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→Proposals for 2010 Code4LibCon Preconferences
Connecting Serials Solutions Fed Search, Link resolver or Summon to almost anything (such as OCLC, ILS systems, Drupal, whatever). Additionally, participants will have full access to the Summon API - providing search access to over 500 million academic documents. Serials Solutions staff will be on hand to answer questions and demonstrate various technologies.
---- Two sessions on getting up to speed as a programmer. Intended for people relatively new to programming, or wanting to improve their skills from beginner to intermediate. If you're new to code4lib and are worried that the talks might go over your head, come to this session, and we'll be sure you're ready! (Dan Chudnov) * Hacker 101/102/201/202 - (Dan Chudnovmorning) Are you an accidental hacker? Recent MLS grad who got handed all the web scripting duties because "those young people know all that stuff now"? Slid over from reference, tech services, or archives into "doing the tech stuff" because nobody else would? Humanities major who found a good job in the library but never wrote a lick of code before? Sole hacker in a sea of non- either technical folks who never has anyone to look to for mentoring? Learned a lot on your own, but you still sometimes "justget stuck" at the same places in your code? If these descriptions sound like you, and you're coming to code4lib to build a better foundation of programming know-morninghow for yourself, or 101/102 morningyou've already got some basics down and need to fill in some big gaps, this is the preconference for you. We'll cover some basic tenets of how code works and work through some fun, informative examples together. We'll also leave plenty of time for questions and will gear the session to what the people who attend want to learn. Bring a laptop - everyone will write some new code in this session. * Hacker 201/202 afternoon - (afternoon) Picking up where 101/102 leaves off, we'll apply what we cover in the morning to practical library situations. Parse MARC records; stuff XML metadata into a friendly session database; query that data with SQL; put up a web interface to help people still newish that query; replace it all with a Solr backend; dress up the coding thing web page with CSS and JavaScript. (Note: we're not going to get up focus on Solr for very long; if you want to speed focus on Solr, go to the dedicated Solr preconf sessions!) Bring a little morelaptop - everyone will write some new code in this session. ----
* OCLC Web Services Boot Camp and Lightning Talk Demos (Contact/Responsible person: Roy Tennant, tennantr@oclc.org) - full day thorough coverage of a suite of APIs and the essentials about the underlying technologies (e.g., SRU, CQL, Atom, OpenSearch, etc.) to get you going right away. Also time to show off what you've done to mashup library data in the past (not limited only to OCLC services), in a 5-10 minute presentation.
