My first reaction is that, if you want to apply your skills to your library and
your work, what you should learn will depend on your library system and your
work. For instance, does your ILS have an API? If so, are there already tools
written by other people you could learn from? Does your IL
You have the right general idea about the nature of IFLA LRM. LRM is
essentially a merging and reformulation of FRBR, FRAD, and FSRAD. It is not a
metadata schema.
BIBFRAME is an implementation of RDA, which is a metadata schema based on FRBR.
BIBFRAME is still under development, and is curr
;re golden whether or not
> you're technically compliant.
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> kyle
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> On Fri, Dec 7, 2018 at 7:36 AM McDonald, Stephen
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> > You have the right general idea about the nature of IFLA LRM. LRM
> > is essentially a mergin
I don't know about a Python library or json converter. But MarcEdit can do it.
Steve McDonald
steve.mcdon...@tufts.edu
-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries On Behalf Of Goodwin, Shawn
Sent: Monday, M
That sounds like a cool project!
I will think some more about this. But my initial question is, are you
limiting your metadata strictly to "aboutness"? If a name is repeated
frequently in a document, that entity might be considered "relevant" to the
document even if the document is not "about
I would be more sympathetic to the original poster if their petition actually
petitioned for something. Unfortunately, the "petition" on that website is
simply a half dozen sentences basically saying "someone should pay attention to
this" without actually suggesting what should happen, who shou
I think you might be able create an analysis to gauge whether a summary is
likely to be neutral. But I would resist labeling a summary source as
"publisher" or "librarian" without actual evidence of the summary author.
As an aside, I will note that RDA Beta gives the ability to provide a source
There are some normalization transforms which allow you to ASCII sort call
numbers. A quick search gives me:
The Alma system (from Ex Libris) has a normalization algorithm for their
analytics, described at
https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Alma/Community_Knowledge/Understanding_Normalized_Ca
A work composed by a person would have that person listed as an author in the
100 field. I don't think a conductor is supposed to be listed in the 100 field
of a performance.
Steve McDonald
steve.mcdon...@tufts.ed
Fellow library code wranglers,
Coding questions don't come up often here, but I think this might be the best
group to ask, as my question somewhat involves both coding and the nature of
metadata and data. A considerable amount of my work involves ingesting
materials into our institutional repo
ss names
correctly describe those sets of responsibilities, and what interfaces you need
to expose to make it harmonize.
On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 4:34 PM McDonald, Stephen
wrote:
> Fellow library code wranglers,
>
> Coding questions don't come up often here, but I think this might
Jakob,
I've looked briefly through your document. There are some interesting ideas in
it. I remember learning about hypertext and playing with TeX and other markup
languages before HTML and the World Wide Web. I agree that the current common
understanding of hypertext has changed since then.
Wouldn’t that depend on which metadata standard you are using?
Steve McDonald
steve.mcdon...@tufts.edu
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From: Code for Libraries On Behalf Of Stuart A. Yeates
Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2021
Ah, I see. Was the original question intended as a joke? I took the question
seriously. There are databases out there which record facial features like
this and taxonomies exist for various body features. But I'm not aware of a
metadata standard for exchanging such information. What field a
I think you may have missed that the court supported Google's use of a very
small portion of Java API under the fair use clause of copyright law. So the
parallel situation with DDC is that you can use a few lines from DDC under fair
use, but you can't use large portions.
Yes, you can _use_ DDC freely. If your library is already catalogued, you
don't have to pay anyone to keep using the labels on the shelves or the entries
in your catalog. If you have a copy of DDC, you can use it to do any
cataloging you need. If you have memorized DDC, you don't need a copy
You believe these are font files but you are trying to save them as text? You
can't save a font file as a text file. They don't have textual content--they
are specifications for how a specific font is rendered at various font sizes.
What do you want to do with these files?
I believe that the value would be "100 MB" rather than "100". The units are
part of the value in extent; it has no meaning without the units.
is equivalent to the 300$a in MARC--a text string specifying
the extent, including units.
Steve McDonald
R.ORG
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] using dublin core to express size measured in words
On Oct 18, 2021, at 11:20 AM, McDonald, Stephen
wrote:
>> Using Dublin Core, is there a way to express size measured in words?
>
> I believe that the value would be "100 MB" rather than &
It works fine for me in Firefox. Left click on the starting point. You get a
popup with several options; select "measure distance". Then trace out a path
with successive right clicks.
Steve McDonald
steve.mcdon...@
I have not done this myself. However, a Google search for "Microsoft Word
autoscroll" results in several pages describing how to put the autoscroll
function on your toolbar ribbon. Here is one:
https://word.tips.net/T001168_Automatic_Scrolling.html
St
Bleh, I clicked Send too quickly, before I actually looked closer at the page.
The page I sent is for obsolete versions of Word. My apologies.
The instructions you have do work. Perhaps you are not recognizing the
Autoscroll icon. It should appear on the very top of the Word document, in the
I assume you are talking about a USB external flash drive. May I ask why you
want to mark the _metal_ part of the flash drive?
That is the part that inserts into the computer USB port. I would be very wary
of doing anything with that part of the flash drive. Any kind of paint or
marker could
Word has a reasonably good built-in grammar checker. There is always the
Chicago Manual of Style, but that requires some research. I'm sure there are
grammar checkers that can auto-correct sentences, but I don't happen to know
any. Hopefully someone else does.
For the specific example, no, t
I misspoke a bit about individuals who use "they" pronouns. The pronouns for
them would always be plural. The verb gets more complicated. If the subject
is a plural pronoun, the verb would also be plural, but if the subject is a
name, title, or phrase referencing an individual, the verb would
duals who use "they" pronouns - the verb is conjugated to agree with
plural "they," even when the subject is singular.
e.g.
My friend Johanna is non-binary and uses "they" pronouns. They are vegan.
They enjoy foraging for mushrooms and wild plants.
On Tue, Jun 7, 2022
derstanding you, but this has not been my experience
with individuals who use "they" pronouns - the verb is conjugated to agree with
plural "they," even when the subject is singular.
e.g.
My friend Johanna is non-binary and uses "they" pronouns. They are vegan.
The
Joe Hourclé said:
> Excel. If there’s a spreadsheet in 365, use that, because you might want to
> share it with other staff members.
> You could also use Google Sheets if 365 doesn’t have one.
Office 365 includes Excel. I definitely agree that a spreadsheet is far
superior to a table in Word f
I'm not sure what you mean "all sorts of numbers at the LTE", but LTE is a form
of 4G. So if it is saying it has LTE, then you have 4G.
Steve McDonald
steve.mcdon...@tufts.edu
-Original Message-
From: Code
I've had cables fail within 3 months. It can be invisible, and usually happens
when the cable is flexed too much or too often close to the connector at either
end (usually close to the mobile device). Cables fail often.
Steve McDonald
Karen,
Perhaps I am confused. You are speaking of relators like editor and degree
supervisor but you then talk about RDA Agent Properties. Wouldn't the RDA
equivalent of these relators be in Work Properties or Expression Properties?
Steve McDonald
Even easier might be to get a USB C male to USB A male and skip the existing
cable for the phone (presumably a C to C cable). C to A cables are extremely
common, often available even at corner drug stores.
Steve McDonald
I was hoping that someone with better knowledge than I would respond first, but
I don't see anything yet.
Charles, I don't happen to know of any analysis or comparison of the
vulnerabilities of health portals. Hopefully someone else can provide
something.
You should be aware that there is a h
You save the clipped image. Then you use your image software to change the
image size and save the new expanded version. Any software which can modify
images will be able to make a larger version. Be warned that expanding an
image will make edges appear jagged and/or pixelated.
I am not involved in collection development, so I can't speak to the financial
issue. But I would expect the answers to depend on a lot of information we
don't have:
* Is the OA content created by the organization or just collected by it?
* How much content is there? How much more will be creat
I think the first question to ask is who wants to use it? I imagine that you
brought up the issue because you have had a request or a use case for LaTeX.
Knowing who the audience is would help figuring out where support should come
from.
Steve McDonald
I'm not sure I agree with that description of LaTeX. LaTeX is more concerned
with formatting than style. LaTeX says, "this is the title", "this is a
footnote", "this is a quotation block", "this is a chapter", "this is a sidebar
note". The actual style that is used for a title, a footnote, or
This is a Dell computer, have you considered buying the battery from Dell.com?
That would cut down the pages and pages of sources and you would be assured
that the battery actually meets Dell's standards. But note that Dell does not
make its own batteries. It is not unlikely that they, too, p
That's too bad, but nice that you have gotten that much life from your laptop.
If it is an obsolete battery, it is unlikely that it is still manufactured in
the United States, if it ever was.
Steve McDonald
steve.mc
That address is working for me.
Steve McDonald
steve.mcdon...@tufts.edu
> -Original Message-
> From: Code for Libraries On Behalf Of Thomas
> Rambø
> Sent: Wednesday, October 4, 2023 4:56 AM
> To: CODE4LIB@L
That is not correct. The statement
http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/contributor"/>
is a single predicate-object statement, enclosed within angle brackets.
The following statement
http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#ObjectProperty"/>
is also separate statement, enclosed within angle brackets. The OWL
le
> Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2023 10:40 AM
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] [External] [CODE4LIB] Question about multiple
> declarations
>
> tl;dr: Does LoC intend that its relator properties be used with both "thing"
> and
> "string" o
Do you really need a _forensic_ cybersecurity expert? From your earlier
description, I thought it was suggested that you didn't.
Steve McDonald
steve.mcdon...@tufts.edu
> -Original Message-
> From: Code for
The URl you cite, https://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/lcco/, is the Library of
Congress Classification system, not the Library of Congress Subject Headings.
The LCC is used to create call numbers. LCC and LCSH do not have good
correspondence.
If you are looking for LCSH, then you probably want
h
Starting from a digital list does not usually require enrichment via a master
source. Libraries use a standard exchange format, MARC, including WorldCat.
All major library management systems can import and export MARC. When a
library switches to a new system, they usually just export their ex
Sierra is only five years old, so very few (if any) libraries have migrated
away from Sierra yet. Quite a few libraries have migrated from Millennium,
however. We will be going live in Alma in June, transitioning from Millennium.
I am not on the formal migration team, but I am heavily involve
Tufts University has not retrospectively edited our records to RDA. We have a
mix of AACR2, RDA, and Hybrid records in our catalog. With current ILS
systems, it does not greatly affect user access. However, after we transition
to a new ILMS next month, we may implement an automated synchroniz
1) Yes
2) Yes
This can be done through the WorldShare Collection Manager. The Collection
Manager does not need a subscription to WorldShare Discovery, or any other
extra subscription; it is available to any member of OCLC. Collection Manager
is designed for collections of electronic resources
Kyle Banerjee asks:
> I feel there is another issue at play, namely that librarians are sometimes
> too quick to let others
> dump their grunt work on them. For example, if it's important for a
> department to track its own
> output when they know better than anyone else who is involved and what
What exactly do you mean by "cloud options"? The three that you mention are
for very different purposes. What do you want to use the cloud service for?
That is the first thing to figure out.
Steve McDonald
steve.m
BibFrame already has an RDF view which is well-defined. Are you trying to come
up with your own RDF model for BibFrame data?
Steve McDonald
steve.mcdon...@tufts.edu
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From: Code for Librari
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On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 11:00 AM, McDonald, Stephen < steve.mcdon...@tufts.edu>
wrote:
> BibFrame already has an RDF view which is well-defined. Are you
> trying to come up with your own RDF model
18, 2018 at 11:55 AM, McDonald, Stephen < steve.mcdon...@tufts.edu>
wrote:
> Karen Coyle has some examples on her page: http://kcoyle.net/bibframe/.
> Your option #2 appears to be similar to the output in her examples,
> although her examples do not include the Item level. Y
There are a number of prominent librarians who code. Many of them are on this
list, or on LITA-L.
I have a BS in Astronomy and an MLIS. My software skills are self-taught. As
a planetary scientist, I became a computer system administrator and wrote a lot
of analysis software. As a librarian
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