Re: [CODE4LIB] NE code4lib registration now open!

2012-09-10 Thread Stern, Randall
Hi New England code4libers: There are still a few spots left for New England code4lib! See the original email below for a link to the registration form... - the code4lib NE planning team (Mike Friscia, Matthew Beacom, Cindy Greenspun, Michelle Hudson, Jay Luker, Joe Montibello; Ernie

[CODE4LIB] NE code4lib registration now open!

2012-08-17 Thread Stern, Randall
Hi New England code4libers: Come and join us at code4lib New England, Friday October 26 and Saturday October 27 at Yale University in New Haven Connecticut! Your local peers will be presenting on some cool stuff on the first day and the second day will be an unconference with topics chosen by

[CODE4LIB] Reminder - call for proposals, New England code4lib!

2012-07-06 Thread Stern, Randall
Hi New England code4libers (and anyone within reach of New Haven who is not on vacation right now...) We have some good proposals, but we'd like to hear from more of you for the inaugural New England regional code4lib on Friday, October 26 and Saturday, October 27 in New Haven, CT This will

[CODE4LIB] Reminder - call for proposals, New England code4lib!

2012-06-11 Thread Stern, Randall
Reminder: We're planning a New England regional code4lib conference and we need your proposals! Dates: Friday, October 26 and Saturday, October 27 Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT Proposal deadline: July 15, 2012. This will be a great opportunity to meet your peers at local institutions

[CODE4LIB] code4lib New England - Call for Proposals

2012-05-23 Thread Stern, Randall
The planning process has begun for the New England regional code4lib conference in October, and we are soliciting proposals for: (a) Prepared talks (20 minutes) (b) Lightning talks (5 minutes) (c) Posters Dates: Friday, October 26 and Saturday, October 27 Location: Yale University, New Haven,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Local catalog records and Google, Bing, Yahoo!

2012-02-27 Thread Stern, Randall
February 2012 16:49, Cynthia Ng cynthia.s...@gmail.commailto:cynthia.s...@gmail.com wrote: I would definitely like to see something like this written up as a journal article. How to expose your collection to search engines On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Stern, Randall randy_st

Re: [CODE4LIB] Local catalog records and Google, Bing, Yahoo!

2012-02-24 Thread Stern, Randall
In order to make more open access data available on the web, this is what Harvard does for most of our silo catalogs of images, finding aids, geospatial data sets, and page turned digital objects (full text) - creates easily crawlable, meta-tagged index pages for each item. The result is that

Re: [CODE4LIB] Preservation Server

2012-01-25 Thread Stern, Randall
Hi Nathan, It looks like your architectural thinking includes a management layer (DSpace, Islandora, other...) and a storage layer. For a storage layer that provides bit level preservation, more copies, up to a point, is a good idea. For much disk storage, people go with 2 copies - a copy on

Re: [CODE4LIB] CODE4LIB Digest - 18 Dec 2011 to 19 Dec 2011 (#2011-310)

2011-12-20 Thread Stern, Randall
I too am willing to help and serve on the committee. - Randy Stern Manager of Systems Development Office for Information Systems, Harvard Library -- Date:Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:08:22 + From:Friscia, Michael michael.fris...@yale.edu Subject: Re: Subject: Re:

[CODE4LIB] Subject: Re: NEcode4lib?

2011-12-19 Thread Stern, Randall
Welcome to Cambridge, Tito! There are many folks in the Harvard libraries who would also like to help now or in the future to organize and attend a regional event. - Randy Stern Office for Information Systems, Harvard Library

[CODE4LIB] Job posting: Digital Library Software Engineer

2011-08-05 Thread Stern, Randall
The Harvard University Library is engaged in a redesign of our Digital Repository Service (DRS), a preservation and access repository of digital objects from libraries and museums at Harvard, currently storing more than 23M files and over 126TB of first copy content. As a team effort involving

Re: [CODE4LIB] TIFF Metadata to XML?

2011-07-19 Thread Stern, Randall
Also, see FITS (http://code.google.com/p/fits/) FITS is an open source java toolset we wrote that wraps JHOVE, ExifTool, and several other format analysis tools and produces a single XML output stream. It also includes a crosswalk to MIX XML as an optional output. Date:Mon, 18 Jul 2011