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The initial commit in https://github.com/code4lib/shortimer/ was November 2011, which is ten years for some values of ten. Taking a quick and noncomprehensive glance around, I see postings as old as 2005. I don't see an obvious API, but maybe a maintainer could weigh in about data dump possibilities? On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 11:28 AM Eric Lease Morgan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > On Jan 22, 2021, at 11:11 AM, Jill Ellern <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > I'm doing some research into systems librarian duties and wondering if > there is an easy way to get a dump of the code4lib jobs from the last 10 > years? In excel format? > > > Easy? I'd be surprised. > > There are two or three sources of the Code4Lib jobs data: > > 1. the underlying data from the jobs.code4lib.org site > > 2. any one of a number of different Code4Lib mailing list Web archives > > 3. the archived mailbox (mbox) files from the mailing list > > I don't think the jobs site has been around for ten years. Has it? Nor do > I know whether or not the data is archived. If it is, then I'd bet you will > be able get it in some sort of structured format like JSON or delimited > delimited format like Excel. > > Scraping different Web archives would require... scraping which, > personally, I run away from. > > Finally, the archived mbox files would be the most comprehensive, but a > programmer would have to parse the mbox (email) files, which is a > specialized task in and of itself. If you want to know where the mbox files > are located, then drop me a line and I'll let you know. Easy. > > Finally, what's the questions you would like to answer? How many system > librarian jobs have been posted? Where were the jobs? What are the > characteristics of systems librarianship and how have they changed over > time? How much they pay? Extracting some of this information from the > postings may be difficult, if not heroic in nature. > > -- > Eric Morgan > University of Notre Dame -- Andromeda Yelton Humanistic Machine Learning for Library Data Lecturer, San José State University iSchool https://andromedayelton.com @ThatAndromeda <http://twitter.com/ThatAndromeda>