[CODE4LIB] Job: Web Developer at Missouri History Museum
The Missouri History Museum seeks a Web Developer that will be responsible for back-end web development and maintenance of Drupal-based web applications. The Developer will also interface with internal departments to develop exhibit sites, integrate internal management systems, and provide technical input as needed. Skills/Qualifications required: The candidate should have at least three years web development experience or a Bachelors degree in Computer Science and at least one year of web development experience. The ideal candidate would also be experienced in Drupal development, including custom module/theme development, web services integration, and object-oriented programming. He/She must have at least one year experience developing in PHP; must be very comfortable coding directly in HTML, CSS, Javascript, and SQL; be a self starter; and have excellent verbal and written communication skills. Skills/Qualifications preferred: • Experience developing with PHP5 and Mysql; • Familiarity with developing for and maintaining Drupal content management systems; • Experience with Drush; • Version Control (both Git and SVN); • Experience configuring LAMP stacks; • Experience with Windows (XP/7) • Experience parsing XML, JSON, etc; • Interest in Linked Open Data • Interest in St. Louis and Missouri History The Missouri History Museum offers a competitive salary and complete benefits package. Please submit letter of interest and resume to: Missouri History Museum Human Resources PO Box 11940 St. Louis, MO 63112-0040 Resumes may also be forwarded to hrad...@mohistory.org An Equal Opportunity Employer Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/10503/
Re: [CODE4LIB] pdf2txt [tika]
On Oct 15, 2013, at 10:44 AM, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: For a limited period of time I am making publicly available a Web-based program called PDF2TXT --http://bit.ly/1bJRyh8 On Oct 14, 2013, at 7:56 AM, Nicolas Franck nicolas.fra...@ugent.be wrote: Could this also be done by Apache Tika? Or do I miss a crucial point? http://tika.apache.org/1.4/gettingstarted.html To some great degree I have replaced the text extraction routine in my PDF2TXT script with Tika allowing the tool to read a much wider number of types of documents (PDF, Word, Mac Pages, Powerpoint (maybe), etc.) Thank you Nicolas. I have also created the barest of Git repositories hosting the (Perl) code: * PDF2TXT - http://bit.ly/1bJRyh8 * Git repository - https://github.com/ericleasemorgan/pdf2txt Just a reminder, PDF2TXT extracts plain text from a file, and does some rudimentary text mining against the result. — Eric Lease Morgan University of Notre Dame
[CODE4LIB] ALA Midwinter Hackathon - Jan. 24
Sharing for the Code4Lib-ers who are going to be at ALA MW and interested in programming. This is a beginner-friendly event and does NOT require ALA Midwinter registration. ~Bohyun ALA Midwinter Hackathon – 1/24, Philly http://www.libhack.org/schedule-logistics/ Registration https://libhack2014.eventbrite.com/ is $25 and includes lunch, snacks, a t-shirt, and an unlimited stream of coffee. LibHack is an “unofficial” ALA event, meaning you do not have to register for Midwinter to attend LibHack. 9:30-10am: Coffee and registration 10-11am: Welcome and introduction to the OCLC and DPLA APIs 11am-12:30pm: Hacking 12:30-1:30pm: Lunch 1:30-4:30pm: Hacking 4:30-5pm: Show and tell and closing 5pm-?: Post-event merriment, venue TBA After a quick welcome at 10am, we’ll break off into two separate tracks – one room for WorldCat Search API hacking and another room for DPLA API hacking. API specialists will be on hand to give an introduction to each API and discuss what you can do with the APIs. At 11am, the hacking begins! We’ll regroup at 4:30pm and everyone will have a chance to showcase what they learned and created during the day. After the event we’ll head out for food, drinks, and merriment, venue TBA. Registration https://libhack2014.eventbrite.com/ is $25 and includes lunch, snacks, a t-shirt and an unlimited stream of coffee.
[CODE4LIB] Biodiversity Specimen Label Transcription Hackathon, applications due Nov 1
For those interested in exploring crowdsourcing, transcription tools, and OCR, this is a really neat opportunity to see what's going on in natural science collections. I attended the Augmenting OCR hackathon in February and learned a tremendous amount about OCR. Better yet, one of the tools I developed for processing entomology labels was re-used successfully by folks at the Early Modern OCR Project for their work dealing with 18th-century English printed books. I wrote up the experience here: http://manuscripttranscription.blogspot.com/search/label/hackathon Ben Brumfield http://fromthepage.com/ Forwarded announcement: iDigBio (www.idigbio.org) and Zooniverse's Notes from Nature Project (www.notesfromnature.org) are pleased to announce a hackathon to further enable public participation in online transcription of biodiversity specimen labels. There are approximately 1 billion specimens of this type in US collections alone, but it is estimated that information from just 10% of them is currently digitized and online. Digitization of natural history collections grants researchers access to vast quantities of information in their investigations of timely subjects such as climate change, invasive species, and the extinction crisis. The magnitude of the task of bringing those collections into digital format exceeds that of any single organization and will require new, Internet-scale approaches to engage the public. This is an exciting opportunity to work on a ground-breaking citizen-science endeavor with immediate and strong impacts in the areas of biodiversity research and applied conservat! ion. The event will occur from December 16-20, 2013, at iDigBio in Gainesville, FL. There is up to $1200 for support of travel and lodging for each participant. The hackathon will produce new functionality and interoperability for Zooniverse's Notes from Nature (www.notesfromnature.org) and similar transcription tools. There are four areas of development that will be progressively addressed throughout the week. On Monday, the focus will be (1) linking images registered to the iDigBio Cloud to transcription tools to create efficiency and alleviate storage issues. Starting on Tuesday, topics will include (2) transcription QA/QC and the reconciliation of replicate transcriptions, (3) integration of OCR into the transcription workflow, and (4) new UI features and novel incentive approaches for public engagement. We expect that most participants will arrive on Monday afternoon and depart on Friday late afternoon/evening or Saturday morning. There will be a social at the Florida Museum of Natural History on Wednesday, December 18. There will be opportunities to narrow the focus in each category of activity in a teleconference tentatively scheduled for early in the week of November 25. **If you wish to be considered for one of about ten open invitations (of a total of about 30), please send (1) your CV/resume, (2) a short description (250 words) of your relevant expertise (citing example products where appropriate), (3) the development areas that interest you (of the four numbered above), and (4) the days that you can attend to Austin Mast (am...@bio.fsu.edu) by Friday, November 1, for assured consideration. At least 3 slots will be reserved for qualified graduate students.** With best regards, Austin and Rob Guralnick (UC-Boulder), co-organizers Austin Mast Associate Professor · Director, Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium · Associate Editor, Systematic Biology and Systematic Botany · Treasurer, American Society of Plant Taxonomists · Steering Committee Member, iDigBio, The National Resource for Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections Department of Biological Science · 319 Stadium Drive · Florida State University · Tallahassee, FL 32306-4295 · U.S.A. Office is King Life Science Building, room 4065 · Lab is King Life Science Building, rooms 4068 and 4084 · Herbarium is Biological Science Unit One, room 100 Voice: 1 (850) 645-1500 · Fax: 1 (850) 645-8447 · am...@bio.fsu.edu
[CODE4LIB] Usability Person?
Hello, all. This is perhaps a bit off-topic, but I was wondering how many of you have a dedicated usability person as part of your development team. Right now, we have a sort of ad hoc Usability Team, and I'd like to make a pitch for hiring someone who will have the time and inclination to manage this effort more effectively. Anything you'd care to share (on-list or off-) would be welcome. I'm especially curious about whether or not this is a full-time responsibility for someone in your organization or if it's shared with another job function; if you find this position is working out well or you wish you'd spent the money on more robots instead; where this person resides in your org chart; what sort of qualifications you looked for when hiring; etc. Thanks, Andrew -- Andrew Darby Head, Web Emerging Technologies University of Miami Libraries
Re: [CODE4LIB] Usability Person?
On Oct 30, 2013, at 11:24 AM, Andrew Darby darby.li...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, all. This is perhaps a bit off-topic, but I was wondering how many of you have a dedicated usability person as part of your development team… I do not think we have a usability person, per se. The position is sort of vacant. You can also try asking your question on usability4lib — http://dh.crc.nd.edu/sandbox/mailing-lists/usability4lib/ —ELM
Re: [CODE4LIB] Usability Person?
I think this depends a bit on the size of your institution. Where I am at we have barely enough funding to have a small number of librarians. I think you are right in so far is places should have a dedicated usability person, but this is not always possible. On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Andrew Darby darby.li...@gmail.comwrote: Hello, all. This is perhaps a bit off-topic, but I was wondering how many of you have a dedicated usability person as part of your development team. Right now, we have a sort of ad hoc Usability Team, and I'd like to make a pitch for hiring someone who will have the time and inclination to manage this effort more effectively. Anything you'd care to share (on-list or off-) would be welcome. I'm especially curious about whether or not this is a full-time responsibility for someone in your organization or if it's shared with another job function; if you find this position is working out well or you wish you'd spent the money on more robots instead; where this person resides in your org chart; what sort of qualifications you looked for when hiring; etc. Thanks, Andrew -- Andrew Darby Head, Web Emerging Technologies University of Miami Libraries
Re: [CODE4LIB] Usability Person?
We have been lucky to have a full time interaction designer within our library IT group for about 6 years. It makes a world of difference in the quality of our products; it also helps with letting the engineers focus on engineering, and the librarians focus on being librarians (rather than trying to design for patrons). - Tom On Oct 30, 2013, at 8:24 AM, Andrew Darby wrote: Hello, all. This is perhaps a bit off-topic, but I was wondering how many of you have a dedicated usability person as part of your development team. Right now, we have a sort of ad hoc Usability Team, and I'd like to make a pitch for hiring someone who will have the time and inclination to manage this effort more effectively. Anything you'd care to share (on-list or off-) would be welcome. I'm especially curious about whether or not this is a full-time responsibility for someone in your organization or if it's shared with another job function; if you find this position is working out well or you wish you'd spent the money on more robots instead; where this person resides in your org chart; what sort of qualifications you looked for when hiring; etc. Thanks, Andrew -- Andrew Darby Head, Web Emerging Technologies University of Miami Libraries
Re: [CODE4LIB] Usability Person?
We are exceptionally fortunate to have a 3-person User Experience department to support the developers who work on the website, the catalog, the digital library, and the repository. http://www.lib.umich.edu/library-information-technology/user-experience-department -- Ken Varnum | Web Systems Manager | MLibrary - University of Michigan - Ann Arbor var...@umich.edu | @varnum | http://www.lib.umich.edu/users/varnum | 734-615-3287 On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Tom Cramer tcra...@stanford.edu wrote: We have been lucky to have a full time interaction designer within our library IT group for about 6 years. It makes a world of difference in the quality of our products; it also helps with letting the engineers focus on engineering, and the librarians focus on being librarians (rather than trying to design for patrons). - Tom On Oct 30, 2013, at 8:24 AM, Andrew Darby wrote: Hello, all. This is perhaps a bit off-topic, but I was wondering how many of you have a dedicated usability person as part of your development team. Right now, we have a sort of ad hoc Usability Team, and I'd like to make a pitch for hiring someone who will have the time and inclination to manage this effort more effectively. Anything you'd care to share (on-list or off-) would be welcome. I'm especially curious about whether or not this is a full-time responsibility for someone in your organization or if it's shared with another job function; if you find this position is working out well or you wish you'd spent the money on more robots instead; where this person resides in your org chart; what sort of qualifications you looked for when hiring; etc. Thanks, Andrew -- Andrew Darby Head, Web Emerging Technologies University of Miami Libraries
Re: [CODE4LIB] Usability Person?
Here at Cornell, we have a usability group of about 15 people that includes librarians, developers, designers, and other staff. We serve as a centralized resource for usability testing for new or returning websites and other development projects. A few of the members have 10% of their time formally allocated to usability work, while the rest treat it as regular committee work. For many of our new projects, the developers and designers involved also serve in the usability group; since there's so much overlap, we're able to ensure that usability testing is kept a significant component of the development process. I think it's been a successful approach, and the team has done a lot of good work over the last few years. -- Matt Matt Connolly Software Developer, DLIT Cornell University Library On Oct 30, 2013, at 11:24 AM, Andrew Darby darby.li...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, all. This is perhaps a bit off-topic, but I was wondering how many of you have a dedicated usability person as part of your development team. Right now, we have a sort of ad hoc Usability Team, and I'd like to make a pitch for hiring someone who will have the time and inclination to manage this effort more effectively. Anything you'd care to share (on-list or off-) would be welcome. I'm especially curious about whether or not this is a full-time responsibility for someone in your organization or if it's shared with another job function; if you find this position is working out well or you wish you'd spent the money on more robots instead; where this person resides in your org chart; what sort of qualifications you looked for when hiring; etc. Thanks, Andrew -- Andrew Darby Head, Web Emerging Technologies University of Miami Libraries
Re: [CODE4LIB] Usability Person?
I think, where budgets allow, this is an increasingly common function / position. I am a Front End Librarian and I oversee development, user experience, and content strategy. I am part of systems but I liaise most often with our Marketing Department [because we have one ... ]. My friend Amanda is literally the User Experience Librarian at the Darien Library, so this is a thing with precedent. I agree with one of the other commenters that a dedicated UX person makes a world of difference - and, honestly, it's probably better if that person is less librarian than not. The big hurdle we've had to jump across was coming to grips that our librarians aren't users, so their weigh-in on content and services is skewed toward the jargon-y, mega-search-fields, we're-not-google-and-we-are-proud opinion. Staying on top of usability, accessibility, content strategy, dev, and performance [because a fast website is integral to a good user experience] is a full-time job. It's the kind of job you do outside of the 40-hour week. If you can get away with it, don't bundle this stuff in with other major roles. Organizationally, this person or team should be afforded a little bit of autonomy from the other departments. Design committees--especially in higher-ed--are power struggles, and it benefits no one when the user-experience people/person can be pressured into bad design decisions. Oh, and pay them well :) :) :). // Michael! I write about the web and front-end librarianship at www.ns4lib.com -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ken Varnum Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 12:00 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Usability Person? We are exceptionally fortunate to have a 3-person User Experience department to support the developers who work on the website, the catalog, the digital library, and the repository. http://www.lib.umich.edu/library-information-technology/user-experience-department -- Ken Varnum | Web Systems Manager | MLibrary - University of Michigan - Ann Arbor var...@umich.edu | @varnum | http://www.lib.umich.edu/users/varnum | 734-615-3287 On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Tom Cramer tcra...@stanford.edu wrote: We have been lucky to have a full time interaction designer within our library IT group for about 6 years. It makes a world of difference in the quality of our products; it also helps with letting the engineers focus on engineering, and the librarians focus on being librarians (rather than trying to design for patrons). - Tom On Oct 30, 2013, at 8:24 AM, Andrew Darby wrote: Hello, all. This is perhaps a bit off-topic, but I was wondering how many of you have a dedicated usability person as part of your development team. Right now, we have a sort of ad hoc Usability Team, and I'd like to make a pitch for hiring someone who will have the time and inclination to manage this effort more effectively. Anything you'd care to share (on-list or off-) would be welcome. I'm especially curious about whether or not this is a full-time responsibility for someone in your organization or if it's shared with another job function; if you find this position is working out well or you wish you'd spent the money on more robots instead; where this person resides in your org chart; what sort of qualifications you looked for when hiring; etc. Thanks, Andrew -- Andrew Darby Head, Web Emerging Technologies University of Miami Libraries
Re: [CODE4LIB] Usability Person?
It is nice to see a growing appreciation for UX in our domain. Michael, librarians ARE users, but I understand what you're saying in that they've had too much influence, and have unfortunately brought bias to the design process that has created obstacles for other users. Andrew, your original post focused on a Usability person. The way I see it, Usability skills are a subset of User Experience. If you can hire two people, awesome. If I had to choose one, I would go for a User Experience person. It is at least one full-time job, ideally of higher rank due to its big picture nature. I like the idea of a usability committee or working group, with the UX expert as a chair. Below are a few skills/abilities of my ideal User Experience Designer. It's unlikely you will get them all in one candidate, but it may give you an idea of which niches you need to fill, given your current team: * Creativity and Audacity * Design is inherently mixed with organization and culture, and in order to solve design problems they have to be willing to rethink and change long-standing traditions and culture. This person can question EVERYTHING without being abrasive. * Diplomacy and Influence * You can't do the above without being good at building relationships, forming consensus, negotiating, etc. Ideally the position would have enough power in the org to be at the table for major decisions, but then again, influence does not always come from hierarchical rank. * Usability Interviewing, Testing, and Analytics * Understanding, empathizing with, and advocating for ALL the users of your systems is critical, and collecting data to form and back up your arguments is a prerequisite. UX people have to talk to users about their goals, test ideas with prototypes, and collect and interpret stats/analytics. Testing is not only about whether a feature could be improved, but whether it should be there at all. This person can identify and prioritize the right problems to solve. * Visual Thinking/Literacy * The person should have a good design sense, and be able to put the elements and principles of design to work in the idea pitch, information architecture, and design process. * Content Strategy * What is the overall vision of the org and how is that message delivered? What message is currently being delivered via neglect of an overall strategy? The lack of a content strategy is one reason why so many library websites are filled with pages that are piles of links. * Interaction Design * In libraries, where budgets can be an issue, this person should be able to put together wireframes, prototypes, and final HTML/CSS/JS designs. As Tom mentioned, this could be an entirely different, more technical position, but it's a great asset if you can find it. -Shaun P.S. - Don't feel tied into current position titles. Google has an Über Tech Lead for Search Quality and User Happiness! On 10/30/13 12:33 PM, Michael Schofield wrote: I think, where budgets allow, this is an increasingly common function / position. I am a Front End Librarian and I oversee development, user experience, and content strategy. I am part of systems but I liaise most often with our Marketing Department [because we have one ... ]. My friend Amanda is literally the User Experience Librarian at the Darien Library, so this is a thing with precedent. I agree with one of the other commenters that a dedicated UX person makes a world of difference - and, honestly, it's probably better if that person is less librarian than not. The big hurdle we've had to jump across was coming to grips that our librarians aren't users, so their weigh-in on content and services is skewed toward the jargon-y, mega-search-fields, we're-not-google-and-we-are-proud opinion. Staying on top of usability, accessibility, content strategy, dev, and performance [because a fast website is integral to a good user experience] is a full-time job. It's the kind of job you do outside of the 40-hour week. If you can get away with it, don't bundle this stuff in with other major roles. Organizationally, this person or team should be afforded a little bit of autonomy from the other departments. Design committees--especially in higher-ed--are power struggles, and it benefits no one when the user-experience people/person can be pressured into bad design decisions. Oh, and pay them well :) :) :). // Michael! I write about the web and front-end librarianship at www.ns4lib.com -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Ken Varnum Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 12:00 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Usability Person? We are exceptionally fortunate to have a 3-person User Experience department to support the developers who work on the website, the catalog, the digital library, and the repository.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Usability Person?
We are spinning up a UX team at IU Bloomington Libraries—below is the current opening for the initial hire. More are anticipated. As library collections and services move increasingly online, we need to invest in the kind of staffing needed to create successful online experiences. We did formerly have a usability specialist, but we haven't had a dedicated team. The team will provide internal consulting to technology projects. Mark -- Mark Notess Head, User Experience and Digital Media Services Library Technologies Indiana University Bloomington Libraries +1.812.856.0494 mnot...@iu.edu -- User Experience Designer Rank: PAE-3IT Position#: 00039047 List #: 9631 FTE: 100% Job Summary: Provides interaction design consulting services to key technology-based projects. Works with stakeholders across IU Bloomington Libraries’ departments to understand requirements in order to design web-based user interfaces, mobile user interfaces, and online visual elements. Performs usability testing and ensures accessibility of services. Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in a user experience discipline such as human-computer interaction design, interaction design, or related field and two years of experience in interface and visual design (as demonstrated by a portfolio) or a related professional position required. An equivalent combination of related education, training, and experience from which comparable skills can be acquired may be considered at a 2:1 ratio. Experience with interaction design, visual design, web design, mobile design; demonstrated experience with the relevant interaction and visual design tools (Adobe Creative Suite or equivalent); and demonstrated experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills. Knowledge of and experience with academic libraries or higher education work environments preferred. Note: Submit a letter of interest and resume that provides evidence of the qualifications outlined and the names, addresses, and phone numbers of at least three references that can comment about your qualifications for the position. Indiana University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer committed to excellence through diversity. Indiana University has a strong commitment to principles of diversity and in that spirit seeks a broad spectrum of candidates including women, minorities, and persons with disabilities. Indiana University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and encourages applications from candidates with diverse cultural backgrounds. For more information about Indiana University-Bloomington go to www.iub.edu http://www.iub.edu/. To browse other open staff positions at Indiana University, please go to https://jobs.iu.edu https://jobs.iu.edu/ On 10/30/13 11:24 AM, Andrew Darby darby.li...@gmail.commailto:darby.li...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, all. This is perhaps a bit off-topic, but I was wondering how many of you have a dedicated usability person as part of your development team. Right now, we have a sort of ad hoc Usability Team, and I'd like to make a pitch for hiring someone who will have the time and inclination to manage this effort more effectively. Anything you'd care to share (on-list or off-) would be welcome. I'm especially curious about whether or not this is a full-time responsibility for someone in your organization or if it's shared with another job function; if you find this position is working out well or you wish you'd spent the money on more robots instead; where this person resides in your org chart; what sort of qualifications you looked for when hiring; etc. Thanks, Andrew -- Andrew Darby Head, Web Emerging Technologies University of Miami Libraries
[CODE4LIB] Patents in Institutional Repositories.
Hi everyone, Forgive me if this question has been asked before on this listserv, but I'm trying to gather some info for proceeding with patents down the road. Do you have patents in your IR? What priority do they take in your repository process? What's your workflow when dealing with them? Any special considerations? Many thanks for any input! -- *Lydia Zvyagintseva* MA/MLIS Candidate Founder, HackYEG http://hackyeg.com School of Library and Information Studies Humanities Computing University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB lyd...@ualberta.ca lydiazv.com
Re: [CODE4LIB] Patents in Institutional Repositories.
Can you provide context? I am trying to understand why you would put a patent in an IR. On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Lydia Zvyagintseva lyd...@ualberta.cawrote: Hi everyone, Forgive me if this question has been asked before on this listserv, but I'm trying to gather some info for proceeding with patents down the road. Do you have patents in your IR? What priority do they take in your repository process? What's your workflow when dealing with them? Any special considerations? Many thanks for any input! -- *Lydia Zvyagintseva* MA/MLIS Candidate Founder, HackYEG http://hackyeg.com School of Library and Information Studies Humanities Computing University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB lyd...@ualberta.ca lydiazv.com
Re: [CODE4LIB] Patents in Institutional Repositories.
Sure, apologies for out-of-the-blue questions. Well, a faculty member approaches the repository with their CV and asks us to investigate all their publications to see how much of their work we can deposit. They list their patents as part of their scholarly output on their CV. My understanding is that by virtue of having a patent, they hold the copyright to that intellectual property, and since they produced it in an educational institution, we are free to capture their work in an IR. However, that would depend on what the details of the patent granted include, which is there the communication with the faculty member has to happen. Am I off the mark here? I found a couple of patents in arXiv and wanted to see how others treat these types of documents. Thank you! L. On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.comwrote: Can you provide context? I am trying to understand why you would put a patent in an IR. On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Lydia Zvyagintseva lyd...@ualberta.ca wrote: Hi everyone, Forgive me if this question has been asked before on this listserv, but I'm trying to gather some info for proceeding with patents down the road. Do you have patents in your IR? What priority do they take in your repository process? What's your workflow when dealing with them? Any special considerations? Many thanks for any input! -- *Lydia Zvyagintseva* MA/MLIS Candidate Founder, HackYEG http://hackyeg.com School of Library and Information Studies Humanities Computing University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB lyd...@ualberta.ca lydiazv.com -- *Lydia Zvyagintseva* MA/MLIS Candidate Founder, HackYEG http://hackyeg.com School of Library and Information Studies Humanities Computing University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB lyd...@ualberta.ca lydiazv.com
Re: [CODE4LIB] Patents in Institutional Repositories.
The intellectual property is a patent, not a copyright. The actual patent that was granted can be retrieved from the US Patent and Trademark Office. The paper documentation can be copied and posted freely by anyone. Copyright is not an issue here. -Wilhelmina Randtke On Oct 30, 2013 2:45 PM, Lydia Zvyagintseva lyd...@ualberta.ca wrote: Sure, apologies for out-of-the-blue questions. Well, a faculty member approaches the repository with their CV and asks us to investigate all their publications to see how much of their work we can deposit. They list their patents as part of their scholarly output on their CV. My understanding is that by virtue of having a patent, they hold the copyright to that intellectual property, and since they produced it in an educational institution, we are free to capture their work in an IR. However, that would depend on what the details of the patent granted include, which is there the communication with the faculty member has to happen. Am I off the mark here? I found a couple of patents in arXiv and wanted to see how others treat these types of documents. Thank you! L. On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 1:08 PM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.comwrote: Can you provide context? I am trying to understand why you would put a patent in an IR. On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 3:07 PM, Lydia Zvyagintseva lyd...@ualberta.ca wrote: Hi everyone, Forgive me if this question has been asked before on this listserv, but I'm trying to gather some info for proceeding with patents down the road. Do you have patents in your IR? What priority do they take in your repository process? What's your workflow when dealing with them? Any special considerations? Many thanks for any input! -- *Lydia Zvyagintseva* MA/MLIS Candidate Founder, HackYEG http://hackyeg.com School of Library and Information Studies Humanities Computing University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB lyd...@ualberta.ca lydiazv.com -- *Lydia Zvyagintseva* MA/MLIS Candidate Founder, HackYEG http://hackyeg.com School of Library and Information Studies Humanities Computing University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB lyd...@ualberta.ca lydiazv.com
[CODE4LIB] Job: Tech Team Leader and System Administrator for the Texas Digital Library at Texas Digital Library
The Texas Digital Library seeks a Senior Systems Analyst and Tech Team Lead to help us manage the systems and digital environment that brings the research of Texas universities to the world. Your work will enable universities to bring their research data and digital library collections online, not just with one university but a consortium of digital libraries as big as Texas Job Summary: As part of the technical team of the Texas Digital Library as well as larger open source consortia, the Sr. Systems Administrator will work with the Director of Operations to develop the infrastructure necessary for running enterprise services that enable libraries to publish the scholarly work generated at their campus as well as preserve those digital assets for the long term. This role will provide an opportunity to lead the technical direction of the libraries of tomorrow, developing systems not just for the near term, but for the lifespan of university libraries. Required qualifications: Demonstrated expertise with standard concepts, practices, and procedures in systems administration. Experience with configuration management systems such as Puppet and hardware diagnostics, backups, replication and failure-recover procedures. Proficiency in programming and/ or scripting languages such as UNIX Shells, Python, PHP and Perl. Professional experience in supporting web and database servers on Linux platforms. Current or recent professional experience in Linux server administration. Strong SQL skills. Understanding of network fundamentals such as TCP IP, network firewalls and proxies. Experience administering identity management services, public and private cloud storage and services, and Sendmail. Ability to work directly with customers; to communicate and develop project plans within a team environment; and to work in a team environment. Preferred Qualifications Experience working in a digital library or university environment. Experience with Amazon Web Services including S3 and/or Glacier, Solr/Lucene search and indexing systems, REST and other web services, and managing DNS LDAP, Apache, Wordpress, Tomcat, MySQL, Postgres, Nagios and Sendmail. Proven superior technology troubleshooting and diagnostic skills. Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/10507/
Re: [CODE4LIB] Patents in Institutional Repositories.
Salvete! I've oft thought it'd be nice if there were more crossover betwixt CODE4LIB and the GOVDOCLers. You should easily be able to hit http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html and get your details. :) Cheers, Brooke Well, a faculty member approaches the repository with their CV and asks us to investigate all their publications to see how much of their work we can deposit. They list their patents as part of their scholarly output on their CV. My understanding is that by virtue of having a patent, they hold the copyright to that intellectual property, and since they produced it in an educational institution, we are free to capture their work in an IR. However, that would depend on what the details of the patent granted include, which is there the communication with the faculty member has to happen. Am I off the mark here? I found a couple of patents in arXiv and wanted to see how others treat these types of documents. Thank you! L.
Re: [CODE4LIB] Usability Person?
I've worked at numerous places in the past few years: 1. Dedicated Designer + UX person (non-librarian, large academic library). The web team consisted of 4-5 people, one of which was solely dedicated to design (including graphics design), user interface, and user experience. It made a really big difference to the look of the website and doing actual user testing. 2. I was the acting web services librarian and it was just one component of my job (in a medium sized, bordering on large academic library). I unfortunately rarely had time to do as much user testing as I would've liked, but set aside time for it. The library also has a web committee which would provide staff input, and a student advisory committee exists to provide feedback (in general, though I took over one of their meetings to focus on the website). 3. There is a dedicated User Experience librarian (in a small-ish college library), however, this is user experience in general, including the physical library. Currently, this means that she is too busy to really focus on the website because she takes care of the learning commons and other aspects of user experience. To provide a bit more context though, the website is in an IT controlled CMS, so not a huge amount of customization can be done. 4. In my current organization, there are 2 librarians, so there is no room for dedicated positions and I'll be in charge of the website and any user experience/user testing, which will simply have to be done on an as needed basis. If you can have it, a specific person tends to work better whether it's full time or part of a full time position depends on how much work you think is needed. If you have a team where there are programmers already, I would suggest focusing on the design/creativity/architecture side of things with technical know how (but not necessarily a coder). It also seems to work best if they reside in the systems/IT team, but working closely with other staff. As to qualifications, the only thing I might add to Shaun's list is universal design accessibility. On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Notess, Mark mnot...@iu.edu wrote: We are spinning up a UX team at IU Bloomington Libraries—below is the current opening for the initial hire. More are anticipated. As library collections and services move increasingly online, we need to invest in the kind of staffing needed to create successful online experiences. We did formerly have a usability specialist, but we haven't had a dedicated team. The team will provide internal consulting to technology projects. Mark -- Mark Notess Head, User Experience and Digital Media Services Library Technologies Indiana University Bloomington Libraries +1.812.856.0494 mnot...@iu.edu -- User Experience Designer Rank: PAE-3IT Position#: 00039047 List #: 9631 FTE: 100% Job Summary: Provides interaction design consulting services to key technology-based projects. Works with stakeholders across IU Bloomington Libraries’ departments to understand requirements in order to design web-based user interfaces, mobile user interfaces, and online visual elements. Performs usability testing and ensures accessibility of services. Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in a user experience discipline such as human-computer interaction design, interaction design, or related field and two years of experience in interface and visual design (as demonstrated by a portfolio) or a related professional position required. An equivalent combination of related education, training, and experience from which comparable skills can be acquired may be considered at a 2:1 ratio. Experience with interaction design, visual design, web design, mobile design; demonstrated experience with the relevant interaction and visual design tools (Adobe Creative Suite or equivalent); and demonstrated experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills. Knowledge of and experience with academic libraries or higher education work environments preferred. Note: Submit a letter of interest and resume that provides evidence of the qualifications outlined and the names, addresses, and phone numbers of at least three references that can comment about your qualifications for the position. Indiana University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer committed to excellence through diversity. Indiana University has a strong commitment to principles of diversity and in that spirit seeks a broad spectrum of candidates including women, minorities, and persons with disabilities. Indiana University is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and encourages applications from candidates with diverse cultural backgrounds. For more information about Indiana University-Bloomington go to www.iub.edu http://www.iub.edu/. To browse other open staff positions at Indiana University, please go to
Re: [CODE4LIB] Usability Person?
Our library has a User Experience group. This is not a unit, but consists of 4 people whose part of work is related to user experience. This group's main focus primarily on the online experience: website, catalog, e-resources, and accessibility. We did quite a number of usability tests, shared the results with the stake holders, and recommended the changes. The changes that we recommended on our web presence tend to be small. The idea is not to do big change where it's very noticeable, but make it incremental so users won't get disoriented. Hence the frequent tests. For the accessibility part, I hired a blind student to assist me assessing our web presence and e-resources. We just hired a dedicated user experience librarian whose work would also include customer service assessments and user space area. ranti. On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Andrew Darby darby.li...@gmail.comwrote: Hello, all. This is perhaps a bit off-topic, but I was wondering how many of you have a dedicated usability person as part of your development team. Right now, we have a sort of ad hoc Usability Team, and I'd like to make a pitch for hiring someone who will have the time and inclination to manage this effort more effectively. Anything you'd care to share (on-list or off-) would be welcome. I'm especially curious about whether or not this is a full-time responsibility for someone in your organization or if it's shared with another job function; if you find this position is working out well or you wish you'd spent the money on more robots instead; where this person resides in your org chart; what sort of qualifications you looked for when hiring; etc. Thanks, Andrew -- Andrew Darby Head, Web Emerging Technologies University of Miami Libraries -- Bulk mail. Postage paid.
