[CODE4LIB] Library Tech Cast
Greetings fellow Librarians, Looking for a great way to stay current on library technology? Then join us this Friday September 6th at 6:30PM EST on http://www.youtube.com/librarytechcast for the inaugural weekly Library Tech Cast, where we will be discussing different aspects of library technology, from open source software to new and exciting applications and devices that relate to the library world. The show will be streamed live, with an opportunity for questions at the end. I hope all of you can join us for this fun and informative 1/2 hour. Library Tech Cast Youtube is http://www.youtube.com/librarytechcast The Library Tech Cast website is http://ltc.rileychilds.net If you have done something awesome with technology in your library we are always looking for guests. Email us at l...@rileychilds.net
[CODE4LIB] MODS experts here?
Hi, I need some advise on creating MODS records for our institutional repository. In particular I wonder how best to express the different access restrictions on digital files when a record contains more than one full-text file. E.g. what we do now is write something like: location url displayLabel=ruimtelijk_bestuursrecht_Geert_13-12-10.pdfhttps://biblio.ugent.be/publication/1927382/file/1927384/url /location physicalDescription internetMediaTypeapplication/pdf/internetMediaType /physicalDescription accessCondition type=restrictionOnAccessrestricted (changes to open on 2016-01-01)/accessCondition and this repeated for every full-text file in the record I don't like this solution because: 1. This make the MODS context-sensitive: the order of local, physical, accessCondition has a meaning (the first accessCondition is for the first location, the second accessCondition ois for the second loaction etc etc). As I understand the order of elementents in MODS shouldn't matter. 2. Access conditions and embargo's are free-text! Are there best practices we should use? Greetings from Belgium Patrick Ghent University Library
Re: [CODE4LIB] MODS experts here?
Patrick- There are some things in MODS that are close to addressing this problem, for example you could create a part wrapper around each file, but my reading of the docs says that may not be the intended use of the part element (depending in part on whether the files represent different physical objects or not). The other strategy used to coordinate elements in MODS is the altRepGroup attribute (where the location, physicalDecription and accessCondition elements for one file would all get the same altRepGroup attribute value). But that seems to be for multiple versions of the same content (e.g., titles in different translations/etc., internal note and link to external HTML version of the same note, etc.), which doesn't necessarily seem like a good fit here. But you may be able to use one of those strategies. At UC San Diego, we use our own locally-developed model, based in part on MODS. One of the things we've added is a component class within a digital object to handle any kind of structure, including multiple files, nested hierarchy, etc. When we export to METS, we would make one MODS record for the object, and then a separate MODS document for each component, and then link them using the METS structmap. To stay completely within MODS, you could also use relatedItem to link multiple MODS records. For a better encoding of the restrictions and embargo dates, you may want to add PREMIS, which has a better vocabulary for describing those things. -Esme -- Esme Cowles escow...@ucsd.edu Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. -- William Pitt, 1783 On 09/6/2013, at 3:11 AM, Patrick Hochstenbach patrick.hochstenb...@ugent.be wrote: Hi, I need some advise on creating MODS records for our institutional repository. In particular I wonder how best to express the different access restrictions on digital files when a record contains more than one full-text file. E.g. what we do now is write something like: location url displayLabel=ruimtelijk_bestuursrecht_Geert_13-12-10.pdfhttps://biblio.ugent.be/publication/1927382/file/1927384/url /location physicalDescription internetMediaTypeapplication/pdf/internetMediaType /physicalDescription accessCondition type=restrictionOnAccessrestricted (changes to open on 2016-01-01)/accessCondition and this repeated for every full-text file in the record I don't like this solution because: 1. This make the MODS context-sensitive: the order of local, physical, accessCondition has a meaning (the first accessCondition is for the first location, the second accessCondition ois for the second loaction etc etc). As I understand the order of elementents in MODS shouldn't matter. 2. Access conditions and embargo's are free-text! Are there best practices we should use? Greetings from Belgium Patrick Ghent University Library
Re: [CODE4LIB] MODS experts here?
I would echo that reference to METS. It does allow you to carry the descriptive metadata in MODS, but also to explicitly associate access restrictions with specific files. We've had success with recording information about individual files in a relational database, along with pointers to bibliographic information. That serves as the database of record and point of maintenance. Then we can automatically generate METS files from that. Best, -Tod Tod Olson t...@uchicago.edu Systems Librarian University of Chicago Library On Sep 6, 2013, at 6:15 AM, Esmé Cowles escow...@ucsd.edu wrote: Patrick- There are some things in MODS that are close to addressing this problem, for example you could create a part wrapper around each file, but my reading of the docs says that may not be the intended use of the part element (depending in part on whether the files represent different physical objects or not). The other strategy used to coordinate elements in MODS is the altRepGroup attribute (where the location, physicalDecription and accessCondition elements for one file would all get the same altRepGroup attribute value). But that seems to be for multiple versions of the same content (e.g., titles in different translations/etc., internal note and link to external HTML version of the same note, etc.), which doesn't necessarily seem like a good fit here. But you may be able to use one of those strategies. At UC San Diego, we use our own locally-developed model, based in part on MODS. One of the things we've added is a component class within a digital object to handle any kind of structure, including multiple files, nested hierarchy, etc. When we export to METS, we would make one MODS record for the object, and then a separate MODS document for each component, and then link them using the METS structmap. To stay completely within MODS, you could also use relatedItem to link multiple MODS records. For a better encoding of the restrictions and embargo dates, you may want to add PREMIS, which has a better vocabulary for describing those things. -Esme -- Esme Cowles escow...@ucsd.edu Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. -- William Pitt, 1783 On 09/6/2013, at 3:11 AM, Patrick Hochstenbach patrick.hochstenb...@ugent.be wrote: Hi, I need some advise on creating MODS records for our institutional repository. In particular I wonder how best to express the different access restrictions on digital files when a record contains more than one full-text file. E.g. what we do now is write something like: location url displayLabel=ruimtelijk_bestuursrecht_Geert_13-12-10.pdfhttps://biblio.ugent.be/publication/1927382/file/1927384/url /location physicalDescription internetMediaTypeapplication/pdf/internetMediaType /physicalDescription accessCondition type=restrictionOnAccessrestricted (changes to open on 2016-01-01)/accessCondition and this repeated for every full-text file in the record I don't like this solution because: 1. This make the MODS context-sensitive: the order of local, physical, accessCondition has a meaning (the first accessCondition is for the first location, the second accessCondition ois for the second loaction etc etc). As I understand the order of elementents in MODS shouldn't matter. 2. Access conditions and embargo's are free-text! Are there best practices we should use? Greetings from Belgium Patrick Ghent University Library
Re: [CODE4LIB] MODS experts here?
Here at UW Madison, we take a similar approach: descriptive metadata for each thing in a MODS document, administrative metadata for the thing (such a restrictions, licenses, etc.) in a PREMIS document, then link everything together in a METS package. -- Scott On 09/06/2013 06:15 AM, Esmé Cowles wrote: Patrick- There are some things in MODS that are close to addressing this problem, for example you could create a part wrapper around each file, but my reading of the docs says that may not be the intended use of the part element (depending in part on whether the files represent different physical objects or not). The other strategy used to coordinate elements in MODS is the altRepGroup attribute (where the location, physicalDecription and accessCondition elements for one file would all get the same altRepGroup attribute value). But that seems to be for multiple versions of the same content (e.g., titles in different translations/etc., internal note and link to external HTML version of the same note, etc.), which doesn't necessarily seem like a good fit here. But you may be able to use one of those strategies. At UC San Diego, we use our own locally-developed model, based in part on MODS. One of the things we've added is a component class within a digital object to handle any kind of structure, including multiple files, nested hierarchy, etc. When we export to METS, we would make one MODS record for the object, and then a separate MODS document for each component, and then link them using the METS structmap. To stay completely within MODS, you could also use relatedItem to link multiple MODS records. For a better encoding of the restrictions and embargo dates, you may want to add PREMIS, which has a better vocabulary for describing those things. -Esme -- Esme Cowles escow...@ucsd.edu Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. -- William Pitt, 1783 On 09/6/2013, at 3:11 AM, Patrick Hochstenbach patrick.hochstenb...@ugent.be wrote: Hi, I need some advise on creating MODS records for our institutional repository. In particular I wonder how best to express the different access restrictions on digital files when a record contains more than one full-text file. E.g. what we do now is write something like: location url displayLabel=ruimtelijk_bestuursrecht_Geert_13-12-10.pdfhttps://biblio.ugent.be/publication/1927382/file/1927384/url /location physicalDescription internetMediaTypeapplication/pdf/internetMediaType /physicalDescription accessCondition type=restrictionOnAccessrestricted (changes to open on 2016-01-01)/accessCondition and this repeated for every full-text file in the record I don't like this solution because: 1. This make the MODS context-sensitive: the order of local, physical, accessCondition has a meaning (the first accessCondition is for the first location, the second accessCondition ois for the second loaction etc etc). As I understand the order of elementents in MODS shouldn't matter. 2. Access conditions and embargo's are free-text! Are there best practices we should use? Greetings from Belgium Patrick Ghent University Library -- Scott Prater Shared Development Group General Library System University of Wisconsin - Madison
[CODE4LIB] Guidelines for Digital Newspaper Preservation Readiness - Review Period Extended to September 30th
Please excuse cross-posting *** The Chronicles in Preservation project (http://metaarchive.org/neh) is seeking further reviews and comments on the Guidelines for Digital Newspaper Preservation Readiness. This is the first major deliverable from this three-year project (2011-2014) funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to research and document a series of preservation readiness steps for digital newspaper curators. *The review period end date has now been extended to September 30, 2013* so that we can receive as many comments as possible. Reviewers now have the option of requesting a PDF for offline reading (more info below). http://publishing.educopia.org/chronicles/ *About the Guidelines* The *Guidelines for Digital Newspaper Preservation Readiness *seek to address digital preservation standards and digital newspaper technical guidelines/practices across a spectrum of readiness options. The * Guidelines *are geared toward improving preservation readiness for both digitized and born-digital newspaper content. We hope they will be helpful for a wide range of stakeholder institutions (including commercial news publishers), particularly traditional memory stewards such as libraries, archives, and historical societies. *How to Review* Interested digital preservation practitioners and experts/curators working in the area of managing and preserving digital news and newspapers are encouraged to review and supply online comments at their leisure between July 22-September 30, 2013. We encourage all comments to be submitted via the CommentPress form in the right sidebar (name and email address are required). Reviewers may also request a PDF for offline reading using the form on the online cover page. As the Introduction to the *Guidelines* states: We need content curators to help us understand what we’ve missed (we know there are gaps!) and what we’ve nailed. We want to know where you need more guidance and where you need less description. We want you to point us towards other resources in the field we may have missed, and above all, we want you to engage with us and with each other to make the final * Guidelines* as useful as they can possibly be. *Chronicles in Preservation Partners* The Chronicles in Preservation project is being led by the Educopia Institute (host for the MetaArchive Cooperative), along with the San Diego Supercomputer Center and the libraries of University of North Texas, Penn State, Virginia Tech, University of Utah, Georgia Tech, Boston College, and Clemson University. -- Matt Schultz Program Manager Educopia Institute, MetaArchive Cooperative http://www.metaarchive.org matt.schu...@metaarchive.org 616-566-3204
[CODE4LIB] Collection Naming Convention Question
Hello Code4Libbers, I just took over responsibility for the institutional repository at my work and one of the collections is labelled proceedings. I find this to be a rather confusing term even though it is referring to conference and symposium proceedings. It is just not so obvious to someone who has not run into that item before. I was wondering if any other people have a category in their repositories for conference and symposium proceedings and what you call it. I am hoping to find a slightly more user friendly name so I wanted to see what others have done. Thanks for any thoughts you can provide. Matt Sherman Digital Content Librarian University of Bridgeport
Re: [CODE4LIB] Collection Naming Convention Question
Hi Matt, I would wonder about the value of grouping a collection by form rather than content. Is that how everything else is grouped? Do your users actually browse by collection or do they just search for things? If your collection relies on a content type, you might look into different ways of displaying the data. You can probably identify subjects or other defining bits of metadata by which to group your objects for display. I didn't see any response on the list, it's kind of hard question to answer because it depends specifically on what your repository is for and who is using it. At the very least, conference proceedings might be more clear. But I don't think any of your users will bother accessing your collection that way unless they already know what is in there. Just my 2 cents. Good luck! Also you might try some more targeted lists for this kind of thing. These guys mostly like to argue about code. There is a metadata librarians list here: http://metadatalibrarians.monarchos.com/ R, Kelsey -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Matthew Sherman Sent: Friday, September 06, 2013 11:49 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Collection Naming Convention Question Hello Code4Libbers, I just took over responsibility for the institutional repository at my work and one of the collections is labelled proceedings. I find this to be a rather confusing term even though it is referring to conference and symposium proceedings. It is just not so obvious to someone who has not run into that item before. I was wondering if any other people have a category in their repositories for conference and symposium proceedings and what you call it. I am hoping to find a slightly more user friendly name so I wanted to see what others have done. Thanks for any thoughts you can provide. Matt Sherman Digital Content Librarian University of Bridgeport smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature
[CODE4LIB] desk scheduling software?
Hi Folks, Anyone happy with their solutions for scheduling service points? Even moderately happy? Thanks, Tim
Re: [CODE4LIB] desk scheduling software?
We're on Google Calendar as an institution and have come up with some practices that work decently well for scheduling our service points, by making Google calendars for the service points themselves. Our staffing includes 1 librarian and 1-3 students at the reference desk plus 1 librarian on chat, and we break this up into 3 calendars: Reference desk, Student tech at reference desk, and Reference chat. We use a combination of shared events, naming conventions and color coding to deal with shift ownership, indicating needs coverage, etc. I don't know how well that would work for you since y'all are on Outlook -- that is, whether Outlook as the same combinations of features that have made GCal work ok for us. This could especially be a problem if you need to schedule students as well as staff, since your students are on Live Mail. For us it works well since everyone's using GCal for their daily schedules anyway. On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 2:39 PM, Shearer, Timothy J tshea...@email.unc.eduwrote: Hi Folks, Anyone happy with their solutions for scheduling service points? Even moderately happy? Thanks, Tim
Re: [CODE4LIB] Kohacon13 - You should come
Good morning/afternoon! Does anyone know if KohaCon is going to have any of the sessions available via webcast? Thanks! Kristin On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 2:14 AM, Paul Poulain paul.poul...@biblibre.comwrote: Le 03/09/2013 00:58, Jared Camins-Esakov a écrit : It is a free conference, I will be bring NZ craft beer ... what more could you want? French cheese. I'm the Frenchman, and I plan to come with some French cheese, definitely. Last time I came to Texas, for KohaCon09, it was not a problem at the border as long as they're properly packed. I also will come with 1 bottle of French wine (the maximum I legally can have) See you here then ;-) -- Paul POULAIN - Associé-gérant Tel : (33) 4 91 81 35 08 http://www.biblibre.com Logiciels Libres pour les bibliothèques et les centres de documentation
Re: [CODE4LIB] Kohacon13 - You should come
Salvete! G ood morning/afternoon! Does anyone know if KohaCon is going to have any of the sessions available via webcast? I would hope so. In 2010, we definitely recorded things and then made them available. I think folks hopped on IRC and put in questions in realish time. (Things line up funnily half a world away. :) ) The talks are still linked and accessible from http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/KohaCon2010 Now if you want live streaming, that may or may not happen. Basically, it depends upon the hosts. Nancy Keener should know for certain. Cheers, Brooke
[CODE4LIB] Job: Communications Librarian at University of California, Merced
The University of California, Merced is a dynamic new university campus in Merced, California, which opened in September 2005 as the tenth campus of the University of California and the first American research university in the 21st century. In keeping with the mission of the University to provide teaching, research and public service of the highest quality, UC Merced offers research-centered and student-oriented educational opportunities at the undergraduate, master's and doctoral levels through three academic schools: Engineering, Natural Sciences and Social Sciences/Humanities/Arts. Position Summary: The role of the Communications librarian is to provide a highly usable, relevant, and inviting digital presence in order to effectively connect library users with library resources and services. The Communications librarian will manage and direct the ongoing development and evaluation of the library's communications, including the web site, mobile site, social networking profiles, print publications, and digital signage. This individual will follow emerging technology trends and current user practices in order to anticipate academic users' needs and preferences in a highly digital and mobile environment. The Communications librarian will produce content for digital communications and contribute to library reference services, especially those provided digitally. Primary Duties: •Develops and coordinates the library's communications strategy •Leads the library web team to direct website development •Contributes design, technical, and information architecture expertise in support of digital communications •Monitors and develops the library's digital presence including its website, social networking profiles, and digital signage •Prepares workflows and implements tools to simplify the production and distribution of content through digital means •Identifies and interprets metrics in order to evaluate digital communications and services •Monitors trends in user behavior and emerging technologies, including social media activities •Participates in library reference services, particularly digital modes of reference Secondary Duties: •Serves on UC systemwide, UC Merced campus, and UC Merced library committees as appropriate •Participates in appropriate professional development activities •Other duties as assigned The University of California, Merced is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer with a strong institutional commitment to the achievement of diversity among its faculty, staff, and students. The University is supportive of dual career couples. Qualifications: Qualifications: •Professional degree from a library school or other appropriate degree or equivalent experience in one or more fields relevant to library services. •Strong marketing and communication skills, especially writing for the web •Experience gathering and assessing feedback and analytics data in order to evaluate new or existing communication strategies •Technical fluency with web authoring standards, accessibility standards, and content management systems •Experience organizing information for the web; information architecture knowledge •Expertise using and evaluating current and emerging social media platforms •Proficiency in project management including delivering projects on time and within scope •Experience in supervising and training others •Ability to both strategize and attend to details •Strong collaborative interpersonal skills Preferred Skills: •Experience using media production technology (e.g. Final Cut) or digital signage systems •Experience with graphic design •Experience working in an academic environment with both students and faculty •Experience providing reference, especially digital reference Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/9909/
