Dear list,
I'm writing to invite your participation in a digital media art preservation
project currently underway at Cornell University. This project aims to develop
scalable preservation strategies for complex, interactive, born-digital media
artworks, using the collections of Cornell's
* Apologies for cross-posting *
SCAPE Training: Preserving Your Preservation Tools
(Package Management)
26-27 March 2014
The Hague
Registration is now open for the next SCAPE Project Training event:
https://scape-preserving-tools.eventbrite.co.uk.
Overview
Learning to Think Like a Package
***Cross-posted to Web4Lib apologies in advance if you have to read this more
than once!***
Williams College Libraries may have the opportunity to hire a web design firm
to design and possibly implement in Drupal the front page and template pages
for the user interface of our new institutional
I recommend Influx: Library User Experience. http://weareinflux.com/
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From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:web4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf
Of Lori DuBois
Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 9:42 AM
To: web4...@listserv.nd.edu
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Web Design Firm
I would recommend the firm I used to work for Viget http://viget.com/.
They've done a number of university websites (upenn http://www.upenn.edu/,
lafayette college http://www.lafayette.edu/). They are a bit pricey but
the people are great. And if you are interested, ping me and I can
introduce
I was wondering if anyone has worked with the Elsevier EFFECT41 datasets
(http://info.sciencedirect.com/techsupport/sdos/effect41.pdf)
I've written a parser which mostly works fine then discovered their notion of
continuation lines (e.g. any line which does not start with a tag is a
I'm still pretty new at this linked data thing, but I find it strange
that RDA element properties URIs such as
http://rdaregistry.info/Elements/a/P50034 and
http://rdaregistry.info/Elements/a/P50209 both return the same HTML
page in a browser. Would it not have been more usable if the
properties
Dryad Librarian
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill
Dryad (http: datadryad.org) is a curated general-purpose repository that makes
the data underlying scientific publications discoverable, freely reusable, and
citable. The Dryad team works with stakeholders from journals and
Social Sciences Data Librarian
Colby College
Waterville
Colby College Libraries invites applications for a social sciences data
librarian in Scholarly Resources Services (SRS). Within the Colby Libraries,
the SRS group's primary mission is to support faculty and student research in
an innovative
Archival Processing Specialist
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara
Under the direction of the Head, Special Collections and in coordination with
collection curators, the Archival Processing Specialist has full
responsibility for the uniform arrangement and description standards
Senior Linux Systems Engineer
United States National Agricultural Library
Beltsville
The National Agricultural Library is now recruiting for a senior level Linux
Systems Engineer. The announcement will close on Friday, January 31, 2014.
Complete vacancy announcement information and
Film Archivist
Indiana University Bloomington
Bloomington
Reporting to Director of IU Libraries' Film Archive:
provide reference services and research consultations, support to faculty,
students, staff, community at large; assist with collection development,
management, inventorying; inspect and
How about skip the pricey touchscreen and do a Johnny Lee:
http://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/
I.e. use a Wii or Kinect controller to enable gesture functions on a regular
screen. It's on the to-do list I can never get to.
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From: Code for Libraries
I can't address the first points, but I can speak a bit to the question
of meaningful URIs. In the original creation of the RDA elements,
meaningful URIs were used based on the actual RDA terminology. This
resulted in URIs like:
On a similar note to Sam's suggestion, I saw a demo by Open Exhibits
http://openexhibits.org/category/software/ of their multi-touch image
browser - they just released a new version of their open-source sdk that
allows use of the Leap Motion controller (or several of them for more
users) - that
Reporting to the AVP, Computer Services, the Health Sciences Libraries
(HSL) Systems Technology Librarian is responsible for the Libraries' IT
strategy, development and daily operations. The Health Sciences Libraries
include the Ginsburg Health Sciences Library on Temple's Health Sciences
Campus
On Jan 22, 2014, at 11:16 AM, Sam Kome sam_k...@cuc.claremont.edu wrote:
How about skip the pricey touchscreen and do a Johnny Lee:
http://johnnylee.net/projects/wii/
I.e. use a Wii or Kinect controller to enable gesture functions on a regular
screen. It's on the to-do list I can never
Hi Karen:
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote:
I can't address the first points, but I can speak a bit to the question of
meaningful URIs. In the original creation of the RDA elements, meaningful
URIs were used based on the actual RDA terminology. This resulted
The Known Knowns
What: A meeting where L.A.-based library techies can meet, talk shop, and learn
from each other.
When: Thursday, February 20th, 2014, 3pm-4:30pm
Where: Herklotz Room, Doheny Memorial Library, USC
Who: anyone interested in code and libraries.
*** PLEASE
Je ne comprends pas l'anglais.
Je ne comprends pas l'URI otherDesignationAssociatedWithTheCorporateBody
私は日本人です。私は理解していない、そのURI
Opaque URIs with human readable labels helps in an international context.
Just my two yens worth :)
G
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Gill Hamilton
Digital
Very cool, did not consider these approaches but they are worth looking into.
Out of curiosity, would there be good recommendations if we were to forego the
touch screen requirement? Just plain ole' dumb mouse and keyboard?
Thanks again,
drew
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From: Code for Libraries
There is a cross-platform web kiosk that can be locked down called Open Kiosk,
is is based on Firefox and has a plethora of features.
//Riley
Sent from my iPhone
On Jan 22, 2014, at 5:25 PM, Andrew Gordon agor...@nyam.org wrote:
Very cool, did not consider these approaches but they are worth
P166123464771
And now no one understands at all. CIDOC-CRM has taken the same approach
-- it's better that everyone is equal in their non-comprehension than
people who speak a particular language are somehow advantaged.
BTW, as an English speaker, I also don't understand other designation
Hi Dan,
Thanks for taking such an interest!
Regarding your questions and concerns:
'slash' vs. 'hash' URIs:
As a matter of design, we coin URIs for retrieval of information about the
resource identified by the URI by machines, not humans. The most current
formal rules[1] state that retrieving a
On 1/22/14, 3:17 PM, Robert Sanderson wrote:
The we might change what this means argument is also problematic -- if
you change what it means, then you should change the URI! Otherwise people
will continue to use them incorrectly, plus the legacy data generated with
the previous definition
Greetings,
I would like to inquire about possible methods that others have used to
convert VHS tapes to digital files. This project would be done in house by
library staff. I am familiar with Elgato Video Capture but would like to
know about other possible options.
Thank you,
Jeffrey Sabol
Composite Capture card (find one on amazon, I use a knock off called EasyCAP)
and a VCR (free, I assume you have one): cost about $20
This setup can be used to archive anything with composite out.
On the more expensive (faster) side there are solutions where the tape is cut
and is run though a
Hi! We're hiring.
https://www.gwu.jobs/postings/19740
We are looking for a software developer to join our growing IT team. Our
team works on digitization, technology, and development; it comprises full-time
staff responsible for digitization operations, IT services, library systems,
web
This is pretty straightforward to do in real time with a USB breakout cable or
device like the Elegato, which I would consider that to be the high end of your
effective choices. Pretty much all of the $30-$40 cables are going to get you
the same results, and since VHS source quality is such a
Hi Karen,
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 6:40 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote:
I would still prefer something memorable at this stage.
The 'lexical', and therefore more memorable, URIs based on the English
label will always resolve to the canonical URI. If the lexical label
changes, but the
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Finally, 1600 properties... good luck with that.
ROTFL!!! ―ELM
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