Category Archives: Other Journals

Raw questions when looking at the MODS documentation

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https://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/userguide/identifier.html

MODS documentation does not explain an expected syntax for the examples. This would be very helpful. What is the expected syntax for typeURI?

http://loc.gov/standards/mods/userguide/typeofresource.html
manuscript

Definition
A resource that is written in handwriting or typescript.
Application
This attribute is used as manuscript="yes" when a collection contains manuscripts and is considered generally to be manuscript in nature, and for individual manuscripts.

A collection is not the same thing as a DC collection, so what does the XSD say?

Where does the OLAC grene terms map to this list?

https://www.loc.gov/standards/valuelist/marcgt.html

UNT IT help desk and Virtualization Service

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Initial Request on 16 OCT 2022

Initial Request on 16 OCT 2022

Reply the Next Day with my follow-up response.

Second Response of the same confusion.

Four rounds of this nonsense... please just read my message.

Then they sent me the questionnaire for the satisfaction survey.

Well, are you happy?

Umm, NO. Not happy. Please read my messages when I send them.

Then they marked it resolved... without any resolution!

Finally two days later, someone replies...

Two days later: "Oh we have a different virtualization service through the business school!

Can your service do what I need it to do?

With all the gusto of "Let's go down the rabbit hole again and contact a new IT department", I reached out to the Citrix service manager. However, contrary to initial expectations, I found that I was corresponding with a responsive and well informed person who could make things happen if all the boxes on his checklist were filled... only they the boxes still are not filled.

Let's get all the stakeholders involved...

And so there it is... UNT, the school which is not in want of defined process. It is a well managed school.

Platform tools for OAI harvesting

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So, in recent OLAC presentation I talked about enabling Omeka or Drupal via recipes for OAI harvesting. Here is some links to internet chatter on these issues.

Koha

enable Items in KOHA OAI Harvesting

https://koha-community.org/manual/18.05/en/html/webservices.html

https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/38956/export-of-zotero-citation-to-marc-format-for-import-into-koha-lms

wordpress

Day 13: Harvest data with OAI-PMH

WordPress and Drupal

https://acrl.ala.org/techconnect/post/creating-an-oai-pmh-feed-from-your-website/

eHive

https://developers.ehive.com/

Catmandu

https://librecatproject.wordpress.com/tutorial/

Omeka
https://omeka.org/classic/docs/Plugins/OaiPmhRepository/

MOAI
https://pypi.org/project/MOAI/

PyOAI
https://pypi.org/project/pyoai/

Woodworking Links

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I have a bit of a woodworking business.

here are some links I've been collecting. I have been looking for a brand.

https://brandingirons.com/collections/wood/products/multi-use

https://www.rockler.com/custom-branding-iron-16-styles-available

https://www.rockler.com/hand-tools/wood-burning/wood-branding-irons

https://www.theverge.com/23013610/etsy-crafts-sell-creative-amazon-shopify-how-to

Long Cheese Slicer Assembly Kit

http://www.csgnetwork.com/bizstartupcalc.html

Afternoon snack

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Katja and I had afternoon hot chocolate today. we talked about her work at school. She is learning about typography and letter height. Worm line, grass line, airplane line and cloud line. I showed her some of my work and some of the font things I’ve done and the font book we have here in the house.

Font lines and homework lines
Stirring milk for hot choclate

MARC Records for Journal Articles

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I am looking for some examples of MARC records for journal articles, and for chapters of books. I see lots of MARC records for ISSN (whole journals). I am also looking for MARC records for proceedings or edited volumes but I am not finding journal article, chapters of edited volumes, or proceedings papers/chapters. I'm looking for the kinds of fields they use (fingerprints of the data structure). I see that this has been an acknowledged issue via MARC Discussion Paper 2003-DP01. https://www.loc.gov/marc/marbi/2003/2003-dp01.html That discussion paper points to MARC fields which are documented here. I also see that OCLC has a page that talks about these issues in section 3.2: https://www.oclc.org/bibformats/en/specialcataloging.html

I also realize that these are resource types which are generally not cataloged at the library level, and hence the research question... I'm looking for ways that MARC can be used as a data storage format for these resources.

There have been questions about this for at least 10 years.