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2014 preconference proposals

2013-12-09T18:57:39Z

Skome: /* Managing Projects: Or I'm in charge, now what? (aka PM4Lib) */

==Code4Lib 2014 Pre-Conference Proposals==

= PROPOSALS ARE CLOSED : PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS PAGE =

Proposals were accepted through December 6th, 2013.

===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:

===NAME===
'''"Full-Day|Half-Day" [PREFERRED TIME]'''

Description

''Interested in Attending''

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

----

===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!

=====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
</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

===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

===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

===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

===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

===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
----

===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
----

=== 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
----

=== 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:
* your name

Afternoon:
* your name

All day:

# Josh Wilson
# Sam Kome

----

===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

===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

2013-12-09T18:57:15Z

Skome: /* Open Refine Hackfest */

==Code4Lib 2014 Pre-Conference Proposals==

= PROPOSALS ARE CLOSED : PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS PAGE =

Proposals were accepted through December 6th, 2013.

===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:

===NAME===
'''"Full-Day|Half-Day" [PREFERRED TIME]'''

Description

''Interested in Attending''

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

----

===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!

=====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
</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

===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

===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

===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

===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

===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
----

===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
----

=== 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
----

=== 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:
* your name

Afternoon:
* your name

All day:

# Josh Wilson
# Sam Kome

----

===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

===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

2013-12-09T18:53:24Z

Skome: /* Archival discovery and use */

==Code4Lib 2014 Pre-Conference Proposals==

= PROPOSALS ARE CLOSED : PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS PAGE =

Proposals were accepted through December 6th, 2013.

===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:

===NAME===
'''"Full-Day|Half-Day" [PREFERRED TIME]'''

Description

''Interested in Attending''

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

----

===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!

=====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
</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

===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

===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

===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

===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

===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
----

===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
----

=== 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
----

=== 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:
* your name

Afternoon:
* your name

All day:

# Josh Wilson
# Sam Kome

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===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:

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===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:

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===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

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

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2014 preconference proposals

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==Code4Lib 2014 Pre-Conference Proposals==

= PROPOSALS ARE CLOSED : PLEASE DO NOT EDIT THIS PAGE =

Proposals were accepted through December 6th, 2013.

===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:

===NAME===
'''"Full-Day|Half-Day" [PREFERRED TIME]'''

Description

''Interested in Attending''

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

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===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!

=====Afternoon=====

 
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===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
</ol>
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===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

===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

===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

===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

===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

===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
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===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
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===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
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=== 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
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=== 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:
* your name

Afternoon:
* your name

All day:

# Josh Wilson

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===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:

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===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:

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===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

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

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== About Code4Lib ==

* [[About Code4Lib]] - Background and history of the community
* [[A Guide for the Perplexed]] - Building skills for working with library technologies
* [[How to hack code4lib]] - For those newer to the community
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1m-9VtL7L_fUxl2hTF_YZSdFRfucaLtmHvLSzom6XPVM/edit?pli=1 Code4Lib Indoctrination] (This is a Google doc open to all including anonymous feedback.)
**"How do we make code4lib a more inclusive place for newcomers? <br/> Or, how do we quickly indoctrinate newbies to our values and ways of doing things?"
**Suggestions, ideas, and follow-up actions solicited.
* [[One recommended tool/resource for n00bs]] - For new coding librarians/library Coders
* [[Mentorship Program]]
* [[Zoia or the Code4Lib IRC bot]]

==Code4Lib 2014 Conference==
See also the ''[[:Category:Code4Lib2014]] category''
*[http://code4lib.org/conference/2014 Summary Information]
*[[Code4Lib 2014 Conference Planning Volunteers]]
*[[2014 Proposals]]
*[[2014 Prepared Talk Proposals]]
*[[2014 preconference proposals]]
*[[2014 Invited Speakers Nominations]]
*[[Sponsor Logos for T-Shirt]]
*[[2014 t-shirt design proposals]] - due Friday, January 3

== Local / Regional Groups ==

* [[NYC|Code4LibNYC]] - NYC and surrounding areas
* [[NEC4L|New England Code4lib]] - New England
* [[NL|Code4Bib]] - Dutch Code4Bib
* [[MDC|Code4libMDC]] - Maryland, Washington D.C, Virginia, and surrounding areas
* [http://groups.google.com/group/pnwcode4lib?hl=en PNWCode4Lib] - Pacific Northwest
* [[North|code4lib North]] - Ontario and surrounding areas ''(new for Jan 2010!)''
* [[Midwest|Code4Lib Midwest]] - Wherever that is...
* [http://groups.google.com/group/ikr-fejlesztok/ Code4lib.hu] - Group of Hungarian library developers
* [http://www.code4lib.jp/ Code4Lib Japan] - ''(new in 2010!)'', see also [http://twitter.com/yesonline/statuses/28561046501 tweet from Jerry Lee]
* [http://groups.google.com/group/code4glam Code4GLAM Australia] - coders, hackers, developers and technologists in the Australian GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives & Museums) sector.
* [[GreatEastern|Code4Lib Great Eastern]] - Atlantic Provinces
* [[Code4lib_Mid-Atlantic|Code4Lib Mid-Atlantic]] - Philadelphia and the Greater Tri-State Area
* [[BC|Code4Lib BC]] - British Columbia ''(new in 2013)''
* [[Edmonton|Code4LibYEG]] - Edmonton, Alberta ''(also new in 2013)''

== Interest Groups ==

* [[ILS_Interop|ILS Interoperability]] - A group working to develop an infrastructure for interoperating between discovery layers and integrated library systems.
* [[Open_Source_Book_Widgets|Open Source Book Widgets]] - A list of open source book widgets
* [[Discovery|Open Source Discovery]] - Open Source application to enhance and support "discovery" in libraries
* [[Mobile_Apps|Mobile Applications]] - A group interested in mobile web and native application development for libraries
* [[Sources_Of_Metadata|Sources Of Metadata]] - list of api's and sources of interest to libraries

== Software Usage and Documentation ==

* [[Umlaut]] - OpenURL link resolving middleware
* [[:Category:Patterns|Patterns for Collaborative Code]] - Patterns to make your open source 'more open', more amenable to distributed development and use at multiple institutions without forking.
* [[ILS Documentation]]
* [[OSS Directory]]
* [[Working with MARC]]
* [[Rogue]] - principles for standards creation
* [[ProjectManagement]] - list of project management and issue tracking software that are frequently mentioned on the Code4Lib mailinglist

== Code4Lib Journal ==

* [[:Category:Code4Lib Journal|Code4Lib Journal]] - information and working documents

== Current topics ==

* [[Code4Lib Website Update]]
* [[OCLC Policy Change]]
* [[SirsiDynix: Integrated Library System Platforms on Open Source]]
* [[Parsing Library Data]]
* [[Robots Are Our Friends]]

== Other Code4Lib Sites ==

* [http://www.code4lib.org/ code4lib.org]
* [http://planet.code4lib.org planet.code4lib.org]
* [http://journal.code4lib.org journal.code4lib.org]

== Earlier Conferences and events ==
[[Conference Financial History At A Glance]]

===Code4Lib 2013 Conference===
See also the ''[[:Category:Code4Lib2013]] category''
*[http://code4lib.org/conference/2013/schedule 2013 Schedule]
*[[2013 Lightning Talks Signup]]
*[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TahfqabnchZLD1opq6ILs8XCYdXkgJDsj8-WyVLNzI4/edit Breakout Session Signups] | [[2013_breakout_sessions_reports|2013 Breakout Sessions Reports]]
*[[2013_committees_sign-up_page|Volunteer to help plan 2013 conference]]
*[[2013_During_the_Conference_Volunteers|During the conference volunteer signup]]
*[[2013 Invited Speakers Nominations]] -- nominations close Aug. 31, 2012.
*[[2013 preconference proposals|2013 preconference sessions]] - try to sign up by Jan 15th
*[[2013 talks proposals]] - due Friday, Nov 9
*[[2013 t-shirt design proposals]] - due Monday, Dec. 31

*[[2013_social_activities|Social Activities for 2013 Conference]]
*[[2013_travel|Travel Advice and Getting To and From the 2013 Conference]]
*[[2013_room_ride_share|2013 Conference Room and Ride Share]]
*[[2013_Guide_To_Wireless| Connecting to the UIC's Wifi]]
*[[2013 Twitter List| 2013 Twitter Attendee List]]

* Conference hashtag: #c4l13 -- [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AsyivMoYhk87dFljMUZURWZMYzNzT2lwcEduUUJ6d1E#gid=113 Archive of tweets] | [http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=c4l13 Flickr photos]

===Code4Lib 2012 Conference===
''See also the [http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Category:Code4Lib2012 Code4lib2012 category]''

* [http://code4lib.org/conference/2012/ 2012 home]
* [[During_the_Conference_Volunteers|Volunteer to help at code4lib 2012]]
* [[2012_committees_sign-up_page|Volunteer to help plan 2012 conference]]
* [[2012_preconference_proposals|2012 Preconference Proposals]]--due Sunday, November 20
* [[2012_talks_proposals|2012 Talk Proposals]]--due Sunday, November 20
* [[2012_c4l2012_social_activities|Social Activities]] - ideas and sign-up
* [[c4l2012_rideshare|Rideshare-Roomshare]]
* [[c4l2012_t-shirtcontest|T-shirt contest]]
* [[ideas_for_2012|Put your ideas for 2012 here!]]
* [[C4L2012_Call_For_Host|2012 Call For Host]]
* [[How To Plan A Code4LibCon]]
* [http://linkd.in/unhJsR LinkedIn Event]
* [[2012_twitter_list|List your Twitter handle here]]
* [[2012_Lightning_Talks_Signup|Lightning Talks Signup]]
* [http://irc.code4lib.org/ IRC Channel Timeline & Log]
* [http://www.livestream.com/code4lib Conference Livestream] (non-attendees only, please!)

=== Code4Lib 2011 Conference ===
''See also the [http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Category:Code4Lib2011 Code4lib2011 category]''

* [http://code4lib.org/conference/2011 C4L2011 Home]
* [[C4L2011_registration | Registration Information!]]
* [[2011_committees_sign-up_page | 2011 Committees Sign-Up]] - '''Volunteer to help'''
* [[How To Plan A Code4LibCon]]
* [[C4L2011_social_activities|Social Activities]] - ideas & sign-up
* [[C4L2011_planning_wishlist|'''Put your ideas for 2011 here!''']]
* [http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=161853827200024 Facebook Event Page]
* [http://events.linkedin.com/Code4Lib-2011/pub/448897 LinkedIn Event Page]

* [[C4L2011_rideshare|Airport Ride Share and Carpooling]]
* [[C4L2011_roomshare | Hotel room share]]

=== Code4Lib 2010 Conference ===

''See also the [http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/Category:Code4Lib2010 Code4lib2010 category]''
* [http://code4lib.org/conference/2010/schedule Finalized schedule]
* [[2010 Lightning Talks Signup]] - sign up to give a lightning talk
* [[2010 Breakout Sessions]] - suggest a breakout here
* '''[[2010 Conference Buzz]] - Conference announcements and a place for code4libbers to plan stuff'''
* [[C4L2010_social_activities|Social Activities]] - ideas & sign-up
* [[Committees sign-up page]] - '''Volunteer to help'''
* [[C4L2011_planning_wishlist|'''Put your ideas for 2011 here!''']]
* [[Asheville Airport to Hotel Van Manifest]]
* [[C4L2010rideshare|General shared travel/transportation planning]]
* [[C4L2010planning:RoommatesRidesEtc|Roommates, Rides, Etc]]
* [[C4L2010_manning_discount|Manning Publications Discount]] - discount code (40% off) for use by attendees through Feb. 28, 2010
* Thanks also to our other sponsors!
* [[C4L2010planning|2010 Planning]]
* [[C4L2010planning:_wishlist | 2010 Planning Wishlist]] - planning page for issues, expectations, etc. for the 2010 conference

=== Code4Lib 2009 Conference ===

* [[BookRaffle]] - coordinate begging publishers for books to raffle off at the conference
* [http://inkdroid.org/c4l2009/attendees Get FOAFed] - add your FOAF profile to the network of c4l2009 attendees
* PreConferences:
** [[GIS_preconf_code4libcon2009]] - Open source GIS just like mom used to make
** [[LinkedData]] - A proposal for a linked-data code4lib2009 pre-conference
** [[LibX_Preconference]] - Proposal for a half-day pre-conference targeted at developers who wish to use the LibX 2.0 platform
** [http://code4lib.org/2009/oclc-precon OCLC Grid Services Preconference]
* [[RoommatesRidesEtc]] - Find roommates for Code4Lib 2009, share rides, etc.
* [[2009 Conference Buzz]] - Conference announcements and a place for code4libbers to plan stuff

=== Other workshops ===
* [http://barcamp.org/SearchCampDC SearchCampDC] - barcamp style event in DC with usual suspects from code4lib
* [[code4lib/elag2010]] - 1-day code4lib preconference at elag2010

== Archived topics ==

* [[Logo Design Process]]

[[AdminToDo]] - ideas and tasks for maintaining the Code4Lib sites

2012 twitter list

2012-02-06T17:55:18Z

Skome:

Put your twitter handle in here, if you're at Code4Lib 2012 Seattle. I'll add you to the [https://twitter.com/#!/code4lib/attendees-2012 Attendees 2012 twitter list] for @code4lib when I get a chance. Thanks! -Sean

# Sean Hannan (@MrDys)
# Cynthia Ng (@TheRealArty)
# Becky Yoose (@yo_bj)
# Jason Ronallo (@ronallo)
# Kåre Fiedler Christiansen (@kaarefc)
# Joe Montibello (@firstweet)
# Charlie Morris (@cdmo)
# Laura Smart (@infod1va)
# Keri Thompson (@DigiKeri_SIL)
# Misty De Meo (@mistydemeo)
# Robert H. McDonald (@mcdonald) - attending virtually
# Takanori Hayashi (@tzhaya)
# Jason Casden (@cazzerson)
# Corey Harper (@chrpr)
# Heather Pitts (@HLPitts)
# Alex Wade (@alexwade)
# Zoe Chao (@zoechao)
# Joel Richard (@cajunjoel)
# Mark Matienzo (@anarchivist)
# Tim Lepczyk (@singlesoliloquy)
# Scott Hanrath (@rshanrath)
# Mads Villadsen (@maxxkrakoa)
# Hillel Arnold (@helrond)
# Sam Kome (@skome)
# Ryan Wick (@ryanwick)
# Ken Varnum (@varnum)
# Al Cornish (@alncornish)
# Kate Zwaard (@kzwa)

2012 preconference proposals

2012-01-12T00:30:23Z

Skome: /* Developing applications using REST web services */

=Proposals for 2012 Code4LibCon Preconferences=
Proposals closed Sunday, November 20, 2011, so we can finalize the list and add them to registration! (The deadline for preconference proposals has passed.)

Spaces available: main meeting room (max 275) + 5 breakout rooms (max 30-50).

'''Please include a "Contact/Responsible Individual" name and email address so we know who is willing to put on the proposed precon.
'''
==Full Day==

=== Hacking Content ===

What is the future of getting library information and resources into users’ hands at the right time and with appropriate context and relevancy. Learning management systems, library guides, Web-scale discovery systems-plenty of tools to choose from and still we see lots of opportunities for improvement. Let’s pick them apart and brainstorm ideas for projects that could address weaknesses in one or all of these systems. If you’re interested in these issues, challenges and conundrums join us for a day of thinking, dreaming and scheming. All skill sets and backgrounds needed.

Speakers/Facilitators will be:
- Thom Cox - Manager of Library Information Technology Services - Tufts University
- Ken Varnum – Web Systems Manager - University of Michigan Libraries
- Evviva Weinraub – Director, Emerging Technologies and Services - Oregon State University Libraries

Contact: Margaret Mellinger - margaret dot mellinger at oregonstate dot edu

=== Developing applications using REST web services ===

Been hearing about web services but don’t know where to start to build something? Have you built applications that use read services but are stumped by OAuth, Content Negotiation and HTTP Headers? Come dig in and learn how to build applications that interact with both read and write REST services. We’ll cover the basic principles and practices of REST services and discuss the Atom Publishing Protocol as a REST service and its extensibility. The group will examine and test the CouchDB HTTP API by building a simple list creation tool. You’ll learn how OCLC’s platform web services leverage Atom to expose the data and business processes from OCLC’s library systems. By the end of the session, you’ll know the basic principles of REST services, be able to perform Create, Read, Update and Delete operations via REST and be able to authenticate to REST services via API keys and OAuth.

Come ready to learn and code!

Presenter: Karen Coombs - coombsk at oclc dot org

Attendees: Sam Kome,

==Half Day Morning==

=== Linkfest ===

We've had talks and sessions galore about Linked Data at code4lib in past years. Let's focus on linking. Bring data you want to publish and link to or link from and your ideas about new ways we can push data linking into being part of our regular approach to how we put our libraries' content and services on the web. At the start of the session we'll run a quick poll to see who wants to link to what and how, and we'll pair or group up and get to work from there. May a kajillion links bloom!

If you need an "intro to linked data" we can prep a good list of readings/talks to review before you come. But please come ready to link!

Organizer type person: Dan Chudnov, GWU Libraries, @dchud or dchud at gwu edu

=== What's New in Solr ===

This session will bring folks up to speed on the latest developments in Lucene and Solr. There's always a lot of new capabilities as well as tips and tricks on using Solr in clever and powerful ways.

Presenter: Erik Hatcher - erik . hatcher @ lucidimagination dot com

==Half Day Afternoon==

=== Git -r done ===

A session to cover all things Git, everyone's favourite distributed version control system. This session should cover a little bit of the history of Git, how it works, and how it's different than other version controls systems like SVN. Practical application should also be covered, including how to clone existing repos and contribute code back to them, how to host your own repository, and best practices for setting up a distributed network.

Looking for attendees with real-life Git experience to share it, so we can all broaden our understanding of possible use-cases and nifty advanced features.

Coordinator: Ian Walls, ByWater Solutions, @sekjal or ian.walls at bywatersolutions com

=== Blacklight ===

This session will be walk-through of the architecture of Blacklight and what we have been improving since the rails 3 upgrade. In addition to the architecture of the software, we will also briefly discuss the architecture of the Blacklight community and what has made it successful so far.

For part of the session we will install Blacklight live and get it up and running. This install demo will include a How-To on basic customizations in Blacklight using a test-driven approach (one of the cornerstones of the Blacklight community).

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.

Presenters: Jessie Keck, Stanford University - jkeck at stanford dot edu | Molly Pickral, University of Virginia - mpc3c at virginia dot edu

=== DACS and EAD Overview ===

This session will look at what DACS (Describing Archives: a Content Standard) is and describe the ten required elements. Then there will be an overview of what EAD is, how it works, and the required elements. The final part will be a practice session on taking a paper finding aid and coding it using DACS and EAD.

Presenter: Doris Munson, Eastern Washington University, dmunson at ewu dot edu
(please feel free to contact me if you are interested in being a co-presenter)

=== [[Digging into metadata: context, code, and collaboration]] ===

Working with library/archival metadata is difficult. This preconference will tackle pressing questions and will show some of the intricacies of metadata (including AACR2/MARC) with exercises to demonstrate why inconsistencies exist in the data. What steps can the cataloging & metadata community take to help improve the quality of this data? What tools & techniques could help? Rules have evolved over time leaving dirty legacy data. Systems have impacted--and will continue to impact--data structure & design. How can this data be aggregated and refined for use in a new emerging data environments? What assumptions can safely be made and when do you need to inquire about local practice? We will end with a hack-fest where you can ask questions of experienced catalogers and get help with your metadata related problems. Bring your laptops and data.

Person Herder: Becky Yoose, Grinnell College, yoosebec at grinnell dot edu

Collaborators/Facilitators: Corey Harper, New York University - corey dot harper at nyu dot edu | Shana L. McDanold, University of Pennsylvania -
mcdanold at pobox dot upenn dot edu | Laura Smart, Caltech - laura at library dot caltech dot edu

=== "Geo" ===
This session will explore, we hope collaboratively, the presentation of objects on maps. There will be a section on workflow, a section on discovering objects via "geobrowse," a section discovery of objects via "geosearch," and an exploration of the discovery and presentation of geo-referenced images (e.g. historic maps). There will be open discussion on other approaches to map-based discovery. Emphasis will be placed on simplicity of workflow and implementation. Technologies include: Atom, Django, Solr, and OpenLayers.

Presenters: Mike Graves, UNC Chapel Hill, gravm at email dot unc dot edu; Tim Shearer, UNC Chapel Hill, tshearer at email dot unc dot edu
(please feel free to contact Tim if you are interested in being a co-presenter)

[[Category: Code4Lib2012]]

C4l2012 rideshare

2011-12-09T05:52:22Z

Skome:

=== Seattle Tacoma International Airport ===

See also [http://orbiscascade.org/index/c4l-transportation travel advice from the hosts]

'''Arrivals'''
{| border="1" cellpadding="5" class="sortable"
|- style="text-align: left;"
! Name !! Flight Arriving !! Renting Car? !! Share rental cost? !! Gas? !! Driving? !! Van? !! Sign-Up?
|-
| yourname/email|| date/time || yes/no|| yes/no || yes/no || who's the driver?||yes/no||# of people you can take
|-
|}

'''Departures'''
{| border="1" cellpadding="5" class="sortable"
|- style="text-align: left;"
! Name !! Flight Departing !! Renting Car? !! Share rental cost? !! Gas? !! Driving? !! Van? !! Sign-Up?
|-
| yourname/email|| date/time || yes/no|| yes/no || yes/no || who's the driver?||yes/no||# of people you can take
|-

|}

===Public Transit from the Airport===
Light Rail: The [http://www.soundtransit.org/Schedules/Central-Link-light-rail.xml Central Link Light Rail station] will be located near the northeast corner of the main airport parking garage, directly connecting pedestrians to the airport ticketing concourse and SeaTac's City Center. The light rail offers a 36-minute ride from the airport to Downtown Seattle.

Get off at the Pioneer Square station. The hotel is 7 blocks from the station (0.4 miles) and the walk includes a steep hill, so plan to take a bus, a cab, or be out of breath by the time you get to the hotel. The easiest transit connection is to walk up Third to Marion, and take the #12 up the hill. It's a free ride till 7 p.m. Trolley stops across the street (6th Ave) from the hotel.

Fare: <$3 for light rail

=== Roommates ===
==== Looking ====
* [http://jodischneider.com/jodi.html JodiS] -- looking for a female roommate, ideally < $70/night (any women who get the $138 a night government employee rate looking for a share?)

==== Offering ====
<s>* [https://twitter.com/#!/skome samk] -- Have 2 double beds at the conference hotel, need only one. Human male, typically easy going.</s>
* [http://therolfeblog.blogspot.com Alex Rolfe] I also have 2 double beds at the conference hotel, for the 5th-8th, and would be happy to have a roommate for all or part of it. Human male, also easygoing. Contact me at arolfe@georgefox.edu.
* [mailto:bobbi_fox@harvard.edu Bobbi Fox] -- Have reservation (Sunday eve. through Thurs .am.) at conference hotel, woman looking for another woman to share

=== Other places to stay ===
[http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotels-g60878-Seattle_Washington-Hotels.html| TripAdvisor]
Also if anyone has suggestions.

====Nearby====
* [http://www.monaco-seattle.com/ Hotel Monaco] - .2 mi (1101 4th Avenue, Seattle, WA)
* [http://www.greentortoise.net/ Green Tortise Hostel], $28.50 - $32.50/person in shared dorm rooms - .6 mi (105 1/2 Pike St)
* [http://www.executivehotels.net/downtownseattlehotel/s_seattle_accommodation.cgi Executive Hotel Pacific] $99 (Also available a 20% discount with advance purchase - full payment upfront required) - .1 miles (400 Spring St).
* [http://www.kimptonhotels.com/hotels/factsheets/hotel-vintage-park-seattle/ Hotel Vintage Park], $153 (king) and $143 (queen) with AAA discount. Might have government rates, not sure.

====Bus distance====
* College Inn (bus ride away)

C4l2012 rideshare

2011-11-17T01:08:03Z

Skome:

=== Seattle Tacoma International Airport ===

'''Arrivals'''
{| border="1" cellpadding="5" class="sortable"
|- style="text-align: left;"
! Name !! Flight Arriving !! Renting Car? !! Share rental cost? !! Gas? !! Driving? !! Van? !! Sign-Up?
|-
| yourname/email|| date/time || yes/no|| yes/no || yes/no || who's the driver?||yes/no||# of people you can take
|-
|}

'''Departures'''
{| border="1" cellpadding="5" class="sortable"
|- style="text-align: left;"
! Name !! Flight Departing !! Renting Car? !! Share rental cost? !! Gas? !! Driving? !! Van? !! Sign-Up?
|-
| yourname/email|| date/time || yes/no|| yes/no || yes/no || who's the driver?||yes/no||# of people you can take
|-

|}

=== Roommates ===
==== Looking ====
* [http://jodischneider.com/jodi.html JodiS] -- looking for a female roommate, ideally < $70/night (any women who get the $138 a night government employee rate looking for a share?)

==== Offering ====
* [https://twitter.com/#!/skome samk] -- Have 2 double beds at the conference hotel, need only one. Human male, typically easy going.

=== Other places to stay ===
[http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotels-g60878-Seattle_Washington-Hotels.html| TripAdvisor]
Also if anyone has suggestions.

====Nearby====
* [http://www.monaco-seattle.com/ Hotel Monaco] - .2 mi (1101 4th Avenue, Seattle, WA)
* [http://www.greentortoise.net/ Green Tortise Hostel], $28.50 - $32.50/person in shared dorm rooms - .6 mi (105 1/2 Pike St)
* [http://www.executivehotels.net/downtownseattlehotel/s_seattle_accommodation.cgi Executive Hotel Pacific] $99 (Also available a 20% discount with advance purchase - full payment upfront required) - .1 miles (400 Spring St).

====Bus distance====
* College Inn (bus ride away)

2012 committees sign-up page

2011-10-13T21:05:34Z

Skome: /* IRC Evangelists */

= Code4Lib 2012 Committees =

If you are interested in helping out with a particular part of the Code4Lib 2012 conference, create an account on this wiki and sign-up for one or more of the groups below (called 'committees' for lack of a better term). Each committee should select a committee lead that will coordinate the activities of the committee and its work with the hosting site. Discussions of a non-sensitive nature should take place on the Code4LibCon mailing list for transparency and future reference. Please feel free to improve the summary statements for each of the committees.

== Book Give-Away Committee ==

* Kevin S. Clarke (ksclarke@gmail.com) -- McHenry Library, UC Santa Cruz -- Asking O'Reilly
* Anjanette -- Asking Manning (via Erik Hatcher)
* Anjanette -- No Starch. Yes!
* Andrew Nagy -- oXygen XML Editor (5 Licenses to give away)
* [[BookRaffle|Suggestions for Book Raffle.]]

== Sponsorships Committee ==

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

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

== Keynote Speakers Committee ==

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

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

== Program Committee ==

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

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

== Scholarships Committee ==

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

* Jeremy Frumkin (frumkinj at u dot library dot arizona dot edu) - University of Arizona
* Jodi Schneider - DERI, NUI Galway

== T-Shirt Committee ==

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

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

== Social Activities Committee ==

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

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

== Voting Activities Committee ==

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

== Hospitality Suite Committee ==

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

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

== Welcome Wagon Committee ==

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

* Becky Yoose(b.yoose at gmail dot com) -- Grinnell College
* Bohyun Kim(kimb at fiu dot edu) -- Florida International University

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

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

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

* Sam Kome (skome) Claremont Colleges

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

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

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

* Dan Suchy (dansuchy at gmail) -- UC San Diego

== Microphone Runners==

Run wireless handheld microphones to audience members asking questions.

== Session Timer Volunteers ==

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

* Ann Gleason (amwhit24 at uw dot edu) - University of Washington

'''Schedule for Session Timers'''

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

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

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

[[Category: Code4Lib2012]]

2011talks Submissions

2010-11-12T19:08:25Z

Skome: Added Claremont Presentation Proposal

Deadline for talk submission is ''Saturday, November 13''. See [http://www.mail-archive.com/code4lib@listserv.nd.edu/msg08878.html this mailing list post for more details], or the general [http://code4lib.org/conference/2011 Code4Lib 2011] page.

See the [http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/2011talkscall_Call_for_Submissions Call for Submissions] for guidelines on appropriate topic talks and the criteria on which submissions are evaluated.

Please follow the formatting guidelines:

<pre>
== Talk Title: ==

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

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

== How "great" are the Great Books? ==

* Eric Lease Morgan, University of Notre Dame (emorgan at nd.edu)

In the 1960s a set of books called the Great Books of the Western World was published. It was supposed to represent the best of Western literature and enable the reader to further their liberal arts education. Sixty volumes in all, it included works by Plato, Aristotle, Shakespeare, Milton, Galileo, Kepler, Melville, Darwin, etc. These great books were selected based on the way they discussed a set of 102 "great ideas" such as art, astronomy, beauty, evil, evolution, mind, nature, poetry, revolution, science, will, wisdom, etc. How "great" are these books, and how "great" are the ideas expressed in them?

Given full text versions of these books it is almost trivial to use the "great ideas" as input and apply relevancy ranking algorithms against the texts thus creating a sort of score -- a "Great Ideas Coefficient". Term Frequency/Inverse Document Frequency (TFIDF) is a well-established algorithm for computing just this sort of thing:

relevancy = ( c / t ) * log( d / f ) where:

* c = number of times a given word appears in a document
* t = total number of words in a document
* d = total number of documents in a corpus
* f = total number of documents containing a given word

Thus, to calculate our Great Ideas Coefficient I sum the relevancy score for each "great idea" for each "great book". Plato's Republic might have a cumulative score of 525 while Aristotle's On The History Of Animals might have a cumulative score of 251. Books with a larger Coefficient could be considered greater. Given such a score a person could measure a book's "greatness". We could then compare the score to the scores of other books. Which book is the "greatest"? We could compare the score to other measurable things such as book's length or date to see if there were correlations. Are "great books" longer or shorter than others? Do longer books contain more "great ideas"? Are there other books that were not included in the set that maybe should have been included?

The first part of this talk describes the different steps involved in the text pre-processing to calculate an accurate TFIDF value for each item of the corpus. The results and statistical analysis are discussed in the second part. Finally I will outline the remaining work such as refining the analysis and extending the current quantitative process to a web implementation.

== UNR BookFinder: Leveraging Google Books to Move Beyond Catalog Search ==
* Will Kurt, University of Nevada, Reno, (wkurt at unr.edu)
Google Books is a great tool, but it lacks an easy method allowing users to access the items they find through their library. The UNR BookFinder is a mashup of the Google Books and WorldCat APIs (and some ugly hacks) which allows users to search for items with the power of Google’s fulltext search while eliminating the need to search all of the library’s various resources to find an item. The UNR BookFinder automatically searches the catalog and consortial ILL for the item, if these fail an ILLiad request form as automatically filled out. The end result is that the user can explore an universe of books and access them as fast as possible through the university library. A video of the alpha version can be found [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaqcUSTtdVk here].

== Moving a large multi-tiered search architecture from dedicated hosts to the cloud ==
* Peter Ciuffetti, Senior Software Engineer, Credo Reference Ltd. (pete at credoreference.com)
So you want to move a large production search service from dedicated hosts to the cloud? The flexibility is enticing, the costs are attractive, the geek cred is undeniable. Our cloud adventure came with many undocumented surprises ranging from mysterious server behavior to sales engineers suggesting that 'maybe the cloud isn't for you'. We eventually made it all work and our production service is now on the cloud. This talk will cover what the cloud product FAQs don't say, what their tech support doesn't know (or won't say) and mistakes you can avoid by talking to the guys with the arrows in their backs.

== VuFind Beyond MARC: Discovering Everything Else ==
* Demian Katz, Library Technology Development Specialist, Villanova University (demian dot katz at villanova dot edu)
The VuFind[http://vufind.org] discovery layer has been providing a user-friendly interface to MARC records for several years now. However, library data consists of more than just MARC records, and VuFind has grown to accommodate just about anything you can throw at it. This presentation will examine the new workflows and tools that enable discovery of non-MARC resources and some of the non-traditional applications of VuFind that they make possible. Technologies covered will include OAI-PMH, XSLT, Aperture, Solr and, of course, VuFind itself.

== Linked data apps for medical professionals ==
* Rurik Thomas Greenall, NTNU Library, (rurik dot greenall at ub dot ntnu dot no)
The promise of linked data for libraries has yet to be realized, as a demonstration of the power of RDF, HTTP-URIs and SPARQL, NTNU Library together with the Norwegian Electronic Health Library produced a linked data representation of MeSH and created a small translation app that can be used to help health professionals identify the right term and apply it in their database searches. This talk presents the simple ways in which the core technologies and concepts in linked data provide a solid, time-saving way of developing usable applications.

== fiwalk With Me: Building Emergent Pre-Ingest Workflows for Digital Archival Records using Open Source Forensic Software ==
* Mark A. Matienzo, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library (mark at matienzo dot org)
Many of the complications of born-digital records involve preparing them for transfer into a storage or preservation environment. Digital evidence of any kind is easily susceptible to unintentional and intentional modification. This presentation will describe the use of open source forensic software in pre-ingest workflows for digital archives. Digital archivists and other digital curation practitioners can develop emergent processes to prepare records for ingest and transfer using a combination of relatively simple tools. The granularity and simplicity of these tools and procedures provides the possibility for their smooth integration into a digital curation environment built on micro-services.
== Why (Code4) Libraries Exist ==
* Eric Hellman, President, Gluejar, Inc. (eric at hellman dot net)
Libraries have historically delivered value to society by facilitating the sharing of books. The library "brand" is built around the building and exploitation of their collections. These collections have been acquired and owned. As ebook readers become the preferred consumption platform for books, libraries are beginning to come to terms with the fact that they don't own their digital collections, and can't share books as they'd like to. Yet libraries continue to be valuable in many ways. In this transitional period, only one thing can save libraries from irrelevance and dissipation: Code.
== The Story of TILE: Making Modular & Reusable Tools ==
* Doug Reside, MITH, University of Maryland (dougreside at gmail dot com)

The Text Image Linking Environment (TILE) is a collaborative project between the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), the Digital Library Program at Indiana University, and the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University Bloomington. Since May 2009, the TILE project team has been developing through NEH Research & Development funding a web-based, modular, image markup tool for both semi-automated linking between encoded text and image of text, and image annotation. The software will be complete and ready for release in June 2011.

The basic functionality of TILE is to create links between images and text that relates to that image – either annotations or transcriptions. We have paid particular attention to linking between image of text and transcription of text. These links may be made manually, but the project also includes an algorithm, written in JavaScript, for recognizing text within an image and automatically associating the coordinates with a Unicode transcription. Additionally, the tool can import and export transcriptions and links from and to a variety of metadata formats (TEI, METS, OWL) and will provide an API for developers to write mappings for additional formats. Of course, this functionality is immediately useful to a relatively limited set of editors of digital materials, but we have made modularity and extensibility primary goals of the project.

Many members of the TILE development team are also members of the Open Annotation Collaboration (OAC), and have therefore attempted to develop TILE’s annotation features to be OAC compliant. Like OAC, TILE assumes that the text and the images to be linked may exist at separate and completely unconnected servers. When a user starts the TILE tool for the first time, she is prompted to supply a URI to a TILE compliant JSON file.

TILE’s JSON is simple and thoroughly documented, and we provide several translators to map common existing metadata formats to the format. We have already created a PHP script that will generate TILE JSON from a TEI P5 document and are currently working to do the same for the METS files used in the Indiana University’s METS navigator tool.

Additionally, TILE provides a modular exporting tool that allows users to run the work they’ve done in TILE through an external translator and then download the result to the client computer. For example, a user may import a set of images and transcripts from a METS file at the Library of Congress, use TILE to link images and text, and then export the result as a TEI file. The TEI file may then be reimported to TILE at a later data to further edit or convert the file.

At Code4Lib, we will demonstrate the functionality of TILE and display a poster and provide handouts that describe the thinking behind TILE, how it is intended to be used, and details on how TILE is built and functions.

== We Don’t Server Their Kind : Managing E-resources with Flat-File Databases ==
* Junior Tidal, Multimedia and Web Services Librarian, New York City College of Technology, CUNY (jtidal at citytech dot cuny dot edu)
Managing E-resources can be a daunting challenge. URLs, database names, and even vendors can change, go down, or simply cease to exist. My proposal involves the use of a PHP-based, flat-file database driven web tool for database management. The design of this program was to fulfill two needs: ease of use for librarians with a lack of programming experience and to meet the security and technical restrictions placed by the college’s IT department. My presentation will explore the development of this tool, challenges within its development, and future improvements. PHP code and the flat-file database will also be explained and provided to attendees. For a working demonstration feel free to visit the New York City College of Technology’s A-Z database [http://library.citytech.cuny.edu/research/AToZ/index.php page] or the subject database [http://library.citytech.cuny.edu/research/subject/index.php page].

== Drupal 7 as a Rapid Application Development Tool ==

* Cary Gordon, President, The Cherry Hill Company & Board Member, The Drupal Association (cgordon at chillco dawt com)
Five years ago, I discovered that the Drupal CMS had a programming framework disguised as an API, and learned that I could use it to solve problems.

Drupal 7 builds on that to provide a powerful toolset for interfacing with, manipulating and presenting data. It empowers tool-builders by providing a minimal install option, along with a more powerful installation profile system makes it easier for developers to package and distribute their applications.

== Helping Open Source Succeed ==

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

Deciding if open source is an option for your institution, or what open source software matches your institution’s needs and capabilities, is a complex decision. LYRASIS is developing a new area of focus to assist libraries with decision tools and an open source software registry. We want to learn from the creators of open source software what questions institutions have when considering the adoption of open source software and what information you would like to see in a registry that compares various open source tools. A summary of topics discussed in this session will be openly published as part of LYRASIS’ program development plans and decision support resources.

The mission of the new and emerging LYRASIS Technology Services area is to serve members and the broader library community as a provider of expertise and capacity in open source based technology solutions. We think that viable roles for an organization supporting open source software are to: a) Increase understanding of open source technology within the library community, including value, benefits, risks, and costs; b) Assist in decision-making by providing resources to help libraries evaluate open source technologies, institutional readiness, and capacity for adoption; c) Support adoption and use of open source technologies and systems within libraries and consortia; d) Foster integration of open source software tools to expand the ability of existing programs to meet a range of library user needs; e) Develop and test new open source software programs, and contribute to the development of existing programs; f) Support long-term sustainability of viable, library-based open source software and systems. We recognize that these roles exist to some extent on a continuum, with latter services related to development and sustainability building on the knowledge and experience gained through deployment of existing open source systems. In turn, effective adoption and use depends on understanding open source systems and having resources to assist in decision-making and implementation.

With open source software in the “innovator” and “early adopter” stages in the library community, we intend to focus its initial efforts on roles A-D in the above list: increased understanding, decision-support, and effective adoption and integration of existing library-focused open source systems. This session is focused on the decision-support services area of activity.

The impact of this session is expected to be far reaching, if initially subtle. With most of the session time devoted to discussion and interaction among peers on questions surrounding the adoption of open source software, participants will take away a deeper understanding of topics each institution should consider when looking at open source software. These findings, along with that of similar sessions around the country, will inform the creation and expansion of the free decision support tools being developed by LYRASIS.

== Letting in the light: using Solr as an external search component ==

* Jay Luker, IT Specialist, ADS (jluker at cfa dot harvard dot edu)
* Benoit Thiell, software developer, ADS (bthiell at cfa dot harvard dot edu)

It’s well-established that [http://lucene.apache.org/solr/ Solr] provides an excellent foundation for building a faceted search engine. But what if your application’s foundation has already been constructed? How do you add Solr as a federated, fulltext search component to an existing system that already provides a full set of well-crafted scoring and ranking mechanisms?

This talk will describe a work-in-progress project at the [http://adswww.harvard.edu/ Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System] to migrate its aging search platform to [http://invenio-software.org/ Invenio], an open-source institutional repository and digital library system originally developed at CERN, while at the same time incorporating Solr as an external component for both faceting and fulltext search.

In this presentation we'll start with a short introduction of Invenio and then move on to the good stuff: an in-depth exploration of our use of Solr. We'll explain the challenges that we faced, what we learned about some particular Solr internals, interesting paths we chose not to follow, and the solutions we finally developed, including the creation of custom Solr request handlers and query parser classes.

This presentation will be quite technical and will show a measure of horrible Java code. Benoit will probably run away during that part.

== Working with DuraCloud: How to preserve your data in the cloud ==

* Bill Branan, DuraSpace, bbranan at duraspace dot org
* Andrew Woods, DuraSpace, awoods at duraspace dot org

Ever expanding digital collections have become the norm in academic libraries. As the size of collections grow, the need for simple-to-deploy yet powerful preservation strategies becomes increasingly important. The [http://duracloud.org DuraCloud] project, a cloud-hosted service for data management and preservation, is committed to bringing the availability and elasticity of the cloud to bear on the issue of digital preservation. This session will discuss the APIs and tools which can be used to communicate and integrate with the DuraCloud platform, providing an immediate connection to scalable storage available from multiple cloud storage providers, configurable services which can be run over your content out-of-the-box, and a development platform which can serve as the basis for ongoing data mining and analysis.

== Visualizing Library Data ==

* Karen Coombs, OCLC, coombsk at oclc dot org

Visualizations can be powerful tools to give context to library users
and to provide a clear picture for data-driven decision-making in
libraries. Map mashups, tag clouds and timelines can be used to show
information to users in new ways and help them locate materials to meet
their needs. QR codes can help link users to materials that libraries
have in their collections. Charts and graphs can be used to help analyze
library collections (holdings) and compare them to other libraries. This
session will show prototypes which combine tools like Google Chart API,
Protovis and Simile Widgets with data from WorldCat, WorldCat Registry,
Classify, Terminology Services, and Dewey.info to create vivid
illustrations in library user interfaces and administration tools.

== Kuali OLE: Architecture for Diverse and Linked Data ==

* Tim McGeary, Lehigh University, Kuali OLE Functional Council, tim dot mcgeary at lehigh dot edu
* Brad Skiles, Project Manager, Kuali OLE, Indiana University, bradskil at indiana dot edu

With programming scheduled to be begin in January 2011 on the Kuali Open Library Environment (OLE), the Kuali OLE Functional Council is developing the requirements for an architecture for diverse data sets and linked data. With no frontrunner for one bibliographic data standard, and local requirements on what data will be accompanying or linked to the main record store, Kuali OLE needs to build a flexible environment for records management and access.

We will present the concepts of our planned architecture, a multi-repository framework, using a document repository, a semantic repository, and a relational repository, brokered on top of the enterprise service bus of Kuali Rice. As a community source project, this is an opportunity for the Kuali OLE partners to present our plans for discussion with the community, and we look forward to feedback, questions, and comments.

== One Week | One Tool: ultra-rapid open source development among strangers ==

* Scott Hanrath, University of Kansas Libraries, shanrath at ku dot edu
* Jason Casden, North Carolina State University Libraries, jason_casden at ncsu dot edu

In summer 2010, the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, supported by an NEH Summer Institute grant, gathered 12 'digital humanists' for an intense week of collaboration they dubbed 'One Week | One Tool: a digital humanities barn raising.' The group -- several of whom hang their professional hats in libraries and most of whom were previously unacquainted -- was asked to spend one week together brainstorming, specifying, building, publicizing, and releasing an open source software tool of use to the digital humanities community. The result was Anthologize, a free, open-source, plugin that transforms WordPress into a platform for publishing electronic texts in formats including PDF, ePub, and TEI; in other words, a "blog-to-book" tool. This presentation will focus on how One Week | One Tool addressed the challenges of collaborative open source development. From the perspectives of two library coders on the team, we will describe and provide lessons learned from the One Week development process including: how the group structured itself without predefined roles; how the one week time frame and makeup of the group -- which included scholars, grad students, librarians, museum professionals, instructional technologists, and more -- influenced planning and development decisions; the roles of user experience and outreach efforts; the life of Anthologize since the end of the week; and thoughts on what a one week, one 'library' tool could look like.

== Improving the presentation of library data using FRBR and linked data ==

* Anne-Lena Westrum, Oslo Public Library (annelena at deichman dot no)
* Asgeir Rekkavik, Oslo Public Library (asgeirr at deichman dot no)

The Pode project at Oslo Public Library has experimented on the automated FRBRizing of catalogue records, as well as expressing bibliographic descriptions as linked data to enrich catalogue browsing with information from external sources.

When a library enduser searches the online catalogue for works by a particular author, he will typically get a long list that contain all the different translations and editions of all the books by that author, sorted by title or date of issue. The Pode project applied a method of automated FRBRizing, based on the information contained in MARC records, RDF representation and SPARQL queries, to demonstrate how an author's complete production can be presented as a lucid list of unique works, that can easily be browsed by their different expressions and manifestations. Furthermore, by linking instances in the dataset to matching or corresponding instances in external sets, the presentation can be enriched with additional information about authors and works, as well as links to electronic full-text representations.

The talk will also present the work on making an RDF representation of the catalogue records for the whole collection of non-fiction documents at the Norwegian Multilingual library, linking subject headings and Dewey classes, and allowing endusers to browse the collection by the multilingual Dewey class labels published by OCLC at http://dewey.info.

The talk will focus on the challenges technological progresses such as these raise for cataloguers, to deliver consistent and standardized catalogue records. Many cataloguers have a local and pragmatic focus on the library's own and already existing services. Attitudes like this might represent a problem when emerging technologies find new applications for library catalogue data, as well as when the library wants to use data submitted by others to enrich their own services.

== Touch and go: building a touch screen kiosk with software you already own ==

* Andreas K. Orphanides, North Carolina State University Libraries, akorphan at ncsu dot edu

In October 2010, the NCSU Libraries debuted its first public touch-screen information kiosk, designed to provide on-demand access to useful and commonly consulted real-time displays of library information. With the exception of the touchscreen itself, the system was created using commonly available free software and off-the-shelf hardware. In this presentation, I will describe the process for creating the touchscreen interface that is used in this kiosk. I will walk through the challenges of developing for a touch-optimized environment in HTML and JavaScript; I will describe how free utilities and web browser plugins may be combined to secure a public touchscreen kiosk; and I will present a data analysis of touchscreen usage since the kiosk's rollout to evaluate content selection and interface design.

== Next-L Enju, NDL Search and library geeks in Japan ==

* Kosuke Tanabe, Keio University, tanabe at mwr dot mediacom dot keio dot ac dot jp

[http://github.com/next-l Next-L Enju ] is an open source integrated library system developed by Project Next-L, the library geek community in Japan launched on November 2006. It is built on open-source software (Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL/MySQL and Solr) and supports modern ILS features (e.g. FRBR structure and RESTful WebAPI).

Enju has been inplemented by some libraries, which include National Diet Library (NDL), the largest library in Japan. NDL has chosen Enju to provide a new search engine, called "NDL Search" and added some extra features (e.g. automatic FRBRization and providing bibliographic data in a Linked Data format) . The development version is available at http://iss.ndl.go.jp/ .

I'm one of the authors of Next-L Enju. I'd like to talk about the overview and structure of Next-L Enju, NDL Search and the activities of our project.

== A community based approach to developing a Digital Exhibit at Notre Dame using the Hydra Framework ==

* Rick Johnson, University of Notre Dame, (rick dot johnson at nd dot edu)
* Dan Brubaker Horst, University of Notre Dame (dbrubak1 at nd dot edu)

It was clear to us early on that the scope of managing, preserving, and interacting with digital content is too much for any one institution to conquer by itself. We realized that we need help.

We were already fairly convinced using Fedora, Solr, and ActiveFedora were solid choices because of their strong development community and flexible robust solutions. We were also exploring Blacklight for search and browse for the same reasons. The open questions were:

* What is the best way to put the pieces together?
* How do you tackle the heterogenous content types and workflows without getting bogged down in each individual solution?

Enter Code4Lib2010...

After connecting with folks from the Hydra project at Code4Lib it was immediately clear that we had many things in common:
* The same architectural choices: Fedora, Solr, ActiveFedora, Blacklight
* Similar design philosophies
* A need to work together
* Too many shared use cases to ignore

So, we jumped on board and have adopted the Hydra Framework for all of our Digital Repository efforts.

In our presentation we will cover:
* Why we chose to adopt the Hydra Framework instead of creating our own solution
* Why the community based approach is so appealing
* How we were welcomed into the Hydra development community
* Why we chose to create something beyond basic Blacklight search and facet browse
* How to create your own Digital Exhibit using Hydra including
** Metadata management
** Custom Browse and Search

The Hydra Project is actively seeking partnerships with other institutions to extend its efforts. Will your institution be next?

More about the [https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/hydra/The+Hydra+Project Hydra Project]

== Mendeley's API and University Libraries: 3 examples to create value ==

* Jan Reichelt, Co-Founder, Mendeley

Mendeley (http://www.mendeley.com) is a technology startup that is helping to revolutionize the way research is done. Used by more than 600,000 academics and industry researchers, Mendeley enables researchers to arrange collaborative projects, work and discuss in groups, as well as share data across its web platform. Launched in London in December 2008, Mendeley is already the world’s largest research collaboration platform. Through this platform, we anonymously pools users’ research paper collections, creating a crowd-sourced research database with a unique layer of social information - each research paper is connected with socio-demographic information about its audience.

Based on this platform and data, I will present three examples of how Mendeley is working to support university libraries and contribute to opening up academic research:
1) Mendeley’s integration as a workflow tool with institutional repositories with the aim of increasing IR deposit rates;
2) Application examples building on Mendeley’s API to showcase what is possible with the newly available type of usage data Mendeley is aggregating;
3) Preview of Mendeley’s library dashboard that will reveal content usage within an institution.

I would also hope that a subsequent discussion can address how you (the attendees) could envision Mendeley’s future in the library tech community.

== ArticlesPlus: Summon API Client Implementation and Integration with Drupal 6 ==

* Albert Bertram, University of Michigan (bertrama@umich.edu)

On September 27, 2010, the University of Michigan launched ArticlesPlus, an application for web-scale article discovery using the Serials Solutions' Summon service as its search engine. Rather than providing a search box which sent our patrons to the interface provided by Serials Solutions, we used Summon's API to integrate the search as a feature of our library's website. In addition to Summon as the search engine, we used our Drupal instance for the interface engine.

I propose to talk about how we implemented the Summon API, the Drupal module we developed in to access the Summon API, problems with implementing an interface ourselves, benefits of implementing the interface ourselves, and plans for future expansion or improved integration in our website.

== Let's Get Small: A Microservices Approach to Library Websites ==

* Sean Hannan, Johns Hopkins University, shannan at jhu dot edu

Most, if not all, library websites are housed and maintained in singular, monolithic content management systems. This is fantastic if the library website is the one place your users go for library information. But it isn't. Users are going to Facebook, checking mobile applications, browsing portals as well as checking the library website. Wouldn't it be great if you could update the information on all of these sites from a single source? Why maintain the library hours in five different places?

In this talk, I will show how breaking the construction of the library website into as-needed, swappable microservices can free your content to live where it needs to, as well as free you from the maintenance headaches usually involved. What kind of microservices, you ask? Well, basic templating and styling is a given, but how about a microservice that gracefully degrades your layouts for older browsers? Or enforces highfalutin typographic rules? Or optimizes your site assets to improve load times? All wonderful little black boxes that allow you to focus on the website and its content, and not the details.

I promise at least one diagram. That will burn your eyes.

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== Sharing Between Data Repositories ==

* Kevin S. Clarke, NESCent/Dryad Data Repository, ksclarke at nescent dot org

Dryad (http://datadryad.org) is a generic subject repository that shares author submitted data with other scientific repositories. In a
part "how we done it" and part "things to consider" talk, I'll discuss 1) why we chose BagIt and OAI-ORE as mechanisms for sharing our data, 2) how
we've integrated with TreeBASE (http://www.treebase.org/ -- a subject repository of phylogenetic information), and 3) the possibility of this
method of data sharing being adopted by other repositories within the larger DataONE community.

There will be cake.

== Hey, Dilbert. Where’s my data?! ==

* Tommy Barker, University of Pennsylvania, tbarker at pobox dot upenn dot edu

Libraries are notorious for maintaining data in massively disparate systems such as databases, flat files, xml and web services. The data is rich and valuable to assessment, but extracting value from multiple systems is complex and time consuming. Yes, there are open source and commercial solutions available, but libraries have unique requirements that can be difficult to integrate into these products. Commercial options also tend to be overly complex or the cool features require an expensive enterprise edition.

With funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, UPenn is developing MetriDoc to address data integration headaches within the library, and support reporting requirements from management. MetriDoc’s mission is to provide an open source API / tool set where users can specify dataflows and use library based services to solve integration problems while MetriDoc worries about scalability and performance. MetriDoc accomplishes this with no complex xml configuration or scary SOA middleware, but instead uses a simple DSL where possible. Eventually the project will also include dashboards to assist with complex job management and data flow monitoring.

The first half the presentation briefly discusses MetriDoc’s architecture while the remainder of the presentation will include code samples to illustrate problems it can solve. Information on how to contribute or download MetriDoc will be provided as well.

== Open Data and the Biodiversity Heritage Library experience ==

* Trish Rose-Sandler, Missouri Botanical Gardens, trish dot rose dash sandler at mobot dot org

The Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) is an international consortium of the world’s leading natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions organized to digitize, serve, and preserve the legacy literature of biodiversity. From the beginning the BHL partners conceived of the BHL collection as being “open” – available to anyone regardless of geographic location or affiliation and a linked into a global Biodiversity Commons. This talk will discuss the basic principles of open data and use BHL as one example of how those principles have played out in a real world context.

What does it mean for data to be “open” and what tools or services can enable this? Our metadata is purposely “open” so that others can harvest it and repurpose it in different contexts. We make it available through both OAI-PMH and APIs.

If you “open” your data will they come? In some cases yes. BHL can give examples of scientists and science services, who have taken our data and exploited it for other purposes (e.g. BioStor, Earthcape, EOL, ZipcodeZoo) Yet, in a recent BHL survey we learned that of our frequent users, 42% were not aware that we provided APIs and 31% did not understand what APIs were. Clearly promotion of your open data is a key activity to making it truly useful.

What are some advantages to open data? Harvestable data allows that data which was created for a specific purpose and audience (e.g. historic texts, nomenclatural services, encyclopedias) to interact with other data and serve new, previously unimagined, roles. For BHL, opening our data it was a desire to do three things 1) make biodiversity data available to foster scientific research 2) support the public use of these data and 3) build a web of science.

== The Road to SRFdom: OpenSRF as Curation Microservices Architecture ==

* Dan Coughlin, Digital Library Technologies, Penn State University ITS (danny@psu.edu)
* Mike Giarlo, Digital Library Technologies, Penn State University ITS (michael@psu.edu)

OpenSRF is the XMPP-based framework that underlies the Evergreen ILS, providing a service-oriented architecture with failover, load-balancing, and high availability. Curation microservices represent a new approach to digital curation in which typical repository functions such as storage, versioning, and fixity-checking are implemented as small, independent services. Put them together and what do you have?

The next phase of Penn State's institutional digital stewardship program will involve prototyping a suite of curation services to enable users to manage and enrich their digital content -- we’re just about to get started on this, at the time this proposal was written. The curation services will be implemented following the microservices philosophy, and they will be stitched together via OpenSRF. We will talk about why we chose the “road to SRFdom,” colliding the ILS world with the repository world, how we implemented the curation services & architecture, and how OpenSRF might be helpful to you. Code will be shown, beware.

== Enhancing the Performance and Extensibility of the XC’s MetadataServicesToolkit ==

* [http://tech.benanderson.us Ben Anderson], [http://www.extensiblecatalog.org/ eXtensible Catalog Organization], banderson@library.rochester.edu

Learn how we increased the performance of the [http://code.google.com/p/xcmetadataservicestoolkit/ XC Metadata Services Toolkit] (MST) by over 900%. The MST is an open-source Java application, that uses SOLR and MySQL to harvest (OAI-PMH) library metadata (MARC, DC), clean it up, convert and frbrize, and then make new metadata (RDA flavor, XC Schema) available for harvesting. Our first release performed too slowly with degrading performance with large record batches and we needed to enable the MST to process a library’s entire catalog in a reasonable amount of time on a common server. The MST was also intended to be extensible. Libraries will almost certainly want to customize this process in some way. Thus our second goal was to make it is as easy as possible for a developer to write a service which can be plugged into the MST.

In the spring of ‘10 we set out to accomplish our 2 goals. The first task was to establish how close the existing MST was to these goals. More concretely, our goal was to be able to process 1M MARC records/hr and have little to no degradation as the MST processed several million records. The first service in our chain of services, the normalization service, served as our initial metric. The normalization service was processing records at a speed of 125k/hr, much slower than we hoped for. On top of that, before processing 2M records, the MST essentially crawled to a halt. We were about an order of magnitude off and we needed to increase scalability in a substantial way as well. Also, examining the steps involved in writing a new service for the MST showed us that it was not easy to do so. Internals of the MST were exposed to the service developer and the developer was expected to re-implement much of this internal code with no instructions on how to do so. Much work needed to be done to abstract the implementation of the MST away from the service developer.

Working hard over the course of several months, we were able to accomplish both of our goals. The MST is now processing records at a speed of 1.2M records/hr with no degradation on a set of 6M records on a less than optimal server (1.5GHz cpu). In this talk, I will detail the specifics of the strategies we used to accomplish this major speed enhancement (such as a shift from Apache SOLR to a hybrid SOLR/MySQL approach). In regards to our second goal, third party developers can now download an MST development environment, write a few lines of code, and package their service for deployment into the MST. Third party developers need not concern themselves with the details of the internal MST implementation. In this talk, I will also walk through [http://code.google.com/p/xcmetadataservicestoolkit/wiki/HowToImplementService the steps] required to write a service for the MST.

== Free my DSpace Data! How to get your data out of DSpace 1.7 and restore your content after a disaster. ==

* Tim Donohue, DuraSpace, tdonohue at duraspace dot org

For a while, [http://www.dspace.org DSpace] has provided many means to get content into the system (or create new content in the system), e.g. basic ingest packages, user interfaces, SWORD. However, getting your content out of DSpace, especially for backups or migrations has often been problematic. In the past, although individual Items could be exported in standard formats, entire Collections or Communities (and the relationships between them) could not be as easily exported.

DSpace 1.7.0 provides a new [https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSDOC/AipBackupRestore AIP Backup & Restore feature] which allows DSpace to export '''all''' of its contents (Communities, Collections, Items, Groups, People, Permissions, and relationships between all objects) into a series of METS-based Archival Information Packages (AIPs). As these AIPs are just zip files, they can be backed up using your normal backup practices (e.g. to tape, hard-drive, or even to the cloud via a service like DuraCloud). As these AIPs also fully describe your DSpace contents, they can be used to restore your entire DSpace after a local server crash or larger disaster.

DSpace created AIPs use standard library metadata formats like MODS, PREMIS and METSRights (along with a few DSpace-specific ones where a "standard format" doesn't yet exist) to describe all the content housed in your DSpace installation. This comes in handy, should you ever decide to migrate some or all of your contents to another DSpace instance or another system altogether.

This talk will describe this new DSpace AIP Backup & Restore feature, provide hints/tips on how it can be used to backup/restore/migrate data. Time permitting, I can also touch on the DSpace Roadmap and other ideas/plans to "free your DSpace data".

== Using cloud-based services to leverage open source software ==

* Erik Mitchell, Wake Forest University, mitcheet at wfu dot edu

Open source software and cloud computing systems are perceived as enticing technologies for both IT staff and IT/Academic administrators. The implementation of open source software or adoption of cloud services is often met with resistance however because of lack of technical expertise in smaller organizations or lack of perceived benefit in larger organizations. Although these technologies are not necessarily related when combined they offer easy deployment of services without significant organization investment or local expertise [http://cloud.lib.wfu.edu/blog/gazette/2010/11/04/finding-ways-to-combine-cloud-computing-and-open-source-software/]. This ability allows organizations to leverage open source systems without the overhead typically associated with "free as in a free kitten."

While there are some large national projects looking at using cloud platforms to deliver new services there is an opportunity for a grassroots effort to develop and support pre-configured application servers that are simple to deploy and maintain. These 'disposable' servers would serve the needs of both small and large libraries by enabling them to adopt open source software without taking on the requirement of local infrastructure, configuration, or detailed support.

This presentation will cover the technical details and lessons learned from efforts to create this type of service [http://cloud.lib.wfu.edu/blog/tech/2010/11/01/running-the-zsr-vufind-application-server/] on the Amazon EC2 platform and discuss the impact of this approach on open software adoption and its potential impact on IT support in libraries.

== VIVO: Enabling National Networking of Scientists ==

* Brian Keese, Indiana University, bkeese at indiana dot edu
* Brian Lowe, Cornell University, bjl23 at cornell dot edu

VIVO is an open-source semantic Web application that enables the discovery of research and scholarship across disciplines at an institution. Originally developed from 2003-2009 by Cornell University, in September 2009 the National Institute of Health's National Center for Research Resources made a grant to the University of Florida [http://vivo.ufl.edu], Cornell University [http://vivo.cornell.edu], Indiana University Bloomington [http://vivo.iu.edu], and four implementation partners to use VIVO to create a national network for scientists[http://www.vivoweb.org]. This network will allow researchers to discover potential collaborators with specific expertise, based on authoritative information on projects, grants, publications, affiliations, and research interests, essentially creating a social network for browsing, visualizing, and discovering scientists. This talk will give an overview of the technical underpinnings of VIVO, describe how it integrates with the larger semantic Web, sketch out the plans for enabling discovery across the national network of VIVO sites, and explore the role of libraries in implementing VIVO at all the partner sites. Additionally we will demonstrate some experiments in federated searching that have been undertaken by the VIVO network and the NIH funded Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) consortium network of networks.

== Mass Moves with Worldcat APIs ==
* Sam Kome, Claremont Colleges Library, sam.kome at cuc dot claremont dot edu

Claremont needed to perform a mass evaluation of item level records to facilitate large scale collection moves and de-accession. Our de-accession criteria, for example, include that 3 or more copies of any book must be available in the 50+ libraries in our Link+ network. We addressed our requirements with the help of the OCLC Worldcat Search and xID APIs and a couple simple python scripts. The process was ultimately a success. We will present our approach, code, and the lessons learned as we discovered limits inherent in the APIs and in our own coding (in)experience. Bonus sub-topic: the use of OCLC Work ID to identify and coalesce alternative ISBNs.

C4L2010 social activities

2010-02-24T15:53:00Z

Skome: /* Vegetarian Dinner (Weds, AKA BBQ night) */

==Code4Lib 2010 social activities ==

==Ideas==
[http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009912010314 New breweries opening]

[http://digital.library.appstate.edu/code4lib2010.html Original Proposal (suggests some nearby events)]

[http://ashevilletwitterhashtags.blogspot.com/2009/09/asheville-beer-avlbeer.html Asheville Beer Hashtag]

==Planned events==

Plan one if you like! Either on your own or you can [[Committees_sign-up_page|join the social activities committee]].

== Asheville Brews Cruise ==

"Experience a taste of Asheville’s thriving local beer scene with an exclusive tour of three of our award-winning microbreweries." - http://www.brewscruise.com/asheville/

A big shout out to [http://www.talis.com Talis] for stepping up and sponsoring a portion of this event. Our first stop on the cruise will be a brewery slash pizza joint and Talis has generously offered to pay for our pizza. Yay!

==== Itinerary ====

# Pickup from the hotel is tentatively scheduled for 6:15pm. Those who haven't pre-paid should try to get there a little early.
# Stop #1 will be the Asheville Pizza & Brewing Co. where we will sample 16-20 different beers and consume our delicious, alcohol-absorbing, [http://www.talis.com Talis]-sponsored pizza.
# Stop #2 will be Highland Brewing Company, "Asheville's 1st and largest brewing company"
# Stop #3 will be the French Broad Brewery which "specializes in a variety of European style beers."
# Expected return to the hotel is around 9:30-10pm

==== Cost & Payment ====

The cost for the cruise is $40 per person. You have one options for paying:

# Bring $40 with you on the night of the cruise. I've been told they have a hand-held credit card machine for the cash-strapped.

'''UPDATE''': I've had enough people prepay. Just bring cash or a credit card on Tuesday night.

==== Signup ====

'''Sorry, the event is full!''' We were forced to set a limit of 48 persons due to that's the max number of folks that will fit into two party buses, plus we don't want to overwhelm the staffs at the breweries. There is, however, a waitlist that someone started below.

# Jay Luker (organizing, not driving) - '''paid'''
# Mike Giarlo (inebriator) - '''paid'''
# Rob Casson (drunk) - '''paid'''
# Declan Fleming (beer receptacle) - '''paid'''
# Jim Safley (recovering teetotaler)
# Ian Walls (epicurean of ale)
# Christopher Spalding (thirsty)
# Jon Gorman (imbiber of that which is good) - '''paid'''
# Lori Stethers (token female)
# Carol Ou (beer enthusiast) - '''paid'''
# Cristóbal Palmer (Reinheitsgebot skeptic)
# Tod Olson (enabler) - '''paid'''
# Mark Matienzo (alefounder) - '''paid'''
# Sibyl Schaefer (barfly)
# Tania Fersenheim (Gold Medalist - Ithaca Beerlympics - Summer 1993)
# Melissa Manolis (Beer lacky and Librarian Groupie)- '''paid'''
# Greg McClellan (master of beerology and beeronomy)- '''paid'''
# Mark Gallagher (Thing 1)
# Matt Bachtell (Thing 2)
# Eric James (pour)
# Ray Schwartz (mighty thirsty)
# Mike Flakus (ipa all the way)
# Ben Florin (sounds neat--what's "beer"?) - '''paid'''
# Ryan Wick (it comes in pints?) - '''paid'''
# Sam Kome (have churchkey, will travel) - '''paid'''
# Joe Atzberger - '''paid'''
# Brendan Gallagher
# Chris Beer
# Tom Keays (growler) - '''paid'''
# Ross Singer (empty vessel waiting to be filled)
# Eric Hellman (49 IBU) - '''paid'''
# Cody Hennesy (don't mind if i do) - '''paid'''
# Michael Vandenburg
# Andrew Nagy
# Rosalyn Metz - '''paid'''
# Esmé Cowles - '''paid'''
# Sean Hannan (Peer Pressured) - '''paid'''
# Scott Garrison (just made it by the froth of his beer?) - '''paid'''
# Dan Suchy ( [no longer] late and now full of gratitude) - '''paid'''
# Spencer Lamm
# Robert Haschart
# Ed Corrado
# Sean Chen
# David Bucknum
# Chris Sharp
# Peter Murray
# Chuck Koscher
# Will Brockman

'''There is a max of 48 persons for this event. Sorry!'''

===== Wait List =====

I'll try to monitor the waitlist and add folks automatically if someone else drops out. Would be a good idea to specify an email address or some other means of contact so that I can notify you if you make it in.

===== Paid, but can't go list =====

# Cary Gordon (hip hoppist) - '''refunded'''

== Non-beer-related Tuesday night activities (as if that were desired) ==

=== Dinner at Somewhere Other Than the Laughing Seed ===

Meet in the hotel lobby at 6pm. I (Julia) am going to try to call and make reservations during the afternoon break; check back after break for updates.

UPDATE: The Laughing Seed is closed on Tuesday. Whoops. Let's meet in the lobby at 6pm and figure out a plan from there.

What about: Rosetta's Kitchen http://rosettaskitchen.com/
# Julia Bauder
# Emily Lynema (Julia, I might be running a few minutes late if we can not make the res. right at 6pm if possible). (JB: Sure, I was going to make the reservations for 6:30, to give us time to gather up and walk down there.)
# Gwen Exner
# David Woodbury
# Susan Teague-Rector
# Erin White
# Adam Rogers

== 12 Bones BBQ Dinner Excursion ==
(was a lunch excursion)

[http://www.12bones.com/ 12 Bones BBQ] is widely considered the best BBQ in Asheville [[http://www.yelp.com/biz/12-bones-smokehouse-asheville *]]. However it is only open from 11-4, M-F. We would like to organize a group so that we can rent out the place on Wednesday night. If we get at least 50 people, it will be doable.

'''When:''' Wednesday, February 24th

'''Time:''' Cash Bar: 6:00pm
Dinner: 6:30pm

'''Where:''' 5 Riverside Drive Asheville NC, 28801
*[http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=31+Woodfin+Street,+Asheville,+NC+28801+(Renaissance+Asheville+Hotel)&daddr=5+Riverside+Drive,+Asheville,+NC+28801-3134&geocode=FbUsHwIdtWIU-yF_M0r573W8WykTXk8JWPNZiDEFKzEaZpTYaQ%3BFQ36HgIdayEU-w&gl=us&hl=en&mra=cc&sll=35.592378,-82.556462&sspn=0.016053,0.038581&ie=UTF8&z=15 Driving Directions] (5 minutes)
*[http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=31+Woodfin+Street,+Asheville,+NC+28801+(Renaissance+Asheville+Hotel)&daddr=5+Riverside+Drive,+Asheville,+NC+28801-3134&geocode=FbUsHwIdtWIU-yF_M0r573W8WykTXk8JWPNZiDEFKzEaZpTYaQ%3BFQ36HgIdayEU-w&gl=us&hl=en&mra=cc&dirflg=w&sll=35.592378,-82.556462&sspn=0.016053,0.038581&ie=UTF8&z=15 Walking Directions] (30 minutes / 1.7 miles)
*Cabbing Directions: If you all would like to organize into cabs, I would suggest meeting in the lobby of the hotel between 5:45pm and 6:00pm and figuring things out from there. While I would normally love to help out with 80 people taking cabs (insert sarcasm here), I'll probably already be at the venue. A couple of cab companies I found are:
**New Blue Bird Taxi Company - (828) 258-8331
**Checker Cab Service - (828) 254-1155

'''Menu:'''
This will be buffet style. So bring your appetite.
*Pulled Pork
*Chopped Beef Brisket
*Corn Bread
*Buns
*Mashed Sweet Taters
*Sweet Vinegar Coleslaw
*Collard Greens (contains meat)
*Fountain Drinks/Sweet Tea/Unsweetened Tea

==== Designated Drivers ====

Names and vehicle capacities of volunteer BBQ drivers. The numbers include the driver.

* Mike Silver - 4
* Peter Murray - 5
* Ross Singer - 5
* <span title="EsmÃ©">Esmé</span> Cowles - 4
* Matt Bachtell - 4
* Ryan Scherle - 2
* Erik Hatcher - 4
* Robert Haschart - 4

==== BBQ Excursion Signup ====

For the time being please indicate interest in the BBQ excursion by adding your name to the list below.

# Rosalyn Metz (the new organizer)
# Jay Luker (demoted but still devoted)
# Mike Giarlo (consumer)
# Rob Casson (glutton)
# Declan Fleming (condor)
# Erik Hatcher (carnivore)
# Christopher Spalding (digs swine)
# Mike Durbin (Porkaholic)
# Jeremy Frumkin (alloftheabove)
# Jon Gorman (Aficionado of smoke, flame, and good sauces)
# Michael Klein (EAT PIG)
# Mark Matienzo (saucy fellow)
# Cary Gordon (do they have vegan pig?)
# Sibyl Schaefer (finger licker)
# Greg McClellan (Mmmm... Pig)
# Ranti Junus (beef and chicken cheerleader)
# Tania Fersenheim (can't think of any non-vulgar tag lines)
# Matt Bachtell (hope they have vinegar based BBQ)
# Ray Schwartz (I eat vegetarians)
# Dileshni Jayasinghe (I just like to eat)
# Joe Atzberger (con carne)
# Michael Doran (a YES for Wednesday night)
# Thom Cox (ancho pepper addict)
# Chris Strauber (meat and flame!)
# Cindy Harper (I'm sorry, Babe)
# Brendan Gallagher
# Chris Beer
# Alexander O'Neill
# Bess Sadler
# Joyce Ouchida
# Ross Singer (Some Pig)
# Tod Olson (omnivore sans dilemma)
# Vinita Tuteja
# Ryan Wick
# Becky Yoose (bringing the wetwipe napkins)
# Andrew Darby
# Cory Lown
# Peter Murray (who knows that NC BBQ means one has to actually add the BBQ sauce)
# Matt Cordial
# Carol Ou (dinnertime excursion works for me)
# Karen Coombs
# Dan Lucas
# Gerald Snyder
# Michael Silver
# Julia Bauder (dinner partier)
# Andreas Orphanides (I want to go to there.)
# Wendy Huot
# David Bucknum
# Jason Casden
# Graham Stewart
# Joseph Ryan
# Dhanushka Samarakoon
# Eric Crenshaw
# Katherine Lynch
# Stephen Meyer
# Ron Peterson
# Corey Harper (Mmmmmm..... Carolina Pulled Pig)
# Eric Palmitesta
# Ben Florin
# Emily Lynema (pulled pork delicious)
# Erik Mitchell (Who could turn down an 80 person dinner experience?)
# Mike Flakus (pulled-porker)
# Matt Connolly (Memphian)
# Ian Walls
# Benjamin Young (BBQ is a noun)
# Esmé Cowles
# Tim Dennis
# Harry Kaplanian
# Ryan Scherle
# Amy McGuire
# Jason Battles
# Hong Ma
# Vanessa Meireles
# Mark Diggory
# Robert Haschart
# Scott Garrison (what is the deal with no CHOPPED in this town?!)
# Willy Mene
# Daniel Lovins
# Susan Teague-Rector
# Tim Shearer

(Jørn Thøgersen, Michael Poltorak Nielsen, Toke Eskildsen and Mads Villadsen removed due to snow/airplane incompatibility. We'll eat some pork rinds and think about you)

'''Sorry there is an 80 person limit for this event'''

'''Wait List'''
# Leland Deeds
# Ya'aqov Ziso

==Vegetarian Dinner (Weds, AKA BBQ night)==

[http://opheliasworldcafe.info/ Ophelia's World Cafe and Bar] does vegetarian, vegan, raw, gluten-free, sustainable seafood, and locally-raised meat products, with a focus on local and organic. Also, a full bar. [http://www.yelp.com/biz/ophelias-world-cafe-and-bar-asheville yelp reviews]. Please note they are going to give us a smaller menu to help make sure we all get to eat in a reasonable amount of time.

* max of 36 people
* meet at hotel to walk together - 6:30pm
* We are confirmed with the restaurant - reservation is at 6:45
* email Anna3LC if you have any questions - gmail

# Jodi Schneider
# Maccabee Levine (token male)
# Eric Hellman (token carnivore)
# Carol Bean
# Sarah Kahn
# Dea Rice (Socialite)
# Sean Hannan (token token collector)
# Vidhya Arvind
# Cristóbal Palmer
# Lori Stethers
# Rick Johnson
# Anna Headley
# Kevin Clarke
# Gabriel Farrell
# Eric James
# Betsy Coles
# Harish Maringanti
# Emily Molanphy
# Shawn Averkamp
# Birkin
# Jon Stroop
# Birong Ho
# William Denton
# Gretchen Gueguen
# Steven Shelton
# Banurekha Lakshminarayanan
# Dan Brubaker Horst
# Dan Chudnov
# Erin Germ
# Shekhar Krishnan
# Schuyler Erle
# Spencer Lamm
# Brian Seitz
# Yvonne Federowicz
# Nicolas Steenlant
# Susan Teague Rector
# '''We're full!'''

'''Wait List'''
# Jean Rainwater

'''Willing to drive'''
# Erin Germ (room for 3 others)

==Double Decker Bus for desserts and/or coffee (Wed. after dinner)==
Those interested in getting desserts at double decker bus that is at the corner of Biltmore and Ashton, please post your name. Ideally meet up in the lobby after dinner on Wednesday. (''I hope this was okay that I created this...'')
#Erin Germ
#Sarah Kahn (this is what the wiki is for :) )

==Filk (Wed evening)==
Just in case there's anyone who ISN'T going to one of the dinners, AND who likes filk music, there will be a housefilk here in Asheville starting at 7pm. It's free, and pizza will be provided for dinner. I'm happy to give up to 3 people a ride, just contact me! gwenexner at gmail.com
#Gwen Exner

==Thursday dinner - Asiana Grand Buffet?==
Last van run is at 4pm..I have the 11 (might could get more if we are very close...) and willing to drive for those still here. Might be able to get the other van involved too..but not sure.
http://www.asianagb.com/
#Jill Ellern (driver)

== Newcomer Dinner ==
First time at code4lib? Join fellow c4l newbies and veterans for an evening of food, socializing, and stimulating discussions about the many uses of bacon.

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

'''Tentative plans (more information to come)'''
* When: Monday evening
* Time: 6 PM
* Where: Meet in the hotel lobby. Restaurants - Look below
* Mastermind (if you have any questions): [mailto:yoosebj@muohio.edu Becky Yoose]

=== Newcomer Dinner Signup ===

Clarification - you can still sign up if you didn't intially list your name the first time around. Sorry for any misunderstandings on my part. -_-;

'''Restaurants'''

''Guidelines:''
*Max of '''8''' per location
**Please, no waitlisting :(
*ID yourselves so we can get a good mix of new people and veterans
**New folks - n
**c4l vets - v
*One leader needed for each location (code4lib vets only)
**Leader duties
***Make reservations if required; otherwise make sure that the restaurant can handle a group of 8 rowdy library coders
***Herd folks from hotel to restaurant (know where you're going!)

'''Spots still available below! 2/11 - added a couple more restaurants to make sure everyone has a spot!'''

just added- if you're a bit late to sign up, or want a later eating time, please join me.

[http://tableasheville.com/page/276-home Table] (“New American”) - Reservation @ 7:15 for 4. Meet in lobby @ 6:45.
# [Leader] Eric Hellman - v
# Harry Kaplanian - n
# jeremy frumkin
# Terry Reese
# full

[http://www.trippsrestaurants.com/ Tripps Restaurant] (Steakhouse)
# [Leader]
#

[http://www.laughingseed.com/index.php?page=1 Laughing Seed Cafe] (Vegetarian, round two!)
# [Leader]
# Carol Bean - v (willing to be leader if no one else steps up)
# Adam Constabaris - n
# Chris Stockwell - v
# Yvonne Federowicz - v
# Alice Sneary - n
# Tom Burton-West - v

[http://www.mellowmushroom.com/ Mellow Mushroom Pizza Bakers] (Pizza)
# [Leader]

[http://www.jackofthewood.com/ Jack of the Wood] (another pub for y'all)
# [Leader] Roy Tennant - v
# Monica Claassen-Wilson - n
# Tim Shearer - n
# Kevin Reiss - v
# Mike Durbin - v
# Chuck Koscher - vn
# Antonio Barrera - v
# Esmé Cowles - vn
# '''Full'''

[http://limonesrestaurant.com/page/1240-Home Limones] (Mexican)
# [Leader] Andrew Nagy - v (Reservation for 8 at 6pm is made)
# Clint Bellanger - n (+1 if possible)
# Daniel Lovins - v (Back in the game now)
# Wendy Huot - v
# Paul Joseph - n
# Jill Sexton - n
# Matt Connolly - 40% v
# '''If Bellanger's +1 == 1 more person then this is full'''

'''Sorry, these are full'''

[http://www.bistro1896.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14&Itemid=42 Bistro 1896] (Bistro) ''(res. made for 8 @ 6:30)''

''(meet at in lobby at 6:10pm)''
# [Leader] Cary Gordon (likes anything that involves food) - v
# Yuka Egusa - n
# Masao Takaku - n
# Dao Rong Gong - n (can step up if no v is in this group)
# Mike Lindsey - n
# Willy Mene - n
# Jessie Keck - v
# Eric James - v
# '''Sorry - full'''

[http://www.salsas-asheville.com/ Salsas] (Mexican-Caribbean) - meet in lobby at 6:15pm
# [Leader] Jay Luker - v (no rezzies but they know we're coming ~6:30)
# Gabriel Farrell - v
# Sean Hannan - v
# Scot Colford - v
# Chrissy Rissmeyer - n
# Matt Cordial - v
# Jason Stirnaman - n (sorta)
# Rob Casson - v
# '''Sorry - full'''

[http://www.ichibanwasabi.com/ Wasabi Japanese Restaurant & Sushi Bar] (Japanese)
# [Leader] Ranti Junus - v ''Reservation at 6:30pm for 8 people. We'll meet in the lobby at 6pm.''
# Caitlin Shanley - n
# Erin White - n
# Chris Strauber - n
# Jodi Schneider - v
# Joyce Chapman - n
# Susan Teague Rector (sort of a newb...)
# Graham Stewart - n (plane lands at 5:09, but will show up eventually ...) ''ranti's note: send me sms to 517-325-3735 on your status, or you can go directly to the resto. Thanks.''
# '''Sorry - full'''

[http://tableasheville.com/page/276-home Table] (“New American”) - Reservation @ 6:30 for 8. Meet in lobby @ 6:00.
# [Leader] Devon Smith - v (May be late due to flight delays. Look to Jonathan and/or Jean for leadership if I don't make it.)
# Anna Headley - n
# Cory Rockliff - n
# Jeff Sherwood - n
# Emily King - n
# Laurie Sutherland - n
# Jonathan Rochkind - v
# Jean Rainwater - v
# '''Sorry - full''' - see added 7:15 group above.

[http://www.vincenzos.com/ Vincenzo's] (Italian) - We have a reservation -- meet in the lobby @ 6 and we can walk over together
# [Leader] Bess Sadler - v
# Thom Cox - n
# Alexander O'Neill - n
# Leland Deeds - n
# Erin Germ - n
# Joe Atzberger - v
# Cindy Harper - n
# Vinita Tuteja - n
# '''Sorry - full'''

[http://www.doccheys.com/menu/ Doc Chey’s Noodle House] (Asian)
# [Leader] Emily Lynema - v - don't do call ahead or reservations, so we'll just have to chance it with our name on the list
# Julia Bauder - n
# Joe Marquez - n
# Jason Battles - n
# Jill Ellern - n
# Michael Vandenburg -n
# Shekhar Krishnan
# Schuyler Erle
# '''Sorry - full'''

[http://ashevillebouchon.com/page/2511-Home Bouchon French Bistro] (French) - they don't do reservations; meet in the lobby @ 6 and we'll walk over
# [Leader] Ben Florin -v
# Gwen Exner - n
# Joel Richard - n (super-green!)
# Dan Lucas - n
# Hong Ma - n
# Vanessa Meireles - n
# Mark Diggory - n (but not green)
# David Woodbury - n
# '''Sorry - full'''

[http://www.melaasheville.com/ Mela Indian Restaurant] (Indian) (reservation made for 6:15 under Darby; meet in lobby)
# [Leader] Andrew Darby - v
# Joyce Ouchida - n
# Eric Celeste (spy) - n
# Kossivi (Jean-Paul) Bessou - n
# Steven Shelton - n
# Jeff Silvis - n
# Ya'aqov Ziso - n
# Banurekha - n
# '''Sorry - full'''

[http://rosettaskitchen.com/our-menu Rosetta's Kitchen] (Vegetarian)
# [Leader] Rosalyn Metz -v
# Cody Hennesy - n
# Sam Kome - n
# John Yorio - n
# Shawn Averkamp - n
# Sarah Kahn- n
# Cory Lown - n
# Maccabee Levine - n
# '''Sorry - full'''

[http://www.suwanathaiorchid.com/index.php Suwana's Thai Orchid Restaurant] (Thai) (BY - meet in lobby. Look for the crazy lady with the big hat and trench coat...)
# [Leader] Becky Yoose - v
# Andy Mardesich - n
# Amy McGuire
# Birong HO
# Ryan Scherle - n
# Mark Mounts - n
# Dan Brubaker Horst -n
# Rick Johnson - n
# '''Sorry - full'''

[http://thelobstertrap.biz/ The Lobster Trap] (Seafood) (Meet in lobby @ 6. Lobster Trap doesn't take reservations for <12, but we can call ahead to be put on the list.)
# [Leader] Michael Klein - v
# Janis Mathewson - n
# Karen Schwentner - n
# Tom Bennett - n
# Carol Ou - v
# Kenny Ketner - n
# Mike Flakus - n
# Michael Doran - v
# '''Sorry - full'''

[http://www.ashevillebiergarden.com/ The Bier Garden (Pub)]
# [Leader] Mike Giarlo - v
# Dileshni Jayasinghe - n
# David Bucknum - n
# Sean Chen - n
# Sibyl Schaefer - n
# Dan Suchy - n
# Mark Matienzo - v
# Declan Fleming - v
# '''Sorry - full'''

Cut and paste your name to the restaurant of your choice :)
* Ross Singer
* Brendan Gallagher
* Schuyler Erle
* Jason Stirnaman
* Patrick Hochstenbach
* David Chandek-Stark
* David Kennedy
* Robin Hitch
* Graham Stewart
* David Woodbury
* Harry Kaplanian
* Kevin Reiss

== Werewolf! ==
It wouldn't be a tech conference unless we got together one evening to turn into a gang of murdering beasts and hyper-suspicious victims. Facilitated by the one and only mbklein.

* When: Wednesday evening
* Time: 8 PM
* Where: TBA. Watch this space.

=== About Werewolf ===

Werewolf (also known as Mafia) is a parlor game that has become [http://www.wired.co.uk/wired-magazine/archive/2010/03/features/werewolf.aspx the obsession of techie conferences everywhere]. At it's most basic, it's a game of information asymmetry -- a battle between an uninformed majority (the townspeople) and an informed minority (the werewolves who live and hunt among them). At its best, it's an off-the-wall paranoid screaming match. There are dozens of variations -- we'll start with the basics, and depending on everyone's stamina and desire to keep playing, save the tricky stuff for later. Hopefully by the end of the evening all the participants will be jibbering, jumpy, sleep-deprived lunatics incapable of trusting even their closest friends.

In other words, ''good times.''

=== Werewolf signup ===
* Michael Klein
* Alexander O'Neill
* Bess Sadler
* Leland Deeds
* Jean Rainwater
* Chris Beer
* Wendy Huot
* Jon Gorman
* Jodi Schneider
* Birkin (will arrive after the veggie-dinner, and hoping BBQ-ers will have time to make it, too)'''(Definite Werewolf)'''
* Harish (ditto)
* Jon Stroop
* Joel Marchesoni (tentative)
* Martin Mehrling
* Scot Colford (who will inevitably be cast as the "villager idiot")
* Chrissy Rissmeyer
* Matt Cordial (after BBQ dinner)
* Yvonne Federowicz ('''Innocent''' Villager)
* Amy McGuire
* Daniel Lovins (never tried werewolf, though, so I probably suck )

== Working Out ==

Gotta make up for those beer and BBQ excursions somehow. Let's work out! Ideas: hiking, jogging, [http://www.crossfitasheville.com CrossFitting], surfing,...

=== CrossFit Asheville ===
[http://www.crossfitasheville.com CrossFit Asheville]
Contacted the gym, we're invited to the Monday night 6:30pm slot.

Monday night: meet in lobby at 5:45pm. The workout tonight isn't too bad: http://www.crossfitasheville.com/2010/02/22/100222-monday-beginnings/

Who's in?
* Erik Hatcher (crossfit newb), can carpool three others
* <s>Michael Vandenburg (Crossfit curious)</s> code4lib n00b beats crossfit n00b - this time.
* Jeff Sherwood (I'd be into getting in a Crossfit WOD or maybe a run)
* Jason Stirnaman (hiking, biking - don't mind the weather, lifting, cross-fitting)
* Jodi Schneider (CrossFitting sounds fun if we can fit in their schedule, yoga, walking, hiking)
* <s>Erik Mitchell (only if we are not overwhelming their space</s> sorry. . . had an unanticipated conflict
* Steve DiDomenico (crossfit newb, also only if we aren't overwhelming their space) -- I will need a ride!

=== Jogging ===
Meet in lobby at 6:30am any day next week.

* Monday: Erik Hatcher (too cold? I'll do the treadmill instead; 2-3 miles max)
**Perhaps a good 5 mile (or less as this is an out & back) run to the Biltmore house gate? - [http://www.mapmyrun.com/route/us/nc/asheville/724126642963377301 Suggested route to Biltmore]
**Looks good. Count me in. (John Barneson)
** Yitzchak Schaffer interested, 3-6 mi, 10:00 pace or so
** Emily Lynema sounds good, 5 is great, pace & distance flexible (although I might skip if it's really 31 degrees & raining!)
** Jean Rainwater, 5-6 mi, 10:00 pace
* Tuesday: Sounds like a great day for the Code4Lib Inaugural 10 miler - [http://www.mapmyrun.com/route/us/nc/asheville/805126642901812010 Suggested Route to the Grove Park Inn]
*Update - leav hotel at 6am? - see you on the road!
** Jean Rainwater, up for 10 miles if slowish means 10:00
* Wednesday:
** <s>Erik Hatcher (2-3 miles max) (brrr - see you in the gym / hot tub)</s>
** Emily Lynema would be up for a 3-miler (presenting at 9:15am so have to be on time)
**Weather permitting - a hike around Mt Mitchell or Mt. Pisgah, blue ridge parkway or trail run? [http://runningtimes.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=11835]
* Thursday:

=== Interested Parties for various exercise activities ===

* Erik Hatcher (game for both short, like 2 mile, jogs on Monday/Wednesday and CrossFitting, bring it!)
* Erik Mitchell (Run downtown asheville or the parkway? - great 12 mile climb up the parkway around Pisgah Mtn.), How about a Code4Lib half-marathon? (Why NOT! Let's do a Half Marathon) - Ray Schwartz
**Bike riding - yes might be sketchy given our current weather
**Hike up Looking Glass Rock [http://www.hikewnc.info/trailheads/pisgah/pisgah/guidedhikes/lookingglassrock.html]
* Emily Lynema (game for jogging, hiking, walking, jumping jacks; not crazy enough for parkway running!)
* Ray Schwartz (game for a run - why not a half marathon?!).
* Rick Johnson (Looking to fit in a 10, 12 ,and 8 mile run while in town. Was originally thinking I would go early in the morning: 6:30 or 7. May not be able to run together everytime but definitely looking for suggestions on good routes)
* Thom Cox (lifting, cardio, yoga--all good)
* Jason Stirnaman (hiking, biking - don't mind the weather, lifting, cross-fitting)
* Jean Rainwater (need to get some runs in where the footing's not treacherous and the temp is above freezing)
* Gerald Snyder (a couple mornings jogging would be good, but only 4 or 5 miles for me thanks)
* Jodi Schneider (CrossFitting sounds fun if we can fit in [http://www.crossfitasheville.com/schedule/ their schedule], yoga, walking, hiking)
* Becky Yoose (hiking (intermediate level max), walking, cheer others on while they run a half marathon)
* Carol Bean (does shivering in the cold count as exercise?)
* John Barneson (I'm game for a.m. runs 5-10 miles. I would love a nice scenic route and I don't mind trail running)
* Gabriel Farrell (running, yoga, pickup soccer?)
* Kevin Reiss (running/hiking)
* Jeff Sherwood (I'd be into getting in a Crossfit WOD or maybe a run)
* Nick Hanssens (yoga; I teach if there is space and interest)
* Michael Vandenburg (Crossfit curious)
* Ranti Junus (yoga, walking, thumb wrestling - maybe)
* Mark Diggory (surfing,... kinda hard to find good waves in Asheville... will settle for a little hiking)
* Anna Headley (hacky sack in the hotel lobby - yes it counts as exercise)

== Sitting in a room together and half the time talking to each other out loud and half the time talking in IRC ==

Because you know it's going to happen

* William Denton
* Mike Giarlo (fulfiller of destinies)
* /ignore mjgiarlo
* Antonio Barrera (trying to avoid a repeat of Portland)
* Jodi Schneider (one of the highlights!!!)
* Bess Sadler (can it be in the hospitality suite at 4am? That's the best!)
* Mark Matienzo
* ROSS DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANY MORE
* Ranti Junus (hoping somebody can help me hacking my chumby one to install [http://elinks.or.cz/ elinks] or [http://www.qtweb.net/ qtweb])
* Dan Chudnov (hoping for in-same-room IRC chat to be an olympic medal event in 2014)
* Michael Klein

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==Pre-Pre-Conference==

===Olympic Hockey===

If you're interested in watching the Can/US men's hockey game at 7:30pm on Sunday (2/21), the [http://www.yelp.com/biz/the-bier-garden-asheville Bier Garden] seems like a decent option.

* Andrew Darby (will be there, unless my flight is delayed)
* Julia Bauder -- tried to call to make reservations, and couldn't get through. I'm going to head over around 7:15; I'll hang around the hotel lobby for a bit before I do, if you want to meet up there. Look for the tiny chick with long red hair.
* Esmé Cowles

===Belgian Beer===

If you'd rather drink Belgian beer, show up at the [http://www.yelp.com/biz/thirsty-monk-pub-asheville Thirsty Monk] anytime in the PM on Sunday (2/21).

* Mike Giarlo (showing up either immediately after lunch or immediately after dinner or maybe camped out there all day)
* Mike Lindsey (here's hoping they have some sours)
* Scot "Chimay Rouge" Colford
* Yvonne Federowicz (wishes kriekenbier)
* Mark "oud bruin" Matienzo
* Michael Doran (8pm-ish)
* Rob Casson (altho may hop over to the Bier Garden at some point, as i'm not getting dinner there)
* Declan (plane lands at 9:45p...)
* Daniel Lovins (if I can find my way there)
* Chris Beer

The Thirsty Monk is closed this afternoon 2/21 - not sure about PM - for a "private function". Is this us, tonight? -yf

2010 Twitter List

2010-02-18T18:44:23Z

Skome:

Attending the conference? Add your name and your twitter handle (@whomever, etc), and you will be added to the [http://twitter.com/code4lib/attendees-2010 @code4lib twitter list] for easy following.

# Sean Hannan (@MrDys)
# Becky Yoose (@yo_bj)
# Mark Matienzo (@anarchivist)
# Dave Lester (@digitalhumanist)
# Katherine Lynch (@katelynch)
# Michael Doran (@michaeldoran)
# Benjamin Young (@bigbluehat)
# Alexander O'Neill (@alxp)
# Rosalyn Metz (@rosy1280)
# Edward M Corrado (@ecorrado)
# Jeremy Frumkin (@LibraryWiz)
# Michael Lindsey (@havahampa)
# Jessie Keck (@jessiekeck)
# Hong Ma (@mahong99)
# Sam Kome (@skome)

C4L2010 social activities

2010-02-11T00:52:31Z

Skome: /* Newcomer Dinner Signup */

C4L2010 social activities

2010-02-09T23:33:47Z

Skome: /* Vegetarian Dinner (Weds, AKA BBQ night) */

C4L2010 social activities

2010-02-06T00:16:01Z

Skome: /* Newcomer Dinner Signup */

C4L2010 social activities

2010-02-05T19:21:39Z

Skome: /* Beer Cruise Signup */