We just were discussing it this morning. We will have more details on
the wiki soon.
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Whitni Watkins
whitni.watk...@gmail.com wrote:
Wiki Update: A tentative date of Friday May 29, 2015 on the MIT campus in
Cambridge, MA has been discussed. More details will
As one who is curious to learn Python this sounds like a large and
interesting group, count me in.
On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 10:52 AM, Schwartz, Raymond schwart...@wpunj.edu
wrote:
As someone who intends to learn Python, I am interested.
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From: Code for Libraries
Thanks all of video folks. I was re-watching a few things today and you
all did a tremendous job.
On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 1:00 PM, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote:
I want to deeply thank Ashley Blewer, Steven Anderson and Josh Wilson for
running the video streaming and capture at
could just claim a restaurant on the list
and have it start whenever you want.
Cary
On Jan 28, 2015, at 12:15 PM, Matthew Sherman
matt.r.sher...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi all,
This question is directed at folks attending Code4Lib 2015 in almost a
week
and a half. Are any
Hi all,
This question is directed at folks attending Code4Lib 2015 in almost a week
and a half. Are any of the groups for the dinner leaving after 7pm? I ask
as sadly my flight doesn't land until about 6:30 pm that day. If anyone is
eating a little later it would be great to join you guys.
I just did the registration and reservation now. The website is still
flaking out the the lady they had working reservations was able to
accommodate and was incredibly helpful. Now to the wiki to list see if
another guy wants to split the room I reserved.
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 11:56 PM, Heidi
Nothing professional comes to mind but here are some fun stuff in no
particular order:
Books:
Skin Game by Jim Butcher
- Another in the consistently great Dresden Files series. For those
unfamiliar urban fantasy novels that are always just a fun read.
The Broken Eye by Brent Weeks
- The third
Hm, that series sounds interesting, I'll have to check it out after I
finish The Way of Kings, which has been good from what I've read so far.
Since boardgames have made the list I shall also advocate for King of
Tokyo, fun quick competitive giant monster game, and Sentinels of the
Multiverse, a
We certainly can. There are discussion of March as it gets past the
holidays and some other conferences, so we can look at either a different
time in March, or maybe April.
On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Casey Davis casey_da...@wgbh.org wrote:
Early spring sounds great! Can we make sure that
Has the registration price been settled on yet? My department wants exact
numbers before they will process the travel request so it would be helpful
to know.
On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Tom Johnson johnson.tom+code4...@gmail.com
wrote:
I'll update the conference page to include all of the
Thanks for asking, I was starting to put together the travel request myself.
On Dec 1, 2014 4:50 PM, Emily Lynema emily_lyn...@ncsu.edu wrote:
I suspect that it is time to start planning travel requests for Code4Lib
2015. Can the organizing committee provide some more info than what is
have stuff going in Code4LibNYC, but I'd be happy to help get something
going on in the Northeast.
Thanks!
Christina
On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com
mailto:matt.r.sher...@gmail.com
wrote:
While riffing on an old DC comics title the subject line
While riffing on an old DC comics title the subject line is my question.
I've been working in Connecticut for a little over a year now and I have
heard of nothing going on with Code4Lib in this part of the US. I find
this sad since I see all sorts of activity in a variety of other spots,
I looked at it yesterday and it was working fine, no it isn't working today.
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Tania Fersenheim tan...@brandeis.edu
wrote:
I ordered a little while ago and now the link has stopped working.
On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Riley Childs ri...@tfsgeo.com wrote:
That is a very vague question, would you care to elaborate a bit more?
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 1:50 PM, P.G. booksbyp...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello Coders,
Just wanted to see who works with metadata and what standards and protocols
are you using and what platforms/softwares if any are you using?
To answer off the cuff as others have done, currently I am using a modified
version of qualified Dublin Core for the DSpace institutional repository I
manage. I inherited the system which had some custom fields for
publication information and event information, as well as some fields being
used
Eric hit the nail on the head, Unix is not inherently needed for many
libraries, but it can be useful for more technically inclined librarians to
know Linux. I am a digital content librarian at my institution and I
actually know neither system, though I wish I had a better understanding of
Linux.
Hi all,
Today a few of us received our a few Surface Pros to use around the
library. Being the digital content librarian for our University I really
want to figure out some interesting things we can do with them. I have
some thoughts on possibly working with inventory and my information
There are a few options you can go with.
https://foss4lib.org/package-type/digital-repository has a nice list of
open source solutions. Just remember with open source you need to have
some tech savy staff to support the software. I know a lot of people who
like Omeka for free digital collection
For anyone who knows Internet Explore, is there a way to tell it to use
word wrap when it displays txt files? This is an odd question but one of
my supervisors exclusively uses IE and is going to try to force me to
reupload hundreds of archived permissions e-mails as text files to a
repository in
the iframe hackery.
--
Andrew Anderson, Director of Development, Library and Information
Resources Network, Inc.
http://www.lirn.net/ | http://www.twitter.com/LIRNnotes |
http://www.facebook.com/LIRNnotes
On Oct 13, 2014, at 9:59, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com
wrote:
For anyone
Thanks,
Cornel Darden Jr.
MSLIS
Library Department Chair
South Suburban College
7087052945
Our Mission is to Serve our Students and the Community through lifelong
learning.
Sent from my iPhone
On Oct 13, 2014, at 8:59 AM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com
wrote:
For anyone who
Michael,
It is an interesting question to posit. I personally am unsure of exactly
what kinds of services could be offered on something like a smart watch
just because so much of what libraries provide are informational and rather
wordy, which does not translate well to very small devices. That
Hi Code4Lib folks,
I was having a discussion with some folks at another library about their
repository system and I thought a few things were interesting enough I
wanted to see what others had to say. A lot of the discussion revolved
around the fact that most Universities seem to either have
.org/TR/xpath-30/#abbrev
Katie
-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
Matthew Sherman
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2014 10:39 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] OAI Crosswalk XSLT
Hi Code4Lib folks,
I have a question
://www.mulberrytech.com/quickref/
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Matthew Sherman
matt.r.sher...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi Code4Lib folks,
I have a question for those of you who have worked with OAI-PMH. I am
currently editing our DSpace OAI crosswalk to include a few custom
metadata field
in the identifier section of the cross walk, but I am not 100% sure. Also
I am not sure if I will need to use the excessively complex XPath to
reference my source values. Can anyone tell me if I am on the right track?
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 11:13 AM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com
wrote:
Ok
need a
more precise XPath, depending on the context of your template, but the
initial statement didn't look to bad.
Hope that helps.
Best,
Bridger
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 11:24 AM, Matthew Sherman
matt.r.sher...@gmail.com
wrote:
Given the DSpace Dublin Core formatting I would like
Review of Economics and Finance Vol. 47 Issue 1/dc-identifier
dc_identifierQuarterly Review of Economics and Finance Vol. 47 Issue
1/dc_identifier
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 1:33 PM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com
wrote:
Thanks, that is very helpful.
On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 1
Hi Code4Libbers,
I wanted to solicit some ideas from the community. I was recently
told I have about 500 bucks in professional development funds I can
make use of, but the deadline to submit things for approval for this
budget year is in the front half of next week. As such I wanted to
find out
@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
Matthew Sherman
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2014 8:26 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Professional Development Suggestions?
Hi Code4Libbers,
I wanted to solicit some ideas from the community. I was recently told I
have about 500 bucks in professional
Hi Code4Libbers,
Hope everyone is enjoying the conference. I am sad I was unable to
make it but I like what I have been able to catch of the livestream.
Anyway, I wanted to get some community thoughts on an issue I have
been noticing lately. I have run into an assortment of faculty that
are
The code4lib conference shirt is always at the height of fashion in
any occasion.
On Sat, Mar 22, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Francis Kayiwa fkay...@colgate.edu wrote:
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On 03/22/2014 07:09 PM, Justin Coyne wrote:
Morning coat is suitable for the conference
I figure I should ask for those of us who sadly cannot make it this
year, where will we be able to find the streaming of the conference?
Thanks for everyone who is putting in the hard-work to put on the
conference.
Matt Sherman
But what if it is venison bacon?
On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 8:46 AM, Caplan, Priscilla pcap...@fsu.edu wrote:
You would have to ask the pig about that.
p
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
Riley Childs
Sent: Tuesday, February
Wow, I am impressed by the variety of replies. A lot of good points have
been made and this really helps give thought and credence to our argument
to free our library website. I am in agreement with many of the general
points made and find the suggestions helpful, this will be a bit of a fight
Hi Code4Libbers,
Slightly odd question for you academic library folks. Why does your
library have its website where it is on the university site? For context,
the library I currently work at has our library site hidden within the
campus intranet/portal, so that students have to log into a web
similar--another instance of the same software--or go out on your own?
Do you have the skills/staff to do that? Where would you host it?
Nina
On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 7:40 AM, Matthew Sherman
matt.r.sher...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Code4Libbers,
Slightly odd question for you academic library folks
Actually I am not familiar with those. I will have to look into that.
Thanks.
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Keri Cascio kcas...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, Matthew, have you looked into general continuing education grants?
Perhaps your state library offers these for conference and workshop
I am going to reiterate my push to turn this conversation to a discussion
for funding options for everyone who wants to attend Code4Lib 2014. I
think that will be a much better use of our time.
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 3:13 PM, Erik Hetzner erik.hetz...@ucop.edu wrote:
Hi all,
I can’t
Can you define what you mean by graphic tablet?
On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Fragola, Patty frago...@uww.edu wrote:
Is anyone circulating graphic tablets to patrons?
I'd be interested in hearing your experiences, particularly the
justification for purchase and patron response.
Thank
I think this depends a bit on the size of your institution. Where I am at
we have barely enough funding to have a small number of librarians. I
think you are right in so far is places should have a dedicated usability
person, but this is not always possible.
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:24 AM,
Can you provide context? I am trying to understand why you would put a
patent in an IR.
On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Lydia Zvyagintseva lyd...@ualberta.cawrote:
Hi everyone,
Forgive me if this question has been asked before on this listserv, but I'm
trying to gather some info for
,
Inkscape or Scribus.
Cheers,
Christian
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 01:13:24PM -0400, Matthew Sherman wrote:
Can anyone give me some advice in how I can edit this to add the
required note to the top of the PDF? Any advice is welcome.
--
Christian Pietsch
http://purl.org/net/pietsch
Hello Code4libbers,
I had a question for for others who work with institutional repositories.
I have a file given by the a professor that I have permission to post if I
add a note to the PDF, but the file is password locked. Has anyone else
run into this problem before? Can anyone give me some
...@cornell.edu
www.ilr.cornell.edu
*Advancing the World of Work*
On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Matthew Sherman
matt.r.sher...@gmail.comwrote:
Hello Code4libbers,
I had a question for for others who work with institutional repositories.
I have a file given by the a professor that I have
PM, Matthew Sherman
matt.r.sher...@gmail.comwrote:
We use DSpace for our repository so any editing to the PDFs have to be
done
in Acrobat before uploading. I can add a note to the metadata in DSpace,
but I am not sure if that fulfills the permissions agreement. I was
recently hired
As one working on our libraries institutional repository, this can be like
pulling teeth to get everyone to provide you a proper list of their works.
Good luck with it, and please let us know how you pull it off, I am very
curious to see your results.
Matt Sherman
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 12:19
Very slick, good work. I can see where this tool can be very helpful. It
does have some issues with some characters, but this is rather common with
most systems.
On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote:
For a limited period of time I am making publicly
Hello everyone,
I am working on structuring my library's institutional repository and was
having a discussion as to the best way to structure it. We are using
DSpace and originally I was thinking to make communities for each school in
the University, but there was a concern brought up if we were
. These
guys mostly like to argue about code. There is a metadata librarians list
here: http://metadatalibrarians.monarchos.com/
R,
Kelsey
-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
Matthew Sherman
Sent: Friday, September 06, 2013 11
Hello Code4Libbers,
I just took over responsibility for the institutional repository at my work
and one of the collections is labelled proceedings. I find this to be a
rather confusing term even though it is referring to conference and
symposium proceedings. It is just not so obvious to someone
Hello Code4Libbers,
I am working on cleaning up our institutional repository, and one of the
big areas of improvement needed is the list of terms from the subject
fields. It is messy and I want to take the subject terms and place them
into a much better order. I was contemplating using Library
specific Enterprise
Content Management controlled vocabularies). If you can describe your
collection, people might be able to advise you better.
Jacob Ratliff
Archivist/Taxonomy Librarian
National Fire Protection Association
On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Matthew Sherman
matt.r.sher
, 2013 9:28 AM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hello Code4Libbers,
I am working on cleaning up our institutional repository, and one of
the big areas of improvement needed is the list of terms from the
subject fields. It is messy and I want to take the subject terms
Hello Code4Lib folks,
I had a DSpace related question I was hoping to get an answer for. I just
started my new job as the Digital Content Librarian for the University of
Bridgeport and one of my main tasks in dealing with the institutional
repository. This repository apparently was migrated
As a voice from the community, that sounds pretty cool. Do you know if
anyone is working on an android variant?
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Jason Casden jmcas...@ncsu.edu wrote:
Hi Michael,
If you happen to be a Voyager user (or if you'd just like to see a nice
example), check out the
,
geographic region, etc.
Dave
On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 3:03 AM, Matthew Sherman
matt.r.sher...@gmail.comwrote:
Just to move your discussion along a bit, plus I think it sounds
pretty interesting, what sort of resources are you talking about.
Know what you are working with can give everyone
Ok folks, we have veered into nonconstructive territory. How about we
come back to the original question and help this person figure out
what they need to about Ruby and Python so they can do well with what
they want to work on.
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Ethan Gruber ewg4x...@gmail.com
Just to move your discussion along a bit, plus I think it sounds
pretty interesting, what sort of resources are you talking about.
Know what you are working with can give everyone a better idea on what
schema's would work best. I know MARC is not so friendly for online
resources, but it depends
Hello Code4Lib folks,
I was having a conversation with my father, who is an enterprise architect,
a while ago when I was working on a presentation. I thought it was
interesting enough that I wanted to toss out some of the ideas and see if
anybody was using them in their libraries. We were
Rachel,
EAD is just a metadata schema, which can be made to be read via html web
pages though xslt, or some scripting that pulls out the relevant field data
and makes it displayed nicer, usually in an HTML wrapper. So I guess it
would be helpful if you could elaborate on your question a bit more
I have no experience with this in particular but thinking on it I would
think the way to make the size more user friendly would be to make 300 dpi
display jpegs, possibly greyscale if without images, and stitch those
together into a pdf. I imagine that would be decent sized off. Now if you
if you have a
collection that is static, you probably don't have to worry about the URL
borking feature they have included.
More about the ContentDM API:
http://www.contentdm.org/help6/custom/customize2f.asp
Hope that helps and good luck.
Chad
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Matthew Sherman
Getting back to the original point so noting some nice starting tools, I
find http://www.codecademy.com to be a decent starting spot for those of us
without much computer science background. I am not sure what professional
developers think of the site but I find it a helpful to tutorial to start
Not to be snarky, but wouldn't the session on HTML5 video tell you what you
need to know?
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Tara Robertson trobert...@langara.bc.cawrote:
Hi,
I'm editing the video from code4lib into the sesison chunks.
What format should I export the videos as? Anything else
What has been done regarding save the livestream from past events?
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Jason Ronallo jrona...@gmail.com wrote:
Let me correct myself. It is possible to embed a video on the code4lib
site. You can see an example here:
http://code4lib.org/conference/2013/ronallo
was
hired for the position.)
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/15mhwNfm-Ixv43uM5-68fAPIrxzy_BAPLWaVsLK6yp5w/present#slide=id.i0
Good luck with the interview! Look forward to seeing you in the
trenches.
-Mike
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Matthew Sherman
matt.r.sher
Hello all Code4Lib folk,
I am putting together a small presentation with the topic about trends and
issues in digital libraries for an interview next month. While I am doing
quite a bit of searching and reading on my own, I wanted to see if any of
you would be willing to provide your thoughts on
I think you need to provide a little more context as to what you are trying
to do. The trouble is that the term archive is used in a variety of
different ways right now so we need to know what you mean to be able to
give you the best suggestions.
On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Joselito Dela
Well Ruby was written for zombies ( http://railsforzombies.com/ ). Still,
for one who has been on the job search for months it is nice to have so
many options, though such a wall of postings takes a while to work through.
It is very helpful for us young bucks to have both the content solutions
of Yale lock?
On Jul 19, 2012 11:25 PM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com
wrote:
There is a slight problem here. The posting says it is *closed to
further
applications*. Can someone from Yale explain/look into that? I would
very much like to apply.
On Thu, Jul 19, 2012 at 5:54 PM
@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
Matthew Sherman
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2012 8:36 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Job: Digital Projects and Technology Librarian
at Yale University
So even though it says closed to further applications one is actually
able
to submit
Sadly that often is the problem in the archival setting, though it ends up
being kind of a crap shoot.. In my experience as an intern at a university
archive we often ran accross floppies that I would hand off to a fulltime
archivist who had a backlog that would eventually require hunting down a
Post graduation is always good for us up and comers.
On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Tania Fersenheim tan...@brandeis.eduwrote:
I am trying to find out if there is a time of year that techie
librarians are more likely to look for new jobs.
When do your thoughts turn to greener pastures?
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