Re: [CODE4LIB] Identifying misshelved items

2015-01-15 Thread Ronald Houk
Just realized I had a typo. Should look something like.

diff -Nau <(sort -k[[whatever field you want to sort by]] original.csv)
original.csv
On Jan 15, 2015 2:29 PM, "Ronald Houk" 
wrote:

> This sounds like a perfect job for a unix/linux system.  I'd export this
> xls into a nice tab separated csv.  Then sort the column that contains the
> call no.  Then compare the sorted columns to the original column with diff.
>
> something along the lines of
>
> diff -Nau <(original.csv | sort -k[[whatever field you want to sort by]])
> original.csv
>
> For the dewey titles you could add the -n flag to sort.
>
> This is just a rough sketch, but with a little work I think it will work
> for you and what's better it won't cost you dime. :)
>
> On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Cab Vinton  wrote:
>
>> We're doing inventory here and would love to combine this with finding
>> items out of call number order. (The inventory process simply updates the
>> datelastseen field.)
>>
>> Koha's inventory tool generates an XLS file in the following format
>> (barcodes, too, actually):
>>
>>   Title Author Call number  The last jihad : Rosenberg, Joel, FIC ROSEN
>> Home
>> repair / Rosenbarg, Liz. FIC ROSEN  Abuse of power / Rosen, Fred. FIC
>> ROSEN  California
>> angel / Rosenberg, Nancy Taylor. FIC ROSEN
>> What we'd ideally like is a programmatic method of:
>>
>> 1./ identifying items like Home Repair and Abuse of Power, and
>>
>> 2./ specifying where such misshelved titles are currently located.
>>
>> For fiction, we're mostly concerned with authors out of order (i.e., title
>> order *within* the same author can be ignored). For non-fiction, Dewey/
>> call number order is, of course, the desired result.
>>
>> Thoughts on how best to tackle this? And no, shelf-reading while scanning
>> is not an acceptable solution :-)
>>
>> My VBA skills are seriously rusty at this point, and there are some
>> complicating factors (e.g,. how to handle to books in a row which are
>> misshelved -- the second book's location should be compared to the last
>> correctly shelved book; see Rosen/ Rosenberg above).
>>
>> Has this wheel already been invented?
>>
>> Grateful for any & all suggestions!
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Cab Vinton, Director
>> Plaistow Public Library
>> Plaistow, NH
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Ronald Houk
> Assistant Director
> Ottumwa Public Library
> 102 W. Fourth Street
> Ottumwa, IA 52501
> (641)682-7563x203
> rh...@ottumwapubliclibrary.org
>


Re: [CODE4LIB] Identifying misshelved items

2015-01-15 Thread Harper, Cynthia
So we have to humanly check the skinny books with labels on the covers?
Cindy

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Becky 
Yoose
Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2015 3:14 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Identifying misshelved items

Hi Cab,

>Thoughts on how best to tackle this? And no, shelf-reading while 
>scanning
is not an acceptable solution :-)

Awww, but you can shelf read with your phone! http://shelvar.com/ They claim to 
have an inventory part in development, but I am unaware of the ETA of the 
feature. I do know one of the main folks behind the app, though, if you want 
more info.

Thanks,
Becky


--
Becky Yoose
Discovery and Integrated Systems Librarian Grinnell College Libraries

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Cab Vinton  wrote:

> We're doing inventory here and would love to combine this with finding 
> items out of call number order. (The inventory process simply updates 
> the datelastseen field.)
>
> Koha's inventory tool generates an XLS file in the following format 
> (barcodes, too, actually):
>
>   Title Author Call number  The last jihad : Rosenberg, Joel, FIC 
> ROSEN Home repair / Rosenbarg, Liz. FIC ROSEN  Abuse of power / Rosen, 
> Fred. FIC ROSEN  California angel / Rosenberg, Nancy Taylor. FIC ROSEN 
> What we'd ideally like is a programmatic method of:
>
> 1./ identifying items like Home Repair and Abuse of Power, and
>
> 2./ specifying where such misshelved titles are currently located.
>
> For fiction, we're mostly concerned with authors out of order (i.e., 
> title order *within* the same author can be ignored). For non-fiction, 
> Dewey/ call number order is, of course, the desired result.
>
> Thoughts on how best to tackle this? And no, shelf-reading while 
> scanning is not an acceptable solution :-)
>
> My VBA skills are seriously rusty at this point, and there are some 
> complicating factors (e.g,. how to handle to books in a row which are 
> misshelved -- the second book's location should be compared to the 
> last correctly shelved book; see Rosen/ Rosenberg above).
>
> Has this wheel already been invented?
>
> Grateful for any & all suggestions!
>
> Best,
>
> Cab Vinton, Director
> Plaistow Public Library
> Plaistow, NH
>


Re: [CODE4LIB] IP Authentication for Online Access to the New York Times

2015-01-15 Thread Cornel Darden Jr.
Hello,

Squid-url if it hasn't been already suggested. It's open source. 

Thanks,

Cornel Darden Jr.  
MSLIS
Library Department Chair
South Suburban College
7087052945

"Our Mission is to Serve our Students and the Community through lifelong 
learning."

Sent from my iPhone

> On Jan 15, 2015, at 4:03 PM, Louis St-Amour  wrote:
> 
> Can’t speak to the NYT stuff, but as for DIY proxying (as an alternative to 
> EZproxy), a starting point might be: 
> https://www.mail-archive.com/code4lib@listserv.nd.edu/msg21988.html
> 
> Besides price, here are some of the reasons why you might want to: 
> https://www.mail-archive.com/code4lib@listserv.nd.edu/msg22055.html
> 
> Myself, as a dev, I’d want to investigate a solution based around something 
> caching and fast like Varnish, but there’s nothing pre-made out there like 
> EZproxy right now, so it’s what everybody uses.
> -- 
> Louis St-Amour
> Sent with Airmail
> 
> On January 15, 2015 at 4:39:39 PM, Brett Bonfield (pace...@gmail.com) wrote:
> 
> We've noticed that people almost never read the New York Times in print  
> here at the Collingswood (NJ) Public Library, an independent,  
> single-branch, municipal public library serving 18,000 people. But we  
> believe they'll be very interested in reading the NYT online.  
> 
> Online access costs about the same for us as print. We get unlimited onsite  
> access based on IP authentication, which is great: we have static IPs  
> associated with WiFi access, public workstations, and staff computers.  
> 
> We also get 10-20 passes (based on price), good for unlimited offsite  
> access, that expire every 24 hours. But for offsite access we need to  
> provide IP authentication.  
> 
> Typically, that means EZProxy. I'm pretty sure we can't fit EZProxy into  
> our budget. But we need some way to make sure NYT knows that traffic to  
> https://myaccount.nytimes.com/grouppass/access is coming from or through  
> us. After we provide NYT with some form of IP authentication, our  
> cardholders would then sign in with an email address and password and  
> receive their 24-hour access.  
> 
> All of our online access to other databases and services is through card  
> numbers: we provide a range, and the service authenticates against that  
> range, typically authorizing access via SIP as well. NYT isn't currently  
> configured for that type of authentication.  
> 
> We need to keep the solution inexpensive. Something like a $5/month Droplet  
> and simple to install and maintain open source software could work. Or an  
> inexpensive hosted VPN that offers static IPs and can somehow be configured  
> to accept our card number range for authentication? Or...?  
> 
> Thanks,  
> 
> Brett  


Re: [CODE4LIB] IP Authentication for Online Access to the New York Times

2015-01-15 Thread Louis St-Amour
Can’t speak to the NYT stuff, but as for DIY proxying (as an alternative to 
EZproxy), a starting point might be: 
https://www.mail-archive.com/code4lib@listserv.nd.edu/msg21988.html

Besides price, here are some of the reasons why you might want to: 
https://www.mail-archive.com/code4lib@listserv.nd.edu/msg22055.html

Myself, as a dev, I’d want to investigate a solution based around something 
caching and fast like Varnish, but there’s nothing pre-made out there like 
EZproxy right now, so it’s what everybody uses.
-- 
Louis St-Amour
Sent with Airmail

On January 15, 2015 at 4:39:39 PM, Brett Bonfield (pace...@gmail.com) wrote:

We've noticed that people almost never read the New York Times in print  
here at the Collingswood (NJ) Public Library, an independent,  
single-branch, municipal public library serving 18,000 people. But we  
believe they'll be very interested in reading the NYT online.  

Online access costs about the same for us as print. We get unlimited onsite  
access based on IP authentication, which is great: we have static IPs  
associated with WiFi access, public workstations, and staff computers.  

We also get 10-20 passes (based on price), good for unlimited offsite  
access, that expire every 24 hours. But for offsite access we need to  
provide IP authentication.  

Typically, that means EZProxy. I'm pretty sure we can't fit EZProxy into  
our budget. But we need some way to make sure NYT knows that traffic to  
https://myaccount.nytimes.com/grouppass/access is coming from or through  
us. After we provide NYT with some form of IP authentication, our  
cardholders would then sign in with an email address and password and  
receive their 24-hour access.  

All of our online access to other databases and services is through card  
numbers: we provide a range, and the service authenticates against that  
range, typically authorizing access via SIP as well. NYT isn't currently  
configured for that type of authentication.  

We need to keep the solution inexpensive. Something like a $5/month Droplet  
and simple to install and maintain open source software could work. Or an  
inexpensive hosted VPN that offers static IPs and can somehow be configured  
to accept our card number range for authentication? Or...?  

Thanks,  

Brett  


Re: [CODE4LIB] IP Authentication for Online Access to the New York Times

2015-01-15 Thread Ken Irwin
Brett,

This isn't quite an answer, but perhaps a perspective/option. Our library 
hasn't been able to get NYT to do straight-up IP authentication and for years 
they have been a challenge for us. 

Recently, they rolled out an educational institutional access option. Through 
that option, our users must sign up for their own account, which is associated 
with our account based on their having signed up for the account from a 
computer bearing a campus IP address. The actual access is based on the 
password they set up for their account, and they can use that password from 
anywhere. But to get the password, they have to be on campus.

It might be worth asking whether some kind of hybrid solution might be 
available, using IP access for inside the library and using password/account 
based access from off-campus. 

Good luck!
Ken


[CODE4LIB] IP Authentication for Online Access to the New York Times

2015-01-15 Thread Brett Bonfield
We've noticed that people almost never read the New York Times in print
here at the Collingswood (NJ) Public Library, an independent,
single-branch, municipal public library serving 18,000 people. But we
believe they'll be very interested in reading the NYT online.

Online access costs about the same for us as print. We get unlimited onsite
access based on IP authentication, which is great: we have static IPs
associated with WiFi access, public workstations, and staff computers.

We also get 10-20 passes (based on price), good for unlimited offsite
access, that expire every 24 hours. But for offsite access we need to
provide IP authentication.

Typically, that means EZProxy. I'm pretty sure we can't fit EZProxy into
our budget. But we need some way to make sure NYT knows that traffic to
https://myaccount.nytimes.com/grouppass/access is coming from or through
us. After we provide NYT with some form of IP authentication, our
cardholders would then sign in with an email address and password and
receive their 24-hour access.

All of our online access to other databases and services is through card
numbers: we provide a range, and the service authenticates against that
range, typically authorizing access via SIP as well. NYT isn't currently
configured for that type of authentication.

We need to keep the solution inexpensive. Something like a $5/month Droplet
and simple to install and maintain open source software could work. Or an
inexpensive hosted VPN that offers static IPs and can somehow be configured
to accept our card number range for authentication? Or...?

Thanks,

Brett


Re: [CODE4LIB] DSpace Issue

2015-01-15 Thread Sean Xiao Zhao
Hi

Marking an item as private is controlled by the "discoverable" boolean column 
in the item table in the database. Can you please verify that the values of 
that column are not False or f?

The solr indexing issue seems to be caused by empty aat/contributor fields in 
some of your items. See here: 
https://github.com/DSpace/DSpace/blob/master/dspace-api/src/main/java/org/dspace/browse/SolrBrowseCreateDAO.java#L160

As for the last error, could you please verify that the ORA-00942 table exists?

-Sean


Re: [CODE4LIB] Identifying misshelved items

2015-01-15 Thread Ronald Houk
This sounds like a perfect job for a unix/linux system.  I'd export this
xls into a nice tab separated csv.  Then sort the column that contains the
call no.  Then compare the sorted columns to the original column with diff.

something along the lines of

diff -Nau <(original.csv | sort -k[[whatever field you want to sort by]])
original.csv

For the dewey titles you could add the -n flag to sort.

This is just a rough sketch, but with a little work I think it will work
for you and what's better it won't cost you dime. :)

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Cab Vinton  wrote:

> We're doing inventory here and would love to combine this with finding
> items out of call number order. (The inventory process simply updates the
> datelastseen field.)
>
> Koha's inventory tool generates an XLS file in the following format
> (barcodes, too, actually):
>
>   Title Author Call number  The last jihad : Rosenberg, Joel, FIC ROSEN
> Home
> repair / Rosenbarg, Liz. FIC ROSEN  Abuse of power / Rosen, Fred. FIC
> ROSEN  California
> angel / Rosenberg, Nancy Taylor. FIC ROSEN
> What we'd ideally like is a programmatic method of:
>
> 1./ identifying items like Home Repair and Abuse of Power, and
>
> 2./ specifying where such misshelved titles are currently located.
>
> For fiction, we're mostly concerned with authors out of order (i.e., title
> order *within* the same author can be ignored). For non-fiction, Dewey/
> call number order is, of course, the desired result.
>
> Thoughts on how best to tackle this? And no, shelf-reading while scanning
> is not an acceptable solution :-)
>
> My VBA skills are seriously rusty at this point, and there are some
> complicating factors (e.g,. how to handle to books in a row which are
> misshelved -- the second book's location should be compared to the last
> correctly shelved book; see Rosen/ Rosenberg above).
>
> Has this wheel already been invented?
>
> Grateful for any & all suggestions!
>
> Best,
>
> Cab Vinton, Director
> Plaistow Public Library
> Plaistow, NH
>



-- 
Ronald Houk
Assistant Director
Ottumwa Public Library
102 W. Fourth Street
Ottumwa, IA 52501
(641)682-7563x203
rh...@ottumwapubliclibrary.org


Re: [CODE4LIB] Identifying misshelved items

2015-01-15 Thread Becky Yoose
Hi Cab,

>Thoughts on how best to tackle this? And no, shelf-reading while scanning
is not an acceptable solution :-)

Awww, but you can shelf read with your phone! http://shelvar.com/ They
claim to have an inventory part in development, but I am unaware of the ETA
of the feature. I do know one of the main folks behind the app, though, if
you want more info.

Thanks,
Becky


--
Becky Yoose
Discovery and Integrated Systems Librarian
Grinnell College Libraries

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 1:32 PM, Cab Vinton  wrote:

> We're doing inventory here and would love to combine this with finding
> items out of call number order. (The inventory process simply updates the
> datelastseen field.)
>
> Koha's inventory tool generates an XLS file in the following format
> (barcodes, too, actually):
>
>   Title Author Call number  The last jihad : Rosenberg, Joel, FIC ROSEN
> Home
> repair / Rosenbarg, Liz. FIC ROSEN  Abuse of power / Rosen, Fred. FIC
> ROSEN  California
> angel / Rosenberg, Nancy Taylor. FIC ROSEN
> What we'd ideally like is a programmatic method of:
>
> 1./ identifying items like Home Repair and Abuse of Power, and
>
> 2./ specifying where such misshelved titles are currently located.
>
> For fiction, we're mostly concerned with authors out of order (i.e., title
> order *within* the same author can be ignored). For non-fiction, Dewey/
> call number order is, of course, the desired result.
>
> Thoughts on how best to tackle this? And no, shelf-reading while scanning
> is not an acceptable solution :-)
>
> My VBA skills are seriously rusty at this point, and there are some
> complicating factors (e.g,. how to handle to books in a row which are
> misshelved -- the second book's location should be compared to the last
> correctly shelved book; see Rosen/ Rosenberg above).
>
> Has this wheel already been invented?
>
> Grateful for any & all suggestions!
>
> Best,
>
> Cab Vinton, Director
> Plaistow Public Library
> Plaistow, NH
>


Re: [CODE4LIB] Structured help platform recommendations?

2015-01-15 Thread Fitchett, Deborah
LibraryH3lp has another hosted Q&A system that comes free with their virtual 
reference system (or vice versa, I suppose). They use it for their own 
knowledge base at http://ask.libraryh3lp.com/ 

Deborah

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Jason 
Stirnaman
Sent: Thursday, 15 January 2015 4:42 p.m.
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Structured help platform recommendations?

>> By that I mean a tool by which a broad range of staff can create,
edit, inter-link, classify and maintain a set of structured documentation for 
fixing problems and resolving issues.

That sounds just like a wiki to me. Many wiki tools provide that, it just may 
not be obvious.

By "structured", do you mean you want structure enforced more as fields?

Redmine can track issues and store documentation. You can add any type of 
custom field to your issue schema. Documentation, though, is generally authored 
as a wiki. You can easily reference other objects. It definitely meets your 
reporting and authentication requirements. CAS authentication was really easy 
to setup.
http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/Features

And then there are hosted Q&A systems like http://gimlet.us/ (from some of our 
C4L friends) and http://springshare.com/libanswers/systems.html.

I agree about Drupal. It seems like that type of thing would be fairly easy to 
accomplish.  There's the Books module, 
https://www.drupal.org/documentation/modules/book, for structured content. Not 
sure how to wire that up with issue/ticket-tracking though.

Jason

Jason Stirnaman, MLS
Application Development, Library and Information Services, IR University of 
Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu
913-588-7319

On Jan 14, 2015, at 7:25 PM, Stuart A. Yeates  wrote:

> I'm looking for recommendations for a structured help platform.
>
> By that I mean a tool by which a broad range of staff can create, 
> edit, inter-link, classify and maintain a set of structured 
> documentation for fixing problems and resolving issues.
>
> Open source, closed source and hosted solutions considered, but the 
> platform must enforce structure (i.e. not a wiki); do LDAP / SAML / 
> etc; decent reporting of high-use docs; and be easy to use for 
> literate non-techies.
>
> It seems like there should be a drupal module or something for this, 
> but for the life of me I can't see it (but then there are a confusing 
> array).
>
> Pointers to accounts of other people doing similar things also readily 
> accepted.
>
> cheers
> stuart
> --
> ...let us be heard from red core to black sky


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[CODE4LIB] Job: Analyst Programmer at Oregon State University

2015-01-15 Thread jobs
Analyst Programmer
Oregon State University
Corvallis

**Position Summary**  
  
This recruitment will be used to fill two full-time Analyst Programmer
positions, competency level 2, for the OSU Libraries and Press at Oregon State
University (OSU).

  
The analyst programmer advances the Libraries' strategic plan by working on
the OSU Libraries' and Press' web programming initiatives. In addition, the
analyst programmer enhances, manages, assesses and administers existing
initiatives such as the open-source, community driven, Hydra/Fedora Commons
Digital Asset Management System and the DSpace institutional repository,
library created tools such as our room reservation system, various library
Drupal modules, and mobile projects.

  
Working with a team of programmers in an agile environment, the analyst
programmer provides lead work for a team of student programmers and provides
direction in usability for the library's web presence as well as supporting
the general programming needs for the Libraries.

  
The analyst programmer is critical to the Press and Library's outreach and
engagement missions as well as internal department administration and
collaboration. Consequently, the person should have excellent communication
skills, work well independently as well as in team settings, and be able to
assimilate and communicate new technologies quickly.

  
Some travel and evening and weekend work may be required in order to launch
updates and new projects, and/or travel to meetings and conferences.

  
**Position Duties**  
  
80% - Work in collaboration with faculty and staff on open source development
initiatives for the Libraries and the Press. Document, implement and maintain
mobile and web projects. Contribute to the planning and development of new
mobile and web projects. Provide programming needs of the department and
Libraries as they arise. Work with faculty on our open source projects,
including Hydra, DSpace, data curation, digital publishing and preservation
tools, user interface work for our discovery services tools, creation and
maintenance of Drupal modules, working with system administrators to deploy
new projects in a Unix environment, advising on technologies and tools, and
providing assessment of, ideas for and implementation of other projects as
needed.

  
20% - Developing and articulating ideas for use and function of library tools,
mobile web and improvement in HCI through discussions with faculty, staff,
students and clientele. Communicating goals and uses of web initiatives to
faculty, staff, students and clientele. Making suggested modifications and
maintaining functionality of various projects on an on-going basis. Provide
HCI expertise across the Libraries' entire web based services. Training and
supporting individuals and groups on the use of our developed web initiatives,
project management and content authorship, review and publication tools.

  
**Minimum/Required Qualifications**  

  * This classification requires a basic foundation of knowledge and skills in 
systems analysis and related programming support functions generally obtained 
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  * Work experience using online computing systems, training in structured 
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  * Experience / expertise with HCI, usability and standards compliance testing.
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  * Knowledge of JavaScript
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[CODE4LIB] Identifying misshelved items

2015-01-15 Thread Cab Vinton
We're doing inventory here and would love to combine this with finding
items out of call number order. (The inventory process simply updates the
datelastseen field.)

Koha's inventory tool generates an XLS file in the following format
(barcodes, too, actually):

  Title Author Call number  The last jihad : Rosenberg, Joel, FIC ROSEN  Home
repair / Rosenbarg, Liz. FIC ROSEN  Abuse of power / Rosen, Fred. FIC
ROSEN  California
angel / Rosenberg, Nancy Taylor. FIC ROSEN
What we'd ideally like is a programmatic method of:

1./ identifying items like Home Repair and Abuse of Power, and

2./ specifying where such misshelved titles are currently located.

For fiction, we're mostly concerned with authors out of order (i.e., title
order *within* the same author can be ignored). For non-fiction, Dewey/
call number order is, of course, the desired result.

Thoughts on how best to tackle this? And no, shelf-reading while scanning
is not an acceptable solution :-)

My VBA skills are seriously rusty at this point, and there are some
complicating factors (e.g,. how to handle to books in a row which are
misshelved -- the second book's location should be compared to the last
correctly shelved book; see Rosen/ Rosenberg above).

Has this wheel already been invented?

Grateful for any & all suggestions!

Best,

Cab Vinton, Director
Plaistow Public Library
Plaistow, NH


[CODE4LIB] DSpace Issue

2015-01-15 Thread Maura Carbone
(Apologies for Crossposting)

Thought I'd try here and the DSpace-tech listserv since this is
frustrating the heck out of me.

I'm testing an upgrade from 3.2 to 4.2 of our DSpace install. However,
upon upgrading to 4.2, almost all my items get marked as private in
the WebUI (note that they are not actually private items and don't
appear as such in the database). As far as I can tell, solr is having
issues indexing things in 4.2 and my logs are filled with things like:

 [java] 2015-01-13 11:45:59,325 ERROR
org.dspace.browse.IndexBrowse @ Null metadata value for item 24289,
field: dc.subject.aat

 [java] 2015-01-13 11:45:09,171 ERROR
org.dspace.browse.IndexBrowse @ Null metadata value for item 24343,
field: dc.contributor


or

 [java] 2015-01-13 11:45:03,804 ERROR
org.dspace.browse.BrowseCreateDAOOracle @ caught exception:

 [java] java.sql.SQLSyntaxErrorException: ORA-00942: table or view
does not exist

I have run the SQL upgrade scripts, re-indexed browse, and re-indexed
Solr to no avail. We do not have this problem in 3.2. Did anyone else
encounter this? It seems like something doesn't like that not every
item shares the same metadata fields but that's absurd since not all
items are alike. I looked in the dspace-tech archives but didn't see
anything recent related to this (i.e Post 1.5). I could be totally off
base about the issue though, as I said, we don't have this problem in
3.2. I'm guessing it is some sort of config change issue but haven't
been able to figure out what.

Anyone encounter the same issue or have any suggestions?


Thanks!
Maura

-- 
Maura Carbone
Digital Initiatives Librarian
Brandeis University
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Re: [CODE4LIB] Structured help platform recommendations?

2015-01-15 Thread Rosemary Le Faive
I've just heard about Desk.com  (by
SalesForce) and based on my limited knowledge of it (mostly the 90-second
video), it sounds like something you may want to investigate. It's made for
addressing customer service tickets. I'm not sure if it supports a
knowledge base, but at least it does integrate stock replies to frequently
asked queries.

I've also used Redmine and liked it (though we used the commercial
additions provided by easyredmine
 for the slicker UI).

It seems immanently doable in Drupal, as Stuart pointed out, and the trick
would be making it real easy to use, with nice views and inline editing and
all that. I'm sensing that I'm getting nerd-sniped though because suddenly
I'm itching to make a demo. Beware of the nerd-snipe. Consider proprietary
solutions, that will be supported long after you are gone. Just make sure
they'll give you all your data when you want to migrate.

- Rosie



On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 12:20 AM, Brent Hanner 
wrote:

> What you are talking about isn’t a Drupal module, its just something that
> can be readily built in Drupal.
>
> the structured documentation is a content type.
>
>
> create and edit are thing you do to content types.
>
>
> interlinking is a content type referencing whose name escapes me at the
> moment.
>
>
> classifying in drupal is taxonomy which has many different ways to do it.
>
>
> drupal has a variety of analytics and logging modules
>
>
> There is a drupal LDAP module, although never used it.
>
>
>
>
>
> If you really want I can setup an example of what it would look like if
> you send me an idea of what you want the structured documentation to look
> to and look like.
>
>
> The disadvantage using Drupal in this instance is that you have to take a
> little more time putting it together then a drop in place solution.  The
> advantages are quite great because you can make it work how you want it to
> and not how someone else thought to do it.  Secondly once you have a Drupal
> installation setup doing one thing, adding another feature for the same
> group of users.  And once you have a bunch of stuff on one Drupal
> installation you can do up a dashboard for users to see what of importance
> is going on with all the different things.
>
>
> Brent
>
>
>
>
> Sent from Windows Mail
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>
>
> From: Stuart A. Yeates
> Sent: ‎Wednesday‎, ‎January‎ ‎14‎, ‎2015 ‎7‎:‎25‎ ‎PM
> To: Code for Libraries
>
>
>
>
>
> I'm looking for recommendations for a structured help platform.
>
> By that I mean a tool by which a broad range of staff can create,
> edit, inter-link, classify and maintain a set of structured
> documentation for fixing problems and resolving issues.
>
> Open source, closed source and hosted solutions considered, but the
> platform must enforce structure (i.e. not a wiki); do LDAP / SAML /
> etc; decent reporting of high-use docs; and be easy to use for
> literate non-techies.
>
> It seems like there should be a drupal module or something for this,
> but for the life of me I can't see it (but then there are a confusing
> array).
>
> Pointers to accounts of other people doing similar things also readily
> accepted.
>
> cheers
> stuart
> --
> ...let us be heard from red core to black sky
>



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Re: [CODE4LIB] Structured help platform recommendations?

2015-01-15 Thread Brent Hanner
What you are talking about isn’t a Drupal module, its just something that can 
be readily built in Drupal.  

the structured documentation is a content type.


create and edit are thing you do to content types.


interlinking is a content type referencing whose name escapes me at the moment.


classifying in drupal is taxonomy which has many different ways to do it.


drupal has a variety of analytics and logging modules


There is a drupal LDAP module, although never used it.





If you really want I can setup an example of what it would look like if you 
send me an idea of what you want the structured documentation to look to and 
look like.  


The disadvantage using Drupal in this instance is that you have to take a 
little more time putting it together then a drop in place solution.  The 
advantages are quite great because you can make it work how you want it to and 
not how someone else thought to do it.  Secondly once you have a Drupal 
installation setup doing one thing, adding another feature for the same group 
of users.  And once you have a bunch of stuff on one Drupal installation you 
can do up a dashboard for users to see what of importance is going on with all 
the different things.


Brent




Sent from Windows Mail





From: Stuart A. Yeates
Sent: ‎Wednesday‎, ‎January‎ ‎14‎, ‎2015 ‎7‎:‎25‎ ‎PM
To: Code for Libraries





I'm looking for recommendations for a structured help platform.

By that I mean a tool by which a broad range of staff can create,
edit, inter-link, classify and maintain a set of structured
documentation for fixing problems and resolving issues.

Open source, closed source and hosted solutions considered, but the
platform must enforce structure (i.e. not a wiki); do LDAP / SAML /
etc; decent reporting of high-use docs; and be easy to use for
literate non-techies.

It seems like there should be a drupal module or something for this,
but for the life of me I can't see it (but then there are a confusing
array).

Pointers to accounts of other people doing similar things also readily accepted.

cheers
stuart
--
...let us be heard from red core to black sky

Re: [CODE4LIB] circulation statistics

2015-01-15 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
  The replies received have all been very helpful. Thank you! —Eric M. 


[CODE4LIB] code4lib-SoCal meetup March 5, 2015

2015-01-15 Thread Joshua Gomez
The next quarterly meeting of code4lib-SoCal will be March 5 at the Getty 
Center: http://www.meetup.com/Code4lib-SoCal/events/219653631/

If you've been working on an interesting project or started using some new tech 
or tool, please sign up to be a speaker and tell us all about it. 

Conversely, if there is a topic you wish we would cover, let me know, and I 
will try to find someone to talk about it. 

So far, all 5 of our events have been hosted in Los Angeles. If you're in a 
different part of the region and wish we would host a meeting nearer to you, 
then please offer to host! We hold our meetings where space is offered.

Cheers,
Joshua



Joshua Gomez | Sr. Software Engineer
Getty Research Institute | Los Angeles, CA
310-440-7421


Re: [CODE4LIB] Structured help platform recommendations?

2015-01-15 Thread Elizabeth Leonard
I use LibAnswers 2.0 for that- create a separate, private queue.



-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Jason 
Stirnaman
Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 10:42 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Structured help platform recommendations?

>> By that I mean a tool by which a broad range of staff can create,
edit, inter-link, classify and maintain a set of structured documentation for 
fixing problems and resolving issues.

That sounds just like a wiki to me. Many wiki tools provide that, it just may 
not be obvious.

By "structured", do you mean you want structure enforced more as fields?

Redmine can track issues and store documentation. You can add any type of 
custom field to your issue schema. Documentation, though, is generally authored 
as a wiki. You can easily reference other objects. It definitely meets your 
reporting and authentication requirements. CAS authentication was really easy 
to setup.
http://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/Features

And then there are hosted Q&A systems like http://gimlet.us/ (from some of our 
C4L friends) and http://springshare.com/libanswers/systems.html.

I agree about Drupal. It seems like that type of thing would be fairly easy to 
accomplish.  There's the Books module, 
https://www.drupal.org/documentation/modules/book, for structured content. Not 
sure how to wire that up with issue/ticket-tracking though.

Jason

Jason Stirnaman, MLS
Application Development, Library and Information Services, IR University of 
Kansas Medical Center jstirna...@kumc.edu
913-588-7319

On Jan 14, 2015, at 7:25 PM, Stuart A. Yeates  wrote:

> I'm looking for recommendations for a structured help platform.
> 
> By that I mean a tool by which a broad range of staff can create, 
> edit, inter-link, classify and maintain a set of structured 
> documentation for fixing problems and resolving issues.
> 
> Open source, closed source and hosted solutions considered, but the 
> platform must enforce structure (i.e. not a wiki); do LDAP / SAML / 
> etc; decent reporting of high-use docs; and be easy to use for 
> literate non-techies.
> 
> It seems like there should be a drupal module or something for this, 
> but for the life of me I can't see it (but then there are a confusing 
> array).
> 
> Pointers to accounts of other people doing similar things also readily 
> accepted.
> 
> cheers
> stuart
> --
> ...let us be heard from red core to black sky