Re: [CODE4LIB] usability testing software

2013-02-01 Thread Matthew Mikitka
Although I have not used it, Zurb's Verify looks promising: http://verifyapp.com/ I have been very pleased with Foundation so far. matt Nate Hill nathanielh...@gmail.com 1/31/2013 10:35 AM Hi all, Years ago I had the opportunity to use Morae to do some usability testing.

Re: [CODE4LIB] Why we need multiple discovery services engine?

2013-02-01 Thread Birkin Diana
Wayne, many of them would have their own based discovery services... and... they will have vendor based discovery services... why... I agree with Jonathan, and would add that, as with so many things, why things are has a lot to do with history. Forgive me if you already know this... For a

Re: [CODE4LIB] usability testing software

2013-02-01 Thread Matthew L. Zimmerman
My library used Silverback recently, and it was just right for what we needed to do. We did not experience the issues that Jason mentioned. Matt Zimmerman -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Jason Michel Sent: Thursday, January 31,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Answer to your question Re: [CODE4LIB] Group Decision Making (was Zoia)

2013-02-01 Thread Karen Coyle
Deborah, I'm not sure what you mean about something for the offender, so some examples would be good. My big concern is that we not create a new group of outsiders -- folks who've been told they've offended someone and therefore are made to feel uncomfortable. I fully understand the pushback

[CODE4LIB] Reminder: ACM/IEEE JCDL2013 Paper Submissions Due 02.04.13

2013-02-01 Thread McDonald, Robert H.
This is just a reminder that full paper submissions for the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries @JCDL2013 are due on Monday Feb 4, 2013 by 11:59 UTC. For more on submissions - http://www.jcdl2013.org/call-for-papers    @JCDL2013 is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and

Re: [CODE4LIB] usability testing software

2013-02-01 Thread Taylor, Nicholas A.
Hi Nate (et al), on the server side, you might also take a look at the open source ClickHeat [1], which creates a visual heatmap of clicks on an HTML page. ~Nicholas __ Nicholas Taylor Data Specialist Library of Congress Web Archiving http://www.loc.gov/webarchiving/ n...@loc.gov [1]

[CODE4LIB] Shameless Plug: The Web for Libraries Weekly

2013-02-01 Thread Michael Schofield
Hey C4Libbers, I'm just shamelessly plugging my first crack at a weekly newsletter curating what's new in the web community for practical application in libraries. Called what?! Well, it's called The Web for Libraries Weekly. Here's the browser version of the first campaign* that mailed this

[CODE4LIB] digital collections sitemaps

2013-02-01 Thread Jason Ronallo
Hi, I've seen registries for digital collections that make their metadata available through OAI-PMH, but I have yet to see a listing of digital collections that just make their resources available on the Web the way the Web works [1]. Sitemaps are the main mechanism for listing Web resources for

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2013 in Layar

2013-02-01 Thread Peter Murray
Sweet! I had deleted Layar last year because I didn't see any use of keeping it on the phone after toying with it a bit at Access a couple years ago. This sounds like a quite promising use. Thanks for setting it up, Bill. Peter On Jan 31, 2013, at 9:58 PM, William Denton w...@pobox.com

Re: [CODE4LIB] digital collections sitemaps

2013-02-01 Thread Sullivan, Mark V
Jason, You may want to allow people just to give you the robots.txt file which references the sitemap. I also register the sitemaps individually with the big search engines for our site, but I found that very large sitemaps aren't processed very well. So, for our site I think I limited the

[CODE4LIB] Job: Web and Mobile Application Developer at Hennepin County Library

2013-02-01 Thread jobs
Position re-opened. Applications accepted through Friday, Feb. 15. The Hennepin County Library system (MN) is seeking a full-time Web and Mobile Application Developer. This person will provide software planning, web and mobile application analysis and programming, and support for the

[CODE4LIB] Volunteer during C4L13!

2013-02-01 Thread Cynthia Ng
Hi All, Another friendly reminder to sign up to volunteer. You're going to be there anyway! Who wants to sit in the _same_ spot the _entire_ day? So move around a little bit by joining the volunteers! Just think, minimal effort, and you can add it to your resume too! Plus lots of gratitude from

[CODE4LIB] Opt out of video capture at Code4lib 2013 pre-conference

2013-02-01 Thread Francis Kayiwa
For those attending the Code4lib Pre-Conference and likely by extension Conference. If you are uncomfortable being recorded do let me know by sending a note with the subject [code4lib video opt-out] to francis.kayiwa@gmail We will have Daniel Jones from the Berkman Center for Internet Society

Re: [CODE4LIB] digital collections sitemaps

2013-02-01 Thread Chad Nelson
Hi Mark, Actually, the sitemap.org protocol allows for a sitemap to include references to multiple child sitemaps http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html#index. Which is what we did at my former employer: http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/sitemap/sitemap.xml And thus the robots.txt only

Re: [CODE4LIB] Adding authority control to IR's that don't have it built in

2013-02-01 Thread Jason Ronallo
Ed, Thank you for the detailed response. That was very helpful. Yes, it seems like good Web architecture is the API. Sounds like it would be easy enough to start somewhere and add features over time. I could see how exposing this data in a crawlable way could provide some nice indexed landing

Re: [CODE4LIB] Adding authority control to IR's that don't have it built in

2013-02-01 Thread McAulay, Elizabeth
Hi, I've been following this thread carefully, and am very interested. At UCLA, we have the Frontera collection (http://frontera.library.ucla.edu/) and we have a local set of authorities because the performers and publishers are more ephemeral than what's usually in LCNAF. So, we're thinking

[CODE4LIB] Job: Production Systems Architect and Administrator at California Digital Library

2013-02-01 Thread jobs
Development and Production Architect and Administrator with operational and architectural responsibilities for the growing suite of digital curation and preservation services offered by the University of California Curation Center (UC3, http://www.cdlib.org/uc3) at the California Digital Library

[CODE4LIB] Job: Associate Director for Creation and Curation Services at Case Western Reserve University

2013-02-01 Thread jobs
The Kelvin Smith Library (KSL) seeks imaginative, collaborative and dynamic candidates to provide visionary and strategic leadership to advance our cutting-edge initiatives in digital and scholarly resources. The ADCC leads two teams: The Digital Learning and Scholarship Team designs and manages

[CODE4LIB] I'm on a Code4lib Bus/Shuttle

2013-02-01 Thread Francis Kayiwa
We are thrilled to announce that there will be a Shuttle from the Conference Hotel to UIC Forum. The Shuttle will run for 2 hours in the AM and 2 hours at the end of the conference. All things being equal we still encourage you to use the reliable -especially at Rush Hour- CTA #8 Bus which will

[CODE4LIB] Thank you for embracing Lanyrd

2013-02-01 Thread Patrick Berry
I just want to say a quick thank you to everybody that has contributed to the Lanyrd setup (http://lanyrd.com/2013/c4l13/) even if it's just saying that you're coming. I know I just went and did it without really asking, but it was mostly driven by my own selfish needs to have that information in