A web service (REST) that takes one metadata format as input and returns another. Metadata formats should include library and non-library standards that are available out there in the wild. Difficulties would include handling the different levels of granularity between standards and also the document vs. data centric aspect of different standards. One could get really fancy and suggest possible “like” standards to be returned (perhaps if someone picked up the project and ran with it after the hackfest). It should be configurable so that new standards could be plugged in as needed.
I think the most useful part of the project would be the transforms themselves (because everybody has a favorite tool and, with the transforms, all tools would/could benefit).
Personally, I don’t even think there needs to be a “web view” for this project… the group could just work out the URL based API and not even worry about styling output into a user-friendly page.
Fwiw, I don’t think my suggestion can be done in a day, but the interesting part of it to me is how would such a thing work (rather than just how do we make a particular transforming tool web accessible). I’d like to see a group work out the architecture and API, even if they don’t have any working code at the end of the day…
An editor that allows METS records to be constructed by dragging and dropping thumbnails of images and metadata (collection level and item/image level) into a hierarchical display—so they they are related to one and other and that they model the intellectual structure of the digital object (eg, chapters in a book, postcards in a collection, etc.) I imagine the drag and drop could be done client side (as an Eclipse plugin?) or server side (using javascript and ajax). There would need to be a way to see the full image or metadata record for something represented by the thumbnail… could use images from Flickr(?) and metadata returned from OAI? Or ignore that last part completely…
The sushi web service standard allows publishers to deliver counter formatted usage statistics to systems that (such as ERM modules) can connect to and harvest this data into local systems. However if a publisher does not yet support sushsi, you can\’t get this data into your erm system in an automated fashion.
A useful application would allow users to manually download counter data from publishers in delimited formats, and then load that data through an import mechanism into a database. An application written to the sushi standard could then sit on top of this database and serve the counter data to erm systems that supported sushi.
Additionally, the application could also harvest usage data from sushi compliant publishers, creating a single database for collecting usage information acquired from either Sushi publishers, or imported from delimited files from non-sushi publishers.
Presentation modules could then be added to provide reports and comparisons of this usage data, and ERM systems could retrieve this data via the sushi standard.
The project could be broken down into modules:
Here is a link to the niso sushi page
Say, after submitting the hackfest idea I dug up these sites that include a lot of information, and test beds etc. for sushi implementations. A lot of the potential work is available here. Still a lot of assembly but a lot of the pieces are there, and Cornell has a server to test against that they use with their Project Euclid journal statistics.
See Dan about this, there was some follow-up to this from SUSHI developers.
What I want to see is a library toolbar that works in the same vein as toolbars created using the Conduit website or LibX that can be completely configured and set up using XML files housed on a library’s website to allow for close to instant updates of the toolbar without reinstalls. It hsould allow for nested menus, search boxes for web opacs and online databases, recognize OpenURLs, and work with various proxy services such as EZproxy. It would be really nice if it worked for both Firefox and IE or created a version for each one.
(question: Are you mainly looking for something like this that runs in IE? Or is there something specific that LibX doesn’t already do that you could clarify?)
I am after something that would allow me to have full control over the toolbar without intervening with another person. Fully configurable via XML files with documentation in plain English for us non programmers. If you take a look at the library toolbar I created using the Conduit website, you might get a better idea of what I am after. I am sorry I am not being clear enough on this. The Conduit toolbar has a search menu that allows you to add databases that have the search string appear in the URL sent to the database engine. That capacity does not exist in LibX as far as I know. All that is needed by the Conduit tool bar is a URL like this.
(question: what do you mean by “without intervening with another person” and “fully configurable via XML files”? Do you think a good hackfest project might be to document that better?)
Yes, better documentation plus telling me how to do so locally. I can’t find that type of information any where. An IE version would be great as well as the Firefox. Might as well shoot for the heavens on this one.
Would love to see a more updated computer timer for library use, We have been using the unsupported free Library Timer that Library Geek put out years ago, but as time, and windows updates progress seems to crash more than it runs, on top of not having much you can configure on it compared to modern apps, and being locked at 800×600 display while it is active on the screen, I have examples if you are interested in the project.
(question: I looked quickly for this package, and found old (five years) email list references to it, but the domain itself—and, I presume, the software—seem to have gone away. Would it be possible for you to send an installable copy of it to us for use at hackfest? And/or screenshots and a description of its functions?)
Here is the last install of it I had, the original install files which are the .cab and the 2 setup files, the update.zip is the last actual update that was published for the software. I believe the default password, was library geek, that is used the access the staff access button on the agreement screen, if you would like any more information on it after you have had a chance to look at it let me know.
See Dan for a copy of the files he attached.
The idea is:Making InMagic bibliographic databases OAI compliant
The deliverable of the project would be either:Resources:
Example of a public InMagic bibliographic database
Example of an open access OAI Harvester, the PKP Harvester
I’d like to see a mashup of google or yahoo maps and an online catalogue so that I can browse a library collection geographically.
Ideally, I’d like to be able to move around the map and see materials in the library with subject headings that had place names matching the locations I’m looking at.
I’m imagining being able to move around the google maps interface, and (maybe depending on how far I’m zoomed in), see tags that would expand to show me books I have on that area.
For instance, if I’m zoomed in fairly close to Kingston, Ontario, I might be able to see a list of all the ‘Travel and Description’ or ‘History’ books on that town.
Maybe it could show the subject headings with that place name featured, and then a little bit of ajax could retrieve the related results when it’s clicked on.
I’ve looked at the Craig’s List / Google Maps mashup, and it seemed like it could be ported into our world.
The idea is:I would like to suggest the development of a piece of open source freeware that would open and display in bibliographic format the MARC21 batch files currently associated with the online edition of the Weekly Checklist of Canadian Government Publications published by the Depository Service Program and would enable record by record selection and downloading to bibliographic catalogue databases.
An example of a MARC 21 batch file is available here
Scroll down to a Checklist with this link : “LAC Marc21 Records”
The batch file has been produced by Library and Archives Canada as a result of a project jointly undertaken by LAC and DSP and known as the WebLink project. More information available here
These batch files have been well received by the depository library community and there would be an interest in a product of this kind.
(question: Just out of curiosity, is there anything about these particular Marc21 records that would require a particular tool just for this checklist? If not, somebody could work on a tool that just took any set of marc records and displayed a UI for choosing a subset to download, and could use these for testing—then that would help you and a lot of other people, too, in theory. :)
I think that’s right. Any batch file (i.e., txt file) in MARC 21 format would be parse-able by this proposed app. What I don’t know for certain is who else might be producing such a resource. I know that Bibliocentre (Toronto, Ont.) used to do something like this for Community Colleges that are their clients but I’m not certain that it’s still going on. Any example of it would likely be a centralized cataloguing service like Bibliocentre. I have contacts in the Community College library world and I could make inquiries if required. For that matter, I could put out messages on INFODEP and the AGIIG Listserv. And that’s just Canada of course.