[CODE4LIB] OAI-PMH to JSON conversion

2014-06-20 Thread Mitar
Hi! I made a node.js module which helps with OAI-PMH to JSON conversion: https://github.com/peerlibrary/node-xml4js It makes such nice JSON: https://github.com/peerlibrary/node-xml4js/blob/master/tests/arxiv/GetRecord-arXivRaw.json Mitar -- http://mitar.tnode.com/

[CODE4LIB] ALA 2014 announcement --ALCTS CRS Holdings Information Committee

2014-06-20 Thread Violeta Ilik
***Please excuse the cross posting*** Please join the ALCTS CRS Holdings Information Committee at the ALA Annual Conference in Las Vegas on Saturday, June 28th from 3:00-4:00 p.m. in the Las Vegas Convention Center, Room S229. We have three presentations demonstrating three different

Re: [CODE4LIB] OAI-PMH to JSON conversion

2014-06-20 Thread Maarten Brinkerink
Dear Mitar, Looks really interesting! Is your tool open source? Best, Maarten Op 20 jun. 2014, om 08:10 heeft Mitar mmi...@gmail.com het volgende geschreven: Hi! I made a node.js module which helps with OAI-PMH to JSON conversion: https://github.com/peerlibrary/node-xml4js It makes

[CODE4LIB] DLF Forum Call for Proposals - due Sunday!

2014-06-20 Thread Louisa Kwasigroch
The DLF Forum (http://www.diglib.org/forums/2014forum/) is an annual meeting where the digital library community comes together to discover better methods of working through sharing and collaboration. It serves as a resource and catalyst among digital library developers, project managers, and

Re: [CODE4LIB] Is ISNI / ISO 27729:2012 a name identifier or an entity identifier?

2014-06-20 Thread Richard Wallis
Janifer has been following the thread and has asked me to post the following on her behalf: ~Richard. Here is a consolidated response: Below is an extract from a paper that is in publication that illustrates the model that is used in ISNI. Many of the contributors to VIAF are also adopting

Re: [CODE4LIB] Is ISNI / ISO 27729:2012 a name identifier or an entity identifier?

2014-06-20 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
On Jun 20, 2014, at 10:31 AM, Richard Wallis richard.wal...@dataliberate.com wrote: ISNI has a suite of programs that detects pseudonyms coded as name variants and changes them into related name and generates related identity records. It is a while since it was run and will be re-run in the

Re: [CODE4LIB] Is ISNI / ISO 27729:2012 a name identifier or an entity identifier?

2014-06-20 Thread Richard Wallis
Hi Eric, What distinguishes one from another? The communities behind them, the [often overlapping] communities they are intended to serve, and the technical implementation. As a librarian, why should I care? I would, as a non-librarian, suggest that once you are happy with the ‘authority’ of

Re: [CODE4LIB] Is ISNI / ISO 27729:2012 a name identifier or an entity identifier?

2014-06-20 Thread Renate Morgenstern
will be there just now. Renate On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 15:56:28 +0100 Richard Wallis richard.wal...@dataliberate.com wrote: Hi Eric, What distinguishes one from another? The communities behind them, the [often overlapping] communities they are intended to serve, and the technical

[CODE4LIB] Job: Library Technology Services Manager at Arlington Public Library System

2014-06-20 Thread jobs
Library Technology Services Manager Arlington Public Library System Arlington The Arlington Public Library, a department of the City of Arlington, TX (pop. 375,438), now the seventh largest city in Texas, is seeking an innovative and results-oriented Library Technology Services Manager. Located

Re: [CODE4LIB] Is ISNI / ISO 27729:2012 a name identifier or an entity identifier?

2014-06-20 Thread Karen Coyle
I concur with Richard's analysis[1]. Each identifier type serves a different community. In particular, ORCID identifiers will tend to identify faculty and researchers whose sole output is journal articles -- thus who would not normally appear in a library authority file. The ISNI is sometimes

Re: [CODE4LIB] OAI-PMH to JSON conversion

2014-06-20 Thread Mitar
Hi! Yes. Check the LICENSE file in the repository. BSD licensed. Mitar On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 6:09 AM, Maarten Brinkerink mbrinker...@beeldengeluid.nl wrote: Dear Mitar, Looks really interesting! Is your tool open source? Best, Maarten Op 20 jun. 2014, om 08:10 heeft Mitar

[CODE4LIB] Job: Library Systems and Data Strategist at University of Wisconsin-Madison

2014-06-20 Thread jobs
Library Systems and Data Strategist University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison Hello, I want to point out to you a new job posting for a Data Strategist at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. The posting is at: http://www.ohr.wisc.edu/WebListing/Unclassified/PVLSummary.aspx?pvl_num=80033

Re: [CODE4LIB] Is ISNI / ISO 27729:2012 a name identifier or an entity identifier?

2014-06-20 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
On Jun 20, 2014, at 10:56 AM, Richard Wallis richard.wal...@dataliberate.com wrote: authority control|simple identifier |Linked Data capability +-+--+--+ VIAF |X|X | X |

[CODE4LIB] software for a glossary

2014-06-20 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
Do you know of a Web-based tool or piece of desktop software that would let a professor post a text in a frame, then highlight words or phrases and link them to a glossary? A quick-and-dirty web page (possibly attached) and link below illustrates the idea:

Re: [CODE4LIB] Is ISNI / ISO 27729:2012 a name identifier or an entity identifier?

2014-06-20 Thread Richard Wallis
In what ways does ISNI support linked data? See: http://www.isni.org/how-isni-works#HowItWorks_LinkedData ~Richard On 20 June 2014 18:57, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: On Jun 20, 2014, at 10:56 AM, Richard Wallis richard.wal...@dataliberate.com wrote: authority

Re: [CODE4LIB] software for a glossary

2014-06-20 Thread Chris Markman
I saw a project at the Hacking Journalism hackathon @ MIT recently that would get the job done: http://hackingjournalism.challengepost.com/submissions/24271-inline They were thinking more along the lines of a crowdsource solution for science news but I'm sure it could adapted to fit your needs!

Re: [CODE4LIB] software for a glossary

2014-06-20 Thread Tom Keays
The Web Ahead podcast had an episode that covered the current state of web annotation. Something there might work. http://5by5.tv/webahead/60 Crossing the thread over to linked author data, this item made me laugh.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Is ISNI / ISO 27729:2012 a name identifier or an entity identifier?

2014-06-20 Thread Karen Coyle
On 6/20/14, 11:38 AM, Richard Wallis wrote: In what ways does ISNI support linked data? See: http://www.isni.org/how-isni-works#HowItWorks_LinkedData accessible by a persistent URI in the form isni-url.oclc.nl/isni/000134596520 (for example) and soon also in the form

Re: [CODE4LIB] Is ISNI / ISO 27729:2012 a name identifier or an entity identifier?

2014-06-20 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Jun 20, 2014, at 4:30 PM, Karen Coyle wrote: On 6/20/14, 11:38 AM, Richard Wallis wrote: In what ways does ISNI support linked data? See: http://www.isni.org/how-isni-works#HowItWorks_LinkedData accessible by a persistent URI in the form isni-url.oclc.nl/isni/000134596520 (for

Re: [CODE4LIB] Excel to XML (for a Drupal Feeds import)

2014-06-20 Thread Ryan Engel
Thanks for everyone's ideas. I think Shaun's solution is exactly what I'm trying to do. Shaun Ellis mailto:sha...@princeton.edu June 16, 2014 at 10:36 PM Ryan, it sounds like you simply want to pull two relational tables into drupal using referenced entities in a one (question) to many

Re: [CODE4LIB] Is ISNI / ISO 27729:2012 a name identifier or an entity identifier?

2014-06-20 Thread Karen Coyle
On 6/20/14, 1:49 PM, Joe Hourcle wrote: Now, it's possible that this whole we don't need to bother with http://; thing has spilled into the CMS building community, and they're actively stripping it out. I actually had the editors of an ALA publication remove http://; whenever it preceded

Re: [CODE4LIB] software for a glossary

2014-06-20 Thread Karen Coyle
On 6/20/14, 1:16 PM, Tom Keays wrote: Crossing the thread over to linked author data, this item made me laugh. http://w3cmemes.tumblr.com/post/76273506486/dave-started-reviewing-open-annotations-today The only thing worse would be: OMG IT'S FULL OF OWL kc On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 2:28 PM,