[CODE4LIB] Final CFP: Keystone Digital Humanities Conference, University of Pennsylvania Libraries
(apologies for cross-posting) FINAL CFP: Proposals due MONDAY, JANUARY 12 http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/Keystonedh/ The Keystone Digital Humanities conference will be held in the Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, July 22-24, 2015. Dr. Miriam Posner, Coordinator and Core Faculty of the Digital Humanities Program at UCLA, will be presenting the keynote lecture, “What's Next?: The Radical, Unrealized Potential of Digital Humanities.” Proposals are now invited for long presentations (20 minutes), short presentations (7 minutes), and project showcases (10 minutes) in all areas of digital humanities. Presentations may take the form of interactive presentations, short papers, project demos, panel discussions, or workshops. We welcome proposals from emerging and veteran students, teachers, and scholars. The community will be invited to vote on proposals that they would like to see included in the program. The 10 proposals with the highest scores are guaranteed a slot at the conference. The Program Committee will curate the remainder of the program in an effort to ensure diversity in program content and presenters. Community votes will, of course, still weigh heavily in these decisions. Please send your name, email address, and a proposal of 200-300 words to keystonedh.confere...@gmail.com. The proposal deadline is January 12, 2015, and community peer review will run from January 15-February 15. Proposers will be notified by March 1. The Association for Computers and the Humanities (http://ach.org/) is covering registration for ten graduate students to present at the conference. Conference Organizing Committee Dawn Childress, Penn State University William Noel, University of Pennsylvania Molly Des Jardin, University of Pennsylvania James O'Sullivan, Penn State University Mitch Fraas, University of Pennsylvania Dot Porter, University of Pennsylvania Patricia Hswe, Penn State University Katie Rawson, University of Pennsylvania Diane Jakacki, Bucknell University Matt Shoemaker, Temple University David McKnight, University of Pennsylvania Stefan Sinclair, McGill University Dennis Mullen, University of Pennsylvania Rebecca Stuhr, University of Pennsylvania -- *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* Dot Porter (MA, MSLS) Digital Medievalist, Digital Librarian Email: dot.por...@gmail.com Personal blog: dotporterdigital.org Medieval Electronic Scholarly Alliance: http://www.mesa-medieval.org MESA blog: http://mesamedieval.wordpress.com/ MESA on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MedievalElectronicScholarlyAlliance *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib North 2015 meet up?
Hello All, Is anyone interested in hosting the Code4Lib North 2015 meeting? I was going to volunteer and have St. Catharines ON be the place for this year but if someone has a desire to host I will graciously defer. Similarly if anyone is willing to help me run the event I'd be happy for the help. Thanks, Tim == Tim Ribaric Acting Head, Library Systems Technologies Digital Services Librarian Computer Science Philosophy Liaison Librarian @elibtronic
Re: [CODE4LIB] lita
LITA is now the smallest ALA division. Personally, as someone who’s been involved with LITA for 20 years, I think the decrease is due to all the reasons Kevin cites below, and also because of something of an identity crisis - related to the advent of the Internet, as Eric says. LITA is the technology division of the ALA. *Everything* in libraries is done with technology now, so ALA members who once might’ve chosen to join the technology division choose instead to join other divisions, related to their other interests. Look at the list of ALCTS (the cataloging division) programs for any given ALA conference, or ALCTS list of CE webinars, and it’s all topics that might’ve once been more the purview of LITA. Of course I ran for LITA prez on that platform 6 years ago and lost so what do I know … deb On Jan 5, 2015, at 10:28 AM, Kevin Ford k...@3windmills.com wrote: I think this just goes to show, with the advent of the Internet, centralized authorities are not as necessary/useful as they once used to be. —ELM -- Maybe. I think it it recession-related. The high water mark for nearly all of the groups on that list is 2007 (2006 for one or two). The overall stats for ALA show the same membership pattern (increasing until 2007, decreasing thereafter): http://www.ala.org/membership/membershipstats_files/annual_memb_stats I'd be interested to know if LITA's membership decrease is greater (as a percentage) than the others. Perhaps that would suggest forums such as code4lib peeled off some of those would-be LITA members. Otherwise, it just looks like a broader decline in ALA membership, probably for a few reasons: fewer librarians in the workforce, fewer institutions willing to pay professional membership fees, less willingness to pay those fees out of pocket, etc. Yours, Kevin On 1/5/15 10:12 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: I’m curious, how large is LITA (Library and Information Technology Association)? [0] How many members does it have? Apparently it has around 3000 members this year. I found this on the ALA membership statistics page: http://www.ala.org/membership/membershipstats_files/divisionstats#lita Interesting and thank you. Code4Lib only needs fifty more subscribers to equal LITA’s size. I think this just goes to show, with the advent of the Internet, centralized authorities are not as necessary/useful as they once used to be. —ELM dsshap...@wisc.edu Debra Shapiro SLIS, the iSchool at UW-Madison Helen C. White Hall, Rm. 4282 600 N. Park St. Madison WI 53706 608 262 9195 mobile 608 712 6368 FAX 608 263 4849
Re: [CODE4LIB] lita
I’m curious, how large is LITA (Library and Information Technology Association)? [0] How many members does it have? Apparently it has around 3000 members this year. I found this on the ALA membership statistics page: http://www.ala.org/membership/membershipstats_files/divisionstats#lita Interesting and thank you. Code4Lib only needs fifty more subscribers to equal LITA’s size. I think this just goes to show, with the advent of the Internet, centralized authorities are not as necessary/useful as they once used to be. —ELM
Re: [CODE4LIB] lita
Le 05/01/2015 17:12, Eric Lease Morgan a écrit : Interesting and thank you. Code4Lib only needs fifty more subscribers to equal LITA’s size. I think this just goes to show, with the advent of the Internet, centralized authorities are not as necessary/useful as they once used to be. —ELM For a list created more than 10 years ago, can we trust the number of subscribers figure ? How many dead addresses ? (not saying that number of members of an association == active members, sure).
Re: [CODE4LIB] lita
I think this just goes to show, with the advent of the Internet, centralized authorities are not as necessary/useful as they once used to be. —ELM -- Maybe. I think it it recession-related. The high water mark for nearly all of the groups on that list is 2007 (2006 for one or two). The overall stats for ALA show the same membership pattern (increasing until 2007, decreasing thereafter): http://www.ala.org/membership/membershipstats_files/annual_memb_stats I'd be interested to know if LITA's membership decrease is greater (as a percentage) than the others. Perhaps that would suggest forums such as code4lib peeled off some of those would-be LITA members. Otherwise, it just looks like a broader decline in ALA membership, probably for a few reasons: fewer librarians in the workforce, fewer institutions willing to pay professional membership fees, less willingness to pay those fees out of pocket, etc. Yours, Kevin On 1/5/15 10:12 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: I’m curious, how large is LITA (Library and Information Technology Association)? [0] How many members does it have? Apparently it has around 3000 members this year. I found this on the ALA membership statistics page: http://www.ala.org/membership/membershipstats_files/divisionstats#lita Interesting and thank you. Code4Lib only needs fifty more subscribers to equal LITA’s size. I think this just goes to show, with the advent of the Internet, centralized authorities are not as necessary/useful as they once used to be. —ELM
Re: [CODE4LIB] lita
On Jan 5, 2015, at 11:25 AM, Sylvain Machefert smachef...@u-bordeaux3.fr wrote: Interesting and thank you. Code4Lib only needs fifty more subscribers to equal LITA’s size. I think this just goes to show, with the advent of the Internet, centralized authorities are not as necessary/useful as they once used to be. —ELM For a list created more than 10 years ago, can we trust the number of subscribers figure ? How many dead addresses ? (not saying that number of members of an association == active members, sure). There are zero dead mailing list addresses because the LISTSERV software prunes such things on a daily basis. Yes, we can trust the number of subscribers, but that does not mean all of the subscribers actively participate in the community. —ELM
Re: [CODE4LIB] lita
Also, I would point out that libraries increasingly hire non-librarians in technology positions. That likely means that even if said persons might eventually find Code4Lib, their allegiance to a profession as epitomized by ALA is unlikely. Roy On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 8:37 AM, Debra Shapiro dsshap...@wisc.edu wrote: LITA is now the smallest ALA division. Personally, as someone who’s been involved with LITA for 20 years, I think the decrease is due to all the reasons Kevin cites below, and also because of something of an identity crisis - related to the advent of the Internet, as Eric says. LITA is the technology division of the ALA. *Everything* in libraries is done with technology now, so ALA members who once might’ve chosen to join the technology division choose instead to join other divisions, related to their other interests. Look at the list of ALCTS (the cataloging division) programs for any given ALA conference, or ALCTS list of CE webinars, and it’s all topics that might’ve once been more the purview of LITA. Of course I ran for LITA prez on that platform 6 years ago and lost so what do I know … deb On Jan 5, 2015, at 10:28 AM, Kevin Ford k...@3windmills.com wrote: I think this just goes to show, with the advent of the Internet, centralized authorities are not as necessary/useful as they once used to be. —ELM -- Maybe. I think it it recession-related. The high water mark for nearly all of the groups on that list is 2007 (2006 for one or two). The overall stats for ALA show the same membership pattern (increasing until 2007, decreasing thereafter): http://www.ala.org/membership/membershipstats_files/annual_memb_stats I'd be interested to know if LITA's membership decrease is greater (as a percentage) than the others. Perhaps that would suggest forums such as code4lib peeled off some of those would-be LITA members. Otherwise, it just looks like a broader decline in ALA membership, probably for a few reasons: fewer librarians in the workforce, fewer institutions willing to pay professional membership fees, less willingness to pay those fees out of pocket, etc. Yours, Kevin On 1/5/15 10:12 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: I’m curious, how large is LITA (Library and Information Technology Association)? [0] How many members does it have? Apparently it has around 3000 members this year. I found this on the ALA membership statistics page: http://www.ala.org/membership/membershipstats_files/divisionstats#lita Interesting and thank you. Code4Lib only needs fifty more subscribers to equal LITA’s size. I think this just goes to show, with the advent of the Internet, centralized authorities are not as necessary/useful as they once used to be. —ELM dsshap...@wisc.edu Debra Shapiro SLIS, the iSchool at UW-Madison Helen C. White Hall, Rm. 4282 600 N. Park St. Madison WI 53706 608 262 9195 mobile 608 712 6368 FAX 608 263 4849
Re: [CODE4LIB] lita
You can see the Executive Director's membership reports on ALA Connect: Annual 2014 - http://connect.ala.org/node/225631 (pdf) Midwinter 2014 - http://connect.ala.org/node/216881 (pdf) Annual 2013 - http://connect.ala.org/node/208000 (.docx) Midwinter 2013 - http://connect.ala.org/node/197812 (.rtf) -Cindi LITA Immediate Past President On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Kevin Ford k...@3windmills.com wrote: I think this just goes to show, with the advent of the Internet, centralized authorities are not as necessary/useful as they once used to be. —ELM -- Maybe. I think it it recession-related. The high water mark for nearly all of the groups on that list is 2007 (2006 for one or two). The overall stats for ALA show the same membership pattern (increasing until 2007, decreasing thereafter): http://www.ala.org/membership/ membershipstats_files/annual_memb_stats I'd be interested to know if LITA's membership decrease is greater (as a percentage) than the others. Perhaps that would suggest forums such as code4lib peeled off some of those would-be LITA members. Otherwise, it just looks like a broader decline in ALA membership, probably for a few reasons: fewer librarians in the workforce, fewer institutions willing to pay professional membership fees, less willingness to pay those fees out of pocket, etc. Yours, Kevin On 1/5/15 10:12 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: I’m curious, how large is LITA (Library and Information Technology Association)? [0] How many members does it have? Apparently it has around 3000 members this year. I found this on the ALA membership statistics page: http://www.ala.org/membership/membershipstats_files/divisionstats#lita Interesting and thank you. Code4Lib only needs fifty more subscribers to equal LITA’s size. I think this just goes to show, with the advent of the Internet, centralized authorities are not as necessary/useful as they once used to be. —ELM
[CODE4LIB] 2015 Registration Reminder
Code4Lib 2015 PDX is a little more than a month from now. This is your courtesy reminder to make your plans and get registered. Space is still available, but time is running out! http://code4lib.org/conference/2015 - Tom
[CODE4LIB] PBCore RDF Ontology Hackathon Wiki page
Hi Code4Libbers, In case you are interested in attending or staying in the know about the PBCore RDF ontology hackathon happening on February 7 8 before Code4Lib, check out the Wiki page: http://wiki.code4lib.org/PBCore_RDF_Hackathon. This is also where we will provide links to all documentation created during the hackathon. In case you are unable to join us, we will be using the hashtag #PBCoreRDF15 on the days of the event. Best, Casey Casey E. Davis, MLIS | Project Manager, American Archive of Public Broadcasting WGBH Media Library and Archives | WGBH Educational Foundation casey_da...@wgbh.orgmailto:casey_da...@wgbh.org | 617-300-5921 | One Guest Street | Boston, MA 02135 Subscribe to the American Archive bloghttp://americanarchivepb.wordpress.com/ Follow the #AmericanArchive @amarchivepub
Re: [CODE4LIB] lita
Salvete! I just wanted to add the point that there can very easily be a union betwixt LITA and Code4Lib (and prolly is a substantial one, though I am definitely guessing at the data). There is naught to make them mutually exclusive. Cheers, Brooke
[CODE4LIB] Happy New Year from ELUNA - Presenter discount available until Jan 10!
*ELUNA 2015* *Minneapolis, Minnesota* *May 6-8, 2015* *Call for Presentations* Start the New Year with savings -- $100 cash discount on Registration! Better than fruitcake, sweeter than chocolate, better for your figure and your teeth. A sweet deal of a $100.00 in the form of a discount on your ELUNA registration and all you have to do is a 45 minute presentation. How sweet is that? The annual meeting of the Ex Libris Users of North America aims to offer Ex Libris customers and staff an opportunity to share information, experiences, best practices, and works in progress in an informal, collegial environment. Thought provoking content is encouraged to insure an interesting and worthwhile program. Presentation proposals are reviewed and selected by the ELUNA 2015 Conference Planning Committee and presenters will receive a $100.00 discount on registration (one discount per person, cannot be combined with TS Combo discount). The deadline for proposals is January 10, 2015. *Conference Planning Committee Members for ELUNA 2015 and the Tracks they Coordinate:* Aleph -- Abigail Baines abai...@hampshire.edu and Terri Winchcombe terri.winchco...@smu.ca Alma – Lisa O’Hara lisa.oh...@umanitoba.ca Digitool/Rosetta—Laura Evans ev...@binghamton.edu General/Strategy – F. Tracy Farmer tfar...@astate.edu Metalib – Sacha Jerabek jerabek.alexande...@uqam.ca Primo—Erin Rushton erush...@binghamton.edu SFX – Rich Wenger rwen...@mit.edu Voyager – Kathryn Frederick kfred...@skidmore.edu and Judith Brink-Drescher jdresc...@molloy.edu Verde/Ustat - Singley, Emily emily_sing...@harvard.edu All presentations will be 45 minutes in each of the following tracks. Aleph Alma Digitool/Rosetta General/Strategic Metalib Primo SFX Verde/UStat Voyager Proposals should be submitted using the link below. Please be advised you will need to create a login in order to submit a proposal. http://proposalspace.com/proposals/405/calldetails The ELUNA 2015 Program Planning Committee will review every proposal submitted and respond in late January 2015 as to whether the presentation has been accepted. We are anxiously awaiting your submission. The deadline for proposals in January 10, 2015. Contact the ELUNA 2015 Program Planning Committee elunaprogp...@listserv.nd.edu with any questions. Thank you, -- Abigail Baines ELUNA ALEPH Track Coordinator Systems Discovery Librarian Harold F. Johnson Library Hampshire College phone: 413-559-5766 email: abai...@hampshire.edu web: library.hampshire.edu blog: theharold.hampshire.edu -- Abigail Baines Systems Discovery Librarian Harold F. Johnson Library Hampshire College phone: 413-559-5766 email: abai...@hampshire.edu - - abigaildiscov...@gmail.com web: library.hampshire.edu blog: theharold.hampshire.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] lita
(Putting on LITA Board hat) To pull out some math in case you don't want to sort through the docs, and also make a correction: Yes, LITA's membership decline is faster than average for ALA. No, LITA is not the smallest division; ASCLA and United are quite a bit smaller. (Putting on personal hat) I find myself thinking of LITA less as the technology division of ALA and more as the libtech association where I get to meet non-technology librarians. I love getting to meet people I can talk Django and Heroku with (!), and I meet more of those in code4lib than in ALA. But I *also* love seeing how the tools of the libtech world do, and don't, support the needs of library staff and patrons more broadly. And I love learning how the issues that matter to us as technologists - copyright, data quality, privacy - impact librarians in other subfields. And, to be blunt, there are some damn fun youth services librarians, copyright librarians, instructional librarians, et cetera. And I meet them through LITA. (okay maybe that was my Board hat too. I can wear two hats at once! I am like Hydra. Well. Not Project Hydra. Or Hail Hydra. SO YOU HOPE.) On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Cindi Blyberg cindi...@gmail.com wrote: You can see the Executive Director's membership reports on ALA Connect: Annual 2014 - http://connect.ala.org/node/225631 (pdf) Midwinter 2014 - http://connect.ala.org/node/216881 (pdf) Annual 2013 - http://connect.ala.org/node/208000 (.docx) Midwinter 2013 - http://connect.ala.org/node/197812 (.rtf) -Cindi LITA Immediate Past President On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Kevin Ford k...@3windmills.com wrote: I think this just goes to show, with the advent of the Internet, centralized authorities are not as necessary/useful as they once used to be. —ELM -- Maybe. I think it it recession-related. The high water mark for nearly all of the groups on that list is 2007 (2006 for one or two). The overall stats for ALA show the same membership pattern (increasing until 2007, decreasing thereafter): http://www.ala.org/membership/ membershipstats_files/annual_memb_stats I'd be interested to know if LITA's membership decrease is greater (as a percentage) than the others. Perhaps that would suggest forums such as code4lib peeled off some of those would-be LITA members. Otherwise, it just looks like a broader decline in ALA membership, probably for a few reasons: fewer librarians in the workforce, fewer institutions willing to pay professional membership fees, less willingness to pay those fees out of pocket, etc. Yours, Kevin On 1/5/15 10:12 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: I’m curious, how large is LITA (Library and Information Technology Association)? [0] How many members does it have? Apparently it has around 3000 members this year. I found this on the ALA membership statistics page: http://www.ala.org/membership/membershipstats_files/divisionstats#lita Interesting and thank you. Code4Lib only needs fifty more subscribers to equal LITA’s size. I think this just goes to show, with the advent of the Internet, centralized authorities are not as necessary/useful as they once used to be. —ELM -- Andromeda Yelton Board of Directors, Library Information Technology Association: http://www.lita.org Advisor, Ada Initiative: http://adainitiative.org http://andromedayelton.com @ThatAndromeda http://twitter.com/ThatAndromeda
Re: [CODE4LIB] PBCore RDF Ontology Hackathon Wiki page
Casey, I have some suggestions: 1) Everyone should read at least the first chapters of the Allemang book, Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist: http://www.worldcat.org/title/semantic-web-for-the-working-ontologist-effective-modeling-in-rdfs-and-owl/oclc/73393667 2) Everyone should understand the RDF meaning of classes, properties, domain and range before beginning. (cf: http://kcoyle.blogspot.com/2014/11/classes-in-rdf.html) 3) Don't lean too heavily on Protege. Protege is very OWL-oriented and can lead one far astray. It's easy to click on check boxes without knowing what they really mean. Do as much development as you can without using Protege, and do your development in RDFS not OWL. Later you can use Protege to check your work, or to complete the code. 4) Develop in ntriples or turtle but NOT rdf/xml. RDF differs from XML in some fundamental ways that are not obvious, and developing in rdf/xml masks these differences and often leads to the development of not very good ontologies. kc On 1/5/15 9:35 AM, Casey Davis wrote: Hi Code4Libbers, In case you are interested in attending or staying in the know about the PBCore RDF ontology hackathon happening on February 7 8 before Code4Lib, check out the Wiki page: http://wiki.code4lib.org/PBCore_RDF_Hackathon. This is also where we will provide links to all documentation created during the hackathon. In case you are unable to join us, we will be using the hashtag #PBCoreRDF15 on the days of the event. Best, Casey Casey E. Davis, MLIS | Project Manager, American Archive of Public Broadcasting WGBH Media Library and Archives | WGBH Educational Foundation casey_da...@wgbh.orgmailto:casey_da...@wgbh.org | 617-300-5921 | One Guest Street | Boston, MA 02135 Subscribe to the American Archive bloghttp://americanarchivepb.wordpress.com/ Follow the #AmericanArchive @amarchivepub -- Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net m: +1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet/+1-510-984-3600
Re: [CODE4LIB] PBCore RDF Ontology Hackathon Wiki page
Very good suggestions Karen. I'd also recommend attendees study the EBU core ontology http://www.ebu.ch/metadata/ontologies/ebucore/. While I will be unable to attend, I'm extremely interested in where you find this existing solution to be deficient. Justin On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote: Casey, I have some suggestions: 1) Everyone should read at least the first chapters of the Allemang book, Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist: http://www.worldcat.org/title/semantic-web-for-the-working- ontologist-effective-modeling-in-rdfs-and-owl/oclc/73393667 2) Everyone should understand the RDF meaning of classes, properties, domain and range before beginning. (cf: http://kcoyle.blogspot.com/ 2014/11/classes-in-rdf.html) 3) Don't lean too heavily on Protege. Protege is very OWL-oriented and can lead one far astray. It's easy to click on check boxes without knowing what they really mean. Do as much development as you can without using Protege, and do your development in RDFS not OWL. Later you can use Protege to check your work, or to complete the code. 4) Develop in ntriples or turtle but NOT rdf/xml. RDF differs from XML in some fundamental ways that are not obvious, and developing in rdf/xml masks these differences and often leads to the development of not very good ontologies. kc On 1/5/15 9:35 AM, Casey Davis wrote: Hi Code4Libbers, In case you are interested in attending or staying in the know about the PBCore RDF ontology hackathon happening on February 7 8 before Code4Lib, check out the Wiki page: http://wiki.code4lib.org/PBCore_RDF_Hackathon. This is also where we will provide links to all documentation created during the hackathon. In case you are unable to join us, we will be using the hashtag #PBCoreRDF15 on the days of the event. Best, Casey Casey E. Davis, MLIS | Project Manager, American Archive of Public Broadcasting WGBH Media Library and Archives | WGBH Educational Foundation casey_da...@wgbh.orgmailto:casey_da...@wgbh.org | 617-300-5921 | One Guest Street | Boston, MA 02135 Subscribe to the American Archive bloghttp://americanarchivepb. wordpress.com/ Follow the #AmericanArchive @amarchivepub -- Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net m: +1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet/+1-510-984-3600
Re: [CODE4LIB] PBCore RDF Ontology Hackathon Wiki page
On Jan 5, 2015, at 1:35 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote: 1) Everyone should read at least the first chapters of the Allemang book, Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist: http://www.worldcat.org/title/semantic-web-for-the-working-ontologist-effective-modeling-in-rdfs-and-owl/oclc/73393667 +2 because it is a very good book 2) Everyone should understand the RDF meaning of classes, properties, domain and range before beginning. (cf: http://kcoyle.blogspot.com/2014/11/classes-in-rdf.html) +1 for knowing the distinctions between these things, yes 3) Don't lean too heavily on Protege. Protege is very OWL-oriented and can lead one far astray. It's easy to click on check boxes without knowing what they really mean. Do as much development as you can without using Protege, and do your development in RDFS not OWL. Later you can use Protege to check your work, or to complete the code. +1 but at the same time workshops are good places to see how things get done in a limited period of time. 4) Develop in ntriples or turtle but NOT rdf/xml. RDF differs from XML in some fundamental ways that are not obvious, and developing in rdf/xml masks these differences and often leads to the development of not very good ontologies. +1 -1 because each of the RDF serializations have its own advantages and disadvantages — Eric Morgan
[CODE4LIB] Job Posting; warm and sunny Florida WAS: [CODE4LIB] lita
Speaking of non-librarians in technology positions: Have you had enough of the dreadful cold and snow? Are you good with people AND with the systems that serve them in libraries? Then consider this position in the martin County Library System: Electronic Resources Coordinatorhttp://www.martin.fl.us/portal/page?_pageid=356,3893495_dad=portal_schema=PORTALreq=R02032 (got to www.martin.fl.ushttp://www.martin.fl.us and click on Jobs for details) Pardon the intrusion. Sylvie Szafranski Public Services Manager Library Martin County Board of County Commissioners www.library.martin.fl.us 772 219-4969 -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Roy Tennant Sent: Monday, January 05, 2015 11:42 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] lita Also, I would point out that libraries increasingly hire non-librarians in technology positions. That likely means that even if said persons might eventually find Code4Lib, their allegiance to a profession as epitomized by ALA is unlikely. Roy On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 8:37 AM, Debra Shapiro dsshap...@wisc.edumailto:dsshap...@wisc.edu wrote: LITA is now the smallest ALA division. Personally, as someone who’s been involved with LITA for 20 years, I think the decrease is due to all the reasons Kevin cites below, and also because of something of an identity crisis - related to the advent of the Internet, as Eric says. LITA is the technology division of the ALA. *Everything* in libraries is done with technology now, so ALA members who once might’ve chosen to join the technology division choose instead to join other divisions, related to their other interests. Look at the list of ALCTS (the cataloging division) programs for any given ALA conference, or ALCTS list of CE webinars, and it’s all topics that might’ve once been more the purview of LITA. Of course I ran for LITA prez on that platform 6 years ago and lost so what do I know … deb On Jan 5, 2015, at 10:28 AM, Kevin Ford k...@3windmills.commailto:k...@3windmills.com wrote: I think this just goes to show, with the advent of the Internet, centralized authorities are not as necessary/useful as they once used to be. —ELM -- Maybe. I think it it recession-related. The high water mark for nearly all of the groups on that list is 2007 (2006 for one or two). The overall stats for ALA show the same membership pattern (increasing until 2007, decreasing thereafter): http://www.ala.org/membership/membershipstats_files/annual_memb_stats I'd be interested to know if LITA's membership decrease is greater (as a percentage) than the others. Perhaps that would suggest forums such as code4lib peeled off some of those would-be LITA members. Otherwise, it just looks like a broader decline in ALA membership, probably for a few reasons: fewer librarians in the workforce, fewer institutions willing to pay professional membership fees, less willingness to pay those fees out of pocket, etc. Yours, Kevin On 1/5/15 10:12 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: I’m curious, how large is LITA (Library and Information Technology Association)? [0] How many members does it have? Apparently it has around 3000 members this year. I found this on the ALA membership statistics page: http://www.ala.org/membership/membershipstats_files/divisionstats#lita Interesting and thank you. Code4Lib only needs fifty more subscribers to equal LITA’s size. I think this just goes to show, with the advent of the Internet, centralized authorities are not as necessary/useful as they once used to be. —ELM dsshap...@wisc.edumailto:dsshap...@wisc.edu Debra Shapiro SLIS, the iSchool at UW-Madison Helen C. White Hall, Rm. 4282 600 N. Park St. Madison WI 53706 608 262 9195 mobile 608 712 6368 FAX 608 263 4849 The comments and opinions expressed herein are those of the author of this message and may not reflect the policies of the Martin County Board of County Commissioners. Under Florida Law, email addresses are public records. If you do not want your email address released in response to a public records request do not send electronic mail to this entity. Instead, contact this office by phone or in writing. Click here to subscribe to Martin County’s e-Newsletter
Re: [CODE4LIB] PBCore RDF Ontology Hackathon Wiki page
Thanks for your suggestions, Karen! I have added them to the wiki. Justin, luckily we have a representative from EBU who is planning to attend. We are definitely reviewing the EBUCore ontology and are seeing this hackathon as an opportunity to harmonize EBUCore and PBCore as much as possible. Best, Casey On 1/5/15 1:35 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote: Casey, I have some suggestions: 1) Everyone should read at least the first chapters of the Allemang book, Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist: http://www.worldcat.org/title/semantic-web-for-the-working-ontologist-effe ctive-modeling-in-rdfs-and-owl/oclc/73393667 2) Everyone should understand the RDF meaning of classes, properties, domain and range before beginning. (cf: http://kcoyle.blogspot.com/2014/11/classes-in-rdf.html) 3) Don't lean too heavily on Protege. Protege is very OWL-oriented and can lead one far astray. It's easy to click on check boxes without knowing what they really mean. Do as much development as you can without using Protege, and do your development in RDFS not OWL. Later you can use Protege to check your work, or to complete the code. 4) Develop in ntriples or turtle but NOT rdf/xml. RDF differs from XML in some fundamental ways that are not obvious, and developing in rdf/xml masks these differences and often leads to the development of not very good ontologies. kc On 1/5/15 9:35 AM, Casey Davis wrote: Hi Code4Libbers, In case you are interested in attending or staying in the know about the PBCore RDF ontology hackathon happening on February 7 8 before Code4Lib, check out the Wiki page: http://wiki.code4lib.org/PBCore_RDF_Hackathon. This is also where we will provide links to all documentation created during the hackathon. In case you are unable to join us, we will be using the hashtag #PBCoreRDF15 on the days of the event. Best, Casey Casey E. Davis, MLIS | Project Manager, American Archive of Public Broadcasting WGBH Media Library and Archives | WGBH Educational Foundation casey_da...@wgbh.orgmailto:casey_da...@wgbh.org | 617-300-5921 | One Guest Street | Boston, MA 02135 Subscribe to the American Archive bloghttp://americanarchivepb.wordpress.com/ Follow the #AmericanArchive @amarchivepub -- Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net m: +1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet/+1-510-984-3600
Re: [CODE4LIB] PBCore RDF Ontology Hackathon Wiki page
Also check out the *Working Ontologist* website for example files, etc.: http://workingontologist.org/ –Tod On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 11:04 AM, Casey Davis casey_da...@wgbh.org wrote: Thanks for your suggestions, Karen! I have added them to the wiki. Justin, luckily we have a representative from EBU who is planning to attend. We are definitely reviewing the EBUCore ontology and are seeing this hackathon as an opportunity to harmonize EBUCore and PBCore as much as possible. Best, Casey On 1/5/15 1:35 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote: Casey, I have some suggestions: 1) Everyone should read at least the first chapters of the Allemang book, Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist: http://www.worldcat.org/title/semantic-web-for-the-working-ontologist-effe ctive-modeling-in-rdfs-and-owl/oclc/73393667 2) Everyone should understand the RDF meaning of classes, properties, domain and range before beginning. (cf: http://kcoyle.blogspot.com/2014/11/classes-in-rdf.html) 3) Don't lean too heavily on Protege. Protege is very OWL-oriented and can lead one far astray. It's easy to click on check boxes without knowing what they really mean. Do as much development as you can without using Protege, and do your development in RDFS not OWL. Later you can use Protege to check your work, or to complete the code. 4) Develop in ntriples or turtle but NOT rdf/xml. RDF differs from XML in some fundamental ways that are not obvious, and developing in rdf/xml masks these differences and often leads to the development of not very good ontologies. kc On 1/5/15 9:35 AM, Casey Davis wrote: Hi Code4Libbers, In case you are interested in attending or staying in the know about the PBCore RDF ontology hackathon happening on February 7 8 before Code4Lib, check out the Wiki page: http://wiki.code4lib.org/PBCore_RDF_Hackathon. This is also where we will provide links to all documentation created during the hackathon. In case you are unable to join us, we will be using the hashtag #PBCoreRDF15 on the days of the event. Best, Casey Casey E. Davis, MLIS | Project Manager, American Archive of Public Broadcasting WGBH Media Library and Archives | WGBH Educational Foundation casey_da...@wgbh.orgmailto:casey_da...@wgbh.org | 617-300-5921 | One Guest Street | Boston, MA 02135 Subscribe to the American Archive bloghttp://americanarchivepb.wordpress.com/ Follow the #AmericanArchive @amarchivepub -- Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net m: +1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet/+1-510-984-3600 -- Tod Robbins Digital Asset Manager, MLIS todrobbins.com | @todrobbins http://www.twitter.com/#!/todrobbins
Re: [CODE4LIB] PBCore RDF Ontology Hackathon Wiki page
Great! I'm glad to hear everyone is working together on the same problem rather than rejecting the existing solutions outright. -Justin On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 1:04 PM, Casey Davis casey_da...@wgbh.org wrote: Thanks for your suggestions, Karen! I have added them to the wiki. Justin, luckily we have a representative from EBU who is planning to attend. We are definitely reviewing the EBUCore ontology and are seeing this hackathon as an opportunity to harmonize EBUCore and PBCore as much as possible. Best, Casey On 1/5/15 1:35 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote: Casey, I have some suggestions: 1) Everyone should read at least the first chapters of the Allemang book, Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist: http://www.worldcat.org/title/semantic-web-for-the-working-ontologist-effe ctive-modeling-in-rdfs-and-owl/oclc/73393667 2) Everyone should understand the RDF meaning of classes, properties, domain and range before beginning. (cf: http://kcoyle.blogspot.com/2014/11/classes-in-rdf.html) 3) Don't lean too heavily on Protege. Protege is very OWL-oriented and can lead one far astray. It's easy to click on check boxes without knowing what they really mean. Do as much development as you can without using Protege, and do your development in RDFS not OWL. Later you can use Protege to check your work, or to complete the code. 4) Develop in ntriples or turtle but NOT rdf/xml. RDF differs from XML in some fundamental ways that are not obvious, and developing in rdf/xml masks these differences and often leads to the development of not very good ontologies. kc On 1/5/15 9:35 AM, Casey Davis wrote: Hi Code4Libbers, In case you are interested in attending or staying in the know about the PBCore RDF ontology hackathon happening on February 7 8 before Code4Lib, check out the Wiki page: http://wiki.code4lib.org/PBCore_RDF_Hackathon. This is also where we will provide links to all documentation created during the hackathon. In case you are unable to join us, we will be using the hashtag #PBCoreRDF15 on the days of the event. Best, Casey Casey E. Davis, MLIS | Project Manager, American Archive of Public Broadcasting WGBH Media Library and Archives | WGBH Educational Foundation casey_da...@wgbh.orgmailto:casey_da...@wgbh.org | 617-300-5921 | One Guest Street | Boston, MA 02135 Subscribe to the American Archive bloghttp://americanarchivepb.wordpress.com/ Follow the #AmericanArchive @amarchivepub -- Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net m: +1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet/+1-510-984-3600
Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib North 2015 meet up?
On 5 January 2015, Tim Ribaric wrote: Is anyone interested in hosting the Code4Lib North 2015 meeting? I was going to volunteer and have St. Catharines ON be the place for this year but if someone has a desire to host I will graciously defer. Similarly if anyone is willing to help me run the event I'd be happy for the help. +1 for St. Catharines and for volunteering! There's interesting digital humanities and augmented reality work being done at Brock (eg Kevin Kee and John Bonnett) and if some connections were made there it'd be extra fun. Brock'll be easy for people from upstate New York to get to, as well. Bill -- William Denton ↔ Toronto, Canada ↔ https://www.miskatonic.org/
[CODE4LIB] lita
I’m curious, how large is LITA (Library and Information Technology Association)? [0] How many members does it have? [0] LITA - http://www.ala.org/lita/ — ELM
Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib North 2015 meet up?
+1 also! Yes! On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 10:30 AM, William Denton w...@pobox.com wrote: On 5 January 2015, Tim Ribaric wrote: Is anyone interested in hosting the Code4Lib North 2015 meeting? I was going to volunteer and have St. Catharines ON be the place for this year but if someone has a desire to host I will graciously defer. Similarly if anyone is willing to help me run the event I'd be happy for the help. +1 for St. Catharines and for volunteering! There's interesting digital humanities and augmented reality work being done at Brock (eg Kevin Kee and John Bonnett) and if some connections were made there it'd be extra fun. Brock'll be easy for people from upstate New York to get to, as well. Bill -- William Denton ↔ Toronto, Canada ↔ https://www.miskatonic.org/
Re: [CODE4LIB] lita
On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: I’m curious, how large is LITA (Library and Information Technology Association)? [0] How many members does it have? [0] LITA - http://www.ala.org/lita/ — ELM Apparently it has around 3000 members this year. I found this on the ALA membership statistics page: http://www.ala.org/membership/membershipstats_files/divisionstats#lita
Re: [CODE4LIB] lita
This is why we love you. :P (not a mistake. sent to list. sorry to spam but Andromeda rocksss.) On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 3:38 PM, Andromeda Yelton andromeda.yel...@gmail.com wrote: (Putting on LITA Board hat) To pull out some math in case you don't want to sort through the docs, and also make a correction: Yes, LITA's membership decline is faster than average for ALA. No, LITA is not the smallest division; ASCLA and United are quite a bit smaller. (Putting on personal hat) I find myself thinking of LITA less as the technology division of ALA and more as the libtech association where I get to meet non-technology librarians. I love getting to meet people I can talk Django and Heroku with (!), and I meet more of those in code4lib than in ALA. But I *also* love seeing how the tools of the libtech world do, and don't, support the needs of library staff and patrons more broadly. And I love learning how the issues that matter to us as technologists - copyright, data quality, privacy - impact librarians in other subfields. And, to be blunt, there are some damn fun youth services librarians, copyright librarians, instructional librarians, et cetera. And I meet them through LITA. (okay maybe that was my Board hat too. I can wear two hats at once! I am like Hydra. Well. Not Project Hydra. Or Hail Hydra. SO YOU HOPE.) On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 11:59 AM, Cindi Blyberg cindi...@gmail.com wrote: You can see the Executive Director's membership reports on ALA Connect: Annual 2014 - http://connect.ala.org/node/225631 (pdf) Midwinter 2014 - http://connect.ala.org/node/216881 (pdf) Annual 2013 - http://connect.ala.org/node/208000 (.docx) Midwinter 2013 - http://connect.ala.org/node/197812 (.rtf) -Cindi LITA Immediate Past President On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 11:28 AM, Kevin Ford k...@3windmills.com wrote: I think this just goes to show, with the advent of the Internet, centralized authorities are not as necessary/useful as they once used to be. —ELM -- Maybe. I think it it recession-related. The high water mark for nearly all of the groups on that list is 2007 (2006 for one or two). The overall stats for ALA show the same membership pattern (increasing until 2007, decreasing thereafter): http://www.ala.org/membership/ membershipstats_files/annual_memb_stats I'd be interested to know if LITA's membership decrease is greater (as a percentage) than the others. Perhaps that would suggest forums such as code4lib peeled off some of those would-be LITA members. Otherwise, it just looks like a broader decline in ALA membership, probably for a few reasons: fewer librarians in the workforce, fewer institutions willing to pay professional membership fees, less willingness to pay those fees out of pocket, etc. Yours, Kevin On 1/5/15 10:12 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: I’m curious, how large is LITA (Library and Information Technology Association)? [0] How many members does it have? Apparently it has around 3000 members this year. I found this on the ALA membership statistics page: http://www.ala.org/membership/membershipstats_files/divisionstats#lita Interesting and thank you. Code4Lib only needs fifty more subscribers to equal LITA’s size. I think this just goes to show, with the advent of the Internet, centralized authorities are not as necessary/useful as they once used to be. —ELM -- Andromeda Yelton Board of Directors, Library Information Technology Association: http://www.lita.org Advisor, Ada Initiative: http://adainitiative.org http://andromedayelton.com @ThatAndromeda http://twitter.com/ThatAndromeda
Re: [CODE4LIB] lita
...and maybe a little influence by the current ALA membership payment options. Used to have to pay your base membership and a division (or two?) Recently, you can go cheap and pay ONLY the base membership cost!No forced division membership. TK Tom Klingler Assistant Dean for Technical Services University Libraries, Rm 300 1125 Risman Drive Kent State University Kent, Ohio 44242-0001 330-672-1646 office -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Roy Tennant Sent: Monday, January 05, 2015 11:42 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] lita Also, I would point out that libraries increasingly hire non-librarians in technology positions. That likely means that even if said persons might eventually find Code4Lib, their allegiance to a profession as epitomized by ALA is unlikely. Roy On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 8:37 AM, Debra Shapiro dsshap...@wisc.edu wrote: LITA is now the smallest ALA division. Personally, as someone who’s been involved with LITA for 20 years, I think the decrease is due to all the reasons Kevin cites below, and also because of something of an identity crisis - related to the advent of the Internet, as Eric says. LITA is the technology division of the ALA. *Everything* in libraries is done with technology now, so ALA members who once might’ve chosen to join the technology division choose instead to join other divisions, related to their other interests. Look at the list of ALCTS (the cataloging division) programs for any given ALA conference, or ALCTS list of CE webinars, and it’s all topics that might’ve once been more the purview of LITA. Of course I ran for LITA prez on that platform 6 years ago and lost so what do I know … deb On Jan 5, 2015, at 10:28 AM, Kevin Ford k...@3windmills.com wrote: I think this just goes to show, with the advent of the Internet, centralized authorities are not as necessary/useful as they once used to be. —ELM -- Maybe. I think it it recession-related. The high water mark for nearly all of the groups on that list is 2007 (2006 for one or two). The overall stats for ALA show the same membership pattern (increasing until 2007, decreasing thereafter): http://www.ala.org/membership/membershipstats_files/annual_memb_stats I'd be interested to know if LITA's membership decrease is greater (as a percentage) than the others. Perhaps that would suggest forums such as code4lib peeled off some of those would-be LITA members. Otherwise, it just looks like a broader decline in ALA membership, probably for a few reasons: fewer librarians in the workforce, fewer institutions willing to pay professional membership fees, less willingness to pay those fees out of pocket, etc. Yours, Kevin On 1/5/15 10:12 AM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: I’m curious, how large is LITA (Library and Information Technology Association)? [0] How many members does it have? Apparently it has around 3000 members this year. I found this on the ALA membership statistics page: http://www.ala.org/membership/membershipstats_files/divisionstats#lita Interesting and thank you. Code4Lib only needs fifty more subscribers to equal LITA’s size. I think this just goes to show, with the advent of the Internet, centralized authorities are not as necessary/useful as they once used to be. —ELM dsshap...@wisc.edu Debra Shapiro SLIS, the iSchool at UW-Madison Helen C. White Hall, Rm. 4282 600 N. Park St. Madison WI 53706 608 262 9195 mobile 608 712 6368 FAX 608 263 4849
