[CODE4LIB] openphi and/or healthlibrarian

2009-07-09 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
How many people here work in a library where medicine is a topic of interest, and how many of those are familiar with OpenPHI [1] and/or HealthLibrarian [2] ? OpenPHI is a start-up company who is using open source software to harvest and index open access content for the purposes of creatin

[CODE4LIB] OpenMIC, METS-based bibliographic utility now available

2009-07-09 Thread Chad M. Mills
Dear Code4Lib Community, The Rutgers University Libraries are pleased to announce the availability of OpenMIC, a METS-based bibliographic utility for describing and managing resources. OpenMIC is the open source release of the Rutgers University Libraries’ RUCore repository bibliographic util

Re: [CODE4LIB] Reference Desk - Service Tracker Software

2009-07-09 Thread Nate Vack
Yup, Eric Larson and I are indeed behind this hosted Libstats-alike product. At the moment, we don't have anything like the public Villanova Answers piece, though. Cheers, -Nate On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 2:35 PM, Matt Cordial wrote: > I have not personally used it, but you should check out Gimlet:

[CODE4LIB] oai2lod

2009-07-09 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
Via his blog [1] David Bigwood brought to our attention oai2lod [2] which seems to be a pretty cool (and instant) way to create linked data from OAI repositories. I installed it and pointed it towards my set of photographs [3, 4, 5], but now I need to figure out how to better use various cl

Re: [CODE4LIB] tools for massaging metadata

2009-07-09 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Thu, 9 Jul 2009, Avila, Regina L. wrote: Can anybody share some good tools for massaging metadata? For anything from file renaming to cleaning ASCII characters to various formulas? I know Excel does a lot of things but I'm looking for other useful software to consider. I'm familiar with Pa

Re: [CODE4LIB] tools for massaging metadata

2009-07-09 Thread Joe Atzberger
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Avila, Regina L. wrote: > Can anybody share some good tools for massaging metadata? For anything from > file renaming to cleaning ASCII characters to various formulas? I know > Excel does a lot of things but I'm looking for other useful software to > consider. I'm

Re: [CODE4LIB] tools for massaging metadata

2009-07-09 Thread Jon Gorman
What do you mean by metadata "massaging"? Just text editing? What format is this metadata in? Sorry, you're so broad here I'm not sure where to start. Oxygen, xml spy, emacs, vi for editing. Countless of command line tools (find, awk, xargs, rename, etc). Iconv for encoding conversions and is

[CODE4LIB] tools for massaging metadata

2009-07-09 Thread Avila, Regina L.
Can anybody share some good tools for massaging metadata? For anything from file renaming to cleaning ASCII characters to various formulas? I know Excel does a lot of things but I'm looking for other useful software to consider. I'm familiar with Parserat, Notepad++, A Better File Rename and a