Re: [CODE4LIB] What software for a digital library

2011-12-10 Thread Thomas Krichel
Lars Aronsson writes To be clear: I need a platform where regular users, logged in or not, can upload new books through a web interface. Does that leave me with anything else than Mediawiki? Try http://omeka.org. I use it for teaching purposes.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Namespace management, was Models of MARC in RDF

2011-12-10 Thread Karen Coyle
Quoting Richard Wallis richard.wal...@talis.com: Why bother? Transforming Marc in to RDF is an interesting and challenging exercise, but there is little point in doing it without having some potential benefits in mind beyond the it would be great to have our stuff in a new format Richard,

Re: [CODE4LIB] What software for a digital library

2011-12-10 Thread Miles Fidelman
Thomas Krichel wrote: Lars Aronsson writes To be clear: I need a platform where regular users, logged in or not, can upload new books through a web interface. Does that leave me with anything else than Mediawiki? Try http://omeka.org. I use it for teaching purposes. Omeka looks

Re: [CODE4LIB] What software for a digital library

2011-12-10 Thread Brad Rhoads
Hi Lars, You might take a look at our recently released digital library system called Ibidem (http://www.maflt.org/products/Ibidem). Its strengths are its simplicity and its flexibility. For example, items can be in multiple collections. And you can define custom metadata sets, where you can

Re: [CODE4LIB] What software for a digital library

2011-12-10 Thread Pottinger, Hardy J.
Hi, Lars, you seem to be on the right track, but I'll chime in for repositories here. Either DSpace or Fedora Commons make good boxes for digitized content, you're just faced with the task of building an interface to them. For DSpace, I'd look at using Skylight [1], for Fedora there are lots of

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2011-12-10 Thread AIM Library Information Staffing
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Re: [CODE4LIB] Bienvenue à Montréal (Access 2012 found a home)

2011-12-10 Thread Kimberly Silk
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Re: [CODE4LIB] Namespace management, was Models of MARC in RDF

2011-12-10 Thread Simon Spero
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Richard Wallis richard.wal...@talis.comwrote: *A record is a silo within a silo* * * A record within a catalogue duplicates the publisher/author/subject/etc.information stored in adjacent records describing items by the same author/publisher/etc. This

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

2011-12-10 Thread Cary Gordon
I think that Some devices they don't sell are blocked from using the prepaid data service. would mean that those phones are locked by definition. Cary On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Kyle Banerjee baner...@uoregon.edu wrote: On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 1:50 PM, KREYCHE, MICHAEL mkrey...@kent.edu

Re: [CODE4LIB] What software for a digital library

2011-12-10 Thread Cary Gordon
I would build it in Drupal, or possible Islandora, which is a Drupal and DSpace package. I got started with Drupal, lo those many years ago (six, actually) when I was building out a DSpace server and realized that I could not get it looking very user-freindly on its own. I did my own mashup, and