[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

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

Re: [CODE4LIB] tools for massaging metadata

2009-07-09 Thread Joe Atzberger
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Avila, Regina L. regina.av...@nist.govwrote: 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

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

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 Cordialmatt.cord...@asu.edu wrote: I have not personally used it, but you

[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