[CODE4LIB] Fiscal continuity vote now open

2017-10-12 Thread Galen Charlton
Hi, Voting for the various options presented in the report [1] of the Fiscal Continuity Interest Group is now open: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/K5MWGNC Because of a delay on my end getting the ballot set up, the voting period is extended and will close at midnight ET on Friday, 3 November

[CODE4LIB] Call for proposals for 2018 NASIG Annual Conference

2017-10-12 Thread public...@nasig.org
NASIG 33rd Annual Conference Transforming the Information Community June 8 to 11, 2018 Atlanta, GA Publishers, vendors, librarians, and others in the fields of electronic resources, serials, library publishing and scholarly communication are encouraged to submit proposals relating to

Re: [CODE4LIB] Persistent Identifiers for organizations/institutions.

2017-10-12 Thread LeVan,Ralph
OCLC Research has tried to do this more than once for publishers. Do you see any publisher URIs out there? This is a really hard problem. Organizations change their identity more often and in many more ways than people do. Not that it shouldn't be done! Ralph -Original Message-

Re: [CODE4LIB] Persistent Identifiers for organizations/institutions.

2017-10-12 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
At a former research university employer, I talked to a new high-level research data officer type person, whose team had spent months just trying to make a list of all (or even most) of the academic/research organizational units currently existing, and their hiearchical relationships. Before even

Re: [CODE4LIB] Persistent Identifiers for organizations/institutions.

2017-10-12 Thread Kyle Banerjee
On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 2:34 PM, Stephen Hearn wrote: > > ... The complexity arises from the way organizations > constantly alter their internal and external organizational structures and > relationships. That's not something that a short retrospective horizon can > dispense

Re: [CODE4LIB] Interest in serial summary holdings parsing?

2017-10-12 Thread Andy Kohler
Hi Joe - I'm https://github.com/akohler Thanks --Andy On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 12:13 PM, Joe Ferrie wrote: > Hi Andy, > > > We are still working on the license terms before opening the project, but > if you can give me your github account name I will send you a link. > > >

Re: [CODE4LIB] Upcoming vote on fiscal continuity options

2017-10-12 Thread Tim McGeary
I was wondering that, too. On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 12:47 PM, Carol Bean wrote: > Soare the ballot boxes ready yet? > > Carol Bean > beanwo...@gmail.com > > On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 3:00 PM, Galen Charlton > > wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On Mon,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Upcoming vote on fiscal continuity options

2017-10-12 Thread Carol Bean
Soare the ballot boxes ready yet? Carol Bean beanwo...@gmail.com On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 3:00 PM, Galen Charlton wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 1:37 PM, Coral Sheldon-Hess > wrote: > > So, everybody is happy with the ballot, as

[CODE4LIB] Best hosted DSpace solution?

2017-10-12 Thread Shedd, Julie
Good morning, all, and apologies for cross-posting... My institution is investigating alternatives to our self-hosted DSpace installation for our Institutional Repository. We've looked at several systems, including DSpaceDirect and Atmire. If anyone has experience with any of the hosted

[CODE4LIB] Call for proposals, ALCTS Creative Ideas in Technical Services Interest Group, ALA Midwinter 2018

2017-10-12 Thread Timothy Ryan Mendenhall
**Please excuse cross-posting!** Call for Proposals - Midwinter 2018 The Creative Ideas in Technical Services Interest Group (CITSIG) of ALCTS seeks facilitators for roundtable discussions for its session at ALA Midwinter Meeting February 10, 2018