Tag: LMS

Learning Management System Demo Week Notes

Ryerson is going through a public consultation for a new LMS. I mostly went to the sessions where an instructor came in to talk about their experience with a product. When that wasn’t available, I went to the vendor presentations.

Full schedule and links to the session recordings: http://lms.blog.ryerson.ca/2013/03/20/announcing-lms-demo-week/

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Code4lib Day 2: Lightning Talks

Scott Hanrath – Zotero and SHERPA/RoMEO API mashup

  • quick and dirty way to filter a collection of articles by publisher policies
  • use Zotero and SHERPA/RoMEO APIs to tag articles with publisher policies
  • work flow?
  • zotero plugin?
  • Code on github

David Walker – Basic Learning Tool Interoperability (LTI) Protocol

  • Need LMS to pull all the relevant library information, items, etc.
  • In LMS, register library tool as if it were a native building block
  • When insert into course, make a little iframe of tool
  • Hidden form elements post it to tool with data of course, data, security (OAuth)

Peter Murray – Introducing FOSS4LIB.org

  • Lyrasis’ response to survey on what librarians wanted
  • open source adopters are still in the early adopters stage
  • thus, website was created
  • determine whether OSS is right for the library including cost
  • help to select software
  • Call to action: register packages, releases, events, providers

Mark Matienzo – I’ve Got Good News

  • C4L11: fiwalk with me – using open source digital forensics software to support pre-digest work
  • update of work since then
  • pluggable
  • could integrate anything
  • two working plugins: virus scanner, file format identification against PRONOM
  • Code on github
  • BitCurator

Mike Durbin – Edge Cases – Digitizing and delivering undescribed items in EAD

  • should automate as much of the workflow as possible
  • items selected for digitization, scanning, created/updating spreadsheet with ID and sequence, name image files according to ID/sequence
  • put it in for automated processing including quality control, files pushed into master file archive, ingested into Fedora, and e-mail is sent to collection manager
  • Finally, publication

Ryuuji Yoshimoto – Introducing CALIL.JP, scraping/mashup all of OPACs in JAPAN! PDF Slides

  • OPACs have no API
  • so start scraping OPACs, fighting with dirty HTML
  • 2 months to scrap 200+ OPACs
  • CALIL.JP
  • realtime holding by through the CALIL API by ISBN, returns XML or JSON
  • item information from amazon and Google
  • now have many third-party apps e.g. browser extension

Kåre Fiedler Christiansen – Chucking all the software components in a library together to present recorded radio and tv

  • built MPEG -> streaming server
  • website -> cool design
  • cool design, website, streaming server, access control -> cool website
  • except lawyers, oh noes!
  • PDF Slides

Joel Richard – Introducing Macaw: Metadata Collection Tool for Book-like things

  • digitizing lots of book-like things including pamphlets
  • most libraries sent to Internet Archive then to the Biodiversity Heritage Library
  • but some items too large to fit on usual scanning hardware
  • had to use camera, but had to add metadata
  • Macaw collects metadata but doesn’t really do workflow
  • two views: thumbnails and list
  • take data from wherever, using Z39.50 or CSV, into Macaw
  • custom export from Macaw, including Internet Archive, the library
  • each piece is modular
  • Code on Google Code

Rachel Frick – LOD-LAM Incubator Project

  • Linked Open Data for Library, Archives, and Museums
  • lightweight approach in terms of funding and consultation
  • timeline: March – May = recruit panel, fundraising, open comment

Mao Tsunekawa – Project Shizuku : Making Friends in Libraries

  • Shizuku 2.0
  • software development project in supporting encounters among library users
  • not recommending books, recommending users instead
  • visualize circulation data for finding other users reading the same books
  • can share history of reading books
  • developing Baron which allows searching OPAC and then making friends

Keith Folsom – Archivists’ Toolkit Database Server on an Amazon EC2 Instance

  • multi-institutional
  • hosting on small instance of amazon
  • Ubuntu/MySQL
  • single open port
  • download kit with PuTTY
  • going out of pilot

Rebecca Jones – Call for Services

  • InnovativeInterfaces
  • provide SQL access
  • working on RESTful services
  • What services would people like to have?
  • Live Beta in March