Re: [CODE4LIB] XML schema for describing software applications?
Sharon, Michael, others -- Within the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative, the Tools Community is working on a Tools Application Profile. The AP is still in draft form, and draws heavily upon the DOAP namespace referenced by Michael. http://dublincore.org/groups/tools/map.shtml At present, the Tools AP is largely focused on describing tools, algorithms and software applications for working with metadata. However, I think it is important that this work address the descriptive requirements of applications and web-services for supporting digital libraries, as well as being applicable to the needs of software preservation repositories. If anyone on this list has feedback on this draft proposal, I'd be happy to share it with the DCMI Tools Community, and would encourage those that are interested to join the DCMI Tools Mailing List, linked off of the Community homepage: http://dublincore.org/groups/tools/ -Corey -- Michael J. Giarlo wrote: Howdy Sharon, Not sure if this is perfect, but you might check out DOAP (Description of a Project). Quoth Wikipedia: *DOAP* (Description Of A Project) is an attempt to make an RDF schemahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDF_Schemaand XML http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Markup_Language vocabulary to describe open-source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source projects. It was created and initially developed by Edd Dumbill to convey semantically information associated with open-source software projects. It is currently used in O'Reilly's http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O%27Reilly_Media CodeZoohttp://www.codezoo.com/and the Apache Software Foundation'shttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Software_Foundation project page http://projects.apache.org/. There are currently generators, validators http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Validator, viewers and converters to enable more projects to be able to be included in the semantic webhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_web . Good luck, -Mike On 7/17/07, Sharon Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please forgive the cross-posting. For my final project in the class Digital Libraries, I am bringing together a bibliography (appliography?) of open source software applications and free web services that would be useful in the construction of digital libraries. (How self-referential can you get? ;-)) I am looking for advice on finding, selecting, and using an existing XML schema that would include syntax for the type of application, target platforms, OSs, licensing, etc. In searching Ask.com and Google, I zeroed in on OSD, the Open Software Description Format, but I'm not finding a lot of new material about it, and I can't recall ever reading about it. Is this in fact the latest and greatest? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Sharon -- Sharon M. Foster, B.S., J.D., 0.5 * (MLS) F/OSS Evangelist Cheshire Public Library 104 Main Street Cheshire, CT 06410 http://www.cheshirelibrary.org My library school portfolio: http://home.southernct.edu/~fosters4/ Any opinions expressed here are entirely my own. -- Corey A Harper Metadata Services Librarian Bobst Library New York University 70 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012 212.998.2479 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[CODE4LIB] Be a data librarian in New York
*In case you missed the first mention, we are looking for a data librarian! Details below... * *New York* University Libraries *Data Service Librarian* *Description*: New York University is seeking an energetic, creative, and knowledgeable librarian to select, acquire, manage, and deliver numeric and geospatial data collections to support campus research and scholarship. The incumbent in this new position will work closely with NYU librarians, faculty technology specialists, and research computing staff to develop a new Data Service Studio - combining library and statistical computing services in the Bobst Library. The librarian will build numeric and spatial data collections and facilitate access to additional data resources across the sciences, engage in outreach to faculty and students through subject and departmental liaison activities, design and conduct data literacy instruction, and participate in reference and consultation activities as a part of the Data Service Studio team. This position will play an instrumental role in the library's efforts to optimize resource discovery and delivery by identifying, evaluating, manipulating, and enhancing metadata for numeric and spatial collections. Reporting to the Data Service Coordinator, the Data Service Librarian works to develop appropriate description for managing research data collections; investigates new sources for metadata; keeps abreast of new and evolving metadata standards such as the Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) and Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) standards. The incumbent will participate in library-wide committees, activities, and special projects, especially those involving new technologies and data. The incumbent will develop and maintain awareness of data-centered initiatives across the sciences, attending professional meetings, workshops and conferences for training and continuing professional development. *Qualifications*: MLS from an ALA accredited institution. Second masters or the equivalent required for tenure, preference for fields with preparation in quantitative/spatial analysis. Familiarity with database and cataloging practices and metadata schemas; experience with XML preferred. Knowledge of public and proprietary resources for national and international numeric and geospatial data. The candidate should be professionally active and have knowledge of trends in data management and description. Basic familiarity with software for statistical and geospatial analysis (//e.g//. SAS, SPSS, Stata, R, GIS applications). Additional requirements are strong written and verbal communication skills, demonstrated ability to work independently and collaboratively in a complex organization, and a creative, service-oriented approach to problem solving. *New York** University Libraries:* Library facilities at New York University serve the school’s 40,000 students and faculty and contain more than 4 million volumes. New York University is a member of the Association of Research Libraries, the Research Libraries Group, the Digital Library Federation; serves as the administrative headquarters of the Research Library Association of South Manhattan, a consortium that includes three academic institutions and the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). * * *Salary/Benefits*: Faculty status, attractive benefits package including five weeks annual vacation. Salary commensurate with experience and background. *To Apply*: To ensure consideration, send resume and letter of application, including the name, address, and telephone number of three references to: Janet Koztowski, Human Resources Director, New York University Libraries, 70 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012 or via email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resumes will be considered until the position is filled. NYU is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer.
[CODE4LIB] [Fwd: Vocabulary Mapping Framework]
code4libbers, Interesting stuff afoot. The press release linked below is well worth a read. Apologies if you've already seen this Cheers, -Corey Original Message Subject:Vocabulary Mapping Framework Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:26:15 +0200 From: Frodl, Christine Reply-To: DCMI Libraries Community dc-librar...@jiscmail.ac.uk To: dc-librar...@jiscmail.ac.uk Dear list members, I want to draw your attention on this information, sent out by Norman Paskin today: List members may be interested to know of the Vocabulary Mapping Framework. The press release is available at _http://www.doi.org/news/VMF_project_announcement_090615.pdf_. Summary: A new initiative, the Vocabulary Mapping Framework (VMF), has been announced by a consortium of partners. This will create an extensive and authoritative mapping of vocabularies from nine major content metadata standards, creating a downloadable tool to support interoperability across communities. The mapping will also be extensible to other standards. The work builds on the principles of interoperability established in the indecs Content Model, and is an expansion of the existing RDA/ONIX Framework into a comprehensive vocabulary of resource relators and categories, which will be a superset of those used in major standards from the publisher/producer, education and bibliographic/heritage communities. The International DOI Foundation, which fully endorses this work, will provide a web hosting facility for the Framework as part of its commitment to promoting the wider use of interoperable metadata, and will use the vocabulary mapping wherever possible to support the association of metadata with DOI names. The IDF is organising an event in conjunction with the iPres2009 Digital Preservation meeting (San Francisco, October) which will consider this and wider issues: _http://www.doi.org/doi_presentations/members_meeting_2009/index.html_. Please pass on information or these links. Dr. Norman Paskin 5, Linkside Avenue Oxford OX2 8HY UK Tel: (+44) 1865 559070 Mobile: (+44) 7710 327569 skype: npaskin _www.tertius.ltd.uk_ file://www.tertius.ltd.uk _www.linkedin.com/in/normanpaskin_ file://www.linkedin.com/in/normanpaskin -- Christine Frodl German National Library Office for Library Standards Adickesallee 1 D-60322 Frankfurt am Main Telefon: +49-69-1525-1404 Telefax: +49-69-1525-1010 _mailto:c.fr...@d-nb.de_ _http://www.d-nb.de_ -- Corey A Harper Metadata Services Librarian Bobst Library, B42-LL1 New York University 70 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012 212.998.2479 corey.har...@nyu.edu
[CODE4LIB] Metadata Registries Functional Requirements Survey
Dear All, Apologies for the cross-posting. The following survey is being distributed on behalf of the Dublin Core Metadata Initiative's Registries Task Group, the Joint Information Steering Committe (JISC) and UKOLN. The goal of the survey is to collect information from Metadata Registry managers, developers and end-users to determine current practice in registry development, collect information on registry content, and assess the interoperability needs of the registry community. The survey should take less than 20 minutes, and we hope that you will complete it. The survey will remain open through Friday, July 31. The link to the survey is: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=UBi6N6R2r_2fdd9f5CSgPkkw_3d_3d Thank you for your time. Sincerely, -Corey A Harper -- Corey A Harper Metadata Services Librarian New York University Libraries 20 Cooper Square, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10003-7112 212.998.2479 corey.har...@nyu.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] it's cool to hate on OpenURL (was: Twitter annotations...)
Hi All, Though hesitant to jump in here, I agree with Owen that the dead ends aren't a standards issue. The bloat of the standard is, as is the lack of a standardized response format, but the dead ends have to do with bad metadata being coded into open-URLs and with breakdowns in the connection between content aggregators/providers and knowledge base maintainers. Work in this area isn't completely stagnant, though. The joint NISO/UK Serials Group's Knowledge Bases And Related Tools working group is looking towards solutions to exactly these problems. http://www.uksg.org/kbart Their initial report on best practice for content providers and KB maintainers is worth a look. -Corey Owen Stephens wrote: Dead ends from OpenURL enabled hyperlinks aren't a result of the standard though, but rather an aspect of both the problem they are trying to solve, and the conceptual way they try to do this. I'd content these dead ends are an implementation issue - and despite this I have to say that my experience on the ground is that feedback from library users on the use of link resolvers is positive - much more so than many of the other library systems I've been involved with. What I do see as a problem is that this market seems to have essentially stagnated, at least as far as I can see. I suspect the reasons for this are complex, but it would be nice to see some more innovation in this area. Owen On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 6:14 PM, Ed Summers e...@pobox.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Eric Hellman e...@hellman.net wrote: Since this thread has turned into a discussion on OpenURL... I have to say that during the OpenURL 1.0 standardization process, we definitely had moments of despair. Today, I'm willing to derive satisfaction from it works and overlook shortcomings. It might have been otherwise. Personally, I've followed enough OpenURL enabled hyperlink dead ends to contest it works. //Ed -- Corey A Harper Metadata Services Librarian New York University Libraries 20 Cooper Square, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10003-7112 212.998.2479 corey.har...@nyu.edu
[CODE4LIB] Invitation to participate in DC-2010 Linked Data Special Sessions
*** Apologies for cross-posting *** DC2010 is a week away, and I hope many of you are planning to attend. As co-convenor of the special sessions on linked data, I wanted to let you know what to expect from these meetings. While there's plenty of linked data related goodness throughout the conference program, the linked data special sessions are as follows: * Thu, 10/21, 2-3:30: Domain Models * Thu, 10/21, 4-5:30: Vocabulary Selection and Development * Fri, 10/22, 4-5:30: Breakout sessions Follow-up Karen Coyle and I will be co-moderating the 1st two sessions, and one or both of us will be moderating the discussions for the third. The 3 sessions will be run as a mini-un-conference within the larger space of DC2010. Beginning during registration at 8am on Wed, 10/20, there will be a signup sheet for lightening talks for the 1st two sessions. If you'll be in attendance, and would like to give a short, 5 minute talk on either data models for your domain, or work that you're doing on crafting an RDF vocabulary for a particular project, we'd like to devote at least 20-30 minutes for each of these two sessions to participation from attendees. The remainder of the sessions will be brainstorming sessions, similar to the session Karen and I ran at ALA in Washington this Summer: http://kcoyle.net/lld-ala.html The third session will be a mix of wrap up, discussion, identification of next steps, and collection of comments and ideas to share with both the DCMI Architecture Forum and the W3C Library Linked Data incubator group. The former will be meeting concurrently with our third session on Friday, and the latter will be having a Face to Face meeting over the weekend. If there are potential linked data use cases emerging from these sessions, groups may want to work on writing them up for submission to the W3C group. Attendees interested in discussion of developing application profiles based on the data models and vocabularies discussed in sessions one two may wish to attend the first half of Application Profiles for Linked Data: Models Requirements from 2-3:30pm on 10/22. If there is sufficient interest, a group of us could split off to prepare a short report to present at part 2 of that session. Further information about DC-2010, including program descriptions, is available online at: http://dc-2010.org/. Please let me know if you have any questions about this series of special sessions, and we look forward to seeing you at DC2010. Regards, -Corey A Harper -- Corey A Harper Metadata Services Librarian New York University Libraries 20 Cooper Square, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10003-7112 212.998.2479 corey.har...@nyu.edu
[CODE4LIB] Linked Library Data @ ALA Midwinter
** With apologies for cross-posting ** Linked Library Data @ ALA Midwinter Sunday, Jan. 9, 2011, 10:30-Noon Marriott, Del Mar Room This meeting will build on sessions from ALA 2010 Annual [1] and DC-2010 in Pittsburgh [2], though content will not assume attendees were at either session. An ongoing LITA/ALCTS Linked Library Data Interest Group is in the works, and attendees will be able to shape the direction of that group and its activities.[3] [4] Specific agenda topics will be driven by attendee interest. Some possible questions that can be discussed are: - What library system functions can be enhanced by linked data? - What role can library vendors play in an environment with open linking? - For those working on linked data projects, what are the main challenges you are facing? - Where can we coordinate activities to make it easier to create links? - What tools and communication channels could ease the burden of producing or working with linked data? - What role can we play in influencing standards development to support the linked data environment? Corey Harper, Co-Chair Karen Coyle, Co-Chair [1]http://kcoyle.net/lld-ala/lld-ala.html [2]http://kcoyle.net/lld-ala/pittsburgh2010.html [3]Function Statement (Draft): To provide a forum for discussion of issues related to Linked Library Data and the role of library metadata in the Semantic Web. Goals include: raising awareness of Semantic Web technologies, such as the Resource Description Framework (RDF) and the use of URIs as identifiers within bibliographic descriptions; promoting research on linked data challenges, such as domain modeling and vocabulary selection and design; and informing the ongoing development of existing metadata standards for Libraries, Archives and Cultural Heritage Institutions. [4]Some further reading linked from: http://kcoyle.net/lld-ala/ -- Corey A Harper Metadata Services Librarian New York University Libraries 20 Cooper Square, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10003-7112 212.998.2479 corey.har...@nyu.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Excel file to Dublin Core?
Hi Edward, Like Mike, I have some existing tools that do this in perl - though very hack-ish. Basically, I set the Windows default field separator to pipe (because I hate comma separated data) and save the spreadsheet as .csv, though a pipe delimited one. My perl then reads that in, and maps columns to DC elements and OAI-header elements and spits out an XML file per row of the spreadsheet. I'd be happy to pop a version of one of these into git-hub if you're interested. -corey On 3/1/2011 3:59 PM, Edward M. Corrado wrote: Hi Mike, Yes, by Dublin Core, I mean OAI Dublin Core XML. Edward On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Michael J. Giarlo leftw...@alumni.rutgers.edu wrote: Edward, Because I already have some code lying around that does more or less the same thing, I'd probably sling some Python using the xlrd library (N.B. works on xls files but not xlsx files). �It'd look similar to this method, perhaps a little simpler, though this method doesn't write out a DC file: � � https://github.com/MaxFisher/caps/blob/master/pilot/views.py#L87 By Dublin Core, I assume you mean OAI Dublin Core XML? -Mike On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 14:53, Edward M. Corradoecorr...@ecorrado.us wrote: Hello all, I have an excel file that I need to map to Dublin Core. I can think of a number of ways to do this, but was wondering if anyone else who has done it has a suggestion before I dust off my old sed/awk skills or otherwise reinvent the wheel. I looked at Terry Reese's MarcEdit and I probably can use that, but it looks like I'd have to intermediately convert it to MARC. Either a windows-based program or *nix tool is fine. Edward -- Corey A Harper Metadata Services Librarian New York University Libraries 20 Cooper Square, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10003-7112 212.998.2479 corey.har...@nyu.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Semantic web introduction to tools
Karen, Cindy, et al., I stumbled upon and bookmarked this list a few days ago: http://spqr.cerch.kcl.ac.uk/?page_id=94 It seems pretty comprehensive. Might be worth a perusal, and possibly a link off the w3c-lld page as well. Best, -Corey On 3/23/2011 11:15 PM, Karen Coyle wrote: Sorry, I don't remember if I have already posted this, but there is a growing list of tools at: http://www.w3.org/2005/Incubator/lld/wiki/Tools Most of these are free/non-commercial. If you know of others, let me know or post to the public-...@w3.org list and we'll get it added on. kc Quoting Cindy Harper char...@colgate.edu: This article came in via email this morning - it may be the kind of pointers I needed to read about open-source tools to get started using the SW. *Computerworld First Look* http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7258117/240182/237524/0/?0fc84754=Y2hhcnBlckBtYWlsLmNvbGdhdGUuZWR1x=9633e82f -- *Semantic Web: Tools you can use*http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7258117/240182/376767/0/ Standards, tools, platforms, prewritten components and services are available to help make semantic deployments less time-consuming, less technically complex and (somewhat) less costly. *Read More*http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/7258117/240182/376767/0/ Cindy Harper, Systems Librarian Colgate University Libraries char...@colgate.edu 315-228-7363 -- Corey A Harper Metadata Services Librarian New York University Libraries 20 Cooper Square, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10003-7112 212.998.2479 corey.har...@nyu.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] If you were starting over, what would you learn and how would you do it?
with very strong skills, but in the job world, I don't see many 2nd string/entry level jobs that would allow someone to hone their skills to the level I often see here. I've been thinking that I should focus on further developing my abilities in: HTML/CSS of course, XML, XSLT, PHP, and MySQL (because they're all readily available for someone to play with despite not being employed in a systems department). It seems that anything I can learn about metadata transformations/crosswalks and RDF would be useful too. I also find some classification theories very compelling (ok, I admit that colon classification really got my attention in my first MLIS class) and found myself drawn to potentially being interested in taxonomies and controlled vocabulary. I know nothing about Drupal, but I wonder if I should include in my smorgasbord. How much is too much and where you y'all recommend I put my energy? Any advice is greatly appreciated. The more specific the better. :) Thx! -- Corey A Harper Metadata Services Librarian New York University Libraries 20 Cooper Square, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10003-7112 212.998.2479 corey.har...@nyu.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] If you were starting over, what would you learn and how would you do it?
As others have just said, a portfolio may or may not matter. The polished product isn't the issue, though. It's skills, principles and knowledge you pick up while experimenting. Whether or not you share a spare-time project with a potential employer, having spent a bit of time on your own learning about this stuff will make you a stronger candidate a better interviewee. You'll be able to speak that much more confidently and persuasively about a broader range of technologies, which will almost certainly help you in the job market. -Corey On 5/6/2011 4:06 PM, Ceci Land wrote: I like this. Maybe it's because it's what I was already thinking about doing. I have 3 project ideas twirling around in my head at the moment. I can't do them at work, but perhaps the systems department could give me a dataset to play around with in my spare time. I already have a good dataset for one of the projects that I harvested via OAI-PMH. Do these spare-time projects get any respect from the real world when it comes time to apply for a job? particularly if you focus on really making it as polished as possible (within the limitations of a non-work environment)? I remember building my own darkroom as a teenager and doing BW and color slide and print processing. (yes, I still love the smell of D76 and stop bath. I can bring up the smell purely from memory :) ). I did manage to work for a while in photography because of my original personal investment of time and energy into it as a hobby. I'm just concerned that the things may not work that way any more. Life was not only slower paced back then, but having an exact skill match wasn't required to get a foot in the door. Plus, I'm no Mozart so it's not likely that I'll come up with something uber creative or so nifty that it's used by a community at large. But I do good technical work. I tinker...I make things go. Thanks for the advice. I'm going to start playing with the projects I have in mind. One is already done as a JSP, but I think I'll convert it to something else and clean up the compromises I had to make to get it done in a limited time. Ceci On 5/6/2011 at 2:31 PM, in messageBANLkTi=jdvtmgs42dlmhe5+fqnn55kv...@mail.gmail.com, Devondec...@gmail.com wrote: My answer to this question changes every time it gets asked. These days, my thinking is that focusing on skills/tools is backwards. Instead, focus on a problems and solutions. Pick something you want to do, then do it. Figure it all out on the way. If you don't know where to start, build and deploy a simple website. Try a solution. If it doesn't work, try a different solution. Keep trying. Don't be afraid to toss all your work away and start over. Make the website more complex as you go. Add a database. Switch the whole thing to jQuery. Then switch to something else. Just keep going. /dev -- Corey A Harper Metadata Services Librarian New York University Libraries 20 Cooper Square, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10003-7112 212.998.2479 corey.har...@nyu.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] If you were starting over, what would you learn and how would you do it?
That may apply to this profession, too. I've often been convinced that someone in the c4l community *was* Batman. On 5/6/2011 4:47 PM, Nate Vack wrote: On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Ceci Landcl...@library.msstate.edu wrote: How would you choose to develop your skills from baby level to something useful to the profession? I'd pretty much follow the plot of Batman Begins as closely as possible. Wait, useful to *this* profession? -n -- Corey A Harper Metadata Services Librarian New York University Libraries 20 Cooper Square, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10003-7112 212.998.2479 corey.har...@nyu.edu
[CODE4LIB] ALA Linked Library Data Interest Group - 6/26, 10:30-12
*** With apologies for cross-posting *** The first official meeting of the new LITA/ALCTS Linked Library Data Interest Group (LLD-IG) will take place from 10:30-12 on Sunday, June 26 in Convention Center Room 265. The agenda is below, and online at http://wikis.ala.org/lita/index.php/Linkeddata We can also make time for a limited number of lightning talk style presentations of no longer than 5 minutes if you have projects or topics that you'd like to share. If you'd like to give a brief talk, please contact the interest group chairs. Agenda: 1) Report on LOD-LAM meeting 2) W3C LLD Recommendations 3) What this SIG will do... sub-groups? other activities? list of lld projects? training? wiki discussion? Our next meeting? 4) Short reports from anyone present: LLD activities, upcoming conferences/meetings, ideas... anything 5) Challenge for next time: someone to commit to bring something to show Minutes of previous informal LLD-IG meetings from ALA-2010 in Washington DC, Dublin Core 2010 in Pittsburgh, and ALA-MW-2011 in San Diego are online at: http://wikis.ala.org/lita/index.php/Linkeddata Thanks, Karen Coyle and Corey A Harper ALCTS/LITA LLD-IG Co-Chairs corey.har...@nyu.edu kco...@kcoyle.net -- Corey A Harper Metadata Services Librarian New York University Libraries 20 Cooper Square, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10003-7112 212.998.2479 corey.har...@nyu.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] My crazed idea about dealing with registration limitations
Cary, Good to know about your extensive experience w/ streaming. If you'll be in Seattle, would you be willing to add your name to the Video Committee listing? http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/2012_committees_sign-up_page#Video_Committee Having people who actually know what they're doing involved in this effort *this* year will help ensure that we're actually able to pull it off as effectively as IU did... Thanks, -Corey On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Cary Gordon listu...@chillco.com wrote: This is definitely doable, and potentially effective for a single track conference. I have been doing streaming as a volunteer for eight years and it keeps getting easier. Cary On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Wilfred Drew dr...@tc3.edu wrote: Here is another crazy idea; stream the event live for those who can't get registered for the pace to face version and provide a lower registration fee for them. - Wilfred (Bill) Drew, M.S., B.S., A.S. Assistant Professor Librarian, Systems and Tech Services/Electronic Resources/Serials Tompkins Cortland Community College (TC3) Library: http://www.tc3.edu/library/ Dryden, N.Y. 13053-0139 Follow the library: http://twitter.com/TC3Library E-mail: dr...@tc3.edu Phone: 607-844-8222 ext.4406 SKYPE/Twitter:BillDrew4 SMS/TXT Me: 6072182217 Website: http://BillTheLibrarian.com StrengthsQuest Strengths: Ideation, Input, Learner, Command, Analytical http://www.facebook.com/billdrew One thing about eBooks that most people haven't thought much is that eBooks are the very first thing that we're all able to have as much as we want other than air. -- Michael Hart, Project Gutenberg Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail or document. -- Cary Gordon The Cherry Hill Company http://chillco.com -- Corey A Harper Metadata Services Librarian New York University Libraries 20 Cooper Square, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10003-7112 212.998.2479 corey.har...@nyu.edu
[CODE4LIB] code4lib 2012 streaming
Dear All, I'll be managing our attempts to ensure code4lib 2012 is streamed. The plan is to stream all plenary portions of the conference via livestream, and I'll post the channel link to IRC, Twitter on this list before the event begins. If all goes well, we'll have a stream for the following (PST) times: * Tues: 9am-12pm, 1pm-2.40, 4-5.20 * Wed: 9am-12pm, 1pm-2.20, 3.50-5.15 * Thu: 9am-12pm The streaming committee has some concerns about the equipment we have access to, so if there is anyone in the community who would volunteer a digital camcorder with a firewire known to be compatible with Livestream, we would be in your debt. (Which means I would buy you beer from time to time throughout the conference...) Alternately, I have leads on rental equipment, so please let me know (offlist) if virtual attendees would be willing to donate toward the stream or if onsite attendees would be willing to make a donation at the door. :) Thanks in advance. I will post a link to the livestream channel no later than Monday. Best, -Corey On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Julia Bauder julia.bau...@gmail.com wrote: Speaking of video streaming, is there any information yet about the streaming? E.g., what will be streamed, and where will the links to the stream appear? Julia (who is also eagerly awaiting her streaming + IRC Code4Lib fix) On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Ranti Junus ranti.ju...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All, For those who might not realize it, the code4lib 2012 schedule is up. http://code4lib.org/conference/2012/schedule Once the conference is over, we'll work on adding the links to the presentations. Better yet, those of you who do the presentation can add the link to your own presentation (slides, screencast, code examples, etc.) You'd need to register for an account first, if you haven't done that. Have a great time, everyone! I'm looking forward to watch the video streaming and participate in the #code4lib IRC. thanks, ranti on behalf of code4lib 2012 program committee -- Bulk mail. Postage paid. -- Corey A Harper Metadata Services Librarian New York University Libraries 20 Cooper Square, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10003-7112 212.998.2479 corey.har...@nyu.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] jobs.code4lib.org
I should repost the reply I sent on the c4lcon list here: Hey Ed, Thanks for posting this summary here. It's really cool to see a description of how this is working. I think this is a pretty good example of how a library data mgt interface of the future might work: * Grab some free text describing a thing; * Try to clean it up, extract important concepts / themes topics * Reconcile against some sort lod-lam friendly controlled vocabulary/ies * Offer cataloger types an interface to accept / reject / refine those mappings as well as the text of the metadata itself. I would go to a breakout session about this. Best, -Corey On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Cynthia Ng cynthia.s...@gmail.com wrote: Just a quick 2 cents. I only found out about the feed by reading this conversation. I think it would be great to make the RSS link a little more obvious from the front page. -Cynthia On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 8:22 AM, Michael J. Giarlo leftw...@alumni.rutgers.edu wrote: I smell a potential breakout session. -Mike P.S. No, really, jokers, that's what I smell. On Jan 31, 2012 11:30 PM, Ed Summers e...@pobox.com wrote: I guess it's rarely a good idea to respond to your own post, but I forgot to add that when a job is published on jobs.code4lib.org it will show up in the site's Atom feed [1]. The feed should be usable by your feed reader of choice, and could also be useful if you want to syndicate the jobs elsewhere. //Ed [1] http://jobs.code4lib.org/feed/ PS. It was kind of fun to finally use the tag link relation to mark up the job tags in the feed with Freebase URLs. For example: entry ... link rel=tag title=Unix href=http://www.freebase.com/view/en/unix; type=text/html / link rel=tag title=Unix [JSON] href=http://www.freebase.com/experimental/topic/standard/en/unix; type=application/json / link rel=tag title=Unix [RDF] href=http://rdf.freebase.com/rdf/en.unix; type=application/rdf+xml / /entry -- Corey A Harper Metadata Services Librarian New York University Libraries 20 Cooper Square, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10003-7112 212.998.2479 corey.har...@nyu.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib 2012 streaming
Yes. The camera's being provided by UW will work for that, and there will be a second camera running to grab a version to process in the weeks following the conference post to the internet archive as done in previous years. I decided on two separate cameras because of feedback from Access 2012 indicating that if the livestream dropped, the archival copy that can be pulled out later is also lost. Therefore, I'm erring on the side of redundant capture. -Corey On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: Is the video also being recorded for putting up on the web later? On 2/1/2012 11:48 AM, Corey A Harper wrote: Dear All, I'll be managing our attempts to ensure code4lib 2012 is streamed. The plan is to stream all plenary portions of the conference via livestream, and I'll post the channel link to IRC, Twitter on this list before the event begins. If all goes well, we'll have a stream for the following (PST) times: * Tues: 9am-12pm, 1pm-2.40, 4-5.20 * Wed: 9am-12pm, 1pm-2.20, 3.50-5.15 * Thu: 9am-12pm The streaming committee has some concerns about the equipment we have access to, so if there is anyone in the community who would volunteer a digital camcorder with a firewire known to be compatible with Livestream, we would be in your debt. (Which means I would buy you beer from time to time throughout the conference...) Alternately, I have leads on rental equipment, so please let me know (offlist) if virtual attendees would be willing to donate toward the stream or if onsite attendees would be willing to make a donation at the door. :) Thanks in advance. I will post a link to the livestream channel no later than Monday. Best, -Corey On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Julia Bauderjulia.bau...@gmail.com wrote: Speaking of video streaming, is there any information yet about the streaming? E.g., what will be streamed, and where will the links to the stream appear? Julia (who is also eagerly awaiting her streaming + IRC Code4Lib fix) On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Ranti Junusranti.ju...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All, For those who might not realize it, the code4lib 2012 schedule is up. http://code4lib.org/conference/2012/schedule Once the conference is over, we'll work on adding the links to the presentations. Better yet, those of you who do the presentation can add the link to your own presentation (slides, screencast, code examples, etc.) You'd need to register for an account first, if you haven't done that. Have a great time, everyone! I'm looking forward to watch the video streaming and participate in the #code4lib IRC. thanks, ranti on behalf of code4lib 2012 program committee -- Bulk mail. Postage paid. -- Corey A Harper Metadata Services Librarian New York University Libraries 20 Cooper Square, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10003-7112 212.998.2479 corey.har...@nyu.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib 2012 streaming
By the way, if anyone has any experience with streaming video with livestream, or recording video for archiving, or is interested in trying their hand at pointing a camera at really smart people while they talk, please consider signing up to join the video committee: http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/During_the_Conference_Volunteers#Video_Committee On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Corey A Harper corey.har...@nyu.edu wrote: Yes. The camera's being provided by UW will work for that, and there will be a second camera running to grab a version to process in the weeks following the conference post to the internet archive as done in previous years. I decided on two separate cameras because of feedback from Access 2012 indicating that if the livestream dropped, the archival copy that can be pulled out later is also lost. Therefore, I'm erring on the side of redundant capture. -Corey On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: Is the video also being recorded for putting up on the web later? On 2/1/2012 11:48 AM, Corey A Harper wrote: Dear All, I'll be managing our attempts to ensure code4lib 2012 is streamed. The plan is to stream all plenary portions of the conference via livestream, and I'll post the channel link to IRC, Twitter on this list before the event begins. If all goes well, we'll have a stream for the following (PST) times: * Tues: 9am-12pm, 1pm-2.40, 4-5.20 * Wed: 9am-12pm, 1pm-2.20, 3.50-5.15 * Thu: 9am-12pm The streaming committee has some concerns about the equipment we have access to, so if there is anyone in the community who would volunteer a digital camcorder with a firewire known to be compatible with Livestream, we would be in your debt. (Which means I would buy you beer from time to time throughout the conference...) Alternately, I have leads on rental equipment, so please let me know (offlist) if virtual attendees would be willing to donate toward the stream or if onsite attendees would be willing to make a donation at the door. :) Thanks in advance. I will post a link to the livestream channel no later than Monday. Best, -Corey On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Julia Bauderjulia.bau...@gmail.com wrote: Speaking of video streaming, is there any information yet about the streaming? E.g., what will be streamed, and where will the links to the stream appear? Julia (who is also eagerly awaiting her streaming + IRC Code4Lib fix) On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Ranti Junusranti.ju...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All, For those who might not realize it, the code4lib 2012 schedule is up. http://code4lib.org/conference/2012/schedule Once the conference is over, we'll work on adding the links to the presentations. Better yet, those of you who do the presentation can add the link to your own presentation (slides, screencast, code examples, etc.) You'd need to register for an account first, if you haven't done that. Have a great time, everyone! I'm looking forward to watch the video streaming and participate in the #code4lib IRC. thanks, ranti on behalf of code4lib 2012 program committee -- Bulk mail. Postage paid. -- Corey A Harper Metadata Services Librarian New York University Libraries 20 Cooper Square, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10003-7112 212.998.2479 corey.har...@nyu.edu -- Corey A Harper Metadata Services Librarian New York University Libraries 20 Cooper Square, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10003-7112 212.998.2479 corey.har...@nyu.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] code4lib 2012 streaming
Dear Remote code4libbers, The livestream is now up and running at: http://www.livestream.com/code4lib Currently playing ambient sounds of breakfast, but opening sessions begin at 9am. Ping me on email or twitter / irc (chrpr) if you notice anything problematic. -Corey On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 8:48 AM, Corey A Harper corey.har...@nyu.edu wrote: Dear All, I'll be managing our attempts to ensure code4lib 2012 is streamed. The plan is to stream all plenary portions of the conference via livestream, and I'll post the channel link to IRC, Twitter on this list before the event begins. If all goes well, we'll have a stream for the following (PST) times: * Tues: 9am-12pm, 1pm-2.40, 4-5.20 * Wed: 9am-12pm, 1pm-2.20, 3.50-5.15 * Thu: 9am-12pm The streaming committee has some concerns about the equipment we have access to, so if there is anyone in the community who would volunteer a digital camcorder with a firewire known to be compatible with Livestream, we would be in your debt. (Which means I would buy you beer from time to time throughout the conference...) Alternately, I have leads on rental equipment, so please let me know (offlist) if virtual attendees would be willing to donate toward the stream or if onsite attendees would be willing to make a donation at the door. :) Thanks in advance. I will post a link to the livestream channel no later than Monday. Best, -Corey On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 11:21 AM, Julia Bauder julia.bau...@gmail.com wrote: Speaking of video streaming, is there any information yet about the streaming? E.g., what will be streamed, and where will the links to the stream appear? Julia (who is also eagerly awaiting her streaming + IRC Code4Lib fix) On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Ranti Junus ranti.ju...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All, For those who might not realize it, the code4lib 2012 schedule is up. http://code4lib.org/conference/2012/schedule Once the conference is over, we'll work on adding the links to the presentations. Better yet, those of you who do the presentation can add the link to your own presentation (slides, screencast, code examples, etc.) You'd need to register for an account first, if you haven't done that. Have a great time, everyone! I'm looking forward to watch the video streaming and participate in the #code4lib IRC. thanks, ranti on behalf of code4lib 2012 program committee -- Bulk mail. Postage paid. -- Corey A Harper Metadata Services Librarian New York University Libraries 20 Cooper Square, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10003-7112 212.998.2479 corey.har...@nyu.edu -- Corey A Harper Metadata Services Librarian New York University Libraries 20 Cooper Square, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10003-7112 212.998.2479 corey.har...@nyu.edu
[CODE4LIB] Crowd-sourcing c4l12 video QA
Hey all, Just a friendly request that folks viewing the current ad-hoc archives of the livestream [1] help me out with quality assurance. As a lot of you know, I have a secondary video set of variable quality recorded to DV tapes. I'll be spending some of tomorrow (2/13) capturing those to file at UW. I don't have time to watch all the archived footage, but I know a lot of you have been viewing /or looking for specific talks / segments. To this end, I've put an editable copy of the schedule on the wiki. If you've watched something and know it's good, let me know. If you've watched something and noted that the stream dropped or the quality bites let me know. If you looked for and couldn't find something, definitely let me know. I can't promise a perfect archive, but I hope you'll all want to help me make it as good as it can be. You can either edit in the wiki directly, or email me, or hit me up on twitter (@chrpr), or I'll try to lurk in channel sometimes the next few weeks. This way, over the next few of weeks, I can cobble together the best possible footages, load them to the Internet Archive as well as re-load them and tag them on Livestream, and link them from the conference schedule. It'll probably take me a few weeks to get all of this done, and feel free to let me know if you have any suggestions or want to help in any way. Thanks, -Corey [1]http://www.livestream.com/code4lib/ [2]http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Crowdsourced_Video_QA -- Corey A Harper Metadata Services Librarian New York University Libraries 20 Cooper Square, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10003-7112 212.998.2479 corey.har...@nyu.edu
[CODE4LIB] Fwd: Learning Linked Data - comments sought
of the vocabularies used to describe those things are all considered data, so many of the basic tools for editing, mapping, converting, and extracting data may be adapted for different types of data. -- Visualization [5]: Linked Data is conceptually diagrammatic in nature, and graphical tools can help the learner explore the statistical, spatial, or temporal characteristics of datasets by visualizing webs of data at various levels of granularity or by plotting the data to maps or timelines. -- Implementing a Linked Data Application [6]: Simply learning how to interpret and manipulate Linked Data could stop with the topics outlined above. The extent to which a language-lab-like platform for learning Linked Data should encompass tools for building real applications poses questions of scope on which the project would appreciate input. The project envisions the platform as a basis for the development of course modules by people involved in both formal and informal learning environments, so comments about the usefulness of such a platform for particular scenarios would be especially welcome. The comments received will be incorporated into a revised document and final report to be published in September 2012. This report will be used as the basis for a subsequent IMLS project proposal, to be submitted in early 2013, for implementing the platform specified. The partners of the Learning Linked Data Project are the University of Washington, Kent State University, the University of North Carolina, JES Company, and 3 Round Stones, Inc. The project lead and contact person is Mike Crandall of the University of Washington. [1] http://www.imls.gov/news/national_leadership_grant_announcement.aspx#WA [2] http://lld.ischool.uw.edu/wp/learning/understanding-linked-data/ [3] http://lld.ischool.uw.edu/wp/learning/searching-and-querying-linked-data/ [4] http://lld.ischool.uw.edu/wp/learning/creating-and-manipulating-rdf-data/ [5] http://lld.ischool.uw.edu/wp/learning/visualization/ [6] http://lld.ischool.uw.edu/wp/learning/implementing-a-linked-data-application/ [7] http://lld.ischool.uw.edu/wp/glossary/ -- Tom Baker t...@tombaker.org Learning Linked Data Wiki: http://wiki.dublincore.org/index.php/Learning_Linked_Data List: http://dublincore.org/pipermail/learninglinkeddata/ -- Tom Baker t...@tombaker.org -- Corey A Harper Metadata Services Librarian New York University Libraries 20 Cooper Square, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10003-7112 212.998.2479 corey.har...@nyu.edu
[CODE4LIB]
I did back-of-envelope math last year, based on the attendees list, and my calculations showed that 54 out of 244 attendees were female, so about 22%. This # is surely off as there were about 25 names that I was unable to put a gender with. I counted these as male to get a conservative estimate. I believe this to be an increase from previous years, or perhaps comparable to 2011. I'd guess all 3 percentages (attendees, proposals, presenters) have been steadily increasing at pace since 2006. We can probably estimate that the 2012 conf was 22% women, 2013 proposers were 16% women, and presenters will be 12% women. It would be interesting to do a longitudinal study of all 3 numbers and some nifty data vis alongside results of the survey being discussed. In addition to increasingly all 3 numbers, our goal should also be reducing the (albeit slight) discrepancy across the ratios. -Corey On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 9:31 AM, Bohyun Kim k...@fiu.edu wrote: By any chance, do we have the numbers of the previous code4lib conference attendees by the female/male ratio? ~Bohyun By any chance, do we have the numbers of the previous code4lib conference attendees by the female/male ratio? From: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] on behalf of Ross Singer [rossfsin...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2012 10:20 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] On Nov 27, 2012, at 10:03 AM, Chad Nelson chadbnel...@gmail.com wrote: Rosalyn, If we are only 17% women, when we are subset of the broader Library community, which is majority women, then we are doing something wrong. And that deeper question, what do we need to do to encourage more women to participate in the community, to make the community as a whole appealing and safe, is the question I am really asking. I'm not entirely sure I agree with this. The issue is less about where the number is now than where it's going (and how quickly). Is our (completely hypothetical) 17% up from 2006 (or whenever), when Code4lib started? If so, then I'm less inclined to panic about the statistics and just continue working towards making the community amenable to more groups. If it has plateaued or regressed, then, yes, we need to be extremely concerned. -Ross. Chad On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Rosalyn Metz rosalynm...@gmail.com wrote: I think first we would need to do a survey of how many women are in the community. if it turns out that this community is only 17% women then we're on target. who knows, maybe we're actually 10% women and we're way above target. in which case the real question might be how do we get more women in tech. On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 9:11 AM, Chad Nelson chadbnel...@gmail.com wrote: Ooops. Hit the wrong key. So, about our presenters... Is it a problem that only 4 of our 33 presenters are women? Or that only 16 of 95 proposers were women? Is there something this community needs to do to encourage more women to feel like they can and should speak / propose sessions? -- Corey A Harper Metadata Services Librarian New York University Libraries 20 Cooper Square, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10003-7112 212.998.2479 corey.har...@nyu.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Follow-up to my c4l13 lightning talk (emotion, interactive fiction, and linked data)
Mark, Thank you so much for this. Both your talk, and this essay, are amazing. I feel like there's 4-6 months worth of material to explore contemplate in your post, and marvel at how clearly you've been able to articulate the last 4-6 months of your own thinking. I was tempted to open my response with anarchivist++, partly as an allusion to your point about protological control, and partly to point out that in our own community here we have a form of that as well, though unlike facebook's like, it is both owned by beholden to _us_... I'm not sure why I think that makes a difference, but I do. Like Karen, I can say that your words have shone a light on something that I've also tried to understand. I hear you speaking to what I've tried to describe as an opportunity to merge an archive's or a library's narrative with the narratives of users, scholars, researchers other interested parties who engage both the resources in our collections the ideas, people organizations those resource describe. As I read your post, I realize how much the slides in my own talk about narrative and about context are derivative of the conversations you I have had on many occasions. I think you've hit on something extremely important about the emerging changes in scholarly publication, and publication in general, and how they relate to the resources in library, archive, and museum collections. The relationship between annotation, research, publishing, conversation, and narrative... I've also been thinking about that a lot, and now realize one of the missing pieces is emotion. Looking forward to talking about this more, -Corey On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Mark A. Matienzo mark.matie...@gmail.com wrote: I want to thank the code4lib community for the opportunity to present my lightning talk [0] at the conference last week. As I could tell from the positive feedback I got in person and via email and Twitter, there wasn't enough time to unpack all my ideas in 5 minutes. Accordingly, I wrote up a blog post to expand some of the ideas and give them a better context [1]. If you're curious or have ideas I'd love to have your feedback. I know I owe several of you emails - I'll get back to you soon! xo, Mark [0] http://matienzo.org/storage/2013/2013Feb-code4lib-lightning-talk [1] http://matienzo.org/blog/2013/emotion-archives-interactive-fiction-linked-data/ -- Corey A Harper Metadata Services Librarian New York University Libraries 20 Cooper Square, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10003-7112 212.998.2479 corey.har...@nyu.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] transforming marc to rdf
Eric, Have you had a look at Ed Chamberlain's work on COMET: https://github.com/edchamberlain/COMET It's been a while since I've run this, but if I remember correctly, it was fairly easy-to-use. Also, though much older, I seem to remember the Simile MARC RDFizer being a pretty straightforward one to run: http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/MARC/MODS_RDFizer MODS aficionados will point to some problems with some of it's choices for representing that data, but still a good starting point (IMO). Hope that helps, -Corey On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 9:59 PM, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: I have to eat some crow, and I hope somebody here can give me some advice for transforming MARC to RDF. I am in the midst of writing a book describing the benefits of linked data for archives. Archival metadata usually comes in two flavors: EAD and MARC. I found a nifty XSL stylesheet from the Archives Hub (that’s in the United Kingdom) transforming EAD to RDF/XML. [1] With a bit of customization I think it could be used quite well for just about anybody with EAD files. I have retained a resulting RDF/XML file online. [2] Converting MARC to RDF has been more problematic. There are various tools enabling me to convert my original MARC into MARCXML and/or MODS. After that I can reportably use a few tools to convert to RDF: * MARC21slim2RDFDC.xsl [3] - functions, but even for my tastes the resulting RDF is too vanilla. [4] * modsrdf.xsl [5] - optimal, but when I use my transformation engine (Saxon), I do not get XML but rather plain text * BIBFRAME Tools [6] - sports nice ontologies, but the online tools won’t scale for large operations In short, I have discovered nothing that is “easy-to-use”. Can you provide me with any other links allowing me to convert MARC to serialized RDF? [1] ead2rdf.xsl - http://data.archiveshub.ac.uk/xslt/ead2rdf.xsl [2] transformed EAD file - http://infomotions.com/tmp/una-ano.rdf [3] MARC21slim2RDFDC.xsl - http://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml/xslt/MARC21slim2RDFDC.xsl [4] vanilla RDF - http://infomotions.com/tmp/pamphlets.rdf [5] modsrdf.xsl - http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/modsrdf/xsl-files/modsrdf.xsl [6] BIBFRAME Tools - http://bibframe.org/tools/transform/start — Eric Lease Morgan -- Corey A Harper Metadata Services Librarian New York University Libraries 20 Cooper Square, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10003-7112 212.998.2479 corey.har...@nyu.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] transforming marc to rdf
With apologies to Eric to others from the LiAM project, I feel like I want to jump in here with a little more context. Eric, or Aaron, or Anne, please feel free to correct any of what I say below. I agree with the points made and concerns raised by both Ross Mark -- most significantly, that a sustainable infrastructure for linked archival metadata is not going to come from an XSLT stylesheet. However, I also see tremendous value in what Eric is putting together here. The prospectus for the LiAM project, which is the context for Eric's questions, is about developing guiding principles and educational tools for the archival community to better understand, prepare for, and contribute to the kind of infrastructure both Ross Mark are talking about: http://sites.tufts.edu/liam/deliverables/prospectus-for-linked-archival-metadata-a-guidebook/ While I agree that converting legacy data in EAD MARC formats to RDF is not the approach this work will take in the future, I also believe that these are formats that the archival community is very familiar with, and XSLT is a tool that many archivists work with regularly. A workflow for that community to experiment is a laudable goal. In short, I think we need approaches that illustrate the potential of linked data in archives, to highlight some of the shortcomings in our current metadata management frameworks, to help archivists be in a position to get their metadata ready for what Mark is describing in the context of ArchivesSpace (e.g. please use id attributes in c tags!!), and to have a more complete picture of why doing so is of some value. Sorry for the long message, and I hope that the context is helpful. Regards, -Corey On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Mark A. Matienzo mark.matie...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Eric Lease Morgan emor...@nd.edu wrote: Good question! At the very least, these applications (ArchivesSpace, Archivists’ Toolkit, etc.) can regularly and systematically export their data as EAD, and the EAD can be made available as linked data. It would be ideal if the applications where to natively make their metadata available as linked data, but exporting their content as EAD is a functional stopgap solution. —Eric Morgan Wouldn't it make more sense, especially with a system like ArchivesSpace, which provides a backend HTTP API and a public UI, to publish linked data directly instead of adding yet another stopgap? Mark -- Mark A. Matienzo m...@matienzo.org Director of Technology, Digital Public Library of America -- Corey A Harper Metadata Services Librarian New York University Libraries 20 Cooper Square, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10003-7112 212.998.2479 corey.har...@nyu.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Anyone working with iPython?
The slickest thing about iPython notebooks is the easy of publishing them on github (or elsewhere), then sharing the results with the notebook viewer here: http://nbviewer.ipython.org/ This community could easily use this as an alternative (or compliment) to gist for sharing small chunks of code. This has the added benefit of sharing the _output_ of said code alongside the source. Also, that visual environment is a must when learning highly graph chart dependent things like matplotlib even scikit learn. The iPython notebook also simplifies shelling: just prefix your line with a bang (!) and system command lines are right there. I just finished a Practical Data Science course for grad school last night, and we used iPython heavily throughout the course, both as the platform for the professors lecture notes, and for doing our homework assignments. -Corey On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Sarason,Christian saras...@oclc.orgwrote: +1 for ipython ‹ it was an easy transition from my MATLAB shell programming (for scientific problems) to ipython and the various and sundry wonderful part of python overall for scientific programming. In fact, I became so used to the ipython console, when I go to the regular python shell now I miss all the goodies (amazing how used to tab completion you get used toŠ :D ) Cheers Christian On 12/19/13, 2:55 PM, Sam Kome sam_k...@cuc.claremont.edu wrote: iPython is the only console to bother with IMHO, regardless of what chore I'm doing. I've noodled with the Notebooks and they're wonderful but I am time and attention challenged and haven't progressed far. Eric Matthes uses iPython notebooks to teach programming and has set out some excellent resources: https://github.com/ehmatthes/intro_programming $.02 SK -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Roy Tennant Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 9:49 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Anyone working with iPython? Our Wikipedian in Residence, Max Klein brought iPython [1] to my attention recently and even in just the little exploration I've done with it so far I'm quite impressed. Although you could call it interactive Python that doesn't begin to put across the full range of capabilities, as when I first heard that I thought Great, a Python shell where you enter a command, hit the return, and it executes. Great. Just what I need. NOT. But I was SO WRONG. It certainly can and does do that, but also so much more. You can enter blocks of code that then execute. Those blocks don't even have to be Python. They can be Ruby or Perl or bash. There are built-in functions of various kinds that it (oddly) calls magic. But perhaps the killer bit is the idea of Notebooks that can capture all of your work in a way that is also editable and completely web-ready. This last part is probably difficult to understand until you experience it. Anyway, i was curious if others have been working with it and if so, what they are using it for. I can think of all kinds of things I might want to do with it, but hearing from others can inspire me further, I'm sure. Thanks, Roy [1] http://ipython.org/ -- Corey A Harper Metadata Services Librarian New York University Libraries 20 Cooper Square, 3rd Floor New York, NY 10003-7112 212.998.2479 corey.har...@nyu.edu
