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2015 Conference Committees

2014-08-13T01:17:21Z

Gopark: /* Whatever Committee */

= Code4Lib 2015 Committees =

If you are interested in helping out with a particular part of the Code4Lib 2015 conference, create an account on this wiki and sign-up for one or more of the groups below (called 'committees' for lack of a better term). Each committee should select a committee lead that will coordinate the activities of the committee and its work with the hosting site. Discussions of a non-sensitive nature should take place on the Code4LibCon mailing list for transparency and future reference. Please feel free to improve the summary statements for each of the committees. When adding your name, please indicate 'v' if you are a veteran on the committee so that we ensure committees are not made up entirely of newbies.

We will assign a local contact to each committee.

== Book Give-Away Committee ==

This committee solicits books and other prizes to be given away in raffles during the conference. This committee is responsible for identifying some means of performing the actual raffle (aka, a random picker app or other tool for selecting winners). Drawing names out of a hat could be low-tech entertaining.

Need about 2 months to get books shipped to the conference location.

*

== Keynote Speakers Committee ==

This committee plans who to invite for the keynote speakers. They gather possibilities (including soliciting from the community), organize voting, and work with the speakers to arrange their travel.

* [[User:Phette23|Eric Phetteplace]]

== Onsite Volunteer Committee ==

This committee solicits volunteers to do whatever tasks are needed in person at the conference. Could be a help to the program committee to solicit MCs, timers, mike runners (if needed), IRC volunteers, registration helpers (if needed), etc.
* Whitni Watkins
* Dre

== Pre-conference Committee ==

This committee plans the pre-conference day. It keeps strong lines of communications open with the Program Committee. It also helps shepherd events on the day itself.
* [[User:ChristinaHarlow|Christina]]

== Program Committee ==

This committee plans the structure of the program, arranges the voting on presentations, etc. This includes soliciting regular talks. These folks will also manage the flow of the program at the conference -- introducing speakers or soliciting other volunteers to MC.

* mx matienzo
* cbeer
* Tod Olson
* [[User:Cynthia|Arty]]
* [[User:Ssimpkin|Sarah Simpkin]]
* Ranti Junus

== Scholarships Committee ==

This committee works with funding institutions to arrange the scholarships offered. They solicit submissions and select winners of the scholarship(s). They also work with the winners to plan their travel and arrangements.

* Sarah Shealy - v
* Ruth Kitchin Tillman
* Francis Kayiwa
* Bohyun Kim
* Mairelys Lemus-Rojas

== Social Activities Committee ==

The committee plans, proposes, and organizes the evening activities.

* Becky Yoose - v(committee member 4 life)
* Sarah Shealy
* Bohyun Kim
* Whitni Watkins

== Sponsorships Committee ==

This committee organizes the sponsorship activities. Usually it includes people within the Code4Lib community who think their institution or company might be interested in sponsoring the conference. These folks may not be the decision makers at the sponsors, but they are Code4Lib's contacts.

* Roy Tennant, OCLC, firstnamelastname@gmail.com

== Streaming Video Committee ==

*[[User:highermath|Cary Gordon]] has equipment, experience and domain knowledge to share.
*[[User:RileyChilds|Riley Childs]] has Knowledge and the YouTube Account credentials (he will consult but conf attendance is iffy)

== T-Shirt Committee ==

This committee organizes the t-shirt contest, collecting submissions, and putting out the call for votes. This committee is also responsible for helping the local planning committee identify a vendor that will fit within the budget constraints for the conference. User sizes and preferences will be obtained as part of the registration process.
*[[User:ChristinaHarlow|Christina]]
*[[User:jgo|Joshua Gomez]]

== Voting Activities Committee ==

This committee organizes the voting process and works with the other committees that involve voting (keynote, program, T-shirt) to ensure a relatively smooth process.

== Whatever Committee ==

This committee does whatever the organizers can't talk anyone else into doing.

* Francis Kayiwa
* Becky Yoose (will do things for mortgage payment assistance)
* [[User:ChristinaHarlow|Christina]]
* [[User:Ssimpkin|Sarah Simpkin]]
* Ranti Junus
* Whitni Watkins
* Sarah Park

== Wifi / Electrical / IRC ==

This committee is responsible for working with local planners to ensure that wifi will be able to support the needs of the code4lib community.

* [[User:highermath|Cary Gordon]], cgordon@chillco.com
* [[User:RileyChilds|Riley Childs]] is able to assist with Wireless planning and IRC stuffs, rchilds@cucawarriors.com (he will consult but conf attendance is iffy)

= Documentation =
To help with documention, no need to sign up, just start editing.
* [[How To Plan A Code4LibCon]]

== Documentation Interest Group ==
Promote ongoing documentation efforts.

[[Category: Code4Lib2015]]

C4lMW14 - Code4Lib Journal as epub

2014-07-23T19:19:35Z

Gopark:

Useful information:

Created git repo
https://github.com/jtgorman/c4l-journal-as-epub

images are in issue, not w/ article

Runs Wordpress, maybe use Anthologize

http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Code4Lib_Journal_Entries_in_Directory_of_Open_Access_Journals

EPub3: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-richlayoutepub/

EPub2 Tutorial: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/tutorials/x-epubtut/index.html

Writing ePub3: http://idpf.org/sites/default/files/digital-book-conference/presentations/db2012/DB2012_Liz_Castro.pdf

Dan Scott's suggestion: make it sustainable on the top of
http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Code4Lib_Journal_WordPress_Customizations

zip protocol:

$ zip -0Xq my-book.epub mimetype

$ zip -Xr9Dq my-book.epub *

Pandoc (uses the Haskell Platform) http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/installing.html

Wordpress w/ Pandoc? https://blogs.aalto.fi/blog/epublishing-with-pandoc/

NATURAL LANGUAGE:

For an issue, create .ncx / .end files from the issue index, <spine /> and <manifest /> in .opf

Save HTML output for each article, index, list in <manifest />, .ncx / .end

Sort into folder for relationships

Zip, rename .epub, save to download

http://codex.wordpress.org/XML-RPC_Supportb

https://wordpress.org/plugins/demomentsomtres-wp-export/

Creating ePub with image files

On an article - save the article page as a local file (journal.htm, in this example).
It saved the content file as well as the image files.
Then, run this command -
pandoc -f html -t epub --toc -o journal.epub journal.htm
This generated an journal.epub file with images.

Idea came from: https://blogs.aalto.fi/blog/epublishing-with-pandoc/

Midwest

2014-07-23T04:09:20Z

Gopark: /* Lightning Talks */

== Code4Lib Midwest 2014 Meeting ==

Please join us July 23-24 in Grand Rapids, Michigan for the Code4Lib Midwest 2014 conference.

This informal conference will feature short lightning talks, longer presentations, workshops, a technology-infused hackfest, and site visits to local technology companies. We'll spend 2 days learning about technology and code in libraries, archives and museums from colleagues throughout the Midwest.

===Location===
Code4Lib MidWest meeting will be hosted by [http://gvsu.edu/library Grand Valley State University Libraries].
* '''When''' - Wednesday, July 23rd - Thursday July 24th, 2014
* '''Where''' - [http://gvsu.edu/library/maryidemapew Mary Idema Pew Library] at GVSU
* '''Registration Cost''' - Free!
* '''Planning Committee''' - Kyle Felker (felkerk@gvsu.edu), Erin Fisher {fisherin@gvsu.edu), Eric Kunnen (kunnene@gvsu.edu), Kristin Meyer (meyerk@gvsu.edu), and Matthew Reidsma (reidsmam@gvsu.edu)

===Logistics===
We hope you consider staying overnight to enjoy both days of the conference. We recommend staying in downtown Grand Rapids at the Holiday Inn. There is a [http://gvsu.edu/bus Rapid bus (#50)] to the Allendale campus that leaves every 20 minutes in the summer from Front Street right next to the hotel. Alternatively, you can park in any non-faculty/staff space on the GVSU Allendale campus for Wednesday's events. Thursday will happen downtown, within walking distance of the hotel.

'''Suggested Hotels'''

* [http://www.higrdt.com/ '''Holiday Inn Grand Rapids Downtown'''] (310 Pearl Street NW, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 49504 :: +1 (616) 235-7611)

-The Holiday Inn Grand Rapids Downtown is within walking distance to restaurants, breweries, museums, shops and Grand Valley's downtown campus. Access to free public transit to the Allendale campus is just a five minute walk (.2 miles).

* [http://www.sleepinn.com/hotel-allendale-michigan-MI214 '''Sleep Inn & Suites'''] (4869 Becker Dr., Allendale, MI, 49401 :: +1 (616) 892-8000)

-For those interested in staying near the Allendale campus, Sleep Inn is 1.2 miles away.

'''Directions, restaurants, and more'''

# Map of the area downtown with bus stops and venues: http://matthew.reidsrow.com/img/map.png
# Allendale Campus from Holiday Inn Downtown (by car): http://gvsu.edu/s/FQ
# [http://hopcatgr.com/grand-rapids HopCat Bar] from Holiday Inn Downtown (by foot): http://gvsu.edu/s/FR
# Bicycle Factory from Holiday Inn Downtown (on foot): http://gvsu.edu/s/FS
# [http://yeticgi.com Yeti CGI] & [https://www.grmakers.com GR Makers] from Bicycle Factory (by car): http://gvsu.edu/s/FT
# Allendale & Downtown Campus Maps (PDF): http://www.gvsu.edu/maps.htm

=== Schedule ===

We will be''' live streaming''' the event on our YouTube Channel, http://youtube.com/user/gvsulib. Thanks to Britain Woodman of the University of Michigan for helping us set that up!

==== Wednesday, July 23rd ====

'''Meeting at the [http://gvsu.edu/library/mary-idema-pew-library-224.htm#directions Mary Idema Pew Library, Allendale].'''

8:30am: Continental Breakfast

9am: Lightning Talks from Alison Hitchens, Eric Lease Morgan, Matthew Reidsma, Sarah Park, and Brian Zelip.

10am: Eric Echeverri, Doreen Bradley, and Steve Lonn on the digital open badges initiative that is taken place at the University of Michigan, specifically Digital Badges for libraries. (Steve and Doreen will be coming in through the computer internet)

11am: Cole Hudson on Wayne State’s Fedora Commons Implementation

11:30am: Jon Gorman on Development tips from the front-lines: Tips and techniques useful for software development in Libraries.

12 - 1pm : ''Lunch'' in the Multipurpose Room (Sandwiches and salads, vegetarian options available)

1 - 4:30pm : ''Hackfest'' with Toys from the [http://gvsu.edu/techshowcase/technology-on-display-3.htm Technology Showcase] ([http://store.makerbot.com/digitizer 3D scanner] and [http://store.makerbot.com/replicator2 printer], [http://www.makeymakey.com/ Makey Makey], etc.). We'll also have an afternoon cookie snack.

4:30pm : Optional tour of the [http://gvsu.edu/library/maryidemapew Mary Idema Pew Library]

6:00pm : ''Evening Social at [http://hopcatgr.com/grand-rapids HopCat GR]''. Last year, Grand Rapids was named Beer City USA, and HopCat was named the third best beer bar on the planet by Beer Advocate Magazine. Let's keep the conversation going over dinner and drinks!

==== Thursday, July 24th ====

'''Meeting at the [http://www.gvsu.edu/operations/bicycle-factory-4.htm GVSU Bicycle Factory, Downtown Grand Rapids].'''

8:30am: Continental Breakfast

9am: Lightning Talks from Alison Hitchens, Cole Hudson, Britain Woodman, Jon Gorman, John Fink, and Kristin Meyer

10am: Megan Kudzia on Can you do FOSS at your library if you're a small, one-person shop? How do you figure it out?

10:30am: Esther Verreau on Chicago Collections Consortium (CCC), XTF admin tool development

11am: Lightning talk overflow, additional talks that pop up, hackfest reports, session wrap up & discussion

12 - 1pm : ''Lunch'' at the Bicycle Factory (Wraps and Salads, Vegetarian Options available)

1:30 - 3:00pm : ''Site Visit'' to the offices of [http://yeticgi.com/ Yeti CGI] and [https://www.grmakers.com/ GR Makers] to talk about partnerships between software developers and libraries and the future of makerspaces. (We'll be carpooling to these locations if you can make it!)

===Social Media Goodness===

Twitter hash tag: [https://twitter.com/search?q=c4lmw&src=typd #c4lmw]

===Technical Details===

* We’ll have projectors with VGA hookups at both locations, and I’ll have a small assortment of Mac dongles (although please bring your own if you have one!) We’ll assume you have your own laptop, although in a pinch we can provide a PC with Powerpoint or a Mac with Keynote. We cannot, however, provide your slides. That’s up to you!
* We will be live streaming the presentations this year to our GVSU YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/user/gvsulib), and then posting the recordings (if we have your permission) in our Institutional Repository as CC-BY licensed. We will have a form on a handy clipboard for you to sign to make that official. This doesn’t at all stop you from posting the video or whatever on every other site on the internet.
* We will at the very least have a podium mic that you can take out and walk around with (or dance, like a ‘90s rapper). We hope to also have a lapel mic. Wednesday’s room is pretty big, and we want to make sure folks watching the stream can hear you.
* We’ll have Wifi usernames and passwords for all of you so you can get online.

===Code of Conduct===
Code4Lib Midwest is dedicated to a harassment-free conference experience for everyone. Our anti-harassment policy can be found at: [[C4LMW14 Code of Conduct]]

==Programming Sign-up==

Code4Lib Midwest programming depends on the folks attending the conference. Please consider giving a presentation or lightning talk, or submitting your ideas for the hackfest.

Share what you are working on! Add your name and a description below. Please also let us know how long you'll need, and whether you prefer Wednesday or Thursday (or if it doesn't matter)

===Presentations or Workshops===
Have something cool to share? Tell us about it. If you want someone to teach something to you, put that here as well.

* Eric Echeverri and Steve Lonn on the digital open badges initiative that is taken place at the University of Michigan, specifically Digital Badges for libraries. Steve Lonn will be joining us via Gtalk for an in depth understanding of this technology. Eric will go over the technical details of exporting badges into the Mozilla backpack for learners. This application is done in ruby and is up and running at [https://mblem.umich.edu https://mblem.umich.edu]
* Development tips from the front-lines: Tips and techniques useful for software development in Libraries. Jon Gorman, University of Illinois (at Urbana-Champaign). Last year's Code4Lib Midwest there was a great amount of interest in improving development skills. Jon doesn't claim to be the best developer, but he's will to share what intimidated him unnecessarily and useful tips & tricks for both improving skills and overview of techniques that make life easier. (Bootstrap, jQuery, Rule engines, templates, Good books to read, etc). (Note: I'm willing to bump this down to a very quick lightning talk if people aren't interested, I just thought the schedule looked like it needed some fleshing out).
* Can you do FOSS at your library if you're a small, one-person shop? How do you figure it out? Megan Kudzia, Albion College Library. I've made plenty of mistakes along the way, and I thought maybe others might find what I've figured out useful. As a community that values free/open source, it can be really difficult to assess if you're starting out in your career and you're pretty much "the technology person" at your library (I suspect there are a lot of us in this boat). In addition to mistakes, I've had some successes too, which I'll also share about - it's not all bad news! (Note: like Joh, I'm willing to bump this down to a lightning talk if folks aren't really interested).
* CANCELLED (sorry) Deploy Code with Confidence (with lots of tests and application monitoring). Jeremy Prevost, Northwestern University
* Chicago Collections Consortium (CCC), XTF admin tool development -- The CCC is creating a unified portal to access archival collections relating to Chicago at a variety of institutions. The consortium has chosen XTF to search and index the metadata. Our first order of business is to create an admin tool that can ingest any metadata from home institutions and create standardized metadata to allow discovery of related material across institutions. Development of the tool began in May. I'll give an overview of what we're doing from a technical stand point and update about where we are and what our difficulties have been. Esther Verreau, UIC

===Lightning Talks===
Have something cool to share but you don't want to be in front of the room for more than 5 minutes? Lightning talks are for you. Sign up now or at the conference:

* Alison Hitchens - java program to create good e-theses MARC records from DSpace (UWSpace)
* Alison Hitchens -- involving library staff in software testing (using Primo as example)
* Brian Zelip - A Twofer: Migrating [http://minrvaproject.org a library web app's website] to an xml-based CMS & Use cases at [http://library.illinois.edu/sc an academic research services unit].
* Cole Hudson - Visualizing our book shelves: how we took Harvard's Stack View and made it our own
* Britain Woodman - how we evaluated and eventually made [http://github.com/cazzerson/suma Suma] part of our daily operations work
* Matthew Reidsma - improving website performance when you don't own all the assets: why I built cssMaker and how it might help other small teams.
* John Fink - a brief introduction to Docker and Linux containerization
* Sarah Park - Search All: Evaluation. Report on the usage of locally developed discovery tool
* Eric Lease Morgan - recent experiences installing Koha, exposing its content to the 'Net, and the possible use of ElasticSearch as the underlying indexer
* Jon Gorman - Short Story Index: MARC records + Neo4j Graph Database - A recently started personal project to harvest MARC records from various sources and graph relations between works, books, and authors. Mainly started to try to learn more of NoSQL databases, in particular graph databases. See https://github.com/jtgorman/shortstoryindex.
* Kristin Meyer- Using UX methodology to improve physical spaces and services

===Hackfest===
Pitch an idea you can work to solve in 3 hours or so, or join with someone else who has a project. Stuck on something at work? Find a buddy here to help you. Want to make something new and fun? Here's your chance for free labor. We'll have a hackfest idea basket at morning coffee, or you can leave your ideas on the wiki. Of course, you can also just show up with your idea. We're not the boss of you.

* MARCStore - Some sort of datastore, perhaps with using something like MARCPath that's relatively easy to ingest records in and then pull out & order records. - Jon Gorman
* Hack Koha or Evergreen to use SQRL (Squirrel), a key-exchange type system for authentication - https://www.grc.com/sqrl/sqrl.htm. Could be used for anonymous logins and interacting with system or even possibly for a "smartphone card" app. - Jon Gorman
* Short Story Remixer - try to create tool to pull in public domain short story collections, split them apart, and re-stitch them together - Jon Gorman
* Code4Lib Journal as epub - either Wordpress or screen scrape Code4Lib journal and produce epub/mobi file per issue. -Jon Gorman
* BookList - a collaborative tool for creating lists of books & comments on them (See BoardGameGeek geeklist for inspiration) - Jon Gorman
* Script to periodically remind Illiad users to update their contact information, since not everyone can keep Banner data in sync with it - Matthew Reidsma
* Work on next release of the Library Status app, with better generalization and easy installation (http://github.com/gvsulib/library-Status) -Matthew Reidsma & Jon Earley
* Dream up something cool to do with http://thisismysearch.com, which I built at a 2-person hackfest in March. - Matthew Reidsma

(Note from Jon Gorman, - Obviously I can't work on all of these things, but they're several of the projects that are recently have been rattling about in my brain, would be happy to work on any of them or to see other folks working on them).

==Registration==
Registration is free. List your name, affiliation, and email address here to register for the meeting. If you signed up and are unable to attend please remove your name or contact us, so that we can make room for others.

Contact Ryan Wick (ryanwick@gmail.com) with your preferred username to set up a Code4Lib wiki account, or ask Matthew Reidsma (reidsmam@gvsu.edu) to add your name to this list if you prefer not to set up an account.:

# Eric Lease Morgan, University of Notre Dame, emorgan - at - nd - dot - edu
# Alexa Hagen, University of Michigan MLIS Student, alexa.hagen - at - gmail - dot - com
# John Fink, McMaster University. john.fink - at - gmail - dot - com
# Lisa Rabey, Skaldic Press, lisa - at - biblyotheke - dot - net
# Aaron Collie, Michigan State University, collie - at - msu - dot - edu
# Ranti Junus, Michigan State University, junus-at-mail-lib-msu-edu
# David Malone, Wheaton College, david dot malone at wheaton dot edu
# Cole Hudson, Wayne State University, cole - dot - hudson - at - wayne - dot - edu
# Brian Zelip, University of Illinois, bzelip -at- illinois -dot- edu
# Michael Perry, Northwestern University, michael -dot- perry -at- northwestern -dot- edu
# Joshua Neds-Fox, Wayne State University, jnf - at- wayne - dot - edu
# Kelly Germain, Davenport University, kelly -dot- germain -at- davenport -dot- edu
# Jeffrey Mudge, Wheaton College, jeffrey dot mudge at wheaton dot edu
# Thomas Hilliker, Holly Township Library, thomashilliker at gmail dot com
# Jamie Tiemeyer, Cornerstone University, jamie - dot - tiemeyer - at - cornerstone - dot - edu
# Devin Higgins, Michigan State University, higgi135 - at - msu - dot - edu
# Alison Hitchens, University of Waterloo, ahitchen - at - uwaterloo - dot - ca
# Megan Kudzia, Albion College, moneill - at - albion - dot - edu
# Roy Zimmer, Western Michigan University, roy-dot-zimmer-at-wmich-dot-edu
# Thomas Padilla, Michigan State University, tpadilla-at-msu-dot-edu
# Jonathan Earley, Grand Valley State University, jonathan.a.earley - at - gmail - dot - com
# Jonathan Gorman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, jtgorman - at - illinois - edu
# Britain Woodman, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, britainw - at - umich - dot - edu
# Jessica Shuck, Cornerstone University, jessica - dot - shuck - at - cornerstone - dot - edu
# Esther Verreau, UIC, verreau1 - at - uic - dot - edu
# Brendan Quinn, Northwestern University, brendan-quinn - at - northwestern - dot - edu
# Paul Clough, Northwestern University, p-clough - at- northwestern - dot - edu
# Julie Vecchio, University of Notre Dame, jvecchio - at - nd - dot - edu
# Sarah Park, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, gpark - at - siue - edu
# Gary Maixner, Ferris State University, maixneg - at - ferris - edu
# Christina Czuhajewski, University of Michigan MSI student & Kalamazoo Public Library, cczu - at - umich - dot - edu
# Dan Wells, Calvin College, dbw2 - at - calvin - dot - edu
# Remington Steed, Calvin College, rjs7 - at - calvin - dot - edu
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The capacity of our venue requires us to cap participation at 40. Beyond that, please put your name, affiliation and email address on the wait list and we'll email you if a spot opens up for you.

===Waitlist===

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== Previous C4L Midwest Regional Meetings ==

* [[2010 (Inaugural) Code4Lib Midwest Meeting]]
* [[2011 Code4Lib Midwest Meeting]]
* [[2012 Code4Lib Midwest Meeting]]
* [[2013 Code4Lib Midwest Conference]]

== Mailing list ==

For better or for worse, Code4Lib "Midwest" has low-traffic [http://groups.google.com/group/code4lib-midwest mailing list/Google group]. Consider subscribing.

Midwest

2014-07-14T11:54:14Z

Gopark: /* Lightning Talks */

== Code4Lib Midwest 2014 Meeting ==

Please join us July 23-24 in Grand Rapids, Michigan for the Code4Lib Midwest 2014 conference.

This informal conference will feature short lightning talks, longer presentations, workshops, a technology-infused hackfest, and site visits to local technology companies. We'll spend 2 days learning about technology and code in libraries, archives and museums from colleagues throughout the Midwest.

We are working out the details: keep an eye on this space!

===Location===
Code4Lib MidWest meeting will be hosted by [http://gvsu.edu/library Grand Valley State University Libraries].
* '''When''' - Wednesday, July 23rd - Thursday July 24th, 2014
* '''Where''' - [http://gvsu.edu/library/maryidemapew Mary Idema Pew Library] at GVSU
* '''Registration Cost''' - Free!
* '''Planning Committee''' - Kyle Felker (felkerk@gvsu.edu), Erin Fisher {fisherin@gvsu.edu), Eric Kunnen (kunnene@gvsu.edu), Kristin Meyer (meyerk@gvsu.edu), and Matthew Reidsma (reidsmam@gvsu.edu)

===Logistics===
We hope you consider staying overnight to enjoy both days of the conference. We recommend staying in downtown Grand Rapids at the Holiday Inn. There is a [http://gvsu.edu/bus Rapid bus (#50)] to the Allendale campus that leaves every 20 minutes in the summer from Front Street right next to the hotel. Alternatively, you can park in any non-faculty/staff space on the GVSU Allendale campus for Wednesday's events. Thursday will happen downtown, within walking distance of the hotel.

'''Suggested Hotels'''

* [http://www.higrdt.com/ '''Holiday Inn Grand Rapids Downtown'''] (310 Pearl Street NW, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 49504 :: +1 (616) 235-7611)

-The Holiday Inn Grand Rapids Downtown is within walking distance to restaurants, breweries, museums, shops and Grand Valley's downtown campus. Access to free public transit to the Allendale campus is just a five minute walk (.2 miles).

* [http://www.sleepinn.com/hotel-allendale-michigan-MI214 '''Sleep Inn & Suites'''] (4869 Becker Dr., Allendale, MI, 49401 :: +1 (616) 892-8000)

-For those interested in staying near the Allendale campus, Sleep Inn is 1.2 miles away.

'''Directions, restaurants, and more'''

-A map with additional details coming soon!

=== Schedule ===

==== Wednesday, July 23rd ====

'''Meeting at the [http://gvsu.edu/library/mary-idema-pew-library-224.htm#directions Mary Idema Pew Library, Allendale].'''

9am - 12pm : ''Presentations and Lightning Talks''

12 - 1pm : ''Lunch''

1 - 4:30pm : ''Hackfest'' with Toys from the [http://gvsu.edu/techshowcase/technology-on-display-3.htm Technology Showcase] ([http://store.makerbot.com/digitizer 3D scanner] and [http://store.makerbot.com/replicator2 printer], [http://www.makeymakey.com/ Makey Makey], etc.)

4:30pm : Optional tour of the [http://gvsu.edu/library/maryidemapew Mary Idema Pew Library]

6:00pm : ''Evening Social in downtown Grand Rapids''. Last year, Grand Rapids was named Beer City USA. Let's keep the conversation going while visiting some local breweries and pubs. More details coming soon!

==== Thursday, July 24th ====

'''Meeting at the [http://www.gvsu.edu/operations/bicycle-factory-4.htm GVSU Bicycle Factory, Downtown Grand Rapids].'''

9am - 12pm : ''Presentations and Lightning Talks''

12 - 1pm : ''Lunch''

1 - 4:30pm : ''Site Visit'' to the offices of [http://yeticgi.com/ Yeti CGI] and [https://www.grmakers.com/ GR Makers] to talk about partnerships between software developers and libraries and the future of makerspaces. (We'll be carpooling to these locations if you can make it!) More details to follow.

===Social Media Goodness===

Twitter hash tag: [https://twitter.com/search?q=c4lmw&src=typd #c4lmw]

===Code of Conduct===
Code4Lib Midwest is dedicated to a harassment-free conference experience for everyone. Our anti-harassment policy can be found at: [[C4LMW14 Code of Conduct]]

==Programming Sign-up==

Code4Lib Midwest programming depends on the folks attending the conference. Please consider giving a presentation or lightning talk, or submitting your ideas for the hackfest.

Share what you are working on! Add your name and a description below. Please also let us know how long you'll need, and whether you prefer Wednesday or Thursday (or if it doesn't matter)

===Presentations or Workshops===
Have something cool to share? Tell us about it. If you want someone to teach something to you, put that here as well.

* Eric Echeverri and Steve Lonn on the digital open badges initiative that is taken place at the University of Michigan, specifically Digital Badges for libraries. Steve Lonn will be joining us via Gtalk for an in depth understanding of this technology. Eric will go over the technical details of exporting badges into the Mozilla backpack for learners. This application is done in ruby and is up and running at [https://mblem.umich.edu https://mblem.umich.edu]
* Development tips from the front-lines: Tips and techniques useful for software development in Libraries. Jon Gorman, University of Illinois (at Urbana-Champaign). Last year's Code4Lib Midwest there was a great amount of interest in improving development skills. Jon doesn't claim to be the best developer, but he's will to share what intimidated him unnecessarily and useful tips & tricks for both improving skills and overview of techniques that make life easier. (Bootstrap, jQuery, Rule engines, templates, Good books to read, etc). (Note: I'm willing to bump this down to a very quick lightning talk if people aren't interested, I just thought the schedule looked like it needed some fleshing out).
* Can you do FOSS at your library if you're a small, one-person shop? How do you figure it out? Megan Kudzia, Albion College Library. I've made plenty of mistakes along the way, and I thought maybe others might find what I've figured out useful. As a community that values free/open source, it can be really difficult to assess if you're starting out in your career and you're pretty much "the technology person" at your library (I suspect there are a lot of us in this boat). In addition to mistakes, I've had some successes too, which I'll also share about - it's not all bad news! (Note: like Joh, I'm willing to bump this down to a lightning talk if folks aren't really interested).
* CANCELLED (sorry) Deploy Code with Confidence (with lots of tests and application monitoring). Jeremy Prevost, Northwestern University
* Chicago Collections Consortium (CCC), XTF admin tool development -- The CCC is creating a unified portal to access archival collections relating to Chicago at a variety of institutions. The consortium has chosen XTF to search and index the metadata. Our first order of business is to create an admin tool that can ingest any metadata from home institutions and create standardized metadata to allow discovery of related material across institutions. Development of the tool began in May. I'll give an overview of what we're doing from a technical stand point and update about where we are and what our difficulties have been. Esther Verreau, UIC

===Lightning Talks===
Have something cool to share but you don't want to be in front of the room for more than 5 minutes? Lightning talks are for you. Sign up now or at the conference:

* Alison Hitchens - java program to create good e-theses MARC records from DSpace (UWSpace)
* Alison Hitchens -- involving library staff in software testing (using Primo as example)
* Brian Zelip - A Twofer: Migrating [http://minrvaproject.org a library web app's website] to an xml-based CMS & Use cases at [http://library.illinois.edu/sc an academic research services unit].
* Cole Hudson - Visualizing our book shelves: how we took Harvard's Stack View and made it our own
* Britain Woodman - how we evaluated and eventually made [http://github.com/cazzerson/suma Suma] part of our daily operations work
* Matthew Reidsma - improving website performance when you don't own all the assets: why I built cssMaker and how it might help other small teams.
* John Fink - a brief introduction to Docker and Linux containerization
* Sarah Park - how our users use a discovery tool (Using Google Analytics)

===Hackfest===
Pitch an idea you can work to solve in 3 hours or so, or join with someone else who has a project. Stuck on something at work? Find a buddy here to help you. Want to make something new and fun? Here's your chance for free labor. We'll have a hackfest idea basket at morning coffee, or you can leave your ideas on the wiki. Of course, you can also just show up with your idea. We're not the boss of you.

*

==Registration==
Registration is free. List your name, affiliation, and email address here to register for the meeting. If you signed up and are unable to attend please remove your name or contact us, so that we can make room for others.

Contact Ryan Wick (ryanwick@gmail.com) with your preferred username to set up a Code4Lib wiki account, or ask Matthew Reidsma (reidsmam@gvsu.edu) to add your name to this list if you prefer not to set up an account.:

# Eric Lease Morgan, University of Notre Dame, emorgan - at - nd - dot - edu
# Alexa Hagen, University of Michigan MLIS Student, alexa.hagen - at - gmail - dot - com
# John Fink, McMaster University. john.fink - at - gmail - dot - com
# Lisa Rabey, librarian for hire, lisa - at - biblyotheke - dot - net
# Aaron Collie, Michigan State University, collie - at - msu - dot - edu
# Ranti Junus, Michigan State University, junus-at-mail-lib-msu-edu
# David Malone, Wheaton College, david dot malone at wheaton dot edu
# Cole Hudson, Wayne State University, cole - dot - hudson - at - wayne - dot - edu
# Brian Zelip, University of Illinois, bzelip -at- illinois -dot- edu
# Michael Perry, Northwestern University, michael -dot- perry -at- northwestern -dot- edu
# Joshua Neds-Fox, Wayne State University, jnf - at- wayne - dot - edu
# Kelly Germain, Davenport University, kelly -dot- germain -at- davenport -dot- edu
# Jeffrey Mudge, Wheaton College, jeffrey dot mudge at wheaton dot edu
# Thomas Hilliker, Holly Township Library, thomashilliker at gmail dot com
# Jamie Tiemeyer, Cornerstone University, jamie - dot - tiemeyer - at - cornerstone - dot - edu
# Devin Higgins, Michigan State University, higgi135 - at - msu - dot - edu
# Alison Hitchens, University of Waterloo, ahitchen - at - uwaterloo - dot - ca
# Megan Kudzia, Albion College, moneill - at - albion - dot - edu
# Roy Zimmer, Western Michigan University, roy-dot-zimmer-at-wmich-dot-edu
# Thomas Padilla, Michigan State University, tpadilla-at-msu-dot-edu
# Jonathan Earley, Grand Valley State University, jonathan.a.earley - at - gmail - dot - com
# Jonathan Gorman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, jtgorman - at - illinois - edu
# Britain Woodman, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, britainw - at - umich - dot - edu
# Jessica Shuck, Cornerstone University, jessica - dot - shuck - at - cornerstone - dot - edu
# Esther Verreau, UIC, verreau1 - at - uic - dot - edu
# Brendan Quinn, Northwestern University, brendan-quinn - at - northwestern - dot - edu
# Paul Clough, Northwestern University, p-clough - at- northwestern - dot - edu
# Julie Vecchio, University of Notre Dame, jvecchio - at - nd - dot - edu
# Sarah Park, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, gpark - at - siue - edu
# Gary Maixner, Ferris State University, maixneg - at - ferris - edu
# Christina Czuhajewski, University of Michigan MSI student & Kalamazoo Public Library, cczu - at - umich - dot - edu
# Dan Wells, Calvin College, dbw2 - at - calvin - dot - edu
# Remington Steed, Calvin College, rjs7 - at - calvin - dot - edu
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The capacity of our venue requires us to cap participation at 40. Beyond that, please put your name, affiliation and email address on the wait list and we'll email you if a spot opens up for you.

===Waitlist===

#

== Previous C4L Midwest Regional Meetings ==

* [[2010 (Inaugural) Code4Lib Midwest Meeting]]
* [[2011 Code4Lib Midwest Meeting]]
* [[2012 Code4Lib Midwest Meeting]]
* [[2013 Code4Lib Midwest Conference]]

== Mailing list ==

For better or for worse, Code4Lib "Midwest" has low-traffic [http://groups.google.com/group/code4lib-midwest mailing list/Google group]. Consider subscribing.

Midwest

2014-07-03T16:01:24Z

Gopark: /* Registration */

== Code4Lib Midwest 2014 Meeting ==

Please join us July 23-24 in Grand Rapids, Michigan for the Code4Lib Midwest 2014 conference.

This informal conference will feature short lightning talks, longer presentations, workshops, a technology-infused hackfest, and site visits to local technology companies. We'll spend 2 days learning about technology and code in libraries, archives and museums from colleagues throughout the Midwest.

We are working out the details: keep an eye on this space!

===Location===
Code4Lib MidWest meeting will be hosted by [http://gvsu.edu/library Grand Valley State University Libraries].
* '''When''' - Wednesday, July 23rd - Thursday July 24th, 2014
* '''Where''' - [http://gvsu.edu/library/maryidemapew Mary Idema Pew Library] at GVSU
* '''Registration Cost''' - Free!
* '''Planning Committee''' - Kyle Felker (felkerk@gvsu.edu), Erin Fisher {fisherin@gvsu.edu), Eric Kunnen (kunnene@gvsu.edu), Kristin Meyer (meyerk@gvsu.edu), and Matthew Reidsma (reidsmam@gvsu.edu)

===Logistics===
We hope you consider staying overnight to enjoy both days of the conference. We recommend staying in downtown Grand Rapids at the Holiday Inn. There is a [http://gvsu.edu/bus Rapid bus (#50)] to the Allendale campus that leaves every 20 minutes in the summer from Front Street right next to the hotel. Alternatively, you can park in any non-faculty/staff space on the GVSU Allendale campus for Wednesday's events. Thursday will happen downtown, within walking distance of the hotel.

'''Suggested Hotels'''

* [http://www.higrdt.com/ '''Holiday Inn Grand Rapids Downtown'''] (310 Pearl Street NW, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 49504 :: +1 (616) 235-7611)

-The Holiday Inn Grand Rapids Downtown is within walking distance to restaurants, breweries, museums, shops and Grand Valley's downtown campus. Access to free public transit to the Allendale campus is just a five minute walk (.2 miles).

* [http://www.sleepinn.com/hotel-allendale-michigan-MI214 '''Sleep Inn & Suites'''] (4869 Becker Dr., Allendale, MI, 49401 :: +1 (616) 892-8000)

-For those interested in staying near the Allendale campus, Sleep Inn is 1.2 miles away.

'''Directions, restaurants, and more'''

-A map with additional details coming soon!

=== Schedule ===

==== Wednesday, July 23rd ====

'''Meeting at the [http://gvsu.edu/library/mary-idema-pew-library-224.htm#directions Mary Idema Pew Library, Allendale].'''

9am - 12pm : ''Presentations and Lightning Talks''

12 - 1pm : ''Lunch''

1 - 4:30pm : ''Hackfest'' with Toys from the [http://gvsu.edu/techshowcase/technology-on-display-3.htm Technology Showcase] ([http://store.makerbot.com/digitizer 3D scanner] and [http://store.makerbot.com/replicator2 printer], [http://www.makeymakey.com/ Makey Makey], etc.)

4:30pm : Optional tour of the [http://gvsu.edu/library/maryidemapew Mary Idema Pew Library]

6:00pm : ''Evening Social in downtown Grand Rapids''. Last year, Grand Rapids was named Beer City USA. Let's keep the conversation going while visiting some local breweries and pubs. More details coming soon!

==== Thursday, July 24th ====

'''Meeting at the [http://www.gvsu.edu/operations/bicycle-factory-4.htm GVSU Bicycle Factory, Downtown Grand Rapids].'''

9am - 12pm : ''Presentations and Lightning Talks''

12 - 1pm : ''Lunch''

1 - 4:30pm : ''Site Visit'' to the offices of [http://yeticgi.com/ Yeti CGI] and [https://www.grmakers.com/ GR Makers] to talk about partnerships between software developers and libraries and the future of makerspaces. (We'll be carpooling to these locations if you can make it!) More details to follow.

===Social Media Goodness===

Twitter hash tag: [https://twitter.com/search?q=c4lmw&src=typd #c4lmw]

===Code of Conduct===
Code4Lib Midwest is dedicated to a harassment-free conference experience for everyone. Our anti-harassment policy can be found at: [[C4LMW14 Code of Conduct]]

==Programming Sign-up==

Code4Lib Midwest programming depends on the folks attending the conference. Please consider giving a presentation or lightning talk, or submitting your ideas for the hackfest.

Share what you are working on! Add your name and a description below. Please also let us know how long you'll need, and whether you prefer Wednesday or Thursday (or if it doesn't matter)

===Presentations or Workshops===
Have something cool to share? Tell us about it. If you want someone to teach something to you, put that here as well.

* Eric Echeverri and Steve Lonn on the digital open badges initiative that is taken place at the University of Michigan, specifically Digital Badges for libraries. Steve Lonn will be joining us via Gtalk for an in depth understanding of this technology. Eric will go over the technical details of exporting badges into the Mozilla backpack for learners. This application is done in ruby and is up and running at [https://mblem.umich.edu https://mblem.umich.edu]
* Development tips from the front-lines: Tips and techniques useful for software development in Libraries. Jon Gorman, University of Illinois (at Urbana-Champaign). Last year's Code4Lib Midwest there was a great amount of interest in improving development skills. Jon doesn't claim to be the best developer, but he's will to share what intimidated him unnecessarily and useful tips & tricks for both improving skills and overview of techniques that make life easier. (Bootstrap, jQuery, Rule engines, templates, Good books to read, etc). (Note: I'm willing to bump this down to a very quick lightning talk if people aren't interested, I just thought the schedule looked like it needed some fleshing out).
* Can you do FOSS at your library if you're a small, one-person shop? How do you figure it out? Megan Kudzia, Albion College Library. I've made plenty of mistakes along the way, and I thought maybe others might find what I've figured out useful. As a community that values free/open source, it can be really difficult to assess if you're starting out in your career and you're pretty much "the technology person" at your library (I suspect there are a lot of us in this boat). In addition to mistakes, I've had some successes too, which I'll also share about - it's not all bad news! (Note: like Joh, I'm willing to bump this down to a lightning talk if folks aren't really interested).
* '''Deploy Code with Confidence (with lots of tests and application monitoring)'''.
** Deploying code into production can be nerve wracking. Or, it can be a non-issue. I'll talk about our current test environment, which allows us to feel reasonably confident our code does what we intend. I'll also discuss our application monitoring, which informs us when even our huge test suite missed a scenario. We often see bugs in our monitor, write tests to demonstrate the bug, fix the bug, and deploy code before a user ever reports a problem.
** Jeremy Prevost, Northwestern University
* Chicago Collections Consortium (CCC), XTF admin tool development -- The CCC is creating a unified portal to access archival collections relating to Chicago at a variety of institutions. The consortium has chosen XTF to search and index the metadata. Our first order of business is to create an admin tool that can ingest any metadata from home institutions and create standardized metadata to allow discovery of related material across institutions. Development of the tool began in May. I'll give an overview of what we're doing from a technical stand point and update about where we are and what our difficulties have been. Esther Verreau, UIC

===Lightning Talks===
Have something cool to share but you don't want to be in front of the room for more than 5 minutes? Lightning talks are for you. Sign up now or at the conference:

* Alison Hitchens - java program to create good e-theses MARC records from DSpace (UWSpace)
* Brian Zelip - A Twofer: Migrating [http://minrvaproject.org a library web app's website] to an xml-based CMS & Use cases at [http://library.illinois.edu/sc an academic research services unit].
* Cole Hudson - Visualizing our book shelves: how we took Harvard's Stack View and made it our own
* Britain Woodman - how we evaluated and eventually made [http://github.com/cazzerson/suma Suma] part of our daily operations work

===Hackfest===
Pitch an idea you can work to solve in 3 hours or so, or join with someone else who has a project. Stuck on something at work? Find a buddy here to help you. Want to make something new and fun? Here's your chance for free labor. We'll have a hackfest idea basket at morning coffee, or you can leave your ideas on the wiki. Of course, you can also just show up with your idea. We're not the boss of you.

*

==Registration==
Registration is free. List your name, affiliation, and email address here to register for the meeting. If you signed up and are unable to attend please remove your name or contact us, so that we can make room for others.

Contact Ryan Wick (ryanwick@gmail.com) with your preferred username to set up a Code4Lib wiki account, or ask Matthew Reidsma (reidsmam@gvsu.edu) to add your name to this list if you prefer not to set up an account.:

# Eric Lease Morgan, University of Notre Dame, emorgan - at - nd - dot - edu
# Alexa Hagen, University of Michigan MLIS Student, alexa.hagen - at - gmail - dot - com
# John Fink, McMaster University. john.fink - at - gmail - dot - com
# Lisa Rabey, librarian for hire, lisa - at - biblyotheke - dot - net
# Aaron Collie, Michigan State University, collie - at - msu - dot - edu
# Ranti Junus, Michigan State University, junus-at-mail-lib-msu-edu
# David Malone, Wheaton College, david dot malone at wheaton dot edu
# Cole Hudson, Wayne State University, cole - dot - hudson - at - wayne - dot - edu
# Brian Zelip, University of Illinois, bzelip -at- illinois -dot- edu
# Michael Perry, Northwestern University, michael -dot- perry -at- northwestern -dot- edu
# Joshua Neds-Fox, Wayne State University, jnf - at- wayne - dot - edu
# Kelly Germain, Davenport University, kelly -dot- germain -at- davenport -dot- edu
# Jeremy Prevost, Northwestern University, j-prevost at northwestern dot edu
# Jeffrey Mudge, Wheaton College, jeffrey dot mudge at wheaton dot edu
# Thomas Hilliker, Holly Township Library, thomashilliker at gmail dot com
# Jamie Tiemeyer, Cornerstone University, jamie - dot - tiemeyer - at - cornerstone - dot - edu
# Devin Higgins, Michigan State University, higgi135 - at - msu - dot - edu
# Alison Hitchens, University of Waterloo, ahitchen - at - uwaterloo - dot - ca
# Megan Kudzia, Albion College, moneill - at - albion - dot - edu
# Roy Zimmer, Western Michigan University, roy-dot-zimmer-at-wmich-dot-edu
# Thomas Padilla, Michigan State University, tpadilla-at-msu-dot-edu
# Mike Priehs, Wayne State University, mpriehs - at - wayne - dot - edu
# Jonathan Earley, Grand Valley State University, jonathan.a.earley - at - gmail - dot - com
# Jonathan Gorman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, jtgorman - at - illinois - edu
# Britain Woodman, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, britainw - at - umich - dot - edu
# Andrew McAlorum, University of Waterloo, amcalorum - at - uwaterloo - dot - ca
# Jessica Shuck, Cornerstone University, jessica - dot - shuck - at - cornerstone - dot - edu
# Esther Verreau, UIC, verreau1 - at - uic - dot - edu
# Brendan Quinn, Northwestern University, brendan-quinn - at - northwestern - dot - edu
# Paul Clough, Northwestern University, p-clough - at- northwestern - dot - edu
# Julie Vecchio, University of Notre Dame, jvecchio - at - nd - dot - edu
# Sarah Park, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, gpark - at - siue - edu
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The capacity of our venue requires us to cap participation at 40. Beyond that, please put your name, affiliation and email address on the wait list and we'll email you if a spot opens up for you.

===Waitlist===

#

== Previous C4L Midwest Regional Meetings ==

* [[2010 (Inaugural) Code4Lib Midwest Meeting]]
* [[2011 Code4Lib Midwest Meeting]]
* [[2012 Code4Lib Midwest Meeting]]
* [[2013 Code4Lib Midwest Conference]]

== Mailing list ==

For better or for worse, Code4Lib "Midwest" has low-traffic [http://groups.google.com/group/code4lib-midwest mailing list/Google group]. Consider subscribing.

2013 Code4Lib Midwest Conference

2013-09-24T21:09:48Z

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==Code4Lib Midwest 2013==
Please join us Sunday, October 13, and Monday, October 14, in Iowa City for the Code4Lib Midwest 2013 conference! This informal conference will feature short lightning talks, longer presentations, workshops, and breakout discussion sessions covering technology in libraries, archives and museums in the Midwest. Each Code4Lib conference is different; take a look through the main [http://code4lib.org/about Code4Lib Wiki] to learn more about this volunteer-driven collective.
* Twitter hash tag: [http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23c4lmw #c4lmw]
===Location===
Code4Lib MidWest meeting will be hosted by [http://lib.uiowa.edu University of Iowa Libraries].
* '''When''' - Sunday, October 13th - Monday, October 14th
* '''Where''' - [http://www.uiowa.edu/~maps/p/pbb1.htm John Pappajohn Business Building, University of Iowa], Room W401
* '''Registration Cost''' - Free!
* '''Planning Committee''' - Emily Shaw (emily-f-shaw@uiowa.edu), Shawn Averkamp (shawn-averkamp@uiowa.edu), Becky Yoose(YOOSEBEC@grinnell.edu), Julia Bauder (BAUDERJ@grinnell.edu), Wendy Robertson (wendy-robertson@uiowa.edu), Matthew Butler (matthew-butler@uiowa.edu)

===Logistics===
* Lodging
** We have blocked off rooms for 10/13 & 10/14 at the [http://www.sheratoniowacity.com/ Sheraton Iowa City] as the official hotel. The group name is "Code4Lib". You can either call and let them know you're part of this group, or book online through [https://www.starwoodmeeting.com/StarGroupsWeb/booking/reservation?id=1308068499&key=3130C this event registration page]. These rooms are available at a discounted rate ($99/night, wifi included), and are held on a first come first served basis. Reservations must be booked by '''September 14, 2013''' or the rooms will be released back to the public. It's a pretty nice hotel, and a pleasant, easy walk through downtown Iowa City to the room where we'll be meeting. The Sheraton has an attached parking garage; ask about parking when you call to reserve a room.

* Transportation
** '''Bus -''' [http://www.greyhound.com/ Greyhound], [http://us.megabus.com/ Megabus] (routes to Iowa City from Chicago, Omaha, Des Moines)
** '''Air - ''' [http://www.eiairport.org/ Eastern Iowa Airport](CID, in Cedar Rapids) is the closest airport (22 miles); [http://www.crshuttle.com/ Cedar Rapids Airport Shuttle] can get you to and from the airport (reserve in advance). [http://www.qcairport.com/ Quad City International Airport] (MLI) is 66 miles away, but flights are often cheaper; unfortunately, a shuttle or taxi to/from there might cost you almost as much as your flight.
** '''Driving -''' Iowa City is off of I-80, which every Midwesterner should know how to get to :) There are several [http://en.parkopedia.com/parking/building/john-pappajohn-business-building-johnson-ia/ public parking structures] around campus, in easy walking distance to both the Sheraton (conference hotel) and Pappajohn Business Building (meeting room).

==Programming Sign-up==

Share what you are working on! We would also love to hear some ideas for a Sunday morning workshop/hackfest. Add your name and a description below.

===Workshops/Hackfest===
List your name and what you want to hack, teach, or see someone else teach.
*Shawn Averkamp -- Linked Data Tool Share: Let's share tips and tricks for making/publishing/consuming linked data. How to set up a SPARQL server? How to use parsers and serializers? I don't have that many tricks up my sleeve yet, so add your name and comments here if you'd like to help organize.
*Emily Shaw (UIowa) - CurateCamp, anyone? I've participated in a grand total of 1 before, but it was great and I'd be glad to facilitate if others are interested.
*Ian Mason (UIowa) -- Displaying data on Google charts or maps with Python?
*
more...

===Presentations===
15-20 minutes suggested, but feel free to propose a longer talk.
* Mark McFate (Grinnell College) - The Status of Islandora and Digital.Grinnell -- Islandora and http://Digital.Grinnell.edu are evolving rapidly. See what's new in Islandora and get a glimpse of how it’s used in Digital.Grinnell.
* Alan Schmitz (Iowa State University - SILO Program) - Iowa Heritage Digital Collections and Omeka -- http://www.iowaheritage.org/
* Jason Paulios (Iowa City Public Library) - ICPL Local Music Project -- http://music.icpl.org/
* Brian Zelip (UIUC, GSLIS) - Support Community Memory! [http://localwiki.org LocalWiki] & Library Engagement
* Audrey Altman and Jen Wolfe (University of Iowa) - Curation that Counts: Assessing Digital Libraries with Usage Statistics
* Sarah Park (Northwest Missouri State University - Developing Search All, An integrated discovery tool beyond Summon 2.0
* Melody Dworak (Iowa City Public Library) - Code & Collaboration: The mixed up crazy world of digital libraries in public libraries -- http://history.icpl.org/
*
more...

===Lightning Talks===
5 minutes suggested. We'll open more slots at the conference.
# Logan Jewett -- ETD conversion project (Sunday)
# Cole Hudson (Wayne State University) -- Omeka/Fedora Commons sync app
# Kelly Thompson -- Batch-embedding metadata in PDFs for searchability and provenance
# Sarah Park (Northwest Missouri State University) - Developing KnowBot, A Knowledge Database to Manage Reference and Beyond
# Julia Bauder (Grinnell College) -- How to Add Crowdsourced Transcription Capabilities to Any System in a Day
# Peg Miller (Minnesota State University, Mankato) - Light-weight collection inventory
# Jon Gorman (UIUC) - topic TBD
#
#

==Schedule==

===Sunday, October 13===

====Mingling (9:00am - 9:30am)====

====Workshops/Hackfest (9:30am - 12:00pm):====
Pitch an idea above.

====Lunch (12:00pm - 1:30pm)====
Lunch on your own.

====Welcome! (1:30pm - 1:45pm)====

====Presentations (1:45pm - 3:00pm)====

====Workshop Reports/Breakout Session Prep (3:00pm - 3:30pm)====

====Break (3:30pm - 3:45pm)====

====Breakout Sessions (3:45pm - 4:45pm)====

====Breakout Reports (4:45pm - 5:00pm)====

====Social Outing (5:30pm)====
We have reserved the 3rd floor of [http://www.yelp.com/biz/clinton-street-social-club-iowa-city Clinton Street Social Club] for dinner, drinks and socializing. It's a relatively new spot in town, and has a variety of locally-sourced, made-from-scratch edibles, a nice bar, and a friendly, reclaimed vintage ambiance.

===Monday, October 14===

====Coffee (8:30am - 9:00am)====
Get your name badge, drink some coffee, eat a snack, and meet some library folks.

====Lightning Talks (9:00am - 10:00pm)====

====Ask Anything (10:00am - 10:30am)====

====Break (10:30am - 10:45am)====

====Presentations (10:45am - noon)====

====Lunch (noon - 1:30pm)====
Lunch on your own

====Breakout Sessions (1:30pm - 2:30pm)====

====Breakout Reports (2:30pm - 3:00pm)====

====Presentations/Lightning Talks (3:00pm - 3:45pm)====

====Wrap-up (3:45pm - 4:00pm)====

==Registration==

'''Registration is free.''' We have tables and chairs for about 50 people, but we have plenty of perimeter seating if you sign up too late. List your name, affiliation, and email address here to register for the meeting. If you signed up and are unable to attend please remove your name or contact us, so that we can make room for others.

Contact Ryan Wick (ryanwick@gmail.com) with your preferred username to set up a Code4Lib wiki account, or ask Shawn Averkamp (shawn-averkamp@uiowa.edu) to add your name to this list if you prefer not to set up an account.:

# Matthew Butler, University of Iowa, matthew-butler@uiowa.edu
# Becky Yoose, Grinnell College, yoosebec at grinnell dot edu (maybe on Sunday, definitely on Monday)
# Julia Bauder, Grinnell College, bauderj at grinnell dot edu
# Samantha Helmick, Burlington Public Library, shelmick@burlington.lib.ia.us
# Kelly Thompson, Iowa State University, kellyt@iastate.edu
# Jason Stirnaman, University of Kansas Medical Center (KC), jstirnaman@kumc.edu
# Sarah Park, Northwest Missouri State University, gopark at nwmissouri dot edu
# Ian Mason, University of Iowa, ian-mason@uiowa.edu
# Shannon Cody, University of Iowa, shannon-cody@uiowa.edu
# Jillian Phillips, University of Iowa, jillian-phillips@uiowa.edu
# Kathy Magarrell, University of Iowa, kathy-magarrell@uiowa.edu
# Wendy Robertson, University of Iowa, wendy-robertson@uiowa.edu
# Audrey Altman, University of Iowa, audrey-altman@uiowa.edu
# Micah Bateman, University of Iowa, micah-bateman@uiowa.edu
# Alan Schmitz, Iowa State University, aschmitz@silo.lib.ia.us
# Jerry Balmer, Iowa State University, jbalmer@silo.lib.ia.us
# Paul Ertz, Iowa State University, pertz@silo.lib.ia.us
# Marie Harms, Iowa Library Services, marie.harms@lib.state.ia.us
# Mark McFate, Grinnell College, mcfatem at grinnell dot edu
# Robert Manaster, University of Illinois (UC), manaster at illinois dot edu
# Brett Cloyd, University of Iowa, brett-cloyd@uiowa.edu
# Sue Julich, University of Iowa, suzanne-julich@uiowa.edu
# Melody Dworak, Iowa City Public Library, melody-dworak@icpl.org
# Deana Greenfield, National Louis University Chicago, deana.greenfield@nl.edu
# Ben Rodriguez, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, benrodriguez9@gmail.com
# Christine Vivian, University of Iowa, christine-vivian@uiowa.edu
# Roberto Arteaga, University of Iowa, roberto-arteaga@uiowa.edu
# Beth Kamp, Freelance Librarian, beth-kamp@uiowa.edu
# Jon Gorman, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign, jtgorman@illinois.edu
# Kirk Hess, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, kirkhess@illinois.edu
# Amy Weidner, Benedictine University, aweidner@ben.edu
# Sara Pitcher, Coralville Public Library, spitcher@coralville.lib.ia.us
# Amy LeFager, National Louis University, amy.lefager@nl.edu
# Mark Baldwin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, mbaldwi2@illinois.edu
# Olivia Husman, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, husman2@illinois.edu
# Wesley Teal, University of Iowa, wesley-teal@uiowa.edu
# Carol Marquardsen, carol.marquardsen@gmail.com
# Peg Lawrence, Minnesota State University, Mankato margaret.lawrence@mnsu.edu
# Graham Hukill, Wayne State University, graham.hukill@wayne.edu
# Cole Hudson, Wayne State University, cole.hudson@wayne.edu
# Lynne Weber, Minnesota State University, Mankato, lnweber@mnsu.edu
# Amber Carlson, Davenport Public Library, acarlson@davenportlibrary.com
# Stephen Wynn, Truman State University, swynn@truman.edu
# Rebecca Pfenning, Dominican University & Calumet City Public Library, rebeccapfenning@gmail.com
# Larry Palmquist, University of Kansas, l-palmquist@ku.edu
# Benjamin Klahn, Joliet Public Library, bklahn@jolietlibrary.org
# Torii Moré, McLean County Museum of History, TMore@mchistory.org
# Logan Jewett, Iowa State University, lejewett@iastate.edu (Sunday only)
# Susan Green, Bettendorf Public Library, sgreen@bettendorf.org
# Brian Zelip, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, @bzelip, bzelip@illinois.edu
# Thomas Keyser, Iowa Library Services, thomas.keyser@lib.state.ia.us
# Andrew Holland, University of Iowa Libraries, andrew-holland@uiowa.edu
# Mollie Stanford, Arrowhead Library System (Mt. Iron, MN), molliestanford@arrowhead.lib.mn.us
# Vicky Maloy, Mount Mercy University, vmaloy@mtmercy.edu
# Steve Redmond, Davenport Public Library, sredmond@davenportlibrary.com
# Madison Sullivan, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, mesulli3@illinois.edu
# Drew Parker, University of Iowa, andrew-parker-1@uiowa.edu
# Matt Marcukaitis, Olivet Nazarene University, mwmarcukaitis@olivet.edu
# Aaron Collie, Michigan State University, collie@msu.edu
# Jen Wolfe, University of Iowa

The capacity of our venue requires us to cap participation at 60. Beyond that, please put your name, affiliation and email address on the wait list and we'll email you if a spot opens up for you.
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Waitlist:

# Bradley Woodruff, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, bsw@illinois.edu

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== Previous C4L Midwest Regional Meetings ==

* [[2010 (Inaugural) Code4Lib Midwest Meeting]]
* [[2011 Code4Lib Midwest Meeting]]
* [[2012 Code4Lib Midwest Meeting]]

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2013 Code4Lib Midwest Conference

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2013 talks proposals

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'''Deadline has been extended by request due to the hurricane/storm.'''

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.

Prepared talks are 20 minutes (including setup and questions), and focus on one or more of the following areas:
* tools (some cool new software, software library or integration platform)
* specs (how to get the most out of some protocols, or proposals for new ones)
* challenges (one or more big problems we should collectively address)

The community will vote on proposals using the criteria of:
* usefulness
* newness
* geekiness
* uniqueness
* awesomeness

Please follow the formatting guidelines:

<pre>
== Talk Title ==

* Speaker's name, affiliation, and email address
* Second speaker's name, affiliation, email address, if applicable

Abstract of no more than 500 words.
</pre>

== All Teh Metadatas Re-Revisited ==

* Esme Cowles, UC San Diego Library, escowles AT ucsd DOT edu
* Matt Critchlow, UC San Diego Library, mcritchlow AT ucsd DOT edu
* Bradley Westbrook, UC San Diego Library, bdwestbrook AT ucsd DOT edu

Last year Declan Fleming presented ALL TEH METADATAS and reviewed our UC
San Diego Library Digital Asset Management system and RDF data model. You
may be shocked to hear that all that metadata wasn't quite enough to
handle increasingly complex digital library and research data in an
elegant way. Our ad-hoc, 8-year-old data model has also been added to in
inconsistent ways and our librarians and developers have not always been
perfectly in sync in understanding how the data model has evolved over
time.

In this presentation we'll review our process of locking a team of
librarians and developers in a room to figure out a new data model, from
domain definition through building and testing an OWL ontology. We¹ll also
cover the challenges we ran into, including the review of existing
controlled vocabularies and ontologies, or lack thereof, and the decisions
made to cover the gaps. Finally, we'll discuss how we engaged the digital
library community for feedback and what we have to do next. We all know
that Things Fall Apart, this is our attempt at Doing Better This Time.

== Modernizing VuFind with Zend Framework 2 ==

* Demian Katz, Villanova University, demian DOT katz AT villanova DOT edu

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.

== Did You Really Say That Out Loud? Tools and Techniques for Safe Public WiFi Computing ==

* [[User:DataGazetteer|Peter Murray]], LYRASIS, Peter.Murray@lyrasis.org

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.
Remember [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firesheep Firesheep]?
It was an extension to Firefox that demonstrated how easy it was to snag session cookies and impersonate someone else.
So what are you sending out over the airwaves, and what techniques are available to prevent eavesdropping?
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.

== Drupal 8 Preview — Symfony and Twig ==

* [[User:Highermath|Cary Gordon]], The Cherry Hill Company, cgordon@chillco.com

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.

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.

Symfony and Twig have a common creator, Fabien Potencier, who's overall goal is to rid the world of the excesses of PHP 4.

== Neat! But How Do We Do It? - The Real-world Problem of Digitizing Complex Corporate Digital Objects ==

* Matthew Mariner, University of Colorado Denver, Auraria Library, matthew.mariner@ucdenver.edu

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, "Let's digitize these together and make them one big awesome project to support public urban history"? 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 "grand ideas crushed by technological limitations" and "projects on the right track" to follow.

== ResCarta Tools building a standard format for audio archiving, discovery and display ==

* [[User:sarney|John Sarnowski]], The ResCarta Foundation, john.sarnowski@rescarta.org

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.

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.

ResCarta-Web presents your audio to IE, Chome, Firefox, Safari, and Opera browsers with full playback and word search capability. Display format is OGG!!

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)

== Format Designation in MARC Records: A Trip Down the Rabbit-Hole ==

* Michael Doran, University of Texas at Arlington, doran@uta.edu

This presentation will use a seemingly simple data point, the "format" 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.

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.

== Touch Kiosk 2: Piezoelectric Boogaloo ==

* Andreas Orphanides, North Carolina State University Libraries, akorphan@ncsu.edu

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.

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.

I will also provide access to a genericized version of the interface code for others to build their own implementations of similar kiosk applications.

[1] http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/5832

== Wayfinding in a Cloud: Location Service for libraries ==

* Petteri Kivimäki, The National Library of Finland, petteri.kivimaki@helsinki.fi

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.

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.

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.

== Empowering Collection Owners with Automated Bulk Ingest Tools for DSpace ==

* Terry Brady, Georgetown University, twb27@georgetown.edu

The Georgetown University Library has developed a number of applications to expedite the process of ingesting content into DSpace.
* Automatically inventory a collection of documents or images to be uploaded
* Generate a spreadsheet for metadata capture based on the inventory
* Generate item-level ingest folders, contents files and dublin core metadata for the items to be ingested
* Validate the contents of ingest folders prior to initiating the ingest to DSpace
* Present users with a simple, web-based form to initiate the batch ingest process

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.

In this presentation, I will provide a demonstration of the tools that were built and discuss the development process that was followed.

== Quality Assurance Reports for DSpace Collections ==

* Terry Brady, Georgetown University, twb27@georgetown.edu

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

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.

In this presentation, I will provide a demonstration of the tools that were built and discuss the development process that was followed.

== A Hybrid Solution for Improving Single Sign-On to a Proxy Service with Squid and EZproxy through Shibboleth and ExLibris’ Aleph X-Server ==

* Alexander Jerabek, UQAM - Université du Québec à Montréal, jerabek.alexander_j@uqam.ca
* Minh-Quang Nguyen, UQAM - Université du Québec à Montréal, nguyen.minh-quang@uqam.ca

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.

See article: http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/7470

== HTML5 Video Now! ==

* Jason Ronallo, North Carolina State University Libraries, jnronall@ncsu.edu

Can you use HTML5 video now? Yes.

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.

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.

== Hybrid Archival Collections Using Blacklight and Hydra ==

* Adam Wead, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, awead@rockhall.org

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.

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.

== Making the Web Accessible through Solid Design ==

* [[User:Cynthia|Cynthia Ng]] from Ryerson University Library & Archives

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.

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.

== Getting People to What They Need Fast! A Wayfinding Tool to Locate Books & Much More ==

* Steven Marsden, Ryerson University Library & Archives, steven dot marsden at ryerson dot ca
* [[User:Cynthia|Cynthia Ng]], Ryerson University Library & Archives

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.

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.

The presentation will not only cover the technical aspects, but also the implementation and usability findings.

== De-sucking the Library User Experience ==

* Jeremy Prevost, Northwestern University, j-prevost {AT} northwestern [DOT] edu

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.

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.

== Solr Testing Is Easy with Rspec-Solr Gem ==

* Naomi Dushay, Stanford University, ndushay AT stanford DOT edu

How do you know if

* your idea for "left anchoring" searches actually works?
* 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?
* tweaking Solr configs to improve, say, Chinese searching, won't break Turkish and Cyrillic?
* changes to your solrconfig file accomplish what you wanted without breaking anything else?

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:

it "unstemmed author name Zare should precede stemmed variants" do
resp = solr_response(author_search_args('Zare').merge({'fl'=>'id,author_person_display', 'facet'=>false}))
resp.should include("author_person_display" => /\bZare\W/).in_each_of_first(3).documents
resp.should_not include("author_person_display" => /Zaring/).in_each_of_first(20).documents
end

it "Cyrillic searching should work: Восемьсoт семьдесят один день" do
   resp = solr_resp_doc_ids_only({'q'=>'Восемьсoт семьдесят один день'})
   resp.should include("9091779")
end

it "q of 'String quartets Parts' and variants should be plausible " do
   resp = solr_resp_doc_ids_only({'q'=>'String quartets Parts'})
   resp.should have_at_least(2000).documents
   resp.should have_the_same_number_of_results_as(solr_resp_doc_ids_only({'q'=>'(String quartets Parts)'}))
   resp.should have_more_results_than(solr_resp_doc_ids_only({'q'=>'"String quartets Parts"'}))
end

it "Traditional Chinese chars 三國誌 should get the same results as simplified chars 三国志" do
resp = solr_response({'q'=>'三國誌', 'fl'=>'id', 'facet'=>false})
resp.should have_at_least(240).documents
resp.should have_the_same_number_of_results_as(solr_resp_doc_ids_only({'q'=>'三国志'}))
end

See
http://rubydoc.info/github/sul-dlss/rspec-solr/frames
https://github.com/sul-dlss/rspec-solr

and our production relevancy/acceptance/regression tests slowly migrating from cucumber to:
https://github.com/sul-dlss/sw_index_tests

== Northwestern's Digital Image Library ==

*Mike Stroming, Northwestern University Library, m-stroming AT northwestern DOT edu
*Edgar Garcia, Northwestern University Library, edgar-garcia AT northwestern DOT edu

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:

*Build custom collection of images using drag-and-drop
*Re-order images within a collection using drag-and-drop
*Nest collections within other collections
*Create details/crops of images
*Zoom, rotate images
*Upload personal images
*Retrieve your own uploads and details from a collection
*Export a collection to a PowerPoint presentation
*Create a group of users and authorize access to your images
*Batch edit image metadata

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.

== Two standards in a software (to say nothing of Normarc) ==

*Zeno Tajoli, CINECA (Italy), z DOT tajoli AT cineca DOT it

With this presentation I want to show how ILS Koha handles the support of three differnt MARC dialects:
MARC21, Unimarc and Normarc. The main points of the presentation:

*Three MARC at MySQL level
*Three MARC at API level
*Three MARC at display
*Can I add a new format ?

== Future Friendly Web Design for Libraries ==

*[[User:michaelschofield|Michael Schofield]], Alvin Sherman Library, Research, and Information Technology Center, mschofied[dot]nova[dot]edu

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 "redesign") - but things are getting pretty strange. Notions about the Web (and where it can be accessed) are changing.

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.

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.

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.

==BYU's discovery layer service aggregator==

*Curtis Thacker, Brigham Young University, curtis.thacker AT byu DOT edu

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:

*filmfinder - a tool for browsing and searching films
*A custom book recommender service based on checkout data
*Integrated library services like personell, library hours, study room scheduler and database finder through a custom adwords system.
*A very geeky and powerful utility used for converting marc XML into primo compliant xml.
*Embedded floormaps
*A responsive web design
*Bing did-you-mean
*And many more.

I will demo the system, review the archtecture and talk about future plans.

==The Avalon Media System: A Next Generation Hydra Head For Audio and Video Delivery==

* Michael Klein, Senior Software Developer, Northwestern University LIbrary, michael.klein AT northwestern DOT edu
* Nathan Rogers, Programmer/Analyst, Indiana University, rogersna AT indiana DOT edu

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:

* The ingest, search, and discovery functionality of the Hydra framework
* The powerful multimedia workflow management features of Opencast Matterhorn
* The flexible Engage audio/video player
* The streaming capabilities of both Red5 Media Server (open source) and Adobe Flash Media Server (proprietary)

Extensive customization options are built into the framework for tailoring the application to the needs of a specific institution.

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.

== The DH Curation Guide: Building a Community Resource ==

*Robin Davis, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, robdavis AT jjay.cuny.edu
*James Little, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, little9 AT illinois.edu

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.

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.

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.

== Solr Update ==

*Erik Hatcher, LucidWorks, erik.hatcher AT lucidworks.com

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.

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.

== Reports for the People ==

*Kara Young, Keene State College, NH, kyoung1 at keene.edu
*Dana Clark, Keene State College, NH, dclark5 at keene.edu

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.

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.
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!

== Network Analyses of Library Catalog Data ==

* Kirk Hess, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, kirkhess AT illinois.edu
* Harriett Green, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, green19 AT illinois.edu

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.

== Pitfall! Working with Legacy Born Digital Materials in Special Collections ==

* Donald Mennerich, The New York Public Library, don.mennerich AT gmail.com
* Mark A. Matienzo, Yale University Library, mark AT matienzo.org

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, "best of breed" tools for digital preservation don't always work as they do for more recent materials, requiring a fair amount of ingenuity and use of "word of mouth tradecraft and knowledge exchanged through serendipitous contacts, backchannel conversations, and beer" (Kirschenbaum, "Breaking <code>badflag</code>").

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.

== Project <s>foobar</s> FUBAR ==

* Becky Yoose, Grinnell College, yoosebec AT grinnell DOT edu

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?

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.

[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.

== Implementing RFID in an Academic Library ==

* Scott Bacon, Coastal Carolina University, sbacon AT coastal DOT edu

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.

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.

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...

== Coding an Academic Library Intranet in Drupal: Now We're Getting Organizized... ==

* Scott Bacon, Coastal Carolina University, sbacon AT coastal DOT edu

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.

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.

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?

== Hands off! Best Practices and Top Ten Lists for Code Handoffs ==

* Naomi Dushay, Stanford University Library, ndushay@stanford.edu
* Bess Sadler, Stanford University Library, bess@stanford.edu

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?

== How to be an effective evangelist for your open source project ==

* Bess Sadler, Stanford University Library, bess@stanford.edu

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.

== What does it mean to be a "good" vendor in an open source meritocracy? ==

* Matt Zumwalt, Data Curation Experts / MediaShelf / Hydra Project, matt@curationexperts.com

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 & outs of compensation & equity structures within for-profit corporations.

The topics of power & 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.

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 & implementing open source software on behalf of organizations around the world.

==Occam’s Reader: A system that allows the sharing of eBooks via Interlibrary Loan==

*Ryan Litsey, Texas Tech University, Ryan DOT Litsey AT ttu.edu
*Kenny Ketner, Texas Tech University, Kenny DOT Ketner AT ttu.edu

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.

== Using Puppet for configuration management when no two servers look alike ==
* Eugene Vilensky, Senior Systems Administrator, Northwestern University Library, evilensky northwestern edu

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.

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.

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.

I will describe our experiences at the library for all three options using the Puppet open-source tool on Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.

== REST <b>IS</b> Your Mobile Strategy ==

* Richard Wolf, University of Illinois at Chicago, richwolf@uic.edu

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.

== ScholarSphere: How We Built a Repository App That Doesn't Feel Like Yet Another Janky Old Repository App ==

* Dan Coughlin, Penn State University, danny@psu.edu
* Mike Giarlo, Penn State University, michael@psu.edu

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:

* eliminate Fedora-isms in the application
* model and expose RDF metadata in ways that users find unobtrusive
* manage permissions via a UI widget that doesn't stab you in the face
* harvest and connect controlled vocabularies (such as LCSH) to forms
* make URIs cool
* keep the app snappy without venturing into the architectural labyrinth of YAGNI
* build and queue background jobs
* expose social features and populate activity streams
* tie checksum verification, characterization, and version control to the UI
* let users upload and edit multiple files at once

The application will be demonstrated; code will be shown; and we solemnly commit to showing ABSOLUTELY NO XML.

==Coding with Mittens==

*Jim LeFager, DePaul University Library jlefager@depaul.edu

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.

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.

== Hacking the DPLA ==
* Nate Hill, Chattanooga Public Library, nathanielhill AT gmail.com
* Sam Klein, Wikipedia, metasj AT gmail.com

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.

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.

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.

== Introduction to SilverStripe 3.0 ==

* Ian Walls, University of Massachusetts Amherst, iwalls AT library DOT umass DOT edu

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
* Features (and why you should consider SilverStripe)
* Requirements & Installation
* Model-View-Controller
* Key data types & configuration settings
* Modules
* Where to start with customization
* Community support and participation

== Citation search in SOLR and second-order operators ==

* Roman Chyla, Astrophysics Data System, roman.chyla AT (cfa.harvad.edu|gmail.com)

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.

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:"black holes") AND keyword:"red dwarf"))

== Managing Segmented Images and Hierarchical Collections with Fedora-Commons and Solr ==

* David Lacy, Villanova University, david DOT lacy AT villanova.edu

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.

We recently devised a procedure to extract these "segmented resources" into their own objects within our repository, and index them individually in our Discovery Layer.

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.

== Google Analytics, Event Tracking and Discovery Tools==

* Emily Lynema, North Carolina State University Libraries. ejlynema AT ncsu DOT edu
* Adam Constabaris, North Carolina State University Libraries, ajconsta AT ncsu DOT edu

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.

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.

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.

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.

== Actions speak louder than words: Analyzing large-scale query logs to improve the research experience ==

* Raman Chandrasekar, Serials Solutions, Raman DOT Chandrasekar AT serialssolutions DOT com
* Ted Diamond, Serials Solutions, Ted DOT Diamond AT serialssolutions DOT com

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.

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.

== Supporting Gaming in the College Classroom ==

*Megan O'Neill, Albion College, moneill AT albion DOT edu

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:
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.
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.

== Codecraft ==

* Devon Smith, OCLC Research, smithde@oclc.org

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]: "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." Of the questions who, what, where, why, when, and how, I will focus on why and how, with a minor in where.

'''N.B.''': This will be a NON-TECHNICAL talk.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craft#Classification

== KnowBot: A Tool to Manage Reference and Beyond ==

* Sarah Park, Northwest Missouri State University
* Hong Gyu Han, Northwest Missouri State University
* Lori Mardis, Northwest Missouri State University

Northwest Missouri State University has developed and used RefPole for collecting and analyzing reference statistics since 2005. RefPole was a tool to answer librarians’ needs to manage reference statistics and knowledge among librarians. It was an analysis tool for the library leaders to make decisions on library operations. RefPole was adequate for the internal use; however, it was developed for local access which keeps the collective reference knowledge from being shared beyond the desktop and from being accessed by students and faculty.

In 2011, responding to growing internal and external need, the library has developed a web based knowledge base management system, KnowBot, in Ruby on Rail. KnowBot offers public searching, rating, cloud tagging, librarian, and reporting interfaces. With the additional public interfaces, it also extended reference services 24/7. Librarians can record responses to questions with graphics and multimedia. The reporting interface features not only the simple transactional data, but it also exhibits multi-dimensional analytic tool in real time.

The presenters will demonstrate KnowBot; share the source code; and discuss the use of the knowledge base to answer the organizational and public need.

== Creating a (mostly) integrated Patron Account with SirsiDynix Symphony and ILLiad ==

* Emily Lynema, North Carolina State University Libraries, ejlynema AT ncsu DOT edu
* Jason Raitz, North Carolina State University Libraries, jcraitz AT ncsu DOT edu

In 2012, the NCSU Libraries at long last replaced a vendor “my account” tool that had been running unsupported for years. With the opportunity to create something new, one of the initial goals was a user experience that more seamlessly combined ILS data from SirsiDynix Symphony with ILL data from ILLiad. As a Kuali OLE beta partner, the NCSU Libraries is looking at an ILS migration within the next few years, so another goal was to build the interface on top of a standard so it would not have to be re-written at part of the migration. And the icing on the cake was a transition from a local Perl-based authentication system to the newer campus-wide Shibboleth authentication.

This presentation will start with our design goals for a new user interface, include a demonstration, and describe the simple techniques used to provide a more integrated view of Symphony and ILLiad patron data. The backbone of the actual application includes light-weight use of Zend studio for PHP and integration of the eXtensible Catalog’s NCIP Toolkit to reach out to Symphony for patron data. In addition, we can talk about our successes (and difficulties) using jQuery Mobile to create a mobile view using the same underlying code as the web version. As one of our first Shibboleth applications here in the Libraries, this experience also taught us first-hand about some of the challenges of this type of single sign-on.

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KnowBot: A Tool to Manage Reference and Beyond

Sarah Park, Northwest Missouri State University, gopark AT nwmissouri.edu
Hong Gyu Han, Northwest Missouri State University, hanwiz AT nwmissouri.edu
Lori Mardis, Northwest Missouri State University, lmardis AT nwmissouri.edu

Northwest Missouri State University has developed and used RefPole for collecting and analyzing reference statistics since 2005. RefPole was a tool to answer librarians’ needs to manage reference statistics and knowledge among librarians. It was an analysis tool for the library leaders to make decisions on library operations. RefPole was adequate for the internal use; however, it was developed for local access which keeps the collective reference knowledge from being shared beyond the desktop and from being accessed by students and faculty.

In 2011, responding to growing internal and external need, the library has developed a web based knowledge base management system, KnowBot, in Ruby on Rail. KnowBot offers public searching, rating, cloud tagging, librarian, and reporting interfaces. With the additional public interfaces, it also extended reference services 24/7. Librarians can record responses to questions with graphics and multimedia. The reporting interface features not only the simple transactional data, but it also exhibits multi-dimensional analytic tool in real time.

See the public interface at http://knowbot.owenslibrary.org/