Category: Digital Libraries

  • Internet Explorer 7 preview

    I figured since I do a bit of web development (though I’ll admit it tends to mostly be backend work), I thought I’d download Microsoft’s new IE 7 preview.  For the most part, it looks pretty good.  Nothing earth shattering or worth switching from your current browser if your happy with it, but I do…

  • MARBI Proposal 2006-04

    So the following was sent out on the MARC Unicode list: Proposal 2006-04, “Technique for conversion of Unicode to MARC-8,” was approved at the MARBI meeting on January 21 with the following additions and changes.1. It was agreed that a proposal for lossless representation of unmappable characters using numeric character references will be brought to…

  • 2006 Midwinter Trip Report

    I have to write a trip report for my institution — so I thought I’d post it on my blog.  Enjoy. ALA Midwinter 2006 Trip Report San Antonio, TX Terry Reese   Ah, winter in San Antonio…certainly it must be warmer and drier than Oregon (at least, that’s the impression that I’ve cultivated).  Well, it…

  • CONTENTdm and EAD records

    For those of you out there that use CONTENTdm — OSU has been starting to experiement with putting EAD records into CONTENTdm and utilizing the software as our temporary (maybe longterm temporary) solution to making EAD records available electronically to our patrons.  As CONTENTdm 4.0 users know, this version offers the ability to index many…

  • Going to Midwinter….

    What a drive into the Portland Airport this morning.  Geez, this morning we got something like an 1/4 inch of rain so the highways heading out of Independence was flooded all the way to I-5 (not unpassible, but lots of high water).  Then, I get to Portland and because of 2 accidents, am only able…

  • Gary Smith (of OCLC’s) response to MARBI Proposal 2006-04, Technique for conversion of Unicode to MARC-8

    I was glad to see Gary Smith from OCLC finally post OCLC’s official response regarding the current MARBI proposal regarding the techniques for conversion of Unicode to MARC-8.  For those that haven’t see the proposal, the general gist of the document is that the current recommendation is to have non-transformable characters dropped, replaced by a fill character.  Personally,…

  • ETDs and automatic MARC generation

    Since Sept., OSU has started accepting ETDs in electronic format.  The materials are stored in Dspace — and this has been a bit of a boon for us.  I’ve spent a little time this week putting together an xslt stylesheet that can be used, in conjunction with MarcEdit 5.0’s Metadata harvester, to harvest the metadata…

  • Speaking of flooding

    Speaking of flooding, I just finished sheparding a new digital collection — a set of aerial obliques of the 1964 Corvallis flood.  The interface is still rough, but the collection can be accessed at: Rising Waters: the 1964 Corvallis Flood.  –Terry

  • Code4Lib 2006

    Well, I finally registered for the Code4Lib hackfest that will be going on in Corvallis, OR this February. It sounds like much fun. If it sounds like something that might interest you, you should check it out. –Terry

  • New OSU Digital Collections: OSU Herbarium Type Specimens

    Officially released last week, OSU has made available a nifty new digital collection called the OSU Herbarium Type Specimens. This collection was done in collaboration with the Herbarium library on campus — and essentially takes photographed images of original specimens and matches them with the original descriptions of the specimens. It required working with a…