[open-bibliography] Hello everyone

Thu Aug 16 20:38:25 UTC 2012

On Thu, Aug 16, 2012 at 9:25 PM, Bo Johnson <johnsonbjeff at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> Greetings Bo,

> My name is Bo Johnson, I currently live in Chicago, Illinois in the US. I
> work in information management and am finishing a masters degree in Library
> and Information Science. Tech wise, I am not as savvy as I would like to
> be, but I have a little knowledge of HTML, CSS and XML, very little
> knowledge of Javascript, and almost none with Python, though I am working
> through the codeacademy.com courses on Javascript and Python.
>

There's lots that can be done with simple coding. Much of the work is
things like writing parsers and that's mainly working out the horrors of
legacy formats. A knowledge of regexes, filesystems, servers is always
useful. Javascript is the  main front-end language

>
> I have completed one course in general cataloging (MARC, AACR2, and basic
> LCSH and Sears subject cataloging) and one course on metadata for internet
> (XML and MARCXML, and very cursory work with EAD, LOM, Dublin Core, METS,
> MODS and ONYX). I also used to work as a professional taxonomist, focusing
> in faceting.
>

BibJSON takes the view that simple is beautiful , especially when we need
non-professionals to be involved.

>
> Most of my experience is in enterprise settings (enterprise content and
> document management, specifically) and I would like to contribute in any
> way I can.
>
>
>
-- 
Peter Murray-Rust
Reader in Molecular Informatics
Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
University of Cambridge
CB2 1EW, UK
+44-1223-763069
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