teams to define, develop, implement and monitor plans for managing data sets through multiple phases of a digital life cycle in the context of the LC environment. Works with Library staff on data management teams and partner institutions to define and test efficient data movement procedures, establish and conduct effective and robust operational processes, and coordinate among stakeholders. Work is executed in an environment of continual change, where digital content types and content sources are rapidly expanding, and the supporting processes and technologies are in a state of flux. Analyzes formats, metadata, and packaging of data sets for a wide variety of content types. Evaluates the characteristics of data sets in terms of the requirements for LC content and metadata systems. Uses automated tools and utilities to analyze, validate, edit, index, inventory, package, move and document data sets. Serves as liaison to appropriate staff inside the Library of congress as well as outside institutions and partners to ensure the proper assessment of incomplete or conflicting information, and to resolve complex or difficult matters that arise in connection with the movement and processing of digital data. Maintains ongoing relationships with technical staff at LC and partner institutions. QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED: Applicants must have had progressively responsible experience and training sufficient in scope and quality to furnish them with an acceptable level of the following knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the duties of the position without more than normal supervision. * Knowledge of computer languages, utilities, and access methods. * Ability to research and analyze technology problems, issues, and program requirements.** * Ability to plan and execute work. * Ability to communicate in writing. * Ability to communicate effectively orally. * No additional requirements to those listed above. HOW YOU WILL BE EVALUATED: The Library of Congress evaluates applicants through an applicant questionnaire and a structured interview. Applicants may also be screened for some jobs through licensing, certification, and/or education requirements, a narrative/application review, and/or a preliminary telephone interview. The knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) that are marked with a double asterisk (**) in the vacancy announcement and the applicant questionnaire are considered the most critical for a position. To be considered for final selection, applicants must demonstrate fully acceptable experience in these designated KSAs in the
[CODE4LIB] Job: Data Services Librarian at Rutgers University
DESCRIPTION/RESPONSIBILITIES: The Rutgers University Libraries seek a librarian skilled in teaching and instruction to fill the position of Data Services Librarian in the John Cotton Dana Library on the Newark Campus of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Reporting to the Assistant Chancellor and Director of John Cotton Dana Library and under the direction of the Head of Public Services for the Dana Library, the Data Services Librarian position includes significant teaching and instruction activity as well as faculty liaison responsibilities, particularly with disciplinary and interdisciplinary research centers, for the analysis of large data sets and the provision of support in the presentation of the results of research and analysis. In support of the instructional mission, the Data Services Librarian instructs faculty and students in the use of research data sets as well as use of software for quantitative and qualitative analysis. The Data Services Librarian also participates as a member of the Public Services team providing research assistance to the library's diverse faculty and student users. This is a tenure-track appointment and as a member of a university-wide faculty, the Data Services Librarian is expected to routinely participate in system- wide initiatives, committees, and task forces, and to actively pursue and participate in research, publication, and in professional associations. QUALIFICATIONS: Required: ALA-accredited master's degree in Library and Information Science as well as an advanced degree in a social sciences discipline; experience working with quantitative data and manipulation of datasets and experience teaching the use of datasets and statistical software to faculty, students and researchers; knowledge of statistical software such as SAS, SPSS (PASW), Stata, or R; familiarity with major data resources (ICPSR, Census, etc.); awareness of national issues and trends in academic librarianship, and the ability and desire to meet tenure and promotion requirements; and a demonstrated commitment to fostering diversity is required. Candidates who have had successful experience in the design and delivery of services for diverse populations will be given preference. Desired: Experience with software for qualitative data analysis; experience with relational databases; experience in a library environment, including reference and public services ; and knowledge of XML and metadata standards relevant to data. The successful candidate must be eligible to work in the United States. SALARY: Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience. STATUS AND BENEFITS: Faculty status, calendar year appointment, retirement plans, life and health insurance, prescription drug, dental and vision plans, tuition remission, and 22 days annually. LIBRARY PROFILE: The Rutgers University Libraries (RUL), comprising libraries on the university's Camden, New Brunswick, and Newark campuses, all reporting to the Vice President for Information Services and University Librarian, operate as a unified library system with coordinated public, technical services, and collection development programs including digital initiatives and a pioneering institutional repository. The libraries have highly valued staff of about 300 who are committed to develop innovations in access services, information literacy and digital initiatives. RUL operates with a budget of $28 million and outstanding collections especially in jazz and New Jerseyana. Rutgers University Libraries are a member of ARL, CRL, Lyrasis, Metro, NERL, and VALE, and use Sirsi Dynix and OCLC as primary bibliographic utilities and Fedora repository software. In concert with the integration of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey with Rutgers University, the libraries connected with those schools in Newark and New Brunswick will become part of the Rutgers University Libraries system as of July 1, 2013. Rutgers University is a member of the Association of American Universities. Rutgers is also a member of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), the nation's premier higher education consortium of top tier research institutions which includes Big Ten Conference members and the University of Chicago. The Newark Campus of Rutgers University is a doctoral-degree granting research institution that is a leading education and research center. Classified as a Carnegie Research Intensive institution, Rutgers-Newark offers 14 doctoral programs: American studies, applied physics, biology, chemistry, criminal justice, global affairs, integrative neuroscience,management, mathematical sciences, nursing, psychology, public administration, and urban systems. For more information go to the RUL Web site: www.libraries.rutgers.edu and to learn about the Dana Library and Newark Campus go to: library.newark.rutgers.edu. Rutgers is an ADVANCE Institution, committed to increase diversity and the participation and advancement
[CODE4LIB] Job: Metadata Analyst at Emory University
The Emory University Libraries seek an energetic, service-oriented and collaborative professional to serve as theMetadata Analyst for the Content Division in the Robert W Woodruff Library. The ideal candidate will supportinitiatives that relate to digital scholarship, digitization, special collections access, and other metadata- dependentefforts to describe, manage, expose and share collections with users. Position Summary Reporting to the Senior Director of the Content Division, the Metadata Analyst supports initiatives that relate todigital scholarship, digitization, special collections access, and other metadata dependent efforts to describe,manage, expose and share collections with users. Acting as an individual contributor, the incumbent may alternatelylead projects or serve as a member of a project team and provide metadata expertise. The Metadata Analyst willinteract with curators, archivists, librarians, technologists, researchers and students to learn about and delivermetadata solutions for projects and programs. The Metadata Analyst focuses on creating and normalizing metadata,optimizing the interoperability of metadata among systems, and leveraging metadata to increase discoverability anduse of collections and monitors emerging technologies and recommends their adoption if they meet project orlong- term organizational goals. Specific duties of the incumbent include: * Provides and anticipates metadata solutions for a wide variety projects, services, and stakeholders, chiefly in special collections, digital scholarship, and IT units. * Identifies, designs, and develops schemas, ontologies, taxonomies,vocabularies, etc. for images, sound, video, text, realia, graphics, data, geospatial data, etc. * Prototypes and develops automated services and applications for metadataextraction, creation, normalization, analysis, transformation, syndication, and ingest. * Integrates semantic, linked data, and other metadata analytical technologies withvarious existing digital asset management and discovery platforms. * Contributes to research and development of other metadata projects andinitiatives. * Develops training and documentation in support of metadata encoding and transformation for metadata librarians and catalogers. * Shares results of work with other staff through presentation and written documentation. * Facilitates meetings to learn about needs and to develop agreement and consensus. * Acts as chair of the University Libraries Metadata Working Group (MWG), providing leadership and direction developing and implementing best practices for metadata creation and management across the Emory Libraries. * Schedules meetings and sets agendas. Builds consensus through dialog and group problem-solving, * working with individuals and groups, to reach agreement. * Provides updates to Library Cabinet, the senior management group. * Oversees and guides the work of the Cataloging and Authorities Working Group, a subgroup of the University Libraries Metadata Working Group, which includes the cataloging department heads from all Emory University libraries. * Participates in library committees related to primary job assignment as appropriate. * Represents the library on university committees and task forces related to primaryjob assignment OR at the request of the Senior Vice Provost for Library Services Digital Scholarship. * Serves on professional and scholarly association committees, task forces, work groups, and other entities at the local, state, regional, national, and international level as appropriate to position and area of expertise. * Participates in appropriate professional and scholarly associations and organizations including maintaining membership and/or accreditation; attending meetings, conferences, workshops; and serving in appointed or elected positions. * Presents on work-related topics and research at professional and scholarly conferences, symposia, and workshops. Publishes on work-related topics and research in professional and scholarly publications. * Maintains up-to-date professional knowledge and skills in areas related to primaryjob assignment as well as maintaining general knowledge of current trends in higher education, academic libraries, and information and educational technology. Required Qualifications * ALA-accredited master's degree in Library and Information Science OR equivalenteducation and experience (subject expertise combined with appropriate industry experience and/or library experience). * Knowledge of basic administration, management and automation of variousContent Management Systems and installed software packages. * Technical expertise including: * 2+ years related experience with metadata schemas, XML, and XSLT. * Knowledge of Semantic Web technologies (RDF, RDFS, OWL, SPARQL). * Familiarity with semantic web W3C standards and ongoing efforts. * Experience with
Re: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone
Or the Internet Archive, since there are also a whole bunch of other MARC dumps there. -Ross. On Jun 12, 2013, at 4:25 AM, Owen Stephens o...@ostephens.com wrote: Putting the files on GitHub might be an option - free for public repositories, and 38Mb should not be a problem to host there Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 12 Jun 2013, at 02:24, Dana Pearson dbpearsonm...@gmail.com wrote: I have crosswalked the Project Gutenberg RDF/DC metadata to MARC. I would like to make these files available to any library that is interested. I thought that I would put them on my website via FTP but don't know if that is the best way. Don't have an ftp client myself so was thinking that that may be now passé. I tried using Google Drive with access available via the link to two versions of the files, UTF8 and MARC8. However, it seems that that is not a viable solution. I can access the files with the URLs provided by setting the access to anyone with the URL but doesn't work for some of those testing it for me or with the links I have on my webpage.. I have five folders with files of about 38 MB total. I have separated the ebooks, audio books, juvenile content, miscellaneous and non-Latin scripts such as Chinese, Modern Greek. Most of the content is in the ebook folder. I would like to make access as easy as possible. Google Drive seems to work for me. Here's the link to my page with the links in case you would like to look at the folders. Works for me but not for everyone who's tried it. http://dbpearsonmlis.com/ProjectGutenbergMarcRecords.html thanks, dana -- Dana Pearson dbpearsonmlis.com
Re: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone
I would put them on Dropbox or S3. The Dropbox free account is 5 GB. Cary On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 4:09 AM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: Or the Internet Archive, since there are also a whole bunch of other MARC dumps there. -Ross. On Jun 12, 2013, at 4:25 AM, Owen Stephens o...@ostephens.com wrote: Putting the files on GitHub might be an option - free for public repositories, and 38Mb should not be a problem to host there Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 12 Jun 2013, at 02:24, Dana Pearson dbpearsonm...@gmail.com wrote: I have crosswalked the Project Gutenberg RDF/DC metadata to MARC. I would like to make these files available to any library that is interested. I thought that I would put them on my website via FTP but don't know if that is the best way. Don't have an ftp client myself so was thinking that that may be now passé. I tried using Google Drive with access available via the link to two versions of the files, UTF8 and MARC8. However, it seems that that is not a viable solution. I can access the files with the URLs provided by setting the access to anyone with the URL but doesn't work for some of those testing it for me or with the links I have on my webpage.. I have five folders with files of about 38 MB total. I have separated the ebooks, audio books, juvenile content, miscellaneous and non-Latin scripts such as Chinese, Modern Greek. Most of the content is in the ebook folder. I would like to make access as easy as possible. Google Drive seems to work for me. Here's the link to my page with the links in case you would like to look at the folders. Works for me but not for everyone who's tried it. http://dbpearsonmlis.com/ProjectGutenbergMarcRecords.html thanks, dana -- Dana Pearson dbpearsonmlis.com -- Cary Gordon The Cherry Hill Company http://chillco.com
Re: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone
Thanks for the replies..I had looked at GitHub but thought it something different, ie, collaborative software development...I will look again hadn't thought of the Internet archive but that might be good and I'll take a look at dropbox and Eric's other suggestions...altogether new to the 'cloud' and regarding MARC records on the Gutenberg Project page...there is a new feature that converts RDF/DC to MARC but the download was small so I suspect only recent additions...in fact, the necessary editing would remain but may be useful for keeping my work up to date...I'll be interested to see how it handles new line feeds in dc:title elements. thanks again for the suggestions including Cary's that comes in as I type this dana On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 6:09 AM, Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: Or the Internet Archive, since there are also a whole bunch of other MARC dumps there. -Ross. On Jun 12, 2013, at 4:25 AM, Owen Stephens o...@ostephens.com wrote: Putting the files on GitHub might be an option - free for public repositories, and 38Mb should not be a problem to host there Owen Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 12 Jun 2013, at 02:24, Dana Pearson dbpearsonm...@gmail.com wrote: I have crosswalked the Project Gutenberg RDF/DC metadata to MARC. I would like to make these files available to any library that is interested. I thought that I would put them on my website via FTP but don't know if that is the best way. Don't have an ftp client myself so was thinking that that may be now passé. I tried using Google Drive with access available via the link to two versions of the files, UTF8 and MARC8. However, it seems that that is not a viable solution. I can access the files with the URLs provided by setting the access to anyone with the URL but doesn't work for some of those testing it for me or with the links I have on my webpage.. I have five folders with files of about 38 MB total. I have separated the ebooks, audio books, juvenile content, miscellaneous and non-Latin scripts such as Chinese, Modern Greek. Most of the content is in the ebook folder. I would like to make access as easy as possible. Google Drive seems to work for me. Here's the link to my page with the links in case you would like to look at the folders. Works for me but not for everyone who's tried it. http://dbpearsonmlis.com/ProjectGutenbergMarcRecords.html thanks, dana -- Dana Pearson dbpearsonmlis.com -- Dana Pearson dbpearsonmlis.com
Re: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone
On 12 Jun 2013, at 14:06, Dana Pearson dbpearsonm...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the replies..I had looked at GitHub but thought it something different, ie, collaborative software development...I will look again Yes - that's the main use (git is version control software, GitHub hosts git repositories) - but of course git doesn't care what types of files you have under version control. It came to mind because I know it's been used to distribute metadata files before - e.g. this set of metadata from the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum https://github.com/cooperhewitt/collection There could be some additional benefits gained through using git to version control this type of file, and GitHub to distribute them if you were interested, but it can act as simply a place to put the files and make them available for download. But of course the other suggestions would do this simpler task just as well. Owen
[CODE4LIB] Registration open for iPRES 2013 / DC-2013
Registration open for iPRES 2013 / DC-2013 *Apologies for cross-posting* === iPRES 2013 / DC-2013 INVITATION TO REGISTER === Registration for iPRES-2013 is now open. The conference will take place 2-6 September 2013 in Lisbon, Portugal at the Instituto Superior Técnico. Conference website: http://ipres2013.ist.utl.pt/index.html Draft program: http://ipres2013.ist.utl.pt/prg_overview.html The scientific program comprises 37 full and short papers, as well as 25 posters and demonstrations. There will be 8 tutorials, 12 workshops and a doctoral symposium. *Topics of interest include*: •- Innovation in Digital Preservation: Novel Challenges and Scenarios; Innovative Approaches; Preservation at Scale; Domain-specific Challenges (Cultural Heritage, Technical and Scientific Processes and Data, Engineering Models and Simulation, Medical Records, Corporate Processes and Recordkeeping, Web Archiving, Personal Archiving, e-Procurement, etc.) •- Systems Life-cycle: Specific Digital Preservation Requirements and Implications in Modeling, Design, Development, Deployment and Maintenance •- Governance: Risk Analysis; Audit, Trust and Certification, Trusted Repositories; Information/Data Quality •- Business Models and Added-value of Digital Preservation: Benefits Analysis, Emerging Exploitation Scenarios, Long-Tail of Digital Preservation •- Theory of Digital Preservation: Interdisciplinary Modeling, Representation Concepts, Incentive Structures •- Case Studies and Best Practices: Processes, Metadata, Systems, Services, Infrastructures •- Training and Education iPRES-2013 will be collocated with DC-2013. Both conferences will take place in the same venue and run in parallel. During the collocated events, delegates are welcome to choose sessions that best fit their interests from either conference. Keynotes are held in common plenaries; and, social events are shared, providing an excellent opportunity for iPRES and DCMI delegates to socialize, share common interests and network. Delegates of the two conferences may separately register for a mix of pre- and post-conference events organized by the conference committees of both iPRES and DCMI. *Important Dates*: • 08 July 2013: Deadline for early registration • 02 September 2013: Tutorials sessions and Doctoral Symposium • 03 September 2013: Conference starting… • 05 September 2013: Conference closing (noon time) • 05 September 2013: Workshops starting (afternoon) €350 early regular, €250 early student (to 8 July) €375 regular student (after 8 July) --Separate rates apply for pre-/post-conference sessions on Monday and Friday --Day rates are available Registration questions? Contact for DC/iPRES 2013: ipres2...@ist.utl.pt We look forward to seeing you in Lisbon in September. *Tutorials*: T1.1 - Introduction to Linked Open Data (LOD) T1.2 - Metadata Provenance T1.3 - IGM: Maturidade da Governação da Informação (Tutorial in Portuguese) T1.4 - Build it, Share it, Keep it safe T1.5 - Personal Digital Archiving T1.6 - Islandora Institutional Repository Tutorial T2.1 - Introduction to Ontology Concepts and Terminology T2.2 - PROV - the W3C Provenance Ontology T2.3 - IGM: Information Governance Maturity (Tutorial in English) T2.4 - Legal challenges in the preservation lifecycle – How to address and how to solve them! T2.5 - From Preserving Data to Preserving Research – Curation of Process and Context T2.6 - Tools for uncovering preservation risks in your large repositories T3.1 - Datasets, Open Data and Digital Preservation T3.2 - Getting Started in Web Archiving and Web Archives Preservation *Workshops* W1 - Digital Preservation Capabilities - How to assess and improve capabilities in digital preservation? W2 - PREMIS Implementation Fair Workshop W3 - Archiving Community Memories W4 - Cost of Curation W5 - Preservation at Scale W6 - Interoperability of Persistent Identifiers Systems – services across PI domains W7 – Open Research Challenges in Digital Preservation W8 - CAMP-4-DATA W9 -Vocabulary Day *iPREShack*: SPRUCE, CURATEcamp and OPF Hackathon (from September 2nd to 5th) Please forward this email to anybody who might be interested!
Re: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone
Hi Dana, Out of curiosity, how does your crosswalk differ from Project Gutenberg's MARC files? See, e.g.: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Offline_Catalogs#MARC_Records_.28automatically_generated.29 Yours, Kevin -- Kevin Ford Network Development and MARC Standards Office Library of Congress Washington, DC -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Dana Pearson Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 9:24 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone I have crosswalked the Project Gutenberg RDF/DC metadata to MARC. I would like to make these files available to any library that is interested. I thought that I would put them on my website via FTP but don't know if that is the best way. Don't have an ftp client myself so was thinking that that may be now passé. I tried using Google Drive with access available via the link to two versions of the files, UTF8 and MARC8. However, it seems that that is not a viable solution. I can access the files with the URLs provided by setting the access to anyone with the URL but doesn't work for some of those testing it for me or with the links I have on my webpage.. I have five folders with files of about 38 MB total. I have separated the ebooks, audio books, juvenile content, miscellaneous and non-Latin scripts such as Chinese, Modern Greek. Most of the content is in the ebook folder. I would like to make access as easy as possible. Google Drive seems to work for me. Here's the link to my page with the links in case you would like to look at the folders. Works for me but not for everyone who's tried it. http://dbpearsonmlis.com/ProjectGutenbergMarcRecords.html thanks, dana -- Dana Pearson dbpearsonmlis.com
Re: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone
Doh! I read all the emails in the thread except for Eric's, which asked the same question. Either way, his or mine, nevertheless curious. Kevin -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Eric Phetteplace Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 10:57 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone Dana - perhaps a public Dropbox folder? Or just put the files up on your site somewhere, served with a Content-Disposition: attachment header so they trigger a download when accessed? E.g. here's a StackOverflowhttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/9195304/how-to-use- content-disposition-for-force-a-file-to-download-to-the-hard- drivethread on that. If they must be a recognized MIME type, you could compress them as .zip or .tar.gz files on the server, which would reduce download time either way. I did try clicking the links on your site and they never downloaded, the request just timed out. Not to discredit what you're doing, which is great, but aren't MARC records already available for Project Gutenberg? See their offline catalogshttp://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Offline_Catalogs#MARC_ Records_.28offsite.29page. Best, Eric Phetteplace Emerging Technologies Librarian Chesapeake College Wye Mills, MD On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Dana Pearson dbpearsonm...@gmail.comwrote: I have crosswalked the Project Gutenberg RDF/DC metadata to MARC. I would like to make these files available to any library that is interested. I thought that I would put them on my website via FTP but don't know if that is the best way. Don't have an ftp client myself so was thinking that that may be now passé. I tried using Google Drive with access available via the link to two versions of the files, UTF8 and MARC8. However, it seems that that is not a viable solution. I can access the files with the URLs provided by setting the access to anyone with the URL but doesn't work for some of those testing it for me or with the links I have on my webpage.. I have five folders with files of about 38 MB total. I have separated the ebooks, audio books, juvenile content, miscellaneous and non- Latin scripts such as Chinese, Modern Greek. Most of the content is in the ebook folder. I would like to make access as easy as possible. Google Drive seems to work for me. Here's the link to my page with the links in case you would like to look at the folders. Works for me but not for everyone who's tried it. http://dbpearsonmlis.com/ProjectGutenbergMarcRecords.html thanks, dana -- Dana Pearson dbpearsonmlis.com
[CODE4LIB] From Preserving Data to Preserving Research. Registration open for tutorial at TPDL 2013 22 Sep 2013
Apologies for cross-posting === Tutorial to be held in connection with TPDL 2013, 22 September 2013, Valletta, Malta http://www.tpdl2013.info/ From Preserving Data to Preserving Research: Curation of Process and Context *ABSTRACT* In the domain of eScience, investigations are increasingly collaborative. Most scientific and engineering domains benefit from building on the outputs of other research: by sharing information to reason over and data to incorporate in the modeling task at hand. This raises the need for preserving and sharing entire eScience workflows and processes for later reuse. We need to define which information is to be collected, create means to preserve it and approaches to enable and validate the re-execution of a preserved process. This includes and goes beyond preserving the data used in the experiments, as the process underlying its creation and use is essential. The TIMBUS project and Wf4Ever project team up for this half-day tutorial to provide an introduction to the problem domain and discuss solutions for the curation of eScience processes. 1. TUTORIAL LEVEL: Introductory level 2. DURATION: Half-day 3. OUTLINE OF THE CONTENT The tutorial will cover the following topics: *Introduction to Process and Context Preservation*: The introduction will motivate the need for process and context preservation, illustrate how this task is difficult in an evolving domain, and introduce a use case for the rest of the tutorial to illustrate approaches and tools. *Data Citation*: Data forms the basis of the results of many research publications, and thus needs to be referenced with the same accuracy as bibliographic data. Only if data can be identified with high precision can it be reused, validated, verified and reproduced. Citing a specific data set is however not trivial - it exists in a vast plurality of specifications and instances, can potentially be huge in size, and its location might change. We will provide an overview over existing approaches to overcoming these challenges. Further, we will present the issue of creating data citations of data held in databases, especially of dynamic data sets where data is added or updated on a regular basis. *Re-usability and traceability of workflows and processes*: The processes creating and interpreting data are complex objects. Curating and preserving them requires special effort, as they are dynamic, and highly dependent on software, configuration, hardware, and other aspects. We will discuss these issues in detail, and provide an introduction to two complementary approaches. The first approach is based on the concept of Research Objects, which adopts a workflow-centric approach and thereby aims at facilitating the reuse and reproducibility. It allows packaging the data and the methods as one Research Object to share and cite it, and thus enable publishers to grant access to the actual data and methods that contribute to the findings reported in scholarly articles. A second approach focuses on describing and preserving a process and the context it is embedded in. The artifacts that may need to be captured range from data, software and accompanying documentation, to legal and human resource aspects. Some of this information can be automatically extracted from an existing process, and tools for this will be presented. Ways to archive the process and to perform preservation actions on the process environment, such as recreating a controlled execution environment or migration of software components, are presented. Finally, the challenge of evaluating the re-execution of a preserved process is discussed, addressing means of establishing its authenticity. 4. INTENDED AUDIENCE The tutorial is targeted at researchers, publishers and curators in eScience disciplines who want to learn about methods of ensuring the long-term availability of experiments forming the basis of scientific research. 5. EXPECTED LEARNING OUTCOMES The tutorial participants will become understand · Motivations and challenges of process preservation · Motivations, stakeholders and challenges of making data citable · How Data is Cited Today: OECD [1] report on data citability, Google search of data sets, requirements, guidelines, metadata, locators and identifiers, approaches to naming schemes and properties. · Available technologies for identifiers: Archival Resource Key (ARK), Digital Object Identifiers (DOI), Extensible Resource Identifier (XRI), HANDLE, Life Science ID (LSID), Object Identifiers (OID), Persistent Uniform Resource Locators (PURL), URI/URN/URL, Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) · Approaches and Initiatives for citing data: CODATA, Data Cite, OpenAire, challenges and opportunities: granularity, scalability, complexity and evolving data sets current research questions · Ontologies needed to capture research objects: Core Ontology of the RO family of vocabularies, workflow
Re: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone
If anyone from HathiTrust is watching this thread, I'd also be curious if they're considering bulk record downloads via something other than OAI [1]. Thanks. Daniel [1] http://www.lib.umich.edu/michigan-digitization-project-oai-harvesting -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ford, Kevin Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 10:12 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone Doh! I read all the emails in the thread except for Eric's, which asked the same question. Either way, his or mine, nevertheless curious. Kevin -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Eric Phetteplace Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 10:57 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone Dana - perhaps a public Dropbox folder? Or just put the files up on your site somewhere, served with a Content-Disposition: attachment header so they trigger a download when accessed? E.g. here's a StackOverflowhttp://stackoverflow.com/questions/9195304/how-to-use- content-disposition-for-force-a-file-to-download-to-the-hard- drivethread on that. If they must be a recognized MIME type, you could compress them as .zip or .tar.gz files on the server, which would reduce download time either way. I did try clicking the links on your site and they never downloaded, the request just timed out. Not to discredit what you're doing, which is great, but aren't MARC records already available for Project Gutenberg? See their offline catalogshttp://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Offline_Catalogs#MARC _ Records_.28offsite.29page. Best, Eric Phetteplace Emerging Technologies Librarian Chesapeake College Wye Mills, MD On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 9:24 PM, Dana Pearson dbpearsonm...@gmail.comwrote: I have crosswalked the Project Gutenberg RDF/DC metadata to MARC. I would like to make these files available to any library that is interested. I thought that I would put them on my website via FTP but don't know if that is the best way. Don't have an ftp client myself so was thinking that that may be now passé. I tried using Google Drive with access available via the link to two versions of the files, UTF8 and MARC8. However, it seems that that is not a viable solution. I can access the files with the URLs provided by setting the access to anyone with the URL but doesn't work for some of those testing it for me or with the links I have on my webpage.. I have five folders with files of about 38 MB total. I have separated the ebooks, audio books, juvenile content, miscellaneous and non- Latin scripts such as Chinese, Modern Greek. Most of the content is in the ebook folder. I would like to make access as easy as possible. Google Drive seems to work for me. Here's the link to my page with the links in case you would like to look at the folders. Works for me but not for everyone who's tried it. http://dbpearsonmlis.com/ProjectGutenbergMarcRecords.html thanks, dana -- Dana Pearson dbpearsonmlis.com
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Re: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone
Kevin, don't know yet since don't know how to unzip the file...bz2?...in any case, I'm guessing that there is no post transformation editing that most libraries would insist upon...eg, subject headings in the metadata are strings with hyphens separating subjects from subheadings and spatial, temporal, genre subfields have to be introduced...some content needs to go into 600,610, 611,630,651 fields...for more on the post transform editing see: http://dbpearsonmlis.com/GPmetadata.html dana On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Ford, Kevin k...@loc.gov wrote: Hi Dana, Out of curiosity, how does your crosswalk differ from Project Gutenberg's MARC files? See, e.g.: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Offline_Catalogs#MARC_Records_.28automatically_generated.29 Yours, Kevin -- Kevin Ford Network Development and MARC Standards Office Library of Congress Washington, DC -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Dana Pearson Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 9:24 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone I have crosswalked the Project Gutenberg RDF/DC metadata to MARC. I would like to make these files available to any library that is interested. I thought that I would put them on my website via FTP but don't know if that is the best way. Don't have an ftp client myself so was thinking that that may be now passé. I tried using Google Drive with access available via the link to two versions of the files, UTF8 and MARC8. However, it seems that that is not a viable solution. I can access the files with the URLs provided by setting the access to anyone with the URL but doesn't work for some of those testing it for me or with the links I have on my webpage.. I have five folders with files of about 38 MB total. I have separated the ebooks, audio books, juvenile content, miscellaneous and non-Latin scripts such as Chinese, Modern Greek. Most of the content is in the ebook folder. I would like to make access as easy as possible. Google Drive seems to work for me. Here's the link to my page with the links in case you would like to look at the folders. Works for me but not for everyone who's tried it. http://dbpearsonmlis.com/ProjectGutenbergMarcRecords.html thanks, dana -- Dana Pearson dbpearsonmlis.com -- Dana Pearson dbpearsonmlis.com
Re: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone
Kevin, Eric 7zip worked fine to unzip and records look pretty good since they used 653 and preserved the string from the metadata element with the hypens. However the records do not do subfield d in 100 or 700 fields and thus such content appears in the 245$c. 245$a seems to go missing with some frequency. MarcEdit does not report any errors though. My original intent was just to keep my XSLT skills sharp while I had some free time last August. After creating the stylesheet, I then had no free time until January when I could devote 2 or 3 hours to the post transform editing. Thought I'd just dive in but the pool was much deeper than I had anticipated. Do think libraries will prefer my edited versions although different in non-access points as well. Incidentally, not many additions since my harvest. First record in the Project Gutenberg produced records: =LDR 00721cam a22002293a 4500 =001 27384 =003 PGUSA =008 081202s2008xxu|s|000\|\eng\d =040 \\$aPGUSA$beng =042 \\$adc =050 \4$aPQ =100 1\$aDumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870 =245 10$a$h[electronic resource] /$cby Alexandre, 1802-1870 Dumas =260 \\$bProject Gutenberg,$c2008 =500 \\$aProject Gutenberg =506 \\$aFreely available. =516 \\$aElectronic text =653 \0$aFrance -- History -- Regency, 1715-1723 -- Fiction =653 \0$aOrléans, Philippe, duc d', 1674-1723 -- Fiction =830 \0$aProject Gutenberg$v27384 =856 40$uhttp://www.gutenberg.org/etext/27384 =856 42$uhttp://www.gutenberg.org/license$3Rights couldn't readily find the above item but here's an example of my records by the same author. =LDR 01002nam a22002535 4500 =001 PG18997 =006 md =007 cr||n\|||muaua =008 \\s2006utu|o|||eng\d =042 \\$adc =090 \\$aPQ =092 \0$aeBooks =100 1\$aDumas, Alexandre,$d1802-1870. =245 14$aThe Vicomte de Bragelonne$h[electronic resource] :$bOr Ten Years Later being the completion of The Three Musketeers And Twenty Years After /$Alexandre Dumas. =260 \\$aSalt Lake City :$bProject Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation,$c2006. =300 \\$a1 online resource :$bmultiple file formats. =500 \\$aRecords generated from Project Gutenberg RDF data. =540 \\$aApplicable license:$uhttp://www.gutenberg.org/license =650 \0$aAdventure stories. =650 \0$aHistorical fiction. =651 \0$aFrance$vHistory$yLouis XIV, 1643-1715$vFiction. =655 \0$aElectronic books. =710 2\$aProject Gutenberg. =856 40$uhttp://www.gutenberg.org/etext/18997$zClick to access. thanks for your interest.. regards, dana On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 9:10 AM, Ford, Kevin k...@loc.gov wrote: Hi Dana, Out of curiosity, how does your crosswalk differ from Project Gutenberg's MARC files? See, e.g.: http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Offline_Catalogs#MARC_Records_.28automatically_generated.29 Yours, Kevin -- Kevin Ford Network Development and MARC Standards Office Library of Congress Washington, DC -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Dana Pearson Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2013 9:24 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone I have crosswalked the Project Gutenberg RDF/DC metadata to MARC. I would like to make these files available to any library that is interested. I thought that I would put them on my website via FTP but don't know if that is the best way. Don't have an ftp client myself so was thinking that that may be now passé. I tried using Google Drive with access available via the link to two versions of the files, UTF8 and MARC8. However, it seems that that is not a viable solution. I can access the files with the URLs provided by setting the access to anyone with the URL but doesn't work for some of those testing it for me or with the links I have on my webpage.. I have five folders with files of about 38 MB total. I have separated the ebooks, audio books, juvenile content, miscellaneous and non-Latin scripts such as Chinese, Modern Greek. Most of the content is in the ebook folder. I would like to make access as easy as possible. Google Drive seems to work for me. Here's the link to my page with the links in case you would like to look at the folders. Works for me but not for everyone who's tried it. http://dbpearsonmlis.com/ProjectGutenbergMarcRecords.html thanks, dana -- Dana Pearson dbpearsonmlis.com -- Dana Pearson dbpearsonmlis.com
Re: [CODE4LIB] best way to make MARC files available to anyone
quick followup on the thread.. github: I looked at the cooperhewitt collection but don't see a way to download the content...I could copy and paste their content but that may not be the best approach for my files...documentation is thin, seems i would have to provide email addresses for those seeking access...but clearly that is not the case with how the cooperhewitt archive is configured.. My primary concern has been to make it as simple a process as possible for libraries which have limited technical expertise. One of the reasons I made a career change was my inability as a library director to integrate very useful online resources in the library's content discovery system. Each of the libraries I led lacked expertise and/or the technical support necessary to do so. So, quit my job, re-tooled and now working independently. Internet Archive: I did a search that included a query term MARC and found the Open Library and this may be the best option but I will have to include a field in each record I think...something I could easilydo...the marc records do download nicely...I'll send a message for guidance on this Eric's suggestion regarding MIME type is interesting as well but seems I would have to have a recognizable type like zip...would prefer to have the files no larger than 4000 or so records to facilitate processing...there are also some content libraries may not want...eg, erotic literature, juvenile content.. found the file for comparison with GP generated MARC: =LDR 00945nam a22002535 4500 =001 PG27384 =006 md =007 cr||n\|||muaua =008 \\s2008utu|o|||eng\d =042 \\$adc =090 \\$aPQ =092 \0$aeBooks =100 1\$aDumas, Alexandre,$d1802-1870. =240 14$aUne fille du régent.$lEnglish =245 14$aThe Regent's Daughter$h[electronic resource] /$cAlexandre Dumas. =260 \\$aSalt Lake City :$bProject Gutenberg Literary Archive Foundation,$c2008. =300 \\$a1 online resource :$bmultiple file formats. =500 \\$aRecords generated from Project Gutenberg RDF data. =540 \\$aApplicable license:$uhttp://www.gutenberg.org/license =600 10$aOrléans, Philippe,$cduc d',$d1674-1723$vFiction. =651 \0$aFrance$xHistory$yRegency, 1715-1723$vFiction. =655 \0$aElectronic books. =710 2\$aProject Gutenberg. =856 40$uhttp://www.gutenberg.org/etext/27384$zClick to access. Gutenberg Project MARC: =LDR 00721cam a22002293a 4500 =001 27384 =003 PGUSA =008 081202s2008xxu|s|000\|\eng\d =040 \\$aPGUSA$beng =042 \\$adc =050 \4$aPQ =100 1\$aDumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870 =245 10$a$h[electronic resource] /$cby Alexandre, 1802-1870 Dumas =260 \\$bProject Gutenberg,$c2008 =500 \\$aProject Gutenberg =506 \\$aFreely available. =516 \\$aElectronic text =653 \0$aFrance -- History -- Regency, 1715-1723 -- Fiction =653 \0$aOrléans, Philippe, duc d', 1674-1723 -- Fiction =830 \0$aProject Gutenberg$v27384 =856 40$uhttp://www.gutenberg.org/etext/27384 =856 42$uhttp://www.gutenberg.org/license$3Rights thanks again, dana On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 6:19 PM, Dana Pearson dbpearsonm...@gmail.comwrote: Kevin, Eric 7zip worked fine to unzip and records look pretty good since they used 653 and preserved the string from the metadata element with the hypens. However the records do not do subfield d in 100 or 700 fields and thus such content appears in the 245$c. 245$a seems to go missing with some frequency. MarcEdit does not report any errors though. My original intent was just to keep my XSLT skills sharp while I had some free time last August. After creating the stylesheet, I then had no free time until January when I could devote 2 or 3 hours to the post transform editing. Thought I'd just dive in but the pool was much deeper than I had anticipated. Do think libraries will prefer my edited versions although different in non-access points as well. Incidentally, not many additions since my harvest. First record in the Project Gutenberg produced records: =LDR 00721cam a22002293a 4500 =001 27384 =003 PGUSA =008 081202s2008xxu|s|000\|\eng\d =040 \\$aPGUSA$beng =042 \\$adc =050 \4$aPQ =100 1\$aDumas, Alexandre, 1802-1870 =245 10$a$h[electronic resource] /$cby Alexandre, 1802-1870 Dumas =260 \\$bProject Gutenberg,$c2008 =500 \\$aProject Gutenberg =506 \\$aFreely available. =516 \\$aElectronic text =653 \0$aFrance -- History -- Regency, 1715-1723 -- Fiction =653 \0$aOrléans, Philippe, duc d', 1674-1723 -- Fiction =830 \0$aProject Gutenberg$v27384 =856 40$uhttp://www.gutenberg.org/etext/27384 =856 42$uhttp://www.gutenberg.org/license$3Rights couldn't readily find the above item but here's an example of my records by the same author. =LDR 01002nam a22002535 4500 =001 PG18997 =006 md =007 cr||n\|||muaua =008 \\s2006utu|o|||eng\d =042 \\$adc =090 \\$aPQ =092 \0$aeBooks =100 1\$aDumas, Alexandre,$d1802-1870. =245 14$aThe Vicomte de Bragelonne$h[electronic
