Re: [CODE4LIB] need a plan for what to code

. The project is still young, but all the project code is open source, and adopters/contributors/partners are welcome. - Tom | Tom Cramer | Stanford University | tcra...@stanford.edu [1] http://searchworks.stanford.edu [2] www.fedora-commons.org/confluence/display/hydra [3] www.yourmediashelf.com

Re: [CODE4LIB] World Bank opens up data and developer API

Our govdocs librarian reports that this release has generated a ton of buzz in the documents community, and forwarded the message below from the Wold Bank pubs office. Note that: the Bank authorizes and encourages free use of it's data both for non-commercial and commercial use. Therefore

[CODE4LIB] Hydra Camp Hydra Partners Quarterly Meeting - November 4-6, 2010

towards adopting Hydra, and will contribute to advancing the project core. The Hydra Steering Group will also have a closed meeting on Saturday, November 6th. RSVP to hydra-col...@lists.stanford.edu if you are interested in participating. - Tom | Tom Cramer | Associate Director, Digital

Re: [CODE4LIB] does your OPAC pass HTML validation?

Ken, I think you'll find that most Blacklight instances have fairly low error rates, though are not error free. At Stanford, we are blessed to have a strong accessibility expert (not in the libraries), and we've been channeling his feedback [1] to continue to improve the accessibility of

[CODE4LIB] SAVE THE DATES: Open Repositories Conference in Edinburgh July 9-13, 2012

All: The dates and location for OR12 are now set. Hope to see you there, - Tom -- The University of Edinburgh Information Services, EDINA, and the Digital Curation Centre are delighted to announce that the University of Edinburgh has been selected to host the Seventh International

Re: [CODE4LIB] After we left Seattle...

most edible is a category? really? it seems like they're not taking this very seriously. - Tom On Feb 22, 2012, at 6:24 PM, Nick Ruest wrote: Is there a declicorn bounty on that last image? -nruest On 12-02-22 09:02 PM, Michael B. Klein wrote: ...the Faerie Convention moved into our

Re: [CODE4LIB] Project Management Software Question

people who don't use JIRA regularly out of JIRA--something everyone involved appreciates. - Tom | Tom Cramer | Chief Technology Strategist Associate Director | Digital Library Systems Services | Stanford University Libraries Academic Information Resources | Stanford University | tcra

Re: [CODE4LIB] Project Management Software Question

Matt-- I have the same question for you as for Gary: could you possibly share screen shots of your Confluence templates, and the projects dashboard? Is the latter generated automatically, or through human data entry? - Tom On Feb 23, 2012, at 9:48 AM, Critchlow, Matt wrote: Hi Brian,

[CODE4LIB] Stanford metadata analyst job opening

We're looking for a metadata specialist to focus on data set description and management as part of campus-wide GIS and research data curation projects. A summary of the position is below, and the full description is online at jobs.stanford.edu (search for Job ID 46849). - Tom /shamelessly

Re: [CODE4LIB] Representing geographic hiearchy in linked data

Ethan, all, This thread appears to have progressed to the point where you have a good answer, but I wanted to highlight one other potentially useful resource for like needs. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) manages data for agricultural issues that don't map neatly to

Re: [CODE4LIB] e-journals lists, database lists

Tod, We catalog our 1100 curated databases in our ILS, and then created a custom view in Blacklight to show these to patrons and librarians alike. This way they are integrated into the next generation catalog, but the tailored view lets us decorate their presentation with short summaries of

Re: [CODE4LIB] anti-harassment policy for code4lib?

+1 for Bess's motion +1 for Roy's expansion to C4L online interactions as well as face to face +1 for Karen's focus on general inclusivity and fair play For me the hardest thing is how one monitors and resolves issues that arise. As a group with no formal management, I suppose the conference

[CODE4LIB] Fwd: Stanford Prize for Innovation in Research Libraries

C4Lers, This announcement and call for nominations is not specific to coding, but I can certainly think of several innovations from this community that would qualify for nominations. Please spread the word to others as you see fit. - Tom From: University Librarian

Re: [CODE4LIB] Open source project questions

luck! - Tom | Tom Cramer | Chief Technology Strategist Associate Director | Digital Library Systems Services | Stanford University Libraries | tcra...@stanford.edu On Dec 7, 2012, at 11:58 AM, Donna Campbell wrote: Dear Colleagues, I understand from a professional colleague, who

[CODE4LIB] Open Repositories 2013: Registration Open and Call for Proposals

Resending, as I think the server ate the first one. Apologies if you do get duplicates. - Tom Open Repositories 2013: Registration Open and Call for Proposals This year’s Open Repositories Conference takes place in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada between Monday, July 8 and Friday,

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4LibCon 2013 T-Shirt Contest Winner

Wait, were they a sponsor this year? Yep On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Suchy, Daniel dsu...@ucsd.edu wrote: BLACKLIGHT even. On 1/16/13 8:55 AM, Cynthia Ng cynthia.s...@gmail.com wrote: Curious, is code4lib 2013 going to be added to that design? Seems a bit ... odd that

[CODE4LIB] survey -- les éditeurs XML TEI/EAD

-condorcet.fr/limesurvey/index.php/229321/lang-de - Tom | Tom Cramer | Chief Technology Strategist Associate Director | Digital Library Systems Services | Stanford University Libraries | tcra...@stanford.edu

Re: [CODE4LIB] ANNOUNCEMENT: Traject MARC-Solr indexer release

++ Jonathan and Bill. 1.) Do you have any thoughts on extending traject to index other types of data--say MODS--into solr, in the future? 2.) What's the etymology of 'traject'? - Tom On Oct 14, 2013, at 8:53 AM, Jonathan Rochkind wrote: Jonathan Rochkind (Johns Hopkins) and Bill Dueber

Re: [CODE4LIB] ANNOUNCEMENT: Traject MARC-Solr indexer release

already imagining readers and writers that target databases (RDBMS or NoSQL), or a queueing system like Hornet, etc. If there are people at Stanford that want to talk about how (easy it is) to extend traject, I'd be happy to have that conversation. On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Tom

Re: [CODE4LIB] Usability Person?

We have been lucky to have a full time interaction designer within our library IT group for about 6 years. It makes a world of difference in the quality of our products; it also helps with letting the engineers focus on engineering, and the librarians focus on being librarians (rather than

Re: [CODE4LIB] mass convert jpeg to pdf

On Nov 8, 2013, at 11:14 AM, Ethan Gruber wrote: On the same note, I've had good experiences with using adore djatoka to render jpeg2000 files. Maybe something better has since come along. I'm out of touch with this type of technology. For zoomable image rendering (from JPEG2000 or TIFF), you

Re: [CODE4LIB] Lorem Ipsum metadata? Is there such a thing?

I can't help wondering what the half-life of a radioactive MARC record is. My guess is it is either really, really short or really, really long. ;-) It's 42, but Z39.50 will accelerate the rate of decay. - T

Re: [CODE4LIB] Job: Programmer at DTU Library

Christian, Sounds like fun indeed, and perhaps one of the happiest places on earth to work. We've been floating this link around work the last week: http://huff.to/1dZgoUB Maybe you can start using it in your international job ads. Are you (officially) moving towards Hydra? - Tom | Tom

Re: [CODE4LIB] Tallying needs

Aaron, In JIRA and a few other systems, there is a vote feature. If used with an agile schema, it seems to me that you could use it to tally the number of times an unaddressed story might address a real instance of a user need. We do something else though. We use different projects (in JIRA)

Re: [CODE4LIB] 2nd meetup for code4lib LA - May 15th

the light is blinding. I can't even look your direction. :-) Roy On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Tom Cramer tcra...@stanford.edu wrote: Roy, As a local Northern Californian, I like this idea. For example, we have CDL in Oakland, several nearby UCs, CSUs, large publics, and community

Re: [CODE4LIB] 2nd meetup for code4lib LA - May 15th

Roy, As a local Northern Californian, I like this idea. For example, we have CDL in Oakland, several nearby UCs, CSUs, large publics, and community colleges to draw from. We might even get some people from a private (Leland Stanford) Junior University to come to a local event :) - Tom

Re: [CODE4LIB] 2nd meetup for code4lib LA - May 15th

You'd be welcome! We all know how much you love to drive. : ) - Tom On Mar 28, 2014, at 10:22 AM, McAulay, Elizabeth wrote: Great idea! Dare I threaten the inclusion of SoCalers? On Mar 28, 2014, at 9:57 AM, Tom Cramer tcra...@stanford.edu wrote: I threw in Junior University as a sop

Re: [CODE4LIB] Call for Old Conf Tshirt Logos

What about approaching one of the existing 501c3's in our space to see if they might be interested in and able to take this on for the community? In addition to shirt revenues and yacht maintenance fees, it would be good to have an agency that could help do banking for scholarships, and

Re: [CODE4LIB] separate list for jobs

In the great growing tradition of 21st century political debate, I will avoid the questions in this thread entirely, and pivot to points that I personally find gratifying to discuss, as I'm enjoying the observations of others: 1.) For the record, though I've never been to New Zealand (still

Re: [CODE4LIB] Media-rich DM software

Bernadette, You might also want to take a look at Spotlight, a Blacklight-based plugin for showcasing digital objects in a structured presentation, along with commentary, narrative and whizzy page features (like carousels, media players, etc.) It's just about to have its 0.1 release (expected

Re: [CODE4LIB] best practices for keeping / using library circ data

This email provoked zero responses on list. Was my timing off, is it a poorly framed question, or are people just not doing much in this realm? (By resending, I'm controlling for the timing factor...) - Tom On Jun 7, 2014, at 3:20 AM, Tom Cramer wrote: I'm looking for best practices

Re: [CODE4LIB] Is Anyone Doing RFID Book Location or Stack Mapping?

We don't use RFID, but we do use a tool called StackMap to give a sense of the general location of books in our main library. For an example of the patron UX, click on the map link in a sample catalog record, such as http://searchworks.stanford.edu/view/10474501. (Center column, in the At

Re: [CODE4LIB] state of the art in virtual shelf browse?

Jenn, You can make your own conclusions about state of the art, but here is Stanford's virtual shelf browse integrated into SearchWorks: - embedded in a record view as a film strip (see the browse related items section of the page) - a full page, gallery view of related items, grouped

Re: [CODE4LIB] know of guidelines for contributing to open source projects?

could share the source docs. I assume that the Research Policy Handbook is at https://doresearch.stanford.edu/policies/research-policy-handbook ? -John On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Tom Cramer tcra...@stanford.edu wrote: John, At Stanford, this is governed by the Research Policy

Re: [CODE4LIB] know of guidelines for contributing to open source projects?

John, At Stanford, this is governed by the Research Policy Handbook; there is some tech transfer and copyright detail, but essentially it says staff may release University-funded code with with an open source license with officer (Dean-level) approval. At Stanford, we have put this into

[CODE4LIB] Fwd: IMLS-SURVEY ON CROWDSOURCING

I had the opportunity to attend a workshop on crowdsourcing last week run by the Crowdsourcing Consortium (http://www.crowdconsortium.org/), which is attempting to rationalize the space for libraries archives. Those on these lists may find both the news of the consortium and the survey, below,

Re: [CODE4LIB] UPC to IMDb

Jamie, (adding in Blacklight-development list)... This is cool. Super cool. Would you be willing to add UDVD to the Project Blacklight list of exemplar apps in the wiki? https://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight/wiki/Examples I'd be happy to do it for you, but in the spirit of the wiki

Re: [CODE4LIB] Inventory of Free, Libre, Open Source Software

Greg, Thanks for the invitation to give input to the inventory. Can you compare and contrast the EuropeanaTech FLOSS inventory with https://foss4lib.org/? (And/or perhaps someone from Lyrasis might also chime in?) Just wondering if they are two different approaches with the same objective, or

Re: [CODE4LIB] Academic consortium with blacklight as discovery layer

I believe that University of Wisconsin-Madison has done something similar for the University of Wisconsin system. Perhaps Scott Prater or Peter Gorman can comment with more detail. http://search.library.wisc.edu/?uwsystem=on - Tom On Apr 8, 2015, at 6:19 PM, Jiao, Dazhi wrote: We

Re: [CODE4LIB] Indie Preserves

Scott, Norie, Kudos to you for starting this up, and sharing this on list. This seems to me exactly the kind of wacky,alternative,grassroots,important work that librarians archivists can do in the age of the Internet to help preserve and provide access to our cultural heritage. I will

Re: [CODE4LIB] Blacklight Community Survey Results

Forwarding to C4L on behalf of Rob Cartolano. - Tom Thanks Jonathan, great timing as we prepare for the upcoming Blacklight Summit at Princeton in November. I would like to collect more information about all production instances

Re: [CODE4LIB] "coders for libraries"

You can tell it’s a public library because you get a 404. At a private library, you’d get a 403. - Tom > On Sep 1, 2015, at 2:07 PM, Michael J. Giarlo > wrote: > > DPLA is the finest library of 404s I've seen. > > On Tue, Sep 1, 2015 at 2:00 PM Tom Johnson

Re: [CODE4LIB] Blacklight Summit November 4-6, 2015 @ Princeton University

Nikitas, Thanks for expanding on the event and its objectives. This sounds excellent; we’ve only had one other Blacklight Summit before (that I can recall) at Johns Hopkins, many years ago. As Chris said, if we can get a critical mass of contributors / committers there, the Princeton summit

Re: [CODE4LIB] Anyone Doing Interesting Things With Digital Collection Systems?

Off the top of my head, in addition to NYPL, I would look at University of British Columbia’s Open Collections site https://open.library.ubc.ca/ See this release announcement from Paul Joseph about features & APIs: https://www.mail-archive.com/code4lib@listserv.nd.edu/msg28980.html the World

[CODE4LIB] PASIG (Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group) meeting -- 9-11 March 2016 in Prague

Registration is open for the next PASIG (Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group) event, March 9-11, at the Czech National Library of Technology in Prague. Note that the attendee cost is 200€ until the end of January and 250€ February 1 on. To view the agenda and register, go to

[CODE4LIB] article discovery platforms -- post-implementation assessment?

I’ve seen many reviews of article discovery platforms (Ebsco Discovery Service, Ex Libris Primo Central, Serials Solutions Summon) before an implementations as part of a selection process—typically covering things like content coverage, API features, integrability with other content / sites. I

Re: [CODE4LIB] Interim data storage for researchers

FigShare also includes active storage / management space for individuals and institutions. https://figshare.com/features I know several universities are looking at using FigShare for these purposes, and then feeding “finished” data into their existing IR or preservation repo. - Tom On Apr

Re: [CODE4LIB] Software used in Panama Papers Analysis

The IJNet article is particularly interesting—thanks for posting this. Excerpts like the one below make me wonder if there is a “Code4News” community, and if so, how do we find and connect with them. It seems we have a lot in common, and maybe a lot to offer each other. MC: What we’ve

Re: [CODE4LIB] ISO: State of the art in video annotation

Stuart, It may be useful to also cross-post this question to the IIIF-discuss list [1]. There is a lot of interest in developing a IIIF-like approach to presenting video via a common API, and one that lends itself to web-based annotation. This would allow theoretically allow users to annotate

Re: [CODE4LIB] using drupal for a document repository

Kelsey, If you’re looking for a web-based app where you can capture metadata, store files, and find and retrieve them again, Drupal seems totally workable. But I think the issue that might concern me most about using Drupal for a document repository is that it’s relatively fluid. In my