Library Cataloging
Issue 13 of the Code4Lib Journal has been published. Partial contents:
- Oclc Application Gallery
OCLC has announced that twelve new apps have been added to OCLC Application gallery.Members of the OCLC Developer Network and participants at WorldCat Mashathons have created these apps and mash-ups.Getting It System Toolkit (GIST) for Gifts and Weed...
- Online Shelf Browse Tool
The North Carolina State University Library has released an open-source tool for browsing the shelf in the catalog.The NCSU Libraries is pleased to release its Virtual Shelf Browse application and web service as open source software. Source code is available...
- Metadata And Data Quality Problems
Metadata and Data Quality Problems in the Digital Library by Jeffrey Beall appears in the latest Journal of Digital Information. This paper describes the main types of data quality errors that occur in digital libraries, both in full-text objects and...
- Open Journal Systems
Open Journal Systems, an open source tool for journal publishers is now available. It uses the OAI-PMH standard.Open Journal Systems (OJS) is a journal management and publishing system that has been developed by the Public Knowledge Project through its...
- Open Source Opac
This was posted on oss4libRomano writes: "JOpac2 is a open source project we started in 2002. The idea came out because we need a OPAC able to integrate different data sources without data transformation. For this, JOpac2 is written in Java and is build...
Library Cataloging
Code4Lib Journal
Issue 13 of the Code4Lib Journal has been published. Partial contents:
- ISBN and QR Barcode Scanning Mobile App for Libraries
Graham McCarthy and Sally Wilson
This article outlines the development of a mobile application for the Ryerson University Library. The application provides for ISBN barcode scanning that results in a lookup of library copies and services for the book scanned, as well as QR code scanning. Two versions of the application were developed, one for iOS and one for Android. The article includes some details on the free packages used for barcode scanning functionality. Source code for the Ryerson iOS and Android applications are freely available, and instructions are provided on customizing the Ryerson application for use in other library environments. Some statistics on the number of downloads of the Ryerson mobile app by users are included. - Using Web Services for a Mobile OPAC
Denis Galvin and Mang Sun
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the creation and intended evolution of the Rice University mobile online public access catalog (OPAC). The focus of the article is on how SirsiDynix?s Symphony Web Services can be used to create a mobile OPAC. - Look What We Got! How Inherited Data Drives Decision-Making: UNC-Chapel Hill?s 19th-Century American Sheet Music Collection
Renée McBride
Have you inherited a digital collection containing valuable, but inconsistent metadata? And wondered how to transform it into a usable, quality resource while accepting that it can?t meet your idea of perfection? This article describes such an experience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Library with its CONTENTdm-based 19th-Century American Sheet Music Collection, addressing issues such as field construction, the use of controlled vocabularies, development of a project data dictionary, and metadata clean-up. - From ISIS to CouchDB: Databases and Data Models for Bibliographic Records
Luciano Ramalho
For decades bibliographic data has been stored in non-relational databases, and thousands of libraries in developing countries still use ISIS databases to run their OPACs. Fast forward to 2010 and the NoSQL movement has shown that non-relational databases are good enough for Google, Amazon.com and Facebook. Meanwhile, several Open Source NoSQL systems have appeared.
- Oclc Application Gallery
OCLC has announced that twelve new apps have been added to OCLC Application gallery.Members of the OCLC Developer Network and participants at WorldCat Mashathons have created these apps and mash-ups.Getting It System Toolkit (GIST) for Gifts and Weed...
- Online Shelf Browse Tool
The North Carolina State University Library has released an open-source tool for browsing the shelf in the catalog.The NCSU Libraries is pleased to release its Virtual Shelf Browse application and web service as open source software. Source code is available...
- Metadata And Data Quality Problems
Metadata and Data Quality Problems in the Digital Library by Jeffrey Beall appears in the latest Journal of Digital Information. This paper describes the main types of data quality errors that occur in digital libraries, both in full-text objects and...
- Open Journal Systems
Open Journal Systems, an open source tool for journal publishers is now available. It uses the OAI-PMH standard.Open Journal Systems (OJS) is a journal management and publishing system that has been developed by the Public Knowledge Project through its...
- Open Source Opac
This was posted on oss4libRomano writes: "JOpac2 is a open source project we started in 2002. The idea came out because we need a OPAC able to integrate different data sources without data transformation. For this, JOpac2 is written in Java and is build...