[Web4lib] Code4Lib Journal issue 11 now available!

[Carol Bean]

Issue 11 of the Code4Lib Journal is now available. The contents are as
follows:

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


Interpreting MARC: Where’s 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 “bibliographic data” with “catalog records.” He explores this
idea through examining a specific MARC interpretation task that he undertook
early in his career and then revisited nearly four years later. Revising the
code that performed the task confronted him with his own misconceptions
about MARC that were rooted in his worldview about what he thought
“structured data” should be and helped him to place MARC in a more
appropriate 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
datastore that communicates via REST or SOAP. XForms applications provide a
powerful 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 Access
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
agencies). Given the option of purchasing MARC records for all 262,000
publications in the Serial Set or making use of free access to simple Dublin
Core records provided by Readex, the library opted to repurpose the free
metadata. The process that the Mansfield Library used to obtain the Dublin
Core records is described, including the procedures for crosswalking the
metadata to MARC and batch loading the bibliographic records complete with
holdings 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 metadata 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’
Summon as its discovery tool, the implementation team realized that they had
an opportunity to implement a set of “hacks” that that would improve the
overall user experience. This article will explore the space between
Summon’s out-of-the-box user interface and full developer API, providing
practical advice on tweaking configuration information and catalog exports
to take full advantage of Summon’s indexing and faceting features. The
article then describes the creation of OSUL’s home-grown open source
availabilty service which replaced and enhanced the availability information
that Summon would normally pull directly from the catalog.
http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/3655


Automatic Aggregation of Faculty Publications from Personal Web Pages
Najko Jahn, Mathias Lösch, and Wolfram Horstmann
Many researchers make their publications available on personal web pages. In
this paper, we propose a simple method for the automatic aggregation of
these documents. We search faculty web pages for archived publications and
present their full text links together with the author’s name and short
content excerpts on a comprehensive web page. The excerpts are generated
simply 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 Colorado
Denver’s Auraria Library were reported to a dedicated departmental phone
line. A variety of staff changes necessitated a more formal means of
tracking, delegating, and resolving reported issues, and the department
turned to Bugzilla, an open source bug tracking application designed by
Mozilla.org developers. While designed with software development bug
tracking in mind, Bugzilla can be easily customized and modified to serve as
an IT ticketing system. Twenty-three months and over 2300 trouble tickets
later, Auraria’s IT department workflow is much smoother and more efficient.
This article includes two Perl Template Toolkit code samples for customized
Bugzilla screens for its use in a library environment; readers will be able
to easily replicate the project in their own environments.
http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/3814

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Carol Bean
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