[CODE4LIB] Job: Digital Preservation Consultant at AudioVisual Preservation Solutions

2012-04-25 Thread jobs
**About AVPS** AudioVisual Preservation Solutions (AVPS) is a full service audiovisual preservation and information management consulting firm serving the educational, broadcasting, government, non-profit, and corporate sectors. With a strong focus on professional standards and best practices,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Millions of Harvard Library Catalog Records Publicly Available

2012-04-25 Thread Matt Amory
I think this DPLA notice covers this release of metadata: John Palfrey jpalf...@law.harvard.edu Apr 24 (1 day ago) to dpla-discussion Dear colleagues interested in the DPLA: Below, please find a news release that we have just issued from Harvard about a major open access metadata release that

[CODE4LIB] Job: Head, Information Technology Services at Linda Hall Library

2012-04-25 Thread jobs
The Linda Hall Library, the nation's largest independent research library devoted to the support of research and scholarship in the fields of science, engineering, and technology, is taking applications for the Head of Information Technology Services. Scholars, students, researchers, academic

[CODE4LIB] Islandora preconference at ALA June 22 - spaces still available - ALA registration not required

2012-04-25 Thread Kirsta Stapelfeldt
* Apologies for Cross Posting* Interested in learning about the Islandora open-source digital asset management system? The Islandora team will be presenting a pre-conference workshop at ALA suitable for new users and current implementers. Learn how Islandora is simplifying the process of

Re: [CODE4LIB] crowdsourced book scanning

2012-04-25 Thread Andrew Shuping
What type of pages from books are you talking about? Like reference materials, histories, biographies, fiction? Because while my first thought is that would be an interesting idea, my immediate second thought is that publishers and authors would never allow it to happen because of Copyright.

Re: [CODE4LIB] crowdsourced book scanning

2012-04-25 Thread Ross Singer
Michael, I had this thought years ago as a way of slowly making microform collections relevant again. As people find things they need in microforms collections (which, admittedly, isn't terribly often anymore), scanning the things they find, briefly adding some metadata about them and keeping

Re: [CODE4LIB] crowdsourced book scanning

2012-04-25 Thread Ross Singer
I am not sure this would be as much of a problem as long as it's not a publicly searchable database (that is, people can't browse scans are there and choose them). Of course, this restriction makes it difficult to envision how the UI would work, but something triggered by an exact match should

Re: [CODE4LIB] crowdsourced book scanning

2012-04-25 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Apr 25, 2012, at 1:36 PM, Michael Lindsey wrote: A colleague posed an interesting idea: patrons scan book pages to deliver to themselves by email, flash drive, etc. What if the scans didn't disappear from memory, but went into a repository so the next patron looking for that passage

Re: [CODE4LIB] crowdsourced book scanning

2012-04-25 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
ILL at most institutions does not keep scanned copies for future patrons, not even in a database that's not publically searchable. To do so would be of highly questionable legality with regard to copyright. As would be this plan, alas. You can easily violate copyright just sharing within the

Re: [CODE4LIB] crowdsourced book scanning

2012-04-25 Thread Roy Tennant
A number of years back I pitched a project at UC Berkeley, of all places, to do a scan on the fly project to scan tables of contents and indexes of books returned from circulation. I even prototyped a system for the indexing and display of the resulting pages, with filenames derived from the

Re: [CODE4LIB] crowdsourced book scanning

2012-04-25 Thread Dave Caroline
This makes a lot of sense for archives and out of copyright stuff Dave Caroline

Re: [CODE4LIB] crowdsourced book scanning

2012-04-25 Thread Michael Lindsey
Thanks all. I'm consulting an attorney colleague who is also a librarian working in copyright and digitization. I'll let you know what I learn... Michael Lindsey UC Berkeley Law Library On 4/25/2012 11:54 AM, Roy Tennant wrote: A number of years back I pitched a project at UC Berkeley, of

Re: [CODE4LIB] crowdsourced book scanning

2012-04-25 Thread BWS Johnson
Salvete! This makes a lot of sense for archives and out of copyright stuff     I agree. I also think it was stated that folks are just scanning a single page. If that's out of a prose book, it's prolly okay.     I'm not one of your big city lawyers, and I haven't asked Roy's permission,

[CODE4LIB] Help Start a Digital Preservation Stack Exchange QA Site

2012-04-25 Thread Owens, Trevor
I and some other folks working in digital preservation are trying to get a Stack Exchange site focused on digital preservation launched. Here is the blurb defining the proposed site: Proposed QA site for librarians, archivists, curators, data managers, information specialists, computer

Re: [CODE4LIB] crowdsourced book scanning

2012-04-25 Thread Ross Singer
On Apr 25, 2012, at 3:28 PM, BWS Johnson wrote: http://www.copyright.gov/circs/circ21.pdf So keep it to less than 10 percent of a boring non fiction book and the copyright goons won't come for you. Experiment with poetry, articles, and music at your own risk. ;) Actually, the

Re: [CODE4LIB] Help Start a Digital Preservation Stack Exchange QA Site

2012-04-25 Thread Joe Hourcle
On Apr 25, 2012, at 3:36 PM, Owens, Trevor wrote: I and some other folks working in digital preservation are trying to get a Stack Exchange site focused on digital preservation launched. Here is the blurb defining the proposed site: Proposed QA site for librarians, archivists, curators,

[CODE4LIB] Access 2012 - Come to Montreal!

2012-04-25 Thread Amy Buckland
Access 2012 Call for ProposalsThe theme for Access 2012 is discovery/découverte: We want to talk about new ways of doing things, how technology might encourage serendipity in the library and help our users get to the information they need. We want to talk about new ways of weaving together and

[CODE4LIB] CFP JCDL 2012 Workshop Emergency Informatics and Digital Libraries

2012-04-25 Thread karim boughida
Hi All, JCDL 2012 Workshop submission deadline April 27 2012: Emergency Informatics and Digital Libraries http://www.ctrnet.net/jcdl12 -- Karim B Boughida JCDL 2012 General Co-Chair kbough...@gmail.com bough...@lgwu.edu

Re: [CODE4LIB] Access 2012 - Come to Montreal!

2012-04-25 Thread Diane Hillmann
On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Amy Buckland amy.buckl...@mcgill.cawrote: Access 2012 Call for ProposalsThe theme for Access 2012 is discovery/découverte: We want to talk about new ways of doing things, how technology might encourage serendipity in the library and help our users get to the