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2013 social activities

2013-02-06T15:37:30Z

Mariela: /* Newcomer Dinner, Tuesday 2/12 */

== Ideas ==

* Aviary: super-crazy cocktails. http://www.molecularrecipes.com/molecular-mixology/aviary-cocktails/ . List your name if you're interested, whether Sunday, Monday, and/or Tuesday (after newcomer dinners) work, and whether you're just interested in stopping by, or doing a 7 cocktail tasting flight.*
** statsfool: sunday/monday/tuesday, either drinks or flight.
** Amyhannah: monday/tuesday, drinks, probably not the flight.
** anarchivist: sunday/monday, prefer drinks over flight but could be convinced
** [[User:highermath|highermath]]: monday (could use 10 cocktails after Drupal subCon, I am sure). Uber now works in Chicago, so I would do the flight.
** [[User:pberry|pberry]]: any night but Wednesday (that's Goose Island night) and I'd be up for drinks or flight, although leaning away from flight.
** [[User:thatandromeda|thatandromeda]] oh my gosh yes, any time, probably not the flight.
** [[User:Gdave|gdave]] beautiful site, I would be interested, Sun,Mon,Tues. either drink or flight.
** [[User:shawnc12|shawnc12]]: sunday/monday, either drink or flight
** wdenton: any night, either drink or flight
** beatricep: sunday/monday drink, highly susceptible to flight by peer pressure..
* Brewery tour - some possible candidates would be Goose Island, Brew Bus http://www.chicagobrewbus.com/, Piece, Revolution, Half Acre.
* Library field trips - because we're library geeks. Possible places include Newberry and Read/Write.--Read/Write Library confirmed for February 12.--Newberry Library confirmed for February 14.
* Art Institute of Chicago - Only open until 5pm, but possible for people coming in early enough on Sunday.
** escowles: I'm getting in around noon on Sunday, and interested in this.
** pgrayove: I'm getting in around noon on Sunday too. I'm interested.
* Local Option http://localoptionbier.com/ - So you've heard of Hopleaf, you've heard of Maproom. Come to Chicago's *ahem* best kept secret for good food and an evening session on Monday. We will need a tally to make requisite arrangements.
** kayiwa
** Linda Ballinger
** Courtney Greene
** John Pillans
** +6 from NCSU incl one Bret Davidson
** Megan Kudzia
** Andrew Darby

== Planned Events ==

=== Newcomer Dinner, Tuesday 2/12 ===

First time at code4lib? Join fellow c4l newbies and veterans for an evening of food, socializing, and stimulating <strike>discussions about</strike> demonstrations of the many uses of <strike>bacon</strike> <strike>dongles</strike> XML.

Code4Lib veterans, you're invited too. Join us in welcoming the newcomers!

'''Plans'''
* When: Tuesday evening (2/12)
* Time: 6 PM (ish) or whenever you can get your group together
* Mastermind (if you have any questions): [mailto:yoosebec@grinnell.edu Becky Yoose]

''Guidelines:''
*Max of '''6''' per group
**Please, no waitlisting
*ID yourselves so we can get a good mix of new people and veterans in each group
**New folks - n
**c4l vets - v
*One leader needed for each location (declare yourself! - '''Vets are highly encouraged to lead the group''')
**Leader duties
***Make reservations if required; otherwise make sure that the restaurant can handle a group of 6 rowdy library coders
***Herd folks from hotel to restaurant (know where you're going!)

'''Restaurants'''

'''Restaurants within .25 miles of the hotel'''

[http://www.athenarestaurantchicago.com/index.php Athena] (Greek)

* Al Cornish - v (leader)
* Carolyn Cole - n
* Dileshni Jayasinghe - v
* Will Clark - n
* Adam Constabaris - v

[http://www.dinerestaurant.com/ Dine] (Contemporary)

<del>[http://www.girlandthegoat.com/ Girl and the Goat] (American) Top Chef fans take note! This is Stephanie Izard's award-winning resto.</del> Totally booked.

[http://littlegoatchicago.com/ Little Goat] - Izard just opened a diner across the street from G&G that is walk-in only.

[http://www.haymarketbrewing.com/ Haymarket Pub & Brewery] (Pub food)

[http://www.karynsongreen.com/ Karyn’s on Green] (Vegan)
Completely vegan and close to the conference hotel. We'll meet in the conference hotel at around 6:45 (reservation at 7:00 for 6). Google maps says it is a 5 minute walk.

*Jason Ronallo (leader)- v
*Alicia Cozine - n
*Mark Mounts - v
*Barbara Hui - n
*Amy Deschenes - n
*Adam Strohm - n
* '''Capped at 6'''

[http://niarestaurant.com/nia-restaurant-mediterranean-cuisine/ Nia] (Mediterranean tapas)

[http://www.pegasuschicago.com/index.php Pegasus] (Greek)

[http://www.roditys.com/index.html Roditys] (Greek) -- Reservations made for 6:30pm. Let's meet in the hotel lobby at 6pm and walk over from there.

* Rosalyn Metz (leader) - v
* [[User:highermath|Cary Gordon]] - v
* [[User:Jacobandresen|Jacob Andresen]] - n
* Karen Miller - n
* Dre - v
* Mahria Lebow - n
* '''Capped at 6'''

'''Restaurants between .25 miles and .5 miles of the hotel'''

Code4lib Chicago Celery Salt Society - [http://www.alsbeef.com/ Al's Beef]

* Jason Casden (leader) - v - No reservations. We can walk from the hotel at 7.
* Charlie Morris - n
* Cory Lown - v
* Carolina Garcia - n
* Cody Hanson - n
* Ken Varnum - v
* '''Capped at 6'''

[http://avecrestaurant.com/# Avec] (Small plate)
Family-style small plate and tapas. Great Yelp reviews. We'll meet in the conference hotel at 6:00 <strike>6:45</strike> (they don't take reservations, but have stuff to sip on if there's a wait). Less than 10 minute walk from hotel.

* Shaun Ellis (leader) - v
* Jon Stroop - v
* Paula Gray-Overtoom - n
* Emily Zervas - n
* Cynthia Ng - neither
* Sarah Dooley - n
* '''Capped at 6'''

[http://www.babavillage.com/ Baba’s Village] (Indian/Pakistani)

[http://blackbirdrestaurant.com/ Blackbird] (Contemporary)

* Justin Coyne (reserver) - v - Reservation for Blackbird for 6 at 8:30pm
* Matt Cordial - v
* Christine McClure - n

[http://www.carnivalechicago.com/menu Carnivale] (Nuevo Latino)

[http://decero.hellotacos.com/ De Cero] (Mexican)

[http://www.dragonflymandarin.com/ Dragonfly] (Chinese, sushi)

[http://giordanos.com/ Giordano's] (Chicago Style Pizza) This place should be able to handle multiple groups...

* Andrew Nagy (leader) - v

[http://www.grangehallburgerbar.com/ Grange Hall Burger Bar] (Local food)

[http://www.idreamoffalafel.com/ I Dream of Falafel] (Mediterranean)

* Emily Lynema (leader) - v
* Christie Peterson - n
* James Stuart - v

[http://www.jaipurchicago.com/ Jaipur] (Indian; Reservation made for 6 at 6:30)

* Andrew Darby (leader) - v
* Josh Wilson (joshwilsonnc at gmail) - n
* Tim Thompson - n
* Mariela Hristova - n
*
*

[http://lasardine.com/ La Sardine] (French)

[http://www.mythaitakumi.com/index.html MyThai Takumi] (Japanese Thai) Reservation at 6:15. Meet in the hotel lobby at 6 pm. Look for the women in a trench coat and hat.

*Becky Yoose (leader) b dot yoose at gmail - v
*May Chan - n
*David Anderson - newby
*Terry Brady - new
* Dave Menninger - n
*Shawn Carraway -n
* '''Capped at 6'''

[http://www.nellcoterestaurant.com/ Nellcôte] (French)

[http://chicago.provincerestaurant.com/ Province] (American with Central/South American/Spanish influence)

[http://thepublicanrestaurant.com/ The Publican] (Seafood)

* Jay Luker (eater) - v - Rezzie is for 8pm
* Mark Matienzo (tweeter) - v
* Devon Smith (pickle eater) - repeat offender
* Chris Sharp (dead horse beater) - v
* Michael B. Klein (greeter) - v
* Bill McMillin (meeter) - n
* '''Capped at 6'''

[http://saigonsisters.tumblr.com/ Saigon Sisters] (Vietnamese)

[http://www.thaiurbankitchen.com/ Thai Urban Kitchen] (Thai, sushi)

[http://www.trattoriaisabellachicago.com/rest.html Trattoria Isabella] (Italian)

[http://www.vivo-chicago.com/homepage-2 Vivo] (Italian)

[http://www.wishbonechicago.com/dining/westloop/ Wishbone] (Southern Reconstruction)

'''Restaurants between .5 miles and .75 miles of the hotel'''

[http://currentsontheriver.com/ Currents on the River] (Eclectic)

[http://n9ne.com/ N9NE Steakhouse] (Steak)

[http://www.verachicago.com/menu Vera Chicago] (Spanish)

'''Restaurants between .75 miles and 1 mile of the hotel'''

[http://www.theberghoff.com/default.aspx The Berghoff] (German)
* Declan Fleming - v (leader) I checked reservations, and for 6 people, the first time open after the conf is 7:30, so I grabbed that.
* Dave Green - n
* Steven Villereal - n
* Peter Murray - v
* Trey Terrell - n
* Mike Giarlo - v
* '''Capped at 6'''

[http://www.yelp.com/biz/frontera-grill-chicago Frontera] (a Rick Bayliss Mex-American restaurant) Reservations are for 7:30, so perhaps the group could get a drink in the lobby beforehand. Either way, we'll depart at 7pm.
: (''note: the drinks at the bar at frontera are very tasty.'')
*Dan Suchy (leader and over-eater) - v
*Matt Critchlow - v
*Carmen Mitchell - v
*Maureen Callahan - n
*David Cliff - n
* Patrick Berry - 3rd year red-shirt freshman
* '''Capped at 6'''

[http://www.nativefoods.com/ Native Foods] (Vegan)

'''Restaurants more than 1 mile from the hotel'''

[http://www.greenzebrachicago.com/index.html Green Zebra] (Vegan)

[http://honkytonkbbqchicago.com/ Honky Tonk Barbeque] (BBQ)

[http://www.karynraw.com/cooked Karyn’s Cooked] (Vegan)

[http://www.latabernatapas.com/ La Taberna Tapas] (Mediterranean)

[http://www.morganschicago.com/ Morgan's on Maxwell] (Pub food)

[http://www.chezjoelbistro.com/ Chez Joël] (French/Tangiers food) I am leaning towards an early dinner of 6:15 as I have to take-off to make sure the Game Night takes off without a hitch. So leave the conference hotel by 5:45 if it is walk weather or 6PM if it is taxi weather.

* Francis Kayiwa (knackered leader) - v
* Megan O'Neill Kudzia - n
* Esther Verreau - n
* Michael Neidhardt - n
* Rikke Willer - n
* Esme Cowles - v
* '''Capped at 6'''

=== Veg*n Dinner ===

Let's have dinner at a veg*n-friendly place one night of the conference. Folks of all eating styles welcome.

Max *6* people per party this year.

'''Party #1: Chicago Diner''', Wednesday Night http://www.veggiediner.com/ "meat free since '83"
Will they easily be able to accommodate 6 folks walking in?
We'll plan on meeting in the conference hotel at 6pm and taking the 8 bus up there (3411 N. Halsted St Chicago, IL 60657).
# Jason Ronallo (jronallo@gmail.com)
# Linda Ballinger (linda dot ballinger at gmail)
# May Chan (msuicat at gmail dot com)
# Demian Katz (demian DOT katz AT villanova DOT edu)
# David Uspal (david dot uspal at villanova dot edu) In for the Country Fried StAEk and/or the Soul Bowl. Ex-Vegetarian (which may make it a crime for me to go), so if the list is full and you still want in, feel free to email me and I'll gladly turn over my spot to an actual Veg*n.
# Cynthia Ng (cynthia dot s dot ng at gmail)
Capped at 6

=== Code4lib/Goose Island Brewing Pull Request ===
'''When:''' Wednesday, 2/13, 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM

More information and sign up at [https://code4lib2013-estw.eventbrite.com/|https://code4lib2013-estw.eventbrite.com/]

=== Non-beery get together ===
'''When:''' Wednesday, 2/13, Meet at hotel lobby at around 6:30 (and take public transport over to the park) OR meet us at the rink at 6:45, skating rink closes at 8 PM

'''Where:''' [https://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/dca/supp_info/ice_skating_at_themccormicktribuneicerink.html McCormick Tribune Ice Rink]

'''Contact:''' @dchud, @ranti, @yo_bj (b dot yoose at gmail), @wendyrlibrarian

'''Cost:''' $10 skate rental, people watching free

Come and (attempt to) skate with us! This is also a good people watching opportunity, so if you don't want to skate, there will be places to hang out around the rink and the park. There is a [http://www.parkgrillchicago.com/cafe/food-menu cafe] near the rink as well, with hot drinks and food.

FYI - For those of you who want something else to munch on while hanging out, there's a [http://www.garrettpopcorn.com/chicago-locations/4-east-madison-street/ Garrett Popcorn Shop] a couple blocks away.

# Chris Sharp (indicating interest)
# Becky Yoose (ready to fall on her butt repeatedly for the entertainment of others)
# Peter Murray
# Shawn Carraway
# Karen Coombs
# Michael Levy
# Christie Peterson

=== Flying Trapeze ===
'''When:''' Monday, 2/11, TBD

'''Contact:''' rosalynmetz at gmail dot com

No this is not a joke. If you haven't heard Rosy is an aspiring trapeze artists and wants to bring the fun to her friends in Code4Lib. There is a trapeze rig in Chicago and she plans on visiting it and hopes that some of you can come along as well. If its your first time taking a trapeze class, they'll start you off learning [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oqPi_zuX7A a knee hang] and depending on how that goes you might be able to catch it at the end of class. If you have any questions about whether or not this is for you, [http://chicago.trapezeschool.com/classes/trapeze.php TSNY Chicago's website] should have the answer, if not feel free to contact Rosy.

Trapeze classes are $57, last 2 hours, and are limited to 10 people. Currently TSNY Chicago hasn't release their class schedule for February -- they should be doing that around Jan. 1. If we can get enough people interested before then, we can buy out a whole class. If not it'll be first come, first serve (along with the general public).

If you're interested in signing up, feel free to add your name and contact info to the list below.

'''''Sign Up List'''''
# Jay Luker (first!)
# Bill McMillin
# Bess Sadler
# Karen Coyle
# Sibyl Schaefer
# Rosalyn Metz (because I'm organizing)
# Alicia Cozine
# Gabriel Farrell
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#

=== Game Night! ===

Moved this from idea to an actual event. Still getting some details, but here's what we know:

Game Night! Type of games might vary due to interest and what people bring. Looks like interest right now is mostly on light to mediumish games with a dash of abstracts ;).

We have a conference room at the UIC library (Richard J. Daley Library MC 234, 801 S. Morgan, Chicago) reserved for 7:30 on Tuesday the 11th. I'll try to show up at the lobby and hang out there for at about 7:15. I'll be the guy with a code4lib nametag and a box of games ;). Not sure how late we'll play, it looks like the library is open till 1:00am, but I suspect I will for now put a rough ending time of 11pm.

(Note, there's also some discussion on Cards Against Humanity. I will try to make sure there's an alternative game, but I don't know if I want to prohibit any games. I would say though to remember to be respectful and courteous to those around you. I will probably be pondering this issue for a while)

I (Jon Gorman) will bring some board games and pick up some cards. Add your name to the list below if you're interested can bring games. Bringing games is NOT REQUIRED. If you can bring a game you can teach, that's great and will make sure we're not just stuck playing the games I bring.

(I've added some comments to the game lists below)
* jtgorman, aka Jon Gorman: I'll bring Time's Up: Total Recall, Tsuro, Hey, That's My Fish, Hive, and some more I haven't decided on yet. (My profile over at http://www.boardgamegeek.com/ is jtgorman as well if you want to browse my games and make requests)
* yo_bj: I have some games I can bring as well (Kill Doctor Lucky, Fluxx, Godzilla: Stomp, Munchkin Zombies, etc.). Monday doesn't have anything major planned...
*danwho: I 'll bring the Cards Against Humanity set.
*escowles (Mon/Tue preferred): I've got lots of games I could bring like Settlers of Catan, Carcassonne, Ticket to Ride, Age of Renaissance, Elfenland, Agricola, Le Havre, Smallworld, RoboRally, etc. etc.
** Take your pick! All good games. I'll try to finalize my list of games before Friday - JonG
*jen_young: I'm local and I have quite a few games. Just about every version of Fluxx, Bananagrams, Gloom, Munchkin Cthulu,Cards Against Humanity, Apples to Apples, Risk, Last Night on Earth, etc.)
**All good games! If you don't mind bringing a box that would be awesome. I particularly like Apples to Apples, Last Night on Earth and Gloom - JonG
* decasm: Interested in Go (aka igo, weiqi, baduk) anytime, not just game night. I can do Catan as well. (And as much as I love it, Cards Against Humanity is probably a violation of the new Code of Conduct.)
** I look forward to losing my first game of Go to you ;) - JonG
* csharp: I'm interested in playing games - whatever people bring. I almost always travel with a pack or two of playing cards ;-). Monday or Tuesday nights are fine.
* moneill: I would love to join in! I have a version of Catchphrase floating around somewhere, and I think I have Battleship...I need to go weed around in that drawer and see what else presents itself. Tuesday would be my preferred night, but I will make it work!
** Don't worry too much about bringing a game if transportation is a problem. One thing I've done w/ stuff like catchphrase is not take the box but to put pieces and cards in a bag - JOn G
* demiankatz: I'm always up for a game. I'm hoping to travel light so probably shouldn't bring anything, but if there's a local game shop, I might be persuaded to pick up something new as a souvenir.
** Don't worry, I think there will be plenty of games - JonG
* sekjal: I've got [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/36218/dominion Dominion], [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/68448/7-wonders 7 Wonders], [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/30933/bang-the-bullet Bang!], [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/18333/ecofluxx EcoFluxx] and [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/116/guillotine Guillotine] that I can bring. ++ on Cards against Humanity! Prefer non-conflict with beer night.
** Also all good games. I have 7 Wonders, but can bring some other games if you bring that. - Jon G
* arty: so totally interested. Unfortunately, I have no games to contribute.
** No prob.
* sanderson: I would be interested. I can bring [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/478/citadels Citadels] (2-7 players)
** Citadels would be awesome and means I don't have to bring it ;) - JonG
* dvdndrsn: Definitely in! Can bring Innovation, Tichu, Dominion, but Cards Against Humanity sounds good.
** I'll put in a vote for Tichu, heard good things about it - Jon G
* smkiewel: I'm likely to join. Can bring Arkham Horror and Munchkin.
** Arkham Horror seems rather bulky to travel with, but if you want to play bring it ;) - Jon G
* jkwilson: I'd like to attend Monday or Tuesday. I have a bunch of games but I'd prefer not to travel with them, and anyway it sounds like they're covered above. I'll bring the 5-6 player Catan extension.
* ejlynema: Interested, but will probably attend Newcomer dinner on Tuesday. Like Dominion and 7 Wonders, but probably don't have room to bring in suitcase. Anyone bringing Tsuro?
** I can bring Tsuro - Jon G
* Christie Peterson (save4use): Also interested, but also probably attending newcomer dinner on Tuesday. Can bring [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/11/bohnanza Bohnanza] and one deck of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set_%28game%29 Set].
**Bohnanza and Set would be awesome - JonG
* dgcliff: I'd be interested. Can bring Ticket to Ride.
* mbklein: definitely interested. Will check on my (currently unpacked) games. I am dying to play Cards Against Humanity. If we can't find a way to reconcile it with the Code of Conduct, we need a different Code of Conduct.
** Considering that this is a public event, and that no one knows everyone's sensitivity levels in the room, it might not be a good idea to break out a crass, adult version of apples to apples in the middle of the gaming room. :cP (yo_bj)
* duspal: In. My board game collection is small but mighty (Arkham Horror, Catan, Vampire: Prince of the City, Deadlands: Battle for Slaughter Gulch, Arabian Nights, Diplomacy, Shogun, and Cosmic Encounter off the top of my head, amongst a few others). Let me know ahead of time if anyone is interested, since they're all relatively big...
** If you really want to play Cosmic Encounter, I can bring my copy (Fantasy Flight edition, 3 expansions), just let me know - JonG
*librarywebchic: I'm willing to bring a set and teach folks how to play Majhong. Need at least three to play though.
*beatricep: Uno gets no respect. ;-) @librarywebchic: I have always wanted to learn to play Majhong. If you're still bringing it, I'm in!
** Agreed, I don't know Majhong and I love learning new games. - JonG
* jcraitz: I'm in after the newcomer dinner. I'll bring Citadels and Bang!
**I think someone higher in the list offered to bring citadels, but won't hurt to have two copies just in case one of you don't show ;) - JonG
* julia: I'll be the freeloader who showed up and didn't bring any games.
* kenirwin: interested in attending

I have to confess, I started trying to organize what games certain people were bringing, but it got confusing fast and I don't want anyone to feel compelled to bring anything or feel bad if they can't make it. So if there is something you're dying to play, let me know and I'll try to bring it if I have it.

== Social Map - Places of Interest==

https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=213549257652679418473.0004ce6c25e6cdeb0319d&msa=0

== Layar: augmented reality Code4Lib view of Chicago ==

There's a "Code4Lib 2013" layer in [http://www.layar.com/ Layar], an augmented reality app that runs on both Android and iOS. You can use it to scan around the city to see two kinds of things: 1) tweets using the #c4l13 or #code4lib hashtag (if the tweets are geolocated so they can be
nailed to a point) and 2) points of interest from the [https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=213549257652679418473.0004ce6c25e6cdeb0319d&msa=0 shared Google Map].

To use it:

* install Layar on your phone
* run it and click to go into Geo Layers mode
* search for "code4lib 2013"
* launch the layer and look around

See Code4Lib people and events overlaid on top of Chicago, in real time! See an alternate view of the city that's all about libraries and coders!

To make your own tweets appear, use the #c4l13 hashtag and make sure the tweet is geolocated. In Twitter's client you need to do this by enabling geolocation in settings and then enabling it for each tweet.

Source code running this: [https://github.com/wdenton/laertes Laertes]. Bill Denton set it up and is very curious to find out if it's useful, so let him know if you try it out.

== Local Events ==
Events Listings
* Chicago Reader http://www.chicagoreader.com/
* The City of Chicago’s Events Guide: http://www.choosechicago.com/
* Metromix Chicago: http://chicago.metromix.com/events
* Timeout Chicago: http://timeoutchicago.com/

== Local Food ==
== Local Drinks ==
==Chicago Events Feb 10-14==

=== Sunday February 10===
Theater -[http://www.neofuturists.org/ Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind] "...with its ever-changing "menu," is an attempt to perform 30 plays in 60 minutes. " 7pm.

Theater - [http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/chunks/Event?oid=8557720 Chunks] : Funny, Heartbreaking, Gross. 7pm & BYOB!

===Monday February 11===

Music - [http://www.hideoutchicago.com/event/208497-robbie-fulks-michael-miles-chicago/ Robbie Fulks at the Hideout]

[http://fedora4lib.org/ fedora4lib] - 7 pm to whenever

===Tuesday, February 12===
Field trip to the Read/Write Library (details to follow). 6-9 PM+
Come help catalog the Read/Write Library catalog and hack on the library catalog. We will also invite friends from Code for America to hang out and talk civic data.

Concert - [http://www.thefatbabies.com/ The Fat Babies] playing at an awesome venue, [http://greenmilljazz.com/ The Green Mill].

[http://fedora4lib.org/ fedora4lib] - 7 pm to whenever

===Wednesday, February 13===
===Thursday, February 14===
Tour of the [http://www.newberry.org/ Newberry Library] -- 3:30 p.m.
This will be a special tour for Code4Lib attendees, so please sign up below if you are interested, as I'll need to give the tour guide an estimate of how many people will come. Details on how to get to the Newberry will follow. Questions? Contact ballingerl at newberry dot org

'''''Sign Up List'''''
# Michael Doran - doran@uta.edu
# William Denton - wtd@pobox.com
# Wayne Schneider - wschneider@hclib.org
# Matt Cordial - rev3lator [at] gmail.com
# [name] - [email address]
#

== Music ==

There's a [http://www.rdio.com/people/wdenton/playlists/2229053/Code4Lib_2013_in_Chicago/ Code4Lib 2013 in Chicago] collaborative playlist on Rdio. If you're a subscriber, have a look, and add something you think everyone would like to hear or use as their personal soundtrack while they're hacking and exploring Chicago.

[[Category:Code4Lib2013]]

2012 committees sign-up page

2011-12-30T15:54:05Z

Mariela: /* Session Timer Volunteers */

= Code4Lib 2012 Committees =

If you are interested in helping out with a particular part of the Code4Lib 2012 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.

== Book Give-Away Committee ==

* Kevin S. Clarke (ksclarke@gmail.com) -- McHenry Library, UC Santa Cruz -- Asking O'Reilly
* Chandos Publishing. Yes.
* Anjanette -- Asking Manning (via Erik Hatcher)
* No Starch. Yes.
* [http://www.seattletechnicalbooks.com Ada's Technical Books]. Woohoo.
* Andrew Nagy -- oXygen XML Editor (5 Licenses to give away)
* [[BookRaffle|Suggestions for Book Raffle.]]

== 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.

* Kyle Banerjee (banerjek@uoregon.edu) -- Orbis Cascade Alliance
* Anjanette Young -- University of Washington
* Mike Giarlo -- Penn State
* [[User:DataGazetteer|Peter Murray]] -- LYRASIS (likely sponsor)
* Andrew Nagy -- Serials Solutions
* Roy Tennant -- OCLC

== Keynote Speakers Committee ==

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

* Ann Lally (alally at uw dot edu) University of Washington
* Dre (akorphan at ncsu dot edu) North Carolina State University

== Program Committee ==

This committee plans the structure of the program, arranges the voting on presentations, etc. These folks will also announce speakers, etc.

* Jeremy Frumkin (frumkinj at u dot library dot arizona dot edu) - University of Arizona
* Ranti Junus (ranti.junus at gmail) - Michigan State University
* John Fink (john.fink at gmail) - McMaster University
* Tom Johnson (thomas dot johnson at oregonstate dot edu) - Oregon State University
* [[User:DataGazetteer|Peter Murray]] - LYRASIS

== 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.

* Jeremy Frumkin (frumkinj at u dot library dot arizona dot edu) - University of Arizona
* Jodi Schneider - DERI, NUI Galway
* Becky Yoose [yoosebec] at grinnell dot edu - Grinnell College
* Ed Corrado - Binghamton University
* Terry Reese - Oregon State University
* Ranti Junus - Michigan State University

== T-Shirt Committee ==

This committee organizes the t-shirt contest, collecting submissions, and putting out the call for votes.

* Ann Lally (alally at uw dot edu) University of Washington
* Angie Beiriger (beiriger at reed dot edu) Reed college

== Social Activities Committee ==

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

* Jennifer Ward (jlward1 at uw dot edu) -- University of Washington
* Jeff Sherwood (jeffs3 at uw dot edu) -- University of Washington

== 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.

== Hospitality Suite Committee ==

This committee makes arrangements for any hospitality suite amenities (technology, snacks, games, icebreakers...) we may want

* Mike Giarlo -- Penn State [Glad to be a keyholder, room-sitter, and general tidier-upper]
* Tom Johnson -- Oregon State University
* Lisa Kurt [lkurt at unr dot edu]-- University of Nevada, Reno
* Carmen Mitchell -- California State University San Marcos

== Welcome Wagon Committee ==

Offers conference newcomers an opportunity to self-identify; offers oldtimers an opportunity to meet newcomers. May also want to constitute a year-round variation for #code4lib.

* Becky Yoose(b.yoose at gmail dot com) -- Grinnell College
* Bohyun Kim(kimb at fiu dot edu) -- Florida International University
* Jason Clark (jaclark at montana dot edu) Montana State University

== Social Networking ==
Responsible for non-IRC social networking presence.

*Rowena McKernan (rmckernan at whatcom dot ctc dot edu) ~ Whatcom Community College

== IRC Evangelists ==
Demonstrate how to get onto #code4lib during Registration. Offer support for newcomers in #code4lib during the conference.

* Sam Kome (skome) Claremont Colleges
* Gabriel Farrell (gsf) (gsf747@gmail.com) Drexel University
* Michael Klein (mbklein) (mbklein@gmail.com) Stanford University

== IRC Access ==
Look into technology/procedures to make connecting to, and maintaining a connection to, IRC less painful.

* Cary Gordon (highermath) (cgordon at chillco.com) -- The Cherry Hill Company

== Video Committee ==
Video archiving and video streaming possibilities.

* Corey Harper corey dot harper gmail
* Shaun Ellis shaune@princeton.edu
* Cary Gordon (cgordon at chillco.com) -- The Cherry Hill Company

==Registration Desk Volunteers==
We need 1-2 volunteers to hang out at the registration desk for 2-hour shifts. Also on Monday and Tuesday, an additional volunteer with wireless access knowledge would be helpful on the Registration Desk to answer tech questions.

* Dan Suchy (dansuchy at gmail) -- UC San Diego
* Doris Munson (dmunson at ewu.edu) -- Eastern Washington University
* Tod Robbins (todd.d.robbins at gmail) -- University of Washington

== Microphone Runners==

Run wireless handheld microphones to audience members asking questions.
*Jeanne Kliewer (jkliewer at emporia dot edu) Emporia State University

== Session Timer Volunteers ==

People who volunteer to sit up front, keep time (and bring timer equipment - i.e. a laptop with a stopwatch program).

* Ann Gleason (amwhit24 at uw dot edu) - University of Washington
* Carmen Mitchell (carmenmitchell at gmail dot com) - California State University San Marcos
* Tod Robbins (todd.d.robbins at gmail) - University of Washington

'''Schedule for Session Timers'''

== Raffles ==
* (calling awardees)
* (backup)
* Michael B. Klein, Stanford University (mbklein@gmail.com) (program)

= 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: Code4Lib2012]]

2012 committees sign-up page

2011-12-30T15:53:46Z

Mariela: /* Welcome Wagon Committee */

= Code4Lib 2012 Committees =

If you are interested in helping out with a particular part of the Code4Lib 2012 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.

== Book Give-Away Committee ==

* Kevin S. Clarke (ksclarke@gmail.com) -- McHenry Library, UC Santa Cruz -- Asking O'Reilly
* Chandos Publishing. Yes.
* Anjanette -- Asking Manning (via Erik Hatcher)
* No Starch. Yes.
* [http://www.seattletechnicalbooks.com Ada's Technical Books]. Woohoo.
* Andrew Nagy -- oXygen XML Editor (5 Licenses to give away)
* [[BookRaffle|Suggestions for Book Raffle.]]

== 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.

* Kyle Banerjee (banerjek@uoregon.edu) -- Orbis Cascade Alliance
* Anjanette Young -- University of Washington
* Mike Giarlo -- Penn State
* [[User:DataGazetteer|Peter Murray]] -- LYRASIS (likely sponsor)
* Andrew Nagy -- Serials Solutions
* Roy Tennant -- OCLC

== Keynote Speakers Committee ==

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

* Ann Lally (alally at uw dot edu) University of Washington
* Dre (akorphan at ncsu dot edu) North Carolina State University

== Program Committee ==

This committee plans the structure of the program, arranges the voting on presentations, etc. These folks will also announce speakers, etc.

* Jeremy Frumkin (frumkinj at u dot library dot arizona dot edu) - University of Arizona
* Ranti Junus (ranti.junus at gmail) - Michigan State University
* John Fink (john.fink at gmail) - McMaster University
* Tom Johnson (thomas dot johnson at oregonstate dot edu) - Oregon State University
* [[User:DataGazetteer|Peter Murray]] - LYRASIS

== 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.

* Jeremy Frumkin (frumkinj at u dot library dot arizona dot edu) - University of Arizona
* Jodi Schneider - DERI, NUI Galway
* Becky Yoose [yoosebec] at grinnell dot edu - Grinnell College
* Ed Corrado - Binghamton University
* Terry Reese - Oregon State University
* Ranti Junus - Michigan State University

== T-Shirt Committee ==

This committee organizes the t-shirt contest, collecting submissions, and putting out the call for votes.

* Ann Lally (alally at uw dot edu) University of Washington
* Angie Beiriger (beiriger at reed dot edu) Reed college

== Social Activities Committee ==

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

* Jennifer Ward (jlward1 at uw dot edu) -- University of Washington
* Jeff Sherwood (jeffs3 at uw dot edu) -- University of Washington

== 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.

== Hospitality Suite Committee ==

This committee makes arrangements for any hospitality suite amenities (technology, snacks, games, icebreakers...) we may want

* Mike Giarlo -- Penn State [Glad to be a keyholder, room-sitter, and general tidier-upper]
* Tom Johnson -- Oregon State University
* Lisa Kurt [lkurt at unr dot edu]-- University of Nevada, Reno
* Carmen Mitchell -- California State University San Marcos

== Welcome Wagon Committee ==

Offers conference newcomers an opportunity to self-identify; offers oldtimers an opportunity to meet newcomers. May also want to constitute a year-round variation for #code4lib.

* Becky Yoose(b.yoose at gmail dot com) -- Grinnell College
* Bohyun Kim(kimb at fiu dot edu) -- Florida International University
* Jason Clark (jaclark at montana dot edu) Montana State University

== Social Networking ==
Responsible for non-IRC social networking presence.

*Rowena McKernan (rmckernan at whatcom dot ctc dot edu) ~ Whatcom Community College

== IRC Evangelists ==
Demonstrate how to get onto #code4lib during Registration. Offer support for newcomers in #code4lib during the conference.

* Sam Kome (skome) Claremont Colleges
* Gabriel Farrell (gsf) (gsf747@gmail.com) Drexel University
* Michael Klein (mbklein) (mbklein@gmail.com) Stanford University

== IRC Access ==
Look into technology/procedures to make connecting to, and maintaining a connection to, IRC less painful.

* Cary Gordon (highermath) (cgordon at chillco.com) -- The Cherry Hill Company

== Video Committee ==
Video archiving and video streaming possibilities.

* Corey Harper corey dot harper gmail
* Shaun Ellis shaune@princeton.edu
* Cary Gordon (cgordon at chillco.com) -- The Cherry Hill Company

==Registration Desk Volunteers==
We need 1-2 volunteers to hang out at the registration desk for 2-hour shifts. Also on Monday and Tuesday, an additional volunteer with wireless access knowledge would be helpful on the Registration Desk to answer tech questions.

* Dan Suchy (dansuchy at gmail) -- UC San Diego
* Doris Munson (dmunson at ewu.edu) -- Eastern Washington University
* Tod Robbins (todd.d.robbins at gmail) -- University of Washington

== Microphone Runners==

Run wireless handheld microphones to audience members asking questions.
*Jeanne Kliewer (jkliewer at emporia dot edu) Emporia State University

== Session Timer Volunteers ==

People who volunteer to sit up front, keep time (and bring timer equipment - i.e. a laptop with a stopwatch program).

* Ann Gleason (amwhit24 at uw dot edu) - University of Washington
* Carmen Mitchell (carmenmitchell at gmail dot com) - California State University San Marcos
* Tod Robbins (todd.d.robbins at gmail) - University of Washington
* Mariela Gunn (gunn at oakland dot edu) - Oakland University

'''Schedule for Session Timers'''

== Raffles ==
* (calling awardees)
* (backup)
* Michael B. Klein, Stanford University (mbklein@gmail.com) (program)

= 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: Code4Lib2012]]

2012 talks proposals

2011-11-20T15:29:51Z

Mariela: /* Interactive maps: an easy to maintain and scalable approach */

Deadline for talk submission is ''Sunday, November 20''.

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
* diversity of topics

Please follow the formatting guidelines:

<pre>

== Talk Title: ==

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

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

== VuFind 2.0: Why and How? ==

* Demian Katz, Villanova University, demian.katz@villanova.edu

A major new version of the VuFind discovery software is currently in development. While VuFind 1.x remains extremely popular, some of its components are beginning to show their age. VuFind 2.0 aims to retain all the strengths of the previous version of the software while making the architecture cleaner, more modern and more standards-based. This presentation will examine the motivation behind the update, preview some of the new features to look forward to, and discuss the challenges of creating a developer-friendly open source package in PHP.

== Open Source Software Registry ==

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

LYRASIS is creating and shepherding a [[Registry_E-R_Diagram|registry of library open source software]] as part of its [http://www.lyrasis.org/News/Press-Releases/2011/LYRASIS-Receives-Grant-to-Support-Open-Source.aspx grant from the Mellon Foundation to support the adoption of open source software by libraries].
The goal of the grant is to help libraries of all types determine if open source software is right for them, and what combination of software, hosting, training, and consulting works for their situation.
The registry is intended to become a community exchange point and stimulant for growth of the library open source ecosystem by connecting libraries with projects, service providers, and events.

The first half of this session will demonstrate the registry functions and describe how projects and providers can get involved.
The second half of the session will be a brainstorming suggestion of how to expand the functionality and usefulness of the registry.

== Property Graphs And TinkerPop Applications in Digital Libraries ==

* Brian Tingle, California Digital Library, brian.tingle.cdlib.org@gmail.com

[http://www.tinkerpop.com/ TinkerPop] is an open source software development group focusing on technologies in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_database graph database] space.
This talk will provide a general introduction to the TinkerPop Graph Stack and the [https://github.com/tinkerpop/gremlin/wiki/Defining-a-Property-Graph property graph model] is uses. The introduction will include code examples and explanations of the property graph models used by the [http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/ Social Networks in Archival Context] project and show how the historical social graph is exposed as a JSON/REST API implemented by a TinkerPop [https://github.com/tinkerpop/rexster rexster] [https://github.com/tinkerpop/rexster-kibbles Kibble] that contains the application's graph theory logic. Other graph database applications possible with TinkerPop such as RDF support, and citation analysis will also be discussed.

== Security in Mind ==

* Erin Germ, United States Naval Academy, Nimitz Library, germ@usna.edu

I would like to talk about security of library software.

Over the Summer, I discovered a critical vulnerability in a vendor’s software that (verified) allowed me to assume any user’s identity for that site, (verified) switch to any user, and to (unverified, meaning I didn’t not perform this as I didn’t want to “hack” another library’s site) assume the role of any user for any other library who used this particular vendor's software.

Within a 3 hour period, I discovered a 2 vulnerabilities: 1) minor one allowing me to access any backups from any library site, and 2) a critical vulnerability. From start to finish, the examination, discovery in the vulnerability, and execution of a working exploit was done in less than 2 hours. The vulnerability was a result of poor cookie implementation. The exploit itself revolved around modifying the cookie, and then altering the browser’s permissions by assuming the role of another user.

I do not intend on stating which vendor it was, but I will show how I was able to perform this. If needed, I can do further research and “investigation” into other vendor's software to see what I can “find”.

''If selected, I will contact the vendor to inform them that I will present about this at C4L2012. I do not intend on releasing the name of the vendor.''

== Search Engines and Libraries ==

* Greg Lindahl, blekko CTO, greg@blekko.com

[https://blekko.com blekko] is a new web-scale search engine which enables end-users to create vertical search engines, through a feature called [http://help.blekko.com/index.php/category/slashtags/ slashtags]. Slashtags can contain as few as 1 or as many as tens of thousands of websites relevant to a narrow or broad topic. We have an extensive set of slashtags curated by a combination of volunteers and an in-house librarian team, or end-users can create and share their own. This talk will cover examples of slashtag creation relevant to libraries, and show how to embed this search into a library website, either using javascript or via our API.

''We have exhibited at a couple of library conferences, and have received a lot of interest. blekko is a free service.''

== Beyond code: Versioning data with Git and Mercurial. ==

* Stephanie Collett, California Digital Library, stephanie.collett@ucop.edu
* Martin Haye, California Digital Library, martin.haye@ucop.edu

Within a relatively short time since their introduction, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Version_Control_System distributed version control systems] (DVCS) like [http://git-scm.com/ Git] and [http://mercurial.selenic.com/ Mercurial] have enjoyed widespread adoption for versioning code. It didn’t take long for the library development community to start discussing the potential for using DVCS within our applications and repositories to version data. After all, many of the features that have made some of these systems popular in the open source community to version code (e.g. lightweight, file-based, compressed, reliable) also make them compelling options for versioning data. And why write an entire versioning system from scratch if a DVCS solution can be a drop-in solution? At the [http://www.cdlib.org/ California Digital Library] (CDL) we’ve started using Git and Mercurial in some of our applications to version data. This has proven effective in some situations and unworkable in others. This presentation will be a practical case study of CDL’s experiences with using DVCS to version data. We will explain how we’re incorporating Git and Mercurial in our applications, describe our successes and failures and consider the issues involved in repurposing these systems for data versioning.

==Design for Developers==

*Lisa Kurt, University of Nevada, Reno, lkurt@unr.edu

Users expect good design. This talk will delve into what makes really great design, what to look for, and how to do it. Learn the principles of great design to take your applications, user interfaces, and projects to a higher level. With years of experience in graphic design and illustration, Lisa will discuss design principles, trends, process, tools, and development. Design examples will be from her own projects as well as a variety from industry. You’ll walk away with design knowledge that you can apply immediately to a variety of applications and a number of top notch go-to resources to get you up and running.

==Building research applications with Mendeley==

William Gunn, Mendeley william.gunn@mendeley.com (@mrgunn)

This is partly a tool talk and partly a big idea one.

Mendeley has built the world's largest open database of research and we've now begun to collect some interesting social metadata around the document metadata. I would like to share with the Code4Lib attendees information about using this resource to do things within your application that have previously been impossible for the library community, or in some cases impossible without expensive database subscriptions. One thing that's now possible is to augment catalog search by surfacing information about content usage, allowing people to not only find things matching a query, but popular things or things read by their colleagues. In addition to augmenting search, you can also use this information to augment discovery. Imagine an online exhibit of artifacts from a newly discovered dig not just linking to papers which discuss the artifact, but linking to really good interesting papers about the place and the people who made the artifacts. So the big idea is, "How will looking at the literature from a broader perspective than simple citation analysis change how research is done and communicated? How can we build tools that make this process easier and faster?" I can show some examples of applications that have been built using the Mendeley and PLoS APIs to begin to address this question, and I can also present results from Mendeley's developer challenge which shows what kinds of applications researchers are looking for, what kind of applications peope are building, and illustrates some interesting places where the two don't overlap.

==Your UI can make or break the application (to the user, anyway)==

* Robin Schaaf, University of Notre Dame, schaaf.4@nd.edu

UI development is hard and too often ends up as an after-thought to computer programmers - if you were a CS major in college I'll bet you didn't have many, if any, design courses. I'll talk about how to involve the users upfront with design and some common pitfalls of this approach. I'll also make a case for why you should do the screen design before a single line of code is written. And I'll throw in some ideas for increasing usability and attractiveness of your web applications. I'd like to make a case study of the UI development of our open source ERMS.

==Why Nobody Knows How Big The Library Really Is - Perspective of a Library Outside Turned Insider==

* Patrick Berry, California State University, Chico, pberry@csuchico.edu

In this talk I would like to bring the perspective of an "outsider" (although an avowed IT insider) to let you know that people don't understand the full scope of the library. As we "rethink education", it is incumbent upon us to help educate our institutions as to the scope of the library. I will present some of the tactics I'm employing to help people outside, and in some cases inside, the library to understand our size and the value we bring to the institution.

==Building a URL Management Module using the Concrete5 Package Architecture==

* David Uspal, Villanova University, david.uspal@villanova.edu

Keeping track of URLs utilized across a large website such as a university library, and keeping that content up to date for subject and course guides, can be a pain, and as an open source shop, we’d like to have open source solution for this issue. For this talk, I intend to detail our solution to this issue by walking step-by-step through the building process for our URL Management module -- including why a new solution was necessary; a quick rundown of our CMS ([http://www.concrete5.org Concrete5], a CMS that isn’t Drupal); utilizing the Concrete5 APIs to isolate our solution from core code (to avoid complications caused by core updates); how our solution was integrated into the CMS architecture for easy installation; and our future plans on the project.

==Building an NCIP connector to OpenSRF to facilitate resource sharing==

* Jon Scott, Lyrasis, jon_scott@wsu.edu and Kyle Banerjee, Orbis Cascade Alliance, banerjek@uoregon.edu

How do you reverse engineer any protocol to provide a new service? Humans (and worse yet, committees) often design verbose protocols built around use cases that don't line up current reality. To compound difficulties, the contents of protocol containers are not sufficiently defined/predictable and the only assistance available is sketchy documentation and kind individuals on the internet willing to share what they learned via trial by fire.

NCIP (Niso Circulation Interchange Protocol) is an open standard that defines a set of messages to support exchange of circulation data between disparate circulation, interlibrary loan, and related applications -- widespread adoption of NCIP would eliminate huge amounts of duplicate processing in separate systems.

This presentation discusses how we learned enough about NCIP and OpenSRF from scratch to build an NCIP responder for Evergreen to facilitate resource sharing in a large consortium that relies on over 20 different ILSes.

==Practical Agile: What's Working for Stanford, Blacklight, and Hydra==

* Naomi Dushay, Stanford University Libraries, ndushay@stanford.edu

Agile development techniques can be difficult to adopt in the context of library software development. Maybe your shop has only one or two developers, or you always have too many simultaneous projects. Maybe your new projects can’t be started until 27 librarians reach consensus on the specifications.

This talk will present successful Agile- and Silicon-Valley-inspired practices we’ve adopted at Stanford and/or in the Blacklight and Hydra projects. We’ve targeted developer happiness as well as improved productivity with our recent changes. User stories, dead week, sight lines … it’ll be a grab bag of goodies to bring back to your institution, including some ideas on how to adopt these practices without overt management buy in.

==Quick and <strike>Dirty</strike> Clean Usability: Rapid Prototyping with Bootstrap==

* Shaun Ellis, Princeton University Libraries, shaune@princeton.edu

''"The code itself is unimportant; a project is only as useful as people actually find it." - Linus Torvalds'' [http://bit.ly/p4uuyy]

Usability has been a buzzword for some time now, but what is the process for making the the transition toward a better user experience, and hence, better designed library sites? I will discuss the one facet of the process my team is using to redesign the Finding Aids site for Princeton University Libraries (still in development). The approach involves the use of rapid prototyping, with Bootstrap [http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/], to make sure we are on track with what users and stakeholders expect up front, and throughout the development process.

Because Bootstrap allows for early and iterative user feedback, it is more effective than the historic Photoshop mockups/wireframe technique. The Photoshop approach allows stakeholders to test the look, but not the feel -- and often leaves developers scratching their heads. Being a CSS/HTML/Javascript grid-based framework, Bootstrap makes it easy for anyone with a bit of HTML/CSS chops to quickly build slick, interactive prototypes right in the browser -- tangible solutions which can be shared, evaluated, revised, and followed by all stakeholders (see Minimum Viable Products [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_product]). Efficiency is multiplied because the customized prototypes can flow directly into production use, as is the goal with iterative development approaches, such as the Agile methodology.

While Bootstrap is not the only framework that offers grid-based layout, development is expedited and usability is enhanced by Bootstraps use of of "prefabbed" conventional UI patterns, clean typography, and lean Javascript for interactivity. Furthermore, out-of-the box Bootstrap comes in a fairly neutral palette, so focus remains on usability, and does not devolve into premature discussions of color or branding choices. Finally, using Less can be a powerful tool in conjunction with Bootstrap, but is not necessary. I will discuss the pros and cons, and offer examples for how to getting up and running with or without Less.

==Search Engine Relevancy Tuning - A Static Rank Framework for Solr/Lucene==

* Mike Schultz, Amazon.com (formerly Summon Search Architect) mike.schultz@gmail.com

Solr/Lucene provides a lot of flexibility for adjusting relevancy scoring and improving search results. Roughly speaking there are two areas of concern: Firstly, a 'dynamic rank' calculation that is a function of the user query and document text fields. And secondly, a 'static rank' which is independent of the query and generally is a function of non-text document metadata. In this talk I will outline an easily understood, hand-tunable static rank system with a minimal number of parameters.

The obvious major feature of a search engine is to return results relevant to a user query. Perhaps less obvious is the huge role query independent document features play in achieving that. Google's PageRank is an example of a static ranking of web pages based on links and other secret sauce. In the Summon service, our 800 million documents have features like publication date, document type, citation count and Boolean features like the-article-is-peer-reviewed. These fields aren't textual and remain 'static' from query to query, but need to influence a document's relevancy score. In our search results, with all query related features being equal, we'd rather have more recent documents above older ones, Journals above Newspapers, and articles that are peer reviewed above those that are not. The static rank system I will describe achieves this and has the following features:

* Query-time only calculation - nothing is baked into the index - with parameters adjustable at query time.
* The system is based on a signal metaphor where components are 'wired' together. System components allow multiplexing, amplifying, summing, tunable band-pass filtering, string-to-value-mapping all with a bare minimum of parameters.
* An intuitive approach for mixing dynamic and static rank that is more effective than simple adding or multiplying.
* A way of equating disparate static metadata types that leads to understandable results ordering.

==Submitting Digitized Book-like things to the Internet Archive==

* Joel Richard, Smithsonian Institution Libraries, richardjm@si.edu

The Smithsonian Libraries has submitted thousands of out-of-copyright items to the Internet Archive over the years. Specifically in relation to the Biodiversity Heritage Library, we have developed an in-house boutique scanning and upload process that became a learning experience in automated uploading to the Archive. As part of the software development, we created a whitepaper that details the combined learning experiences of the Smithsonian Libraries and the Missouri Botanical Garden. We will discuss some of the the contents of this whitepaper in the context of our scanning process and the manner in which we upload items to the Archive.

Our talk will include a discussion of the types of files and their formats used by the Archive, processes that the Archive performs on uploaded items, ways of interacting and affecting those processes, potential pitfalls and solutions that you may encounter when uploading, and tools that the Archive provides to help monitor and manage your uploaded documents.

Finally, we'll wrap up with a brief summary of how to use things that are on the Internet Archive in your own websites.

== So... you think you want to Host a Code4Lib National Conference, do you? ==

* Elizabeth Duell, Orbis Cascade Alliance, eduell@uoregon.edu

Are you interested in hosting your own Code4Lib Conference? Do you know what it would take? What does BEO stands for? What does F&B Minimum mean? Who would you talk to for support/mentoring? There are so many things to think about: internet support, venue size, rooming blocks, contracts, dietary restrictions and coffee (can't forget the coffee!) just to name a few. Putting together a conference of any size can look daunting, so let's take the scary out of it and replace it with a can do attitude!

Be a step ahead of the game by learning from the people behind the curtain. Ask questions and be given templates/ cheat sheets!

== HTML5 Microdata and Schema.org ==

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

When the big search engines announced support for HTML5 microdata and the schema.org vocabularies, the balance of power for semantic markup in HTML shifted.
* What is microdata?
* Where does microdata fit with regards to other approaches like RDFa and microformats?
* Where do libraries stand in the worldview of Schema.org and what can they do about it?
* How can implementing microdata and schema.org optimize your sites for search engines?
* What tools are available?

== Stack View: A Library Browsing Tool ==

* Annie Cain, Harvard Library Innovation Lab, acain@law.harvard.edu

In an effort to recreate and build upon the traditional method of browsing a physical library, we used catalog data, including dimensions and page count, to create a [http://librarylab.law.harvard.edu/projects/stackview/ virtual shelf].

This CSS and JavaScript backed visualization allows items to sit on any number of different shelves, really taking advantage of its digital nature. See how we built Stack View on top of our data and learn how you can create shelves of your own using our open source code.

== “Linked-Data-Ready” Software for Libraries ==

* Jennifer Bowen, University of Rochester River Campus Libraries, jbowen@library.rochester.edu

Linked data is poised to replace MARC as the basis for the new library bibliographic framework. For libraries to benefit from linked data, they must learn about it, experiment with it, demonstrate its usefulness, and take a leadership role in its deployment.

The eXtensible Catalog Organization (XCO) offers open-source software for libraries that is “linked-data-ready.” XC software prepares MARC and Dublin Core metadata for exposure to the semantic web, incorporating FRBR Group 1 entities and registered vocabularies for RDA elements and roles. This presentation will include a software demonstration, proposed software architecture for creation and management of linked data, a vision for how libraries can migrate from MARC to linked data, and an update on XCO progress toward linked data goals.

== How people search the library from a single search box ==

* Cory Lown, North Carolina State University Libraries, cory_lown@ncsu.edu

Searching the library is complex. There's the catalog, article databases, journal title and database title look-ups, the library website, finding aids, knowledge bases, etc. How would users search if they could get to all of these resources from a single search box? I'll share what we've learned about single search at NCSU Libraries by tracking use of QuickSearch (http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/search/index.php?q=aerospace+engineering), our home-grown unified search application. As part of this talk I will suggest low-cost ways to collect real world use data that can be applied to improve search. I will try to convince you that data collection must be carefully planned and designed to be an effective tool to help you understand what your users are telling you through their behavior. I will talk about how the fragmented library resource environment challenges us to provide useful and understandable search environments. Finally, I will share findings from analyzing millions of user transactions about how people search the library from a production single search box at a large university library.

== An Incremental Approach to Archival Description and Access ==

* Chela Scott Weber, New York University Libraries, chelascott@gmail.com
* Mark A. Matienzo, Yale University Library, mark@matienzo.org

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== Making the Easy Things Easy: A Generic ILS API ==

* Wayne Schneider, Hennepin County Library, wschneider@hclib.org

Some stuff we try to do is complicated, because, let's face it, library data is hard. Some stuff, on the other hand, should be easy. Given an item identifier, I should be able to look at item availability. Given a title identifier, I should be able to place a request. And no, I shouldn't have to parse through the NCIP specification or write a SIP client to do it.

This talk will present work we have done on a web services approach to an API for traditional library transactional data, including example applications.

== Your Catalog in Linked Data==

* Tom Johnson, Oregon State University Libraries, thomas.johnson@oregonstate.edu

Linked Library Data activity over the last year has seen bibliographic data sets and vocabularies proliferating from traditional library
sources. We've reached a point where regular libraries don't have to go it alone to be on the Semantic Web. There is a quickly growing pool of things we can actually ''link to'', and everyone's existing data can be immediately enriched by participating.

This is a quick and dirty road to getting your catalog onto the Linked Data web. The talk will take you from start to finish, using Free Software tools to establish a namespace, put up a SPARQL endpoint, make a simple data model, convert MARC records to RDF, and link the results to major existing data sets (skipping conveniently over pesky processing time). A small amount of "why linked data?" content will be covered, but the primary goal is to leave you able to reproduce the process and start linking your catalog into the web of data. Appropriate documentation will be on the web.

== Getting the Library into the Learning Management System using Basic LTI ==

* David Walker, California State University, dwalker@calstate.edu

The integration of library resources into learning management systems (LMS) has long been something of a holy grail for academic libraries. The ability to deliver targeted library systems and services to students and faculty directly within their online course would greatly simplify access to library resources. Yet, the technical barriers to achieving that goal have to date been formidable.

The recently released Learning Tool Interoperability (LTI) protocol, developed by IMS, now greatly simplifies this process by allowing libraries (and others) to develop and maintain “tools” that function like a native plugin or building block within the LMS, but ultimately live outside of it. In this presentation, David will provide an overview of Basic LTI, a simplified subset (or profile) of the wider LTI protocol, showing how libraries can use this to easily integrate their external systems into any major LMS. He’ll showcase the work Cal State has done to do just that.

== Turn your Library Proxy Server into a Honeypot ==

* Calvin Mah, Simon Fraser University, calvinm@sfu.ca (@calvinmah)

Ezproxy has provided libraries with a useful tool for providing patrons with offsite online access to licensed electronic resources. This has not gone unnoticed for the unscrupulous users of the Internet who are either unwilling or unable to obtain legitimate access to these materials for themselves. Instead, they buy or share hacked university computing accounts for unauthorized access. When undetected, abuse of compromised university accounts can lead to abuse of vendor resources which lead to the blocking of the entire campus block of IP addresses from accessing that resource.

Simon Fraser University Library has been pro actively detecting and thwarting unauthorized attempts through log analysis. Since SFU has begun analysing our ezproxy logs, the number of new SFU login credentials which are posted and shared in publicly accessible forums has been reduced to zero. Since our log monitoring began in 2008, the annual average number of SFU login credentials that are compromised or hacked is 140. Instead of being a single point of weakness in campus IT security, the library’s proxy server is a honeypot exposing weak passwords, keystroke logging trojans installed on patron PCs and campus network password sniffers.

This talk will discuss techniques such as geomapping login attempts, strategies such as seeding phishing attempts and tools such as statistical log analysis used in detecting compromised login credentials.

== Relevance Ranking in the Scholarly Domain ==

* Tamar Sadeh, PhD, Ex Libris Group, tamar.sadeh@exlibrisgroup.com

The greatest challenge for discovery systems is how to provide users with the most relevant search results, given the immense landscape of available content. In a manner that is similar to human interaction between two parties, in which each person adjusts to the other in tone, language, and subject matter, discovery systems would ideally be sophisticated and flexible enough to adjust their algorithms to individual users and each user’s information needs.

When evaluating the relevance of an item to a specific user in a specific context, relevance-ranking algorithms need to take into account, in addition to the degree to which the item matches the query, information that is not embodied in the item itself. Such information, which includes the item’s scholarly value, the type of search that the user is conducting (e.g., an exploratory search or a known-item search), and other factors, enables a discovery system to fulfill user expectations that have been shaped by experience with Web search engines.

The session will focus on the challenges of developing and evaluating relevance-ranking algorithms for the scholarly domain. Examples will be drawn mainly from the relevance-ranking technology deployed by the Ex Libris Primo discovery solution.

== Mobile Library Catalog using Z39.50 ==

* James Paul Muir, The Ohio State University, muir.29@osu.edu

A talk about putting a new spin on an age-old technology, creating a universal interface, which exposes any Z39.50 capable library catalog as a simple, useful and universal REST API for use in native mobile apps and mobile web.

The talk includes the exploration and demonstration of the Ohio State University’s native app “OSU Mobile” for iOS and Android and shows how the library catalog search was integrated.

The backbone of the project is a REST API, which was created in a weekend using a PHP framework that translates OPAC XML results from the Z39.50 interface into mobile-friendly JSON formatting.

Raw Z39.50 search results contain all MARC information as well as local holdings.
Configurable search fields and the ability to select which fields to include in the JSON output make this solution a perfect fit for any Z39.50-capable library catalog.

Looking forward, possibilities for expansion include the use of Off Campus Sign-In for online resources so mobile patrons can directly access online resources from a smartphone (included in the Android version of OSU Mobile) as well as integration with library patron account.

Enjoy this alternative to writing a custom OPAC adapter or using a 3rd party service for exposing library records and use the proven and universal Z39.50 interface directly against your library catalog.

== DMPTool: Guidance and resources to build a data management plan

* Marisa Strong, California Digital Libary, marisa.strong@ucop.edu

A number of U.S. funding agencies such as the National Science Foundation require researchers to supply detailed plans for managing research data, called Data Management Plans. To help researchers with this requirement, the California Digital Library (CDL) along with several organizations, collaborated to develop the DMPTool. The goal is to provide researchers with guidance, links to resources and help with writing data management plans.

This open-source, Ruby on Rails software tool is hosted on a SLES VM by CDL. The tool is integrated with Shibboleth, federated single sign-on software, which allows users to login via their home institutions. We had a geographically distributed development team sharing their code on Bitbucket.

This talk will demo features of the application, the Shibboleth login architecture, as well as highlight the agile development practices and methods used to successfully design and build the application on an aggressive schedule.

== Lies, Damned Lies, and Lines of Code Per Day ==

* James Stuart, Columbia University, james.stuart@columbia.edu

We've all heard about that one study that showed that Pair Programming was 20% efficient than working alone. Or maybe you saw on a blog that study that showed that programmers who write fewer lines of code per day are more efficient...or was it less efficient? And of course, we all know that programmers who work in (Ruby|Python|Java|C|Erlang) have been shown to be more efficient.

A quick examination of some of the research surrounding programming efficiency and methodology, with a focus on personal productivity, and how to incorporate the more believable research into your own team's workflow.

==An Anatomy of a Book Viewer==

*Mohammed Abuouda, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, mohammed.abuouda@bibalex.org

Bibliotheca Alexandria (BA) hosts 210,000 digital books in different languages available at http://dar.bibalex.org. It includes the largest collection of digitized Arabic books. Using open source tools, BA has developed a modular book viewer that can be deployed in any environment to provide the users with a great personalized reading experience. BA’s book viewer provides several services that make this possible: morphological search in different languages, localization, server load balancing, scalability and image processing. Personalization features includes different types of annotation such as sticky notes, highlighting and underlining. It also provides the ability to embed the viewer in any webpage and change its skin.

In this talk we will describe the book viewer architecture, its modular design and how to incorporate it in your current environment.

== Carrier: Digital Signage System ==

* [[User:jmspargu|Justin Spargur]], The University of Arizona, spargurj@u.library.arizona.edu

Carrier is a web-based digital signage application written using JavaScript, PHP, MySQL that can be used on any device with an internet connection and a web browser. Used across the University of Arizona Libraries campuses, Carrier can display any web-based content, allowing users to promote new library collections and services via images, web pages, or videos. Users can easily manage the order in which slides are delivered, manage the length that slides are displayed for, set dates for when slides should be shown, and even specify specific locations where slides should be presented.

In addition to marketing purposes, Carrier can be used to send both low and high priority alerts to patrons. Alerts can be sent through the administrative interface, via RSS feeds, and even through a Twitter feed, allowing for easy integration with existing campus emergency notification systems.

I will describe the technical underpinnings of Carrier, challenges that we’ve faced since its implementation, enhancements planned for the next release of the software, and discuss our plans for releasing this software for others to use '''for free'''.

== We Built It. They Came. Now What? ==

* [[User:evviva|Evviva Weinraub]], Oregon State University, evviva.weinraub@oregonstate.edu

You have a great idea for something new or useful. You build it, put it out there on GitHub, do a couple of presentations, maybe a press release and BAM, suddenly you’ve created a successful Open Source tool that others are using. Great!

Fast-forward 3 years.

You still believe in the product, but you can no longer be solely responsible for taking care of it. Just putting it out there has made it a tool others use, but how do you find a community of folks who believe in the product as much as you do and are willing to commit the time and energy into building, sustaining and moving this project forward. Or just figuring out if you should bother trying?

In 2006, OSU Libraries built an Interactive Course Assignment system called Library a la Carte – think LibGuides only Open Source. We now find ourselves in just this predicament.

What can we do as a community to move beyond our build-first-ask-questions-later mentality and embed sustainability into our new and existing ideas and products without moving toward commercialization? I fully expect we’ll end up with more questions than answers, but let’s spend some talking about our predicament and yours and think about how we can come out the other side.

== Contextually Rich Collections Without the Risk: Digital Forensics and Automated Data Triage for Digital Collections ==

* [[User:kamwoods|Kam Woods]], University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, kamwoods@email.unc.edu
* Cal Lee, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, callee -- at -- ils -- unc -- edu
* Matthew Kirschenbaum, University of Maryland, mkirschenbaum@gmail.com

Digital libraries and archives are increasingly faced with a significant backlog of unprocessed data along with an accelerating stream of incoming material. These data often arrive from donor organizations, institutions, and individuals on hard drives, optical and magnetic disks, flash memory devices, and even complete hardware (traditional desktop computers and mobile systems).

Information on these devices may be sensitive, obscured by operating system arcana, or require specialized tools and procedures to parse. Furthermore, the sheer volume of materials being handled means that even simple tasks such as providing useful content reports can be impractical (or impossible) in current workflows.

Many of the tasks currently associated with data triage and analysis can be simplified and performed with improved coverage and accuracy through the use of open source digital forensics tools. In this talk we will discuss recent developments in providing digital librarians and archivists with simple, open source tools to accomplish these tasks. We will discuss tools and methods be tested, developed and packaged as part of the [http://bitcurator.net BitCurator] project. These tools can be used to reduce or eliminate laborious, error-prone tasks in existing workflows and put valuable time back into the hands of digital librarians and archivists -- time better used to identify and tackle complex tasks that *cannot* be solved by software.

== Finding Movies with FRBR and Facets ==

* Kelley McGrath, University of Oregon, kelleym@uoregon.edu

How might the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) model and faceted navigation improve access to film and video in libraries? I will describe the design and implementation of a FRBR-inspired prototype discovery interface ([http://blazing-sunset-24.heroku.com/ http://blazing-sunset-24.heroku.com/]) using Solr and Blacklight . This approach demonstrates how FRBR can enable a work-centric view that is focused on the original movie or program while supporting users in selecting an appropriate version.

The prototype features two sets of facets, which independently address two important information needs: (1) "What kind of movie or program do you want to watch?" (e.g., a 1970s TV sitcom, something directed by Kurosawa, or an early German horror film); (2) "How do you want to watch it? Where do you want to get it from?" (e.g., on Blu-ray, with Spanish subtitles, available at the local public library). This structure enables patrons to narrow, broaden and pivot across facet values instead of limiting them to the tree-structured hierarchy common with existing FRBR applications.

This type of interface requires controlled data values mapped to FRBR group 1 entities, which in many cases are not available in existing MARC bibliographic records. I will discuss ongoing work using the XC Metadata Services Toolkit ([http://www.extensiblecatalog.org/ http://www.extensiblecatalog.org/]) to extract and normalize data from existing MARC records for videos in order to populate a FRBRized, faceted discovery interface.

==Escaping the Black Box — Building a Platform to Foster Collaborative Innovation==

* Karen Coombs, OCLC, coombsk@oclc.org
* Kathryn Harnish, OCLC harnishk@oclc.org

Exposed Web services offer an unprecedented opportunity for collaborative innovation — that’s one of the hallmarks of Web-based services like Amazon, Google, and Facebook. These environments are popular not only for their native feature sets, but also for the array of community-developed apps that can run in them. The creativity of the development communities that work in these systems brings new value to all types of users.

What if the library community could realize this same level of collaborative innovation around its systems? What kinds of support would be necessary to transform library systems from “black boxes” to more open, accessible environments in which value is created and multiplied by the user community?

In this session, we’ll discuss the challenges and opportunities OCLC faced in creating just that kind of environment. The recently-released OCLC “cooperative platform” provides improved access to a wide variety of OCLC’s data and services, allowing library developers and other interested partners to collaborate, innovate, and share new solutions with fellow libraries. We’ll describe the open standards and technologies we’ve put in play in as we:
* exposed robust Web services that provide access to both data and business logic;
* created an architecture for integrating community-built applications in OCLC (and other) products; and
* developed an infrastructure to support community development, collaboration, and app sharing

Learn how OCLC is helping to open the “black box” -- and give libraries the freedom to become true partners in the evolution of their library systems.

== Code inheritance; or, The Ghosts of Perls Past ==

* Jon Gorman, University of Illinois, jtgorman@illinois.ed

Any organization has a history not found in its archives or museums. Mysteries exist that origins are lost to the collective institutional knowledge. Despite what has been forgotten by humans, our servers and computers still keep running. Instructions crafted long ago execute like digital ghosts following orders of masters who have long since left.

The University of Illinois has a fair amount of Perl code created by several different developers. This code includes software that handles our data feeds coming both in and out of campus, reports against our Voyager system, some web applications, and more.

I'll touch a little on the historical legacy and why Perl is used. From there I'll share some tips, best practices, and some of the mistakes I've made in trying to maintain this code. Most of the advice will transition to any language, but code and libraries discussed will be Perl. The presentation will also touch on some internal debate on whether or not to port parts of our Perl codebase.

== Recorded Radio/TV broadcasts streamed for library users ==

* Kåre Fiedler Christiansen, The State and University Library Denmark, kfc@statsbiblioteket.dk
* Mads Villadsen, The State and University Library Denmark, mv@statsbiblioteket.dk

"Provide online access to the Radio/TV collection," my boss said. About 500,000
hours of Danish broacast radio and TV. Easy, right? Well, half a year later
we'd done it, but it turned out to involve practically every it employee in the
library and quite a few non-technical people as well.

Combining our Fedora-based DOMS repository system with our Lucene-based Summa
search system with our WAYF-based single-signon system with an upgrade of our
SAN system for enough speed to deliver the content with an ffmpeg-based
transcoding workflow system with a Wowza-based streaming server, and sprinkling
it all with a nice user-friendly web frontend turned out to be quite a challenge,
but also one of the most engaging experiences for a long time.

Of course we were immidiately shut down, since the legal details weren't quite
as clear as we thought they were, but take an exclusive preview at
http://developer.statsbiblioteket.dk/kultur/ - username/password: code4lib.

== NoSQL Bibliographic Records: Implementing a Native FRBR Datastore with Redis ==
* Jeremy Nelson, Colorado College, jeremy.nelson@coloradocollege.edu

In October, the Library of Congress issued a news release, "A Bibliographic Framework for the Digital Age" outlining a list of requirements for a New Bibliographic Framework Environment. Responding to this challenge, this talk will demonstrate a Redis (http://redis.io) FRBR datastore proof-of-concept that, with a lightweight python-based interface, can meet these requirements.

Because FRBR is an Entity-Relationship model; it is easily implemented as key-value within the primitive data structures provided by Redis. Redis' flexibility makes it easy to associate arbitrary metadata and vocabularies, like MARC, METS, VRA or MODS, with FRBR entities and inter-operate with legacy and emerging standards and practices like RDA Vocabularies and LinkedData.

== Upgrading from Catalog to Discovery Environment: A Consortial Approach ==

* Spencer Lamm, Swarthmore College, slamm1@swarthmore.edu
* Chelsea Lobdell, Swarthmore College, clobdel1@swarthmore.edu

Almost two years ago the Tri-College Consortium of Haverford, Swarthmore, and Bryn Mawr Colleges embarked upon a journey to provide enhanced end-user experience and discoverability with our library applications. Our solution was to implement an integration of ExLibris's Primo Central into Villanova's VuFind for a dual-channel searching experience. We present a case study of the collaborative and technical aspects of our process.

At a high level we will describe our approach to project management and decision making. We used a multi-tiered structure of working groups with an iterative design-feedback implementation cycle. We will relay lessons learned from our experience: successes, failures, and unexpected hurdles.

At a lower, technical level we will discuss the vufind search module architecture; the workflow of creating a new search channel; a Primo API parser; and the data structures of the Primo API response and the Primo SearchObject. Time permitting, we will also outline how we modified VuFind's Innovative driver to work with our ILS.

== Improving geospatial data access for researchers and students ==

* Dileshni Jayasinghe, Scholars Portal, University of Toronto, d.jayasinghe@utoronto.ca
* Sepehr Mavedati, Scholars Portal, University of Toronto, sepehr.mavedati@utoronto.ca

Scholars GeoPortal (http://geo.scholarsportal.info) was created as a platform for online delivery of geospatial data resources to the Ontario Council of University Libraries community. Prior to the start of this project, each institution was storing data locally, and had its own practice for distributing datasets to users. This ranged from home grown online data delivery systems to burning data on to DVDs for each individual request. Most institutions had limited resources and expertise to create and maintain a sophisticated delivery system on their own. Led by OCUL Map, GIS librarians, staff at Scholars Portal in partnership with the Government of Ontario, the GeoPortal project began in 2009.

Our talk will focus on the design and architecture of Scholars Portal's solution to support maps and geospatial data, and how we distribute these data collections to our users.

The system consists of 4 main components: metadata management system, map server, spatial database, and the web application.

*Metadata Management: customized metadata editor with data hosted in MarkLogic, providing text and spatial queries
*Map Server: ArcGIS Server
*Spatial database: MS SQL Server with spatial extension
*Web application: Javascript web application using Dojo and Esri’s Javascript API

For other code4libbers who are interested in a similar system, we will also discuss the open source alternatives for each component (GeoNetwork, MapServer, etc.), and challenges and limitations we faced trying to use some of these tools. We'd also like to pick your brains on how we can make this application better. What can we do differently?

== LibX 2.0 ==

* Godmar Back, Virginia Tech, godmar@gmail.com

We would like to provide the Code4Lib community with an update on what we've accomplished with LibX (which we last presented in 2009) - where we've gone, what our users are thinking, and how both its technology and its adapter community can be included in the code4lib world.

== Introducing the DuraSpace Incubator ==

* Jonathan Markow, DuraSpace, jjmarkow@duraspace.org

DuraSpace is planning to launch a new incubation program for the benefit of open source projects that wish to become part of our organization, in the interest of helping them to become sustainable, community-driven projects and supporting them afterwards with umbrella services that help them to thrive. From time to time DuraSpace becomes aware of open source software projects in the preservation, archiving, or repository space that are in search of a community “home”. The motivation might be that the project is simply trying to attract more developers, that it would like to develop a more robust community of users and service providers, that its current organizational sponsorship is in question, or that it would like to take advantage of an existing and compatible organization's best practices and administrative infrastructure rather than create a new one of its own. DuraSpace is now prepared to leverage its resources, experience, and reputation in the community to help these projects become, or continue to be, successful. Projects emerging from incubation will become officially recognized as DuraSpace projects. This briefing presents highlights of the DuraSpace Incubator and invites questions and feedback from participants.

== In-browser data storage and me ==

* Jason Casden, North Carolina State University Libraries, jason_casden@ncsu.edu

When it comes to storing data in web browsers on a semi-persistent basis, there are several partially-adopted, semi-deprecated, product-specific, or even universally accepted options. These include models such as key-value stores, relational databases, and object stores. I will present some of these options and discuss possible applications of these technologies in library services. In addition to quoting heavily from Mark Pilgrim's excellent chapter on this topic, I will weave in my own experience utilizing in-browser data storage in an iPad-based data collection tool to successfully improve performance and data stability while reducing network dependence. See also: HTML5.

== Coding for the past, archiving for the future … and the Salman Rushdie Papers ==

* Peter Hornsby, Emory University Libraries, phornsb@emory.edu

Cultural heritage production is moving to the digital medium and libraries use of repository solutions such as Fedora Commons and DSpace are a solid response to this change. But how do we go from, for instance a selection of 90's computing technology to a collection of digital objects ready for ingest into your institution's local repository? Once you have ingested your digital objects how are you going to provide access to these resources? The arrival of the Salman Rushdie Papers, which contain 10 years of Sir Salman Rushdie's digital life, gave Emory University Libraries the opportunity to explore these questions. I would like to to talk about the approach the Emory University Libraries adopted, what we learned and the coding challenges that remain.

== Indexing big data with Tika, Solr & map-reduce ==

* Scott Fisher, California Digital Library, scott.fisher AT ucop BORK edu
* Erik Hetzner, California Digital Library, erik.hetzner AT ucop BORK edu

The Web Archiving Service at the California Digital Library has
crawled a large amount of data, in every format found on the web: 30
TB, comprising about 600 million fetched URLs. In this talk we will
discuss how we parsed this data using Tika and map-reduce, and how we
indexed this data with Solr, tweaked the relevance ranking, and were
able to provide our users with a better search experience.

== ALL TEH METADATAS! or How we use RDF to keep all of the digital object metadata formats thrown at us. ==

* Declan Fleming, University of California, San Diego, dfleming AT ucsd DING edu

What's the right metadata standard to use for a digital repository? There isn't just one standard that fits documents, videos, newspapers, audio files, local data, etc. And there is no standard to rule them all. So what do you do? At UC San Diego Libraries, we went down a conceptual level and attempted to hold every piece of metadata and give each holding place some context, hopefully in a common namespace. RDF has proven to be the ideal solution, and allows us to work with MODS, PREMIS, MIX, and just about anything else we've tried. It also opens up the potential for data re-use and authority control as other metadata owners start thinking about and expressing their data in the same way. I'll talk about our workflow which takes metadata from a stew of various sources (CSV dumps, spreadsheet data of varying richness, MARC data, and MODS data), normalizes them into METS by our Metadata Specialists who create an assembly plan, and then ingests them into our digital asset management system. The result is a [http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6923768/Work/DAMS%20object%20rdf%20graph.png beautiful graph] of RDF triples with metadata poised to be expressed as [https://libraries.ucsd.edu/digital/ HTML], RSS, METS, XML, and opens linked data possibilities that we are just starting to explore.

== HathiTrust Large Scale Search: Scalability meets Usability ==

* Tom Burton-West, DLPS, University of Michigan Library, tburtonw AT umich edu

[http://www.hathitrust.org/ HathiTrust Large-Scale search] provides full-text search services over nearly 10 million full-text books using Solr for the back-end. Our index is around 5-6 TB in size and each shard contains over 3 billion unique terms due to content in over 400 languages and dirty OCR.

Searching the full-text of 10 million books often results in very large result sets. By conference time a number of [http://www.hathitrust.org/full-text-search-features-and-analysis features] designed to help users narrow down large result sets and to do exploratory searching will either be in production or in preparation for release. There are often trade-offs between implementing desirable user features and keeping response time reasonable in addition to the traditional search trade-offs of precision versus recall.

We will discuss various [http://www.hathitrust.org/blogs/large-scale-search scalability] and usability issues including:
* Trade-offs between desirable user features and keeping response time reasonable and scalable
* Our solution to providing the ability to search within the 10 million books and also search within each book
* Migrating the [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/mb personal collection builder application] from a separate Solr instance to an app which uses the same back-end as full-text search.
* Design of a scalable multilingual spelling suggester
* Providing advanced search features combining MARC metadata with OCR
** The dismax mm and tie parameters
** Weighting issues and tuning relevance ranking
* Displaying only the most "relevant" facets
* Tuning relevance ranking
* Dirty OCR issues
* CJK tokenizing and other multilingual issues.

== DMPTool: Guidance and resources to build a data management plan ==
Marisa Strong, California Digital Libary, marisa.strong@ucop.edu

A number of U.S. funding agencies such as the National Science Foundation require researchers to supply detailed plans for managing research data, called Data Management Plans. To help researchers with this requirement, the California Digital Library (CDL) along with several organizations, collaborated to develop the DMPTool. The goal is to provide researchers with guidance, links to resources and help with writing data management plans.
This open-source, Ruby on Rails software tool is hosted on a SLES VM by CDL. The tool is integrated with Shibboleth, federated single sign-on software, which allows users to login via their home institutions. We had a geographically distributed development team sharing their code on Bitbucket.
This talk will demo features of the application, the Shibboleth login architecture, as well as highlight the agile development practices and methods used to successfully design and build the application on an aggressive schedule.

== The Islandora Open Source Framework for Digital Asset Management ==

* Keith Folsom, Orbis Cascade Alliance, kfolsom@uoregon.edu

Managing digital content is a challenging task—becoming even more so
as the volumes and types of content increase at what seems an exponential
rate. Though there are good commercial management systems available,
having competing and potentially more configurable open source options is ideal.
One such option is Islandora—an open source framework that wraps a Drupal
front-end around the Fedora digital object management and storage system.

My talk will serve as an introduction to the Islandora framework—including a
discussion of Fedora’s digital object model and content model architecture;
how Islandora exposes the power of Fedora for storage, discovery, and retrieval
of data; and the wide variety of underlying open source software and technology
that enables the system. I will also give a quick tour of a stock Islandora
installation and provide tips on navigating the documentation for set-up and
use of this powerful framework.

== What do the NISO IOTA OpenURL quality reports tell us about the future of OpenURL linking? ==

* Adam Chandler, Cornell University, alc28@cornell.edu

NISO IOTA (http://openurlquality.niso.org/) is an initiative that makes use of log files from various institutions and vendors to analyze element frequency and patterns contained within OpenURL requests. The reports created from this analysis inform vendors about where to make improvements to their OpenURLs. In this talk, the chair of the IOTA working group will share what the group has learned about the differences in quality across OpenURL sources.

== "CALIL.JP" Open Libraries by web-scraping. - Introducing Library API from Japan ==

* Ryuuji Yoshimoto, Nota Inc. Engineer, ryuuji@notaland.com

I am an engineer at Nota Inc., a start-up company for web services. "CALIL" (http://calil.jp/) is a web service for library users in Japan. (Not only for librarians but also for general patrons.)

CALIL allows users search books from multiple libraries nearby, and get realtime holding status. Our service supports over 5,800 libraries.
CALIL supports public, university, and other many special libraries in Japan. The service can search 88% of collections of all public libraries in Japan.
Public libraries in Japan do not have an unified catalogue like OCLC.
Web OPACs in Japan are generally very slow and their usability is low.
We develop a comprehensive scraping service over 2000 web OPACs and it supports recognize real-time holding status on them as well.
This service can be used as for substitution of OPACs provided by libraries. It provides more useful, speedy and open service.

Our scraping platform also provides API for free.
Any developer can access realtime holding status at almost all the libraries in Japan by one API.
Since the launch in 2010, many apps on iPhone and Android are developed by many third party developers.
And it allows many web service connect to library (book shelf, review etc).

I will introduce about "CALIL", "CALIL Library API", and its methodology. Open Libraries in Japan to World-Coders!!

== Discovering Digital Library User Behavior with Google Analytics==

* Kirk Hess, Digital Humanities Specialist, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, kirkhess@illinois.edu

Digital library administrators are frequently asked questions like "How many times was that document downloaded", or "What’s the most popular book in our collection?" Conventional web logging software, such as AWStats, can only answer those questions some of the time, and there’s always the question of whether or not the data is polluted by non-users, such as spiders and crawlers. Google Analytics, (http://google.com/analytics/ ) , a JavaScript-based solution that excludes most crawlers and bots, shows how users found your site and how they explored it.

The presentation will review tracking search queries, adding events such as clicking external links or downloading files, and custom variables, to track user behavior that is normally difficult to track. We'll also discuss using jQuery scripts to add tracking code to the page without having to modify the underlying web application. Once you've collected data, you may use the Google Analytics API to extract data and integrate it with data from your digital repository to show granular data about individual items in your Digital Library. Finally, we'll discuss how this information allows you to improve the user experience, and summarize some of the research we are doing with our digital repository and the data gathered from Google Analytics.

== Introducing Kuali OLE 0.3==

* John Pillans, Enterprise Software, Library Systems, Configuration Manager Kuali OLE, Indiana University, jpillan@indiana.edu
* Rich Slabach, Quality Assurance Manager, Kuali OLE, rlslabac@indiana.edu

This research update will feature technical staff from the Kuali Open Library Environment (OLE) project, which is in its second year of building a community-source library management environment. Operating since July 2010, and supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Kuali OLE is the one of the largest academic library software collaborations in the United States. In this presentation we will discuss the Kuali OLE Year 2 Roadmap as well as key components of the system architecture, additionally we will demonstrate our Kuali OLE 0.3 release from November 2011 with our cloud-based test drive implementation and our well documented driver's manual. This will lead to a better understanding of how this code base could support library management at your home institution.

We will also discuss opportunities for engagement with Kuali OLE and for adoption and use of the software as well as hear more about our plans for long-term sustainability. For more on our current software see - https://wiki.kuali.org/display/OLE/OLE+and+Docstore+Server+Installation

== UDFR: Building a Registry using Open-Source Semantic Software ==

* Stephen Abrams, Associate Director, UC3, California Digital Library, stephen.abrams AT ucop DING edu
* Lisa Dawn Colvin, UDFR Project Manager, California Digital Library, lisa.colvin AT ucop DING edu

Fundamental to effective long-term preservation analysis, planning, and intervention is the deep understanding of the diverse digital formats used to represent content. The Unified Digital Format Registry project (UDFR, https://bitbucket.org/udfr/main/wiki/Home) will provide an open source platform for an online, semantically-enabled registry of significant format representation information.

We will give an introduction to the UDFR tool and its use within a preservation process.

We will also discuss our experiences of integrating disparate data sources and models into RDF: describing our iterative data modeling process and decisions around integrating vocabularies, data sources and provenance representation.

Finally, we will share how we extended an existing open-source semantic wiki tool, OntoWiki, to create the registry.

We will do this within 20 minutes.

== Sirsi Symphony: Developing a "web service" to provide real time bibliographic information to Blacklight. ==

* John Pillans, Enterprise Software, Library Systems, Configuration Manager Kuali OLE, Indiana University, jpillan@indiana.edu

Indiana University Libraries is currently in the process of implementing Blacklight as its discovery layer on top of Sirsi Symphony. One aspect of Blacklight that must be developed locally is providing circulation status and holdings information to the user. We have developed a "web service" which provides the bibliographic data, formatted MARC holdings data (if present), and item data with current circulation information to the Blacklight system in XML.

== Open Sourcing the Dream: Making the Read/Write Library ==

* Margaret Heller, Read/Write Library Chicago and Dominican University, mheller@dom.edu

You met the Chicago Underground Library last year, now meet The Read/Write Library Chicago.It's a new name, a new space, and new opportunities to develop our catalog. We are working on creating the open source version of our ideas with a distributed team of interested volunteers, plus experimenting with innovative partnerships with the Chicago technology community. This talk will share what the team and open source project look like, what we are doing with our data, and how we finally learned to stop worrying and love Git.

== Interactive maps: an easy-to-maintain and scalable approach ==

* Mariela Gunn, Oakland University, gunn@oakland.edu

Developing interactive maps of a library building presents a unique challenge in an institution with limited web services personnel. Our technical expectations are high: we want the maps to have engaging interactivity, to be modular so we can link to different services represented in them, and to be scalable so that we can integrate data-driven elements. Our content needs are ever changing: we want to have distributed authorship of content through a user-friendly interface that can be used by all librarians without a steep learning curve.

This talk will focus on the design of interactive maps by a group of our undergraduate student interns who selected a web application -- Maps Alive -- for the task with ease of use and scalability in mind and set up a structure that can grow and change. The pros and cons of the application will be discussed, as well as tips on how to evaluate potential tools and make the best use of them through a modular and flexible approach to interactive maps. Involving students as designers and decision-makers in technology-related projects will be highlighted too.

[[Category: Code4Lib2012]]

2012 talks proposals

2011-11-20T15:07:59Z

Mariela:

Deadline for talk submission is ''Sunday, November 20''.

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
* diversity of topics

Please follow the formatting guidelines:

<pre>

== Talk Title: ==

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

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

== VuFind 2.0: Why and How? ==

* Demian Katz, Villanova University, demian.katz@villanova.edu

A major new version of the VuFind discovery software is currently in development. While VuFind 1.x remains extremely popular, some of its components are beginning to show their age. VuFind 2.0 aims to retain all the strengths of the previous version of the software while making the architecture cleaner, more modern and more standards-based. This presentation will examine the motivation behind the update, preview some of the new features to look forward to, and discuss the challenges of creating a developer-friendly open source package in PHP.

== Open Source Software Registry ==

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

LYRASIS is creating and shepherding a [[Registry_E-R_Diagram|registry of library open source software]] as part of its [http://www.lyrasis.org/News/Press-Releases/2011/LYRASIS-Receives-Grant-to-Support-Open-Source.aspx grant from the Mellon Foundation to support the adoption of open source software by libraries].
The goal of the grant is to help libraries of all types determine if open source software is right for them, and what combination of software, hosting, training, and consulting works for their situation.
The registry is intended to become a community exchange point and stimulant for growth of the library open source ecosystem by connecting libraries with projects, service providers, and events.

The first half of this session will demonstrate the registry functions and describe how projects and providers can get involved.
The second half of the session will be a brainstorming suggestion of how to expand the functionality and usefulness of the registry.

== Property Graphs And TinkerPop Applications in Digital Libraries ==

* Brian Tingle, California Digital Library, brian.tingle.cdlib.org@gmail.com

[http://www.tinkerpop.com/ TinkerPop] is an open source software development group focusing on technologies in the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_database graph database] space.
This talk will provide a general introduction to the TinkerPop Graph Stack and the [https://github.com/tinkerpop/gremlin/wiki/Defining-a-Property-Graph property graph model] is uses. The introduction will include code examples and explanations of the property graph models used by the [http://socialarchive.iath.virginia.edu/ Social Networks in Archival Context] project and show how the historical social graph is exposed as a JSON/REST API implemented by a TinkerPop [https://github.com/tinkerpop/rexster rexster] [https://github.com/tinkerpop/rexster-kibbles Kibble] that contains the application's graph theory logic. Other graph database applications possible with TinkerPop such as RDF support, and citation analysis will also be discussed.

== Security in Mind ==

* Erin Germ, United States Naval Academy, Nimitz Library, germ@usna.edu

I would like to talk about security of library software.

Over the Summer, I discovered a critical vulnerability in a vendor’s software that (verified) allowed me to assume any user’s identity for that site, (verified) switch to any user, and to (unverified, meaning I didn’t not perform this as I didn’t want to “hack” another library’s site) assume the role of any user for any other library who used this particular vendor's software.

Within a 3 hour period, I discovered a 2 vulnerabilities: 1) minor one allowing me to access any backups from any library site, and 2) a critical vulnerability. From start to finish, the examination, discovery in the vulnerability, and execution of a working exploit was done in less than 2 hours. The vulnerability was a result of poor cookie implementation. The exploit itself revolved around modifying the cookie, and then altering the browser’s permissions by assuming the role of another user.

I do not intend on stating which vendor it was, but I will show how I was able to perform this. If needed, I can do further research and “investigation” into other vendor's software to see what I can “find”.

''If selected, I will contact the vendor to inform them that I will present about this at C4L2012. I do not intend on releasing the name of the vendor.''

== Search Engines and Libraries ==

* Greg Lindahl, blekko CTO, greg@blekko.com

[https://blekko.com blekko] is a new web-scale search engine which enables end-users to create vertical search engines, through a feature called [http://help.blekko.com/index.php/category/slashtags/ slashtags]. Slashtags can contain as few as 1 or as many as tens of thousands of websites relevant to a narrow or broad topic. We have an extensive set of slashtags curated by a combination of volunteers and an in-house librarian team, or end-users can create and share their own. This talk will cover examples of slashtag creation relevant to libraries, and show how to embed this search into a library website, either using javascript or via our API.

''We have exhibited at a couple of library conferences, and have received a lot of interest. blekko is a free service.''

== Beyond code: Versioning data with Git and Mercurial. ==

* Stephanie Collett, California Digital Library, stephanie.collett@ucop.edu
* Martin Haye, California Digital Library, martin.haye@ucop.edu

Within a relatively short time since their introduction, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_Version_Control_System distributed version control systems] (DVCS) like [http://git-scm.com/ Git] and [http://mercurial.selenic.com/ Mercurial] have enjoyed widespread adoption for versioning code. It didn’t take long for the library development community to start discussing the potential for using DVCS within our applications and repositories to version data. After all, many of the features that have made some of these systems popular in the open source community to version code (e.g. lightweight, file-based, compressed, reliable) also make them compelling options for versioning data. And why write an entire versioning system from scratch if a DVCS solution can be a drop-in solution? At the [http://www.cdlib.org/ California Digital Library] (CDL) we’ve started using Git and Mercurial in some of our applications to version data. This has proven effective in some situations and unworkable in others. This presentation will be a practical case study of CDL’s experiences with using DVCS to version data. We will explain how we’re incorporating Git and Mercurial in our applications, describe our successes and failures and consider the issues involved in repurposing these systems for data versioning.

==Design for Developers==

*Lisa Kurt, University of Nevada, Reno, lkurt@unr.edu

Users expect good design. This talk will delve into what makes really great design, what to look for, and how to do it. Learn the principles of great design to take your applications, user interfaces, and projects to a higher level. With years of experience in graphic design and illustration, Lisa will discuss design principles, trends, process, tools, and development. Design examples will be from her own projects as well as a variety from industry. You’ll walk away with design knowledge that you can apply immediately to a variety of applications and a number of top notch go-to resources to get you up and running.

==Building research applications with Mendeley==

William Gunn, Mendeley william.gunn@mendeley.com (@mrgunn)

This is partly a tool talk and partly a big idea one.

Mendeley has built the world's largest open database of research and we've now begun to collect some interesting social metadata around the document metadata. I would like to share with the Code4Lib attendees information about using this resource to do things within your application that have previously been impossible for the library community, or in some cases impossible without expensive database subscriptions. One thing that's now possible is to augment catalog search by surfacing information about content usage, allowing people to not only find things matching a query, but popular things or things read by their colleagues. In addition to augmenting search, you can also use this information to augment discovery. Imagine an online exhibit of artifacts from a newly discovered dig not just linking to papers which discuss the artifact, but linking to really good interesting papers about the place and the people who made the artifacts. So the big idea is, "How will looking at the literature from a broader perspective than simple citation analysis change how research is done and communicated? How can we build tools that make this process easier and faster?" I can show some examples of applications that have been built using the Mendeley and PLoS APIs to begin to address this question, and I can also present results from Mendeley's developer challenge which shows what kinds of applications researchers are looking for, what kind of applications peope are building, and illustrates some interesting places where the two don't overlap.

==Your UI can make or break the application (to the user, anyway)==

* Robin Schaaf, University of Notre Dame, schaaf.4@nd.edu

UI development is hard and too often ends up as an after-thought to computer programmers - if you were a CS major in college I'll bet you didn't have many, if any, design courses. I'll talk about how to involve the users upfront with design and some common pitfalls of this approach. I'll also make a case for why you should do the screen design before a single line of code is written. And I'll throw in some ideas for increasing usability and attractiveness of your web applications. I'd like to make a case study of the UI development of our open source ERMS.

==Why Nobody Knows How Big The Library Really Is - Perspective of a Library Outside Turned Insider==

* Patrick Berry, California State University, Chico, pberry@csuchico.edu

In this talk I would like to bring the perspective of an "outsider" (although an avowed IT insider) to let you know that people don't understand the full scope of the library. As we "rethink education", it is incumbent upon us to help educate our institutions as to the scope of the library. I will present some of the tactics I'm employing to help people outside, and in some cases inside, the library to understand our size and the value we bring to the institution.

==Building a URL Management Module using the Concrete5 Package Architecture==

* David Uspal, Villanova University, david.uspal@villanova.edu

Keeping track of URLs utilized across a large website such as a university library, and keeping that content up to date for subject and course guides, can be a pain, and as an open source shop, we’d like to have open source solution for this issue. For this talk, I intend to detail our solution to this issue by walking step-by-step through the building process for our URL Management module -- including why a new solution was necessary; a quick rundown of our CMS ([http://www.concrete5.org Concrete5], a CMS that isn’t Drupal); utilizing the Concrete5 APIs to isolate our solution from core code (to avoid complications caused by core updates); how our solution was integrated into the CMS architecture for easy installation; and our future plans on the project.

==Building an NCIP connector to OpenSRF to facilitate resource sharing==

* Jon Scott, Lyrasis, jon_scott@wsu.edu and Kyle Banerjee, Orbis Cascade Alliance, banerjek@uoregon.edu

How do you reverse engineer any protocol to provide a new service? Humans (and worse yet, committees) often design verbose protocols built around use cases that don't line up current reality. To compound difficulties, the contents of protocol containers are not sufficiently defined/predictable and the only assistance available is sketchy documentation and kind individuals on the internet willing to share what they learned via trial by fire.

NCIP (Niso Circulation Interchange Protocol) is an open standard that defines a set of messages to support exchange of circulation data between disparate circulation, interlibrary loan, and related applications -- widespread adoption of NCIP would eliminate huge amounts of duplicate processing in separate systems.

This presentation discusses how we learned enough about NCIP and OpenSRF from scratch to build an NCIP responder for Evergreen to facilitate resource sharing in a large consortium that relies on over 20 different ILSes.

==Practical Agile: What's Working for Stanford, Blacklight, and Hydra==

* Naomi Dushay, Stanford University Libraries, ndushay@stanford.edu

Agile development techniques can be difficult to adopt in the context of library software development. Maybe your shop has only one or two developers, or you always have too many simultaneous projects. Maybe your new projects can’t be started until 27 librarians reach consensus on the specifications.

This talk will present successful Agile- and Silicon-Valley-inspired practices we’ve adopted at Stanford and/or in the Blacklight and Hydra projects. We’ve targeted developer happiness as well as improved productivity with our recent changes. User stories, dead week, sight lines … it’ll be a grab bag of goodies to bring back to your institution, including some ideas on how to adopt these practices without overt management buy in.

==Quick and <strike>Dirty</strike> Clean Usability: Rapid Prototyping with Bootstrap==

* Shaun Ellis, Princeton University Libraries, shaune@princeton.edu

''"The code itself is unimportant; a project is only as useful as people actually find it." - Linus Torvalds'' [http://bit.ly/p4uuyy]

Usability has been a buzzword for some time now, but what is the process for making the the transition toward a better user experience, and hence, better designed library sites? I will discuss the one facet of the process my team is using to redesign the Finding Aids site for Princeton University Libraries (still in development). The approach involves the use of rapid prototyping, with Bootstrap [http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/], to make sure we are on track with what users and stakeholders expect up front, and throughout the development process.

Because Bootstrap allows for early and iterative user feedback, it is more effective than the historic Photoshop mockups/wireframe technique. The Photoshop approach allows stakeholders to test the look, but not the feel -- and often leaves developers scratching their heads. Being a CSS/HTML/Javascript grid-based framework, Bootstrap makes it easy for anyone with a bit of HTML/CSS chops to quickly build slick, interactive prototypes right in the browser -- tangible solutions which can be shared, evaluated, revised, and followed by all stakeholders (see Minimum Viable Products [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_viable_product]). Efficiency is multiplied because the customized prototypes can flow directly into production use, as is the goal with iterative development approaches, such as the Agile methodology.

While Bootstrap is not the only framework that offers grid-based layout, development is expedited and usability is enhanced by Bootstraps use of of "prefabbed" conventional UI patterns, clean typography, and lean Javascript for interactivity. Furthermore, out-of-the box Bootstrap comes in a fairly neutral palette, so focus remains on usability, and does not devolve into premature discussions of color or branding choices. Finally, using Less can be a powerful tool in conjunction with Bootstrap, but is not necessary. I will discuss the pros and cons, and offer examples for how to getting up and running with or without Less.

==Search Engine Relevancy Tuning - A Static Rank Framework for Solr/Lucene==

* Mike Schultz, Amazon.com (formerly Summon Search Architect) mike.schultz@gmail.com

Solr/Lucene provides a lot of flexibility for adjusting relevancy scoring and improving search results. Roughly speaking there are two areas of concern: Firstly, a 'dynamic rank' calculation that is a function of the user query and document text fields. And secondly, a 'static rank' which is independent of the query and generally is a function of non-text document metadata. In this talk I will outline an easily understood, hand-tunable static rank system with a minimal number of parameters.

The obvious major feature of a search engine is to return results relevant to a user query. Perhaps less obvious is the huge role query independent document features play in achieving that. Google's PageRank is an example of a static ranking of web pages based on links and other secret sauce. In the Summon service, our 800 million documents have features like publication date, document type, citation count and Boolean features like the-article-is-peer-reviewed. These fields aren't textual and remain 'static' from query to query, but need to influence a document's relevancy score. In our search results, with all query related features being equal, we'd rather have more recent documents above older ones, Journals above Newspapers, and articles that are peer reviewed above those that are not. The static rank system I will describe achieves this and has the following features:

* Query-time only calculation - nothing is baked into the index - with parameters adjustable at query time.
* The system is based on a signal metaphor where components are 'wired' together. System components allow multiplexing, amplifying, summing, tunable band-pass filtering, string-to-value-mapping all with a bare minimum of parameters.
* An intuitive approach for mixing dynamic and static rank that is more effective than simple adding or multiplying.
* A way of equating disparate static metadata types that leads to understandable results ordering.

==Submitting Digitized Book-like things to the Internet Archive==

* Joel Richard, Smithsonian Institution Libraries, richardjm@si.edu

The Smithsonian Libraries has submitted thousands of out-of-copyright items to the Internet Archive over the years. Specifically in relation to the Biodiversity Heritage Library, we have developed an in-house boutique scanning and upload process that became a learning experience in automated uploading to the Archive. As part of the software development, we created a whitepaper that details the combined learning experiences of the Smithsonian Libraries and the Missouri Botanical Garden. We will discuss some of the the contents of this whitepaper in the context of our scanning process and the manner in which we upload items to the Archive.

Our talk will include a discussion of the types of files and their formats used by the Archive, processes that the Archive performs on uploaded items, ways of interacting and affecting those processes, potential pitfalls and solutions that you may encounter when uploading, and tools that the Archive provides to help monitor and manage your uploaded documents.

Finally, we'll wrap up with a brief summary of how to use things that are on the Internet Archive in your own websites.

== So... you think you want to Host a Code4Lib National Conference, do you? ==

* Elizabeth Duell, Orbis Cascade Alliance, eduell@uoregon.edu

Are you interested in hosting your own Code4Lib Conference? Do you know what it would take? What does BEO stands for? What does F&B Minimum mean? Who would you talk to for support/mentoring? There are so many things to think about: internet support, venue size, rooming blocks, contracts, dietary restrictions and coffee (can't forget the coffee!) just to name a few. Putting together a conference of any size can look daunting, so let's take the scary out of it and replace it with a can do attitude!

Be a step ahead of the game by learning from the people behind the curtain. Ask questions and be given templates/ cheat sheets!

== HTML5 Microdata and Schema.org ==

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

When the big search engines announced support for HTML5 microdata and the schema.org vocabularies, the balance of power for semantic markup in HTML shifted.
* What is microdata?
* Where does microdata fit with regards to other approaches like RDFa and microformats?
* Where do libraries stand in the worldview of Schema.org and what can they do about it?
* How can implementing microdata and schema.org optimize your sites for search engines?
* What tools are available?

== Stack View: A Library Browsing Tool ==

* Annie Cain, Harvard Library Innovation Lab, acain@law.harvard.edu

In an effort to recreate and build upon the traditional method of browsing a physical library, we used catalog data, including dimensions and page count, to create a [http://librarylab.law.harvard.edu/projects/stackview/ virtual shelf].

This CSS and JavaScript backed visualization allows items to sit on any number of different shelves, really taking advantage of its digital nature. See how we built Stack View on top of our data and learn how you can create shelves of your own using our open source code.

== “Linked-Data-Ready” Software for Libraries ==

* Jennifer Bowen, University of Rochester River Campus Libraries, jbowen@library.rochester.edu

Linked data is poised to replace MARC as the basis for the new library bibliographic framework. For libraries to benefit from linked data, they must learn about it, experiment with it, demonstrate its usefulness, and take a leadership role in its deployment.

The eXtensible Catalog Organization (XCO) offers open-source software for libraries that is “linked-data-ready.” XC software prepares MARC and Dublin Core metadata for exposure to the semantic web, incorporating FRBR Group 1 entities and registered vocabularies for RDA elements and roles. This presentation will include a software demonstration, proposed software architecture for creation and management of linked data, a vision for how libraries can migrate from MARC to linked data, and an update on XCO progress toward linked data goals.

== How people search the library from a single search box ==

* Cory Lown, North Carolina State University Libraries, cory_lown@ncsu.edu

Searching the library is complex. There's the catalog, article databases, journal title and database title look-ups, the library website, finding aids, knowledge bases, etc. How would users search if they could get to all of these resources from a single search box? I'll share what we've learned about single search at NCSU Libraries by tracking use of QuickSearch (http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/search/index.php?q=aerospace+engineering), our home-grown unified search application. As part of this talk I will suggest low-cost ways to collect real world use data that can be applied to improve search. I will try to convince you that data collection must be carefully planned and designed to be an effective tool to help you understand what your users are telling you through their behavior. I will talk about how the fragmented library resource environment challenges us to provide useful and understandable search environments. Finally, I will share findings from analyzing millions of user transactions about how people search the library from a production single search box at a large university library.

== An Incremental Approach to Archival Description and Access ==

* Chela Scott Weber, New York University Libraries, chelascott@gmail.com
* Mark A. Matienzo, Yale University Library, mark@matienzo.org

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== Making the Easy Things Easy: A Generic ILS API ==

* Wayne Schneider, Hennepin County Library, wschneider@hclib.org

Some stuff we try to do is complicated, because, let's face it, library data is hard. Some stuff, on the other hand, should be easy. Given an item identifier, I should be able to look at item availability. Given a title identifier, I should be able to place a request. And no, I shouldn't have to parse through the NCIP specification or write a SIP client to do it.

This talk will present work we have done on a web services approach to an API for traditional library transactional data, including example applications.

== Your Catalog in Linked Data==

* Tom Johnson, Oregon State University Libraries, thomas.johnson@oregonstate.edu

Linked Library Data activity over the last year has seen bibliographic data sets and vocabularies proliferating from traditional library
sources. We've reached a point where regular libraries don't have to go it alone to be on the Semantic Web. There is a quickly growing pool of things we can actually ''link to'', and everyone's existing data can be immediately enriched by participating.

This is a quick and dirty road to getting your catalog onto the Linked Data web. The talk will take you from start to finish, using Free Software tools to establish a namespace, put up a SPARQL endpoint, make a simple data model, convert MARC records to RDF, and link the results to major existing data sets (skipping conveniently over pesky processing time). A small amount of "why linked data?" content will be covered, but the primary goal is to leave you able to reproduce the process and start linking your catalog into the web of data. Appropriate documentation will be on the web.

== Getting the Library into the Learning Management System using Basic LTI ==

* David Walker, California State University, dwalker@calstate.edu

The integration of library resources into learning management systems (LMS) has long been something of a holy grail for academic libraries. The ability to deliver targeted library systems and services to students and faculty directly within their online course would greatly simplify access to library resources. Yet, the technical barriers to achieving that goal have to date been formidable.

The recently released Learning Tool Interoperability (LTI) protocol, developed by IMS, now greatly simplifies this process by allowing libraries (and others) to develop and maintain “tools” that function like a native plugin or building block within the LMS, but ultimately live outside of it. In this presentation, David will provide an overview of Basic LTI, a simplified subset (or profile) of the wider LTI protocol, showing how libraries can use this to easily integrate their external systems into any major LMS. He’ll showcase the work Cal State has done to do just that.

== Turn your Library Proxy Server into a Honeypot ==

* Calvin Mah, Simon Fraser University, calvinm@sfu.ca (@calvinmah)

Ezproxy has provided libraries with a useful tool for providing patrons with offsite online access to licensed electronic resources. This has not gone unnoticed for the unscrupulous users of the Internet who are either unwilling or unable to obtain legitimate access to these materials for themselves. Instead, they buy or share hacked university computing accounts for unauthorized access. When undetected, abuse of compromised university accounts can lead to abuse of vendor resources which lead to the blocking of the entire campus block of IP addresses from accessing that resource.

Simon Fraser University Library has been pro actively detecting and thwarting unauthorized attempts through log analysis. Since SFU has begun analysing our ezproxy logs, the number of new SFU login credentials which are posted and shared in publicly accessible forums has been reduced to zero. Since our log monitoring began in 2008, the annual average number of SFU login credentials that are compromised or hacked is 140. Instead of being a single point of weakness in campus IT security, the library’s proxy server is a honeypot exposing weak passwords, keystroke logging trojans installed on patron PCs and campus network password sniffers.

This talk will discuss techniques such as geomapping login attempts, strategies such as seeding phishing attempts and tools such as statistical log analysis used in detecting compromised login credentials.

== Relevance Ranking in the Scholarly Domain ==

* Tamar Sadeh, PhD, Ex Libris Group, tamar.sadeh@exlibrisgroup.com

The greatest challenge for discovery systems is how to provide users with the most relevant search results, given the immense landscape of available content. In a manner that is similar to human interaction between two parties, in which each person adjusts to the other in tone, language, and subject matter, discovery systems would ideally be sophisticated and flexible enough to adjust their algorithms to individual users and each user’s information needs.

When evaluating the relevance of an item to a specific user in a specific context, relevance-ranking algorithms need to take into account, in addition to the degree to which the item matches the query, information that is not embodied in the item itself. Such information, which includes the item’s scholarly value, the type of search that the user is conducting (e.g., an exploratory search or a known-item search), and other factors, enables a discovery system to fulfill user expectations that have been shaped by experience with Web search engines.

The session will focus on the challenges of developing and evaluating relevance-ranking algorithms for the scholarly domain. Examples will be drawn mainly from the relevance-ranking technology deployed by the Ex Libris Primo discovery solution.

== Mobile Library Catalog using Z39.50 ==

* James Paul Muir, The Ohio State University, muir.29@osu.edu

A talk about putting a new spin on an age-old technology, creating a universal interface, which exposes any Z39.50 capable library catalog as a simple, useful and universal REST API for use in native mobile apps and mobile web.

The talk includes the exploration and demonstration of the Ohio State University’s native app “OSU Mobile” for iOS and Android and shows how the library catalog search was integrated.

The backbone of the project is a REST API, which was created in a weekend using a PHP framework that translates OPAC XML results from the Z39.50 interface into mobile-friendly JSON formatting.

Raw Z39.50 search results contain all MARC information as well as local holdings.
Configurable search fields and the ability to select which fields to include in the JSON output make this solution a perfect fit for any Z39.50-capable library catalog.

Looking forward, possibilities for expansion include the use of Off Campus Sign-In for online resources so mobile patrons can directly access online resources from a smartphone (included in the Android version of OSU Mobile) as well as integration with library patron account.

Enjoy this alternative to writing a custom OPAC adapter or using a 3rd party service for exposing library records and use the proven and universal Z39.50 interface directly against your library catalog.

== DMPTool: Guidance and resources to build a data management plan

* Marisa Strong, California Digital Libary, marisa.strong@ucop.edu

A number of U.S. funding agencies such as the National Science Foundation require researchers to supply detailed plans for managing research data, called Data Management Plans. To help researchers with this requirement, the California Digital Library (CDL) along with several organizations, collaborated to develop the DMPTool. The goal is to provide researchers with guidance, links to resources and help with writing data management plans.

This open-source, Ruby on Rails software tool is hosted on a SLES VM by CDL. The tool is integrated with Shibboleth, federated single sign-on software, which allows users to login via their home institutions. We had a geographically distributed development team sharing their code on Bitbucket.

This talk will demo features of the application, the Shibboleth login architecture, as well as highlight the agile development practices and methods used to successfully design and build the application on an aggressive schedule.

== Lies, Damned Lies, and Lines of Code Per Day ==

* James Stuart, Columbia University, james.stuart@columbia.edu

We've all heard about that one study that showed that Pair Programming was 20% efficient than working alone. Or maybe you saw on a blog that study that showed that programmers who write fewer lines of code per day are more efficient...or was it less efficient? And of course, we all know that programmers who work in (Ruby|Python|Java|C|Erlang) have been shown to be more efficient.

A quick examination of some of the research surrounding programming efficiency and methodology, with a focus on personal productivity, and how to incorporate the more believable research into your own team's workflow.

==An Anatomy of a Book Viewer==

*Mohammed Abuouda, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, mohammed.abuouda@bibalex.org

Bibliotheca Alexandria (BA) hosts 210,000 digital books in different languages available at http://dar.bibalex.org. It includes the largest collection of digitized Arabic books. Using open source tools, BA has developed a modular book viewer that can be deployed in any environment to provide the users with a great personalized reading experience. BA’s book viewer provides several services that make this possible: morphological search in different languages, localization, server load balancing, scalability and image processing. Personalization features includes different types of annotation such as sticky notes, highlighting and underlining. It also provides the ability to embed the viewer in any webpage and change its skin.

In this talk we will describe the book viewer architecture, its modular design and how to incorporate it in your current environment.

== Carrier: Digital Signage System ==

* [[User:jmspargu|Justin Spargur]], The University of Arizona, spargurj@u.library.arizona.edu

Carrier is a web-based digital signage application written using JavaScript, PHP, MySQL that can be used on any device with an internet connection and a web browser. Used across the University of Arizona Libraries campuses, Carrier can display any web-based content, allowing users to promote new library collections and services via images, web pages, or videos. Users can easily manage the order in which slides are delivered, manage the length that slides are displayed for, set dates for when slides should be shown, and even specify specific locations where slides should be presented.

In addition to marketing purposes, Carrier can be used to send both low and high priority alerts to patrons. Alerts can be sent through the administrative interface, via RSS feeds, and even through a Twitter feed, allowing for easy integration with existing campus emergency notification systems.

I will describe the technical underpinnings of Carrier, challenges that we’ve faced since its implementation, enhancements planned for the next release of the software, and discuss our plans for releasing this software for others to use '''for free'''.

== We Built It. They Came. Now What? ==

* [[User:evviva|Evviva Weinraub]], Oregon State University, evviva.weinraub@oregonstate.edu

You have a great idea for something new or useful. You build it, put it out there on GitHub, do a couple of presentations, maybe a press release and BAM, suddenly you’ve created a successful Open Source tool that others are using. Great!

Fast-forward 3 years.

You still believe in the product, but you can no longer be solely responsible for taking care of it. Just putting it out there has made it a tool others use, but how do you find a community of folks who believe in the product as much as you do and are willing to commit the time and energy into building, sustaining and moving this project forward. Or just figuring out if you should bother trying?

In 2006, OSU Libraries built an Interactive Course Assignment system called Library a la Carte – think LibGuides only Open Source. We now find ourselves in just this predicament.

What can we do as a community to move beyond our build-first-ask-questions-later mentality and embed sustainability into our new and existing ideas and products without moving toward commercialization? I fully expect we’ll end up with more questions than answers, but let’s spend some talking about our predicament and yours and think about how we can come out the other side.

== Contextually Rich Collections Without the Risk: Digital Forensics and Automated Data Triage for Digital Collections ==

* [[User:kamwoods|Kam Woods]], University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, kamwoods@email.unc.edu
* Cal Lee, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, callee -- at -- ils -- unc -- edu
* Matthew Kirschenbaum, University of Maryland, mkirschenbaum@gmail.com

Digital libraries and archives are increasingly faced with a significant backlog of unprocessed data along with an accelerating stream of incoming material. These data often arrive from donor organizations, institutions, and individuals on hard drives, optical and magnetic disks, flash memory devices, and even complete hardware (traditional desktop computers and mobile systems).

Information on these devices may be sensitive, obscured by operating system arcana, or require specialized tools and procedures to parse. Furthermore, the sheer volume of materials being handled means that even simple tasks such as providing useful content reports can be impractical (or impossible) in current workflows.

Many of the tasks currently associated with data triage and analysis can be simplified and performed with improved coverage and accuracy through the use of open source digital forensics tools. In this talk we will discuss recent developments in providing digital librarians and archivists with simple, open source tools to accomplish these tasks. We will discuss tools and methods be tested, developed and packaged as part of the [http://bitcurator.net BitCurator] project. These tools can be used to reduce or eliminate laborious, error-prone tasks in existing workflows and put valuable time back into the hands of digital librarians and archivists -- time better used to identify and tackle complex tasks that *cannot* be solved by software.

== Finding Movies with FRBR and Facets ==

* Kelley McGrath, University of Oregon, kelleym@uoregon.edu

How might the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) model and faceted navigation improve access to film and video in libraries? I will describe the design and implementation of a FRBR-inspired prototype discovery interface ([http://blazing-sunset-24.heroku.com/ http://blazing-sunset-24.heroku.com/]) using Solr and Blacklight . This approach demonstrates how FRBR can enable a work-centric view that is focused on the original movie or program while supporting users in selecting an appropriate version.

The prototype features two sets of facets, which independently address two important information needs: (1) "What kind of movie or program do you want to watch?" (e.g., a 1970s TV sitcom, something directed by Kurosawa, or an early German horror film); (2) "How do you want to watch it? Where do you want to get it from?" (e.g., on Blu-ray, with Spanish subtitles, available at the local public library). This structure enables patrons to narrow, broaden and pivot across facet values instead of limiting them to the tree-structured hierarchy common with existing FRBR applications.

This type of interface requires controlled data values mapped to FRBR group 1 entities, which in many cases are not available in existing MARC bibliographic records. I will discuss ongoing work using the XC Metadata Services Toolkit ([http://www.extensiblecatalog.org/ http://www.extensiblecatalog.org/]) to extract and normalize data from existing MARC records for videos in order to populate a FRBRized, faceted discovery interface.

==Escaping the Black Box — Building a Platform to Foster Collaborative Innovation==

* Karen Coombs, OCLC, coombsk@oclc.org
* Kathryn Harnish, OCLC harnishk@oclc.org

Exposed Web services offer an unprecedented opportunity for collaborative innovation — that’s one of the hallmarks of Web-based services like Amazon, Google, and Facebook. These environments are popular not only for their native feature sets, but also for the array of community-developed apps that can run in them. The creativity of the development communities that work in these systems brings new value to all types of users.

What if the library community could realize this same level of collaborative innovation around its systems? What kinds of support would be necessary to transform library systems from “black boxes” to more open, accessible environments in which value is created and multiplied by the user community?

In this session, we’ll discuss the challenges and opportunities OCLC faced in creating just that kind of environment. The recently-released OCLC “cooperative platform” provides improved access to a wide variety of OCLC’s data and services, allowing library developers and other interested partners to collaborate, innovate, and share new solutions with fellow libraries. We’ll describe the open standards and technologies we’ve put in play in as we:
* exposed robust Web services that provide access to both data and business logic;
* created an architecture for integrating community-built applications in OCLC (and other) products; and
* developed an infrastructure to support community development, collaboration, and app sharing

Learn how OCLC is helping to open the “black box” -- and give libraries the freedom to become true partners in the evolution of their library systems.

== Code inheritance; or, The Ghosts of Perls Past ==

* Jon Gorman, University of Illinois, jtgorman@illinois.ed

Any organization has a history not found in its archives or museums. Mysteries exist that origins are lost to the collective institutional knowledge. Despite what has been forgotten by humans, our servers and computers still keep running. Instructions crafted long ago execute like digital ghosts following orders of masters who have long since left.

The University of Illinois has a fair amount of Perl code created by several different developers. This code includes software that handles our data feeds coming both in and out of campus, reports against our Voyager system, some web applications, and more.

I'll touch a little on the historical legacy and why Perl is used. From there I'll share some tips, best practices, and some of the mistakes I've made in trying to maintain this code. Most of the advice will transition to any language, but code and libraries discussed will be Perl. The presentation will also touch on some internal debate on whether or not to port parts of our Perl codebase.

== Recorded Radio/TV broadcasts streamed for library users ==

* Kåre Fiedler Christiansen, The State and University Library Denmark, kfc@statsbiblioteket.dk
* Mads Villadsen, The State and University Library Denmark, mv@statsbiblioteket.dk

"Provide online access to the Radio/TV collection," my boss said. About 500,000
hours of Danish broacast radio and TV. Easy, right? Well, half a year later
we'd done it, but it turned out to involve practically every it employee in the
library and quite a few non-technical people as well.

Combining our Fedora-based DOMS repository system with our Lucene-based Summa
search system with our WAYF-based single-signon system with an upgrade of our
SAN system for enough speed to deliver the content with an ffmpeg-based
transcoding workflow system with a Wowza-based streaming server, and sprinkling
it all with a nice user-friendly web frontend turned out to be quite a challenge,
but also one of the most engaging experiences for a long time.

Of course we were immidiately shut down, since the legal details weren't quite
as clear as we thought they were, but take an exclusive preview at
http://developer.statsbiblioteket.dk/kultur/ - username/password: code4lib.

== NoSQL Bibliographic Records: Implementing a Native FRBR Datastore with Redis ==
* Jeremy Nelson, Colorado College, jeremy.nelson@coloradocollege.edu

In October, the Library of Congress issued a news release, "A Bibliographic Framework for the Digital Age" outlining a list of requirements for a New Bibliographic Framework Environment. Responding to this challenge, this talk will demonstrate a Redis (http://redis.io) FRBR datastore proof-of-concept that, with a lightweight python-based interface, can meet these requirements.

Because FRBR is an Entity-Relationship model; it is easily implemented as key-value within the primitive data structures provided by Redis. Redis' flexibility makes it easy to associate arbitrary metadata and vocabularies, like MARC, METS, VRA or MODS, with FRBR entities and inter-operate with legacy and emerging standards and practices like RDA Vocabularies and LinkedData.

== Upgrading from Catalog to Discovery Environment: A Consortial Approach ==

* Spencer Lamm, Swarthmore College, slamm1@swarthmore.edu
* Chelsea Lobdell, Swarthmore College, clobdel1@swarthmore.edu

Almost two years ago the Tri-College Consortium of Haverford, Swarthmore, and Bryn Mawr Colleges embarked upon a journey to provide enhanced end-user experience and discoverability with our library applications. Our solution was to implement an integration of ExLibris's Primo Central into Villanova's VuFind for a dual-channel searching experience. We present a case study of the collaborative and technical aspects of our process.

At a high level we will describe our approach to project management and decision making. We used a multi-tiered structure of working groups with an iterative design-feedback implementation cycle. We will relay lessons learned from our experience: successes, failures, and unexpected hurdles.

At a lower, technical level we will discuss the vufind search module architecture; the workflow of creating a new search channel; a Primo API parser; and the data structures of the Primo API response and the Primo SearchObject. Time permitting, we will also outline how we modified VuFind's Innovative driver to work with our ILS.

== Improving geospatial data access for researchers and students ==

* Dileshni Jayasinghe, Scholars Portal, University of Toronto, d.jayasinghe@utoronto.ca
* Sepehr Mavedati, Scholars Portal, University of Toronto, sepehr.mavedati@utoronto.ca

Scholars GeoPortal (http://geo.scholarsportal.info) was created as a platform for online delivery of geospatial data resources to the Ontario Council of University Libraries community. Prior to the start of this project, each institution was storing data locally, and had its own practice for distributing datasets to users. This ranged from home grown online data delivery systems to burning data on to DVDs for each individual request. Most institutions had limited resources and expertise to create and maintain a sophisticated delivery system on their own. Led by OCUL Map, GIS librarians, staff at Scholars Portal in partnership with the Government of Ontario, the GeoPortal project began in 2009.

Our talk will focus on the design and architecture of Scholars Portal's solution to support maps and geospatial data, and how we distribute these data collections to our users.

The system consists of 4 main components: metadata management system, map server, spatial database, and the web application.

*Metadata Management: customized metadata editor with data hosted in MarkLogic, providing text and spatial queries
*Map Server: ArcGIS Server
*Spatial database: MS SQL Server with spatial extension
*Web application: Javascript web application using Dojo and Esri’s Javascript API

For other code4libbers who are interested in a similar system, we will also discuss the open source alternatives for each component (GeoNetwork, MapServer, etc.), and challenges and limitations we faced trying to use some of these tools. We'd also like to pick your brains on how we can make this application better. What can we do differently?

== LibX 2.0 ==

* Godmar Back, Virginia Tech, godmar@gmail.com

We would like to provide the Code4Lib community with an update on what we've accomplished with LibX (which we last presented in 2009) - where we've gone, what our users are thinking, and how both its technology and its adapter community can be included in the code4lib world.

== Introducing the DuraSpace Incubator ==

* Jonathan Markow, DuraSpace, jjmarkow@duraspace.org

DuraSpace is planning to launch a new incubation program for the benefit of open source projects that wish to become part of our organization, in the interest of helping them to become sustainable, community-driven projects and supporting them afterwards with umbrella services that help them to thrive. From time to time DuraSpace becomes aware of open source software projects in the preservation, archiving, or repository space that are in search of a community “home”. The motivation might be that the project is simply trying to attract more developers, that it would like to develop a more robust community of users and service providers, that its current organizational sponsorship is in question, or that it would like to take advantage of an existing and compatible organization's best practices and administrative infrastructure rather than create a new one of its own. DuraSpace is now prepared to leverage its resources, experience, and reputation in the community to help these projects become, or continue to be, successful. Projects emerging from incubation will become officially recognized as DuraSpace projects. This briefing presents highlights of the DuraSpace Incubator and invites questions and feedback from participants.

== In-browser data storage and me ==

* Jason Casden, North Carolina State University Libraries, jason_casden@ncsu.edu

When it comes to storing data in web browsers on a semi-persistent basis, there are several partially-adopted, semi-deprecated, product-specific, or even universally accepted options. These include models such as key-value stores, relational databases, and object stores. I will present some of these options and discuss possible applications of these technologies in library services. In addition to quoting heavily from Mark Pilgrim's excellent chapter on this topic, I will weave in my own experience utilizing in-browser data storage in an iPad-based data collection tool to successfully improve performance and data stability while reducing network dependence. See also: HTML5.

== Coding for the past, archiving for the future … and the Salman Rushdie Papers ==

* Peter Hornsby, Emory University Libraries, phornsb@emory.edu

Cultural heritage production is moving to the digital medium and libraries use of repository solutions such as Fedora Commons and DSpace are a solid response to this change. But how do we go from, for instance a selection of 90's computing technology to a collection of digital objects ready for ingest into your institution's local repository? Once you have ingested your digital objects how are you going to provide access to these resources? The arrival of the Salman Rushdie Papers, which contain 10 years of Sir Salman Rushdie's digital life, gave Emory University Libraries the opportunity to explore these questions. I would like to to talk about the approach the Emory University Libraries adopted, what we learned and the coding challenges that remain.

== Indexing big data with Tika, Solr & map-reduce ==

* Scott Fisher, California Digital Library, scott.fisher AT ucop BORK edu
* Erik Hetzner, California Digital Library, erik.hetzner AT ucop BORK edu

The Web Archiving Service at the California Digital Library has
crawled a large amount of data, in every format found on the web: 30
TB, comprising about 600 million fetched URLs. In this talk we will
discuss how we parsed this data using Tika and map-reduce, and how we
indexed this data with Solr, tweaked the relevance ranking, and were
able to provide our users with a better search experience.

== ALL TEH METADATAS! or How we use RDF to keep all of the digital object metadata formats thrown at us. ==

* Declan Fleming, University of California, San Diego, dfleming AT ucsd DING edu

What's the right metadata standard to use for a digital repository? There isn't just one standard that fits documents, videos, newspapers, audio files, local data, etc. And there is no standard to rule them all. So what do you do? At UC San Diego Libraries, we went down a conceptual level and attempted to hold every piece of metadata and give each holding place some context, hopefully in a common namespace. RDF has proven to be the ideal solution, and allows us to work with MODS, PREMIS, MIX, and just about anything else we've tried. It also opens up the potential for data re-use and authority control as other metadata owners start thinking about and expressing their data in the same way. I'll talk about our workflow which takes metadata from a stew of various sources (CSV dumps, spreadsheet data of varying richness, MARC data, and MODS data), normalizes them into METS by our Metadata Specialists who create an assembly plan, and then ingests them into our digital asset management system. The result is a [http://dl.dropbox.com/u/6923768/Work/DAMS%20object%20rdf%20graph.png beautiful graph] of RDF triples with metadata poised to be expressed as [https://libraries.ucsd.edu/digital/ HTML], RSS, METS, XML, and opens linked data possibilities that we are just starting to explore.

== HathiTrust Large Scale Search: Scalability meets Usability ==

* Tom Burton-West, DLPS, University of Michigan Library, tburtonw AT umich edu

[http://www.hathitrust.org/ HathiTrust Large-Scale search] provides full-text search services over nearly 10 million full-text books using Solr for the back-end. Our index is around 5-6 TB in size and each shard contains over 3 billion unique terms due to content in over 400 languages and dirty OCR.

Searching the full-text of 10 million books often results in very large result sets. By conference time a number of [http://www.hathitrust.org/full-text-search-features-and-analysis features] designed to help users narrow down large result sets and to do exploratory searching will either be in production or in preparation for release. There are often trade-offs between implementing desirable user features and keeping response time reasonable in addition to the traditional search trade-offs of precision versus recall.

We will discuss various [http://www.hathitrust.org/blogs/large-scale-search scalability] and usability issues including:
* Trade-offs between desirable user features and keeping response time reasonable and scalable
* Our solution to providing the ability to search within the 10 million books and also search within each book
* Migrating the [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/mb personal collection builder application] from a separate Solr instance to an app which uses the same back-end as full-text search.
* Design of a scalable multilingual spelling suggester
* Providing advanced search features combining MARC metadata with OCR
** The dismax mm and tie parameters
** Weighting issues and tuning relevance ranking
* Displaying only the most "relevant" facets
* Tuning relevance ranking
* Dirty OCR issues
* CJK tokenizing and other multilingual issues.

== DMPTool: Guidance and resources to build a data management plan ==
Marisa Strong, California Digital Libary, marisa.strong@ucop.edu

A number of U.S. funding agencies such as the National Science Foundation require researchers to supply detailed plans for managing research data, called Data Management Plans. To help researchers with this requirement, the California Digital Library (CDL) along with several organizations, collaborated to develop the DMPTool. The goal is to provide researchers with guidance, links to resources and help with writing data management plans.
This open-source, Ruby on Rails software tool is hosted on a SLES VM by CDL. The tool is integrated with Shibboleth, federated single sign-on software, which allows users to login via their home institutions. We had a geographically distributed development team sharing their code on Bitbucket.
This talk will demo features of the application, the Shibboleth login architecture, as well as highlight the agile development practices and methods used to successfully design and build the application on an aggressive schedule.

== The Islandora Open Source Framework for Digital Asset Management ==

* Keith Folsom, Orbis Cascade Alliance, kfolsom@uoregon.edu

Managing digital content is a challenging task—becoming even more so
as the volumes and types of content increase at what seems an exponential
rate. Though there are good commercial management systems available,
having competing and potentially more configurable open source options is ideal.
One such option is Islandora—an open source framework that wraps a Drupal
front-end around the Fedora digital object management and storage system.

My talk will serve as an introduction to the Islandora framework—including a
discussion of Fedora’s digital object model and content model architecture;
how Islandora exposes the power of Fedora for storage, discovery, and retrieval
of data; and the wide variety of underlying open source software and technology
that enables the system. I will also give a quick tour of a stock Islandora
installation and provide tips on navigating the documentation for set-up and
use of this powerful framework.

== What do the NISO IOTA OpenURL quality reports tell us about the future of OpenURL linking? ==

* Adam Chandler, Cornell University, alc28@cornell.edu

NISO IOTA (http://openurlquality.niso.org/) is an initiative that makes use of log files from various institutions and vendors to analyze element frequency and patterns contained within OpenURL requests. The reports created from this analysis inform vendors about where to make improvements to their OpenURLs. In this talk, the chair of the IOTA working group will share what the group has learned about the differences in quality across OpenURL sources.

== "CALIL.JP" Open Libraries by web-scraping. - Introducing Library API from Japan ==

* Ryuuji Yoshimoto, Nota Inc. Engineer, ryuuji@notaland.com

I am an engineer at Nota Inc., a start-up company for web services. "CALIL" (http://calil.jp/) is a web service for library users in Japan. (Not only for librarians but also for general patrons.)

CALIL allows users search books from multiple libraries nearby, and get realtime holding status. Our service supports over 5,800 libraries.
CALIL supports public, university, and other many special libraries in Japan. The service can search 88% of collections of all public libraries in Japan.
Public libraries in Japan do not have an unified catalogue like OCLC.
Web OPACs in Japan are generally very slow and their usability is low.
We develop a comprehensive scraping service over 2000 web OPACs and it supports recognize real-time holding status on them as well.
This service can be used as for substitution of OPACs provided by libraries. It provides more useful, speedy and open service.

Our scraping platform also provides API for free.
Any developer can access realtime holding status at almost all the libraries in Japan by one API.
Since the launch in 2010, many apps on iPhone and Android are developed by many third party developers.
And it allows many web service connect to library (book shelf, review etc).

I will introduce about "CALIL", "CALIL Library API", and its methodology. Open Libraries in Japan to World-Coders!!

== Discovering Digital Library User Behavior with Google Analytics==

* Kirk Hess, Digital Humanities Specialist, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, kirkhess@illinois.edu

Digital library administrators are frequently asked questions like "How many times was that document downloaded", or "What’s the most popular book in our collection?" Conventional web logging software, such as AWStats, can only answer those questions some of the time, and there’s always the question of whether or not the data is polluted by non-users, such as spiders and crawlers. Google Analytics, (http://google.com/analytics/ ) , a JavaScript-based solution that excludes most crawlers and bots, shows how users found your site and how they explored it.

The presentation will review tracking search queries, adding events such as clicking external links or downloading files, and custom variables, to track user behavior that is normally difficult to track. We'll also discuss using jQuery scripts to add tracking code to the page without having to modify the underlying web application. Once you've collected data, you may use the Google Analytics API to extract data and integrate it with data from your digital repository to show granular data about individual items in your Digital Library. Finally, we'll discuss how this information allows you to improve the user experience, and summarize some of the research we are doing with our digital repository and the data gathered from Google Analytics.

== Introducing Kuali OLE 0.3==

* John Pillans, Enterprise Software, Library Systems, Configuration Manager Kuali OLE, Indiana University, jpillan@indiana.edu
* Rich Slabach, Quality Assurance Manager, Kuali OLE, rlslabac@indiana.edu

This research update will feature technical staff from the Kuali Open Library Environment (OLE) project, which is in its second year of building a community-source library management environment. Operating since July 2010, and supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Kuali OLE is the one of the largest academic library software collaborations in the United States. In this presentation we will discuss the Kuali OLE Year 2 Roadmap as well as key components of the system architecture, additionally we will demonstrate our Kuali OLE 0.3 release from November 2011 with our cloud-based test drive implementation and our well documented driver's manual. This will lead to a better understanding of how this code base could support library management at your home institution.

We will also discuss opportunities for engagement with Kuali OLE and for adoption and use of the software as well as hear more about our plans for long-term sustainability. For more on our current software see - https://wiki.kuali.org/display/OLE/OLE+and+Docstore+Server+Installation

== UDFR: Building a Registry using Open-Source Semantic Software ==

* Stephen Abrams, Associate Director, UC3, California Digital Library, stephen.abrams AT ucop DING edu
* Lisa Dawn Colvin, UDFR Project Manager, California Digital Library, lisa.colvin AT ucop DING edu

Fundamental to effective long-term preservation analysis, planning, and intervention is the deep understanding of the diverse digital formats used to represent content. The Unified Digital Format Registry project (UDFR, https://bitbucket.org/udfr/main/wiki/Home) will provide an open source platform for an online, semantically-enabled registry of significant format representation information.

We will give an introduction to the UDFR tool and its use within a preservation process.

We will also discuss our experiences of integrating disparate data sources and models into RDF: describing our iterative data modeling process and decisions around integrating vocabularies, data sources and provenance representation.

Finally, we will share how we extended an existing open-source semantic wiki tool, OntoWiki, to create the registry.

We will do this within 20 minutes.

== Sirsi Symphony: Developing a "web service" to provide real time bibliographic information to Blacklight. ==

* John Pillans, Enterprise Software, Library Systems, Configuration Manager Kuali OLE, Indiana University, jpillan@indiana.edu

Indiana University Libraries is currently in the process of implementing Blacklight as its discovery layer on top of Sirsi Symphony. One aspect of Blacklight that must be developed locally is providing circulation status and holdings information to the user. We have developed a "web service" which provides the bibliographic data, formatted MARC holdings data (if present), and item data with current circulation information to the Blacklight system in XML.

== Open Sourcing the Dream: Making the Read/Write Library ==

* Margaret Heller, Read/Write Library Chicago and Dominican University, mheller@dom.edu

You met the Chicago Underground Library last year, now meet The Read/Write Library Chicago.It's a new name, a new space, and new opportunities to develop our catalog. We are working on creating the open source version of our ideas with a distributed team of interested volunteers, plus experimenting with innovative partnerships with the Chicago technology community. This talk will share what the team and open source project look like, what we are doing with our data, and how we finally learned to stop worrying and love Git.

== Interactive maps: an easy to maintain and scalable approach ==

* Mariela Gunn, Oakland University, gunn@oakland.edu

Developing interactive maps of a library building presents a unique challenge in an institution with limited web services personnel. Our technical expectations are high: we want the maps to have engaging interactivity, to be modular so we can link to different services represented in them, and to be scalable so that we can integrate data-driven elements. Our content needs are ever changing: we want to have distributed authorship of content through a user-friendly interface that can be used by all librarians without a steep learning curve.

This talk will focus on the design of interactive maps by a group of our undergraduate student interns who selected a web application -- Maps Alive -- for the task with ease of use and scalability in mind and set up a structure that can grow and change. The pros and cons of the application will be discussed, as well as tips on how to evaluate potential tools and make the best use of them through a modular and flexible approach to interactive maps. Involving students as designers and decision-makers in technology-related projects will be highlighted too.

[[Category: Code4Lib2012]]

2012 committees sign-up page

2011-11-20T13:00:47Z

Mariela: /* Welcome Wagon Committee */

= Code4Lib 2012 Committees =

If you are interested in helping out with a particular part of the Code4Lib 2012 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.

== Book Give-Away Committee ==

* Kevin S. Clarke (ksclarke@gmail.com) -- McHenry Library, UC Santa Cruz -- Asking O'Reilly
* Chandos Publishing. Yes.
* Anjanette -- Asking Manning (via Erik Hatcher)
* No Starch. Yes.
* [http://www.seattletechnicalbooks.com Ada's Technical Books]. Woohoo.
* Andrew Nagy -- oXygen XML Editor (5 Licenses to give away)
* [[BookRaffle|Suggestions for Book Raffle.]]

== 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.

* Kyle Banerjee (banerjek@uoregon.edu) -- Orbis Cascade Alliance
* Anjanette Young -- University of Washington
* Mike Giarlo -- Penn State
* [[User:DataGazetteer|Peter Murray]] -- LYRASIS (likely sponsor)
* Andrew Nagy -- Serials Solutions
* Roy Tennant -- OCLC

== Keynote Speakers Committee ==

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

* Ann Lally (alally at uw dot edu) University of Washington
* Dre (akorphan at ncsu dot edu) North Carolina State University

== Program Committee ==

This committee plans the structure of the program, arranges the voting on presentations, etc. These folks will also announce speakers, etc.

* Jeremy Frumkin (frumkinj at u dot library dot arizona dot edu) - University of Arizona
* Ranti Junus (ranti.junus at gmail) - Michigan State University
* John Fink (john.fink at gmail) - McMaster University
* Tom Johnson (thomas dot johnson at oregonstate dot edu) - Oregon State University
* [[User:DataGazetteer|Peter Murray]] - LYRASIS

== 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.

* Jeremy Frumkin (frumkinj at u dot library dot arizona dot edu) - University of Arizona
* Jodi Schneider - DERI, NUI Galway
* Becky Yoose [yoosebec] at grinnell dot edu - Grinnell College
* Ed Corrado - Binghamton University
* Terry Reese - Oregon State University
* Ranti Junus - Michigan State University

== T-Shirt Committee ==

This committee organizes the t-shirt contest, collecting submissions, and putting out the call for votes.

* Ann Lally (alally at uw dot edu) University of Washington
* Angie Beiriger (beiriger at reed dot edu) Reed college

== Social Activities Committee ==

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

* Jennifer Ward (jlward1 at uw dot edu) -- University of Washington
* Jeff Sherwood (jeffs3 at uw dot edu) -- University of Washington

== 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.

== Hospitality Suite Committee ==

This committee makes arrangements for any hospitality suite amenities (technology, snacks, games, icebreakers...) we may want

* Mike Giarlo -- Penn State [Glad to be a keyholder, room-sitter, and general tidier-upper]
* Tom Johnson -- Oregon State University
* Lisa Kurt [lkurt at unr dot edu]-- University of Nevada, Reno
* Carmen Mitchell -- California State University San Marcos

== Welcome Wagon Committee ==

Offers conference newcomers an opportunity to self-identify; offers oldtimers an opportunity to meet newcomers. May also want to constitute a year-round variation for #code4lib.

* Becky Yoose(b.yoose at gmail dot com) -- Grinnell College
* Bohyun Kim(kimb at fiu dot edu) -- Florida International University
* Jason Clark (jaclark at montana dot edu) Montana State University
* Mariela Gunn (gunn at oakland dot edu) -- Oakland University

== Social Networking ==
Responsible for non-IRC social networking presence.

*Rowena McKernan (rmckernan at whatcom dot ctc dot edu) ~ Whatcom Community College

== IRC Evangelists ==
Demonstrate how to get onto #code4lib during Registration. Offer support for newcomers in #code4lib during the conference.

* Sam Kome (skome) Claremont Colleges
* Gabriel Farrell (gsf) (gsf747@gmail.com) Drexel University

== IRC Access ==
Look into technology/procedures to make connecting to, and maintaining a connection to, IRC less painful.

* Cary Gordon (cgordon at chillco.com) -- The Cherry Hill Company

==Registration Desk Volunteers==
We need 1-2 volunteers to hang out at the registration desk for 2-hour shifts. Also on Monday and Tuesday, an additional volunteer with wireless access knowledge would be helpful on the Registration Desk to answer tech questions.

* Dan Suchy (dansuchy at gmail) -- UC San Diego
* Doris Munson (dmunson at ewu.edu) -- Eastern Washington University
* Tod Robbins (todd.d.robbins at gmail) -- University of Washington

== Microphone Runners==

Run wireless handheld microphones to audience members asking questions.

== Session Timer Volunteers ==

People who volunteer to sit up front, keep time (and bring timer equipment - i.e. a laptop with a stopwatch program).

* Ann Gleason (amwhit24 at uw dot edu) - University of Washington
* Carmen Mitchell (carmenmitchell at gmail dot com) - California State University San Marcos
* Tod Robbins (todd.d.robbins at gmail) - University of Washington
* Mariela Gunn (gunn at oakland dot edu) - Oakland University

'''Schedule for Session Timers'''

== Raffles ==
(calling awardees)
(backup)
(program)

= 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: Code4Lib2012]]

2012 committees sign-up page

2011-11-20T12:58:56Z

Mariela: /* Session Timer Volunteers */

= Code4Lib 2012 Committees =

If you are interested in helping out with a particular part of the Code4Lib 2012 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.

== Book Give-Away Committee ==

* Kevin S. Clarke (ksclarke@gmail.com) -- McHenry Library, UC Santa Cruz -- Asking O'Reilly
* Chandos Publishing. Yes.
* Anjanette -- Asking Manning (via Erik Hatcher)
* No Starch. Yes.
* [http://www.seattletechnicalbooks.com Ada's Technical Books]. Woohoo.
* Andrew Nagy -- oXygen XML Editor (5 Licenses to give away)
* [[BookRaffle|Suggestions for Book Raffle.]]

== 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.

* Kyle Banerjee (banerjek@uoregon.edu) -- Orbis Cascade Alliance
* Anjanette Young -- University of Washington
* Mike Giarlo -- Penn State
* [[User:DataGazetteer|Peter Murray]] -- LYRASIS (likely sponsor)
* Andrew Nagy -- Serials Solutions
* Roy Tennant -- OCLC

== Keynote Speakers Committee ==

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

* Ann Lally (alally at uw dot edu) University of Washington
* Dre (akorphan at ncsu dot edu) North Carolina State University

== Program Committee ==

This committee plans the structure of the program, arranges the voting on presentations, etc. These folks will also announce speakers, etc.

* Jeremy Frumkin (frumkinj at u dot library dot arizona dot edu) - University of Arizona
* Ranti Junus (ranti.junus at gmail) - Michigan State University
* John Fink (john.fink at gmail) - McMaster University
* Tom Johnson (thomas dot johnson at oregonstate dot edu) - Oregon State University
* [[User:DataGazetteer|Peter Murray]] - LYRASIS

== 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.

* Jeremy Frumkin (frumkinj at u dot library dot arizona dot edu) - University of Arizona
* Jodi Schneider - DERI, NUI Galway
* Becky Yoose [yoosebec] at grinnell dot edu - Grinnell College
* Ed Corrado - Binghamton University
* Terry Reese - Oregon State University
* Ranti Junus - Michigan State University

== T-Shirt Committee ==

This committee organizes the t-shirt contest, collecting submissions, and putting out the call for votes.

* Ann Lally (alally at uw dot edu) University of Washington
* Angie Beiriger (beiriger at reed dot edu) Reed college

== Social Activities Committee ==

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

* Jennifer Ward (jlward1 at uw dot edu) -- University of Washington
* Jeff Sherwood (jeffs3 at uw dot edu) -- University of Washington

== 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.

== Hospitality Suite Committee ==

This committee makes arrangements for any hospitality suite amenities (technology, snacks, games, icebreakers...) we may want

* Mike Giarlo -- Penn State [Glad to be a keyholder, room-sitter, and general tidier-upper]
* Tom Johnson -- Oregon State University
* Lisa Kurt [lkurt at unr dot edu]-- University of Nevada, Reno
* Carmen Mitchell -- California State University San Marcos

== Welcome Wagon Committee ==

Offers conference newcomers an opportunity to self-identify; offers oldtimers an opportunity to meet newcomers. May also want to constitute a year-round variation for #code4lib.

* Becky Yoose(b.yoose at gmail dot com) -- Grinnell College
* Bohyun Kim(kimb at fiu dot edu) -- Florida International University
* Jason Clark (jaclark at montana dot edu) Montana State University

== Social Networking ==
Responsible for non-IRC social networking presence.

*Rowena McKernan (rmckernan at whatcom dot ctc dot edu) ~ Whatcom Community College

== IRC Evangelists ==
Demonstrate how to get onto #code4lib during Registration. Offer support for newcomers in #code4lib during the conference.

* Sam Kome (skome) Claremont Colleges
* Gabriel Farrell (gsf) (gsf747@gmail.com) Drexel University

== IRC Access ==
Look into technology/procedures to make connecting to, and maintaining a connection to, IRC less painful.

* Cary Gordon (cgordon at chillco.com) -- The Cherry Hill Company

==Registration Desk Volunteers==
We need 1-2 volunteers to hang out at the registration desk for 2-hour shifts. Also on Monday and Tuesday, an additional volunteer with wireless access knowledge would be helpful on the Registration Desk to answer tech questions.

* Dan Suchy (dansuchy at gmail) -- UC San Diego
* Doris Munson (dmunson at ewu.edu) -- Eastern Washington University
* Tod Robbins (todd.d.robbins at gmail) -- University of Washington

== Microphone Runners==

Run wireless handheld microphones to audience members asking questions.

== Session Timer Volunteers ==

People who volunteer to sit up front, keep time (and bring timer equipment - i.e. a laptop with a stopwatch program).

* Ann Gleason (amwhit24 at uw dot edu) - University of Washington
* Carmen Mitchell (carmenmitchell at gmail dot com) - California State University San Marcos
* Tod Robbins (todd.d.robbins at gmail) - University of Washington
* Mariela Gunn (gunn at oakland dot edu) - Oakland University

'''Schedule for Session Timers'''

== Raffles ==
(calling awardees)
(backup)
(program)

= 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: Code4Lib2012]]