pintiniblog - services_web

Analyse de PubGet

noreply@blogspirit.com (pintini) — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:52:18 +0200

Analysis of PubGet — An Expedited Fulltext Service for Life Science Journal Articles

"In June, a new service that speeds access to life sciences literature reached a milestone. Called PubGet, it is a service that reduces the number of clicks to the full text of an article, and the milestone was activating the 50th institution using its service. Using its own proprietary “pathing engine”, it links directly to the full text on the publisher’s website. PubGet does this by understanding the link structure for each journal of each publisher and constructing the link to the full-text based on information from the citation. The PubGet service focuses on the life sciences journals indexed in PubMed — hence the play on names: PubMed to PubGet."

(source: Disruptive Library Technology Jester, 05/08/09)

Bibs "en temps réel"

noreply@blogspirit.com (pintini) — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:51:12 +0200

ACRLog, dans le billet The Real-Time Library, revient sur les principales caractéristiques des bibs "en temps réel" (si quelqu'un a une meilleure traduction - e-bibs?):

Elles sont intégrées dans des réseaux collaboratifs, ce qui implique plus que la simple ouverture d'un compte: une présence active et le partage d'information en temps réel.
Elles mettent à jour régulièrement leur "statut".
Elles offrent des services sur mesure à leur(s) communauté(s).
Elles sont accessibles en temps réel et mettent donc en oeuvre les outils adéquats pour assurer cette accessibilité.
Elles mettent en ligne des services d'information en flux continu.
Elles effectuent de la veille active sur les services web émergeant et expérimentent ceux dont le potentiel peut améliorer leurs e-services.
Elles implémentent des services spécifiques au web en temps réel.
Les bibliothécaires "en temps réel" sont prêts à créer des relations avec les utilisateurs "en temps réel".

Evident, me direz-vous. Certes.

Biblioblogs: un des éléments de notre stratégie de communication

noreply@blogspirit.com (pintini) — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 09:24:26 +0200

Blogging as a Special Librarian

"[...] We should all be communicating with our users, colleagues, patrons, markets and just plain folks regularly. Blogs can be part of your communication mosaic and add clear value. Added to e-mail, websites, newsletters, etc. and combined with RSS and permission-based marketing, you’ve got a powerful strategy. [...]"

(source: Stephen's Lighthouse, 03/07/09)

The Code4Lib Journal (n° 7)

noreply@blogspirit.com (pintini) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:23:15 +0200

Au menu du n°7 du Code4Lib Journal:

How Hard Can It Be? : Developing in Open Source

In 2000 a small public library system in New Zealand developed and released Koha, the world’s first open source library management system. This is the story of how that came to pass and why, and of the lessons learnt in their first foray into developing in open source.

Extracting User Interaction Information from the Transaction Logs of a Faceted Navigation OPAC

This paper discusses the analysis of Apache web server logs from a faceted catalog interface (OPAC) at North Carolina State University. By grouping individual HTTP requests into user sessions and analyzing in that context, requests can be understood as particular user actions, with more specificity as to purpose and effect of an action. Client IP address and time are used as a sufficient proxy for determining user sessions from logs. Some initial exploratory findings of user behavior in the NCSU OPAC are provided, including that users make use of facets less than of text searching, and that some facet groups are used significantly more than others. Links are provided to the scripts used to make this session-based analysis, which could be modified for use with other facetted OPACs which use an Apache front-end.

Using a Web Services Architecture with Me, Myself and I

The UW-Madison Libraries Library Course Page system is used to deliver electronic reserves materials and course-focused library instruction webpages to students. As part of a rewrite of our system we broke the application into three component pieces: a file repository, a course timetable data service, and an interface application for building and viewing individual course pages. The new three-piece system was written with an inward facing service-oriented architecture that allowed us to choose the best technologies to solve each of the tasks the entire system needs to accomplish.

Deciphering Journal Abbreviations with JAbbr

JAbbr is an online tool developed at Cornell University to help users decipher journal title abbreviations. This article discusses why these abbreviations are so problematic, and how traditional tools are often insufficient, and then describes the novel approach used by JAbbr. Given an abbreviation, JAbbr creates a regular expression for fuzzy matching, tests it against a list of serial titles extracted from the library catalog, and returns a list of possible matches to the user. JAbbr is available as a web site and as a web service.

Repurposing ProQuest Metadata for Batch Ingesting ETDs into an Institutional Repository

This article describes the workflow used by the University of Iowa Libraries to populate their institutional repository and their catalog with the data collected by ProQuest UMI Dissertation Publishing during the submission of students’ theses and dissertations. Re-purposing the metadata from ProQuest allowed the University of Iowa Libraries to streamline the process for ingesting theses and dissertations into their institutional repository The article includes a discussion of the benefits and limitations of the workflow described.

Bibliographic Metadata Extraction from Theses

This article presents the application of part-of-speech (POS) based statistical text analysis to the task of bibliographic metadata extraction from electronic dissertations. By using the approach described here it is possible to detect the title of a Ph.D. paper with an accuracy of about 80%. The accuracy measurements are done using a conceptually simple approach and implementation.

[livre] Library Mashups

noreply@blogspirit.com (pintini) — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 10:41:43 +0200

Library Mashups: Exploring New Ways to Deliver Library Data (Edited by Nicole C. Engard, Foreword by Jenny Levine)

"This unique book is geared to help any library keep its website dynamically and collaboratively up-to-date, increase user participation, and provide exemplary web-based service through the power of mashups.
Nicole C. Engard and 25 contributors from all over the world share definitions, tools, techniques, and real life applications. Examples range from ways to allow those without programming skills to make simple website updates, to modifying the library OPAC, to using popular sites like Flickr, Yahoo!, LibraryThing, Google Maps, and Delicious to share and combine digital content."

Commander le livre ici

Métier (12/05/09)

noreply@blogspirit.com (pintini) — Tue, 12 May 2009 08:27:28 +0200

> Collaborative Librarianship

(vol. 1, n° 2, mai 09 / en libre accès)

> Library Hi Tech

(vol. 27, n° 2, mai 09 / sur abonnement)

Un numéro consacré notamment aux VRE (Virtual Research Environments).

Voir aussi: From OPAC to CMS: Drupal as an extensible library platform
Voir aussi: Discovering Discovery Tools: Evaluating Vendors and Implementing Web 2.0 Environments

> Copyright for Education and Research: Golden Opportunity or Digital Black Hole?

(source: British Library / via DigitalKoans, 10/05/09)

> Article@BST: passez du papier à l'électronique !

(source: BlogusOperandi, 12/05/09)

> Un univers netvibes S.I.Lex pour la veille en droit et en sciences de l’information

(source: S.I.Lex, 11/05/09)

> La loi Hadopi, vue autrement

(source: S.I.Lex, 11/05/09)

> Téléchargement : l'éducation par l'exemple

(source: affordance.info, 11/05/09)

Services web des BU et culture organisationnelle et institutionnelle

noreply@blogspirit.com (pintini) — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 18:04:02 +0100

Web Services As Public Services: Are We Supporting Our Busiest Service Point?
(source: The Journal of Academic Librarianship, Article in Press, Corrected Proof, 25/11/08 / sur abonnement)

"This article is an analysis of academic library organizational culture, patterns, and processes as they relate to Web services. Data gathered in a research survey is examined in an attempt to reveal current departmental and administrative attitudes, practices, and support for Web services in the library research environment."

"[...] Academic library Web sites and their development, like all areas of the library, are impacted by organizational structures, cultures and climates. Organizational and institutional culture, as it relates to libraries, can be thought of in two ways. There is the culture of librarianship as a profession and then there are the organizational cultures as experienced in our respective institutions. While there are many similar definitions of organizational culture, we can say organizational culture is the shared mental models; the set of spoken and unspoken rules, values and principles; the institutional memory, feelings and experiences that gather and coalesce over time.3 Organizational culture, climate and structure are powerful, critical forces which shape strategies, determine goals, affect productivity and can make or break innovation. [...]"

Couvertures de livres

noreply@blogspirit.com (pintini) — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:54:01 +0200

A million free covers for your library or bookstore

LibraryThing propose ses couvertures de livres (~1 million).
Il faut détenir une "LibraryThing Developer Key".

On le sait, Amazon offre aussi ce service. Voici la position de LT sur le sujet:
"This service "competes" with Amazons cover service, now part of Amazon Web Services. Amazon's service is, quite simply, better. They have far more covers, and no limit on the number of requests. By changing the URL you can do amazing things to Amazon covers.
The catch is that Amazon's Terms of Service require a link-back. If you're trying to make money from Amazon Affiliates, this is a good thing. But libraries and small bookstores have been understandably wary about linking to Amazon. Recent changes in Amazon's Terms of Service have deepened this worry."

Services: web portable et bibs

noreply@blogspirit.com (pintini) — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:09:43 +0200

Au menu du dernier Library Technology Reports (juillet 08, vol. 44, n° 5), des articles sur le "web portable" (ou "mobile") et les bibs:

- What Is the Mobile Web?
- Mobile Devices.
- What Can You Do with the Mobile Web?
- Library Mobile Initiatives.
- How to Create a Mobile Experience.
- Getting Started with the Mobile Web.

APIs

noreply@blogspirit.com (pintini) — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:54:58 +0200

Une liste de services web orientés bib sur TechEssence.info (R. Tennant).