Showing posts with label Digital Libraries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Digital Libraries. Show all posts
Friday, August 1, 2014
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Opensource repository comparisom from Unesco - Dspace, Fedora, Islandora (Drupal + Fedora)
No Omeka, but a good overall comparison of opensource repository software:
More here
http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/pdf/news/institutional_repository_software.pdf
More here
http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/CI/CI/pdf/news/institutional_repository_software.pdf
Friday, February 18, 2011
Losing my librarian religion
So, I recently read this post Trying to Get My Mojo Workin:
It seems alot of people are talking about librarianship and burnout, here , here and Karen Schneider at Freerange Librarian even offered a few tips to avoid it here.
I'll be honest -- I'm not burned out (and this post is really just my perception of libraries as a WHOLE, not any one specific library -- I do realize there are some great libraries and some that are not).. I am excited about FRBR (finally something that makes sense albeit with silly terminology) and RDA (at least as a transition point towards the semantic web), content management systems, institutional repositories, and discovery tools that can harvest all resources (and markup resources with appropriate semantic description and structure), rss and social media and how we can (in theory) can change the perception of what cataloging is. Those of us who have worked in technical services areas have unprecedented change ahead which *should* mean opportunity.
..but then reality hits... budget woes, an aging population of librarians who are not retiring, library workers who are checked out and doing the bare minimum, positions unfilled (the work is spread around), job descriptions and workflows that have not been evaluated in 5 - 10 - 15 or probably for some libraries, 20 years.
In spite of the fact that I love librarianship as a profession, at times, I wonder if I am cut out to wear the ill fitting coat of librarian. Some days, it feels like my grandmother's church coat - moth eaten, staid, conservative, slightly out of style but serviceable -- and other times, a too tight hipster leather jacket with lots of pockets to show off all of the many shiny cool gadgets...
...so when I read about burnout, I realized that's not it exactly for me... mostly, along the way, I lost some of my librarian religion. I've always had a career goal (and as budgets crashed, I've watched some of them wither, while others were butchered to the ground). I am very adaptive. If one door closes, I am usually reaching for the next already... but I now find myself in front of a brick wall. I really don't know where I go from here. I know my interests, I know what I enjoy doing (not only doing technical work, but also teaching, training, and writing, as I am doing at the moment.) I can learn just about anything (ok, brain surgery might take some time, thankfully, I am not looking to do that - lol). I've been looking at PhD programs, especially in Digital Humanities, Ed Technology, etc. LIS programs have been mostly eliminated due to the significant residency time.
The big question which has been in mind for the last year now, is do I stay [in librarianship] or do I go? Is there anything in the closet of librarianship that actually fits me?
Several months ago I realized I’d lost my librarian mojo and since that time I’ve been struggling to reclaim it. Being the person that I am, I have been hyper-analyzing my mojo loss. I have been disenchanted at work, feeling weary and dissatisfied, and yet, it feels like it’s all out of my control.
It seems alot of people are talking about librarianship and burnout, here , here and Karen Schneider at Freerange Librarian even offered a few tips to avoid it here.
I'll be honest -- I'm not burned out (and this post is really just my perception of libraries as a WHOLE, not any one specific library -- I do realize there are some great libraries and some that are not).. I am excited about FRBR (finally something that makes sense albeit with silly terminology) and RDA (at least as a transition point towards the semantic web), content management systems, institutional repositories, and discovery tools that can harvest all resources (and markup resources with appropriate semantic description and structure), rss and social media and how we can (in theory) can change the perception of what cataloging is. Those of us who have worked in technical services areas have unprecedented change ahead which *should* mean opportunity.
..but then reality hits... budget woes, an aging population of librarians who are not retiring, library workers who are checked out and doing the bare minimum, positions unfilled (the work is spread around), job descriptions and workflows that have not been evaluated in 5 - 10 - 15 or probably for some libraries, 20 years.
In spite of the fact that I love librarianship as a profession, at times, I wonder if I am cut out to wear the ill fitting coat of librarian. Some days, it feels like my grandmother's church coat - moth eaten, staid, conservative, slightly out of style but serviceable -- and other times, a too tight hipster leather jacket with lots of pockets to show off all of the many shiny cool gadgets...
...so when I read about burnout, I realized that's not it exactly for me... mostly, along the way, I lost some of my librarian religion. I've always had a career goal (and as budgets crashed, I've watched some of them wither, while others were butchered to the ground). I am very adaptive. If one door closes, I am usually reaching for the next already... but I now find myself in front of a brick wall. I really don't know where I go from here. I know my interests, I know what I enjoy doing (not only doing technical work, but also teaching, training, and writing, as I am doing at the moment.) I can learn just about anything (ok, brain surgery might take some time, thankfully, I am not looking to do that - lol). I've been looking at PhD programs, especially in Digital Humanities, Ed Technology, etc. LIS programs have been mostly eliminated due to the significant residency time.
The big question which has been in mind for the last year now, is do I stay [in librarianship] or do I go? Is there anything in the closet of librarianship that actually fits me?
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Institutional Repository Conference (Free!)
The Digital Commons @ Kennesaw State and the Horace W. Sturgis Library are
pleased to announce "Giving Undergraduate Research a Worldwide Voice:
Institutional Repositories as Publishers," a free one-day conference on
institutional repositories and their place in undergraduate education.
Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Location: KSU Continuing Education
The keynote speaker will be Nancy Hensel, Executive Officer for the Council
on Undergraduate Research. This free event includes continental breakfast,
lunch, and a full-day program featuring speakers from around the country
discussing Institutional Repositories and how they can be used to publish and
promote undergraduate research in higher education.
More information, including online registration and a complete program of
events, can be found at: http://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/irday2011/ All
are welcome to attend.
Contact Jon Hansen: jhansen@kennesaw.edu
pleased to announce "Giving Undergraduate Research a Worldwide Voice:
Institutional Repositories as Publishers," a free one-day conference on
institutional repositories and their place in undergraduate education.
Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2011
Location: KSU Continuing Education
The keynote speaker will be Nancy Hensel, Executive Officer for the Council
on Undergraduate Research. This free event includes continental breakfast,
lunch, and a full-day program featuring speakers from around the country
discussing Institutional Repositories and how they can be used to publish and
promote undergraduate research in higher education.
More information, including online registration and a complete program of
events, can be found at: http://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/irday2011/ All
are welcome to attend.
Contact Jon Hansen: jhansen@kennesaw.edu
Friday, April 16, 2010
Learning in an open access world (free conference)
from apple & maclearning.org -- sounds interesting!
http://edseminars.apple.com/event/2610
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Learning in an open-access world.
Join colleagues from across the country in exploring how open access is transforming learning in higher education. Apple and MacLearning.org invite you to AcademiX 2010 for a look at open access, the new teaching methods that are evolving with it, and the Apple technologies that help make it all simple. Six 20-minute talks will expose you to successful approaches, and jump-start a provocative conversation between participants and presenters.
You’ll see how leading educators are finding it easy to produce, distribute, and access academic content using Apple products and open standards. You’ll also learn how students are using Apple tools outside of the traditional lecture environment for research, collaboration, and problem solving.
Fees
The AcademiX 2010 conference is offered free of charge.
One Event, Multiple Ways to Participate
The presentations will take place simultaneously at MIT and Northwestern University, with audiences at more than a dozen other campuses joining in a live video conference. An open microphone will be available at each campus so the presenters and audiences can hear your questions or ideas. If you'd like to attend one of the in-person events, you can register at this site.
If you can’t attend in person, please register on this page to watch the live webcast and interact online with the presenters and your peers.
An integral part of AcademiX 2010 is the Conference Connect online conference system. The ConferenceConnect system is available to all AcademiX 2010 participants, whether attending at an in-person event or via the web. ConferenceConnect will provide a detailed multi-day agenda, a participant directory, participant response surveys, session-based back channel chat rooms, online evaluations, local area information, open resource links and much more. The software's "mobile learning space" is complementary to the AcademiX conference, and is used before, during, and after the conference.
Presentations
Confirmed topics and speakers for the AcademiX 2010 conference include:
This is How We Think: Learning in Public After the Paradigm Shift
Paul Hammond, Ph.D. Director of Digital Initiatives, Dept. of English, Rutgers University
Richard Miller, Ph.D. Executive Director, Plangere Writing Center, Rutgers University
"This is How We Think" continues the line of thinking begun in Miller and Hammond's YouTube piece, "This is How We Dream." In a world where information abounds, where reading and research have moved from the library to the laptop, and where the act of learning itself is now making its way out of the shadows into the public eye, how must the work of education change? In this collaborative presentation, Professors Miller and Hammond will discuss their efforts to invent new media teaching practices that encourage students to engage with the most pressing problems of our time.
Commons-Based Licensing and Scholarship: The Next Layer of the Network
John Wilbanks, VP for Science at Creative Commons
Knowledge products have been generated as text for hundreds of years, and scientific and scholarly results have been locked into text-based technology since the mid 1660's. But journal articles are a compressed version of what happened in the research. The form and function of a journal article was settled long before we could effortlessly transmit data, or incrementally store and edit vast amounts of text, or store and forward research tools in repositories. There is no reason, other than technical lock-in by the printing press, why we should think of the article as a natural unit of knowledge transmission in science. Researchers and teachers make data, text, research tools, inventions, pictures, sounds, videos, and more. But almost none of them et measured other than the article. We now have the capacity to measure the quality of a scientist across multiple dimensions, not just the article. This talk will examine the increasing importance of disaggregated, multivariate knowledge in scholarly communications, and the impacts both good and bad of the coming shift away from the journal as the core form of knowledge transmission.
Innovation and Open Access in Scholarly Journal Publishing
Jason Baird Jackson, Ph.D. Professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Dept Chair, Indiana University
Drawing upon wider lessons learned while editing a toll access journal published by a scholarly society and later establishing an open access journal published in partnership with a research university library, I will describe a range of motivations underpinning the movement for building an open access scholarly communication system. Beyond characterizing the many "whys" of the open access movement, I will offer a picture of where open access journal publishing (as distinct from open access repository use) is now and where it appears to be going. Themes include the opening up of legacy journal content, the circumstances of scholarly societies as publishers, the role of libraries as publishers, author's rights questions, tenure and promotion issues, and the impact of open access publishing for students, communities of concern, and for the careers of individual scholars.
New channels for learning: podcasting opportunities for a distance university
Ben Hawkridge, iTunes U Project Officer, Open University, UK
The Open University is a UK based international distance institution with around 200,000 students, many actively learning in online channels. The University produces rich media courses, via a structured authoring process, in which student interactions (with media; with others; and with teachers) are 'designed in' from scratch. In this talk I will focus on one specific new channel opportunity - institutional podcasting, and in particular the experience of the Open University on iTunes U. Our 'best practice sharing' project STEEPLE shows how RSS provides a powerful technical key to managing these varied new channels. However, real success lies in creating value in these channels that matches up with the new needs of the web 2.0 student!
Education for a Mobile Generation
Kurt Squire, Assoc. Professor, Edu Comm & Tech, Curriculum & Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Assoc Dir. of Edu Research and Development, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery
For years, educators struggled with how to wire classrooms for the Internet. With the arrival of mobile media devices, soon every student will come to school with a broadband enabled, multimedia device in their pocket. How do we design educational experiences in an era in which we must assume that students can -- and will -- access whatever information and social network they want at a moments notice? This presentation describes the forms of participation enabled by such devices, how youth are using mobile devices such as iPhones to accelerate learning, and what a cutting-edge curriculum that leverages such devices looks like. These new approaches not only offer, but require educators to break down the walls of the classroom.
The Digital Natives Are Getting Restless: the Student Voice of the Open Access Movement
Nick Shockey, Director, Right to Research Coalition, Director of Student Advocacy, Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
Students today are digital natives. We’ve grown up in a world of unfettered access to digital information, instant gratification in the best possible sense. Yet when we need access to scholarly journals, we’re suddenly locked out. Though our education literally depends on them, we’re often cut off from journals crucial to our research, our papers, and our understanding of both details and the larger picture. However, students, in addition to numerous other stakeholders, are quickly realizing that access barriers to journals are as unnecessary as they are harmful. We’re working to reform the current academic publishing system into one that is open and equitably serves the interests of all who depend on it, not just those who can afford the often high cost of access.
Who Should Attend?
AcademiX 2010 is offered to individuals engaged in the production, distribution, and use of scholarly communications who are either employed by, or attend, institutions of Higher Education. The intended audiences are faculty, administrators, instructional technologists, developers, librarians and students.
http://edseminars.apple.com/event/2610
----
Learning in an open-access world.
Join colleagues from across the country in exploring how open access is transforming learning in higher education. Apple and MacLearning.org invite you to AcademiX 2010 for a look at open access, the new teaching methods that are evolving with it, and the Apple technologies that help make it all simple. Six 20-minute talks will expose you to successful approaches, and jump-start a provocative conversation between participants and presenters.
You’ll see how leading educators are finding it easy to produce, distribute, and access academic content using Apple products and open standards. You’ll also learn how students are using Apple tools outside of the traditional lecture environment for research, collaboration, and problem solving.
Fees
The AcademiX 2010 conference is offered free of charge.
One Event, Multiple Ways to Participate
The presentations will take place simultaneously at MIT and Northwestern University, with audiences at more than a dozen other campuses joining in a live video conference. An open microphone will be available at each campus so the presenters and audiences can hear your questions or ideas. If you'd like to attend one of the in-person events, you can register at this site.
If you can’t attend in person, please register on this page to watch the live webcast and interact online with the presenters and your peers.
An integral part of AcademiX 2010 is the Conference Connect online conference system. The ConferenceConnect system is available to all AcademiX 2010 participants, whether attending at an in-person event or via the web. ConferenceConnect will provide a detailed multi-day agenda, a participant directory, participant response surveys, session-based back channel chat rooms, online evaluations, local area information, open resource links and much more. The software's "mobile learning space" is complementary to the AcademiX conference, and is used before, during, and after the conference.
Presentations
Confirmed topics and speakers for the AcademiX 2010 conference include:
This is How We Think: Learning in Public After the Paradigm Shift
Paul Hammond, Ph.D. Director of Digital Initiatives, Dept. of English, Rutgers University
Richard Miller, Ph.D. Executive Director, Plangere Writing Center, Rutgers University
"This is How We Think" continues the line of thinking begun in Miller and Hammond's YouTube piece, "This is How We Dream." In a world where information abounds, where reading and research have moved from the library to the laptop, and where the act of learning itself is now making its way out of the shadows into the public eye, how must the work of education change? In this collaborative presentation, Professors Miller and Hammond will discuss their efforts to invent new media teaching practices that encourage students to engage with the most pressing problems of our time.
Commons-Based Licensing and Scholarship: The Next Layer of the Network
John Wilbanks, VP for Science at Creative Commons
Knowledge products have been generated as text for hundreds of years, and scientific and scholarly results have been locked into text-based technology since the mid 1660's. But journal articles are a compressed version of what happened in the research. The form and function of a journal article was settled long before we could effortlessly transmit data, or incrementally store and edit vast amounts of text, or store and forward research tools in repositories. There is no reason, other than technical lock-in by the printing press, why we should think of the article as a natural unit of knowledge transmission in science. Researchers and teachers make data, text, research tools, inventions, pictures, sounds, videos, and more. But almost none of them et measured other than the article. We now have the capacity to measure the quality of a scientist across multiple dimensions, not just the article. This talk will examine the increasing importance of disaggregated, multivariate knowledge in scholarly communications, and the impacts both good and bad of the coming shift away from the journal as the core form of knowledge transmission.
Innovation and Open Access in Scholarly Journal Publishing
Jason Baird Jackson, Ph.D. Professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Dept Chair, Indiana University
Drawing upon wider lessons learned while editing a toll access journal published by a scholarly society and later establishing an open access journal published in partnership with a research university library, I will describe a range of motivations underpinning the movement for building an open access scholarly communication system. Beyond characterizing the many "whys" of the open access movement, I will offer a picture of where open access journal publishing (as distinct from open access repository use) is now and where it appears to be going. Themes include the opening up of legacy journal content, the circumstances of scholarly societies as publishers, the role of libraries as publishers, author's rights questions, tenure and promotion issues, and the impact of open access publishing for students, communities of concern, and for the careers of individual scholars.
New channels for learning: podcasting opportunities for a distance university
Ben Hawkridge, iTunes U Project Officer, Open University, UK
The Open University is a UK based international distance institution with around 200,000 students, many actively learning in online channels. The University produces rich media courses, via a structured authoring process, in which student interactions (with media; with others; and with teachers) are 'designed in' from scratch. In this talk I will focus on one specific new channel opportunity - institutional podcasting, and in particular the experience of the Open University on iTunes U. Our 'best practice sharing' project STEEPLE shows how RSS provides a powerful technical key to managing these varied new channels. However, real success lies in creating value in these channels that matches up with the new needs of the web 2.0 student!
Education for a Mobile Generation
Kurt Squire, Assoc. Professor, Edu Comm & Tech, Curriculum & Instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Assoc Dir. of Edu Research and Development, Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery
For years, educators struggled with how to wire classrooms for the Internet. With the arrival of mobile media devices, soon every student will come to school with a broadband enabled, multimedia device in their pocket. How do we design educational experiences in an era in which we must assume that students can -- and will -- access whatever information and social network they want at a moments notice? This presentation describes the forms of participation enabled by such devices, how youth are using mobile devices such as iPhones to accelerate learning, and what a cutting-edge curriculum that leverages such devices looks like. These new approaches not only offer, but require educators to break down the walls of the classroom.
The Digital Natives Are Getting Restless: the Student Voice of the Open Access Movement
Nick Shockey, Director, Right to Research Coalition, Director of Student Advocacy, Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
Students today are digital natives. We’ve grown up in a world of unfettered access to digital information, instant gratification in the best possible sense. Yet when we need access to scholarly journals, we’re suddenly locked out. Though our education literally depends on them, we’re often cut off from journals crucial to our research, our papers, and our understanding of both details and the larger picture. However, students, in addition to numerous other stakeholders, are quickly realizing that access barriers to journals are as unnecessary as they are harmful. We’re working to reform the current academic publishing system into one that is open and equitably serves the interests of all who depend on it, not just those who can afford the often high cost of access.
Who Should Attend?
AcademiX 2010 is offered to individuals engaged in the production, distribution, and use of scholarly communications who are either employed by, or attend, institutions of Higher Education. The intended audiences are faculty, administrators, instructional technologists, developers, librarians and students.
Friday, March 19, 2010
Statewide EAD project survey
Over the past few years, some members of Georgia's archival community have expressed the desire to have a state-wide EAD project. Given UGA's and DLG's recent successes in developing finding aid databases, we are wondering if now might be the time to leverage our expertise to develop a state-wide EAD database. As a first tentative step we'd like to gauge interest and basic institutional needs before deciding whether such a project might be feasible. We would greatly appreciate it if archivists at Georgia repositories would take a few minutes to fill out our brief (only 10 questions) survey.
The survey can be found at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2FNDJ3X
The survey can be found at: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2FNDJ3X
Tuesday, December 29, 2009
85 reasons to love your librarian
heh heh... some of these are actually well thought, while others are clearly humorous...
1. Librarians take care of libraries, which are still invaluable today.
2. Not all information is on the internet.
3. Older books still hold great cultural significance.
4. Libraries are still repositories for some of the most valuable works of literature in the world.
5. Even with the internet, the library is still the best place to do research.
6. Girls with glasses can still rock the “sexy librarian” look.
7. “Sexy Librarian” is still a popular costume at Halloween.
8. You can’t exactly find periodicals like The New England Journal of Medicine in Barnes and Noble.
9. For that matter, looking at turn-of-the-century National Geographics is still pretty entertaining.
Love LOVE no. 15: Somebody has to help lazy people find what they want.
...and wait, there is more!
1. Librarians take care of libraries, which are still invaluable today.
2. Not all information is on the internet.
3. Older books still hold great cultural significance.
4. Libraries are still repositories for some of the most valuable works of literature in the world.
5. Even with the internet, the library is still the best place to do research.
6. Girls with glasses can still rock the “sexy librarian” look.
7. “Sexy Librarian” is still a popular costume at Halloween.
8. You can’t exactly find periodicals like The New England Journal of Medicine in Barnes and Noble.
9. For that matter, looking at turn-of-the-century National Geographics is still pretty entertaining.
Love LOVE no. 15: Somebody has to help lazy people find what they want.
...and wait, there is more!
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Friday, July 25, 2008
The Opensource model, what it is and how it works
Excellent article and overview of opensource, covering everything from licensing (yes, opensource has it), its evolution, security, issues, & more.
Raymond has compared the development of OSS to a bazaar, where large numbers of interested individuals congregate to contribute (code contributors are called committers) or to provide peer review of the wares in the market (in this case, testing and new feature recommendations for the software in the repositories [1]). A great deal of research, then, has focused on what motivates individuals to join such communities, how they are organized, the group dynamics, and governance structures. For example, Scacchi asserts that open-source communities form a highly adaptive but loosely coupled virtual enterprise, organized in a “layered meritocracy” with a usual team critical mass of five to 15 people [4]. OSS community cultures have even been likened to those of wasps and other swarming insects, in terms of the social network interactions [5].
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Library news roundup: nexgen catalogs, institutional repositories, and more
Well, since I have so many little library related tidbits floating around in my reader, I'm just going to do a roundup:
- Over at the shifted librarian, she has a nice blog post about the new startup project, bibliocommons @ the Oakville, Ontario library, to build a library catalog interface from scratch. The interface includes things like reviews, tagging, faceted searching, etc. Looks very drupalesque to me.
- A few discussions about defining repository and of course, wikipedia's definition.
- Pew statistical study on blog reading: "' Do you ever read someone else's online journal or blog?'. In total, 33% of internet users (the equivalent of 24% of all adults) say they read blogs, with 11% of internet users doing so on a typical day. " I wonder how many people read blogs without knowing they are reading a blog.
- EDUCause's 7things you should know about Wii (I always think the 7things series are just great!) including an overview of what it is and how it works, why it is important, and how it can be used for teaching and learning.
- From Equinox's blog, Five public libraries and one academic moved to the opensource Evergreen library catalog software. Approximately 30 more migrations are in the works.
- Mobile! Mobile! Mobile! Honestly, if you're already tired of hearing about the iphone, just wait until Google's Android hits. On the move with mobile web; Semantic web, mobiles and libraries picking up the pace; the catalog in your hand; and just google iphone or android, for the billions of articles and blogposts about them. ;-)
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Opensource ILS projects and how I learned to love the library catalog
okay, pardon the bad pun on dr. strangelove...
I've been following some of the opensource ils projects with interest. evergreen (launched by the Georgia Public Lib System), is still in heavy development. From my understanding it originally launched without acquisitions or serials checkin (eeks!) ; however from an upcoming presentation flyer it appears that acquisitions will launch or has launched very soon.
Anyhow, it's an interesting project and I finally got around to checking out their wiki.
At one conference I attended, the evergreen presenters (truly it is trotted out at every possible opportunity) was demonstrating its ability to save searches as RSS feeds, which would then be updated.
Another project is scriblio, which is a wordpress installation that works in conjunction with a library catalog. Plymouth State Library is now using scriblio. You can read an article about here and see it in action here.
I couldn't find an example of a Voyager library using scriblio, but I'm sure someone out there somewhere is using it.
Another interesting project is VUFind, which I've read will work with a Voyager library catalog. VUFind is touting itself as having the ability to search (and display) seamless results between the library catalog, digital collections, and institutional repositories. I like a lot about VUFind -- very easy to read. I love the ability to pull out citation info (wonder if this works with EndNote?). Other features include faceted search results, citations in MLA or APA (not sure if other choices), tagging, commenting, reviewing, and oia syndication.
I couldn't find RSS feed/search, but it would seem like that would be a feature (?)
Give the demo a whirl yourself. OR better yet... go see it used with a Voyager catalog.
George Mason University (a Voyager library) has a test installation up at
http://zoombox.gmu.edu/vufind/
Update: 9/12: test installation is not working. ;-(
For those who are interested, the MARC view/technical view is under the tab "Staff View"
To read more about the features of VuFind, check out VuFind's website:
http://www.vufind.org/features.php
I've been following some of the opensource ils projects with interest. evergreen (launched by the Georgia Public Lib System), is still in heavy development. From my understanding it originally launched without acquisitions or serials checkin (eeks!) ; however from an upcoming presentation flyer it appears that acquisitions will launch or has launched very soon.
Anyhow, it's an interesting project and I finally got around to checking out their wiki.
At one conference I attended, the evergreen presenters (truly it is trotted out at every possible opportunity) was demonstrating its ability to save searches as RSS feeds, which would then be updated.
Another project is scriblio, which is a wordpress installation that works in conjunction with a library catalog. Plymouth State Library is now using scriblio. You can read an article about here and see it in action here.
I couldn't find an example of a Voyager library using scriblio, but I'm sure someone out there somewhere is using it.
Another interesting project is VUFind, which I've read will work with a Voyager library catalog. VUFind is touting itself as having the ability to search (and display) seamless results between the library catalog, digital collections, and institutional repositories. I like a lot about VUFind -- very easy to read. I love the ability to pull out citation info (wonder if this works with EndNote?). Other features include faceted search results, citations in MLA or APA (not sure if other choices), tagging, commenting, reviewing, and oia syndication.
I couldn't find RSS feed/search, but it would seem like that would be a feature (?)
Give the demo a whirl yourself. OR better yet... go see it used with a Voyager catalog.
George Mason University (a Voyager library) has a test installation up at
http://zoombox.gmu.edu/vufind/
Update: 9/12: test installation is not working. ;-(
For those who are interested, the MARC view/technical view is under the tab "Staff View"
To read more about the features of VuFind, check out VuFind's website:
http://www.vufind.org/features.php
Tuesday, January 4, 2005
the unloved blog...
ok, this isn't really the unloved blog. I've just been busy finishing up classwork and the holidays. My carpal tunnel also reappeared in mid december so I have been resting my hands as much as possible.
I'm trying to clear my professional development calendar now to give me as much space as possible for the Peabodies and other upcoming projects. I spend quite a bit of time outside of work doing things, so the more things I finish up NOW the better.
99.5 % Finished
I've finished up the last of my New Georgia Encyclopedia articles. I have just a couple of minor revisions to make to one article and that's it. I will write more entries after the Peabodies end.
To do this week:
Webpage stuff: Cataloging & etds webpage need attention.
My peabody review committee (Radio Documentaries) will be meet this week at the Peabody Luncheon.
Start class on Tuesday.
Ongoing:
The online portfolio working group is going ok. I think we have been a little mired in the technical aspects, i.e., how do we make our vision a working reality.
A few updates: The IR (Institutional Repositories) Meta (data) Group is well under way. It's so much fun to talk about metadata. I know kind of dorky... :)
Upcoming:
Freelancing metadata for DLG
Mental Health Benefit Art Auction (Feb)
solo exhibit (May)
well, that's it. Hope you have a prosperous new year.
I'm trying to clear my professional development calendar now to give me as much space as possible for the Peabodies and other upcoming projects. I spend quite a bit of time outside of work doing things, so the more things I finish up NOW the better.
99.5 % Finished
I've finished up the last of my New Georgia Encyclopedia articles. I have just a couple of minor revisions to make to one article and that's it. I will write more entries after the Peabodies end.
To do this week:
Webpage stuff: Cataloging & etds webpage need attention.
My peabody review committee (Radio Documentaries) will be meet this week at the Peabody Luncheon.
Start class on Tuesday.
Ongoing:
The online portfolio working group is going ok. I think we have been a little mired in the technical aspects, i.e., how do we make our vision a working reality.
A few updates: The IR (Institutional Repositories) Meta (data) Group is well under way. It's so much fun to talk about metadata. I know kind of dorky... :)
Upcoming:
Freelancing metadata for DLG
Mental Health Benefit Art Auction (Feb)
solo exhibit (May)
well, that's it. Hope you have a prosperous new year.
Wednesday, November 10, 2004
Project updates
Institutional Repositories
Well, the Institutional Repositories Metadata subgroup(? I'm not sure what we are actually called but that will suffice for me) met. It was very interesting ---so many perplexing issues in terms of metadata for a group digital repository. We will be meeting again in the near future.
Online Portfolios
I'm also going to be working with a few folks to look out online portfolios/profiles for library staff. I think the idea is that the portfolio/profile could be linked off of the staff directory. In thinking about this a little, I would rather have a brief profile template with a place for a link to an online portfolio. Just my initial thoughts.
WAG (Web Advisory Group)
Finally :) I've been asked to join the Libraries' Web Advisory Group. Sounds like fun. I've worked with this group in a non-official capacity as the creator of the Research Central icons.
Anyhoos, lots of fun. :)
Well, the Institutional Repositories Metadata subgroup(? I'm not sure what we are actually called but that will suffice for me) met. It was very interesting ---so many perplexing issues in terms of metadata for a group digital repository. We will be meeting again in the near future.
Online Portfolios
I'm also going to be working with a few folks to look out online portfolios/profiles for library staff. I think the idea is that the portfolio/profile could be linked off of the staff directory. In thinking about this a little, I would rather have a brief profile template with a place for a link to an online portfolio. Just my initial thoughts.
WAG (Web Advisory Group)
Finally :) I've been asked to join the Libraries' Web Advisory Group. Sounds like fun. I've worked with this group in a non-official capacity as the creator of the Research Central icons.
Anyhoos, lots of fun. :)
Friday, October 22, 2004
project update
I realize that I have not posted in a while. Here are some things I have been working on, which are not necessarily work related.
--Studying up on (Digital) Institutional Repositories for a meeting
----More research for a few of my Ga Encyclopedia entries which have been returned from the editor (I have a few spots to flesh out)
--Selected for the Peabody Awards screening committee pool (although I will not know until January whether I will be screening or which category)
--Taking refresher Dreamweaver classes (all the way)
--Reading and reflecting on class assignments
--Finishing up some art projects and looking at selling my artwork online more efficiently
--Giving out lots of web design advice (really, I need to think about consulting for a fee again!)
Anyhow, I decided a few months ago that I would take advantage of some free training and fill in any potential gaps in my web design knowledge. It also gives me a chance to see how someone would teach an intro class. As with all of my web related computer knowledge (HTML, Javascript, perl, css, Macromedia Studio Suite, & many Adobe products including Photoshop, a smattering of perl), I have learned it myself. My first webpage that I wrote (1996) was handcoded using HTML that I learned by working through an online tutorial.
The graphics were created with an Adobe product I loved dearly called ImageStyler, which later involved into LiveMotion, and then faded away. Yes, this background was the first background I ever created for a webpage. The page is long gone, though...
From that point forward, my knowledge has been cobbled together from a bunch of different sources. I rely heavily on my knowledge from color theory and web design (workshops; art classes); spatial design classes (Graphic Design, Interior Design; hs classes; art classes), organization and structure (grad LIS[Library & Info Science]), computer skills (tutorials, workshops, classes, trial-and-error), metadata (LIS), and usability (LIS).
I felt that it was about time to just go through basics --> advanced of the most popular products (Macromedia & Adobe).
So, today, I took Dreamweaver I. I really didn't learn anything (although I have been just typing links vs. using the links tool). The course handouts were okay, but not great. I would have a hard time following the handouts as they were structured by content (no TOC) rather than a linear tutorial. They did not follow the class content and I don't think he once referred to them.
The only thing that really bothered me was the fact the instructor showed us how to "take" an image from the web (using Google image search) and put it into our web pages. Now, I know that it is easy to do and perhaps, his intent was just to show us how to put an image into a file in dreamweaver. Where was the mention of copyright? fair use? EEKS! Anyhow, those things went on my course feedback sheet. I thought he was a good instructor but the copyright/fair use thing really bothered me, especially, as I was having bandwidth stolen a few months ago.
Of course, it was fun and I can honestly say I can check that one off of the list. :D
and here is a website evolution:
--Studying up on (Digital) Institutional Repositories for a meeting
----More research for a few of my Ga Encyclopedia entries which have been returned from the editor (I have a few spots to flesh out)
--Selected for the Peabody Awards screening committee pool (although I will not know until January whether I will be screening or which category)
--Taking refresher Dreamweaver classes (all the way)
--Reading and reflecting on class assignments
--Finishing up some art projects and looking at selling my artwork online more efficiently
--Giving out lots of web design advice (really, I need to think about consulting for a fee again!)
Anyhow, I decided a few months ago that I would take advantage of some free training and fill in any potential gaps in my web design knowledge. It also gives me a chance to see how someone would teach an intro class. As with all of my web related computer knowledge (HTML, Javascript, perl, css, Macromedia Studio Suite, & many Adobe products including Photoshop, a smattering of perl), I have learned it myself. My first webpage that I wrote (1996) was handcoded using HTML that I learned by working through an online tutorial.
The graphics were created with an Adobe product I loved dearly called ImageStyler, which later involved into LiveMotion, and then faded away. Yes, this background was the first background I ever created for a webpage. The page is long gone, though...From that point forward, my knowledge has been cobbled together from a bunch of different sources. I rely heavily on my knowledge from color theory and web design (workshops; art classes); spatial design classes (Graphic Design, Interior Design; hs classes; art classes), organization and structure (grad LIS[Library & Info Science]), computer skills (tutorials, workshops, classes, trial-and-error), metadata (LIS), and usability (LIS).
I felt that it was about time to just go through basics --> advanced of the most popular products (Macromedia & Adobe).
So, today, I took Dreamweaver I. I really didn't learn anything (although I have been just typing links vs. using the links tool). The course handouts were okay, but not great. I would have a hard time following the handouts as they were structured by content (no TOC) rather than a linear tutorial. They did not follow the class content and I don't think he once referred to them.
The only thing that really bothered me was the fact the instructor showed us how to "take" an image from the web (using Google image search) and put it into our web pages. Now, I know that it is easy to do and perhaps, his intent was just to show us how to put an image into a file in dreamweaver. Where was the mention of copyright? fair use? EEKS! Anyhow, those things went on my course feedback sheet. I thought he was a good instructor but the copyright/fair use thing really bothered me, especially, as I was having bandwidth stolen a few months ago.
Of course, it was fun and I can honestly say I can check that one off of the list. :D
and here is a website evolution:
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