[CODE4LIB] Job posting: Digital Collecting Specialist
Below is a job posting for working here at the National Library of New Zealand. Type: Fixed Term (12 months) Hours: Full time Location: Wellington Business Group: National Library Branch: Information and Knowledge Services Salary: $58,678 - $69,032 Do you want to apply your IT expertise to collecting New Zealand's published digital heritage for current and future generations? This is a developing role where you will be able to really make a difference to how the National Library collects digital publications. We are looking for someone with an understanding of the digital environment who can help us to develop and utilise smart ways of acquiring, ingesting and making available the electronic published heritage of New Zealand. The primary purpose of the Digital Collecting Specialist is to support the efficient acquisition and description of digital content deposited by publishers or collected from the Internet. You will: * Assist with publications being ingested from the public Internet and from direct transfers from depositors into the National Digital Heritage Archive (NDHA) * Develop stable ingest mechanisms for the bulk ingest of digital content, utilising existing APIs and in-house systems * Train and support staff in the transition of new ingest mechanisms to business-as-usual * Identify and utilise sources of metadata to populate descriptive records * Develop and maintain policy and process documentation An understanding of metadata standards, content repositories and catalogues, together with knowledge of Internet technologies is required. You will also need experience with coding language (Python strongly preferred), and a good working knowledge of text encodings and APIs A tertiary qualification in information technology is required, or being able to demonstrate an equivalent level of experience in this field. Applications close: 5PM, Monday 16 May 2016 For more information please contact: Linda Hall, Team Leader Collection Development Legal Deposit on 04 470 4451 or linda...@dia.govt.nz. Job description: To review the full job description, please click here<http://www.bfound.net/Company/164-20160503141839.pdf> Jay Gattuso | Digital Preservation Analyst | Preservation, Research and Consultancy National Library of New Zealand | Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa PO Box 1467 Wellington 6140 New Zealand | +64 (0)4 474 3064 jay.gatt...@dia.govt.nz<mailto:jay.gatt...@natlib.govt.nz>
[CODE4LIB] Anyone have a list of exposed z39.50 endpoints?
We have a colleague looking into giving our Public Lending Rights system some TLC. This is the process we use to survey any library holdings and count any holdings by New Zealand authors/producers. I was asked if I knew of any lists of exposed z39.50 endpoints that we could interrogate as part of our holdings survey. I thought this might be something some of you have / could comment on. We're interested in any library, public or private, and will happily take any suggests on or off list, especially if you know of any endpoints that are exposed but not specifically publicised. Thanks in advance Jay Gattuso | Digital Preservation Analyst | Preservation, Research and Consultancy National Library of New Zealand | Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa PO Box 1467 Wellington 6140 New Zealand | +64 (0)4 474 3064 jay.gatt...@dia.govt.nzmailto:jay.gatt...@natlib.govt.nz
[CODE4LIB] HeritagePreserve - A two day technical foray into preserving digital heritage materials (New Zealand)
NZ C4L'ers, or other C4L'ers who fancy a day trip…. I'm delighted to announce that the National Library of New Zealand will be running a 2 day un-conference / Code Jam type event that will provide technical specialists controlled access to Library collections to help us to explore long-term preservation issues that surround this invaluable content. We will be running the event on Friday the 13th and Saturday the 14th of June at the National Library building in Wellington (70 Molesworth Street). The event is generously sponsored by Catalyst IT, and Revera, who are providing technical bits and victuals for the event. We will be giving access to some considerable resources, including our NZ web archives, and even to a copy of GeoCities (a very early web community - 1994 - which we know New Zealanders were active in). There will be other collections available, and a shopping list of preservation challenges that we're facing ranging from tools to do specific preservation functions, a pile of formats to derive technical descriptors for, to understanding arcane digital objects to ensure we can maintain meaningful access to donated items. We also have a collection of older bits of technology that could use some TLC, so if you're interested in older computers, and like coaxing them to play nicely, we've got a job for you… The event details are here: https://heritagepreserve.eventbrite.co.nz The event mailing list is here: http://lists.vuw.ac.nz/mailman/private/heritagepreserve/ Any questions can be directed at me, or to the mailing list I hope to see you there! Jay Jay Gattuso | Digital Preservation Analyst | Preservation, Research and Consultancy National Library of New Zealand | Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa PO Box 1467 Wellington 6140 New Zealand | +64 (0)4 474 3064 jay.gatt...@dia.govt.nzmailto:jay.gatt...@natlib.govt.nz
[CODE4LIB] New Zealand Chapter
Hi all, Long time listener, first time caller. We don't have a C4L chapter over here in New Zealand, and I wondered what we would need to do to align the small group of Lib / GLAM coders with the broader C4L group. One of my colleagues did make this: http://i.imgur.com/XgGP9vX.jpg We are also setting up a two day code/hack fest, focusing on our Digital Preservation concerns, in June. I'd also really like to run the hackfest under a C4L banner. Any thoughts? J Jay Gattuso | Digital Preservation Analyst | Preservation, Research and Consultancy National Library of New Zealand | Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa PO Box 1467 Wellington 6140 New Zealand | +64 (0)4 474 3064 jay.gatt...@dia.govt.nzmailto:jay.gatt...@natlib.govt.nz
Re: [CODE4LIB] New Zealand Chapter
Luckily we made the graphic in such a way we can easily change the text Any of the text. The maker is on leave exploring Europe, but I will check. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Stuart Yeates Sent: Thursday, 10 April 2014 9:14 a.m. To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] New Zealand Chapter Nice. The real question is whether that's U+2163, like it should be. cheers stuart On 04/10/2014 07:17 AM, Jay Gattuso wrote: Hi all, Long time listener, first time caller. We don't have a C4L chapter over here in New Zealand, and I wondered what we would need to do to align the small group of Lib / GLAM coders with the broader C4L group. One of my colleagues did make this: http://i.imgur.com/XgGP9vX.jpg We are also setting up a two day code/hack fest, focusing on our Digital Preservation concerns, in June. I'd also really like to run the hackfest under a C4L banner. Any thoughts? J Jay Gattuso | Digital Preservation Analyst | Preservation, Research and Consultancy National Library of New Zealand | Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa PO Box 1467 Wellington 6140 New Zealand | +64 (0)4 474 3064 jay.gatt...@dia.govt.nzmailto:jay.gatt...@natlib.govt.nz
Re: [CODE4LIB] Automated Embedded Metadata Extraction in Photographs: Possible or Pipedream?
Hi Shea, There are heaps of tools that can assist you, you've been pointed towards the excellent ExifTool in previous threads. The command line version is very easy to work with, and I have made a few different tools that whip out, or change exif data where required. A very versatile tool that handles many other metadata types on top of exif data (like MS office files, ID3 etc). Other candidate tools are:- Apache Tika - http://tika.apache.org/ - I use this quite a bit in testing, and wrangling various text based objects Jhove - http://sourceforge.net/projects/jhove/ - this will pull out all the exif in a lump where you can do things with it. We use in the Rosetta validation stack, and it forms one of the processes that we use to automatically extract and capture exif data from supported image files. All these tools will give you a structured object (CSV, XML etc) that you can use to seed a next step process, e.g. ingest into a CMS or repository. J -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Swauger,Shea Sent: Wednesday, 18 December 2013 10:37 a.m. To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: [CODE4LIB] Automated Embedded Metadata Extraction in Photographs: Possible or Pipedream? Hi all, I'm wondering if there is a systematic method that can extract metadata embedded in digital photographs and then ingest that metadata into a CMS and relate them to their corresponding images. We currently use DigiTool, if that makes a difference. Thanks! Shea Swauger Data Management Librarian Colorado State Univeristy
