Re: [CODE4LIB] Consortial services

[Brown, Bryan]

Here in Florida we have Florida Academic Library Services Cooperative (FALSC), 
a state mandated consortium that offers shared instances of OJS, Islandora and 
Aleph ILS among lots of other stuff that I'm less familiar with.

-Bryan Brown

From: Code for Libraries  on behalf of Cary Gordon 

Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2016 11:33:51 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Consortial services

Marmot in Colorado offers Pika, their flavor of VuFind, and I believe that they 
are offering or will offer Islandora.

There is also an academic Islandora consortia called the Islandora Consortia 
Group >

Thanks,

Cary

> On May 24, 2016, at 4:59 PM, McAulay, Lisa  wrote:
>
> Hi Bill,
>
> Lyrasis does Islandora hosting I know, and possibly more. The UC system has a 
> shared Digital Asset Management System as well as a shared finding aid 
> publishing service, the latter serves all of California.
>
> Hope that helps!
>
> Best,
> Lisa
>
>> On May 24, 2016, at 4:46 PM, Ingram, William A  wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am trying to get a sense of the extent to which non-OPAC systems are being 
>> run by consortia. We know that OPACs have sometimes moved to consortial 
>> management (e.g., CARLI, WRLC), but what what about publishing platforms 
>> (e.g., OJS), repository platforms (e.g., DSpace, Fedora), or other digital 
>> library systems (e.g., Omeka, Archon)? Does anyone have a sense of the 
>> degree to which these non-OPAC systems are being run by consortia?
>>
>> The one I'm aware of is TDL, which I believe offers DSpace, Vireo ETD, and 
>> OJS (but not OPAC, surprisingly). Are there others?
>>
>> Thanks much,
>> Bill
>>
>>
>> --
>> Bill Ingram
>> Manager, Scholarly Communication and Repository Services
>> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library
>> 450-W Library, MC 522
>> 1408 W Gregory Drive
>> Urbana, IL 61801 USA
>>
>> (217) 333-4648
>> wingr...@illinois.edu
>> http://orcid.org/-0002-8307-8844
>>
>>
>>

Re: [CODE4LIB] using drupal for a document repository

[Brown, Bryan]

Hi Kelsey,

While I highly recommend Islandora for this use case, I completely understand 
your point about not having the technical expertise to support Fedora, it can 
be a pain to set up and maintain. If you are considering a more minimal choice 
like Drupal, you might want to also consider Omeka. It's a LAMP app like 
Drupal, but it has a pretty simple UI (more Wordpress-like) and it has been 
designed as a lightweight digital asset management system. I *believe* it can 
support PDFs and MS Word documents if you set it up with some plugins. I don't 
have any direct experience using Omeka for this use case, but its something you 
can look into if your other options don't pan out.

Bryan Brown
Florida State University Libraries

From: Code for Libraries  on behalf of Charlie Morris 

Sent: Friday, May 6, 2016 12:34:28 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] using drupal for a document repository

I guess I'm a little confused about what you want to do - and the key
question to me is "where are you storing your documents?" Biblio is a great
tool (haven't used it though) for storing bib records and searching on them
- documents that have DOIs that point elsewhere. That's as far as my
understanding goes though, you through your experience with it might know
what else it can do.

To build on Cary's advice, creating an interface to browse/search a
relatively small collection in Drupal is done regularly and is what Drupal
is meant for (custom content types is one of Drupal's main features). So,
if you want to build a Drupal site as both a document store and a place to
search, you could create content types and leverage the excellent Solr
integrations  that make
adding a Solr search fairly trivial for a technologist. I'm not sure where
the scale reaches its limit but with small collections of a few thousand
items it is very performant as I've worked with it. Hope this helps. Would
love to see what you have created in Drupal if you're willing to share.

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 5:15 PM, Kelsey Williamson <
kelseyfayesaw...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi code4lib,
> I was hoping to get some input on this. My small, scrappy institution is
> considering using drupal as a repository, primarily via the Biblio module.
>
> Obviously this is not ideal, but for reasons I won't get into, our tech
> environment won't support ePrints or dspace, and hosted services are not an
> option either. We do not really have the level of technical expertise
> required to support any fedora-based applications, and cannot hire any
> additional support. There's a chance existing staff could stretch to get
> there, but it would not be a pretty process.
>
> With all that said, do any red flags come to mind? I looked through both
> code4lib and drupal4lib listserv archives and poked around google, but
> didn't find much evidence of anyone else using drupal in this way. Seems
> suspicious. While my gut tells me it's a bad idea (metadata! standards!
> preservation!), I'm having trouble articulating this to my group in a way
> that sticks, because using Biblio would be easy. I would appreciate hearing
> any other thoughts or opinions on this.
>
> Thanks!
> Kelsey
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Institutional repositories

[Brown, Bryan]

Hi Katie,

Here at Florida State University we recently migrated from Bepress Digital 
Commons to Islandora. We had been using Islandora previously for digital 
collections, but decided to save some money and start using it as our IR, too. 
Bepress Digital Commons was a fine choice a few years ago when we didn't have 
any developers, but now that our IT staff has grown we wanted something that we 
could manage ourselves.

I've learned a lot about open source projects during this transition. On the 
upside, its incredibly motivating to know that you can build a system out the 
way you want it; having an extensible system forces you to look at it in a much 
different way and you feel a lot more ownership over it. You can also look at 
the system as "unfinished", and continue to build new features onto it as your 
needs grow (or if your IR solution didn't meet some of your requirements from 
the beginning). Since you mentioned metadata arm waving, I will say that its a 
lot more fun working on an open source system if metadata is your thing. Being 
able to tweak the way the system handles metadata 
(validation/searching/display/etc) opens up a lot of possibilities.

On the downside, the old joke about "free as in free puppy" definitely applies; 
there's no vendor to complain to when you don't like something, so you have to 
have a DIY attitude. I used to always recommend open source systems to people, 
but now that I support one I can see the value in paying a vendor for a hosted 
solution if you don't have developers on staff.

-Bryan Brown


From: Code for Libraries  on behalf of Knight, 
Kathryn E. 
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2016 9:41 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Institutional repositories

Hello all,

My institution is working on a massive overhaul of our current institutional 
repository. At this point we're still deciding what to choose (DSpace, Invenio, 
etc.). Since I don't have much experience with IRs and so far all I can do in 
meetings is wave my arms and crow about metadata a bunch, I thought I'd appeal 
to the collective Code4Lib brain for some repository input. If you have an IR 
at your institution, what do you like about it? Hate? What about the end users? 
What is your submission process like? Anything you wish it could do that it 
doesn't? Etc.

Please feel free to contact me off list with your thoughts, if you care to 
share-I'll keep all information confidential.

Thanks so much,

Katie

Kathryn Knight
Metadata and Cataloging Librarian
Oak Ridge National Laboratory Research Library

[CODE4LIB] Any Wowza users on the list?

[Brown, Bryan]

Florida State University Libraries is looking at different streaming media 
servers we could use for various use cases (mainly as a backend that gets 
called to serve up streaming videos by another application/site), and we've 
settled on Wowza (https://www.wowza.com/) as a potential solution. Before we 
move any further along down this road, I was wondering if anyone on the list 
has used it before and could speak from personal experience about it?

Bryan Brown
Web Developer
FSU Libraries

[CODE4LIB] Drupal code club

[Brown, Bryan]

With the overwhelming response to the recent post about a Python/PyMARC code 
club on the Code4Lib list, I was wondering if anyone would be interested in 
something similar for Drupal. As a Drupal user and a wannabe module developer, 
I'm finding that reading other people's modules (especially core) is one of the 
best ways to really understand what's going on under the hood. Much like 
Python, Drupal has its own unique idioms and ways of looking at problems, and 
reading modules helps one get into this mindset.

If anyone else is interested in this, please let me know either through a reply 
to this thread or a direct email (bjbr...@fsu.edu). If there is sufficient 
interest, I'll try to set up something similar to what the Python/PyMARC crowd 
is doing.

- Bryan Brown

Re: [CODE4LIB] Python PyMARC Code Club

[Brown, Bryan]

I'm a frequent Python user (PyMARC not so much) and I think this sounds like a 
great idea. Count me in.

- Bryan Brown

From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Jeremy Nelson 
[jeremy.nel...@coloradocollege.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 10:36 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Python  PyMARC Code Club

As frequent user of PyMarc and Python, I would be interested in participating 
as well.

Jeremy Nelson
Metadata and Systems Librarian
Colorado College

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of David 
Mayo
Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 7:41 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Python  PyMARC Code Club

Also potentially interested, depending on timing.

- Dave Mayo
Software Engineer
Harvard University

On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 9:32 AM, Suda, Phillip J psu...@tulane.edu wrote:

 I'm interested and will contact the appropriate people.

 Thanks,

 Phil


 Phillip Suda
 Systems Librarian
 Howard-Tilton Memorial Library
 Tulane University
 psu...@tulane.edu
 504-865-5607



 -Original Message-
 From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf
 Of Sean Chen
 Sent: Monday, February 23, 2015 9:28 PM
 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
 Subject: [CODE4LIB] Python  PyMARC Code Club

 For those who attended the conference in Portland there was a talk by
 Coral Sheldon-Hess where she introduced the idea of a Code Club. If
 you didn't see it check out the talk's slides and description at:
 http://code4lib.org/conference/2015/sheldon-hess. But, for the tl;dr
 version here it is: read code with other like minded individuals so
 you can become a better programmer.

 Which in turn inspires some of us who attended the conference t look
 for other catalogers/hackers/programmers interested in Python and MARC 
 records.
 We'd like to do a club centered on the PyMARC library. If that piques
 your interest please send an email to Richard Tan
 r...@library.berkeley.edu and Sean Chen slc.c...@gmail.com.  We
 are happy to get something started but we’d like to hear from others about 
 this endeavor.


 Best regards,

 Sean

 --
 Sean Chen slc.c...@gmail.com

Re: [CODE4LIB] Metadata T-Shirt

[Brown, Bryan]

Not true, a few people have been using the logo on other sites, i.e. 
http://www.redbubble.com/people/charlizeart/works/1280530-metadata?p=t-shirt

From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Riley Childs 
[ri...@tfsgeo.com]
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2014 1:45 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Metadata T-Shirt

Doubt it, it exists on CafePress and the c4l wiki, no where else.
In other news:
-I am about to add a Metadata Hat, Metadata Santa's Hat, Apron, Bath Towel,
and other awesome products
-If you have tshirt logos for previous years (in a SVG, EPS, or Ai format)
it would be great if you could send them to me!
-Please notify me (so I can take it off the store) AND spreadshirt (for a
refund) if the logo on the product is messed up in any way
Thanks
//Riley

Riley Childs
Senior
Asst. IT Services Director
Library Guru
Charlotte United Christian Academy
Library Tech Cast (http://LibraryTechCast.com)
ri...@tfsgeo.com
http://RileyChilds.net
@RowdyChildren

*Please Think before Hitting Reply All*

*I Do Web Development, Contact Me at http://RileyChilds.net/work
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On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 12:15 PM, Pikas, Christina K. 
christina.pi...@jhuapl.edu wrote:

 Any chance it's being taken off as (incorrectly) being identified as
 infringing?
 Christina

 -Original Message-
 From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of
 Goben, Abigail
 Sent: Friday, November 14, 2014 12:07 PM
 To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu
 Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Metadata T-Shirt

 Things are back! Thank you! (Running off to tell all the people who wanted
 one)


 On 11/14/2014 10:00 AM, Riley Childs wrote:
  I added them back, let me know if they disappear again:
  http://code4lib.spreadshirt.com/metadata-I1001665722
 
  Riley Childs
  Senior
  Asst. IT Services Director
  Library Guru
  Charlotte United Christian Academy
  Library Tech Cast (http://LibraryTechCast.com)
  ri...@tfsgeo.com
  http://RileyChilds.net
  @RowdyChildren
 
  *Please Think before Hitting Reply All*
 
  *I Do Web Development, Contact Me at http://RileyChilds.net/work
  http://RileyChilds.net/work*
 
 
  On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Tania Fersenheim tan...@brandeis.edu
  wrote:
 
  I ordered a little while ago and now the link has stopped working.
 
  On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Riley Childs ri...@tfsgeo.com
 wrote:
 
  Huh! Several people have ordered the shirt, I can't find it either, I
  contact spreadshirt and investigate!
 
  Riley Childs
  Senior
  Asst. IT Services Director
  Library Guru
  Charlotte United Christian Academy
  Library Tech Cast (http://LibraryTechCast.com)
  ri...@tfsgeo.com
  http://RileyChilds.net
  @RowdyChildren
 
  *Please Think before Hitting Reply All*
 
  *I Do Web Development, Contact Me at http://RileyChilds.net/work
  http://RileyChilds.net/work*
 
 
  On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Goben, Abigail ago...@uic.edu
 wrote:
 
  Hi Riley!
 
  I can't get the t-shirt link to work? Help?
 
  Abigail
 
 
 
  On 11/13/2014 1:31 PM, Riley Childs wrote:
 
  At long last the Metadata T-Shirt is available from the code4lib
  Spreadshirt store. More Metadata products to follow!
 
  Get it at
  http://code4lib.spreadshirt.com/metadata-I1001657864
 
 
  Don't forget to indicate your interest in code4lib stickers:
  https://docs.google.com/a/tfsgeo.com/forms/d/1k-bQVSduKyOVMkXpJ_
  xOwk9SDjjEoX7QnQ4JTyp2BqI/viewform
  Details to follow regarding stickers and more store stuff!
 
  Thanks!
  //Riley
 
 
  --
  Riley Childs
  Senior
  IT Admin
  Charlotte United Christian Academy
  office: +1 (704) 537-0331 x101
  mobile: +1 (704) 497-2086
  web: rileychilds.net
  twitter: @RowdyChildren
  Checkout our new Online Library Catalog: catalog.cucawarriors.com
 
 
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  Abigail Goben, MLS
  Assistant Information Services Librarian and Assistant Professor
  Library of the Health Sciences
  University of Illinois at Chicago
  1750 W. Polk (MC 763)
  Chicago, IL 60612
  ago...@uic.edu
 
 
 
  --
 
  Tania Fersenheim
  Manager of Library Systems
 
  Brandeis University
  Library and Technology Services
 
  415 South Street, (MS 017/P.O. Box 549110)
  Waltham, MA 02454-9110
  Phone: 781.736.4698
  Fax: 781.736.4577
  email: tan...@brandeis.edu
 

 --
 Abigail Goben, MLS
 Assistant Information Services Librarian and Assistant Professor
 Library of the Health Sciences
 University of Illinois at Chicago
 1750 W. Polk (MC 763)
 Chicago, IL 60612
 ago...@uic.edu