From beden at ccmail.nevada.edu Tue Sep 7 11:04:25 2004 From: beden at ccmail.nevada.edu (beden@ccmail.nevada.edu) Date: Wed May 18 08:52:45 2005 Subject: CFP: Special issue of Library Hi Tech on Content Management Systems (CMS) Message-ID: Please excuse duplicate postings. This is a call for proposals/abstracts of articles for a special issue of _Library Hi Tech_ to be published in January 2006 on Content Management Systems (CMS). I am interested in seeing articles discussing philosophy, technical standards and developments, case studies, prototypes, and future uses of CMS's in information organizations and digital libraries. Any inquiries or abstracts for consideration should be sent to me personally, not to the list. Deadline for receipt of abstracts/proposals for articles is October 1, 2004. Those selected to write articles will have until September 1, 2005 to submit final article drafts. Thanks. Dr. Brad Eden Associate Editor, _Library Hi Tech_ beden@ccmail.nevada.edu From dick at stanford.edu Tue Sep 14 14:42:59 2004 From: dick at stanford.edu (Dick Miller) Date: Wed May 18 08:52:46 2005 Subject: NLM Catalog now in XML!!! Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.2.20040914114125.037e3428@localhost> Exciting news! NLM has deployed their catalog in the Entrez interface used for PubMed, etc. Check out the XML display option. Dick http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?CMD=search&DB=nlmcatalog Dick R. Miller Head of Technical Services & Systems Librarian Lane Medical Library, L109 Stanford University Medical Center Stanford, CA 94305-5123 (650) 725-4615 (work) (650) 725-7471 (fax) Dick@Stanford.edu From rcarlson at ala.org Fri Sep 17 17:00:14 2004 From: rcarlson at ala.org (Rob Carlson) Date: Wed May 18 08:52:46 2005 Subject: LITA Forum - Advance Registration Deadline Message-ID: Hello all, The deadline for advance registration for the LITA Forum is September 27, 2004. We will accept on-site registrations as space permits, but you don't really want to walk around with a hand-written badge, do you? The Forum will take place October 7 - 10, 2004 at the Sheraton West Port Lakeside Chalet in St. Louis, MO. Three days of preconferences, keynote sessions, panel and individual presentations, and poster sessions have been planned. For more information, visit http://www.lita.org/forum04. Use the links there to view program descriptions, reserve your hotel room, and register for the Forum. Thanks, and hope see you in St. Louis! Rob Carlson Deputy Executive Director Library & Information Technology Association From rcarlson at ala.org Tue Sep 21 09:59:37 2004 From: rcarlson at ala.org (Rob Carlson) Date: Wed May 18 08:52:46 2005 Subject: LITA Open Source Workshop Message-ID: (apologies in advance for duplication) LITA and METRO, the Metropolitan New York Library Council, have teamed up to present "Open Source Software in Libraries" the LITA Regional Institute created and presented by Eric Lease Morgan. The Institute will be held October 22nd in the METRO training center at 57 East 11th Street, New York, NY. This is a day-long, hands-on workshop, where participants actually practice downloading and installing software. You'll also learn how to evaluate the usefullness and applicability of open source software and create and sustain a community of developers and users. Seating in the lab is limited to 30, so register soon. For more information and to register, please visit http://www.metro.org/2004_fall/open_source_software.html === Rob Carlson LITA Deputy Exec. Director 800.545.2433 x4268 From emorgan at nd.edu Thu Sep 23 16:08:00 2004 From: emorgan at nd.edu (Eric Lease Morgan) Date: Wed May 18 08:52:47 2005 Subject: web services and mylibrary Message-ID: <44E8B936-0D9C-11D9-A3C9-00039312AAE2@nd.edu> How can we incorporate Web Services techniques into MyLibrary? As many of you already know, Web Services represent a very healthy trend in computing these days. I believe it behooves me to write one or more Web Services-based interfaces to the (still-in-development) MyLibrary system version 3.0. I'm pretty sure I will want to implement an OAI-PMH interface. I thinK we will implement an SRU interface. Heck, I even see RSS in my future. At the same time the content of MyLibrary is being designed for syndication and aggregation to portal applications. Folks at Lehigh have gone the next step in integrated much of their MyLibrary content into uPortal. We have done so as well, but not as well as Lehigh. On the MyLibrary mailing list, these three Web Service brands have reared their heads: * WSR (Web Services for Remote Portlets) http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=wsrp * JSR 168 http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=168 * VIEWS http://www.niso.org/committees/VIEWS/VIEWS-info.html If we were to implement a number of Web Services against MyLibrary, then what should the shape of the returned XML be? -- Eric Lease Morgan University Libraries of Notre Dame From gerrymck at iastate.edu Sat Sep 25 14:16:52 2004 From: gerrymck at iastate.edu (Gerry Mckiernan) Date: Wed May 18 08:52:47 2005 Subject: "Rich Site Services: Web Feeds for Extended Information and Library Services" Message-ID: "Rich Site Services: Web Feeds for Extended Information and Library Services" I am pleased to announce the publication and availability of my latest publication "Rich Site Services: Web Feeds for Extended Information and Library Services," _LLRX.com_, September 20, 2004, available at [ http://www.llrx.com/features/richsite.htm ]. "There are several practical ways in which the LIS (Library and Information Science) community can both exploit the content of RSS, and improve their services through the presentation and re-presentation of RSS feeds. These do not amount to a revolution, but rather represent a step on the path to better information services, and one which takes advantage of advances in technology." ]Roddy MacLeod, RSS: Less Hype, More Action, 161 FREEPRINT 7-10 (2004). Also available at [ http://www.freepint.com/issues/170604.pdf?PHPSESSID=18e229b6adc57736563635ce9a931348 ] CONTENTS RSS News Aggregators and Feed Readers The Little Orange Button(s) Library Web Feeds Extended Services E-Journals and Table of Contents Services Potential Possibilities Notes Enjoy ! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan "Monsieur RSS" [:-) [ http://www.servicedoc.info/breve.php3?id_breve=569 ] Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu From beden at ccmail.nevada.edu Thu Sep 30 13:21:05 2004 From: beden at ccmail.nevada.edu (beden@ccmail.nevada.edu) Date: Wed May 18 08:52:47 2005 Subject: V. 20, no. 3 of OSS: International Digital Library Perspectives now available online Message-ID: For those interested in contributing to this journal in the future, please contact me at the email address given below. Thanks. Brad Eden, Ph.D. Head, Web and Digitization Services University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries beden@ccmail.nevada.edu ___________________________________________________ Now available via Emerald Fulltext Volume 20 Issue 3 of OCLC Systems & Services * Subscribers - click here for access http://www.emeraldinsight.com/1065-075X.htm * Non Subscribers ? click here for a free trial http://www.emeraldinsight.com/rpsv/cgi-bin/emft.pl ********************************************** Table of contents follows:- Title: Repurposed metadata: ONIX and the Library of Congress's BEAT program Author: Norm Medeiros Pages: 93-95 Keywords: Bibliographic Systems; Online Operations Article Type: Survey; Journalistic Content Indicators: Research - ** Practice - ** Originality - * Readability - ** Title: Moving from data to information Author: Robert Fox Pages: 96-101 Keywords: Data Analysis; Data Reduction; Data Structures Article Type: Wholly Theoretical; Comparative/evaluators Content Indicators: Research - ** Practice - ** Originality - * Readability - ** Title: Digital assets for the next millennium Author: Elizabeth Yakel Pages: 102-105 Keywords: Digital Libraries; Trust; Digital Storage Article Type: Wholly Theoretical; Comparative/evaluators Content Indicators: Research - ** Practice - ** Originality - * Readability - ** Title: The problem of mainstreaming digital libraries Author: Jeremy Frumkin Pages: 106-109 Keywords: Libraries; Digital Libraries; Interface Management Article Type: Wholly Theoretical; Journalistic Content Indicators: Research - ** Practice - ** Originality - * Readability - ** Title: Copyright in the networked world: technology and consumer rights in copyright Author: Michael Seadle Pages: 110-114 Keywords: Copyright Law; Consumers; Technology Led Strategy Article Type: Comparative/evaluators; Journalistic Content Indicators: Research - ** Practice - ** Originality - * Readability - ** Title: A usability study of the Belgian-American Research Collection: measuring the functionality of a digital library Author: Jason A Clark Pages: 115-127 Keywords: Digital Libraries; Tests and Testing; User Interfaces; Information Gathering Article Type: Literature Review; Comparative/evaluators Content Indicators: Research - ** Practice - ** Originality - * Readability - ** Title: Conventional language for cataloging remote access electronic resources: the time is now! Author: Allen Thunell; Lisa Robinson Pages: 128-133 Keywords: Remote Handling Devices; Cataloguing; Bibliographic Systems; Electronics Industry Article Type: Literature Review; Journalistic Content Indicators: Research - ** Practice - ** Originality - * Readability - ** Title: Memory institutions as digital publishers: a case study on standards and interoperability Author: Charles F Thomas Pages: 134-139 Keywords: Standards; Interface Management; Digital Storage; Case Studies Article Type: Case Study; Comparative/evaluators Content Indicators: Research - ** Practice - ** Originality - * Readability - ** From emorgan at nd.edu Thu Sep 30 14:39:14 2004 From: emorgan at nd.edu (Eric Lease Morgan) Date: Wed May 18 08:52:47 2005 Subject: web services and mylibrary In-Reply-To: <44E8B936-0D9C-11D9-A3C9-00039312AAE2@nd.edu> References: <44E8B936-0D9C-11D9-A3C9-00039312AAE2@nd.edu> Message-ID: <0753C569-1310-11D9-9E7F-00039312AAE2@nd.edu> On Sep 23, 2004, at 3:08 PM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > How can we incorporate Web Services techniques into MyLibrary? > > * WSR (Web Services for Remote Portlets) > http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=wsrp > > * JSR 168 > http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=168 > > * VIEWS > http://www.niso.org/committees/VIEWS/VIEWS-info.html The silence here is deafening. Does anybody have any suggestions for an XML vocabulary I can use in the form of a Web Service to syndicate/distribute the content normally found on library websites such as lists of indexes, lists of resources by subjects, etc. -- Eric Lease Morgan University Libraries of Notre Dame From a.powell at ukoln.ac.uk Thu Sep 30 16:13:35 2004 From: a.powell at ukoln.ac.uk (Andy Powell) Date: Wed May 18 08:52:47 2005 Subject: [XML4LIB] Re: web services and mylibrary In-Reply-To: <0753C569-1310-11D9-9E7F-00039312AAE2@nd.edu> References: <0753C569-1310-11D9-9E7F-00039312AAE2@nd.edu> Message-ID: On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > On Sep 23, 2004, at 3:08 PM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > > > How can we incorporate Web Services techniques into MyLibrary? > > > > * WSR (Web Services for Remote Portlets) > > http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=wsrp > > > > * JSR 168 > > http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=168 > > > > * VIEWS > > http://www.niso.org/committees/VIEWS/VIEWS-info.html > > The silence here is deafening. > > Does anybody have any suggestions for an XML vocabulary I can use in > the form of a Web Service to syndicate/distribute the content normally > found on library websites such as lists of indexes, lists of resources > by subjects, etc. Well, if what you want to do is publish 'lists of stuff' then I'd go for one of the flavours of RSS (my preference would be for RSS 1.0 because of extensibility but the other versions are fine as well) - in which case the API is just an HTTP GET :-) If you want a real Web services API, then you could look at Atom http://www.atomenabled.org/ but I'm not sure how widely adopted it is yet. But I'm not sure if this is really what you are asking for, since you mentioned WSRP and JSR168 in the original posting? But these standards really do something different. If you want to expose some or all of the MyLibrary user-interface into someone else's portal (built using uPortal for example), then you need to expose MyLibrary thru the WSRP or JSR 168 API. If you want to embed someone else's WSRP portlet or JSR 168 channel into MyLibrary, then you need to turn MyLibrary into a portal framework that supports WSRP and/or JSR 168. Of course, you could do all of the above! ;-) Andy -- Distributed Systems, UKOLN, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/a.powell/ +44 1225 383933 Resource Discovery Network http://www.rdn.ac.uk/ ECDL 2004, Bath, UK - 12-17 Sept 2004 - http://www.ecdl2004.org/ From emorgan at nd.edu Thu Sep 30 16:31:22 2004 From: emorgan at nd.edu (Eric Lease Morgan) Date: Wed May 18 08:52:47 2005 Subject: [XML4LIB] Re: web services and mylibrary In-Reply-To: References: <0753C569-1310-11D9-9E7F-00039312AAE2@nd.edu> Message-ID: On Sep 30, 2004, at 3:13 PM, Andy Powell wrote: > Well, if what you want to do is publish 'lists of stuff' then I'd go > for > one of the flavours of RSS (my preference would be for RSS 1.0 because > of > extensibility but the other versions are fine as well) - in which case > the > API is just an HTTP GET :-) > > But I'm not sure if this is really what you are asking for, since you > mentioned WSRP and JSR168 in the original posting? What I want is to expose and syndicate the content of MyLibrary systems through things other than Web browsers. I want to enable access to the content so it can be used in ways that were not necessarily intended. For example, teachers might re-formulate the content to build reading list tools, scholars might re-combine the content to create a customized/personalized interface, librarians might create class-specific subject guides, users might subscribe to "news" feeds based on MyLibrary content, the content might become part of a campus-wide portal, the content may become part of a network of searchable authoritative resources, etc. If I really want to implement all of these things, then I suppose I will require many XML vocabularies. Sigh. -- Eric Lease Morgan From jyoung at oclc.org Thu Sep 30 16:36:14 2004 From: jyoung at oclc.org (Young,Jeff) Date: Wed May 18 08:52:47 2005 Subject: [XML4LIB] Re: web services and mylibrary Message-ID: Eric, This sounds a lot like the open-source ERRoL service I've been working on (http://errol.oclc.org/). Essentially, it is a clearinghouse for REST-style access to content and services related to items in an OAI repository. In essence, it transforms OAI responses into other forms (e.g. HTML and RSS), but it isn't limited to just the OAI protocol and simple transforms. I've started to branch out into other protocols such as SRW, RSS, and others, as well as accommodating distributed functionality to go with the distributed content. For more information, you can start with the ERRoL project page at http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/oairesolver/. I'd be happy to answer any questions you have. If nothing else, some of the approaches I've taken with ERRoLs might be of use to you. Jeff > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric Lease Morgan [mailto:emorgan@nd.edu] > Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 4:28 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: [XML4LIB] Re: web services and mylibrary > > > On Sep 30, 2004, at 3:13 PM, Andy Powell wrote: > > > Well, if what you want to do is publish 'lists of stuff' then I'd go > > for > > one of the flavours of RSS (my preference would be for RSS 1.0 because > > of > > extensibility but the other versions are fine as well) - in which case > > the > > API is just an HTTP GET :-) > > > > But I'm not sure if this is really what you are asking for, since you > > mentioned WSRP and JSR168 in the original posting? > > What I want is to expose and syndicate the content of MyLibrary systems > through things other than Web browsers. I want to enable access to the > content so it can be used in ways that were not necessarily intended. > For example, teachers might re-formulate the content to build reading > list tools, scholars might re-combine the content to create a > customized/personalized interface, librarians might create > class-specific subject guides, users might subscribe to "news" feeds > based on MyLibrary content, the content might become part of a > campus-wide portal, the content may become part of a network of > searchable authoritative resources, etc. > > If I really want to implement all of these things, then I suppose I > will require many XML vocabularies. Sigh. > > -- > Eric Lease Morgan From stoub at yahoo.com Thu Sep 30 21:40:43 2004 From: stoub at yahoo.com (Steve Toub) Date: Wed May 18 08:52:47 2005 Subject: [XML4LIB] Re: web services and mylibrary In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <415CB59B.6020601@yahoo.com> Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > What I want is to expose and syndicate the content of MyLibrary systems > through things other than Web browsers. I want to enable access to the > content so it can be used in ways that were not necessarily intended. > For example, teachers might re-formulate the content to build reading > list tools, scholars might re-combine the content to create a > customized/personalized interface, librarians might create > class-specific subject guides, users might subscribe to "news" feeds > based on MyLibrary content, the content might become part of a > campus-wide portal, the content may become part of a network of > searchable authoritative resources, etc. > > If I really want to implement all of these things, then I suppose I > will require many XML vocabularies. Sigh. Speaking mostly out of ignorance--and the hope that others might be able to inform why these two specs wouldn't work--why not: OpenURL 1.0 http://library.caltech.edu/openurl/ IMS Resource List Interoperability (RLI) 1.0 http://www.imsglobal.org/rli/ --SET From digicult-forum at digicult.info Thu Sep 16 08:23:46 2004 From: digicult-forum at digicult.info (DigiCULT Forum) Date: Wed May 18 08:53:44 2005 Subject: DigiCULT.Info Issue 8 / Announcement of Publication Message-ID: <414985D2.40402@digicult.info> DigiCULT.Info Issue 8 - A Newsletter on Digital Culture August 2004, ISSN 1609-3941 For the first time, DigiCULT has devoted a section of this publication to a detailed focus on the cultural and scientific heritage work being carried out in one particular country. DigiCULT.Info?s Content Editor, Daisy Abbott, spent a week interviewing sector professionals in France and their thoughts and experiences are presented in this special section, alongside articles and reports from French projects and events. Download DigiCULT.Info Issue 8: Link HiRes (20 MB) http://www.digicult.info/pages/pubpop.php?file=http://www.digicult.info/downloads/DC_NL8_highres_final.pdf Link LoRes (3,8 MB) http://www.digicult.info/pages/pubpop.php?file=http://www.digicult.info/downloads/DC_NL8_lowres_final.pdf DigiCULT Publications offer a valuable resource of mission-critical information in the selection and use of digital technologies for Europe?s heritage organisations: - DigiCULT Thematic Issues: results of expert fora http://www.digicult.info/pages/Themiss.php - DigiCULT Technology Watch Reports: in-depth technology evaluation http://www.digicult.info/pages/techwatch.php - DigiCULT.Info Newsletter: articles about services, studies, technologies, and activities http://www.digicult.info/pages/newsletter.php DigiCULT Services DigiCULT Events Service: DigiCULT provides a list of international events that concentrate on theoretical and practical issues of digital culture. Cutting across the different cultural heritage domains and practises, the selection highlights established as well as new opportunities for exchanging knowledge, community networking, and co-operation. http://www.digicult.info/pages/events.php DigiCULT Resources Service: DigiCULT Resources offer an aggregation of information sources on topics that are on DigiCULT's radar. Each resource is shortly described and linked. Submitted links are moderated for content and relevance. http://www.digicult.info/pages/resources.php DigiCULT CV Service: DigiCULT is providing the user community with access to the CVs of Cultural Heritage Professionals. We neither endorse individuals nor certify their abilities or claims of experience and skills. This is an information service only. 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Personal and Institutional users of the service will need to conduct their own authentication and verification processes. http://www.digicult.info/pages/digijob.php Subscribe to the Newsletter DigiCULT.Info http://www.digicult.info/pages/subscribe.php (c) DigiCULT Forum 2002-2004 From roy.tennant at ucop.edu Tue Sep 28 13:46:16 2004 From: roy.tennant at ucop.edu (Roy Tennant) Date: Wed May 18 08:53:45 2005 Subject: Three free issues of Library Hi Tech Message-ID: <4C0A0DF6-1176-11D9-9A97-000A95745D3E@ucop.edu> For a limited time (ca. a week) there are three free issues of Library Hi Tech at the journal's web site: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/lht.htm Click on "Tables of Contents". The issues include the two-part special on "MARC and Metadata," which includes articles on emerging standards like METS and MODS as well as more theoretical topics (e.g., whether MARC has much life left). Go for it. Roy From beden at ccmail.nevada.edu Tue Sep 7 11:04:25 2004 From: beden at ccmail.nevada.edu (beden@ccmail.nevada.edu) Date: Wed May 18 15:50:51 2005 Subject: CFP: Special issue of Library Hi Tech on Content Management Systems (CMS) Message-ID: Please excuse duplicate postings. This is a call for proposals/abstracts of articles for a special issue of _Library Hi Tech_ to be published in January 2006 on Content Management Systems (CMS). I am interested in seeing articles discussing philosophy, technical standards and developments, case studies, prototypes, and future uses of CMS's in information organizations and digital libraries. Any inquiries or abstracts for consideration should be sent to me personally, not to the list. Deadline for receipt of abstracts/proposals for articles is October 1, 2004. Those selected to write articles will have until September 1, 2005 to submit final article drafts. Thanks. Dr. Brad Eden Associate Editor, _Library Hi Tech_ beden@ccmail.nevada.edu From dick at stanford.edu Tue Sep 14 14:42:59 2004 From: dick at stanford.edu (Dick Miller) Date: Wed May 18 15:50:51 2005 Subject: NLM Catalog now in XML!!! Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.2.20040914114125.037e3428@localhost> Exciting news! NLM has deployed their catalog in the Entrez interface used for PubMed, etc. Check out the XML display option. Dick http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?CMD=search&DB=nlmcatalog Dick R. Miller Head of Technical Services & Systems Librarian Lane Medical Library, L109 Stanford University Medical Center Stanford, CA 94305-5123 (650) 725-4615 (work) (650) 725-7471 (fax) Dick@Stanford.edu From digicult-forum at digicult.info Thu Sep 16 08:23:46 2004 From: digicult-forum at digicult.info (DigiCULT Forum) Date: Wed May 18 15:50:51 2005 Subject: DigiCULT.Info Issue 8 / Announcement of Publication Message-ID: <414985D2.40402@digicult.info> DigiCULT.Info Issue 8 - A Newsletter on Digital Culture August 2004, ISSN 1609-3941 For the first time, DigiCULT has devoted a section of this publication to a detailed focus on the cultural and scientific heritage work being carried out in one particular country. DigiCULT.Info?s Content Editor, Daisy Abbott, spent a week interviewing sector professionals in France and their thoughts and experiences are presented in this special section, alongside articles and reports from French projects and events. Download DigiCULT.Info Issue 8: Link HiRes (20 MB) http://www.digicult.info/pages/pubpop.php?file=http://www.digicult.info/downloads/DC_NL8_highres_final.pdf Link LoRes (3,8 MB) http://www.digicult.info/pages/pubpop.php?file=http://www.digicult.info/downloads/DC_NL8_lowres_final.pdf DigiCULT Publications offer a valuable resource of mission-critical information in the selection and use of digital technologies for Europe?s heritage organisations: - DigiCULT Thematic Issues: results of expert fora http://www.digicult.info/pages/Themiss.php - DigiCULT Technology Watch Reports: in-depth technology evaluation http://www.digicult.info/pages/techwatch.php - DigiCULT.Info Newsletter: articles about services, studies, technologies, and activities http://www.digicult.info/pages/newsletter.php DigiCULT Services DigiCULT Events Service: DigiCULT provides a list of international events that concentrate on theoretical and practical issues of digital culture. Cutting across the different cultural heritage domains and practises, the selection highlights established as well as new opportunities for exchanging knowledge, community networking, and co-operation. http://www.digicult.info/pages/events.php DigiCULT Resources Service: DigiCULT Resources offer an aggregation of information sources on topics that are on DigiCULT's radar. Each resource is shortly described and linked. Submitted links are moderated for content and relevance. http://www.digicult.info/pages/resources.php DigiCULT CV Service: DigiCULT is providing the user community with access to the CVs of Cultural Heritage Professionals. We neither endorse individuals nor certify their abilities or claims of experience and skills. This is an information service only. Personal and Institutional users of the service will need to conduct their own authentication and verification processes. http://www.digicult.info/pages/digicv.php DigiCULT Jobs Service: Just released - DigiCULT is providing the user community with access to available jobs within the Cultural Heritage sector. We do not endorse the jobs listed on these pages. This is an information service only. Personal and Institutional users of the service will need to conduct their own authentication and verification processes. http://www.digicult.info/pages/digijob.php Subscribe to the Newsletter DigiCULT.Info http://www.digicult.info/pages/subscribe.php (c) DigiCULT Forum 2002-2004 From rcarlson at ala.org Fri Sep 17 17:00:14 2004 From: rcarlson at ala.org (Rob Carlson) Date: Wed May 18 15:50:51 2005 Subject: LITA Forum - Advance Registration Deadline Message-ID: Hello all, The deadline for advance registration for the LITA Forum is September 27, 2004. We will accept on-site registrations as space permits, but you don't really want to walk around with a hand-written badge, do you? The Forum will take place October 7 - 10, 2004 at the Sheraton West Port Lakeside Chalet in St. Louis, MO. Three days of preconferences, keynote sessions, panel and individual presentations, and poster sessions have been planned. For more information, visit http://www.lita.org/forum04. Use the links there to view program descriptions, reserve your hotel room, and register for the Forum. Thanks, and hope see you in St. Louis! Rob Carlson Deputy Executive Director Library & Information Technology Association From rcarlson at ala.org Tue Sep 21 09:59:37 2004 From: rcarlson at ala.org (Rob Carlson) Date: Wed May 18 15:50:51 2005 Subject: LITA Open Source Workshop Message-ID: (apologies in advance for duplication) LITA and METRO, the Metropolitan New York Library Council, have teamed up to present "Open Source Software in Libraries" the LITA Regional Institute created and presented by Eric Lease Morgan. The Institute will be held October 22nd in the METRO training center at 57 East 11th Street, New York, NY. This is a day-long, hands-on workshop, where participants actually practice downloading and installing software. You'll also learn how to evaluate the usefullness and applicability of open source software and create and sustain a community of developers and users. Seating in the lab is limited to 30, so register soon. For more information and to register, please visit http://www.metro.org/2004_fall/open_source_software.html === Rob Carlson LITA Deputy Exec. Director 800.545.2433 x4268 From emorgan at nd.edu Thu Sep 23 16:08:00 2004 From: emorgan at nd.edu (Eric Lease Morgan) Date: Wed May 18 15:50:51 2005 Subject: web services and mylibrary Message-ID: <44E8B936-0D9C-11D9-A3C9-00039312AAE2@nd.edu> How can we incorporate Web Services techniques into MyLibrary? As many of you already know, Web Services represent a very healthy trend in computing these days. I believe it behooves me to write one or more Web Services-based interfaces to the (still-in-development) MyLibrary system version 3.0. I'm pretty sure I will want to implement an OAI-PMH interface. I thinK we will implement an SRU interface. Heck, I even see RSS in my future. At the same time the content of MyLibrary is being designed for syndication and aggregation to portal applications. Folks at Lehigh have gone the next step in integrated much of their MyLibrary content into uPortal. We have done so as well, but not as well as Lehigh. On the MyLibrary mailing list, these three Web Service brands have reared their heads: * WSR (Web Services for Remote Portlets) http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=wsrp * JSR 168 http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=168 * VIEWS http://www.niso.org/committees/VIEWS/VIEWS-info.html If we were to implement a number of Web Services against MyLibrary, then what should the shape of the returned XML be? -- Eric Lease Morgan University Libraries of Notre Dame From gerrymck at iastate.edu Sat Sep 25 14:16:52 2004 From: gerrymck at iastate.edu (Gerry Mckiernan) Date: Wed May 18 15:50:51 2005 Subject: "Rich Site Services: Web Feeds for Extended Information and Library Services" Message-ID: "Rich Site Services: Web Feeds for Extended Information and Library Services" I am pleased to announce the publication and availability of my latest publication "Rich Site Services: Web Feeds for Extended Information and Library Services," _LLRX.com_, September 20, 2004, available at [ http://www.llrx.com/features/richsite.htm ]. "There are several practical ways in which the LIS (Library and Information Science) community can both exploit the content of RSS, and improve their services through the presentation and re-presentation of RSS feeds. These do not amount to a revolution, but rather represent a step on the path to better information services, and one which takes advantage of advances in technology." ]Roddy MacLeod, RSS: Less Hype, More Action, 161 FREEPRINT 7-10 (2004). Also available at [ http://www.freepint.com/issues/170604.pdf?PHPSESSID=18e229b6adc57736563635ce9a931348 ] CONTENTS RSS News Aggregators and Feed Readers The Little Orange Button(s) Library Web Feeds Extended Services E-Journals and Table of Contents Services Potential Possibilities Notes Enjoy ! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan "Monsieur RSS" [:-) [ http://www.servicedoc.info/breve.php3?id_breve=569 ] Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu From roy.tennant at ucop.edu Tue Sep 28 13:46:16 2004 From: roy.tennant at ucop.edu (Roy Tennant) Date: Wed May 18 15:50:51 2005 Subject: Three free issues of Library Hi Tech Message-ID: <4C0A0DF6-1176-11D9-9A97-000A95745D3E@ucop.edu> For a limited time (ca. a week) there are three free issues of Library Hi Tech at the journal's web site: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/lht.htm Click on "Tables of Contents". The issues include the two-part special on "MARC and Metadata," which includes articles on emerging standards like METS and MODS as well as more theoretical topics (e.g., whether MARC has much life left). Go for it. Roy From beden at ccmail.nevada.edu Thu Sep 30 13:21:05 2004 From: beden at ccmail.nevada.edu (beden@ccmail.nevada.edu) Date: Wed May 18 15:50:51 2005 Subject: V. 20, no. 3 of OSS: International Digital Library Perspectives now available online Message-ID: For those interested in contributing to this journal in the future, please contact me at the email address given below. Thanks. Brad Eden, Ph.D. Head, Web and Digitization Services University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries beden@ccmail.nevada.edu ___________________________________________________ Now available via Emerald Fulltext Volume 20 Issue 3 of OCLC Systems & Services * Subscribers - click here for access http://www.emeraldinsight.com/1065-075X.htm * Non Subscribers ? click here for a free trial http://www.emeraldinsight.com/rpsv/cgi-bin/emft.pl ********************************************** Table of contents follows:- Title: Repurposed metadata: ONIX and the Library of Congress's BEAT program Author: Norm Medeiros Pages: 93-95 Keywords: Bibliographic Systems; Online Operations Article Type: Survey; Journalistic Content Indicators: Research - ** Practice - ** Originality - * Readability - ** Title: Moving from data to information Author: Robert Fox Pages: 96-101 Keywords: Data Analysis; Data Reduction; Data Structures Article Type: Wholly Theoretical; Comparative/evaluators Content Indicators: Research - ** Practice - ** Originality - * Readability - ** Title: Digital assets for the next millennium Author: Elizabeth Yakel Pages: 102-105 Keywords: Digital Libraries; Trust; Digital Storage Article Type: Wholly Theoretical; Comparative/evaluators Content Indicators: Research - ** Practice - ** Originality - * Readability - ** Title: The problem of mainstreaming digital libraries Author: Jeremy Frumkin Pages: 106-109 Keywords: Libraries; Digital Libraries; Interface Management Article Type: Wholly Theoretical; Journalistic Content Indicators: Research - ** Practice - ** Originality - * Readability - ** Title: Copyright in the networked world: technology and consumer rights in copyright Author: Michael Seadle Pages: 110-114 Keywords: Copyright Law; Consumers; Technology Led Strategy Article Type: Comparative/evaluators; Journalistic Content Indicators: Research - ** Practice - ** Originality - * Readability - ** Title: A usability study of the Belgian-American Research Collection: measuring the functionality of a digital library Author: Jason A Clark Pages: 115-127 Keywords: Digital Libraries; Tests and Testing; User Interfaces; Information Gathering Article Type: Literature Review; Comparative/evaluators Content Indicators: Research - ** Practice - ** Originality - * Readability - ** Title: Conventional language for cataloging remote access electronic resources: the time is now! Author: Allen Thunell; Lisa Robinson Pages: 128-133 Keywords: Remote Handling Devices; Cataloguing; Bibliographic Systems; Electronics Industry Article Type: Literature Review; Journalistic Content Indicators: Research - ** Practice - ** Originality - * Readability - ** Title: Memory institutions as digital publishers: a case study on standards and interoperability Author: Charles F Thomas Pages: 134-139 Keywords: Standards; Interface Management; Digital Storage; Case Studies Article Type: Case Study; Comparative/evaluators Content Indicators: Research - ** Practice - ** Originality - * Readability - ** From emorgan at nd.edu Thu Sep 30 14:39:14 2004 From: emorgan at nd.edu (Eric Lease Morgan) Date: Wed May 18 15:50:51 2005 Subject: web services and mylibrary In-Reply-To: <44E8B936-0D9C-11D9-A3C9-00039312AAE2@nd.edu> References: <44E8B936-0D9C-11D9-A3C9-00039312AAE2@nd.edu> Message-ID: <0753C569-1310-11D9-9E7F-00039312AAE2@nd.edu> On Sep 23, 2004, at 3:08 PM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > How can we incorporate Web Services techniques into MyLibrary? > > * WSR (Web Services for Remote Portlets) > http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=wsrp > > * JSR 168 > http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=168 > > * VIEWS > http://www.niso.org/committees/VIEWS/VIEWS-info.html The silence here is deafening. Does anybody have any suggestions for an XML vocabulary I can use in the form of a Web Service to syndicate/distribute the content normally found on library websites such as lists of indexes, lists of resources by subjects, etc. -- Eric Lease Morgan University Libraries of Notre Dame From a.powell at ukoln.ac.uk Thu Sep 30 16:13:35 2004 From: a.powell at ukoln.ac.uk (Andy Powell) Date: Wed May 18 15:50:51 2005 Subject: [XML4LIB] Re: web services and mylibrary In-Reply-To: <0753C569-1310-11D9-9E7F-00039312AAE2@nd.edu> References: <0753C569-1310-11D9-9E7F-00039312AAE2@nd.edu> Message-ID: On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > On Sep 23, 2004, at 3:08 PM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > > > How can we incorporate Web Services techniques into MyLibrary? > > > > * WSR (Web Services for Remote Portlets) > > http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=wsrp > > > > * JSR 168 > > http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=168 > > > > * VIEWS > > http://www.niso.org/committees/VIEWS/VIEWS-info.html > > The silence here is deafening. > > Does anybody have any suggestions for an XML vocabulary I can use in > the form of a Web Service to syndicate/distribute the content normally > found on library websites such as lists of indexes, lists of resources > by subjects, etc. Well, if what you want to do is publish 'lists of stuff' then I'd go for one of the flavours of RSS (my preference would be for RSS 1.0 because of extensibility but the other versions are fine as well) - in which case the API is just an HTTP GET :-) If you want a real Web services API, then you could look at Atom http://www.atomenabled.org/ but I'm not sure how widely adopted it is yet. But I'm not sure if this is really what you are asking for, since you mentioned WSRP and JSR168 in the original posting? But these standards really do something different. If you want to expose some or all of the MyLibrary user-interface into someone else's portal (built using uPortal for example), then you need to expose MyLibrary thru the WSRP or JSR 168 API. If you want to embed someone else's WSRP portlet or JSR 168 channel into MyLibrary, then you need to turn MyLibrary into a portal framework that supports WSRP and/or JSR 168. Of course, you could do all of the above! ;-) Andy -- Distributed Systems, UKOLN, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/a.powell/ +44 1225 383933 Resource Discovery Network http://www.rdn.ac.uk/ ECDL 2004, Bath, UK - 12-17 Sept 2004 - http://www.ecdl2004.org/ From emorgan at nd.edu Thu Sep 30 16:31:22 2004 From: emorgan at nd.edu (Eric Lease Morgan) Date: Wed May 18 15:50:51 2005 Subject: [XML4LIB] Re: web services and mylibrary In-Reply-To: References: <0753C569-1310-11D9-9E7F-00039312AAE2@nd.edu> Message-ID: On Sep 30, 2004, at 3:13 PM, Andy Powell wrote: > Well, if what you want to do is publish 'lists of stuff' then I'd go > for > one of the flavours of RSS (my preference would be for RSS 1.0 because > of > extensibility but the other versions are fine as well) - in which case > the > API is just an HTTP GET :-) > > But I'm not sure if this is really what you are asking for, since you > mentioned WSRP and JSR168 in the original posting? What I want is to expose and syndicate the content of MyLibrary systems through things other than Web browsers. I want to enable access to the content so it can be used in ways that were not necessarily intended. For example, teachers might re-formulate the content to build reading list tools, scholars might re-combine the content to create a customized/personalized interface, librarians might create class-specific subject guides, users might subscribe to "news" feeds based on MyLibrary content, the content might become part of a campus-wide portal, the content may become part of a network of searchable authoritative resources, etc. If I really want to implement all of these things, then I suppose I will require many XML vocabularies. Sigh. -- Eric Lease Morgan From jyoung at oclc.org Thu Sep 30 16:36:14 2004 From: jyoung at oclc.org (Young,Jeff) Date: Wed May 18 15:50:51 2005 Subject: [XML4LIB] Re: web services and mylibrary Message-ID: Eric, This sounds a lot like the open-source ERRoL service I've been working on (http://errol.oclc.org/). Essentially, it is a clearinghouse for REST-style access to content and services related to items in an OAI repository. In essence, it transforms OAI responses into other forms (e.g. HTML and RSS), but it isn't limited to just the OAI protocol and simple transforms. I've started to branch out into other protocols such as SRW, RSS, and others, as well as accommodating distributed functionality to go with the distributed content. For more information, you can start with the ERRoL project page at http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/oairesolver/. I'd be happy to answer any questions you have. If nothing else, some of the approaches I've taken with ERRoLs might be of use to you. Jeff > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric Lease Morgan [mailto:emorgan@nd.edu] > Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 4:28 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: [XML4LIB] Re: web services and mylibrary > > > On Sep 30, 2004, at 3:13 PM, Andy Powell wrote: > > > Well, if what you want to do is publish 'lists of stuff' then I'd go > > for > > one of the flavours of RSS (my preference would be for RSS 1.0 because > > of > > extensibility but the other versions are fine as well) - in which case > > the > > API is just an HTTP GET :-) > > > > But I'm not sure if this is really what you are asking for, since you > > mentioned WSRP and JSR168 in the original posting? > > What I want is to expose and syndicate the content of MyLibrary systems > through things other than Web browsers. I want to enable access to the > content so it can be used in ways that were not necessarily intended. > For example, teachers might re-formulate the content to build reading > list tools, scholars might re-combine the content to create a > customized/personalized interface, librarians might create > class-specific subject guides, users might subscribe to "news" feeds > based on MyLibrary content, the content might become part of a > campus-wide portal, the content may become part of a network of > searchable authoritative resources, etc. > > If I really want to implement all of these things, then I suppose I > will require many XML vocabularies. Sigh. > > -- > Eric Lease Morgan From stoub at yahoo.com Thu Sep 30 21:40:43 2004 From: stoub at yahoo.com (Steve Toub) Date: Wed May 18 15:50:51 2005 Subject: [XML4LIB] Re: web services and mylibrary In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <415CB59B.6020601@yahoo.com> Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > What I want is to expose and syndicate the content of MyLibrary systems > through things other than Web browsers. I want to enable access to the > content so it can be used in ways that were not necessarily intended. > For example, teachers might re-formulate the content to build reading > list tools, scholars might re-combine the content to create a > customized/personalized interface, librarians might create > class-specific subject guides, users might subscribe to "news" feeds > based on MyLibrary content, the content might become part of a > campus-wide portal, the content may become part of a network of > searchable authoritative resources, etc. > > If I really want to implement all of these things, then I suppose I > will require many XML vocabularies. Sigh. Speaking mostly out of ignorance--and the hope that others might be able to inform why these two specs wouldn't work--why not: OpenURL 1.0 http://library.caltech.edu/openurl/ IMS Resource List Interoperability (RLI) 1.0 http://www.imsglobal.org/rli/ --SET From beden at ccmail.nevada.edu Tue Sep 7 11:04:25 2004 From: beden at ccmail.nevada.edu (beden@ccmail.nevada.edu) Date: Wed May 18 16:03:54 2005 Subject: CFP: Special issue of Library Hi Tech on Content Management Systems (CMS) Message-ID: Please excuse duplicate postings. This is a call for proposals/abstracts of articles for a special issue of _Library Hi Tech_ to be published in January 2006 on Content Management Systems (CMS). I am interested in seeing articles discussing philosophy, technical standards and developments, case studies, prototypes, and future uses of CMS's in information organizations and digital libraries. Any inquiries or abstracts for consideration should be sent to me personally, not to the list. Deadline for receipt of abstracts/proposals for articles is October 1, 2004. Those selected to write articles will have until September 1, 2005 to submit final article drafts. Thanks. Dr. Brad Eden Associate Editor, _Library Hi Tech_ beden@ccmail.nevada.edu From dick at stanford.edu Tue Sep 14 14:42:59 2004 From: dick at stanford.edu (Dick Miller) Date: Wed May 18 16:03:54 2005 Subject: NLM Catalog now in XML!!! Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.2.20040914114125.037e3428@localhost> Exciting news! NLM has deployed their catalog in the Entrez interface used for PubMed, etc. Check out the XML display option. Dick http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?CMD=search&DB=nlmcatalog Dick R. Miller Head of Technical Services & Systems Librarian Lane Medical Library, L109 Stanford University Medical Center Stanford, CA 94305-5123 (650) 725-4615 (work) (650) 725-7471 (fax) Dick@Stanford.edu From digicult-forum at digicult.info Thu Sep 16 08:23:46 2004 From: digicult-forum at digicult.info (DigiCULT Forum) Date: Wed May 18 16:03:54 2005 Subject: DigiCULT.Info Issue 8 / Announcement of Publication Message-ID: <414985D2.40402@digicult.info> DigiCULT.Info Issue 8 - A Newsletter on Digital Culture August 2004, ISSN 1609-3941 For the first time, DigiCULT has devoted a section of this publication to a detailed focus on the cultural and scientific heritage work being carried out in one particular country. DigiCULT.Info?s Content Editor, Daisy Abbott, spent a week interviewing sector professionals in France and their thoughts and experiences are presented in this special section, alongside articles and reports from French projects and events. 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We will accept on-site registrations as space permits, but you don't really want to walk around with a hand-written badge, do you? The Forum will take place October 7 - 10, 2004 at the Sheraton West Port Lakeside Chalet in St. Louis, MO. Three days of preconferences, keynote sessions, panel and individual presentations, and poster sessions have been planned. For more information, visit http://www.lita.org/forum04. Use the links there to view program descriptions, reserve your hotel room, and register for the Forum. Thanks, and hope see you in St. Louis! 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For more information and to register, please visit http://www.metro.org/2004_fall/open_source_software.html === Rob Carlson LITA Deputy Exec. Director 800.545.2433 x4268 From emorgan at nd.edu Thu Sep 23 16:08:00 2004 From: emorgan at nd.edu (Eric Lease Morgan) Date: Wed May 18 16:03:55 2005 Subject: web services and mylibrary Message-ID: <44E8B936-0D9C-11D9-A3C9-00039312AAE2@nd.edu> How can we incorporate Web Services techniques into MyLibrary? As many of you already know, Web Services represent a very healthy trend in computing these days. I believe it behooves me to write one or more Web Services-based interfaces to the (still-in-development) MyLibrary system version 3.0. I'm pretty sure I will want to implement an OAI-PMH interface. I thinK we will implement an SRU interface. Heck, I even see RSS in my future. At the same time the content of MyLibrary is being designed for syndication and aggregation to portal applications. Folks at Lehigh have gone the next step in integrated much of their MyLibrary content into uPortal. We have done so as well, but not as well as Lehigh. On the MyLibrary mailing list, these three Web Service brands have reared their heads: * WSR (Web Services for Remote Portlets) http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=wsrp * JSR 168 http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=168 * VIEWS http://www.niso.org/committees/VIEWS/VIEWS-info.html If we were to implement a number of Web Services against MyLibrary, then what should the shape of the returned XML be? -- Eric Lease Morgan University Libraries of Notre Dame From gerrymck at iastate.edu Sat Sep 25 14:16:52 2004 From: gerrymck at iastate.edu (Gerry Mckiernan) Date: Wed May 18 16:03:55 2005 Subject: "Rich Site Services: Web Feeds for Extended Information and Library Services" Message-ID: "Rich Site Services: Web Feeds for Extended Information and Library Services" I am pleased to announce the publication and availability of my latest publication "Rich Site Services: Web Feeds for Extended Information and Library Services," _LLRX.com_, September 20, 2004, available at [ http://www.llrx.com/features/richsite.htm ]. "There are several practical ways in which the LIS (Library and Information Science) community can both exploit the content of RSS, and improve their services through the presentation and re-presentation of RSS feeds. These do not amount to a revolution, but rather represent a step on the path to better information services, and one which takes advantage of advances in technology." ]Roddy MacLeod, RSS: Less Hype, More Action, 161 FREEPRINT 7-10 (2004). Also available at [ http://www.freepint.com/issues/170604.pdf?PHPSESSID=18e229b6adc57736563635ce9a931348 ] CONTENTS RSS News Aggregators and Feed Readers The Little Orange Button(s) Library Web Feeds Extended Services E-Journals and Table of Contents Services Potential Possibilities Notes Enjoy ! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan "Monsieur RSS" [:-) [ http://www.servicedoc.info/breve.php3?id_breve=569 ] Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu From roy.tennant at ucop.edu Tue Sep 28 13:46:16 2004 From: roy.tennant at ucop.edu (Roy Tennant) Date: Wed May 18 16:03:55 2005 Subject: Three free issues of Library Hi Tech Message-ID: <4C0A0DF6-1176-11D9-9A97-000A95745D3E@ucop.edu> For a limited time (ca. a week) there are three free issues of Library Hi Tech at the journal's web site: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/lht.htm Click on "Tables of Contents". The issues include the two-part special on "MARC and Metadata," which includes articles on emerging standards like METS and MODS as well as more theoretical topics (e.g., whether MARC has much life left). Go for it. Roy From beden at ccmail.nevada.edu Thu Sep 30 13:21:05 2004 From: beden at ccmail.nevada.edu (beden@ccmail.nevada.edu) Date: Wed May 18 16:03:55 2005 Subject: V. 20, no. 3 of OSS: International Digital Library Perspectives now available online Message-ID: For those interested in contributing to this journal in the future, please contact me at the email address given below. Thanks. Brad Eden, Ph.D. Head, Web and Digitization Services University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries beden@ccmail.nevada.edu ___________________________________________________ Now available via Emerald Fulltext Volume 20 Issue 3 of OCLC Systems & Services * Subscribers - click here for access http://www.emeraldinsight.com/1065-075X.htm * Non Subscribers ? click here for a free trial http://www.emeraldinsight.com/rpsv/cgi-bin/emft.pl ********************************************** Table of contents follows:- Title: Repurposed metadata: ONIX and the Library of Congress's BEAT program Author: Norm Medeiros Pages: 93-95 Keywords: Bibliographic Systems; Online Operations Article Type: Survey; Journalistic Content Indicators: Research - ** Practice - ** Originality - * Readability - ** Title: Moving from data to information Author: Robert Fox Pages: 96-101 Keywords: Data Analysis; Data Reduction; Data Structures Article Type: Wholly Theoretical; Comparative/evaluators Content Indicators: Research - ** Practice - ** Originality - * Readability - ** Title: Digital assets for the next millennium Author: Elizabeth Yakel Pages: 102-105 Keywords: Digital Libraries; Trust; Digital Storage Article Type: Wholly Theoretical; Comparative/evaluators Content Indicators: Research - ** Practice - ** Originality - * Readability - ** Title: The problem of mainstreaming digital libraries Author: Jeremy Frumkin Pages: 106-109 Keywords: Libraries; Digital Libraries; Interface Management Article Type: Wholly Theoretical; Journalistic Content Indicators: Research - ** Practice - ** Originality - * Readability - ** Title: Copyright in the networked world: technology and consumer rights in copyright Author: Michael Seadle Pages: 110-114 Keywords: Copyright Law; Consumers; Technology Led Strategy Article Type: Comparative/evaluators; Journalistic Content Indicators: Research - ** Practice - ** Originality - * Readability - ** Title: A usability study of the Belgian-American Research Collection: measuring the functionality of a digital library Author: Jason A Clark Pages: 115-127 Keywords: Digital Libraries; Tests and Testing; User Interfaces; Information Gathering Article Type: Literature Review; Comparative/evaluators Content Indicators: Research - ** Practice - ** Originality - * Readability - ** Title: Conventional language for cataloging remote access electronic resources: the time is now! Author: Allen Thunell; Lisa Robinson Pages: 128-133 Keywords: Remote Handling Devices; Cataloguing; Bibliographic Systems; Electronics Industry Article Type: Literature Review; Journalistic Content Indicators: Research - ** Practice - ** Originality - * Readability - ** Title: Memory institutions as digital publishers: a case study on standards and interoperability Author: Charles F Thomas Pages: 134-139 Keywords: Standards; Interface Management; Digital Storage; Case Studies Article Type: Case Study; Comparative/evaluators Content Indicators: Research - ** Practice - ** Originality - * Readability - ** From emorgan at nd.edu Thu Sep 30 14:39:14 2004 From: emorgan at nd.edu (Eric Lease Morgan) Date: Wed May 18 16:03:55 2005 Subject: web services and mylibrary In-Reply-To: <44E8B936-0D9C-11D9-A3C9-00039312AAE2@nd.edu> References: <44E8B936-0D9C-11D9-A3C9-00039312AAE2@nd.edu> Message-ID: <0753C569-1310-11D9-9E7F-00039312AAE2@nd.edu> On Sep 23, 2004, at 3:08 PM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > How can we incorporate Web Services techniques into MyLibrary? > > * WSR (Web Services for Remote Portlets) > http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=wsrp > > * JSR 168 > http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=168 > > * VIEWS > http://www.niso.org/committees/VIEWS/VIEWS-info.html The silence here is deafening. Does anybody have any suggestions for an XML vocabulary I can use in the form of a Web Service to syndicate/distribute the content normally found on library websites such as lists of indexes, lists of resources by subjects, etc. -- Eric Lease Morgan University Libraries of Notre Dame From a.powell at ukoln.ac.uk Thu Sep 30 16:13:35 2004 From: a.powell at ukoln.ac.uk (Andy Powell) Date: Wed May 18 16:03:55 2005 Subject: [XML4LIB] Re: web services and mylibrary In-Reply-To: <0753C569-1310-11D9-9E7F-00039312AAE2@nd.edu> References: <0753C569-1310-11D9-9E7F-00039312AAE2@nd.edu> Message-ID: On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > On Sep 23, 2004, at 3:08 PM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > > > How can we incorporate Web Services techniques into MyLibrary? > > > > * WSR (Web Services for Remote Portlets) > > http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=wsrp > > > > * JSR 168 > > http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=168 > > > > * VIEWS > > http://www.niso.org/committees/VIEWS/VIEWS-info.html > > The silence here is deafening. > > Does anybody have any suggestions for an XML vocabulary I can use in > the form of a Web Service to syndicate/distribute the content normally > found on library websites such as lists of indexes, lists of resources > by subjects, etc. Well, if what you want to do is publish 'lists of stuff' then I'd go for one of the flavours of RSS (my preference would be for RSS 1.0 because of extensibility but the other versions are fine as well) - in which case the API is just an HTTP GET :-) If you want a real Web services API, then you could look at Atom http://www.atomenabled.org/ but I'm not sure how widely adopted it is yet. But I'm not sure if this is really what you are asking for, since you mentioned WSRP and JSR168 in the original posting? But these standards really do something different. If you want to expose some or all of the MyLibrary user-interface into someone else's portal (built using uPortal for example), then you need to expose MyLibrary thru the WSRP or JSR 168 API. If you want to embed someone else's WSRP portlet or JSR 168 channel into MyLibrary, then you need to turn MyLibrary into a portal framework that supports WSRP and/or JSR 168. Of course, you could do all of the above! ;-) Andy -- Distributed Systems, UKOLN, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/a.powell/ +44 1225 383933 Resource Discovery Network http://www.rdn.ac.uk/ ECDL 2004, Bath, UK - 12-17 Sept 2004 - http://www.ecdl2004.org/ From emorgan at nd.edu Thu Sep 30 16:31:22 2004 From: emorgan at nd.edu (Eric Lease Morgan) Date: Wed May 18 16:03:55 2005 Subject: [XML4LIB] Re: web services and mylibrary In-Reply-To: References: <0753C569-1310-11D9-9E7F-00039312AAE2@nd.edu> Message-ID: On Sep 30, 2004, at 3:13 PM, Andy Powell wrote: > Well, if what you want to do is publish 'lists of stuff' then I'd go > for > one of the flavours of RSS (my preference would be for RSS 1.0 because > of > extensibility but the other versions are fine as well) - in which case > the > API is just an HTTP GET :-) > > But I'm not sure if this is really what you are asking for, since you > mentioned WSRP and JSR168 in the original posting? What I want is to expose and syndicate the content of MyLibrary systems through things other than Web browsers. I want to enable access to the content so it can be used in ways that were not necessarily intended. For example, teachers might re-formulate the content to build reading list tools, scholars might re-combine the content to create a customized/personalized interface, librarians might create class-specific subject guides, users might subscribe to "news" feeds based on MyLibrary content, the content might become part of a campus-wide portal, the content may become part of a network of searchable authoritative resources, etc. If I really want to implement all of these things, then I suppose I will require many XML vocabularies. Sigh. -- Eric Lease Morgan From jyoung at oclc.org Thu Sep 30 16:36:14 2004 From: jyoung at oclc.org (Young,Jeff) Date: Wed May 18 16:03:55 2005 Subject: [XML4LIB] Re: web services and mylibrary Message-ID: Eric, This sounds a lot like the open-source ERRoL service I've been working on (http://errol.oclc.org/). Essentially, it is a clearinghouse for REST-style access to content and services related to items in an OAI repository. In essence, it transforms OAI responses into other forms (e.g. HTML and RSS), but it isn't limited to just the OAI protocol and simple transforms. I've started to branch out into other protocols such as SRW, RSS, and others, as well as accommodating distributed functionality to go with the distributed content. For more information, you can start with the ERRoL project page at http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/oairesolver/. I'd be happy to answer any questions you have. If nothing else, some of the approaches I've taken with ERRoLs might be of use to you. Jeff > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric Lease Morgan [mailto:emorgan@nd.edu] > Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 4:28 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: [XML4LIB] Re: web services and mylibrary > > > On Sep 30, 2004, at 3:13 PM, Andy Powell wrote: > > > Well, if what you want to do is publish 'lists of stuff' then I'd go > > for > > one of the flavours of RSS (my preference would be for RSS 1.0 because > > of > > extensibility but the other versions are fine as well) - in which case > > the > > API is just an HTTP GET :-) > > > > But I'm not sure if this is really what you are asking for, since you > > mentioned WSRP and JSR168 in the original posting? > > What I want is to expose and syndicate the content of MyLibrary systems > through things other than Web browsers. I want to enable access to the > content so it can be used in ways that were not necessarily intended. > For example, teachers might re-formulate the content to build reading > list tools, scholars might re-combine the content to create a > customized/personalized interface, librarians might create > class-specific subject guides, users might subscribe to "news" feeds > based on MyLibrary content, the content might become part of a > campus-wide portal, the content may become part of a network of > searchable authoritative resources, etc. > > If I really want to implement all of these things, then I suppose I > will require many XML vocabularies. Sigh. > > -- > Eric Lease Morgan From stoub at yahoo.com Thu Sep 30 21:40:43 2004 From: stoub at yahoo.com (Steve Toub) Date: Wed May 18 16:03:55 2005 Subject: [XML4LIB] Re: web services and mylibrary In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <415CB59B.6020601@yahoo.com> Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > What I want is to expose and syndicate the content of MyLibrary systems > through things other than Web browsers. I want to enable access to the > content so it can be used in ways that were not necessarily intended. > For example, teachers might re-formulate the content to build reading > list tools, scholars might re-combine the content to create a > customized/personalized interface, librarians might create > class-specific subject guides, users might subscribe to "news" feeds > based on MyLibrary content, the content might become part of a > campus-wide portal, the content may become part of a network of > searchable authoritative resources, etc. > > If I really want to implement all of these things, then I suppose I > will require many XML vocabularies. Sigh. Speaking mostly out of ignorance--and the hope that others might be able to inform why these two specs wouldn't work--why not: OpenURL 1.0 http://library.caltech.edu/openurl/ IMS Resource List Interoperability (RLI) 1.0 http://www.imsglobal.org/rli/ --SET From beden at ccmail.nevada.edu Tue Sep 7 11:04:25 2004 From: beden at ccmail.nevada.edu (beden@ccmail.nevada.edu) Date: Wed May 18 16:16:49 2005 Subject: CFP: Special issue of Library Hi Tech on Content Management Systems (CMS) Message-ID: Please excuse duplicate postings. This is a call for proposals/abstracts of articles for a special issue of _Library Hi Tech_ to be published in January 2006 on Content Management Systems (CMS). I am interested in seeing articles discussing philosophy, technical standards and developments, case studies, prototypes, and future uses of CMS's in information organizations and digital libraries. Any inquiries or abstracts for consideration should be sent to me personally, not to the list. Deadline for receipt of abstracts/proposals for articles is October 1, 2004. Those selected to write articles will have until September 1, 2005 to submit final article drafts. Thanks. Dr. Brad Eden Associate Editor, _Library Hi Tech_ beden@ccmail.nevada.edu From dick at stanford.edu Tue Sep 14 14:42:59 2004 From: dick at stanford.edu (Dick Miller) Date: Wed May 18 16:16:49 2005 Subject: NLM Catalog now in XML!!! Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.2.20040914114125.037e3428@localhost> Exciting news! NLM has deployed their catalog in the Entrez interface used for PubMed, etc. Check out the XML display option. Dick http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?CMD=search&DB=nlmcatalog Dick R. 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For more information and to register, please visit http://www.metro.org/2004_fall/open_source_software.html === Rob Carlson LITA Deputy Exec. Director 800.545.2433 x4268 From emorgan at nd.edu Thu Sep 23 16:08:00 2004 From: emorgan at nd.edu (Eric Lease Morgan) Date: Wed May 18 16:16:49 2005 Subject: web services and mylibrary Message-ID: <44E8B936-0D9C-11D9-A3C9-00039312AAE2@nd.edu> How can we incorporate Web Services techniques into MyLibrary? As many of you already know, Web Services represent a very healthy trend in computing these days. I believe it behooves me to write one or more Web Services-based interfaces to the (still-in-development) MyLibrary system version 3.0. I'm pretty sure I will want to implement an OAI-PMH interface. I thinK we will implement an SRU interface. Heck, I even see RSS in my future. At the same time the content of MyLibrary is being designed for syndication and aggregation to portal applications. Folks at Lehigh have gone the next step in integrated much of their MyLibrary content into uPortal. We have done so as well, but not as well as Lehigh. On the MyLibrary mailing list, these three Web Service brands have reared their heads: * WSR (Web Services for Remote Portlets) http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=wsrp * JSR 168 http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=168 * VIEWS http://www.niso.org/committees/VIEWS/VIEWS-info.html If we were to implement a number of Web Services against MyLibrary, then what should the shape of the returned XML be? -- Eric Lease Morgan University Libraries of Notre Dame From gerrymck at iastate.edu Sat Sep 25 14:16:52 2004 From: gerrymck at iastate.edu (Gerry Mckiernan) Date: Wed May 18 16:16:49 2005 Subject: "Rich Site Services: Web Feeds for Extended Information and Library Services" Message-ID: "Rich Site Services: Web Feeds for Extended Information and Library Services" I am pleased to announce the publication and availability of my latest publication "Rich Site Services: Web Feeds for Extended Information and Library Services," _LLRX.com_, September 20, 2004, available at [ http://www.llrx.com/features/richsite.htm ]. "There are several practical ways in which the LIS (Library and Information Science) community can both exploit the content of RSS, and improve their services through the presentation and re-presentation of RSS feeds. These do not amount to a revolution, but rather represent a step on the path to better information services, and one which takes advantage of advances in technology." ]Roddy MacLeod, RSS: Less Hype, More Action, 161 FREEPRINT 7-10 (2004). Also available at [ http://www.freepint.com/issues/170604.pdf?PHPSESSID=18e229b6adc57736563635ce9a931348 ] CONTENTS RSS News Aggregators and Feed Readers The Little Orange Button(s) Library Web Feeds Extended Services E-Journals and Table of Contents Services Potential Possibilities Notes Enjoy ! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan "Monsieur RSS" [:-) [ http://www.servicedoc.info/breve.php3?id_breve=569 ] Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu From roy.tennant at ucop.edu Tue Sep 28 13:46:16 2004 From: roy.tennant at ucop.edu (Roy Tennant) Date: Wed May 18 16:16:49 2005 Subject: Three free issues of Library Hi Tech Message-ID: <4C0A0DF6-1176-11D9-9A97-000A95745D3E@ucop.edu> For a limited time (ca. a week) there are three free issues of Library Hi Tech at the journal's web site: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/lht.htm Click on "Tables of Contents". The issues include the two-part special on "MARC and Metadata," which includes articles on emerging standards like METS and MODS as well as more theoretical topics (e.g., whether MARC has much life left). Go for it. Roy From beden at ccmail.nevada.edu Thu Sep 30 13:21:05 2004 From: beden at ccmail.nevada.edu (beden@ccmail.nevada.edu) Date: Wed May 18 16:16:49 2005 Subject: V. 20, no. 3 of OSS: International Digital Library Perspectives now available online Message-ID: For those interested in contributing to this journal in the future, please contact me at the email address given below. Thanks. Brad Eden, Ph.D. Head, Web and Digitization Services University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries beden@ccmail.nevada.edu ___________________________________________________ Now available via Emerald Fulltext Volume 20 Issue 3 of OCLC Systems & Services * Subscribers - click here for access http://www.emeraldinsight.com/1065-075X.htm * Non Subscribers ? click here for a free trial http://www.emeraldinsight.com/rpsv/cgi-bin/emft.pl ********************************************** Table of contents follows:- Title: Repurposed metadata: ONIX and the Library of Congress's BEAT program Author: Norm Medeiros Pages: 93-95 Keywords: Bibliographic Systems; Online Operations Article Type: Survey; Journalistic Content Indicators: Research - ** Practice - ** Originality - * Readability - ** Title: Moving from data to information Author: Robert Fox Pages: 96-101 Keywords: Data Analysis; Data Reduction; Data Structures Article Type: Wholly Theoretical; Comparative/evaluators Content Indicators: Research - ** Practice - ** Originality - * Readability - ** Title: Digital assets for the next millennium Author: Elizabeth Yakel Pages: 102-105 Keywords: Digital Libraries; Trust; Digital Storage Article Type: Wholly Theoretical; Comparative/evaluators Content Indicators: Research - ** Practice - ** Originality - * Readability - ** Title: The problem of mainstreaming digital libraries Author: Jeremy Frumkin Pages: 106-109 Keywords: Libraries; Digital Libraries; Interface Management Article Type: Wholly Theoretical; Journalistic Content Indicators: Research - ** Practice - ** Originality - * Readability - ** Title: Copyright in the networked world: technology and consumer rights in copyright Author: Michael Seadle Pages: 110-114 Keywords: Copyright Law; Consumers; Technology Led Strategy Article Type: Comparative/evaluators; Journalistic Content Indicators: Research - ** Practice - ** Originality - * Readability - ** Title: A usability study of the Belgian-American Research Collection: measuring the functionality of a digital library Author: Jason A Clark Pages: 115-127 Keywords: Digital Libraries; Tests and Testing; User Interfaces; Information Gathering Article Type: Literature Review; Comparative/evaluators Content Indicators: Research - ** Practice - ** Originality - * Readability - ** Title: Conventional language for cataloging remote access electronic resources: the time is now! Author: Allen Thunell; Lisa Robinson Pages: 128-133 Keywords: Remote Handling Devices; Cataloguing; Bibliographic Systems; Electronics Industry Article Type: Literature Review; Journalistic Content Indicators: Research - ** Practice - ** Originality - * Readability - ** Title: Memory institutions as digital publishers: a case study on standards and interoperability Author: Charles F Thomas Pages: 134-139 Keywords: Standards; Interface Management; Digital Storage; Case Studies Article Type: Case Study; Comparative/evaluators Content Indicators: Research - ** Practice - ** Originality - * Readability - ** From emorgan at nd.edu Thu Sep 30 14:39:14 2004 From: emorgan at nd.edu (Eric Lease Morgan) Date: Wed May 18 16:16:49 2005 Subject: web services and mylibrary In-Reply-To: <44E8B936-0D9C-11D9-A3C9-00039312AAE2@nd.edu> References: <44E8B936-0D9C-11D9-A3C9-00039312AAE2@nd.edu> Message-ID: <0753C569-1310-11D9-9E7F-00039312AAE2@nd.edu> On Sep 23, 2004, at 3:08 PM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > How can we incorporate Web Services techniques into MyLibrary? > > * WSR (Web Services for Remote Portlets) > http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=wsrp > > * JSR 168 > http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=168 > > * VIEWS > http://www.niso.org/committees/VIEWS/VIEWS-info.html The silence here is deafening. Does anybody have any suggestions for an XML vocabulary I can use in the form of a Web Service to syndicate/distribute the content normally found on library websites such as lists of indexes, lists of resources by subjects, etc. -- Eric Lease Morgan University Libraries of Notre Dame From a.powell at ukoln.ac.uk Thu Sep 30 16:13:35 2004 From: a.powell at ukoln.ac.uk (Andy Powell) Date: Wed May 18 16:16:49 2005 Subject: [XML4LIB] Re: web services and mylibrary In-Reply-To: <0753C569-1310-11D9-9E7F-00039312AAE2@nd.edu> References: <0753C569-1310-11D9-9E7F-00039312AAE2@nd.edu> Message-ID: On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > On Sep 23, 2004, at 3:08 PM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > > > How can we incorporate Web Services techniques into MyLibrary? > > > > * WSR (Web Services for Remote Portlets) > > http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=wsrp > > > > * JSR 168 > > http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=168 > > > > * VIEWS > > http://www.niso.org/committees/VIEWS/VIEWS-info.html > > The silence here is deafening. > > Does anybody have any suggestions for an XML vocabulary I can use in > the form of a Web Service to syndicate/distribute the content normally > found on library websites such as lists of indexes, lists of resources > by subjects, etc. Well, if what you want to do is publish 'lists of stuff' then I'd go for one of the flavours of RSS (my preference would be for RSS 1.0 because of extensibility but the other versions are fine as well) - in which case the API is just an HTTP GET :-) If you want a real Web services API, then you could look at Atom http://www.atomenabled.org/ but I'm not sure how widely adopted it is yet. But I'm not sure if this is really what you are asking for, since you mentioned WSRP and JSR168 in the original posting? But these standards really do something different. If you want to expose some or all of the MyLibrary user-interface into someone else's portal (built using uPortal for example), then you need to expose MyLibrary thru the WSRP or JSR 168 API. If you want to embed someone else's WSRP portlet or JSR 168 channel into MyLibrary, then you need to turn MyLibrary into a portal framework that supports WSRP and/or JSR 168. Of course, you could do all of the above! ;-) Andy -- Distributed Systems, UKOLN, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/a.powell/ +44 1225 383933 Resource Discovery Network http://www.rdn.ac.uk/ ECDL 2004, Bath, UK - 12-17 Sept 2004 - http://www.ecdl2004.org/ From emorgan at nd.edu Thu Sep 30 16:31:22 2004 From: emorgan at nd.edu (Eric Lease Morgan) Date: Wed May 18 16:16:49 2005 Subject: [XML4LIB] Re: web services and mylibrary In-Reply-To: References: <0753C569-1310-11D9-9E7F-00039312AAE2@nd.edu> Message-ID: On Sep 30, 2004, at 3:13 PM, Andy Powell wrote: > Well, if what you want to do is publish 'lists of stuff' then I'd go > for > one of the flavours of RSS (my preference would be for RSS 1.0 because > of > extensibility but the other versions are fine as well) - in which case > the > API is just an HTTP GET :-) > > But I'm not sure if this is really what you are asking for, since you > mentioned WSRP and JSR168 in the original posting? What I want is to expose and syndicate the content of MyLibrary systems through things other than Web browsers. I want to enable access to the content so it can be used in ways that were not necessarily intended. For example, teachers might re-formulate the content to build reading list tools, scholars might re-combine the content to create a customized/personalized interface, librarians might create class-specific subject guides, users might subscribe to "news" feeds based on MyLibrary content, the content might become part of a campus-wide portal, the content may become part of a network of searchable authoritative resources, etc. If I really want to implement all of these things, then I suppose I will require many XML vocabularies. Sigh. -- Eric Lease Morgan From jyoung at oclc.org Thu Sep 30 16:36:14 2004 From: jyoung at oclc.org (Young,Jeff) Date: Wed May 18 16:16:49 2005 Subject: [XML4LIB] Re: web services and mylibrary Message-ID: Eric, This sounds a lot like the open-source ERRoL service I've been working on (http://errol.oclc.org/). Essentially, it is a clearinghouse for REST-style access to content and services related to items in an OAI repository. In essence, it transforms OAI responses into other forms (e.g. HTML and RSS), but it isn't limited to just the OAI protocol and simple transforms. I've started to branch out into other protocols such as SRW, RSS, and others, as well as accommodating distributed functionality to go with the distributed content. For more information, you can start with the ERRoL project page at http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/oairesolver/. I'd be happy to answer any questions you have. If nothing else, some of the approaches I've taken with ERRoLs might be of use to you. Jeff > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric Lease Morgan [mailto:emorgan@nd.edu] > Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 4:28 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: [XML4LIB] Re: web services and mylibrary > > > On Sep 30, 2004, at 3:13 PM, Andy Powell wrote: > > > Well, if what you want to do is publish 'lists of stuff' then I'd go > > for > > one of the flavours of RSS (my preference would be for RSS 1.0 because > > of > > extensibility but the other versions are fine as well) - in which case > > the > > API is just an HTTP GET :-) > > > > But I'm not sure if this is really what you are asking for, since you > > mentioned WSRP and JSR168 in the original posting? > > What I want is to expose and syndicate the content of MyLibrary systems > through things other than Web browsers. I want to enable access to the > content so it can be used in ways that were not necessarily intended. > For example, teachers might re-formulate the content to build reading > list tools, scholars might re-combine the content to create a > customized/personalized interface, librarians might create > class-specific subject guides, users might subscribe to "news" feeds > based on MyLibrary content, the content might become part of a > campus-wide portal, the content may become part of a network of > searchable authoritative resources, etc. > > If I really want to implement all of these things, then I suppose I > will require many XML vocabularies. Sigh. > > -- > Eric Lease Morgan From stoub at yahoo.com Thu Sep 30 21:40:43 2004 From: stoub at yahoo.com (Steve Toub) Date: Wed May 18 16:16:49 2005 Subject: [XML4LIB] Re: web services and mylibrary In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <415CB59B.6020601@yahoo.com> Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > What I want is to expose and syndicate the content of MyLibrary systems > through things other than Web browsers. I want to enable access to the > content so it can be used in ways that were not necessarily intended. > For example, teachers might re-formulate the content to build reading > list tools, scholars might re-combine the content to create a > customized/personalized interface, librarians might create > class-specific subject guides, users might subscribe to "news" feeds > based on MyLibrary content, the content might become part of a > campus-wide portal, the content may become part of a network of > searchable authoritative resources, etc. > > If I really want to implement all of these things, then I suppose I > will require many XML vocabularies. Sigh. Speaking mostly out of ignorance--and the hope that others might be able to inform why these two specs wouldn't work--why not: OpenURL 1.0 http://library.caltech.edu/openurl/ IMS Resource List Interoperability (RLI) 1.0 http://www.imsglobal.org/rli/ --SET From beden at ccmail.nevada.edu Tue Sep 7 11:04:25 2004 From: beden at ccmail.nevada.edu (beden@ccmail.nevada.edu) Date: Wed May 18 16:20:24 2005 Subject: CFP: Special issue of Library Hi Tech on Content Management Systems (CMS) Message-ID: Please excuse duplicate postings. This is a call for proposals/abstracts of articles for a special issue of _Library Hi Tech_ to be published in January 2006 on Content Management Systems (CMS). I am interested in seeing articles discussing philosophy, technical standards and developments, case studies, prototypes, and future uses of CMS's in information organizations and digital libraries. Any inquiries or abstracts for consideration should be sent to me personally, not to the list. Deadline for receipt of abstracts/proposals for articles is October 1, 2004. Those selected to write articles will have until September 1, 2005 to submit final article drafts. Thanks. Dr. Brad Eden Associate Editor, _Library Hi Tech_ beden@ccmail.nevada.edu From dick at stanford.edu Tue Sep 14 14:42:59 2004 From: dick at stanford.edu (Dick Miller) Date: Wed May 18 16:20:24 2005 Subject: NLM Catalog now in XML!!! Message-ID: <6.0.1.1.2.20040914114125.037e3428@localhost> Exciting news! NLM has deployed their catalog in the Entrez interface used for PubMed, etc. Check out the XML display option. Dick http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?CMD=search&DB=nlmcatalog Dick R. Miller Head of Technical Services & Systems Librarian Lane Medical Library, L109 Stanford University Medical Center Stanford, CA 94305-5123 (650) 725-4615 (work) (650) 725-7471 (fax) Dick@Stanford.edu From digicult-forum at digicult.info Thu Sep 16 08:23:46 2004 From: digicult-forum at digicult.info (DigiCULT Forum) Date: Wed May 18 16:20:24 2005 Subject: DigiCULT.Info Issue 8 / Announcement of Publication Message-ID: <414985D2.40402@digicult.info> DigiCULT.Info Issue 8 - A Newsletter on Digital Culture August 2004, ISSN 1609-3941 For the first time, DigiCULT has devoted a section of this publication to a detailed focus on the cultural and scientific heritage work being carried out in one particular country. DigiCULT.Info?s Content Editor, Daisy Abbott, spent a week interviewing sector professionals in France and their thoughts and experiences are presented in this special section, alongside articles and reports from French projects and events. 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We will accept on-site registrations as space permits, but you don't really want to walk around with a hand-written badge, do you? The Forum will take place October 7 - 10, 2004 at the Sheraton West Port Lakeside Chalet in St. Louis, MO. Three days of preconferences, keynote sessions, panel and individual presentations, and poster sessions have been planned. For more information, visit http://www.lita.org/forum04. Use the links there to view program descriptions, reserve your hotel room, and register for the Forum. Thanks, and hope see you in St. Louis! 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For more information and to register, please visit http://www.metro.org/2004_fall/open_source_software.html === Rob Carlson LITA Deputy Exec. Director 800.545.2433 x4268 From emorgan at nd.edu Thu Sep 23 16:08:00 2004 From: emorgan at nd.edu (Eric Lease Morgan) Date: Wed May 18 16:20:24 2005 Subject: web services and mylibrary Message-ID: <44E8B936-0D9C-11D9-A3C9-00039312AAE2@nd.edu> How can we incorporate Web Services techniques into MyLibrary? As many of you already know, Web Services represent a very healthy trend in computing these days. I believe it behooves me to write one or more Web Services-based interfaces to the (still-in-development) MyLibrary system version 3.0. I'm pretty sure I will want to implement an OAI-PMH interface. I thinK we will implement an SRU interface. Heck, I even see RSS in my future. At the same time the content of MyLibrary is being designed for syndication and aggregation to portal applications. Folks at Lehigh have gone the next step in integrated much of their MyLibrary content into uPortal. We have done so as well, but not as well as Lehigh. On the MyLibrary mailing list, these three Web Service brands have reared their heads: * WSR (Web Services for Remote Portlets) http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=wsrp * JSR 168 http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=168 * VIEWS http://www.niso.org/committees/VIEWS/VIEWS-info.html If we were to implement a number of Web Services against MyLibrary, then what should the shape of the returned XML be? -- Eric Lease Morgan University Libraries of Notre Dame From gerrymck at iastate.edu Sat Sep 25 14:16:52 2004 From: gerrymck at iastate.edu (Gerry Mckiernan) Date: Wed May 18 16:20:24 2005 Subject: "Rich Site Services: Web Feeds for Extended Information and Library Services" Message-ID: "Rich Site Services: Web Feeds for Extended Information and Library Services" I am pleased to announce the publication and availability of my latest publication "Rich Site Services: Web Feeds for Extended Information and Library Services," _LLRX.com_, September 20, 2004, available at [ http://www.llrx.com/features/richsite.htm ]. "There are several practical ways in which the LIS (Library and Information Science) community can both exploit the content of RSS, and improve their services through the presentation and re-presentation of RSS feeds. These do not amount to a revolution, but rather represent a step on the path to better information services, and one which takes advantage of advances in technology." ]Roddy MacLeod, RSS: Less Hype, More Action, 161 FREEPRINT 7-10 (2004). Also available at [ http://www.freepint.com/issues/170604.pdf?PHPSESSID=18e229b6adc57736563635ce9a931348 ] CONTENTS RSS News Aggregators and Feed Readers The Little Orange Button(s) Library Web Feeds Extended Services E-Journals and Table of Contents Services Potential Possibilities Notes Enjoy ! /Gerry Gerry McKiernan "Monsieur RSS" [:-) [ http://www.servicedoc.info/breve.php3?id_breve=569 ] Iowa State University Ames IA 50011 gerrymck@iastate.edu From roy.tennant at ucop.edu Tue Sep 28 13:46:16 2004 From: roy.tennant at ucop.edu (Roy Tennant) Date: Wed May 18 16:20:24 2005 Subject: Three free issues of Library Hi Tech Message-ID: <4C0A0DF6-1176-11D9-9A97-000A95745D3E@ucop.edu> For a limited time (ca. a week) there are three free issues of Library Hi Tech at the journal's web site: http://www.emeraldinsight.com/lht.htm Click on "Tables of Contents". The issues include the two-part special on "MARC and Metadata," which includes articles on emerging standards like METS and MODS as well as more theoretical topics (e.g., whether MARC has much life left). Go for it. Roy From beden at ccmail.nevada.edu Thu Sep 30 13:21:05 2004 From: beden at ccmail.nevada.edu (beden@ccmail.nevada.edu) Date: Wed May 18 16:20:24 2005 Subject: V. 20, no. 3 of OSS: International Digital Library Perspectives now available online Message-ID: For those interested in contributing to this journal in the future, please contact me at the email address given below. Thanks. Brad Eden, Ph.D. Head, Web and Digitization Services University of Nevada, Las Vegas Libraries beden@ccmail.nevada.edu ___________________________________________________ Now available via Emerald Fulltext Volume 20 Issue 3 of OCLC Systems & Services * Subscribers - click here for access http://www.emeraldinsight.com/1065-075X.htm * Non Subscribers ? click here for a free trial http://www.emeraldinsight.com/rpsv/cgi-bin/emft.pl ********************************************** Table of contents follows:- Title: Repurposed metadata: ONIX and the Library of Congress's BEAT program Author: Norm Medeiros Pages: 93-95 Keywords: Bibliographic Systems; Online Operations Article Type: Survey; Journalistic Content Indicators: Research - ** Practice - ** Originality - * Readability - ** Title: Moving from data to information Author: Robert Fox Pages: 96-101 Keywords: Data Analysis; Data Reduction; Data Structures Article Type: Wholly Theoretical; Comparative/evaluators Content Indicators: Research - ** Practice - ** Originality - * Readability - ** Title: Digital assets for the next millennium Author: Elizabeth Yakel Pages: 102-105 Keywords: Digital Libraries; Trust; Digital Storage Article Type: Wholly Theoretical; Comparative/evaluators Content Indicators: Research - ** Practice - ** Originality - * Readability - ** Title: The problem of mainstreaming digital libraries Author: Jeremy Frumkin Pages: 106-109 Keywords: Libraries; Digital Libraries; Interface Management Article Type: Wholly Theoretical; Journalistic Content Indicators: Research - ** Practice - ** Originality - * Readability - ** Title: Copyright in the networked world: technology and consumer rights in copyright Author: Michael Seadle Pages: 110-114 Keywords: Copyright Law; Consumers; Technology Led Strategy Article Type: Comparative/evaluators; Journalistic Content Indicators: Research - ** Practice - ** Originality - * Readability - ** Title: A usability study of the Belgian-American Research Collection: measuring the functionality of a digital library Author: Jason A Clark Pages: 115-127 Keywords: Digital Libraries; Tests and Testing; User Interfaces; Information Gathering Article Type: Literature Review; Comparative/evaluators Content Indicators: Research - ** Practice - ** Originality - * Readability - ** Title: Conventional language for cataloging remote access electronic resources: the time is now! Author: Allen Thunell; Lisa Robinson Pages: 128-133 Keywords: Remote Handling Devices; Cataloguing; Bibliographic Systems; Electronics Industry Article Type: Literature Review; Journalistic Content Indicators: Research - ** Practice - ** Originality - * Readability - ** Title: Memory institutions as digital publishers: a case study on standards and interoperability Author: Charles F Thomas Pages: 134-139 Keywords: Standards; Interface Management; Digital Storage; Case Studies Article Type: Case Study; Comparative/evaluators Content Indicators: Research - ** Practice - ** Originality - * Readability - ** From emorgan at nd.edu Thu Sep 30 14:39:14 2004 From: emorgan at nd.edu (Eric Lease Morgan) Date: Wed May 18 16:20:24 2005 Subject: web services and mylibrary In-Reply-To: <44E8B936-0D9C-11D9-A3C9-00039312AAE2@nd.edu> References: <44E8B936-0D9C-11D9-A3C9-00039312AAE2@nd.edu> Message-ID: <0753C569-1310-11D9-9E7F-00039312AAE2@nd.edu> On Sep 23, 2004, at 3:08 PM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > How can we incorporate Web Services techniques into MyLibrary? > > * WSR (Web Services for Remote Portlets) > http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=wsrp > > * JSR 168 > http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=168 > > * VIEWS > http://www.niso.org/committees/VIEWS/VIEWS-info.html The silence here is deafening. Does anybody have any suggestions for an XML vocabulary I can use in the form of a Web Service to syndicate/distribute the content normally found on library websites such as lists of indexes, lists of resources by subjects, etc. -- Eric Lease Morgan University Libraries of Notre Dame From a.powell at ukoln.ac.uk Thu Sep 30 16:13:35 2004 From: a.powell at ukoln.ac.uk (Andy Powell) Date: Wed May 18 16:20:24 2005 Subject: [XML4LIB] Re: web services and mylibrary In-Reply-To: <0753C569-1310-11D9-9E7F-00039312AAE2@nd.edu> References: <0753C569-1310-11D9-9E7F-00039312AAE2@nd.edu> Message-ID: On Thu, 30 Sep 2004, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > On Sep 23, 2004, at 3:08 PM, Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > > > How can we incorporate Web Services techniques into MyLibrary? > > > > * WSR (Web Services for Remote Portlets) > > http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=wsrp > > > > * JSR 168 > > http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=168 > > > > * VIEWS > > http://www.niso.org/committees/VIEWS/VIEWS-info.html > > The silence here is deafening. > > Does anybody have any suggestions for an XML vocabulary I can use in > the form of a Web Service to syndicate/distribute the content normally > found on library websites such as lists of indexes, lists of resources > by subjects, etc. Well, if what you want to do is publish 'lists of stuff' then I'd go for one of the flavours of RSS (my preference would be for RSS 1.0 because of extensibility but the other versions are fine as well) - in which case the API is just an HTTP GET :-) If you want a real Web services API, then you could look at Atom http://www.atomenabled.org/ but I'm not sure how widely adopted it is yet. But I'm not sure if this is really what you are asking for, since you mentioned WSRP and JSR168 in the original posting? But these standards really do something different. If you want to expose some or all of the MyLibrary user-interface into someone else's portal (built using uPortal for example), then you need to expose MyLibrary thru the WSRP or JSR 168 API. If you want to embed someone else's WSRP portlet or JSR 168 channel into MyLibrary, then you need to turn MyLibrary into a portal framework that supports WSRP and/or JSR 168. Of course, you could do all of the above! ;-) Andy -- Distributed Systems, UKOLN, University of Bath, Bath, BA2 7AY, UK http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/a.powell/ +44 1225 383933 Resource Discovery Network http://www.rdn.ac.uk/ ECDL 2004, Bath, UK - 12-17 Sept 2004 - http://www.ecdl2004.org/ From emorgan at nd.edu Thu Sep 30 16:31:22 2004 From: emorgan at nd.edu (Eric Lease Morgan) Date: Wed May 18 16:20:24 2005 Subject: [XML4LIB] Re: web services and mylibrary In-Reply-To: References: <0753C569-1310-11D9-9E7F-00039312AAE2@nd.edu> Message-ID: On Sep 30, 2004, at 3:13 PM, Andy Powell wrote: > Well, if what you want to do is publish 'lists of stuff' then I'd go > for > one of the flavours of RSS (my preference would be for RSS 1.0 because > of > extensibility but the other versions are fine as well) - in which case > the > API is just an HTTP GET :-) > > But I'm not sure if this is really what you are asking for, since you > mentioned WSRP and JSR168 in the original posting? What I want is to expose and syndicate the content of MyLibrary systems through things other than Web browsers. I want to enable access to the content so it can be used in ways that were not necessarily intended. For example, teachers might re-formulate the content to build reading list tools, scholars might re-combine the content to create a customized/personalized interface, librarians might create class-specific subject guides, users might subscribe to "news" feeds based on MyLibrary content, the content might become part of a campus-wide portal, the content may become part of a network of searchable authoritative resources, etc. If I really want to implement all of these things, then I suppose I will require many XML vocabularies. Sigh. -- Eric Lease Morgan From jyoung at oclc.org Thu Sep 30 16:36:14 2004 From: jyoung at oclc.org (Young,Jeff) Date: Wed May 18 16:20:24 2005 Subject: [XML4LIB] Re: web services and mylibrary Message-ID: Eric, This sounds a lot like the open-source ERRoL service I've been working on (http://errol.oclc.org/). Essentially, it is a clearinghouse for REST-style access to content and services related to items in an OAI repository. In essence, it transforms OAI responses into other forms (e.g. HTML and RSS), but it isn't limited to just the OAI protocol and simple transforms. I've started to branch out into other protocols such as SRW, RSS, and others, as well as accommodating distributed functionality to go with the distributed content. For more information, you can start with the ERRoL project page at http://www.oclc.org/research/projects/oairesolver/. I'd be happy to answer any questions you have. If nothing else, some of the approaches I've taken with ERRoLs might be of use to you. Jeff > -----Original Message----- > From: Eric Lease Morgan [mailto:emorgan@nd.edu] > Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 4:28 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: [XML4LIB] Re: web services and mylibrary > > > On Sep 30, 2004, at 3:13 PM, Andy Powell wrote: > > > Well, if what you want to do is publish 'lists of stuff' then I'd go > > for > > one of the flavours of RSS (my preference would be for RSS 1.0 because > > of > > extensibility but the other versions are fine as well) - in which case > > the > > API is just an HTTP GET :-) > > > > But I'm not sure if this is really what you are asking for, since you > > mentioned WSRP and JSR168 in the original posting? > > What I want is to expose and syndicate the content of MyLibrary systems > through things other than Web browsers. I want to enable access to the > content so it can be used in ways that were not necessarily intended. > For example, teachers might re-formulate the content to build reading > list tools, scholars might re-combine the content to create a > customized/personalized interface, librarians might create > class-specific subject guides, users might subscribe to "news" feeds > based on MyLibrary content, the content might become part of a > campus-wide portal, the content may become part of a network of > searchable authoritative resources, etc. > > If I really want to implement all of these things, then I suppose I > will require many XML vocabularies. Sigh. > > -- > Eric Lease Morgan From stoub at yahoo.com Thu Sep 30 21:40:43 2004 From: stoub at yahoo.com (Steve Toub) Date: Wed May 18 16:20:24 2005 Subject: [XML4LIB] Re: web services and mylibrary In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <415CB59B.6020601@yahoo.com> Eric Lease Morgan wrote: > What I want is to expose and syndicate the content of MyLibrary systems > through things other than Web browsers. I want to enable access to the > content so it can be used in ways that were not necessarily intended. > For example, teachers might re-formulate the content to build reading > list tools, scholars might re-combine the content to create a > customized/personalized interface, librarians might create > class-specific subject guides, users might subscribe to "news" feeds > based on MyLibrary content, the content might become part of a > campus-wide portal, the content may become part of a network of > searchable authoritative resources, etc. > > If I really want to implement all of these things, then I suppose I > will require many XML vocabularies. Sigh. Speaking mostly out of ignorance--and the hope that others might be able to inform why these two specs wouldn't work--why not: OpenURL 1.0 http://library.caltech.edu/openurl/ IMS Resource List Interoperability (RLI) 1.0 http://www.imsglobal.org/rli/ --SET