[CODE4LIB] Call for Proposals: ALA Annual Conference Poster Session
**Please excuse cross postings** Dear colleagues, Share your best ideas and work with the national library community by presenting a poster session at the 2015 ALA Annual Conference in San Francisco! The poster session committee encourages submissions from all types of libraries and on any topic relevant to librarianship. Submissions may include a description of an innovative library program; an analysis of a solution to a problem; a report of a research study; or any other presentation that would benefit the larger library community. Poster session participants place materials such as pictures, data, graphs, diagrams and narrative text on boards that are usually 4 x 8 feet. During their assigned 1½ hour time periods, participants informally discuss their presentations with conference attendees. Titles/abstracts from previous years are available on ALA Connect: http://connect.ala.org/node/210160 (note that this site is only serving as an archive for previous Annual Conference poster sessions – for information on this year's posters, go to: https://ala2015.wingateweb.com/portal/ssoCfp.ww). The deadline for submitting an application is *February 6, 2015*. Applicants will be notified by the end of March, after a double blind peer review process, whether their submission has been accepted for presentation at the conference. The 2015 ALA Annual Poster Sessions will be held *June 27 and 28, 2015 (the Saturday and Sunday of the conference) in the exhibits hall.* Start your application process now at https://ala2015.wingateweb.com/portal/ssoCfp.ww. You must create a username and password for the site before you submit your application, you must choose to submit a poster session proposal after you log-in, and you will receive a confirmation e-mail after you have completed your submission. Questions about poster session presentations and submissions may be directed to: Melanie Griffin, chair of the ALA poster session committee, griff...@usf.edu Or Candace Benefiel, chair of the ALA poster session review panel, cbene...@lib-gw.tamu.edu Website: *https://ala2015.wingateweb.com/portal/ssoCfp.ww https://ala2015.wingateweb.com/portal/ssoCfp.ww*
[CODE4LIB] Advanced Collaborative Support for the HathiTrust Research Center
The HathiTrust Research Centerhttp://www.hathitrust.org/htrc/ is seeking proposals for Advanced Collaborative Support (ACS) projects. ACS is a newly launched scholarly service at the HTRC offering collaboration between external scholars and HTRC staff to solve challenging problems related to HTRC tools and services. By working together with scholars, we facilitate computational access to HathiTrust Research Center digital tools (HTRC) as well as the HathiTrust (HT) digital library based on individual scholarly need. This Advanced Collaborative Support (ACS) will drive innovation at the scholar's digital workbench for enhancing and developing new techniques for use within the HTRC platform. A complete copy of the RFP is available online at http://www.hathitrust.org/htrc/acs-rfp RFP Schedule: RFP Available: October 28, 2014 Proposals Due: 5:00 p.m. January 8, 2015 Award Notification: No later than January 30, 2015 Proposals should be submitted electronically as a single zip file to htrc.acs.awa...@gmail.commailto:htrc.acs.awa...@gmail.com Program Description (see the full RFP for more detail - http://bit.ly/1DnbuhP): The HathiTrust (HT) is a large digitized-text corpus ( 10 million volumes) of keen interest to researchers working in a wide range of scholarly disciplines. The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is a collaborative research center launched jointly by Indiana University and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, along with the HathiTrust Digital Library (HT) to help meet the technical challenges that researchers face when dealing with massive amounts of digital text. The HTRC Advanced Collaboration Support Group (ACS) engages with users directly on a one-on-one basis over extended period of time lasting from weeks to months. The ACS Group, selected from the membership of the HTRC user community, pairs the ACS awardee with expert staff members to work collaboratively on challenging problems. Respondents are urged to contact htrc.acs.awa...@gmail.commailto:htrc.acs.awa...@gmail.com, in advance of proposal submission to discuss eligibility, project details, prerequisites, and HTRC support. We look forward to a wide-array of proposals for our inaugural ACS projects supported by funding from the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC). Sincerely, The HathiTrust Research Center Executive Committee: J. Stephen Downie, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois and Co-Director HTRC Beth Plale, School of Informatics and Computing and Data to Insight Center, Indiana University and Co-Director HTRC Beth Namachchivaya, Associate University Librarian for Information Technology Planning and Policy and Associate Dean of Libraries, University of Illinois Robert H. McDonald, Associate Dean for Library Technologies, Indiana University John Unsworth, Vice-Provost, University Librarian and CIO, Brandeis University
[CODE4LIB] Digital Preservation Network (DPN) Launches Member Content Pilot
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 29, 2014 Read it online: http://bit.ly/ZZCJSK Digital Preservation Network (DPN) Launches Member Content Pilot A step toward establishing an operational, long-term preservation system shared across the academy The Digital Preservation Network (DPN) is a federation of more than 50 academic institutional members who are collaboratively developing the means to preserve the complete scholarly record for future generations. DPN has launched a Member Content Pilot program as a step toward establishing an operational, long-term preservation system shared across the academy. The pilot is testing real-world interactions between DPN members through DPN “nodes” that ingest data from members of the Digital Preservation Network and package it for preservation storage. Three DPN nodes (Chronopolis/Duracloud, The Texas Preservation Node, and the Stanford Digital Repository) will be functioning as First Nodes. All five DPN nodes (the three named above along with APTrust and HathiTrust) will be providing replication services for the pilot data. The higher education community has created many digital repositories to provide long-term preservation and access. DPN replicates multiple dark copies of these collections in diverse nodes to protect against the risk of catastrophic loss due to technology, organizational or natural disasters. Participating DPN Member Content Pilot members include Chronopolis, University of California San Diego; Dartmouth University; the DuraSpace organization; Texas Preservation Node and; Yale University. Steven Morales, DPN Chief Business Officer, is pleased with pilot project progress. “The DPN Technical Working group, comprised of the five Replicating Nodes for DPN, have done a phenomenal job linking together their existing repositories, he said, It feels great to be at a point where we can begin testing the network with real content.” The pilot provides: • A functioning preservation network capable of Services sufficient to allow First Nodes to accepting and replicating Member Pilot content and replicate it to Replicating Nodes using the developing DPN network. • Opportunity for all participating Members and First Nodes to play out a realistic content deposit scenario and to discuss and capture the requirements and questions raised. • A preliminary report to the DPN membership regarding results. DPN Timeline In 2012 DPN was launched with the support of founding member institutions. By 2013 replicating nodes had been brought together to begin building the network, software and messaging system. 2014 has been a testing year. This summer three rounds of successful internal testing was completed. In the current phase real member content is being tested as DPN members have joined together as “first nodes”. Content has been identified and prepared for packaging into DPN “bags”. Through the end of 2014 and the beginning of 2015 multiple rounds of testing will be ongoing. A soft launch of a production system will be available in the summer of 2015 through the end of 2016 with all member schools participating. About The Digital Preservation Network The Digital Preservation Network (DPN) will ensure that the complete scholarly record is preserved for future generations. It will be the long-term preservation solution shared collectively across the academy that protect local and consortia preservation efforts against all types of catastrophic failure. The supporting ecosystem enables higher education to own, maintain and control the scholarly record throughout time. While commercial entities may partner with us to contribute to this effort at different points in time depending on priorities and business models, final control must reside with the academy. http://www.dpn.org/.
[CODE4LIB] Metadata
Hello Coders, Just wanted to see who works with metadata and what standards and protocols are you using and what platforms/softwares if any are you using? Thank you. Chris
Re: [CODE4LIB] Metadata
That is a very vague question, would you care to elaborate a bit more? On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 1:50 PM, P.G. booksbyp...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Coders, Just wanted to see who works with metadata and what standards and protocols are you using and what platforms/softwares if any are you using? Thank you. Chris
Re: [CODE4LIB] Metadata
Here you go: http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/~jenlrile/metadatamap/ --Hardy From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of P.G. [booksbyp...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2014 12:50 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Metadata Hello Coders, Just wanted to see who works with metadata and what standards and protocols are you using and what platforms/softwares if any are you using? Thank you. Chris
Re: [CODE4LIB] Metadata
I don't work with metadata for the library, but from metadata class I know we (UIUC) use at least MARC, MARCXML, and MODS. Oxygen is a commonly used application around here to process xml. Brian Zelip --- MS Student, Graduate School of Library Information Science Graduate Assistant, Scholarly Commons University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign zelip.me On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 12:50 PM, P.G. booksbyp...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Coders, Just wanted to see who works with metadata and what standards and protocols are you using and what platforms/softwares if any are you using? Thank you. Chris
Re: [CODE4LIB] Metadata
To answer off the cuff as others have done, currently I am using a modified version of qualified Dublin Core for the DSpace institutional repository I manage. I inherited the system which had some custom fields for publication information and event information, as well as some fields being used improperly that have since been fixed. Edits to the metadata are usually made in DSpace or in Excel with a CSV export, as well as some transforms with XSL. In previous jobs I have also used EAD in Oxygen to make a finding, created a custom schema based on Dublin Core for a CONTENTdm digital collection, and used a custom webform to create records for digitized visual materials using a custom metadata schema that the organization had. Hope this helps. Matt On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 1:50 PM, P.G. booksbyp...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Coders, Just wanted to see who works with metadata and what standards and protocols are you using and what platforms/softwares if any are you using? Thank you. Chris
Re: [CODE4LIB] Metadata
Hardy++ That's what I was going to send! On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Brian Zelip bze...@gmail.com wrote: I don't work with metadata for the library, but from metadata class I know we (UIUC) use at least MARC, MARCXML, and MODS. Oxygen is a commonly used application around here to process xml. Brian Zelip --- MS Student, Graduate School of Library Information Science Graduate Assistant, Scholarly Commons University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign zelip.me On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 12:50 PM, P.G. booksbyp...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Coders, Just wanted to see who works with metadata and what standards and protocols are you using and what platforms/softwares if any are you using? Thank you. Chris -- Tod Robbins Digital Asset Manager, MLIS todrobbins.com | @todrobbins http://www.twitter.com/#!/todrobbins
Re: [CODE4LIB] Metadata
Of course, MARC. I use Millennium ILS' bulk editing modules (Rapid|Global Update) or pymarc. We have a digital repository, EQUELLA, which lets you use custom metadata schemas or preconfigured ones. We use a heavily modified MODS schema. Format is XML. I haven't done a ton of XML processing but I edit in Sublime Text and not a specialized XML editor like Oxygen. Plug-ins like Emmet, XML lint, and the built-in regex search-and-replace save me some time. On the command line, I use typical UNIX text processing tools like sed but will probably find a need for xmlstarlet at some point. Not quite what you asked but I do a *ton* of work with CSV exports from various systems and newline delimited text data. Again, standard UNIX tools are super useful here, less sed than sort, uniq. I'm starting to get into Python's csvkit, too. I dream of all this happening in JSON. The small tools I write for myself use JSON configuration files. Yaml is pretty, too. Best, Eric On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 11:17 AM, todd.d.robb...@gmail.com todd.d.robb...@gmail.com wrote: Hardy++ That's what I was going to send! On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Brian Zelip bze...@gmail.com wrote: I don't work with metadata for the library, but from metadata class I know we (UIUC) use at least MARC, MARCXML, and MODS. Oxygen is a commonly used application around here to process xml. Brian Zelip --- MS Student, Graduate School of Library Information Science Graduate Assistant, Scholarly Commons University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign zelip.me On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 12:50 PM, P.G. booksbyp...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Coders, Just wanted to see who works with metadata and what standards and protocols are you using and what platforms/softwares if any are you using? Thank you. Chris -- Tod Robbins Digital Asset Manager, MLIS todrobbins.com | @todrobbins http://www.twitter.com/#!/todrobbins
Re: [CODE4LIB] Metadata
Depending if you are asking about descriptive, administrative, technical or preservation, there are a lot f metadata standards and schema. Some that haven't been yet mentioned are: VRA Core 3.0 (Visual Resources Association, Core 3.0) for visual material PREMIS (Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies) EAD (Encoded Archival Description) expressed usually as XML METS (metadata encoded transmission standard) MODS (metadata object description schema) [see: http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/tools_for_mods.php] also see: http://credo.library.umass.edu/SCUAMODSGuidelines2012.pdf Systems : VRA Core is implemented for image collections management include, IRIS EAD is implemented for archives collections management in ArchivistsToolkit, Archon, ArchivesSpace and AtoM. Also, have you taking a look at the Seeing Standards visualization of metadata (it doesn't have preservation metadata) that Jen Riley created some years ago and is still a very good reference of the types of md that is used by domain and for forms and formats of content? http://www.dlib.indiana.edu/~jenlrile/metadatamap/ Kari Smith MIT Institute Archives and Special Collections From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Eric Phetteplace [phett...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2014 15:29 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Metadata Of course, MARC. I use Millennium ILS' bulk editing modules (Rapid|Global Update) or pymarc. We have a digital repository, EQUELLA, which lets you use custom metadata schemas or preconfigured ones. We use a heavily modified MODS schema. Format is XML. I haven't done a ton of XML processing but I edit in Sublime Text and not a specialized XML editor like Oxygen. Plug-ins like Emmet, XML lint, and the built-in regex search-and-replace save me some time. On the command line, I use typical UNIX text processing tools like sed but will probably find a need for xmlstarlet at some point. Not quite what you asked but I do a *ton* of work with CSV exports from various systems and newline delimited text data. Again, standard UNIX tools are super useful here, less sed than sort, uniq. I'm starting to get into Python's csvkit, too. I dream of all this happening in JSON. The small tools I write for myself use JSON configuration files. Yaml is pretty, too. Best, Eric On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 11:17 AM, todd.d.robb...@gmail.com todd.d.robb...@gmail.com wrote: Hardy++ That's what I was going to send! On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Brian Zelip bze...@gmail.com wrote: I don't work with metadata for the library, but from metadata class I know we (UIUC) use at least MARC, MARCXML, and MODS. Oxygen is a commonly used application around here to process xml. Brian Zelip --- MS Student, Graduate School of Library Information Science Graduate Assistant, Scholarly Commons University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign zelip.me On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 12:50 PM, P.G. booksbyp...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Coders, Just wanted to see who works with metadata and what standards and protocols are you using and what platforms/softwares if any are you using? Thank you. Chris -- Tod Robbins Digital Asset Manager, MLIS todrobbins.com | @todrobbins http://www.twitter.com/#!/todrobbins
[CODE4LIB] Job: Manager, Digital Library Services at Florida Virtual Campus
Manager, Digital Library Services Florida Virtual Campus Gainesville,Florida The Florida Virtual Campus (FLVC) is a statewide academic support organization. As a joint service of the Florida College System and the State University System, FLVC supports the distance learning, degree completion, and research needs of the students, faculty, and staff of Florida's public colleges and universities. FLVC has office locations in Tallahassee, Gainesville, and Tampa. FLVC contracts with the University of Florida to provide its employees eligibility to participate in the benefit programs offered by both the University of Florida and the State of Florida. For more information on FLVC, visit https://www.flvc.org. SUMMARY: This position reports to the Director of Library Services of the Florida Virtual Campus (FLVC). This position leads the Digital Services workgroup and is located at the Gainesville office. The primary responsibilities for this position include managing the Digital Services workgroup, which helps the libraries of the public university and college systems of Florida create, manage, maintain and preserve digital information resources. The Digital Services workgroup: •provides applications to support digital special collections and archives, electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs), archival finding aids (EADs), electronic journals, and/or other born-digital and retrospectively digitized materials; •runs the Florida Digital Archive, a long-term preservation repository for digital materials; •provides training, documentation, and technical support for these applications, and works with CSUL MCLS committees as appropriate to ensure the needs of the libraries are met; • manages statewide resources, including Florida on Florida. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: 1. Provides direction and oversight for the staff of the Digital Services workgroup. Works in conjunction with the Director of Library Services to plan, develop and direct the work of this group. Ensure that staff has the training and resources they need to provide current and prospective services to the libraries in the areas of digital content management and digital preservation. Set strategic directions and prioritize work among many competing demands. Help staff develop goals and objectives, and monitor their completion. (25%) 2. Provides leadership and coordination for planning, implementing, and training for the adoption and integration of new digital technologies and standards. (20%) 3. Provide project management for large and medium-scale development and implementation projects. Ensure project-wide communication and coordination. (15%) 4. Plans, develops, recommends and implements effective technological responses; conducts technology research and identifies solutions to existing technical issues; analyses data, processes and procedures relevant to library customer service and operations to ensure the delivery of high-quality, customer focused digital services; assists in ensuring the Library's digital services appropriately meet the needs of the community. (15%) 5. Keep abreast of regional and national trends and initiatives related to technology for digital library services to students and faculty. Evaluate new technologies and applications for possible use by libraries, and evaluate the feasibility of providing new services requested by the libraries. Identifies innovative and effective approaches and solutions to system and service needs. (10%) 6. Seeks mutually beneficial partnerships and collaborations with appropriate partners in the digital library domain. Engages in national and consortia efforts in the digital library domain. Contributes to developments in the field of digital librarianship through active professional engagement, research, presentation, and publishing in appropriate venues. (5%) 7. Performs work in support of business processes and projects. Performs time- sensitive tasks and meets established deadlines; maintains effective communications with appropriate FLVC staff; maintains effective working relationships to ensure the success of the business processes and projects. Utilization of troubleshooting and diagnostic skills. Oversees/leads project teams as required. (5%) 8. Other duties as assigned. (5%) SUPERVISION: This position works under minimal supervision and has considerable discretion in how to meet responsibilities and deliver outcomes. The incumbent is expected to be proactive in initiating consultations with the immediate supervisor when needed. This position will supervise employees. NORMAL WORK SCHEDULE: This position is required to work during FLVC core business hours, Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. unless otherwise authorized by the Director of Library Services. Some evening and weekend work may be required to maintain production schedule or to participate in scheduled system maintenance. POLICY MAKING AND/OR INTERPRETATION: Plans,
Re: [CODE4LIB] Metadata
On Oct 29, 2014, at 1:52 PM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com wrote: That is a very vague question, would you care to elaborate a bit more? This. If we just mention standards we use, you'll get drowned in alphabet soup of acronyms. If you could say a few words about what you have and what you want to do, we could be more helpful. Kyle
Re: [CODE4LIB] Metadata
If it's a homework assignment, http://www.niso.org/publications/press/UnderstandingMetadata.pdf to start and Wikipedia to retrieve more detail on standards can give you a good start. -Wilhelmina Randtke On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: I'm guessing it's a homework assignment of some kind to ask us that. On 10/29/14 5:49 PM, Kyle Banerjee wrote: On Oct 29, 2014, at 1:52 PM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com wrote: That is a very vague question, would you care to elaborate a bit more? This. If we just mention standards we use, you'll get drowned in alphabet soup of acronyms. If you could say a few words about what you have and what you want to do, we could be more helpful. Kyle
