Use Cases

Situations for applied learning

brainstorming ideas for areas in which specific competencies are neccessary

• human
• hardware
• applications
• maintaining online identity/privacy
• metadata: types, formats, etc. interoperability, automated, data-mining
• networking
• systems maintenance/managing upgrades

USE CASES --APPLICATIONS

1. Instruction librarians spend a lot of time keeping help documentation (pathfinders) current in multiple locations and formats. It would be fabulous to create pathfinders where the format can be transformed depending on application (pdf for distributing at ref. desk, xhtml for a web help page, txt for contextual help within other applications)
2. Your institution has decided to become a member of Community of Science Expertise database and wants the library to negotiate the licensing and the systems integration. You need to populate COS with the basic directory information of all the research faculty on campus and establish initial accounts.
3. FOR ARCHIVISTS -- Importing legacy data into Archivists toolkit -- check out this http://www.code4lib.org/node/173 Rather scary to me-- perl scripting and db stuff.
4. Google Book Search APIs -- implementing dynamic links in the OPAC (http://code.google.com/apis/books/)
5. Users want to be able to keyword search tags in the OPAc AND/OR be directed to an authority record that would suggest the correct LCSH subject heading to use (ex: user who keys a search "toy soldier" is directed to use term "military miniatures" instead).
6. Markup an XML page in XSLT and run it through and XSLT processor

USE CASES --METADATA

1. Expose a collection to an OAI-MPH harverster
2. Transform a set of MARC21 encoded data to MODS (http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/)
3. Figure out how and why library systems folk invented file:MARC for reading MARC21 records in PHP and what the practical application of that is (importing into CMS like Drupal perhaps?).
4. You need to import a large batch of MARC bibliographic records into the ILS.  You need to take a uniform idendifier from an 039 subfield and paste it into an OpenURL in an 846 field.  Each uniform identifier is really a uniform identifier -- i.e. unique -- and must be maintained.  Your ILS is not capable of performing global updates with this level of field granularity.  Use an editor of choice to solve the problem with regular expressions. This is "real world" it actually hapened to me!

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Questions

Stuff you want to know

I want to know how to do all of this stuff :

"Through the hands-on exercises, the student will learn how to

uncompress and untar distributions, configure an application for

building, compile it, install it, configure it, and finally use it.

Applications used during these hands-on activities include: Apache (a

Web server), MARC::Record (a tool to read and writing MARC data),

MySQL (a relational database application), Perl (a scripting

language), zebra (an indexer/search engine), xsltproc (an XSLT

processor), and YAZ (a Z39.50 client). The hands-on exercises are

complete with sample data, configuration files, and sample scripts to

get the student up and going quickly.

 

This workshop is designed for the novice and moderately experienced

computer user. The only prerequisite skills are: 1) no fear of

command-line processing, and 2) the desire to learn. THIS WORKSHOP IS

NOT NECESSARILY DESIGNED FOR COMPUTER GEEKS. IT IS ABOUT TAKING

CONTROL OF YOUR COMPUTING ENVIRONMENT. To get a flavor for this

segment, see: http://infomotions.com/musings/ossnlibraries-workshop/

Who put the chocolate in my peanut butter?

How does one pronounce SuSE?

Like "Susie," but with a slightly harder "s" sound in the middle.

How do I make sure the relevant ports are open on my handle server?

I'm not sure what a "handle server" is, but under unix, netstat will give you that information. You can run it standalone, or "man netstat" for more refinement options than any sane human being wants. I think you want "netstat -l | grep relevant port numbers," but I'm not sure. That will tell you whether those ports are listening. If you leave out the -l, you should see the full status of the ports you care about (the grep is in there to select only those ports rather than showing you everything going on on your machine).

Does pbWiki have a preview mode or do you have to save before you can see what your page edits look like?

Why yes, yes it does have a preview mode. Right next to the "save' button in case you haven't found it yet.

I only have "Save" and "Cancel." No "Preview!"

Wierd! I dunno what's up with that. Maybe try poking around the wiki settings (for me it's linked in the righthand white box at the bottom of the page).

What kinds of beer do you people drink? Bass, Newcastle, Fat Tire,

Are my pants still at the Boneless Ranch?