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The manuscript Summa Logicae (William of Ockham)
The Summa Logicae (Latin, in English it's the Sum of Logic) is a textbook on logic by William of Ockham. There are articles about the Summa Logicae in Wikipedia and in Logicmuseum.
It was published ...
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What are the internationally accepted legal aspects of scanning library books and making them available for different services?
What are the internationally accepted legal aspects of scanning library books and making them available through different services?
National laws differ, but what are the acceptable worldwide legal ...
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Where can Israel's Official Gazette be found?
The website of the Israel State Archives says that they have the Official Gazette in their collections:
The collections include Rashumot, the Official Gazette (consisting of the Government ...
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Linking folksonomic tags to authority controlled metadata?
I have four layers of metadata:
Authority controlled catalog records
Vocabulary controlled but user input data (e.g. "select from this list")
Uncontrolled user input data (e.g. author supplied ...
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Using holdings data to understand content of library collections in the past
There are a couple pieces to this question. Is it standard practice to capture in MARC data about when a library acquired an item in its collections. My sense is that it's not, except maybe for ...
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Which ebook lending patforms exist and how do they differ?
Answers to the question how ebooks are lent out from a library mentioned some platforms or vendors such as Overdrive and Freading - I also know Onleihe from German public libraries. Is there a ...
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Are there functional standards or operational frameworks for managing physical collections similar to the OAIS for digital collections? ISO standards?
I know there are accreditation processes for cultural heritage organizations, but I'm not really interested in that component. What I would like to do is to understand what are the shared or baseline ...
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LIS-related podcasts
Is there a census of LIS-related podcasts out there? I know that Blake Carver has posted his round-ups of blogs to follow at LISNews from time to time such as the 2011 listing but I have not seen ...
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Who is the vendor that produces BiblioCommons.com?
The Clevnet consortium uses Bibliocommons.com on the back-end. Which vendor produces that back-end?
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How to deal with retracted articles
How do research libraries deal with retracted articles?
Are they actually considered to be unpublished, would they disappear from the catalog?
Is there a clear indication on the catalogs about its ...
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Setting up National Archive system from scratch –where to start?
I have been put in a rare and privileged position – I've been asked to provide technical input for a national archive that is being set up from scratch in a small developing nation. The task at hand ...
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Is there a way to look up Ariel addresses?
I work in Interlibrary Loan, and one of the main parts of my job is sending articles through Ariel. Sometimes, the picklist sheets I am given are missing part of the Ariel address, which means I ...
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Is Google Books subscribable to librarians?
Is Google Books subscribable to libraries, just like link.springer.com to libraries?
Google Books have a large collection of scanned ebooks. Thanks!
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How do you control for objects generated invisibly by OS X, Windows, Linux, etc?
I'm running some experiments with BagIt and noticing a surprising amount of hidden files being captured in my bags such as .ds_store, thumbs.db, and *.shs. Since these aren't essential files needed to ...
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Any tools or processes for deleting slack space from donated storage media?
Slack space poses some questions as far as "donor intent" concerning digital materials on storage media donated to archives. A donor may believe this information was deleted and not be aware it is ...
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Mapping openurl 0.1 to 1.0
Our link resolver sometimes gives us openurls using version 0.1 and sometimes using version 1.0. Our UI passes these on to other services, like Illiad. It would be nice to hand off something that ...
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Public domain ISSN list?
Is there a list of ISSNs (that is a minimum association of an ISSN with a journal title) that is in the public domain?
If there is no such list and someone would aggregate such a list by using a ...
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Tools for identifying obfuscated files, specifically password protected and encrypted formats?
I am looking for tools capable of detecting and flagging up encrypted and password protected files in any given collection.
First there is a necessity for a tool that is capable of doing this and ...
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Where to find previous titles of serials?
Part of the challenge of cataloguing serials is that these publications change their titles not infrequently (in both major and minor ways). I know that MARC has fields for varying forms of titles and ...
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Do American Mathematical Society and Academic Press have ebooks for subscribers?
I know that link.springer.com offer ebooks downloadable to subscribers.
Do American Mathematical Society and Academic Press have ebooks for subscribers?
Thanks!
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What repositories are exposing information about research data sets as Linked Data?
What repositories that collect research data are also exposing information about those resources as Linked Data? I'm interested both in library-run institutional repositories and disciplinary ...
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Are electronic court records available through university libraries?
Where do all librarians go to find cost-free access to---United States jurisdictional---court records via electronic search by non-case-number look up?
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Best Starting Point for a Uncatalogued Library
I have recently been put in charge of developing a school library. Until this point, the school has not had a library, nor do they have much funding for resources etc. I am not a librarian so have ...
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Migrating a repository content to a different platform
I'm working on a project where we will be migrating data from an ePrints repository to a Fedora-based repository. Has anyone ever done something like this? I can get a batch export of EP3 XML but am ...
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Is there a community like hacker news for librarians [closed]
As you might know there is community called Hacker News for software developers (hackers) that they discuss the hottest stories in the world about their field (programming and technology). Even people ...
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Are there tools available specifically designed to compare ebooks?
I was reading an article recently about the changes between Mitt Romney's hardcover first edition of his book 'No Apologies' and his later paperback edition. In this article there was some ...
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How to deal with preservation of software with unknown author and licence?
Some even very old educational software is still of value today and it is worth preserving.
The problem is that nowadays the licence rights are very important topic, but 20 or 30 years ago it was not ...
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Do you know the name of this format?
A library software provides a export option for each data item. The out put format is like follow. Do you know the name of this format? It it a strandart format?
<?xml version="1.0" ...
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How do I enable the display of the “Expanded Marc View” tab when viewing a library catalog item in Koha's OPAC?
I was curious as to how I enable the display of the "Expanded Marc View" tab when viewing a library catalog item in OPAC? I already have "normal View", "MARC View" and "ISBD View" enabled by default.
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Is the PDF format appropriate for preserving documents with long perspective?
PDF is almost a de facto standard when it comes to exchanging documents. One of the best things is that always, on each machine, the page numbers stay the same, so it can be easily cited in academic ...
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What services do libraries need from public cloud storage before they are trusted for long-term archival?
Here's what's bothering me today...
Long term assurances (and service level guarantees) for durability
ability to get my data in and out of the cloud (multiTB doesn't work over the WAN)
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What basic services are typically provided by a library?
As part of the Document Availability Information API (DAIA) I once defined a set of services that libraries can provide, connected to a particular document. The result was:
loan: a patron can borrow ...
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Are there periodical series, such as National Geographic, that it makes sense for libraries to keep longterm? [closed]
I understand that each library collection is different and serves its own audience and clientele, but are there some periodicals that multiple libraries might want to acquire the full series? I have a ...
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Our library is considering creating a makerspace but we're unsure of where to begin
What steps should a library take to decide what tools you would provide? Is it pragmatic to open it to the public?
What are the staffing issues involved, or should it not be staffed? Is partnering ...
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Digital preservation challenges [closed]
Our library is developing a digital preservation plan and we need to identify existing and emerging digital preservation challenges. What issues have libraries with digital preservation programs ...
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What skill sets should students interested in digtial preservation careers focus on?
A colleague of mine is working on a presentation for students about Careers in Digital Preservation. Anyone want to share the skill sets that you think they should have? Or what you think the job ...
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Web archives that collect/request analytics of harvested sites?
Are there any web archiving projects or web archives that also collect/request web analytics of the harvested sites as part of the collection?
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What are the various types of Patron Driven Acquisitions that public libraries use, and which are the most cost-effective?
Right now I have found these:
Purchase on demand
E-reserve PDA
Reference collection PDA
Print on Demand (Espresso Book Machine)
PPV (Pay Per View) ebooks
Are there others?
And what do ...
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What is “[Fic]”, “[E]” or “[B]” in the Dewey Decimal Classification?
Via the OpenLibrary I came across records with [Fic], [E] or [B] (or B) in the Dewey Decimal Classification field, whereas valid DDCs only have digits, "." and "/", as far as I know.
The records were ...
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The old Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature
I know that today's equivalent is Google, but I feel like it's missing something. Back in the 80's, when I was in 6th grade, we learned how to use the Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature. After ...
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Digital preservation: questions of format and volume for a digital photography collection
Our archives has been offered over 15TB of digital photography, which we are motivated to take. Here are some of the pertinent details:
The files consistently include two versions of every image:
A ...
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How much of a library’s collection never circulates?
In a recent blog article about the question "How Much of the Literature Goes Uncited?" I just found this question. The author argues that the
answerdepends on the observation period and the universe ...
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A unified approach for finding research articles
I'm a bit stymied and I'm hoping that there is likely to be an obvious solution to my problem: how can I efficiently monitor what is being published in particular areas of science?
Right now, my ...
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Does MODS provide a way of recording missing information?
In many MODS records harvested from several sources, I see <mods:publisher>s.n.</mods:publisher> or something similar (worst I have seen: 000NOPUBLISHER000) to indicate the publisher is ...
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In the physical description of a book, what are facsims.?
I have tried to search for the definition of this book part, similar to illus., ports., etc., but search engines keep thinking that I want information on the political system 'fascism'. What exactly ...
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What is the reasoning behind creating Makerspaces in Libraries?
There is a good bit of interest in creating Makerspaces in libraries. It seems like a significant departure from the role of libraries as places that offer access to knowledge and information to be ...
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What examples are there of digitization projects using OMR?
Optical Music Recognition is a like OCR but for recognizing musical notation. Are there any libraries using this as part of digitization projects? It strikes me that this could provide incredibly ...
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Are volume numbers on article citations reliable? Are they predictable?
Scientific journal articles usually appear in one dedicated issue of a journal. There are cases they are split over more than one issue, too. In citation, this is referred to as issue number.
Aside ...
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Which is the most comprehensive online reference centre for digital preservation resources?
Many different projects and people publish digital preservation papers each year, in lots of different journals, conferences, on institutional websites etc. Trawling the web on dp research missions ...
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Any good free software for making Ebook? [closed]
Making my first Ebook and I have found FlexPaper and MegaZine3, is there more software like these?
