caschwartz's blog http://code4lib.org/blogs/caschwartz code4lib is an IRC channel, a mailing list, and a conference for folks interested in the convergence of computers and library/information science. The channel grew out of the email list as a more informal and interactive way to discuss code, projects, ideas, and other random topics. Planet code4lib aggregates the journaling of some of the people in the room, and our most recent addition is a conference where we can all get some face time and share our latest projects. en Code4Lib Journal: new issue 7 now available http://code4lib.org/node/315 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Editorial Introduction - Code4Lib: Long May You Run by Tom Keays<br /><a href="http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/1695">http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/1695</a></p> <p>The Code4Lib Journal mirrors the diversity and depth of interests and expertise of its readership. Our successes, indeed, are yours.</p> <p>How Hard Can it Be? : Developing in Open Source by Joann Ransom with Chris Cormack and Rosalie Blake<br /><a href="http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/1638">http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/1638</a></p> <p>In 2000 a small public library system in New Zealand developed and released Koha, the world's first open source library management system. This is the story of how that came to pass and why, and of the lessons learnt in their first foray into developing in open source.</p> <p>Extracting User Interaction Information from the Transaction Logs of a Faceted Navigation OPAC by Cory Lown and Brad Hemminger<br /><a href="http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/1633">http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/1633</a></p> <p>This paper discusses the analysis of Apache web server logs from a faceted catalog interface (OPAC) at North Carolina State University. By grouping individual HTTP requests into user sessions and analyzing in that context, requests can be understood as particular user actions, with more specificity as to purpose and effect of an action. Client IP address and time are used as a sufficient proxy for determining user sessions from logs. Some initial exploratory findings of user behavior in the NCSU OPAC are provided, including that users make use of facets less than of text searching, and that some facet groups are used significantly more than others. Links are provided to the scripts used to make this session-based analysis, which could be modified for use with other facetted OPACs which use an Apache front-end.</p> <p>Using a Web Services Architecture with Me, Myself and I by Stephen Meyer<br /><a href="http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/1771">http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/1771</a></p> <p>The UW-Madison Libraries Library Course Page system is used to deliver electronic reserves materials and course-focused library instruction webpages to students. As part of a rewrite of our system we broke the application into three component pieces: a file repository, a course timetable data service, and an interface application for building and viewing individual course pages. The new three-piece system was written with an inward facing service-oriented architecture that allowed us to choose the best technologies to solve each of the tasks the entire system needs to accomplish.</p> <p>Deciphering Journal Abbreviations with JAbbr By Keith Jenkins<br /><a href="http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/1758">http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/1758</a></p> <p>JAbbr is an online tool developed at Cornell University to help users decipher journal title abbreviations. This article discusses why these abbreviations are so problematic, and how traditional tools are often insufficient, and then describes the novel approach used by JAbbr. Given an abbreviation, JAbbr creates a regular expression for fuzzy matching, tests it against a list of serial titles extracted from the library catalog, and returns a list of possible matches to the user.<br /> JAbbr is available as a web site and as a web service.</p> <p>Repurposing ProQuest Metadata for Batch Ingesting ETDs into an Institutional Repository by Shawn Averkamp and Joanna Lee<br /><a href="http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/1647">http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/1647</a></p> <p>This article describes the workflow used by the University of Iowa Libraries to populate their institutional repository and their catalog with the data collected by ProQuest UMI Dissertation Publishing during the submission of students' theses and dissertations. Re-purposing the metadata from ProQuest allowed the University of Iowa Libraries to streamline the process for ingesting theses and dissertations into their institutional repository The article includes a discussion of the benefits and limitations of the workflow described.</p> <p>Bibliographic Metadata Extraction from Theses By Götz Hatop<br /><a href="http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/1686">http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/1686</a></p> <p>This article presents the application of part-of-speech (POS) based statistical text analysis to the task of bibliographic metadata extraction from electronic dissertations. By using the approach described here it is possible to detect the title of a Ph.D. paper with an accuracy of about 80%. The accuracy measurements are done using a conceptually simple approach and implementation.</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Topic:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/16" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">journal</a></div></div></div> Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:48:45 +0000 caschwartz 315 at http://code4lib.org http://code4lib.org/node/315#comments Code4Lib Journal: new issue 6 now available http://code4lib.org/node/290 <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><p>Editorial Introduction - Issue 6<br /> Christine Schwartz<br /> http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/1376</p> <p>The intelligent use of technology in libraries continues to be one of our most crucial challenges. For those of us who became librarians because we loved to explore the book stacks, we are now finding new ways to explore both old and new content in digital form. With issue 6 of the Code4Lib Journal we hope you will find new ways to explore, experiment, and bring to your library users what they want and need.</p> <p>Using OAI-ORE to Transform Digital Repositories into Interoperable Storage and Services Applications<br /> David Tarrant, Ben O'Steen, Tim Brody, Steve Hitchcock, Neil Jefferies and Leslie Carr<br /> http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/1062</p> <p>In the digital age libraries are required to manage large numbers of diverse objects. One advantage of digital objects over fixed physical objects is the flexibility of ‘binding’ them into publications or other useful aggregated intellectual entities while retaining the ability to reuse them independently in other contexts. An emerging framework for managing flexible aggregations of digital objects is provided by the Open Archives Initiative (OAI) with its work on Object Reuse and Exchange (ORE). This paper will show how OAI-ORE is being used to manage content in digital repositories, in particular institutional repositories, and has the potential ultimately to transform the conception of digital repositories.</p> <p>Semi-automatic Citation Correction with Lemon8-XML<br /> MJ Suhonos<br /> http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/1011</p> <p>The Lemon8-XML software application, developed by the Public Knowledge Project (PKP), provides an open-source, computer-assisted interface for reliable citation structuring and validation. Lemon8-XML combines citation parsing algorithms with freely-available online indexes such as PubMed, WorldCat, and OAIster. Fully-automated markup of entire bibliographies may be a genuine possibility using this approach.<br /> Automated markup of citations would increase bibliographic accuracy while reducing copyediting demands.</p> <p>The Wise Use of Statistics in a Library-Oriented Environment<br /> Mathias Weyland<br /> http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/1275</p> <p>As with most businesses, libraries use statistics to justify expenses, to monitor the library’s expansion and to predict prospective developments. This article describes SQL and shell techniques for data retrieval as well as further processing of the data using the open source statistical environment R. The article emphasizes some of the pitfalls and reasoning errors librarians could easily slip into.<br /> Having an academic background on statistics, the author is appointed to projects and tasks which need mathematical and statistical methods to be successfully accomplished.</p> <p>Tree Representations: Graphics Libraries for Displaying Hierarchical Data<br /> Mark Wilhelm<br /> http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/1083</p> <p>Tree representations can be useful for presenting hierarchical data on the screen. In this article I’ll briefly describe building trees using the Dojo, Yahoo User Interface, Java Server Faces, and Google Web Toolkit libraries.</p> <p>Visualizing Media Archives: A Case Study<br /> Chris Beer, Courtney Michael, and Mayo Todorovic<br /> http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/1119</p> <p>The WGBH Media Library and Archives is piloting an online media archive for scholarly research. In conversation with users, we have discovered they want to quickly pinpoint items relevant to their work and get an overview of collections and their relationships to other materials. To demonstrate the size and complexity of our collection to users in a meaningful way, WGBH is employing data visualization techniques to provide an interactive, graphical representation of the various relationships between items. This article discusses the techniques employed in implementing our relationship map, emphasizes the cataloging techniques required for this effort, and offers code and examples to spark discussion about ways to improve or extend this effort.</p> <p>Course Views: A Scalable Approach to Providing Course-Based Access to Library Resources<br /> Jason Casden, Kim Duckett, Tito Sierra and Joseph Ryan<br /> http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/1218</p> <p>The NCSU Libraries’ Course Views project, along with a locally developed widget web service, improves course-based access to library collections and services by dynamically generating library course pages for all 6000+ courses at NCSU. By automatically generating custom content when possible and showcasing authored content when available, Course Views is able to achieve full course coverage without significantly increasing staff time to create and manage content. This paper will describe the system and the use of web services to achieve scalable and sustainable delivery of course-related library content.</p> <p>Integrating Process Management with Archival Management Systems: Lessons Learned<br /> J. Gordon Daines, III and Cory L. Nimer<br /> http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/1016</p> <p>The Integrated Digital Special Collections (INDI) system is a prototype of a database-driven, Web application designed to automate and manage archival workflow for large institutions and consortia.<br /> This article discusses the how the INDI project enabled the successful implementation of a process to manage large technology projects in the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University. It highlights how the scope of these technology projects is set and how the major deliverables for each project are defined. The article also talks about how the INDI system followed the process and still failed to be completed. It examines why the process itself is successful and why the INDI project failed. It further underscores the importance of process management in archival management systems.</p> <p>How to Build an XML Web Client for the Gold Rush Link Resolver’s XML Gateway Web Services Layer<br /> Brian Kysela<br /> http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/1324</p> <p>The Gold Rush link resolver (GRLR) is part of a suite of programs developed by the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries (CARL) which help manage a library’s electronic resources. It contains the essential features required to perform link resolution, and comes at a substantial discount compared to other commercial Link Resolvers.<br /> After a comprehensive review of the available options, the library at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC) chose to implement Gold Rush over the summer of 2008. The UTC library also decided to take advantage of the release of the Gold Rush XML Gateway Web Services Layer by the Colorado Alliance in the spring of 2008. This article is a case study of how the UTC XML Web client was built and the steps necessary to successfully deploy such a client.</p> <p>Using Book Data Providers to Improve Services to Patrons<br /> Mike Beccaria<br /> http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/1009</p> <p>At Paul Smith’s College, I recently implemented a “New Books” display using open APIs and an image scroller. In this article I’ll give a brief overview of Google Book Search, OpenLibrary and Worldcat, explain how I created this New Books Widget using book cover data, and provide readers with some practical and simple code to show how to collect this data. This article will be of interest to anyone who wants to read about a brief overview of current state of free book data service providers. Additionally, beginner programmers will likely find the examples at the end of the article helpful when getting started with projects of their own.</p> <p>CONFERENCE REPORT: Code4Lib 2009<br /> Jie Chen, Joanna DiPasquale, Lauren Ko, and Andreas Orphanides<br /> http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/998</p> <p>Conference reports from the 4th Code4Lib conference, held in Province, RI from February 23 to 26, 2009. The Code4Lib conference is a collective volunteer effort of the informal Code4Lib community of library technologists. Included are four brief reports on the conference from the recipients of conference scholarships.</p> <p>BOOK REVIEW: Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist<br /> Tom Keays<br /> http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/1480</p> <p>Written by two of the leading authorities on the semantic web, the “Semantic Web for the Working Ontologist” is a timely and thorough introduction to the topic. Covering RDF, RDFS, and OWL, the book takes a logical, trainerly approach, with practical and illuminating examples. Well worth a read.</p> <p>Christine Schwartz<br /> Metadata Librarian<br /> Princeton Theological Seminary Libraries<br /> christine.schwartz@ptsem.edu</p> </div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Topic:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/16" typeof="skos:Concept" property="rdfs:label skos:prefLabel" datatype="">journal</a></div></div></div> Tue, 31 Mar 2009 18:52:36 +0000 caschwartz 290 at http://code4lib.org http://code4lib.org/node/290#comments
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