Re: [CODE4LIB] Back-of-house software

2016-05-11 Thread Ben Companjen
Hi Stuart, First thought (or what should have been my first thought): what problem(s) are you trying to solve? I sometime wish I had software that is better geared for service management (including incident management, CRM and documentation), but in our small organisation with three main

Re: [CODE4LIB] Institutional repositories

2016-03-21 Thread Ben Companjen
Hi Katie, Although I am not the best person to give opinions about repository software in general, could I ask you to share reasons for considering a different IR system? What would you like the software to do that your current software doesn't? What do your users say about your current IR? I

Re: [CODE4LIB] IFTTT and barcodes

2014-09-11 Thread Ben Companjen
Thanks, Owen. Huginn looks great! I use both IFTTT and Zapier, but the need for others to host my service bus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enterprise_service_bus was still nagging. Zapier has a limited free service, but does allow webhooks. I have looked at and tested Apache Camel (with

Re: [CODE4LIB] elsevier api program

2014-07-14 Thread Ben Companjen
This will not answer your question, but LIBER has a response to the TDM API policies: http://libereurope.eu/news/over-40-signatories-ask-elsevier-to-withdraw-tdm -policy/ Peter Murray-Rust posted quite a few times about it on his blog too, e.g. http://blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk/pmr/2014/06/10/6054/ The

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

2014-06-18 Thread Ben Companjen
Hi Richard, Thanks for posting, and thanks to Janifer Gatenby for supplying the answer. So my assumption that if someone uses/has a pseudonym, it always refers to a different public identity was wrong? Who decides what should become just a new name for an existing identity, and what a different

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

2014-06-16 Thread Ben Companjen
Hi Stuart, I don't have a copy of the official standard, but from the documents on the ISNI website I remember that there are name variations and 'public identities' (as the lemma on Wikipedia also uses). I'm not sure where the borderline is or who decides when different names are different

Re: [CODE4LIB] orcid and researcherid and scopus, oh my

2014-06-05 Thread Ben Companjen
Hi, Of course there are more identifier systems (or domains, if you will). Most/many authors in The Netherlands have a Digital Author Identifier (DAI), which is the record number in the GGC (Gemeenschappelijk Geautomatiseerd Catalogiseersysteem), or Shared Automated Catalogue system. The DAIs

Re: [CODE4LIB] Job: Processing Archivist at Tufts University

2014-06-05 Thread Ben Companjen
I'm confused. Whose back? ;) On 05-06-14 13:52, Riley Childs rchi...@cucawarriors.com wrote: Yay their back¡ Riley Childs Student Asst. Head of IT Services Charlotte United Christian Academy (704) 497-2086 RileyChilds.net Sent from my Windows Phone, please excuse mistakes

Re: [CODE4LIB] barriers to open metadata?

2014-04-29 Thread Ben Companjen
Hi Laura, Here are some reasons I may have overheard. Stuck halfway: We have an OAI-PMH endpoint, so we're open, right? Lack of funding for sorting out our own rights: We gathered metadata from various sources and integrated the result - we even call ourselves Open L*y - but we [don't have

Re: [CODE4LIB] Cover sheets and checksums

2014-04-14 Thread Ben Companjen
Ben Companjen Information scientist ben.compan...@dans.knaw.nl +31 6 1334 9717 Skype: bencompanjen Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) DANS promotes sustained access to digital research data. See www.dans.knaw.nl http://www.dans.knaw.nl/ for more information and contact details. DANS

Re: [CODE4LIB] Web Filter Recomendations

2014-04-05 Thread Ben Companjen
Not sure I can answer at all, but by web filter, are you referring to content filtering, to e.g. block adult content/all content from certain domains? Or something like Adblock Plus/Ghostery/ShareMeNot/NoScript to selectively download and execute advertisements, trackers/beacons, any scripts? Ben

Re: [CODE4LIB] Shop Link

2014-03-13 Thread Ben Companjen
Ohh, that's a nice mug! I broke my Public Domain Review mug [1] before its first use at the office (I was so excited to finally get it that I dropped it on the way to the coffee machine), so I'm back to using the non-personal office mugs… So thanks, Riley, for bringing back the store! I am

Re: [CODE4LIB] Fwd: [rules] Publication of the RDA Element Vocabularies

2014-01-23 Thread Ben Companjen
Hi Jon, Regarding the 'returning only relevant part' vs. 'returning whole document': It is not 'wrong' to include more than just what you asked for. I don't know about any guideline that says how much extra should/could be included. For example, if you ask for a description of me, I might want

Re: [CODE4LIB] rdf ontologies for archival descriptions

2014-01-19 Thread Ben Companjen
Hi Eric, While I'm no archivist by training (information systems engineer I am), I've learned a thing or two from having to work with EAD and its basis for use, ISAD(G) (all citations below are from ISAD(G), 2nd edition). As with all information modelling, either inside or outside the Linked Data

Re: [CODE4LIB] Metadata generator (was: Lorem Ipsum metadata? Is there such a thing?)

2013-12-11 Thread Ben Companjen
The MODS schema, like any other schema, defines elements and their contents (via contentTypes), so a processor could infer that modsCollection is the only element that is not part of any element's contentType[*]. I'm thinking of creating an XSL stylesheet (or maybe an XQuery) that finds these

Re: [CODE4LIB] Lorem Ipsum metadata? Is there such a thing?

2013-12-09 Thread Ben Companjen
Cool! My first thought on this topic was: give the program an XML schema, and generate possible documents with the correct datatypes etc. (Something like that must exist somewhere, right?) Does it happen to work anything like that, or is it hardcoded to generate these specific elements? Ben On

Re: [CODE4LIB] Lorem Ipsum metadata? Is there such a thing?

2013-12-09 Thread Ben Companjen
once I start implementing other metadata formats. Josh Welker -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ben Companjen Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 10:52 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Lorem Ipsum metadata

Re: [CODE4LIB] rdf serialization

2013-11-06 Thread Ben Companjen
Karen, The URIs you gave get me to webpages *about* the Declaration of Independence. I'm sure it's just a copy/paste mistake, but in this context you want the exact right URIs of course. And by better I guess you meant probably more widely used and probably longer lasting? :) LOC URI for the DoI

Re: [CODE4LIB] rdf serialization

2013-11-06 Thread Ben Companjen
I could have known it was a test! ;) Thanks Karen :) On 06-11-13 15:20, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote: I guess if I want anyone to answer my emails, I need to post mistakes.

Re: [CODE4LIB] WorldCat Implements Content-Negotiation for Linked Data

2013-06-03 Thread Ben Companjen
Those are smart words! Can I quote them? :P Regards, Ben On 4-6-2013 1:40, stuart yeates wrote: On 04/06/13 11:18, Karen Coyle wrote: Ta da! That did it, Kyle. Why on earth do we all them smart quotes ?! Because they look damn sexy when printed on pulp-of-murdered-tree, which we all know

Re: [CODE4LIB] Gender Survey Summary and Results

2012-12-05 Thread Ben Companjen
I filled out the form and submitted my answers (male, not part of the community) before seeing I can call myself part of the community according to Ross's example Are you part of the community questions. But that's just me :) On 5-12-2012 20:56, Bohyun Kim wrote: I just want to say BIG

Re: [CODE4LIB] A bibliography in XMP inside PDF

2012-06-12 Thread Ben Companjen
Hi Simon, Thanks for your reply. I have used xmpincl and recently stumbled upon pdfx [1] for producing PDF/A compliant files (which require some XMP). I started work on extending pdfx's functionality to support some more URIs and embedded reference lists [2], but reading through some of the

[CODE4LIB] A bibliography in XMP inside PDF

2012-06-11 Thread Ben Companjen
Hi all, I have been wondering whether it is possible to put a bibliography (list of references in a journal article, for example) in an XMP packet in a PDF document. Having read about efforts to get the references from a document by parsing text, I thought it might make sense (and be