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Code4Lib North: the Ninth. OCAD University May 10-11, 2018

The 2018 Code4Lib North meeting will be held at the OCADU Library Learning Zone. We'll begin each day at a suitable time, like 9:30 am.

122 St. Patrick Street, Level 1 (also accessible from 113 McCaul Street)
Toronto, ON
M5T 2X8

Breakout sessions will take place in the Library on the second floor in rooms MCC 201 and 2015C as well as in the Inclusive Design Institute at 205 Richmond in room RHA 220.

Room Locations Map (PNG)

Register

Registration is available through EventBrite.

We will be observing the Code4Lib Code of Conduct.

Schedule

Thursday May 10 Friday May 11
09:00-9:30 Doors open, coffee/snacks & mingle Doors open, coffee/snacks & mingle
09:30-12:00 Opening Remarks 10


A peek at two decentralized data sharing protocols: IPFS and dat (John F.) (Slides) 20


Cipher Suites for Nginx and HAProxy (Giles O.) (Slides) 20


Morning break coffee & snacks


Automatically updating holdings on vendor platform (Clara T.) (Slides) (GitHub Repo) 20


Lightning talks (Alan H. - inlibraries.com; Kate D. - Accessibility Medley; Kim P. - code4libmap)


Day 1 Hackfest Recaps 20


Towards holistic technology for libraries (a talk inspired by Ursula Franklin) (Alan H.) (Notes) 20


Morning break coffee & snacks


Public Computing Service Delivery Model: work in progress (Gillian B.) 20


Driving towards conformance: A WCAG 2.0 (AA) road trip (Mark W., Mariana J., Aneta K.) 30


Data Carpentry (Greg W.) 5

12:00-13:30 LUNCH (Sign-up) LUNCH (Sign-up)
13:30-14:00 Explanable AI (XAI) & LIS (Mike R.) (Slides) Lightning Talks (Thomas G., Library Carpentry; Paul C., Gatsby.js; Sarah S., Omeka-ahhh; David F., Users v. Complexity; Graham F., Research DBs & ERM)
14:00-15:00 Hackfest and group discussions Hackfest and group discussions
15:00-15:15 Afternoon break (Learning Zone) Afternoon break (Learning Zone)
15:15-16:30 Hackfest and group discussions continue Hackfest and group discussions continue
17:30 Social - The Office Pub, 2nd floor, 117 John St.

Talk Sign Up

Code4Lib North is a great opportunity to talk about anything you are working on or pondering about. It can be as short as a 5 min lightning talk to just throw out some ideas or up to a 30 min talk on whatever you like

Name Topic Time (5 Min - 30 min) Way to contact*
Michael Ridley Explanable AI (XAI) & LIS 30 mins. mridley@uoguelph.ca (@mridley)
John Fink A peek at two decentralized data sharing protocols: IPFS and dat 15-20 mins. john.fink@gmail.com (@adr)
Giles Orr Cipher Suites for Nginx and HAProxy 15-20 mins.
Mark Weiler, Mariana Jardim, Aneta Kwak Driving towards conformance: A WCAG 2.0 (AA) road trip 30 mins. mweiler@wlu.ca, mariana.jardim@utoronto.ca, aneta.kwak@utoronto.ca
Gillian Byrne Public Computing Service Delivery Model: work in progress 20 mins. gbyrne@torontopubliclibrary.ca (@gillmbyrne)
Clara Turp Automatically updating holdings on vendor platform: work in progress 20 mins. clara.turp@mcgill.ca
Alan Harnum Towards holistic technology for libraries (a talk inspired by Ursula Franklin) 15-20 mins. aharnum@ocadu.ca

* Just so we can talk to you about getting slides or follow up questions. Feel free to email me instead if you don't want to enter anything here.

Hackfest & Group Discussion Ideas

Depending on feedback we might spend some time running a HackFest/Group Discussions instead of just presentations. Add your ideas.

Name Idea Way to contact*
Thomas Guignard Getting started with virtualization. The aim would be for attendees to end up with a working instance of Vagrant/Ansible/Docker, and maybe run something like FOLIO. I have zero knowledge or understanding of any of this, so if someone smarter than me is willing to run such a workshop, it would be amazing! Thanks :) tom@timtom.ch (@timtomch)
John Daniel Data hacking workshop. Do you like hacking, scraping, munging, mapping, or just working with data? Bring your most vexing dataset problems, compare tips and tricks, and maybe learn something new. Fun for anyone who likes Unicode, CSV, XML/XSL, JSON, Databases, Perl, Stata/R/Python/Pandas/NumPy/Jupyter & data tables, images, video, and geospatial (raster & vector) jdaniel@etresoft.ca (@etresoft)

* Just so we can talk to you about getting slides or follow up questions. Feel free to email me instead if you don't want to enter anything here.

Socials & things to do besides c4l

  • There will likely be a conference social on Thursday night, we're currently working it out.
  • The Toronto Comics Arts Festival (TCAF) is on May 12-13 right after c4l! Coincidence?
  • Next door to OCAD is the Art Gallery of Ontario, which is currently hosting the exhibit Infinity Mirrors by Yayoi Kusama. Unfortunately all advance tickets are sold out, if you are interested in visiting the exhibit, you will have to get up early and stand in line for the very limited of same-day tickets they are releasing...

Accommodations

The organizers have reserved a block of rooms at University of Toronto's Chestnut Residence, which is a 5 minute walk from OCAD. To receive the conference rate, reservations must be made by April 13, 2018.

Rooms cost $119/night + HST and include a full buffet breakfast. Reservations can be made by emailing frontdesk.chestnut@utoronto.ca or calling 416-977-0707, Ext 0 and referring to the Code4Lib North to get the discounted rate. Cancellation policy is 48 hours in advance and a credit card number will be required to hold the space. All rooms are private with ensuite washroom, linen and towels are provided. Housekeeping services the rooms weekly. Complimentary wifi is provided. For details, see http://www.chestnut.utoronto.ca/home/summer/.

Accessibility

The St. Patrick Street and McCaul Street entrances are both accessible. The 2nd floor Library can be reached via elevator G (located down the hallway from the Learning Zone). There are two single-use gender neutral washrooms in the Learning Zone and one more outside the second floor Library in addition to the two gendered, non-accessible washrooms. A microphone will be available for speakers. If you have any additional accessibility needs or concerns, please contact us.

Transportation

Code4lib North attendees can enjoy a 10% discount when traveling with VIA Rail and Porter Airlines. Use the information below when booking your tickets.

VIA Rail discount

Discount code: 13693

Instructions: Log in or create a profile on the VIA Rail reservation system prior to booking. On the Passenger information screen, select "Convention fare" from the “Discount Type” drop-down menu, and enter the discount code above for your convention or event in the “Discount code” field. The conference fare will be shown on the next page.

Discount: 10% off the best available fare in Economy, Economy Plus, Business, Business Plus, Sleeper class. "Subject to the conditions and restrictions of the fare plan to which the additional discount is being applied." Discount does not apply in any Escape fares and Prestige Class.

Valid: May 8th, 2018 to May 13th, 2018 from all stations throughout the VIA system to Toronto, Ontario and return.

Restrictions: Fare applies to a maximum of two passengers per booking. One complimentary stopover is allowed at no additional charge. For travel on all fare plans in Business class, the first stopover is allowed at no additional charge, provided that this stopover takes place in Toronto, Montréal or Ottawa only.

Porter discount

Discount code: C4LIBN

Instructions: Please book online or through your travel agent using promo code “C4LIBN”. The discounted fares are available for booking from March 2, 2018 to May 14, 2018.

Discount: Porter Airlines is proud to offer a 10% discount on available base fares (with the exception of the lowest class fare during a public seat sale) for travel to and from code4lib North. Porter offers complimentary in-flight snacks and beverages (including beer and wine), Gate Porter service for carry-on and access to the Porter Lounge in Toronto and Ottawa, where free Wi-Fi and comfortable, leather seating is available.

Valid: for travel May 7th, 2018 to May 14th, 2018 from anywhere in Canada or US to Toronto and return.

Restrictions: The promo code is intended for use by conference attendees and organizers and is not meant for distribution outside of authorized channels. Porter’s fare rules and conditions apply. For any questions regarding Porter’s services or any pre-travel concerns, contact us at 1-888-619-8622.

Twitter

Slack

  • Join the #code4lib channel on the code4lib slack
  • Instructions to join the code4lib slack are found here

Contact

Questions and/or concerns? Please contact Kaitlin Newson

2018 Organizing Group

Alan Harnum
Chris Landry
Kaitlin Newson
Kim Pham
Thomas Guignard

Sponsors

Code4Lib North would like to thank OCAD University for providing space for this meeting, OCADU IT Services for providing wi-fi, and both BiblioCommons and the Ontario Colleges Library Service for providing financial sponsorship.

Code4Lib North: the Eighth. University of Ottawa May 11-12, 2017

The 2017 Code4Lib North meeting will be held at Morisset Library at the University of Ottawa We'll begin each day at a suitable time, like 9:30 am.

65 University Private, Second Floor (Room 248)
Ottawa, ON
K1N 6N5

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How to get in

The main first floor entrance to Morisset Hall is currently under construction and will not be accessible during Code4Lib North.

Information on alternative entrances is available here, and the University has also produced a video version.

Code4Lib North is happening on the second floor of Morisset Hall in room MRT 248. This is on the administrative level of the library. If you are coming from the basement entrance, take two flights of stairs up to the entrance marked "Office of the Chief Librarian", walk past the reception desk and head for the large meeting room. We'll be posting as many signs as we can and will also have volunteers on site to point you the right way.

There is no public access to the second floor from inside the library itself.

Accessible route into Morisset Library

To access the library itself, as well as the breakout rooms in the Media Library by elevator:

Use the elevators from Level 0 in Morisset Hall (2nd floor elevators also go to 0). From 0, use the intercom to call the library. A staff member will answer and come down in the designated elevator to greet and accompany you back up to the library entrance.

Register

Registration is free through Eventbrite.Click here to register!

We will be observing the Code4Lib Code of Conduct.

Twitter

Schedule

Thursday May 11 Friday May 12
09:00-9:30 Doors open, coffee & mingle Doors open, coffee & mingle
09:30-12:00 Static website generators (Kaitlin N.) 30


Raspberry Pi adventures (Cameron M.) 30


Morning break coffee & snacks


Don't take "no" for an answer: JavaScript and API calls to overcome OPAC limitations (Thomas G.) 15


Aba: A Laravel-based webapp for collecting reference statistics (Mohamed B.) 15


Day 1 hackfest recaps 20


Potential roles for the library in communications infrastructure breakdown (John F.) 30


I didn't become a worse Librarian when I became a Grad Student: A Bizzaro rendition of my WILU talk (Tim R.) 20


Morning break coffee & snacks


mermaid.js and other markup languages to generate flowcharts from text files (Ruth C.) 5


Extracting cited references from a document (John) 10


Digitization with a geo twist (Sarah S.) 15

12:00-13:30 LUNCH LUNCH
13:30-14:00 Canadiana panel (Julienne P., Sascha A., Russell M.), 30

Slides from Julienne Pascoe

Slides from Russell M.

Lessons learned from taking peoples’ data and smushing it together (Catie S.) 30
14:00-16:30 Hackfest and Group Discussions Hackfest and Group Discussions
17:30 - whenever Social at House of Targ 1077 Bank St. (Meet in RT 248 at 5pm if you are interested in coordinating transport.)


Talk Sign Up

Code4Lib North is a great opportunity to talk about anything you are working on or pondering about. It can be as short as a 5 min lightning talk to just throw out some ideas or up to a 30 min talk on whatever you like

Name Topic Time (5 Min - 30 min) Way to contact*
Kaitlin Newson Static website generators 20 min @kaitlinnewson
Catie Sahadath Lessons learned from taking peoples’ data and smushing it together 30 mins catelynne.sahadath@uottawa.ca
Thomas Guignard Don't take "no" for an answer: JavaScript and API calls to overcome OPAC limitations 30 mins @timtomch
John Fink Potential roles for the library in communications infrastructure breakdown 15-20 mins @adr
Tim Ribaric I didn't become a worse Librarian when I became a Grad Student: A Bizzaro rendition of my WILU talk 20 mins @elibtronic
Ruth Collings mermaid.js and other markup languages to generate flowcharts from text files 5 mins @collingsruth

* Just so we can talk to you about getting slides or follow up questions. Feel free to email me instead if you don't want to enter anything here

Hackfest & Group Discussion Ideas

Depending on feedback we might spend some time running a HackFest/Group Discussions instead of just presentations. Add your ideas.

Name Idea Way to contact*
Tim Ribaric Not another IOT device, goofing around with ONION @elibtronic
Sarah Simpkin DH and sustainability/scalability support group @sarahsimpkin
Kaitlin Newson, Kim Pham Creating our own static sites with Hugo @kaitlinnewson, @tolloid
Anthony Petryk Repository usage statistics: strategies and solutions for filtering out the noise anthony.petryk@uottawa.ca

* Just so we can talk to you about getting slides or follow up questions. Feel free to email me instead if you don't want to enter anything here.

Accommodations

Accommodations on campus

We have a block of rooms reserved on campus between May 10th and May 13th. There are 10 single occupancy and 10 double occupancy rooms at a rate of 45$ a night, so buddying up is a pretty cheap option! Booking is now open for on-campus accommodation in the Friel Residence until April 10th. Please visit https://www.accommodation.uottawa.ca/ and use the Promo Code CLN2017.

Parking and Transit

The University of Ottawa is located on the bus transitway (nearest station is Laurier). Buses accept Presto cards and cash ($3.40 per ride, $10.25 day pass).

From the airport: Bus 97 runs downtown every 15-20 mins.

From the Via Rail station: Buses 62 (direction: Terry Fox/Stittsville) and 61 (direction: Terry Fox/Stittsville) run at a high frequency.

Google Maps works well for transit directions.

VIA Rail Discount Code

VIA Rail Canada has stepped in as the major ground transportation company for this edition of Code4Lib North. The train is a smarter, greener travel option, and it has wifi! Anyone who uses this Via Rail discount code will also be entered in a draw to receive a $250 voucher for future VIA Rail travel.

Discount Code: 13509

Valid: May 9 - 14, 2017

Territory: From all stations throughout the VIA system to Ottawa, Ontario and return.

Restrictions: Fare applies to a maximum of two passengers per booking. One complimentary stopover is allowed at no additional charge.For travel on all fare plans in Business class, the first stopover is allowed at no additional charge, provided that this stopover takes place in Toronto, Montréal or Ottawa only.

Discount: 10% off the best available fare in Economy, Economy Plus, Business, Business Plus, Sleeper class. "Subject to the conditions and restrictions of the fare plan to which the additional discount is being applied."

Exceptions: Discount does not apply in any Escape fares and Prestige Class.

Chips and Pop

Lunch

We'll have sign ups for group lunches close to campus. Recommended restaurants within walking distance:

Black Tomato [14 minutes] - Canadian cuisine - menu

Brother’s Beer Bistro [10 minutes] - Gastropub - menu

La Bottega [12 minutes] - Italian deli – menu

Perfection Satisfaction Promise [3 minutes] - Vegetarian - menu

Pure Kitchen [20 minutes] - Vegetarian - menu

Relish Food Truck [3 minutes] - Gourmet comfort food - menu

Rideau Centre [10 minutes] - Food court - menu

Night Time Get Together

On Thursday May 11th, we'll be congregating at House of Targ on Bank Street for pinball and perogies. We'll be heading over from campus after the sessions.

Contact

Questions and/or concerns? Please contact:
Sarah Simpkin

Sponsors

Code4Lib North would like to thank the University of Ottawa Library for sponsoring our coffee breaks and providing the space for this meeting.

Code4Lib North: the Seventh. Kitchener Public Library May 26-27, 2016

The 2016 Code4Lib North meeting will be held at the downtown branch of the Kitchener Public Library We'll begin each day at a suitable time, like 9:15 am.

85 Queen St. N.
Kitchener, ON
N2J 2H1

event map.

We will be observing the Code4Lib Code of Conduct

Register

Registration is free through EventBrite

Twitter

Schedule

Thursday Friday
09:00-9:30 Doors Open/Arrival of Coffee Doors Open/Arrival of Coffee
09:30-11:00
Welcome and Logistics
Disintegrating Vendor Lock-in / Jason S.
Bringing Digital Games into the Library / Michelle G.
Collaborating with your Computer Science Department / Kim P.
Tips on giving a workshop / Alison H.
UWSpace is the Place / Courtney M.
If You Build it, Will They Run? Digital Scholarship Centres in the Academic Library / Kim M.
Research Cloud/Digital Pres/Asset Management Strategy / Dillon M.

11:00-11:30ish
Automating the Boring Stuff / Graham F.
Historical Newspaper Digitization on a Shoestring / Art R.


Hello Friend, May I Introduce You to Linux? / Tim R.

11:30ish-1:00 LUNCH LUNCH
01:00-2:00
What we learned by mangling our 3d printers / John F.
any last minute sign-ups
DIY Discovery / Marc d.
Dr. Strangelove: or how I learned to stop worrying and love the vendor./ Geoffrey A.
any last minute sign ups

02:00-04:30
HackFest and Group Discussions
Regular Expressions in MARCedit / led by Geoffrey A.
Other topics TBD
Tour of Velocity Garage (tour at 3:30; leave KPL by 3:10)
HackFest and Group Discussions
Editing Libtech or Other Library Info in Wikipedia / led by Alison H.
Other topics TBD

Tour at Kwartzlab (tour at 2:30; leave KPL by 2:10)
05:00 Social at B@Museum N/A

There will be an optional tour of the Velocity Garage on May 26th at 3:30 p.m. We can walk there from the library but parking is available if you prefer to drive. There is also the optional tour of KwartzLab Makerspace on Friday, 27 May at 2:30 PM. Details on travel route and parking to be provided on the day.

Talk Sign Up

Code4Lib North is a great opportunity to talk about anything you are working on or pondering about. It can be as short as a 5 min lightning talk to just through out some ideas or up to a 30 min talk on whatever you like

Name Topic Time (5 Min - 30 min) Way to contact*
Alison Hitchens Tips on giving a workshop 15 Min @ahitchens
Tim Ribaric Hello Friend, May I Introduce You to Linux? 25 Min @elibtronic
Courtney Matthews UWSpace is the place 15 min @courtneyearl
Graham Faulkner Automate the boring stuff 5-10 min @grahamfaulkner
Allana Mayer "Demonstrated Experience" and Library Tech Platforms 15 min @allanaaaaaaa
Kim Martin "If you build it, will they run?" Digital Scholarship Centers in the Academic Library 5-10 min @antimony27
Jason Skomorowski "Disintegrating vendor lock-in" 20 min (Thursday) jason -at- indexdata.com
TBD Ontario Library Research Cloud 15 min (?)
Art Rhyno Historical newspaper digitization on a shoestring 15 min (Thursday) artrhyno -at- uwindsor.ca
Michelle Goodridge Bringing Digital Games to the Library 30 min @migoodridge
John Fink What we learned by mangling our 3d printers 5-10 min @adr
Kim Pham Collaborating with your Computer Science department 15 min (Thursday) @tolloid
Marc d'Avernas DIY Discovery 15 min. @start_words
Geoffrey Allen Dr. Strangelove: or how I learned to stop worrying and love the vendor 5 - 10 min. @gaufredus

* Just so we can talk to you about getting slides or follow up questions. Feel free to email me instead if you don't want to enter anything here

HackFest & Group Discussion Ideas

Depending on feedback we might spend some time running a HackFest/Group Discussions instead of just presentations. Add your ideas.

Name Idea Way to contact*
your name here your idea here your contact here!
Looking for input regular expressions in MARCedit @gaufredus
Alison Hitchens Editing libtech or other library info in Wikipedia @ahitchens

* Just so we can talk to you about getting slides or follow up questions. Feel free to email me instead if you don't want to enter anything here

Accommodations

Accommodations close to KPL (within 3 block radius)

  • Crowne Plaza Hotel Kitchener - We have arranged a group rate of $124 Deluxe and $134 Executive. Use this booking link for the special rate. If you prefer to call and make reservations call 1-877-408-6665 and reference the group code COD.
  • Queens Landing Guest House - from $110 (inc. breakfast), offering 10% discount if mention Code4Lib when booking
  • Frederick Streen Inn --from $90 (inc. breakfast), offering 15% discount if mention Code4Lib when booking

Accommodations near the universities

Participants selecting any of these accommodations can drive or bus to downtown Kitchener. Bus details will be posted soon. LRT construction details will be posted soon.

Parking and Transit

Underground Parking Garage at KPL. Hourly parking is available from 6 am to 10 pm. You may enter the parking garage from Queen St or Otto St.

  • Daily maximum: $14.50

Pay & Display Surface Parking beside KPL off Queen St. (hourly rates available).

  • Daily maximum: $10.75.

There is a lot of construction related to the LRT. For updates see the Traffic Updates. If you need any recommendations on best routes please contact us!

If you are travelling around town by bus you may fine it useful to download the Grand River Transit app

Chips and Pop

Lunch

There are plenty of walk-able places for lunch for Thursday and Friday. For those interested there will be sign up sheets for groups lunches. Some recommendations close to KPL are included on the event map.

Night Time Get Together

Wednesday night get together for those arriving early: We'll be meeting at The Adventurers Guild Café starting at about 6:30 PM for some games, and fun.

Thursday evening get together at B@Museum (5:00 PM on). We have a reserved space where participants may mingle, and order food and beverages of their choosing.

Contact

Questions concern? Please contact:
Alison Hitchens
Geoffrey Allen

Sponsors

Code4Lib North would like to thank Kitchener Public Library for co-sponsoring this year's event and providing us the meeting space. We are also very grateful to University of Guelph Library for sponsoring the coffee and tea service each day.

Code4Lib North: the Sixth. St. Catharines Public Library, June 4 & 5, 2015

The 2015 Code4Lib North meeting will be held at the downtown branch of the St. Catharines Public Library We'll begin each day at a suitable time, like 9:00am.

54 Church St.
St. Catharines, ON
L2R 7K2
905-688-6103

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We will be observing the Code4Lib Code of Conduct

Coffee, light snacks and Wifi will be provided gratis.

Register

Via Eventbrite.

Twitter

(Enter your twitter Handle to the Eventbrite sign up to be added)

Schedule

Thursday Friday
09:00 Welcome Welcome
09:30
Lookit the cool things Open Refine can do (Slides) / Tim
Using Open Data to Win Free Books / Warren (Slides)
Virtualization / Dave
Native MarcEdit for MacOS / Whitni

10:30 BREAK BREAK
11:00
Teaching programming skills to librarians / Thomas
Training for Library Specialized Services: The Case of OJS / Gabriela


Investigating BIBFRAME / Alison (slides)
Common Lisp for prototyping / David

12:00 LUNCH LUNCH
01:30
Mid-Level Docker Magic; using Docker Compose to deploy an AtoM test instance / John

Getting Started with Maps Using Google Fusion Tables and BatchGeo /Jonathan


Where Is It? Linking items in the catalog to shelf locations / Jeff

LCSH to RVM (Slides) / Warren

02:30 HackFest Group Discussion
03:00 HackFest Group Discussion
03:30 HackFest Group Discussion
04:30 Dismissed Dismissed


Talk Sign Up

Code4Lib North is a great opportunity to talk about anything you are working on or pondering about. It can be as short as a 5 min lightning talk to just through out some ideas or up to a 30 min talk on whatever you like

Name Topic Time (5 Min - 30 min) Way to contact*
Tim Ribaric Lookit the cool things OpenRefine can do 30 Min @elibtronic
David Bott Virtualization 30 Min dbott@stcatharines.library.on.ca
Thomas Guignard Teaching programming skills to librarians 30 Min @timtomch, tom@timtom.ca
David Fiander Common Lisp for prototyping 15 Min david at fiander.info
Alison Hitchens Investigating BIBFRAME 20 Min @ahitchens
Jeff Proehl Where Is It? Linking items in the catalog to shelf locations 30 Min proehlj@canisius.edu
John Fink Mid-Level Docker Magic; using Docker Compose to deploy an AtoM test instance 20 Min @adr
Whitni Watkins Native MarcEdit for MacOS 15 min @_whitni
Warren Layton Using Open Data to Win Free Books 15 min @warlayton
Gabriela Mircea Training for Library Specialized Services: The Case of OJS 15 min

* Just so we can talk to you about getting slides or follow up questions. Feel free to email me instead if you don't want to enter anything here

HackFest & Group Discussion Ideas

Depending on feedback we might spend some time running a HackFest/Group Discussions instead of just presentations. Add your ideas.

Name Idea Way to contact*
Tim Ribaric Cloud v. Local, which one to choose? @elibtronic
Alison Hitchens Playing with Open Refine @ahitchens
Alison Hitchens Discuss ideas for following up on/practicing skills from Software Carpentry for Librarians course @ahitchens

* Just so we can talk to you about getting slides or follow up questions. Feel free to email me instead if you don't want to enter anything here

Accommodations

There isn't a huge selection of places downtown to stay. Top choice is probably: Holiday Inn Ontario Street You might also want to stay on Brock Campus If there is enough interest we'll try to arrange a carpool from campus/hotel to the downtown branch.

Note from Alison Hitchens: FYI, individual accommodation at Brock is $110+HST total for 2 nights compared to Holiday Inn starting at $144+tax per night.

Parking

There are several lots downtown that you might want to use.

Parking Lots

Best option is the Garden Park / Carlisle Street Garage

Hourly Rate: $1.50
Maximum Rate: $12

Central Library Parking Lot is also $1.50/hour but is limited to 3 hour maximum (enforced).

Chips and Pop

Lunch

There are plenty of walk-able places for lunch for Thursday and Friday. For those interested there will be sign up sheets for groups lunches. Some recommendations:

Night Time Get Together

If you're in town on Wednesday June 3rd join us starting at 7:00pm at the Merchant Ale House

Thursday night - TBD.

After you are done with the conference, stick around around for the Wine. Or head down to the Falls.

Contact

Questions concern? Please contact Tim Ribaric, Brock University
David Bott, St. Catharines Public Library 905-688-6103 x212

Fifth Meeting: London Public Library, May 1st and 2nd, 2014

This year's conference is sponsored by London Public Library. We are hoping that this will encourage more participation from public library sector.


Code of Conduct

Code4Lib North 2014 seeks to provide a welcoming, fun, and safe community and conference experience for everyone. We do not tolerate harassment in any form. Discriminatory language and imagery (including sexual) is not appropriate for any event venue, including talks, or any community channel such as the chatroom or mailing list. (from the Code4Lib Code of Conduct)

Note that the Code4Lib Code of Conduct applies at Code4Lib North and at the associated social events.

Registration

Space is limited, so please register through EventBrite.

Twitter

  • Hashtag: #c4ln2014

Cost

Attendance is free, but lunch is not provided. London Public Library is providing the space and wifi for the conference, and there will be a continental breakfast and coffee breaks both days.

Schedule

Thursday
9:00 Welcome
9:20 Talks (5-20 minutes)
10:30 Break
10:45 Talks (5-20 minutes)
11:45 Lunch (on your own)
1:45 Workshop / hackfest
2:45 Break
Workshop / hackfest
4:30 End of day / socialize
Friday
9:00 Talks (5-20 minutes)
10:30 Break
Talks (5-20 minutes)
11:45 Lunch (on your own)
1:45 Workshop / hackfest
2:45 Break
Workshop / hackfest
4:00 Discussion Group Reports (if applicable)
4:30 closing comments / end of day

Thursday Morning

Name Title Duration
Sam Popowich and John Fink A brief overview of modern configuration management and deploy tools; or, why your bash scripts are not scalable. 20 mins
Geoffrey Allen Using library systems to mould public school libraries 20 mins
Dave Mitchell Opening library data from a hostile data source 20 mins
Grant Campbell An XML Framework for Teaching RDA 20 mins
Ruth Collings It's not paranoia if they're really watching you: library patron privacy 20 mins

Thursday Afternoon

Name Description
Tim Ribaric Hackfest: What can we do with an old ereader?
David Fiander Discussion: patron online privacy vs professional values

Friday Morning

Name Title Duration
Michael Ridley CRKN's Integrated Digital Scholarship Ecosystem (IDSE) Project: Overview & Feedback 20 mins
Kim Martin Preliminary findings from The Effects of Digital Technology on Seniors (EDITS) Project 20 mins
Scott Cowan RDA relationship designators as linked data: solutions to problems? 20 mins
Chris Gray Teaching SQL to Librarians at Software Carpentry bootcamp 20 mins
Sarah Simpkin Let's all go to the hackfest! #hackUOBiblio update 5 mins

Friday Afternoon

Name Title
Thomas Guignard Discussion: The Angry Nerds Squad: Freeing libraries of bad tech solutions by challenging vanilla vendor proposals
Michael Ridley Discussion: Defining a Collaboration Environment for a Distributed Library R&D Centre of Execellence
Sam Popowich Discussion: Technological skills for librarians; expanding Software Carpentry curriculum

5 minute talks signup

Feel free to edit this table to add your five-minute lightning talk proposal

Name Title
Sarah Simpkin Let's all go to the hackfest! #hackUOBiblio update
Tim Ribaric OLITA wants you! To h4ck an ebook reader.

20 minute talks signup

Feel free to edit this table to add your 20-minute talk proposal

Name Title
Michael Ridley CRKN's Integrated Digital Scholarship Ecosystem (IDSE) Project: Overview & Feedback
Geoffrey Allen Using library systems to mould public school libraries
Sam Popowich and John Fink A brief overview of modern configuration management and deploy tools; or, why your bash scripts are not scalable.
Chris Gray Teaching SQL to Librarians at Software Carpentry bootcamp
Kimberly Martin Preliminary findings from The Effects of Digital Technology on Seniors (EDITS) Project
Dave Mitchell Opening library data from a hostile data source
Ruth Collings It's not paranoia if they're really watching you: library patron privacy
Grant Campbell An XML schema for teaching RDA

Hackfest and Discussion Group topic signup

Feel free to edit this table to add your hackfest proposal or discussion group topic idea.

Name Title
David Fiander Online services: Relinquishing professional values & patron privacy to provide content
Thomas Guignard The Angry Nerds Squad: Freeing libraries of bad tech solutions by challenging vanilla vendor proposals.
Mike Ridley Defining a Collaboration Environment for a Distributed Library R&D Centre of Excellence
Sam Popowich Technological skills for librarians; expanding Software Carpentry curriculum

Accommodations

Western University has negotiated special rates at a few hotels throughout London. The Delta Armouries and Hilton London are both within walking distance of the London Public Library Central branch.

Delta London Armouries Hotel

325 Dundas Street
London, Ontario N6B 1T9

Map

  • $112 Single/Double Standard; $112 Premier;
  • $152 Signature King;
  • $187 Suite
  • (+$12 parking/night)

Complimentary high speed internet access, coffee maker, indoor pool & fitness centre, business centre.

Phone the hotel directly at (877) 814-7706 and tell them that you are attending a Western University workshop in order to get the Western rate.

Hilton London

300 King Street
London, Ontario N6B 1S2

Map

  • $109 Standard (1 King or 2 Double Beds);
  • $149 Business Class (1 King Bed)

In-room coffee makers, hairdryers, irons and ironing boards, free high speed internet access, fitness centre, complimentary newspaper, 24-Hour business centre, 2 line phones and data ports, large work area with oversized desk, 24- Hour room service, indoor pool, sauna and whirlpool and complimentary parking.

Book reservations using the Western University rate

Parking

Social Events

Wednesday Evening

If you're in town Wednesday evening, come out to meet the other early-birds at Chaucer's Pub at 7:00. 

Chaucer's Pub
122 Carling St
London, ON N6A 1H6
Canada

Chaucer's Pub is part of the Marienbad restaurant, so this map is actually to the right place.

Thursday and Friday lunch options

Local restaurants within walking distance of the library.

Thursday Evening

Group dinner

Organizers

Fourth Meeting: Ryerson University, May 23rd and 24th, 2013

Shortlink: http://bit.ly/c4ln2013

This year we are proposing an un-theme for the un-conference: computational thinking, inspired by Jonathan Rochkind's blog post: http://bibwild.wordpress.com/2012/11/27/computational-thinking-getting-started/

Sign-Up

Registration through EventBrite: http://c4ln2013.eventbrite.ca/

Twitter

When and Where

Dates: May 23rd and 24th, 2013
Times: 9am - 4pm

7th Floor, Heaslip House
The G. Raymond Chang School of Continuing Education
Ryerson University
297 Victoria Street
Toronto, Ontario

Located: 1 block east of Yonge Street, just north of Dundas Street
Google Map: http://goo.gl/maps/NkbtQ
Closest subway stop: Dundas Station


Cost

Attendance is free but lunch is not provided. Ryerson will provide wireless access as well as coffee in the morning.


Schedule

To continue with the success of past C4LNs, the schedule will have talks in the morning and hackfests in the afternoon. We will finalize the speaking schedule Thursday morning but we will try to split the talks between the two days equally.

Thursday
9:00 Welcome
9:20 Talks (5-20 minutes)
10:30 Break
Talks (5-20 minutes)
11:45 Lunch (on your own)
1:45 Workshop / hackfest
2:45 Break
Workshop / hackfest
4:30 End of day / socialize
Friday
9:00 Talks (5-20 minutes)
10:30 Break
Talks (5-20 minutes)
11:45 Lunch (on your own)
1:45 Workshop / hackfest
2:45 Break
Workshop / hackfest
4:00 End of day / socialize


Thursday Morning

Name Title Duration
Alan Harnum Computational Thinking 15 min
Alison Hitchens MOAR RDA for Systems Folks 20 min
MJ Suhonos MARC, XML, and JSON for non-coders 15 min
Cynthia Ng Making Accessible (Web) Services 10 min
Katie Legere Listen to your library - sonification of refstats data, library Sound File 15 min
Nick Ruest The Revolution Will Be Preserved 20 min

Thursday morning notes/slides

Thursday Afternoon

Name Title Session Type
Mike Ridley What should University Librarians/Chief Librarians know about library technology and library technologists? Discussion
Cynthia Ng Fail4lib Discussion
Dana Thomas Intro to (Scholars Portal) SFX Workshop?
Trina Grover New titles lists by subject Hackfest

Thursday afternoon notes/slides

Friday Morning

Name Title Duration
Andrew McAlorum, Ken Yang Digital Humanities Project Showcase: DEEDS & RPO Anthology 20 min
Steven Marsden Find your books fast! Ryerson Bookfinder 10 min
Bilal Khalid & Gordon Belray The Library in your pocket: Responsive Catalogue at UofT 15 min
Giles Orr Credit Card Sized Computers? 10 min
John Fink Big Giant Box of Disks - mass storage on the cheap with Backblaze Pods 10 min
Tim Ribaric & Jonathan Younker Make your own Proxy? 15 min
David Fiander Comparing three ISBN APIs ; Using WebDav to add storage space to Zotero 20 min

Friday Afternoon

Name Title Session Type
Tim Knight Visualization for Navigating on a Sea of Linked Data Lightning talk
MJ Suhonos Ladder Lightning talk / demo
Liam Whalen Googling for Answers Past the First Page of Results Discussion
Andrew McAlorum Library Gamification Hackfest
Trina Grover RDA in RDF http://rdvocab.info Hackfest
Tim Knight Converting MARC to RDF/XML; RDF Stores; SPARQL Endpoint Hackfest (to learn)

Organizational team / Contact


Accommodation

Delta Chelsea
Address: 33 Gerrard St.
General Reservation: 1-800-243-5732
Phone: 877-814-7706 / 416-595-1975
Website: http://www.deltahotels.com
Rates: $149/night, (single or double)

Map - Approximately 5 minute walk from the Heaslip House


Courtyard by Marriott Downtown Toronto
475 Yonge Street
Toronto ON, M4Y 1X7
General Reservation: 1-800-847-5075
Phone: 416-934-5598
Website: http://www.marriott.com/yyzcy
Rates: $152/night, (single or double)

Map - Approximately 10 minute walk from the Heaslip House


Best Western Primrose Hotel Downtown Toronto
111 Carlton Street
Toronto ON, M5B 2G3
General Reservation: 1-800-937-8376
Phone: 416-977-8000
Rates: $149/night, (single or double)

Map - Approximately 10 minute walk from the Heaslip House


Ryerson University Residences
240 Jarvis Street
Toronto ON, M5B 2L1
General Reservation: 1-866-592-8882
Phone: 416-979-5296
Website: http://www.ryerson.ca/conference/accommodations/index.html
Rates: $88/night, (single)

[1] / [2] - Approximately 3-7 minute walk from the Heaslip House

Parking

Closet parking is at 300 Victoria St, accessible only from the south (so turn in from Dundas St.)
Rate: $15/day
More information available on the Ryerson Parking website


Social Events

We have made the following lunch reservations for both Thursday, May 23 and Friday, May 24 @ 12 noon. All reservations are under the name "Ryerson Library":

Salad King (Thai)
340 Yonge St
2 tables for 6

Queen and Beaver Pub (Gastropub)
35 Elm St
1 table for 6

Paramount (Middle Eastern/Lebanese)
253 Yonge St
2 tables for 4

Milestones @ AMC (American)
10 Dundas St E, 4th floor
1 table for 4

Evening Dinner/Social

Wednesday, May 23
Artful Dodger
10 Isabella St.
(no reservations) 7:30pm
NB: Toronto Chapter PLG is meeting beforehand at 6:30; all are welcome to attend.

Thursday, May 24
Elephant & Castle
378 Yonge St
Upper mezzanine for 20-25 @ 5pm

Food Nearby

A Google Map of some suggested places to eat near Ryerson, including price ranges, is available here: http://goo.gl/maps/ln3WR

Third Meeting: University of Windsor, May 24 and 25th, 2012

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Schedule

The schedule has now been moved to an editable google doc at : http://led.uwindsor.ca/c4ln otherwise known as: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dlTqrBNfiYwjRpVnUvJbtW0K7en1ndVp84WqWbfOrvE/edit

Cost

This unconference runs on love... and the kindness of the Leddy Library who will provide : coffee, lunch, and wireless and the space

When and Where

Dates: May 24 and 25th, 2012 (it's on!)
Times: 9 am start time. 4 pm end time
Location: 4th Floor, Leddy Library, University of Windsor: http://www.uwindsor.ca/ Google Map: http://tinyurl.com/7a79qvw
Contact: mita@uwindsor.ca

Accommodation

The University offers rooms and suites for travellers, youth, and families seeking overnight, short or extended accommodations through its Conference Services: description of services provided. Use this Registration Form to book a room with Conference Services.

In addition, University of Windsor special visit rates may be available by calling the local number and asking for the University of Windsor rate at certain hotels (which shouldn't dissuade you from staying wherever you prefer):

Holiday Inn Select 1855 Huron Church Road, Windsor Tel: 1-800-465-4329 or 519-966-1200 (3 km from campus)
Hampton Inn & Suites 1840 Huron Church Road, Windsor Tel: 800-Hampton or 519-972-0770 (3 km from campus)
Quality Suites Downtown 250 Dougall Ave., Windsor Tel: 519-977-9707 (3 km from campus) (frequently used hotel for participants in Conifer hackfests)
Caesars Windsor 377 Riverside Dr. East, Windsor Tel: 800-991-8888 (3 km from campus)
The Windsor Riverside Inn 333 Riverside Dr. West Tel: 519-977-9777 (2 km from campus)
Travelodge Hotel Windsor Downtown Windsor 33 Riverside Dr. East Tel: 519-258-7774 (3 km from campus)

There are no bed and breakfasts in the immediate area but the Argyle and Olde Walkerville Bed and Breakfasts are a bus ride away.

Social Events

There's nothing formal planned but on Wednesday and Thursday nights, we'll try to informally coordinate places to have supper together.

I suggest that those around on Wednesday night meet up at the Rock Bottom Grill at 3236 Sandwich Street, Windsor. It will busy because it's "2 for 1 Wing Night" but it should be worth it.


For those who love experimental film, there is the Media City Film Festival taking place in Windsor and Detroit. Jason Scott aka textfiles will be speaking at the Ann Arbor Public Library on Wednesday night

Food

We will be providing lunch and snacks. (please email organizers if you have a dietary restriction - we will be ordering vegetarian options but we want to make sure we have enough!)
Generally folks informally gather for supper.
Here are some of our nearby options: WindsorEats: Windsor West
But there is much more if we wander farther afield: WindsorEats
Near the university on Wyndotte Street are various Asian dining options including:


And here's a list of places that could probably fit 40 people:

Format

A combination of 20 talks, 5 minute lightning talks, an Ask Anything session, workshops / hackfest time. We will try to find time for everyone who wants to present!
We have talks in the morning and hackfests in the afternoon. We will finalize the speaking schedule Thursday morning but we will try to split the talks between the two days equally.

20 minutes talks :: feel free to sign up

Name Title
Ted Lawless easyArticle - streamlining access to library materials with OpenURL, automated interlibrary loan submission, vendor APIs, Django/Python.
Mita Williams my sekret art project
John Fink and Warren Layton Embedded Hardware Hijinx
Alison Hitchens RDA for coders/systems folk presentation in Google Docs
Andrew McAlorum Our favorite jQuery modules for Drupal 7
David Fiander The state of the ebook marketplace
Dan Chudnov backplane
William Denton Having provocative fun with reference desk statistics in R

5 minutes talks :: feel free to sign up

Name Title
Nick Ruest Other Redmine uses
Tim Ribaric Circumvention using the Cloud? slides
Alison Hitchens #catcode: Cataloguers embrace Code Year slides on Google docs
Mita Williams "My god, it's full of stars! lists": building the library website that will incorporate Jamun.
Dan Chudnov occupy 1923
Graham Fawcett A Web-based video annotation tool (for peer review, possibly captioning, maybe for some nefarious library uses we haven't imagined)

20 or 40 minute workshops: each one teach one

a workshop you are willing to lead
  • Intro to Git, if demand warrants -- if not, no big deal (John Fink)
  • Environmental monitoring on the cheap (Doug Sartori)
  • (I program in a few languages, and could do a teaser-session on one of them if there's interest. Maybe Python, Haskell, Clojure or D?) (Graham Fawcett)
  • Intro to the Twitter API, including how one might use it to make a Twitter bot (Rick Scott)
a workshop of what you would love to attend
  • intro to IRC, meet zoia (Mita, Warren, Sarah, John F)
  • how to create a twitter bot (Mita, John F, David F)
  • intro to Git (Warren, Sarah, David F)

hackfest ideas :: scheme schemas

- build your own twitter bot; bot battles

hackfest ideas :: feel free to add to the list

  • twitter bot war with code4lib The Great Eastern? http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/GreatEastern
  • changing Odessi XML records to MARC XML so OCUL libraries can load MARC for Odessi, esp. Stats Can stuff. We started this project at TUG, so need someone to help me get further or finish! New note: Chris put what he did so far on github(Alison)
  • @CanadianPoetry Sprint: Canadian Poetry Online needs an overhaul! Canadian Poetry is a web anthology of contemporary Canadian poetry, providing biographies and full-text poems from Canada's leading poets. Join in this code sprint to help with the migration to Drupal, site building, development, and theming of the new version. (Andrew)
  • LibraryBox is a customized version of PirateBox that can run be run on the inexpensive TP-Link MR 3020. Currently, it acts as a simple file server but it could potentially offer a more library-focused service, such as an eBook server for nearby devices using OPDS. (Warren)
  • Evergreen: The Evergreen project is currently recruiting volunteers for the Google Summer of Code effort and has a list of project ideas. Some of these ideas, if not already claimed by a student GSoC participant, might make for interesting hackfest projects. Or we could rewrite the MARC editor in Dojo.
  • SPLURGE: The Scholars Portal Library Usage-Based Recommendation Engine began at a hackfest in February and has been worked on since then, but it needs one last push to get all of the pieces joined together so that an easy-to-use "people who borrowed this also borrowed that" service built on shared circ data can be tested. There are four parts to SPLURGE: data cleanup, getting it into a properly configured database, a web service that talks to the database, some Javascript that can dropped into a catalogue to talk to the web service. They all exist, but not all of them are quite done and they don't all talk to each other. The purpose of this hackfest project would be for people to familiarize themselves with the work that's been done, and then try to finish it up.

code4lib north organizational team

  • Mita Williams
  • Karen Pillon
  • Peter Zimmerman
  • Jennifer Soutter
  • Cathy Maskell
  • Ranti Junus (Michigan State)

hashtag and twitter list

Second Meeting: McMaster University, May 5-6, 2011

Sign Up

We can handle a maximum of 50 people and you can signup here: http://c4ln2011.eventbrite.com/.

When and Where

Dates: May 5-6, 2011
Location:

Accommodation

Our helpful folks in Research Collections put this guide together a while back.

Parking, Campus Map, Public Transit

  • Parking - I understand we have the most expensive parking in OCUL. I'm sorry :( - There is one bit of good news: if you park in the M lot, the day rate drops from $20 to $5. The M lot is about a 10-12 minute walk from the library, and there is a shuttle that will take you part of the way.
  • Campus map - we are building #10 - Mills Memorial Library
  • Public Transit
  • HSR buses that come to campus are: 1, 51, 5c, 52, and 10 - The 10 and 52 drop off by the hospital, the others drop off right outside Mills.

Cost

Keep with tradition set last year - No cost and McMaster University has tentatively agreed to provided coffee, lunch, space, and wireless.

Format

Day 1:

  • Hackfest (send problems/proposals to John Fink and Nick Ruest)

Day 2

  • 5-minute lighting talks
  • 20-minute talks
  • BOAF/breakouts

20-minute talks

I'd like to start a new tradition with Code4Lib North and deposit the slides and *maybe* recordings of the presentations in our IR. If people are cool with this, I can get it all setup prior to the event.

Name Title
William J Turkel Functional Programming Workout
Dileshni Jayasinghe & Majid Valipour Programming at Scholars Portal: apps and APIs
William Wueppelmann The Canadiana Web API
Dan Chudnov WWIC? Linked Library Data as a Customer Service Medium
Mita Williams We're jamun (and we hope you like jamun too)
William Denton Getting started with R
Alan Harnum When All You Have Is XSLT, Everything Looks Like XML: Heterogeneous Cloud-Based Content Management Using Google Docs and Other Services
Wendy Huot Why can't a web page be more like a book? Using LaTeX with Readability to generate better 'print friendly' versions of web pages
Chris Charles Introduction to Google Refine
Karen A. Coombs Zend Framework: making using web services easier

5-minute lighting talks

Name Title
Andrew McAlorum Transition to Unity
Dale Askey Fun with Failure, or, Learning to Stick a Fork in Things
Alison Hitchens Getting testers to test what you need to have tested!
Alison Hitchens Using RT Tracker for user feedback


First Meeting: Kingston ON, May 6-7, 2010

Sign up

Free registration -- but registration is now closed (we have 40+ signed up).

When and Where

May 6-7, 2010

  • Thursday: 2pm-5:30pm, followed by dinner and drinks
  • Friday: 9am-4:30pm

Meeting location:

Cost

There was no charge. Queen's University very generously supplied the space, the Internet connection, and free lunch on Friday!

How to get involved

Join the mailing list. That is where the planning will happen.

Format

  • 5-minute lighting talks
  • 20-minute talks
  • BOAF sessions
  • Maybe a hackfest.

How many are attending?

45 people have registered. Most will be attending.

Program

Thursday May 6:

  • 2pm-5pm: Open format (hang out and hack)
  • Evening: Go out for dinner and drinks

Friday:

  • 9am-4:30pm: Schedule currently "under construction" -- see table below.

Morning Break: 10:30-10:45 .... Lunch: 12-1 ....

Afternoon: 5 minute lightning talks .... "Birds of a feather" breakout sessions (sign up sheets on front table)

Name Description
William Denton OpenFRBR
Walter Lewis Exposing Linked Data
Art Rhyno Open Layers and Newspapers (Walter Lewis)
MJ Suhonos Location-aware Mobile Search
Alan Harnum Building A Library Website with Endeca technology
Wendy Huot "Your feedback, please": library web design critique
Glen Newton Using Open Source Tools for Visualization and Semantic Mapping in a Large Scale Article Digital Library
Eric Palmitesta XQuery
John Miedema OpenBook WordPress Plugin Update - Why It's Cool to Love OpenURL +++
Nasser Saleh Coagmento!: a potential collaborative search tool
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