Re: [CODE4LIB] Reminder Re: Code4Lib 2012 Scholarship

2011-12-09 Thread Ranti Junus
Hello All, This is a reminder that the Code4Lib Scholarship application deadline is today (December 9, 2011). Please see the complete announcement below. thanks, ranti. ===quote=== Oregon State University and the Digital Library Federation are sponsoring five scholarships to promote gender

[CODE4LIB] Voting for c4l 2012 talks ends today

2011-12-09 Thread Anjanette Young
Get your votes in before 5pm (PST) http://vote.code4lib.org/election/21 -- You will need your code4lib.orglogin in order to vote. If you do not have one you can create one at http://code4lib.org/

Re: [CODE4LIB] copyright/fair use considerations for re-using Seattle World's Fair images

2011-12-09 Thread Cary Gordon
Copyright law requires that you make a good-faith effort to find the copyright owners. If you document such effort and they sue you, this can weigh heavily in your favor. There are two obvious caveats: a) You can still get sued, not to mention annoying cease-and-desist letters; and 2) They could

Re: [CODE4LIB] copyright/fair use considerations for re-using Seattle World's Fair images

2011-12-09 Thread Beanworks
I think what Cary is trying to say is welcome to the fun world of copyright! No, you shouldn't assume copyright was not renewed. You will need to determine (1) who the copyright holder is/was and (2) whether the copyright has lapsed. This is not always an easy task, which is why you need to

Re: [CODE4LIB] copyright/fair use considerations for re-using Seattle World's Fair images

2011-12-09 Thread Trish Rose-Sandler
Michael, If you think your use falls under Fair Use you may find the recently released document from the Visual Resources Association useful *Statement on the Fair Use of Images for Teaching, Research, and Study*. * http://www.vraweb.org/organization/pdf/VRAFairUseGuidelinesFinal.pdf*. Trish

Re: [CODE4LIB] Voting for c4l 2012 talks ends today

2011-12-09 Thread Godmar Back
This site shows: Ruby (Rack) application could not be started On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Anjanette Young youn...@u.washington.eduwrote: Get your votes in before 5pm (PST) http://vote.code4lib.org/election/21 -- You will need your code4lib.orglogin in order to vote. If you do not have

Re: [CODE4LIB] Voting for c4l 2012 talks ends today

2011-12-09 Thread Ross Singer
Dreamhost must have had a hiccup, seems fine now. -Ross. On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Godmar Back god...@gmail.com wrote: This site shows: Ruby (Rack) application could not be started On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Anjanette Young youn...@u.washington.eduwrote: Get your votes in

Re: [CODE4LIB] copyright/fair use considerations for re-using Seattle World's Fair images

2011-12-09 Thread McDonald, Stephen
Look at the page for the image you found on Flickr. Near the bottom of the page is a link labeled Request to license. If you click that link, it gives you directions on how to license that image for your own use through Getty. That would be the first thing I would check. Getty might be in a

Re: [CODE4LIB] copyright/fair use considerations for re-using Seattle World's Fair images

2011-12-09 Thread Hogue Melanie
Check this site to search for it: http://cocatalog.loc.gov/ My library department used to help people with this all the time. It is very tedious and could be a mistake to assume that, if you don't find it, it doesn't exist. If there is money at stake, you could hire a copyright search

Re: [CODE4LIB] copyright/fair use considerations for re-using Seattle World's Fair images

2011-12-09 Thread Doran, Michael D
Hi Steve, Images of this decal are in on other web pages too. Even if it's possible that this person's *photo* is the Ur-photo of which all the others are copies, it's the original decal artwork that I think is the issue. I could probably eventually buy the decal on eBay or some such, and

[CODE4LIB] Bienvenue à Montréal (Access 2012 found a home)

2011-12-09 Thread Amy Buckland
Hey everyone - Just to let you know that Access 2012 will be in Montreal in October - http://accessconference.ca/2011/12/09/see-you-in-montreal/ More info to follow very shortly. In the meantime, holler if you have any questions! Cheers, Amy Buckland eScholarship, ePublishing Digitization

Re: [CODE4LIB] copyright/fair use considerations for re-using Seattle World's Fair images

2011-12-09 Thread BRIAN TINGLE
these guys might own the copyright http://seattlecenter.org/ https://www.facebook.com/pages/1962-Seattle-Worlds-Fair/106938462090 On Dec 9, 2011, at 12:53 PM, Doran, Michael D wrote: Hi Trish, Thank you for the referral. I looked through that but I don't think my intended use (an

[CODE4LIB] automatic greeking of sample files

2011-12-09 Thread BRIAN TINGLE
Hi, I'm now in the group that produces XTF, and for XTF4.0, I'm thinking about updating the EAD XSLT based on the Online Archive of California's stylesheets. For our EAD samples that we distribute with the XTF tutorial, we are using 6 EAD files from the library of congress (which presumably

Re: [CODE4LIB] Availability of data-enabled temporary SIM cards

2011-12-09 Thread Kyle Banerjee
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 1:50 PM, KREYCHE, MICHAEL mkrey...@kent.edu wrote: I meant phone purchased from T-Mobile. Some devices they don't sell are blocked from using the prepaid data service. Meaning an unlocked phone can be used for calls but not data? Weird. You should be able to use data

Re: [CODE4LIB] copyright/fair use considerations for re-using Seattle World's Fair images

2011-12-09 Thread Genny Engel
Seattle Public Library's website has a collection of Seattle World's Fair images. One record includes the following: Contributing Institution Seattle Center Foundation: owner, scanning, and metadata; The Seattle Public Library: metadata Rights Management To order a reproduction

[CODE4LIB] What software for a digital library

2011-12-09 Thread Lars Aronsson
If I built this website today and not in 1994, http://runeberg.org/irescan/0014.html (you can see it hasn't changed much, http://web.archive.org/web/19970227191652/http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/fstal/1b.html ) then I would probably use CSS rather than HTML tables for layout, I would

Re: [CODE4LIB] What software for a digital library

2011-12-09 Thread BRIAN TINGLE
On Dec 9, 2011, at 9:05 PM, Lars Aronsson wrote: in particular I didn't like these steps: 5. Shut down tomcat. 6. Do an incremental re-index (2) to include the new document. 7. Start up tomcat. ... I'm not sure why this step is in the tutorial -- XTF does not normally require