[CODE4LIB] OAI-PMH to JSON conversion
Hi! I made a node.js module which helps with OAI-PMH to JSON conversion: https://github.com/peerlibrary/node-xml4js It makes such nice JSON: https://github.com/peerlibrary/node-xml4js/blob/master/tests/arxiv/GetRecord-arXivRaw.json Mitar -- http://mitar.tnode.com/ https://twitter.com/mitar_m
[CODE4LIB] ALA 2014 announcement --ALCTS CRS Holdings Information Committee
***Please excuse the cross posting*** Please join the ALCTS CRS Holdings Information Committee at the ALA Annual Conference in Las Vegas on Saturday, June 28th from 3:00-4:00 p.m. in the Las Vegas Convention Center, Room S229. We have three presentations demonstrating three different perspectives on the manipulation and use of holdings data: MarcEdit and OCLC Integration Terry Reese, the developer of the MarcEdit software program, will discuss MarcEdit and current integration opportunities, focusing on the new OCLC Metadata API service. He will demonstrate how MarcEdit has been able to utilize that service to provide deep integration to support direct and local bibliographic editing of WorldCat data directly within MarcEdit, as well as support batch holdings management through the interface. The presentation will discuss the current capabilities, some gaps, and how interested individuals could get started. BIBFRAME, ISSN, and the Future of Serials Regina Reynolds, Coordinator, U.S. ISSN Center, Library of Congress shares her thoughts about the ISSN and the future of serials description and access as we transition from MARC21 to BIBFRAME. The future of the ISSN is intimately bound to the future of CRs. How are these resources changing, and what are some impacts of those changes? The presentation will include a high-level view of changes in continuing resources, challenges faced by BIBFRAME in modeling serials, and an introduction of a model for serials, PRESSoo, developed by the ISSN International Centre and the Bibliothèque nationale de France. Some potential benefits of a linked data approach to serials and other continuing resources will also be presented. The AUDITOR and holdings verification Josh Pyle, CTO and President of Dublin Six, will discuss holdings verification through the use of The AUDITOR software package. Installed on an institution’s network, The Auditor passively monitors all network traffic and makes libraries aware of every form of content that is being used and presents this information in COUNTER-style reports. The Auditor’s reports include content from every publisher on every platform, and also reports on content from open access or free information sources. Sophisticated click-stream analysis infers library holdings in real-time. Unexpected access denials, including broken links, are detected immediately. We look forward to seeing you there! On behalf of the ALCTS CRS Holdings Committee, Violeta Ilik | Assistant Professor Semantic Technologies Librarian Office of Scholarly Communication Texas AM University Libraries 5000 TAMU | College Station, TX 77843 Tel. 979.862.4661 Email: vilik at library.tamu.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] OAI-PMH to JSON conversion
Dear Mitar, Looks really interesting! Is your tool open source? Best, Maarten Op 20 jun. 2014, om 08:10 heeft Mitar mmi...@gmail.com het volgende geschreven: Hi! I made a node.js module which helps with OAI-PMH to JSON conversion: https://github.com/peerlibrary/node-xml4js It makes such nice JSON: https://github.com/peerlibrary/node-xml4js/blob/master/tests/arxiv/GetRecord-arXivRaw.json Mitar -- http://mitar.tnode.com/ https://twitter.com/mitar_m
[CODE4LIB] DLF Forum Call for Proposals - due Sunday!
The DLF Forum (http://www.diglib.org/forums/2014forum/) is an annual meeting where the digital library community comes together to discover better methods of working through sharing and collaboration. It serves as a resource and catalyst among digital library developers, project managers, and all who are invested in digital library issues. We are currently seeking proposals for the 2014 DLF Forum program. The Program Planning Committee requests proposals within the broad framework of digital collections, infrastructure, resources, and organizational priorities. You do not need to be part of a member organization in order to submit a proposal. The Forum traditionally has no overarching theme so that we can craft a program that speaks to current issues of interest to our community. We depend on contributors to focus proposals on action-oriented topics targeted towards a practitioner audience, considering the aspects of design, management, assessment, and collaboration Suggested topical areas for 2014 include: * Digital resources, including research data and archival collections * User services / UX * Systems architecture, both hardware and code This is not a prescriptive list; we encourage you to be creative, collaborative, and collegial. Proposals are due this Sunday, June 22. For more information and to submit your proposal, please visit http://www.diglib.org/forums/2014forum/cfp/. Please share widely. Apologies for cross-posting. Louisa Kwasigroch Senior Program Associate - Digital Library Federation Council on Library and Information Resources www.diglib.org | www.clir.orghttp://www.clir.org/ 2014 DLF Forumhttp://www.diglib.org/forums/2014forum/, Atlanta, October 27-29 Call for Proposalshttp://www.diglib.org/forums/2014forum/cfp/ – Due June 22 Registrationhttp://www.diglib.org/forums/2014forum/registration/ – Early bird until June 30
Re: [CODE4LIB] Is ISNI / ISO 27729:2012 a name identifier or an entity identifier?
Janifer has been following the thread and has asked me to post the following on her behalf: ~Richard. Here is a consolidated response: Below is an extract from a paper that is in publication that illustrates the model that is used in ISNI. Many of the contributors to VIAF are also adopting this approach. Marrying the model with actual data is discussed below the extract. Meryl Streep has only one public identity that she uses for her creative works. VIAF includes Streep, Meryl (Mary Louise) as the name form on her birth certificate is Streep, Mary Louise. Her married name Gummer, Mary Louise, is mentioned in Wikipedia and could also be considered as a name variant. Changes in the preferred forenames and change of name due to marriage are not considered as constituting a change of identity as there is not necessarily a wish by the person to separate his or her creative output corresponding with a name change. Researchers, for example will mention the ensemble of their publications in their curriculum vitae where they have been published over a lifetime involving name changes. Alternative name forms that do not usually indicate a change in identity can take variant forms including names in different scripts or transliterated with different schemes, changes due to change of sex, marriage and deed poll. Kingsley Amis in the figure above is an example of an author writing under 3 different identities, writing as himself and writing under two different pseudonyms. His works attributed to each of the three different identities are clearly separated. In this case, the association of the pseudonyms with the real person is public but that is not always the case. For example, J.K. Rowling chose to create a pseudonym Robert Galbraith (35) so that she could write in a different genre and have her works in the new genre judged without any influence of the successful Harry Potter series.When the relationship between a pseudonym and a real person is or becomes public, the works tend to become associated with the real person as well as the pseudonym; for example they may be republished or released in collected works. One example is John Wyndham, the main pen name of John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris (10 July 1903 – 11 March 1969). Under an earlier pen name, John Beynon, he wrote Secret People but this is now published under John Wyndham. As a general rule, separate authority records should be made for each identity used as a public identity. This allows the history of works to be accurately traced, enabling catalogs to respond to questions such as “under which identity was the work conceived and first published?” The authority records related to each of the public identities should be linked where the relationship is public. Encyclopedias such as Wikipedia tend to have only one entry for a person, grouping all public identities. This entails the need for one-to-many relationships in linking especially from library authority records to encyclopedias. ISNI has a suite of programs that detects pseudonyms coded as name variants and changes them into related name and generates related identity records. It is a while since it was run and will be re-run in the next few weeks. This should change Currer Bell into a related name of Charlotte Brontë . The Sefton / Waddell I will fix manually. The End user comment function in the ISNI public interface enables anyone to submit a query or request for change on a record. This generates an email to the Quality Team at the British Library and Bibliothèque nationale de France and their staff perform regular manual fixes. On 20 June 2014 04:58, Stuart Yeates stuart.yea...@vuw.ac.nz wrote: In wikipedia, the principal representation for alternative names for entities are 'redirects'. The redirect from Catherine Sefton to Martin Waddell can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/w/ index.php?title=Catherine_Seftonredirect=no (and yes, being a wiki it's editable). That redirect is annotated that this is a redirect From an alternative name (as opposed to a common spelling mistake or something else) and From a printworthy page title (which says to use this redirect when building (cross-) indexes etc.). To create a link from the Catherine Sefton to an authority control system (as distinct from the Martin Waddell link), the redirect can be editted include an Authority control template (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Authority_control ), which is the same template used for full articles. cheers stuart On 06/19/2014 08:53 PM, Owen Stephens wrote: An aside but interesting to see how some of this identity stuff seems to be playing out in the wild now. Google for Catherine Sefton: https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=catherine+sefton The Knowledge Graph displays information about Martin Waddell. Catherine Sefton is a pseudonym of Martin Waddell. It is impossible to know, but the most likely source of this knowledge
Re: [CODE4LIB] Is ISNI / ISO 27729:2012 a name identifier or an entity identifier?
On Jun 20, 2014, at 10:31 AM, Richard Wallis richard.wal...@dataliberate.com wrote: ISNI has a suite of programs that detects pseudonyms coded as name variants and changes them into related name and generates related identity records. It is a while since it was run and will be re-run in the next few weeks. This should change Currer Bell into a related name of Charlotte Brontë . Please humor me as I ask this question again. What is the difference between ISNI and other identifiers systems (like ORCID, etc.)? What distinguishes one from another? As a librarian, why should I care? Was as a faculty member/scholar, why should I care? Under what context is one identifier expected to be used instead of another? Maybe a picture/graph is in order: authority control simple pointer +-+--+ VIAF |X| | +-+--+ ORCID | | X| +-+--+ ISNI | | | +-+--+ — Eric Lease Morgan
Re: [CODE4LIB] Is ISNI / ISO 27729:2012 a name identifier or an entity identifier?
Hi Eric, What distinguishes one from another? The communities behind them, the [often overlapping] communities they are intended to serve, and the technical implementation. As a librarian, why should I care? I would, as a non-librarian, suggest that once you are happy with the ‘authority’ of them, you shouldn’t have to care. Ideally, we are not there yet, systems should be flexible and accommodating enough to link to any appropriate authority. I will probably get flamed for over generalisation here but - VIAF is an aggregation of National Libraries Authority files. - ISNI is a more publisher focused but similar effort. - OCID comes from and and tries to serve individual academic institutions, their researchers and falsity authors. authority control |simple identifier |Linked Data capability +-+--+--+ VIAF |X|X | X | +-+--+--+ ORCID | | X| | +-+--+--+ ISNI |X| X|X | +-+--+--+ ~Richard On 20 June 2014 15:42, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: On Jun 20, 2014, at 10:31 AM, Richard Wallis richard.wal...@dataliberate.com wrote: ISNI has a suite of programs that detects pseudonyms coded as name variants and changes them into related name and generates related identity records. It is a while since it was run and will be re-run in the next few weeks. This should change Currer Bell into a related name of Charlotte Brontë . Please humor me as I ask this question again. What is the difference between ISNI and other identifiers systems (like ORCID, etc.)? What distinguishes one from another? As a librarian, why should I care? Was as a faculty member/scholar, why should I care? Under what context is one identifier expected to be used instead of another? Maybe a picture/graph is in order: authority control simple pointer +-+--+ VIAF |X| | +-+--+ ORCID | | X| +-+--+ ISNI | | | +-+--+ — Eric Lease Morgan -- Richard Wallis Founder, Data Liberate http://dataliberate.com Tel: +44 (0)7767 886 005 Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/richardwallis Skype: richard.wallis1 Twitter: @rjw
Re: [CODE4LIB] Is ISNI / ISO 27729:2012 a name identifier or an entity identifier?
will be there just now. Renate On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 15:56:28 +0100 Richard Wallis richard.wal...@dataliberate.com wrote: Hi Eric, What distinguishes one from another? The communities behind them, the [often overlapping] communities they are intended to serve, and the technical implementation. As a librarian, why should I care? I would, as a non-librarian, suggest that once you are happy with the ‘authority’ of them, you shouldn’t have to care. Ideally, we are not there yet, systems should be flexible and accommodating enough to link to any appropriate authority. I will probably get flamed for over generalisation here but - VIAF is an aggregation of National Libraries Authority files. - ISNI is a more publisher focused but similar effort. - OCID comes from and and tries to serve individual academic institutions, their researchers and falsity authors. authority control |simple identifier |Linked Data capability +-+--+--+ VIAF |X|X | X | +-+--+--+ ORCID | | X| | +-+--+--+ ISNI |X| X|X | +-+--+--+ ~Richard On 20 June 2014 15:42, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: On Jun 20, 2014, at 10:31 AM, Richard Wallis richard.wal...@dataliberate.com wrote: ISNI has a suite of programs that detects pseudonyms coded as name variants and changes them into related name and generates related identity records. It is a while since it was run and will be re-run in the next few weeks. This should change Currer Bell into a related name of Charlotte Brontë . Please humor me as I ask this question again. What is the difference between ISNI and other identifiers systems (like ORCID, etc.)? What distinguishes one from another? As a librarian, why should I care? Was as a faculty member/scholar, why should I care? Under what context is one identifier expected to be used instead of another? Maybe a picture/graph is in order: authority control simple pointer +-+--+ VIAF |X| | +-+--+ ORCID | | X| +-+--+ ISNI | | | +-+--+ — Eric Lease Morgan -- Richard Wallis Founder, Data Liberate http://dataliberate.com Tel: +44 (0)7767 886 005 Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/richardwallis Skype: richard.wallis1 Twitter: @rjw Renate Morgenstern Tel. 2072607
[CODE4LIB] Job: Library Technology Services Manager at Arlington Public Library System
Library Technology Services Manager Arlington Public Library System Arlington The Arlington Public Library, a department of the City of Arlington, TX (pop. 375,438), now the seventh largest city in Texas, is seeking an innovative and results-oriented Library Technology Services Manager. Located in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, the Arlington Public Library has a Central Library and six branch libraries and is in the process of designing an exciting new Central Library facility, projected to begin service in 2017. The Library Technology Services Manager is responsible for directing the day to day operation of library technology systems, including the functioning of the Library's Polaris ILS, public computing services (pay for print and computer reservations) and the software and hardware systems within the department that support the provision of library service, including purchase and maintenance of equipment and contract/license maangement for hardware and software, as directed by the City's Information Technology Department. Successful candidates will have experience in investigating, evaluating and recommending new technology applicable to the Library's technology infrastructure, especially technologies that effectively facilitate self-service and with short-term planning for technology projects. The ability to work collaboratively with the City's Information Technology department in managing technology infrastructure is important. The Arlington Public Library offers a progressive and creative environment for self-directed librarians who are interested in building and sustaining strong community partnerships and planning and implementing unique programs of services that meet community needs. We are seeking librarians who are adaptable to change, motivated by innovation, passionate about the impact libraries have on individuals, families and communities and who want more than a career spent sitting at a service desk. All of our librarians, regardless of their supervisory classification are project managers, service and program designers, technology geeks, marketers, educators and mentors. Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/15245/ To post a new job please visit http://jobs.code4lib.org/
Re: [CODE4LIB] Is ISNI / ISO 27729:2012 a name identifier or an entity identifier?
I concur with Richard's analysis[1]. Each identifier type serves a different community. In particular, ORCID identifiers will tend to identify faculty and researchers whose sole output is journal articles -- thus who would not normally appear in a library authority file. The ISNI is sometimes seen as an interloper from the publishing community, but most likely is integrated into the publisher workflow (e.g. writing checks to authors). Like Richard, I don't see anything to worry about. You can use one, some, or all of the identifiers based on your needs. So a faculty digital repository may need to used ORCIDs because there are authors who are only identified by those. (Repositories are beginning to require ORCIDs for deposit.) The same repository can also use LCNA for some authors -- you are in no way limited to one identifier per person or system. If you are hoping to pull in author data in your library catalog from wiki/DB/pedia, then you might favor the VIAF identifier, since this is being linked to the pedia world. This seems to me to be quite similar to other data and metadata choices that we make: define your use case, then choose the data that meets that need. kc [1] One possible difference is that I would consider ORCID a viable URI for linked data purposes, although at the moment ORCID does not export its data in RDF. All of the identifiers listed below are HTTP URIs. On 6/20/14, 7:56 AM, Richard Wallis wrote: Hi Eric, What distinguishes one from another? The communities behind them, the [often overlapping] communities they are intended to serve, and the technical implementation. As a librarian, why should I care? I would, as a non-librarian, suggest that once you are happy with the ‘authority’ of them, you shouldn’t have to care. Ideally, we are not there yet, systems should be flexible and accommodating enough to link to any appropriate authority. I will probably get flamed for over generalisation here but - VIAF is an aggregation of National Libraries Authority files. - ISNI is a more publisher focused but similar effort. - OCID comes from and and tries to serve individual academic institutions, their researchers and falsity authors. authority control |simple identifier |Linked Data capability +-+--+--+ VIAF |X|X | X | +-+--+--+ ORCID | | X| | +-+--+--+ ISNI |X| X|X | +-+--+--+ ~Richard On 20 June 2014 15:42, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: On Jun 20, 2014, at 10:31 AM, Richard Wallis richard.wal...@dataliberate.com wrote: ISNI has a suite of programs that detects pseudonyms coded as name variants and changes them into related name and generates related identity records. It is a while since it was run and will be re-run in the next few weeks. This should change Currer Bell into a related name of Charlotte Brontë . Please humor me as I ask this question again. What is the difference between ISNI and other identifiers systems (like ORCID, etc.)? What distinguishes one from another? As a librarian, why should I care? Was as a faculty member/scholar, why should I care? Under what context is one identifier expected to be used instead of another? Maybe a picture/graph is in order: authority control simple pointer +-+--+ VIAF |X| | +-+--+ ORCID | | X| +-+--+ ISNI | | | +-+--+ — Eric Lease Morgan -- Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet
Re: [CODE4LIB] OAI-PMH to JSON conversion
Hi! Yes. Check the LICENSE file in the repository. BSD licensed. Mitar On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 6:09 AM, Maarten Brinkerink mbrinker...@beeldengeluid.nl wrote: Dear Mitar, Looks really interesting! Is your tool open source? Best, Maarten Op 20 jun. 2014, om 08:10 heeft Mitar mmi...@gmail.com het volgende geschreven: Hi! I made a node.js module which helps with OAI-PMH to JSON conversion: https://github.com/peerlibrary/node-xml4js It makes such nice JSON: https://github.com/peerlibrary/node-xml4js/blob/master/tests/arxiv/GetRecord-arXivRaw.json Mitar -- http://mitar.tnode.com/ https://twitter.com/mitar_m -- http://mitar.tnode.com/ https://twitter.com/mitar_m
[CODE4LIB] Job: Library Systems and Data Strategist at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Library Systems and Data Strategist University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison Hello, I want to point out to you a new job posting for a Data Strategist at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. The posting is at: http://www.ohr.wisc.edu/WebListing/Unclassified/PVLSummary.aspx?pvl_num=80033 Note that we are moving to Alma from Voyager for our library catalog. We also have a Blacklight-based library catalog interface at: http://search.library.wisc.edu/ We are also a Primo site. The Data Strategist will work closely with library and technical staff, integrated library system vendors, application developers, researchers and campus partners to further the discovery and delivery of Library and other data. The Data Strategist will leverage deep knowledge of Library and other data to develop strategies for organizing and integrating many disparate data types. The Data Strategist will develop and maintain a thorough understanding of the functional, operational, and service needs of the Library as well as a provide a creative, dynamic perspective on provisioning data and services through other systems. First review of applications will take place on 7/17/2014 and will continue until the position is filled. Please email resume, cover letter and contact information for three references to perick...@library.wisc.edu. Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/15251/ To post a new job please visit http://jobs.code4lib.org/
Re: [CODE4LIB] Is ISNI / ISO 27729:2012 a name identifier or an entity identifier?
On Jun 20, 2014, at 10:56 AM, Richard Wallis richard.wal...@dataliberate.com wrote: authority control|simple identifier |Linked Data capability +-+--+--+ VIAF |X|X | X | +-+--+--+ ORCID | |X | | +-+--+--+ ISNI |X|X | X | +-+--+--+ Increasingly I like linked data, and consequently, here is clarification and a question. ORCID does support RDF, but only barely. It can output FOAF-like data, but not bibliographic. Moreover, it is experimental, at best: curl -L -H 'accept: application/rdf+xml' http://orcid.org/-0002-9952-7800 In what ways does ISNI support linked data? — Eric Morgan
[CODE4LIB] software for a glossary
Do you know of a Web-based tool or piece of desktop software that would let a professor post a text in a frame, then highlight words or phrases and link them to a glossary? A quick-and-dirty web page (possibly attached) and link below illustrates the idea: http://dh.crc.nd.edu/tmp/glossary.html — Eric Morgan
Re: [CODE4LIB] Is ISNI / ISO 27729:2012 a name identifier or an entity identifier?
In what ways does ISNI support linked data? See: http://www.isni.org/how-isni-works#HowItWorks_LinkedData ~Richard On 20 June 2014 18:57, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: On Jun 20, 2014, at 10:56 AM, Richard Wallis richard.wal...@dataliberate.com wrote: authority control|simple identifier |Linked Data capability +-+--+--+ VIAF |X|X | X | +-+--+--+ ORCID | |X | | +-+--+--+ ISNI |X|X | X | +-+--+--+ Increasingly I like linked data, and consequently, here is clarification and a question. ORCID does support RDF, but only barely. It can output FOAF-like data, but not bibliographic. Moreover, it is experimental, at best: curl -L -H 'accept: application/rdf+xml' http://orcid.org/-0002-9952-7800 In what ways does ISNI support linked data? — Eric Morgan -- Richard Wallis Founder, Data Liberate http://dataliberate.com Tel: +44 (0)7767 886 005 Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/richardwallis Skype: richard.wallis1 Twitter: @rjw
Re: [CODE4LIB] software for a glossary
I saw a project at the Hacking Journalism hackathon @ MIT recently that would get the job done: http://hackingjournalism.challengepost.com/submissions/24271-inline They were thinking more along the lines of a crowdsource solution for science news but I'm sure it could adapted to fit your needs! —Chris On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: Do you know of a Web-based tool or piece of desktop software that would let a professor post a text in a frame, then highlight words or phrases and link them to a glossary? A quick-and-dirty web page (possibly attached) and link below illustrates the idea: http://dh.crc.nd.edu/tmp/glossary.html — Eric Morgan
Re: [CODE4LIB] software for a glossary
The Web Ahead podcast had an episode that covered the current state of web annotation. Something there might work. http://5by5.tv/webahead/60 Crossing the thread over to linked author data, this item made me laugh. http://w3cmemes.tumblr.com/post/76273506486/dave-started-reviewing-open-annotations-today On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: Do you know of a Web-based tool or piece of desktop software that would let a professor post a text in a frame, then highlight words or phrases and link them to a glossary? A quick-and-dirty web page (possibly attached) and link below illustrates the idea: http://dh.crc.nd.edu/tmp/glossary.html — Eric Morgan
Re: [CODE4LIB] Is ISNI / ISO 27729:2012 a name identifier or an entity identifier?
On 6/20/14, 11:38 AM, Richard Wallis wrote: In what ways does ISNI support linked data? See: http://www.isni.org/how-isni-works#HowItWorks_LinkedData accessible by a persistent URI in the form isni-url.oclc.nl/isni/000134596520 (for example) and soon also in the form isni.org/isni/000134596520. Odd. I assume that whoever wrote that on their page just forgot the http://; part of those strings. Right? kc ~Richard On 20 June 2014 18:57, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: On Jun 20, 2014, at 10:56 AM, Richard Wallis richard.wal...@dataliberate.com wrote: authority control|simple identifier |Linked Data capability +-+--+--+ VIAF |X|X | X | +-+--+--+ ORCID | |X | | +-+--+--+ ISNI |X|X | X | +-+--+--+ Increasingly I like linked data, and consequently, here is clarification and a question. ORCID does support RDF, but only barely. It can output FOAF-like data, but not bibliographic. Moreover, it is experimental, at best: curl -L -H 'accept: application/rdf+xml' http://orcid.org/-0002-9952-7800 In what ways does ISNI support linked data? --- Eric Morgan -- Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet
Re: [CODE4LIB] Is ISNI / ISO 27729:2012 a name identifier or an entity identifier?
On Jun 20, 2014, at 4:30 PM, Karen Coyle wrote: On 6/20/14, 11:38 AM, Richard Wallis wrote: In what ways does ISNI support linked data? See: http://www.isni.org/how-isni-works#HowItWorks_LinkedData accessible by a persistent URI in the form isni-url.oclc.nl/isni/000134596520 (for example) and soon also in the form isni.org/isni/000134596520. Odd. I assume that whoever wrote that on their page just forgot the http://; part of those strings. Right? People think I'm being pedantic when I bitch about the protocol missing for printed materials (flyers, business cards, etc) ... but in this case, it's a definite violation of RFC 3986: 1.1.1. Generic Syntax Each URI begins with a scheme name, as defined in Section 3.1, that refers to a specification for assigning identifiers within that scheme. As such, the URI syntax is a federated and extensible naming system wherein each scheme's specification may further restrict the syntax and semantics of identifiers using that scheme. Now, it's possible that this whole we don't need to bother with http://; thing has spilled into the CMS building community, and they're actively stripping it out. From their page, I think they're using Drupal, but the horrible block of HTML that this was in is blatantly MS Word's 'save as HTML' foulness: h2span lang=EN-USa name=HowItWorks_LinkedData/aLinked Data/span/h2 p class=MsoNormalspan lang=EN-USLinked data is part of the ISNI-IA’s strategy to make ISNIs freely available and widely diffused.nbsp; Each assigned ISNI is accessible by a persistent URI in the form isni-url.oclc.nl/isni/000134596520 (for example) nbsp;and soon also in the form isni.org/isni/000134596520.nbsp;/span/p p class=MsoNormalspan lang=EN-USComing soon:nbsp; ISNI core metadata in RDF triples.nbsp; The RDF triples will be embedded in the public web pages and the format will be available via the persistent URI and the SRU search API./span/p p class=MsoNormalspan lang=EN-USnbsp;/span/p -Joe On 20 June 2014 18:57, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: On Jun 20, 2014, at 10:56 AM, Richard Wallis richard.wal...@dataliberate.com wrote: authority control|simple identifier |Linked Data capability +-+--+--+ VIAF |X|X | X | +-+--+--+ ORCID | |X | | +-+--+--+ ISNI |X|X | X | +-+--+--+ Increasingly I like linked data, and consequently, here is clarification and a question. ORCID does support RDF, but only barely. It can output FOAF-like data, but not bibliographic. Moreover, it is experimental, at best: curl -L -H 'accept: application/rdf+xml' http://orcid.org/-0002-9952-7800 In what ways does ISNI support linked data? --- Eric Morgan -- Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet
Re: [CODE4LIB] Excel to XML (for a Drupal Feeds import)
Thanks for everyone's ideas. I think Shaun's solution is exactly what
I'm trying to do.
Shaun Ellis mailto:sha...@princeton.edu
June 16, 2014 at 10:36 PM
Ryan, it sounds like you simply want to pull two relational tables
into drupal using referenced entities in a one (question) to many
(answers) relationship?
This can be accomplished, albeit unintuitively (it is Drupal
afterall), by using the Feeds CSV parser with Feeds Tamper, and I
would skip what seems like an unnecessary conversion to XML step.
First, you import your questions and set a GUID target (typically your
db id). Then import your answers -- each should have a reference to
the id mapped using the Entity Reference by Feeds GUID. I have done
it in reverse order too, in which case you'd import all your answers
first. In this case, your second (questions) import needs to contain a
single column of delimited answer GUIDs into a single column. Use the
Feeds Tamper explode plugin on that field during mapping as explained
(rather vaguely) here:
http://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/32234/how-to-use-feeds-module-to-import-multi-value-fields
If that's not what you're trying to do, can you clarify?
-Shaun
Joshua Welker mailto:wel...@ucmo.edu
June 16, 2014 at 2:35 PM
Sorry, the last line got messed up by outlook.
#now save the whole thing as an xml file
with open('myfile.xml', 'wb') as file
ElementTree(rootNode).write(file)
Josh Welker
-Original Message-
From: Joshua Welker [mailto:wel...@ucmo.edu]
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2014 2:32 PM
To: Code for Libraries
Subject: RE: [CODE4LIB] Excel to XML (for a Drupal Feeds import)
This should be quite doable in most programming languages with
out-of-the-box tools and no tricky parsing code. The gist is to save in
Excel as a delimited text file (tab is a good choice), then have your
script
ingest the document and turn it into an array, and then turn the array
into
XML. In Python, it could be something like the code below (not tested but
the principles should be sound):
import 'csv'
from elementtree.ElementTree import Element, SubElement
#create a list
mylist = []
#open your delimited file with a csv reader with open('myfile.txt',
'rb') as
textfile:
reader = csv.reader( textfile, delimiter='\t', quotechat='') #this
assumes your file is tab-delimited (\t)
#loop through rows in your file and save each row as a key/value pair
(dictionary)
for row in textfile:
fields = {
'field1': row[0]
'field2': row[1]
'field3': row[2]
'field4': row[3]
}
#append this row to our master list
mylist.append( fields )
#create an xml root node
rootNode = Element(XmlRoot)
#loop through our list of rows from the text file and create xml
nodes for
row in mylist:
rowNode = Element(record)
#loop through all the fields on this row and turn them into xml nodes
for fieldName, fieldValue in row:
fieldNode = Element(fieldName)
fieldNode.text = fieldValue
#append each field node to the parent row node
rowNode.append(fieldNode)
#append each row node to the document root node
rootNode.append(rowNode)
#now save the whole thing as an xml file with open('myfile.xml', 'wb') as
file
ElementTree(rootNode).write(file)
Josh Welker
-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf
Of Kyle
Banerjee
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2014 1:04 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Excel to XML (for a Drupal Feeds import)
I'd just do this the old fashioned way. Awk is great for problems like
this.
For example, if your file is tab delimited, the following should work
awk '{FS=\t}{if ($2 != ) question = $2;}{print $1,question,$3}''
yourfile
In the example above, I just print the fields but you could easily encase
them in tags.
kyle
Joshua Welker mailto:wel...@ucmo.edu
June 16, 2014 at 2:32 PM
This should be quite doable in most programming languages with
out-of-the-box tools and no tricky parsing code. The gist is to save in
Excel as a delimited text file (tab is a good choice), then have your
script
ingest the document and turn it into an array, and then turn the array
into
XML. In Python, it could be something like the code below (not tested but
the principles should be sound):
import 'csv'
from elementtree.ElementTree import Element, SubElement
#create a list
mylist = []
#open your delimited file with a csv reader
with open('myfile.txt', 'rb') as textfile:
reader = csv.reader( textfile, delimiter='\t', quotechat='') #this
assumes your file is tab-delimited (\t)
#loop through rows in your file and save each row as a key/value pair
(dictionary)
for row in textfile:
fields = {
'field1': row[0]
'field2': row[1]
'field3': row[2]
'field4': row[3]
}
#append this row to our master list
mylist.append( fields )
#create an xml root node
rootNode = Element(XmlRoot)
#loop through our list of rows from the text file and create xml nodes
for row in mylist:
rowNode = Element(record)
#loop through all the fields on this row and turn
Re: [CODE4LIB] Is ISNI / ISO 27729:2012 a name identifier or an entity identifier?
On 6/20/14, 1:49 PM, Joe Hourcle wrote: Now, it's possible that this whole we don't need to bother with http://; thing has spilled into the CMS building community, and they're actively stripping it out. I actually had the editors of an ALA publication remove http://; whenever it preceded www because they were convinced that you only needed http://; when there was no www at the front of the domain name. I had to fight to get the http://; put back in. (I believe the excuse was that it took up space.) From their page, I think they're using Drupal, but the horrible block of HTML that this was in is blatantly MS Word's 'save as HTML' foulness: h2span lang=EN-USa name=HowItWorks_LinkedData/aLinked Data/span/h2 p class=MsoNormalspan lang=EN-USLinked data is part of the ISNI-IA’s strategy to make ISNIs freely available and widely diffused.nbsp; Each assigned ISNI is accessible by a persistent URI in the form isni-url.oclc.nl/isni/000134596520 (for example) nbsp;and soon also in the form isni.org/isni/000134596520.nbsp;/span/p p class=MsoNormalspan lang=EN-USComing soon:nbsp; ISNI core metadata in RDF triples.nbsp; The RDF triples will be embedded in the public web pages and the format will be available via the persistent URI and the SRU search API./span/p p class=MsoNormalspan lang=EN-USnbsp;/span/p Which is so foul that Dreamweaver has a Clean up Word HTML command in its menu. But you still end up with pretty bad HTML. kc -Joe On 20 June 2014 18:57, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: On Jun 20, 2014, at 10:56 AM, Richard Wallis richard.wal...@dataliberate.com wrote: authority control|simple identifier |Linked Data capability +-+--+--+ VIAF |X|X | X | +-+--+--+ ORCID | |X | | +-+--+--+ ISNI |X|X | X | +-+--+--+ Increasingly I like linked data, and consequently, here is clarification and a question. ORCID does support RDF, but only barely. It can output FOAF-like data, but not bibliographic. Moreover, it is experimental, at best: curl -L -H 'accept: application/rdf+xml' http://orcid.org/-0002-9952-7800 In what ways does ISNI support linked data? --- Eric Morgan -- Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet -- Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet
Re: [CODE4LIB] software for a glossary
On 6/20/14, 1:16 PM, Tom Keays wrote: Crossing the thread over to linked author data, this item made me laugh. http://w3cmemes.tumblr.com/post/76273506486/dave-started-reviewing-open-annotations-today The only thing worse would be: OMG IT'S FULL OF OWL kc On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: Do you know of a Web-based tool or piece of desktop software that would let a professor post a text in a frame, then highlight words or phrases and link them to a glossary? A quick-and-dirty web page (possibly attached) and link below illustrates the idea: http://dh.crc.nd.edu/tmp/glossary.html — Eric Morgan -- Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet
