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The ALCTS Metadata Interest Group invites speakers to present at the ALA
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Presentations will be approximately 30 minutes, including Q&A.
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Hi Brad,
An interesting idea, but many potential failure points.
I have been in the position of spending considerable time to develop,best
practive materials on web internationalisation for our state government,
without any prospect of being able to roll it out within our own library.
Wether we
Glad to see the thread, I'll keep an eye on it. Here are some choice
styleguides and posts that influence my approach:
Mark Otto. (2014) Code Guide by @mdo. http://codeguide.co/
Brent Jackson. (2014) A guide to web design basics with Basscss.
http://www.basscss.com/docs/guide/
Adam Morse. (2014) M
Hello,
I think official is definitely the way too go! LITA. I'm signing up right now!
Thanks,
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Please join us for a free webinar provided by the ALA Office for
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In the webinar titled *Open Licensing and the Public Domain: Tools and
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I'm just going to jump in here and question the need for it to be ALA or LITA
affiliated. Plenty of stuff has been accomplished and respected (like, oh, hey,
code4lib) without an attachment of ALA or LITA.
Ad...discuss.
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I¹m jumping in very late in the game here, but I would love to be involved
in this discussion (I¹ll even join LITA!). Here at UofT, we¹ve done some
work in this area that could be worth sharing. We¹re in the process of
creating guidelines for many of the topics mentioned below, so it would be
great
Bohyun,
That sounds like it could be a great fit.
There would be two final products for what I have in mind:
1. A wiki site (ideally attached to an ALA-affiliated domain name) where we
can collaborate and break all this down at the topic level. This is the
source that would be used by the boots-
Megan,
"useful for those of us who are no longer total beginners but are sort of
struggling to level up?" - Love that description. I think the kind of guide
everyone is brainstorming would be great for everyone in that boat. (at
least as I'm picturing it)
Hopefully, it would be excellent for non-
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Jumping into this discussion late. Just wanted to let everyone know that LITA
UX IG would be more than happy to provide a venue for this type of discussion
since it would fit the interest of UX IG perfectly. (I am chairing the IG this
year; ping me if that sounds interesting and if there is anyt
Deborah,
A segue from Cary's post...as an Alma library, we have done quite a
bit of work with the REST patron/user API. It is pretty straight forward
and will allow you to grab everything you need to print out library
cards. Send me an email off-list and we can discuss.
Best regards,
Joe Sh
I've not tried using the LCNAF RDF files, and I've not used RDFLib, but a
couple of things from (a relatively small amount of) experience parsing RDF:
Don't try to parse the RDF/XML, use n-triples instead
As Kyle mentioned, you might want to use command line tools to strip down the
n-triples to
I've been following with interest, and I think some really important points
are coming out here.
John, what you said about Tomcat vs. Jetty really resonated with me - maybe
this is *yet another* place where we could split this thread, but I think
for those of us straddling the gap between web desi
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Perl libraries for RDF can be found on CPAN [1]. Many of them include examples,
like RDF::Dumper.
Another reference is "Working with RDF with Perl" [2]
HTH. Stefano
[1] http://search.cpan.org/search?query=rdf&mode=all
[2] http://www.perlrdf.org/
On 30/set/2014, at 16:14, Jean Roth wrote:
> Tha
How many folks following this discussion are LITA members? Would anyone be
willing to join LITA to be a part of an interest group on this subject? I
will renew my membership in LITA if that is the best route to take.
Josh Welker
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Agreed that this would need some official stamp to really be meaningful.
LITA sounds like a great venue.
On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 10:50 AM, Joshua Welker wrote:
> Cindi,
>
> A LITA interest group sounds like it would be ideal. I think it is very
> important for this document to be associated with
Hi Jean,
I've found rdflib (https://github.com/RDFLib/rdflib) on the Python side
exceeding simple to work with and use. For example, to load the current
BIBFRAME vocabulary as an RDF graph using a Python shell:
>> import rdflib
>> bf_vocab = rdflib.Graph().parse('http://bibframe.org/vocab/')
>>
Oh, and if UX doesn't fit, y'all can establish the LITA Web Standards IG,
or the LITA Code4Lib Web Best Practices IG, or whatever you want to call
it. You need 10 LITA Member signatures:
http://www.ala.org/lita/sites/ala.org.lita/files/content/about/manual/forms/e5-igformation.pdf
http://www.al
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Greetings:
This is a friendly reminder that our survey, "Identifying Motivations for DAMS
Migration: A Survey" concludes TOMORROW on October 1, 2014.
We are soliciting survey responses from information professionals at
institutions which are
migrating, have
Cindi,
A LITA interest group sounds like it would be ideal. I think it is very
important for this document to be associated with an official professional
library organization if it is going to carry any weight or credibility with
rank-and-file librarians.
Josh Welker
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To elaborate a bit more, there are two end goals in my mind:
1. An information resource for how to apply good design and usability
principles to library websites.
2. To have a widely adopted set of web standards in the library community,
which would be a big help in getting buy-in from librarians
*puts on LITA hat*
There are several ways that LITA/ALA could play a role here.
Publications:
There is a series of books called LITA Guides. Great way to get the word
out widely, but a static format.
http://www.alastore.ala.org/SearchResult.aspx?KeyWords=lita
There are also Library Technology R
John,
I see your point. What I had in mind would be focusing on front-end
technologies, mainly user interface and design patterns. Backend tech trends
change so often that any document would be obsolete by the time it is
finished. There would also have to be a group committed to regularly
updating
So, I think what you're talking about mostly entails basic "Writing for
the Web". I think collaborating on "guidelines" is more helpful than
"standards"... and no need to get all official -- just do it on Github
or something and see if it's helpful.
A List Apart has a pretty concise, but help
This would also need to be updated annually. It would need to be in a
location that is related to some official library organization like an ALA
subdivision. Having this information in a random LibGuide at
SomeUniversity.edu would not carry very much authority at other
institutions.
Josh Welker
I toootally don't want to plug inappropriately, but Amanda Goodman and I are in
the infancy of trying to spin-out our podcast site (www.libux.co) into a larger
resource sharing library-specific code snippets, patterns, and curate useful
data and reports that can inform design decisions. Not tons
I definitely agree that we should adhere to larger web standards and that we
should actively discourage conventions that libraries have adopted over the
years that have nothing to do with wider standards and best practices (e.g.
tabbed search boxes, content in sidebar regions). In fact, much of our
Hey guys I am new to this list so I beg your pardon if I am responding to the
wrong people.
I have been trying to follow the conversation below and agree with Michael, I
am still not clear what the end goal is.
Having been developer for a number of years now(and looking at this from that
pers
We¹re in the process of switching over from Wordpress to Libguides
(hopefully) and this sounds like it would be super helpful. While I¹m
familiar with LibGuides (from other library work), the rest of our staff
here hasn¹t had the opportunity to learn much about them.
So, however I can possibly hel
I agree that it would be a bad idea to endeavor to create our own special
standards that deviate from accepted web best practices and standards. My
own thought was more towards a guide for librarians, curated by librarians,
that provides a summary of best practices. On the one hand, something to
he
Thank you so much for the reply.
I have not investigated the LCNAF data set thoroughly. However, my
default/ideal is to read in all variables from a dataset.
So, I was wondering if any one had an example Python or Perl script for
reading RDF/XML, Turtle, or N-triples file. A simple/partial
I am interested but I am a little hazy about what kind of standards you all are
suggesting. I would warn against creating standards that conflict with any
actual web standards, because I--and, I think, many others--would honestly
recommend that the #libweb should aspire to and adhere more firmly
Josh, thanks for separating this topic out and starting this new thread. I
don't know of any such library standards that exist on the web. I agree
that this sounds like a great idea. As for this group or not... why not!
It's 2014 and they don't exist yet and they would be incredibly useful for
many
Cornel,
With the data models, are you referring to the mechanism used to present
the standards on the web?
Josh Welker
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