Category: Digital Libraries

  • DSpace REST API built in JERSEY

    I thought I’d take a quick moment to highlight some work that was done by one of the programmers here at The OSU, Peter Dietz.  Peter is a bit of a DSpace wiz and a contributor to the project, and one of the things that he’s been interested in working on has been the development…

  • Libraries and cooking

    With my move to The Ohio State University Libraries, one of the things that I’ve been thinking a lot about is how to tie together a lot of seemingly desperate systems to start creating a coherent digital initiatives infrastructure.  It’s a fun problem to be working though…something I was trying to explain to a friend…

  • Thinking about what’s not being measured by the Ithaka S+R Survey

    I’d posted some not so random thoughts on the Ohio State Libraries local IT blog.  If interested, you can find it here: http://library.osu.edu/blogs/it/thinking-about-whats-not-being-measured-by-the-ithaka-sr-survey/ In a nutshell, I’ve been struck this time around the very old-world view of the library the survey seems to be presenting to faculty.  Certainly, the survey has value, but I wonder…

  • Turning your phones into Cataloging clients

    Over the past few years, I’ve owned a number of different smart phones.  I’ve had an IPhone, Android (the first in fact) and now a Windows 7 Phone.  I have admit, they are all great, especially when I compare them to my old Blackberry.  What you can do with each of these devices is quite…

  • Evaluating digital services: an alternative reality

    Sorry for what I’m sure will be a longish post.  This is a bit of a brain dump — Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about how libraries determine if services that they provide are successful.  Well, specifically, how libraries determine if digital services that they provide are successful.  And after attending DLF and listening…

  • An OA mandate for the OSU library faculty

    The OSU Library faculty recently adopted an OA mandate, which is pretty cool.  You can read about it here: http://ir.library.oregonstate.edu/dspace/handle/1957/10850 and what a few others are saying about it: Peter Suber: http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/2009/03/oa-mandate-for-library-faculty-of-osu.html Steven Harnad: http://openaccess.eprints.org/index.php?/archives/548-Planets-1st-Library-Faculty-Green-OA-Mandate-7th-US-Mandate,-68th-Worldwide.html I think that this is important on a number of levels. Symbolically, it’s important.  It’s very difficult for the library…

  • A Guide for the perplexed: libraries and the Google Library Project Settlement

    In case folks haven’t seen it, this came across my desk today.  It’s an analysis written by Jonathan Band, a copyright expert that does work with ARL.  The link to the document is here: http://www.arl.org/pp/ppcopyright/google/index.shtml I think it’s definitely worth taking a look at. –TR

  • What would it look like if OCLC was broken up?

    The other day, I posted what I seen as some very big concerns with OCLC’s revised policy (currently being reconsidered) on the transfer of records (two of which, I would consider deal breakers).  In this post, I made the argument that maybe it was time to consider breaking OCLC up to reflect what it has…

  • Reading between the lines

    Like a number of people, I found the following piece (http://chronicle.com/weekly/v54/i24/24a01101.htm) from the Chronicle of Higher Education on the Open Library fairly interesting — in part, because of the topics that the author chose to highlight.  I tend to categorizes pieces such as this as fluff, in that one rarely gets any content of substance…

  • Harvesting UMich OAI records with MarcEdit

    I’ve had a few folks ask about the the procedure would be for a user wanting to harvest the UMich OAI records using MarcEdit.  Well, there are two workflows that can be followed depending on what you want to do.  You can harvest the OAI data and translate it directly to MARC or you can…