Re: [CODE4LIB] Repositories, OAI-PMH and web crawling

2012-02-27 Thread Owen Stephens
On 26 Feb 2012, at 14:42, Godmar Back wrote: May I ask a side question and make a side observation regarding the harvesting of full text of the object to which a OAI-PMH record refers? In general, is the idea to use the dc:source/text() element, treat it as a URL, and then expect to find

[CODE4LIB] Fwd: Semantic Web and Ontologies in Scholarly Communication

2012-02-27 Thread Jodi Schneider
Of possible interest. Submissions due Feb 29 -- and keep an eye out for the proceedings. Begin forwarded message: Resent-From: public-semweb-life...@w3.org From: Alexander Garcia Castro alexgarc...@gmail.com Date: 22 February 2012 02:57:42 GMT To: W3C HCLSIG hcls

Re: [CODE4LIB] Repositories, OAI-PMH and web crawling

2012-02-27 Thread Godmar Back
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 5:25 AM, Owen Stephens o...@ostephens.com wrote: On 26 Feb 2012, at 14:42, Godmar Back wrote: May I ask a side question and make a side observation regarding the harvesting of full text of the object to which a OAI-PMH record refers? In general, is the idea to

Re: [CODE4LIB] Repositories, OAI-PMH and web crawling

2012-02-27 Thread Diane Hillmann
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 5:25 AM, Owen Stephens o...@ostephens.com wrote: This issue is certainly not unique to VT - we've come across this as part of our project. While the OAI-PMH record may point at the PDF, it can also point to a intermediary page. This seems to be standard practice in

Re: [CODE4LIB] Repositories, OAI-PMH and web crawling

2012-02-27 Thread Owen Stephens
On 27 Feb 2012, at 13:31, Diane Hillmann wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 5:25 AM, Owen Stephens o...@ostephens.com wrote: providers provide such intermediate pages (arxiv.org, for instance). The other issue driving providers towards intermediate pages is that it allows them to continue to

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Re: [CODE4LIB] Repositories, OAI-PMH and web crawling

2012-02-27 Thread Godmar Back
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Diane Hillmann metadata.ma...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 5:25 AM, Owen Stephens o...@ostephens.com wrote: This issue is certainly not unique to VT - we've come across this as part of our project. While the OAI-PMH record may point at the PDF,

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

2012-02-27 Thread 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 -- Date:Fri, 24 Feb

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

2012-02-27 Thread Roy Tennant
Kenning Arlitsch has done work in this area as well, focused on institutional repositories. He has an article coming out in Library Hi Tech about it next month: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=17014492show=abstract and will be doing a free OCLC Research TAI CHI webinar on

Re: [CODE4LIB] Repositories, OAI-PMH and web crawling

2012-02-27 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Feb 27, 2012, at 10:51 AM, Godmar Back wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 8:31 AM, Diane Hillmann metadata.ma...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 5:25 AM, Owen Stephens o...@ostephens.com wrote: This issue is certainly not unique to VT - we've come across this as part of our project.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Repositories, OAI-PMH and web crawling

2012-02-27 Thread raffaele messuti
On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 3:42 PM, Godmar Back god...@gmail.com wrote: May I ask a side question and make a side observation regarding the harvesting of full text of the object to which a OAI-PMH record refers? In Italy institutional repositories of theses are required to publish metadata as

Re: [CODE4LIB] Repositories, OAI-PMH and web crawling

2012-02-27 Thread Jason Ronallo
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 6:50 AM, Owen Stephens o...@ostephens.com wrote: One obvious alternative that I keep coming back to is 'forget OAI-PMH, just crawl the web' ... Owen, I'd like to bring this back to your suggestion to just forget OAI-PMH and crawl the web. I think that's probably the

Re: [CODE4LIB] Repositories, OAI-PMH and web crawling

2012-02-27 Thread Habing, Thomas Gerald
Take a look at Best Practices for Shareable Metadata: http://webservices.itcs.umich.edu/mediawiki/oaibp/index.php/ShareableMetadataPublic There is a specific section on Linking from a Record to a Resource and Other Linking Issues. Regards, Tom -Original Message- From: Code for

[CODE4LIB] Transcription/dictation software?

2012-02-27 Thread Suchy, Daniel
Hello all, At my campus we offer podcasts of course lectures, recorded in class and then delivered via iTunes and as a plain Mp3 download (http://podcast.ucsd.edu). I have the new responsibility of figuring out how to transcribe text versions of these audio podcasts for folks with hearing

Re: [CODE4LIB] Transcription/dictation software?

2012-02-27 Thread Sean Hannan
Mechanical Turk it. (I hear that's what all the hipsters do while they watch Downton Abbey.) -Sean On 2/27/12 1:52 PM, Suchy, Daniel dsu...@ucsd.edu wrote: Hello all, At my campus we offer podcasts of course lectures, recorded in class and then delivered via iTunes and as a plain Mp3

Re: [CODE4LIB] Transcription/dictation software?

2012-02-27 Thread Jason Stirnaman
That's what I hear, too. You might also look at http://support.google.com/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=enanswer=100076 Jason On 2/27/2012 at 12:56 PM, in message cb713bfa.df25%shan...@jhu.edu, Sean Hannan shan...@jhu.edu wrote: Mechanical Turk it. (I hear that's what all the hipsters do

Re: [CODE4LIB] Transcription/dictation software?

2012-02-27 Thread todd.d.robb...@gmail.com
Dan, Here's a great list Ben Brumfield has put together that compares a lot of the options out there (note: there are quite a few in here that are for manuscript stuff): https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsXpm6NXLstzdExZZzhaclhIY1ZtMk5yazJlT1FReUE#gid=0 Tod -- Tod Robbins iSchool

Re: [CODE4LIB] Transcription/dictation software?

2012-02-27 Thread Nathan Tallman
Is Amazon Mechanical Turk expensive? Anyone know an average cost for an hour of audio? Nathan On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Sean Hannan shan...@jhu.edu wrote: Mechanical Turk it.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Transcription/dictation software?

2012-02-27 Thread Yitzchak Schaffer
On 02/27/2012 15:22, Nathan Tallman wrote: Is Amazon Mechanical Turk expensive? Anyone know an average cost for an hour of audio? I used to do transcriptions on the worker side. I preferred clips of 30-60 seconds; there seemed to be a better going rate. Often there would be a big set of

Re: [CODE4LIB] Transcription/dictation software?

2012-02-27 Thread Richard Wallis
Hi, Not sure of Mechanical Turk. However, have used CastingWords [http://castingwords.com/] successfully for transcribing podcasts - their budget rate is $1/minute. ~Richard On 27 February 2012 20:22, Nathan Tallman ntall...@gmail.com wrote: Is Amazon Mechanical Turk expensive? Anyone know

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Re: [CODE4LIB] Transcription/dictation software?

2012-02-27 Thread Tom Keays
My wife, for a linguistics research project, recorded the responses of her subjects to a list of questions, so that she could transcribe them and analyze them. She got Dragon Dictate with the intention of getting a rough transcription and then, listening to the tape, correct the errors. With so

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Re: [CODE4LIB] Transcription/dictation software?

2012-02-27 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Feb 27, 2012, at 1:52 PM, Suchy, Daniel wrote: Hello all, At my campus we offer podcasts of course lectures, recorded in class and then delivered via iTunes and as a plain Mp3 download (http://podcast.ucsd.edu). I have the new responsibility of figuring out how to transcribe text

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