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Christopher Harris | 1 Mar 2006 16:27
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Western NY Job Opening - Spec. Library Technologies

Genesee Valley BOCES, an educational service agency based in Le Roy, NY (30
minutes SW of Rochester and about 45 minutes east of Buffalo) is looking to
hire a Specialist of Library Technologies to work within my department, the
School Library System (http://sls.gvboces.org). While the posting is for a
school certified librarian, the key word is librarian. We need someone to
manage Web 2.0 tool development to support member librarian blogging,
podcasting, a Moodle server, Drupal, and other services. The position will
also involve training and working with librarians in management of an
electronic resources service. Please feel free to send any questions to me
at cgharris@... or
infomancy@... or by phone at 585-344-7942.

The posting is available online at the GVBOCES website(
http://www.gvboces.org/employment/vacancy06-95.htm).

POSITION:
Specialist, Library Technologies

QUALIFICATIONS: Permanent NYS Teaching Certification
Three (3) years of experience with technology training and/or
Web development MLS or library experience desirable.
Seeking motivated person to manage Web 2.0/Library 2.0 presence
LOCATION: Le Roy Services Center
SALARY: $35,000 - $40,000
REPLY BY MARCH 16, 2006 WITH REFERENCE TO VACANCY 06-95, LETTER OF
APPLICATION AND RESUME TO:

Susan Brown
Genesee Valley BOCES
80 Munson Street
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Michael Neubert | 1 Mar 2006 20:59
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Greenstone or a DAM or something else?

Greetings -

Unfortunately I am in the position of being asked a question that I can't
begin to answer properly - but need to.  Perhaps someone on the list can
provide some advice.

I work at a relatively large institution that has agreed to accept a gift of
photographs and scrapbooks - with the provision that we digitize all the
items and return the digital files to the donor along with metadata (MODS
records, in this case).  Well, fine - there's nothing terribly problematic
about that.

The problem is that the donor organization doesn't really know how to go
about dealing with the digital files that we will return to them and seems
to expect our advice.  Unfortunately this isn't exactly our area of
expertise, either.  We use in-house applications to present digitized items
to the public, we don't do in-house digital assets management.  (The Wernher
Von Braun "that's not my department" solution won't work in this case, I'm
afraid.)

That would be my question, then.  If you have 5,000 photographs and 20,000
scrapbook pages to manage, would you use Greenstone (an open source solution
to building a digital library) or is there a better DAM solution that can be
had off the shelf that will take in the MODS records - something with a
moderate price?  Note that they will <not> be offering off-site access to
these materials which here are heavily encumbered with rights issues.  The
theory, at any rate, is that this is a one time thing - they aren't planning
to add to it.  Or is there another route?

Thanks!
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Rowan Brownlee | 2 Mar 2006 00:30
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Modeling online interview pathways

Hello all,

I'm looking for a tool that might be used to model pathways in an online
interview.

We are investigating options for development of an online information
service.  One of the user interfaces would be in the form of an interview.
 People would be asked a series of questions of various types such as
multiple choice (with single or multiple selection options) and freetext
input. The interview would be used in conjunction with a content store to
generate documents customised to individual user needs (based on responses
to interview questions).

Part of the planning/design process involves modeling interview pathways.  
I can envisage some sort of visual tool that would let me drop questions
onto a workspace, apply & modify sequencing rules.  It sounds something
like a flowchart application but I don't know if other related modeling
applications are available.

I'd also be interested in hearing about any existing online tools that
people are using to provide this sort of tailored information service.  Do
you know of organisations using interview/survey tools to generate
documents made up of discrete bits of information?

I am interested in this sort of application as it relates to generating
tailored guidelines information for digitisation & digital preservation
projects. (e.g. A collection of botanic slides, that need to be
searchable, need to be accessible for at least X years, need to be able to
be used in online teaching & learning & high end print publications - what
do I need to know?).
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JB Bryant | 2 Mar 2006 15:49

Category-centric blogs

Does anyone have an experience with a blog (or blog template) that
arranges entries by category rather than by date? I currently use
Blogger for a couple of things, but I have some ideas I'd like to create
a blog for that wouldn't be date-specific, rather the organization would
better be represented by category.

Hopefully I've expressed this clearly enough (looking back, it sounds
more complicated than it should, but I'm short on time). Thanks for any
help you can provide.

jb

J.B. Bryant 
Knowledge CPT 
Orrville, OH 

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Francis Kayiwa | 2 Mar 2006 15:58
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Re: Category-centric blogs


On Mar 2, 2006, at 8:49 AM, JB Bryant wrote:

> Does anyone have an experience with a blog (or blog template) that
> arranges entries by category rather than by date? I currently use
> Blogger for a couple of things, but I have some ideas I'd like to  
> create
> a blog for that wouldn't be date-specific, rather the organization  
> would
> better be represented by category.
>
>
>
> Hopefully I've expressed this clearly enough (looking back, it sounds
> more complicated than it should, but I'm short on time). Thanks for  
> any
> help you can provide.

I could be missing something -which begs the question why I am  
answering this- :-) I don't use blogger but my experience is just  
about all of them do what you are asking for. Certainly Movable Type  
and Wordpress, Typo all do.

regards,
Francis
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K.G. Schneider | 2 Mar 2006 16:02

RE: Category-centric blogs

> Does anyone have an experience with a blog (or blog template) that
> arranges entries by category rather than by date? I currently use
> Blogger for a couple of things, but I have some ideas I'd like to create
> a blog for that wouldn't be date-specific, rather the organization would
> better be represented by category.

I was trying to process this as well... Movable Type and Wordpress both
support categories; can you describe your project a little better and maybe
we can make some suggestions?

Karen G. Schneider
kgs@... 

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JB Bryant | 2 Mar 2006 16:12

RE: Category-centric blogs

Well, it could be that I simply haven't tried anything but Blogger. I
have installed WordPress on my web server but I have not delved into it.
I found some instructions for converting my Blogger blog to WordPress,
but haven't worked on it. This is my personal space, and I rarely get
time to do much with it. So, my question was probably just in ignorance.

All I want to do is require a category on Blog posts and then have the
entries categorized on the resultant web page. Blogger seems to be
chronology-centric. The entry form for Blogger doesn't give an
opportunity to require or even enter a category. Blog entries are
grouped by date only on the display. I thought that perhaps a different
template for Blogger could build this intelligence into it, but there's
no way to modify the blog entry form that I know of, just the display
template.

Thanks for the help. I'm sure I'll find WordPress to fit my needs.

jb

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> Blogger for a couple of things, but I have some ideas I'd like to
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K.G. Schneider | 2 Mar 2006 16:17

RE: Category-centric blogs

> All I want to do is require a category on Blog posts and then have the
> entries categorized on the resultant web page. Blogger seems to be
> chronology-centric. 

Fer sure, Wordpress will do this. There are a gadzillion Wordpress blogs,
but the LITA blog is a particularly nice iteration, and I know some of its
technomavens read Web4Lib: http://litablog.org 

Not only that, but you can assign multiple categories, have child
categories, etc., etc., and if it works like Movable Type, Wordpress
categories also function as Technorati tags. 

Both Wordpress and Movable Type have many plugins and tweaks and hacks to
extend their power, both for categories 'n other stuff. 

Go forth and categorize! It's in our blood! It's your destiny! 

Karen G. Schneider
kgs@... 

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Drew, Bill | 2 Mar 2006 16:19

RE: Category-centric blogs

Blogger does not do categories at all.  If you check help for blogger,
you will find ways people used tags to create categories.  That is what
I did for my blogs on blogger.  Blogs are all inherently chronological,
even those that have categories.

Wilfred (Bill) Drew
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AOL Instant Messenger:BillDrew4 
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." (Benjamin Franklin)

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Kate Butler | 2 Mar 2006 16:25
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RE: Category-centric blogs[Spam score: 8%]_

It is possible to add categories to a Blogger blog, though it's not something they support directly.

One way people have found is using del.ic.ious, though I'm sure there are others.
http://blogfresh.blogspot.com/2005/06/3-ways-to-use-delicious-for-categories.html

Both Wordpress and MT do it built-in, though, so if you're not wed to Blogger as a platform, in the long term,
it's probably easier to move to one of them.

Kate

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Well, it could be that I simply haven't tried anything but Blogger. I
have installed WordPress on my web server but I have not delved into it.
I found some instructions for converting my Blogger blog to WordPress,
but haven't worked on it. This is my personal space, and I rarely get
time to do much with it. So, my question was probably just in ignorance.

All I want to do is require a category on Blog posts and then have the
entries categorized on the resultant web page. Blogger seems to be
chronology-centric. The entry form for Blogger doesn't give an
opportunity to require or even enter a category. Blog entries are
grouped by date only on the display. I thought that perhaps a different
template for Blogger could build this intelligence into it, but there's
no way to modify the blog entry form that I know of, just the display
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