[CODE4LIB] Plagiarism checker

[Judy Meirose]

Can anyone recommend a plagiarism checking software besides Turnitin and 
SafeAssign?  I need to compare about 100 student assignments against each other 
to make sure they don't copy each other's assignments.

Thanks.

Judy K. Meirose
Systems Librarian
Florida Coastal School of Law
8787 Baypine Rd
Jacksonville, FL
(904)680-7603

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Re: [CODE4LIB] Plagiarism checker

[Andreas Orphanides]

My first thought was something like programatically doing a pairwise diff
of the files, 5500 times. I was surprised I couldn't find a utility that
just does this.

But i did find something called diffuse [1], that allows you to graphically
compare any number of text files in a diff-like fashion. This would
probably at least be able to tell you which files need closer scrutiny.

I think you'd presumably have to be able to extract the text from each
file; I doubt it would work on raw Word docs or PDFs, so that might be a
stopper.

It seems like the realm of source control has a lot of software designed to
help with this problem, so there might be other similar things out there.
But probably not anything designed to natively handle print-ready files.

-dre.


[1] http://diffuse.sourceforge.net/about.html

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 7:26 AM, Judy Meirose  wrote:

> Can anyone recommend a plagiarism checking software besides Turnitin and
> SafeAssign?  I need to compare about 100 student assignments against each
> other to make sure they don't copy each other's assignments.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Judy K. Meirose
> Systems Librarian
> Florida Coastal School of Law
> 8787 Baypine Rd
> Jacksonville, FL
> (904)680-7603
>
> This email transmission, and any documents, files or previous e-mail
> messages attached to it, may contain confidential, privileged and/or
> proprietary information for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If
> you are not an intended recipient or a person responsible for delivering it
> to an intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of
> any of the information contained in or attached to this transmission is
> strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error,
> please: (1) immediately notify me by reply e-mail; and (2) destroy the
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>

[CODE4LIB] Job: Digitization Services Manager at New York Public Library

[jobs]

Digitization Services Manager
New York Public Library
Long Island City

_**Overview:**_

  
The Digital Imaging Unit of NYPL Labs is seeking a visionary, inventive
manager to help The New York Public Library to share its vast collections with
the world through digitization. The Manager will oversee the preservation-
grade photography and reformatting of The New York Public Library's rare and
unique holdings (including illuminated manuscripts, prints, rare books,
literary and historical archives, historical maps, one of the world's largest
photography collections, Broadway set and costume designs, and diverse
documents charting the changing landscape of New York City). The Digitization
Services Manager will also serve as a primary architect of a range of new
digitization streams with the goal of dramatically increasing the volume,
speed, and range of NYPL's imaging activities (e.g. rapid book scanning, high-
speed microfilm digitization, and experiments with new approaches). A key
member of the NYPL Labs leadership team, this is a perfect opportunity for an
enthusiastic, problem-solving individual interested in the full digital
library lifecycle, from digitization to the creation of online access
platforms and user-engagement tools (see http://labs.nypl.org/ for some
examples).

  
  
_**About the Department**_:

  
The Digital Imaging Unit is part of the New York Public Library Labs (NYPL
Labs). Based dually at the Library's landmark central branch on 42nd Street,
and at its cutting-edge services center in Long Island City, NYPL Labs is an
interdisciplinary team working to reformat and reposition the Library's
knowledge for the Internet age. Labs combines core digital library capacities
(digitization, metadata, permissions/reproductions etc.) with an award-winning
tech/design and outreach team focused on deepening engagement with digital
collections and data, and fostering new forms of research and creativity.

  
  
_**Responsibilities:**_

  
Under the general direction of the Deputy Director, NYPL Labs:

  
 Supervises the
Digital Imaging Unit (DIU) team (7 FTE), including performance management,
training and scheduling.

  
 Reviews practices,
procedures, and policies of the department and revise as necessary to improve
efficiency and/or workflow.

  
 Identifies and
implements best technical practices for producing and archiving digital
images.

  
 Assists with the
selection of new equipment and follows trends in digital reformatting.

  
 Maintains production
goals for the unit, ensuring that the staff development needs are met and the
infrastructure is in place to support the unit.

  
 Oversee material
preparation, quality control, and documentation.

  
 Liaises with the
Library's curators, librarians, exhibitions staff, metadata staff, repository
development team, and others on a wide variety of projects.

  
 Oversee in the
receiving and returning of materials to and from collection units.

  
 Oversees the
preparation of digital files for archiving, printing and access purposes.

  
 Oversees the timely
delivery of public order photography requests.

  
 Troubleshoots
capture issues and advises on solutions.

  
 Handles and assigns
special projects.

  
 Performs related
duties as required.

  
_**Qualifications:**_

  
 Bachelors degree and
substantial relevant experience in a research library or

 similar institution;
or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

  
 Successfully
demonstrated experience with production work, production scheduling and
attainable goal setting.

  
 Successfully
demonstrated experience training, supervising and evaluating staff and

 demonstrated
experience in workflow planning and management, production

 of statistics, and
an understanding of bibliographic records.

  
 Successfully
demonstrated working knowledge of information technologies associated

 with digitizing
books, documents and visual materials including experience with Adobe
Photoshop CS.

  
 Excellent working
knowledge of practices and procedures for copy photography,

 including the
understanding of cameras, lighting and lenses, and demonstrated experience
changing lenses and handling medium format camera and lighting hardware.

  
 Demonstrated
understanding of bibliographic control issues within a large research library
environment preferred.

  
 Knowledge of library
preservation issues and successfully demonstrated experience handling rare and
fragile materials preferred.

  
 Demonstrated
experience in a production environment.

  
 Awareness of leading
trends in digitization, and an eagerness to expand the scope of digitization
possibilities at NYPL

  
_**Work Environment:**_

  
Professional photography studio located at NYPL Library Services Center in
Long Island City, Queens; travel for meetings at various Manhattan research
center locations as required.

  
**Union / Non Union:**  
Local 1930

  
_*TO APPLY, PLEASE VISIT*_

https://jobs-nypl.icims.com/jobs/8246

Re: [CODE4LIB] Plagiarism checker

[Mark A. Matienzo]

I believe Turnitin and SafeAssign both compare the text of submissions to
against external sources (e.g., SafeAssign uses ABI/INFORM, among others).
I am not certain if they compare submissions against each other.

However, if you're looking for something along the lines of what Dre
suggests, you could use ssdeep, which is an implementation of a piecewise
hashing algorithm [0]. The issue with that you would have to assume that
all students would probably be using the same file format.

You could also using something like Tika to extract the text content from
all the submissions, and then compare them against each other.

[0] http://ssdeep.sourceforge.net/
[1] http://tika.apache.org/

Mark

--
Mark A. Matienzo 
Director of Technology, Digital Public Library of America

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 8:47 AM, Andreas Orphanides 
wrote:

> My first thought was something like programatically doing a pairwise diff
> of the files, 5500 times. I was surprised I couldn't find a utility that
> just does this.
>
> But i did find something called diffuse [1], that allows you to graphically
> compare any number of text files in a diff-like fashion. This would
> probably at least be able to tell you which files need closer scrutiny.
>
> I think you'd presumably have to be able to extract the text from each
> file; I doubt it would work on raw Word docs or PDFs, so that might be a
> stopper.
>
> It seems like the realm of source control has a lot of software designed to
> help with this problem, so there might be other similar things out there.
> But probably not anything designed to natively handle print-ready files.
>
> -dre.
>
>
> [1] http://diffuse.sourceforge.net/about.html
>
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 7:26 AM, Judy Meirose  wrote:
>
> > Can anyone recommend a plagiarism checking software besides Turnitin and
> > SafeAssign?  I need to compare about 100 student assignments against each
> > other to make sure they don't copy each other's assignments.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Judy K. Meirose
> > Systems Librarian
> > Florida Coastal School of Law
> > 8787 Baypine Rd
> > Jacksonville, FL
> > (904)680-7603
> >
> > This email transmission, and any documents, files or previous e-mail
> > messages attached to it, may contain confidential, privileged and/or
> > proprietary information for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If
> > you are not an intended recipient or a person responsible for delivering
> it
> > to an intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of
> > any of the information contained in or attached to this transmission is
> > strictly prohibited. If you have received this transmission in error,
> > please: (1) immediately notify me by reply e-mail; and (2) destroy the
> > original (and any copies) of this transmission and its attachments
> without
> > reading or saving in any manner.
> >
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Plagiarism checker

[Adam Traub]

Just thought I'd pop my head in:

TurnItIn does compare to other previous submissions (both at your own 
institution and others) unless the submitter chooses not to include them in the 
repository for future checks.  

Cheers,
Adam Traub
Electronic Resources Librarian
The Wallace Center
Rochester Institute of Technology
adam.tr...@rit.edu



-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark A. 
Matienzo
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2015 9:45 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Plagiarism checker

I believe Turnitin and SafeAssign both compare the text of submissions to 
against external sources (e.g., SafeAssign uses ABI/INFORM, among others).
I am not certain if they compare submissions against each other.

However, if you're looking for something along the lines of what Dre suggests, 
you could use ssdeep, which is an implementation of a piecewise hashing 
algorithm [0]. The issue with that you would have to assume that all students 
would probably be using the same file format.

You could also using something like Tika to extract the text content from all 
the submissions, and then compare them against each other.

[0] http://ssdeep.sourceforge.net/
[1] http://tika.apache.org/

Mark

--
Mark A. Matienzo 
Director of Technology, Digital Public Library of America

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 8:47 AM, Andreas Orphanides 
wrote:

> My first thought was something like programatically doing a pairwise 
> diff of the files, 5500 times. I was surprised I couldn't find a 
> utility that just does this.
>
> But i did find something called diffuse [1], that allows you to 
> graphically compare any number of text files in a diff-like fashion. 
> This would probably at least be able to tell you which files need closer 
> scrutiny.
>
> I think you'd presumably have to be able to extract the text from each 
> file; I doubt it would work on raw Word docs or PDFs, so that might be 
> a stopper.
>
> It seems like the realm of source control has a lot of software 
> designed to help with this problem, so there might be other similar things 
> out there.
> But probably not anything designed to natively handle print-ready files.
>
> -dre.
>
>
> [1] http://diffuse.sourceforge.net/about.html
>
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 7:26 AM, Judy Meirose  wrote:
>
> > Can anyone recommend a plagiarism checking software besides Turnitin 
> > and SafeAssign?  I need to compare about 100 student assignments 
> > against each other to make sure they don't copy each other's assignments.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Judy K. Meirose
> > Systems Librarian
> > Florida Coastal School of Law
> > 8787 Baypine Rd
> > Jacksonville, FL
> > (904)680-7603
> >
> > This email transmission, and any documents, files or previous e-mail 
> > messages attached to it, may contain confidential, privileged and/or 
> > proprietary information for the sole use of the intended 
> > recipient(s). If you are not an intended recipient or a person 
> > responsible for delivering
> it
> > to an intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or 
> > use of any of the information contained in or attached to this 
> > transmission is strictly prohibited. If you have received this 
> > transmission in error,
> > please: (1) immediately notify me by reply e-mail; and (2) destroy 
> > the original (and any copies) of this transmission and its 
> > attachments
> without
> > reading or saving in any manner.
> >
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Plagiarism checker

[Joe Hourcle]

On Jan 23, 2015, at 9:44 AM, Mark A. Matienzo wrote:

> I believe Turnitin and SafeAssign both compare the text of submissions to
> against external sources (e.g., SafeAssign uses ABI/INFORM, among others).
> I am not certain if they compare submissions against each other.

My understanding of TurnItIn, at least initially, was that they
built their corpus on existing submissions.  

(they had some deals with universities back when they started up
to use their service for free or cheap, so that they could build
up their corpus).


> However, if you're looking for something along the lines of what Dre
> suggests, you could use ssdeep, which is an implementation of a piecewise
> hashing algorithm [0]. The issue with that you would have to assume that
> all students would probably be using the same file format.
> 
> You could also using something like Tika to extract the text content from
> all the submissions, and then compare them against each other.

I'd agree on extracting the text.  MS Word used to store documents
as strings of edits, making it difficult to compare two
documents for similarity without parsing the format.

(I don't know if they still do this in .docx)

-Joe

Re: [CODE4LIB] Plagiarism checker

[Simeon Warner]

The code used for overlap detection within the arXiv corpus (see [1] 
which significantly extended earlier work [2]) does a matching based on 
a sliding window of hashed 7-word sequences on extracted ASCII text. 
Perhaps more the required for the case in question, but this approach 
scales to a corpus of 1M articles. I'm afraid it is a little finicky to 
compile on current systems given all the changes in C++ library 
organization since I wrote it in 2005/2009. I'm working off-and-on to 
tidy it up but haven't got there yet... So, FWIW, code at:


https://github.com/zimeon/docsim

Cheers,
Simeon

[1] http://arxiv.org/abs/1412.2716
[2] http://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0702012

On 1/23/15 9:44 AM, Mark A. Matienzo wrote:

I believe Turnitin and SafeAssign both compare the text of submissions to
against external sources (e.g., SafeAssign uses ABI/INFORM, among others).
I am not certain if they compare submissions against each other.

However, if you're looking for something along the lines of what Dre
suggests, you could use ssdeep, which is an implementation of a piecewise
hashing algorithm [0]. The issue with that you would have to assume that
all students would probably be using the same file format.

You could also using something like Tika to extract the text content from
all the submissions, and then compare them against each other.

[0] http://ssdeep.sourceforge.net/
[1] http://tika.apache.org/

Mark

--
Mark A. Matienzo 
Director of Technology, Digital Public Library of America

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 8:47 AM, Andreas Orphanides 
wrote:


My first thought was something like programatically doing a pairwise diff
of the files, 5500 times. I was surprised I couldn't find a utility that
just does this.

But i did find something called diffuse [1], that allows you to graphically
compare any number of text files in a diff-like fashion. This would
probably at least be able to tell you which files need closer scrutiny.

I think you'd presumably have to be able to extract the text from each
file; I doubt it would work on raw Word docs or PDFs, so that might be a
stopper.

It seems like the realm of source control has a lot of software designed to
help with this problem, so there might be other similar things out there.
But probably not anything designed to natively handle print-ready files.

-dre.


[1] http://diffuse.sourceforge.net/about.html

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 7:26 AM, Judy Meirose  wrote:


Can anyone recommend a plagiarism checking software besides Turnitin and
SafeAssign?  I need to compare about 100 student assignments against each
other to make sure they don't copy each other's assignments.

Thanks.

Judy K. Meirose
Systems Librarian
Florida Coastal School of Law
8787 Baypine Rd
Jacksonville, FL
(904)680-7603

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it

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without

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[CODE4LIB] Announcement: Global Open Knowledgebase Phase 2 and Public Preview

[Kristen Wilson]

I am pleased to announce that The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded
$333,000 to North Carolina State University to support the second phase of
development of the Global Open Knowledgebase (GOKb). GOKb is a project to
create an open source, community-managed repository of metadata describing
electronic resources. Phase 2 work funded by the Mellon grant will run
through December 2015 and will enable further development of the knowledge
base, recruitment of library and vendor partnerships, and expansion into
key areas such as e-book management, description of open-access resources,
and linked data.

For more details, see the full press release at
http://go.ncsu.edu/gokb-announcement.

Phase 1 of the GOKb project is now available for public preview. The
preview showcases the software developed during the initial phase of the
project and contains representative seed data that describes organizations,
packages, titles, holdings, and templates for licensing. Users are invited
to explore the web interface and experiment with the API and co-referencing
service. More information, including details about how to access GOKb and
provide feedback, is available at http://gokb.org/preview.

Please contact me at kristen_wil...@ncsu.edu with any questions or visit
http://gokb.org for more information.

-- 
Kristen Wilson
Associate Head, Acquisitions and Discovery
GOKb Editor
North Carolina State University Libraries
919-513-3354
kristen_wil...@ncsu.edu

[CODE4LIB] Fwd: Job: Digital Library Applications Developer

[Katherine Lynch]

Temple University Libraries' software development team is growing!  With
exciting projects currently in development and on the horizon for Temple
University Libraries, this is an opportunity to work as part of a dynamic
and passionate team on highly-active Open Source projects like Hydra,
Fedora Commons, and Blacklight.



*NOTE: For this position, we are willing to consider a telecommuting
arrangement of up to 80% (4 days a week) depending on candidate's
experience and qualifications.*
-- Forwarded message --
From: Katherine Lynch 
Date: Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 12:34 PM
Subject: Job: Digital Library Applications Developer
To: CODE4LIB@listserv.nd.edu


** Please excuse any cross-posting **

The Temple University Libraries are seeking a creative and energetic
individual to fill the position of Digital Library Applications Developer.
This position is an opportunity to engage with the active Hydra/Fedora
community and other Open Source communities.  Temple’s federated library
system serves an urban research university with over 1,800 full-time
faculty and a student body of 36,000 that is among the most diverse in the
nation. For more information about Temple and Philadelphia, visit
http://www.temple.edu.

Primary Duties and Responsibilities:

Reporting to the Senior Digital Library Applications Developer and working
closely with others in the Digital Library Initiatives Department, the DLAD
helps develop and maintain the technological infrastructure for Temple
University’s digital library initiatives and services, which includes
preserving and delivering large collections of digital objects with the
Hydra repository framework, and supporting digital scholarship (including
digital humanities), and scholarly communication initiatives throughout the
Library. As part of the development team, the DLAD architects, implements,
tests and deploys new tools and services primarily based on open source
project software, such as Hydra, Fedora Commons, Omeka, VIVO, Scalar, and
Open Journal Systems (OJS), potentially contributing code to those
projects. The DLAD advances professional skills through engagement with the
active Open Source community via training and participation at national and
regional conferences/meet-ups.  Performs other duties as assigned.

Required Education and Experience:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field, and at least one
year of experience. An equivalent combination of education and experience
may be considered.

Required Skills and Abilities:

* Demonstrated experience with application development in at least one
major programming language such as Ruby on Rails, PHP, or Java.
* Demonstrated experience with MySQL or other database management systems.
* Demonstrated knowledge of the LAMP stack or similar technology stacks.
* Demonstrated ability to perform effective code testing and QA testing.
* Experience with project requirements gathering.
* Strong organizational and interpersonal skills, demonstrated ability to
work in a collaborative team-based environment, and to communicate well
with IT and non-IT staff.
* Commitment to responsive and innovative service.
* Demonstrated ability to write clear documentation.

Preferred Skills and Abilities:

* Experience with a repository system such as Hydra.
* Familiarity with a Content Management System like Drupal or an exhibit
curation system like Omeka would be a plus.
* Experience working with Open Source software, including multi-platform
integration.
* Experience with version control, test-driven development, and continuous
integration techniques.
* Experience with Linux/Unix operating systems, including scripting.
* Experience working with authentication and authorization protocols,
including LDAP.
* Knowledge of XML/XSLT.
* Familiarity with digital library standards, such as Dublin Core, MARC,
METS, EAD, and OAI-PMH.

Compensation:

Competitive salary and benefits package.

To apply:

To apply for this position, please visit
http://www.temple.edu/hr/departments/employment/jobs_within.htm, click on
"Non-Employees Only," and search for job number TU-18555.  For full
consideration, please submit your completed electronic application, along
with a cover letter and resume. Review of applications will begin
immediately and will continue until the position is filled.

Temple University is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer with
a strong commitment to cultural diversity.

-- 

Katherine Lynch, Senior Digital Library Applications Developer
Temple University Library (http://library.temple.edu)
Samuel L. Paley Library, Room 113, 1210 Polett Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19122
Tel: 215-204-2821 | Fax: 215-204-5201 | Email: katherine.ly...@temple.edu





-- 

Katherine Lynch, Senior Digital Library Applications Developer
Temple University Library (http://library.temple.edu)
Samuel L. Paley Library, Room 113, 1210 Polett Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19122
Tel: 215-204-2821 | Fax: 215-204-5201 | Email: katherine.ly...@temple.edu

Re: [CODE4LIB] wifi / network use policies

[Alex Byrne]

Hi, Nate!

Here's the Internet Use Policy that we display for all our public computers 
when they log on:

"These are Pierce County Library System's rules for use of the Internet. 
Failure to use this service appropriately and responsibly may result in 
suspension of Internet use privileges, library privileges, and/or criminal 
prosecution.


*Refrain from deliberately accessing illegal sites.

*Comply with copyright laws or software licensing restrictions.

*Do not make any attempt to damage computer equipment or software; 
alter software configurations; cause degradation of system performance.

*Respect the privacy of others.

*Refrain from any activity which is disruptive, libelous or slanderous.

The library staff may request computer users to move to another location or 
vacate a station in order to ensure equitable use for all patrons. Any person 
showing a lack of cooperation with library staff in the use of the Internet is 
subject to being restricted from using it.

Be a smart consumer of information. Evaluate information for accuracy, 
completeness, and validity. Remember, the safest use of the Internet is to 
provide no personal information.

I have read and understand the Library guidelines for Internet use."

(Which can seem a bit hardcore, now that I've typed them out. I wonder how many 
people actually read them when they log in to know what they're agreeing to?)

___

Date:Thu, 22 Jan 2015 16:22:38 +

From:Riley Childs 

Subject: Re: wifi / network use policies



This is the one we use for our Guest/Student network





By accessing this network you agree to the following:



***ALL ACCESS ON THIS NETWORK IS LOGGED*** 







You will not utilize this network for any illegal purpose You will 
not utilize this network in such a way that may degrade the performance of the 
network for others Usage of this network may be revoked at any time 
for any reason deemed by Charlotte United Christian Academy You agree 
to hold Charlotte United Christian Academy and Associated Organizations 
blameless in any issues that may arise  If you have any issues please 
contact IT Services



--

Riley Childs

Senior

IT Manager

Library Services Administrator

Charlotte United Christian Academy

office: +1 (704) 537-0331 x101

mobile: +1 (704) 497-2086

web: rileychilds.net

twitter: @RowdyChildren

Checkout our new Online Library Catalog: catalog.cucawarriors.com





From: Code for Libraries  on behalf of Nate Hill 


Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2015 9:11 AM

To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU

Subject: [CODE4LIB] wifi / network use policies



Hi all,



I wonder if libraries that manage their own networks, either academic or 
public, would be willing to share their wifi / network use policies with me?  
I'm working with the city of Chattanooga to separate our library's 4th Floor 
GigLab  from the city's network.  The 4th Floor is our 
library's beta space / makerspace / civic lab, and we are constantly running 
public experiments of one kind or another here.  Our ISP has given us a 
separate 1gig fiber drop for this space, and we intend to use (or keep using) 
the whole area as a public laboratory to experiment with the network, hardware, 
and software.



So... I need to get a policy to city legal for review and to my board before we 
actually make this separation.  I don't really want to go to jail when someone 
hacks North Korea from the library's GigLab.



Thanks for any documents or input you all might provide,



Nate





--

Nate Hill

nathanielh...@gmail.com

http://4thfloor.chattlibrary.org/

http://www.natehill.net



--
Alexander Byrne
Youth Services Librarian
Pierce County Library System
Current Assignments:
University Place Pierce County Library: 253-548-3307
Steilacoom Pierce County Library: 253-548-3313

[CODE4LIB] Encrypting EZProxy + SIP2 authentication

[Jane Sandberg]

Hi all,

I'd like to have our EZProxy server authenticate users using SIP2,
which is totally supported and documented here:
http://www.oclc.org/support/services/ezproxy/documentation/usr/sip.en.html.

However, I am not enthusiastic about sending unencrypted patron login
information over Telnet or raw sockets, and neither is our ILS
sysadmin.  I'd like to figure out a way to perform the SIP2
authentication/authorization check over SSH, but am not quite sure how
best to do that.  Do either of these approaches make sense?

* Installing stunnel on the EZProxy server to encrypt the outgoing and
incoming SIP2 traffic.

* Writing a custom external script that would handle the whole auth
process: SSHing into our SIP server and seeing if the user is legit.
Here's what EZProxy has to say about this type of option:
http://www.oclc.org/support/services/ezproxy/documentation/usr/external.en.html
-- I'd have to write some code to handle the SIP auth rather than
using EZProxy's built-in option, but my ILS has pretty good
documentation for its SIP implementation.

Am I missing some simpler option?  Our EZProxy is running on a Windows
machine, by the way, and we use Evergreen as our ILS.  I'd love any
advice or suggestions that you seasoned EZProxy experts can share.

Appreciatively,

  -Jane

-- 
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Electronic Resources Librarian
Linn-Benton Community College
sand...@linnbenton.edu / 541-917-4655

[CODE4LIB] EVENT: Islandora Conference, August 3 - 7 in Charlottetown PEI

[Islandora Community]

The Islandora Foundation is thrilled to invite you to the first-ever
Islandora Conference, taking place August 3 - 7, 2015 in the birthplace of
Islandora: Charlottetown, PEI.

This full week event will consist of sessions from the Islandora
Foundation, Interest groups, community presentations, two full days of
hands-on Islandora training, and will end with a Hackfest where we invite
you to make your mark in the Islandora code and work together with your
fellow Islandorians to complete projects selected by the community.

Our theme for the conference is Community - the Islandora community, the
community of people our institutions serve, the community of researchers
and librarians and developers who work together to curate digital assets,
and the community of open source projects that work together and in
parallel.

Registration is now open, with an Early Bird rate available until the end
of March. Institutional rates are also available for groups of three or
more.

For more information or to sign up for the conference, please visit our
conference website: http://islandora.ca/camps/conference2015

Thank you,

The Islandora Team
commun...@islandora.ca
http://islandora.ca

[CODE4LIB] Assignment planner-calculator use

[Jason Stirnaman]

One of our librarians came across K-State's Assignment Planner 
http://www.lib.k-state.edu/apps/ap/
which is based on Minnesota/Minitex's 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/research-calc/
We're curious to hear:
  1. some anecdotes as to how much use this kind of service gets and
  2. if there are worthy alternatives (free or fee)?

Contact me directly if you prefer.

Thanks,
Jason

Jason Stirnaman, MLS
Application Development, Library and Information Services, IR
University of Kansas Medical Center
jstirna...@kumc.edu
913-588-7319

Re: [CODE4LIB] wifi / network use policies

[Kyle Banerjee]

I haven't managed a network for years, but our approach was to provide a
broad statement of what the network was for and to make it clear the
network couldn't be used for malicious or illegal purposes.

The CYA policy is a start but you'll still have to deal with problems such
as people using the network to stalk/harass others, intentionally or
unintentionally attack other systems, and piracy. Balancing user needs with
very real privacy issues, network capacity, and the sad fact that some
people act like jerks when they can hide behind a veil of anonymity is
challenging. I'm glad I don't have to worry about that kind of stuff
anymore.

kyle


On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 6:11 AM, Nate Hill  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I wonder if libraries that manage their own networks, either academic or
> public, would be willing to share their wifi / network use policies with
> me?  I'm working with the city of Chattanooga to separate our library's 4th
> Floor GigLab  from the city's network.  The 4th
> Floor is our library's beta space / makerspace / civic lab, and we are
> constantly running public experiments of one kind or another here.  Our ISP
> has given us a separate 1gig fiber drop for this space, and we intend to
> use (or keep using) the whole area as a public laboratory to experiment
> with the network, hardware, and software.
>
> So... I need to get a policy to city legal for review and to my board
> before we actually make this separation.  I don't really want to go to jail
> when someone hacks North Korea from the library's GigLab.
>
> Thanks for any documents or input you all might provide,
>
> Nate
>
>
> --
> Nate Hill
> nathanielh...@gmail.com
> http://4thfloor.chattlibrary.org/
> http://www.natehill.net
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Assignment planner-calculator use

[Dhanushka Samarakoon]

Hi Jason,
I can answer the first question. Since we launched it in Nov/2013 we had
278 assignments scheduled through the system.
Feel free to contact me if you need any other information.
-Dhanushka.

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 1:40 PM, Jason Stirnaman 
wrote:

> One of our librarians came across K-State's Assignment Planner
> http://www.lib.k-state.edu/apps/ap/
> which is based on Minnesota/Minitex's
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/research-calc/
> We're curious to hear:
>   1. some anecdotes as to how much use this kind of service gets and
>   2. if there are worthy alternatives (free or fee)?
>
> Contact me directly if you prefer.
>
> Thanks,
> Jason
>
> Jason Stirnaman, MLS
> Application Development, Library and Information Services, IR
> University of Kansas Medical Center
> jstirna...@kumc.edu
> 913-588-7319
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] Assignment planner-calculator use

[Michael Berkowski]

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Hi Jason,

I was the original developer of that version of the Research Project
Calculator linked from Sourceforge, several years ago when I worked for
Minitex.  Their public installation is at https://rpc.elm4you.org and is
avaliable for anyone to try out. We also run an instance of it at the Univ
of Minnesota, but it's behind a login. 

I've put a little bit of new development into it here and there over the 
past year to modernize a few things. That's happening over at
https://github.com/ac-rpc/ac-rpc-core in the 'experimental' branch.
Chiefly, it's still missing adequate testing to be able graduate out of
"experimental."

Over the years, a few other institutions have brought up their own
instances successfully, using custom authentication plugins.

The RPC at Minitex was (and probably still is) used extensively, since a
lot of K-12 instructors in the state incorporated it into their
curricula.

On Fri, 23 Jan 2015, Jason Stirnaman said:

> One of our librarians came across K-State's Assignment Planner 
> http://www.lib.k-state.edu/apps/ap/
> which is based on Minnesota/Minitex's 
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/research-calc/
> We're curious to hear:
>   1. some anecdotes as to how much use this kind of service gets and
>   2. if there are worthy alternatives (free or fee)?
> 
> Contact me directly if you prefer.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jason
> 
> Jason Stirnaman, MLS
> Application Development, Library and Information Services, IR
> University of Kansas Medical Center
> jstirna...@kumc.edu
> 913-588-7319

- -- 

Michael Berkowski
University of Minnesota Libraries
m...@umn.edu
612.626.6137
PGP Public Key: http://z.umn.edu/mjbpubkey


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[CODE4LIB] MARC Validation in a UNIX Environment

[Dana Jemison]

Hello!

I'm looking for a MARC validation tool (either binary or XML MARC) to identify 
formatting and structural errors in MARC records, which can be run in a Unix 
environment.  Does anyone know of such a tool, or has anyone built something 
like this which they'd be willing to share?

Thanks so much!

Dana

Dana Jemison
Principal Metadata Analyst
California Digital Library
University of California, Office of the President
415 20th Street, 4th Floor, Office 424B
Oakland, CA 94612-2901
Tel: 510.987.0832
Email: dana.jemi...@ucop.edu

Re: [CODE4LIB] MARC Validation in a UNIX Environment

[Terry Reese]

I believe MARC::LINT
(http://search.cpan.org/~eijabb/MARC-Lint_1.48/lib/MARC/Lint.pm ) provides
some of that functionality (I think).

--tr

-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Dana
Jemison
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2015 3:19 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] MARC Validation in a UNIX Environment

Hello!

I'm looking for a MARC validation tool (either binary or XML MARC) to
identify formatting and structural errors in MARC records, which can be run
in a Unix environment.  Does anyone know of such a tool, or has anyone built
something like this which they'd be willing to share?

Thanks so much!

Dana

Dana Jemison
Principal Metadata Analyst
California Digital Library
University of California, Office of the President
415 20th Street, 4th Floor, Office 424B
Oakland, CA 94612-2901
Tel: 510.987.0832
Email: dana.jemi...@ucop.edu

Re: [CODE4LIB] MARC Validation in a UNIX Environment

[Galen Charlton]

Hi,

On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 3:19 PM, Dana Jemison  wrote:
> I'm looking for a MARC validation tool (either binary or XML MARC) to
> identify formatting and structural errors in MARC records, which can be
> run in a Unix environment.  Does anyone know of such a tool, or has
> anyone built something like this which they'd be willing to share?

The Perl module MARC::Lint comes with a script called marclint that
can be used to produce a report of errors in MARC21 records.  Here's
an example of the kind of output it produces:

$ marclint /tmp/bad.mrc
The collected works of Jane Doe, book 1
Invalid record length in record 1: Leader says 00176 bytes but it's actually 166
Invalid length in directory for tag 245 in record 1
field does not end in end of field character in tag 245 in record 1
100: Indicator 1 must be 0, 1 or 3 but it's " "
245: Indicator 1 must be 0 or 1 but it's " "
245: Indicator 2 must be 0 thru 9 but it's " "
245: Must end with . (period).
245: Non-filing indicator is non-numeric
245: First word, the, may be an article, check 2nd indicator ( ).

The module can be install from CPAN, of course, and on a Debian or
Ubuntu box, by running apt-get install libmarc-lint-perl.

Regards,

Galen
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Manager of Implementation
Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts
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http://evergreen-ils.org

Re: [CODE4LIB] MARC Validation in a UNIX Environment

[Bryan Baldus]

On Friday, January 23, 2015 2:19 PM, Dana Jemison wrote:
>I'm looking for a MARC validation tool (either binary or XML MARC) to identify 
>formatting and structural errors in MARC records, which can be run in a Unix 
>environment.  Does anyone know of such a tool, or has anyone built something 
>like this which they'd be willing to share?

If you are able to work in Perl, MARC::Lint [1] is available, along with 
MARC::Lintadditions [2] and MARC::Errorchecks [3] for more in-depth 
validation/error checking.

[1] http://search.cpan.org/~eijabb/MARC-Lint_1.48/
development version at: 
http://sourceforge.net/p/marcpm/code/ci/master/tree/marc-lint/

[2] http://home.comcast.net/~eijabb/bryanmodules/MARC-Lintadditions-1.15/
or
http://home.comcast.net/~eijabb/bryanmodules/MARC-Lintadditions-1.15.tar.gz

[3] http://search.cpan.org/~eijabb/MARC-Errorchecks-1.18/

I hope this helps,

Bryan Baldus
Senior Cataloger
Quality Books Inc.
The Best of America's Independent Presses
1-800-323-4241x402
bryan.bal...@quality-books.com
eij...@cpan.org
http://home.comcast.net/~eijabb/

Re: [CODE4LIB] MARC Validation in a UNIX Environment

[Scott Prater]

We do most of our development work with the Java library MARC4j (you can 
output MARCXML, and validate that):


http://marc4j.tigris.org/

And we've used the MARC tools in YAZ on the command line quite often, too:

http://www.indexdata.com/yaz

The LOC has a comprehensive list of tools:

http://www.loc.gov/marc/marctools.html

-- Scott

On 01/23/2015 02:19 PM, Dana Jemison wrote:

Hello!

I'm looking for a MARC validation tool (either binary or XML MARC) to identify 
formatting and structural errors in MARC records, which can be run in a Unix 
environment.  Does anyone know of such a tool, or has anyone built something 
like this which they'd be willing to share?

Thanks so much!

Dana

Dana Jemison
Principal Metadata Analyst
California Digital Library
University of California, Office of the President
415 20th Street, 4th Floor, Office 424B
Oakland, CA 94612-2901
Tel: 510.987.0832
Email: dana.jemi...@ucop.edu



--
Scott Prater
Shared Development Group
General Library System
University of Wisconsin - Madison

[CODE4LIB] Checksums for objects and not embedded metadata

[Kyle Banerjee]

Howdy all,

I've been toying with the idea of embedding DOI's in all our digital assets
and possibly inserting/updating other metadata as well. However, doing this
would alter checksums created using normal methods.

Is there a practical/easy way to checksum only the objects themselves
without the metadata? If the metadata in a tiff or other kind of file is
modified, it does nothing to the actual object. Since providing more
complete metadata within objects makes them more usable/identifiable and
might simplify migrations down the road, it seems like this wouldn't be a
bad way to go.

Thanks,

kyle

Re: [CODE4LIB] wifi / network use policies

[Riley Childs]

Another question: Are you talking full on AUP or a short statement (like I 
provided)?

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From: Kyle Banerjee
Sent: ‎1/‎23/‎2015 2:44 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] wifi / network use policies

I haven't managed a network for years, but our approach was to provide a
broad statement of what the network was for and to make it clear the
network couldn't be used for malicious or illegal purposes.

The CYA policy is a start but you'll still have to deal with problems such
as people using the network to stalk/harass others, intentionally or
unintentionally attack other systems, and piracy. Balancing user needs with
very real privacy issues, network capacity, and the sad fact that some
people act like jerks when they can hide behind a veil of anonymity is
challenging. I'm glad I don't have to worry about that kind of stuff
anymore.

kyle


On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 6:11 AM, Nate Hill  wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I wonder if libraries that manage their own networks, either academic or
> public, would be willing to share their wifi / network use policies with
> me?  I'm working with the city of Chattanooga to separate our library's 4th
> Floor GigLab  from the city's network.  The 4th
> Floor is our library's beta space / makerspace / civic lab, and we are
> constantly running public experiments of one kind or another here.  Our ISP
> has given us a separate 1gig fiber drop for this space, and we intend to
> use (or keep using) the whole area as a public laboratory to experiment
> with the network, hardware, and software.
>
> So... I need to get a policy to city legal for review and to my board
> before we actually make this separation.  I don't really want to go to jail
> when someone hacks North Korea from the library's GigLab.
>
> Thanks for any documents or input you all might provide,
>
> Nate
>
>
> --
> Nate Hill
> nathanielh...@gmail.com
> http://4thfloor.chattlibrary.org/
> http://www.natehill.net
>

[CODE4LIB] Allies bingo card

[Andreas Orphanides]

Can I just say how much I love this "Tech Diversity Bingo Card" that was
posted on Geek Feminism recently:

http://www.maleallies.com/

The website is "Male Allies" but the bingo card is designed to be
applicable to allies of any historically marginalized group in tech. I also
like that -- unlike many other "bingo card" social commentaries -- it
highlights things that allies can do right rather than what's often done
wrong (yay positive behavior modeling).