[CODE4LIB] Moodle SQL Query / Configurable Reports
Are there any SQL / Moodle / Configurable Reports wizards out there who can help me figure this out? I'm a bit of an SQL noob, so apologies if this is dead simple. https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=264088 Thanks! Ahniwa
Re: [CODE4LIB] Transcription services
We have hired services in the past but I always felt they were overpriced and the quality wasn't great. We started doing our own for certain projects (you can add your own transcriptions in YouTube, which is handy, and then it will automatically provide translated versions for you). I always wanted to try putting them up on Amazon Turk and seeing if we could get some good transcriptions on the cheap. On Thu, Apr 24, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Wilhelmina Randtke rand...@gmail.comwrote: Has anyone used a transcription service to do captioning for a video, or anything similar? There are many transcription services that charge a per minute fee. I'd like to get a recommendation on one that worked well for someone. -Wilhelmina Randtke
Re: [CODE4LIB] Screencasting Usability Studies
I've used both Camtasia and SnagIt and I like both well enough. SnagIt is cheap and dead simple for the screen capturing process; not a lot of bells and whistles but I don't need / want those. I've also used a lot of video editing tools (since SnagIt doesn't have much itself) and these days mostly just use Windows Movie Maker or equivalent free tool. On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Junior Tidal jti...@citytech.cuny.eduwrote: Hi Mary, I haven't used it for screen casting usability testing (yet), but I was going to use Quicktime packaged with OS X. It can be used for screen recording. Best, Junior Tidal Assistant Professor Web Services and Multimedia Librarian New York City College of Technology, CUNY 300 Jay Street, Rm A434 Brooklyn, NY 11201 718.260.5481 http://library.citytech.cuny.edu Mary E. Hanlin mhan...@reynolds.edu 2/27/2014 1:06 PM Hi All, Sorry if this has been discussed before. (I'm new to the list.) But, has anyone conducted usability studies using screencast software? If so, what software works well? (Morae is too pricey; I'm thinking along the lines of Camtasia, Silverback, etc.) Also, do you have any anecdotal advice regarding what worked and what didn't? Thanks in advance. Mary Hanlin Electronic Resources and Web Librarian Reynolds Community College Richmond, VA Phone:804.523.5323 Email: mhan...@reynolds.edumailto:mhan...@reynolds.edu
Re: [CODE4LIB] Canadian WordPress Hosting
I like / use HostGator. They have Canadian offices out of Toronto, you might contact them about servers but I imagine you're out of luck. This Canadian company seems decent: http://www.canspace.ca/web-hosting.html On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 10:08 AM, Cynthia Ng cynthia.s...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, but they don't seem to do shared hosting unless I totally missed it. All I need it for is 1-2 WordPress sites after all... nothing enterprise level. On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Lin, Kun l...@cua.edu wrote: iweb.com is at quebec -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Cynthia Ng Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 12:12 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Canadian WordPress Hosting I believe the act says it has to stay in Canada. Hence the need to get local or at least Canadian hosting. On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 9:41 PM, Riley Childs ri...@tfsgeo.com wrote: What about another country? Riley Childs Library Director and IT Admin Junior Charlotte United Christian Academy P: 704-497-2086 (Anytime) P: 704-537-0331 x101 (M-F 7:30am-3pm ET) Sent from my iPhone Please excuse mistakes On Nov 7, 2013, at 9:28 PM, Mark Jordan mjor...@sfu.ca wrote: FWIW, in British Columbia, public institutions are prohibited by law from hosting any data in the US. Mark Ross Singer rossfsin...@gmail.com wrote: I assume it's not about speed, but about the PATRIOT Act. For example, we don't host any of our customer data in the US (and aren't allowed to). -Ross. On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 9:17 PM, Riley Childs ri...@tfsgeo.com wrote: I take that back, did a bit more research, I think there are plenty of options. But I have to ask, why only in Canada, a transit provider in the us willbe just as fast as in Canada Riley Childs Library Director and IT Admin Junior Charlotte United Christian Academy P: 704-497-2086 (Anytime) P: 704-537-0331 x101 (M-F 7:30am-3pm ET) Sent from my iPhone Please excuse mistakes On Nov 7, 2013, at 9:09 PM, Nick Ruest rue...@gmail.com wrote: Cynthia: If you just need a Canadian server, not a Canadian corporation, check out Site5[1]. Not sure if they are exactly what you are looking for, but they have the standard one-click install ControlPanel stuff. Not sure about the automated backup options you're looking for. I've been using them for a few years, and have zero complaints. Riley: Really? Why would we be hard pressed to find that in Canada? -nruest [1] http://www.site5.com/p/canadian-web-hosting/ On 13-11-07 08:38 PM, Riley Childs wrote: Why in Canada? You will be hard pressed to find that Riley Childs Library Director and IT Admin Junior Charlotte United Christian Academy P: 704-497-2086 (Anytime) P: 704-537-0331 x101 (M-F 7:30am-3pm ET) Sent from my iPhone Please excuse mistakes On Nov 7, 2013, at 4:48 PM, Cynthia Ng cynthia.s...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Kevin. Servers need to be in Canada, preferably paid in Canadian but I don't think that's necessary. I'll looking your recommendation. On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Kevin Hawkins kevin.s.hawk...@ultraslavonic.info wrote: Does the entity you pay need to be in Canada (that is, accept payment in Canadian dollars), or do the servers need to be there? Or both? I use http://www.csoft.net/ for my personal hosting. Their business office is in Canada, but I'm unclear on where their servers are. Their documentation is written assuming you have strong technical skills, but they respond quickly (and tersely) whenever I've needed help to address gaps in my skills. They have some specific instructions for installation of WordPress once you've connected to them through SSH: http://www.csoft.net/docs/wordpress.html.en They also have documentation in French in case that's helpful. --Kevin On 2:59 PM, Cynthia Ng wrote: Hi Everyone, Apologies for cross-posting, but code4lib is much more active, and has more Canadians that I've seen. I was wondering if anyone had recommendations for a WordPress hosting solution? And yes, it needs to be in Canada. I can do most of my own dev-type work, so really it just needs to be setup to run WordPress (preferably with 1-click install), and most of all, reliable, hopefully with good customer service for when we need to contact the company. Okay, also preferable is that they do daily backups for us and has excellent security (considering it's WordPress). Too many hosting solutions include email and a
Re: [CODE4LIB] Desk Statistics Software Question
I was looking at this May of last year. I played with some options, including cloud-based using Google Form into a Google doc, and Gimlet, and other commercial options. We ended up going with LibAnalytics ( http://www.springshare.com/libanalytics/) which was dirt-cheap and easy for everyone to use (bonus if you're using LibGuides because the back-end is very familiar). If you're curious, this is the process I went through looking at the cloud-based Google solution: First there's this: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHFFdUZHRjRsejVuNnd6ZGJ4dHc4N3c6MQ That dumps data into this: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aj2cdNzRD0UkdHFFdUZHRjRsejVuNnd6ZGJ4dHc4N3c And then I throw it onto a webpage and get this: http://devweb.stmartin.edu/library/desktracker-gform-test.html FYI we had some proponents of Gimlet but it wasn't customizable enough for my tastes. On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Stephen Zweibel szwei...@hunter.cuny.eduwrote: I did the same, but with Python! Available here: https://github.com/szweibel/Augur Allows for customization of what you're tracking. Also open-source. Photos attached. Stephen Zweibel Visiting Reference Librarian Health Professions Library Hunter College szwei...@hunter.cuny.edu On 8/22/13 3:00 PM, Kaile Zhu kz...@uco.edu wrote: Not sure if this is what you want. I developed it for my library, using .NET environment. Take a look at the attached pictures. Let me know if you, or anybody else wants it, or want me to show more screen shots. Kelly Zhu Web Services Librarian 405-974-5957 -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Brian McBride Sent: 2013年8月22日 11:10 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Desk Statistics Software Question Code4Lib, I am curious what other institutions are using for tracking desk stats? We are evaluating our current solution and wanted to see what what other solutions are available either commercial or open source. Thanks, Brian Brian McBride Head of Application Development J. Willard Marriott Library O: 801.585.7613 F: 801.585.5549 brian.mcbr...@utah.edumailto:brian.mcbr...@utah.edu **Bronze+Blue=Green** The University of Central Oklahoma is Bronze, Blue, and Green! Please print this e-mail only if absolutely necessary! **CONFIDENTIALITY** This e-mail (including any attachments) may contain confidential, proprietary and privileged information. Any unauthorized disclosure or use of this information is prohibited.
Re: [CODE4LIB] StackExchange reboot?
I tried really hard to participate in and help seed the SE site, but I really didn't have any questions in the way that SE would have liked, so I never posted anything. I'm all for a library forum, though, and don't see how it wouldn't do what the SE sites do while still allowing open discussion. Couldn't we just do something simple like this SMF forum? This would be easy to set up and go, and I feel like it fulfills most of the things we were looking for in SE. http://libforum.sanselephants.com/index.php The only downside is the lack of ranking for replies, which I like about SE but again really propagates the question with one right answer type of discussion, which I don't think we have that often. On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 12:45 PM, Becky Yoose b.yo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Sorry for the late entry in the conversation (server fires. server fires everywhere)... just adding two cents in the thread: one cent technical, and the other on a higher level. The technical cent: I've set up an OSQA instance on my personal server for http://www.libcatcode.org and have had mixed results with the software itself. There is really no good way of stopping spam accounts from registering. Since I moved to a new server the spam accounts have lessened, but hasn't stopped totally. There's also the issue that OSQA is pretty much not well maintained anymore. The latest version on osqa.net is from 2011. However, there seems to be some blips of recent activity on the github repo at https://github.com/OSQA/osqa/commits/master. The cent on the higher level: Libcatcode was fairly narrow in its focus (cataloging/metadata folks and library-type programmers), and it was trying to ride on the enthusiasm that the Code Year push generated. So, when the initial enthusiasm died down a few months later, the site went dormant (I also had a pretty slow server to start with, so that probably didn't help at all either). A broader focus would help with a broader audience, but this broader audience brings a whole lot of mess. This is where listservs usually win over broad sites like LIS SE, since, going back an earlier example, asking a cataloging question in AUTOCAT guaranteed that other catalogers were going to see that question, instead of posting a cataloging question on SE where there might be little to no folks with cataloging knowledge there. As you've probably seen with Libcatcode, I've been pretty flexible on what was included in the traditional QA structure. I'm not sure if that type of site management would have worked in the long run, but for the brief run we had so far, it did fine. It was the rules lawyering at the LIS SE which drove me away from that site, so I tried not to have that happen at libcatcode. I've spent all my spare change for now. Feel free to pick my brain if needed. Thanks, Becky Becky Yoose Discovery and Integrated Systems Librarian Assistant Professor Grinnell College On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Galen Charlton g...@esilibrary.com wrote: Hi, On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 10:57 AM, Matt Jones jo...@nceas.ucsb.edu wrote: Have you considered putting up a QA site outside of the SE network, where you can control the set of policies employed better? Indeed, that suggestion has been made, implicitly or explicitly, by several participants in this thread, and I think that hosting our own instance of OSQA (or the like) is probably necessary to get the cultural fit right. Assuming that there's enough interest such that somebody feels inspired to set one up and host it, under the C4L aegis or not, one question I have is whether it is better off being comprehensive (e.g., all the libraries, all the archives, all the musuems, etc.) to have as large a pool as possible, or whether having a bunch of more focused fora (e.g., the potential digital preservation one mentioned by Trevor) is the way to go. Regards, Galen -- Galen Charlton Manager of Implementation Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts email: g...@esilibrary.com direct: +1 770-709-5581 cell: +1 404-984-4366 skype: gmcharlt web:http://www.esilibrary.com/ Supporting Koha and Evergreen: http://koha-community.org http://evergreen-ils.org
Re: [CODE4LIB] Question on CONTENTdm and Linked Data
I work right next to the CONTENTdm guys, so I suppose I could ask them, but I also use to work at the Washington State Library, and I like what they're doing with CONTENTdm, and they have some maps. Is this a good example of what you're trying to do at all? http://www.washingtonruralheritage.com/cdm/map On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 2:25 PM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.comwrote: Hello Code4Lib, I was wondering if anyone has had success in using digital data or resources that are stored in CONTENTdm in any linked data projects. I have tried utilizing CONTENTdm data for a small Google Map in the past and found it quite difficult to use. At the same time I have not used CONTENTdm in over a year so I do not know if they have made it easier to exact and utilize information from the system. I am working on an interview presentation and one of the parts I am trying to tackle involves working a set of data into a user friendly system related to a specific topic, possibly using a map. I know these folks have CONTENTdm currently so I was wondering if I would be able to present a way to work with the existing system or if I should be saying that to make this project work they need to put it into a different CMS. Any insight folks have had working with linked data in CONTENTdm would be quite welcome. Thanks. Matt Sherman
Re: [CODE4LIB] Lib or Libe
When Your Radio Playhouse changed its name to This American Life, Ira spoke a lot about naming things. His guest, Joe Franklin, said that ending a name with a long vowel sound was a good idea. This would support libe over lib. The piece is here: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/17/name-change-no-theme?act=0#play On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 5:09 AM, Adam Constabaris adam_constaba...@ncsu.edu wrote: Well, no, but I have inserted several 'e's into words on signs in the building in which I work, or on days where I'm feeling particularly disturbed by the lack of regularity in my daily language, turned the odd 'i' into a 'y' and other 'y's into 'e's. Sometimes it's like shooting ghoti in a barrel. Perhaps, whatever one's views on the matter might be, we can all take comfort in not being Blefuscudian. cheers, AC On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 4:38 AM, Boheemen, Peter van peter.vanbohee...@wur.nl wrote: I guess you all have installed your 'libe applications' in your 'bine directory'? -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Thomas Bennett Sent: woensdag 13 februari 2013 17:18 To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Lib or Libe After voting I am surprised at the results, its a library as in libe, not a leebrary as in lib, ryght or is that reeght or rit ?. Thomas or is it Thoomas you say tomato I say tomato pecan or pecan In these two examples maybe pronounce it as you wish or weesh or woosh, what ever. Support Requesthttp://portal.support.appstate.edu Thomas McMillan Grant Bennett Appalachian State University Operations Systems AnalystP O Box 32026 University LibraryBoone, North Carolina 28608 (828) 262 6587 Library Systems http://www.library.appstate.edu Confidentiality Notice: This communication constitutes an electronic communication within the meaning of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 18 U.S.C. Section 2510, and its disclosure is strictly limited to the recipient intended by the sender of this message. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution or use of any of the information contained in or attached to this transmission is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. Please contact this office immediately by return e-mail or at 828-262-6587, and destroy the original transmission and its attachment(s), if any, if you are not the intended recipient. On Feb 13, 2013, at 11:08 AM, Fleming, Declan wrote: Hi - at the conference, there has been much foment about how to pronounce the end of code4lib. Please go to: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1lseCc2gwQUXL6oC8aLB7N8YMRnjsl90SfPHAmX5EA_w/viewform and vote. D
Re: [CODE4LIB] Lib or Libe
I can pronounce Willamette and living in WA; does that prove your point? My dad still says Warshington, which boggles my mind. How do you get an 'r' in there? As for this debate, I used to be in the LIB group by find myself slowly sliding more towards LIBE. I have no idea why. On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Kyle Banerjee kyle.baner...@gmail.comwrote: On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 9:50 AM, Ellen Wilson ewil...@southalabama.edu wrote: The same debate rages about LibGuides. At one conference, Springshare had badge ribbons that said something like Team Lib and Team Libe so you could show your allegiance. That was cute. I thought about trying to get the issue of how to pronounce the name of my state and region voted on so the correct forms could be decisively established. Based on the expected outcome of such a vote, it appears that the only people who know how to pronounce these things correctly don't actually live here. kyle -- from the Willamette (pronounced like it's Will-AM-it, dammit!) Valley in Orygun
Re: [CODE4LIB] livestream suggestion
I second the nomination for Google Hangouts. It's more robust than you think and there's a lot of untapped potential. You can find out quite a bit more here: http://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 7:27 AM, Gary McGath develo...@mcgath.com wrote: On 11/15/12 10:10 AM, Mike Smorul wrote: Ustream and their more commercial Watershed offering is pretty nice and the production software makes it pretty easy to switch between sources (desktop, webcam, etc). The service charges per attendee minute, so if you expect a lot of traffic, this may start to get pricy. You do have the advantage us reusing their CDN though. I wouldn't touch Ustream. They use bots to detect copyrighted material and automatically shut off streams that are in violation. The trouble is, the bots have no concept of having permission to stream copyrighted material. The Hugo Awards at this year's World Science Fiction Convention were cut off in mid-broadcast because of this. UStream apologized afterwards, but the damage was done. http://prometheus-unbound.org/2012/09/03/news-copyright-ruined-the-hugo-awards-livestream/ -- Gary McGath, Professional Software Developer
