Re: [CODE4LIB] Shibboleth and Aleph?
Metalib and SFX can both be configured to use PDS for authentication. PDS is Ex Libris' Patron Directory Services app. It provides single sign on between Ex Libris interfaces (Aleph, Metalib, Digitool, and maybe Primo i don't know). PDS can be configured with any backend source for authn. In our case, we configured PDS as a Shibboleth service provider. In doing so, Aleph and Metalib then have a single sign on with other shibboleth-enabled applications. EZproxy can also be configured as a Shibboleth service provider. SFX can be configured to send all target URLs through a proxy. We have configured SFX to send all target URLs through our shibboleth enabled EZproxy. SFX is just an example here, any application that creates URLs should send them through your EZproxy to achieve single sign on. One step we have not taken in production is to configure the online resources (Ebsco, ScienceDirect, etc) as shibboleth service providers. However, we have done so in a few tests. And we have worked, in conjunction with Internet2 Shibboleth Library Working Group, with Chris Zagar for more advanced integration with shibboleth and ezproxy. He has made some enhancements to ezproxy so that the WAYF process can be skipped at the online resource if the URL is originated through ezproxy. (This is done with Starting Point URLs in ezproxy and Session Initiators in the online resource's service providers.) I have a web page that describes a little of what we have done with Shib within our library consortium. It has some documentation on how to configure PDS and ILLiad for use with Shib. http://usmai.umd.edu/auth Ex Libris has also added information in their PDS documentation specific to Shibboleth. Dave -- David Kennedy Manager, Digital Collections and Research University of Maryland 3199 McKeldin Library College Park, MD 20742 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (301) 405-9051 (301) 314-9408 FAX - Original Message - From: Jiri Pavlik [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Sent: Sunday, June 01, 2008 4:59 PM Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Shibboleth and Aleph? Hello, we are in process of implementation at Charles University. I'll be happy to share our experiences during this summer. I'd appreciate a lot if Dave or anyone else could tell a few words what have been accomplished already. Particularly I am interested in Shibboleth authentication and Single-Sign-On for workflows Aleph-SFX-databases, MetaLib/Google Scholar/Pubmed- SFX-databases. Kind regards Jiri Pavlik, Charles University in Prague http://www.pavlik.ruk.cuni.cz On May 29, 2008, at 4:37 PM, David Kennedy wrote: Karen We have been using Shibboleth with Aleph since last summer. And we have been using Shib with metalib for about two years. Is there recent activity that might be of interest to us? Thanks Dave -- David Kennedy Manager, Digital Collections and Research University of Maryland 3199 McKeldin Library College Park, MD 20742 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (301) 405-9051 (301) 314-9408 FAX - Original Message - From: K.G. Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 10:23 AM Subject: [CODE4LIB] Shibboleth and Aleph? Sittin' in a tree? Anyone have comments on that implementation activity? Karen G. Schneider [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[CODE4LIB] Software Engineer: ProQuest Maryland
Hello, I've been on this list a long time, but this is the first post I've made. If job openings are inappropriate, I do apologize. ProQuest is looking for a Software Engineer I at its Bethesda MD office, And your CODE4LIB experience would come in handy. http://tinyurl.com/55gqb5 http://tinyurl.com/55gqb5 Job Requirements: Knowledge and Abilities . Ability to plan and prioritize work activity . Ability to work independently and as a team member . Ability to analyze large amounts of data . Ability to troubleshoot and solve production issues . Ability to work efficiently in a fast moving production environment . Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing . Adaptable to changes in the workplace Language Skills . Excellent understanding of the English language, oral and written. Position Competencies . Design and develop Content Management System database applications . Develop and maintain C/C++/Perl/XML programs in Unix/Windows environment . Unix/Perl shell scripting . Develop and maintain relational databases (mySQL) 50K-60K / yr Regards, Eric C. Anderson Software Engineer Proquest
Re: [CODE4LIB] Beta Release of ORE Specifications and User Guides
On Jun 3, 2008, at 1:07 PM, Tim DiLauro wrote: Over the past eighteen months the Open Archives Initiative (OAI), in a project called Object Reuse and Exchange (OAI-ORE), has gathered international experts from the publishing, web, library, and eScience community to develop standards for the identification and description of aggregations of online information resources The table of contents page with links to the following other documents is located at http://www.openarchives.org/ore/toc. Some of you folks who have played with it for a little bit will be able to correct me, but it seems as if OAI-ORE first postulates things called Resource Map (ReMs) which are intended to enumerate items in collections of information objects. Examples might include: all the issues from a particular journal, sets of pictures and commentary from a digitized book, narrative text and the data supporting it, etc. These ReMS are intended to be manifested as ATOM or RDF streams/files and made available in any number of ways such as OAI-PMH or links embedded in HTML pages. Once created these ReMS can be used for different purposes such as dissemination, aggregation indexing, preserving, or associating with sets of other content. If this is true, then then next step for folks like us -- hackers in libraries -- to create these ReMS and make them widely available. No? Do I see a hack against the Code4Lib Journal in our future? -- Eric Lease Morgan Hesburgh Libraries, University of Notre Dame
[CODE4LIB] Internet Archive collection codes?
Does anyone know where to get a list of Internet Archive collection codes and their human-displayable display labels? For instance: americana = American Libraries gutenberg = Project Gutenberg librivoxaudio = [hell if I know] Some of these I can 'scrape' from the quick search box popup on the IA website. But their not all in there. And maybe there's a better place to get these? Anyone know where the right place to ask this of the IA and/or IA developer community is? Jonathan
Re: [CODE4LIB] Internet Archive collection codes?
Hi, You can do a search for mediatype:collection to return results for all 4200+ collections. We have a search interface that will return specific fields for this query in xml format, if you'd like, but I'll need to give you some permissions to access it. Feel free to send me an email if you'd like to use that ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Alexis Does anyone know where to get a list of Internet Archive collection codes and their human-displayable display labels? For instance: americana = American Libraries gutenberg = Project Gutenberg librivoxaudio = [hell if I know] Some of these I can 'scrape' from the quick search box popup on the IA website. But their not all in there. And maybe there's a better place to get these? Anyone know where the right place to ask this of the IA and/or IA developer community is? Jonathan
