Re: [CODE4LIB] List of Database Subjects

I would suggest that the best subject list for database list might be the list of departments and or faculties you have on campus. That's how we chose to express our subject areas ( http://leddy.uwindsor.ca/research-tools) Our reasoning was largely based on this paper, "Students, Librarians, and

Re: [CODE4LIB] Public Health Metadata

I will definitely try to! Going to be a while before there is anything though. Hopefully it can turn into a case study or something like that. On Mar 17, 2016 5:34 PM, "Kyle Banerjee" wrote: > BTW, I hope you share the solution you decide to implement. > > Public health research goes on at a lot

Re: [CODE4LIB] Forming a Coalition of Libraries running Tor exit nodes: C4L 2016 Breakout Followup

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Re: [CODE4LIB] Do you use alt tags in your images for digital collections

On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at 4:39 PM, Erica FINDLEY wrote: > Good evening, > > We are currently experiencing a dilemma with alt tags in our digital > collections. > > We would like to include alt tags to be in compliance with accessibility > guidelines. > > When looking at an item detail page >

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Re: [CODE4LIB] List of Database Subjects

On 2016/03/15 14:26, Burrell, Matthew wrote: Hello all, I am looking for examples of lists of database subjects similar to one we are using, https://www.lib.fsu.edu/eresources/subjects , as a comparative model. We would like to limit the number of subjects and searching for examples. Thanks in

[CODE4LIB] reearch project about feeling stupid in professional communication

Hello all, Following earlier discussions about the fear of looking stupid in public, I've decided my unofficial research project for the year is to look into ways that communication (especially on professional listservs) might provide grounds for that fear. I think this might be something espe

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[CODE4LIB] Do you use alt tags in your images for digital collections

Good evening, We are currently experiencing a dilemma with alt tags in our digital collections. We would like to include alt tags to be in compliance with accessibility guidelines. When looking at an item detail page , there is a lot of su

Re: [CODE4LIB] Do you use alt tags in your images for digital collections

I¹m interested in other¹s thoughts on this as well, particularly when you have images within a larger set. We have objects with multiple pages (8 of a 10 in a newspaper, or the back side of a postcard) and the data present in the metadata record never feels quite right for the lower-level pages in

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[CODE4LIB] Forming a Coalition of Libraries running Tor exit nodes: C4L 2016 Breakout Followup

Hi all, Andromeda forwarded me this email and so I decided to join the list in case anyone wants to chat about Tor relays (exits and non-exits) in libraries. Thanks Ian for getting the thread started! My comments in line: > Fellow Code4Libbers, > > > As promised on Slack, here are the outcomes o

Re: [CODE4LIB] Do you use alt tags in your images for digital collections

For Digital Commonwealth (https://digitalcommonwealth.org/), we just use the title as the alt tag on both the search results and item detail page. Search results: https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search?f[collection_name_ssim][]=Boston+Brewery+Posters&f[institution_name_ssim][]=Boston+Public+

Re: [CODE4LIB] reearch project about feeling stupid in professional communication

I just want to say this here publicly : I've lurked on this Listserv for a couple of years and haven't seen what Julie's writing about here -- in fact I've been impressed at how helpful people will be, but I have seen it happen on so many other listservs and it's not helpful at all when it happens

Re: [CODE4LIB] List of Database Subjects

I strongly suggest that participants of this discussion pick up a decent history of library classification systems, since many of the large-scale classification systems started with discussions very much like this History repeating and all that. cheers stuart -- ...let us be heard from red c

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Re: [CODE4LIB] ISO: State of the art in video annotation

Stuart, It may be useful to also cross-post this question to the IIIF-discuss list [1]. There is a lot of interest in developing a IIIF-like approach to presenting video via a common API, and one that lends itself to web-based annotation. This would allow theoretically allow users to annotate v

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Re: [CODE4LIB] List of Database Subjects

The reality is that to do a really good job of driving users to the available resources, you need to categorize databases by both subjects AND departments/courses. These are overlapping but distinct facets that reflect different ways that users can approach locating resources relevant to their need

Re: [CODE4LIB] Do you use alt tags in your images for digital collections

Hello, I would definitely utilize alt tags. I like to be very thorough with the metadata, it's very important for many use cases. Thanks, Cornel Darden Jr. Chief Information Officer Casanova Information Services, LLC Office Phone: (779) 205-3105 Mobile Phone: (708) 705-2945 Sent from my iPh

[CODE4LIB] 3M Sensitizer/desensitizer

Hello collective wisdom! I'm hoping someone may be able to help us out. Our 3M tattle-tape model 435 sensitizer/de-sensitizer has died (RIP). We are now unable to resensitize any of our materials. Would anyone have an extra one of these that they would be willing to donate to our library, or kn

Re: [CODE4LIB] reearch project about feeling stupid in professional communication

I might have rose colored glasses, but I don’t see much of that in this forum. I can’t remember the last flame war. Most folks just answer the questions as best they can. I think that you should present your sanitized results here. Perhaps we are missing something. Cary > On Mar 18, 2016, at

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Re: [CODE4LIB] List of Database Subjects

Like Oakland U, we use SubjectsPlus for our A-Z list: http://sp.library.miami.edu/subjects/databases.php?letter=bysub and like others, we started out trying to match departments at the university, but I don't think anyone has tried to keep things in sync recently. Andrew On Thu, Mar 17, 2016 at

Re: [CODE4LIB] ISO: State of the art in video annotation

Hi Stuart, A colleague of mine has just recently recommended Clipper ( http://blog.clippertube.com/index.php/clipper-prototype-3/) they're currently experimenting with it in the EUscreenXL project. Might be worth checking out for you as well. Curious as to what others will suggest as well. Chee

Re: [CODE4LIB] ISO: State of the art in video annotation

This may or may not be relevant to the "annotation" that the original poster had in mind, but the Internet Archive embedded video player takes subtitles in the common SubRip .srt format, which is apparently supported by many video players & subtitling programs. Instead of using this for closed cap

Re: [CODE4LIB] List of Database Subjects

Hi, The subjects we use are listed on https://biblio.csusm.edu/research_portal/databases. Best, Ian Chan Systems Coordinator University Library California State University San Marcos ic...@csusm.edu | 760-750-4385 | biblio.csusm.edu | Skype: ian.t.chan -Original Message- From: Cod

Re: [CODE4LIB] List of Database Subjects

Hi, Subjects we're using are http://library.humboldt.edu/search/articles.html Based pretty much on our programs/depts. "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect." *-- **Mark Twain* Jeremy C. Shellhase Systems Librarian Library room 206 Humboldt Stat

Re: [CODE4LIB] List of Database Subjects

I'm curious because I wanted to do a better job with our db categorization, other than program/majors/departments, HOW did you(s) come up with your categories? Any usability/card sorting/etc Christina Salazar Systems Librarian John Spoor Broome Library California State University, Channel I

Re: [CODE4LIB] reearch project about feeling stupid in professional communication

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Re: [CODE4LIB] reearch project about feeling stupid in professional communication

Julie asked a specific question in regards to personal and anonymous opinions. She did not ask for a blanket statement about this list to go out TO the list. (This you can read within her message.) This is one way to shut someone who happens to have a differing opinion down. ("Gosh, everyone el