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2014 Social Activities

2014-03-19T04:14:04Z

Sbacon: /* Newcomer Dinner, Monday 3/24 */

The Social Activities Group is working on several events and social opportunities for after conference hours. We will be adding more events as they come along. Watch this page!

Also, if you find a cool event to go to, and want to share the wealth with others, feel free to add the event to the page. :)

== Planned Events ==

=== Newcomer Dinner, Monday 3/24 ===

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>XML</strike> EZProxy alternatives.

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

'''Plans'''
* When: Monday 3/24
* 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
**Some restaurants can hold multiple groups of six. It is up to you to investigate the venue to see if this is possible.
*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 tech type folks
***Herd folks from hotel to restaurant (know where you're going!)
*See a restaurant that's not listed? Feel free to add one, '''but please make sure that it is open that Monday evening.'''

'''Restaurants'''

'''Under .5 mile from hotel'''

[http://bukuraleigh.com/buku/ bu ku] (Global street food)
# Bohyun Kim - v (leader) Reservation at 6:15; Meet at the hotel lobby at 6pm (Twitter: [http://twitter.com/bohyunkim @bohyunkim] if u need to get in touch)
# Junior Tidal - n
# Brian Rogers - n
# Vanessa Lucas - n
# Ashley Blewer - n
# Paula Gray-Overtoom - v
# '''Full group!'''

[http://www.oxfordraleigh.com/ The Oxford] (Gastropub)
# Roy Tennant - v (leader) 6:30 reservation set - please email roytennant on Google mail to provide contact info
# David Bass - n
# Dan Moore - n
# Jack Reed - n
# Sean Hendricks - n
# Lauren Magnuson -v (ish - only been once before)
# '''Full group!'''

[http://www.sonoraleigh.com/index.php Sono] (Japanese)

[http://www.lavoltarestaurant.com/ La Volta] (Italian)

[http://ac-restaurants.com/pooles/ Poole's] (Local food)
# Jean Rainwater - v (leader)
# Cynthia (Arty) Ng
# Catelynne Sahadath -n
# Maura Carbone -n
# Kate Hill -n
# Martin Haye - v (twice at c4l)
# '''Full group!'''

[http://calaveraraleigh.com/ Calavera Empanada & Tequila Bar] (Empanada)

[http://bigeasync.com/ The Big Easy] (New Orleans/Creole)

[http://postatuscangrille.com/ Posta Tuscan Grille] (Italian)

# Julia Bauder - v (leader) Reservations for 6 people at 6:15pm. Please e-mail me your contact info at bauderj-at-grinnell-dot-edu)
# Brian Riley - n
# Mark Mounts - v
# Birkin James Diana - v
# Walter Stine - n
# Michael Levy - v(ish; I attended once, in 2012)
# '''Full group!'''

[http://www.mecca-restaurant.com/ The Mecca] (Diner/Southern)

[http://busybeeraleigh.com/ Busy Bee Cafe] (American)
# Ken Varnum - v (leader) -- reservation for 6 people at 6:15. Send me your contact info at varnum umich edu.
# Josh Wilson - v(ish, as in: once)
# Kristen Wilson - n
# Michael Blake - n
# Zahra Ashktorab - n (I'm landing later that evening and will join if you are still out at around 8:30/9)
# Emily Reynolds - n
# Wendy Hagenmaier - n
# '''Full group!''' (I'll take 7 names, since one of us will be joining us later if we're still there)

[http://ac-restaurants.com/beasleys/ Beasley's Chicken + Honey] (Southern)

Group 1
# Rosalyn Metz - v (leader)
# Chad Nelson - v (insubordinator)
# Andrew Pasterfield - v
# Aaron Coburn - n
# Arcadia Falcone -n
# Mike Beccaria - v
# '''Full group!'''

Group 2
# Matt Zumwalt - v (leader)
# Chris Sharp - v
# Joe Ferrie - n
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[http://ac-restaurants.com/chucks/ Chuck's] (Burgers)

[http://ororaleigh.com/ Oro] (Tapas vegan options)

[http://www.jimmyvsraleigh.com/ Jimmy V's Osteria and Bar] (Italian)

[http://bidamanda.com/ Bida Manda] (Laotian)
# Dre - v (leader) -- Reservations at 6:15, meet at hotel lobby at 5:45. No, it won't take us half an hour to get there. Dre looks like [http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/staff/akorphan/ this handsome fella]. My e-mail address is on that page if you'd like to exchange contact info.
# Heather Rayl - n
# Ranti Junus - v
# Jennifer Kishi - n
# Nabil Kashyap - n
# Laura Wrubel - n
# '''Full group!'''

[http://sitti-raleigh.com/index1.php Sitti] (Lebanese) - Meet in the hotel lobby at 6 pm; look for the short woman in the big brown hat
# Becky Yoose - v (benevolent dictator/leader) contact me at b.yoose at the google machine in case you might run late
# Michael Gibney - n
# Steven Holloway - n
# Jeffrey Mudge - n
# Arie Nugraha - n
# Lisa Rabey - n
# '''Full group!'''

[http://www.thepit-raleigh.com/ The Pit Authentic Barbecue] (BBQ)

Group 1
# Joshua Gomez - v (leader) (I have reservations for 6 people at 6pm. Send me your contact info: gomezjn_AT_usc_DOT_edu)
# Andrew Darby - v
# Tammy Allgood Wolf - n
# Jim LeFager - n
# Michael Daul - n
# Natasha Nunn - n
# '''Full group!'''

Group 2 (Can we keep this mostly newbies, please?) - '''Reservations at 6:15 PM; depart hotel lobby at 6 PM'''
# Mx Matienzo - v (leader)
# Cary Gordon - v
# Mark Breedlove - n
# Coral Sheldon-Hess - n (pumpkin cornbread!?!?!)
# Violeta Ilik
# Robin Taylor - n
# '''Full group!'''

Group 3 (I have reservations for 6 people at 6pm. Send me your contact info: justin@curationexperts.com)
# Justin Coyne - v (leader)
# Rachel Vacek- n
# Devin Higgins - n
# John Rees - n
# Andrew Gordon - n
# Bobbi Fox -v
# '''Full group!'''

Group 4 (Riley made reservations for 6:15)
# Jon Stroop - v (leader, but Riley did the work. Contact: jpstroop@gmail.com)
# [[Riley Childs]] - n
# David Lacy - v
# Shaun Ellis - v
# William Hicks
# Eleanor Dickson - n
# '''Full group!'''

Group V (Declan made reservations for 6 at 6p. Contact: declan@declan.net)
# Declan Fleming - v (leader)
# Mike Giarlo - v
# Carolina Garcia - v
# Jefferson Bailey - n
# Laura Akerman - n
# Lauren Work - n
# '''Full group!'''

[http://www.gravyraleigh.com/ Gravy] (Italian)

[http://theboroughraleigh.com/ The Borough] (Pub)

[http://www.theremedydiner.com/ The Remedy Diner] (Diner (lots of Veg*n options))
# Erin White - v (leader)
# Linda Ballinger - v(ish)
# Terry Brady - v (been one other time)
# Gabe Ormsby - n
# Eric James - v
# Jenny Gubernick - n
# '''Full group!'''

[http://www.centroraleigh.com/ Centro] (Mexican)

[http://www.beerknurd.com/stores/raleigh/ Flying Saucer] (Pub)

[http://brewmastersbarandgrill.com/ Brewmasters Bar and Grill] (Brewpub)
# Esmé Cowles - v (leader)
# Christina Salazar - v/n
# Francis Kayiwa - v (follower)
# Megan Kudzia - v
# Zahra Ashktorab - n
# David Drexler - v (ish)
# '''Full group!'''

'''.5 to 1 mile from hotel'''

[http://www.518west.com/ 518 West Italian Cafe] (Italian)

[http://boylanbridge.com/ Boylan Bridge Brewpub] (Brewpub)
# Carolyn Cole v (leader)
# Justin Simpson - n
# Christian Sarason - v (3rd times a charm?)
# Scott Bacon - n
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[http://www.mantraindiancuisinebar.com/ Mantra] (Indian)

[http://mtfujinc.com/SushiO/ Sushi O] (Asian)

[http://zakyrestaurant.com/ Zaky Restaurant] (Mediterranean)

[http://sullivanssteakhouse.com/raleigh/ Sullivan's Steakhouse] (Steak)

[http://bia-restaurant.com/ Bia ] (New American)

[http://www.18seaboard.com/index.html 18 Seaboard] (Contemporary American)

[http://sushibluescafe.com Sushi Blues Cafe] (Japanese)

[http://www.therockfordrestaurant.com/About.aspx Rockford] (American)

[http://www.tylerstaproom.com/ Tyler's Restaurant and Taproom] (Pub)

[http://bluemangoraleigh.com/ Blue Mango] (Indian)

[http://mellowmushroom.com/store/raleigh Mellow Mushroom] (Pizza)

[http://tascabrava.com/index2.html Tasca Brava] (Spanish)

[http://clockworkraleigh.com/index.html Clockwork] (Pub)

[http://dostaquitosnc.com/ Dos Taquitos] (Mexican)

[http://nappertandysraleighnc.com/ Napper Tandy's Irish Pub] (Pub)

[http://www.thaiphoonbistro.com/ Thaiphoon bistro] (Thai)

'''More than 1 mile from hotel'''

[http://www.peacechinanc.com/ Peace China] (Chinese)

[http://www.ddandnb.com/ Davids Dumpling and Noodle Bar] (Asian)

[http://www.abyssiniarestaurant.net/5.html Abyssinia Ethiopian Restaurant] (Ethiopian)

=== James B. Hunt Library Reception and Tour, Tuesday 3/25 ===

A reception and tour of the James B. Hunt Library on NCSU's Centennial Campus will take place on Tuesday, March 25, 5:00-7:30 PM. See the library, which opened in January 2013, through the eyes of the students in the over 3,000 Instagram photos in the [http://d.lib.ncsu.edu/myhuntlibrary My #HuntLibrary] project. The furniture alone has generated interest, as shown on the [http://chairsofhuntlibrary.tumblr.com/ Chairs of Hunt Library] Tumbler site.

'''Travel to Hunt'''

Buses will begin loading at the Sheraton at 5:00 PM after the day's sessions have concluded. The Hunt Library is 4 miles from the Sheraton.

'''Reception'''

Pizza and light snacks will be made available in the Multipurpose Room, along with soft drinks and beer from the [http://www.ncsu.edu/foodscience/Sheppard/NCSU-12004%20Brewery%20Brochure1.pdf NC State Brewery].

'''Tour'''

Attendees will be welcome to embark on a self-guided tour of the library. Library staff will be on hand at selected locations, including hi-tech spaces such as the [http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/huntlibrary/bookBot bookBot] robotic book delivery system, the [http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/spaces/teaching-and-visualization-lab Teaching & Visualization Lab], the [http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/spaces/creativity-studio Creativity Studio], the [http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/spaces/game-lab Game Lab], and the [http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/spaces/makerspace Makerspace].

'''Travel back to the Sheraton'''

Buses will begin to load for the return trip at 6:45 PM. The last bus will leave the Hunt Library at approximately 7:45 PM.

=== #libtechwomen meetup, Tuesday 3/25 ===

An informal meetup for women and their friends in library technology for networking and fun. Come join us! Learn more about #libtechwomen at [http://libtechwomen.org/about.html].

'''Where''': [http://www.raleightimesbar.com/ The Raleigh Times Bar] 14 E Hargett St Raleigh, NC 27601. 7 minute walk from the Sheraton.

'''When''': Evening after the tour :c) (Starting at 730P on)

'''Cost''': No drink minimum.

'''Contact''': Lisa Rabey [http://twitter.com/pnkrcklibrarian @pnkrcklibrarian]

'''Signup''': Everyone welcome. Just show up!

=== A/V Geeks Present: When Computers Were Young, Wednesday 3/26 ===

[http://www.avgeeks.com/wp2/ A/V Geeks] maintains a collection of over 23,000 old 16mm educational films from various decades of the 20th century, including such classics as [http://www.avgeeks.com/wp2/library-story-the-1952/ The Library Story (1952)], many obtained from school and government auctions. Media archaeologist [http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/skip-elsheimer/Content?oid=1183990 Skip Elsheimer] holds themed showings of selected films at events around the Triangle and in other states.

This event, [http://kingsbarcade.com/2014/03/26/av-geeks-present-when-computers-where-young/ When Computers Were Young], will include "Actual 16mm school films that introduce us to the wonderful world of computers and their potential future -- all before Google!" Films will include Disney's Ethics in the Computer Age and more. This showing is an all ages, public event that is part of a series of monthly shows held at [http://kingsbarcade.com/ Kings Barcade], but the event has been scheduled and themed with the Code4Lib crowd in mind.

'''When:''' Doors open at 7:30 PM.

'''Where:''' Located two blocks from the Sheraton, Kings is a 250-capacity live music venue with a full bar and several local beers on tap. Kings is directly connected with the [http://neptunesparlour.com/ Neptunes Parlour], a cocktail lounge with classic arcade games, pinball, and nightly DJ's. The new [http://garlandraleigh.com/ Garland] Indian restaurant, operated by the same owners, is also downstairs.

'''Cost:''' The event is free with a suggested $5 donation.

'''Signup:''' Please add your name to the [http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/2014_AVGeeks_Signup sign up list] if you would like to attend so that we can inform the organizers about the level of interest

=== Library Tech Cast Round table: Wednesday Evening ===
The Library Tech Cast will be hosting a live Round table somewhere at the Sheraton, we are looking for about 5 people who would be interested. Our Topics can be anything you want, feel free to speak your mind!

See [http://librarytechcast.com/c4l-show http://librarytechcast.com/c4l-show]for details!

Please contact Riley@LibraryTechCast.com if you have any questions!

'''Location:''' Lobby, we will find a nice relaxing area!

'''Time:''' Around 6PM,

'''Signup:''' Please put your Name and Email Address Below!

*Riley Childs, Riley@TFSGEO.com

== Social Map - Places of Interest==

[https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=211601269129937460559.0004d8d5902e5e3d04b05&msa=0&ll=35.782519,-78.640223&spn=0.01464,0.01929 Code4Lib 2014 Amenities Map, Downtown Raleigh, NC] - Amenities that are within walking distance of the Sheraton or the R Line circulator

New York Times: [http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/03/09/travel/36-hours-in-raleigh-nc.html?referrer 36 Hours in Raleigh NC] (March 6, 2014)

== Ideas ==

''Add your own ideas here''

'''Game Night'''

Time and location to be determined

I can bring some board games if people are interested. I have a decent [http://boardgamegeek.com/collection/user/vacekrae?geekranks=Board+Game+Rank&columns=title%7Cstatus%7Cversion%7Crating%7Cbggrating%7Cplays%7Ccomment%7Ccommands&own=1&ff=1&subtype=boardgame collection]. Let me know via email at vacekrae on gmail.

'''Trolley Pub'''

14 person pedal-powered [http://trolleypub.com/raleigh/ trolleys]. Can be booked for pub crawls in downtown or in the Warehouse District. BYOB allowed. Private tours for 8-14 people can be booked for $350 for two hour time slots between 11:00 AM and midnight. Smaller groups of 1-6 people can also by 'Mixer' tickets for $30 (shared trolley).

'''Brewpub Walk'''

Three brewpubs can be found along a [http://goo.gl/maps/haOiD 1.2 mile walk] through the Warehouse District west from the Sheraton.
NOTE: Trophy Brewing, the westernmost brewpub, has great pizza but limited seating. To finish with dinner, go in smaller numbers if eating at Trophy, or go around the corner to Irregardless Cafe, which has veg*n options. Alternatively, start at Trophy and go the opposite direction and eat in the Warehouse District or downtown where there are many dining options.

'''NCAA Tournament Game at PNC Arena'''

[http://www.thepncarena.com/events/detail/2014-ncaa-division-i-mens-basketball-tournament Third Round Division I Men's basketball game], Sunday March 23. If anyone else is crazy enough to pay the money for tickets email rosalynmetz [at] the gmail

== Local Events ==

[http://www.godowntownraleigh.com/explore/arts Map of downtown arts and cultural entertainment]

[http://www.godowntownraleigh.com/event-calendar/2014/3 Calendar of downtown events]

[http://www.godowntownraleigh.com/explore/shopping Map of downtown shopping]

=== Exhibits, Showings, Museums ===

*[http://naturalsciences.org/ North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences]
**[http://naturalsciences.org/nature-research-center Nature Research Center]
**Exhibit - [http://naturalsciences.org/exhibits/special-exhibits Birds of Paradise: Amazing Avian Evolution] (final day March 23)

*[http://www.ncdcr.gov/ncmoh/Home.aspx North Carolina Museum of History] Exhibits:
**[http://www.godowntownraleigh.com/event/exhibit-opening-cedars-in-the-pines Cedars in the Pines]
**[http://www.ncdcr.gov/ncmoh/SeeOurExhibits/CurrentExhibits/NorthCarolinaandtheCivilWar/The_Bitter_End.aspx North Carolina and the Civil War: The Bitter End, 1864-1865]
**[http://www.ncdcr.gov/ncmoh/SeeourExhibits/CurrentExhibits/Watergate.aspx Watergate: Political Scandal & the Presidency]

*[http://www.nchistoricsites.org/capitol/ North Carolina State Capitol]

*[http://camraleigh.org/2014nc-arts-council-artist-fellowship/ NC Arts Council Artist Fellowship Award Exhibition] at the [http://camraleigh.org/ Contemporary Arts Museum]

*[http://ncartmuseum.org/calendar/ NC Museum of Art Calendar]

*[http://www.godowntownraleigh.com/explore/arts/art-galleries Downtown Raleigh Art Galleries]

*[http://artspacenc.org/about-us/visit/ ArtSpace]

*[http://www.raleighcitymuseum.org/index.shtml City of Raleigh Museum]

*[http://calendar.activedatax.com/ncstate/EventList.aspx?fromdate=3/1/2014&todate=3/31/2014&display=Month&type=public&eventidn=9669&view=EventDetails&information_id=27372 Remnants of the Floating World: Japanese Art from the Permanent Collection] at the [http://www.ncsu.edu/gregg/index.html NCSU Gregg Museum of Art & Design]

*[http://www.joellane.org/ Joel Lane Museum House]

*[http://www.raleighnc.gov/parks/content/PRecRecreation/Articles/MordecaiHistoricPark2.html Mordecai Historic Park]

=== Outside Activities ===

* [http://www.triangleglides.com/ Triangle Glides] Segway tours, standup paddleboard rentals

* [http://www.raleighnc.gov/parks/content/PRecDesignDevelop/Articles/CapitalAreaGreenwayTrailSystem.html Capital Area Greenway Trail System]

* [http://www.ncartmuseum.org/museum_park/visit_park/ NC Museum of Art: Museum Park] Scenic trails and outdoor art

* [http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/raleigh/index.htm National Register of Historic Places]

* [http://www.ncsu.edu/jcraulstonarboretum/index.php JC Raulston Arboretum]

=== Run Clubs ===

'''Monday Night'''
* [http://www.nogrunclub.com/ Nog Run Club] - 6:00 PM at Tir Na Nog Irish Pub: 3-5 mile routes, followed by team trivia, $1 pasta, and beer specials

'''Tuesday Night'''
* [https://www.facebook.com/events/553725497983418/ Natty Greene's Run Club] - 6:00 PM at Natty Greene's Brewery: 1, 3, 5 mile routes
* Big Boss Run Club - 7:00 PM at [http://bigbossbrewing.com/age-verification.aspx?returnTo=%2f Big Boss Brewery]: 3-6 mile routes followed by beer specials

'''Wednesday Night'''
* Margarita Run Club - 6:00 PM at [http://www.centroraleigh.com/ Centro] restaurant: 3-5 mile routes followed by taco bar and margarita specials
* [http://www.ymcatriangle.org/programs-services/fitness-wellness/walking-running-clubs/alexander-family-ymca-0 Trophy Brewery Runs] - 6:00 PM at Trophy Brewing: 1, 3, 5 mile routes

== Local Food ==

[http://www.godowntownraleigh.com/explore/dining Map of Downtown Restaurants & Dining]

=== Restaurants ===

[http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/01/30/3577164/2014-best-restaurants-in-the-triangle.html News & Observer 2014 Best Restaurants of the Triangle]

[http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/LocationSearch?locationSection=1218750 Indy Weekly Triangle Dining Guide]

'''Fayetteville St. District''' (0-0.4 miles north)

* [http://clydecoopersbbq.com/ Clyde Cooper's BBQ] (since 1938)
* [http://garlandraleigh.com/ Garland] Indian
* [http://ac-restaurants.com/beasleys/ Beasley's Chicken & Honey] Fried Chicken, Chicken and Waffles (''Ashley Christiansen'')
* [http://www.sonoraleigh.com/ Sono] Sushi
* [http://www.capitalclub16.com/Capital_Club_16/Home.html Capital Club 16] Eclectic pub grub
* [http://sitti-raleigh.com/ Sitti] Lebanese
* [http://ororaleigh.com/ Oro] Tapas (vegan options)
* [http://www.centroraleigh.com/ Centro] Mexican
* [http://www.centroraleigh.com/ Chuck's Burgers] (''Ashley Christiansen'')
* [http://www.oakcitymeatball.com/ Oak City Meatball Shoppe]
* [http://www.gravyraleigh.com/ Gravy] Italian-American
* [http://busybeeraleigh.com/ Busy Bee Cafe] American
* [http://www.mecca-restaurant.com/ Mecca] Diner/southern
* [http://bukuraleigh.com/buku/ Buku] Global street food
* [http://www.boltbistro.com/ Bolt] Bistro, Steakhouse, Seafood

'''Moore Square''' (0.3-0.5 miles east)

* [http://bidamanda.com/ Bida Manda] Laotian
* [http://www.theremedydiner.com/ Remedy Diner] Veg*n and non-veg*n
* [http://www.cafeluna.com/ Cafe Luna] Italian (Tuscan)
* [http://calaveraraleigh.com/ Calavera] Empanadas and tequila
* [http://www.bigedscitymarket.com/ Big Ed's] Diner
* [http://www.mosdiner.net/ Mo's Diner] American (New)

'''Warehouse District''' (0.2-0.7 miles west)

* [http://www.thepit-raleigh.com/ The Pit] Whole-hog, pit-coooked BBQ
* [http://thefictionkitchen.com/ Fiction Kitchen] Veg*n
* [http://ac-restaurants.com/pooles/ Poole's Diner] American/Diner (''Ashley Christiansen'')
* [http://joseandsons.com/ Jose and Sons] Mexican/Southern fusion
* [http://humblepierestaurant.com/ Humble Pie] Tapas (Live jazz on Wed.)
* [http://www.heatseekershrimp.com/ Five Star] Asian (Traditional and creative)
* [http://roastgrill.com/ Roast Grill] Just hot dogs (''as seen on Man v. Food'')

'''Glenwood South''' (0.6-1.3 miles northwest)

* [http://www.42ndstoysterbar.com/ 42nd St. Oyster Bar] Seafood
* [http://therockfordrestaurant.com/ Rockford] American (New)/Pub grub
* [http://www.518west.com/ 518 West] Italian
* [http://www.second-empire.com/ Second Empire] American (New)

'''Seaboard Station/Person St.''' (1.0-1.2 miles north)

* [http://www.18seaboard.com/ Seaboard Station] Southern, American (New)
* [http://jbetskis.com/ J. Betskis] Central & Eastern European
* [https://www.facebook.com/pages/Stanbury/359649790802483 Stanbury] Contemporary
* [http://piebirdraleigh.com/ Piebird] Sweet and savory pies
* [http://stationraleigh.com/ The Station] American (Traditional)

'''West towards NC State''' (1.2-2.2 miles west)

* [http://www.irregardless.com/ Irregardless Cafe] veg*n options
* [http://www.abyssiniarestaurant.net/5.html Abysinnia] Ethiopian
* [http://www.ddandnb.com/ Davids Dumpling & Noodle Bar] Asian

'''Five Points''' (2.5 miles north)

* [http://bloomsburybistro.com/bistro.restaurant.raleigh/ Bloomsbury Bistro] American (New)
* [https://nofo.com/ NOFO @ The Pig] American (New), Brunch
* [http://lillyspizza.com/ Lilly's Pizza] Pizza and beer

'''Other Inside-the-Beltline Raleigh'''

* [http://guasaca.com/ Guasaca] Venezuelan (6 miles)
* [http://glenwoodgrill.com/ Glenwood Grill] American (Traditional), Southern (4 miles)

=== Desserts ===

* [https://viderichocolatefactory.com/ Videri Chocolate Factory]
* [http://www.escazuchocolates.com/ Escazu Artisan Chocolates]
* [https://plus.google.com/113675251912407366356/about?gl=us&hl=en Crema] Ice cream

=== Coffee ===

* [http://morningtimes-raleigh.com/ Morning Times] (wifi) -- 3 blocks
* [http://ac-restaurants.com/joule/ Joule Coffee] (''Ashley Christiansen'', wifi, breakfast/lunch -- CNN eatocracy [http://eatocracy.cnn.com/2014/02/21/5-hottest-new-coffee-spots-in-the-u-s/ 5 hottest new coffee spots in the US]) -- 3 blocks
* [http://beneluxcoffee.com/ Benelux Coffee] (wifi) -- 4 blocks
* [http://www.sostacafe.com/ Sosta Cafe] (wifi, lunch) -- 2 blocks
* [http://www.cafemuertos.com/ Cafe de los Muertos] (wifi) -- 5 blocks
* [http://www.cafehelios.com/ Cafe Helios] (wifi, breakfast/lunch) -- 1.1 miles

There is a Starbucks in the lobby of the Marriott, next to the Sheraton.

== Local Drinks ==

[http://www.godowntownraleigh.com/explore/nightlife Map of Bars, Clubs & Live Entertainment]

=== Bars ===

'''Fayetteville St. District'''

* [http://www.raleightimesbar.com/ Raleigh Times] Draft Magazine Top 100 beer bar
* [http://www.busybeeraleigh.com/ Busy Bee] Draft Magazine Top 100 beer bar (The Hive is upstairs)
* [http://foundationnc.com/ Foundation] Cocktails, bourbon, local beer
* [http://neptunesparlour.com/ Neptunes Parlour] Cocktails, local beer
* [http://ac-restaurants.com/fox/ Fox Liquor Bar] Cocktails, local beer (''Ashley Christiansen'')
* [http://www.slimsraleigh.com/ Slim's] Dive bar (live music)

'''Moore Square'''

* [http://www.yelp.com/biz/landmark-tavern-raleigh Landmark Tavern] beer, back patio
* [http://www.tnnirishpub.com/ Tir Na Nog] Irish pub
* [http://calaveraraleigh.com/ Calavera] Empanadas and 40 tequila varieties
* [http://woodyscitymarket.com/ Woody's] Beer and wings

'''Warehouse District'''

* [http://brewmastersbarandgrill.com/ Brewmasters] Grill, 2012 Draft Magazine Top 100 beer bar
* [http://www.crankarmbrewing.com/ Crank Arm Brewing] Brewpub
* [http://www.beerknurd.com/stores/raleigh/ Flying Saucer] Beer
* [http://boylanbridge.com/ Boylan Bridge Brewpub] Brewpub

'''Glenwood South'''

* [http://www.cgracebar.com/ C Grace] Cocktails and live jazz
* [http://clockworkraleigh.com/ Clockwork] Retro cocktail lounge

'''Seaboard Station/Person St.'''

* [http://www.tylerstaproom.com/ Tyler's Tap Room] Beer
* [https://www.facebook.com/personstreetbar Person Street Bar]

'''Best places for groups to watch NCAA Championship Games'''

* [http://woodyscitymarket.com/ Woody's]
* [http://www.jimmyvsraleigh.com/ Jimmy V's]
* [http://www.tylerstaproom.com/ Tyler's]

=== Breweries ===

[http://www.ncbeer.org/brewery-map/ Map of NC Breweries]

'''Walking Distance'''

* [http://www.crankarmbrewing.com/ Crank Arm Brewing] (0.3 miles)
* [http://boylanbridge.com/ Boylan Bridge Brewpub] (0.9 miles)
* [http://trophybrewing.com/ Trophy Brewing & Pizza Company] (1.2 miles)

[http://goo.gl/maps/haOiD Possible brewpub walking tour] [NOTE: Trophy has great pizza but limited seating. To finish with dinner consider going the opposite direction and eating in the Warehouse District or downtown]

'''Greater Raleigh'''

* [http://bigbossbrewing.com/‎ Big Boss Brewing] (3.5 miles, Raleigh)
* [http://raleighbrewingcompany.com/ Raleigh Brewing Company] (4 miles, Raleigh)
* [http://www.lynnwoodgrill.com/node/10 Lynnwood Brewing Concern] (9 miles, Raleigh)
* [http://www.loneriderbeer.com/ Lone Rider] (13 miles, Raleigh)
* [http://gizmobrewworks.com/ Gizmo Brewworks] (12 miles, Raleigh)
* [http://www.aviatorbrew.com/ Aviator Brewing Company] (17 miles, Fuquay Varina)
* [http://hosannabrewing.com/ Hosanna Brewery] (14 miles, Fuquay Varina)
* [http://deepriverbrewing.com/ Deep River Brewing] (16 miles, Clayton)
* [http://www.carolinabrew.com/ Carolina Brewing] (19 miles, Holly Springs)
* [http://www.bombshellbeer.com/ Bombshell Beer] (18 miles, Holly Springs)
* [http://www.whitestreetbrewing.com/ White Street Brewing] (18 miles, Wake Forest)

'''Greater Triangle'''

* [http://trianglebrewery.com/ Triangle Brewing] (Durham)
* [http://www.fullsteam.ag/beer/ Fullsteam] (Durham)
* [http://bullcityburgerandbrewery.com/Bull_City_Burger_and_Brewery/Home.html Bull City Burger & Brewing] (Durham)
* [http://thetopofthehill.com/ Top of the Hill] (Chapel Hill)
* [http://steelstringbrewery.com/ Steel String Craft Brewery] (Carrboro)
* [http://www.mysterybrewing.com/ Mystery Brewing] (Hillsborough)
* [http://whiterabbitbrewery.com/ White Rabbit Brewing] (Angiers)
* [http://doublebarleybrewing.com/ Double Barley Brewing] (Wilson Mills)

Other nanobrews: [http://subnoir.net/ Sub Noir Brewing] (Raleigh), [http://starpointbrewing.com/ StarPoint Brewing] (Carrboro), [http://ponysaurusbrewing.com/ Ponysaurus] (Durham), [https://www.facebook.com/sourwoodbrewingco Sourwood Brewing Company - Cider] (Durham)

=== Bottle Shops ===

* [http://tastybeverageco.com/ Tasty Beverage Company] About 1200 packaged beers and 6 draft beers (0.3 mile)
* [http://paddyobeers.com/ Paddy O'Beers] Bottle shop and tasting room (0.4 mile)
* [https://plus.google.com/116185965486400371099/about?gl=us&hl=en The Bottle Shop at Tyler's Taproom] (1.0 mile)
* [http://www.wineauthorities.com/ Wine Authorities] (1.3 miles)

==Raleigh Events March 23-27==

[https://www.mergerecords.com/25k Merge Records 25k] (March 22) Chapel Hill to Durham run, with post race party and bands at Motorco music hall (celebrating 25th year of Merge Records label)

===Sunday March 23===

* Apparently there's going to be [http://www.thepncarena.com/events/detail/2014-ncaa-division-i-mens-basketball-tournament some basketball game] at PNC Arena...
** If anyone else is crazy enough to pay the money for tickets email rosalynmetz [at] the gmail
* Another basketball game - [http://www.visitraleigh.com/includes/calendar-of-events/Cary-Invasion-vs-East-Carolina-Stealth/26414/ Cary Invasion vs. East Carolina Stealth], 6 pm
* [http://www.visitraleigh.com/includes/calendar-of-events/Civil-Rights-Through-Song/25383/ Civil Rights Through Song], Burning Coal Theater Company, at Murphrey School Auditorium, 2 pm
* Romeo and Juliet - Carolina Ballet at [http://www.dukeenergycenterraleigh.com/event/carolina-ballet-private-event-3340 Fletcher Opera Theater]
* [http://calendar.activedatax.com/ncstate/EventList.aspx?fromdate=3/1/2014&todate=3/31/2014&display=Month&type=public&eventidn=9568&view=EventDetails&information_id=27101 LEO (the anti-gravity show)], NCSU Center Stage, 3 pm
* [http://triangleyarncrawl.com/ Triangle Yarn Crawl]
* [http://nuvyug.net/ India Fest] at Dorton Arena
* [http://www.godowntownraleigh.com/event/at-the-movies-frost-and-nixon At the Movies: Frost/Nixon] at NC Museum of History (free movie and lecture associated with the [http://www.ncdcr.gov/ncmoh/SeeourExhibits/CurrentExhibits/Watergate.aspx Watergate exhibit])

===Monday March 24===

===Tuesday, March 25===
* [http://www.visitraleigh.com/includes/calendar-of-events/NHL-Carolina-Hurricanes-vs-New-York-Islanders/24787/ NHL Carolina Hurricanes vs. New York Islanders], 7pm (for free bus see [http://www.godowntownraleigh.com/get-around/pepsi-caniac-coach Pepsi Caniac Coach])

* Job opportunity - AWS is hiring for Seattle-based positions. [https://aws.amazon.com/careers/raleigh-storage-hiring-2014/?sc_channel=sm&sc_campaign=hiringevent&sc_publisher=fb&sc_medium=std&sc_content=raleigh&sc_category=hiringevent Social gathering information], 6pm - 9pm

===Wednesday, March 26===

===Thursday, March 27===

* [http://www.ncsu.edu/dance/events/PDP_SPR2014.html Panoramic Dance Project] at NCSU's Titmus Theater
* [http://www.dukeenergycenterraleigh.com/event/north-carolina-artists-exhibition-3994 2014 Artists Exhibition - Raleigh Fine Arts Society] at Betty Ray McCain Art Gallery
* [http://www.ncdcr.gov/ncmoh/Home.aspx Watergate: Politics, Scandal, and the Media] Panel discussion at the NC Museum of History (reservation required)
* [http://www.visitraleigh.com/includes/calendar-of-events/Raleigh-Beer-Guide-Kickoff-Party/26790/ Raleigh Beer Guide Kickoff Party] All 15 Greater Raleigh breweries on tap.

== Music ==

'''Sunday March 23'''

* [http://www.thepourhousemusichall.com/event/447527-matt-schofield-raleigh/ Matt Schofield] at Pour House
* Action Bronson at [http://www.catscradle.com/events/ Cat's Cradle] (in Carrboro)
* Casanovas in Heat at [http://www.slimsraleigh.com/ Slim's]

'''Monday March 24'''

* [http://www.dpacnc.com/events/detail/csn Crosby, Stills & Nash] at Durham Performing Arts Center (in Durham)
* [http://southlandballroom.com/events/asleep-wheel/ Asleep at the Wheel] at Southland Ballroom
* Devils Wears Prada, with Ghost Inside, others at [http://www.lincolntheatre.com/schedule.htm Lincoln Theater]
* [http://www.thepourhousemusichall.com/event/497289-daley-raleigh/ Daley] at Pour House

'''Tuesday March 25'''

* Three 6 Mafia at [http://www.lincolntheatre.com/schedule.htm Lincoln Theater]
* [http://kingsbarcade.com/2014/03/25/kings-presents-axxaabraxas-captured-tracks-at-slims/ Axxa/Abraxas] at Slim's
* [http://www.thepourhousemusichall.com/event/497341-coast-2-coast-live-raleigh/ Coast 2 Coast Live Interactive Showcase] at Pour House
* Open Mic Night at [http://www.deepsouththebar.com/ Deep South]

'''Wednesday March 26'''

* [http://www.thepourhousemusichall.com/event/479771-pigeons-playing-ping-pong-raleigh/ Pigeons Playing Ping Pong] and Imperial Blend at [http://www.thepourhousemusichall.com/ Pour House]
* Mang (Ween tribute) at [http://www.slimsraleigh.com/ Slim's]
* Free Jazz Night at [http://humblepierestaurant.com/ Humble Pie]
* Open Mic Night at [http://www.deepsouththebar.com/ Deep South]

'''Thursday March 27'''

* Local Beer/Local Band night at [http://www.tnnirishpub.com/ Tir Na Nog]
* [http://www.thepourhousemusichall.com/event/497347-blue-sky-black-death-raleigh/ Blue Sky Black Death] at Pour House
* [http://www.deepsouththebar.com/event/492779-unifier-jessica-long-new-raleigh/ Unifier, Jessica Long & The New Kind] at Deep South
* [http://kingsbarcade.com/2014/03/27/good-graeff/ Good Graeff] at Kings Barcade
* Triathalon with Giant Giants at [http://www.slimsraleigh.com/ Slim's]
* [http://southlandballroom.com/events/alchemystics/ Alchemystics] at Southland Ballroom
* Sarah Colonna (Comedy) at [https://center-stage.seatengine.com/venues/goodnights Goodnight's Comedy]

'''More Music Venues in the Greater Triangle'''

* Raleigh: [http://themaywoodraleigh.com/ Maywood]
* Chapel Hill/Carrboro: [http://www.catscradle.com/ Cat's Cradle], [http://www.local506.com/calendar/ Local 506], [http://caverntavern.com/ The Cave], [http://www.chapelhillunderground.com/ Underground], [https://www.carolinaperformingarts.org/ Memorial Hall]
* Durham: [http://motorcomusic.com/ Motorco], [http://www.thepinhook.com/ Pinhook]
* Saxapahaw: [http://www.hawriverballroom.com/ Haw River Ballroom]
[[Category:Code4Lib2014]]

2014 preconference proposals

2013-12-16T16:49:17Z

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= PROPOSALS ARE CLOSED : PLEASE DO NOT ADD NEW PRECONFERENCES TO THIS PAGE =

Proposals were accepted through December 6th, 2013.

It would be really, super duper helpful if folks who think they might want to attend a pre-conference could indicate interest by adding your name to a session below.

===Note===
Attendance at a pre-conference will require a small fee ''due at the time of conference registration".

Although this was specified in the email announcements relating to pre-conferences, it was not added to this page until December 2nd. I (Adam C.) apologize for the omission and I hope this will not cause any "sticker shock." Putting your name on this list does not incur any obligation on your part, but we'll be using it to gauge interest and work out room assignments.

Please put your pre-conference on the list in the following format:

=Code4Lib 2014 Pre-Conference Proposals=

===Drupal4lib Sub-con Barcamp===
=====Full Day=====

* Contact [[User:highermath|Cary Gordon]], cgordon@chillco.com

This will be a full day of self-selected barcamp style sessions. Anyone who wants to present can write down the topic on an index card and, after the keynote, we will vote to choose what we want to see. Attendees can also pick a topic and attempt to talk someone else into presenting on it.

This event is open to the library community. There will be a nominal fee (t/b/d) for non-Code4LibCon attendees (subject to organizer approval).

[[resources to help you learn drupal]]

====Interested in Attending:====

=====All Day=====

* Renna Tuten

=====Morning=====

* Kevin Reiss
* Charlie Morris (NCSU) - glad to see this again this year!
* Paula Gray-Overtoom

=====Afternoon=====

 
----

===Open Refine Hackfest===
'''"Half-Day"'''
* Contact [[User:bibliotechy|Chad Nelson]], chadbnelson@gmail.com

[http://openrefine.org/ Open Refine] is a powerful open source tool for wrangling messy data that can also be used to help in the creation of Linked Data via the [https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/wiki/Reconciliation-Service-API Reconciliation API]. It is possible to write reconciliation services against API's, like the [http://iphylo.blogspot.com/2013/04/reconciling-author-names-using-open.html VIAF service] or, even just against local authority files for helping maintain authority control

The session would first introduce Open Refine, then walk through building a reconciliation service, and the rest of the session would be a hackfest where we build new reconciliation services for public consumption or local use.

''Interested in Attending''

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here
<ol>
<li>Adam Constabaris
<li>Ray Schwartz
<li>Jason Stirnaman
<li>Joshua Gomez
<li>Sam Kome
<li>Mike Beccaria
<li>Angela Zoss
</ol>
----

===Responsive Design Hackfest===
'''"Half-Day [Afternoon]"'''
* Contact Jim Hahn, University of Illinois, jimfhahn@gmail.com
* Contact David Ward, University of Illinois, dh-ward@illinois.edu

This structured hackfest will give attendees an opportunity to explore methods to create responsive mobile apps using the Bootstrap framework [http://getbootstrap.com/]and a set of APIs for accessing library data. We will start with an API template for creating space-based mobile tools that draw from work coming out of the IMLS funded Student/Library Collaborative grant [http://www.library.illinois.edu/nlg_student_apps]. Available APIs will include a room reservation template and codebase for implementing at any campus and the set of Minrva catalog APIs generating JSONP [http://minrvaproject.org/services.php].

Hosts will give a brief report of a study on student hacking projects and interests in mobile library apps that are the basis for the templates utilized in this Hackathon. By the end of the pre-conference attendees will have a sample responsive mobile web app in Bootstrap 3 to bring back to their campus which can plug into their site-based content.

''Interested in Attending''

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here
----

=== Intro to Blacklight ===
'''"Half-Day [Morning]"'''
* Contact: Chris Beer, Stanford University, cabeer@stanford.edu
* TA: Bess Sadler, Stanford University, bess@stanford.edu

This session will be walk-through of the architecture of Blacklight, the community, and an introduction to building a Blacklight-based application. Each participant will have the opportunity to build a simple Blacklight application, and make basic customizations, while using a test-driven approach.

For more information about Blacklight see our wiki ( http://projectblacklight.org/ ) and our GitHub repo ( https://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight ). We will also send out some brief instructions beforehand for those that would like to setup their environments to follow along and get Blacklight up and running on their local machines.

''Interested in Attending''

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here

# Megan Kudzia
# Bret Davidson
# Coral Sheldon-Hess
# Cory Lown
# Emily Daly
# Angela Zoss
# Sean Aery
----

===Blacklight Hackfest===
'''"Half-Day [Afternoon]"'''
* Contact Chris Beer, Stanford University, cabeer@stanford.edu

This afternoon hackfest is both a follow-on to the Intro to Blacklight morning session to continue building Blacklight-based applications, and also an opportunity for existing Blacklight contributors and members of the Blacklight community to exchange common patterns and approaches into reusable gems or incorporate customizations into Blacklight itself.

For more information about Blacklight see our wiki ( http://projectblacklight.org/ ) and our GitHub repo ( https://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight ).

''Interested in Attending''

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here

# Shaun Ellis
# Kevin Reiss
# Megan Kudzia
# Erik Hatcher
# Emily Daly

----
===RailsBridge: Intro to programming in Ruby on Rails===
'''"Half-Day" [morning]'''
* Contact Justin Coyne, Data Curation Experts, justin@curationexperts.com

Interested in learning how to program? Want to build your own web application? Never written a line of code before and are a little intimidated? There's no need to be! RailsBridge is a friendly place to get together and learn how to write some code.

RailsBridge is a great workshop that opens the doors to projects like Blacklight and Hydra.

''Interested in Attending''

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here

1. Ayla Stein

2. Heidi Dowding

3. Caitlin Christian-Lamb

4. Scott Bacon

----

===Managing Projects: Or I'm in charge, now what? (aka PM4Lib)===
'''Full-Day'''

Contact:
* [[User:rosy1280|Rosalyn Metz]], rosalynmetz@gmail.com
* [[User:yoosebj|Becky Yoose]], yoosebec@grinnell.edu

This will be a full day session on project management. We'll cover
* '''Kicking off the Project''' -- project lifecycle, project constraints, scoping/goals, stakeholders, assessment
* '''Planning the Project''' -- project charters, work breakdown structures, responsibilities, estimating time, creating budgets
* '''Executing the Project''' -- status meeting, status reports, issue management
* '''Finishing the Project''' -- achieving the goal, post mortems, project v. product
This is a revival of rosy1280's LITA Forum Pre-Conference, but better (because iteration is good) and adapted to c4lib types.

''Interested in Attending''

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here

# Robin Dean
# Erin White
# Andrew Darby
# Sam Kome
# Ryan Scherle
# Will Shaw
# Liz Milewicz
# Cynthia "Arty" Ng
----

===Fail4Lib 2014===
'''Half Day [TBD, probably afternoon]'''

Contacts:
* Andreas Orphanides, akorphan (at) ncsu.edu
* Jason Casden, jmcasden (at) ncsu.edu

The task of design (and the work that we do as library coders) is intimately tied to failure. Failures, both big and small, motivate us to create and improve. Failures are also occasionally the result of our work. Understanding and embracing failure, encouraging enlightened risk-taking, and seeking out opportunities to fail and learn are essential to success in our field. At Fail4Lib, we'll talk about our own experiences with projects gone wrong, explore some famous design failures in the real world, and talk about how we can come to terms with the reality of failure, to make it part of our creative process -- rather than something to be feared.

The schedule may include the following:

* Case studies. We'll look at some classic failures from the literature: What can we learn from the mistakes of others?
* Confessionals, for those willing to share. Talk about your own experiences with rough starts, labor pains, and doomed projects in your own work: What can we learn from our own (and each others') failures?
* Group therapy. Let's talk about how to deal with risk management, failed projects, experimental endeavors, and more: How can we make ourselves, our colleagues, and our organizations more fault tolerant? How do we make sure we fail as productively as possible?

''Interested in attending''

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here

#Bret Davidson
#Mike Graves
#Ray Schwartz
#Jason Stirnaman
#Julia Bauder
#Linda Ballinger
#Scott Hanrath
#Caitlin Christian-Lamb
#Ian Walls
#Scott Bacon

----

===CLLAM @ code4lib===
'''(Computational Linguistics for Libraries, Archives and Museums)'''

'''Full Day'''

Contacts:
* Douglas W. Oard (primary), oard (at) umd.edu
* Corey Harper, corey (dot) harper (at) nyu.edu
* Robert Sanderson, azaroth42 (at) gmail.com
* Robert Warren, rwarren (at) math.carleton.ca

We will hack at the intersection of diverse content from Libraries, Archives and Museums and bleeding edge tools from computational linguistics for slicing and dicing that content. Did you just acquire the email archives of a startup company? Maybe you can automatically build an org chart. Have you got metadata in a slew of languages? Perhaps you can search it all using one query. Is name authority control for e-resources getting too costly? Let’s see if entity linking techniques can help. These are just a few teasers.

There’ll be plenty of content and tools supplied, but please bring your own [data] too -- you’ll hack with it in new ways throughout the day. We’ll get started with some lightning talks on what we’ve brought,then we’ll break up into groups to experiment and work on the ideas that appeal. Three guaranteed outcomes: you’ll walk away with new ideas, new tools, and new people you’ll have met.

''Interested in attending''

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here

# Devon Smith
# Kevin S. Clarke
# Jason Stirnaman
# Joshua Gomez
----

=== GeoHydra: Managing geospatial content ===

'''Half-day [Afternoon]'''

* Contact: Darren Hardy, Stanford University, drh@stanford.edu
* Moderator: Bess Sadler, Stanford University, bess@stanford.edu

Do you have digitized maps, GIS datasets like Shapefiles, aerial photography,
etc., all of which you want to integrate into your digital repository? In this
workshop, we will discuss how Hydra can provide discovery, delivery, and
management services for geospatial assets, as well as solicit questions about
your own GIS projects. We aim to help answer the following questions you might have about putting geospatial data into your Hydra-based digital library:

* What are the types of geospatial data?
* How to dive into Hydra?
* How to model geospatial holdings with Hydra?
* How to discover and view geospatial data?
* How to build a geospatial data infrastructure?
* What are common approaches and problems?

''Interested in Attending''

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here

# Esmé Cowles
----

===Technology, Librarianship, and Gender: Moving the conversation forward===
'''Full Day'''

Contact: Lisa Rabey lisa @ biblyotheke dot net | [http://twitter.com/pnkrcklibrarian @pnkrcklibrarian]

'''Description'''

Librarianship is largely made up of women, yet women are significantly underrepresented in tech positions, on any level, within libraries themselves. Why? What are we doing to encourage women to become more involved in STEM within librarianship? What kind of message are we sending when library technology keynotes remain almost resolutely male? How are we changing the face of technology, not only within libraries, but with the field itself? How are we training our staff and colleagues in the areas of fairness and removal of bias? Our vendors?

Lots of tough questions.

While the conversation has been going on via various blogs and articles within the last few years, it was given a public face at [http://infotoday.com/il2013/day.asp?day=Monday#session_D105 Internet Librarian 2013] where a panel of 7 (four women, three men) gave personal experiences on the above and then opened up the conversation to the audience. As eye opening and enriching the conversation was, a 45 minute panel was not enough. One thing remains clear: We need to keep the conversation moving forward and start making some radical changes in the way we think, act, and how we need to harness this to start making real changes within librarianship itself.

Topics to include: Fairness, bias, impostor syndrome, code of conducts, sexual harassment, training opportunities, support systems, mentoring, ally support, and more

Those attending should expect: Begin with opening up the conversation of experiences and talking about what is most needed, spending remaining time putting together live, usable solutions to start implementing as well as pushing the conversation forward at local levels

''Interested in Attending''

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here

=====All Day=====
1. Kate Kosturski

2. Valerie Aurora

3. Declan Fleming (I'd be good with a half day too)

=====Morning=====
1. Shaun Ellis

2. Jason Casden

=====Afternoon=====
1. Ayla Stein

2. Heidi Dowding

3. Coral Sheldon-Hess

4. Cory Lown
----

===FileAnalyzer: Rapid Development of File Manipulation Tasks===
'''"Half-Day" [morning]'''
* Contact Terry Brady, twb27@georgetown.edu

The FileAnalyzer (https://github.com/Georgetown-University-Libraries/File-Analyzer) is an application designed to solve a number of library automation challenges:

* validating digitized and reformatted files
* validating vendor statistics for counter compliance
* preparing collections of digital files for archiving and ingest
* manipulating ILS import and export files

The File Analyzer application was used by the US National Archives to validate 3.5 million digitized images from the 1940 Census. After implementing a customized ingest workflow within the File Analyzer, the Georgetown University Libraries was able to process an ingest backlog of over a thousand files of digital resources into DigitalGeorgetown, the Libraries’ Digital Collections and Institutional Repository platform. Georgetown is currently developing customized workflows that integrate Apache Tika, BagIt, and Marc conversion utilities.

The File Analyzer is a desktop application with a powerful framework for implementing customized file validation and transformation rules. As new rules are deployed, they are presented to users within a user interface that is easy (and powerful) to use.

The first half of this session will be targeted to potential users and developers. The second half of the session will be targeted towards developers who are interested in developing custom rules for the application.

''Session Overview''
* Overview of the application
* Running sample file tests/transformations through the application
* Compiling and building the application
* Coding a custom file processing task

''Interested in Attending''

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here

#Ray Schwartz
# Michael Doran
----

===Collecting social media data with Social Feed Manager===
'''Half-Day [Morning]'''

Contacts:
* Dan Chudnov, GW Libraries, dchud (at) gwu.edu
* Dan Kerchner, GW Libraries, kerchner (at) gwu.edu
* Laura Wrubel, GW Libraries, lwrubel (at) gwu.edu

Social media data is a popular material for research and a new format for building collections. What does it take to collect meaningfully from Twitter, Tumblr, YouTube, Weibo, Facebook, and other sites? We will:
* Introduce options for collections, including both high- and low-end commercial offerings. Discuss what it means to collect these resources, covering boundaries, policies, and workflows required to develop a social media collection program in your institution.
* Explore the Twitter API in depth, with hands-on opportunities for those w/laptops and others who want to team up w/them
* Help you get started using the free [http://gwu-libraries.github.io/social-feed-manager Social Feed Manager] (SFM) app we're developing at GW to create your first collections. We’ll demo its use and demo a clean install (those w/environments can follow along)

''Interested in Attending''

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here

# Declan Fleming
# Esmé Cowles
# Jason Stirnaman
# Ray Schwartz
# Liz Milewicz
----

=== Intro to Git ===
'''"Half-Day [tbd - probably afternoon]"'''
* Contact: Erin Fahy, Stanford University, efahy at stanford.edu
* TA: Michael Klein, Northwestern University, michael.klein at northwestern.edu

This session will cover the fundamentals of git by discussing/going through (time allowing):
* what is a distributed version control system
* what is git and github
* initializing a repo on a remote server/github
* cloning an existing repo
* creating a branch
* contributing code to a repo
* how to handle merge conflicts

''Interested in Attending''

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here

# Ray Schwartz
# Sam Kome
# Paula Gray-Overtoom
# Liz Milewicz
# Michael Doran
# Caitlin Christian-Lamb
----

=== Archival discovery and use ===
'''Full Day'''

Contacts:
* Tim Shearer, UNC Chapel Hill, tshearer at email.unc.edu,
* Will Sexton, Duke, will.sexton at duke.edu

This is a full day pre-conference about archival collections and will cover the intersections of archives, workflows, technologies, discovery, and use.

Morning agenda: focused talks around (but not limited to) issues such as:
* Crowd-sourcing description to enhance collecitons
* Linked data and authority
* Mass digitization and sustainable workflows
* Digitized objects in context (images and other objects in finding aids)
* Too many cooks in the kitchen: versioning
* Global-, intra-, and inter- discovery of archival materials via finding aids
* and more...

Afternoon agenda: Focused talks around specific tools followed by general discussion, connections, opportunities, aspirations, and planning.

Tool examples:
* Archivespace
* STEADy
* "RAMP" (Remixing Archival Metadata Project)
* OpenRefine
* Aeon

''Interested in Attending''

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here

Morning:
* Julia Bauder

Afternoon:
* your name

All day:

# Josh Wilson
# Sam Kome
# Linda Ballinger
# Caitlin Christian-Lamb

----

===AV Content Slam===
'''Half-Day [morning]'''
Contacts:
* Kara Van Malssen, kara (at) avpreserve.com
* Lauren Sorenson, laurens (at) bavc.org
* Steven Villereal , villereal (at) gmail.com
A morning BarCamp/unconference for practitioners and coders who work with audiovisual content. The agenda will be attendee-driven, with a focus on sharing, synthesizing, and improving workflow strategies and documentation for software-based approaches to wrangling and providing access to audio and video content.
Possible topics of discussion might include:
* Use of format id and characterization/metadata extraction tools for AV
* Creating and using time-based metadata
* Managing (moving, fixity checking, etc) massive files (like uncompressed video)
For a better idea of the topics and concerns that have informed some past AV-themed events, check out the event wikis for [http://wiki.curatecamp.org/index.php/CURATEcamp_AVpres_2013 CURATEcamp AVpres 2013] as well as the [http://wiki.curatecamp.org/index.php/Association_of_Moving_Image_Archivists_%26_Digital_Library_Federation_Hack_Day_2013 AMIA/DLF 2013 Hack Day] .

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here:

----

===OCLC Web Services Hackfest===

"Half-Day" [afternoon]

Contact: Shelley Hostetler, Community Manager, Developer Network hostetls[at]oclc.org

This half-day hackfest will explore some of the OCLC Developer Network web services. We will provide an overview of some of the common topics such as the general REST-based architecture for most services and how to use some new authentication clients. The group can then decide to take a deep dive into a particular API and/or write a client library for the community.

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here:

----

===Obey the Testing Goat!: Test Driven Web Development From The Ground Up===
'''Half-Day [tbd - probably afternoon]'''
* Contact [[User:Mredar|Mark Redar]], mredar[at]gmail.com

Test driven development is a proven method for producing better quality code. But I've found it hard to follow a strict TDD methodology when starting new web projects. How do you write that first test when there is no code or web pages created yet.

In this session, we will follow the excellent book [http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920029533.do "Test-Driven Web Development with Python"] to create a simple web site in Django following TDD from the first character typed. Come ready to code and test. No prior knowledge of python or Django required.

By the end of this session, you should be able to [http://www.obeythetestinggoat.com/ "Obey the Testing Goat"] from the start to finish for your next project.

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here:

# Charlie Morris (NCSU)
# Jason Stirnaman
# Joshua Gomez
# Liz Milewicz
# Scott Hanrath
# Mike Beccaria
# Sean Aery
----

===Summon Camp===
Placeholder by Tim McGeary for Gillian Cain (Serials Solutions)
Description to be provided by Gillian after account issues resolved.

----

[[:Category:Code4Lib2014]]

2014 preconference proposals

2013-12-16T16:48:40Z

Sbacon: /* RailsBridge: Intro to programming in Ruby on Rails */

= PROPOSALS ARE CLOSED : PLEASE DO NOT ADD NEW PRECONFERENCES TO THIS PAGE =

Proposals were accepted through December 6th, 2013.

It would be really, super duper helpful if folks who think they might want to attend a pre-conference could indicate interest by adding your name to a session below.

===Note===
Attendance at a pre-conference will require a small fee ''due at the time of conference registration".

Although this was specified in the email announcements relating to pre-conferences, it was not added to this page until December 2nd. I (Adam C.) apologize for the omission and I hope this will not cause any "sticker shock." Putting your name on this list does not incur any obligation on your part, but we'll be using it to gauge interest and work out room assignments.

Please put your pre-conference on the list in the following format:

=Code4Lib 2014 Pre-Conference Proposals=

===Drupal4lib Sub-con Barcamp===
=====Full Day=====

* Contact [[User:highermath|Cary Gordon]], cgordon@chillco.com

This will be a full day of self-selected barcamp style sessions. Anyone who wants to present can write down the topic on an index card and, after the keynote, we will vote to choose what we want to see. Attendees can also pick a topic and attempt to talk someone else into presenting on it.

This event is open to the library community. There will be a nominal fee (t/b/d) for non-Code4LibCon attendees (subject to organizer approval).

[[resources to help you learn drupal]]

====Interested in Attending:====

=====All Day=====

* Renna Tuten

=====Morning=====

* Kevin Reiss
* Charlie Morris (NCSU) - glad to see this again this year!
* Paula Gray-Overtoom

=====Afternoon=====

 
----

===Open Refine Hackfest===
'''"Half-Day"'''
* Contact [[User:bibliotechy|Chad Nelson]], chadbnelson@gmail.com

[http://openrefine.org/ Open Refine] is a powerful open source tool for wrangling messy data that can also be used to help in the creation of Linked Data via the [https://github.com/OpenRefine/OpenRefine/wiki/Reconciliation-Service-API Reconciliation API]. It is possible to write reconciliation services against API's, like the [http://iphylo.blogspot.com/2013/04/reconciling-author-names-using-open.html VIAF service] or, even just against local authority files for helping maintain authority control

The session would first introduce Open Refine, then walk through building a reconciliation service, and the rest of the session would be a hackfest where we build new reconciliation services for public consumption or local use.

''Interested in Attending''

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here
<ol>
<li>Adam Constabaris
<li>Ray Schwartz
<li>Jason Stirnaman
<li>Joshua Gomez
<li>Sam Kome
<li>Mike Beccaria
<li>Angela Zoss
</ol>
----

===Responsive Design Hackfest===
'''"Half-Day [Afternoon]"'''
* Contact Jim Hahn, University of Illinois, jimfhahn@gmail.com
* Contact David Ward, University of Illinois, dh-ward@illinois.edu

This structured hackfest will give attendees an opportunity to explore methods to create responsive mobile apps using the Bootstrap framework [http://getbootstrap.com/]and a set of APIs for accessing library data. We will start with an API template for creating space-based mobile tools that draw from work coming out of the IMLS funded Student/Library Collaborative grant [http://www.library.illinois.edu/nlg_student_apps]. Available APIs will include a room reservation template and codebase for implementing at any campus and the set of Minrva catalog APIs generating JSONP [http://minrvaproject.org/services.php].

Hosts will give a brief report of a study on student hacking projects and interests in mobile library apps that are the basis for the templates utilized in this Hackathon. By the end of the pre-conference attendees will have a sample responsive mobile web app in Bootstrap 3 to bring back to their campus which can plug into their site-based content.

''Interested in Attending''

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here
----

=== Intro to Blacklight ===
'''"Half-Day [Morning]"'''
* Contact: Chris Beer, Stanford University, cabeer@stanford.edu
* TA: Bess Sadler, Stanford University, bess@stanford.edu

This session will be walk-through of the architecture of Blacklight, the community, and an introduction to building a Blacklight-based application. Each participant will have the opportunity to build a simple Blacklight application, and make basic customizations, while using a test-driven approach.

For more information about Blacklight see our wiki ( http://projectblacklight.org/ ) and our GitHub repo ( https://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight ). We will also send out some brief instructions beforehand for those that would like to setup their environments to follow along and get Blacklight up and running on their local machines.

''Interested in Attending''

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here

# Megan Kudzia
# Bret Davidson
# Coral Sheldon-Hess
# Cory Lown
# Emily Daly
# Angela Zoss
# Sean Aery
----

===Blacklight Hackfest===
'''"Half-Day [Afternoon]"'''
* Contact Chris Beer, Stanford University, cabeer@stanford.edu

This afternoon hackfest is both a follow-on to the Intro to Blacklight morning session to continue building Blacklight-based applications, and also an opportunity for existing Blacklight contributors and members of the Blacklight community to exchange common patterns and approaches into reusable gems or incorporate customizations into Blacklight itself.

For more information about Blacklight see our wiki ( http://projectblacklight.org/ ) and our GitHub repo ( https://github.com/projectblacklight/blacklight ).

''Interested in Attending''

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here

# Shaun Ellis
# Kevin Reiss
# Megan Kudzia
# Erik Hatcher
# Emily Daly

----
===RailsBridge: Intro to programming in Ruby on Rails===
'''"Half-Day" [morning]'''
* Contact Justin Coyne, Data Curation Experts, justin@curationexperts.com

Interested in learning how to program? Want to build your own web application? Never written a line of code before and are a little intimidated? There's no need to be! RailsBridge is a friendly place to get together and learn how to write some code.

RailsBridge is a great workshop that opens the doors to projects like Blacklight and Hydra.

''Interested in Attending''

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here

1. Ayla Stein

2. Heidi Dowding

3. Caitlin Christian-Lamb

4. Scott Bacon

----

===Managing Projects: Or I'm in charge, now what? (aka PM4Lib)===
'''Full-Day'''

Contact:
* [[User:rosy1280|Rosalyn Metz]], rosalynmetz@gmail.com
* [[User:yoosebj|Becky Yoose]], yoosebec@grinnell.edu

This will be a full day session on project management. We'll cover
* '''Kicking off the Project''' -- project lifecycle, project constraints, scoping/goals, stakeholders, assessment
* '''Planning the Project''' -- project charters, work breakdown structures, responsibilities, estimating time, creating budgets
* '''Executing the Project''' -- status meeting, status reports, issue management
* '''Finishing the Project''' -- achieving the goal, post mortems, project v. product
This is a revival of rosy1280's LITA Forum Pre-Conference, but better (because iteration is good) and adapted to c4lib types.

''Interested in Attending''

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here

# Robin Dean
# Erin White
# Andrew Darby
# Sam Kome
# Ryan Scherle
# Will Shaw
# Liz Milewicz
# Cynthia "Arty" Ng
----

===Fail4Lib 2014===
'''Half Day [TBD, probably afternoon]'''

Contacts:
* Andreas Orphanides, akorphan (at) ncsu.edu
* Jason Casden, jmcasden (at) ncsu.edu

The task of design (and the work that we do as library coders) is intimately tied to failure. Failures, both big and small, motivate us to create and improve. Failures are also occasionally the result of our work. Understanding and embracing failure, encouraging enlightened risk-taking, and seeking out opportunities to fail and learn are essential to success in our field. At Fail4Lib, we'll talk about our own experiences with projects gone wrong, explore some famous design failures in the real world, and talk about how we can come to terms with the reality of failure, to make it part of our creative process -- rather than something to be feared.

The schedule may include the following:

* Case studies. We'll look at some classic failures from the literature: What can we learn from the mistakes of others?
* Confessionals, for those willing to share. Talk about your own experiences with rough starts, labor pains, and doomed projects in your own work: What can we learn from our own (and each others') failures?
* Group therapy. Let's talk about how to deal with risk management, failed projects, experimental endeavors, and more: How can we make ourselves, our colleagues, and our organizations more fault tolerant? How do we make sure we fail as productively as possible?

''Interested in attending''

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here

#Bret Davidson
#Mike Graves
#Ray Schwartz
#Jason Stirnaman
#Julia Bauder
#Linda Ballinger
#Scott Hanrath
#Caitlin Christian-Lamb
#Ian Walls

----

===CLLAM @ code4lib===
'''(Computational Linguistics for Libraries, Archives and Museums)'''

'''Full Day'''

Contacts:
* Douglas W. Oard (primary), oard (at) umd.edu
* Corey Harper, corey (dot) harper (at) nyu.edu
* Robert Sanderson, azaroth42 (at) gmail.com
* Robert Warren, rwarren (at) math.carleton.ca

We will hack at the intersection of diverse content from Libraries, Archives and Museums and bleeding edge tools from computational linguistics for slicing and dicing that content. Did you just acquire the email archives of a startup company? Maybe you can automatically build an org chart. Have you got metadata in a slew of languages? Perhaps you can search it all using one query. Is name authority control for e-resources getting too costly? Let’s see if entity linking techniques can help. These are just a few teasers.

There’ll be plenty of content and tools supplied, but please bring your own [data] too -- you’ll hack with it in new ways throughout the day. We’ll get started with some lightning talks on what we’ve brought,then we’ll break up into groups to experiment and work on the ideas that appeal. Three guaranteed outcomes: you’ll walk away with new ideas, new tools, and new people you’ll have met.

''Interested in attending''

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here

# Devon Smith
# Kevin S. Clarke
# Jason Stirnaman
# Joshua Gomez
----

=== GeoHydra: Managing geospatial content ===

'''Half-day [Afternoon]'''

* Contact: Darren Hardy, Stanford University, drh@stanford.edu
* Moderator: Bess Sadler, Stanford University, bess@stanford.edu

Do you have digitized maps, GIS datasets like Shapefiles, aerial photography,
etc., all of which you want to integrate into your digital repository? In this
workshop, we will discuss how Hydra can provide discovery, delivery, and
management services for geospatial assets, as well as solicit questions about
your own GIS projects. We aim to help answer the following questions you might have about putting geospatial data into your Hydra-based digital library:

* What are the types of geospatial data?
* How to dive into Hydra?
* How to model geospatial holdings with Hydra?
* How to discover and view geospatial data?
* How to build a geospatial data infrastructure?
* What are common approaches and problems?

''Interested in Attending''

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here

# Esmé Cowles
----

===Technology, Librarianship, and Gender: Moving the conversation forward===
'''Full Day'''

Contact: Lisa Rabey lisa @ biblyotheke dot net | [http://twitter.com/pnkrcklibrarian @pnkrcklibrarian]

'''Description'''

Librarianship is largely made up of women, yet women are significantly underrepresented in tech positions, on any level, within libraries themselves. Why? What are we doing to encourage women to become more involved in STEM within librarianship? What kind of message are we sending when library technology keynotes remain almost resolutely male? How are we changing the face of technology, not only within libraries, but with the field itself? How are we training our staff and colleagues in the areas of fairness and removal of bias? Our vendors?

Lots of tough questions.

While the conversation has been going on via various blogs and articles within the last few years, it was given a public face at [http://infotoday.com/il2013/day.asp?day=Monday#session_D105 Internet Librarian 2013] where a panel of 7 (four women, three men) gave personal experiences on the above and then opened up the conversation to the audience. As eye opening and enriching the conversation was, a 45 minute panel was not enough. One thing remains clear: We need to keep the conversation moving forward and start making some radical changes in the way we think, act, and how we need to harness this to start making real changes within librarianship itself.

Topics to include: Fairness, bias, impostor syndrome, code of conducts, sexual harassment, training opportunities, support systems, mentoring, ally support, and more

Those attending should expect: Begin with opening up the conversation of experiences and talking about what is most needed, spending remaining time putting together live, usable solutions to start implementing as well as pushing the conversation forward at local levels

''Interested in Attending''

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here

=====All Day=====
1. Kate Kosturski

2. Valerie Aurora

3. Declan Fleming (I'd be good with a half day too)

=====Morning=====
1. Shaun Ellis

2. Jason Casden

=====Afternoon=====
1. Ayla Stein

2. Heidi Dowding

3. Coral Sheldon-Hess

4. Cory Lown
----

===FileAnalyzer: Rapid Development of File Manipulation Tasks===
'''"Half-Day" [morning]'''
* Contact Terry Brady, twb27@georgetown.edu

The FileAnalyzer (https://github.com/Georgetown-University-Libraries/File-Analyzer) is an application designed to solve a number of library automation challenges:

* validating digitized and reformatted files
* validating vendor statistics for counter compliance
* preparing collections of digital files for archiving and ingest
* manipulating ILS import and export files

The File Analyzer application was used by the US National Archives to validate 3.5 million digitized images from the 1940 Census. After implementing a customized ingest workflow within the File Analyzer, the Georgetown University Libraries was able to process an ingest backlog of over a thousand files of digital resources into DigitalGeorgetown, the Libraries’ Digital Collections and Institutional Repository platform. Georgetown is currently developing customized workflows that integrate Apache Tika, BagIt, and Marc conversion utilities.

The File Analyzer is a desktop application with a powerful framework for implementing customized file validation and transformation rules. As new rules are deployed, they are presented to users within a user interface that is easy (and powerful) to use.

The first half of this session will be targeted to potential users and developers. The second half of the session will be targeted towards developers who are interested in developing custom rules for the application.

''Session Overview''
* Overview of the application
* Running sample file tests/transformations through the application
* Compiling and building the application
* Coding a custom file processing task

''Interested in Attending''

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here

#Ray Schwartz
# Michael Doran
----

===Collecting social media data with Social Feed Manager===
'''Half-Day [Morning]'''

Contacts:
* Dan Chudnov, GW Libraries, dchud (at) gwu.edu
* Dan Kerchner, GW Libraries, kerchner (at) gwu.edu
* Laura Wrubel, GW Libraries, lwrubel (at) gwu.edu

Social media data is a popular material for research and a new format for building collections. What does it take to collect meaningfully from Twitter, Tumblr, YouTube, Weibo, Facebook, and other sites? We will:
* Introduce options for collections, including both high- and low-end commercial offerings. Discuss what it means to collect these resources, covering boundaries, policies, and workflows required to develop a social media collection program in your institution.
* Explore the Twitter API in depth, with hands-on opportunities for those w/laptops and others who want to team up w/them
* Help you get started using the free [http://gwu-libraries.github.io/social-feed-manager Social Feed Manager] (SFM) app we're developing at GW to create your first collections. We’ll demo its use and demo a clean install (those w/environments can follow along)

''Interested in Attending''

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here

# Declan Fleming
# Esmé Cowles
# Jason Stirnaman
# Ray Schwartz
# Liz Milewicz
----

=== Intro to Git ===
'''"Half-Day [tbd - probably afternoon]"'''
* Contact: Erin Fahy, Stanford University, efahy at stanford.edu
* TA: Michael Klein, Northwestern University, michael.klein at northwestern.edu

This session will cover the fundamentals of git by discussing/going through (time allowing):
* what is a distributed version control system
* what is git and github
* initializing a repo on a remote server/github
* cloning an existing repo
* creating a branch
* contributing code to a repo
* how to handle merge conflicts

''Interested in Attending''

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here

# Ray Schwartz
# Sam Kome
# Paula Gray-Overtoom
# Liz Milewicz
# Michael Doran
# Caitlin Christian-Lamb
----

=== Archival discovery and use ===
'''Full Day'''

Contacts:
* Tim Shearer, UNC Chapel Hill, tshearer at email.unc.edu,
* Will Sexton, Duke, will.sexton at duke.edu

This is a full day pre-conference about archival collections and will cover the intersections of archives, workflows, technologies, discovery, and use.

Morning agenda: focused talks around (but not limited to) issues such as:
* Crowd-sourcing description to enhance collecitons
* Linked data and authority
* Mass digitization and sustainable workflows
* Digitized objects in context (images and other objects in finding aids)
* Too many cooks in the kitchen: versioning
* Global-, intra-, and inter- discovery of archival materials via finding aids
* and more...

Afternoon agenda: Focused talks around specific tools followed by general discussion, connections, opportunities, aspirations, and planning.

Tool examples:
* Archivespace
* STEADy
* "RAMP" (Remixing Archival Metadata Project)
* OpenRefine
* Aeon

''Interested in Attending''

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here

Morning:
* Julia Bauder

Afternoon:
* your name

All day:

# Josh Wilson
# Sam Kome
# Linda Ballinger
# Caitlin Christian-Lamb

----

===AV Content Slam===
'''Half-Day [morning]'''
Contacts:
* Kara Van Malssen, kara (at) avpreserve.com
* Lauren Sorenson, laurens (at) bavc.org
* Steven Villereal , villereal (at) gmail.com
A morning BarCamp/unconference for practitioners and coders who work with audiovisual content. The agenda will be attendee-driven, with a focus on sharing, synthesizing, and improving workflow strategies and documentation for software-based approaches to wrangling and providing access to audio and video content.
Possible topics of discussion might include:
* Use of format id and characterization/metadata extraction tools for AV
* Creating and using time-based metadata
* Managing (moving, fixity checking, etc) massive files (like uncompressed video)
For a better idea of the topics and concerns that have informed some past AV-themed events, check out the event wikis for [http://wiki.curatecamp.org/index.php/CURATEcamp_AVpres_2013 CURATEcamp AVpres 2013] as well as the [http://wiki.curatecamp.org/index.php/Association_of_Moving_Image_Archivists_%26_Digital_Library_Federation_Hack_Day_2013 AMIA/DLF 2013 Hack Day] .

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here:

----

===OCLC Web Services Hackfest===

"Half-Day" [afternoon]

Contact: Shelley Hostetler, Community Manager, Developer Network hostetls[at]oclc.org

This half-day hackfest will explore some of the OCLC Developer Network web services. We will provide an overview of some of the common topics such as the general REST-based architecture for most services and how to use some new authentication clients. The group can then decide to take a deep dive into a particular API and/or write a client library for the community.

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here:

----

===Obey the Testing Goat!: Test Driven Web Development From The Ground Up===
'''Half-Day [tbd - probably afternoon]'''
* Contact [[User:Mredar|Mark Redar]], mredar[at]gmail.com

Test driven development is a proven method for producing better quality code. But I've found it hard to follow a strict TDD methodology when starting new web projects. How do you write that first test when there is no code or web pages created yet.

In this session, we will follow the excellent book [http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920029533.do "Test-Driven Web Development with Python"] to create a simple web site in Django following TDD from the first character typed. Come ready to code and test. No prior knowledge of python or Django required.

By the end of this session, you should be able to [http://www.obeythetestinggoat.com/ "Obey the Testing Goat"] from the start to finish for your next project.

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here:

# Charlie Morris (NCSU)
# Jason Stirnaman
# Joshua Gomez
# Liz Milewicz
# Scott Hanrath
# Mike Beccaria
# Sean Aery
----

===Summon Camp===
Placeholder by Tim McGeary for Gillian Cain (Serials Solutions)
Description to be provided by Gillian after account issues resolved.

----

[[:Category:Code4Lib2014]]

2013 talks proposals

2012-11-01T13:14:50Z

Sbacon:

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

Deadline for talk submission is ''Friday, November 9'' at 11:59pm ET. We ask that no changes be made after this point, so that every voter reads the same thing. You can update your description again after voting closes.

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

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

Please follow the formatting guidelines:

<pre>
== Talk Title ==

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

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

== Modernizing VuFind with Zend Framework 2 ==

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

When setting goals for a new major release of VuFind, use of an existing web framework was an important decision to encourage standardization and avoid reinvention of the wheel. Zend Framework 2 was selected as providing the best balance between the cutting-edge (ZF2 was released in 2012) and stability (ZF1 has a long history and many adopters). This talk will examine some of the architecture and features of the new framework and discuss how it has been used to improve the VuFind project.

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

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

Public WiFi networks, even those that have passwords, are nothing more that an old-time [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_line_(telephony) party line]: what every you say can be easily heard by anyone nearby.
Remember [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firesheep Firesheep]?
It was an extension to Firefox that demonstrated how easy it was to snag session cookies and impersonate someone else.
So what are you sending out over the airwaves, and what techniques are available to prevent eavesdropping?
This talk will demonstrate tools and techniques for desktop and mobile operating systems that you should be using right now -- right here at Code4Lib -- to protect your data and your network activity.

== Drupal 8 Preview — Symfony and Twig ==

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

Drupal is a great platform for building web applications. Last year, the core developers decided to adopt the Symfony PHP framework, because it would lay the groundwork for the modernization (and de-PHP4ification) of the Drupal codebase. As I write this, the Symfony ClassLoader and HttpFoundation libraries are committed to Drupal core, with more elements likely before Drupal 8 code freeze.

It seems almost certain that the Twig templating engine will supplant PHPtemplate as the core Drupal template engine. Twig is a powerful, secure theme building tool that removes PHP from the templating system, the result being a very concise and powerful theme layer.

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

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

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

Isn't it neat when you discover that you are the steward of dozens of Sanborn Fire Instance Maps, hundreds of issues of a city directory, and thousands of photographs of persons in either aforementioned medium? And it's even cooler when you decide, "Let's digitize these together and make them one big awesome project to support public urban history"? Unfortunately it's a far more difficult process than one imagines at inception and, sadly, doesn't always come to fruition. My goal here is to discuss the technological (and philosophical) problems librarians and archivists face when trying to create ultra-rich complex corporate digital projects, or, rather, projects consisting of at least three facets interrelated by theme. I intend to address these problems by suggesting management solutions, web workarounds, and, perhaps, a philosophy that might help in determining whether to even move forward or not. Expect a few case studies of "grand ideas crushed by technological limitations" and "projects on the right track" to follow.

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

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

The free ResCarta Toolkit has been used by libraries and archives around the world to host city directories, newspapers, and historic photographs and by aerospace companies to search and find millions of engineering documents. Now the ResCarta team has released audio additions to the toolkit.

Create full text searchable oral histories, news stories, interviews. or build an archive of lectures; all done to Library of Congress standards. The included transcription editor allows for accurate correction of the data conversion tool’s output. Build true archives of text, photos and audio. A single audio file carries the embedded Axml metadata, transcription, and word location information. Checks with the FADGI BWF Metaedit.

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

You have to see this tool in action. Twenty minutes from an audio file to transcribed, text-searchable website. Be there or be L seven (Yeah, I’m that old)

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

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

This presentation will use a seemingly simple data point, the "format" of the item being described, to illustrate some of the complexities and challenges inherent in the parsing of MARC records. I will talk about abstract vs. concrete forms; format designation in the Leader, 006, 007, and 008 fixed fields as well as the 245 and 300 variable fields; pseudo-formats; what is mandatory vs. optional in respect to format designation in cataloging practice; and the differences between cataloging theory and practice as observed via format-related data mining of a mid-size academic library collection.

I understand that most of us go to code4lib to hear about the latest sexy technologies. While MARC isn't sexy, many of the new tools being discussed still need to be populated with data gleaned from MARC records. MARC format designation has ramifications for search and retrieval, limits, and facets, both in the ILS and further downstream in next generation OPACs and web-scale discovery tools. Even veteran library coders will learn something from this session.

== Touch Kiosk 2: Piezoelectric Boogaloo ==

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

At the NCSU Libraries, we provide realtime access to information on library spaces and services through an interactive touchscreen kiosk in our Learning Commons. In the summer of 2012, two years after its initial deployment, I redeveloped the kiosk application from the ground up, with an entirely new codebase and a completely redesigned user interface. The changes I implemented were designed to remedy previously identified shortcomings in the code and the interface design [1], and to enhance overall stability and performance of the application.

In this presentation I will outline my revision process, highlighting the lessons I learned and the practices I implemented in the course of redevelopment. I will highlight the key features of the HTML/Javascript codebase that allow for increased stability, flexibility, and ease of maintenance; and identify the changes to the user interface that resulted from the usability findings I uncovered in my previous research. Finally, I will compare the usage patterns of the new interface to the analysis of the previous implementation to examine the practical effect of the implemented changes.

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

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

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

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

Searching for books in large libraries can be a difficult task for a novice library user. This paper presents The Location Service, software as a service (SaaS) wayfinding application developed and managed by The National Library of Finland, which is targeted for all the libraries. The service provides additional information and map-based guidance to books and collections by showing their location on a map, and it can be integrated with any library management system, as the integration happens by adding a link to the service in the search interface. The service is being developed continuously based on the feedback received from the users.

The service has two user interfaces: One for the customers and one for the library staff for managing the information related to the locations. The UI for the customers is fully customizable by the libraries, and the customization is done via template files by using the following techniques: HTML, CSS, and Javascript/jQuery. The service supports multiple languages, and the libraries have a full control of the languages, which they want to support in their environment.

The service is written in Java and it uses Spring and Hibernate frameworks. The data is stored in PostgreSQL database, which is shared by all the libraries. They do not possess a direct access to the database, but the service offers an interface, which makes it possible to retrieve XML data over HTTP. Modification of the data via admin UI, however, is restricted, and access on the other libraries’ data is blocked.

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

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

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

The applications have eliminated a number of error-prone steps from the ingest workflow and have significantly reduced a number of tedious data editing steps. These applications have empowered content experts to be in charge of their own collections.

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

== Quality Assurance Reports for DSpace Collections ==

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

The Georgetown University Library has developed a collection of quality assurance reports to improve the consistency of the metadata in our DSpace collections. The report infrastructure permits the creation of query snippets to test for possible consistency errors within the repository such as items missing thumbnails, items with multiple thumbnails, items missing a creation date, items containing improperly formatted dates, items without duplicated metadata fields, items recently added items across the repository, a community or a collection

These reports have served to prioritize programmatic data cleanup tasks and manual data cleanup tasks. The reports have served as a progress tracker for data cleanup work and will provide on-going monitoring of the metadata consistency of the repository.

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

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

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

In this talk, we will describe how we developed and implemented a hybrid solution for improving single sign-on in conjunction with the library’s proxy service. This hybrid solution consists of integrating the disparate elements of EZproxy, the Squid workflow, Shibboleth, and the Aleph X-Server. We will report how this new integrated service improves the user experience. To our knowledge, this new service is unique and has not been implemented anywhere else. We will also present some statistics after approximately one year in production.

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

== HTML5 Video Now! ==

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

Can you use HTML5 video now? Yes.

I'll show you how to get started using HTML5 video, including gotchas, tips, and tricks. Beyond the basics we'll see the power of having video integrated into HTML and the browser. Finally, we'll look at examples that push the limits and show the exciting future of video on the Web.

My experience comes from technical development of an oral history video clips project. I developed the technical aspects of the project, including video processing, server configuration, development of a public site, creation of an administrative interface, and video engagement analytics. Major portions of this work have been open sourced under an MIT license.

== Hybrid Archival Collections Using Blacklight and Hydra ==

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

At the Library and Archives of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, we use available tools such as Archivists' Toolkit to create EAD finding aids of our collections. However, managing digital content created from these materials and the born-digital content that is also part of these collections represents a significant challenge. In my presentation, I will discuss how we solve the problem of our hybrid collections by using Hydra as a digital asset manager and Blacklight as a unified presentation and discovery interface for all our materials.

Our strategy centers around indexing ead xml into Solr as multiple documents: one for each collection, and one for every series, sub-series and item contained within a collection. For discovery, we use this strategy to leverage item-level searching of archival collections alongside our traditional library content. For digital collections, we use this same technique to represent a finding aid in Hydra as a set of linked objects using RDF. New digital items are then linked to these parent objects at the collection and series level. Once this is done, the items can be exported back out to the Blacklight solr index and the digital content appears along with the rest of the items in the collection.

== Making the Web Accessible through Solid Design ==

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

In libraries, we are always trying our best to be accessible to everyone and we make every effort to do so physically, but what about our websites? Web designers are great at talking about the user experience and how to improve it, but what sometimes gets overlooked is how to make a site more accessible and meet accessibility guidelines. While guidelines are necessary to cover a minimum standard, web accessibility should come from good web design without ‘sacrificing’ features. While it's difficult to make a website fully accessible to everyone, there are easy, practical ways to make a site as accessible as possible.

While the focus will be on websites and meeting the Web Accessibility Guidelines WCAG, the presentation will also touch on how to make custom web interfaces accessible.

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

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

Having a bewildered, lost user in the building or stacks is a common occurrence, but we can help our users find their way through enhanced maps and floor plans. While not a new concept, these maps are integrated into the user’s flow of information without having to load a special app. The map not only highlights the location, but also provides all the related information with a link back to the detailed item view. During the first stage of the project, it has only be implemented for books (and other physical items), but the 'RULA Finder' is built to help users find just about anything and everything in the library including study rooms, computer labs, and staff. With a simple to use admin interface, it makes it easy for everyone, staff and users.

The application is written in PHP with data stored in a MySQL database. The end-user interface involves jQuery, JSON, and the library's discovery layer (Summon) API.

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

== De-sucking the Library User Experience ==

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

Have you ever thought that library vendors purposely create the worst possible user experience they can imagine because they just hate users? Have you ever thought that your own library website feels like it was created by committee rather than for users because, well, it was? I’ll talk about how we used vendor supplied APIs to our ILS and Discovery tool to create an experience for our users that sucks at least a little bit less.

The talk will provide specific examples of how inefficient or confusing vendor supplied solutions are from a user perspective along with our specific streamlined solutions to the same problems. Code examples will be minimal as the focus will be on improving user experience rather than any one code solution of doing that. Examples may include the seemingly simple tasks of renewing a book or requesting an item from another campus library.

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

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

How do you know if

* your idea for "left anchoring" searches actually works?
* your field analysis for LC call numbers accommodates a suffix between the first and second cutter without breaking the rest of LC call number parsing?
* tweaking Solr configs to improve, say, Chinese searching, won't break Turkish and Cyrillic?
* changes to your solrconfig file accomplish what you wanted without breaking anything else?

Avoid the whole app stack when writing Solr acceptance/relevancy/regression tests! Forget cucumber and capybara. This gem lets you easily (only 4 short files needed!) write tests like this, passing arbitrary parameters to Solr:

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

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

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

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

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

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

== Northwestern's Digital Image Library ==

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

At Northwestern University Library, we are about to release a beta version of our Digital Image Library (DIL). DIL is an implementation of the Hydra technology that provides a Fedora repository solution for discovery of and access to over 100,000 images for staff, students, and scholars. Some important features are:

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

Our presentation will include a demo, explanation of the architecture, and a discussion of the benefits of being a part of the Hydra open-source community.

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

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

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

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

== Future Friendly Web Design for Libraries ==

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

Libraries on the web are afterthoughts. Often their design is stymied on one hand by red tape imposed by the larger institution and on the other by an overload of too democratic input from colleagues. Slashed budgets / staff stretched too thin foul-up the R-word (that'd be "redesign") - but things are getting pretty strange. Notions about the Web (and where it can be accessed) are changing.

So libraries can only avoid refabbing their fixed-width desktop and jQuery Mobile m-dot websites for so long until desktop users evaporate and demand from patrons with web-ready refrigerators becomes deafening. Just when we have largely hopped on the bandwagon and gotten enthusiastic about being online, our users expect a library's site to look and perform great on everything.

Our presence on the web should be built to weather ever-increasing device complexity. To meet users at their point of need, libraries must start thinking Future Friendly.

This overview rehashes the approach and philosophy of library web design, re-orienting it for maximum accessibility and maximum efficiency of design. While just 20 minutes, we'll mull over techniques like mobile-first responsive web design, modular CSS, browser feature detection for progressive enhancement, and lots of nifty tricks.

==BYU's discovery layer service aggregator==

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

It is clear that libraries will continue to experience rapid change based on the speed of technology. To acknowledge this new reality and to provide rapid response to shifting end user paradigms BYU has developed a custom service aggregator. At first our vendors looked at us a bit funny; however, in the last year they have been astonished with the fluid implementation of new services – here’s the short list:

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

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

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

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

Based on the success of the [http://www.dml.indiana.edu/ Variations] digital music platform, Indiana University and Northwestern University have developed a next generation educational tool for delivering multimedia resources to the classroom. The Avalon Media System (formerly Variations on Video) supports the ingest, media processing, management, and access-controlled delivery of library-managed video and audio collections. To do so, the system draws on several existing, mature, open source technologies:

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

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

Our goal is to create an open platform that can be used by other institutions to serve the needs of the academic community. Release 1 is planned for a late February launch with future versions released every couple of months following. For more information visit http://avalonmediasystem.org/ and https://github.com/variations-on-video/hydrant.

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

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

Data curation for the digital humanities is an emerging area of research and practice. The DH Curation Guide, launched in July 2012, is an educational resource that addresses aspects of humanities data curation in a series of expert-written articles. Each provides a succinct introduction to a topic with annotated lists of useful tools, projects, standards, and good examples of data curation done right. The DH Curation Guide is intended to be a go-to resource for data curation practitioners and learners in libraries, archives, museums, and academic institutions.

Because it's a growing field, we designed the DH Curation Guide to be a community-driven, living document. We developed a granular commenting system that encourages data curation community members to contribute remarks on articles, article sections, and article paragraphs. Moreover, we built in a way for readers to contribute and annotate resources for other data curation practitioners.

This talk will address how the DH Curation Guide is currently used and will include a sneak peek at the articles that are in store for the Guide’s future. We will talk about the difficulties and successes of launching a site that encourages community. We are all builders here, so we will also walk through developing the granular commenting/annotation system and the XSLT-powered publication workflow.

== Solr Update ==

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

Solr is continually improving. Solr 4 was recently released, bringing dramatic changes in the underlying Lucene library and Solr-level features. It's tough for us all to keep up with the various versions and capabilities.

This talk will blaze through the highlights of new features and improvements in Solr 4 (and up). Topics will include: SolrCloud, direct spell checking, surround query parser, and many other features. We will focus on the features library coders really need to know about.

== Reports for the People ==

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

Libraries are increasingly being called upon to provide information on how our programs and services are moving our institutional strategic goals forward. In support of College and departmental Information Literacy learning outcomes, Mason Library Systems at Keene State College developed an assessment database to record and report assessment activities by Library faculty. Frustrated by the lack of freely available options for intuitively recording, accounting for, and outputting useful reports on instructional activities, Librarians requested a tool to make capturing and reporting activities (and their lives) easier. Library Systems was able to respond to this need by working with librarians to identify what information is necessary to capture, where other assessment tools had fallen short, and ultimately by developing an application that supports current reporting imperatives while providing flexibility for future changes.

The result of our efforts was an in-house browser interfaced Assessment Database to improve the process of data collection and analysis. The application is written in PHP, data stored in a MySQL database, and presented via browser making extensive use of JQuery and JQuery plug-ins for data collection, manipulation, and presentation.
The presentation will outline the process undertaken to build a successful collaboration with Library faculty from conception to implementation, as well as the technical aspects of our trial-and-error approach. Plus: cool charts and graphs!

== Network Analyses of Library Catalog Data ==

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

Library collections are all too often like icebergs: The amount exposed on the surface is only a fraction of the actual amount of content, and we’d like to recommend relevant items from deep within the catalog to users. With the assistance of an XSEDE Allocation grant (http://xsede.org), we’ve used R to reconstitute anonymous circulation data from the University of Illinois’s library catalog into separate user transactions. The transaction data is incorporated into subject analyses that use XSEDE supercomputing resources to generate predictive network analyses and visualizations of subject areas searched by library users using Gephi (https://gephi.org/). The test data set for developing the subject analyses consisted of approximately 38,000 items from the Literatures and Languages Library that contained 110,000 headings and 130,620 transactions. We’re currently working on developing a recommender system within VuFind to display the results of these analyses.

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

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

Archives and special collections are being faced with a growing abundance of born digital material, as well as an abundance of many promising tools for managing them. However, one must consider the potential problems that can arise when approaching a collection containing legacy materials (from roughly the pre-internet era). Many of the tried and true, "best of breed" tools for digital preservation don't always work as they do for more recent materials, requiring a fair amount of ingenuity and use of "word of mouth tradecraft and knowledge exchanged through serendipitous contacts, backchannel conversations, and beer" (Kirschenbaum, "Breaking <code>badflag</code>").

Our presentation will focus on some of the strange problems encountered and creative solutions devised by two digital archivists in the course of preserving, processing, and providing access to collections at their institutions. We'll be placing particular particular emphasis of the pitfalls and crocodiles we've learned to swing over safely, while collecting treasure in the process. We'll address working with CP/M disks in collections of authors' papers, reconstructing a multipart hard drive backup spread across floppy disks, and more.

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

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

Be it mandated from Those In A Higher Pay Grade Than You or self-inflicted, many of us deal with managing major library-related technology projects [1]. It’s common nowadays to manage multiple technology projects, and generally external and internal issues can be planned for to minimize project timeline shifts and quality of deliverables. Life, however, has other plans for you, and all your major library technology infrastructure projects pile on top of each other at the same time. How do you and your staff survive a train wreck of technology projects and produce deliverables to project stakeholders without having to go into the library IT version of the United States Federal Witness Protection Program?

This session covers my experience with the collision of three major library technology projects - including a new institutional repository and an integrated library system migration - and how we dealt with external and internal factors, implemented damage control, and overall lessening the damage from the epic crash. You might laugh, you might cry, you will probably have flashbacks from previous projects, but you will come out of this session with a set of tools to use when you’re dealing with managing mission-critical projects.

[1] Past code4lib talks have covered specific project management strategies, such as Agile, for application development. I will be focusing on and discussing general project management practices in relation to various library technology projects, many of which these strategies include in their own structures.

== Implementing RFID in an Academic Library ==

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

Coastal Carolina University’s Kimbel Library recently implemented RFID to increase security, provide better inventory control over library materials and enable do-it-yourself patron services such as self checkout.

I’ll give a quick overview of RFID and the components involved and then will talk about how our library utilized the technology. It takes a lot of research, time, money and not too little resourcefulness to make your library RFID-ready. I’ll show how we developed our project timeline, how we assessed and evaluated vendors and how we navigated the bid process. I’ll also talk about hardware and software installation, configuration and troubleshooting and will discuss our book and media collection encoding process.

We encountered myriad issues with our vendor, the hardware and the software. Would we do it all over again? Should your library consider RFID? Caveats abound...

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

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

The Kimbel Library Intranet is coded in Drupal 7, and was created to increase staff communication and store documentation. This presentation will contain an overview of our intranet project, including the modules we used, implementation issues, and possible directions in future development phases. I won’t forget to talk about the slew of tasty development issues we faced, including dealing with our university IT department, user buy-in, site navigation, user roles, project management, training and mobile modules (or the lack thereof). And some other fun (mostly) true anecdotes will surely be shared.

The main functions of Phase I of this project were to increase communication across departments and committees, facilitate project management and revise the library's shared drive. Another important function of this first phase was to host mission-critical documentation such as strategic goals, policies and procedures. Phase II of this project will focus on porting employee tasks into the centralized intranet environment. This development phase, which aims to replicate and automate the bulk of staff workflows within a content management system, will be a huge undertaking.

We chose Drupal as our intranet platform because of its extensibility, flexibility and community support. We are also moving our entire library web presence to Drupal in 2013 and will be soliciting any advice on which modules to use/avoid and which third-party services to wrangle into the Drupal environment. Should we use Drupal as the back-end to our entire Web presence? Why or why not?

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