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Roy Tennant | 1 Nov 01:34
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Code4Lib 2008 Call for Proposals

We are now accepting proposals for prepared talks for Code4lib 2008.
Code4lib 2008 is a loosely structured conference for library technologists
to commune, gather/create/share ideas and software, be inspired, and forge
collaborations. It is also an outgrowth of the Access HackFest, wrapped into
a conference-like format. It is *the* event for technologists building
digital libraries and digital information systems, tools, and software.

The conference will be held February 25-28, 2008 in Portland Oregon. More
information can be found at <http://code4lib.org/conference/2008>.

Prepared talks are 20 minutes, and must focus on one or more of the
following areas:
- "tools" (some cool new software, software library or integration
platform)
- "specs" (how to get the most out of some protocols, or proposals for new
ones)
- "challenges" (one or more big problems we should collectively address).

The community will vote on proposals using the criteria of:
- usefulness
- newness
- geekiness
- diversity of topics.

We cannot accept every prepared talk proposal, but multiple lightning talk
sessions will provide everyone who wishes to present with an opportunity to
do so.

Please send your name, email address, and proposal of no more than 75 words
to code4libcon at googlegroups.com. The proposal deadline is November 30,
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Tom Keays | 1 Nov 02:15
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Re: RE: CMS (Content Management System)

I was going to ask if anyone could recommend Textpattern. I've been
torn between it and Drupal, but leaning recently to Textpattern. The
book by Kevin Potts, Robert Sable, and Nathan Smith has been very good
in helping me get up to speed with the CMS.

On 10/31/07, Jerry Yarnetsky, mjcpl reference
<information@...> wrote:
> Weaknesses...
>
> * Image handling on the administrative side needs to improve.

This weakness was mentioned in some of the blogs and forums I've read.
Some folks are proposing farming out the image handling issue to
Flickr and using plugins like vdh_flickr to embed images into blogs.
I'm not sure if this idea is viable for library websites, but makes
seems to make sense for individuals who want to offload some that
bandwidth or need flexibility should they decide to migrate to another
CMS at some point.

Textpattern's "TextBook" wiki has a useful comparison chart of various
image and gallery plugins. Allowing a little thread bleed here, there
are several implementations of Lightbox listed that folks might want
to check out.

http://textbook.textpattern.net/wiki/index.php?title=Comparison_of_Gallery_Plugins
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Gerry Mckiernan | 1 Nov 02:50
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NYTimes: OpenSocial: Facebook Watch Your (Face)Back

***APOLOGIES FOR RECEIPT OF DUPLICATE POSTINGS***
Friends/

Google and Friends to Gang Up on Facebook
By MIGUEL HELFT and BRAD STONE 

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 30 — Google and some of the Web’s leading social networks are teaming up to take on
the new kid on the block — Facebook. 

On Thursday, an alliance of companies led by Google plans to begin introducing a common set of standards to
allow software developers to write programs for Google’s social network, Orkut, as well as others,
including LinkedIn, hi5, Friendster, Plaxo and Ning.

The strategy is aimed at one-upping Facebook, which last spring opened its service to outside developers.
Since then, more than 5,000 small programs have been built to run on the Facebook site, and some have been
adopted by millions of the site’s users. [snip]
[snip]

“It is going to forestall Facebook’s ability to get everyone writing just for Facebook,” said a
person with knowledge of the plans who asked to remain anonymous because he was not authorized to speak on
behalf of the alliance. The group’s platform, which is called OpenSocial, is “compatible across all
the companies,” that person said. 
[snip]

The alliance includes business software makers Salesforce.com and Oracle, who are moving to let
third-party programmers write applications that can be accessed by their customers. The start of
OpenSocial comes just a week after Google lost to Microsoft in a bid to invest in Facebook and sell
advertising on the social network’s pages outside the United States. 
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danielle.joffe | 1 Nov 02:57
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Tables of Contents/Current Contents Newsletters


Hi
Does anyone have a good app for collating Tables of Contents and sending out as a monthly newsletter -
preferably with the ability to add the entire webpage, create folders and then create report including a
contents page?
Netsnippets desktop bar used to do this brilliantly for me, but it is not being maintained anymore.  
I haven't found anything else that works as well.
Any ideas?

Thanks

Best Wishes,
Danielle

Danielle Joffe
Information Manager
Family Relationships Information & Library Service Relationships Australia (New South Wales) Library 
149 Hawkesbury Road/PO Box 206 
Westmead, NSW 2145 
P:(02) 9806 3211   F:(02) 9806 3260 E: daniellej@... 
W: http://www.relationships.com.au/resources/libraries/ransw-library
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Jerry Yarnetsky, mjcpl reference | 1 Nov 13:55

Re: RE: CMS (Content Management System)

Hi Tom,

I've learned a lot using TXP and as a result am planning a redesign of our
site (though I haven't decided whether to go at it incrementally or whole
hog).

What I've been doing for image handling is a combination of image uploader
with smd_slimbox (a lightbox variant) for galleries and bas_img_selector for
article images. What I don't like is the inability of deleting multiple
images at once.

The importer I like is ebl_batchupload as it can create image categories and
batch resize on the fly via a Flash dialog box.  It's currently out of
circulation awaiting an upgrade expected 12/1. He'll be charging $5 a domain
for it once he releases it again, but for me it'll be worth the price.
Another one that works for me is fpx_image_import. However, that requires
you to ftp your images to a special folder for processing. Not bad for me,
but not good for client that is not as tech savvy (I do freelance TXPing on
the side for a designer friend of mine).

Let me know your website address so I can follow it as you go-- it's good to
see another library try TXP!

If you have any questions let me know!

best,
Jerry Yarnetsky
reference-technology librarian
Madison-Jefferson County Public Library
420 W. Main St.
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Perla Innocenti | 1 Nov 17:33
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Registration is open for “Appraisal in the Digital World” Conference

***Apologies for cross-posting***

Appraisal in the Digital World
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei 
Rome, Italy
15 - 16 November 2007
http://www.dpc.delos.info/rethinking_appraisal/

The Accademia Nazionale Dei Lincei and Digital Preservation Cluster of the DELOS Network of Excellence in
association with DigitalPreservationEurope (DPE), and InterPARES are delighted to announce that
registration is open for the “Appraisal in the Digital World” Conference, which will take place in
Rome on 15-16 November 2007.

The conference will focus on emerging appraisal strategies, policy development and implementation,
cutting-edge research, and practitioner experience and comprises a mix of peer-reviewed papers,
invited presentations and keynote international speakers including Terry Eastwood, Ken Thibodeau,
Luciana Duranti and Jason Baron. It provides an opportunity for information professionals,
archivists, records managers, record creators, managers, students, and researchers from the
sciences, the arts, government and business to rethink appraisal in the context of the changes brought
about by digital technology and the globalization of our society, to network with colleagues, learn
about current developments and research, discuss their own experiences, and identify risks and
challenges that are likely to emerge from each possible choice. 

Registration

Earlybird registration before 9th November 2007 costs €50, and €150 thereafter.

The registration fee includes:

  a.. Conference
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Elena OMalley | 1 Nov 21:08
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techessence.info


I was taking a turn through my RSS feeds, and it looks like
TechEssence.info hasn't been updated since June 07. Is it just resting?
Or do I have a caching problem?

Thanks,
Elena O'Malley
Assistant Director for Technology and Access Services
Emerson College Library, Boston, MA 02116
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Andrew | 1 Nov 21:21
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DST patching heads-up

If you think your Windows machines are all patched up for the rollback 
from Daylight Saving Time (DST), you might be surprised to find 
computers and servers that are off-the-clock Monday. Even if you patched 
computers this Spring, you may run into problems under the following 
conditions:

1) A Windows computer or server set up AFTER the spring forward to DST

AND

2) Runs Windows XP or Server 2003

AND

3) Synchs to a local Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) server

Under those conditions, those computers and servers are likely not 
patched unless you patched them manually using the existing DST patches. 
The category that the DST patch falls under is not normally enabled on 
local WSUS servers. Below is a blog post that covers what you need to do 
on your local WSUS server to enable the category for the DST patch. Once 
you've enabled that category, you should synch your server with MS and 
then approve the patch to be deployed. Once the patch is enabled in 
WSUS, you can check the status of your computers and servers to see if 
they are truly ready for the end of DST.

http://blogs.technet.com/dst2007/archive/2007/08/18/kb-933360-on-wsus-081707.aspx

Andrew Mutch
Library Systems Technician
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Bill Drew | 1 Nov 21:24
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Re: techessence.info

I see the same thing.  Maybe Roy Tennant or Thomas Dowling will give us
an explanation.

>>> "Elena OMalley" <Elena_OMalley@...> 11/1/2007 4:08 PM >>>

I was taking a turn through my RSS feeds, and it looks like
TechEssence.info hasn't been updated since June 07. Is it just
resting?
Or do I have a caching problem?

Thanks,
Elena O'Malley
Assistant Director for Technology and Access Services
Emerson College Library, Boston, MA 02116

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Gerry Mckiernan | 1 Nov 22:35
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A SciTechNet: chemistry.org/exchange

***APOLOGIES FOR RECEIPT OF DUPLICATE POSTINGS***
Friends/Colleagues

I am pleased to announce the latest addition to my recently-announced
_SciTechNet(sm)_ blog devoted to Science and Technology social
networking services.

The newly-added service is called ***chemistry.org/exchange*** 

WHY? chemistry.org/exchange *is user-driven scientific content: [one]
* can share, vote, and comment on articles and news among a global
community. chemistry.org/exchange is a scientific community: create a
profile, assign tags (keywords) to your account, and find and network
with other registered users.*

chemistry.org/exchange is an article repository that allows registered
users ** to start a library of scientific research that's important to
* [them] --publications * [they*ve] authored, or articles that
furthers * [their] research.*

chemistry.org/exchange was originally launched as BiotechExchange.org
with the intent of providing *individuals [with] the opportunity to
meet, dialogue, discuss, debate, and interact with other researchers and
professionals involved in discovery and process development for the
pharmaceutical and bio-based materials industries.*
BiotechExchange.org sought to provide * * a forum to share
information, identify opportunities, and seek collaborations with fellow
scientists and industry professionals

HOW? To use the full functionality of chemistry.org/exchange,
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