CarpentryConnect UK (2019)
For those who may be new to ‘The Carpentries’ – let me introduce you. I first joined a Library of Congress sponsored Library Carpentry event designed to teach interested folks the intro to ways of manipulating data with Python and OpenRefine.
Library Carpentry is a subset of the larger educational entity, The Carpentries.
Well, it looks like an organization in the UK, the Sustainable Software Institute is organizing the ‘first European CarpentryConnect event in Manchester‘ in June (25-27 June 2019). This will be a networking as well as technical learning event it appears.
I wish I could go – but the American Library Association Annual conference is too close there – schedule-wise.
Maybe next time. Either way, this should be good. If you plan to be in Manchester in June this year (2019), and love the educational, open-educational model for learning to code, please consider attending or supporting in some way.
Cheers.
Happy New Year 2019
The new year is underway, a bunch of us are getting back to work…
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2019 !
I hope it is a great year (and I hope I blog more)!
Cheers for now
Harsh Reality of Language(?)
I feel we live in an image saturated culture.
But what if we could get back to language?
Would this clamber for the ‘word’ change our lives again – make us more rational, clear, harsh, in our thinking? This harshness is required methinks if we plan to progress as a culture – we can not live in more & more emotions if we plan to develop – individually or as a group.
The ‘word’ is stark against a backdrop – it is or is-not. It is read in a direction – depending on the language or script of local use or tradition. Images suffer from no such delineation. It is with just that delineation of language that will force us to stop and think – as opposed to just going on and on (like pictures do) without order or rigor.
That is the space where we learn.
Just a thought.
Good luck
#RadioBookClub v. 8 – Behold the Dreamers
The time has come once again to get into some words – LIVE – on the radio.
This is our 8th such discussion over the internet waves – thanks be to Dennis Price of Home Improvements by Dennis Price.
We will be reading BEHOLD THE DREAMERS by Imbolo Mbue
Time/Place: 06 November 2018 – 8 PM EST.
Location for listening: Radio Fairfax.
Number to call with comments and ideas: 703-560-TALK (8255).
We look forward to the discussion and your comments.
2018 Community Service Award (DCLA)
One a very positive note for this summer of 2018…
I was honoured with the 2018 Community Service Award by the District of Columbia Library Association (DCLA).
Thank you
(Now, I just need to get it on the wall in my office…) 🙂
MARC = > XML and … Beyond-ish
I am currently reading: Coding with XML for Efficiencies in Cataloging and Metadata by Timothy W. Cole, Myung-Ja (MJ) K. Han, and Christine Schwartz.
I have been working with XML for a few years now in different contexts – but I have always been working with the structure itself – not its search, transformation, or display.
So this text has been a useful intro to xsd (schema document), xPath, and xQuery – especially as the library where I work migrates to Exlibris’s Alma – which allows for metadata manipulation in XML.
The other key relevance to work is a digital preservation platform we are migrating to from contentDM may force us, for certain types of digitally preserved materials, to write XSL. If we need this, I will be able to help more now. 🙂
Thank you to the authors for this book
Cheers
#RadioBookClub v. 7 – The Expendable Man
The time has come once again to get into some words – LIVE – on the radio.
This is our 7th such discussion over the internet waves – thanks be to Dennis Price of Home Improvements by Dennis Price.
We will be reading THE EXPENDABLE MAN by Dorothy B. Hughes (1904-1993).
Time/Place: 16 January 2018 – 8 PM EST.
Location for listening: Radio Fairfax.
Number to call with comments and ideas: 703-560-TALK (8255).
We look forward to the discussion and your comments.
