Re: [CODE4LIB] 12 Bones BBQ excursion
I second the motion. Any other non-BBQ fans, here's where to sign up (thanks Jodi): http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/C4L2010_social_activities#Vegetarian_Dinner_.28Weds.2C_AKA_BBQ_night.29 Maccabee On 2/9/2010 4:33 PM, Jodi Schneider wrote: Much as I love corn bread and Kale, Wednesday (aka BBQ night [1]) may be a good night to take in a good vegetarian restaurant: http://www.asheville.com/restaurants/veggie.html -Jodi [1] http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/C4L2010_social_activities#12_Bones_BBQ_Dinner_Excursion Full up, but there's a waitlist. On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Rosalyn Metz wrote: Only 4 spots left. Get them while you can. -- Maccabee Levine Emerging Technologies Librarian Polk Library 110 University of Wisconsin Oshkosh Oshkosh, WI 54901 920-424-7332
Re: [CODE4LIB] 12 Bones BBQ excursion
Much as I love corn bread and Kale, Wednesday (aka BBQ night [1]) may be a good night to take in a good vegetarian restaurant: http://www.asheville.com/restaurants/veggie.html -Jodi [1] http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/C4L2010_social_activities#12_Bones_BBQ_Dinner_Excursion Full up, but there's a waitlist. On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 9:14 PM, Rosalyn Metz wrote: > Only 4 spots left. Get them while you can. >
[CODE4LIB] 12 Bones BBQ excursion
Only 4 spots left. Get them while you can.
Re: [CODE4LIB] faceted browsing
If you are looking to build an application instead of getting an existing one, you can use Drupal and several modules to build it. There are several faceted search modules available (see http://drupal.org/search/apachesolr_search/faceted%20search?filters=type%3Aproject_project). For a simple system, you can use: * Apache Solr module or Faceted Search module for faceted search. * Tagadelic for tag clouds * Community Tags for... uhm, community tagging =) * CCK to hold your content's fields * Views to make, uhm... views of it =) _alejandro Earles, Jill Denae said the following on 08/02/2010 10:58 a.m.: I would like recommendations for faceted browsing systems that include authentication, and easily support multimedia content and metadata. The ability to add comments and tags to content, and browse by tag cloud is also desirable. My skills include ColdFusion, PHP, CakePHP, and XML/XSL. The only system I've worked with that includes faceted browsing is XTF, and I don't think it's well suited to this. I am willing to learn a new language/technology if there is a system that includes most of what I'm looking for. Please let me know of any open-source systems you know of that might be suited to this. If you have time and interest, see the detailed description of the system below. Thank you, Jill Earles Detailed description: I am planning to build a system to manage a collection of multimedia artwork, to include audio, video, images, and text along with accompanying metadata. The system should allow for uploading the content and entering metadata, and discovery of content via searching and faceted browsing. Ideally it will also include a couple of ways of visually representing the relationships between items (for example, a video and the images and audio files that are included in the video, and notes about the creative process). The views we've conceived of at this point include a "flow" view that shows relationships with arrows between them (showing chronology or this begat that relationship), and a "constellation" view that shows all of the related items, with or without lines between them. It needs to have security built in so that only contributing members can search and browse the contributions by default. Ideally, there would be an approval process so that a contributor could propose making a work public, and if all contributors involved in the work (including any components of the work, i.e. the images and audio files included in the video) give their approval, the work would be made public. The public site would also have faceted browsing, searching by all metadata that we make public, and possibly tag clouds, and the ability to add tags and comments about the work. -- _ ___ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ *Ing. Alejandro Garza González* Coordinación de proyectos y desarrollo de sistemas Centro in...@te, Centro para la Innovación en Tecnología y Educación Tecnológico de Monterrey Tel. +52 [81] 8358.2000, Ext. 6751 Enlace intercampus: 80.689.6751, 80.788.6106 http://www.itesm.mx/innovate/ El contenido de este mensaje de datos no se considera oferta, propuesta o acuerdo, sino hasta que sea confirmado en documento por escrito que contenga la firma autógrafa del apoderado legal del ITESM. El contenido de este mensaje de datos es confidencial y se entiende dirigido y para uso exclusivo del destinatario, por lo que no podrá distribuirse y/o difundirse por ningún medio sin la previa autorización del emisor original. Si usted no es el destinatario, se le prohíbe su utilización total o parcial para cualquier fin. The content of this data transmission must not be considered an offer, proposal, understanding or agreement unless it is confirmed in a document signed by a legal representative of ITESM. The content of this data transmission is confidential and is intended to be delivered only to the addressees. Therefore, it shall not be distributed and/or disclosed through any means without the authorization of the original sender. If you are not the addressee, you are forbidden from using it, either totally or partially, for any purpose.
[CODE4LIB] Position Announcement - Digital Collections Librarian/Specialist - Columbia College Chicago
Digital Collections Librarian/Specialist, POS 283 Columbia College Chicago is an urban institution of over 12,000 undergraduate and graduate students, emphasizing arts, media, and communications, in a liberal arts setting. The Library Department is currently seeking a Digital Collections Librarian/Specialist to report to the Head of College Archives & Digital Collections Summary: Manages the digital assets and digital collections of Columbia College Chicago Library and works with staff, faculty and students to identify digital resource needs for the College community. Assists with the acquisition and implementation of new digital collections. Provides expertise and advice in the development, deployment, evaluation, and preservation of digital collections throughout the College. Responsible for the maintenance of web-based access to local and remote digital content. Participates in the evaluation and implementation of new technologies related to digital content. Duties: * Recommends priorities, policies, and procedures for the identification, creation, conversion and preservation of digital content * Maintains the custom-built front-end system for the Library's Fedora digital content system * Manages project workflows for digital library * Develops and/or coordinates usability studies related to digital collections * Collaborates with Library and campus IT to ensure hardware needs * Participates in grant proposal writing process and budget planning * Assists with training and instruction on creation and use of digital collections * Engages in liaison activities with college department(s) including collection development responsibilities * Other duties as assigned Qualifications: * ALA accredited MLS or an advanced degree in a relevant disciplinary field * Demonstrated experience in use of relevant digital library/archives metadata standards and technologies * Demonstrated experience in web development and authoring * Demonstrated experience in managing digital collection projects and workflows * Demonstrated experience with digital library/archive systems and automation techniques, especially open source solutions * Knowledge of digital preservation strategies, technologies, and standards * Knowledge of established thesauri and vocabularies used in library digital collections * Strong oral and written communication skills * Ability to work effectively with a diverse population of faculty, staff and students * Experience working in an academic library preferred Strong preference will be given to applicants with 2 or more years experience using Fedora Commons, PHP, XML, XPaths, XForms, XSL, Tomcat, LAMP set-ups, SQL, Javascript, XHTML/CSS and demonstrated knowledge of FOXML or METS, PREMIS, VRA Core 4, Dublin Core, EAD Columbia College Chicago encourages female, LGBTQ, disabled, international, and minority individuals to apply for all positions. We offer a competitive salary and an excellent benefits package. Electronic submissions only - For consideration, please submit cover letter and resume to: library...@colum.edu by February 22, 2010 www.colum.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] faceted browsing
Hi Jill, The eXtensible Catalog (http://eXtensibleCatalog.org) provides similar funtionality. The user interface of the XC is a set of Drupal modules, and it runs inside Drupal, which probably the most popular PHP CMS application. Our modules (called Drupal Toolkit), are able to harvest metadata from OAI-PMH repositories, then process XML, save fields inside MySQL and in Solr. We provided administrator interfaces, where you can decide how to index different fields, what kind of facets do you want to build from the fields, and -- still inside the admin interface -- you can create search and browse interfaces, including search forms, navigationable lists, tempates for results. You can interact with your ILS for circulation data or authentication. You can mashup the results with additional data from external sources, like table of contents, cover images, reviews. The Drupal Toolkit is still in alpha release, we plan to issue the first more stable release in weeks. You can see more in the eXtensible Catalog screencast: http://www.screencast.com/users/eXtensibleCatalog (the second part is about the Drupal Toolkit). You can download the software from here: http://drupal.org/project/xc. If you have any question don't hesitate to contact me, or the leaders of the project. Regards, Péter Király http://eXtensibleCatalog.org - Original Message - From: "Earles, Jill Denae" To: Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 5:58 PM Subject: [CODE4LIB] faceted browsing I would like recommendations for faceted browsing systems that include authentication, and easily support multimedia content and metadata. The ability to add comments and tags to content, and browse by tag cloud is also desirable. My skills include ColdFusion, PHP, CakePHP, and XML/XSL. The only system I've worked with that includes faceted browsing is XTF, and I don't think it's well suited to this. I am willing to learn a new language/technology if there is a system that includes most of what I'm looking for. Please let me know of any open-source systems you know of that might be suited to this. If you have time and interest, see the detailed description of the system below. Thank you, Jill Earles Detailed description: I am planning to build a system to manage a collection of multimedia artwork, to include audio, video, images, and text along with accompanying metadata. The system should allow for uploading the content and entering metadata, and discovery of content via searching and faceted browsing. Ideally it will also include a couple of ways of visually representing the relationships between items (for example, a video and the images and audio files that are included in the video, and notes about the creative process). The views we've conceived of at this point include a "flow" view that shows relationships with arrows between them (showing chronology or this begat that relationship), and a "constellation" view that shows all of the related items, with or without lines between them. It needs to have security built in so that only contributing members can search and browse the contributions by default. Ideally, there would be an approval process so that a contributor could propose making a work public, and if all contributors involved in the work (including any components of the work, i.e. the images and audio files included in the video) give their approval, the work would be made public. The public site would also have faceted browsing, searching by all metadata that we make public, and possibly tag clouds, and the ability to add tags and comments about the work.
[CODE4LIB] Job Opening: Digital Repository Developer, Duke University Libraries (2 year term appointment)
Job Opening: Digital Repository Developer, Duke University Libraries (2 year term appointment) The Duke University Libraries are the shared center of the university's intellectual life, connecting people and ideas. The Duke University Libraries and the separately administered libraries serving the schools of Business, Divinity, Law, and Medicine, comprise one of the nation's top ten private university library systems. Duke University Libraries is searching for a Digital Repository Developer who will participate in the design and development of a technical infrastructure to support the management, preservation and appropriate access to digital scholarship at Duke. Applicants should have experience developing web interfaces, applications, and/or services and possess a working knowledge of RESTful architectures and HTTP, as well as demonstrable XML/XSLT experience. Highly desirable is experience in object-oriented design and programming languages, including either Java or Python. To learn more about this opportunity, please visit http://library.duke.edu/jobs/digitalrepositorydeveloper.html. Direct apply now by accessing this link: Requisition 400371456 OR send your resume via email to susan.n.john...@duke.edu and reference Digital Repository Developer. Prefer prior experience working in higher education generally and an academic research library in particular. Duke's hometown is Durham, North Carolina, a city with vibrant research, medical and arts communities, and numerous shops, restaurants and theaters. Durham is located in the Research Triangle, a growing metropolitan area of more than one million people that provides a wide range of cultural, recreational and educational opportunities. The Triangle is conveniently located just a few hours from the mountains and the coast, offers a moderate climate, and has been ranked among the best places to live and to do business. - David Kennedy Perkins Library, Duke University (919) 613-6831 david.kenn...@duke.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] faceted browsing
Thank you to all who responded about this! Some of these look promising. Jill -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Graham, Wayne (wsg4w) Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 12:59 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] faceted browsing Here's on more thing to take a look at... there's a project named Raven (http://github.com/mwmitchell/raven) that one of the Scholars' Lab staff was working on as a research project. Essentially it takes XML (tested with VRA, EAD, and TEI) and builds out a faceted interface from a Solr index along the lines of XTF (just not quite as painful) in a Rails interface. You can check out a sample at http://raven.scholarslab.org/. If you're finding that there's not a solution that's doing what you need, this would be a great place to start building out a custom interface with whatever language you choose. HTH, Wayne On 2/8/10 1:39 PM, "Benjamin Young" wrote: Have you seen the Exhibit library (part of the Simile project at MIT)? It provides faceted browsing along with map integration: http://www.simile-widgets.org/exhibit/ It should be fairly easy to add to an existing project as it can consume a pretty simple JSON format that your app could provide. Since you're familiar with CakePHP, it would be very easy to turn parseExtensions on in your routes.php file and provide specific views for ".json" requests (they'd be stored in views/audio/json/index.ctp for instance). The Exhibit JSON format is based on some RDF concepts I believe, so if you're into that at all, it will be doubly enjoyable. :) Hope that helps, Benjamin On 2/8/10 1:31 PM, Ethan Gruber wrote: > I just checked up on CollectiveAccess' features, and the newest > version has faceting search/browse now, so you may want to try that. > They support uploading videos as well. > http://www.collectiveaccess.org/about/overview > > Ethan > > On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Ethan Gruber wrote: > > >> I think Omeka may be a good fit for you, but there currently isn't >> faceted searching, though a Solr plugin is currently in development. >> You have a very specific set of requirements, so I'm not sure that >> any single CMS/DAM will work in precisely the way you want right out >> of the box, but Omeka could very well be the closest thing. It's >> written in the Zend framework for PHP. I know that there is great demand for a Solr plugin for Omeka. >> It's in the Omeka svn repo, but it's not really ready yet for primetime. >> >> Ethan Gruber >> University of Virginia Library >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 11:58 AM, Earles, Jill Denaewrote: >> >> >>> I would like recommendations for faceted browsing systems that >>> include authentication, and easily support multimedia content and >>> metadata. The ability to add comments and tags to content, and >>> browse by tag cloud is also desirable. >>> >>> My skills include ColdFusion, PHP, CakePHP, and XML/XSL. The only >>> system I've worked with that includes faceted browsing is XTF, and I >>> don't think it's well suited to this. I am willing to learn a new >>> language/technology if there is a system that includes most of what >>> I'm looking for. >>> >>> Please let me know of any open-source systems you know of that might >>> be suited to this. If you have time and interest, see the detailed >>> description of the system below. >>> >>> Thank you, >>> Jill Earles >>> >>> Detailed description: >>> >>> I am planning to build a system to manage a collection of multimedia >>> artwork, to include audio, video, images, and text along with >>> accompanying metadata. The system should allow for uploading the >>> content and entering metadata, and discovery of content via >>> searching and faceted browsing. Ideally it will also include a >>> couple of ways of visually representing the relationships between >>> items (for example, a video and the images and audio files that are >>> included in the video, and notes about the creative process). The >>> views we've conceived of at this point include a "flow" view that >>> shows relationships with arrows between them (showing chronology or >>> this begat that relationship), and a "constellation" view that shows >>> all of the related items, with or without lines between them. >>> >>> It needs to have security built in so that only contributing members >>> can search and browse the contributions by default. Ideally, there >>> would be an approval process so that a contributor could propose >>> making a work public, and if all contributors involved in the work >>> (including any components of the work, i.e. the images and audio >>> files included in the >>> video) give their approval, the work would be made public. The >>> public site would also have faceted browsing, searching by all >>> metadata that we make public, and possibly tag clouds, and the >>> ability to add tags and comments about the work. >>> >>> >> >>
Re: [CODE4LIB] 12 Bones BBQ excursion
My only comment is YUM. On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Rosalyn Metz wrote: > Hello All, > > It seems that we have gotten our 50 people, and even surpassed it, so I > booked the place. I may have to end up capping the list to 80, so if you're > on the fence about the whole thing, hurry up and decide. If you're not > interested in a dinner time outing, then please please please take your name > off the list. > > *When: *Wednesday, February 24th > *Time: *6:30pm > *Where:* 5 Riverside Drive Asheville NC, 28801 > > The menu will be > > Pulled Pork > Chopped Beef Brisket > Mashed Sweet Taters > Sweet Vinegar Coleslaw > Collard Greens > Buns > Cornbread > RC Cola Products/Sweet Tea/Unsweetend Tea > > There will be a cash bar available as well. If you have any > grumblings/comments/concerns, please feel free to let me know and I'll see > what I can do. >
Re: [CODE4LIB] usability testing in libraries
Hi Sarah We did a re-organisation of our site a while ago using consultants. While the Library site was a small component of the overall institutional site the process was the same. I think it is more than do-able, indeed often advisable to outsource this kind of testing - the results end up being better focussed and more empirical (i.e. less swayed by vested interests) than if you try to do this in-house. An example of an organisation that does this kind of thing is www.akendi.com Peter -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Sarah Kahn Sent: February 3, 2010 4:27 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] usability testing in libraries Hi everyone, Has anyone had any experience with outsourcing the usability testing for big library web projects? My organization just rolled out our first website redesign in several years and are looking to potentially bring in a 3rd party for testing. Any insights into anyone's process or experiences would be much appreciated! Thanks, Sarah Sarah Kahn NC LIVE Online Services Librarian email: sa...@nclive.org phone: 919.513.3511 fax: 919.513.2588 www.nclive.org Find us on Twitter! www.twitter.com/nclive
[CODE4LIB] 12 Bones BBQ excursion
Hello All, It seems that we have gotten our 50 people, and even surpassed it, so I booked the place. I may have to end up capping the list to 80, so if you're on the fence about the whole thing, hurry up and decide. If you're not interested in a dinner time outing, then please please please take your name off the list. *When: *Wednesday, February 24th *Time: *6:30pm *Where:* 5 Riverside Drive Asheville NC, 28801 The menu will be Pulled Pork Chopped Beef Brisket Mashed Sweet Taters Sweet Vinegar Coleslaw Collard Greens Buns Cornbread RC Cola Products/Sweet Tea/Unsweetend Tea There will be a cash bar available as well. If you have any grumblings/comments/concerns, please feel free to let me know and I'll see what I can do.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Print Management Software Options
You could also bug Columbia about releasing NINJa [0]. I attempted to get them to do so several times when I worked there, but no luck. Oh the bureaucratic fear of open source. [0] http://www.columbia.edu/acis/facilities/printers/ninja.html On Mon, Feb 08, 2010 at 03:32:12PM -0600, Francis Kayiwa wrote: > On 2/8/10 3:09 PM, Ryan Eby wrote: > >I'm interested in knowing what everyone is using for print management > >and cost recovery for public printing. We're currently using Pharos > >but I'd like to see what else is out there. I don't really have any > >requirements other than preferably available separate from any > >computer management system. Mostly just interested in what is out > >there and personal opinions of the product. > > > >I'd be especially interested in any OSS options. I've come across a > >few CUPS/lpr based systems (http://print.ncsu.edu/ and > >http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1027802.1027849) but there doesn't appear > >to be any code release associated with them. > > Got the following response: > > > Francis, > > The person you're referring to is most likely Adam Lewenburg. He > has since moved on, and I am now the service manager for LibPrint. > > We had looked into open sourcing the code, as well as several other > methods of distributing the system to non-UIUC organizations. > Unfortunately, the bureaucratic overhead involved turned out to be > more massive than we could have imagined, and it turns out that we > don't have the staff or resources to make it possible. > > Sorry for the bad news. If there's anything else I can help you > with, please let me know. > jason. > > > GAH! > > regards, > ./fxk >
