Re: [CODE4LIB] SomCom Technology DRM

2016-04-05 Thread Will Martin
nt hope that someday somebody will want one of these articles again. Will Martin Web Services Librarian Chester Fritz Library University of North Dakota On 2016-04-04 16:03, Lolis, John wrote: I don't know what version of Windows you're running, but make sure you try to launch the executable ​o

[CODE4LIB] SomCom Technology DRM

2016-04-04 Thread Will Martin
wild-ass guessing at their purposes and usage were wrong, rather than actual file corruption. I've sent an email to the company that made it (they're still around!) but thought I'd ask here also. Any insights? Will Martin Web Services Librarian University of North Dakota [1] Firefox blocks

[CODE4LIB] LibGuides mobile tips?

2016-01-20 Thread Will Martin
,[1] and have passed it on to my librarians. It's got good tips, but I was wondering if anyone else had other best practices or tips on the topic. How are you making your LibGuides mobile-friendly? Thanks. Will Martin [1] Maximize LibGuides for Mobile: http://buzz.springshare.com

[CODE4LIB] Aleph bills to PeopleSoft

2015-11-02 Thread Will Martin
procedure, existing (sane!) code we could steal, or suggestions for commercial products to look at, please -- sing out! Will Martin Web Services Librarian Chester Fritz Library University of North Dakota

[CODE4LIB] Library Juice - thoughts?

2015-10-26 Thread Will Martin
All, I'm thinking of signing up for this class on Library Juice: http://libraryjuiceacademy.com/082-data-management.php I've never used them before. Anybody have experiences to share? Are they any good? Also, what kind of time commitment does one of their classes take? Will Martin

Re: [CODE4LIB] Website KPIs

2015-09-21 Thread Will Martin
I'm only in the early stages of doing this myself -- still going through the IRB process, so I haven't formally started collecting data yet. It looks like what we'll be doing is logging things into a MySQL database. Some of that can happen automatically. For example, I've worked out how to

Re: [CODE4LIB] Website KPIs

2015-09-16 Thread Will Martin
it touches on overall library performance rather than just the website. But you did ask for big picture stuff. Hope this helps. Will Martin Chester Fritz Library University of North Dakota On 2015-09-16 10:50, Joshua Welker wrote: We are in the middle of a large strategic alignment effort

Re: [CODE4LIB] replacing deprecated PHP code throughout website

2015-04-29 Thread Will Martin
. Hope this is helpful. Will Martin Web Services Librarian Chester Fritz Library University of North Dakota

Re: [CODE4LIB] CMS selection

2015-04-03 Thread Will Martin
, please email me off-list. Will Martin Colleagues, I am on a campus-wide team charged with evaluating and selecting a new CMS system to replace our centralized Apache/PHP/Includes-based web server infrastructure. Our Libraries and University Archives have relied on the existing centralized

Re: [CODE4LIB] Deep Freeze + PaperCut + Windows profiles

2015-03-20 Thread Will Martin
We had a similar issue on our lab machines, there was a GPO that we created to fix the issue, I need to look in Group Policy though. I'd be interested to see that if you can take a moment to dig it up. And what is so wrong with Windows 8.1? Part of our speed issues were resolved by reimaging

[CODE4LIB] Deep Freeze + PaperCut + Windows profiles

2015-03-19 Thread Will Martin
In our computer labs, we currently use Deep Freeze.[1] It lets us grant our users full administrative rights, without worrying about malware, viruses, and such, because any changes the user makes are wiped out when they log off. A couple of years ago, the campus as a whole switched to

Re: [CODE4LIB] Deep Freeze + PaperCut + Windows profiles

2015-03-19 Thread Will Martin
Crud, I sent that last without finishing it. We've been chasing our tails in a circle over the issue for the last year and a half. Any suggestions? Will Martin

Re: [CODE4LIB] Deep Freeze + PaperCut + Windows profiles

2015-03-19 Thread Will Martin
Building profiles in a thawspace would be a partial solution; it'd allow for shorter login times if people go back to the same computer. It'd be nice if we could pre-generate profiles for everybody, but the numbers don't work. Each profile runs to to about 100 MB each; We have 208 GB free on

Re: [CODE4LIB] MARC reporting engine

2014-11-04 Thread Martin Czygan
and analysis. Best, Martin [1] https://github.com/ubleipzig/marctools [2] https://github.com/miku/esbulk [3] http://www.elasticsearch.org/ On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 12:43 AM, Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu wrote: Hm. You don't need to keep all 800k records in memory, you just need

[CODE4LIB] Library app basics

2014-10-07 Thread Will Martin
? Too much stuff? Will Martin Web Services Librarian Chester Fritz Library P.S. I sent this a couple days ago and wondered why it hadn't shown up -- only to realize I accidently sent it to j...@code4lib.org rather than the actual list serv address. Whoops, embarrassing!

Re: [CODE4LIB] Library app basics

2014-10-07 Thread Will Martin
and then some for the foreseeable future. Will Martin

Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides v2 - Templates and Nav

2014-09-24 Thread Will Martin
4. Admin controls are not very granular. With most aspects of editing a guide, you either have the option of locking down styles and templates completely (and oh your colleagues will howl) or allowing everything (and oh your eyeballs will scream). Some of these things could very well be

Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides v2 - Templates and Nav

2014-09-17 Thread Will Martin
Have you tried assigning the Health Sciences guides to their own groups and adding custom header HTML at the group-level (Admin Groups Header/Footer/Tabs/Boxes)? You can't use the new mustache-based templating inside the headers, but you can use plain-jane HTML. An excellent suggestion!

Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides v2 - Templates and Nav

2014-09-17 Thread Will Martin
To digress a bit from LibGuides ... The biggest problem with accessibility is not technical: it's cultural. Producing HTML that meets basic accessibility tests is not all THAT difficult. The harder part is setting up a culture where everyone -- everyone! -- who writes content for the web is

Re: [CODE4LIB] LibGuides v2 - Templates and Nav

2014-09-16 Thread Will Martin
My impression of the LibGuides v2 template system is that it's decent within strict boundaries. We just launched LibGuides v2 about 6 weeks ago. We took a look at the templates, and opted not to do anything with them, because they didn't do what we needed them to. Our instance of LibGuides

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open source alternative to LibAnswers as the library IT KB for library staff?

2014-09-12 Thread Will Martin
a knowledge base. It does have the ability to search past answers, but that's not quite the same. It also seems to be unmaintained. So your mileage may vary. Will Martin Web Services Librarian Chester Fritz Library University of North Dakota On 2014-09-12 09:41, Kim, Bohyun wrote: Hi all Does

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open-source batch authority control?

2014-09-05 Thread Will Martin
I'm not super-familiar with cataloging software, but would MarcEdit do the trick? http://marcedit.reeset.net/ I know it's designed explicitly for batch editing of MARC records, I just don't know whether that extends to authority control stuff. Will Martin Web Services Librarian Chester

Re: [CODE4LIB] Archival File Storage

2014-08-14 Thread Will Martin
All those links look very helpful and interesting -- I'll be sure to study all of them in detail. Thanks! Will Martin

[CODE4LIB] Archival File Storage

2014-08-13 Thread Will Martin
practices or standards documents? Or just share what you use. I'm familiar with the OAIS model for digital archiving, and it seems well thought-out, but highly abstract. A more practical nuts-and-bolts guide would be helpful. Thanks. Will Martin Web Services Librarian University of North Dakota

[CODE4LIB] Internal search expert needed

2014-08-12 Thread Martin Svensson
search algorithms for the site. All tips or ideas on experts/consultants are very welcome. Please send martin.svens...@rb.se Kind Regards Martin Svensson Save the Children

[CODE4LIB] Test message, please disregard

2014-05-15 Thread Will Martin
I am debugging my listserv subscription. This is a test message. Please disregard. Will Martin

Re: [CODE4LIB] best practices for video accessibility?

2011-11-27 Thread Martin Kalfatovic
Martin Kalfatovic udc793.blogspot.com mobileSent from handheld/mobile On Nov 26, 2011 4:06 PM, Hogue Melanie hogu...@lib.chattanooga.gov wrote: I'm not one who is highly knowlegable about video; but didn't I hear that Adobe is not going to move forward with Flash anymore (because of HTML5

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2011 Proposals

2010-03-05 Thread Mehrling, Martin
, they should send a technical person (not a sales person) to this conference. Martin -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:code4...@listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Cary Gordon Sent: Friday, March 05, 2010 9:37 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib

[CODE4LIB] Position Announcement: Digital Library Architect, Penn State University

2009-01-15 Thread Mairead Martin
an application for this position, please go to http://www.psu.jobs (job number 29484). === Mairéad Martin Senior Director, Digital Library Technologies