[CODE4LIB] units of metadata, was Namespace management, was Models of MARC in RDF

2011-12-12 Thread [Your Name]
On Dec 11, 2011, at 11:00 PM, Karen Coyle wrote: I'll let you battle that one out with Simon :-), but I am often at a loss for a better term to describe the unit of metadata that libraries may create in the future to describe their resources. Suggestions highly welcome. I'm sure you're

Re: [CODE4LIB] EAD in Blacklight (was: Re: [CODE4LIB] Batch loading in fedora)

2010-08-11 Thread [Your Name]
like to experiment with it for some ongoing work that involves ingesting archival collections into Fedora, and then editing them with Hydra and viewing them via Blacklight. - Tom On Aug 8, 2010, at 8:13 AM, [Your Name] wrote: I'd like to share an alternative approach that we're

Re: [CODE4LIB] EAD in Blacklight (was: Re: [CODE4LIB] Batch loading in fedora)

2010-08-08 Thread [Your Name]
I'd like to share an alternative approach that we're pursuing here at UVa. It doesn't speak quite directly to operations on finding aids by themselves, with no attention to representing on-line the collection so described, but more to those situations where you make an attempt at a full digital

Re: [CODE4LIB] Running a repository on Debian Stable

2010-04-09 Thread [Your Name]
Mike Taylor writes: Fedora, The problem there, as I understand it is that Fedora expects everything to be in one directory. This setup in inimical to the Debian setup. Personally, I would think that Fedora is well beyond anything you're describing as desired, but just as a point of

Re: [CODE4LIB] Auto-suggest and the id.loc.gov LCSH web service

2009-12-07 Thread [Your Name]
How about feeding back from web request stats? Things that get pulled more often are probably more popular. It's admittedly not very clever, but it would be easy to implement... --- A. Soroka Digital Research and Scholarship R D the University of Virginia Library On Dec 7, 2009, at 5:56

[CODE4LIB] new mailing list for XForms in libraries

2009-12-03 Thread [Your Name]
There's been some interest lately on this list in the use of W3C XForms for library metadata (e.g. MODS, EAD, VRA Core...). Several institutions have committed in one degree or another to their use, and many more are investigating the possibility. To provide a venue for more specific discussion

Re: [CODE4LIB] XForms EAD editor sandbox available

2009-11-13 Thread [Your Name]
In discussion with colleagues around this topic, the question of controlled vocabularies has been prominent. We're looking to move away from list instances that are packed into the XForm at render time to lists that are exposed from other services through REST interfaces, which can be