Re: [CODE4LIB] barriers to open metadata?
Hi Laura, I've done some work on this in the UK[1][2] and there have been a number of associated projects looking at the open release of library, archive and museum metadata[3]. For libraries (it is different of archives and museums) I think I'd sum up the reasons in three ways - in order of how commonly I think they apply a. Ignorance/lack of thought - libraries don't tend to licence their metadata, and often make no statement about how it can be used - my experience is that often no-one has even asked the questions about licencing/data release b. No business case - in the UK we talked to a group of university librarians and found that they didn't see a compelling business case for making open data releases of their catalogue records c. Concern about breaking contractual agreements or impinging on 3rd party copyright over records. The Comet project at the University of Cambridge did a lot of work in this area[4] As Roy notes, there have been some significant changes recently with OCLC and many national libraries releasing data under open licences. However, while this changes (c) it doesn't impact so much on (a) and (b) - so these remain as fundamental issues and I have a (unsubstantiated) concern that big data releases lead to libraries taking less interest (someone else is doing this for us) rather than taking advantage of the clarity and openess these big data releases and associated announcements bring. A final point - looking at libraries behaviour in relation to institutional/open access repositories, where you'd expect at least (a) to be considered, unfortunately when I looked a couple of years ago I found similar issues. Working for the CORE project at the Open University[5] I found that OpenDOAR[6] listed Metadata re-use policy explicitly undefined for 57 out of 125 UK repositories with OAI-PMH services. Only 18 repositories were listed as permitting commerical re-use of metadata. Hopefully this has improved in the intervening 2 years! Hope some of this is helpful Owen 1 Jisc Guide to Open Bibliographic Data http://obd.jisc.ac.uk 2 Jisc Discovery principles http://discovery.ac.uk/businesscase/principles/ 3 Jisc Discovery Case studies http://guidance.discovery.ac.uk 4 COMET http://cul-comet.blogspot.co.uk/p/ownership-of-marc-21-records.html 5 CORE blog http://core-project.kmi.open.ac.uk/node/32 6 OpenDOAR http://www.opendoar.org/ Owen Stephens Owen Stephens Consulting Web: http://www.ostephens.com Email: o...@ostephens.com Telephone: 0121 288 6936 On 29 Apr 2014, at 21:06, Ben Companjen ben.compan...@dans.knaw.nl wrote: Hi Laura, Here are some reasons I may have overheard. Stuck halfway: We have an OAI-PMH endpoint, so we're open, right? Lack of funding for sorting out our own rights: We gathered metadata from various sources and integrated the result - we even call ourselves Open L*y - but we [don't have manpower to figure out what we can do with it, so we added a disclaimer]. Cultural: We're not sure how to prevent losing the records' provenance after we released our metadata. Groeten van Ben On 29-04-14 19:02, Laura Krier laura.kr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Code4Libbers, I'd like to find out from as many people as are interested what barriers you feel exist right now to you releasing your library's bibliographic metadata openly. I'm curious about all kinds of barriers: technical, political, financial, cultural. Even if it seems obvious, I'd like to hear about it. Thanks in advance for your feedback! You can send it to me privately if you'd prefer. Laura -- Laura Krier laurapants.comhttp://laurapants.com/?utm_source=email_sigutm_medium=emai lutm_campaign=email
Re: [CODE4LIB] barriers to open metadata?
Lack of demand, particularly since many catalogs contain a lot of garbage metadata and/or resources that others cannot access. Plus, the information goes stale quickly. Not that there's no use for this information, but not that many people are asking. Also, despite declarations to wanting to make info open, library organizations are much better at giving away other peoples' information than their own. A huge percentage of librarians work at public expense, but if you do anything for ALA or a number of other library outfits, copyright notices and other restrictions competitive with the publishers we love to whine about get slapped on mighty fast. Kyle On Apr 29, 2014, at 1:02 PM, Laura Krier laura.kr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Code4Libbers, I'd like to find out from as many people as are interested what barriers you feel exist right now to you releasing your library's bibliographic metadata openly. I'm curious about all kinds of barriers: technical, political, financial, cultural. Even if it seems obvious, I'd like to hear about it. Thanks in advance for your feedback! You can send it to me privately if you'd prefer. Laura -- Laura Krier laurapants.comhttp://laurapants.com/?utm_source=email_sigutm_medium=emailutm_campaign=email
[CODE4LIB] Job: Webmaster Online Community Strategist at The Wolfsonian-FIU
Webmaster Online Community Strategist The Wolfsonian-FIU Miami Beach, FL The Wolfsonian is looking for a web/community manager to be a key part of our digital engagement and outreach strategies.This is a position with a huge potential for creativity and growth. Help us spread the word! Position Description Plans, maintains, extends, and enhances the museum's online presence, visitor experience, and services. The incumbent should be curious about and versed in emerging web technologies and design trends, and adept at inciting digital projects and providing implementation support and establishing best practices. Collaborates across the institution, in the larger FIU environment, and externally to facilitate a world-class online experience that expands access to and engagement with The Wolfsonian's collections and programs. * Serves as webmaster for the Wolfsonian's Drupal-based online experience. * Provides routine technical support and site configuration, facilitates content posting on the website, and maintains security and functionality according to best practices, assessing the current and future needs of the website and network. Works closely with FIU External Relations on social media strategy to ensure brand standards and messaging guidelines. * Builds on work done to date and works closely with stakeholders across the institution and externally, develops a plan for implementing The Wolfsonian's new media strategy, and conceptualizes new audiences, new modes of outreach, and new forms of participation. * Collects and analyzes data about The Wolfsonian¿s online community and presents regular and ad hoc reports on effectiveness of various strategies, making recommendations for shifting course where necessary. * Manages accounts and profiles from external service providers. * Facilitates electronic communications, including managing e-mail newsletter systems, building and supporting blogs and pages for discrete projects, works with other Wolfsonian teams to coordinate outreach efforts (including listserv announcements, forums postings, blog postings, etc.) to ensure maximum visibility. * Solicits, coordinates, and pushes out new media content from across the institution. Collaborates with External Relations on all collateral material to ensure FIU brand standards, messaging and guidelines. * Develops and provides training for content providers. * Maintains a strong relationship with the FIU Division of IT its subgroups, ensuring service and support as well as influencing policy. * Manages all vendors of digital services to The Wolfsonian, including developers, coders, etc.; coordinates user testing, and safeguard project budgets and timelines. * Archives past projects to ensure legacy data is maintained and easily accessible. Minimum Qualifications Master's degree in an appropriate specialization and two years of experience; or a bachelor's degree in an appropriate specialization and four years of experience. Desired Qualifications * Two years minimum experience with Drupal CMS. * Three years minimum experience with HTML/XHTML, CSS, and XML - working knowledge of XSLT. * Two years minimum Web programming experience, including PHP and ASP. * Two years minimum experience working with relational database systems such as MySQL, MSSQL or Oracle and a good working knowledge of SQL. * Development experience using extensible web authoring tools and programming frameworks. * Self-starter with strong sense of ownership and ability to drive the development process. * Excellent written and verbal communication skills, and ability to consult directly with clients in the planning and execution of projects. * Excellent visual design skills, particularly in regards to typography. * Ability to work within a collaborative, fast-paced environment, managing multiple projects and deadlines. * Demonstrated familiarity and comfort working in UNIX/Linux, Windows, and MAC OS operating systems, related software, and basic system administration utilities. Advertised Salary $65,000 - $75,000 Pre-Employment Requirements Criminal Background Check Fingerprinting Check To apply for this position please register and fill out an application on the FIU HR Jobs website [LINK ](http://pslinks.fiu.edu/psp/jobs/CUSTOMER/HRMS/c/HR S_HRAM.HRS_CE.GBL?Page=HRS_CE_HM_PREAction=ASiteId=1000)(Search for Job Opening ID: 507510 or Department: The Wolfsonian) Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/14113/
Re: [CODE4LIB] SubjectsPlus themes
Ha, yes, after looking at it, I think SubjectsPlus is not set up for theming. Small user community? It looks only at /assets/css/ , where all css files are, and at /subjects/includes/ , where header.php footer.php etc are. It's not set up for theming, or I've overlooked something. It does not first check for a theme, then go to core when the file is not in a theme folder. I did my quicky branding job, but still interested if anyone has themes to share (or has modified to allow themes at all). -Wilhelmina Randtke On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Andrew Darby darby.li...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not aware of any themes, but you could post to the list. People generally modify the header, footer and css for localization of the front-end. Some sites have customized a lot, but the customizations tend to hew to the parent site's look and feel. Others haven't customized at all, which has led us to rethink the very vanilla default theme. We're just (re)starting a version 3 sprint, but haven't gotten to the front end yet. We're hoping to pretty it up a bit, but I'm not sure we'll have a templating system more than css files to monkey with. If you have suggestions or ideas, please send them to the list, or me, or add as issues in GitHub. Andrew On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 1:22 PM, Tom Keays tomke...@gmail.com wrote: I searched briefly in the SubjectsPlus group archive but found no mention of themes. https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en#!forum/subjectsplus On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 11:54 AM, Wilhelmina Randtke rand...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone have a theme for SubjectsPlus up on github? I'm playing around with the CMS, and I can't find themes. Surely they must exist. -Wilhelmina Randtke -- Andrew Darby Head, Web Emerging Technologies University of Miami Libraries
[CODE4LIB] Job: Engineering Informatics Librarian at University of Iowa
Engineering Informatics Librarian University of Iowa Iowa City The Lichtenberger Engineering Library at the University of Iowa is looking for a creative professional who is service oriented, technically skilled, and thrives in an innovative work environment. Candidates should have a strong background and interest in engineering in order to develop and implement highly effective services in support of Iowa's engineering students, faculty and staff. The librarian will work with the University Library system, the College of Engineering, and the newly formed Informatics Initiative to provide data management and data management planning services to the Iowa community. Reporting to the Head, Lichtenberger Engineering Library, this position supports the endeavors of the Lichtenberger Engineering Library to relevant academic departments. Specific responsibilities include: Develops and leads innovative information services for the engineering research, learning and extension communities. Acquires and maintains expertise in information trends in engineering disciplines. Participates in Library and campus research support service initiatives including those related to research profiles, research data management, curation, and preservation. Develops and supports services for documenting and distributing research data. Develops and maintains expertise in data issues for libraries. Provides quality reference, consulting, and liaison services, and teaches classes and workshops as assigned. Leads and/or participates in other innovative projects in information delivery. Cultivates relationships with faculty and researchers to identify opportunities for library partnerships; Provides consultation services for liaison departments; Serves on library committees and contributes to and learns from the profession through such avenues as local, state and national professional organizations and publications. Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/14050/
[CODE4LIB] Job: Associate Dean for Digital Strategies at University of Miami
Associate Dean for Digital Strategies University of Miami Coral Gables The University of Miami Libraries (UML) seeks an Associate Dean to bring vision and innovation to their newly restructured leadership team. The new Associate Dean will join an exceptional team of three other associate deans, supporting the Dean of Libraries, Chuck Eckman. These four individuals will shape and promote the mission of collaboration and develop new programs, structure, and tradition for the University of Miami Libraries. Reporting to the Dean and University Librarian, the Associate Dean for Digital Strategies will provide strategic leadership and direction for the UML digital infrastructure and technology planning. S/he will also provide University-wide leadership and serve as the primary spokesperson for the libraries' digital strategy and services to the UM community, will oversee the Libraries digital production program and infrastructure development for all of the Libraries content management systems and repositories, provide leadership within the Libraries on the creation and curation of digital objects for research and learning, and ensure a robust technical infrastructure to support a wide range of digital scholarship and scholarly publishing. Required qualifications for this role include: A Master's degree in library and information science, computer science, or a closely related field. Minimum of five years' experience working in academic research libraries. Demonstrated knowledge of current trends and issues in the application of technology to libraries and higher education. Substantive knowledge of digital assets and the technical infrastructure required for their life-cycle management, including metadata requirements, migration strategies, best practices in digital preservation, and relevant national and international standards. Substantive knowledge of library systems, digital libraries, and digital repositories. Familiarity with modern software development methodologies and technologies. The University of Miami has retained Isaacson, Miller, a national executive search firm, to assist in this recruitment. All applications, inquiries, and nominations should be submitted in confidence via Isaacson, Miller's website at [www.imsearch.com/5095](http://www.imsearch.com/5095). Inquiries should be directed to Beverly Brady, Senior Associate, and Julie Yermack, Associate. Please visit [https://library.miami.edu/](https://library.miami.edu/) for additional information. The University of Miami offers competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including medical and dental benefits, tuition remission, vacation, paid holidays and much more. The University of Miami is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/14059/
[CODE4LIB] Job: Digital Library Developer at National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance
Digital Library Developer National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance Amherst Provides the design and implementation of the on-line library that will host online resources and provide the delivery of content. Develop a system for knowledge storage, integration and learning using knowledge platform. Evaluates and develops the digital asset management (DAM) system that includes a repository of materials for a variety of NCIIA's professional learning communities/networks, handling a wide range of formats. Create a DAM system in which materials are searchable and accessible by instructors or staff, integrating with a separate learning management environment. Send cover letter and resume with position title in subject line to:[j...@nciia.org](mailto:j...@nciia.org). See full descriptions at[http://nciia.org/employment/ Q](http://nciia.org/employment/)ualifications: • Strong system analysis skills • Familiarity with a wide range of digital file formats. • Familiarity with digital repositories and digital libraries. • Familiarity with a wide range of item level metadata standards (e.g., MODS, METS, VRA Core, learning objects metadata standards (IMS, etc.)) • Familiarity with HUBZero preferred but not required or other types of digital asset management systems (e.g., DSpace, HUBZeroFedora, CollectiveAccess, learning object repositories,, etc.) • Database management and XML skills • Strong communication skills • Demonstrated success working on projects with tight deadlines • Master's degree in library or information science from an ALA-accredited institution, expected or earned, or equivalent experience • Excellent online research skills and in-depth familiarity with both print and electronic resources. • Experience working with web design and electronic publishing software. • Initiative, excellent organizational, interpersonal, and communication skills and work in a team environment. • Ability to develop and foster collaborative working relationships. Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/14062/
[CODE4LIB] Job: Systems Programmer/Analyst at University of Michigan
Systems Programmer/Analyst University of Michigan Ann Arbor The University of Michigan Library, one of the largest academic research libraries in the world, leads the re-imagining of the research library in the digital era. We are transforming the way libraries organize, preserve, and share access to knowledge. Our seminal role in building digital library systems enabled the creation of HathiTrust, one of the world's biggest digital libraries with over 80 participating institutions and over 11 million digitized books. Library Information Technology is the technology core of the U-M Library. We build tools to help researchers find information in a vast array of online resources; we built the systems and processes that underlie HathiTrust; we coordinate electronic publishing and data archiving initiatives; and we support the traditional library services users rely on, such as book circulation and collection management. Core Services, a part of Library IT, supports these projects with the application, server, and storage infrastructure required for hosting web applications and processing digital library data and metadata. Projects in Core Services include (for example) large-scale automated validation and archiving, storage management, and access control and identity management. We operate a growing Linux server infrastructure consisting of approximately 50 servers and over 1.5 PB of storage spread across three data centers. The Bentley Historical Library serves as the official archives of the University of Michigan and also documents the history of the state and the activities of its people, organizations, and voluntary associations. Although administratively separate from the U-M Library system, the two units collaborate on a regular basis. The Bentley has amassed extensive holdings on the history of the state and the university, including more than 50,000 linear feet of archives and manuscripts, 90,000 printed volumes, 1.5 million photographs and other visual materials, over 10,000 maps, and nearly 20 terabytes of digital content. The digital content - much of it in need of proper treatment for archiving - includes literary materials, video footage of cultural events, oral histories, musical recordings, congressional papers, the administrative and historical records of the University of Michigan and its athletic department, and much more. Responsibilities* Library IT Core Services is looking for a talented, resourceful systems programmer to develop an end-to-end digital archiving workflow for the Bentley Historical Library that incorporates two popular open-source software packages, Archivematica and ArchivesSpace. The focus of the position, approximately 75-80%, will be to install, customize, and integrate these tools, building a reliable and efficient process for staff to prepare archival content for deposit into the U-M Library's existing Deep Blue service, built on the popular DSpace system. This will involve working closely with staff at the Bentley to understand the different types of archival material, how they are best organized and described, and how the two systems can be made to work together and be fitted to DSpace. Both Archivematica and ArchivesSpace are active open-source projects with communities interested in incorporating the results of this work, so development will often be collaborative with colleagues at other universities. Secondary tasks will be shared with others in Core Services and will include, for example, web server configuration, other miscellaneous development, system troubleshooting, preparing documentation, and monitoring technology trends. Required Qualifications* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related field, or equivalent experience; 3 to 5 years experience relevant to job duties; experience and comfort with working in groups; demonstrated programming skills in a modern programming language; strong analytical and troubleshooting skills; excellent written and verbal communication; ability to work well in a multicultural and collaborative environment. Desired Qualifications* Demonstrated experience in the configuration, customization, and tuning of Linux-based environments; demonstrated experience with NAS and SAN storage systems. Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/14067/
[CODE4LIB] Job: Web Developer at Florida State University
Web Developer Florida State University Tallahassee Qualifications * A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, or other appropriate degree and two years experience or a combination of appropriate post high school education and experience equal to six years. * Minimum one (1) year experience programming on UNIX-based systems using LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySql and PHP) stack or equivalent. * Demonstrated proficiency and experience in at least one web development language (PHP, perl or Python). * Ability to write documentation and communicate effectively in a team environment. * Highly developed problem solving skills. Preferred * Experience with, and enthusiasm for, open source software principles, development and tools. * Drupal or other open source Content Management Systems experience. * Experience with JavaScript and JavaScript Libraries (JQuery or equivalent). * Practice working with versioning systems (Git, SVN or equivalent). * Familiarity with XML, XML schema, and XML tools (XPath, XQuery, XSL, etc.) * General knowledge of Digital Asset Management systems and library metadata standards (MARC, MODS, METS) a major plus. Responsibilities This developer works on a variety of library web applications under the guidance of a senior developer. Works in a team environment to support existing and new library applications as needed. Major responsibilities include installing, developing and/or maintaining locally-written and open source web applications. Drafts specifications, coding, testing, debugging and documenting new and existing applications (some are vendor provided). May include gathering requirements from users. Highest priority will be given to the ongoing development of the FSU Digital Library built on the Islandora platform (http://fsu.digital.flvc.org). Participating in Digital Scholarship project teams as the technical member. Monitors traffic, analyzes usage, and contributes to performance tuning and capacity planning. Performs other duties as assigned. Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/14068/
[CODE4LIB] CD auto-loader machine and/or services to rip CD's to disk
I have few thousand CD's and DVD's of images scanned back in the days of more expensive server storage. I want the files on these transferred to a hard-drive or cloud storage where I can get at the them and sort out the keepers etc. I have seen a lot of great home-built auto-loader machines, but sadly do not have time/energy right now to build my own. Looking for recommendations for machines and/or for a reliable service who will take my discs and put them a server. Thanks, Derek
[CODE4LIB] International Internet Preservation Consortium (Paris, 19-23 May) : one week left to register
Possibly of interest... -- Forwarded message -- From: Grotke, Abigail a...@loc.gov Forwarding This may be of interest to AIR folks. - Dear colleagues, The International Internet Preservation Consortium will hold its 2014 General Assembly in Paris, 19-23th May. It is jointly organized by the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Institut national de l'audiovisuel and the Internet Memory Foundation. It will take place at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, in the François-Mitterrand building. During one week, it will propose sessions open to the public - researchers, heritage professionals or website producers interested by the long term access to internet content - and sessions for IIPC members only. It will start on Monday the 19th with an open conference on the topic: Building Modern Research Corpora: the Evolution of Web Archiving and Analytics. The detailed program is available here: http://netpreserve.org/general-assembly/2014/Overview Technical and professional workshops, open to the public, will take place on Thursday 22th and Friday 23th. We invite you to register at: http://netpreserve.org/general-assembly/2014/registration Please note that for logistical reasons, registration will end on April 30th. We look forward to seeing you in Paris! For the IIPC GA organizers, Clément Oury Head of digital legal deposit, Bibliothèque nationale de France IIPC Treasurer Exposition Été 1914. Les derniers jours de l'ancien monde http://www.bnf.fr/fr/evenements_et_culture/anx_expositions/f.ete_1914.html - du 25 mars au 3 août 2014 - BnF - François-Mitterrand
Re: [CODE4LIB] barriers to open metadata?
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 11:37 PM, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com wrote: This has now instead become a reasonable recommendation concerning ODC-BY licensing [3] but the confusion and uncertainty about which records an OCLC member may redistribute remains. [3] http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/2012/201248.en.html Allow me to try to put this confusion and uncertainty to rest once and for all: ALL THE THINGS. ALL. At least as far as we are concerned. I think it's well past time to put the past in the past. That's great, Roy. That's a *lot* simpler than parsing the recommendations, WCRR, community norms, and such at [A, B] :) Meanwhile, we have just put nearly 200 million works records up as linked open data. [1], [2], [3]. If that doesn't rock the library open linked data world, then no one is paying attention. Roy [1] http://oclc.org/en-US/news/releases/2014/201414dublin.html [2] http://dataliberate.com/2014/04/worldcat-works-197-million-nuggets-of-linked-data/ [3] http://hangingtogether.org/?p=3811 Yes, that is really awesome. But Laura was asking about barriers to open metadata, so damn you for going off-topic with PR around a lack of barriers to some metadata (which, for those who have not looked yet, have a nice ODC-BY licensing statement at the bottom of a given Works page) :) A. http://oclc.org/worldcat/community/record-use.en.html B. http://oclc.org/worldcat/community/record-use/data-licensing/questions.en.html
Re: [CODE4LIB] CD auto-loader machine and/or services to rip CD's to disk
We are using a product called the Ripstation (http://www.mfdigital.com/) for this purpose. Here's a link to some of our internal training documentation on using it: https://wiki.cites.illinois.edu/wiki/display/LibraryDigitalPreservation/Using+the+Ripstation . We've found it to be a bit buggy (it tends to crash a lot) and haven't been able to troubleshoot this recurring problem with the manufacturer, but it even with this slowing us down it beats doing transfers one-by-one. Kyle On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 10:31 AM, Derek Merleaux derek.merle...@gmail.comwrote: I have few thousand CD's and DVD's of images scanned back in the days of more expensive server storage. I want the files on these transferred to a hard-drive or cloud storage where I can get at the them and sort out the keepers etc. I have seen a lot of great home-built auto-loader machines, but sadly do not have time/energy right now to build my own. Looking for recommendations for machines and/or for a reliable service who will take my discs and put them a server. Thanks, Derek -- Kyle R. Rimkus Preservation Librarian University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Re: [CODE4LIB] barriers to open metadata?
My question has to do with discoverability. Let's say that I have a bibliographic database and I want to add the OCLC work identifiers to it. Obviously I don't want to do it by hand. I might have ISBNs, but in some cases I will have a regular author/title-type citation. and let's say that I am asking this for two different institutions: a) is an OCLC member institution b) is not Thanks, kc On 4/30/14, 8:47 AM, Dan Scott wrote: On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 11:37 PM, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com wrote: This has now instead become a reasonable recommendation concerning ODC-BY licensing [3] but the confusion and uncertainty about which records an OCLC member may redistribute remains. [3] http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/2012/201248.en.html Allow me to try to put this confusion and uncertainty to rest once and for all: ALL THE THINGS. ALL. At least as far as we are concerned. I think it's well past time to put the past in the past. That's great, Roy. That's a *lot* simpler than parsing the recommendations, WCRR, community norms, and such at [A, B] :) Meanwhile, we have just put nearly 200 million works records up as linked open data. [1], [2], [3]. If that doesn't rock the library open linked data world, then no one is paying attention. Roy [1] http://oclc.org/en-US/news/releases/2014/201414dublin.html [2] http://dataliberate.com/2014/04/worldcat-works-197-million-nuggets-of-linked-data/ [3] http://hangingtogether.org/?p=3811 Yes, that is really awesome. But Laura was asking about barriers to open metadata, so damn you for going off-topic with PR around a lack of barriers to some metadata (which, for those who have not looked yet, have a nice ODC-BY licensing statement at the bottom of a given Works page) :) A. http://oclc.org/worldcat/community/record-use.en.html B. http://oclc.org/worldcat/community/record-use/data-licensing/questions.en.html -- Karen Coyle kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net m: 1-510-435-8234 skype: kcoylenet
[CODE4LIB] Job: Cataloging Unit Head at Georgia Institute of Technology
Cataloging Unit Head Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta The Georgia Tech Library invites applications for an energetic, flexible, and innovative professional to join the Collection Acquisitions Management team of the Georgia Tech Library. Georgia Institute of Technology is situated on an attractive 400-acre campus in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city. The Institute is a major public research university with premier programs in science, engineering, management, and other disciplines with an enrollment of more than 20,000 undergraduate and graduate students. Institute memberships include the Association of American Universities (AAU), the University System of Georgia, and the Georgia Research Alliance. The Georgia Tech Library is a member of the Association of Research Libraries and the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries. Its facilities include the Price Gilbert Memorial Library with an adjoining Crosland Tower, the Architecture Library, and the G. Wayne Clough Undergraduate Learning Commons. Clough Commons opened in 2011, is dedicated to student academic enrichment and innovative learning opportunities and is managed by the Library. The Library and Learning Excellence staff consists of more than 150 FTE faculty, academic professionals, and staff. Position: The Georgia Tech Library seeks a collaborative, customer-oriented and innovative librarian to take the lead role in cataloging and metadata initiatives for the Library. The Collection Acquisitions Management Department consists of four professional librarians and eleven support staff divided into an Acquisitions Unit, an Electronic Resources Unit and a Cataloging Unit. Reporting to the Head, Collection Acquisitions Management, the Cataloging Unit Head supervises approximately five support staff. This Head provides leadership, training and expertise in cataloging in a variety of metadata schemas for resources in all formats. Additionally, the Head works collaboratively with the other Units in the Department as well as with others outside the Department. The librarian in this position must participate actively in professional and scholarly activities including Library, Institute and professional committees, research and publication. Responsibilities: * Manage and supervise the ongoing work of the Cataloging Unit including original cataloging, copy cataloging, physical processing, batch loading, and database maintenance * Develop and implement procedures for new projects such as relocating materials to remote facilities, creating or acquiring records for materials digitized in house, retrospective conversions, properly preparing records for the ASERL Cooperative Journal Retention and the Collaborative Federal Depository Program projects, etc. * Solve catalog- related problems, keeping the customer experience as the most important consideration * Provide leadership in pursuing new opportunities for resource management, access and discovery (the VuFind front end, EBSCO Discovery Service, MARCit! Service and Worldcat Collection Sets are a few such tools currently in use) * Serve as the lead in exploring innovative tools and methods in streamlining processes * Work closely with Collection Development, Scholarly Communication Digital Curation Services, Information Technology Development, Emory University Libraries and other partners involved in joint projects * Provide original cataloging * Perform authority control Qualifications: Required: ALA-accredited master's degree in library and information science, or equivalent advanced degree. A minimum of two years post-MLS or paraprofessional cataloging experience in an academic, public or special library utilizing current cataloging rules and MARC formats. Experience with an ILS and a national bibliographic utility. Effective leadership skills. Effective verbal, written and presentation communication skills. A commitment to professional development. A demonstrated ability to work collaboratively in cross-functional working groups as well as independently as needed. Desired: Five years or more of related experience; Knowledge of RDA, MarcEdit, OCLC Connection, Voyager, Access, authority control, batch processing techniques; supervisory experience Salary Benefits: Appointments will be made at the Librarian I (entry-level) or Librarian II level, based on qualifications and experience. Minimum salary for Librarian I is $50,000. Librarians are members of the General Faculty and are non-tenured. The benefits package includes 21 days of vacation, 12 paid holidays, 12 days of sick leave, health/dental insurance options, and retirement options including TIAA/CREF. Visit the Georgia Tech Human Resources website to learn more about the benefits package. Application Process: Applications will be reviewed upon receipt and will be accepted until the position is filled. Candidates are urged to apply as soon as possible to receive full
Re: [CODE4LIB] barriers to open metadata?
To unpack the several questions lurking in Karen’s question.
As to being able to use the WorldCat Works data/identifiers there is no
difference between a or b - it is ODC-BY licensed data.
Getting a Work URI may be easier for a) as they should be able to identify
the OCLC Number and hence use the linked data from it’s URI
http://worldcat.org/oclc/{ocn} to pick up the link to it’s work.
Tools such as xISBN http://xisbn.worldcat.org/xisbnadmin/doc/api.htm can
step you towards identifier lookups and are openly available for low volume
usage.
Citation lookup is more a bib lookup feature, that you could get an OCLC
Number from. One of colleagues may be helpful on the particulars of this.
Apologies for being WorldCat specific, but Karen did ask.
~Richard.
On 30 April 2014 17:15, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote:
My question has to do with discoverability. Let's say that I have a
bibliographic database and I want to add the OCLC work identifiers to it.
Obviously I don't want to do it by hand. I might have ISBNs, but in some
cases I will have a regular author/title-type citation.
and let's say that I am asking this for two different institutions:
a) is an OCLC member institution
b) is not
Thanks,
kc
On 4/30/14, 8:47 AM, Dan Scott wrote:
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 11:37 PM, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com
wrote:
This has now instead become a reasonable recommendation
concerning ODC-BY licensing [3] but the confusion and uncertainty
about which records an OCLC member may redistribute remains.
[3] http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/2012/201248.en.html
Allow me to try to put this confusion and uncertainty to rest once and
for
all:
ALL THE THINGS. ALL.
At least as far as we are concerned. I think it's well past time to put
the
past in the past.
That's great, Roy. That's a *lot* simpler than parsing the
recommendations, WCRR, community norms, and such at [A, B] :)
Meanwhile, we have just put nearly 200 million works records up as linked
open data. [1], [2], [3]. If that doesn't rock the library open linked
data
world, then no one is paying attention.
Roy
[1] http://oclc.org/en-US/news/releases/2014/201414dublin.html
[2]
http://dataliberate.com/2014/04/worldcat-works-197-million-
nuggets-of-linked-data/
[3] http://hangingtogether.org/?p=3811
Yes, that is really awesome. But Laura was asking about barriers to
open metadata, so damn you for going off-topic with PR around a lack
of barriers to some metadata (which, for those who have not looked
yet, have a nice ODC-BY licensing statement at the bottom of a given
Works page) :)
A. http://oclc.org/worldcat/community/record-use.en.html
B. http://oclc.org/worldcat/community/record-use/data-
licensing/questions.en.html
--
Karen Coyle
kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net
m: 1-510-435-8234
skype: kcoylenet
--
Richard Wallis
Founder, Data Liberate
http://dataliberate.com
Tel: +44 (0)7767 886 005
Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/richardwallis
Skype: richard.wallis1
Twitter: @rjw
Re: [CODE4LIB] getting URIs, was: [CODE4LIB] barriers to open metadata?
Thanks, Richard. I ask because it's one of the most common questions
that I get -- often about WorldCat, but in general about any source of
URIs -- How do I connect my data (text forms) to their URIs? And these
questions usually come from library or archive projects with little or
no programming staff. So it seems like we need to be able to answer that
question so that people can get linked up. In fact, it seems to me that
the most pressing need right now is an easy way (or one that someone
else can do for you at a reasonable cost) to connect the text string
identifiers that we have to URIs. I envision something like what we
went through when we moved from AACR name forms to AACR2 name forms, and
libraries were able to send their MARC records to a service that
returned the records with the new name form. In this case, though, such
a service would return the data with the appropriate URIs added. (In the
case of MARC, in the $0 subfield.)
It's great that the big guys like LC and OCLC are providing URIs for
resources. But at the moment I feel like it's grapes dangling just
beyond the reach of the folks we want to connect to. Any ideas on how to
make this easy are welcome. And I do think that there's great potential
for an enterprising start-up to provide an affordable service for
libraries and archives. Of course, an open source pass in your data in
x or y format and we'll return it with URIs embedded would be great,
but I think it would be reasonable to charge for such a service.
kc
On 4/30/14, 9:59 AM, Richard Wallis wrote:
To unpack the several questions lurking in Karen’s question.
As to being able to use the WorldCat Works data/identifiers there is no
difference between a or b - it is ODC-BY licensed data.
Getting a Work URI may be easier for a) as they should be able to identify
the OCLC Number and hence use the linked data from it’s URI
http://worldcat.org/oclc/{ocn} to pick up the link to it’s work.
Tools such as xISBN http://xisbn.worldcat.org/xisbnadmin/doc/api.htm can
step you towards identifier lookups and are openly available for low volume
usage.
Citation lookup is more a bib lookup feature, that you could get an OCLC
Number from. One of colleagues may be helpful on the particulars of this.
Apologies for being WorldCat specific, but Karen did ask.
~Richard.
On 30 April 2014 17:15, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote:
My question has to do with discoverability. Let's say that I have a
bibliographic database and I want to add the OCLC work identifiers to it.
Obviously I don't want to do it by hand. I might have ISBNs, but in some
cases I will have a regular author/title-type citation.
and let's say that I am asking this for two different institutions:
a) is an OCLC member institution
b) is not
Thanks,
kc
On 4/30/14, 8:47 AM, Dan Scott wrote:
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 11:37 PM, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com
wrote:
This has now instead become a reasonable recommendation
concerning ODC-BY licensing [3] but the confusion and uncertainty
about which records an OCLC member may redistribute remains.
[3] http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/2012/201248.en.html
Allow me to try to put this confusion and uncertainty to rest once and
for
all:
ALL THE THINGS. ALL.
At least as far as we are concerned. I think it's well past time to put
the
past in the past.
That's great, Roy. That's a *lot* simpler than parsing the
recommendations, WCRR, community norms, and such at [A, B] :)
Meanwhile, we have just put nearly 200 million works records up as linked
open data. [1], [2], [3]. If that doesn't rock the library open linked
data
world, then no one is paying attention.
Roy
[1] http://oclc.org/en-US/news/releases/2014/201414dublin.html
[2]
http://dataliberate.com/2014/04/worldcat-works-197-million-
nuggets-of-linked-data/
[3] http://hangingtogether.org/?p=3811
Yes, that is really awesome. But Laura was asking about barriers to
open metadata, so damn you for going off-topic with PR around a lack
of barriers to some metadata (which, for those who have not looked
yet, have a nice ODC-BY licensing statement at the bottom of a given
Works page) :)
A. http://oclc.org/worldcat/community/record-use.en.html
B. http://oclc.org/worldcat/community/record-use/data-
licensing/questions.en.html
--
Karen Coyle
kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net
m: 1-510-435-8234
skype: kcoylenet
--
Karen Coyle
kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net
m: 1-510-435-8234
skype: kcoylenet
Re: [CODE4LIB] getting URIs, was: [CODE4LIB] barriers to open metadata?
What about OpenRefine?
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote:
Thanks, Richard. I ask because it's one of the most common questions that
I get -- often about WorldCat, but in general about any source of URIs --
How do I connect my data (text forms) to their URIs? And these questions
usually come from library or archive projects with little or no programming
staff. So it seems like we need to be able to answer that question so that
people can get linked up. In fact, it seems to me that the most pressing
need right now is an easy way (or one that someone else can do for you at a
reasonable cost) to connect the text string identifiers that we have to
URIs. I envision something like what we went through when we moved from
AACR name forms to AACR2 name forms, and libraries were able to send their
MARC records to a service that returned the records with the new name form.
In this case, though, such a service would return the data with the
appropriate URIs added. (In the case of MARC, in the $0 subfield.)
It's great that the big guys like LC and OCLC are providing URIs for
resources. But at the moment I feel like it's grapes dangling just beyond
the reach of the folks we want to connect to. Any ideas on how to make this
easy are welcome. And I do think that there's great potential for an
enterprising start-up to provide an affordable service for libraries and
archives. Of course, an open source pass in your data in x or y format and
we'll return it with URIs embedded would be great, but I think it would be
reasonable to charge for such a service.
kc
On 4/30/14, 9:59 AM, Richard Wallis wrote:
To unpack the several questions lurking in Karen’s question.
As to being able to use the WorldCat Works data/identifiers there is no
difference between a or b - it is ODC-BY licensed data.
Getting a Work URI may be easier for a) as they should be able to identify
the OCLC Number and hence use the linked data from it’s URI
http://worldcat.org/oclc/{ocn} to pick up the link to it’s work.
Tools such as xISBN http://xisbn.worldcat.org/xisbnadmin/doc/api.htm
can
step you towards identifier lookups and are openly available for low
volume
usage.
Citation lookup is more a bib lookup feature, that you could get an OCLC
Number from. One of colleagues may be helpful on the particulars of this.
Apologies for being WorldCat specific, but Karen did ask.
~Richard.
On 30 April 2014 17:15, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote:
My question has to do with discoverability. Let's say that I have a
bibliographic database and I want to add the OCLC work identifiers to it.
Obviously I don't want to do it by hand. I might have ISBNs, but in some
cases I will have a regular author/title-type citation.
and let's say that I am asking this for two different institutions:
a) is an OCLC member institution
b) is not
Thanks,
kc
On 4/30/14, 8:47 AM, Dan Scott wrote:
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 11:37 PM, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com
wrote:
This has now instead become a reasonable recommendation
concerning ODC-BY licensing [3] but the confusion and uncertainty
about which records an OCLC member may redistribute remains.
[3] http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/2012/201248.en.html
Allow me to try to put this confusion and uncertainty to rest once
and
for
all:
ALL THE THINGS. ALL.
At least as far as we are concerned. I think it's well past time to put
the
past in the past.
That's great, Roy. That's a *lot* simpler than parsing the
recommendations, WCRR, community norms, and such at [A, B] :)
Meanwhile, we have just put nearly 200 million works records up as
linked
open data. [1], [2], [3]. If that doesn't rock the library open linked
data
world, then no one is paying attention.
Roy
[1] http://oclc.org/en-US/news/releases/2014/201414dublin.html
[2]
http://dataliberate.com/2014/04/worldcat-works-197-million-
nuggets-of-linked-data/
[3] http://hangingtogether.org/?p=3811
Yes, that is really awesome. But Laura was asking about barriers to
open metadata, so damn you for going off-topic with PR around a lack
of barriers to some metadata (which, for those who have not looked
yet, have a nice ODC-BY licensing statement at the bottom of a given
Works page) :)
A. http://oclc.org/worldcat/community/record-use.en.html
B. http://oclc.org/worldcat/community/record-use/data-
licensing/questions.en.html
--
Karen Coyle
kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net
m: 1-510-435-8234
skype: kcoylenet
--
Karen Coyle
kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net
m: 1-510-435-8234
skype: kcoylenet
--
Simon Brown
simoncbr...@gmail.com
simoncharlesbrown (Skype)
831.440.7466 (Phone)
*Following our will and wind we may just go where no one's been -- MJK*
Re: [CODE4LIB] getting URIs, was: [CODE4LIB] barriers to open metadata?
If you want libraries to spend money on adding URI's to their data,
there is going to need to be some clear benefit they get from doing it
-- and it needs to be a pretty near-term benefit, not Well, some day
all these awesome things might happen, because linked data.
On 4/30/14 1:34 PM, Karen Coyle wrote:
Thanks, Richard. I ask because it's one of the most common questions
that I get -- often about WorldCat, but in general about any source of
URIs -- How do I connect my data (text forms) to their URIs? And these
questions usually come from library or archive projects with little or
no programming staff. So it seems like we need to be able to answer that
question so that people can get linked up. In fact, it seems to me that
the most pressing need right now is an easy way (or one that someone
else can do for you at a reasonable cost) to connect the text string
identifiers that we have to URIs. I envision something like what we
went through when we moved from AACR name forms to AACR2 name forms, and
libraries were able to send their MARC records to a service that
returned the records with the new name form. In this case, though, such
a service would return the data with the appropriate URIs added. (In the
case of MARC, in the $0 subfield.)
It's great that the big guys like LC and OCLC are providing URIs for
resources. But at the moment I feel like it's grapes dangling just
beyond the reach of the folks we want to connect to. Any ideas on how to
make this easy are welcome. And I do think that there's great potential
for an enterprising start-up to provide an affordable service for
libraries and archives. Of course, an open source pass in your data in
x or y format and we'll return it with URIs embedded would be great,
but I think it would be reasonable to charge for such a service.
kc
On 4/30/14, 9:59 AM, Richard Wallis wrote:
To unpack the several questions lurking in Karen’s question.
As to being able to use the WorldCat Works data/identifiers there is no
difference between a or b - it is ODC-BY licensed data.
Getting a Work URI may be easier for a) as they should be able to
identify
the OCLC Number and hence use the linked data from it’s URI
http://worldcat.org/oclc/{ocn} to pick up the link to it’s work.
Tools such as xISBN http://xisbn.worldcat.org/xisbnadmin/doc/api.htm
can
step you towards identifier lookups and are openly available for low
volume
usage.
Citation lookup is more a bib lookup feature, that you could get an OCLC
Number from. One of colleagues may be helpful on the particulars of this.
Apologies for being WorldCat specific, but Karen did ask.
~Richard.
On 30 April 2014 17:15, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote:
My question has to do with discoverability. Let's say that I have a
bibliographic database and I want to add the OCLC work identifiers to
it.
Obviously I don't want to do it by hand. I might have ISBNs, but in some
cases I will have a regular author/title-type citation.
and let's say that I am asking this for two different institutions:
a) is an OCLC member institution
b) is not
Thanks,
kc
On 4/30/14, 8:47 AM, Dan Scott wrote:
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 11:37 PM, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com
wrote:
This has now instead become a reasonable recommendation
concerning ODC-BY licensing [3] but the confusion and uncertainty
about which records an OCLC member may redistribute remains.
[3] http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/2012/201248.en.html
Allow me to try to put this confusion and uncertainty to rest once and
for
all:
ALL THE THINGS. ALL.
At least as far as we are concerned. I think it's well past time to
put
the
past in the past.
That's great, Roy. That's a *lot* simpler than parsing the
recommendations, WCRR, community norms, and such at [A, B] :)
Meanwhile, we have just put nearly 200 million works records up as
linked
open data. [1], [2], [3]. If that doesn't rock the library open linked
data
world, then no one is paying attention.
Roy
[1] http://oclc.org/en-US/news/releases/2014/201414dublin.html
[2]
http://dataliberate.com/2014/04/worldcat-works-197-million-
nuggets-of-linked-data/
[3] http://hangingtogether.org/?p=3811
Yes, that is really awesome. But Laura was asking about barriers to
open metadata, so damn you for going off-topic with PR around a lack
of barriers to some metadata (which, for those who have not looked
yet, have a nice ODC-BY licensing statement at the bottom of a given
Works page) :)
A. http://oclc.org/worldcat/community/record-use.en.html
B. http://oclc.org/worldcat/community/record-use/data-
licensing/questions.en.html
--
Karen Coyle
kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net
m: 1-510-435-8234
skype: kcoylenet
[CODE4LIB] Job: Librarian, Archivist at Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University
Librarian, Archivist at Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Yale University New Haven Yale University offers exciting opportunities for achievement and growth in New Haven, Connecticut. Conveniently located between Boston and New York, New Haven is the creative capital of Connecticut with cultural resources that include two major art museums, a critically-acclaimed repertory theater, state-of-the-art concert hall, and world-renowned schools of Architecture, Art, Drama, and Music. **Position Focus:** Under the supervision of the Head of Processing in the Manuscript Unit of the Beinecke Library, processes and catalogs archival and manuscript material, in the fields of American and modern European literature, history, and the humanities from the eighteenth through the twenty-first centuries. Prepares finding aids according to established local practice, including encoding in EAD. Performs original cataloging in the MARC format for the library's online catalog. Plans, directs, and reviews work of processing assistants and student assistants. Assists in the preservation assessment of collections and in the selection of materials for conservation treatment. Assists in the ongoing development of the unit's processing and cataloging procedures for archival collections. Completes special projects as assigned. Participates in Library- wide planning and committee activities, and is expected to be active professionally. The Manuscript Unit is a division of Technical Services. The Manuscript Unit supports the Beinecke Library's robust acquisition program and is responsible for the accessioning, processing, and cataloging of Beinecke's manuscript collections. The manuscript collections range from papyrus and medieval manuscripts to twenty-first century literary archives. In addition to literary and historical manuscripts, formats include photography and artwork, audio and moving image recordings, digital files, and music. The Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library is Yale's principal repository for literary archives, early manuscripts, and rare books. Its collections are internationally known and heavily used by scholars. In addition to distinguished general collections, the library houses outstanding special collections devoted to British literary and historical manuscripts, American literature, German literature, and Western Americana. For further information about the Beinecke Library, please consult the library's web site at: http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke. **Required Education, Skills and Experience:** • Master's degree from an ALA-accredited library school or equivalent accredited degree, or a post-graduate degree in museum studies or a related discipline in the humanities or social sciences, and up to two years of related experience. Formal training in archival theory and practice. Demonstrated knowledge of archival theory and practice may be substituted for formal training. • Demonstrated knowledge of current national data content and structure standards related to the archival control of collection materials. • Demonstrated knowledge of archival and library management systems. • Demonstrated job or school experience with basic preservation and conservation standards for archival and manuscript collections. • Strong knowledge of American or modern European history or literature, and broad knowledge in the humanities, as demonstrated through academic degrees, training or experience. Good reading knowledge of at least one modern European language.Demonstrated ability to process or catalog manuscript and archival collections. • Preferred: Experience processing literary manuscripts and archival collections. Experience processing and cataloging visual materials, especially photographs. Graduate-level training in American or European history or literature. The University and the Library The Yale University Library, as one of the world's leading research libraries, collects, organizes, preserves, and provides access to and services for a rich and unique record of human thought and creativity. It fosters intellectual growth and supports the teaching and research missions of Yale University and scholarly communities worldwide. A distinctive strength is its rich spectrum of resources, including around 12.8 million volumes and information in all media, ranging from ancient papyri to early printed books to electronic databases. The Library is engaging in numerous projects to expand access to its physical and digital collections. Housed in eighteen buildings including the Sterling Memorial Library, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, and the Bass Library, it employs a dynamic and diverse staff of approximately five hundred who offer innovative and flexible services to library readers. For additional information on the Yale University Library, please visit the Library's web site at www.library.yale.edu. **Salary and Benefits:** We invite you to
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Re: [CODE4LIB] getting URIs, was: [CODE4LIB] barriers to open metadata?
Jonathan, I think we can point to some interesting benefits. If you take
a look at what the BBC has done with their Wildlife site [1] and then
look at the new FAO catalog [2] you can see how a page can be enhanced
with useful data based on URIs in the bibliographic records. Imagine
being able to add the short author bio from Wikipedia to a record
display. etc. etc. [3] Or linking from a person as subject to the New
York times data page for that person. [4]
Now, I know that your reply will be: but only if the vendors do it.
Well, godammnit, we sure as hell can't wait for them - they are
followers, not leaders. (And maybe this will give a boost to OS catalogs
that don't have to wait for the unwieldy barge of library systems to
make its change of direction.)
Note also that linked data is already happening in libraries in Europe,
and the entire Europeana and DPLA are being developed as LD databases.
This isn't some far out future nuttiness. We're actually running behind.
kc
[1] http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/sweo/public/UseCases/BBC/
[2] Info: http://aims.fao.org/agris; search interface:
http://agris.fao.org/agris-search/index.do
[3] try this out in: https://apps.facebook.com/WorldCat/
[4] http://data.nytimes.com/N20483401082089183163 (R. Nixon) which links
to page with a huge list of articles
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/n/richard_milhous_nixon/index.html
On 4/30/14, 11:13 AM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote:
If you want libraries to spend money on adding URI's to their data,
there is going to need to be some clear benefit they get from doing it
-- and it needs to be a pretty near-term benefit, not Well, some day
all these awesome things might happen, because linked data.
On 4/30/14 1:34 PM, Karen Coyle wrote:
Thanks, Richard. I ask because it's one of the most common questions
that I get -- often about WorldCat, but in general about any source of
URIs -- How do I connect my data (text forms) to their URIs? And these
questions usually come from library or archive projects with little or
no programming staff. So it seems like we need to be able to answer that
question so that people can get linked up. In fact, it seems to me that
the most pressing need right now is an easy way (or one that someone
else can do for you at a reasonable cost) to connect the text string
identifiers that we have to URIs. I envision something like what we
went through when we moved from AACR name forms to AACR2 name forms, and
libraries were able to send their MARC records to a service that
returned the records with the new name form. In this case, though, such
a service would return the data with the appropriate URIs added. (In the
case of MARC, in the $0 subfield.)
It's great that the big guys like LC and OCLC are providing URIs for
resources. But at the moment I feel like it's grapes dangling just
beyond the reach of the folks we want to connect to. Any ideas on how to
make this easy are welcome. And I do think that there's great potential
for an enterprising start-up to provide an affordable service for
libraries and archives. Of course, an open source pass in your data in
x or y format and we'll return it with URIs embedded would be great,
but I think it would be reasonable to charge for such a service.
kc
On 4/30/14, 9:59 AM, Richard Wallis wrote:
To unpack the several questions lurking in Karen’s question.
As to being able to use the WorldCat Works data/identifiers there is no
difference between a or b - it is ODC-BY licensed data.
Getting a Work URI may be easier for a) as they should be able to
identify
the OCLC Number and hence use the linked data from it’s URI
http://worldcat.org/oclc/{ocn} to pick up the link to it’s work.
Tools such as xISBN http://xisbn.worldcat.org/xisbnadmin/doc/api.htm
can
step you towards identifier lookups and are openly available for low
volume
usage.
Citation lookup is more a bib lookup feature, that you could get an
OCLC
Number from. One of colleagues may be helpful on the particulars of
this.
Apologies for being WorldCat specific, but Karen did ask.
~Richard.
On 30 April 2014 17:15, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote:
My question has to do with discoverability. Let's say that I have a
bibliographic database and I want to add the OCLC work identifiers to
it.
Obviously I don't want to do it by hand. I might have ISBNs, but in
some
cases I will have a regular author/title-type citation.
and let's say that I am asking this for two different institutions:
a) is an OCLC member institution
b) is not
Thanks,
kc
On 4/30/14, 8:47 AM, Dan Scott wrote:
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 11:37 PM, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com
wrote:
This has now instead become a reasonable recommendation
concerning ODC-BY licensing [3] but the confusion and uncertainty
about which records an OCLC member may redistribute remains.
[3] http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/2012/201248.en.html
Allow me to try to put this confusion and uncertainty to rest
Re: [CODE4LIB] getting URIs, was: [CODE4LIB] barriers to open metadata?
Obviously openRefine will be used in many applications, but you've got
to get your data TO openrefine, and you've got to do some programming to
do that, and then to return the data to however you store it. OpenRefine
is a great tool, but not a complete solution, IMO.
kc
On 4/30/14, 10:47 AM, Simon Brown wrote:
What about OpenRefine?
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 10:34 AM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote:
Thanks, Richard. I ask because it's one of the most common questions that
I get -- often about WorldCat, but in general about any source of URIs --
How do I connect my data (text forms) to their URIs? And these questions
usually come from library or archive projects with little or no programming
staff. So it seems like we need to be able to answer that question so that
people can get linked up. In fact, it seems to me that the most pressing
need right now is an easy way (or one that someone else can do for you at a
reasonable cost) to connect the text string identifiers that we have to
URIs. I envision something like what we went through when we moved from
AACR name forms to AACR2 name forms, and libraries were able to send their
MARC records to a service that returned the records with the new name form.
In this case, though, such a service would return the data with the
appropriate URIs added. (In the case of MARC, in the $0 subfield.)
It's great that the big guys like LC and OCLC are providing URIs for
resources. But at the moment I feel like it's grapes dangling just beyond
the reach of the folks we want to connect to. Any ideas on how to make this
easy are welcome. And I do think that there's great potential for an
enterprising start-up to provide an affordable service for libraries and
archives. Of course, an open source pass in your data in x or y format and
we'll return it with URIs embedded would be great, but I think it would be
reasonable to charge for such a service.
kc
On 4/30/14, 9:59 AM, Richard Wallis wrote:
To unpack the several questions lurking in Karen’s question.
As to being able to use the WorldCat Works data/identifiers there is no
difference between a or b - it is ODC-BY licensed data.
Getting a Work URI may be easier for a) as they should be able to identify
the OCLC Number and hence use the linked data from it’s URI
http://worldcat.org/oclc/{ocn} to pick up the link to it’s work.
Tools such as xISBN http://xisbn.worldcat.org/xisbnadmin/doc/api.htm
can
step you towards identifier lookups and are openly available for low
volume
usage.
Citation lookup is more a bib lookup feature, that you could get an OCLC
Number from. One of colleagues may be helpful on the particulars of this.
Apologies for being WorldCat specific, but Karen did ask.
~Richard.
On 30 April 2014 17:15, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote:
My question has to do with discoverability. Let's say that I have a
bibliographic database and I want to add the OCLC work identifiers to it.
Obviously I don't want to do it by hand. I might have ISBNs, but in some
cases I will have a regular author/title-type citation.
and let's say that I am asking this for two different institutions:
a) is an OCLC member institution
b) is not
Thanks,
kc
On 4/30/14, 8:47 AM, Dan Scott wrote:
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 11:37 PM, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com
wrote:
This has now instead become a reasonable recommendation
concerning ODC-BY licensing [3] but the confusion and uncertainty
about which records an OCLC member may redistribute remains.
[3] http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/2012/201248.en.html
Allow me to try to put this confusion and uncertainty to rest once
and
for
all:
ALL THE THINGS. ALL.
At least as far as we are concerned. I think it's well past time to put
the
past in the past.
That's great, Roy. That's a *lot* simpler than parsing the
recommendations, WCRR, community norms, and such at [A, B] :)
Meanwhile, we have just put nearly 200 million works records up as
linked
open data. [1], [2], [3]. If that doesn't rock the library open linked
data
world, then no one is paying attention.
Roy
[1] http://oclc.org/en-US/news/releases/2014/201414dublin.html
[2]
http://dataliberate.com/2014/04/worldcat-works-197-million-
nuggets-of-linked-data/
[3] http://hangingtogether.org/?p=3811
Yes, that is really awesome. But Laura was asking about barriers to
open metadata, so damn you for going off-topic with PR around a lack
of barriers to some metadata (which, for those who have not looked
yet, have a nice ODC-BY licensing statement at the bottom of a given
Works page) :)
A. http://oclc.org/worldcat/community/record-use.en.html
B. http://oclc.org/worldcat/community/record-use/data-
licensing/questions.en.html
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m: 1-510-435-8234
skype: kcoylenet
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m: 1-510-435-8234
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skype: kcoylenet
Re: [CODE4LIB] getting URIs, was: [CODE4LIB] barriers to open metadata?
Jonathan,
Different communities have different benefits.
1. Library catalogers, at least, seem sold on the idea of using URIs if
they can then populate the display value of fields with strings. I've been
giving them this scenario for about 4 years now, and they're sold. This
would simplify the tasks of cleaning up old metadata records and updating
subject headings, etc. The question is how to accomplish this given the
constraints of existing systems and content standards. Maintain two
systems, one for input and one for display, pushing data from one to the
other with a export -- normalize -- import routine? Not viable for most
institutions. So, near-term in theory, pie-in-the-sky in reality.
2. The benefits to metadata aggregators seem obvious; if the aggregators
can access the linked data form of the records, it greatly simplifies data
pre-processing. Near-term in theory, but only if enough individual
institutions participate. I have no idea where the tipping point on that
would be. But see #1 for the problem of getting the linked data.
3. The benefits to researchers are longer-term and less defined in my
mind. Improved ability to explore data aggregations is the primary one I
can think of.
4. The benefits to other users are the ones that seem most nebulous. I
don't even have data on whether people use Semantic Web-enabled tools like
Google's Knowledge Graph or how much value they perceive in rich snippets.
Google apparently thinks there's value, because apparently they spend a lot
of time adding schema.org markup to their index to enable snippets (
http://searchengineland.com/schema-markup-shows-36-google-search-results-almost-websites-use-study-189707
).
Danielle
--
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dcplumer associates
danie...@dcplumer.com
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 1:13 PM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote:
If you want libraries to spend money on adding URI's to their data, there
is going to need to be some clear benefit they get from doing it -- and it
needs to be a pretty near-term benefit, not Well, some day all these
awesome things might happen, because linked data.
On 4/30/14 1:34 PM, Karen Coyle wrote:
Thanks, Richard. I ask because it's one of the most common questions
that I get -- often about WorldCat, but in general about any source of
URIs -- How do I connect my data (text forms) to their URIs? And these
questions usually come from library or archive projects with little or
no programming staff. So it seems like we need to be able to answer that
question so that people can get linked up. In fact, it seems to me that
the most pressing need right now is an easy way (or one that someone
else can do for you at a reasonable cost) to connect the text string
identifiers that we have to URIs. I envision something like what we
went through when we moved from AACR name forms to AACR2 name forms, and
libraries were able to send their MARC records to a service that
returned the records with the new name form. In this case, though, such
a service would return the data with the appropriate URIs added. (In the
case of MARC, in the $0 subfield.)
It's great that the big guys like LC and OCLC are providing URIs for
resources. But at the moment I feel like it's grapes dangling just
beyond the reach of the folks we want to connect to. Any ideas on how to
make this easy are welcome. And I do think that there's great potential
for an enterprising start-up to provide an affordable service for
libraries and archives. Of course, an open source pass in your data in
x or y format and we'll return it with URIs embedded would be great,
but I think it would be reasonable to charge for such a service.
kc
On 4/30/14, 9:59 AM, Richard Wallis wrote:
To unpack the several questions lurking in Karen’s question.
As to being able to use the WorldCat Works data/identifiers there is no
difference between a or b - it is ODC-BY licensed data.
Getting a Work URI may be easier for a) as they should be able to
identify
the OCLC Number and hence use the linked data from it’s URI
http://worldcat.org/oclc/{ocn} to pick up the link to it’s work.
Tools such as xISBN http://xisbn.worldcat.org/xisbnadmin/doc/api.htm
can
step you towards identifier lookups and are openly available for low
volume
usage.
Citation lookup is more a bib lookup feature, that you could get an OCLC
Number from. One of colleagues may be helpful on the particulars of this.
Apologies for being WorldCat specific, but Karen did ask.
~Richard.
On 30 April 2014 17:15, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote:
My question has to do with discoverability. Let's say that I have a
bibliographic database and I want to add the OCLC work identifiers to
it.
Obviously I don't want to do it by hand. I might have ISBNs, but in some
cases I will have a regular author/title-type citation.
and let's say that I am asking this for two different
Re: [CODE4LIB] barriers to open metadata?
Also, this:
OCLC identifiers, and Linked Data URIs, are always in the public domain.
Independent of the data and/or information content (which may be subject to
individual licensing terms open or otherwise) that they identify, or link
to, OCLC identifiers (e.g. OCLC Numbers, VIAF IDs, or WorldCat Work URIs)
can be treated as if they are in the public domain and can be included in
any data exposure mechanism or activity as public domain data.
http://www.oclc.org/developer/develop/linked-data.en.html
Roy
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Richard Wallis
richard.wal...@dataliberate.com wrote:
To unpack the several questions lurking in Karen’s question.
As to being able to use the WorldCat Works data/identifiers there is no
difference between a or b - it is ODC-BY licensed data.
Getting a Work URI may be easier for a) as they should be able to identify
the OCLC Number and hence use the linked data from it’s URI
http://worldcat.org/oclc/{ocn} to pick up the link to it’s work.
Tools such as xISBN http://xisbn.worldcat.org/xisbnadmin/doc/api.htm can
step you towards identifier lookups and are openly available for low volume
usage.
Citation lookup is more a bib lookup feature, that you could get an OCLC
Number from. One of colleagues may be helpful on the particulars of this.
Apologies for being WorldCat specific, but Karen did ask.
~Richard.
On 30 April 2014 17:15, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote:
My question has to do with discoverability. Let's say that I have a
bibliographic database and I want to add the OCLC work identifiers to it.
Obviously I don't want to do it by hand. I might have ISBNs, but in some
cases I will have a regular author/title-type citation.
and let's say that I am asking this for two different institutions:
a) is an OCLC member institution
b) is not
Thanks,
kc
On 4/30/14, 8:47 AM, Dan Scott wrote:
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 11:37 PM, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com
wrote:
This has now instead become a reasonable recommendation
concerning ODC-BY licensing [3] but the confusion and uncertainty
about which records an OCLC member may redistribute remains.
[3] http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/2012/201248.en.html
Allow me to try to put this confusion and uncertainty to rest once and
for
all:
ALL THE THINGS. ALL.
At least as far as we are concerned. I think it's well past time to put
the
past in the past.
That's great, Roy. That's a *lot* simpler than parsing the
recommendations, WCRR, community norms, and such at [A, B] :)
Meanwhile, we have just put nearly 200 million works records up as
linked
open data. [1], [2], [3]. If that doesn't rock the library open linked
data
world, then no one is paying attention.
Roy
[1] http://oclc.org/en-US/news/releases/2014/201414dublin.html
[2]
http://dataliberate.com/2014/04/worldcat-works-197-million-
nuggets-of-linked-data/
[3] http://hangingtogether.org/?p=3811
Yes, that is really awesome. But Laura was asking about barriers to
open metadata, so damn you for going off-topic with PR around a lack
of barriers to some metadata (which, for those who have not looked
yet, have a nice ODC-BY licensing statement at the bottom of a given
Works page) :)
A. http://oclc.org/worldcat/community/record-use.en.html
B. http://oclc.org/worldcat/community/record-use/data-
licensing/questions.en.html
--
Karen Coyle
kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net
m: 1-510-435-8234
skype: kcoylenet
--
Richard Wallis
Founder, Data Liberate
http://dataliberate.com
Tel: +44 (0)7767 886 005
Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/richardwallis
Skype: richard.wallis1
Twitter: @rjw
[CODE4LIB] Job: Head, Beinecke Library Digital Services Unit (Librarian 2-4) at Yale University
Head, Beinecke Library Digital Services Unit (Librarian 2-4) Yale University New Haven Yale University invites applications for the position of Head, Beinecke Library Digital Services Unit. Under the direction of the Head of Technical Services and working in close collaboration with units across the Beinecke Library and the Yale University Library, the Head of Beinecke Digital Services leads a newly formed Digital Services Unit. As such, the Head coordinates the Beinecke Library's digitization program, its digital projects, and its user experience initiatives to enhance access to and use of Beinecke Library and its collections, including the Beinecke Digital Library, collection web pages, and online exhibits. The Head leads the investigation, development, and implementation of metadata and digitization workflows and standards as well as user interfaces and tools that affect the user experience. The Head of Beinecke Digital Services is responsible for integrating two units, the Digital Projects Metadata Unit and the Digital Studio, into a single cohesive unit. The Head supervises the work of three senior photographers and three metadata catalog assistants to coordinate metadata creation, digitization, and quality control activities. Leadership of user experience development requires collaboration across Beinecke and University library departments. The Head participates in the Beinecke's Technical Services Management Group to develop technical services strategies, policies, and procedures for the Beinecke Library. The Head liaises with the Yale University Library's Information Technology and Digital Initiatives departments and works collaboratively with Yale University Library staff. The Head may represent the Beinecke within Yale University Library and nationally and internationally in discussions and committees pertaining to user experience initiatives, metadata, and digitization at Yale and is active professionally. Requirements include: Master's degree from an ALA-accredited library school or a post-graduate degree in a related discipline and two or more years of related experience. Qualified candidates will have a demonstrated knowledge of current national and international metadata content and structure standards related to library and archival control of collection materials; knowledge of library digitization standards and practices; project management skills; excellent supervisory and leadership abilities. For more information and immediate consideration, please apply online at www.Yale.edu/jobs. The STARS requisition ID for this position is 25103BR. AA/EEO - M/F/Disability/Veteran Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/14131/
Re: [CODE4LIB] CD auto-loader machine and/or services to rip CD's to disk
On Apr 30, 2014, at 11:31 AM, Derek Merleaux wrote: I have few thousand CD's and DVD's of images scanned back in the days of more expensive server storage. I want the files on these transferred to a hard-drive or cloud storage where I can get at the them and sort out the keepers etc. I have seen a lot of great home-built auto-loader machines, but sadly do not have time/energy right now to build my own. Looking for recommendations for machines and/or for a reliable service who will take my discs and put them a server. Summer interns. Well, I guess it depends on just how many thousands it is. I'm actually surprised that there aren't any groups renting these sorts of things out -- most efforts like this (or film scanning, book scanning, etc), are generally an effort that might run for a year or two, and the gear isn't needed anymore.* You'd think there'd be a market for folks to share the costs... find three groups looking to do the scanning, share the up-front costs and then pass it from place to place. I think that IMLS has given grants for these sorts of efforts... but if they could help match up equipment to groups that needed it, they might be able to get better results for each dollar spent. -Joe * Unless some item isn't discovered 'til later.
[CODE4LIB] Job: Librarian/Data Management Administrator at Optometrists Association Australia
Librarian/Data Management Administrator Optometrists Association Australia Carlton Optometrists Association Australia (OAA) is the peak professional body for Australian optometrists and is committed to assisting optometrists deliver quality eye and vision care services across Australia. We are looking for a friendly and efficient individual to join our team as a part-time short term role at the Optometrists Association Australia, based in Carlton or Canberra. The successful person will have Data Management expertise and/or the ability to research the appropriate system for implementation at OAA. The key aspects of the role are : To develop a policy for material to be filed and/or archived for historical purpose To design a structure for OAA National Office's on-line Data Management System To design a naming convention for folders and files across the current network To scope authorisation requirements for management of data Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/14084/
[CODE4LIB] Job: Student Intern, Digital Media Lab at Kitchener Public Library
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[CODE4LIB] Job: Lead Software Architect at ProQuest
Lead Software Architect ProQuest Seattle The Lead Software Architect will draw upon their technical skills and rigorous design methodology to consistently yield the right level of technical design documentation and develop technical solutions that conform both to customer requirements and software development standards. Some of what you'll be doing: Review, cost and design optimized software designs based on rigorous understanding of costs and returns Participate and recommend prioritization through the project implementation process Hands-on development may be required to demonstrate component selection and prototyping Assist in problem resolution and support the development team through consultation and problem research Utilize understanding of industry software trends to innovate and provide new project/product ideas within the investment lifecycle Participate in governance mechanisms and ensure that deliveries exceed governance standards Communicating software concepts to all levels of management Address software reusability Ensure that expected application quality attribute levels are achieved What you'll have experience doing: Bachelors' degree in Computer Science or related field, plus 10+ years' related experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience Ability to act as a key member of project team and provide leadership in both application design and development Proven oral and written communication and presentation skills Strong relationship development with all primary and secondary stakeholders Detail-oriented with excellent analytical and problem solving skills Work as equals with engineering/development staff for optimal design/delivery Significant experience with coding in multiple languages Excellent problem solving skills, including the ability to analyze, compare, evaluate, reconcile and order data Ability to professionally interact with a diverse blend of personalities to reach resolution and maintain strong relationships Skilled in Agile development methodologies (including unit testing and continuous integration) Experience with all elements of change control Experience with all major forms of quality assurance Preferred experience with leading project teams including the development of project management deliverables Experience in developing project scoping and scaling deliverables Strong software engineering process skills Strong verbal and written presentation skills Proven capacity to work independently and manage multiple, competing demands Able to take high level requirements and develop software architecture and code with minimum supervision Experience in delegating work to others as well as experience in mentoring team members Requires specific experience with particular software platforms including Java, Python or Perl, MySQL, XQuery/Xpath, Solr, Lucene, Linux/Unix, and other popular open source technologies Bonus Points! MS degree in Computer Science or related field Participation in several full system implementation life-cycles (analyze, design, build, test, implement, support) Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; strong analytical skills and a demonstrable bias toward action Ability to deal with ambiguity and thrive in a rapidly changing environment Here's what you want to know about the Seattle office Fantastic people: Where smart is the norm and unique is welcome Fun location: Coffee houses, restaurants and right across the street from Fremont's best pub Great benefits: Plus some unique stuff like monthly transportation subsidy, on-site events, flexible scheduling and wellness programs Awesome office environment: Nice office, jeans are the norm and (well behaved) Fido is welcome Amazing company: Annual compensation reviews, generous bonuses, and active Green Team and good morale About ProQuest ProQuest connects people with vetted, reliable information. We provide seamless access to and navigation of more than 125 billion digital pages of the world's scholarship, delivering it to the desktop and into the workflow of serious researchers in multiple fields, from arts, literature, and social science to general reference, business, science, technology, and medicine. The company is currently rolling out the all-new ProQuest® platform, which moves beyond navigation to empower researchers to use, create, and share content-- accelerating research productivity. If this position isn't quite your fit, check out our other positions posted on our Career page under About Us. ProQuest's corporate office is located in Ann Arbor, MI. www.Proquest.com Brought to you by code4lib jobs: http://jobs.code4lib.org/job/14132/
Re: [CODE4LIB] barriers to open metadata?
Roy, the question that I have is, as I say below, about DISCOVERABILITY
of URIs, not intellectual property issues. It's great that there are
lots of URIs for useful things out in the world, but they don't jump
into your data store on their own through some kind of magic. To me, the
big problem today is that of populating legacy data with useful
identifiers. I know that some folks have worked at making connections
between subject headings in their catalog and the URIs available through
id.loc.gov - and as I recall, it turns out to be fairly frustrating. It
seems to be that the solution to this is that providers of URIs and
users of URIs have to both make an effort to meet half-way, or at a
mutally convenient location. It simply is not enough to say: Hey, look!
I've got all of these URIs. Good luck! So let's talk about how we make
that connection.
kc
On 4/30/14, 1:17 PM, Roy Tennant wrote:
Also, this:
OCLC identifiers, and Linked Data URIs, are always in the public domain.
Independent of the data and/or information content (which may be subject to
individual licensing terms open or otherwise) that they identify, or link
to, OCLC identifiers (e.g. OCLC Numbers, VIAF IDs, or WorldCat Work URIs)
can be treated as if they are in the public domain and can be included in
any data exposure mechanism or activity as public domain data.
http://www.oclc.org/developer/develop/linked-data.en.html
Roy
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Richard Wallis
richard.wal...@dataliberate.com wrote:
To unpack the several questions lurking in Karen’s question.
As to being able to use the WorldCat Works data/identifiers there is no
difference between a or b - it is ODC-BY licensed data.
Getting a Work URI may be easier for a) as they should be able to identify
the OCLC Number and hence use the linked data from it’s URI
http://worldcat.org/oclc/{ocn} to pick up the link to it’s work.
Tools such as xISBN http://xisbn.worldcat.org/xisbnadmin/doc/api.htm can
step you towards identifier lookups and are openly available for low volume
usage.
Citation lookup is more a bib lookup feature, that you could get an OCLC
Number from. One of colleagues may be helpful on the particulars of this.
Apologies for being WorldCat specific, but Karen did ask.
~Richard.
On 30 April 2014 17:15, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote:
My question has to do with discoverability. Let's say that I have a
bibliographic database and I want to add the OCLC work identifiers to it.
Obviously I don't want to do it by hand. I might have ISBNs, but in some
cases I will have a regular author/title-type citation.
and let's say that I am asking this for two different institutions:
a) is an OCLC member institution
b) is not
Thanks,
kc
On 4/30/14, 8:47 AM, Dan Scott wrote:
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 11:37 PM, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com
wrote:
This has now instead become a reasonable recommendation
concerning ODC-BY licensing [3] but the confusion and uncertainty
about which records an OCLC member may redistribute remains.
[3] http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/2012/201248.en.html
Allow me to try to put this confusion and uncertainty to rest once and
for
all:
ALL THE THINGS. ALL.
At least as far as we are concerned. I think it's well past time to put
the
past in the past.
That's great, Roy. That's a *lot* simpler than parsing the
recommendations, WCRR, community norms, and such at [A, B] :)
Meanwhile, we have just put nearly 200 million works records up as
linked
open data. [1], [2], [3]. If that doesn't rock the library open linked
data
world, then no one is paying attention.
Roy
[1] http://oclc.org/en-US/news/releases/2014/201414dublin.html
[2]
http://dataliberate.com/2014/04/worldcat-works-197-million-
nuggets-of-linked-data/
[3] http://hangingtogether.org/?p=3811
Yes, that is really awesome. But Laura was asking about barriers to
open metadata, so damn you for going off-topic with PR around a lack
of barriers to some metadata (which, for those who have not looked
yet, have a nice ODC-BY licensing statement at the bottom of a given
Works page) :)
A. http://oclc.org/worldcat/community/record-use.en.html
B. http://oclc.org/worldcat/community/record-use/data-
licensing/questions.en.html
--
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kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net
m: 1-510-435-8234
skype: kcoylenet
--
Richard Wallis
Founder, Data Liberate
http://dataliberate.com
Tel: +44 (0)7767 886 005
Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/richardwallis
Skype: richard.wallis1
Twitter: @rjw
--
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kco...@kcoyle.net http://kcoyle.net
m: 1-510-435-8234
skype: kcoylenet
Re: [CODE4LIB] barriers to open metadata?
Richard covered the options pretty well from our perspective. That is, if
you have an OCLC number in hand you are in really good shape, and can use
software to make appropriate linkages. If you don't have an OCLC number,
then it is (as I have experienced myself) pretty much a world of hurt.
You *might* be able to use xISBN to find one an OCLC number to try, but of
course that's only good for a part of the collections of many libraries. If
you are doing a title/author search, then lord help you. I don't know how
you could make appropriate decisions on which item to use from a software
perspective. Take the first hit? You could see how that works.
In the end there may need to be reconciliation services just like we had
similar services in the card-catalog-to-digital years.
Roy
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote:
Roy, the question that I have is, as I say below, about DISCOVERABILITY of
URIs, not intellectual property issues. It's great that there are lots of
URIs for useful things out in the world, but they don't jump into your data
store on their own through some kind of magic. To me, the big problem today
is that of populating legacy data with useful identifiers. I know that some
folks have worked at making connections between subject headings in their
catalog and the URIs available through id.loc.gov - and as I recall, it
turns out to be fairly frustrating. It seems to be that the solution to
this is that providers of URIs and users of URIs have to both make an
effort to meet half-way, or at a mutally convenient location. It simply is
not enough to say: Hey, look! I've got all of these URIs. Good luck! So
let's talk about how we make that connection.
kc
On 4/30/14, 1:17 PM, Roy Tennant wrote:
Also, this:
OCLC identifiers, and Linked Data URIs, are always in the public domain.
Independent of the data and/or information content (which may be subject
to
individual licensing terms open or otherwise) that they identify, or link
to, OCLC identifiers (e.g. OCLC Numbers, VIAF IDs, or WorldCat Work URIs)
can be treated as if they are in the public domain and can be included in
any data exposure mechanism or activity as public domain data.
http://www.oclc.org/developer/develop/linked-data.en.html
Roy
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Richard Wallis
richard.wal...@dataliberate.com wrote:
To unpack the several questions lurking in Karen’s question.
As to being able to use the WorldCat Works data/identifiers there is no
difference between a or b - it is ODC-BY licensed data.
Getting a Work URI may be easier for a) as they should be able to
identify
the OCLC Number and hence use the linked data from it’s URI
http://worldcat.org/oclc/{ocn} to pick up the link to it’s work.
Tools such as xISBN http://xisbn.worldcat.org/xisbnadmin/doc/api.htm
can
step you towards identifier lookups and are openly available for low
volume
usage.
Citation lookup is more a bib lookup feature, that you could get an OCLC
Number from. One of colleagues may be helpful on the particulars of this.
Apologies for being WorldCat specific, but Karen did ask.
~Richard.
On 30 April 2014 17:15, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote:
My question has to do with discoverability. Let's say that I have a
bibliographic database and I want to add the OCLC work identifiers to
it.
Obviously I don't want to do it by hand. I might have ISBNs, but in some
cases I will have a regular author/title-type citation.
and let's say that I am asking this for two different institutions:
a) is an OCLC member institution
b) is not
Thanks,
kc
On 4/30/14, 8:47 AM, Dan Scott wrote:
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 11:37 PM, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com
wrote:
This has now instead become a reasonable recommendation
concerning ODC-BY licensing [3] but the confusion and uncertainty
about which records an OCLC member may redistribute remains.
[3] http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/2012/201248.en.html
Allow me to try to put this confusion and uncertainty to rest once
and
for
all:
ALL THE THINGS. ALL.
At least as far as we are concerned. I think it's well past time to
put
the
past in the past.
That's great, Roy. That's a *lot* simpler than parsing the
recommendations, WCRR, community norms, and such at [A, B] :)
Meanwhile, we have just put nearly 200 million works records up as
linked
open data. [1], [2], [3]. If that doesn't rock the library open linked
data
world, then no one is paying attention.
Roy
[1] http://oclc.org/en-US/news/releases/2014/201414dublin.html
[2]
http://dataliberate.com/2014/04/worldcat-works-197-million-
nuggets-of-linked-data/
[3] http://hangingtogether.org/?p=3811
Yes, that is really awesome. But Laura was asking about barriers to
open metadata, so damn you for going off-topic with PR around a lack
of barriers to some metadata (which, for those who have not looked
yet, have a nice ODC-BY licensing
Re: [CODE4LIB] barriers to open metadata?
Karen,
There are tools out there, like the OpenRefine[1], and specifically the
Reconciliation Service API's [2] which can be built to interact with it,
which are meant to help solve this problem. For instance, the there is a
third-party VIAF Reconciliation service [3] built on top of the VIAF API
which will take a plain text name of a person and try to find a VIAF URI
for it. There are a lot of ways that Reconciliation Service could be
improved,and creating an in-house version that really leverages the data in
VIAF to work with OpenRefine's methods could be a fantastic example of how
a data provider like OCLC can meet owners of legacy data more than
half-way. Just making the data (and and API) available was already half-way
because it allowed the community to innovate with it. If they can take the
next step, FANTASTIC, but if they don't I'm not holding it against them.
Best,
Chad
1 - http://openrefine.org/
2 - https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/wiki/Reconciliation-Service-API
3-
http://iphylo.blogspot.com/2013/04/reconciling-author-names-using-open.html
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 8:53 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote:
Roy, the question that I have is, as I say below, about DISCOVERABILITY of
URIs, not intellectual property issues. It's great that there are lots of
URIs for useful things out in the world, but they don't jump into your data
store on their own through some kind of magic. To me, the big problem today
is that of populating legacy data with useful identifiers. I know that some
folks have worked at making connections between subject headings in their
catalog and the URIs available through id.loc.gov - and as I recall, it
turns out to be fairly frustrating. It seems to be that the solution to
this is that providers of URIs and users of URIs have to both make an
effort to meet half-way, or at a mutally convenient location. It simply is
not enough to say: Hey, look! I've got all of these URIs. Good luck! So
let's talk about how we make that connection.
kc
On 4/30/14, 1:17 PM, Roy Tennant wrote:
Also, this:
OCLC identifiers, and Linked Data URIs, are always in the public domain.
Independent of the data and/or information content (which may be subject
to
individual licensing terms open or otherwise) that they identify, or link
to, OCLC identifiers (e.g. OCLC Numbers, VIAF IDs, or WorldCat Work URIs)
can be treated as if they are in the public domain and can be included in
any data exposure mechanism or activity as public domain data.
http://www.oclc.org/developer/develop/linked-data.en.html
Roy
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Richard Wallis
richard.wal...@dataliberate.com wrote:
To unpack the several questions lurking in Karen’s question.
As to being able to use the WorldCat Works data/identifiers there is no
difference between a or b - it is ODC-BY licensed data.
Getting a Work URI may be easier for a) as they should be able to
identify
the OCLC Number and hence use the linked data from it’s URI
http://worldcat.org/oclc/{ocn} to pick up the link to it’s work.
Tools such as xISBN http://xisbn.worldcat.org/xisbnadmin/doc/api.htm
can
step you towards identifier lookups and are openly available for low
volume
usage.
Citation lookup is more a bib lookup feature, that you could get an OCLC
Number from. One of colleagues may be helpful on the particulars of this.
Apologies for being WorldCat specific, but Karen did ask.
~Richard.
On 30 April 2014 17:15, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote:
My question has to do with discoverability. Let's say that I have a
bibliographic database and I want to add the OCLC work identifiers to
it.
Obviously I don't want to do it by hand. I might have ISBNs, but in some
cases I will have a regular author/title-type citation.
and let's say that I am asking this for two different institutions:
a) is an OCLC member institution
b) is not
Thanks,
kc
On 4/30/14, 8:47 AM, Dan Scott wrote:
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 11:37 PM, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com
wrote:
This has now instead become a reasonable recommendation
concerning ODC-BY licensing [3] but the confusion and uncertainty
about which records an OCLC member may redistribute remains.
[3] http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/2012/201248.en.html
Allow me to try to put this confusion and uncertainty to rest once
and
for
all:
ALL THE THINGS. ALL.
At least as far as we are concerned. I think it's well past time to
put
the
past in the past.
That's great, Roy. That's a *lot* simpler than parsing the
recommendations, WCRR, community norms, and such at [A, B] :)
Meanwhile, we have just put nearly 200 million works records up as
linked
open data. [1], [2], [3]. If that doesn't rock the library open linked
data
world, then no one is paying attention.
Roy
[1] http://oclc.org/en-US/news/releases/2014/201414dublin.html
[2]
http://dataliberate.com/2014/04/worldcat-works-197-million-
Re: [CODE4LIB] barriers to open metadata?
On 4/30/14, 6:37 PM, Roy Tennant wrote:
In the end there may need to be reconciliation services just like we had
similar services in the card-catalog-to-digital years.
Roy
Roy, yes, that's what I'm assuming. I think we are indeed in the same
leaky boat we were in in the 1970's when all of a sudden we realized
that in the future we wanted our data to be digital but most of what
we had was definitely analog. In the early days, we thought it was an
impossible task to convert our cards to MARC, but it turned out to be
possible.
I believe that linking our heading strings (the ones that hopefully
resemble the prefLabel on someone's authority file) to identifiers is
not as hard as people assume, especially if we have systems that can
learn -- that is, that can build up cases of synonyms (e.g. Smith,
John with title Here's my book == Smith, John J. with title Here's
my book). This is what the AACR-AACR2 services did. OCLC surely does a
lot of this when merging manifestations, and undoubtedly did so when
determining what are works, and when bringing authority entries together
for VIAF. No, you don't get 100% perfection, but we don't get that now
with any of our services.
And for all of those who keep suggesting Open Refine -- it's like you
walk into bakery to buy a cake and they hand you flour, eggs, milk and
show you where the oven is. Yes, it can be done. But you want the cake
-- if you could do and wanted to *make* a cake you wouldn't be in the
bakery, you'd be home in your kitchen. So in case it isn't clear, I'm
talking cake, not cake making. How are we going to provide cake to the
library and archives masses? And, if you are feeling entrepreneurial,
wouldn't this be a good time to open a bakery?
kc
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote:
Roy, the question that I have is, as I say below, about DISCOVERABILITY of
URIs, not intellectual property issues. It's great that there are lots of
URIs for useful things out in the world, but they don't jump into your data
store on their own through some kind of magic. To me, the big problem today
is that of populating legacy data with useful identifiers. I know that some
folks have worked at making connections between subject headings in their
catalog and the URIs available through id.loc.gov - and as I recall, it
turns out to be fairly frustrating. It seems to be that the solution to
this is that providers of URIs and users of URIs have to both make an
effort to meet half-way, or at a mutally convenient location. It simply is
not enough to say: Hey, look! I've got all of these URIs. Good luck! So
let's talk about how we make that connection.
kc
On 4/30/14, 1:17 PM, Roy Tennant wrote:
Also, this:
OCLC identifiers, and Linked Data URIs, are always in the public domain.
Independent of the data and/or information content (which may be subject
to
individual licensing terms open or otherwise) that they identify, or link
to, OCLC identifiers (e.g. OCLC Numbers, VIAF IDs, or WorldCat Work URIs)
can be treated as if they are in the public domain and can be included in
any data exposure mechanism or activity as public domain data.
http://www.oclc.org/developer/develop/linked-data.en.html
Roy
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Richard Wallis
richard.wal...@dataliberate.com wrote:
To unpack the several questions lurking in Karen’s question.
As to being able to use the WorldCat Works data/identifiers there is no
difference between a or b - it is ODC-BY licensed data.
Getting a Work URI may be easier for a) as they should be able to
identify
the OCLC Number and hence use the linked data from it’s URI
http://worldcat.org/oclc/{ocn} to pick up the link to it’s work.
Tools such as xISBN http://xisbn.worldcat.org/xisbnadmin/doc/api.htm
can
step you towards identifier lookups and are openly available for low
volume
usage.
Citation lookup is more a bib lookup feature, that you could get an OCLC
Number from. One of colleagues may be helpful on the particulars of this.
Apologies for being WorldCat specific, but Karen did ask.
~Richard.
On 30 April 2014 17:15, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote:
My question has to do with discoverability. Let's say that I have a
bibliographic database and I want to add the OCLC work identifiers to
it.
Obviously I don't want to do it by hand. I might have ISBNs, but in some
cases I will have a regular author/title-type citation.
and let's say that I am asking this for two different institutions:
a) is an OCLC member institution
b) is not
Thanks,
kc
On 4/30/14, 8:47 AM, Dan Scott wrote:
On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 11:37 PM, Roy Tennant roytenn...@gmail.com
wrote:
This has now instead become a reasonable recommendation
concerning ODC-BY licensing [3] but the confusion and uncertainty
about which records an OCLC member may redistribute remains.
[3] http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/2012/201248.en.html
Allow me to try to put this confusion and uncertainty to rest
Re: [CODE4LIB] barriers to open metadata?
If libraries aren't willing to put in the the effort to make their own data
more useful and connected, then I don't think they are going do much of
anything useful very with linked data cake served on a silver platter.
Are you really suggesting that we cede linked data creation, management and
curation to vendors.
Chad
On Apr 30, 2014 10:28 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote:
On 4/30/14, 6:37 PM, Roy Tennant wrote:
In the end there may need to be reconciliation services just like we had
similar services in the card-catalog-to-digital years.
Roy
Roy, yes, that's what I'm assuming. I think we are indeed in the same
leaky boat we were in in the 1970's when all of a sudden we realized that
in the future we wanted our data to be digital but most of what we had
was definitely analog. In the early days, we thought it was an impossible
task to convert our cards to MARC, but it turned out to be possible.
I believe that linking our heading strings (the ones that hopefully
resemble the prefLabel on someone's authority file) to identifiers is not
as hard as people assume, especially if we have systems that can learn --
that is, that can build up cases of synonyms (e.g. Smith, John with title
Here's my book == Smith, John J. with title Here's my book). This is
what the AACR-AACR2 services did. OCLC surely does a lot of this when
merging manifestations, and undoubtedly did so when determining what are
works, and when bringing authority entries together for VIAF. No, you don't
get 100% perfection, but we don't get that now with any of our services.
And for all of those who keep suggesting Open Refine -- it's like you
walk into bakery to buy a cake and they hand you flour, eggs, milk and show
you where the oven is. Yes, it can be done. But you want the cake -- if you
could do and wanted to *make* a cake you wouldn't be in the bakery, you'd
be home in your kitchen. So in case it isn't clear, I'm talking cake, not
cake making. How are we going to provide cake to the library and archives
masses? And, if you are feeling entrepreneurial, wouldn't this be a good
time to open a bakery?
kc
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote:
Roy, the question that I have is, as I say below, about DISCOVERABILITY
of
URIs, not intellectual property issues. It's great that there are lots
of
URIs for useful things out in the world, but they don't jump into your
data
store on their own through some kind of magic. To me, the big problem
today
is that of populating legacy data with useful identifiers. I know that
some
folks have worked at making connections between subject headings in
their
catalog and the URIs available through id.loc.gov - and as I recall, it
turns out to be fairly frustrating. It seems to be that the solution to
this is that providers of URIs and users of URIs have to both make an
effort to meet half-way, or at a mutally convenient location. It simply
is
not enough to say: Hey, look! I've got all of these URIs. Good luck!
So
let's talk about how we make that connection.
kc
On 4/30/14, 1:17 PM, Roy Tennant wrote:
Also, this:
OCLC identifiers, and Linked Data URIs, are always in the public
domain.
Independent of the data and/or information content (which may be
subject
to
individual licensing terms open or otherwise) that they identify, or
link
to, OCLC identifiers (e.g. OCLC Numbers, VIAF IDs, or WorldCat Work
URIs)
can be treated as if they are in the public domain and can be included
in
any data exposure mechanism or activity as public domain data.
http://www.oclc.org/developer/develop/linked-data.en.html
Roy
On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Richard Wallis
richard.wal...@dataliberate.com wrote:
To unpack the several questions lurking in Karen’s question.
As to being able to use the WorldCat Works data/identifiers there is
no
difference between a or b - it is ODC-BY licensed data.
Getting a Work URI may be easier for a) as they should be able to
identify
the OCLC Number and hence use the linked data from it’s URI
http://worldcat.org/oclc/{ocn} to pick up the link to it’s work.
Tools such as xISBN http://xisbn.worldcat.org/xisbnadmin/doc/api.htm
can
step you towards identifier lookups and are openly available for low
volume
usage.
Citation lookup is more a bib lookup feature, that you could get an
OCLC
Number from. One of colleagues may be helpful on the particulars of
this.
Apologies for being WorldCat specific, but Karen did ask.
~Richard.
On 30 April 2014 17:15, Karen Coyle li...@kcoyle.net wrote:
My question has to do with discoverability. Let's say that I have a
bibliographic database and I want to add the OCLC work identifiers to
it.
Obviously I don't want to do it by hand. I might have ISBNs, but in
some
cases I will have a regular author/title-type citation.
and let's say that I am asking this for two different institutions:
a) is an OCLC member institution
b) is not
Thanks,
kc
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