[CODE4LIB] Job: Developer (Data and Usage Analytics) at Digital Public Library of America

2016-06-28 Thread jobs 
Developer (Data and Usage Analytics)
Digital Public Library of America
Boston

The Digital Public Library of America seeks a full-time Developer to support
large-scale processing and analysis of descriptions of and usage data about
open access materials from libraries, archives, and museums across the United
States. This position will be directly involved in improving DPLA's ingestion
and extract, transform, and load processes, in addition to helping develop
processes and platforms to identify usage patterns of content aggregated by
DPLA across user-facing platforms, social media, and APIs.

  
We are seeking a curious and enthusiastic individual who recognizes both their
technical strengths and areas for growth, who can help us work effectively to
further DPLA's mission to bring together the riches of America's libraries,
archives, and museums, and make them freely available to all. A belief in this
mission, and the drive to accomplish it over time in a collaborative spirit
within and beyond the organization, is essential.

  
**Responsibilities**  
  
Reporting to the Director for Technology, the Developer:

  * Improves DPLA's metadata ingestion and ETL processes to generate RDF 
metadata and address data quality issues at scale in a repeatable manner over 
time.
  * Implements hooks and workflows for data collection, analysis and reporting 
on data quality and usage metrics throughout DPLA's infrastructure.
  * Collaborates closely with internal and external stakeholders in data 
management and reuse of DPLA content, including the DPLA Data Services 
Coordinator, DPLA engagement and use staff, and staff at DPLA partner 
institutions.
  * Actively contributes to the development of staff- and partner-facing tools 
for data analysis and business intelligence.
  * Performs other related duties and participates in special projects as 
assigned.
As a member of the DPLA Technology Team, the Developer:

  * Contributes to design, development, testing, integration, support, and 
documentation of user-facing applications and back-end systems.
  * Supports content management policies, process, and workflows, and 
contributes to the development of new ones.
  * Collaborates with internal and external stakeholders in planning and 
implementation of applications supporting DPLA's mission, strategic plan, and 
special initiatives.
  * Maintains knowledge of emerging technologies to support the DPLA's evolving 
services.
  * Embodies and promotes the philosophy of open source, shared, and 
community-built software and technologies.
  * Ensures both high quality and reasonable throughput in data processing.
  * Brings creative vision around possibilities for work with data that we 
haven't yet imagined.
**Requirements**  

  * 5+ years professional experience in software development or a related 
discipline.
  * A proven ability to build large, reliable, and scalable infrastructure.
  * Experience with data integration to support analytics and business 
intelligence.
  * Demonstrated experience with REST API design.
  * Demonstrated experience working effectively in a team environment and the 
ability to interact well with stakeholders.
  * Desire and enthusiasm about learning new toolsets, programming languages, 
or methods to support software development.
  * Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  * Excellent problem-solving and organizational skills.
**Preferred Qualifications**  

  * Experience with extract-transform-load workflows with varying input sources.
  * Broad experience and understanding of analysis and aggregation of metrics 
from heterogenous sources, including usage analytics
  * Experience developing visualizations, dashboards, or other user-facing 
tools to support business intelligence.
  * Advanced knowledge of semantic web technologies such as RDF, SPARQL, and 
LDP, and semantic enrichment and reconciliation processes.
  * Demonstrated experience with standards, data models, and protocols 
including Dublin Core, MODS, METS, MARCXML, IIIF, OAI-PMH, OAI-ORE, and 
ResourceSync.
  * A successful history of working effectively in a geographically-distributed 
organization.
This position is full-time. DPLA is a geographically-distributed organization,
with headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts. Ideally, this position would be
situated in the Northeast Corridor between Washington and Boston, but remote
work based in other locations will also be considered.

  
Like its collection, DPLA is strongly committed to diversity in all of its
forms. We provide a full set of benefits, including health care, life and
disability insurance, and a retirement plan. Starting salary is commensurate
with experience.

  
**About DPLA**  
  
The Digital Public Library of America strives to contain the full breadth of
human expression, from the written word, to works of art and culture, to
records of America's heritage, to the efforts and data of science. Since
launching in April 2013, it has aggregated more

[CODE4LIB] Social Tagging Study

2016-06-28 Thread Amanda Munson 
Hello everyone,

I apologize for any cross-postings.

I am conducting a survey of the perceptions of social tagging among digital 
archivists and digital librarians for Louisiana State University’s School of 
Library & Information Science. The survey is offered through the online 
platform Qualtrics, and all responses will be anonymous. It takes roughly 30 
minutes and must be completed in one sitting.
Those who work with digital collections (even if it is only a small part of 
your job and does not involve the use of social tagging) are invited to 
participate. You must be at least 18 years of age to take the survey. All data 
collected will be used to further the research into the use of social tagging 
in LAMs and how it may be improved.

Survey link: http://lsu.qualtrics.com//SE/?SID=SV_3xXHO7ZdGSDga4B

If you have any questions regarding the study, please contact me, Amanda 
Munson, at amun...@lsu.edu or (225) 287-3226.

Thank you,
Amanda Munson
Graduate Assistant, LSU SLIS

Re: [CODE4LIB] Implementing Google Tag Manager

2016-06-28 Thread Goldsmith, Ivan Victor 
Hi Kyle,

At Penn Libraries, we've been working on adopting Google Tag Manager. We 
already use on many of our sites, with great results thus far.

We have a long list of GA web properties, and I've personally found it helpful 
to give each property its own GTM container. Some of our containers have 
complicated, site-specific tags/conditions/variables that don't really belong 
in other sites; I find it easier to maintain them separately. On the other 
hand, I'm sure there are plenty of advocates out there for using a single 
container.

My impression of GTM is that you can use containers in whatever way best suits 
your needs. Need one container for all your properties? That's fine. Need a 
different container for every property? That's also fine.

Best,
-- Ivan Goldsmith
Penn Libraries Web Unit



From: Code for Libraries  on behalf of Eades, Lynn 

Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 7:56 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Implementing Google Tag Manager

Hi Kyle,

The University Libraries here at UNC-Chapel Hill are currently working with a 
consultant to set up Google Tag Manager.  We also had several GA accounts for 
our many websites.  Within GTM, we have one container/account for all the 
sites.  This way we can see the flow of traffic between our sites.  The 
consulting firm, SearchDiscovery out of Atlanta, have been wonderful to work 
with and have really helped us in setting this up.

We are just about to wrap up our work with the consultant.  Would be happy to 
discuss further if desired.

Lynn
__
B. Lynn Eades
Web Development Librarian
Health Sciences Library
335 South Columbia Street
CB# 7585
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC  27599-7585

Phone: (919) 966-8012
Email: bea...@med.unc.edu
Website: http://hsl.lib.unc.edu
__

Connecting people everywhere with knowledge to improve health



-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Kyle 
Breneman
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 7:28 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Implementing Google Tag Manager

Has anyone out there implemented Google Tag Manager?  I'd like to get it up and 
running for all of our library's web properties this summer, but I'm a bit 
uncertain how I should be structuring it.  The most immediate question is, "Do 
I need only 1 container, or do I need more than 1 container?"
Right now, we are tracking our main website, our library blog, LibGuides, 
ArchivesSpace, EDS, and several other things.  Most of these are set up as 
separate "properties" of one umbrella GA account for the library.  This 
existing structure leads me to believe that I want to configure Google Tag 
Manager with multiple containers: one container for the main library website, 
one container for our blog, one container for ArchivesSpace, etc.
Does that sound correct?  Is there anything else I should be mindful of as I 
setup GTM?

Regards,
Kyle

Re: [CODE4LIB] Implementing Google Tag Manager

2016-06-28 Thread Maria Aghazarian 
Paige and Sanjeet Mann talked about their experience using GTM at NASIG--
you may want to reach out to them specifically:
https://nasig2016.sched.org/paige_mann

On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 7:56 AM, Eades, Lynn  wrote:

> Hi Kyle,
>
> The University Libraries here at UNC-Chapel Hill are currently working
> with a consultant to set up Google Tag Manager.  We also had several GA
> accounts for our many websites.  Within GTM, we have one container/account
> for all the sites.  This way we can see the flow of traffic between our
> sites.  The consulting firm, SearchDiscovery out of Atlanta, have been
> wonderful to work with and have really helped us in setting this up.
>
> We are just about to wrap up our work with the consultant.  Would be happy
> to discuss further if desired.
>
> Lynn
> __
> B. Lynn Eades
> Web Development Librarian
> Health Sciences Library
> 335 South Columbia Street
> CB# 7585
> University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
> Chapel Hill, NC  27599-7585
>
> Phone: (919) 966-8012
> Email: bea...@med.unc.edu
> Website: http://hsl.lib.unc.edu
> __
>
> Connecting people everywhere with knowledge to improve health
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
> Kyle Breneman
> Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 7:28 AM
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: [CODE4LIB] Implementing Google Tag Manager
>
> Has anyone out there implemented Google Tag Manager?  I'd like to get it
> up and running for all of our library's web properties this summer, but I'm
> a bit uncertain how I should be structuring it.  The most immediate
> question is, "Do I need only 1 container, or do I need more than 1
> container?"
> Right now, we are tracking our main website, our library blog, LibGuides,
> ArchivesSpace, EDS, and several other things.  Most of these are set up as
> separate "properties" of one umbrella GA account for the library.  This
> existing structure leads me to believe that I want to configure Google Tag
> Manager with multiple containers: one container for the main library
> website, one container for our blog, one container for ArchivesSpace, etc.
> Does that sound correct?  Is there anything else I should be mindful of as
> I setup GTM?
>
> Regards,
> Kyle
>



-- 
Maria Aghazarian
Serials and E-Resources Specialist
Swarthmore College
500 College Ave
Swarthmore, PA 19081
610-328-8693
magha...@swarthmore.edu
http://orcid.org/-0001-6260-3251

Re: [CODE4LIB] Implementing Google Tag Manager

2016-06-28 Thread Eades, Lynn 
Hi Kyle,

The University Libraries here at UNC-Chapel Hill are currently working with a 
consultant to set up Google Tag Manager.  We also had several GA accounts for 
our many websites.  Within GTM, we have one container/account for all the 
sites.  This way we can see the flow of traffic between our sites.  The 
consulting firm, SearchDiscovery out of Atlanta, have been wonderful to work 
with and have really helped us in setting this up.

We are just about to wrap up our work with the consultant.  Would be happy to 
discuss further if desired.

Lynn
__
B. Lynn Eades
Web Development Librarian
Health Sciences Library
335 South Columbia Street
CB# 7585
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC  27599-7585

Phone: (919) 966-8012
Email: bea...@med.unc.edu
Website: http://hsl.lib.unc.edu
__

Connecting people everywhere with knowledge to improve health



-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Kyle 
Breneman
Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 7:28 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Implementing Google Tag Manager

Has anyone out there implemented Google Tag Manager?  I'd like to get it up and 
running for all of our library's web properties this summer, but I'm a bit 
uncertain how I should be structuring it.  The most immediate question is, "Do 
I need only 1 container, or do I need more than 1 container?"
Right now, we are tracking our main website, our library blog, LibGuides, 
ArchivesSpace, EDS, and several other things.  Most of these are set up as 
separate "properties" of one umbrella GA account for the library.  This 
existing structure leads me to believe that I want to configure Google Tag 
Manager with multiple containers: one container for the main library website, 
one container for our blog, one container for ArchivesSpace, etc.
Does that sound correct?  Is there anything else I should be mindful of as I 
setup GTM?

Regards,
Kyle

[CODE4LIB] Implementing Google Tag Manager

2016-06-28 Thread Kyle Breneman 
Has anyone out there implemented Google Tag Manager?  I'd like to get it up
and running for all of our library's web properties this summer, but I'm a
bit uncertain how I should be structuring it.  The most immediate question
is, "Do I need only 1 container, or do I need more than 1 container?"
Right now, we are tracking our main website, our library blog, LibGuides,
ArchivesSpace, EDS, and several other things.  Most of these are set up as
separate "properties" of one umbrella GA account for the library.  This
existing structure leads me to believe that I want to configure Google Tag
Manager with multiple containers: one container for the main library
website, one container for our blog, one container for ArchivesSpace, etc.
Does that sound correct?  Is there anything else I should be mindful of as
I setup GTM?

Regards,
Kyle