Re: [CODE4LIB] Creating pdfs from images and their text

2014-01-17 Thread raffaele messuti
Padraic Stack wrote: > What is a straightforward way to combine the text with overlaid images > to create searchable pdfs? having transcription in hOCR[1] format the tool you should need is hocr2pdf[2]. i never tried for pdfs, years ago i made some djvu following this tutorial[3] [1] http://en.wi

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Re: [CODE4LIB] [code4libcon] Code4Lib 2014 Registration is now open!

2014-01-17 Thread TAYLOR Robin
Hi Emily Will it be possible to see the list of attendees in advance of the conference? Thank, Robin. -- Robin Taylor Library Digital Developer Library & University Collections 2.03 24 Buccleuch Place Edinburgh EH8 8LN Tel: 0131 651 3808 Email: robin.tay...@ed.ac.uk On 16/01/2014 21:02,

[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2014 Conference Diversity Scholarship Recipients

2014-01-17 Thread Jason Ronallo
The Scholarship Committee is pleased to announce the Code4Lib 2014 Conference Diversity Scholarship awardees. Through the generosity of CLIR/DLF, EBSCO, ProQuest, and Sumana Harihareswara, we were able to award nine $1,000 scholarships to defray costs associated with attending the conference. We r

[CODE4LIB] COinS metadata format support

2014-01-17 Thread Chad Mills
I was able to easily find and create COinS for books and journals. I started thinking about images, video, audio, etc. I see references to 'info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:unknown' as a rft_val_fmt value some places. I would assume if I went down that road the rft.genre would have a value of 'unknown'

[CODE4LIB] ALCTS CaMMS Technical Services Workflows Efficiency Interest Group meeting at ALA Midwinter 2014

2014-01-17 Thread Glerum, Margaret
This message has been sent out to multiple lists. Please excuse any duplication. Please join us for a discussion of workflow efficiencies at the meeting of the ALCTS CaMMS Technical Services Workflows Efficiency Interest Group at ALA Midwinter 2014. Topic: Workflow Efficiencies Date: Monday, J

Re: [CODE4LIB] Creating pdfs from images and their text

2014-01-17 Thread Daron Dierkes
But Raffaele, how do you generate the hOCR in the first place if you're using human-generated transcripts and not OCR? Hand coding each page would take forever. On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 3:24 AM, raffaele messuti < raffaele.mess...@gmail.com> wrote: > Padraic Stack wrote: > > What is a straightfo

Re: [CODE4LIB] COinS metadata format support

2014-01-17 Thread Jodi Schneider
Hi Chad, Are these subscription images/video/audio that libraries have? The original purpose of COinS, as I understand it, was to get people to subscription copies. Depending on what you're doing (i.e. the purpose/intended use) there might be a better standard these days. In case it helps there's

Re: [CODE4LIB] COinS metadata format support

2014-01-17 Thread Karen Coyle
The missing formats are missing because they were never defined in the OpenURL standard. There is a registry of formats [1] that was designed to be updatable, although few updates have been done. I worked on the document type standards that are there today, and would happily help develop additi

Re: [CODE4LIB] COinS metadata format support

2014-01-17 Thread Michael J. Giarlo
What's your use case for the COinS, Chad? -Mike On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 10:00 AM, Karen Coyle wrote: > The missing formats are missing because they were never defined in the > OpenURL standard. There is a registry of formats [1] that was designed to > be updatable, although few updates have b

Re: [CODE4LIB] COinS metadata format support

2014-01-17 Thread Chad Mills
Jodi, No. I am working with our repository resources which is an eclectic mixture of resource types. I just want to simply embed our metadata in our search results and record displays for other tools to use. It seems cheap and reasonable to do I just didn't want to limit this feature to only

Re: [CODE4LIB] COinS metadata format support

2014-01-17 Thread Chad Mills
Mike, Basically embedding metadata on resource pages and result lists for other tools to pickup. I would probably build off of it for other *things* that are yet to be determined. -Chad - Original Message - From: "Michael J. Giarlo" To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU Sent: Friday, January

Re: [CODE4LIB] COinS metadata format support

2014-01-17 Thread Michael J. Giarlo
Chad, In that case, I wonder if you might get more mileage out of schema.orgmicrodata instead of COinS. There are undoubtedly more clients out there that can make sense of HTML5 microdata than COinS, which is really showing its age and is a niche technology. -Mike On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 10:2

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Re: [CODE4LIB] COinS metadata format support

2014-01-17 Thread Bigwood, David
Is there an easy-to-use tool for schema.org microdata? I was fond of the OCLC NJ COinS tool, but it has gone. Anything of that ilk? Thanks, Dave -Original Message- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Michael J. Giarlo Sent: Friday, January 17, 2014 12

[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2014 registration update

2014-01-17 Thread Emily Lynema
Just a quick note - we are up to 317 registrants for Code4Lib 2014. This is pretty amazing turnaround this year. We will be capping our registration system at 325 for the moment to ensure that all of our priority registrations can get in. We'll put a simple waitlist form (posted to this list and u

Re: [CODE4LIB] COinS metadata format support

2014-01-17 Thread Chad Mills
Mike, I initially started with microdata; larger coverage... Someone reminded me about COinS and that has gotten me distracted now. Been weighing both back and forth in my mind. Why not both? Can I have my cake and eat it too? I like cake, Chad - Original Message - From: "Michael

Re: [CODE4LIB] COinS metadata format support

2014-01-17 Thread Michael J. Giarlo
Chad, You can have both, sure! I'm just wondering how many users of your repository will have a COinS-aware client, mostly. You know, the bang-for-buck thing. If you've got enough bucks and time, though, go for both? :) -Mike On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Chad Mills wrote: > Mike, > >

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2014 registration update

2014-01-17 Thread Emily Lynema
And with that, registration is now closed! If you haven't made it in yet, hustle on over to our waitlist form and get yourself signed up there, as we will almost certainly be bringing over a few people first come, first served from the waitlist. Waitlist: https://docs.google.com/a/ncsu.edu/forms/d

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2014 registration update

2014-01-17 Thread Eric Lease Morgan
On Jan 17, 2014, at 2:54 PM, Emily Lynema wrote: > And with that, registration is now closed!… Waitlist: > https://docs.google.com/a/ncsu.edu/forms/d/1Vuo7g7xbNeGCQywwngkAt4OMdX0k3wsoiwCrxJtdx6k/viewform Geesh! That was fast. I’m impressed. —Eric Morgan

Re: [CODE4LIB] [code4libcon] Code4Lib 2014 Registration is now open!

2014-01-17 Thread Tim McGeary
Robin, Yes, we do plan to publish the list of attendees prior to the conference. Keep watching the conference website for more details. Tim On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 5:33 AM, TAYLOR Robin wrote: > Hi Emily > > Will it be possible to see the list of attendees in advance of the > conference? > >

Re: [CODE4LIB] COinS metadata format support

2014-01-17 Thread Karen Coyle
Dave, my impression is that most schema.org code is being generated programmatically out of database-driven web sites. The list of tools (not many) is here: http://schema.rdfs.org/tools.html As OCLC is very involved in schema.org, it would make sense to encourage them to develop something. Lo

Re: [CODE4LIB] Code4Lib 2014 registration update

2014-01-17 Thread Heather Rayl
Arg! Crud!! Well, I'm on the waitlist at least. Should have started working in the child care issues BEFORE registration! :P ~heather On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > On Jan 17, 2014, at 2:54 PM, Emily Lynema wrote: > > > And with that, registration is now closed!…

[CODE4LIB] Code4Lib Journal Issue 23 Published

2014-01-17 Thread Shawn Averkamp
The Code4Lib Journal editors are pleased to bring you this latest issue. You can find it at http://journal.code4lib.org/issues/issues/issue23; titles and abstracts below. === Editorial Introduction: Conscious Resolutions by Shawn Averkamp URL: http://journal.code4lib.org/artic

Re: [CODE4LIB] COinS metadata format support

2014-01-17 Thread Sullivan, Mark V
Chad, Definitely, I recently added more metadata support to my system. To do that, I added Schema.org microdata, COinS, and Highwire Press tags for Google Scholar. I was tempted to implement the old fashioned Dublin core tags, but held back in case it would mean those fields would be double i

Re: [CODE4LIB] COinS metadata format support

2014-01-17 Thread Roy Tennant
I agree that most Schema.org markup would be generated on the fly from a database, so I'm a bit unclear on what kind of "tool" we (OCLC) or someone else is being asked to develop. Perhaps someone could spell it out for this dense person? Thanks, Roy On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Karen Coyle

[CODE4LIB] GLAM Hack Philly Feb 1-2 2014

2014-01-17 Thread Chad Nelson
GLAM Hack Philly, a hackathon for Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums, is almost here. It will take place on the weekend of February 1-2 at Kislak Center for Special Collections in University of Pennsylvania Library . More info at http://glamhack.com Attending the hackathon is free and w

[CODE4LIB] ASIS&T SIG-MET and SIG-VIS call for proposals

2014-01-17 Thread Shu Liu
The ASIS&T SIG-MET and SIG-VIS are jointly calling for interested professionals to participate in a panel discussion at ASIS&T Annual Meeting 2014 on the intersections of altmetrics and information visualization research and practice. Topics include and are not limited to: Software and tools Im