[CODE4LIB] API for book descriptions?

2018-05-15 Thread Pikas, Christina K.
Hi All, Current bibliometrics project is in a humanities/social sciences area (not typically my specialty). I'm looking for book descriptions for maybe ~1000 books. Even if I could automate filling in a few more of these, I would be happy. I could scrape a catalog page, but that might be frowned

Re: [CODE4LIB] API for book descriptions?

2018-05-16 Thread Pikas, Christina K.
Ohhh. That looks promising - the Amazon API looks like to comes with a lot of baggage now. Thanks all, Christina -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG] On Behalf Of Mark Watkins Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2018 8:38 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG Subj

Re: [CODE4LIB] API for book descriptions?

2018-05-17 Thread Pikas, Christina K.
need additional info (title, author, etc?). --- Mark Sandford Systems Librarian Assistant Professor in the Libraries Colgate University Libraries On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 9:49 AM, Pikas, Christina K. < christina.pi...@jhuapl.edu> wrote: > Hi All, > Current bibliometrics projec

[CODE4LIB] Default, preferred, or supported "enterprise" browser?

2018-10-15 Thread Pikas, Christina K.
Hi All, In the olden days, my IT department more or less mandated IE as the only supported browser. Everything had to work on IE and you could install others but you were on your own. So then more and more people wanted Macs and they weren't super supported until the director said he wanted a Ma

Re: [CODE4LIB] Default, preferred, or supported "enterprise" browser?

2018-10-16 Thread Pikas, Christina K.
ty Librarian Syracuse University Libraries T 315.443.7178 kndei...@syr.edu 222 Waverly Ave., Syracuse, NY 13244 Syracuse University -----Original Message- From: Code for Libraries On Behalf Of Pikas, Christina K. Sent: Monday, October 15, 2018 11:00 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG Subject: [

Re: [CODE4LIB] Default, preferred, or supported "enterprise" browser?

2018-10-16 Thread Pikas, Christina K.
important and you can declare there are fewer options. But it would depend on the particulars. -Tod Tod Olson mailto:t...@uchicago.edu>> Systems Librarian Interim Director for Integrated Library Systems University of Chicago Library On Oct 16, 2018, at 8:31 AM, Pikas, Christina K. mailto:chr

Re: [CODE4LIB] natural language processing, text mining, and machine learning at the university of notre dame

2018-10-26 Thread Pikas, Christina K.
I'm interested and would attend a DC area meeting. Christina -- Christina K. Pikas, BS, MLS, PhD Librarian The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Baltimore: 443.778.4812 D.C.: 240.228.4812 christina.pi...@jhuapl.edu -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries On B

Re: [CODE4LIB] Spit-balling - open-source discovery layer

2019-01-11 Thread Pikas, Christina K.
Seems like you'd need to hook in one of the web-crawling not-Google-Scholars like https://www.semanticscholar.org/ ? -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries On Behalf Of Erin Nettifee Sent: Friday, January 11, 2019 8:54 AM To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Spit-ball

Re: [CODE4LIB] Two questions about libraries using ServiceNow

2019-04-08 Thread Pikas, Christina K.
OMG RUN AWAY FAST Er... I mean... we tried so hard to use it, but it was so tedious and we weren't even able to get the reports out of it that we wanted in the first place. Plus, our local setup required e-mails to go out to all of the requesters and that was as problematic as you would thi

Re: [CODE4LIB] anyone running a makerspace?

2019-04-11 Thread Pikas, Christina K.
There's a listserv: Library Makerspace Listserv That has people from academic, public, and some special libraries. It's very helpful! -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries On Behalf Of Kun Lin Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2019 4:35 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG Subject: [CODE4LIB

Re: [CODE4LIB] From the Community Support Squad wrt "Note [admiistratativia]"

2019-07-16 Thread Pikas, Christina K.
For studying this community, or using members of this community as potential research subjects, it might be helpful to refer to AOIR ethics: https://aoir.org/ethics/ Christina -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries On Behalf Of Jenn C Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2019 7:43 AM To: CODE

Re: [CODE4LIB] Systematic / Systemic bias in bibliometics

2019-07-18 Thread Pikas, Christina K.
I'll just add the JISC bibliometrics listserv (https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=LIS-BIBLIOMETRICS ). Unfortunately ASIST more or less killed the SIGMETRICS list with their shenanigans. Christina -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries On Behalf Of Jodi Schneider Sen

Re: [CODE4LIB] ORCID

2019-07-30 Thread Pikas, Christina K.
Hi David, Our beta version of our Civil Space staff profiles is pulling from ORCID (not sure why it's not live yet). We're a consortium member which was only necessary to be able to add to the profiles (we migrated data from ResearcherID). I didn't do the programming myself- it was done by deve

Re: [CODE4LIB] Keyword Extraction from Text

2019-09-16 Thread Pikas, Christina K.
Hi Athina, Voyant is a good tool for getting started (https://voyant-tools.org/ ). Do you program in Python or R? I have some additional suggestions if so. Christina -- Christina K. Pikas, BS, MLS, PhD (she/her/hers) Librarian The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Baltimore

Re: [CODE4LIB] API feeding faculty publication profiles

2020-01-17 Thread Pikas, Christina K.
We're live with using the ORCID API to populate. I really, really, really wish we had just used a COTs solution. This was built internally. https://civspace.jhuapl.edu/Our-Staff/index.php (I say we but they called me in intermittently so I had little input on those decisions) We just went liv

Re: [CODE4LIB] API feeding faculty publication profiles

2020-01-17 Thread Pikas, Christina K.
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Re: [CODE4LIB] Skyping at library events

2020-02-04 Thread Pikas, Christina K.
You may have already gotten a response but you need a room mike, not just a headphone. Also assuming you will be projecting from the laptop? The WebCam should also cover the room. Definitely do a trial run first. And get the speaker online 15 minutes prior to the panel. -Original Message-

Re: [CODE4LIB] getting content

2020-02-06 Thread Pikas, Christina K.
With JSTOR and HathiTrust I don't think it's an accident. If you want to do TDM with their stuff you need to go through official channels (which you have done with Hathi, I know). Take, on the other hand, Wiley vs. ACS for chemistry content. Wiley has a click through agreement administered (I

[CODE4LIB] Digitizing old engineering/mat sci/chem data sheets

2020-07-29 Thread Pikas, Christina K.
Hi All, I'm wondering if anyone has a starting point resource or roundup of resources that discuss the digitization of engineering datasheets. I'm thinking like ASM phase diagrams, CINDAS thermophysical properties, whatnot is in Springer Materials... There might be some examples from NASA or DOD

Re: [CODE4LIB] [EXT] [CODE4LIB] Photo app converting to editable graphic

2020-10-15 Thread Pikas, Christina K.
Replying late - maybe this has already been said - but a buddy from UNC did a tutorial on SnapSeed and it's amazing. It's on both iPhone and Android. You can do a lot of image editing as well as write on, do a border, etc. Not affiliated, etc. Christina -Original Message- From: Code fo

Re: [CODE4LIB] [EXT] Re: [CODE4LIB] PDF Editors

2021-02-23 Thread Pikas, Christina K.
An edge case but I've been using the pdftools package (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/pdftools/index.html) in R recently with the udpipe package (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/udpipe/index.html) and it just... works! Christina -Original Message- From: Code for Lib

[CODE4LIB] Libraries/packages/programs for structured input of citation information

2021-03-02 Thread Pikas, Christina K.
Hi All, A developer here is looking for a structured web form/controls for entering citation data sort of like ORCID has or a citation manager where you would only get the relevant fields depending on reference type. This is something he can use in a new project. I know there are plugins with t

Re: [CODE4LIB] Inexpensive microfilm readers?

2021-05-25 Thread Pikas, Christina K.
University surplus? Even some place that has a large records capacity in microfilm might have surplus? Neighboring states? -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries On Behalf Of Martin, Will Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2021 2:28 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG Subject: [EXT] [CODE4LIB] Inexp

[CODE4LIB] Wordpress > Atlassian Confluence?

2021-09-14 Thread Pikas, Christina K.
Hi All, Recent discussions reminded me I might have good luck asking here (fingers crossed!) I'm faced with moving 2 internal WordPress sites to an internal hosted Confluence wiki. I'm thinking post > page. As far as I can tell, the Confluence community says to use a plugin to convert posts to W

Re: [CODE4LIB] Wordpress > Atlassian Confluence?

2021-09-15 Thread Pikas, Christina K.
nal links. Jakob Von: Code for Libraries im Auftrag von Pikas, Christina K. Gesendet: Dienstag, 14. September 2021 14:31:25 An: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG Betreff: [CODE4LIB] Wordpress > Atlassian Confluence? Hi All, Recent discussions reminded me I might h

Re: [CODE4LIB] [EXT] Re: [CODE4LIB] ProCite demo?

2021-11-19 Thread Pikas, Christina K.
I have a box here with the full version of ProCite 5 with CD but as you say, probably not helpful. Have you tried contacting Clarivate? Or have you tried to open it with EndNote? Christina -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries On Behalf Of Lena Bohman Sent: Friday, November 19,

Re: [CODE4LIB] [EXT] [CODE4LIB] Sherpa Romeo API google apps script

2022-01-10 Thread Pikas, Christina K.
Unpaywall is a delight to use and I highly recommend it. You can submit a list of DOIs on their page and it will e-mail you a detailed csv with the status of each. Very quick. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries On Behalf Of Rachel Smart Sent: Monday, January 10, 2022 11:21 AM

Re: [CODE4LIB] Converting old tables in PDF to CSV

2022-06-21 Thread Pikas, Christina K.
Tabula is pretty miraculous in turning hamburgers to cows but scanned from the 70s is a lot to ask. Still, I would try it. https://tabula.technology/ Christina -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries On Behalf Of Haitz, Lisa (haitzlm) Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2022 3:02 PM To: CODE4L

Re: [CODE4LIB] [EXT] Re: [CODE4LIB] Mind map software for tracking articles (~300+)

2022-06-28 Thread Pikas, Christina K.
I'm with Kim on the qualitative software - MaxQDA is quite good and definitely less expensive than NVIVO (which also charges a lot for training). -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries On Behalf Of Kimberli Kelmor Sent: Monday, June 27, 2022 7:02 PM To: CODE4LIB@LISTS.CLIR.ORG Subje

Re: [CODE4LIB] [EXT] [CODE4LIB] Good resources for intro to endnote

2022-08-05 Thread Pikas, Christina K.
Honestly? I just google(or substitute any technology or topic) and read other library's LibGuides. Clarivate has some but I find the ones from our peers are most helpful. -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries On Behalf Of Collin Schwantes Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2022 11:09

Re: [CODE4LIB] [EXT] Re: [CODE4LIB] Database of databases

2022-08-25 Thread Pikas, Christina K.
Johns Hopkins has such an animal. You can look at it here: https://databases.library.jhu.edu/ (obviously login is required to actually access nearly all the resources). My colleagues who built it/manage it are on this list, I think, and they can offer details. Christina -Original Messa

Re: [CODE4LIB] Persistent Identifiers for organizations/institutions.

2017-10-13 Thread Pikas, Christina K.
Some bibliometricians recently studied how to come up with a comprehensive list of publications for an author. You can't do it from any one source alone - machine-suggested author curated lists are maybe best, but database lists, author lists, etc. are all horribly incomplete. This is even when

Re: [CODE4LIB] datavis question: filtering data table by map clicks

2018-02-21 Thread Pikas, Christina K.
https://www.pangaea.de/ has that and I think all their code is open? I think you can either click on a country or draw a bounding box. On the first page you don't get very granular, but on the results from that you can get extremely detailed. Christina -Original Message- From: Code f