Re: [CODE4LIB] Request for assistance: costs of (outsourced) bulk digitization

2019-08-05 Thread Murray, Gregory
Rich, It's unlikely you'll find a single vendor to work with for all those formats. Digitizing audio and video media is highly specialized work, because for some obsolete formats the equipment to play back the media may not be manufactured any more, so vendors must scavenge and maintain such eq

Re: [CODE4LIB] Do we have any OAI programmers here? I have questions.

2021-09-13 Thread Murray, Gregory
Jill, I wrote an OAI-PMH implementation a couple of years ago, as an add-on to a local database + web application, without prior experience with it. I'm not aware of an "easy tutorial," but OAI-PMH is built on HTTP and XML, so if your developers understand those basic technologies, they should

Re: [CODE4LIB] Public scanners

2023-05-18 Thread Murray, Gregory
We have ScannX book scanners. From what you described, they’re very similar to yours. They get a lot of use and few complaints. Gregory Murray Director of Digital Initiatives Wright Library Princeton Theological Seminary From: Code for Libraries on behalf of Martin, Will Date: Thursday, May

Re: [CODE4LIB] METS in JSON-LD?

2023-08-01 Thread Murray, Gregory
Hi Manuela, Personally I’d recommend storing and managing your METS documents as XML and converting to JSON only at the point where you need to process them as JSON. That assumes you have the option of storing as XML. If your database is built mainly or only for JSON, then you’ll have to do a o

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2024 WaitList

2024-03-01 Thread Murray, Gregory
I for one completely agree with Matt’s point here. Gregory Murray Director of Digital Initiatives Wright Library Princeton Theological Seminary From: Code for Libraries on behalf of Matthew Adair Date: Friday, March 1, 2024 at 11:22 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4

Re: [CODE4LIB] Functional requirements for open-source repositories

2017-06-07 Thread Murray, Gregory
Paige, This site is out of date as far as the information, but it nevertheless could serve as a template for the kinds of features/requirements you may want to look for -- supported file types, metadata formats, harvesting/interoperability, import/export, etc. etc. http://www.rsp.ac.uk/start/soft

Re: [CODE4LIB] internet archive api

2017-09-19 Thread Murray, Gregory
Eric, I see your questions has been answered by referring you to the Python tool, but just FYI a quick and dirty option is simply to use the advanced search form (https://archive.org/advancedsearch.php) to choose the collection you want, choose which fields you want returned (e.g. "identifier"), a