Re: [CODE4LIB] authority work with isni

[Bigwood, David]

Eric,

ORCID is also available. http://orcid.org/organizations/integrators/API

ORCID is mostly current authors of journal articles. Over 2 million names.

David Bigwood
dbigw...@hou.usra.edu
Lunar and Planetary Institute
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/library/
@LPI_Library

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Eric 
Lease Morgan
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2016 4:16 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] authority work with isni

I am thinking about doing some authority work with content from ISNI, and I 
have a few questions about the resource.

As yo may or may not know, ISNI is a sort of authority database. [1] One can 
search for an identity in ISNI, identify a person of interest, get a key, 
transform the key into a URI, and use the URI to get back both human-readable 
and machine readable data about the person. For example, the following URIs 
return the same content in different forms:

  * human-readable - http://isni.org/isni/35046923
  * XML - http://isni.org/isni/35046923.xml

I discovered the former URI through a tiny bit of reading. [2] And I discovered 
the later URI through a simple guess. What other URIs exist?

When it comes to the authority work, my goal is to enhance authority records; 
to more thoroughly associate global identifiers with named entities in a local 
authority database. Once this goal is accomplished, the library catalog 
experience can be enhanced, and the door is opened for supporting linked data 
initiatives. In order to accomplish the goal, I believe I can:

  1. get a list of authority records
  2. search for name in a global authority database (like VIAF or ISNI)
  3. if found, then update local authority record accordingly
  4. go to Step #2 for all records
  5. done

My questions are:

  * What remote authority databases are available programmatically? I already 
know of one from the Library of Congress, VIAF, and probably WorldCat 
Identities. Does ISNI support some sort of API, and if so, where is some 
documentation?

  * I believe the Library Of Congress, VIAF, and probably WorldCat Identities 
all support linked data. Does ISNI, and if so, then how is it implemented and 
can you point me to documentation?

  * When it comes to updating the local (MARC) authority records, how do you 
suggest the updates happen? More specifically, what types of values do you 
suggest I insert into what specific (MARC) fields/subfields? Some people 
advocate $0 of 1xx, 6xx, and 7xx fields. Other people suggest 024 subfields 2 
and a. Inquiring minds would like to know.

Fun with authorities!? And, “What’s in a name anyway?"

[1] ISNI - http://isni.org
[2] some documentation - http://isni.org/how-isni-works

—
Eric Lease Morgan
Lost In Rome

Re: [CODE4LIB] Interim data storage for researchers

[Bigwood, David]

Bittorrent Sync might be an option. It can create a personal cloud 
https://www.getsync.com/ I haven't tried it but it does seem to work mostly 
with folders, not individual files.

Sincerely,
David Bigwood
dbigw...@hou.usra.edu
Lunar and Planetary Institute
@LPI_Library

Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/lunarandplanetaryinstitute/ Nice 
planetary imagery.

[CODE4LIB] DSpace Handle Server help

[Bigwood, David]

Our computer folks are stumped trying to set up the Handle Server in DSpace. 
Anyone willing to give them a hand or a few tips? We have registered and got 
our handle.

Brian Fessler is the person to contact 
bfess...@hou.usra.edu

Our DSpace repository is at https://repository.hou.usra.edu/xmlui/ if anyone 
wants to take a look and make suggestions.

Thanks & a Happy New Year
David Bigwood
dbigw...@gmail.com
Lunar and Planetary Institute
@LPI_Library

Re: [CODE4LIB] LC Cutter Generator - does this exist?

[Bigwood, David]

OCLC has a Dewey Cutter Program. It can create either Cutter 4-figure or Cutter 
Sanborn 4-figure cutters.

http://www.oclc.org/support/services/dewey/program.en.html

David Bigwood
dbigw...@hou.usra.edu
@LPI_Library
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lunarandplanetaryinstitute/

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Justin 
Rittenhouse
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 3:37 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] LC Cutter Generator - does this exist?

This seems like a fairly straightforward thing to write...so it seems like 
someone else would already have done so.  That said, my Google-fu hasn't come 
across anything yet.  So...does anyone have a cutter generator that they're 
willing to share?  Language doesn't matter, although most of our stuff is Perl 
or Ruby, so if it's one of those that's a plus.

Thanks!
Justin

--
*Justin Rittenhouse*
*Sr. Application Development Technician, Web and Software Engineering* 
*Hesburgh Libraries*

[CODE4LIB] Library Hours

[Bigwood, David]

This looks like a decent group, but I find this statement hard to believe.

Your tax-deductible donation supports adding the names, address and the hours 
of operation of all libraries to Range. The Institute of Museum and Library 
Services publishes an open data catalog which is the source we'll use for the 
names and the addresses of the nation's libraries. However, there isn't a 
listing of the days and hours of operation for all libraries in the US. We are 
going to track down the hours of operation for all 17,000 libraries and make 
that information available -- in Range and for other developers who may want to 
use it. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/range-food-and-safe-places-for-youth

Are the hours of public libraries really not available?

Sincerely,
David Bigwood
dbigw...@gmail.commailto:dbigw...@gmail.com
Lunar and Planetary Institute
@LPI_Library
https://www.flickr.com/photos/lunarandplanetaryinstitute/

Re: [CODE4LIB] Why learn Unix?

[Bigwood, David]

Learning UNIX is fine. However, I do think learning SQL might be a better 
investment. So many of our resources are in databases. Understanding indexing, 
sorting and relevancy ranking of our databases is also crucial. With linked 
data being all the rage knowing about sparql endpoints is important.  The 
presentation of the information from databases under our control  needs work. 
Is the information we present actionable or just strings?

Or maybe I just like those topics better and find the work being done there 
fascinating?

Dave Bigwood
dbigw...@hou.usra.edu
Lunar and Planetary institute
@LPI_Library

[CODE4LIB] Citation Publication Tool

[Bigwood, David]

Any suggestions for publishing citations on the Web? We have a department that 
has lots of publications with citations at the end of each. Keeping the 
citations up-to-date is a chore.

Many here use Endnotes, and I know that can publish to the Web. Any examples I 
can view? Would Libguides be something to consider? Any other suggestions for 
easily getting different groups of citations up in multiple places?

Some examples of the pages involved:
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/explore/LifeOnMars/resources/
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/explore/solar_system/resources/
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/explore/space_health/resources/

Thanks,
David Bigwood
dbigw...@hou.usra.edumailto:dbigw...@hou.usra.edu
Lunar and Planetary Institute
@LPI_Library

Re: [CODE4LIB] Citation Publication Tool

[Bigwood, David]

Cornel,

The pages are resources for teachers to use in their class rooms or scout 
leaders to use in support of an activity. As such, new references will be 
added, some older ones dropped. We don't want to suggest books that list Pluto 
as a planet, for example. Or one that doesn't include lunar missions after 
Clementine. These bibliographies are often  being updated and are a chore to 
rework as static Web pages.  We have pages on Mars, Earth, Jupiter, etc. each 
with a separate bibliography.

Do you know of an example of Zotero being used to create a bibliography at the 
end of an on-line document?

Thanks,
Dave

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Cornel 
Darden Jr.
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 4:14 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Citation Publication Tool

Hello,

Zotero is what I was thinking to. However, I didn't quite understand what you 
were asking. Are you looking to create online bibliographies on various things 
and have them available to anyone with the address? What do you mean by keeping 
citations up-to date?

Thanks,

Cornel Darden Jr.
MSLIS

 On Oct 22, 2014, at 3:58 PM, Sylvain Machefert smachef...@u-bordeaux3.fr 
 wrote:
 
 Hello,
 have you considered using zotero online libraries ? It is easy to setup and 
 if you only plan to store metadatas (not PDF), the available space should be 
 enough for a long time.
 
 Otherwise, there are also many tools available, which goal is to build 
 researchers directory. This tools often include bibliographic management :
 - http://bibapp.org/
 - http://theopenscholar.org/
 
 Hope this helps.
 
 --
 Sylvain Machefert - Systems librarian
 http://geobib.fr/en
 
 Le 22/10/2014 22:10, Bigwood, David a écrit :
 Any suggestions for publishing citations on the Web? We have a department 
 that has lots of publications with citations at the end of each. Keeping the 
 citations up-to-date is a chore.
 
 Many here use Endnotes, and I know that can publish to the Web. Any examples 
 I can view? Would Libguides be something to consider? Any other suggestions 
 for easily getting different groups of citations up in multiple places?
 
 Some examples of the pages involved:
 http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/explore/LifeOnMars/resources/
 http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/explore/solar_system/resources/
 http://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/explore/space_health/resources/
 
 Thanks,
 David Bigwood
 dbigw...@hou.usra.edumailto:dbigw...@hou.usra.edu
 Lunar and Planetary Institute
 @LPI_Library

Re: [CODE4LIB] College Question!

[Bigwood, David]

Riley,

Don't major in Library Science. As an undergrad degree it's worthless and 
you'll just have to take the same type of courses for a Masters. You'll miss 
the chance to broaden your skill set. As an undergrad either major in IT, CS, 
CE or the like and then minor in something in the Humanities. Something with 
plenty of writing and speaking. Good communication skills are essential in all 
professional positions. Or you could do the opposite, major in something in the 
Humanities and minor in something that will cover networks, coding, databases, 
and so on. 

As for scholarships, talk to your HS guidance counselor. They often have access 
to lots of resources. Also talk to the admissions and student aid office at the 
college, if they want you they'll often be willing to help you. Community 
colleges often have great resources for scholarship info, if you have access to 
one take advantage of them. Your local public library may have a strong 
collection in that area, wouldn't hurt to ask. As a junior you have some time 
to investigate. It's good you've started school visits. Your local public 
library or school may offer test prep courses for free. If you are taking the 
SAT again this Fall it might be worthwhile to take advantage of this.

Have fun with the process, its work, but it is exciting, so many possibilities 
to choose from.

Sincerely,
David Bigwood
dbigw...@hou.usra.edu
Lunar and Planetary Institute
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/library/

@LPI_Library

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Riley 
Childs
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2014 12:17 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] College Question!

I was planing to major in CS or CE, but I am not sure. At c4l I was told by 
several people to not major in LS, some people said I need a masters from a 
university, some said an online degree would work. I am really not sure, 
hopefully more peope will pickup this thread in the morning!

Riley Childs
Junior
IT Admin
email: rchi...@cucawarriors.com
office: +1 (704) 537-0031 x101
cell: +1 (704) 497-2086

Re: [CODE4LIB] Job Interview : A Libcoder's Helpful Advices

[Bigwood, David]

Asking questions is an essential part of the interview. You are interviewing 
them as well as them you. But, never ask questions that can be easily answered 
by browsing their website or common reference works. That just makes you look 
either lazy or not interested enough to take a few minutes to investigate the 
situation. This seems silly to say, but it does happen.

Sincerely,
David Bigwood
dbigw...@hou.usra.edu
Lunar and Planetary Institute
@LPI_Library

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of scott 
bacon
Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2014 6:13 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Job Interview : A Libcoder's Helpful Advices

I would like to echo Jimmy and Laura about the importance of asking questions 
to your potential employer. You should be interviewing them as they interview 
you.

We've all been at the point where we're terrified to ask a question that will 
take us out of the running for a position; it's a vulnerable place to be. But 
not asking pointed questions may turn up red flags too, making it look like you 
either don't know any better or don't have enough initiative to ask for what 
you need to be successful.

A lot of the angst I've seen in workplace situations revolves around 
socio-political situations. So some of the questions I might ask a potential 
employer:
- What is the relationship between the library and the administration at this 
institution? Does the administration recognize the importance of the library?
- Are there any projects you have wanted to complete that have failed due to 
external forces? Please explain...
- What is your relationship to the president/provost/dean, and how does it 
help/hinder your everyday work?

They'll appreciate your initiative -- be bold!

Re: [CODE4LIB] distributed responsibility for web content

[Bigwood, David]

One possibility to get rid of some of the design problems is to see if it is 
valid in Section 508, if you're in the U.S.  That won't help with just ugly but 
it might get rid of some problems.

There are many validators out there.

Sincerely,
David Bigwood
dbigw...@lpi.usra.edu
Lunar and Planetary Institute
@LPI_Library

Re: [CODE4LIB] Professional Development Suggestions?

[Bigwood, David]

If you deal mostly with the sciences the New England Science Boot Camp might be 
useful. I've always thought they looked interesting. I think the Data Scientist 
Training for Librarians looks amazing. I don't see a session scheduled. You 
might contact them and see if they have one planned and figure a way to 
encumber the funds. It is a weekly class, so you would have to be with driving 
or T distance to Cambridge.

Sincerely,
David Bigwood
dbigw...@hou.usra.edu
Lunar and Planetary Institute

Twitter @LPI_Library


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Matthew 
Sherman
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2014 8:26 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Professional Development Suggestions?

Hi Code4Libbers,

I wanted to solicit some ideas from the community.  I was recently told I have 
about 500 bucks in professional development funds I can make use of, but the 
deadline to submit things for approval for this budget year is in the front 
half of next week.  As such I wanted to find out from the group if they knew of 
any good webinars, work shops, or small conferences in the northeast that could 
be helpful to a librarian who works with repositories and digital collections.  
Or if people know of other good ways to make use of professional development 
funds.  I would like to make good use of these to grow, but I am at a loss as 
to where I could apply them with the time I have to look.  I appreciate any 
thoughts people can provide.  Thanks and I hope everyone has a good day.

Matt Sherman

[CODE4LIB] Open Publication Distribution System

[Bigwood, David]

I recently became aware of Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS) Catalog 
format, a syndication format for e-pubs based on Atom  HTTP. It is something 
like an RSS feed for e-books. People are using it to find and acquire books. It 
sounds like a natural fit for library digitization projects. An easy way for 
folks to know what's new and grab a copy if they like.

So is anyone using this? Is it built into Omeka, Greenstone, DSpace or any of 
our tools? If you do use it do you have separate feeds for different projects. 
Say, one for dissertations, another for the local history project and another 
for books by state authors. Or do you have just one large feed? Is it being 
used by the DPLA or Internet Archive? How's it working for you?

We have plenty of documents we have scanned as well as our own publications. 
Might this be a good way to make them more discoverable? Or is this just a tool 
no one is using?

Thanks,
David Bigwood
dbigw...@hou.usra.edumailto:dbigw...@hou.usra.edu
Lunar and Planetary Institute

https://twitter.com/Catalogablog

Re: [CODE4LIB] COinS metadata format support

[Bigwood, David]

Is there an easy-to-use tool for schema.org microdata? I was fond of the OCLC 
NJ COinS tool, but it has gone. Anything of that ilk?

Thanks,
Dave

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Michael 
J. Giarlo
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 12:34 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] COinS metadata format support

Chad,

In that case, I wonder if you might get more mileage out of schema.orgmicrodata 
instead of COinS.  There are undoubtedly more clients out there that can make 
sense of HTML5 microdata than COinS, which is really showing its age and is a 
niche technology.

-Mike



On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 10:25 AM, Chad Mills cmmi...@rci.rutgers.eduwrote:

 Jodi,

 No.  I am working with our repository resources which is an eclectic 
 mixture of resource types.  I just want to simply embed our metadata 
 in our search results and record displays for other tools to use.  It 
 seems cheap and reasonable to do I just didn't want to limit this 
 feature to only certain resource types.

 Best,
 Chad


 - Original Message -
 From: Jodi Schneider jschnei...@pobox.com
 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
 Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 12:54:43 PM
 Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] COinS metadata format support

 Hi Chad,

 Are these subscription images/video/audio that libraries have? The 
 original purpose of COinS, as I understand it, was to get people to 
 subscription copies. Depending on what you're doing (i.e. the 
 purpose/intended use) there might be a better standard these days.

 In case it helps there's more info here:
 http://ocoins.info/
 (though it looks like the generator isn't up any longer, maybe due to 
 OCLC New Jersey hosting?)

 Hopefully you'll get some more helpful advice from others!

 -Jodi




 On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Chad Mills cmmi...@rci.rutgers.edu
 wrote:

  I was able to easily find and create COinS for books and journals.  
  I started thinking about images, video, audio, etc.  I see 
  references to 'info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:unknown' as a rft_val_fmt value 
  some places.  I
 would
  assume if I went down that road the rft.genre would have a value of 
  'unknown' as well.  Is there some other alternative I am missing 
  when handling other formats?
 
  Thanks!
 
  --
  Chad Mills
  Digital Library Architect
  Ph: 848.932.5924
  Fax: 848.932.1386
  Cell: 732.309.8538
 
  Rutgers University Libraries
  Scholarly Communication Center
  Room 409D, Alexander Library
  169 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
 
  http://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/
 

Re: [CODE4LIB] linked data recipe

[Bigwood, David]

+1 for schema.org as one of the first steps. COinS are another useful simple 
mark-up if the data is already there.

I'm looking forward to the book.

Sincerely,
David Bigwood
Lunar and Planetary Institute


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Karen 
Coyle
Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 10:10 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] linked data recipe

Eric, if you want to leap into the linked data world in the fastest, easiest 
way possible, then I suggest looking at microdata markup, e.g. 
schema.org.[1] Schema.org does not require you to transform your data at
all: it only requires mark-up of your online displays. This makes sense because 
as long as your data is in local databases, it's not visible to the linked data 
universe anyway; so why not take the easy way out and just add linked data to 
your public online displays? This doesn't require a transformation of your 
entire record (some of which may not be suitable as linked data in any case), 
only those things that are likely to link usefully. This latter generally 
means things for which you have an identifier. And you make no changes to 
your database, only to display.

OCLC is already producing this markup in WorldCat records [2]-- not perfectly, 
of course, lots of warts, but it is a first step. However, it is a first step 
that makes more sense to me than *transforming* or
*cross-walking* current metadata. It also, I believe, will help us understand 
what bits of our current metadata will make the transition to linked data, and 
what bits should remain as accessible documents that users can reach through 
linked data.

kc
[1] http://schema.org, and look at the work going on to add bibliographic 
properties at http://www.w3.org/community/schemabibex/wiki/Main_Page
[2] look at the linked data section of any WorldCat page for a single item, 
such 
ashttp://www.worldcat.org/title/selection-of-early-statistical-papers-of-j-neyman/oclc/527725referer=brief_results

Re: [CODE4LIB] image gallery management software recommendations

[Bigwood, David]

I've heard good things about Omeka. It has support and an active user base. 

David Bigwood
Lunar and Planetary Institute

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ken 
Irwin
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 2:44 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] image gallery management software recommendations

Hi all,

I'm working on a project for which we're looking for some image gallery 
management software (ie, upload, organize, tag, etc.) that's a standalone piece 
of software: ie, not part of a larger CMS like WordPress, Drupal, ContentDM, 
etc.

We'd of course like something that is simple, awesome, and free. (We might 
settle for two of the three...) The only absolute requirement is that it needs 
to run on a Linux/Apache server. PHP/MySQL would be preferred, and something 
with a responsive front-end would also be nice.

The world appears to be teeming with such things of various quality; I thought 
I'd ask you all for recommendations rather than just try to wade through the 
masses of junk.

Any ideas?
Thanks
Ken

Re: [CODE4LIB] Subject Terms in Institutional Repositories

[Bigwood, David]

Another way most taggers don't think in terms of LCSH is precoordinated 
strings. Using FAST with auto suggest and complete might be something to 
consider. 

Sincerely,
David Bigwood
Lunar and Planetary Institute

Twitter: @Catalogablog

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Shaun 
Ellis
Sent: Friday, August 30, 2013 10:24 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Subject Terms in Institutional Repositories

Mike, what do you mean when you say don't think in terms of LCSH?  Is there 
some other vocabulary that they think in?  If LCSH is the best option, the 
right interface may help them think in terms of LCSH.  For example, 
auto-completion/suggestion of headings when tagging or searching might be 
necessary.

-Shaun

Re: [CODE4LIB] Policies for 3D Printers

[Bigwood, David]

That's a question every library will have to answer for themselves. 

For us it makes perfect sense. Our scientists are sending out files to
have 3D models of craters. When the price drops enough it will become
more cost effective to do that in-house. It will just be an extension of
maps and remote sensing data we already have in the collection. I can
see a limit being fabrication related to the mission of the Institute,
same as the large-format printer.

A public library might have other concerns. If it is unlimited and free,
is printing out 100 Hulk statues to sell at a comic convention
acceptable? How about Barbie dolls to sell at a flea market? Or maybe
Barbee dolls to side-step trademarks? Lots of unanswered questions, but
each library will have to decide based on local conditions.

Sincerely,
David Bigwood
dbigw...@hou.usra.edu
Lunar and Planetary Institute

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
Kyle Banerjee
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2013 2:15 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Policies for 3D Printers

This is a bit off topic, but why would a library provide 3D printing
services when just printing text on paper seems to cause enough grief
for many libraries?

Don't get me wrong. I can see why people are interested in this. If I
had access to one (i.e. I weren't too lazy/cheap to use available
services), I'd fabricate all kinds of specialized tools and gizmos.

If 3D printing is provided gratis, the logical thing for people to do is
to print out stuff that they need based on files they just download from
the internet. Or make useful things to sell. I suspect this is not an
issue yet because 3D printing isn't in most peoples' consciousness yet.

The connection between fabrication and library services is tenuous at
best.
May as well loan tools since that would be useful to many people and
would strongly appeal to demographic groups that historically don't
frequent libraries.

kyle


On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Marc Comeau marc.com...@dal.ca wrote:

 Sorry I'm a little late to the discussion.

 We've had a 3D printer deployed in our biggest library for about a 
 year now and we've had to discuss the gun issue at length.  Thankfully

 for us, the RCMP in Canada came out with a pretty clear statement on 
 the fact that unless you have the proper registration and license, you

 can't do it in Canada.  Since the library will never hold those 
 licenses or registration, we can't legally do it.

 While we haven't drawn up any formal policy yet, the quiet line in the

 sand for us has been, if it's illegal, we'll do it, if it's illegal 
 we won't  Our University Librarian is the kind of person who will 
 take a stand to defend library principles if there's anything in that 
 messy grey area so it's a reasonable standing policy for the time
being.

 We're rolling out to three other libraries on campus now though so 
 we're likely to be writing something up very soon.  To date though, 
 after about
 300 print jobs submitted, the most dangerous thing anyone has sent was

 a mini crossbow.  The tip of the arrows were surprisingly sharp and it

 could probably have slightly pierced skin if equipped with the right
rubber band.
  That said, it was clearly a novelty item and since our users are 
 legally considered adults, they carry a good amount of responsibility
on their own.
  It didn't even raise any questions from our front-line staff who do 
 err on the side of caution since we're dealing with something new and
unknown.

 We're seeing a lot of self-created models with a good amount of 
 Thingiverse material as well.  Haven't really bumped into any serious 
 copyright/patent/trademark issues yet either though we'll be 
 discussing that over the next month or two.

 Marc Comeau
 Director of Library IT
 Library Information Technology Services Dalhousie University

 On 2013-05-20, at 9:39 AM, Edward Iglesias wrote:

  Thank you all for this great feedback.  I imagine we will probably 
  not charge at the beginning and change as needed.  My Director's 
  bigger
 concern
  is the whole are they gonna print a gun with that question.  
  Luckily we have a student handbook to point to.
 
  Edward Iglesias
 
 
  On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Nate Hill 
  nathanielh...@gmail.com
 wrote:
 
  If fines, fee structures, and social contracts in community spaces
 interest
  you, watch Clay Shirky's TED talk about cognitive surplus, and 
  listen to the story about day care centers and late pickup fees.
 
 
 http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=qu7ZpWecIS8desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D
 qu7ZpWecIS8
 
 
  On Sunday, May 19, 2013, BWS Johnson wrote:
 
  Salvete!
 
 
  Libraries charge to lend books.
 
 Some, by no means all. It's also generally limited to newer
  materials.
  It's universally stupid to do this, in my opinion. The folks that 
  can
 pay
  are already buying copies, and we're hurting the patrons that 
  can't
 pay.
 
  Late fines are 

Re: [CODE4LIB] When did OCLC's original xISBN service launch?

[Bigwood, David]

On Catalogablog there is an posting on Tuesday, September 21, 2004.

Sincerely,
David Bigwood



-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
David J. Fiander
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 10:35 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] When did OCLC's original xISBN service launch?

According to the Code4Lib mailing list archives, the service moved from
experimental to production, and changed format, in February, 2007, but
the earliest reference to the service in the archives is a question from
Thom Hickey in May, 2005 soliciting feedback about what additional
features might be of interest.

- David

Re: [CODE4LIB] Representing geographic hierarchy in linked data

[Bigwood, David]

In MARC field 043 is a geographic area code that has a hierarchy.

http://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographic/bd043.html
http://www.loc.gov/marc/geoareas/

An XML version is available for use in applications at:
http://www.loc.gov/standards/codelists/gacs.xml

This document contains a list of geographic areas and their associated
one-to seven-character
codes. The list includes separate codes for countries, first order
political divisions of some countries,
regions, geographic features, outer space, and celestial bodies. The
purpose of this list is to allow
places reflected in the subject headings assigned to an item to be
designated by codes in the MARC
record for that item. The list contains 579 discrete codes, of which 51
are discontinued codes no
longer valid for use.

Sincerely,
David Bigwood
dbigw...@gmail.com
Lunar and Planetary Institute

Re: [CODE4LIB] Software for Capstone\Theses Projects

[Bigwood, David]

Mike,

Omeka might be what you are looking for. I've never used it but from
what I've heard about it, it would be worth a look. 

Sincerely,
David Bigwood
dbigw...@hou.usra.edu
Lunar and Planetary Institute

Re: [CODE4LIB] Programmer Orientation to Library/Lib Sci

[Bigwood, David]

The extended ASCII character set, Latin-1, used in the old MARC systems was 
always something that was neglected to get mentioned and not at all obvious. 
Now that more systems are using UNICODE it should be less of a problem, all 
depends on your system and if you still have legacy data.

Sincerely,
David Bigwood
dbigw...@gmail.com
Lunar and Planetary Institute


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Laura 
Smart
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 11:04 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Programmer Orientation to Library/Lib Sci

Hi folks -

What do you include in orientation when you hire a programmer (excellent, 
experienced, of course), who isn't familiar with library-land?  MARC is a 
given, ditto the ILS, plus e-resource management back end (OpenURL parsers, 
proxies and the like).  From those of you who came into libraries for other 
industries:  what do you wish you knew about libraries, library/info science, 
and library operations when you began? I'm especially interested in anything 
which gave you an ah-ha! moment when you were working with library data -- 
the implicit things which didn't make sense until you knew why those
crazy librarians did things the way they did.   Also - which resources
were particularly valuable to you as you gained familiarity with your new 
environment?

Your insight is deeply appreciated,

Laura J. Smart
Metadata Services Manager, Caltech Library 
la...@library.caltech.edu/laura.j.sm...@gmail.com

Re: [CODE4LIB] Programmer Orientation to Library/Lib Sci

[Bigwood, David]

Walter,

Yes, it is different. All the different character sets someone could
bump into in the library, some not used elsewhere, should be mentioned. 

I love and agree with that sig :-)

Dave

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
Walter Lewis
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2011 4:12 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Programmer Orientation to Library/Lib Sci

On 22 July 2011, at 1:07 PM, Bigwood, David wrote:

 The extended ASCII character set, Latin-1, used in the old MARC
systems was always something that was neglected to get mentioned and not
at all obvious. Now that more systems are using UNICODE it should be
less of a problem, all depends on your system and if you still have
legacy data.

Isn't Marc-8 different than Latin-1 in how it handles accents?

At least that's how I read
  http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/charsets/marc.html
... and I'd never argue with Michael about this. :)

Walter Lewis
   who never met a character set he didn't wish he hadn't *had* to meet

Re: [CODE4LIB] OIA Feeds

[Bigwood, David]

Nathan,

I think what you want is a OAI Static Repository. Info here:
http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/guidelines-static-repository.htm

If I remember right, you will then need someone else to read your files.
Not sure if anyone is still doing that.

Sincerely,
David Bigwood
dbigw...@hou.usra.edu
Lunar and Planetary Institute

Re: [CODE4LIB] Adding VIAF links to Wikipedia

[Bigwood, David]

I went in and added VAIF links to a bunch of planetary scientists. We
are working with NASA to improve the planetary science entries. Mostly,
just raising awareness among the scientists that it is important.

No negative comments on the VIAF links yet. A bot is something that will
get more attention though.

Sincerely,
David Bigwood
dbigw...@hou.usra.edu
Lunar and Planetary Institute

[CODE4LIB] COinS

[Bigwood, David]

I've been adding COinS to some of our pages. However, we don't have a
URLResolver here, so I can't tell how they look and if they are working.
Anyone willing to check a few and let me know?
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lpi/lpi_contribution.cfm

 

Thanks,

David Bigwood

dbigw...@hou.usra.edu

Lunar and Planetary Institute

 

Re: [CODE4LIB] COinS

[Bigwood, David]

Demian,

Thanks for the tip. I'd forgotten Zotero did COinS.

Dave

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
Demian Katz
Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 10:08 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] COinS

If you install the Zotero plug-in for Firefox, that should detect COinS
and use it for harvesting citations -- that's one way to do some COinS
testing of your own!

- Demian

 -Original Message-
 From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf
Of
 Bigwood, David
 Sent: Friday, March 11, 2011 10:57 AM
 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
 Subject: [CODE4LIB] COinS
 
 I've been adding COinS to some of our pages. However, we don't have a
 URLResolver here, so I can't tell how they look and if they are
 working.
 Anyone willing to check a few and let me know?
 http://www.lpi.usra.edu/lpi/lpi_contribution.cfm
 
 
 
 Thanks,
 
 David Bigwood
 
 dbigw...@hou.usra.edu
 
 Lunar and Planetary Institute
 
 

[CODE4LIB] DIY aggregate index

[Bigwood, David]

Well, research institutions or societies might be more willing than
others to share their metadata. Here at the Lunar and Planetary
Institute we want as many uses of our papers as possible. I've recently
spent some time seeing if anyone would ingest our metadata. (Scopus
might, ADS, GeoRef and a few others already do)

If anyone out there wants to add planetary geology metadata to their
database just ask. I'd like to get it all OAI or available via an API
someday.

Sincerely,
David Bigwood
Lunar and Planetary Institute

NB My address has changed. Please change your address book to the new
address: dbigw...@hou.usra.edu Thanks

Re: [CODE4LIB] Skyriver discussions?

[Bigwood, David]

Not very interested as a cataloging source. Not interested in OCLC
either as far as that goes. I might be interested in getting our records
there so they are available to others for ILL, beyond that not so much.
I do a lot of original cataloging. Neither service would help with that.

However, if they provide NACO support, than it might be worth joining.
We can't afford OCLC, yet we have the connection to the authors in our
field to contribute to NACO. It is frustrating. If there was a low cost
alternative to the OCLC membership requirement for NACO we would be very
interested.

Sincerely,
David Bigwood
dbigw...@gmail.com
http://twitter.com/LPI_Library
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lunarandplanetaryinstitute/


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of
Jill Ellern
Sent: Thursday, May 06, 2010 2:12 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Skyriver discussions?

Thought I'd ask this group the same question I've asked my UNC system
librarians...

I spent some time since the IUG conference talking with my library
director and head of cataloging about it and was wondering what the
interest is in it or discussion about it have been going on at the other
libraries...

Jill

Re: [CODE4LIB] creating call number browse

[Bigwood, David]

In very few libraries are all items on the same shelf. An on-line
environment has the advantage of seeing everything in one call number
run. It can be much more complete.

Oversized
Videos
Microfiche
Latest Arrivals
Youth
Juvenile
Maps
Special Collections
Etc

Sincerely,
David Bigwood
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://catalogablog.blogspot.com
Twitter LPI_Library

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Keith Jenkins
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 7:22 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] creating call number browse

I think that one advantage of browsing a physical shelf is that the
shelf is linear, so it's very easy to methodically browse from the
left end of the shelf to the right, and have a sense that you haven't
accidentally missed anything.  (Ignore, for the moment, all the books
that happen to be checked out and not on the shelf...)


Keith

Re: [CODE4LIB] Roman-script to Hebrew-script automation

[Bigwood, David]

Here is a bit of existing work I know of in this area.

MARC::Detrans De-transliterate text and MARC records
http://search.cpan.org/dist/MARC-Detrans/

There is a paper Cyril: expanding the horizons of MARC21 by Jacobs, Jane
W.; Summers, Ed; Ankersen, Elizabeth, Library Hi Tech, Volume 22, Number
1, 2004, pp. 8-17(10) Good discussion of the issues this creates.

The Cyril software doesn't seem to be available still.

Sincerely,
David Bigwood
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Catalogablog http://catalogablog.blogspot.com
Twitter LPI_Library

 Greetings all:

 It occurs to me now that I might have checked for existing work on the
lists
 before I did this, but anyway -- we are in the finishing stages of
creating
 scripts that will automatically convert a library's existing Romanized
MARC
 Hebrew fields (e.g. Sefer {dotb}Hatan Torah) into Hebrew-script, and
add
 them to the records already in the ILS.  It's quite accurate; not
 bulletproof, but at least it's a way to quickly get Hebrew script into
 thousands of Roman-only records, where many Hebrew users (including
staff)
 may not understand the transliteration rules 100%.

 The Hebrew conversion itself is done by a PHP script (haven't finished
 learning Perl) acting on a MARC dump of Roman-only Hebrew records in
MRK
 (broken MARCedit) format.  This outputs two files of converted fields:
an
 XML file for proofing, and a tab-delimited text file for the inputting
 script to devour.  This inputting is done by an Expect script using
the
 character-based ILS client.

 We are an III shop.  This could presumably be adapted easily enough
for
 another ILS, whether using Expect or direct manipulation of database
tables.
  (I'm not volunteering, though...) It would probably be easy enough to
adapt
 to another language also, assuming that language were at least as
 predictable in MARC as Hebrew.  (It's pretty good - my list of manual
 override words that the auto-algorithm botches is now totaling about
35 in
 preliminary testing.)

 Note that I can't imagine automating the other direction, Hebrew- to
 Roman-script, unless there's some algorithm for this already floating
around
 out there.

 If anyone's interested, I'll clean up the code and open-source it.

 Cheers, Shabbat shalom,

 --
 Yitzchak Schaffer
 Systems Librarian
 Touro College Libraries
 33 West 23rd Street
 New York, NY 10010
 Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230
 Fax (212) 627-3197
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [CODE4LIB] [Web4lib] Library Staff Scheduler

[Bigwood, David]

Yes, some do move between branches. When I worked at Houston Public only
central a few branches were open on Sunday. Staff from any of the
branches could work a Sunday shift at one of those open sites.

Sometimes a branch will close for a time due to a disaster or
renovations and the staff will be assigned to another site.

I'd guess in some very small branches if a couple of folks called in
sick, someone from another branch would have to cover. I know that
happened at Stride-Rite shoe stores I once worked in. Not something you
can schedule, but then the schedule would need to be changed quickly.

Sincerely,
David Bigwood
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lunar and Planetary Institute
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/library/whats_new.shtml

[CODE4LIB] OAI Static Repository

[Bigwood, David]

I'm hoping someone can spare the time to take a look at the OAI Static
Repository file I've created and let me know where I've gone wrong.

I've created an OAI Static Repository for my institution's publications.

http://www.lpi.usra.edu/library/oai.xml

However, it is not quite correct. I've looked at it and can't seem to
find the error. Anyone willing to take a look and see where I've left
off the  or  or whatever? Getting this up is a big deal, I've been
fighting for a year now to get this OKed. Now that it is up, the LANL
static repository gateway rejects it. I used MarcEdit to create the file
BTW.

Thanks,
David Bigwood
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lunar  Planetary Institute
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/library

Re: [CODE4LIB] OAI Static Repository

[Bigwood, David]

Dorothea,

Thanks for the reply. I had neglected to include the name spaces.
Another person pointed this out and was kind enough to include them in
his message. I knew another pair of eyes could spot it quick.

Thanks,
Dave

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Dorothea Salo
Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 10:08 AM
To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] OAI Static Repository

 However, it is not quite correct. I've looked at it and can't seem to
 find the error.

Firefox is complaining that the oai: namespace is undefined. Looking at
the OAI output from the repository I run, I don't see any namespace
information at all. Perhaps eliminating the oai: prefix will solve the
problem?

Dorothea

Re: [CODE4LIB] Authority records and the OSS ILS

[Bigwood, David]

Joshua,

There is a small set you can get for testing. http://tinyurl.com/37ufz
The MARC 21 Authority Records for GSAFD Genre Terms are freely
available.

Sincerely,
David Bigwood
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lunar  Planetary Institute
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/library/whats_new.shtml


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Joshua Ferraro
Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2006 9:27 AM
To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Authority records and the OSS ILS

Hi Ed,

Koha (http://koha.org) uses MARC authority records. You can demo the
authority headings search on LibLime's OPAC demo:

http://opac.liblime.com

What we're lacking is a really good MARC21 Authorities Records (the
example you see above was generated from the data in that database
rather than from an external authorities file). I've looked into
purchasing authorities from the LOC but it's pretty expensive. If you
have access to a good set of authorities and would like to test the
capabilities of the system using them, let me know.

Cheers,

--
Joshua Ferraro   VENDOR SERVICES FOR OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE
President, Technology   migration, training, maintenance, support
LibLimeFeaturing Koha Open-Source ILS
[EMAIL PROTECTED] |Full Demos at http://liblime.com/koha |1(888)KohaILS

Re: [CODE4LIB] tagging

[Bigwood, David]

Eric,

I think it would be useful, in some places. Flickr only allows the
person submitting the photo to add tags. Much like an author submitting
something to D-Space could add keywords. Those terms, from an
uncontrolled source, can be useful in searching. Our catalogs allow for
this in field 653.

Del.icio.us allows anyone to tag anything. This works best with a large
collection of tags. Then clustering tools can group and distinguish
terms. A few scattered terms would not be much use, in general. Unless,
you had a small group who wanted to tag things for their own personal
information management uses. Dbtoread, might not be useful to anyone but
me, but it could be very useful to me. If there are folks who want to or
would use tagging for their own personal uses and they are important
users it could make sense.

Freetag is an open-source tool to use with MySQL databases to add
tagging. There was some talk of using this to add tags to Koha. Not sure
if it was ever done.

Sincerely,
David Bigwood
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lunar  Planetary Institute
http://www.lpi.usra.edu/library/whats_new.shtml



-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Eric Lease Morgan
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 1:29 PM
To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu
Subject: [CODE4LIB] tagging

Over the weekend I had the opportunity to chat with a friend about
tagging -- a sort of self- keyword cataloging as implemented by
del.icio.us and flikr.

I'm wondering, to what degree does this group here think tagging would
be beneficial in Library Land? For example, we could allow tagging to be
done against items in a library catalog or against a personalized
collection of Internet resources. If it were beneficial, then how would
y'all implement it?

--
Eric Lease Morgan
University Libraries of Notre Dame

Re: [CODE4LIB] browser toolbars

[Bigwood, David]

There are some Web sites out there that have a fill in the blanks approach to 
IE toolbar building. http://www.effectivebrand.com/ is one I know of. It does 
create a decent looking toolbar, but I'm not sure if it is just more spyware. 
Haven't investigated them that closely.

Sincerely,
David Bigwood
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Lunar  Planetary Institute

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
Jeremy Dunck
Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2005 10:44 AM
To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] browser toolbars


On 5/25/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
but I'd rather create an
 easy-to-install-and-use toolbar for IE.  Given the extreme limitations of
 my programming skills (i.e. I really don't have any yet), this may be a
 pipedream.

Well, this is the single biggest reason there aren't more toolbars for
IE.  That article I linked to earlier starts out saying something like
If you've been doing windows event subclassing for a while, this
isn't too tough, but instead we'll take the easy route and use
multiple inheritance with the C++ ATL.

Talk about setting the bar high!  I've been a dev for 11 years, and
that still sounds like too much trouble to me.  :)