Re: [CODE4LIB] Formalizing Code4Lib?

[Jenn C]

This sounds like an intriguing option. What is "Hydra" that it is able to
enter into an MOU - is the steering group an incorporated entity?

On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 3:40 PM, Esmé Cowles  wrote:

> I remember another option being brought up: picking an official
> organizational home for C4L that would handle being the financial host for
> the conference, and possibly other things (conference carryover,
> scholarship fundraising, holding intellectual property, etc.).  An existing
> library non-profit might be able to do this without that much overhead.
>
> For example, Hydra has a MOU with DuraSpace for exactly this kind of
> arrangement, and there was a post recently about renewing the arrangement
> for another year, including the MOU:
>
> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/hydra-tech/jCua5KILos4/yRpOalF6AgAJ
>
> In the past, there has been a great deal of resistance to making C4L more
> organized, and especially on the amount of work needed to run a non-profit
> organization.  So having a financial host arrangement could be a
> lighter-weight option.
>
> -Esmé
>
> > On Jun 7, 2016, at 3:31 PM, Coral Sheldon-Hess 
> wrote:
> >
> > I think this deserves its own thread--thanks for bringing it up,
> Christina!
> >
> > I'm also interested in investigating how to formalize Code4Lib as an
> > entity, for all of the reasons listed earlier in the thread. I can't
> > volunteer to be the leader/torch-bearer/main source of energy behind the
> > investigation right now (sorry), but I'm happy to join any group that
> takes
> > this on. I might be willing to *co*-lead, if that is what it takes to get
> > the process started.
> >
> > And, yes, anyone who has talked to me or read my rants about the
> > proliferation of library professional organizations is going to think my
> > volunteering for this is really funny. But I think forming a group to
> > gather information gives us the chance to determine, as a community,
> > whether Code4Lib delivers enough value and has enough of a separate
> > identity to be worth forming Yet Another Professional Organization (my
> gut
> > answer, today? "yes"), or whether we would do better to fold into, or
> > become a sub-entity of, some existing organization; or, (unlikely) should
> > Code4Lib stop being A Big International Thing and just do regional stuff?
> > Or some other option I haven't listed--I don't even know what all the
> > options are, right now.
> >
> > One note on the "no, let's not organize" sentiment: the problem with a
> flat
> > organization, or an anarchist collective, or a complete "do-ocracy," is
> > that the decision-making structures aren't as obvious to newcomers, or
> even
> > long-term members who aren't already part of those structures. There is
> > value to formality, within reason. I mean... right now, I don't know how
> to
> > go about getting "permission" to form this exploratory group, right?
> Having
> > some kind of formal structure would help.
> >
> > So... how do we do that? Can we do that? Who wants to help?
> >
> > - Coral
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 12:21 PM, Salazar, Christina <
> > christina.sala...@csuci.edu> wrote:
> >
> >> It's probably too late for a 2017 but I really do think it's time to
> >> reopen the question of formalizing Code4Lib IF ONLY FOR THE PURPOSES OF
> >> BEING THE FIDUCIARY AGENT for the annual conference.
> >>
> >> Local (and national) politics aside, it's very difficult to stand in
> front
> >> of your boss (or worse, a total stranger) and ask them to be willing to
> >> cover financial liability for an unaffiliated, purely voluntary
> >> organization. In addition, we're no longer talking about a couple
> thousand
> >> dollars financial liability, we are now getting into a HUNDRED THOUSAND
> >> DOLLARS liability.
> >>
> >> I question the sustainability of this present system for the long term.
> >>
> >> PS (I know, everyone says no no no, we don't want to be organized, but
> my
> >> feeling is that we need a better way to manage the funding part of the
> >> conference... Or choose to go local only.)
> >>
> >>
> >> Christina Salazar
> >> Systems Librarian
> >> John Spoor Broome Library
> >> California State University, Channel Islands
> >> 805/437-3198
> >>
> >>
> >> -Original Message-
> >> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of
> >> Brian Rogers
> >> Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2016 8:27 AM
> >> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> >> Subject: [CODE4LIB] Update Regarding C4L17 in Chattanooga
> >>
> >> Greetings from the Chattanooga C4L17 Planning Committee:
> >>
> >> This is a follow-up to Andrea Schurr’s May 18th email (
> >> https://goo.gl/bs2au7) regarding the survey around potential impact on
> >> attendance of the 2017 Code4Lib conference, given the host of
> >> discriminatory/concerning legislation in Tennessee.
> >>
> >> Please see the summary of results below. We thank the individuals who
> took
> >> the time to respond and provide 

Re: [CODE4LIB] Software used in Panama Papers Analysis

[Jenn C]

I worked on a text mining project last semester where I had a bunch of
magazines with text that was totally unstructured (from IA). I would have
really liked to know how to work entity matching into such a project. Are
there text mining projects out there that demonstrate doing this?

On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 11:08 AM, diego ferreyra 
wrote:

> I think controlled vocabularies can be used to improve text-minning
> process, to entities recongnition (persons, institutions and critical
> concepts) ... I think thats... but I'm a not neutral about this because
> I am developer of a controlled vocabularies tool :)
>
> Sorry about my english :/
>
> 2016-04-08 3:24 GMT-03:00 Eric Lease Morgan :
>
> > On Apr 7, 2016, at 4:24 PM, Gregory Markus 
> > wrote:
> >
> > >> from one of the New York Times stories on the Panama Papers: "The
> > >> ICIJ made a number of powerful research tools available to the
> > >> consortium that the group had developed for previous leak
> > >> investigations. Those included a secure, Facebook-type forum
> > >> where reporters could post the fruits of their research, as well
> > >> as database search program called “Blacklight” that allowed the
> > >> teams to hunt for specific names, countries or sources.”
> > >>
> > >>
> >
> http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/06/business/media/how-a-cryptic-message-interested-in-data-led-to-the-panama-papers.html
> > >
> > >
> >
> https://ijnet.org/en/blog/how-icij-pulled-large-scale-cross-border-investigative-collaboration
> >
> >
> > Based on my VERY quick read of the articles linked above, a group of
> > people created a collaborative system for collecting, indexing,
> searching,
> > and analyzing data/information. In the end, they facilitated the creation
> > of knowledge. That sure sounds like a library to me. Kudos! I believe our
> > profession has many things to learn from this example, and two of those
> > things include: 1) you need full text content, and 2) controlled
> > vocabularies are not a necessary component of the system. —ELM
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Diego Ferreyra
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] List of Database Subjects

[Jenn C]

Here's ours, though I'm not sure it's fewer subjects, the hierarchy might
help a bit?

https://newcatalog.library.cornell.edu/databases/

jenn

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 2:26 PM, Burrell, Matthew  wrote:

> Hello all,
> I am looking for examples of lists of database subjects similar to one we
> are using, https://www.lib.fsu.edu/eresources/subjects , as a comparative
> model. We would like to limit the number of subjects and searching for
> examples. Thanks in advance! I appreciate it.
> Matt
>
> Matt Burrell
> Web Developer
> The Florida State University Libraries
> Tallahassee, Florida
> (850) 814-9634
> Or Schedule an Appointment
>

[CODE4LIB] resources for learning cucumber or selenium or other front end tests?

[Jenn C]

Hi-

Does anyone have a favorite resource for learning about cucumber or
selenium testing?

Looking for starting at the very beginning and feeling overwhelmed. Any
recommendations are greatly appreciated!

jenn

Re: [CODE4LIB] free html editors

[Jenn C]

There's the new atom editor from github:

https://atom.io/

On Sat, May 16, 2015 at 12:20 PM, Cornel Darden Jr. 
corneldarde...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hello,

 I recommend cloud editors.

 Thanks,

 Cornel Darden Jr.
 MSLIS
 Library Department Chair
 South Suburban College
 7087052945

 Our Mission is to Serve our Students and the Community through lifelong
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  I purchased Andy Harris' HTML5 and CSS3 All-in-One For Dummies for my
 summer reading and the free HTML editors he mentions in the book are either
 not really free or are not compatible with my lab's 2008 Macs.
 
  Can anyone recommend a free HTML editor for older Macs?
 
  Many thanks and happy to be on this list,
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Re: [CODE4LIB] talking about digital collections vs electronic resources

[Jenn C]

Thank you so much for all the replies, these are all very helpful! When
building the prototype for this particular page listing digitized
collections, I had put Digital Collections as the header out of habit
essentially because I know that's what we call them. The group working on
the page is going to do some more thinking about the labeling.

(To give some more info on what we were trying to do: this is a list of
collection-level records for collections Cornell has digitized. Cataloged
digitized collections can definitely be found along with everything else in
the catalog. The purpose of the list is to highlight these collections
and to perhaps make them easier to find. We don't have a digital
collection facet in our Blacklight catalog yet, though we like how
Stanford has set theirs up. These collections can be cataloged as a variety
of different formats as well - databases, websites, books, etc. so there
really isn't an obvious way to look at or narrow your search to them in the
catalog. It might be that the page won't get a lot of use because the
collections can be discovered in the catalog, but it will be available if
someone would like to see a list of such things.)

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 7:57 AM, McDonald, Stephen steve.mcdon...@tufts.edu
 wrote:

 My question would be, why are you trying to keep them separate?  Why not
 group them all together?  People don't want to have to look all over the
 place to find what they want.  They want it all in one place.

[CODE4LIB] talking about digital collections vs electronic resources

[Jenn C]

Hi-

We're having a discussion about some web site labeling and navigation. We
have a list of digital collections which are collections that contain
items we've digitized. There was concern expressed that we have something
labeled digital collections patrons might think that includes databases
and other items.

Has anyone done user testing around this or have any experience/ideas about
how to handle the difference between these?

Thanks!
jenn

Re: [CODE4LIB] Whatever Happened to the Northeast Code4Lib?

[Jenn C]

I think there'd be a few of us from Cornell that would be interested in a
northeast gathering.

On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Matthew Sherman matt.r.sher...@gmail.com
wrote:

 I am glad to see there is interest out there. I am all for trying to
 organize some helpful gatherings and what not, and do some of the grunt
 work.  Obviously we need people to show interest, but it is good to see
 some exists.

 On Tue, Nov 25, 2014 at 9:03 AM, Joseph Montibello 
 joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edu wrote:

  Hi,
 
  Yale hosted a C4L New England event a couple of years back (
  http://wiki.code4lib.org/NECode4lib_2012_Home). I was on the planning
  committee - it was fun and I know I learned a lot. It was good to have a
  local event that folks could go to.
 
  The nice thing is that for an event like this to happen, we only need a
  few people willing to work on it, and a little luck in finding an
  institution to back it. (And of course a two-day event like the one we
 had
  at Yale is by no means the right/best/only format - there are lots of
 other
  ways that Code4Lib could take shape in New England / the northeast.)
 
  Joe Montibello, MLIS
  Library Systems Manager
  Dartmouth College
  603.646.9394
  joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edumailto:joseph.montibe...@dartmouth.edu
 
 
 
  On Nov 24, 2014, at 3:39 PM, Abigail abigaildiscov...@gmail.commailto:
  abigaildiscov...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  Hi Matt,
 
  Thanks for posting - I'm new-ish to Code4Lib, and in Western MA. Would be
  excited to see more NE activity.
 
  Abigail
  Systems Librarian
  Hampshire College
 
 
  On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 3:03 PM, Christina Marie Harlow 
  cmh2...@columbia.edumailto:cmh2...@columbia.edu wrote:
 
  Hi Matt-
 
  We have stuff going in Code4LibNYC, but I'd be happy to help get
 something
  going on in the Northeast.
 
  Thanks!
  Christina
 
  On Sat, Nov 22, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Matthew Sherman 
 matt.r.sher...@gmail.com
  mailto:matt.r.sher...@gmail.com
 
  wrote:
 
  While riffing on an old DC comics title the subject line is my question.
  I've been working in Connecticut for a little over a year now and I have
  heard of nothing going on with Code4Lib in this part of the US.  I find
  this sad since I see all sorts of activity in a variety of other spots,
  particularly in my old beloved midwest stomping grounds.  So I was
  wondering if anyone knows why the Code4Libbers in the northeast have been
  so quiet?  Is the communication being done in some back channel or are
  there not many of us out in this part of the US?  I am just curious as I
  would love to touch base, collaborate, and learn from other folks in the
  community.
 
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