Re: [CODE4LIB] pdf2txt

2013-10-14 Thread Jodi Schneider
Hi Penelope, Of the document you write, the key part for this discussion seems to be this: Some suggested ways to make the scanned information accessible in a seamless manner are: - The catalogue records to have two links one to the actual document and the other to a search page that

Re: [CODE4LIB] pdf2txt

2013-10-14 Thread Nicolas Franck
Could this also be done by Apache Tika? Or do I miss a crucial point? http://tika.apache.org/1.4/gettingstarted.html Apparently it has a command-line utility that extract metadata and content from various document formats, and prints it to the standard output. The output can then be supplied to

[CODE4LIB] edUi Discount

2013-10-14 Thread EdUI Conference
Just a reminder that there’s still time to register for the edUi Conferencehttp://eduiconf.org/(Nov. 4-6 Richmond, VA). Code4lib readers can save $100 on registration (usually $550) with the discount codelibrary http://eduiconf.org/register/?discount=library. Here are some session code4lib

Re: [CODE4LIB] edUi Discount

2013-10-14 Thread Sean Hannan
Hey, that's me! Come see me talk! It's a good conference. I've gone the last two years. Cheapest design-thinking conference you'll ever see. -Sean On 10/14/13 8:24 AM, EdUI Conference i...@eduiconf.org wrote: This is how you do digital collections in

[CODE4LIB] Job: Research Informationist at University of Cincinnati Libraries at University of Cincinnati Libraries

2013-10-14 Thread jobs
**POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT - RESEARCH INFORMATIONIST (Position Number 213UC5231)** Tenure-track, 12-month Faculty Appointment University of Cincinnati Health Sciences Library The Donald C. Harrison Health Sciences Library (HSL) seeks a knowledgeable, motivated, and service oriented

[CODE4LIB] Job: JOB: Research/Scholarship Initiatives Manager at Columbia University at Columbia University

2013-10-14 Thread jobs
Apologies for cross-posting -- but with encouragement to pass along this announcement broadly! Research/Scholarship Initiatives Manager at Columbia University The Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) (cdrs.columbia.edu), a division of the Columbia University

[CODE4LIB] OLAC Movie Video Credit Annotation Experiment

2013-10-14 Thread Kelley McGrath
This project may be of interest to some on this list as an experiment to explore extracting structured data from free text in MARC. You also have a chance to help make it easier to find film and video in libraries if you're willing to take a few minutes to participate. OLAC

[CODE4LIB] ANNOUNCEMENT: Traject MARC-Solr indexer release

2013-10-14 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
Jonathan Rochkind (Johns Hopkins) and Bill Dueber (University of Michigan), are happy to announce a robust, feature-complete beta release of traject, a tool for indexing MARC data to Solr. traject, in the vein of solrmarc, allows you to define your indexing rules using simple macro and

[CODE4LIB] Google Analytics on multiple systems

2013-10-14 Thread Joel Marchesoni
Hello, We currently have Google Analytics on our main library pages and digital collections pages on the same domain. Now that CONTENTdm has a GA easy button we are going to add Analytics to it as well, and while we're at it probably LibGuides and non-authenticated ILLiad pages (I mainly want

Re: [CODE4LIB] Google Analytics on multiple systems

2013-10-14 Thread Amy Vecchione
Hello Joel and all, We customized one dashboard that forced all of our vended products to identify into one singular dashboard and then tease them out with filters (sort of like this presentation http://conferences.infotoday.com/documents/158/B104_Hess.pdf) . I didn't like that, so we using the

Re: [CODE4LIB] pdf2txt

2013-10-14 Thread Robert Haschart
Eric, Very interesting. I've have been working with some existing pdf utilities with a goal of automatically extracting the abstract from technical reports, articles and dissertations that are to be bulk uploaded to our institutional repository. I tried two of our documents through your

[CODE4LIB] Job Posting / Temporary Law Library Technician / San Francisco, CA

2013-10-14 Thread Suzanne Richards
Apologies for the cross postings . . . . . LAC Group is seeking a Temporary Law Library Technician to work full-time on a project for our client, an international law firm.This position will work full-time in the firm's San Francisco office for approximately 1-2 weeks to finish

[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Issue 22 Published

2013-10-14 Thread sara amato
The Code4Lib Journal editors are pleased to bring you this latest issue. You can find it at http://journal.code4lib.org/issues/issues/issue22; titles and abstracts below. Editorial Introduction: Join Us at the Table by Sara Amato