[CODE4LIB] Job: Head, Special Collections Technical Services at University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Reporting to the Director of Special Collections, the Head of Special Collections Technical Services will manage a core of four full-time staff and will re-envision technical services operations in Special Collections. The position will be responsible for leading a new department in the creation of integrated workflows for accessioning, processing, cataloging, preserving, and digitizing Special Collections materials in all formats. The position will lead efforts to improve access to and discovery of special collections materials, including planning and implementing a collection survey, implementing a collection management system, establishing baseline standards for archival description, addressing archival processing and print cataloging backlogs, planning digitization workflows and projects, and initiating media migration projects. The position will be key in the Libraries' efforts to build skills and infrastructure for managing born-digital special collections materials. This position will collaborate closely with multiple departments, including Digital Collections and Discovery Services. Responsibilities include providing leadership on technical services issues in special collections; establishing local policy and practice according to national trends, best practices, and standards; overseeing all workflows for acquiring, processing, and making special collections materials available; developing processing plans and priorities; ensuring timely access to and discoverability of all special collections materials; managing Special Collections stacks space; and gathering and assessing data about collections to foster continuous improvement of workflows and outputs. The incumbent will serve on Special Collections' Reference Desk and assist in the department's many outreach activities to the campus and community. As a tenure-track library faculty member, the incumbent will be expected to work collaboratively with others; engage in scholarly activities; and provide service to the university, the community, and the profession in accordance with Libraries and University standards for promotion and tenure. The Head of Special Collections Technical Services will have demonstrated ability to work in a complex, changing environment with a positive, flexible, and innovative attitude, and he or she will have a proven capacity to work effectively and collegially in teams with staff at all levels as well as with faculty and students. QUALIFICATIONS Required: A Master's degree accredited by the American Library Association with coursework in archives; five or more years of experience working in a special collections or archives; two or more years of supervisory or managerial experience in a special collections or archives; demonstrated proficiency in archival theory and practice, especially accessioning, processing, and description, including minimal and basic processing strategies; demonstrated proficiency in using automated archival collections management systems (especially Archivist's Toolkit and its successor Archives Space); experience with DACS, EAD, MARC, and other library and archival descriptive and content standards; knowledge of basic preservation and conservation issues, including digital preservation; familiarity with current approaches to acquiring and managing born-digital holdings; knowledge of rights administration and management issues for special collections materials; superior written and verbal communication skills; excellent interpersonal skills; demonstrated ability to work collegially within and across organizations; evidence of energy, creativity, initiative and commitment to professional growth; and a record of professional engagement and scholarship. Preferred: Three or more years as a manager and supervisor of full-time staff in a special collections environment; experience providing reference services in a special collections; experience managing large, complex archival processing projects; experience working with born-digital archival materials; experience with collection survey projects; experience with digitization projects; experience implementing or migrating a collection management system; experience managing print materials in special collections; and experience, reputation, and scholarship record sufficient to meet criteria for appointment as a tenured faculty member. SALARY RANGE This is a full-time, 12-month, tenure-track position at Rank II or III (equivalent to an Assistant Professor or Associate Professor). Salaries are competitive with those at similarly situated institutions and dependent upon labor market. Position is contingent upon funding. APPLICATION DETAILS Submit a letter of interest, a detailed resume listing qualifications and experience, and the names, addresses, and telephone numbers of at least three professional references who may be contacted. Applicants should fully describe their qualifications and experience, with specific reference
Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides: I don't get it
There's not a lock-in issue with LibGuides, because it's used to host pathfinders. Those are supposed to be periodically revisited. One of the big problems is that librarians will start a guide and never finish, or make one then never maintain it. Periodically deleting everything is a good thing for pathfinders and subject guides, and people should do it anyway. No one's talking about tools for digital archives, which have lock in issues and are way more expensive. -Wilhelmina Randtke On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 8:04 PM, Thomas Krichel kric...@openlib.org wrote: Andrew Darby writes I don't get this argument at all. I breathe a sigh of relief. I didn't understand it either, but I blamed my brain fog. Maybe the vendor option makes sense, maybe the open source option does. The vendor option may be based on it just hosting the open source option. I do that sort of thing. LibGuides don't seem to do that, as they appear to have their own proprietary software. Wilhelmina Randtke writes: I also don't see vendor lock in issues in LibGuides, since the research guides concept includes routine change and replacing content. No lock in because you can rewrite everything? Hmm... Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel skype:thomaskrichel
Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides: I don't get it
Well, see, there you've said that the technology skills for open source are all on the install/maintenance side. Duh. Install and maintenance needs to be done by someone. Writing a check to outsource install and maintenance is one way to get those skills. Writing a check to Springshare solves technology issues, because Springshare provides the same product across libraries. An open source community, where a variety of companies provide services, will have some companies that provide a better deal than others and even vendors who provide different service to different clients based on how savvy the client is. The answer to proprietary hosted is not files with tar.gz extension or coding. The functionality most libraries get from a LibGuides is to get away from some IT bottleneck, avoid hassles of running a server and backups, or even have political clout by using a CMS that is only used by libraries (ie. if IT has heard of the CMS before, that's a much more uphill battle to use it). My guess is about nobody cares about similar functionality in terms of boxes here, boxes there, widgets. A way to promote an open source alternative would be to identify reputable hosts who already provide services. Then be informed about those so that libraries know what they can outsource where, and to give an impression of library community around specific sets of outsourcing arrangements, so that libraries have political clout to present a chosen vendor as a library issue that can't be implemented in a one-size-fits all CMS provided by a parent institution. Making some tar.gz files is futile and misses the point. Does anyone really not get that? -Wilhelmina Randtke On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 7:20 PM, Andrew Darby darby.li...@gmail.com wrote: I don't get this argument at all. Why is it counter productive to try to look at open source alternatives if the vendor's option is relatively cheap? Why wouldn't you investigate all options? Maybe the vendor option makes sense, maybe the open source option does. The technology skills for open source software are on the install/maintenance side. It's not like the content creator has to do some crazy programming if they want to create a guide in the open source option, while in LibGuides a team of angels guides their every click and drag. And if technology skills are missing, how does writing a check to Springshare remedy the situation? How does sending that check to Springshare benefit the small poorly resourced libraries? I assume I'm preaching to choir when I say that we should all be open to supporting our peers' open source efforts, rather than dismissing them out of hand. Andrew On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Wilhelmina Randtke rand...@gmail.com wrote: Technology tools are a non issue here. Straightforward documented open source technology is readily available. What is missing is technology skills. Someone can't buy those if they don't already have technology skills, or else they are a sitting duck for scammers. With a basic pricing of about $1000 a year, it's counter productive to try look at open source alternatives. $1000 a year with more handholding is good. Even companies, like lishost, which do open source for libraries price in this same range, because they have to take on more handholding. I also don't see vendor lock in issues in LibGuides, since the research guides concept includes routine change and replacing content. If you want libraries to operate better, what you should be doing is having conversations with people from a variety of libraries, including small poorly resourced ones, recognizing that there is a spectrum of needs, and being available to provide realistic advice. (That advice would be different for different libraries.) Lack of access to technology skill creates the situations in which LibGuides is useful and beneficial. Lack of access to technology skill causes most situations in which LibGuides are a counter productive waste of time, whether that's a misguided administrator or poor interdepartmental communication (yes, even competent IT housed in a library is sometimes not proactive and helpful at being in touch with IT-hostile reference departments). If you have technology skill, then by having broad connections and being available to give advice or pointers, you can assist libraries / departments that don't have the luxury of having access to technology skill. If all you do is drum on open source diy, when there is a low cost alternative that works, then you harm things. -Wilhelmina Randtke On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 2:04 PM, Andrew Darby darby.li...@gmail.com wrote: There are open source solutions created by librarians: SubjectsPlus and Library a la Carte. On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Cornel Darden Jr. corneldarde...@gmail.com wrote: Hello? Soringshre's link-rot tool has gotten
Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides: I don't get it
I'm not sure I understand the more-heat-than-light criticisms of LibGuides. It perfectly fits the needs of many libraries. The most valid criticism that has been lodged -- that the CMS is so easy to use that librarians create content which they then don't maintain -- could be said of any website or CMS (except for the so easy part). The counter-argument might be that library content is better maintained in LibGuides than in other systems because librarians are not buffaloed by the underlying technology and willingly (happily) use them as part of their everyday workflow. Has anybody done that research? There were also several comments that Springshare support is not responsive. That has never been my experience. Some things might take longer to implement because programming is involved, but the support staff have been exemplary and every feature request I've made has been implemented or explained (in no b.s. terms) why they were unable to fulfill it. And, yeah, what Wilhelmina said. Tom
Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides: I don't get it
Hi, On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 6:53 AM, Wilhelmina Randtke rand...@gmail.comwrote: There's not a lock-in issue with LibGuides, because it's used to host pathfinders. Those are supposed to be periodically revisited. One of the big problems is that librarians will start a guide and never finish, or make one then never maintain it. Periodically deleting everything is a good thing for pathfinders and subject guides, and people should do it anyway. No one's talking about tools for digital archives, which have lock in issues and are way more expensive. Lock-in doesn't have to be absolute to be effective, it just has to has raise the bar sufficiently high to make users think twice about migrating away. This applies even if the data to be moved is transitory and constantly changing. For example, if a library has been diligently updating their pathfinders, but wants to switch platforms, if there were no way to export them to load into the successor system, the effort of redoing them or doing a lot of copy-and-pasting could be prohibitive. As a general statement -- and I know that this battle has been bitterly fought in the ILS space -- I believe that *all* library software services, whether based on F/LOSS software or proprietary software, should provide a way for the library to obtain a full dump of their data, in an accessible format, at no additional charge. I see that LibGuides advertises the ability to make local backups of individual pages and also provides (via a paid add-on module) an XML export function. I don't know if SpringShare will also provide free one-time exports on request, but I would hope they do. Of course, even if one has the data in hand, data migrations can still take a lot of time, effort, and expertise. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Manager of Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: g...@esilibrary.com direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366 skype: gmcharlt web:http://www.esilibrary.com/ Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org http://evergreen-ils.org
[CODE4LIB] edUi 2013 Early Bird
Just a quick reminder to code4lib subscribers that there are fewer than 60 early bird tickets left for the edUi 2013 conference http://eduiconf.org. We don't have an early bird deadline this year, we just made a set number of tickets available at $450. Once they're gone the price goes up to $550. edUi is a conference for web professionals serving colleges, universities, libraries, and museums. It focuses on user interface design/development but touches on social media, user experience, and content strategy along the way. Hope you decide to join us! -Trey Some sessions either by librarians or of interest to the library community: Reading, Writing, and Research in the Digital Agehttp://eduiconf.org/sessions/reading-writing-and-research-in-the-digital-age/ Intro to Adaptive Web Designhttp://eduiconf.org/sessions/intro-to-adaptive-web-design/ Responsive Design With Drupalhttp://eduiconf.org/sessions/responsive-design-with-drupal/ Mobile for Dinosaurs http://eduiconf.org/sessions/mobile-for-dinosaurs/ This is How You Do Digital Collections in 2013http://eduiconf.org/sessions/this-is-how-you-do-digital-collections-in-2013/ Faster Web Development Using Bootstrap Framework http://eduiconf.org/sessions/stop-reinventing-the-wheel-faster-web-development-using-bootstrap-framework/ Geo-discovery of Library Collections with Google Glass http://eduiconf.org/sessions/geo-discovery-of-library-collections-with-google-glass/ Designing for Information Objectshttp://eduiconf.org/sessions/designing-for-information-objects/ How To Optimize Your Site’s Performance for Mobilehttp://eduiconf.org/sessions/how-to-optimize-your-sites-performance-for-mobile/
[CODE4LIB] Position Announcement: CIT at SUNY Geneseo
Hello Code4Lib, There is a great management position that has opened up in CIT at SUNY Geneseo, if interested, best wishes, Cyril (apologies for duplication of postings) *Budget Title: Assistant Director, SL-5* *Local Title: Assistant Director and Manager for Instructional Technologies* The primary responsibilities of the assistant director and manager for instructional technologies are to provide leadership in instructional technologies and improve faculty understanding and use of instructional technology. Responsible for the day-to-day support of classroom technology, our learning management system, the digital media lab, training, technology support for the College Library, and working with faculty to incorporate technology into their courses. Supervises four professional staff – LMS Services Manager, Project Engineer, Instructional Support Coordinator and Technology Specialist. The Assistant Director and Manager for Instructional Technologies will encourage and provide leadership in the best practices of the academic use of technology, and work collaboratively with a diverse group of constituents such as the Library Instructional Design Team and the Teaching and Learning Center. *Required Qualifications* • Master's degree • Five years of demonstrated professional background in instructional technologies • Excellent teaching, presentation, and active listening skills • Outstanding relationship-building skills • Ability to work collaboratively with diverse groups • Proven project management and organizational skills • Proven ability to set priorities and achieve goals while managing multiple tasks • Excellent analytical and problem solving skills • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Positive attitude and excellent interpersonal skills • Solid technology skill set • Ability to work evenings and weekends on occasional basis when necessary *Preferred Qualifications* • Doctoral degree (Ph.D., Ed.D, etc.) • At least 2 years of supervisory experience • Experience working with faculty in instructional technology/design in higher education • Experience teaching online • Knowledge of learning theory and practices for higher education • Experience using/supporting learning management systems • Experience with collaborative teaching tools and various software programs (e.g. video conferencing, blogs, wikis, Google apps, Camtasia, Adobe Creative Suite) * Experience with use of digital media and technology in instruction • Experience creating/maintaining web pages • Ability to work cross platform with Macintosh and Windows Salary: $65,000 - $75,000 commensurate with experience. To apply, visit https://jobs.geneseo.edu and submit an on-line professional application, cover letter, resume and contact information for at least three references. Application review will begin on September 15, 2013 and continue until the position is filled. All applicants are subject to drug and criminal background checks. SUNY Geneseo is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity, Equal Access Employer committed to recruiting, supporting, and fostering a diverse community of outstanding faculty, staff, and students. The College actively seeks applications from women and members of underrepresented groups. -- Cyril Oberlander, Director, Milne Library SUNY College at Geneseo 1 College Circle, Geneseo, NY 14454 Email: cy...@geneseo.edu - TEL: 585-245-5528 - FAX: 585-245-5769 - Skype: cyriloberlander
[CODE4LIB] Examples of augmented reality?
I'm writing a chapter about augmented reality and would like to include a couple more examples of it in use in libraries and archives. Are any of you using it for something exciting? I know about SCARLET at U Manchester [1] but would love to hear about other work. I'm especially interested in anyone that's made their own app or otherwise gone beyond just popping up POIs in Layar or Junaio or adding an image or video overlay to something in print. While I'm here about AR, the YouTube recording of Geoffrey Alan Rhodes's 2012 talk AR on AR: Occupying Virtual Space is worth a look as an interesting way of mixing and discussing the real and the virtual. And also, if you haven't seen the video showing of Meta's SpaceGlasses [3], it's freaky. Thanks, Bill [1] https://teamscarlet.wordpress.com/ [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyAkUJCgDUk [3] https://www.spaceglasses.com/ -- William Denton Toronto, Canada http://www.miskatonic.org/
[CODE4LIB] Register Now for HTRC UnCamp and Tell Us What You'd Like to See!
*** Register nowhttps://www.eventville.com/catalog/eventregistration1.asp?eventid=1010536 and help shape the agenda for HTRC UnCamphttp://www.hathitrust.org/htrc_uncamp2013*** HTRC UnCamp The second annual HTRC UnCamp will be held in September 8-9, 2013 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The UnCamp is different: it is part hands-on coding and demonstration, part inspirational use-cases, part community building, and a part informational, all structured in the dynamic setting of an un-conference programming format. Keynote Speakers -- Matt Wilkens, University of Notre Dame -- Christopher Warren, Carnegie Mellon University What's new from last year? -- Expanded data API -- Improved user interface -- Personal account access -- Increased workset size -- New algorithms -- HTRC-enriched metadata -- 3.2 million volumes in HTRC Production -- Developmental access to HTRC Sandbox with a quarter million public domain volumes -- Research consulting through Scholarly Commons Office Hours pilot What's planned for the coming year? --Mellon funding for competitive mini-grants for prototyping projects Registration To make UnCamp as affordable as possible for you to attend, we have set registration at $100.00. Please visit https://www.eventville.com/catalog/eventregistration1.asp?eventid=1010536 to register. Registration is due by August 31, 2013. Agenda HTRC is seeking participant feedback! A rough agenda has been posted to http://www.hathitrust.org/htrc_uncamp2013 to give attendees a sense of what we've got planned, but we've kept several spaces open for attendee-driven session, birds-of-a-feather meetings, and breakout sessions. This is your event, so please help us finalize the agenda by sending your suggestions to htrc-uncam...@list.indiana.edumailto:htrc-uncam...@list.indiana.edu. HTRC The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is a unique collaborative research center launched jointly by Indiana University and the University of Illinois, along with the HathiTrust Digital Library, to help meet the technical challenges of dealing with massive amounts of digital text that researchers face by developing cutting-edge software tools and cyberinfrastructure to enable advanced computational access to the growing digital record of human knowledge. For travel information, agenda updates, and a complete lists of confirmed attendees, please visit: http://www.hathitrust.org/htrc_uncamp2013 If you have questions regarding the HTRC UnCamp please contact Megan Senseney, HTRC Project Coordinator: mfsen...@illinois.edumailto:mfsen...@illinois.edu or 217-244-5574. Looking forward to seeing you in Champaign! -- Megan Finn Senseney Project Coordinator, Research Services Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 501 East Daniel Street Champaign, Illinois 61820 Phone: (217) 244-5574 Email: mfsen...@illinois.edu http://www.lis.illinois.edu/research/services/http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/research/services/
Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides: I don't get it
I have followed this thread with great interest. In 2011 Erin White and I researched many of the issues the group has been hitting on, demonstrating the popularity of LibGuides in ARL libraries, the locus of control outside of systems' departments, and the state of content policies.[1] Our most challenging statement in the article to the library tech community (which was watered down a bit in the peer review process) was The popularity of LibGuides, at its heart a specialized content management system, also calls into question the vitality and/or adaptability of local content management system implementations in libraries. One of the biggest challenges I see toward creating a non-commercial alternative is that the library code community is so dispersed in the various institutions that it makes it difficult to get away from the download tar.gz model. Are our institutions ready to collaborate across themselves such that there could be a shared SaaS model (of anything really) that libraries could subscribe/contribute to? The barriers here certainly aren't technological, but more along the lines of policy, governance, etc. As for Research Guides in general, I see a very clear divide in the public/tech communities not only on platform but more philosophical. From the tech side once it is all boiled down, heck why do you even need a third party system; catalog the databases with some type of local genres and push out an api/xml feeds to various disciplines. From the public side there is a long lineage of individually curated guides that goes to the core of value of professionally knowing one's community and serving it. [1] https://ejournals.bc.edu/ojs/index.php/ital/article/view/1830 best, Jimmy On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 11:13 AM, Galen Charlton g...@esilibrary.com wrote: Hi, On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 6:53 AM, Wilhelmina Randtke rand...@gmail.com wrote: There's not a lock-in issue with LibGuides, because it's used to host pathfinders. Those are supposed to be periodically revisited. One of the big problems is that librarians will start a guide and never finish, or make one then never maintain it. Periodically deleting everything is a good thing for pathfinders and subject guides, and people should do it anyway. No one's talking about tools for digital archives, which have lock in issues and are way more expensive. Lock-in doesn't have to be absolute to be effective, it just has to has raise the bar sufficiently high to make users think twice about migrating away. This applies even if the data to be moved is transitory and constantly changing. For example, if a library has been diligently updating their pathfinders, but wants to switch platforms, if there were no way to export them to load into the successor system, the effort of redoing them or doing a lot of copy-and-pasting could be prohibitive. As a general statement -- and I know that this battle has been bitterly fought in the ILS space -- I believe that *all* library software services, whether based on F/LOSS software or proprietary software, should provide a way for the library to obtain a full dump of their data, in an accessible format, at no additional charge. I see that LibGuides advertises the ability to make local backups of individual pages and also provides (via a paid add-on module) an XML export function. I don't know if SpringShare will also provide free one-time exports on request, but I would hope they do. Of course, even if one has the data in hand, data migrations can still take a lot of time, effort, and expertise. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Manager of Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: g...@esilibrary.com direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366 skype: gmcharlt web:http://www.esilibrary.com/ Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org http://evergreen-ils.org -- Jimmy Ghaphery Head, Digital Technologies VCU Libraries 804-827-3551
[CODE4LIB] Job: Web Archive Engineer at Stanford University
Come join the digital library dream team at Stanford University Library as our new Web Archiving Engineer! We offer Silicon Valley competitive salaries, a beautiful campus with balmy weather and palm trees, and a team of fun and talented library programmers. **Web Archive Engineer** - 60432 Description This position is double-posted at the 4P3 and 4P4 levels. This is a four-year fixed-term position with the possibility of an extension. Job Objective: Stanford University Libraries (SUL) is seeking a talented software engineer to support the Web Archiving Service. This is a four year fixed-term position with the possibility of an extension. The position is a key element in the implementation and ongoing support of SUL's Web Archiving Service. The Service will enable the archiving of web content into the Stanford Digital Repository (SDR) on behalf of Stanford librarians, faculty, and researchers and in support of the University's needs for research, teaching, library collection building, and regulatory compliance. The Web Archiving Engineer will primarily develop and maintain software to facilitate web archiving workflows and use cases: harvesting, data management, quality assurance, discovery, indexing, access and analysis. This will entail deployment, local optimization and possible enhancement of community-developed open source web archiving tools and best practices. Reporting to the Manager for Application Development and working closely with the Web Archiving Service Manager, the successful candidate will be responsible for developing, configuring and/or managing web archiving systems and related digital library components; pioneering tools and techniques for the collection, replay and preservation of the next generation of web technologies; troubleshooting and resolving technical issues related to Service operation; and streamlining the processing of archived web content through the entire lifecycle. Primary Responsibilities: Systems Analysis, Architecture Design, Implementation and Administration (50%) Provide technical analysis and software engineering support for web archiving and related digital preservation activities at SUL. Install, configure and manage Heritrix, Wayback Machine and other components necessary to build an end-to-end service. Streamline the ingest of harvested and other target content and associated metadata into repository, discovery and access environments. Operational Support (25%) Collaborate with the Web Archiving Service Manager to troubleshoot and resolve technical issues affecting harvest, replay and web archiving workflows. Generate Wayback Machine and Lucene indexes to enable web archive replay, full-text searching and metadata analysis. Harvest Engineering (15%) Develop tools and techniques to enable archival capture and replay of rich media, streaming content, social media as well as traditional web page content. Administer web crawls to maximize data capture quality and efficient use of limited resources. Community Engagement (10%) Play an active role in the cultural heritage web archiving community. Stay abreast of evolving best practices and tools for web archiving and make appropriate recommendations for local service enhancement. Qualifications Minimum Qualifications Demonstrated expertise with Ruby and Ruby on Rails application development. Demonstrated expertise deploying, configuring and managing Apache HTTP Server and Apache Tomcat. Demonstrated expertise with Unix/Linux and command-line utilities, such as awk, find, and grep. Demonstrated expertise with JavaScript and regular expressions. Demonstrated expertise with XML and XSLT. Demonstrated experience with relational database design and management, including implementing database applications for MySQL, Oracle or PostgreSQL. Self-bootstrapping learner. Adept at quickly learning new scripting and programming languages and making sense of unfamiliar architectures and application designs. Demonstrated ability to write solid, simple, elegant code both independently and in a team- programming environment and within schedule limitations. Demonstrated ability to work collaboratively with multiple levels of staff and colleagues at peer institutions and within the open source community on projects from specification to launch. Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Demonstrated ability to apply best practices to technical projects, especially test-first development and automated testing. Must also make effective use of team collaboration tools, build management and version control systems. Demonstrated experience providing ongoing support for technical services, including experience monitoring and managing a solution. Four-year college degree or equivalent, with five to seven years of demonstrated experience. At the 4P4 level, four-year college degree or equivalent, with
Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides: I don't get it
Galen Charlton writes Lock-in doesn't have to be absolute to be effective, it just has to has raise the bar sufficiently high to make users think twice about migrating away. I fully agree with this. In general, lock-in is pervasive in the use of any information product. It even appears in the informational use of non-information products. Example: a supermarket provides you with your groceries. It's not an information product. Yet, you will prefer to use a supermarket that you are familiar with because you know where to find what you want. Lock-in reduces competitive forces. An important advantage of open-source solutions is that they reduce lock-in. They can't eliminate it because it is generic to the nature of information. As a general statement -- and I know that this battle has been bitterly fought in the ILS space -- It is not bitterly fought elsewhere because people just don't think this far. They think, say, oh Google gives me such a great infrastructure for my email. And I don't care about the spying thrown in for good measure. So let me go for it. But twenty years from now will you have an archive of your mails? If you change providers, do you migrate the email archives? These are important questions to ask. I have not used Google mail, neither have I used libguides, so I have no idea how easy or how hard it is to migrate. But it is important to keep this is in mind when choosing between informational products. I believe that *all* library software services, whether based on F/LOSS software or proprietary software, should provide a way for the library to obtain a full dump of their data, in an accessible format, at no additional charge. I could not agree more. I don't think this is given enough prominence. I see that LibGuides advertises the ability to make local backups of individual pages and also provides (via a paid add-on module) an XML export function. I don't know if SpringShare will also provide free one-time exports on request, but I would hope they do. Spot on Galen, you raise the important (IMHO) issue. Cheers, Thomas Krichel http://openlib.org/home/krichel skype:thomaskrichel
[CODE4LIB] TemaTres 1.7 released: now with meta-terms and SPARQL endpoint
-- Diego FerreyraWe are glad to announce the public release of TemaTres./TemaTres.html1.7. Here the changelog: - Now you can have a SPARQL Endpoint for your TemaTres vocabulary. Many thanks to Enayat Rajabi!!! - Capability to create and manage meta-terms. Meta-term is a term to describe others terms (Ej: Guide terms, Facets, Categories, etc.). Can't be use in indexing process. - New standard reports: all the terms with his UF terms and all the terms with his RT terms. - Capability to define custom fields in alphabetical export - New capabilities for TemaTres API: suggest suggestDetails, - Fixed bugs and improved several functional aspects. Many thanks to the feedback provided by TemaTres community :) Some HOWTO: How to update to Tematres 1.7: - Login as admin and go to: Menu - Administration - Database maintance - Update 1.6 to 1.7 How to enable SPARQL endpoint: 1) Login as admin and go to Menu - Administration - Configuration - Click in your vocabulary: Set as ENABLE SPARQL endpoint (by default is disable). 2) Login as admin and Goto: Menu - Administration - Database maintance - Update SPARQL endpoint. Best Regards and apologies for cross-posting diego ferreyra temat...@r020.com.ar http://www.vocabularyserver.com
Re: [CODE4LIB] TemaTres 1.7 released: now with meta-terms and SPARQL endpoint
I'm glad to see development of this continuing. It's been on my list of potential stand-along authority control systems. cheers stuart On 14/08/13 13:35, diego ferreyra wrote: We are glad to announce the public release of TemaTres./TemaTres.html1.7. Here the changelog: - Now you can have a SPARQL Endpoint for your TemaTres vocabulary. Many thanks to Enayat Rajabi!!! - Capability to create and manage meta-terms. Meta-term is a term to describe others terms (Ej: Guide terms, Facets, Categories, etc.). Can't be use in indexing process. - New standard reports: all the terms with his UF terms and all the terms with his RT terms. - Capability to define custom fields in alphabetical export - New capabilities for TemaTres API: suggest suggestDetails, - Fixed bugs and improved several functional aspects. Many thanks to the feedback provided by TemaTres community :) Some HOWTO: How to update to Tematres 1.7: - Login as admin and go to: Menu - Administration - Database maintance - Update 1.6 to 1.7 How to enable SPARQL endpoint: 1) Login as admin and go to Menu - Administration - Configuration - Click in your vocabulary: Set as ENABLE SPARQL endpoint (by default is disable). 2) Login as admin and Goto: Menu - Administration - Database maintance - Update SPARQL endpoint. Best Regards and apologies for cross-posting diego ferreyra temat...@r020.com.ar http://www.vocabularyserver.com -- Stuart Yeates Library Technology Services http://www.victoria.ac.nz/library/
