Re: [CODE4LIB] Where can I find a basic set of user stories for a digital library?

[Erica FINDLEY]

I don't know of a list like this that exists anywhere. I would however be
willing to talk with you about our own collections and audiences.

Perhaps a literature review may yield something like this.

This DPLA tutorial on promoting digital collections provides some good tips
on identifying audiences based on the content you have.

http://dp.la/info/about/projects/public-library-partnerships/promoting-use-of-your-digital-content/


Erica


*Erica Findley*
Cataloging/Metadata Librarian
Multnomah County Library
Phone: 503.988.5466
eri...@multcolib.org
multcolib.org 

On Wed, May 11, 2016 at 1:58 PM, Wilhelmina Randtke 
wrote:

> Does anyone have a set of user stories for a digital library that you'd be
> willing to share?  Or, is there a good place to look this up and pull a
> set?
>
> I'm working with these types of materials:  old photos, digitized books,
> digitized newspapers, ETDs.  Pretty much the basics of digital library
> content.  I'm interested in a listing of ways people would use these, so I
> can better understand what the platforms I'm working with do well and where
> gaps are.
>
> -Wilhelmina Randtke
>

[CODE4LIB] PBCore Accessibility Survey

[Rebecca Fraimow]

Hi all,

We're currently looking into the best ways to focus our energy towards making 
the PBCore metadata standard more adoptable and accessible. If you've ever used 
or thought about using PBCore, we'd really like your feedback on the most 
important things to focus on!

If you have five minutes to spare, please consider filling out this quick 
survey on what tools, technology or resources would make the PBCore standard 
easier to use and adopt: 
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1dMwmZ3WqgpMeIL67ITK2nMjK-LcdeX9Qr2utvq7_trA/viewform

The survey will be open for one week, until Friday, May 20. Thanks for your 
time and we look forward to hearing your feedback!

Best,
Rebecca Fraimow
Archivist and AAPB NDSR Program Coordinator, WGBH

[CODE4LIB] Call for Participation and Demos: NKOS Dublin Core workshop

[DCMI Announce]

***Apologies for Cross-Posting***



16th European Networked Knowledge Organization Systems (NKOS) Workshop at
the

*International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications 2016 (DC
2016)*



*Call for Presentations and Demos*



The 16th European NKOS workshop will take place on Saturday 15th October as
part of DC 2016 in Copenhagen, Denmark.



Important Dates:

*Submission deadline:* Friday, 1 July 2016

*Notification of acceptance:* Tuesday, 16th August 2016



Proposals are invited for the following:



a) *Presentations* (typically 20 minutes plus discussion time, potentially
longer if warranted) on work related to the themes of the workshop (see
below). An option for a short 5 minute project report presentation is also
possible.



b) *Demos* on work related to the themes of the workshop (see below).



Please email proposals (maximum 1000 words for presentations and 500 words
for demos, including aims, methods, main findings and underlying work,
relevance to themes of workshop) to Koraljka Golub (koraljka.go...@lnu.se).
Proposals will be peer-reviewed by the program committee. At least one
presentation author needs to register for the workshop (this is a strict
requirement).



After the workshop, copies of both proposals and presentations will be made
available on the workshop website as well as be subject to the DCMI
copyright provisions (
http://dcevents.dublincore.org/IntConf/dc-2016/about/submissions#copyrightNotice).
Presentations from the workshop may be encouraged to be submitted as
extended papers for a peer reviewed journal publication.



*Themes for the 16th NKOS workshop will be:*


(1) KOS Alignment. KOS alignment or terminology mapping plays a vital role
in NKOS for many years. This year we want to sort out the needs (use cases)
of KOS alignments in the new environment of Linked Open Data. We plan to
collect methodologies, best practices, guidelines and tools. This includes
manual and automatic alignments.

(2) KOS Linked Open Data. Recent years have seen an increasing trend to
publication of KOS as Linked Data vocabularies. We need discussion of
practical initiatives to link between congruent vocabularies and provide
effective web services and APIs so that applications can build upon them.

(3) Subject metadata for research data. With increasing recognition of the
need to manage research data as part of universities research output,
subject metadata represent particular challenges that need to be addressed
from theoretical as well as practical perspectives. We plan to discuss
existing issues, especially in terms of interoperability across disciplines
as well as applications, and strive towards establishment of best practices
and guidelines.



*Further timely presentations/demonstrations will be selected from the
following topics in the CfP:*


(4) KOS-based recommender systems. The suggestion of the right meaningful
concepts is a mission critical phase for searchers in modern DL.

(5) Meaningful Concept Display and Meaningful Visualization of KOS.

(6) Standards developments.

(7) Evaluation of KOS-based systems – methods and practical experience.


*KOS applications are a regular and important part of NKOS workshops.
Example topics include:*


(8) KOS in e-Research metadata contexts - intersection between research
data, KOS, Semantic web.

(9) Social tagging. What is the role of social tagging and informal
knowledge structures versus established KOS? (How) can tagging be guided
and informed by KOS?

(10) Users interaction with KOS in the online environment.

(11) KOS and learning. What is required to use KOS effectively to convey
meaning, to assist users to express their information needs to assist in
sense making and learning?

(12) Multilingual and Interdisciplinary KOS applications and tools.

(13) Specific domains, such as environmental, medical, new application
contexts, etc.



More information on the workshop can be found under



https://at-web1.comp.glam.ac.uk/pages/research/hypermedia/nkos/nkos2016-dc/call-for-papers.html



We hope to see you in Copenhagen, Denmark.



Please note that workshop presenter entry into Denmark may be subject to Visa
requirements (see

https://www.nyidanmark.dk/en-us/coming_to_dk/visa/visa.htm).



Best regards,

NKOS workshop organizing committee


*Koraljka Golub (primary contact)*, Department of Library and Information
Science, School of Cultural Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Humanities,
Linnaeus University | 351 95 Växjö | Sweden | Tel: +46 (0) 470 70 8909 |
Fax: +46 (0) 470 751888 | E-mail:koraljka.go...@lnu.se |
http://koraljka.info

*Joacim Hansson*, Department of Library and Information Science, School of
Cultural Sciences, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Linnaeus University |
351 95 Växjö | Sweden | Tel: +46 (0) 470 70 8971 | Fax: +46 (0) 470 751888 |
E-mail: joacim.hans...@lnu.se |

*Maria Johnsson*, Section of Scholarly Communication, Lund University
Library, Lund University | PO Box 3, SE-22100 Lund | 

[CODE4LIB] Job: Technical Lead, Digital Collections, National Library of Ireland at National Library of Ireland

[jobs]

Technical Lead, Digital Collections, National Library of Ireland
National Library of Ireland
Dublin

The National Library of Ireland (NLI) is seeking a talented, self-motivated
library technology specialist to lead the development of its digital services
infrastructure.

  
**Brief Description of Position:**  
  
The NLI's current digital services infrastructure combines open-source
software, vendor-supplied products, and locally-developed middleware and
interfaces. Core systems include a Library Management System (VTLS Virtua),
discovery and access systems (VuFind and Blacklight), a digital repository
system (Fedora Commons/Hydra) which currently manages over 40TB of digitised
material.

  
Reporting to the Head of Digital Collections, the successful candidate will
play a key role in designing and developing the NLI's technical infrastructure
to meet the NLI's core strategic objectives and challenges. This is an
excellent opportunity to work in a stimulating, challenging environment, to
solve interesting problems, and to greatly enhance public access to the
invaluable cultural heritage resources of the NLI.

  
**Principal Tasks:**

  * Provide technical oversight and strategic leadership to develop and enhance 
the NLI's digital services infrastructure, including the NLI's Digital 
Repository, Library Management System, Online Catalogue, and other core systems
  * Lead, manage and support a small team of technology specialists.
  * Provide technical leadership and architectural analysis to expand the NLI's 
digital repository to meet new strategic requirements, e.g. the acquisition, 
management and preservation of born-digital content including archival 
material, web-harvested content, and e-publications
  * Ensure the ingest, management and online delivery of digital content 
generated by the NLI's existing digitisation programme. Provide technical 
leadership to expand the NLI's digital repository to accommodate new 
digitisation workflows, including mass-digitisation by external agencies
  * Formalise Digital Preservation policy and workflows, and secure 
certification of trustworthiness for the NLI's digital repository, e.g. the 
Data Seal of Approval, ISO-16363
  * Represent the NLI in relevant national and international collaborations and 
partnerships, including collaborations with CONUL, the European Library and 
various Open Source communities
  * Work with NLI business areas and external users to determine strategic 
goals and corresponding technical solutions
  * Provide technical expertise to the Senior Management team and AKI group to 
inform strategic and operational planning.
  
  
For full details please visit
[http://www.nli.ie/vacancies](http://www.nli.ie/vacancies)



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[CODE4LIB] JHOVE 1.14 released

[Becky McGuinness]

The latest version of JHOVE, the open source file format identification,
validation and characterisation tool for digital preservation, is now
available to download. Version 1.14 is the first official release since the
Open Preservation Foundation took over stewardship of the tool in February
2015 to provide it with a permanent and sustainable home. A 1.12 beta was
released in October 2015 which focussed on stabilisation of the code base
and automated build, testing and deployment.

Version 1.14 has three new format modules: gzip, WARC and PNG.

Other improvements and highlights for this release include:

General
*Ant build replaced with Maven with distribution through OPF Artefactory
server;
*Modularised project structure with “fat jar” packaging;
*Java 5 support;
*Prototype Black Box Testing module
*Cross platform installer;
*Travis CI build; and
*Updated site pages

New Format Modules
*gzip Module – ported from JHOVE 2, via JWATT by Kongelige Bibliotek,
Denmark
*WARC Module – ported from JHOVE 2, via JWATT by Kongelige Bibliotek,
Denmark
*PNG Module – developed by Gary McGath

Features
*UTF-8 Module: support for Unicode 7.0.0

Fixes
*Support for long data chunks
*Configuration no longer required for temp directory
*Minor logging fixes

Download JHOVE 1.14:
http://software.openpreservation.org/rel/jhove-latest.jar

Please download and test the software. We welcome your feedback. If you
have any suggestions, or would like to log an issue, please add them the
GitHub issue tracker: https://github.com/openpreserve/jhove/issues.

There is now a new mailing list available for JHOVE. Subscribe at:
http://lists.openpreservation.org/listinfo/jhove

JHOVE (JSTOR/Harvard Object Validation Environment) is an extensible
software framework for performing format identification, validation, and
characterisation of digital objects. (http://jhove.openpreservation.org).
The Foundation’s JHOVE maintenance and development effort is guided by the
JHOVE Product Board, comprising members and software supporters. To find
out more about becoming an OPF member or JHOVE software supporter visit:
http://openpreservation.org/about/join/