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<p>Decasm: /* Code Retreat */</p> <hr /> <div>== Instructions ==<br /> Thank you for considering proposing a pre-conference! Here are a few details:<br /> <br /> * We will be taking pre-conference proposals until '''November 7, 2014'''<br /> * If you cannot or do not want to edit this wiki directly, you can email your proposals to cmh2166@columbia.edu or collie@msu.edu<br /> * Examples from the 2014 pre-conference proposals can be found at [[2014 preconference proposals|http://wiki.code4lib.org/2014_preconference_proposals]]<br /> * If you are interested in ''attending'' a particular pre-conference, please append your name below that proposal (indicating interest in more than one proposal is fine!)<br /> * If you have an idea for a pre-conference, but cannot facilitate yourself please post the idea below and email cmh2116@columbia.edu or collie@msu.edu<br /> * '''NOTE:''' Pre-conferences are NOT included in the Code4Lib Conference price and will be held on Monday, February 9, 2015 as either full day or half day sessions<br /> * Please use the template for proposals provided in the pre-formatted block below<br /> <br /> == Pre-conference Proposals ==<br /> <br /> === Delivering and Preserving GIS Data ===<br /> <br /> '''Half Day [Morning]'''<br /> <br /> * Darren Hardy, Stanford University, drh@stanford.edu<br /> * Jack Reed, Stanford University, pjreed@stanford.edu<br /> <br /> We will discuss how to set up a spatial data infrastructure (SDI) to deliver GIS data, to manage GIS content in a Fedora repository for preservation, and to establish metadata requirements for good spatial discovery. By the end of the workshop you will have a working SDI! This workshop is a compliment to the GeoBlacklight workshop in the afternoon.<br /> <br /> ''Interested in Attending''<br /> <br /> If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br /> <br /> # [[User:Ssimpkin|Sarah Simpkin]]<br /> # Vicky Steeves<br /> # Andrew Battista<br /> # Peggy Griesinger<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> <br /> === A hands-on introduction to GeoBlacklight ===<br /> <br /> '''Half Day [Afternoon]'''<br /> <br /> * Darren Hardy, Stanford University, drh@stanford.edu<br /> * Jack Reed, Stanford University, pjreed@stanford.edu<br /> <br /> GeoBlacklight is a discovery solution for geospatial data that builds on the successful Blacklight platform. Many libraries have collections of GIS data that aren’t easily discoverable. This will be a hands-on workshop, focused on installing and running GeoBlacklight which builds on the morning workshop &quot;Delivering and Preserving GIS Data&quot;.<br /> <br /> ''Interested in Attending''<br /> <br /> If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br /> <br /> # [[User:Ssimpkin|Sarah Simpkin]]<br /> # Vicky Steeves<br /> # Andrew Battista<br /> # Peggy Griesinger<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> <br /> ===RailsBridge: Intro to programming in Ruby on Rails===<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Half-Day&quot; [morning]'''<br /> <br /> * Contact Carolyn Cole, Penn State University, carolyn@psu.edu<br /> * Additional instructors welcome<br /> <br /> Interested in learning how to program? Want to build your own web application? Never written a line of code before and are a little intimidated? There's no need to be! [http://www.railsbridge.org/ RailsBridge] is a friendly place to get together and learn how to write some code.<br /> <br /> RailsBridge is a great workshop that opens the doors to projects like [http://projectblacklight.org/ Blacklight] and [http://projecthydra.org/ Hydra] and [https://github.com/traject-project/traject Traject].<br /> <br /> ''Interested in Attending''<br /> <br /> If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br /> <br /> # Maura Carbone<br /> #Vicky Steeves<br /> # Peggy Griesinger<br /> # Mike Price<br /> # Jean Rainwater<br /> # Coral Sheldon-Hess<br /> # Margaret Heller<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> <br /> === Replace yourself with a painfully complex bash script...or try Ansible ===<br /> <br /> '''Half Day [Morning]'''<br /> <br /> * Chad Nelson, chad dot nelson @ lyrasis dot org<br /> * Blake Carver, Blake dot carver @lyrasis dot org<br /> <br /> Abstract: <br /> <br /> [http://www.ansible.com Ansible] is an open source automation and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Configuration_management configuration management] tool that focuses on simplicity to help make your life as a developer, or a sysadmin, or even a full on devops-er, easier. This workshop will cover the basic building blocks used in Ansible as well as some best practices for maintaining your Ansible code. We will start by working through a simple example together, and then participants will be given time to work on their own projects with instructors providing guidance and troubleshooting along the way. By the end of the session, participants will have a working knowledge of Ansible and be able to write a working [http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks.html playbook] to meet local needs.<br /> <br /> ''Interested in Attending''<br /> <br /> If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br /> # Ray Schwartz<br /> # Coral Sheldon-Hess<br /> # Kevin S. Clarke<br /> # Joshua Gomez<br /> # Charlie Morris<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> <br /> === Intro to Docker ===<br /> <br /> '''Half Day [Whenever]'''<br /> <br /> * John Fink, McMaster University, john dot fink at gmail dot com<br /> * Francis Kayiwa, University of Maryland Libraries , francis dot kayiwa at gmail dot com<br /> <br /> Abstract:<br /> <br /> [http://docker.io Docker] ([http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/9669 jbfink code4lib journal article]) is an open source Linux operating system-level virtualization framework that has seen great uptake over the past year. This workshop will take you through the basic features of Docker, including setup, importing of containers, development workflows and deploying. Knowing when Docker is useful and when it isn't will also be covered. Ideally, every attendee will have ample experience creating and running their own Docker instances by the end.<br /> <br /> ''Interested in Attending''<br /> <br /> # Jim Hahn<br /> # Joshua Gomez<br /> # Bobbi Fox<br /> # Ray Schwartz<br /> # Megan Kudzia<br /> # Coral Sheldon-Hess<br /> # Cary Gordon (uses Docker in production on AWS)<br /> # Eric Phetteplace<br /> # Esther Verreau<br /> # Charlie Morris<br /> #<br /> <br /> === Code Retreat ===<br /> <br /> '''Full Day'''<br /> <br /> * Jeremy Friesen, University of Notre Dame, jfriesen at nd dot edu<br /> * Additional facilitators welcome; Especially if you have CodeRetreat experience.<br /> <br /> Abstract:<br /> <br /> &quot;Coderetreat is a day-long, intensive practice event, focusing on the fundamentals of software development and design.<br /> By providing developers the opportunity to take part in focused practice, away from the pressures of 'getting things done', the coderetreat format has proven itself to be a highly effective means of skill improvement.<br /> Practicing the basic principles of modular and object-oriented design, developers can improve their ability to write code that minimizes the cost of change over time.&quot; [http://coderetreat.org/about About Code Retreat]<br /> <br /> ''Interested in Attending''<br /> <br /> # Mike Giarlo<br /> # Charlie Morris<br /> # Devon Smith<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> <br /> === Presentations workshop ===<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Half Day [Afternoon]&quot;''' (but could be expanded based on interest)<br /> <br /> * Chris Beer, Stanford University, cabeer@stanford.edu<br /> * Additional facilitators welcome.<br /> <br /> This is a preconference session intended for first time Code4Lib speakers, habitual procrastinators, experienced speakers, those thinking about offering lightning talks, etc. If you're preparing a talk for this year's Code4Lib, this workshop is an opportunity to rehearse your presentation, get feedback from peers, get familiar with the presentation technology, etc.<br /> <br /> ''Interested in Attending''<br /> <br /> If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br /> <br /> #Vicky Steeves<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> <br /> === Dive into Hydra ===<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Half Day [Afternoon]&quot;''' <br /> <br /> * Justin Coyne, Data Curation Experts, justin@curationexperts.com<br /> * Bess Sadler, Stanford University, bess@stanford.edu<br /> <br /> Hydra is a collaboration of over 30 educational institutions who work together to solve their repository needs by building open-source software. Dive into Hydra is a course that bootstraps you into the Hydra software framework. We'll start at the basics and walk you through the various layers of the Hydra stack. We'll conclude by installing the Worthwhile gem, enabling every participant to walk away with their own Institutional Repository. Participants who have prior exposure to web programming will get the most out of this course. It's recommended (but not required) that you attend &quot;RailsBridge&quot; prior to this workshop.<br /> <br /> ''Interested in Attending''<br /> <br /> If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br /> <br /> # Maura Carbone<br /> # Peggy Griesinger<br /> # Mike Price<br /> # Jean Rainwater<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> <br /> === code4lib/Write The Docs barcamp ===<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Full Day&quot;''', with options for jumping in for half a day<br /> <br /> * code4lib wrangler: Becky Yoose, yoosebec at grinnell dot edu<br /> * Write the Docs contacts: TBA<br /> <br /> Abstract<br /> <br /> Documentation. We all know that we need it for things we develop, but most of us either keep putting it off or write documentation that is not maintained, clear, concise, and so on. We're all guilty! So what's stopping us from doing better docs? Luckily, Portland is also the home to the NA Write the Docs conference, and is home for many folks who live and breathe documentation. This barcamp is open to both code4lib and non-code4lib conference attendees and is intended to provide a space where code4libbers can find practices and tools in creating better documentation for all as well as documentation wonks can find out ways in which the library wonks can help with better documentation access and organization. <br /> <br /> Remember, like metadata, documentation is a love note to the future.<br /> <br /> More information about Write the Docs at http://conf.writethedocs.org/<br /> <br /> There will be a nominal fee (t/b/d) for non-Code4LibCon attendees (subject to organizer approval). <br /> <br /> ''Interested in Attending''<br /> <br /> If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br /> <br /> '''Full day'''<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> <br /> '''Morning'''<br /> # Ranti Junus<br /> # Mita Williams<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> <br /> '''Afternoon'''<br /> # Francis Kayiwa (if my Pre-Conf is in the AM) Otherwise with Ranti if my Pre-Conf is in the afternoon. <br /> # Kevin S. Clarke<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> <br /> === Linked Data Workshop ===<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Half Day [morning]&quot;''' <br /> <br /> * Karen Estlund, University of Oregon, kestlund@uoregon.edu<br /> * Tom Johnson, DPLA, tom@dp.la<br /> <br /> Abstract:<br /> <br /> Developer and metadata experts-focused linked data workshop. Topics covered will include: linked open data principles, converting existing data, and modeling linked data in DAMS.<br /> <br /> ''Interested in Attending''<br /> <br /> If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br /> <br /> # Logan Cox<br /> # Ray Schwartz<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> <br /> === Code4Arc ===<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Full Day&quot;''' (with options for half day participation)<br /> <br /> * Sarah Romkey, Artefactual Systems, sromkey@artefactual.com<br /> * Justin Simpson, Artefactual Systems, jsimpson@artefactual.com<br /> * Chris Fitzpatrick, ArchivesSpace, chris.fitzpatrick@lyrasis.org<br /> * Alexandra Chassanoff, BitCurator Access, bitcurator@gmail.com<br /> <br /> Abstract:<br /> <br /> What does it mean to Code for Archives? Is it different than coding for libraries, and if so, how? <br /> <br /> Code4Lib is a wonderful and successful model (you must agree or you wouldn't be reading this). This workshop is an attempt to create a space to replicate the model in an Archival context. A space to talk about development for archives, and the particular challenges of developing archival systems. Topics to discuss include Integration between different Archival software tools, and between Archival tools/workflows and larger institutional tools like institutional repositories, discovery and access systems.<br /> <br /> The schedule may include the following:<br /> <br /> * Panel type conversations about the State of Art in Archives <br /> * Case Studies - discussion of workflows at specific institutions, including gaps in tools and how those are being addressed or could be addressed <br /> * Tool Demos - access to demos of some of the open source tools used in an Archival Context (examples include ArchivesSpace, Archivematica, BitCurator, AtoM)<br /> <br /> Artefactual will provide demos running Archivematica and AtoM, Lyrasis will do so for ArchivesSpace, BitCurator will for BitCurator. We encourage others to chime in here to expand the list of tools available to touch and play with. <br /> <br /> When signing up, please indicate if you are an end-user or a developer.<br /> <br /> ''Interested in Attending''<br /> <br /> If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br /> <br /> # Laney McGlohon - developer<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> <br /> === Fail4Lib 2015 ===<br /> <br /> '''Half Day [TBD, probably afternoon]'''<br /> <br /> * Andreas Orphanides, akorphan (at) ncsu.edu<br /> * Jason Casden, jmcasden (at) ncsu.edu<br /> <br /> Abstract:<br /> <br /> Failure. Failure never changes. Since failure is an inescapable part of our professional work, it's important to be familiar with it, to acknowledge it, and to grow from it -- and, in contravention to longstanding tradition, to accept it as a fact of development life. At Fail4Lib, we'll talk about our own experiences with projects gone wrong, explore some famous design failures in the real world, and talk about how we can come to terms with the reality of failure, to make it part of our creative process -- rather than something to be shunned. Let's train ourselves to understand and embrace failure, encourage enlightened risk-taking, and seek out opportunities to fail and learn. This way, when we do what we do -- and fail at what we do -- we'll do so with grace and without fear.<br /> <br /> This year's preconference will include new case studies and an improved discussion format. Repeat customers are welcome! (Fail early, fail often.)<br /> <br /> The schedule may include the following:<br /> <br /> * Case studies. Avoid our own mistakes by bearing witness to the failures of others.<br /> * Confessionals, for those willing to share. Let's learn from our own (and each others') failures.<br /> * Group therapy. Vent about your own experiences in a judgment-free setting. Explore how we can make our organizations less risk-averse and more failure-tolerant.<br /> <br /> ''Interested in attending''<br /> <br /> If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br /> <br /> # Ray Schwartz<br /> # Charlie Morris<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> <br /> === Coding Custom Solutions for Every Department in the Library with File Analyzer ===<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Half Day [Morning]&quot;''' <br /> <br /> * Terry Brady, Georgetown University Library, twb27@georgetown.edu<br /> <br /> Abstract<br /> <br /> The Georgetown University Library has shared an application called the [http://georgetown-university-libraries.github.io/File-Analyzer/ File Analyzer] that has allowed us to build custom solutions for nearly every department in the library.<br /> <br /> * Analyzing Marc Records for the Cataloging department<br /> * Transferring ILS invoices for the University Account System for the Acquisitions department <br /> * Delivering patron fines to the Bursar’s office for the Access Service department<br /> * Summarizing student worker timesheet data for the Finance department<br /> * Validating counter compliant reports for the Electronic Resources department<br /> * Preparing ingest packages for the Digital Services department<br /> * Validating checksums for the Preservation department<br /> <br /> This hands on workshop will step through the components of the application framework. Workshop participants will install and develop custom File Analyzer tasks in this session.<br /> <br /> The workshop agenda will loosely follow the [https://github.com/Georgetown-University-Libraries/File-Analyzer/wiki/File-Analyzer-Training----Code4Lib-2014 pre-conference agenda from Code4Lib 2014].<br /> <br /> ''Interested in Attending''<br /> <br /> If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br /> <br /> # Megan Kudzia<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> <br /> === Confessions of the (Accidental) Code Hoarder: How to make your Code Sharable: ===<br /> <br /> '''Half Day [Whenever]'''<br /> <br /> * Karen A. Coombs, OCLC, coombsk@oclc.org<br /> <br /> Abstract<br /> Have you built something cool and useful that you want to share with others? This preconference session will discuss techniques and tools for sharing code. Using our own OCLC Developer Network PHP authentication code libraries as an example, we will discuss a set of recommended best practices for how to share your code.<br /> <br /> We’ll start with coding standards and test writing so you can be confident of the quality of your code. Next we'll discuss inline documentation as a tool for developers and how auto-generating documentation will save you time and effort. Lastly we'll provide an overview of the tricky areas of dependency and package management, and distribution tools. Along the way, we'll cover PHP coding standards, testing, and popular PHP tools including PHPDoc for documentation, Composer for smooth installations, and using GitHub and Packagist to manage distribution, updates and community feedback.<br /> <br /> ''Interested in Attending''<br /> <br /> If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br /> <br /> # Peggy Griesinger<br /> # Ray Schwartz<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> <br /> <br /> === UXtravaganza ===<br /> '''&quot;Half or Full Day [Based on Interest?, Morning/Afternoon Doesn’t Matter]&quot;'''<br /> <br /> * William Hicks, University of North Texas, William.hicks@unt.edu<br /> * Volunteers?<br /> <br /> Abstract<br /> <br /> I’m envisioning a 1/2 of full day for front-end developers, content strategy people, and other misfits with an interest in user experience, where we can talk about our shared problems, use cases, the state of current research, and play with each other’s sites. A half day seems doable, but if there’s significant enough interest we could push for a full? Here are a few of the things I think might be interesting to see happen:<br /> <br /> * '''Analytics Share-fest:''' A few volunteers demonstrate data about their websites, catalogs, archival/digital collections. Most of us know our own sites but it would be interesting/validating to share this data with others so we can start to see commonalities between institutions, in certain kinds of systems, etc. For anyone using event tracking, or using click- or heat-maps, this would be a great opportunity to show off what people are seeing.<br /> <br /> * '''UX Best Practices Catch Up:''' This spring I had the opportunity to attend a few days worth of usability workshops from the Nielsen-Norman Group, most of which was focused on mobile. I could distill down a lot of the information into an short presentation. Since this is a constantly moving area of research it would be nice to see a few people do other similar short presentations on some current trends/findings relevant to libraries, search, etc.<br /> <br /> * '''Mobile Dev Lab:''' The UNT Libraries has been collecting a small set of smartphones and tablets for testing and development. Basically an [http://labup.org Open Device Lab]. We have about a dozen devices now of varying sizes, OS, OS Versions, + Google Glass. I’ll bring the devices, you can bring yours, and assuming we can get the wifi up and running we can test our sites/services with our big sausage fingers rather than pretending to do so through emulators and the one or two devices we each usually have on hand. If anyone is game they can do a tutorial on Browser-based Inspector Tools, Browser-Cams, or other testing services.<br /> <br /> * '''The Eye’s Have It.''' The UNT Libraries is also in the process of acquiring an eye tracker and software for usability and other gaze-based research studies. We’ll take possession of it shortly after this pre-conference proposal is due and will have a couple of months to play with them before the conference. Assuming we can get our act together learning the device and can get past the technical hurdles of setting it up at the pre-conference, we could try to do some live demos on each other’s sites; i.e. You nominate a site/service, someone in the audience volunteers to wear the device, and we all watch them struggle do the tasks you request on a projector. Rinse. Lather. Repeat. It would hardly be scientific, but it sure would be fun. As a backup, if we have some sites nominated beforehand, I can run a few students at my library through some tasks here and we can show off the results to the crowd.<br /> <br /> For those of you wanting to attend and help out, I’d really like to see some discussion on typography, writing for the web, “dealing with business/administrative requirements from on-high&quot;, maybe do some prototyping exercises, etc. Similarly if anyone is interested in doing some tutorials on bootstrap or how-to’s on running a usability test, that would be rad. But we need you to step up and steer part of the time for most of this to work, so if you are interested in some aspect, and especially if you want to volunteer to lead a bit of the time, contact me.<br /> <br /> ''Interested in Attending''<br /> <br /> If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your<br /> name (but not email address, etc.) here<br /> <br /> # Ray Schwartz<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> <br /> === Intro to Git &amp; possibly beyond ===<br /> <br /> '''Half Day [Whenever]'''<br /> <br /> * Erin Fahy, Stanford University, efahy@stanford.edu<br /> * Shaun Trujillo, Mount Holyoke College, strujill@mtholyoke.edu<br /> <br /> We can start with the basics of Git and discuss ways in which it can help you version control just about any file, not just code. Points we can go over:<br /> <br /> * What is a Distributed Version Control System?<br /> * What's the difference between Git and Github.com?<br /> * How to initialize new Git projects locally and on a remote server/Github<br /> * Cloning/Forking existing projects and keeping up to date<br /> * The wonderful world of Git branches<br /> * Interactive rebasing<br /> * Contributing code to existing projects &amp; what pull requests are<br /> * How to handle merge conflicts<br /> * Overview of workflows and branch best practices<br /> * (time allowing) Advanced git: pre/post hooks, submodules, anything else?<br /> <br /> ''Interested in Attending''<br /> <br /> If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br /> <br /> # Jeannie Graham<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> <br /> === Visualizing Library Data ===<br /> <br /> '''&quot;Half Day [Morning||Afternoon]&quot;''' <br /> <br /> * Matt Miller, matthewmiller@nypl.org, New York Public Library, NYPL Labs<br /> <br /> Visualizing your institution’s data can give new insight about your holding’s strengths, weaknesses and outliers. They can also provide potential new avenues for discovery and access. This half day session will focus on programmatically visualizing library metadata. Emphasis will be on creating web-based visualizations utilizing libraries such as d3.js but attention paid towards visualizing large datasets while keeping them web accessible. By then end of the session participants will have template, sample code and methodologies enabling them to start producing visualization with their own data.<br /> <br /> ''Interested in Attending''<br /> <br /> If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br /> <br /> # Ashley Blewer!<br /> # Bobbi Fox<br /> # Ray Schwartz<br /> # Ranti Junus<br /> # Eric Phetteplace<br /> # Joshua Gomez<br /> # Charlie Morris<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> <br /> === CollectionSpace: Getting it up and running at your museum ===<br /> <br /> '''Half Day [Afternoon]'''<br /> <br /> * Richard Millet, CollectionSpace.org, richard.millet@lyrasis.org<br /> * TBD<br /> <br /> This workshop is designed for anyone interested in or tasked with the technical setup and configuration of CollectionSpace for use in any collections environment (museum, library, special collection, gallery, etc. For more information about CollectionSpace, visit http://www.collectionspace.org<br /> <br /> Participants will be walked through the process of installing the software and performing basic configuration work on a stand-alone instance of CollectionSpace. Participants will learn how to create user accounts, set up basic roles and permissions, and may then catalog or otherwise document sample objects from their collections. Materials distributed prior to the workshop will cover hardware and system requirements for participants.<br /> <br /> ''Interested in Attending''<br /> If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br /> <br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> <br /> === DPLA API Workshop: ===<br /> <br /> '''Half Day [Afternoon]''' <br /> <br /> * Audrey Altman, DPLA<br /> * Mark Breedlove, DPLA<br /> * Mark Matienzo, DPLA<br /> * Tom Johnson, DPLA<br /> <br /> The Digital Public Library of America API workshop guides attendees through the process of creating an app based on DPLA's free, public API. The API provides access to over 8 million [http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0] licensed metadata records from America’s libraries, archives, and museums in a common metadata format. This workshop is designed for people of all technical skill levels and will cover API basics, the capabilities of the DPLA API, available toolsets, and tips for using records from the API effectively. Members of DPLA's technology team will be on hand to help the group build their first application, and answer questions about tools and content.<br /> <br /> If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br /> <br /> # Ranti Junus<br /> # Jean Rainwater<br /> # Mita Williams<br /> # Margaret Heller<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> #<br /> <br /> [[Category:Code4Lib2015]]</div>

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<p>Decasm: Added Data Science proposal by Devon Smith</p> <hr /> <div>'''DRAFT ONLY'''<br /> <br /> Code4lib 2015 is a loosely-structured conference that provides people working at the intersection of libraries/archives/museums/cultural heritage and technology with a chance to share ideas, be inspired, and forge collaborations. For more information about the Code4lib community, please visit http://code4lib.org/about/. <br /> The conference will be held at the Portland Hilton &amp; Executive Tower in Portland, Oregon, from February 9-12, 2015.<br /> <br /> '''Proposals for Prepared Talks:'''<br /> <br /> We encourage everyone to propose a talk.<br /> <br /> Prepared talks are 20 minutes (including setup and questions), and should focus on one or more of the following areas:<br /> * Projects you've worked on which incorporate innovative implementation of existing technologies and/or development of new software<br /> * Tools and technologies – How to get the most out of existing tools, standards and protocols (and ideas on how to make them better)<br /> * Technical issues - Big issues in library technology that should be addressed or better understood<br /> * Relevant non-technical issues – Concerns of interest to the Code4Lib community which are not strictly technical in nature, e.g. collaboration, diversity, organizational challenges, etc.<br /> <br /> Proposals can be submitted through Friday, November 7, 2014 at 5pm PST (GMT−8). Voting will start on November 11, 2014 and continue through November 25, 2014. The URL to submit votes will be announced on the Code4Lib website and mailing list and will require an active code4lib.org account to participate. The final list of presentations will be announced in early- to mid-December.<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Proposals for Prepared Talks:'''<br /> <br /> Log in to the Code4lib wiki and edit this wiki page using the prescribed format. If you are not already registered, follow the instructions to do so.<br /> Provide a title and brief (500 words or fewer) description of your proposed talk.<br /> If you so choose, you may also indicate when, if ever, you have presented at a prior Code4Lib conference. This information is completely optional, but it may assist voters in opening the conference to new presenters.<br /> <br /> Please follow the formatting guidelines:<br /> <br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> <br /> == Talk Title: ==<br /> <br /> * Speaker's name, email address, and (optional) affiliation<br /> * Second speaker's name, email address, and affiliation, if second speaker<br /> <br /> Abstract of no more than 500 words.<br /> <br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> <br /> '''Talk Proposals'''<br /> ==Drupal 8 — Evolution &amp; Revolution==<br /> <br /> * [[User:Highermath|Cary Gordon]], The Cherry Hill Company, cgordon@chillco.com<br /> <br /> Drupal 8 is in beta and nearing release. Among its many features, it notably has become more developer friendly through its adoption of the Symfony PHP framework along with Symfony's outstanding set of libraries (like Guzzle) and tools (like Composer). And, in implementing the Twig theming system, it is can begin to escape PHPtemplate. These moves also make it easier to create headless systems that uses Angular.js and other systems for presentation, or even forgo presentation entirely.<br /> <br /> From the site-builder's perspective, Drupal 8 provides a much smother experience and makes it easier to build and implement site recipes.<br /> <br /> ==Using GameSalad to Build a Gamified Information Literacy Mobile App for Higher Education==<br /> <br /> * [[User:StanBogdanov|Stanislav 'Stan' Bogdanov]], stan@stanrb.com, Adelphi University and [http://bogliollc.com Boglio LLC]<br /> <br /> GameSalad is a popular tool for developing mobile and desktop games with little actual programming. In this presentation, Stan Bogdanov breaks down the development process he followed while building [https://github.com/stanrb/mobiLit mobiLit], a mobile app with the goal of being the first open-source gamified information literacy app to be used as part of a college-level information literacy curriculum. He will go through the basics of using GameSalad to create an app that can be easily customized by non-programmers and the instructional principles used to teach the material in a mobile medium. Stan will also go through two qualitative design studies he did on the app and discuss their results and the lessons learned from building mobiLit. The session will conclude with an overview of the next steps for the [https://github.com/stanrb/mobiLit mobiLit project].<br /> <br /> ==The Impossible Search: Pulling data form unknown sources==<br /> <br /> * Riley Childs, no official affiliation (currently a Senior in High School at Charlotte United Christian Academy), rchilds (AT) cucawarriors.com <br /> <br /> It's easy to search data you know the structure of, but what if you need to pull in data from sources that don't have a standard structure. The ability to search community events along with your standard catalog search results is an example, but often the only way to pull these events is through XML, JSON, (Insert structured format here), or even just raw html. But how do you get that structure? That simple question is what makes this impossible. The process to define and process this structure takes a lot of manual labor, especially if the data you are pulling is just HTML, and then every time you add data to the index you have to run all the data through a script to pull in data in a format Solr or an other index can use. This talk will focus on Solr, but the principles explained will apply to many other indexes.<br /> <br /> ==What! You're Not Using Docker?==<br /> <br /> * [[User:Highermath|Cary Gordon]], The Cherry Hill Company, cgordon@chillco.com<br /> <br /> Boring part: Docker[1] is a container system that provides benefits similar to virtualization with only a fraction of the overhead. Scintillating part: Docker can host between four to six times the number of service instances than systems such as Xen or VMWare on a given piece of hardware. But thats not all! Docker also makes it simple(r) to create transportable instances, so you can spin up development servers on your laptop.<br /> <br /> *[1]https://www.docker.com/<br /> <br /> == Video Accessibility, WebVTT, and Timed Text Track Tricks ==<br /> <br /> * Jason Ronallo, jronallo@gmail.com, NCSU Libraries<br /> <br /> Video on the Web presents new challenges and opportunities. How do you make your video more accessible to those with various disabilities and needs? I'll show you how. This presentation will focus on how to write and deliver captions, subtitles, audio descriptions, and timed metadata tracks for Web video using the WebVTT W3C standard. Encoding timed text tracks in this way opens up opportunities for new functionality on your websites beyond accessibility. The presentation will show some examples of the potential for using timed text tracks in creative ways. I'll cover all the HTML and JavaScript you will need to know as well as some of the CSS and other bits you could probably do without but are too fun to pass up.<br /> <br /> == Categorizing Records with Random Forests ==<br /> <br /> * Geoffrey Boushey, geoffrey.boushey@ucsf.edu, UCSF Library<br /> Academic libraries are increasingly responsible for providing ingest, search, discovery, and analysis for data sets. Emerging techniques from data science and machine learning can provide librarians and developers with an opportunity to generate new insights and services from these document collections. This presentation will provide a brief overview of common machine learning classification techniques, then dive into a more detailed example using a random forest to assign keywords to research data sets. The talk will emphasize the insight that can be gained from machine learning rather than the inner workings of the algorithms. The overall goal of this presentation is to provide librarians and developers with the context to recognize an opportunity to apply machine learning categorization techniques at their home campuses and organizations. <br /> <br /> == Data Science in Libraries ==<br /> <br /> * Devon Smith, smithde@oclc.org, OCLC<br /> <br /> Data Science is increasing in buzz and hype. I'll go over what it is, what it isn't, and how it fits in libraries.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Code4Lib2015]] <br /> [[Category:Talk Proposals]]</div>

Decasm https://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php?title=2014_preconference_proposals&diff=39931 2013-11-18T15:46:45Z

<p>Decasm: /* CLLAM @ code4lib */</p> <hr /> <div>==Code4Lib 2014 Pre-Conference Proposals==<br /> <br /> Proposals will be accepted through December 6th, 2013.<br /> <br /> Please fill out your proposal in the following format. If you are interested in attending a proposed pre-conference add your name to the list for that proposal. <br /> <br /> Pitch Format:<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> ===NAME===<br /> '''&quot;Full-Day|Half-Day&quot; [PREFERRED TIME]'''<br /> <br /> Description<br /> <br /> ''Interested in Attending''<br /> <br /> If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> ===Drupal4lib Sub-con Barcamp===<br /> =====Full Day=====<br /> <br /> * Contact [[User:highermath|Cary Gordon]], cgordon@chillco.com<br /> <br /> This will be a full day of self-selected barcamp style sessions. Anyone who wants to present can write down the topic on an index card and, after the keynote, we will vote to choose what we want to see. Attendees can also pick a topic and attempt to talk someone else into presenting on it.<br /> <br /> This event is open to the library community. There will be a nominal fee (t/b/d) for non-Code4LibCon attendees (subject to organizer approval).<br /> <br /> [[resources to help you learn drupal]]<br /> <br /> ====Interested in Attending:====<br /> <br /> =====All Day=====<br /> Renna Tuten <br /> <br /> =====Morning=====<br /> <br /> =====Afternoon=====<br /> <br /> ===Open Refine Hackfest===<br /> '''&quot;Half-Day&quot;'''<br /> * Contact [[User:bibliotechy|Chad Nelson]], chadbnelson@gmail.com<br /> <br /> [http://openrefine.org/ Open Refine] is a powerful open source tool for wrangling messy data that can also be used to help in the creation of Linked Data via the [https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/wiki/Reconciliation-Service-API Reconciliation API]. It is possible to write reconciliation services against API's, like the [http://iphylo.blogspot.com/2013/04/reconciling-author-names-using-open.html VIAF service] or, even just against local authority files for helping maintain authority control<br /> <br /> The session would first introduce Open Refine, then walk through building a reconciliation service, and the rest of the session would be a hackfest where we build new reconciliation services for public consumption or local use. <br /> <br /> ''Interested in Attending''<br /> <br /> If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> ===Responsive Design Hackfest===<br /> '''&quot;Half-Day [Afternoon]&quot;''' <br /> * Contact Jim Hahn, University of Illinois, jimfhahn@gmail.com<br /> * Contact David Ward, University of Illinois, dh-ward@illinois.edu<br /> <br /> This structured hackfest will give attendees an opportunity to explore methods to create responsive mobile apps using the Bootstrap framework [http://getbootstrap.com/]and a set of APIs for accessing library data. We will start with an API template for creating space-based mobile tools that draw from work coming out of the IMLS funded Student/Library Collaborative grant [http://www.library.illinois.edu/nlg_student_apps]. Available APIs will include a room reservation template and codebase for implementing at any campus and the set of Minrva catalog APIs generating JSONP [http://minrvaproject.org/services.php]. <br /> <br /> Hosts will give a brief report of a study on student hacking projects and interests in mobile library apps that are the basis for the templates utilized in this Hackathon. By the end of the pre-conference attendees will have a sample responsive mobile web app in Bootstrap 3 to bring back to their campus which can plug into their site-based content.<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Interested in Attending''<br /> <br /> If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br /> <br /> === Intro to Blacklight ===<br /> '''&quot;Half-Day [Morning]&quot;''' <br /> * Contact: Chris Beer, Stanford University, cabeer@stanford.edu<br /> * TA: Bess Sadler, Stanford University, bess@stanford.edu<br /> <br /> This session will be walk-through of the architecture of Blacklight, the community, and an introduction to building a Blacklight-based application. Each participant will have the opportunity to build a simple Blacklight application, and make basic customizations, while using a test-driven approach.<br /> <br /> For more information about Blacklight see our wiki ( http://projectblacklight.org/ ) and our GitHub repo ( https://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight ). We will also send out some brief instructions beforehand for those that would like to setup their environments to follow along and get Blacklight up and running on their local machines.<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Interested in Attending''<br /> <br /> If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br /> <br /> #Megan Kudzia<br /> #Bret Davidson<br /> <br /> ===Blacklight Hackfest===<br /> '''&quot;Half-Day [Afternoon]&quot;''' <br /> * Contact Chris Beer, Stanford University, cabeer@stanford.edu<br /> <br /> This afternoon hackfest is both a follow-on to the Intro to Blacklight morning session to continue building Blacklight-based applications, and also an opportunity for existing Blacklight contributors and members of the Blacklight community to exchange common patterns and approaches into reusable gems or incorporate customizations into Blacklight itself.<br /> <br /> For more information about Blacklight see our wiki ( http://projectblacklight.org/ ) and our GitHub repo ( https://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight ).<br /> <br /> ''Interested in Attending''<br /> <br /> If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br /> <br /> <br /> ===RailsBridge: Intro to programming in Ruby on Rails===<br /> '''&quot;Half-Day&quot; [morning]'''<br /> * Contact Justin Coyne, Data Curation Experts, justin@curationexperts.com<br /> <br /> Interested in learning how to program? Want to build your own web application? Never written a line of code before and are a little intimidated? There's no need to be! RailsBridge is a friendly place to get together and learn how to write some code.<br /> <br /> RailsBridge is a great workshop that opens the doors to projects like Blacklight and Hydra.<br /> <br /> <br /> ''Interested in Attending''<br /> <br /> If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br /> <br /> ===Managing Projects: Or I'm in charge, now what?===<br /> '''Full-Day'''<br /> <br /> Contact: <br /> * [[User:rosy1280|Rosalyn Metz]], rosalynmetz@gmail.com<br /> * [[User:yoosebj|Becky Yoose]], yoosebec@grinnell.edu<br /> <br /> This will be a full day session on project management. We'll cover<br /> * '''Kicking off the Project''' -- project lifecycle, project constraints, scoping/goals, stakeholders, assessment<br /> * '''Planning the Project''' -- project charters, work breakdown structures, responsibilities, estimating time, creating budgets<br /> * '''Executing the Project''' -- status meeting, status reports, issue management<br /> * '''Finishing the Project''' -- achieving the goal, post mortems, project v. product<br /> This is a revival of rosy1280's LITA Forum Pre-Conference, but better (because iteration is good)<br /> <br /> '''Interested in Attending'''<br /> <br /> If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br /> <br /> ===Fail4Lib 2014===<br /> '''Half Day [TBD, probably afternoon]'''<br /> <br /> Contacts: <br /> * Andreas Orphanides, akorphan (at) ncsu.edu<br /> * Jason Casden, jmcasden (at) ncsu.edu<br /> <br /> The task of design (and the work that we do as library coders) is intimately tied to failure. Failures, both big and small, motivate us to create and improve. Failures are also occasionally the result of our work. Understanding and embracing failure, encouraging enlightened risk-taking, and seeking out opportunities to fail and learn are essential to success in our field. At Fail4Lib, we'll talk about our own experiences with projects gone wrong, explore some famous design failures in the real world, and talk about how we can come to terms with the reality of failure, to make it part of our creative process -- rather than something to be feared.<br /> <br /> The schedule may include the following:<br /> <br /> * Case studies. We'll look at some classic failures from the literature: What can we learn from the mistakes of others?<br /> * Confessionals, for those willing to share. Talk about your own experiences with rough starts, labor pains, and doomed projects in your own work: What can we learn from our own (and each others') failures?<br /> * Group therapy. Let's talk about how to deal with risk management, failed projects, experimental endeavors, and more: How can we make ourselves, our colleagues, and our organizations more fault tolerant? How do we make sure we fail as productively as possible?<br /> <br /> ''Interested in attending''<br /> <br /> If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br /> <br /> #Bret Davidson<br /> <br /> <br /> ===CLLAM @ code4lib===<br /> '''(Computational Linguistics for Libraries, Archives and Museums)'''<br /> <br /> '''Full Day'''<br /> <br /> Contacts: <br /> * Douglas W. Oard (primary), oard (at) umd.edu <br /> * Corey Harper, corey (dot) harper (at) nyu.edu<br /> * Robert Sanderson, azaroth42 (at) gmail.com <br /> * Robert Warren, rwarren (at) math.carleton.ca<br /> <br /> We will hack at the intersection of diverse content from Libraries, Archives and Museums and bleeding edge tools from computational linguistics for slicing and dicing that content. Did you just acquire the email archives of a startup company? Maybe you can automatically build an org chart. Have you got metadata in a slew of languages? Perhaps you can search it all using one query. Is name authority control for e-resources getting too costly? Let’s see if entity linking techniques can help. These are just a few teasers. <br /> <br /> There’ll be plenty of content and tools supplied, but please bring your own [data] too -- you’ll hack with it in new ways throughout the day. We’ll get started with some lightning talks on what we’ve brought,then we’ll break up into groups to experiment and work on the ideas that appeal. Three guaranteed outcomes: you’ll walk away with new ideas, new tools, and new people you’ll have met.<br /> <br /> ''Interested in attending''<br /> <br /> If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here<br /> <br /> # Devon Smith<br /> <br /> [[:Category:Code4Lib2014]]</div>

Decasm https://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php?title=2013_codecraft_breakout&diff=36719 2013-02-13T19:15:26Z

<p>Decasm: Added link to axe making video</p> <hr /> <div>Notes from clean coding breakout<br /> From Evernote:<br /> Code4Lib 2013 - Clean Coding<br /> <br /> (The following is an edited version of notes taken by Megan Kudzia. Thanks to her for taking notes and sharing them.)<br /> <br /> It started with Devon Smith talking about what motivated his thinking on this topic. After watching a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paCyA9ypEOE&amp;list=UL64389P8_r78 video of a man making an axe] he started thinking about whether or not his work was &quot;craft&quot; or if it should be. He wanted to go over what &quot;code craft&quot; is to him, why do it, and how to do it.<br /> <br /> === What? ===<br /> * Improving first the code as a deliverable<br /> * Then second improving the application derived from the code<br /> <br /> Clean code is a gift to other coders and to our future selves.<br /> <br /> === Why? ===<br /> * We all have limited time - putting shitty code out seems like a waste of that time<br /> * Am I respecting myself and my limited time enough?<br /> * If I'm not doing it better, I'm wasting my most precious resource<br /> <br /> === How? ===<br /> * Trickier<br /> * You have to do it a lot to get good. Mastery takes repetition.<br /> * Revisit your code to see what you can improve<br /> * Rewrite an application I've already written to learn new languages, experiment with new libraries, new storage systems, etc.<br /> * Everything you do is an experiment - you will always be iterating.<br /> * &quot;We'll get to it later&quot; doesn't happen unless you schedule time for it. Sometimes you have to do it for yourself later, too, if the project has moved on.<br /> * Test-driven development (I'm writing tests constantly and throwing them away)<br /> * Test unit folder? Integration test? Capybara.<br /> * It makes others nervous to commit without tests to run against the code<br /> * Testing may not actually improve the code, but it DOES improve the deliverable<br /> * Documentation!<br /> * Read other people's code to make your own code better.<br /> * Have comment/test standards<br /> <br /> There are people out there who don't want to improve. <br /> <br /> ==== Code reviews ====<br /> * One place has a standard two-person team for every project; they also have standardized syntax across the organization. If the code doesn't meet the standard, it doesn't get a commit.<br /> * Dan Chudnov - code reads at George Washington (external code).<br /> * You write a better program when you understand the domain<br /> * Code audits between people across one-person shops?<br /> * Contribute to something open source to develop your skills <br /> * Grant funding? People who have a stake in the code will care more. The challenge is finding people who have a stake but aren't actually writing it<br /> * Git for code review?<br /> <br /> ==== Specs ====<br /> * Do a write up/spec on your projects ahead of time to prevent scope creep<br /> ** Project one-pager<br /> ** A one-page wiki with some bullet points<br /> ** Do we have a UX group? Can we put one together?<br /> ** Document shared expectations!<br /> * A spec is a good thing but it can't be a be-all end-all, as some things just aren't possible. <br /> <br /> ==== Testing ====<br /> * English writing test writing thing called Cucumber<br /> ** Relish builds documentation out of the Cucumber tests<br /> * Story writing workshops with users and index cards - here's my test for your story, does it pass?<br /> * One way to deal with extra crazy ideas is to put together a trade off list; a comprehensive list of proposed ideas with a list of how long it would take to implement each thing (if everything else stops) - managing expectations (Agile)<br /> * You can probably not worry about testing front-end code; you'll hear about it if it doesn't work<br /> <br /> ==== Other ideas ====<br /> * Have the courage to throw out your work! If you have time.<br /> * Look for code contests to participate in<br /> * It's important to understand upfront where the pain points are to prioritize<br /> * Static analysis tools?</div>

Decasm https://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php?title=2013_codecraft_breakout&diff=36701 2013-02-13T16:14:19Z

<p>Decasm: init</p> <hr /> <div>Notes from clean coding breakout<br /> From Evernote:<br /> Code4Lib 2013 - Clean Coding<br /> <br /> (The following is an edited version of notes taken by Megan Kudzia. Thanks to her for taking notes and sharing them.)<br /> <br /> It started with Devon Smith talking about what motivated his thinking on this topic.<br /> He wanted to go over what &quot;code craft&quot; is to him, why do it, and how to do it.<br /> <br /> === What? ===<br /> * Improving first the code as a deliverable<br /> * Then second improving the application derived from the code<br /> <br /> Clean code is a gift to other coders and to our future selves.<br /> <br /> === Why? ===<br /> * We all have limited time - putting shitty code out seems like a waste of that time<br /> * Am I respecting myself and my limited time enough?<br /> * If I'm not doing it better, I'm wasting my most precious resource<br /> <br /> === How? ===<br /> * Trickier<br /> * You have to do it a lot to get good. Mastery takes repetition.<br /> * Revisit your code to see what you can improve<br /> * Rewrite an application I've already written to learn new languages, experiment with new libraries, new storage systems, etc.<br /> * Everything you do is an experiment - you will always be iterating.<br /> * &quot;We'll get to it later&quot; doesn't happen unless you schedule time for it. Sometimes you have to do it for yourself later, too, if the project has moved on.<br /> * Test-driven development (I'm writing tests constantly and throwing them away)<br /> * Test unit folder? Integration test? Capybara.<br /> * It makes others nervous to commit without tests to run against the code<br /> * Testing may not actually improve the code, but it DOES improve the deliverable<br /> * Documentation!<br /> * Read other people's code to make your own code better.<br /> * Have comment/test standards<br /> <br /> There are people out there who don't want to improve. <br /> <br /> ==== Code reviews ====<br /> * One place has a standard two-person team for every project; they also have standardized syntax across the organization. If the code doesn't meet the standard, it doesn't get a commit.<br /> * Dan Chudnov - code reads at George Washington (external code).<br /> * You write a better program when you understand the domain<br /> * Code audits between people across one-person shops?<br /> * Contribute to something open source to develop your skills <br /> * Grant funding? People who have a stake in the code will care more. The challenge is finding people who have a stake but aren't actually writing it<br /> * Git for code review?<br /> <br /> ==== Specs ====<br /> * Do a write up/spec on your projects ahead of time to prevent scope creep<br /> ** Project one-pager<br /> ** A one-page wiki with some bullet points<br /> ** Do we have a UX group? Can we put one together?<br /> ** Document shared expectations!<br /> * A spec is a good thing but it can't be a be-all end-all, as some things just aren't possible. <br /> <br /> ==== Testing ====<br /> * English writing test writing thing called Cucumber<br /> ** Relish builds documentation out of the Cucumber tests<br /> * Story writing workshops with users and index cards - here's my test for your story, does it pass?<br /> * One way to deal with extra crazy ideas is to put together a trade off list; a comprehensive list of proposed ideas with a list of how long it would take to implement each thing (if everything else stops) - managing expectations (Agile)<br /> * You can probably not worry about testing front-end code; you'll hear about it if it doesn't work<br /> <br /> ==== Other ideas ====<br /> * Have the courage to throw out your work! If you have time.<br /> * Look for code contests to participate in<br /> * It's important to understand upfront where the pain points are to prioritize<br /> * Static analysis tools?</div>

Decasm https://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php?title=2013_breakout_sessions_reports&diff=36700 2013-02-13T15:54:15Z

<p>Decasm: /* Tuesday, Feb.12, 2013 */</p> <hr /> <div>== Tuesday, Feb.12, 2013 ==<br /> * CodeCraft - Writing better code - '''location: Room D''' [[2013_codecraft_breakout]]<br /> * Code4Lib Journal discussion of editorial process (open to anyone) - '''Main Room, front right corner''' <br /> * Tools for instruction: Guide on the Side, LMS integration, subject / course guides, etc. - '''Main Room, rear right corner''' Minutes: [[2013_instruction_breakout]] <br /> * Marc4J, SolrMarc, and MARC -&gt; Solr in general -- Next steps - '''Room E''' Minutes: [[2013_marc_breakout]]<br /> * Building / Keeping relevant skills - How do you access training, develop skills, and keep current while still doing your day job - '''Room F''' Minutes: [[2013_breakout_remaining_relevant]]<br /> * Cupcakes4Lib -- A Pilgrimage - '''Registration Table''' -- We ate cupcakes. It was amazing. We felt that we chose the right break out session. Photos of the yumminess can be found here. https://www.dropbox.com/sc/qe7uh2jmrs2mhmm/PJ3FjjMR9r<br /> * relevance ranking and testing - '''Main room, left rear corner'''<br /> * Fedora4Lib: Developer Challenge! (http://fedora4lib.org/hack/) - '''Main room, left front corner'''<br /> <br /> == Wednesday, Feb.13, 2013 ==<br /> * Group 42/Topic<br /> * Group 43/Topic<br /> *etc.<br /> <br /> [[Category:Code4Lib2013]]</div>

Decasm https://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php?title=2013_social_activities&diff=33118 2013-01-23T16:24:48Z

<p>Decasm: /* Newcomer Dinner, Tuesday 2/12 */</p> <hr /> <div>== Ideas ==<br /> <br /> * Aviary: super-crazy cocktails. http://www.molecularrecipes.com/molecular-mixology/aviary-cocktails/ . List your name if you're interested, whether Sunday, Monday, and/or Tuesday (after newcomer dinners) work, and whether you're just interested in stopping by, or doing a 7 cocktail tasting flight.*<br /> ** statsfool: sunday/monday/tuesday, either drinks or flight.<br /> ** Amyhannah: monday/tuesday, drinks, probably not the flight.<br /> ** anarchivist: sunday/monday, prefer drinks over flight but could be convinced<br /> ** [[User:highermath|highermath]]: monday (could use 10 cocktails after Drupal subCon, I am sure). Uber now works in Chicago, so I would do the flight.<br /> ** [[User:pberry|pberry]]: any night but Wednesday (that's Goose Island night) and I'd be up for drinks or flight, although leaning away from flight.<br /> ** [[User:thatandromeda|thatandromeda]] oh my gosh yes, any time, probably not the flight.<br /> ** [[User:Gdave|gdave]] beautiful site, I would be interested, Sun,Mon,Tues. either drink or flight.<br /> ** scollett: sun/mon/tue, drinks, maybe flight. Parks and Recreation: [http://bit.ly/13MY2EW The wrong way to consume alcohol (molecular mixology)]<br /> <br /> * Game Night! Type of games might vary due to interest, could range from party games like Werewolf, Wits &amp; Wagers, Telestrations, Taboo, Apples to Apples to perhaps more strategic games like De Vulgari Eloquentia or Eclipse. Jon Gorman is willing to bring some games, are you? Jon will try to send out an email soon to get some interest.<br /> ** yo_bj: I have some games I can bring as well (Kill Doctor Lucky, Fluxx, Godzilla: Stomp, Munchkin Zombies, etc.). Monday doesn't have anything major planned...<br /> **danwho: I 'll bring the Cards Against Humanity set.<br /> **escowles (Mon/Tue preferred): I've got lots of games I could bring like Settlers of Catan, Carcassonne, Ticket to Ride, Age of Renaissance, Elfenland, Agricola, Le Havre, Smallworld, RoboRally, etc. etc.<br /> **jen_young: I'm local and I have quite a few games. Just about every version of Fluxx, Bananagrams, Gloom, Munchkin Cthulu,Cards Against Humanity, Apples to Apples, Risk, Last Night on Earth, etc.)<br /> ** decasm: Interested in Go (aka igo, weiqi, baduk) anytime, not just game night. I can do Catan as well. (And as much as I love it, Cards Against Humanity is probably a violation of the new Code of Conduct.)<br /> ** csharp: I'm interested in playing games - whatever people bring. I almost always travel with a pack or two of playing cards ;-). Monday or Tuesday nights are fine.<br /> ** moneill: I would love to join in! I have a version of Catchphrase floating around somewhere, and I think I have Battleship...I need to go weed around in that drawer and see what else presents itself. Tuesday would be my preferred night, but I will make it work!<br /> ** demiankatz: I'm always up for a game. I'm hoping to travel light so probably shouldn't bring anything, but if there's a local game shop, I might be persuaded to pick up something new as a souvenir.<br /> ** sekjal: I've got [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/36218/dominion Dominion], [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/68448/7-wonders 7 Wonders], [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/30933/bang-the-bullet Bang!], [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/18333/ecofluxx EcoFluxx] and [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/116/guillotine Guillotine] that I can bring. ++ on Cards against Humanity! Prefer non-conflict with beer night.<br /> ** arty: so totally interested. Unfortunately, I have no games to contribute.<br /> ** sanderson: I would be interested. I can bring [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/478/citadels Citadels] (2-7 players)<br /> ** dvdndrsn: Definitely in! Can bring Innovation, Tichu, Dominion, but Cards Against Humanity sounds good. <br /> ** smkiewel: I'm likely to join. Can bring Arkham Horror and Munchkin.<br /> ** jkwilson: I'd like to attend Monday or Tuesday. I have a bunch of games but I'd prefer not to travel with them, and anyway it sounds like they're covered above. I'll bring the 5-6 player Catan extension.<br /> ** ejlynema: Interested, but will probably attend Newcomer dinner on Tuesday. Like Dominion and 7 Wonders, but probably don't have room to bring in suitcase. Anyone bringing Tsuro?<br /> ** save4use: Also interested, but also probably attending newcomer dinner on Tuesday. Can bring [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/11/bohnanza Bohnanza] and one deck of {http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_%28game%29 Set]. <br /> <br /> * Brewery tour - some possible candidates would be Goose Island, Brew Bus http://www.chicagobrewbus.com/, Piece, Revolution, Half Acre.<br /> * Library field trips - because we're library geeks. Possible places include Newberry and Read/Write.--Read/Write Library confirmed for February 12.--Newberry Library confirmed for February 14.<br /> * Art Institute of Chicago - Only open until 5pm, but possible for people coming in early enough on Sunday.<br /> ** escowles: I'm getting in around noon on Sunday, and interested in this.<br /> <br /> == Planned Events ==<br /> <br /> === Newcomer Dinner, Tuesday 2/12 ===<br /> <br /> First time at code4lib? Join fellow c4l newbies and veterans for an evening of food, socializing, and stimulating &lt;strike&gt;discussions about&lt;/strike&gt; demonstrations of the many uses of &lt;strike&gt;bacon&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;strike&gt;dongles&lt;/strike&gt; XML.<br /> <br /> Code4Lib veterans, you're invited too. Join us in welcoming the newcomers!<br /> <br /> '''Plans'''<br /> * When: Tuesday evening (2/12)<br /> * Time: 6 PM (ish) or whenever you can get your group together<br /> * Mastermind (if you have any questions): [mailto:yoosebec@grinnell.edu Becky Yoose]<br /> <br /> ''Guidelines:''<br /> *Max of '''6''' per group<br /> **Please, no waitlisting<br /> *ID yourselves so we can get a good mix of new people and veterans in each group<br /> **New folks - n<br /> **c4l vets - v<br /> *One leader needed for each location (declare yourself! - '''Vets are highly encouraged to lead the group''')<br /> **Leader duties<br /> ***Make reservations if required; otherwise make sure that the restaurant can handle a group of 6 rowdy library coders <br /> ***Herd folks from hotel to restaurant (know where you're going!)<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Restaurants'''<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Restaurants within .25 miles of the hotel'''<br /> <br /> [http://www.athenarestaurantchicago.com/index.php Athena] (Greek)<br /> <br /> * Al Cornish - v (leader)<br /> <br /> [http://www.dinerestaurant.com/ Dine] (Contemporary)<br /> <br /> &lt;del&gt;[http://www.girlandthegoat.com/ Girl and the Goat] (American) Top Chef fans take note! This is Stephanie Izard's award-winning resto.&lt;/del&gt; Totally booked.<br /> <br /> [http://www.haymarketbrewing.com/ Haymarket Pub &amp; Brewery] (Pub food)<br /> <br /> [http://www.karynsongreen.com/ Karyn’s on Green] (Vegan)<br /> Completely vegan and close to the conference hotel. We'll meet in the conference hotel at around 6:45 (reservation at 7:00 for 6). Google maps says it is a 5 minute walk.<br /> <br /> *Jason Ronallo (leader)- v<br /> *Linda Ballinger <br /> *Alicia Cozine - n<br /> <br /> [http://niarestaurant.com/nia-restaurant-mediterranean-cuisine/ Nia] (Mediterranean tapas)<br /> <br /> [http://www.pegasuschicago.com/index.php Pegasus] (Greek)<br /> <br /> [http://www.roditys.com/index.html Roditys] (Greek)<br /> <br /> * Rosalyn Metz (leader) - v<br /> * [[User:highermath|Cary Gordon]] - v<br /> * [[User:Jacobandresen|Jacob Andresen]] - n<br /> * Karen Miller - n<br /> * Dre - v<br /> <br /> '''Restaurants between .25 miles and .5 miles of the hotel'''<br /> <br /> [http://avecrestaurant.com/# Avec] (Small plate)<br /> <br /> [http://www.babavillage.com/ Baba’s Village] (Indian/Pakistani)<br /> <br /> [http://blackbirdrestaurant.com/ Blackbird] (Contemporary)<br /> <br /> [http://www.carnivalechicago.com/menu Carnivale] (Nuevo Latino)<br /> <br /> [http://decero.hellotacos.com/ De Cero] (Mexican)<br /> <br /> [http://www.dragonflymandarin.com/ Dragonfly] (Chinese, sushi)<br /> <br /> [http://giordanos.com/ Giordano's] (Chicago Style Pizza) This place should be able to handle multiple groups...<br /> <br /> [http://www.grangehallburgerbar.com/ Grange Hall Burger Bar] (Local food)<br /> <br /> [http://www.idreamoffalafel.com/ I Dream of Falafel] (Mediterranean)<br /> <br /> [http://www.jaipurchicago.com/ Jaipur] (Indian)<br /> <br /> [http://lasardine.com/ La Sardine] (French)<br /> <br /> [http://www.mythaitakumi.com/index.html MyThai Takumi] (Japanese Thai) Meeting details TBA<br /> <br /> *Becky Yoose (leader) - v<br /> *May Chan - n<br /> *David Anderson - newby<br /> *Terry Brady - new<br /> <br /> [http://www.nellcoterestaurant.com/ Nellcôte] (French)<br /> <br /> [http://chicago.provincerestaurant.com/ Province] (American with Central/South American/Spanish influence)<br /> <br /> [http://thepublicanrestaurant.com/ The Publican] (Seafood)<br /> <br /> * Jay Luker (eater) - v<br /> * Mark Matienzo (tweeter) - v<br /> * Devon Smith (pickle eater) - repeat offender<br /> <br /> [http://saigonsisters.tumblr.com/ Saigon Sisters] (Vietnamese)<br /> <br /> [http://www.thaiurbankitchen.com/ Thai Urban Kitchen] (Thai, sushi)<br /> <br /> [http://www.trattoriaisabellachicago.com/rest.html Trattoria Isabella] (Italian)<br /> <br /> [http://www.vivo-chicago.com/homepage-2 Vivo] (Italian) <br /> <br /> [http://www.wishbonechicago.com/dining/westloop/ Wishbone] (Southern Reconstruction)<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Restaurants between .5 miles and .75 miles of the hotel'''<br /> <br /> [http://currentsontheriver.com/ Currents on the River] (Eclectic)<br /> <br /> [http://n9ne.com/ N9NE Steakhouse] (Steak)<br /> <br /> [http://www.verachicago.com/menu Vera Chicago] (Spanish)<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Restaurants between .75 miles and 1 mile of the hotel'''<br /> <br /> [http://www.theberghoff.com/default.aspx The Berghoff] (German)<br /> * Declan Fleming - v<br /> * Joshua Gomez - v (I will have to leave by around 7:15, going to see a show at 7:30)<br /> * Dave Green - n <br /> <br /> [http://www.nativefoods.com/ Native Foods] (Vegan)<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Restaurants more than 1 mile from the hotel'''<br /> <br /> [http://www.greenzebrachicago.com/index.html Green Zebra] (Vegan)<br /> <br /> [http://honkytonkbbqchicago.com/ Honky Tonk Barbeque] (BBQ)<br /> <br /> [http://www.karynraw.com/cooked Karyn’s Cooked] (Vegan)<br /> <br /> [http://www.latabernatapas.com/ La Taberna Tapas] (Mediterranean)<br /> <br /> [http://www.morganschicago.com/ Morgan's on Maxwell] (Pub food)<br /> <br /> === Veg*n Dinner ===<br /> <br /> Let's have dinner at a veg*n-friendly place one night of the conference. Folks of all eating styles welcome.<br /> <br /> Max *6* people per party this year.<br /> <br /> '''Party #1: Chicago Diner''', Wednesday Night http://www.veggiediner.com/ &quot;meat free since '83&quot; <br /> Will they easily be able to accommodate 6 folks walking in?<br /> We'll plan on meeting in the conference hotel at 6pm and taking the 8 bus up there (3411 N. Halsted St Chicago, IL 60657). <br /> # Jason Ronallo (jronallo@gmail.com)<br /> # Linda Ballinger<br /> # May Chan (msuicat at gmail dot com)<br /> <br /> === Code4lib/Goose Island Brewing Pull Request ===<br /> '''When:''' Wednesday, 2/13, 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM<br /> <br /> More information and sign up at [https://code4lib2013-estw.eventbrite.com/|https://code4lib2013-estw.eventbrite.com/]<br /> <br /> <br /> === Non-beery get together ===<br /> '''When:''' Wednesday, 2/13, TBD (evening)<br /> <br /> Contact: @dchud, @ranti, @yo_bj, @wendyrlibrarian<br /> <br /> <br /> === Flying Trapeze ===<br /> '''When:''' Monday, 2/11, TBD<br /> <br /> '''Contact:''' rosalynmetz at gmail dot com<br /> <br /> No this is not a joke. If you haven't heard Rosy is an aspiring trapeze artists and wants to bring the fun to her friends in Code4Lib. There is a trapeze rig in Chicago and she plans on visiting it and hopes that some of you can come along as well. If its your first time taking a trapeze class, they'll start you off learning [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oqPi_zuX7A a knee hang] and depending on how that goes you might be able to catch it at the end of class. If you have any questions about whether or not this is for you, [http://chicago.trapezeschool.com/classes/trapeze.php TSNY Chicago's website] should have the answer, if not feel free to contact Rosy.<br /> <br /> Trapeze classes are $57, last 2 hours, and are limited to 10 people. Currently TSNY Chicago hasn't release their class schedule for February -- they should be doing that around Jan. 1. If we can get enough people interested before then, we can buy out a whole class. If not it'll be first come, first serve (along with the general public).<br /> <br /> If you're interested in signing up, feel free to add your name and contact info to the list below.<br /> <br /> '''''Sign Up List'''''<br /> # Jay Luker (first!)<br /> # Bill McMillin<br /> # Bess Sadler<br /> # Karen Coyle<br /> # Sibyl Schaefer<br /> # Rosalyn Metz (because I'm organizing)<br /> # Alicia Cozine<br /> # <br /> # <br /> #<br /> <br /> == Social Map - Places of Interest==<br /> <br /> https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=213549257652679418473.0004ce6c25e6cdeb0319d&amp;msa=0<br /> <br /> == Local Events ==<br /> == Local Food ==<br /> == Local Drinks ==<br /> ==Chicago Events Feb 11-14==<br /> ===Monday February 11===<br /> ===Tuesday, February 12===<br /> Field trip to the Read/Write Library (details to follow). 6-9 PM+<br /> Come help catalog the Read/Write Library catalog and hack on the library catalog. We will also invite friends from Code for America to hang out and talk civic data.<br /> <br /> Concert - [http://www.thefatbabies.com/ The Fat Babies] playing at an awesome venue, [http://greenmilljazz.com/ The Green Mill].<br /> <br /> ===Wednesday, February 13===<br /> ===Thursday, February 14===<br /> Tour of the [http://www.newberry.org/ Newberry Library] -- 3:30 p.m.<br /> This will be a special tour for Code4Lib attendees, so please sign up below if you are interested, as I'll need to give the tour guide an estimate of how many people will come. Details on how to get to the Newberry will follow. Questions? Contact ballingerl at newberry dot org<br /> <br /> '''''Sign Up List'''''<br /> # Michael Doran - doran@uta.edu<br /> # William Denton - wtd@pobox.com<br /> # [name] - [email address]<br /> #<br /> <br /> [[Category:Code4Lib2013]]</div>

Decasm https://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php?title=2013_social_activities&diff=33117 2013-01-23T16:24:04Z

<p>Decasm: /* Newcomer Dinner, Tuesday 2/12 */</p> <hr /> <div>== Ideas ==<br /> <br /> * Aviary: super-crazy cocktails. http://www.molecularrecipes.com/molecular-mixology/aviary-cocktails/ . List your name if you're interested, whether Sunday, Monday, and/or Tuesday (after newcomer dinners) work, and whether you're just interested in stopping by, or doing a 7 cocktail tasting flight.*<br /> ** statsfool: sunday/monday/tuesday, either drinks or flight.<br /> ** Amyhannah: monday/tuesday, drinks, probably not the flight.<br /> ** anarchivist: sunday/monday, prefer drinks over flight but could be convinced<br /> ** [[User:highermath|highermath]]: monday (could use 10 cocktails after Drupal subCon, I am sure). Uber now works in Chicago, so I would do the flight.<br /> ** [[User:pberry|pberry]]: any night but Wednesday (that's Goose Island night) and I'd be up for drinks or flight, although leaning away from flight.<br /> ** [[User:thatandromeda|thatandromeda]] oh my gosh yes, any time, probably not the flight.<br /> ** [[User:Gdave|gdave]] beautiful site, I would be interested, Sun,Mon,Tues. either drink or flight.<br /> ** scollett: sun/mon/tue, drinks, maybe flight. Parks and Recreation: [http://bit.ly/13MY2EW The wrong way to consume alcohol (molecular mixology)]<br /> <br /> * Game Night! Type of games might vary due to interest, could range from party games like Werewolf, Wits &amp; Wagers, Telestrations, Taboo, Apples to Apples to perhaps more strategic games like De Vulgari Eloquentia or Eclipse. Jon Gorman is willing to bring some games, are you? Jon will try to send out an email soon to get some interest.<br /> ** yo_bj: I have some games I can bring as well (Kill Doctor Lucky, Fluxx, Godzilla: Stomp, Munchkin Zombies, etc.). Monday doesn't have anything major planned...<br /> **danwho: I 'll bring the Cards Against Humanity set.<br /> **escowles (Mon/Tue preferred): I've got lots of games I could bring like Settlers of Catan, Carcassonne, Ticket to Ride, Age of Renaissance, Elfenland, Agricola, Le Havre, Smallworld, RoboRally, etc. etc.<br /> **jen_young: I'm local and I have quite a few games. Just about every version of Fluxx, Bananagrams, Gloom, Munchkin Cthulu,Cards Against Humanity, Apples to Apples, Risk, Last Night on Earth, etc.)<br /> ** decasm: Interested in Go (aka igo, weiqi, baduk) anytime, not just game night. I can do Catan as well. (And as much as I love it, Cards Against Humanity is probably a violation of the new Code of Conduct.)<br /> ** csharp: I'm interested in playing games - whatever people bring. I almost always travel with a pack or two of playing cards ;-). Monday or Tuesday nights are fine.<br /> ** moneill: I would love to join in! I have a version of Catchphrase floating around somewhere, and I think I have Battleship...I need to go weed around in that drawer and see what else presents itself. Tuesday would be my preferred night, but I will make it work!<br /> ** demiankatz: I'm always up for a game. I'm hoping to travel light so probably shouldn't bring anything, but if there's a local game shop, I might be persuaded to pick up something new as a souvenir.<br /> ** sekjal: I've got [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/36218/dominion Dominion], [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/68448/7-wonders 7 Wonders], [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/30933/bang-the-bullet Bang!], [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/18333/ecofluxx EcoFluxx] and [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/116/guillotine Guillotine] that I can bring. ++ on Cards against Humanity! Prefer non-conflict with beer night.<br /> ** arty: so totally interested. Unfortunately, I have no games to contribute.<br /> ** sanderson: I would be interested. I can bring [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/478/citadels Citadels] (2-7 players)<br /> ** dvdndrsn: Definitely in! Can bring Innovation, Tichu, Dominion, but Cards Against Humanity sounds good. <br /> ** smkiewel: I'm likely to join. Can bring Arkham Horror and Munchkin.<br /> ** jkwilson: I'd like to attend Monday or Tuesday. I have a bunch of games but I'd prefer not to travel with them, and anyway it sounds like they're covered above. I'll bring the 5-6 player Catan extension.<br /> ** ejlynema: Interested, but will probably attend Newcomer dinner on Tuesday. Like Dominion and 7 Wonders, but probably don't have room to bring in suitcase. Anyone bringing Tsuro?<br /> ** save4use: Also interested, but also probably attending newcomer dinner on Tuesday. Can bring [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/11/bohnanza Bohnanza] and one deck of {http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_%28game%29 Set]. <br /> <br /> * Brewery tour - some possible candidates would be Goose Island, Brew Bus http://www.chicagobrewbus.com/, Piece, Revolution, Half Acre.<br /> * Library field trips - because we're library geeks. Possible places include Newberry and Read/Write.--Read/Write Library confirmed for February 12.--Newberry Library confirmed for February 14.<br /> * Art Institute of Chicago - Only open until 5pm, but possible for people coming in early enough on Sunday.<br /> ** escowles: I'm getting in around noon on Sunday, and interested in this.<br /> <br /> == Planned Events ==<br /> <br /> === Newcomer Dinner, Tuesday 2/12 ===<br /> <br /> First time at code4lib? Join fellow c4l newbies and veterans for an evening of food, socializing, and stimulating &lt;strike&gt;discussions about&lt;/strike&gt; demonstrations of the many uses of &lt;strike&gt;bacon&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;strike&gt;dongles&lt;/strike&gt; XML.<br /> <br /> Code4Lib veterans, you're invited too. Join us in welcoming the newcomers!<br /> <br /> '''Plans'''<br /> * When: Tuesday evening (2/12)<br /> * Time: 6 PM (ish) or whenever you can get your group together<br /> * Mastermind (if you have any questions): [mailto:yoosebec@grinnell.edu Becky Yoose]<br /> <br /> ''Guidelines:''<br /> *Max of '''6''' per group<br /> **Please, no waitlisting<br /> *ID yourselves so we can get a good mix of new people and veterans in each group<br /> **New folks - n<br /> **c4l vets - v<br /> *One leader needed for each location (declare yourself! - '''Vets are highly encouraged to lead the group''')<br /> **Leader duties<br /> ***Make reservations if required; otherwise make sure that the restaurant can handle a group of 6 rowdy library coders <br /> ***Herd folks from hotel to restaurant (know where you're going!)<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Restaurants'''<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Restaurants within .25 miles of the hotel'''<br /> <br /> [http://www.athenarestaurantchicago.com/index.php Athena] (Greek)<br /> <br /> * Al Cornish - v (leader)<br /> <br /> [http://www.dinerestaurant.com/ Dine] (Contemporary)<br /> <br /> &lt;del&gt;[http://www.girlandthegoat.com/ Girl and the Goat] (American) Top Chef fans take note! This is Stephanie Izard's award-winning resto.&lt;/del&gt; Totally booked.<br /> <br /> [http://www.haymarketbrewing.com/ Haymarket Pub &amp; Brewery] (Pub food)<br /> <br /> [http://www.karynsongreen.com/ Karyn’s on Green] (Vegan)<br /> Completely vegan and close to the conference hotel. We'll meet in the conference hotel at around 6:45 (reservation at 7:00 for 6). Google maps says it is a 5 minute walk.<br /> <br /> *Jason Ronallo (leader)- v<br /> *Linda Ballinger <br /> *Alicia Cozine - n<br /> <br /> [http://niarestaurant.com/nia-restaurant-mediterranean-cuisine/ Nia] (Mediterranean tapas)<br /> <br /> [http://www.pegasuschicago.com/index.php Pegasus] (Greek)<br /> <br /> [http://www.roditys.com/index.html Roditys] (Greek)<br /> <br /> * Rosalyn Metz (leader) - v<br /> * [[User:highermath|Cary Gordon]] - v<br /> * [[User:Jacobandresen|Jacob Andresen]] - n<br /> * Karen Miller - n<br /> * Dre - v<br /> <br /> '''Restaurants between .25 miles and .5 miles of the hotel'''<br /> <br /> [http://avecrestaurant.com/# Avec] (Small plate)<br /> <br /> [http://www.babavillage.com/ Baba’s Village] (Indian/Pakistani)<br /> <br /> [http://blackbirdrestaurant.com/ Blackbird] (Contemporary)<br /> <br /> [http://www.carnivalechicago.com/menu Carnivale] (Nuevo Latino)<br /> <br /> [http://decero.hellotacos.com/ De Cero] (Mexican)<br /> <br /> [http://www.dragonflymandarin.com/ Dragonfly] (Chinese, sushi)<br /> <br /> [http://giordanos.com/ Giordano's] (Chicago Style Pizza) This place should be able to handle multiple groups...<br /> <br /> [http://www.grangehallburgerbar.com/ Grange Hall Burger Bar] (Local food)<br /> <br /> [http://www.idreamoffalafel.com/ I Dream of Falafel] (Mediterranean)<br /> <br /> [http://www.jaipurchicago.com/ Jaipur] (Indian)<br /> <br /> [http://lasardine.com/ La Sardine] (French)<br /> <br /> [http://www.mythaitakumi.com/index.html MyThai Takumi] (Japanese Thai) Meeting details TBA<br /> <br /> *Becky Yoose (leader) - v<br /> *May Chan - n<br /> *David Anderson - newby<br /> *Terry Brady - new<br /> <br /> [http://www.nellcoterestaurant.com/ Nellcôte] (French)<br /> <br /> [http://chicago.provincerestaurant.com/ Province] (American with Central/South American/Spanish influence)<br /> <br /> [http://thepublicanrestaurant.com/ The Publican] (Seafood)<br /> <br /> * Jay Luker (eater) - v<br /> * Mark Matienzo (tweeter) - v<br /> * Devon Smith - repeat offender<br /> <br /> [http://saigonsisters.tumblr.com/ Saigon Sisters] (Vietnamese)<br /> <br /> [http://www.thaiurbankitchen.com/ Thai Urban Kitchen] (Thai, sushi)<br /> <br /> [http://www.trattoriaisabellachicago.com/rest.html Trattoria Isabella] (Italian)<br /> <br /> [http://www.vivo-chicago.com/homepage-2 Vivo] (Italian) <br /> <br /> [http://www.wishbonechicago.com/dining/westloop/ Wishbone] (Southern Reconstruction)<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Restaurants between .5 miles and .75 miles of the hotel'''<br /> <br /> [http://currentsontheriver.com/ Currents on the River] (Eclectic)<br /> <br /> [http://n9ne.com/ N9NE Steakhouse] (Steak)<br /> <br /> [http://www.verachicago.com/menu Vera Chicago] (Spanish)<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Restaurants between .75 miles and 1 mile of the hotel'''<br /> <br /> [http://www.theberghoff.com/default.aspx The Berghoff] (German)<br /> * Declan Fleming - v<br /> * Joshua Gomez - v (I will have to leave by around 7:15, going to see a show at 7:30)<br /> * Dave Green - n <br /> <br /> [http://www.nativefoods.com/ Native Foods] (Vegan)<br /> <br /> <br /> '''Restaurants more than 1 mile from the hotel'''<br /> <br /> [http://www.greenzebrachicago.com/index.html Green Zebra] (Vegan)<br /> <br /> [http://honkytonkbbqchicago.com/ Honky Tonk Barbeque] (BBQ)<br /> <br /> [http://www.karynraw.com/cooked Karyn’s Cooked] (Vegan)<br /> <br /> [http://www.latabernatapas.com/ La Taberna Tapas] (Mediterranean)<br /> <br /> [http://www.morganschicago.com/ Morgan's on Maxwell] (Pub food)<br /> <br /> === Veg*n Dinner ===<br /> <br /> Let's have dinner at a veg*n-friendly place one night of the conference. Folks of all eating styles welcome.<br /> <br /> Max *6* people per party this year.<br /> <br /> '''Party #1: Chicago Diner''', Wednesday Night http://www.veggiediner.com/ &quot;meat free since '83&quot; <br /> Will they easily be able to accommodate 6 folks walking in?<br /> We'll plan on meeting in the conference hotel at 6pm and taking the 8 bus up there (3411 N. Halsted St Chicago, IL 60657). <br /> # Jason Ronallo (jronallo@gmail.com)<br /> # Linda Ballinger<br /> # May Chan (msuicat at gmail dot com)<br /> <br /> === Code4lib/Goose Island Brewing Pull Request ===<br /> '''When:''' Wednesday, 2/13, 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM<br /> <br /> More information and sign up at [https://code4lib2013-estw.eventbrite.com/|https://code4lib2013-estw.eventbrite.com/]<br /> <br /> <br /> === Non-beery get together ===<br /> '''When:''' Wednesday, 2/13, TBD (evening)<br /> <br /> Contact: @dchud, @ranti, @yo_bj, @wendyrlibrarian<br /> <br /> <br /> === Flying Trapeze ===<br /> '''When:''' Monday, 2/11, TBD<br /> <br /> '''Contact:''' rosalynmetz at gmail dot com<br /> <br /> No this is not a joke. If you haven't heard Rosy is an aspiring trapeze artists and wants to bring the fun to her friends in Code4Lib. There is a trapeze rig in Chicago and she plans on visiting it and hopes that some of you can come along as well. If its your first time taking a trapeze class, they'll start you off learning [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oqPi_zuX7A a knee hang] and depending on how that goes you might be able to catch it at the end of class. If you have any questions about whether or not this is for you, [http://chicago.trapezeschool.com/classes/trapeze.php TSNY Chicago's website] should have the answer, if not feel free to contact Rosy.<br /> <br /> Trapeze classes are $57, last 2 hours, and are limited to 10 people. Currently TSNY Chicago hasn't release their class schedule for February -- they should be doing that around Jan. 1. If we can get enough people interested before then, we can buy out a whole class. If not it'll be first come, first serve (along with the general public).<br /> <br /> If you're interested in signing up, feel free to add your name and contact info to the list below.<br /> <br /> '''''Sign Up List'''''<br /> # Jay Luker (first!)<br /> # Bill McMillin<br /> # Bess Sadler<br /> # Karen Coyle<br /> # Sibyl Schaefer<br /> # Rosalyn Metz (because I'm organizing)<br /> # Alicia Cozine<br /> # <br /> # <br /> #<br /> <br /> == Social Map - Places of Interest==<br /> <br /> https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=213549257652679418473.0004ce6c25e6cdeb0319d&amp;msa=0<br /> <br /> == Local Events ==<br /> == Local Food ==<br /> == Local Drinks ==<br /> ==Chicago Events Feb 11-14==<br /> ===Monday February 11===<br /> ===Tuesday, February 12===<br /> Field trip to the Read/Write Library (details to follow). 6-9 PM+<br /> Come help catalog the Read/Write Library catalog and hack on the library catalog. We will also invite friends from Code for America to hang out and talk civic data.<br /> <br /> Concert - [http://www.thefatbabies.com/ The Fat Babies] playing at an awesome venue, [http://greenmilljazz.com/ The Green Mill].<br /> <br /> ===Wednesday, February 13===<br /> ===Thursday, February 14===<br /> Tour of the [http://www.newberry.org/ Newberry Library] -- 3:30 p.m.<br /> This will be a special tour for Code4Lib attendees, so please sign up below if you are interested, as I'll need to give the tour guide an estimate of how many people will come. Details on how to get to the Newberry will follow. Questions? Contact ballingerl at newberry dot org<br /> <br /> '''''Sign Up List'''''<br /> # Michael Doran - doran@uta.edu<br /> # William Denton - wtd@pobox.com<br /> # [name] - [email address]<br /> #<br /> <br /> [[Category:Code4Lib2013]]</div>

Decasm https://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php?title=2013_social_activities&diff=31186 2013-01-10T18:29:14Z

<p>Decasm: </p> <hr /> <div>== Ideas ==<br /> <br /> * Game Night! Type of games might vary due to interest, could range from party games like Werewolf, Wits &amp; Wagers, Telestrations, Taboo, Apples to Apples to perhaps more strategic games like De Vulgari Eloquentia or Eclipse. Jon Gorman is willing to bring some games, are you? Jon will try to send out an email soon to get some interest.<br /> ** yo_bj: I have some games I can bring as well (Kill Doctor Lucky, Fluxx, Godzilla: Stomp, Munchkin Zombies, etc.)<br /> **danwho: I 'll bring the Cards Against Humanity set.<br /> **escowles: I've got lots of games I could bring like Settlers of Catan, Carcassonne, Ticket to Ride, Age of Renaissance, Elfenland, Agricola, Le Havre, Smallworld, RoboRally, etc. etc.<br /> **jen_young: I'm local and I have quite a few games. Just about every version of Fluxx, Bananagrams, Gloom, Munchkin Cthulu,Cards Against Humanity, Apples to Apples, Risk, Last Night on Earth, etc.)<br /> ** decasm: Interested in Go (aka igo, weiqi, baduk) anytime, not just game night. I can do Catan as well. (And as much as I love it, Cards Against Humanity is probably a violation of the new Code of Conduct.)<br /> <br /> * Brewery tour - some possible candidates would be Goose Island, Brew Bus http://www.chicagobrewbus.com/, Piece, Revolution, Half Acre.<br /> * Library field trips - because we're library geeks. Possible places include Newberry and Read/Write.--Read/Write Library confirmed for February 12.<br /> * Art Institute of Chicago - Only open until 5pm, but possible for people coming in early enough on Sunday.<br /> ** escowles: I'm getting in around noon on Sunday, and interested in this.<br /> <br /> == Planned Events ==<br /> <br /> === Newcomer Dinner ===<br /> <br /> '''When''': Tuesday, 2/12, evening<br /> <br /> More info to follow...<br /> <br /> === Veg*n Dinner ===<br /> <br /> Let's have dinner at a veg*n-friendly place one night of the conference. All welcome.<br /> <br /> Details later. Suggestions on where to eat near the conference hotel? Interested in coming or co-organizing? Contact Jason at jronallo@gmail.com.<br /> <br /> <br /> === Code4lib/Goose Island Brewing Pull Request ===<br /> '''When:''' Wednesday, 2/13, 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM<br /> <br /> More information and sign up at [https://code4lib2013-estw.eventbrite.com/|https://code4lib2013-estw.eventbrite.com/]<br /> <br /> <br /> === Non-beery get together ===<br /> '''When:''' Wednesday, 2/13, TBD (evening)<br /> <br /> Contact: @dchud, @ranti, @yo_bj, @wendyrlibrarian<br /> <br /> <br /> === Flying Trapeze ===<br /> '''When:''' Monday, 2/11, TBD<br /> <br /> '''Contact:''' rosalynmetz at gmail dot com<br /> <br /> No this is not a joke. If you haven't heard Rosy is an aspiring trapeze artists and wants to bring the fun to her friends in Code4Lib. There is a trapeze rig in Chicago and she plans on visiting it and hopes that some of you can come along as well. If its your first time taking a trapeze class, they'll start you off learning [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oqPi_zuX7A a knee hang] and depending on how that goes you might be able to catch it at the end of class. If you have any questions about whether or not this is for you, [http://chicago.trapezeschool.com/classes/trapeze.php TSNY Chicago's website] should have the answer, if not feel free to contact Rosy.<br /> <br /> Trapeze classes are $57, last 2 hours, and are limited to 10 people. Currently TSNY Chicago hasn't release their class schedule for February -- they should be doing that around Jan. 1. If we can get enough people interested before then, we can buy out a whole class. If not it'll be first come, first serve (along with the general public).<br /> <br /> If you're interested in signing up, feel free to add your name and contact info to the list below.<br /> <br /> '''''Sign Up List'''''<br /> # Jay Luker (first!)<br /> # Bill McMillin<br /> # Bess Sadler<br /> # Karen Coyle<br /> # Sibyl Schaefer<br /> # Rosalyn Metz (because I'm organizing)<br /> # <br /> # <br /> # <br /> #<br /> <br /> == Social Map - Places of Interest==<br /> <br /> https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=213549257652679418473.0004ce6c25e6cdeb0319d&amp;msa=0<br /> <br /> == Local Events ==<br /> == Local Food ==<br /> == Local Drinks ==<br /> ==Chicago Events Feb 11-14==<br /> ===Monday February 11===<br /> ===Tuesday, February 12===<br /> Field trip to the Read/Write Library (details to follow). 6-9 PM+<br /> Come help catalog the Read/Write Library catalog and hack on the library catalog. We will also invite friends from Code for America to hang out and talk civic data.<br /> <br /> ===Wednesday, February 13===<br /> ===Thursday, February 14===<br /> <br /> [[Category:Code4Lib2013]]</div>

Decasm https://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php?title=2013_preconference_proposals&diff=29119 2012-12-05T19:53:22Z

<p>Decasm: </p> <hr /> <div>Proposals '''now closed'''.<br /> <br /> Spaces available: 4+ Rooms<br /> <br /> Please follow the formatting guidelines:<br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> === Talk Title ===<br /> <br /> * Presenter/Leader, affiliation (optional), and email address (mandatory!)<br /> * Second Presenter/Leader, affiliation, email address, if applicable<br /> <br /> Description.<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Full Day==<br /> <br /> ===Drupal4lib Sub-con Barcamp===<br /> <br /> * Contact [[User:highermath|Cary Gordon]], cgordon@chillco.com or <br /> * [[User:cdmo|Charlie Morris]], NCSU Libraries, cdmorris@ncsu.edu<br /> <br /> This will be a full day of self-selected barcamp style sessions. Anyone who wants to present can write down the topic on an index card and, after the keynote, we will vote to choose what we want to see. Attendees can also pick a topic and attempt to talk someone else into presenting on it.<br /> <br /> If we run out of topics, we will pay homage to the project by testing patches for Drupal 8. It is easy, and we will show you how to do this invaluable task.<br /> <br /> Local Drupal uber-ninja Larry Garfield will stop by to answer questions and give us some guidance.<br /> <br /> '''I plan on attending:'''<br /> * First and last name<br /> <br /> ==Half Day Morning==<br /> === Open space session ===<br /> <br /> * Dan Chudnov, dchud at gwu edu<br /> <br /> The rest of code4libcon is pretty well structured these days; come in the morning for a few hours of old-school [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-space_technology open space technology] unconference. Bring a rough talk or idea you want to share or questions you have or something you want to learn about or discuss with other people, and be ready to tell us about it. Use it as extra prep time for your upcoming prepared or lightning talk if you want. We'll plan the morning out a little bit at the beginning, but not too much. What we do will be up to the people there in the room.<br /> <br /> If there's interest, we could start with a &quot;welcome to code4lib&quot; introductory session for newcomers.<br /> <br /> '''I plan on attending:'''<br /> * Devon Smith<br /> * First and last name<br /> <br /> === Delivery services ===<br /> * Ted Lawless, Brown University Library, tlawless at brown edu. <br /> <br /> Are you interested in making it easier for users to obtain copies of known items? Do you feel your OpenURL and Interlibrary Loan software could be streamlined? This pre-conference workshop will focus on providing services that deliver content to users. Discovery systems are doing a better job of exposing library holdings but there's still a lot of work to do actually get the content in the users hands. <br /> <br /> Possible topics/activities include:<br /> * panel discussion of what some libraries have done in this area<br /> * comparisons of different approaches to addressing delivery <br /> * overview of tools available <br /> * sharing of strategies and experiences<br /> * time to work with and review open source code in this area. Some possible tools to install and test out [https://github.com/team-umlaut/umlaut Umlaut], [https://github.com/lawlesst/py360link Py360 Link]. <br /> <br /> Resources and background information:<br /> * [https://github.com/team-umlaut/umlaut/wiki/What-is-Umlaut-anyway What-is-Umlaut-anyway] <br /> * [http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/7308 Hacking 360 Link: A hybrid approach]<br /> * [http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/108 Auto-Populating an ILL form with the Serial Solutions Link Resolver API]<br /> * [http://lawlesst.github.com/notebook/delivery.html Focusing on Delivery]<br /> <br /> '''I plan on attending:'''<br /> * First and last name<br /> <br /> === Intro to Blacklight ===<br /> * Bess Sadler, Stanford University Library (bess at stanford.edu)<br /> * Justin Coyne, MediaShelf (justin.coyne at yourmediashelf.com)<br /> <br /> Blacklight (http://projectblacklight.org) is a free and open source discovery interface built on solr and ruby on rails. It is used by institutions such as Stanford University, University of Virginia, WGBH, Johns Hopkins University, the Rock and Roll hall of fame, and an ever expanding community of adopters and contributors. Blacklight can be used as a front-end discovery solution for an ILS, or the contents of a digital repository, or to provide a unified discovery solution for many siloed collections. In this workshop we will cover the basics of solr indexing and searching, setting up and customizing Blacklight, and leave time for Q&amp;A around local issues people might encounter. <br /> <br /> Note: this workshop can be a standalone intro, or attendees can follow up with the intro to hydra workshop in the afternoon.<br /> <br /> '''I plan on attending:'''<br /> * First and last name<br /> <br /> === RailsBridge Intro to Ruby on Rails ===<br /> * Jason Ronallo, North Carolina State University Libraries, jnronall@ncsu.edu<br /> * Mark Bussey, Data Curation Experts (mark at curationexperts.com)<br /> * Shaun Ellis, Princeton University Library, shaune@princeton.edu<br /> * Ross Singer, Talis, rossfsinger@gmail.com<br /> * Adam Wead (helper), Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, awead@rockhall.org<br /> * Anyone else want to come and help folks? Contact Jason.<br /> <br /> RailsBridge comes to code4lib! We'll follow the RailsBridge curriculum (http://railsbridge.org) to provide a gentle introduction to Ruby on Rails. Topics covered include an introduction to the Ruby language, the Rails framework, and version control with git. Participants will build a working Rails application. <br /> <br /> There will be some pre-preconference preparation needed so that we can effectively use our time. Details to come.<br /> <br /> * Note: Attendees can follow up with the Intro to Blacklight afternoon session, which will be tailored for folks new to Ruby<br /> <br /> '''I plan on attending:'''<br /> * First and last name<br /> * Shawn Kiewel<br /> <br /> ===Intro to NoSQL Databases===<br /> * Joshua Gomez, George Washington University, jngomez at gwu edu<br /> <br /> Since Google published its paper on BigTable in 2006, alternatives to the traditional relational database model have been growing in both variety and popularity. These new databases (often referred to as NoSQL databases) excel at handling problems faced by modern information systems that the traditional relational model cannot. They are particularly popular among organizations tackling the so-called &quot;Big Data&quot; problems. However, there are always tradeoffs involved when making such dramatic changes. Understanding how these different kinds of databases are designed and what they can offer is essential to the decision making process. In this precon I will discuss some of the various types of new databases (key-value, columnar, document, graph) and walk through examples or exercises using some of their open source implementations like Riak, HBase, CouchDB, and Neo4j.<br /> <br /> '''I plan on attending:'''<br /> * First and last name<br /> <br /> ==Half Day Afternoon==<br /> === Data Visualization Hackfest ===<br /> * Chris Beer, cabeer at stanford.edu<br /> * Dan Chudnov, dchud at gwu edu<br /> <br /> * Description: Want to hack/design/plan/document on a team of people who enjoy learning by creating? Interested in data visualization? Well, this hackfest is for you. Not familiar with the concept of a hackfest? See Roy Tennant's [http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA332564.html &quot;Where Librarians Go To Hack&quot;] and the page for the [http://access2010.lib.umanitoba.ca/node/3.html Access 2010 Hackfest]. We propose a half-day hackfest with a focus on visualization library data -- think stuff like library catalog data, access/circulation statistics, etc. Here's how it works, roughly: <br /> - we'll (you'll!) do lightning tutorials for some data visualization tools, toolkits (R? d3js? ?), datasets.<br /> - we'll separate into groups and hack on stuff.<br /> - at the end of the day, we'll present our progress.<br /> <br /> Not a code hacker? No worries; all skill sets and backgrounds are valuable! <br /> <br /> '''I plan on attending:'''<br /> * Devon Smith<br /> * First and last name<br /> <br /> === Intro to Hydra ===<br /> * Adam Wead, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (awead at rockhall.org)<br /> * Mike Giarlo, Penn State Information Technology Services (michael at psu.edu)<br /> * Mark Bussey, Data Curation Experts (mark at curationexperts.com)<br /> <br /> Hydra (http://projecthydra.org) is a free and open source repository solution that is being used by institutions on both sides of the North Atlantic to provide access to their digital content. Hydra provides a versatile and feature rich environment for end-users and repository administrators alike. Leveraging Blacklight as its front end discovery interface, the hydra project provides a suite of software components, data models, and design patterns for building a robust and sustainable digital repository, as well as a community of support for ongoing development. This workshop will provide an introduction to the hydra project and its software components. Attendees will leave with enough knowledge to get started building their own local repository solutions. This workshop will be led by Adam Wead of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. <br /> <br /> '''I plan on attending:'''<br /> * First and last name<br /> * Jeremy Prevost<br /> <br /> === Intro to Blacklight ===<br /> * Bess Sadler, Stanford University Library (bess at stanford.edu)<br /> * Justin Coyne, MediaShelf (justin.coyne at yourmediashelf.com)<br /> * Jason Ronallo, NC State (jronallo at gmail.com)<br /> * Shaun Ellis, Princeton University Library, (shaune@princeton.edu)<br /> <br /> Blacklight (http://projectblacklight.org) is a free and open source discovery interface built on solr and ruby on rails. It is used by institutions such as Stanford University, NC State, WGBH, Johns Hopkins University, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and an ever expanding community of adopters and contributors. Blacklight can be used as a front-end discovery solution for an ILS, or the contents of a digital repository, or to provide a unified discovery solution for many siloed collections. In this workshop we will cover the basics of solr indexing and searching, setting up and customizing Blacklight, and leave time for Q&amp;A around local issues people might encounter. <br /> <br /> Note: this workshop will be tailored as a follow-on to the morning's RailsBridge Intro to Ruby on Rails workshop, but everyone is welcome<br /> <br /> '''I plan on attending:'''<br /> * First and last name<br /> * Shawn Kiewel<br /> <br /> === DPLA Intro/Hacking ===<br /> <br /> * Presenter(s)/Leader(s): TBD<br /> * Guy Who'd Be Interested in Helping: Jay Luker, Smithsonian Astrophysics Data System (jluker at cfa.harvard.edu)<br /> <br /> This is a stub proposal entered solely to beat the submission deadline. I think there's be sufficient interest in this session, but only thought of it yesterday and haven't had time to coordinate with actual DPLA'ers and confirm that any of them are definitely coming.<br /> <br /> '''I plan on attending:'''<br /> * First and last name<br /> <br /> === Fail4lib ===<br /> * Jason Casden, NCSU Libraries (jmcasden at ncsu.edu)<br /> <br /> The Code4lib community is full of driven people who embrace the risks that are often associated with new projects. While these traits lead to the incredible projects that are presented at Code4lib, creative technical work also often leads to unexpected, vexing, or disappointing results even from eventually successful projects (however you define the term). Learning more about how our colleagues deal with failure in various contexts could lead to the development of better methods for communicating the value of productive failure, modifying project plans (&quot;The Pivot&quot;), and failing more cheaply.<br /> <br /> Hopefully we can define the format as a group, but a fairly high level of participation is crucial if this is to be a worthwhile preconference. Some possible agenda items that could be mixed and matched to fill the afternoon:<br /> <br /> # Given willing presenters, a series of 10-20 minute presentations that go into some depth about specific failures.<br /> # Depending on the number of participants, either a multi- or single-track series of unconference-like themed discussions on various aspects of failure, possibly including themes like:<br /> #* Technical failure<br /> #* Failure to effectively address a real user need<br /> #* Overinvestment<br /> #* Outreach/Promotion failure<br /> #* Design/UX failure<br /> #* Project team communication failure<br /> #* Missed opportunities (risk-averse failure)<br /> #* Successes gleaned from failures<br /> # A panel of participants who have prepared in advance to answer moderator and audience questions about their experience with failure.<br /> # A prepared reading assignment that we could all forget to read, creating a shared fail in order to start the preconference on the right foot.<br /> <br /> I'll serve as a moderator (if needed) and participant and would welcome more organizers. I am happy to be outvoted by participants on any of these points--I just want to get us talking about our screw-ups, blind spots, and anvils dropping from the sky.<br /> <br /> '''I plan on attending:'''<br /> * First and last name<br /> <br /> === Solr 4 In Depth ===<br /> * Contact: Erik Hatcher (erik.hatcher at lucidworks.com)<br /> <br /> The long awaited and much anticipated Solr 4 has been released! It's a really big deal. There are so many improvements, it makes the head spin. This session will cover the major feature improvements from Lucene's flexible indexing and scoring API up through SolrCloud in a digestable half-day format.<br /> <br /> '''I plan on attending:'''<br /> * First and last name<br /> * Esmé Cowles<br /> <br /> [[Category:Code4Lib2013]]</div>

Decasm https://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php?title=2013_talks_proposals&diff=28107 2012-11-05T19:10:54Z

<p>Decasm: </p> <hr /> <div>'''Deadline has been extended by request due to the hurricane/storm.'''<br /> <br /> Deadline for talk submission is ''Friday, November 9'' at 11:59pm ET. We ask that no changes be made after this point, so that every voter reads the same thing. You can update your description again after voting closes.<br /> <br /> Prepared talks are 20 minutes (including setup and questions), and focus on one or more of the following areas:<br /> * tools (some cool new software, software library or integration platform)<br /> * specs (how to get the most out of some protocols, or proposals for new ones)<br /> * challenges (one or more big problems we should collectively address)<br /> <br /> The community will vote on proposals using the criteria of:<br /> * usefulness<br /> * newness<br /> * geekiness<br /> * uniqueness<br /> * awesomeness<br /> <br /> Please follow the formatting guidelines:<br /> <br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> == Talk Title ==<br /> <br /> * Speaker's name, affiliation, and email address<br /> * Second speaker's name, affiliation, email address, if applicable<br /> <br /> Abstract of no more than 500 words.<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> <br /> == All Teh Metadatas Re-Revisited ==<br /> <br /> * Esme Cowles, UC San Diego Library, escowles AT ucsd DOT edu<br /> * Matt Critchlow, UC San Diego Library, mcritchlow AT ucsd DOT edu<br /> * Bradley Westbrook, UC San Diego Library, bdwestbrook AT ucsd DOT edu<br /> <br /> Last year Declan Fleming presented ALL TEH METADATAS and reviewed our UC<br /> San Diego Library Digital Asset Management system and RDF data model. You<br /> may be shocked to hear that all that metadata wasn't quite enough to<br /> handle increasingly complex digital library and research data in an<br /> elegant way. Our ad-hoc, 8-year-old data model has also been added to in<br /> inconsistent ways and our librarians and developers have not always been<br /> perfectly in sync in understanding how the data model has evolved over<br /> time.<br /> <br /> <br /> In this presentation we'll review our process of locking a team of<br /> librarians and developers in a room to figure out a new data model, from<br /> domain definition through building and testing an OWL ontology. We¹ll also<br /> cover the challenges we ran into, including the review of existing<br /> controlled vocabularies and ontologies, or lack thereof, and the decisions<br /> made to cover the gaps. Finally, we'll discuss how we engaged the digital<br /> library community for feedback and what we have to do next. We all know<br /> that Things Fall Apart, this is our attempt at Doing Better This Time.<br /> <br /> == Modernizing VuFind with Zend Framework 2 ==<br /> <br /> * Demian Katz, Villanova University, demian DOT katz AT villanova DOT edu<br /> <br /> When setting goals for a new major release of VuFind, use of an existing web framework was an important decision to encourage standardization and avoid reinvention of the wheel. Zend Framework 2 was selected as providing the best balance between the cutting-edge (ZF2 was released in 2012) and stability (ZF1 has a long history and many adopters). This talk will examine some of the architecture and features of the new framework and discuss how it has been used to improve the VuFind project.<br /> <br /> == Did You Really Say That Out Loud? Tools and Techniques for Safe Public WiFi Computing ==<br /> <br /> * [[User:DataGazetteer|Peter Murray]], LYRASIS, Peter.Murray@lyrasis.org<br /> <br /> Public WiFi networks, even those that have passwords, are nothing more that an old-time [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_line_(telephony) party line]: what every you say can be easily heard by anyone nearby. <br /> Remember [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firesheep Firesheep]? <br /> It was an extension to Firefox that demonstrated how easy it was to snag session cookies and impersonate someone else.<br /> So what are you sending out over the airwaves, and what techniques are available to prevent eavesdropping?<br /> This talk will demonstrate tools and techniques for desktop and mobile operating systems that you should be using right now -- right here at Code4Lib -- to protect your data and your network activity.<br /> <br /> == Drupal 8 Preview — Symfony and Twig ==<br /> <br /> * [[User:Highermath|Cary Gordon]], The Cherry Hill Company, cgordon@chillco.com<br /> <br /> Drupal is a great platform for building web applications. Last year, the core developers decided to adopt the Symfony PHP framework, because it would lay the groundwork for the modernization (and de-PHP4ification) of the Drupal codebase. As I write this, the Symfony ClassLoader and HttpFoundation libraries are committed to Drupal core, with more elements likely before Drupal 8 code freeze.<br /> <br /> It seems almost certain that the Twig templating engine will supplant PHPtemplate as the core Drupal template engine. Twig is a powerful, secure theme building tool that removes PHP from the templating system, the result being a very concise and powerful theme layer.<br /> <br /> Symfony and Twig have a common creator, Fabien Potencier, who's overall goal is to rid the world of the excesses of PHP 4.<br /> <br /> == Neat! But How Do We Do It? - The Real-world Problem of Digitizing Complex Corporate Digital Objects ==<br /> <br /> * Matthew Mariner, University of Colorado Denver, Auraria Library, matthew.mariner@ucdenver.edu<br /> <br /> Isn't it neat when you discover that you are the steward of dozens of Sanborn Fire Instance Maps, hundreds of issues of a city directory, and thousands of photographs of persons in either aforementioned medium? And it's even cooler when you decide, &quot;Let's digitize these together and make them one big awesome project to support public urban history&quot;? Unfortunately it's a far more difficult process than one imagines at inception and, sadly, doesn't always come to fruition. My goal here is to discuss the technological (and philosophical) problems librarians and archivists face when trying to create ultra-rich complex corporate digital projects, or, rather, projects consisting of at least three facets interrelated by theme. I intend to address these problems by suggesting management solutions, web workarounds, and, perhaps, a philosophy that might help in determining whether to even move forward or not. Expect a few case studies of &quot;grand ideas crushed by technological limitations&quot; and &quot;projects on the right track&quot; to follow. <br /> <br /> == ResCarta Tools building a standard format for audio archiving, discovery and display ==<br /> <br /> * [[User:sarney|John Sarnowski]], The ResCarta Foundation, john.sarnowski@rescarta.org<br /> <br /> The free ResCarta Toolkit has been used by libraries and archives around the world to host city directories, newspapers, and historic photographs and by aerospace companies to search and find millions of engineering documents. Now the ResCarta team has released audio additions to the toolkit. <br /> <br /> Create full text searchable oral histories, news stories, interviews. or build an archive of lectures; all done to Library of Congress standards. The included transcription editor allows for accurate correction of the data conversion tool’s output. Build true archives of text, photos and audio. A single audio file carries the embedded Axml metadata, transcription, and word location information. Checks with the FADGI BWF Metaedit.<br /> <br /> ResCarta-Web presents your audio to IE, Chome, Firefox, Safari, and Opera browsers with full playback and word search capability. Display format is OGG!! <br /> <br /> You have to see this tool in action. Twenty minutes from an audio file to transcribed, text-searchable website. Be there or be L seven (Yeah, I’m that old) <br /> <br /> == Format Designation in MARC Records: A Trip Down the Rabbit-Hole ==<br /> <br /> * Michael Doran, University of Texas at Arlington, doran@uta.edu<br /> <br /> This presentation will use a seemingly simple data point, the &quot;format&quot; of the item being described, to illustrate some of the complexities and challenges inherent in the parsing of MARC records. I will talk about abstract vs. concrete forms; format designation in the Leader, 006, 007, and 008 fixed fields as well as the 245 and 300 variable fields; pseudo-formats; what is mandatory vs. optional in respect to format designation in cataloging practice; and the differences between cataloging theory and practice as observed via format-related data mining of a mid-size academic library collection. <br /> <br /> I understand that most of us go to code4lib to hear about the latest sexy technologies. While MARC isn't sexy, many of the new tools being discussed still need to be populated with data gleaned from MARC records. MARC format designation has ramifications for search and retrieval, limits, and facets, both in the ILS and further downstream in next generation OPACs and web-scale discovery tools. Even veteran library coders will learn something from this session. <br /> <br /> == Touch Kiosk 2: Piezoelectric Boogaloo ==<br /> <br /> * Andreas Orphanides, North Carolina State University Libraries, akorphan@ncsu.edu<br /> <br /> At the NCSU Libraries, we provide realtime access to information on library spaces and services through an interactive touchscreen kiosk in our Learning Commons. In the summer of 2012, two years after its initial deployment, I redeveloped the kiosk application from the ground up, with an entirely new codebase and a completely redesigned user interface. The changes I implemented were designed to remedy previously identified shortcomings in the code and the interface design [1], and to enhance overall stability and performance of the application.<br /> <br /> In this presentation I will outline my revision process, highlighting the lessons I learned and the practices I implemented in the course of redevelopment. I will highlight the key features of the HTML/Javascript codebase that allow for increased stability, flexibility, and ease of maintenance; and identify the changes to the user interface that resulted from the usability findings I uncovered in my previous research. Finally, I will compare the usage patterns of the new interface to the analysis of the previous implementation to examine the practical effect of the implemented changes.<br /> <br /> I will also provide access to a genericized version of the interface code for others to build their own implementations of similar kiosk applications.<br /> <br /> [1] http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/5832<br /> <br /> == Wayfinding in a Cloud: Location Service for libraries ==<br /> <br /> * Petteri Kivimäki, The National Library of Finland, petteri.kivimaki@helsinki.fi<br /> <br /> Searching for books in large libraries can be a difficult task for a novice library user. This paper presents The Location Service, software as a service (SaaS) wayfinding application developed and managed by The National Library of Finland, which is targeted for all the libraries. The service provides additional information and map-based guidance to books and collections by showing their location on a map, and it can be integrated with any library management system, as the integration happens by adding a link to the service in the search interface. The service is being developed continuously based on the feedback received from the users.<br /> <br /> The service has two user interfaces: One for the customers and one for the library staff for managing the information related to the locations. The UI for the customers is fully customizable by the libraries, and the customization is done via template files by using the following techniques: HTML, CSS, and Javascript/jQuery. The service supports multiple languages, and the libraries have a full control of the languages, which they want to support in their environment.<br /> <br /> The service is written in Java and it uses Spring and Hibernate frameworks. The data is stored in PostgreSQL database, which is shared by all the libraries. They do not possess a direct access to the database, but the service offers an interface, which makes it possible to retrieve XML data over HTTP. Modification of the data via admin UI, however, is restricted, and access on the other libraries’ data is blocked.<br /> <br /> == Empowering Collection Owners with Automated Bulk Ingest Tools for DSpace ==<br /> <br /> * Terry Brady, Georgetown University, twb27@georgetown.edu<br /> <br /> The Georgetown University Library has developed a number of applications to expedite the process of ingesting content into DSpace.<br /> * Automatically inventory a collection of documents or images to be uploaded<br /> * Generate a spreadsheet for metadata capture based on the inventory<br /> * Generate item-level ingest folders, contents files and dublin core metadata for the items to be ingested<br /> * Validate the contents of ingest folders prior to initiating the ingest to DSpace<br /> * Present users with a simple, web-based form to initiate the batch ingest process<br /> <br /> The applications have eliminated a number of error-prone steps from the ingest workflow and have significantly reduced a number of tedious data editing steps. These applications have empowered content experts to be in charge of their own collections. <br /> <br /> In this presentation, I will provide a demonstration of the tools that were built and discuss the development process that was followed.<br /> <br /> == Quality Assurance Reports for DSpace Collections ==<br /> <br /> * Terry Brady, Georgetown University, twb27@georgetown.edu<br /> <br /> The Georgetown University Library has developed a collection of quality assurance reports to improve the consistency of the metadata in our DSpace collections. The report infrastructure permits the creation of query snippets to test for possible consistency errors within the repository such as items missing thumbnails, items with multiple thumbnails, items missing a creation date, items containing improperly formatted dates, items without duplicated metadata fields, items recently added items across the repository, a community or a collection<br /> <br /> These reports have served to prioritize programmatic data cleanup tasks and manual data cleanup tasks. The reports have served as a progress tracker for data cleanup work and will provide on-going monitoring of the metadata consistency of the repository.<br /> <br /> In this presentation, I will provide a demonstration of the tools that were built and discuss the development process that was followed.<br /> <br /> == A Hybrid Solution for Improving Single Sign-On to a Proxy Service with Squid and EZproxy through Shibboleth and ExLibris’ Aleph X-Server ==<br /> <br /> * Alexander Jerabek, UQAM - Université du Québec à Montréal, jerabek.alexander_j@uqam.ca<br /> * Minh-Quang Nguyen, UQAM - Université du Québec à Montréal, nguyen.minh-quang@uqam.ca<br /> <br /> In this talk, we will describe how we developed and implemented a hybrid solution for improving single sign-on in conjunction with the library’s proxy service. This hybrid solution consists of integrating the disparate elements of EZproxy, the Squid workflow, Shibboleth, and the Aleph X-Server. We will report how this new integrated service improves the user experience. To our knowledge, this new service is unique and has not been implemented anywhere else. We will also present some statistics after approximately one year in production.<br /> <br /> See article: http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/7470<br /> <br /> == HTML5 Video Now! ==<br /> <br /> * Jason Ronallo, North Carolina State University Libraries, jnronall@ncsu.edu<br /> <br /> Can you use HTML5 video now? Yes.<br /> <br /> I'll show you how to get started using HTML5 video, including gotchas, tips, and tricks. Beyond the basics we'll see the power of having video integrated into HTML and the browser. Finally, we'll look at examples that push the limits and show the exciting future of video on the Web.<br /> <br /> My experience comes from technical development of an oral history video clips project. I developed the technical aspects of the project, including video processing, server configuration, development of a public site, creation of an administrative interface, and video engagement analytics. Major portions of this work have been open sourced under an MIT license.<br /> <br /> == Hybrid Archival Collections Using Blacklight and Hydra ==<br /> <br /> * Adam Wead, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, awead@rockhall.org<br /> <br /> At the Library and Archives of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, we use available tools such as Archivists' Toolkit to create EAD finding aids of our collections. However, managing digital content created from these materials and the born-digital content that is also part of these collections represents a significant challenge. In my presentation, I will discuss how we solve the problem of our hybrid collections by using Hydra as a digital asset manager and Blacklight as a unified presentation and discovery interface for all our materials.<br /> <br /> Our strategy centers around indexing ead xml into Solr as multiple documents: one for each collection, and one for every series, sub-series and item contained within a collection. For discovery, we use this strategy to leverage item-level searching of archival collections alongside our traditional library content. For digital collections, we use this same technique to represent a finding aid in Hydra as a set of linked objects using RDF. New digital items are then linked to these parent objects at the collection and series level. Once this is done, the items can be exported back out to the Blacklight solr index and the digital content appears along with the rest of the items in the collection.<br /> <br /> == Making the Web Accessible through Solid Design ==<br /> <br /> * [[User:Cynthia|Cynthia Ng]] from Ryerson University Library &amp; Archives<br /> <br /> In libraries, we are always trying our best to be accessible to everyone and we make every effort to do so physically, but what about our websites? Web designers are great at talking about the user experience and how to improve it, but what sometimes gets overlooked is how to make a site more accessible and meet accessibility guidelines. While guidelines are necessary to cover a minimum standard, web accessibility should come from good web design without ‘sacrificing’ features. While it's difficult to make a website fully accessible to everyone, there are easy, practical ways to make a site as accessible as possible.<br /> <br /> While the focus will be on websites and meeting the Web Accessibility Guidelines WCAG, the presentation will also touch on how to make custom web interfaces accessible.<br /> <br /> == Getting People to What They Need Fast! A Wayfinding Tool to Locate Books &amp; Much More ==<br /> <br /> * Steven Marsden, Ryerson University Library &amp; Archives, steven dot marsden at ryerson dot ca<br /> * [[User:Cynthia|Cynthia Ng]], Ryerson University Library &amp; Archives<br /> <br /> Having a bewildered, lost user in the building or stacks is a common occurrence, but we can help our users find their way through enhanced maps and floor plans. While not a new concept, these maps are integrated into the user’s flow of information without having to load a special app. The map not only highlights the location, but also provides all the related information with a link back to the detailed item view. During the first stage of the project, it has only be implemented for books (and other physical items), but the 'RULA Finder' is built to help users find just about anything and everything in the library including study rooms, computer labs, and staff. With a simple to use admin interface, it makes it easy for everyone, staff and users. <br /> <br /> The application is written in PHP with data stored in a MySQL database. The end-user interface involves jQuery, JSON, and the library's discovery layer (Summon) API.<br /> <br /> The presentation will not only cover the technical aspects, but also the implementation and usability findings.<br /> <br /> == De-sucking the Library User Experience ==<br /> <br /> * Jeremy Prevost, Northwestern University, j-prevost {AT} northwestern [DOT] edu<br /> <br /> Have you ever thought that library vendors purposely create the worst possible user experience they can imagine because they just hate users? Have you ever thought that your own library website feels like it was created by committee rather than for users because, well, it was? I’ll talk about how we used vendor supplied APIs to our ILS and Discovery tool to create an experience for our users that sucks at least a little bit less.<br /> <br /> The talk will provide specific examples of how inefficient or confusing vendor supplied solutions are from a user perspective along with our specific streamlined solutions to the same problems. Code examples will be minimal as the focus will be on improving user experience rather than any one code solution of doing that. Examples may include the seemingly simple tasks of renewing a book or requesting an item from another campus library.<br /> <br /> == Solr Testing Is Easy with Rspec-Solr Gem ==<br /> <br /> * Naomi Dushay, Stanford University, ndushay AT stanford DOT edu<br /> <br /> How do you know if <br /> <br /> * your idea for &quot;left anchoring&quot; searches actually works?<br /> * your field analysis for LC call numbers accommodates a suffix between the first and second cutter without breaking the rest of LC call number parsing?<br /> * tweaking Solr configs to improve, say, Chinese searching, won't break Turkish and Cyrillic?<br /> * changes to your solrconfig file accomplish what you wanted without breaking anything else?<br /> <br /> Avoid the whole app stack when writing Solr acceptance/relevancy/regression tests! Forget cucumber and capybara. This gem lets you easily (only 4 short files needed!) write tests like this, passing arbitrary parameters to Solr:<br /> <br />  it &quot;unstemmed author name Zare should precede stemmed variants&quot; do<br />   resp = solr_response(author_search_args('Zare').merge({'fl'=&gt;'id,author_person_display', 'facet'=&gt;false}))<br />   resp.should include(&quot;author_person_display&quot; =&gt; /\bZare\W/).in_each_of_first(3).documents<br />   resp.should_not include(&quot;author_person_display&quot; =&gt; /Zaring/).in_each_of_first(20).documents<br />  end<br />   <br />  it &quot;Cyrillic searching should work:  Восемьсoт семьдесят один день&quot; do<br />    resp = solr_resp_doc_ids_only({'q'=&gt;'Восемьсoт семьдесят один день'})<br />    resp.should include(&quot;9091779&quot;)<br />  end<br /> <br />  it &quot;q of 'String quartets Parts' and variants should be plausible &quot; do<br />    resp = solr_resp_doc_ids_only({'q'=&gt;'String quartets Parts'})<br />    resp.should have_at_least(2000).documents<br />    resp.should have_the_same_number_of_results_as(solr_resp_doc_ids_only({'q'=&gt;'(String quartets Parts)'}))<br />    resp.should have_more_results_than(solr_resp_doc_ids_only({'q'=&gt;'&quot;String quartets Parts&quot;'}))<br />  end<br /> <br /> it &quot;Traditional Chinese chars 三國誌 should get the same results as simplified chars 三国志&quot; do<br /> resp = solr_response({'q'=&gt;'三國誌', 'fl'=&gt;'id', 'facet'=&gt;false}) <br /> resp.should have_at_least(240).documents<br /> resp.should have_the_same_number_of_results_as(solr_resp_doc_ids_only({'q'=&gt;'三国志'})) <br /> end<br /> <br /> See<br />    http://rubydoc.info/github/sul-dlss/rspec-solr/frames<br />    https://github.com/sul-dlss/rspec-solr<br /> <br /> and our production relevancy/acceptance/regression tests slowly migrating from cucumber to:<br />    https://github.com/sul-dlss/sw_index_tests<br /> <br /> == Northwestern's Digital Image Library ==<br /> <br /> *Mike Stroming, Northwestern University Library, m-stroming AT northwestern DOT edu<br /> *Edgar Garcia, Northwestern University Library, edgar-garcia AT northwestern DOT edu<br /> <br /> At Northwestern University Library, we are about to release a beta version of our Digital Image Library (DIL). DIL is an implementation of the Hydra technology that provides a Fedora repository solution for discovery of and access to over 100,000 images for staff, students, and scholars. Some important features are:<br /> <br /> *Build custom collection of images using drag-and-drop<br /> *Re-order images within a collection using drag-and-drop<br /> *Nest collections within other collections<br /> *Create details/crops of images<br /> *Zoom, rotate images<br /> *Upload personal images<br /> *Retrieve your own uploads and details from a collection<br /> *Export a collection to a PowerPoint presentation<br /> *Create a group of users and authorize access to your images<br /> *Batch edit image metadata<br /> <br /> Our presentation will include a demo, explanation of the architecture, and a discussion of the benefits of being a part of the Hydra open-source community.<br /> <br /> == Two standards in a software (to say nothing of Normarc) ==<br /> <br /> *Zeno Tajoli, CINECA (Italy), z DOT tajoli AT cineca DOT it<br /> <br /> With this presentation I want to show how ILS Koha handles the support of three differnt MARC dialects:<br /> MARC21, Unimarc and Normarc. The main points of the presentation:<br /> <br /> *Three MARC at MySQL level<br /> *Three MARC at API level<br /> *Three MARC at display<br /> *Can I add a new format ?<br /> <br /> == Future Friendly Web Design for Libraries ==<br /> <br /> *[[User:michaelschofield|Michael Schofield]], Alvin Sherman Library, Research, and Information Technology Center, mschofied[dot]nova[dot]edu<br /> <br /> Libraries on the web are afterthoughts. Often their design is stymied on one hand by red tape imposed by the larger institution and on the other by an overload of too democratic input from colleagues. Slashed budgets / staff stretched too thin foul-up the R-word (that'd be &quot;redesign&quot;) - but things are getting pretty strange. Notions about the Web (and where it can be accessed) are changing. <br /> <br /> So libraries can only avoid refabbing their fixed-width desktop and jQuery Mobile m-dot websites for so long until desktop users evaporate and demand from patrons with web-ready refrigerators becomes deafening. Just when we have largely hopped on the bandwagon and gotten enthusiastic about being online, our users expect a library's site to look and perform great on everything. <br /> <br /> Our presence on the web should be built to weather ever-increasing device complexity. To meet users at their point of need, libraries must start thinking Future Friendly.<br /> <br /> This overview rehashes the approach and philosophy of library web design, re-orienting it for maximum accessibility and maximum efficiency of design. While just 20 minutes, we'll mull over techniques like mobile-first responsive web design, modular CSS, browser feature detection for progressive enhancement, and lots of nifty tricks.<br /> <br /> ==BYU's discovery layer service aggregator==<br /> <br /> *Curtis Thacker, Brigham Young University, curtis.thacker AT byu DOT edu<br /> <br /> It is clear that libraries will continue to experience rapid change based on the speed of technology. To acknowledge this new reality and to provide rapid response to shifting end user paradigms BYU has developed a custom service aggregator. At first our vendors looked at us a bit funny; however, in the last year they have been astonished with the fluid implementation of new services – here’s the short list:<br /> <br /> *filmfinder - a tool for browsing and searching films<br /> *A custom book recommender service based on checkout data<br /> *Integrated library services like personell, library hours, study room scheduler and database finder through a custom adwords system.<br /> *A very geeky and powerful utility used for converting marc XML into primo compliant xml.<br /> *Embedded floormaps<br /> *A responsive web design<br /> *Bing did-you-mean<br /> *And many more.<br /> <br /> I will demo the system, review the archtecture and talk about future plans.<br /> <br /> ==The Avalon Media System: A Next Generation Hydra Head For Audio and Video Delivery==<br /> <br /> * Michael Klein, Senior Software Developer, Northwestern University LIbrary, michael.klein AT northwestern DOT edu<br /> * Nathan Rogers, Programmer/Analyst, Indiana University, rogersna AT indiana DOT edu<br /> <br /> Based on the success of the [http://www.dml.indiana.edu/ Variations] digital music platform, Indiana University and Northwestern University have developed a next generation educational tool for delivering multimedia resources to the classroom. The Avalon Media System (formerly Variations on Video) supports the ingest, media processing, management, and access-controlled delivery of library-managed video and audio collections. To do so, the system draws on several existing, mature, open source technologies:<br /> <br /> * The ingest, search, and discovery functionality of the Hydra framework<br /> * The powerful multimedia workflow management features of Opencast Matterhorn<br /> * The flexible Engage audio/video player<br /> * The streaming capabilities of both Red5 Media Server (open source) and Adobe Flash Media Server (proprietary)<br /> <br /> Extensive customization options are built into the framework for tailoring the application to the needs of a specific institution.<br /> <br /> Our goal is to create an open platform that can be used by other institutions to serve the needs of the academic community. Release 1 is planned for a late February launch with future versions released every couple of months following. For more information visit http://avalonmediasystem.org/ and https://github.com/variations-on-video/hydrant.<br /> <br /> == The DH Curation Guide: Building a Community Resource == <br /> <br /> *Robin Davis, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, robdavis AT jjay.cuny.edu <br /> *James Little, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, little9 AT illinois.edu <br /> <br /> Data curation for the digital humanities is an emerging area of research and practice. The DH Curation Guide, launched in July 2012, is an educational resource that addresses aspects of humanities data curation in a series of expert-written articles. Each provides a succinct introduction to a topic with annotated lists of useful tools, projects, standards, and good examples of data curation done right. The DH Curation Guide is intended to be a go-to resource for data curation practitioners and learners in libraries, archives, museums, and academic institutions. <br /> <br /> Because it's a growing field, we designed the DH Curation Guide to be a community-driven, living document. We developed a granular commenting system that encourages data curation community members to contribute remarks on articles, article sections, and article paragraphs. Moreover, we built in a way for readers to contribute and annotate resources for other data curation practitioners. <br /> <br /> This talk will address how the DH Curation Guide is currently used and will include a sneak peek at the articles that are in store for the Guide’s future. We will talk about the difficulties and successes of launching a site that encourages community. We are all builders here, so we will also walk through developing the granular commenting/annotation system and the XSLT-powered publication workflow. <br /> <br /> == Solr Update == <br /> <br /> *Erik Hatcher, LucidWorks, erik.hatcher AT lucidworks.com <br /> <br /> Solr is continually improving. Solr 4 was recently released, bringing dramatic changes in the underlying Lucene library and Solr-level features. It's tough for us all to keep up with the various versions and capabilities.<br /> <br /> This talk will blaze through the highlights of new features and improvements in Solr 4 (and up). Topics will include: SolrCloud, direct spell checking, surround query parser, and many other features. We will focus on the features library coders really need to know about.<br /> <br /> == Reports for the People == <br /> <br /> *Kara Young, Keene State College, NH, kyoung1 at keene.edu<br /> *Dana Clark, Keene State College, NH, dclark5 at keene.edu<br /> <br /> Libraries are increasingly being called upon to provide information on how our programs and services are moving our institutional strategic goals forward. In support of College and departmental Information Literacy learning outcomes, Mason Library Systems at Keene State College developed an assessment database to record and report assessment activities by Library faculty. Frustrated by the lack of freely available options for intuitively recording, accounting for, and outputting useful reports on instructional activities, Librarians requested a tool to make capturing and reporting activities (and their lives) easier. Library Systems was able to respond to this need by working with librarians to identify what information is necessary to capture, where other assessment tools had fallen short, and ultimately by developing an application that supports current reporting imperatives while providing flexibility for future changes.<br /> <br /> The result of our efforts was an in-house browser interfaced Assessment Database to improve the process of data collection and analysis. The application is written in PHP, data stored in a MySQL database, and presented via browser making extensive use of JQuery and JQuery plug-ins for data collection, manipulation, and presentation. <br /> The presentation will outline the process undertaken to build a successful collaboration with Library faculty from conception to implementation, as well as the technical aspects of our trial-and-error approach. Plus: cool charts and graphs!<br /> <br /> == Network Analyses of Library Catalog Data ==<br /> <br /> * Kirk Hess, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, kirkhess AT illinois.edu<br /> * Harriett Green, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, green19 AT illinois.edu <br /> <br /> Library collections are all too often like icebergs: The amount exposed on the surface is only a fraction of the actual amount of content, and we’d like to recommend relevant items from deep within the catalog to users. With the assistance of an XSEDE Allocation grant (http://xsede.org), we’ve used R to reconstitute anonymous circulation data from the University of Illinois’s library catalog into separate user transactions. The transaction data is incorporated into subject analyses that use XSEDE supercomputing resources to generate predictive network analyses and visualizations of subject areas searched by library users using Gephi (https://gephi.org/). The test data set for developing the subject analyses consisted of approximately 38,000 items from the Literatures and Languages Library that contained 110,000 headings and 130,620 transactions. We’re currently working on developing a recommender system within VuFind to display the results of these analyses.<br /> <br /> == Pitfall! Working with Legacy Born Digital Materials in Special Collections ==<br /> <br /> * Donald Mennerich, The New York Public Library, don.mennerich AT gmail.com<br /> * Mark A. Matienzo, Yale University Library, mark AT matienzo.org<br /> <br /> Archives and special collections are being faced with a growing abundance of born digital material, as well as an abundance of many promising tools for managing them. However, one must consider the potential problems that can arise when approaching a collection containing legacy materials (from roughly the pre-internet era). Many of the tried and true, &quot;best of breed&quot; tools for digital preservation don't always work as they do for more recent materials, requiring a fair amount of ingenuity and use of &quot;word of mouth tradecraft and knowledge exchanged through serendipitous contacts, backchannel conversations, and beer&quot; (Kirschenbaum, &quot;Breaking &lt;code&gt;badflag&lt;/code&gt;&quot;).<br /> <br /> Our presentation will focus on some of the strange problems encountered and creative solutions devised by two digital archivists in the course of preserving, processing, and providing access to collections at their institutions. We'll be placing particular particular emphasis of the pitfalls and crocodiles we've learned to swing over safely, while collecting treasure in the process. We'll address working with CP/M disks in collections of authors' papers, reconstructing a multipart hard drive backup spread across floppy disks, and more. <br /> <br /> == Project &lt;s&gt;foobar&lt;/s&gt; FUBAR ==<br /> <br /> * Becky Yoose, Grinnell College, yoosebec AT grinnell DOT edu<br /> <br /> Be it mandated from Those In A Higher Pay Grade Than You or self-inflicted, many of us deal with managing major library-related technology projects [1]. It’s common nowadays to manage multiple technology projects, and generally external and internal issues can be planned for to minimize project timeline shifts and quality of deliverables. Life, however, has other plans for you, and all your major library technology infrastructure projects pile on top of each other at the same time. How do you and your staff survive a train wreck of technology projects and produce deliverables to project stakeholders without having to go into the library IT version of the United States Federal Witness Protection Program?<br /> <br /> This session covers my experience with the collision of three major library technology projects - including a new institutional repository and an integrated library system migration - and how we dealt with external and internal factors, implemented damage control, and overall lessening the damage from the epic crash. You might laugh, you might cry, you will probably have flashbacks from previous projects, but you will come out of this session with a set of tools to use when you’re dealing with managing mission-critical projects.<br /> <br /> [1] Past code4lib talks have covered specific project management strategies, such as Agile, for application development. I will be focusing on and discussing general project management practices in relation to various library technology projects, many of which these strategies include in their own structures.<br /> <br /> == Implementing RFID in an Academic Library == <br /> <br /> * Scott Bacon, Coastal Carolina University, sbacon AT coastal DOT edu<br /> <br /> Coastal Carolina University’s Kimbel Library recently implemented RFID to increase security, provide better inventory control over library materials and enable do-it-yourself patron services such as self checkout. <br /> <br /> I’ll give a quick overview of RFID and the components involved and then will talk about how our library utilized the technology. It takes a lot of research, time, money and not too little resourcefulness to make your library RFID-ready. I’ll show how we developed our project timeline, how we assessed and evaluated vendors and how we navigated the bid process. I’ll also talk about hardware and software installation, configuration and troubleshooting and will discuss our book and media collection encoding process. <br /> <br /> We encountered myriad issues with our vendor, the hardware and the software. Would we do it all over again? Should your library consider RFID? Caveats abound...<br /> <br /> == Coding an Academic Library Intranet in Drupal: Now We're Getting Organizized... ==<br /> <br /> * Scott Bacon, Coastal Carolina University, sbacon AT coastal DOT edu<br /> <br /> The Kimbel Library Intranet is coded in Drupal 7, and was created to increase staff communication and store documentation. This presentation will contain an overview of our intranet project, including the modules we used, implementation issues, and possible directions in future development phases. I won’t forget to talk about the slew of tasty development issues we faced, including dealing with our university IT department, user buy-in, site navigation, user roles, project management, training and mobile modules (or the lack thereof). And some other fun (mostly) true anecdotes will surely be shared. <br /> <br /> The main functions of Phase I of this project were to increase communication across departments and committees, facilitate project management and revise the library's shared drive. Another important function of this first phase was to host mission-critical documentation such as strategic goals, policies and procedures. Phase II of this project will focus on porting employee tasks into the centralized intranet environment. This development phase, which aims to replicate and automate the bulk of staff workflows within a content management system, will be a huge undertaking. <br /> <br /> We chose Drupal as our intranet platform because of its extensibility, flexibility and community support. We are also moving our entire library web presence to Drupal in 2013 and will be soliciting any advice on which modules to use/avoid and which third-party services to wrangle into the Drupal environment. Should we use Drupal as the back-end to our entire Web presence? Why or why not?<br /> <br /> == Hands off! Best Practices and Top Ten Lists for Code Handoffs ==<br /> <br /> * Naomi Dushay, Stanford University Library, ndushay@stanford.edu<br /> * Bess Sadler, Stanford University Library, bess@stanford.edu<br /> <br /> Transition points in who is the primary developer on an actively developing code base can be a source of frustration for everyone involved. We've tried to minimize that pain point as much as possible through the use of agile methods like test driven development, continuous integration, and modular design. Has optimizing for developer happiness brought us happiness? What's worked, what hasn't, and what's worth adopting? How do you keep your project in a state where you can easily hand it off? <br /> <br /> == How to be an effective evangelist for your open source project ==<br /> <br /> * Bess Sadler, Stanford University Library, bess@stanford.edu<br /> <br /> The difference between an open source software project that gets new adopters and new contributing community members (which is to say, a project that goes on existing for any length of time) and a project that doesn't, often isn't a question of superior design or technology. It's more often a question of whether the advocates for the project can convince institutional leaders AND front line developers that a project is stable and trustworthy. What are successful strategies for attracting development partners? I'll try to answer that and talk about what we could do as a community to make collaboration easier. <br /> <br /> == What does it mean to be a &quot;good&quot; vendor in an open source meritocracy? ==<br /> <br /> * Matt Zumwalt, Data Curation Experts / MediaShelf / Hydra Project, matt@curationexperts.com<br /> <br /> What is the role of vendors in open source? What should be the position of vendors in a meritocracy? What are the avenues for encouraging great vendors who contribute to open source communities in valuable ways? How you answer these questions has a huge impact on a community, and in order to formulate strong answers, you need to be well informed. Let’s glimpse at the business practicalities of this situation, beginning with 1) an overview of the viable profit models for open-source software, 2) some of the realities of vendor involvement in open source, and 3) an account of the ins &amp; outs of compensation &amp; equity structures within for-profit corporations.<br /> <br /> The topics of power &amp; influence, fairness, community participation, software quality, employment and personal profit are fair game, along with software licensing, sponsorship, closed source software and the role of sales people.<br /> <br /> This presentation will draw on personal experience from the past seven years spent bootstrapping and running MediaShelf, a small but prolific for-profit consulting company that focuses entirely on open source digital repository software. MediaShelf has played an active role in creating the Hydra Framework and continuously contributes to maintenance of Fedora. Those contributions have been funded through consulting contracts for authoring &amp; implementing open source software on behalf of organizations around the world.<br /> <br /> ==Occam’s Reader: A system that allows the sharing of eBooks via Interlibrary Loan==<br /> <br /> *Ryan Litsey, Texas Tech University, Ryan DOT Litsey AT ttu.edu<br /> *Kenny Ketner, Texas Tech University, Kenny DOT Ketner AT ttu.edu<br /> <br /> Occam’s Reader is a software platform that allows the transfer and sharing of electronic books between libraries via existing interlibrary loan software. Occam’s Reader allows libraries to meet the growing need to be able to share our electronic resources. In the ever-increasing digital world, many of our collection development plans now include eBook platforms. The problem with eBooks, however, is that they are resources that are locked into the home library. With Occam’s Reader we can continue the centuries-old tradition of resource sharing and also keep up with the changing digital landscape. <br /> <br /> <br /> == Using Puppet for configuration management when no two servers look alike ==<br /> * Eugene Vilensky, Senior Systems Administrator, Northwestern University Library, evilensky northwestern edu<br /> <br /> Configuration management is hot because it allows one to scale to thousands of machines, all of which look alike, and tightly manage changes across the nodes. Infrastructure as code, implement all changes programmatically, yadda yadda yadda.<br /> <br /> Unfortunately, servers which have gone unmanaged for a long time do not look very similar to each other. Variables come in many forms, usually because of some or all of the following: Who installed the server, where it was installed, where the image was sourced from, when it was installed, where additional packages were sourced, and what kind of software was hosted on it.<br /> <br /> Bringing such machines into your configuration management platform is no harder and no easier than some or all of the following options options: 1) blow such machines away and start from scratch, migrate your data. 2) Find the lowest common baseline between the current state and the ideal state and start the work there. 3) implement new features/services on existing unmanaged machines but manage the new features/services.<br /> <br /> I will describe our experiences at the library for all three options using the Puppet open-source tool on Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.<br /> <br /> == REST &lt;b&gt;IS&lt;/b&gt; Your Mobile Strategy ==<br /> <br /> * Richard Wolf, University of Illinois at Chicago, richwolf@uic.edu<br /> <br /> Mobile is the new hotness ... and you can't be one of the cool kids unless you've got your own mobile app ... but the road to mobility is daunting. I'll argue that it's actually easier than it seems ... and that the simplest way to mobility is to bring your data to the party, create a REST API around the data, tell developers about your API, and then let the magic happen. To make my argument concrete, I'll show (lord help me!) how to go from an interesting REST API to a fun iOS tool for librarians and the general public in twenty minutes.<br /> <br /> == ScholarSphere: How We Built a Repository App That Doesn't Feel Like Yet Another Janky Old Repository App ==<br /> <br /> * Dan Coughlin, Penn State University, danny@psu.edu<br /> * Mike Giarlo, Penn State University, michael@psu.edu<br /> <br /> ScholarSphere is a web application that allows the Penn State research community to deposit, share, and manage its scholarly works. It is also, as some of our users and our peers have observed, a repository app that feels much more like Google Docs or GitHub than earlier-generation repository applications. ScholarSphere is built upon the Hydra framework (Fedora Commons, Solr, Blacklight, Ruby on Rails), MySQL, Redis, Resque, FITS, ImageMagick, jQuery, Bootstrap, and FontAwesome. We'll talk about techniques we used to:<br /> <br /> * eliminate Fedora-isms in the application<br /> * model and expose RDF metadata in ways that users find unobtrusive<br /> * manage permissions via a UI widget that doesn't stab you in the face<br /> * harvest and connect controlled vocabularies (such as LCSH) to forms<br /> * make URIs cool<br /> * keep the app snappy without venturing into the architectural labyrinth of YAGNI<br /> * build and queue background jobs<br /> * expose social features and populate activity streams<br /> * tie checksum verification, characterization, and version control to the UI<br /> * let users upload and edit multiple files at once<br /> <br /> The application will be demonstrated; code will be shown; and we solemnly commit to showing ABSOLUTELY NO XML.<br /> <br /> ==Coding with Mittens==<br /> <br /> *Jim LeFager, DePaul University Library jlefager@depaul.edu<br /> <br /> <br /> Working in an environment where developers have restricted access to servers and development areas, or where you are primarily working in multiple hosted systems with limited access, can be a challenge when you are attempting to incorporate any new functionality or improve an existing one. Hosted web services present a benefit so that staff time is not dedicated to server maintenance and development, but customization can be difficult and at times impossible. In many cases, incorporating any current API functionality requires additional work besides the original development work which can be frustrating and inefficient. The result can be a Frankenstein monster of web services that is confusing to the user and difficult to navigate. <br /> <br /> This talk will focus on some effective best practices, and maybe not so great but necessary practices that we have adopted to develop and improve our user’s experience using javascript/jQuery and CSS to manipulate our hosted environments. This will include a review of available tools that allow collaborative development in the cloud, as well as examples of jQuery methods that have allowed us to take additional control of these hosted environments as well as track them using Google Analytics. Included will be examples from Springshare Campus Guides, CONTENTdm and other hosted web spaces that have been ‘hacked’ to improve the UI. <br /> <br /> <br /> == Hacking the DPLA ==<br /> * Nate Hill, Chattanooga Public Library, nathanielhill AT gmail.com<br /> * Sam Klein, Wikipedia, metasj AT gmail.com<br /> <br /> The Digital Public Library of America is a growing open-source platform to support digital libraries and archives of all kinds. DPLA-alpha is available for testing, with data from six initial Hubs. New APIs and data feeds are in development, with the next release scheduled for April. <br /> <br /> Come learn what we are doing, how to contribute or hack the DPLA roadmap, and how you (or your favorite institution) can draw from and publish through it. Larger institutions can join as a (content or service) hub, helping to aggregate and share metadata and services from across their {region, field, archive-type}. We will discuss current challenges and possibilities (UI and API suggestions wanted!), apps being built on the platform, and related digitization efforts.<br /> <br /> DPLA has a transparent community and planning process; new participants are always welcome. Half the time will be for suggestions and discussion. Please bring proposals, problems, partnerships and possible paradoxes to discuss.<br /> <br /> == Introduction to SilverStripe 3.0 ==<br /> <br /> * Ian Walls, University of Massachusetts Amherst, iwalls AT library DOT umass DOT edu<br /> <br /> SilverStripe is an open source Content Management System/development framework out of New Zealand, written in PHP, with a solid MVC structure. This presentation will cover everything you need to know to get started with SilverStripe, including<br /> * Features (and why you should consider SilverStripe)<br /> * Requirements &amp; Installation<br /> * Model-View-Controller<br /> * Key data types &amp; configuration settings<br /> * Modules<br /> * Where to start with customization<br /> * Community support and participation<br /> <br /> == Citation search in SOLR and second-order operators ==<br /> <br /> * Roman Chyla, Astrophysics Data System, roman.chyla AT (cfa.harvad.edu|gmail.com)<br /> <br /> Citation search is basically about connections (Is the paper read by a friend of mine more important than others? Get me a paper read by somebody who cites many papers/is cited by many papers?), but the implementation of the citation search is surprisingly useful in many other areas.<br /> <br /> I will show 'guts' of the new citation search for astrophysics, it is generic and can be applied recursively to any Lucene query. Some people would call it a second-order operation because it works with the results of the previous (search) function. The talk will see technical details of the special query class, its collectors, how to add a new search operator and how to influence relevance scores. Then you can type with me: friends_of(friends_of(cited_for(keyword:&quot;black holes&quot;) AND keyword:&quot;red dwarf&quot;))<br /> <br /> <br /> == Managing Segmented Images and Hierarchical Collections with Fedora-Commons and Solr ==<br /> <br /> * David Lacy, Villanova University, david DOT lacy AT villanova.edu<br /> <br /> Many of the resources within our digital library are split into parts -- newspapers, scrapbooks and journals being examples of collections of individual scanned pages. In some cases, groups of pages within a collection, or segments within a particular page, may also represent chapters or articles.<br /> <br /> We recently devised a procedure to extract these &quot;segmented resources&quot; into their own objects within our repository, and index them individually in our Discovery Layer.<br /> <br /> In this talk I will explain how we dissected and organized these newly created resources with an extension to our Fedora Model, and how we make them discoverable through Solr configurations that facilitate browsable hierarchical relationships and field-collapsed results that group items within relevant resources.<br /> <br /> == Google Analytics, Event Tracking and Discovery Tools==<br /> <br /> * Emily Lynema, North Carolina State University Libraries. ejlynema AT ncsu DOT edu<br /> * Adam Constabaris, North Carolina State University Libraries, ajconsta AT ncsu DOT edu<br /> <br /> The NCSU Libraries is using Google Analytics increasingly across its website as a replacement for usage tracking via Urchin. More recently, we have also begun to use the event tracking features in Google Analytics. This has allowed us to gather usage statistics for activities that don’t initiate new requests to the server, such as clicks that hide and show already-loaded content (as in many tabbed interfaces). Aggregating these events together with pageview tracking in Google Analytics presents a more unified picture of patron activity and can help improve design of tools like the library catalog. While assuming a basic understanding of the use of Google Analytics pageview tracking, this presentation will start with an introduction to the event tracking capabilities that may be less widely known. <br /> <br /> We’ll share library catalog usage data pulled from Google Analytics, including information about features that are common across the newest wave of catalog interfaces, such as tabbed content, Google Preview, and shelf browse. We will also cover the approach taken for the technical implementation of this data-intensive JavaScript event tracking.<br /> <br /> As a counterpart, we can demonstrate how we have begun to use Google Analytics event tracking in a proprietary vendor discovery tool (Serials Solutions Summon). While the same technical ideas govern this implementation, we can highlight the differences (read, challenges) inherent in utilizing this type of event tracking in vendor-owned application vs. a locally developed application.<br /> <br /> Along the way, hopefully you’ll learn a little about why you might (or might not) want to use Google Analytics event tracking yourself and see some interesting catalog usage stats.<br /> <br /> == Actions speak louder than words: Analyzing large-scale query logs to improve the research experience ==<br /> <br /> * Raman Chandrasekar, Serials Solutions, Raman DOT Chandrasekar AT serialssolutions DOT com<br /> * Ted Diamond, Serials Solutions, Ted DOT Diamond AT serialssolutions DOT com<br /> <br /> Analyzing anonymized query and click through logs leads to a better understanding of user behaviors and intents and provides great opportunities to respond to users with an improved search experience. A large-scale provider of SaaS services, Serials Solutions is uniquely positioned to learn from the dataset of queries aggregated from the Summon service generated by millions of users at hundreds of libraries around the globe.<br /> <br /> In this session, we will describe our Relevance Metrics Framework and provide examples of insights gained and surprises encountered during its development and implementation. We will also cover recent product changes inspired by these insights. Chandra and Ted, from the Summon dev team, will share learnings from this ongoing process and highlight how analysis of large-scale query logs helps improve the academic research experience.<br /> <br /> == Supporting Gaming in the College Classroom == <br /> <br /> *Megan O'Neill, Albion College, moneill AT albion DOT edu<br /> <br /> Faculty are increasingly interested both in teaching with games and with gamifying their courses. Introducing digital games and game support for faculty through the library makes a lot of sense, but it comes with a thorny set of issues. This talk will discuss our library's initial steps toward creating a digital gamerspace and game support infrastructure in the library, including:<br /> 1) The scope and acquisitions decisions that make the most sense for us, and 2) Some difficulties we've discovered in trying to get our collection, physical- , digital- and head-space, and infrastructure up and going.<br /> There will also be an extremely brief overview of WHY we decided to teach with games and to support gamification, what (if anything) to do about mobile gaming, and where games in education might be going.<br /> <br /> == Codecraft ==<br /> <br /> * Devon Smith, OCLC Research, smithde@oclc.org<br /> <br /> We can think of and talk about software development as science, engineering, and craft. In this presentation, I'll talk about the craft aspect of software. From Wikipedia[1]: &quot;In English, to describe something as a craft is to describe it as lying somewhere between an art (which relies on talent and technique) and a science (which relies on knowledge). In this sense, the English word craft is roughly equivalent to the ancient Greek term techne.&quot; Of the questions who, what, where, why, when, and how, I will focus on why and how, with a minor in where.<br /> <br /> '''N.B.''': This will be a NON-TECHNICAL talk.<br /> <br /> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craft#Classification<br /> <br /> <br /> [[Category:Code4Lib2013]]</div>

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<p>Decasm: </p> <hr /> <div>==Ideas==<br /> * Woodinville distillery tour<br /> * Seattle distillery tour<br /> * Favorite local breweries<br /> * Favorite local tea houses<br /> * Visit hackerspace<br /> * Evergreen/Koha - Open Source ILS brewery/tea house meetup<br /> <br /> ==Planned events==<br /> <br /> ===[[2012 Craft Brew Drinkup|Craft Brew Drinkup]]===<br /> <br /> '''Date/Time TBA; to be held in the Hospitality Suite.'''<br /> <br /> Like good beer? Bring some in your luggage! Some of us are planning to bring some of our favorite local, special, or homebrewed beers to share. Interested? Sign up on the [[2012 Craft Brew Drinkup]] page!<br /> <br /> ===&quot;Get Lamp&quot; showing===<br /> <br /> Some attendees are organizing a showing of [http://www.getlamp.com/ Get Lamp: The Text Adventure Documentary] in the hospitality suite.<br /> <br /> To indicate your preference of time and date for the showing, please fill out [http://www.doodle.com/p4c32i3b2ybsrkbh this Doodle poll].<br /> <br /> ===Newcomer dinner Tuesday===<br /> First time at code4lib? Join fellow c4l newbies and veterans for an evening of food, socializing, and stimulating &lt;strike&gt;discussions about&lt;/strike&gt; demonstrations of the many uses of &lt;strike&gt;bacon&lt;/strike&gt; &lt;strike&gt;dongles&lt;/strike&gt; XML.<br /> <br /> Code4Lib veterans, you're invited too. Join us in welcoming the newcomers!<br /> <br /> '''Plans'''<br /> * When: Tuesday evening (2/7) '''Note that this year's dinner is on Tuesday'''<br /> * Time: 6 PM (ish) or whenever you can get your group together<br /> * Mastermind (if you have any questions): [mailto:yoosebec@grinnell.edu Becky Yoose]<br /> <br /> ''Guidelines:''<br /> *Max of '''6''' per group<br /> **Please, no waitlisting :(<br /> *ID yourselves so we can get a good mix of new people and veterans in each group<br /> **New folks - n<br /> **c4l vets - v<br /> *One leader needed for each location (declare yourself! - '''Vets are highly encouraged to lead the group :)''')<br /> **Leader duties<br /> ***Make reservations if required; otherwise make sure that the restaurant can handle a group of 6 rowdy library coders <br /> ***Herd folks from hotel to restaurant (know where you're going!)<br /> <br /> '''Restaurants'''<br /> <br /> '''Restaurants within .25 miles of the hotel'''<br /> <br /> [http://www.sazeracrestaurant.com/index.php Sazerac] (AWESOME happy hour menu that runs until 8)<br /> * Martin Haye - n<br /> * William Gunn - n<br /> <br /> [http://oasiankitchen.com/ O'Asian Kitchen and Lounge] (Asian) <br /> <br /> '''Restaurants between .25 miles and .5 miles of the hotel'''<br /> <br /> [http://www.pikebrewing.com/index_html.shtml Pike Brewing] (local brewery, pub food)<br /> * Ken Varnum - n<br /> * Chad Nelson - n<br /> * Ed Summers - v<br /> * Tommy Ingulfsen - n<br /> <br /> [http://www.rockbottom.com/ The Rock Bottom Restaurant &amp; Brewery] (American)<br /> <br /> [http://www.wildginger.net/ Wild Ginger] (Asian, a bit overpriced)<br /> <br /> [http://www.thepurplecafe.com/index.html Purple Cafe] (American, Wine Bar)<br /> <br /> [http://www.cafepaloma.com/ Cafe Paloma] (Mediterranean)<br /> * Jean Rainwater (leader) - v<br /> <br /> [http://www.thecollinspub.com/ Collins Pub] (Pub Food, great beer selection)<br /> * Francis Kayiwa - v<br /> * Michael Lindsey - v<br /> * Dan Suchy - v<br /> * David Drexler - n<br /> <br /> [http://www.mcmenamins.com/311-six-arms-home Six Arms - McMenamins] (Pub Food) ''Meeting place TBA. Leave email and I'll coordinate late next week. --Joel''<br /> * Joel Richard (richardjm AT si.edu) (leader) - v<br /> <br /> [http://www.611supreme.com/ 611 Supreme] (Crepes and Full Bar) ''Meet in the conference hotel lobby at 6pm. Look for the short woman in a trench coat and wide brim hat ~Becky''<br /> <br /> *Becky Yoose (leader) - v <br /> *Cynthia Ng - n<br /> *Zoe Chao - v<br /> *Justin Coyne - n<br /> *Stephanie Collett -n<br /> <br /> [http://www.panafricamarket.com/wp/ Pan Africa Restaurant &amp; Bar] (Pan African) CLOSED MONDAYS ''Veg and non-veg options available. Located in the Pike Place Market, so we can explore a bit too, though the fish flinging will be over by then. Meet in the conference hotel lobby at 6PM.''<br /> <br /> *Jason Ronallo (leader; happy to lead to any other veg-friendly place as an alternative) - v<br /> <br /> '''Restaurants between .5 and 1 mile from hotel'''<br /> <br /> [http://tomdouglas.com/index.php?page=palace-kitchen-dinner Palace Kitchen] (another Tom Douglas restaurant, w/ a focus on meat). ''I have made a reservation for 6 at 8pm. Let's meet in the conference lobby at 6:30pm and make our way slowly over; we will find things to do in the interim. Look for Mike Giarlo, a man who may be holding a sign that says &quot;HI I'M MIKE GIARLO&quot; or otherwise shouting his name or looking confused.''<br /> <br /> * Mike Giarlo (leader) - v<br /> * Carmen Mitchell - n<br /> * Daniel Lovins - v<br /> * Cary Gordon - v <br /> * Declan Fleming - oldandcrusty<br /> * ...<br /> * (CAPPED AT SIX!)<br /> <br /> [http://sitkaandspruce.com/ Sitka and Spruce] (Eclectic, super-local and super-seasonal.) ''We have a reservation for 6 at 8:15pm. We'll meet in the conference lobby at 6:30 pm and head over - the owners also run [http://www.ferdinandthebar.com/home/ Bar Ferd'nand], a wine shop/bar in the same building, and we can kill time there before we eat. Look for Mark Matienzo or Hillel Arnold.''<br /> <br /> * Mark Matienzo (leader) - v<br /> * Hillel Arnold - sophomore<br /> * Devon Smith - v<br /> * ...<br /> * ...<br /> * ...<br /> * (CAPPED AT SIX!)<br /> <br /> [http://tomdouglas.com/index.php?page=serious-pie Serious Pie] (Tom Douglas restaurant, inventive pizzas, good local beer list). <br /> <br /> [http://www.allmenus.com/wa/seattle/204592-ballet-restaurant/menu/ Ballet] (Vietnamese)<br /> <br /> [http://www.kokebrestaurant.com/ Kokeb Ethiopian Restaurant] (Ethiopian) ''Let's say meet at the lobby at 6pm like everyone else. Woohoo!''<br /> <br /> * Andreas Orphanides (leader) - v<br /> <br /> [http://tomdouglas.com/index.php?page=dahlia-lounge Dahlia Lounge] (Pacific Northwest cuisine, $$$)<br /> <br /> [http://www.mattsinthemarket.com/ Matt's in the Market] (Northwest Cuisine, $$$)<br /> <br /> [http://www.placepigalle-seattle.com/ Place Pigalle] (French)<br /> <br /> [http://www.chezshea.com/ Chez Shea] (French)<br /> <br /> [http://www.elysianbrewing.com/elysian.html Elysian Breweries and Pubs] (Pub Food)<br /> <br /> [http://www.mezaseattle.com/index.html Meza] (Latin Fare)<br /> <br /> [http://lovinghut.us/seattle/index.html Loving Hut] (Vietnamese/Veg*n)<br /> <br /> [http://inthebowlbistro.com/index.php In the Bowl] (Veg*n, Asian)<br /> <br /> [http://www.plumbistro.com/ Plumb Bistro] (Veg*n)<br /> <br /> [http://highlineseattle.com/ Highline] (Veg*n, bar)<br /> <br /> '''Restaurants more than 1 miles from the hotel'''<br /> <br /> [http://bravehorsetavern.com/ Brave Horse Tavern] (another Tom Douglas, good regional beer list, yummy food. Near South Lake Union. Would require a ride on the South Lake Union Trolley (SLUT), but it's easy to get to/use from downtown. <br /> <br /> [http://flyingfishrestaurant.com/ Flying Fish] (Seafood)<br /> <br /> [http://www.allmenus.com/wa/seattle/3437-cafe-flora/menu/dinner/ Cafe Flora] (FANTASTIC Veg*n restaurant. Use Metro bus #11 to get there)<br /> <br /> [http://www.teapotvegetarianhouse.com/index.htm Teapot Vegetarian House] (Veg*n, Asian)<br /> <br /> [http://spaceneedle.com/restaurant/ Space Needle] (American, Pricy; but what the heck, listed it anyway for those who want the experience)<br /> <br /> ===Veg*n Dinner Wednesday===<br /> <br /> We'll pick a place with lots of veg*n options to go eat Wednesday for dinner. Vegetarians and non-vegetarians welcome.<br /> <br /> (I probably won't make it but DO YOURSELVES A FAVOR AND '''GO TO CAFÉ FLORA''', SRSLY. -mjgiarlo)<br /> <br /> *Jason Ronallo<br /> *Sean Hannan<br /> *Ed Summers<br /> *Becky Yoose (carnivore ambassador)<br /> <br /> ===Dim Sum Lunch Thursday===<br /> <br /> For those of you staying in town after the last session on Thursday, [http://oasiankitchen.com/ O'Asian Kitchen] has dim sum service during the weekdays. Meet up around 12:35, meeting location tba. Bring cash for easier bill splitting.<br /> <br /> *Becky Yoose<br /> * Declan Fleming - love me some Dim Sum!<br /> <br /> ==Social Map - places of interest==<br /> [http://g.co/maps/4m5pk Code4lib 2012 - Seattle - social events, hangouts, and places to see]<br /> <br /> ==Seattle Events Feb 5-9==<br /> ===Sunday, February 5, 2012===<br /> * Clinton Fearon &amp; The Boogie Brown Band/Live Wyya/Adrian Xavier/Selecta Raiford/DJ Courtland, Neumos: http://neumos.com/neumos.php<br /> * Michael The Blind/The Els, Skylark: http://www.skylarkcafe.com/<br /> * Addaura/Alda/Hallow, Comet<br /> * &quot;I Am My Own Wife&quot; 7:30pm at Seattle Repertory Theatre (Seattle Center) http://www.seattlerep.org/Plays/1112/IM/<br /> <br /> ===Monday, February 6, 2012===<br /> * Silent Movie Mondays: Last Command 1928, http://stgpresents.org/artists/?artist=1829#, Show at 7:00pm, The Paramount Theatre $10<br /> This all-classic film series, First Oscars, is accompanied by live music from the historic Mighty Wurlitzer organ, one of the last three remaining organs of its kind to reside in its original environment, played by critically acclaimed organist Jim Riggs.<br /> <br /> ===Tuesday, February 7, 2012===<br /> * Lionize/Maylene &amp; The Sons Of Disaster, El Corazon: http://elcorazonseattle.com/<br /> * The Pulltab Playboys/Rachel Lyn Harrington &amp; The Knock Outs/The James Low Western Front, Sunset: http://sunsettavern.com/<br /> * Twin Sister, Vera: http://theveraproject.org/shows/<br /> * The Features, Chop Suey: http://www.chopsuey.com/<br /> * Wilco/White Denim, Paramount Theatre: http://stgpresents.org/<br /> * &quot;I Am My Own Wife&quot; 7:30pm at Seattle Repertory Theatre (Seattle Center) http://www.seattlerep.org/Plays/1112/IM/<br /> <br /> ===Wednesday, February 8, 2012===<br /> * The Golden Blondes/The Jet Age/Mr. Drinx &amp; The Pot Heads, Sunset: http://sunsettavern.com/<br /> * Pipsisewah/The Chasers/The Magic Mirrors, Tractor: http://www.tractortavern.com/ <br /> * Dengue Fever vs Secret Chiefs 3, Moe Bar :http://bit.ly/yJtfXv (how could you pass the opportunity to see someone play this thing :http://bit.ly/wB5AgZ<br /> <br /> ===Thursday, February 9, 2012===<br /> * SAM Opening - Gauguin and Polynesia: An Elusive Paradise: http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/gauguin<br /> * The Jayhawks, Neptune Theater: http://stgpresents.org/<br /> * Digital Leather, Comet <br /> * Savani World Quintet/Super Sones, Columbia City Theater: http://www.columbiacitytheater.com/<br /> * Blvd Park {album release}/Nettle Honey/Creeping Time, Tractor: http://www.tractortavern.com/<br /> * Eleanor Friedberger, Crocodile: http://thecrocodile.com/index.html<br /> <br /> ===Ongoing Events===<br /> * Seattle Art Museum: Tours are every Saturday &amp; Sunday at noon, and the First Thursday of every month at 10:30, 11:30 am, 12:30 &amp; 1:30 pm.<br /> * EMP: Exhibits on display include: Battlestar Galactica, Nirvana, Avatar, and Can’t Look Away: The Lure of Horror Film<br /> * Teatro ZinZanni: ¡Caliente! http://dreams.zinzanni.org/<br /> * Pacific NW Ballet: performing Don Quixote at McCaw Hall http://www.pnb.org/<br /> * Oklahoma!, Sunday matinee and nightly: 5th Avenue Theatre, 1308 Fifth Avenue http://www.5thavenue.org/show/oklahoma<br /> <br /> ==Local events/places==<br /> * Metrix Create Space<br /> * Ada's Technical Books<br /> * Northwest Outdoor Center<br /> * Center for Wooden Boats<br /> * Empty Sea Studios acoustic music<br /> <br /> <br /> ==Local Beer Places==<br /> * Map of [http://beermapping.com/maps/citymaps.php?m=seattle#lat=47.66723703450515&amp;lng=-122.28263854980469&amp;z=5 beer venues] maintained at Beermapping.com.<br /> * List of [http://www.washingtonbeer.com/breweries/seattle-king-co/ local breweries] ([http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;msa=0&amp;msid=201783184139227541123.0004813e64758434cb054&amp;source=embed&amp;ll=47.558921,-122.106171&amp;spn=0.442982,1.234589&amp;z=10&amp;source=embed map]) maintained by the Washington Beer Commission<br /> * Map of [http://www.ratebeer.com/Places/RegionMap.asp?rid=7600 beer venues] maintained by Ratebeer.com.<br /> <br /> ==See also==<br /> [http://orbiscascade.org/index/c4l-things-to-do-in-seattle Things to do in Seattle, from the hosts]</div>

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<p>Decasm: </p> <hr /> <div>=Proposals for 2012 Code4LibCon Preconferences=<br /> Proposals closed Sunday, November 20, 2011, so we can finalize the list and add them to registration! (The deadline for preconference proposals has passed.)<br /> <br /> Spaces available: main meeting room (max 275) + 5 breakout rooms (max 30-50). <br /> <br /> '''Please include a &quot;Contact/Responsible Individual&quot; name and email address so we know who is willing to put on the proposed precon.<br /> '''<br /> ==Full Day==<br /> <br /> <br /> === Hacking Content ===<br /> <br /> What is the future of getting library information and resources into users’ hands at the right time and with appropriate context and relevancy. Learning management systems, library guides, Web-scale discovery systems-plenty of tools to choose from and still we see lots of opportunities for improvement. Let’s pick them apart and brainstorm ideas for projects that could address weaknesses in one or all of these systems. If you’re interested in these issues, challenges and conundrums join us for a day of thinking, dreaming and scheming. All skill sets and backgrounds needed. <br /> <br /> Speakers/Facilitators will be:<br /> - Thom Cox - Manager of Library Information Technology Services - Tufts University<br /> - Ken Varnum – Web Systems Manager - University of Michigan Libraries<br /> - Evviva Weinraub – Director, Emerging Technologies and Services - Oregon State University Libraries <br /> <br /> Contact: Margaret Mellinger - margaret dot mellinger at oregonstate dot edu<br /> <br /> ==== Interest in Attending ====<br /> <br /> *David Uspal (david DOT uspal AT villanova DOT edu)<br /> *Tammy Allgood Wolf<br /> <br /> === Developing applications using REST web services ===<br /> <br /> Been hearing about web services but don’t know where to start to build something? Have you built applications that use read services but are stumped by OAuth, Content Negotiation and HTTP Headers? Come dig in and learn how to build applications that interact with both read and write REST services. We’ll cover the basic principles and practices of REST services and discuss the Atom Publishing Protocol as a REST service and its extensibility. The group will examine and test the CouchDB HTTP API by building a simple list creation tool. You’ll learn how OCLC’s platform web services leverage Atom to expose the data and business processes from OCLC’s library systems. By the end of the session, you’ll know the basic principles of REST services, be able to perform Create, Read, Update and Delete operations via REST and be able to authenticate to REST services via API keys and OAuth.<br /> <br /> Come ready to learn and code!<br /> <br /> Presenter: Karen Coombs - coombsk at oclc dot org<br /> <br /> ==== Interest in Attending ====<br /> <br /> *Sam Kome<br /> *Ray Schwartz<br /> *Jim Robinson<br /> *David Bucknum<br /> *Jean Rainwater<br /> *Laney McGlohon<br /> *Joshua Gomez<br /> *Wayne Schneider<br /> *Andy Kohler<br /> *Michael North<br /> * Tom Keays (keaysht at lemoyne dot edu)<br /> *Charlie Morris<br /> *Michael Lindsey<br /> * Kåre Fiedler Christiansen (morning only)<br /> * Jørn Thøgersen<br /> * Michael Poltorak Nielsen<br /> <br /> ==Half Day Morning==<br /> <br /> <br /> === Linkfest ===<br /> <br /> We've had talks and sessions galore about Linked Data at code4lib in past years. Let's focus on linking. Bring data you want to publish and link to or link from and your ideas about new ways we can push data linking into being part of our regular approach to how we put our libraries' content and services on the web. At the start of the session we'll run a quick poll to see who wants to link to what and how, and we'll pair or group up and get to work from there. May a kajillion links bloom!<br /> <br /> If you need an &quot;intro to linked data&quot; we can prep a good list of readings/talks to review before you come. But please come ready to link!<br /> <br /> Organizer type person: Dan Chudnov, GWU Libraries, @dchud or dchud at gwu edu<br /> <br /> ==== Interest in Attending ====<br /> *Becky Yoose<br /> *Tom Johnson<br /> *Ed Summers<br /> * bernardo gomez ( bgomez at emory dot edu )<br /> * William Gunn<br /> * Jason Ronallo<br /> * Keri Thompson<br /> * David Lacy<br /> * Corey A Harper<br /> * Matt Phillips (mphillips@law.harvard.edu)<br /> * Declan Fleming<br /> * Shaun Ellis (shaune@princeton.edu)<br /> * Wendy Robertson<br /> * Joel Richard (richardjm AT si DOT edu)<br /> * Devon Smith<br /> <br /> === What's New in Solr ===<br /> <br /> This session will bring folks up to speed on the latest developments in Lucene and Solr. There's always a lot of new capabilities as well as tips and tricks on using Solr in clever and powerful ways. <br /> <br /> Presenter: Erik Hatcher - erik . hatcher @ lucidimagination dot com<br /> <br /> ==== Interest in Attending ====<br /> * &quot;Gabriel Farrell&quot; &lt;gsf24@drexel.edu&gt;<br /> * &quot;Erik Hetzner&quot; &lt;erik.hetzner AT ucop BORK edu&gt;<br /> * &quot;Kevin S. Clarke&quot; &lt;ksclarke@gmail&gt;<br /> * &quot;Michael B. Klein&quot; &lt;mbklein@gmail&gt;<br /> * Demian Katz (demian DOT katz AT villanova DOT edu)<br /> * &quot;Mark Mounts&quot; &lt;mark.mounts@dartmouth.edu&gt;<br /> * Anoop Atre ~ anoop.atre AT mnsu . edu<br /> * David Isaak &lt;david.isaak@kpchr.org&gt;<br /> * John Pillans &lt;jpillan@indiana.edu&gt;<br /> * John Wynstra (john.wynstra@uni.edu)<br /> * mark a. matienzo (mark at matienzo dot oh are gee)<br /> * Sepehr Mavedati (sepehr DOT mavedati AT utoronto DOT ca)<br /> * Anna Headley aheadle1 swarthmore edu<br /> * Mads Villadsen<br /> * Jonathan Rochkind<br /> * Shahin Sahebi (shahin.ezzatsahebi at utoronto dot ca)<br /> <br /> ==Half Day Afternoon==<br /> <br /> <br /> === Git -r done === <br /> <br /> A session to cover all things Git, everyone's favorite distributed version control system. This session should cover a little bit of the history of Git, how it works, and how it's different than other version controls systems like SVN. Practical application should also be covered, including how to clone existing repos and contribute code back to them, how to host your own repository, and best practices for setting up a distributed network.<br /> <br /> Looking for attendees with real-life Git experience to share it, so we can all broaden our understanding of possible use-cases and nifty advanced features.<br /> <br /> Coordinator: Ian Walls, ByWater Solutions, @sekjal or ian.walls at bywatersolutions com<br /> <br /> Helper: Cary Gordon, Cherry Hill Company, @highermath / cgordon@chillco.com<br /> <br /> ==== Interest in Attending ====<br /> <br /> * Patrick Berry (pberry@csuchico.edu)<br /> * Chris Sharp (csharp@georgialibraries.org)<br /> * Matt Critchlow (mcritchlow@ucsd.edu)<br /> * Peter Murray (Peter.Murray@lyrasis.org)<br /> * Margaret Heller (mheller@dom.edu)<br /> * Kevin S. Clarke (ksclarke@gmail)<br /> * Michael B. Klein (mbklein@gmail)<br /> * Demian Katz (demian DOT katz AT villanova DOT edu)<br /> * Benjamin Shum (bshum@biblio.org)<br /> * Sibyl Schaefer (sschaefer@rockarch.org)<br /> * Tammy Allgood Wolf (tammy.allgood@asu.edu)<br /> * Chad Nelson (cnelson17 AT gsu DOT edu)<br /> * Lisa Kurt (lkurt@unr.edu)<br /> * Matt Phillips (mphillips@law.harvard.edu)<br /> * Dileshni Jayasinghe (d.jayasinghe@utoronto.ca)<br /> * John Wynstra (john.wynstra@uni.edu)<br /> * Declan Fleming<br /> * Shaun Ellis (shaune@princeton.edu)<br /> * Mads Villadsen<br /> * Kåre Fiedler Christiansen<br /> * Shahin Sahebi (shahin.ezzatsahebi@utoronto.ca)<br /> * Devon Smith<br /> <br /> === Blacklight ===<br /> <br /> This session will be walk-through of the architecture of Blacklight and what we have been improving since the rails 3 upgrade. In addition to the architecture of the software, we will also briefly discuss the architecture of the Blacklight community and what has made it successful so far.<br /> <br /> For part of the session we will install Blacklight live and get it up and running. This install demo will include a How-To on basic customizations in Blacklight using a test-driven approach (one of the cornerstones of the Blacklight community).<br /> <br /> For more information about Blacklight see our wiki ( http://projectblacklight.org/ ) and our GitHub repo ( https://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight ). We will also send out some brief instructions beforehand for those that would like to setup their environments to follow along and get Blacklight up and running on their local machines.<br /> <br /> Presenters: Jessie Keck, Stanford University - jkeck at stanford dot edu | Molly Pickral, University of Virginia - mpc3c at virginia dot edu<br /> <br /> ==== Interest in Attending ====<br /> * bernardo gomez ( bgomez at emory dot edu )<br /> * Mark Mounts &lt;mark.mounts@dartmouth.edu&gt;<br /> * Sibyl Schaefer (sschaefer@rockarch.org)<br /> * John Pillans (jpillan@indiana.edu)<br /> * Mang Sun (mang.dot sun at rice dot edu)<br /> * Emily Lynema (emily_lynema at ncsu dot edu)<br /> * mark a. matienzo (mark at matienzo dot oh are gee)<br /> * Daniel Lovins (daniel dot lovins at nyu dot edu)<br /> * Jonathan Rochkind<br /> <br /> === DACS and EAD Overview ===<br /> <br /> This session will look at what DACS (Describing Archives: a Content Standard) is and describe the ten required elements. Then there will be an overview of what EAD is, how it works, and the required elements. The final part will be a practice session on taking a paper finding aid and coding it using DACS and EAD.<br /> <br /> Presenter: Doris Munson, Eastern Washington University, dmunson at ewu dot edu<br /> (please feel free to contact me if you are interested in being a co-presenter)<br /> <br /> ==== Interest in Attending ====<br /> * Francis Kayiwa ( kayiwa@ YouEyeSee dot edu )<br /> * Carmen Mitchell (carmenmitchell at gmail dot com)<br /> <br /> === [[Digging into metadata: context, code, and collaboration]] ===<br /> <br /> Working with library/archival metadata is difficult. This preconference will tackle pressing questions and will show some of the intricacies of metadata (including AACR2/MARC) with exercises to demonstrate why inconsistencies exist in the data. What steps can the cataloging &amp; metadata community take to help improve the quality of this data? What tools &amp; techniques could help? Rules have evolved over time leaving dirty legacy data. Systems have impacted--and will continue to impact--data structure &amp; design. How can this data be aggregated and refined for use in a new emerging data environments? What assumptions can safely be made and when do you need to inquire about local practice? We will end with a hack-fest where you can ask questions of experienced catalogers and get help with your metadata related problems. Bring your laptops and data. <br /> <br /> Person Herder: Becky Yoose, Grinnell College, yoosebec at grinnell dot edu<br /> <br /> Collaborators/Facilitators: Corey Harper, New York University - corey dot harper at nyu dot edu | Shana L. McDanold, University of Pennsylvania - <br /> mcdanold at pobox dot upenn dot edu | Laura Smart, Caltech - laura at library dot caltech dot edu<br /> <br /> ==== Interest in Attending ====<br /> * Jen Weintraub (jweintraub@library.ucla.edu)<br /> * Peter Green (pmgreen@princeton.edu)<br /> * David Isaak (david.isaak@kpchr.org)<br /> * Alex Rolfe (arolfe@georgefox.edu)<br /> * mark a. matienzo (mark at matienzo dot oh are gee)<br /> * Sarah Johnston (johnsts@stolaf.edu)<br /> * Derek Merleaux (derek@merleaux d0t net)<br /> <br /> === &quot;Geo&quot; ===<br /> This session will explore, we hope collaboratively, the presentation of objects on maps. There will be a section on workflow, a section on discovering objects via &quot;geobrowse,&quot; a section discovery of objects via &quot;geosearch,&quot; and an exploration of the discovery and presentation of geo-referenced images (e.g. historic maps). There will be open discussion on other approaches to map-based discovery. Emphasis will be placed on simplicity of workflow and implementation. Technologies include: Atom, Django, Solr, and OpenLayers. <br /> <br /> Presenters: Mike Graves, UNC Chapel Hill, gravm at email dot unc dot edu; Tim Shearer, UNC Chapel Hill, tshearer at email dot unc dot edu<br /> (please feel free to contact Tim if you are interested in being a co-presenter)<br /> <br /> ==== Interest in Attending ====<br /> * &quot;Gabriel Farrell&quot; &lt;gsf24@drexel.edu&gt;<br /> * Anoop Atre ~ anoop.atre AT mnsu . edu<br /> * Chad Nelson (cnelson17 AT gsu DOT edu)<br /> * Jason Casden (jmcasden AT ncsu DOT edu<br /> * Dileshni Jayasinghe (d.jayasinghe@utoronto.ca)<br /> * Sepehr Mavedati (sepehr DOT mavedati AT utoronto DOT ca)<br /> * Anna Headley aheadle1 swarthmore edu<br /> * Michael Poltorak Nielsen<br /> * Wendy Robertson<br /> * Joel Richard (richardjm AT si DOT edu)<br /> * Jonathan Rochkind<br /> <br /> == Half-day Evening ==<br /> <br /> === Microsoft Campus Visit ===<br /> Join us for a trip across Lake Washington to Microsoft Headquarters. Bus will depart from the conference hotel at 4:15pm on Monday. We will visit the Microsoft Home and the Envisioning Lab. The we'll head over to Microsoft Research for drinks and appetizers, and you'll see some great demos of some cool new (and free!) technologies coming out of MSR. Bus will get back to hotel by 9:00pm, plenty of time to hit a pub. You'll learn about:<br /> <br /> 1. Layerscape -[http://communities.worldwidetelescope.org/]<br /> <br /> 2. ChronoZoom - [http://research.microsoft.com/chronozoom/]<br /> <br /> 3. F# - [http://www.tryfsharp.org]<br /> <br /> 4. Microsoft Academic Search - [http://academic.research.microsoft.com]<br /> <br /> 5. Microsoft Audio Visual Indexing System - [http://research.microsoft.com/mavis] <br /> <br /> Space is limited, so reserve your seat today Email Alex at the address below. <br /> <br /> Coordinator: Alex Wade, Microsoft Research, awade at microsoft dot com <br /> <br /> Presenters: Behrooz Chitsaz; Rob Fatland; Christophe Poulain; Michael Zyskowski <br /> <br /> ==== Interest in Attending ====<br /> * Declan Fleming<br /> * Matt Critchlow<br /> * Tom Keays (keaysht at lemoyne dot edu)<br /> * Jason Ronallo<br /> * mark a. matienzo (mark at matienzo dot oh are gee)<br /> * Mark Mounts &lt;mark.mounts@dartmouth.edu&gt;<br /> * Kyle Banerjee &lt;banerjek@uoregon.edu&gt;<br /> * Evviva Weinraub<br /> * Emily Lynema &lt;emily_lynema at ncsu dot edu&gt;<br /> * Jason Casden &lt;jmcasden AT ncsu DOT edu&gt;<br /> * Daniel Lovins &lt;daniel.lovins@nyu.edu&gt;<br /> * Cynthia Ng<br /> * &quot;Gabriel Farrell&quot; &lt;gsf24@drexel.edu&gt;<br /> * Shaun Ellis (shaune AT princeton DOT edu)<br /> * Derek Merleaux (derek@merleaux d0t net)<br /> * Anna Headley<br /> * Mads Villadsen<br /> * Kåre Fiedler Christiansen<br /> * Jørn Thøgersen<br /> * Michael Poltorak Nielsen<br /> * Dileshni Jayasinghe<br /> * Matt Phillips (mphillips@law.harvard.edu)<br /> * Wendy Robertson<br /> * Shahin Sahebi<br /> * Matt Connolly &lt;mjc12 AT cornell dot edu&gt;<br /> <br /> [[Category: Code4Lib2012]]</div>

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