Re: [CODE4LIB] NE code4lib registration now open!

[Stern, Randall]

Hi New England code4libers:

There are still a few spots left for New England code4lib! See the original 
email below for a link to the registration form...


-  the code4lib NE planning team (Mike Friscia, Matthew Beacom, Cindy 
Greenspun, Michelle Hudson, Jay Luker, Joe Montibello; Ernie  Marinko, Mark 
Matienzo, Randy Stern, Kalee Sprague, Tito Sierra)



Sent: Friday, August 17, 2012 3:28 PM
To: 'CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU'
Subject: NE code4lib registration now open!

Hi New England code4libers:

Come and join us at code4lib New England, Friday October 26 and Saturday 
October 27 at Yale University in New Haven Connecticut! Your local peers will 
be presenting on some cool stuff on the first day and the second day will be an 
unconference with topics chosen by you.

You can check out the current plan for the two days at 
http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/NECode4lib_2012_Home

You can also find information on hotels and more detailed travel information 
there.

Registration is first come first served, and we have space for about 80 
participants. To help get a head start on unconference planning, there is also 
space on this form for you to suggest a topic or topics for consideration by 
the group on Saturday morning.

Here is a link to the code4lib New England registration form. To fill it out, 
visit:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?fromEmail=true&formkey=dFZGS2NpTkp2cDhSeUMyZnAzZVBnR0E6MQ


-  the code4lib NE planning team (Mike Friscia, Matthew Beacom, Cindy 
Greenspun, Michelle Hudson, Jay Luker, Joe Montibello; Ernie  Marinko, Mark 
Matienzo, Randy Stern, Kalee Sprague, Tito Sierra)

[CODE4LIB] NE code4lib registration now open!

[Stern, Randall]

Hi New England code4libers:

Come and join us at code4lib New England, Friday October 26 and Saturday 
October 27 at Yale University in New Haven Connecticut! Your local peers will 
be presenting on some cool stuff on the first day and the second day will be an 
unconference with topics chosen by you.

You can check out the current plan for the two days at 
http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/NECode4lib_2012_Home

You can also find information on hotels and more detailed travel information 
there.

Registration is first come first served, and we have space for about 80 
participants. To help get a head start on unconference planning, there is also 
space on this form for you to suggest a topic or topics for consideration by 
the group on Saturday morning.

Here is a link to the code4lib New England registration form. To fill it out, 
visit:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?fromEmail=true&formkey=dFZGS2NpTkp2cDhSeUMyZnAzZVBnR0E6MQ


-  the code4lib NE planning team (Mike Friscia, Matthew Beacom, Cindy 
Greenspun, Michelle Hudson, Jay Luker, Joe Montibello; Ernie  Marinko, Mark 
Matienzo, Randy Stern, Kalee Sprague, Tito Sierra)

[CODE4LIB] Reminder - call for proposals, New England code4lib!

[Stern, Randall]

Hi New England code4libers (and anyone within reach of New Haven who is not on 
vacation right now...)

We have some good proposals, but we'd like to hear from more of you for the 
inaugural  New England regional code4lib on Friday, October 26 and Saturday, 
October 27 in New Haven, CT

This will be a great opportunity to meet your peers at local institutions and 
generate conversation on code4lib related topics in which you are interested! 
Please add your proposals now (please, by August 1) for

(a) Prepared talks (20 minutes)
(b) Lightning talks (5 minutes)
(c) Posters

To submit a proposal, fill out the form code4lib New England - Call for 
Proposals  at:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEQ5SEF4aXljTU5jZFN0UDRsSnJPb2c6MQ

If you are interested in making multiple proposals, e.g. for both a prepared 
talk and a poster, please submit separate proposal forms. About the venue: 
http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Information_about_meeting_rooms_and_available_equipment

Before you head for the beach, take a few minutes and post the form with the 
topic of your choice!


-  the code4lib NE planning team (Mike Friscia, Matthew Beacom, Cindy 
Greenspun, Michelle Hudson, Jay Luker, Joe Montibello; Ernie  Marinko, Mark 
Matienzo, Randy Stern, Kalee Sprague, Tito Sierra)

[CODE4LIB] Reminder - call for proposals, New England code4lib!

[Stern, Randall]

Reminder: We're planning a New England regional code4lib conference and we need 
your proposals!

Dates: Friday, October 26 and Saturday, October 27
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Proposal deadline: July 15, 2012.

This will be a great opportunity to meet your peers at local institutions and 
generate conversation on code4lib related topics in which you are interested! 
Please add your proposals now (please, by July 15, 2012) for

(a) Prepared talks (20 minutes)
(b) Lightning talks (5 minutes)
(c) Posters

To submit a proposal, fill out the form code4lib New England - Call for 
Proposals  at:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEQ5SEF4aXljTU5jZFN0UDRsSnJPb2c6MQ

If you are interested in making multiple proposals, e.g. for both a prepared 
talk and a poster, please submit separate proposal forms. About the venue: 
http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Information_about_meeting_rooms_and_available_equipment


Go forth and propose topics!


-  the code4lib NE planning team (Mike Friscia, Matthew Beacom, Cindy 
Greenspun, Michelle Hudson, Jay Luker, Joe Montibello; Ernie  Marinko, Mark 
Matienzo, Randy Stern, Kalee Sprague, Tito Sierra)

[CODE4LIB] code4lib New England - Call for Proposals

[Stern, Randall]

The planning process has begun for the New England regional code4lib conference 
in October, and we are soliciting proposals for:

(a) Prepared talks (20 minutes)
(b) Lightning talks (5 minutes)
(c) Posters

Dates: Friday, October 26 and Saturday, October 27
Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT
Proposal deadline: July 15, 2012.

This will be a great opportunity to meet your peers at local institutions and 
generate conversation on code4lib related topics in which you are interested!

About the venue: 
http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Information_about_meeting_rooms_and_available_equipment

To submit a proposal, fill out the form code4lib New England - Call for 
Proposals  at:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEQ5SEF4aXljTU5jZFN0UDRsSnJPb2c6MQ

If you are interested in making multiple proposals, e.g. for both a prepared 
talk and a poster, please submit separate proposal forms.

Proposal deadline: July 15, 2012.

Go forth and propose topics!


-  the code4lib NE planning team

Re: [CODE4LIB] Local catalog records and Google, Bing, Yahoo!

[Stern, Randall]

Here is also a  link to a presentation that Bobbi Fox did at a Digital Library 
Federation conference back in 2008, which details some of Harvard Library's 
efforts in this area:
http://www.diglib.org/forums/fall2008/presentations/Fox.pdf



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Date:Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:26:33 +

From:=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Eoghan_=D3_Carrag=E1in?= 
mailto:eoghan.ocarrag...@gmail.com>>

Subject: Re: Local catalog records and Google, Bing, Yahoo!



Here is one from 2008 code4lib journal:

http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/43



Eoghan



On 24 February 2012 16:49, Cynthia Ng 
mailto:cynthia.s...@gmail.com>> wrote:



> I would definitely like to see something like this written up as a

> journal article. "How to expose your collection to search engines"

>

> On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Stern, Randall

> mailto:randy_st...@harvard.edu>> wrote:

> > In order to make more open access data available on the web, this is

> what Harvard does for most of our silo catalogs of images, finding aids,

> geospatial data sets, and page turned digital objects (full text) - creates

> easily crawlable, meta-tagged index pages for each item.

> >

> > The result is that for our finding aids (lots of text data exposed) we

> see about 3-4X as many referrals from search engines as we do searches in

> our native interface, and for images (brief metadata exposed) about a 30%

> bump for search engine referrals.

> >

> >

> > ---

> > Date:Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:54:33 +

> > From:Dave Caroline 
> > mailto:dave.thearchiv...@gmail.com>>

> > Subject: Re: Local catalog records and Google, Bing, Yahoo!

> >

> > To avoid sessions and other silliness just expose a search engine

> > friendly format without sessions.

> >

> > As I dont have local visitors google traffic matters.

> >

> > 86.62% Search Traffic

> >  2.41% Referral Traffic

> > 10.98% Direct Traffic

> >

> > For my tiny corner on the web

> >

> > Dave Caroline

>



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Re: [CODE4LIB] Local catalog records and Google, Bing, Yahoo!

[Stern, Randall]

In order to make more open access data available on the web, this is what 
Harvard does for most of our silo catalogs of images, finding aids, geospatial 
data sets, and page turned digital objects (full text) - creates easily 
crawlable, meta-tagged index pages for each item.

The result is that for our finding aids (lots of text data exposed) we see 
about 3-4X as many referrals from search engines as we do searches in our 
native interface, and for images (brief metadata exposed) about a 30% bump for 
search engine referrals.


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Date:Thu, 23 Feb 2012 22:54:33 +
From:Dave Caroline 
Subject: Re: Local catalog records and Google, Bing, Yahoo!

To avoid sessions and other silliness just expose a search engine
friendly format without sessions.

As I dont have local visitors google traffic matters.

86.62% Search Traffic
  2.41% Referral Traffic
10.98% Direct Traffic

For my tiny corner on the web

Dave Caroline

Re: [CODE4LIB] Preservation Server

[Stern, Randall]

Hi Nathan,

It looks like your architectural thinking includes a management layer (DSpace, 
Islandora, other...) and a storage layer.

For a storage layer that provides bit level preservation, more copies, up to a 
point, is a good idea. For much disk storage, people go with 2 copies - a copy 
on disk and a backup copy on tape. For our digital repository, we have decided 
that 3 copies is a better guarantee, if we can afford it (see the analysis done 
by the HathiTrust for some insight on this - 
http://www.hathitrust.org/documents/hathitrust-3rd-instance-recommendations.pdf).
 We have also added requirements that these copies must be in 3 different 
physical locations, and one copy must be "offline" (e.g. a tape in storage). 
For DR purposes, it's good to think about the physical locations being as 
widely separated as possible.

Our digital repository storage layer currently stores 3 copies of preservation 
files - one on-line disk copy, one on-line tape copy, and one off line tape 
copy  - although we are considering moving to a 2 disk copy, 1 offline tape 
copy model. Disk copies simplify fixity checking as a background task. 

In addition, since our repository is both a preservation and access repository, 
we maintain a second disk copy of "high use" assets so as to provide high 
availability to on-line web applications.

Hope this helps.

- Randy Stern
Manager of Systems Development
Harvard Library, Office for Information Systems

Date:Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:04:29 -0500
From:Nathan Tallman 
Subject: Re: Preservation Server

Hi Adam,

I'll respond in-line below. Thanks!

Nathan

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Adam Wead  wrote:

> Hi Nathan,
>
> Can you tell us:
> - what kind of content you'll be ingesting (images, text, a/v)
>
Content will include all types of electronic files: images, text, video, audio, 
data sets, and more. We will normalize and convert to open-formats as much as 
possible during the accessioning process.

- how much of it do you expect you'll have (1TB, 100 TB, more?)
>
This is harder to answer, but ideally it will be scalable (sp?). We'll probably 
start off in the realm of 5-10 TB, but as we migrate our analog media to 
digital formats, we are going to have some very large files in the future. 
Plus, who knows what will come in via new accessions.

- what kind of access will you need to provide (world-wide or just local?)
>
Access is local only, but I will need to be able to run a WAMP type 
configuration.

- do you want off-site backups in one or more locations
>
 Off-site backups will be handled by a vendor.

- what systems, if any, do you currently have in place
>
This will be a brand new system. Currently we have some preservation-files 
stored on a shared network location, but it's not working out for a myriad of 
reasons. We really want to have our system that we control.

- what software are you considering for the repository
>
Software hasn't been decided yet. I might start out just using the server with 
a simple folder hierarchy and store files that way. Should we choose to use 
repository software options include Fedora (via Islandora) and Dspace.



> Hardware options are going to vary a lot depending on what your 
> requirements are.  There are lots and lots of options but you can find 
> something that will fit you needs.
>
> ...adam
>
> Adam Wead | Systems and Digital Collections Librarian ROCK AND ROLL 
> HALL OF FAME + MUSEUM Library and Archives
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>
> On Jan 24, 2012, at 12:21 PM, Nathan Tallman wrote:
>
> > My institution is going to be purchasing a preservation server 
> > sometime within the next year. I'd like to solicit advice on specs. 
> > I know this is highly dependent on our collection, but I'm looking 
> > for some baseline hardware recommendations. We'll be using it to 
> > store preservation-copies
> of
> > electronic files that belong to archival collections. Most of our 
> > electronic files are not born-digital, but we are preparing for an 
> > influx of born-digital records.
> >
> > Any advice is appreciated! Apologies for cross-posting.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Nathan Tallman
> > American Jewish Archives
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Re: [CODE4LIB] CODE4LIB Digest - 18 Dec 2011 to 19 Dec 2011 (#2011-310)

[Stern, Randall]

I too am willing to help and serve on the committee.

- Randy Stern
Manager of Systems Development
Office for Information Systems, Harvard Library

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Date:Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:08:22 +
From:"Friscia, Michael" 
Subject: Re: Subject: Re: NEcode4lib?

I guess if we can nail down a list of people willing to help plan so we can get 
past the three basics, planning committee list, when and where this will 
happen. 

So to get the ball rolling, please respond to say if you are willing to help 
plan and can commit to at least two hours a week leading up and effectively be 
on the planning committee. If you'd like to help plan but don't want to be on 
the committee, respond saying that. 

I'll start by saying, I'll help and am willing to serve on the committee.

___
Michael Friscia
Manager, Digital Library & Programming Services 

Yale University Library
(203) 432-1856

[CODE4LIB] Subject: Re: NEcode4lib?

[Stern, Randall]

Welcome to Cambridge, Tito! There are many folks in the Harvard libraries who 
would also like to help now or in the future to organize and attend a regional 
event.

- Randy Stern
Office for Information Systems, Harvard Library

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Date:Sun, 18 Dec 2011 10:31:45 -0500
From:Tito Sierra 
Subject: Re: NEcode4lib?

I am very interested in a NE regional event as I am relocating to the area in 
January.  I'm sure I can get some other MIT folks to join in.  Yale as location 
would work for me, as would Cambridge obviously.  

I would like to see this become a regular event.  I can help with planning now 
and I should be able to secure a Boston-area venue option sometime in the 
future.

What's the best way of organizing a code4lib regional without clogging the 
list?  Google group?

Tito

> Date:Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:42:18 +
> From:Joseph Montibello 
> Subject: NEcode4lib?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> It looks like there was a New England regional a couple of years ago. Is th=
> ere still any activity/interest in this region? I can imagine that in addit=
> ion to folks who missed the registration power-hour, there might be a signi=
> ficant group that can't get their library to support a trip to Seattle.
> 
> Just curious.
> Joe Montibello, MLIS
> Library Systems Manager
> Dartmouth College Library
> 603.646.9394
> joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edu
> 

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Date:Sun, 18 Dec 2011 10:35:26 -0500
From:Ranti Junus 
Subject: Re: NEcode4lib?

Google Group works for planning code4lib regional-related stuff.

ranti.
On Dec 18, 2011 10:31 AM, "Tito Sierra"  wrote:

> I am very interested in a NE regional event as I am relocating to the area
> in January.  I'm sure I can get some other MIT folks to join in.  Yale as
> location would work for me, as would Cambridge obviously.
>
> I would like to see this become a regular event.  I can help with planning
> now and I should be able to secure a Boston-area venue option sometime in
> the future.
>
> What's the best way of organizing a code4lib regional without clogging the
> list?  Google group?
>
> Tito
>
> > Date:Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:42:18 +
> > From:Joseph Montibello 
> > Subject: NEcode4lib?
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > It looks like there was a New England regional a couple of years ago. Is
> th=
> > ere still any activity/interest in this region? I can imagine that in
> addit=
> > ion to folks who missed the registration power-hour, there might be a
> signi=
> > ficant group that can't get their library to support a trip to Seattle.
> >
> > Just curious.
> > Joe Montibello, MLIS
> > Library Systems Manager
> > Dartmouth College Library
> > 603.646.9394
> > joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edu
> >
>

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Date:Sun, 18 Dec 2011 15:10:08 -0500
From:"Kevin S. Clarke" 
Subject: Re: NEcode4lib?

But I think in the past people on this list have said they don't mind
the additional traffic from people planning regional stuff.  It's
useful to keep it on the main list, too, because the other regions can
learn from the chatter (what works, what doesn't, etc.)

Kevin


On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 10:35 AM, Ranti Junus  wrote:
> Google Group works for planning code4lib regional-related stuff.
>
> On Dec 18, 2011 10:31 AM, "Tito Sierra"  wrote:
>> What's the best way of organizing a code4lib regional without clogging the
>> list?  Google group?

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End of CODE4LIB Digest - 17 Dec 2011 to 18 Dec 2011 (#2011-309)
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[CODE4LIB] Job posting: Digital Library Software Engineer

[Stern, Randall]

The Harvard University Library is engaged in a redesign of our Digital
Repository Service (DRS), a preservation and access repository of
digital objects from libraries and museums at Harvard, currently storing
more than 23M files and over 126TB of first copy content. As a team
effort involving digital preservation specialists, metadata analysts,
digital content librarians, user experience designers, and software
developers , we are developing new content models and building new tools
for the curation and DRS deposit of born digital materials, including
web harvests and email. We currently have open a 1 year term position in
Cambridge for a Digital Library Software Engineer to work primarily on
the development of EASi, a new email archiving curation interface for
processing email collections and depositing them for archiving in the
DRS.
 
If you are interested in joining a great team of experts in these
domains and working on this exciting project, please feel free to
contact me directly with any questions or apply through the Harvard job
posting linked below.
 
https://jobs.brassring.com/1033/asp/tg/cim_jobdetail.asp?partnerID=25240
&siteID=5341&AReq=24412BR
 
 

Re: [CODE4LIB] TIFF Metadata to XML?

[Stern, Randall]

Also, see FITS (http://code.google.com/p/fits/)

FITS is an open source java toolset we wrote that wraps JHOVE, ExifTool,
and several other format analysis tools and produces a single XML output
stream. It also includes a crosswalk to MIX XML as an optional output.

Date:Mon, 18 Jul 2011 10:40:04 -0400
From:"Edward M. Corrado" 
Subject: Re: TIFF Metadata to XML?

Thanks for all the suggestions. I know have multiple ways to get an XML
file... now I only need to figure out which fields map to what.

Edward

On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Dave Rice  wrote:
> Try exiftool with the -X flag to get RDF XML output.
> Dave Rice
> avpreserve.com
>
> On Jul 18, 2011, at 9:18 AM, Edward M. Corrado wrote:
>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> Before I re-invent the wheel or try many different programs, does 
>> anyone have a suggestion on a good way to extract embedded Metadata 
>> added by cameras and (more importantly) photo-editing programs such 
>> as Photoshop from TIFF files and save it as as XML? I have > 60k 
>> photos that have metadata including keywords, descriptions, creator, 
>> and other fields embedded in them and I need to extract the metadata 
>> so I can load them into our digital archive.
>>
>> Right now, after looking at a few tools and having done a number of 
>> Google searches and haven't found anything that seems to do what I 
>> want. As of now I am leaning towards extracting the metadata using
>> exiv2 and creating a script (shell, perl, whatever) to put the fields

>> I need into a pseudo-Dublin Core XML format. I say pseudo because I 
>> have a few fields that are not Dublin Core. I am assuming there is a 
>> better way. (Although part of me thinks it might be easier to do that

>> then exporting to XML and using XSLT to transform the file since I 
>> might need to do a lot of cleanup of the data regardless.)
>>
>> Anyway, before I go any further, does anyone have any 
>> thoughts/ideas/suggestions?
>>
>> Edward
>

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End of CODE4LIB Digest - 15 Jul 2011 to 18 Jul 2011 (#2011-171)
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