[Yulcat-l] FW: Code4Lib Journal issue 11 now available!

[Arakawa, Steven]

If the contents in the announcement are hard to read, the web contents can also be found here:

http://journal.code4lib.org/issues/issue11


Steven Arakawa 
Catalog Librarian for Training & Documentation
Catalog & Metadata Services, SML, Yale University
P.O. Box 208240 New Haven, CT 06520-8240  
(203)432-8286 steven.arakawa at yale.edu

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Subject: Code4Lib Journal issue 11 now available!

Issue 11 of the Code4Lib Journal is now available. The contents are as foll=
ows:

Editorial Introduction =96 A Cataloger=92s Perspective on the Code4Lib Jour=
nal
Kelley McGrath
On the Code4Lib Journal, technology, and the universe of library cataloging=
 and metadata.
http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/3950


Interpreting MARC: Where=92s the Bibliographic Data?
Jason Thomale
The MARC data format was created early in the history of digital computers.=
 In this article, the author entertains the notion that viewing MARC from a=
 modern technological perspective leads to interpretive problems such as a =
confusion of =93bibliographic data=94 with =93catalog records.=94 He explor=
es this idea through examining a specific MARC interpretation task that he =
undertook early in his career and then revisited nearly four years later. R=
evising the code that performed the task confronted him with his own miscon=
ceptions about MARC that were rooted in his worldview about what he thought=
 =93structured data=94 should be and helped him to place MARC in a more app=
ropriate context.
http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/3832


XForms for Libraries, An Introduction
Ethan Gruber, Chris Fitzpatrick, Bill Parod, and Scott Prater
XForms applications can be used to create XML metadata that is well-formed =
and valid according to the schema, and then saved to (or loaded from) a dat=
astore that communicates via REST or SOAP. XForms applications provide a po=
werful set of tools for data creation and manipulation, as demonstrated by =
some projects related to library workflows that are described in this paper=
.
http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/3916


Why Purchase When You Can Repurpose? Using Crosswalks to Enhance User Acces=
s
Teressa M. Keenan
The Mansfield Library subscribes to the Readex database U.S. Congressional =
Serial Set, 1817-1994 (full-text historic reports of Congress and federal a=
gencies). Given the option of purchasing MARC records for all 262,000 publi=
cations in the Serial Set or making use of free access to simple Dublin Cor=
e records provided by Readex, the library opted to repurpose the free metad=
ata. The process that the Mansfield Library used to obtain the Dublin Core =
records is described, including the procedures for crosswalking the metadat=
a to MARC and batch loading the bibliographic records complete with holding=
s information to the local catalog. This report shows that we successfully =
achieved our goals of dramatically increasing access to Serial Set material=
 by exposing metadata in the local catalog and discusses the challenges we =
faced along the way. We hope that others tasked with the manipulation of me=
tadata will be able to use what we learned from this project.
http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/3604


Hacking Summon
Michael Klein
When the Oregon State University Libraries selected Serials Solutions=92 Su=
mmon as its discovery tool, the implementation team realized that they had =
an opportunity to implement a set of =93hacks=94 that that would improve th=
e overall user experience. This article will explore the space between Summ=
on=92s out-of-the-box user interface and full developer API, providing prac=
tical advice on tweaking configuration information and catalog exports to t=
ake full advantage of Summon=92s indexing and faceting features. The articl=
e then describes the creation of OSUL=92s home-grown open source availabilt=
y service which replaced and enhanced the availability information that Sum=
mon would normally pull directly from the catalog.=20
http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/3655


Automatic Aggregation of Faculty Publications from Personal Web Pages
Najko Jahn, Mathias L=F6sch, and Wolfram Horstmann
Many researchers make their publications available on personal web pages. I=
n this paper, we propose a simple method for the automatic aggregation of t=
hese documents. We search faculty web pages for archived publications and p=
resent their full text links together with the author=92s name and short co=
ntent excerpts on a comprehensive web page. The excerpts are generated simp=
ly by querying a standard web search engine.
http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/3765


Managing Library IT Workflow with Bugzilla
Nina McHale
Prior to September 2008, all technology issues at the University of Colorad=
o Denver=92s Auraria Library were reported to a dedicated departmental phon=
e line. A variety of staff changes necessitated a more formal means of trac=
king, delegating, and resolving reported issues, and the department turned =
to Bugzilla, an open source bug tracking application designed by Mozilla.or=
g developers. While designed with software development bug tracking in mind=
, Bugzilla can be easily customized and modified to serve as an IT ticketin=
g system. Twenty-three months and over 2300 trouble tickets later, Auraria=
=92s IT department workflow is much smoother and more efficient. This artic=
le includes two Perl Template Toolkit code samples for customized Bugzilla =
screens for its use in a library environment; readers will be able to easil=
y replicate the project in their own environments.=20
http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/3814=