[CODE4LIB] virtual conference thunder lightning
Folk, A while back Karen Schneider raised the issue of virtual lightning talks [1]. We at Brown discussed the idea in one of our planning meetings, but felt that trying this at the conference would be teasing the gods of guaranteed-point-to-point-internet-access far too much. Shortly thereafter there was a great discussion sparked by Karen Coyle that started out focusing on COinS [2]. It then took a turn with a comment by Gabriel Farrell about unAPI [3]. I had always wanted to educate myself about unAPI, and this thread did that. The proximity of these two threads made me think it would be cool to see a 'blog-in-10-minutes' type video on unAPI, or on any number of code4lib-related issues. But there are already good blog-posts out there! Yes, there are. But anyone who's seen a (good) blog-in-10- minutes video knows how inspiring these things can be. [4] So... THE IDEA... Here's a call to find existing internet videos on code4lib type issues -- or CREATE YOUR OWN. They can range from 'blog-in-10-minutes' type tutorials to pure talking-head rants about how SOA will save the world. At some point we'll invite you to submit your favorites (can be your own or others'), and during one of the two open 20-minute slots we have in the conference, we'll show one or two depending on time. One wildly artificial rule for this particular exercise (aside from the requirement that it be code4lib-related): length under 10 minutes. Admittedly this leaves out amazing content. But full throttle forward. This can be a way for folk who can't attend the conference to contribute; it can expand the great existing code4lib-tagged video content (mostly at videos.google.com); and it'll help disseminate to a wider community information and ideas our community finds compelling. -Birkin --- Birkin James Diana Programmer, Integrated Technology Services Brown University Library birkin_di...@brown.edu [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/code4lib@listserv.nd.edu/msg04304.html [2] http://www.mail-archive.com/code4lib@listserv.nd.edu/msg04308.html [3] http://www.mail-archive.com/code4lib@listserv.nd.edu/msg04321.html [4] The original: http://showmedo.com/videos/video?name=rubyWeblogIn15MinsfromSeriesID=29
Re: [CODE4LIB] multimedia carrier vocabulary?
Hi Jonathan, As Esha said, PBCore might be worth looking at. It's probably one of the more complete lists. If you want something more formal than the PBCore list, the EBU also has a good vocabulary in an XML format (http://www.ebu.ch/metadata/cs/ebu_StorageMediaTypeCodeCS.xml). The nice thing about the EBU list is that some of their term definitions might help identify more obscure materials. Have you looked at PBCore? It's a metadata standard developed by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and is used for tv and other multi media cataloging. Jonathan Rochkind wrote: Anyone know of any good existing controlled vocabulary for 'format' or 'carrier' for multimedia materials? I'm thinking of things like CD, DVD, digital, etc. The closest I can get is from RDA at http://metadataregistry.org/ concept/list/vocabulary_id/46.html (thanks Karen and Diane), but it seems _really_ insufficient. As far as I can tell audio disc is used for both a CD and a vinyl disc, and there's nothing available there for DVD at all. Or for digital. Although I'm not sure what I mean by digital, I guess CD and DVD are both digital, but I was thinking of something to identify a digital file on a computer network free of particular carrier. I guess that wouldn't be in a carrier vocabulary at all, after all, that would be sort of a null carrier. Phew, this stuff does get complicated quick. Which I guess is why nobody's worked out a good one yet. Too bad RDA's is so _far_ from good though. Any others anyone knows about? Jonathan Chris
Re: [CODE4LIB] virtual conference thunder lightning
+1 Birkin, this is a cool idea and the only additional request I'd make is can we have a page on the code4lib wiki that lists all the submissions? This seems like it could be a great resource for the community. We've been using peepcode (http://peepcode.com/) for training more and more often, and it would be great to have a similar resource for library-specific topics. Also, this would provide a forum for useful videos that don't meet the 10-minute rule. Bess On Jan 15, 2009, at 8:56 AM, Birkin James Diana wrote: Folk, A while back Karen Schneider raised the issue of virtual lightning talks [1]. We at Brown discussed the idea in one of our planning meetings, but felt that trying this at the conference would be teasing the gods of guaranteed-point-to-point-internet-access far too much. Shortly thereafter there was a great discussion sparked by Karen Coyle that started out focusing on COinS [2]. It then took a turn with a comment by Gabriel Farrell about unAPI [3]. I had always wanted to educate myself about unAPI, and this thread did that. The proximity of these two threads made me think it would be cool to see a 'blog-in-10-minutes' type video on unAPI, or on any number of code4lib-related issues. But there are already good blog-posts out there! Yes, there are. But anyone who's seen a (good) blog-in-10- minutes video knows how inspiring these things can be. [4] So... THE IDEA... Here's a call to find existing internet videos on code4lib type issues -- or CREATE YOUR OWN. They can range from 'blog-in-10-minutes' type tutorials to pure talking-head rants about how SOA will save the world. At some point we'll invite you to submit your favorites (can be your own or others'), and during one of the two open 20-minute slots we have in the conference, we'll show one or two depending on time. One wildly artificial rule for this particular exercise (aside from the requirement that it be code4lib-related): length under 10 minutes. Admittedly this leaves out amazing content. But full throttle forward. This can be a way for folk who can't attend the conference to contribute; it can expand the great existing code4lib-tagged video content (mostly at videos.google.com); and it'll help disseminate to a wider community information and ideas our community finds compelling. -Birkin --- Birkin James Diana Programmer, Integrated Technology Services Brown University Library birkin_di...@brown.edu [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/code4lib@listserv.nd.edu/msg04304.html [2] http://www.mail-archive.com/code4lib@listserv.nd.edu/msg04308.html [3] http://www.mail-archive.com/code4lib@listserv.nd.edu/msg04321.html [4] The original: http://showmedo.com/videos/video?name=rubyWeblogIn15MinsfromSeriesID=29
Re: [CODE4LIB] multimedia carrier vocabulary?
This discussion is like the poster child for why we need to be able to create application profiles -- every list mentioned here has a point of view (MARC:library cataloging; AAT:holdings as objects; ONIX:product catalog). You should be able to cherry pick the terms you want and declare it YOUR list (or the OpenURL list). Of the lists, the ONIX list 7 looks closest to what I think you are needing. Now, it would be great if the elements in ONIX list 7 were in the metadata registry and had URIs for the terms. That way, you could use the ones you want and everyone would know what you were using because it would be clearly identified. kc Jonathan Rochkind wrote: Thanks, that's interesting too. One of the most useful lists I've found is actually in ONIX, Code List 7. http://www.editeur.org/codelists.html Although Code List 7 actually needs to be supplemented by Code List 78 if you want full detail. (Like whether a VHS tape is NTSC or PAL; or the fact that a printed book is in Braille (US or UK? Can specify either, hooray.)). The ONIX list is a pretty good and complete list of physical formats for published items, and appears to be free, and is available in XML as well. It does become an awfully LONG list. And is still not entirely intellectually consistent---the article Diane pointed to in D-Lib is the result of trying to harmonize this with library practices in an intellectually consistent way, but it becomes something so abstract that it's kind of hard to deal with, and also leaves many vocabularies unspecified. I think a more or less flat list with specified vocabulary, even if not entirely intellectually consistent, that corresponds to the universe of actually existing published items, is probably more useful. Jonathan Chris Beer wrote: Hi Jonathan, As Esha said, PBCore might be worth looking at. It's probably one of the more complete lists. If you want something more formal than the PBCore list, the EBU also has a good vocabulary in an XML format (http://www.ebu.ch/metadata/cs/ebu_StorageMediaTypeCodeCS.xml). The nice thing about the EBU list is that some of their term definitions might help identify more obscure materials. Have you looked at PBCore? It's a metadata standard developed by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and is used for tv and other multi media cataloging. Jonathan Rochkind wrote: Anyone know of any good existing controlled vocabulary for 'format' or 'carrier' for multimedia materials? I'm thinking of things like CD, DVD, digital, etc. The closest I can get is from RDA at http://metadataregistry.org/ concept/list/vocabulary_id/46.html (thanks Karen and Diane), but it seems _really_ insufficient. As far as I can tell audio disc is used for both a CD and a vinyl disc, and there's nothing available there for DVD at all. Or for digital. Although I'm not sure what I mean by digital, I guess CD and DVD are both digital, but I was thinking of something to identify a digital file on a computer network free of particular carrier. I guess that wouldn't be in a carrier vocabulary at all, after all, that would be sort of a null carrier. Phew, this stuff does get complicated quick. Which I guess is why nobody's worked out a good one yet. Too bad RDA's is so _far_ from good though. Any others anyone knows about? Jonathan Chris -- --- Karen Coyle / Digital Library Consultant kco...@kcoyle.net http://www.kcoyle.net ph.: 510-540-7596 skype: kcoylenet fx.: 510-848-3913 mo.: 510-435-8234
Re: [CODE4LIB] virtual conference thunder lightning
+1 Birkin++ ranti -- Bulk mail. Postage paid.
Re: [CODE4LIB] multimedia carrier vocabulary?
Jonathan: What strikes me about the code list you found is how difficult it is to use, as compared to what we're starting to do for RDA. The methodology that ONIX uses to build and maintain their lists really pushes a lot of the onus over to the user to keep up with changes in their vocabularies. Among other things, it presupposes a system into which the XML or CSV can be loaded. I have spoken briefly to some of their folks about using the Registry (or something like it) to maintain their vocabularies (or, at least, to assist others in using their vocabularies), but I'm not sure they quite get the notion of re-use outside their community (publishers) quite yet. The work that has been done with the RDA/ONIX effort is a start, but obviously there's a way to go yet. Diane Jonathan Rochkind wrote: Thanks, that's interesting too. One of the most useful lists I've found is actually in ONIX, Code List 7. http://www.editeur.org/codelists.html Although Code List 7 actually needs to be supplemented by Code List 78 if you want full detail. (Like whether a VHS tape is NTSC or PAL; or the fact that a printed book is in Braille (US or UK? Can specify either, hooray.)). The ONIX list is a pretty good and complete list of physical formats for published items, and appears to be free, and is available in XML as well. It does become an awfully LONG list. And is still not entirely intellectually consistent---the article Diane pointed to in D-Lib is the result of trying to harmonize this with library practices in an intellectually consistent way, but it becomes something so abstract that it's kind of hard to deal with, and also leaves many vocabularies unspecified. I think a more or less flat list with specified vocabulary, even if not entirely intellectually consistent, that corresponds to the universe of actually existing published items, is probably more useful. Jonathan Chris Beer wrote: Hi Jonathan, As Esha said, PBCore might be worth looking at. It's probably one of the more complete lists. If you want something more formal than the PBCore list, the EBU also has a good vocabulary in an XML format (http://www.ebu.ch/metadata/cs/ebu_StorageMediaTypeCodeCS.xml). The nice thing about the EBU list is that some of their term definitions might help identify more obscure materials. Have you looked at PBCore? It's a metadata standard developed by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and is used for tv and other multi media cataloging. Jonathan Rochkind wrote: Anyone know of any good existing controlled vocabulary for 'format' or 'carrier' for multimedia materials? I'm thinking of things like CD, DVD, digital, etc. The closest I can get is from RDA at http://metadataregistry.org/ concept/list/vocabulary_id/46.html (thanks Karen and Diane), but it seems _really_ insufficient. As far as I can tell audio disc is used for both a CD and a vinyl disc, and there's nothing available there for DVD at all. Or for digital. Although I'm not sure what I mean by digital, I guess CD and DVD are both digital, but I was thinking of something to identify a digital file on a computer network free of particular carrier. I guess that wouldn't be in a carrier vocabulary at all, after all, that would be sort of a null carrier. Phew, this stuff does get complicated quick. Which I guess is why nobody's worked out a good one yet. Too bad RDA's is so _far_ from good though. Any others anyone knows about? Jonathan Chris
Re: [CODE4LIB] multimedia carrier vocabulary?
True. Just the best I've found yet. If something better exists, I haven't found it. Jonathan Diane I. Hillmann wrote: Jonathan: What strikes me about the code list you found is how difficult it is to use, as compared to what we're starting to do for RDA. The methodology that ONIX uses to build and maintain their lists really pushes a lot of the onus over to the user to keep up with changes in their vocabularies. Among other things, it presupposes a system into which the XML or CSV can be loaded. I have spoken briefly to some of their folks about using the Registry (or something like it) to maintain their vocabularies (or, at least, to assist others in using their vocabularies), but I'm not sure they quite get the notion of re-use outside their community (publishers) quite yet. The work that has been done with the RDA/ONIX effort is a start, but obviously there's a way to go yet. Diane Jonathan Rochkind wrote: Thanks, that's interesting too. One of the most useful lists I've found is actually in ONIX, Code List 7. http://www.editeur.org/codelists.html Although Code List 7 actually needs to be supplemented by Code List 78 if you want full detail. (Like whether a VHS tape is NTSC or PAL; or the fact that a printed book is in Braille (US or UK? Can specify either, hooray.)). The ONIX list is a pretty good and complete list of physical formats for published items, and appears to be free, and is available in XML as well. It does become an awfully LONG list. And is still not entirely intellectually consistent---the article Diane pointed to in D-Lib is the result of trying to harmonize this with library practices in an intellectually consistent way, but it becomes something so abstract that it's kind of hard to deal with, and also leaves many vocabularies unspecified. I think a more or less flat list with specified vocabulary, even if not entirely intellectually consistent, that corresponds to the universe of actually existing published items, is probably more useful. Jonathan Chris Beer wrote: Hi Jonathan, As Esha said, PBCore might be worth looking at. It's probably one of the more complete lists. If you want something more formal than the PBCore list, the EBU also has a good vocabulary in an XML format (http://www.ebu.ch/metadata/cs/ebu_StorageMediaTypeCodeCS.xml). The nice thing about the EBU list is that some of their term definitions might help identify more obscure materials. Have you looked at PBCore? It's a metadata standard developed by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and is used for tv and other multi media cataloging. Jonathan Rochkind wrote: Anyone know of any good existing controlled vocabulary for 'format' or 'carrier' for multimedia materials? I'm thinking of things like CD, DVD, digital, etc. The closest I can get is from RDA at http://metadataregistry.org/ concept/list/vocabulary_id/46.html (thanks Karen and Diane), but it seems _really_ insufficient. As far as I can tell audio disc is used for both a CD and a vinyl disc, and there's nothing available there for DVD at all. Or for digital. Although I'm not sure what I mean by digital, I guess CD and DVD are both digital, but I was thinking of something to identify a digital file on a computer network free of particular carrier. I guess that wouldn't be in a carrier vocabulary at all, after all, that would be sort of a null carrier. Phew, this stuff does get complicated quick. Which I guess is why nobody's worked out a good one yet. Too bad RDA's is so _far_ from good though. Any others anyone knows about? Jonathan Chris -- Jonathan Rochkind Digital Services Software Engineer The Sheridan Libraries Johns Hopkins University 410.516.8886 rochkind (at) jhu.edu
[CODE4LIB] CFP LITA Forum 2009, Salt Lake City
*Reminder* CALL FOR PROPOSALS The 2009 National Forum Committee seeks proposals for high quality concurrent sessions and poster sessions for the 12th annual LITA National Forum to be held at the Hilton Salt Lake City Center hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah from October 1-4, 2009. This year we have switched over to online submissions so it's quick and easy (see the URL below). Also, we've extended the deadline for submitting proposals to February 20, 2009! Theme: Open and Mobile The Forum Committee is interested in presentations that highlight specific technology implementations; just over-the-horizon technologies that are almost ready for implementation; or information technology research. We are interested in all types of libraries: public, government, school, academic, special, and corporate. Proposals on any aspect of library and information technology are welcome. Some possible ideas for proposals might include: * Handheld Technologies: PDAs, Smartphones, Tablet PCS * E-learning: Effective e-learning and distance learning for the mobile-optimized Web * Mobile Devices and Accessibility * Library-specific open source software (OSS) and other OSS in Libraries, technology on a budget * Exposing Library Services via APIs (or APIs in general) * Anticipating Change: how libraries can be more mobile/flexible/responsive * Social Computing: social tools, collaborative software, etc. * User created content: Book reviews, tagging, etc. * Virtual worlds * Gaming in Education and Libraries * Federated and Meta-Searching: design and management, integrated access to resources, search engines * Digital Libraries/ Institutional Repositories: developments in resource linking, preservation, maintenance, web services * Authentication and Authorization: Digital Rights Management (DRM), authentication, privacy, services for remote patrons * Web design: information architecture, activity-centered design, user-centered design, usability testing * Technology Management: project management, geek management, budgeting, knowledge sharing applications * Internet Law: privacy, copyright, filtering * RFID in libraries Presentations must have a technological focus and pertain to libraries and/or be of interest to librarians. Concurrent sessions are approximately 75 minutes in length and sessions of all varieties are welcomed from traditional single- or multi-speaker formats to panel discussions, case studies, and demonstrations of projects. Forum 2009 will also accept a limited number of poster session proposals. For projects that will still be in preliminary development in October 2009, we recommend presentation at a lightning talk or other un-conference-like activity for which time will be reserved at Forum. A call for these types of presentations and discussions will be issued after February 2009. Presenters are required to submit draft presentation slides and/or handouts three weeks in advance for inclusion on the Forum USB drive, and are required to submit final presentation slides to be made available on the Web site after the event. Your proposals are welcome and much appreciated! To submit a proposal, enter the following information online at http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/lita2009/ : * Title * Summary (a one-sentence description of your presentation) (max. 200 characters) * Abstract and brief outline * Level indicator (basic, intermediate, or advanced) * Brief biographical information. Include experience as a presenter and expertise in the topic * Full contact information * Is this proposal for a concurrent session? * Is this proposal for a poster session? * If this proposal is for a concurrent session, might it be considered for a poster session? * If this proposal is for a concurrent session, might it be expanded into a half-day or full-day preconference? * How did you hear about the 2009 Forum call for proposals? Submit proposals by February 20, 2009 online at: http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/lita2009/ The 2009 Forum Planning Committee will review proposals starting in February 2009. You will be contacted about the status of your proposal by the end of March.
[CODE4LIB] Position Announcement: Digital Library Architect, Penn State University
Digital Library Architect, Penn State University The Division of Information Technology Services (ITS) at Pennsylvania State University is seeking a Digital Library Architect to provide vision for and direct the development of the technical architecture for enterprise-level Content Stewardship services. An outcome of joint strategic planning conducted by Information Technology Services and the University Libraries (UL) in 2007/2008, the Content Stewardship program will meet extant and emerging digital content and asset management needs in areas such as digital library collections, scholarly communications, electronic record archiving, and e-science/e-research. Building on existing services and infrastructure, this program will put in place a cohesive and extensible suite of access, discovery, preservation, curation, security, repository, archival, and storage services. Initial applications for the Content Stewardship program include an electronic records repository, policy- and object-based storage infrastructure, and reassessment of the institutional ETD system. Reporting to the ITS Senior Director of Digital Library Technologies, this position will work closely with the University Libraries’ Assistant Dean for Scholarly Communications, Assistant Dean for Technical Services, and the Head of the University Libraries’ Information Technology Department. The Digital Library Architect can anticipate working across all functional areas of both ITS and the UL. The University Libraries will shortly be seeking a Digital Collections Curator to support the Content Stewardship program; this new position will focus on digital collection and repository services management and will work closely with the Digital Library Architect. Responsibilities: * Lead the design and development of the technical architecture for digital library applications, middleware, systems, and services. * Develop, publish, and maintain a roadmap for service and infrastructure implementation. * Collaborate on and contribute to strategic and tactical planning and implementation in the content stewardship domain. * With ITS and UL leadership, develop a Content Stewardship governance model that is inclusive of stakeholder and user needs. * Support existing content management policies, processes, and workflows, and contribute to the development of new ones. * Collaborate on the development and maintenance of service and project portfolio management in the content stewardship domain. * Work with existing digital library standing working groups and committees on the development and realization of common strategies, goals and work plans. * Apply service management principles and processes in both the development and operation of Content Stewardship services. * Collaborate on the development and promotion of best practices for content and data management. * Track technology trends and standards evolution, and contribute to developments in this field. * Engage in national and consortial efforts in the digital library domain, and seek mutually beneficial partnerships and collaborations with peer institutions and in the private sector. Qualifications and Requirements: 1.Bachelor degree in computer science or equivalent. Five to seven years experience in IT or research library domain. 2.Excellent oral and written communication skills. 3.Excellent analytical and organizational skills. 4.Demonstrated ability to lead complex and cross-organizational projects and guide diverse constituents towards common goals. 5.Demonstrated expertise in existing and emergent content and storage management standards and technologies. 6.Demonstrated success in and commitment to process improvement and excellent customer service. About Information Technology Services: Information Technology Services (ITS) is critical to the success of teaching, research, and business operations at Penn State. ITS provides the infrastructure and large-scale information technology tools that support students, faculty, and staff in their learning, teaching, research, outreach, administration, and support activities. ITS works in partnership with key areas of the University to jointly develop strategies that will anticipate future information technology needs to support Penn State's growth and evolution in the coming years. For more information, please visit http://its.psu.edu/ About Penn State University Libraries: The Penn State University Libraries currently rank 12th in North America among private and public research universities, based on Association for Research Libraries data. In 2006 Washington Monthly, a political, inside-the-beltway publication, ranked Penn State 3rd in the nation among public universities in preparing students to benefit the nation. The Libraries hold membership in ARL, OCLC, CRL and the Digital Library Federation.
