Code4Lib - User contributions [en]

BC

2016-12-03T06:27:19Z

Terrywbrady: /* Friday, December 2 */

Welcome to code4lib BC!

Begun in Summer 2013, this chapter aims to create connections and professional development opportunities for folks from British Columbia and surrounding areas.

= '''Code4lib BC Unconference 2016''' =

'''[https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/2016-code4libbc-unconference-tickets-26429947685 Registration is now open]''' for Code4Lib BC's fourth annual unconference!

* December 1 and 2, 2016
* Dodson Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, UBC, Vancouver BC
* [https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/2016-code4libbc-unconference-tickets-26429947685 Register now] ($30 for both days)
* [https://goo.gl/forms/YFrcIF4UpQRnj5eD3 Propose a lightning talk or breakout session]

=== What's it all about? ===

It's a 2-day unconference - a participant-driven meeting bringing together a diverse and open community of library developers and non-developers engaging in effective, collaborative problem-solving through technology regardless of their department or background.

The event will feature lightning talks in the mornings, breakout sessions in the afternoons, with coffee, tea and snacks provided. Lightning talks are brief presentations which are typically 10-15 minutes in length on topics related to library technologies. Breakout sessions are an opportunity to bring participants together in an ad hoc fashion for a short, yet sustained period of problem solving, software development and fun. If there is a neat project you're been working on, a cool new tool you want to show off, or an interesting development in the world of library technology that you want to discuss, Code4Lib BC is a great opportunity to share with the community - [https://goo.gl/forms/YFrcIF4UpQRnj5eD3 let us know about it]!

'''What's included''': wifi, power, coffee/snacks

'''What's NOT included/what to bring''': a laptop, lunch (on-campus options [http://www.food.ubc.ca/feed-me/ here] and [http://www.ams.ubc.ca/foodanddrink/ here]), your ideas and enthusiasm

'''Hashtag''': #c4lbc

'''Code of Conduct''': As a Code4Lib event, we adhere to the [http://bit.ly/coc4lib Code4Lib Code of Conduct], which seeks to provide a welcoming, harassment-free environment. Need an ear, hand, or help? C4LBC helpers: [https://twitter.com/therealarty @therealarty] (she/her) [https://twitter.com/skrrrl @skrrrl] (he/him)

=== Schedule ===

==== Thursday, December 1 ====
{| class="wikitable"
| 8:30 || Doors open
|-
| 9:00 || Welcome & Announcements
|-
| 9:15 || Lightning Talks
* [http://162.243.138.115/BCPDLc4l.pdf Provincial Digital Library Update] [PDF] (Daniel Sifton/Caroline Daniels)
* [https://github.com/terrywbrady/UsingAppScript Building Quick and Dirty Library Tools with Google Apps Script] [https://gitpitch.com/terrywbrady/UsingAppScript/master GitPitch Version](Terry Brady)
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18oBOD-KsRLz6uUoaLuqrsirN2TaK_W7ZgerE6qvB4Bc/edit Makerspaces and the Maker Community in the Lower Mainland] (Maryann Kempthorne)
* Web Analytics with Piwik (Jonathan Schatz)
|-
| 10:30 || Coffee break
|-
| 10:45 || Lightning Talks, cont'd
* TechBC Memory Project metadata upgrade (Holly Hendrigan)
* [https://github.com/schuyberg/pixelating_queries ElasticSearch API: Using Aggregation Queries to Do Cool Stuff] (Schuyler Lindberg)
* [https://cynng.wordpress.com/2016/12/01/code4libbc-presentation-getting-things-done-discovering-efficiencies-in-workflow/ Getting Things Done: Understanding and Analyzing Workflow] (Cynthia Ng)
* Introduction to FOLIO (Andrew Nagy)
|-
| 11:30 || Lunch (On Your Own)
|-
| 1:00 || Breakout Sessions
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NK7DS-6D1PPr9acZdXwLjLCq76ALdjN-PFxmov8OTgU/edit#slide=id.p Intro to git/github for libraries] (Sara Romkey/Mark Jordan/Holly Becker)
* PDL technologies up close (Daniel Sifton)
|-
| 2:30 || Break
|-
| 2:45 || Breakout Sessions, cont'd
* FOLIO workshop (Andrew Nagy)
* Digital Collections (Terry Brady)
|-
| 4:15 || Breakout Reports
|-
| 5:00 || Social Event at [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1quffBt9Lx5ljEoBQc3jSUmzqZ1neV29ncsVzJ5ixDaU/edit (new) Pit Pub]
|}

==== Friday, December 2 ====
{| class="wikitable"
| 8:30 || Doors open
|-
| 9:00 || Announcements
|-
| 9:15 || Lightning Talks
* [http://162.243.138.115/Code4LibCoal.pdf A Coal Miner’s History: Mapping Digitized Audio Interviews] [PDF] (Daniel Sifton)
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18krnqMha_G7TMqYuzWeQzgRGEOmNBv0dEbCbV9XACr4/edit?usp=sharing Introduction to Docker] (James Fournie)
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/zowdt88dl802y5l/Code4Lib%20-%20Makers%20Making%20Change%20-%20Chad%20Leaman.pptx?dl=0 Makers Making Change] (Chad Leaman)
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1UCs7FL17EwYZKpYa12W20xrbC2sySZXiCTY0sNqOxNI/edit MediaConch: A Video Format Validation Tool for Archivematica] (Sarah Romkey)
|-
| 10:30 || Coffee break
|-
| 10:45 || Lightning Talks, cont'd
* [https://gitpitch.com/Georgetown-University-Libraries/BarcodeInventory A Single Page Web App to Inventory 900,000 Books!] (Terry Brady)
* UX Design of a Research Data Management Micro-site (Jessica Gallinger)
* Islandora On This Day module (Mark Jordan)
|-
| 11:30 || Lunch (On Your Own)
|-
| 1:00 || Breakout Sessions
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kMhgAQr27ax8fb34wZnwBR-zQvW0eXxma2kdMD0vSk0/edit Needling The Haystack: An Introduction to SQL and Query Languages] (Alex Garnett)
* reSearcher (CUFTS/GODOT) and project sustainability
* Blockchain (Related [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZiwlG5eSMexDiabokpXjca9E2N4rU674 past presentation] and [https://medium.com/on-archivy/decentralized-autonomous-collections-ff256267cbd6#.3apze2n29 article]) (Peter Van Garderen)
|-
| 2:30 || Break
|-
| 2:45 || Breakout Sessions, cont'd
* Using Islandora for Publishing XML (Michael Joyce)
* Awesome Excel Tips (Trevor Smith)
|-
| 4:00 || Breakout Reports
|-
| 4:30 || End of Day
|}

=== Program ===

Alphabetical by presenter/facilitator.

==== Lightning Talks ====

''Defining Projects using Gherkin Syntax'', Sara Allain, Artefactual
* The team at Artefactual has recently started using Gherkin, a human-readable syntax for defining software feature acceptance tests, in select software development projects. In this lightning talk, Sara will show how Gherkin acceptance tests are developed and how they're used by both end-users and developers.

''Building Quick and Dirty Library Tools with Google Apps Script'', Terry Brady, Georgetown University
* The ubiquity of Google Drive solves many problems (file sharing, web publishing, bulk editing) that are cumbersome to build in a home-grown application. With a little bit of JavaScript magic, you can build a custom solution on top of the Google Apps your users use every day. See http://georgetown-university-libraries.github.io/#google-sheets for some examples. Google Apps Script is a server-side implementation of JavaScript supporting API calls to Google Services. This presentation will describe the various ways that your custom code can be deployed for a library audience (formula function, embedded in a document, web service, document add-on).

''A Single Page Web App to Inventory 900,000 Books!'', Terry Brady, Georgetown University
* After completing a reorganization of our stacks, the Georgetown University Library needs to perform an inventory of 900,000 books within our stacks. This project needs to be completed before migrating our catalog to a new ILS (integrated library system) vendor in 2017.
* The Georgetown University Library has developed an application that allows student workers with a barcode scanner and a Chromebook to rapidly move through the stacks and scan each item. The tool queries the ILS database to verify the item's status and location, while allowing the user to verify the Title, Call Number and Volume of each item. The tool will also highlight call number sorting errors with each scan.
* This presentation will describe the solution that we have developed and the challenges that were overcome during the project. The code (and a video demonstration of the project) are available at https://github.com/Georgetown-University-Libraries/BarcodeInventory.

''Introduction to Docker'', James Fournie, VCC
* Docker is an open-source application container engine that is taking the IT world by storm. James will introduce you to Docker -- what Docker is and isn't and how Docker might help you or your organization write or deploy software.

''TechBC Memory Project metadata upgrade'', Holly Hendrigan
* Holly will provide an update to the TechBC Memory Project, her oral history project that has undergone a substantial makeover since last December's Code4Lib. She will tell the story of all the moving parts that came together when the collection migrated to SFU Library's Digital Collections.

''UX Design of a Research Data Management Micro-site'', Jessica Gallinger, SFU
* The SFU Library is creating new web content to help researchers manage their data. Receive a whirlwind tour of the UX methods (personas, interviews, prototyping, user testing, etc.) applied to design an effective micro-site around the needs of the end user. A high-fidelity prototype in InVision will be demoed.

''Islandora On This Day module'', Mark Jordan, SFU

''Makerspaces and the Maker Community in the Lower Mainland'', Maryann Kempthorne

''Makers Making Change'', Chad Leaman, Neil Squire Society
* Makers Making Change, a community based initiative that links makers, volunteers with technical skills, with people with disabilities with the goal of making affordable, open source assistive technolgies for those people with disabilities centered around community resources such as 3D printers in libraries and maker spaces.

''ElasticSearch API: Using Aggregation Queries to Do Cool Stuff'', Schuyler Lindberg, UBC

''Getting Things Done: Understanding and Analyzing Workflow'', Cynthia Ng
* How does work move through your organization? Does the order make sense? How many times is it passed on? How many people is it handled by? Do all the steps still need to done in the current work environment? This presentation provides some suggestions on methods to understand and analyze workflow using technical services as an example, but which can be applied in other areas.

''MediaConch: A Video Format Validation Tool for Archivematica'', Sarah Romkey, Artefactual
* MediaConch is a new tool for validating preservation video files. In this presentation, Sarah will talk about how we're integrating this tool into Archivematica, an open-source digital preservation system, and how Artefactual Systems approached this development project.

''Web Analytics with Piwik'', Jonathan Schatz, BC Libraries Cooperative

''A Coal Miner’s History: Mapping Digitized Audio Interviews'', Daniel Sifton, VIU
* Leveraging skills we developed in an earlier mapping project, we're using a rich set data from our Dspace instance to map the spoken word in the form of conversations [both audio and transcripts] about coal mines from the years 1900 – 1945 in and around the city of Nanaimo.

''Provincial Digital Library Update'', Daniel Sifton and Caroline Daniels
* A brief overview of strategies, efforts, and technologies regarding the BC Provincial Digital Library.

==== Breakout Sessions ====

''Intro to git/github for libraries'', Sara Allain and Mark Jordan
* A hands-on introduction to git, GitHub, and their potential uses in the library environment.

''Digital Collections'', Terry Brady, Georgetown University
* A group discussion.

''reSearcher (CUFTS/GODOT) and project sustainability'', Jeff Davis
* SFU has discontinued support for CUFTS/ERM, GODOT, and the CUFTS knowledgebase. This breakout will be a group discussion about what happens next.

''Needling The Haystack: An Introduction to SQL and Query Languages'', Alex Garnett, SFU
* Have you ever thought to yourself, "western nations seem powerless to defend against the creeping tide of fascism, but at least I know how to search within a database real well, as if that makes anything OK?"
* Good news -- now you can! This workshop will provide an introduction to SQL and related query languages for people who have little to no experience using modern database backends. We'll discuss the differences in difference SQL implementations, how to efficiently retrieve data from already-existing databases that you might encounter in your job, and hopefully demystify some general concepts of querying. If you've ever had a graphical database design course, so much the better; we'll be trying to supplement but not rehash those concepts. Please bring your own laptop.

''Using Islandora for Publishing XML'', Michael Joyce, SFU
* Islandora is well known in the library community as a digital repository. At Simon Fraser University we have been experimenting with it as a publishing platform for XML. Instead of simply presenting an XML file in the browser, we transform it to HTML for display. In this breakout session, we will examine the code for two projects: the TechBC Memory Project, a collection of oral histories, and a text transcription of Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge.

''FOLIO'', Andrew Nagy, EBSCO
* An introduction to [https://www.folio.org/ FOLIO], a project to develop an open source Library Services Platform.

''Provincial Digital Library Technologies Up Close'', Daniel Sifton, VIU
* An in depth demo of the harvesting/mapping/ingestion process in both the DPLA technology stack and in SuppleJack (from DigitalNZ) for consideration in a BC-PDL environment. Note, attendees will have an opportunity to explore the interfaces where they exist and where possible, but will not be interacting with these platforms at the command level. If you want to do this, however, this session might be a good place to get an understanding of the hidden pieces. To paraphrase Tom Vu, "Come to [this] seminar!"

''Awesome Excel Tips'', Trevor Smith
* Want to wrangle your data into submission either for collection management or budgeting? Learn how to use Pivot Tables, VLOOKUPs, advanced queries, or even a dashboard all inside Excel.

=== Organizers ===

* Sara Allain
* Jeff Davis
* James Fournie
* Tamarack Hockin
* Mark Jordan
* Paul Joseph
* Cynthia Ng

Comments or questions? Get in touch with us at c4lbc-organizers@googlegroups.com.

= '''Past Events''' =

See our [[BC_Past_Events|past events]] page.

BC

2016-12-03T06:26:10Z

Terrywbrady: /* Thursday, December 1 */

Welcome to code4lib BC!

Begun in Summer 2013, this chapter aims to create connections and professional development opportunities for folks from British Columbia and surrounding areas.

= '''Code4lib BC Unconference 2016''' =

'''[https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/2016-code4libbc-unconference-tickets-26429947685 Registration is now open]''' for Code4Lib BC's fourth annual unconference!

* December 1 and 2, 2016
* Dodson Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, UBC, Vancouver BC
* [https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/2016-code4libbc-unconference-tickets-26429947685 Register now] ($30 for both days)
* [https://goo.gl/forms/YFrcIF4UpQRnj5eD3 Propose a lightning talk or breakout session]

=== What's it all about? ===

It's a 2-day unconference - a participant-driven meeting bringing together a diverse and open community of library developers and non-developers engaging in effective, collaborative problem-solving through technology regardless of their department or background.

The event will feature lightning talks in the mornings, breakout sessions in the afternoons, with coffee, tea and snacks provided. Lightning talks are brief presentations which are typically 10-15 minutes in length on topics related to library technologies. Breakout sessions are an opportunity to bring participants together in an ad hoc fashion for a short, yet sustained period of problem solving, software development and fun. If there is a neat project you're been working on, a cool new tool you want to show off, or an interesting development in the world of library technology that you want to discuss, Code4Lib BC is a great opportunity to share with the community - [https://goo.gl/forms/YFrcIF4UpQRnj5eD3 let us know about it]!

'''What's included''': wifi, power, coffee/snacks

'''What's NOT included/what to bring''': a laptop, lunch (on-campus options [http://www.food.ubc.ca/feed-me/ here] and [http://www.ams.ubc.ca/foodanddrink/ here]), your ideas and enthusiasm

'''Hashtag''': #c4lbc

'''Code of Conduct''': As a Code4Lib event, we adhere to the [http://bit.ly/coc4lib Code4Lib Code of Conduct], which seeks to provide a welcoming, harassment-free environment. Need an ear, hand, or help? C4LBC helpers: [https://twitter.com/therealarty @therealarty] (she/her) [https://twitter.com/skrrrl @skrrrl] (he/him)

=== Schedule ===

==== Thursday, December 1 ====
{| class="wikitable"
| 8:30 || Doors open
|-
| 9:00 || Welcome & Announcements
|-
| 9:15 || Lightning Talks
* [http://162.243.138.115/BCPDLc4l.pdf Provincial Digital Library Update] [PDF] (Daniel Sifton/Caroline Daniels)
* [https://github.com/terrywbrady/UsingAppScript Building Quick and Dirty Library Tools with Google Apps Script] [https://gitpitch.com/terrywbrady/UsingAppScript/master GitPitch Version](Terry Brady)
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18oBOD-KsRLz6uUoaLuqrsirN2TaK_W7ZgerE6qvB4Bc/edit Makerspaces and the Maker Community in the Lower Mainland] (Maryann Kempthorne)
* Web Analytics with Piwik (Jonathan Schatz)
|-
| 10:30 || Coffee break
|-
| 10:45 || Lightning Talks, cont'd
* TechBC Memory Project metadata upgrade (Holly Hendrigan)
* [https://github.com/schuyberg/pixelating_queries ElasticSearch API: Using Aggregation Queries to Do Cool Stuff] (Schuyler Lindberg)
* [https://cynng.wordpress.com/2016/12/01/code4libbc-presentation-getting-things-done-discovering-efficiencies-in-workflow/ Getting Things Done: Understanding and Analyzing Workflow] (Cynthia Ng)
* Introduction to FOLIO (Andrew Nagy)
|-
| 11:30 || Lunch (On Your Own)
|-
| 1:00 || Breakout Sessions
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NK7DS-6D1PPr9acZdXwLjLCq76ALdjN-PFxmov8OTgU/edit#slide=id.p Intro to git/github for libraries] (Sara Romkey/Mark Jordan/Holly Becker)
* PDL technologies up close (Daniel Sifton)
|-
| 2:30 || Break
|-
| 2:45 || Breakout Sessions, cont'd
* FOLIO workshop (Andrew Nagy)
* Digital Collections (Terry Brady)
|-
| 4:15 || Breakout Reports
|-
| 5:00 || Social Event at [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1quffBt9Lx5ljEoBQc3jSUmzqZ1neV29ncsVzJ5ixDaU/edit (new) Pit Pub]
|}

==== Friday, December 2 ====
{| class="wikitable"
| 8:30 || Doors open
|-
| 9:00 || Announcements
|-
| 9:15 || Lightning Talks
* [http://162.243.138.115/Code4LibCoal.pdf A Coal Miner’s History: Mapping Digitized Audio Interviews] [PDF] (Daniel Sifton)
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/18krnqMha_G7TMqYuzWeQzgRGEOmNBv0dEbCbV9XACr4/edit?usp=sharing Introduction to Docker] (James Fournie)
* [https://www.dropbox.com/s/zowdt88dl802y5l/Code4Lib%20-%20Makers%20Making%20Change%20-%20Chad%20Leaman.pptx?dl=0 Makers Making Change] (Chad Leaman)
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1UCs7FL17EwYZKpYa12W20xrbC2sySZXiCTY0sNqOxNI/edit MediaConch: A Video Format Validation Tool for Archivematica] (Sarah Romkey)
|-
| 10:30 || Coffee break
|-
| 10:45 || Lightning Talks, cont'd
* A Single Page Web App to Inventory 900,000 Books! (Terry Brady)
* UX Design of a Research Data Management Micro-site (Jessica Gallinger)
* Islandora On This Day module (Mark Jordan)
|-
| 11:30 || Lunch (On Your Own)
|-
| 1:00 || Breakout Sessions
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kMhgAQr27ax8fb34wZnwBR-zQvW0eXxma2kdMD0vSk0/edit Needling The Haystack: An Introduction to SQL and Query Languages] (Alex Garnett)
* reSearcher (CUFTS/GODOT) and project sustainability
* Blockchain (Related [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZiwlG5eSMexDiabokpXjca9E2N4rU674 past presentation] and [https://medium.com/on-archivy/decentralized-autonomous-collections-ff256267cbd6#.3apze2n29 article]) (Peter Van Garderen)
|-
| 2:30 || Break
|-
| 2:45 || Breakout Sessions, cont'd
* Using Islandora for Publishing XML (Michael Joyce)
* Awesome Excel Tips (Trevor Smith)
|-
| 4:00 || Breakout Reports
|-
| 4:30 || End of Day
|}

=== Program ===

Alphabetical by presenter/facilitator.

==== Lightning Talks ====

''Defining Projects using Gherkin Syntax'', Sara Allain, Artefactual
* The team at Artefactual has recently started using Gherkin, a human-readable syntax for defining software feature acceptance tests, in select software development projects. In this lightning talk, Sara will show how Gherkin acceptance tests are developed and how they're used by both end-users and developers.

''Building Quick and Dirty Library Tools with Google Apps Script'', Terry Brady, Georgetown University
* The ubiquity of Google Drive solves many problems (file sharing, web publishing, bulk editing) that are cumbersome to build in a home-grown application. With a little bit of JavaScript magic, you can build a custom solution on top of the Google Apps your users use every day. See http://georgetown-university-libraries.github.io/#google-sheets for some examples. Google Apps Script is a server-side implementation of JavaScript supporting API calls to Google Services. This presentation will describe the various ways that your custom code can be deployed for a library audience (formula function, embedded in a document, web service, document add-on).

''A Single Page Web App to Inventory 900,000 Books!'', Terry Brady, Georgetown University
* After completing a reorganization of our stacks, the Georgetown University Library needs to perform an inventory of 900,000 books within our stacks. This project needs to be completed before migrating our catalog to a new ILS (integrated library system) vendor in 2017.
* The Georgetown University Library has developed an application that allows student workers with a barcode scanner and a Chromebook to rapidly move through the stacks and scan each item. The tool queries the ILS database to verify the item's status and location, while allowing the user to verify the Title, Call Number and Volume of each item. The tool will also highlight call number sorting errors with each scan.
* This presentation will describe the solution that we have developed and the challenges that were overcome during the project. The code (and a video demonstration of the project) are available at https://github.com/Georgetown-University-Libraries/BarcodeInventory.

''Introduction to Docker'', James Fournie, VCC
* Docker is an open-source application container engine that is taking the IT world by storm. James will introduce you to Docker -- what Docker is and isn't and how Docker might help you or your organization write or deploy software.

''TechBC Memory Project metadata upgrade'', Holly Hendrigan
* Holly will provide an update to the TechBC Memory Project, her oral history project that has undergone a substantial makeover since last December's Code4Lib. She will tell the story of all the moving parts that came together when the collection migrated to SFU Library's Digital Collections.

''UX Design of a Research Data Management Micro-site'', Jessica Gallinger, SFU
* The SFU Library is creating new web content to help researchers manage their data. Receive a whirlwind tour of the UX methods (personas, interviews, prototyping, user testing, etc.) applied to design an effective micro-site around the needs of the end user. A high-fidelity prototype in InVision will be demoed.

''Islandora On This Day module'', Mark Jordan, SFU

''Makerspaces and the Maker Community in the Lower Mainland'', Maryann Kempthorne

''Makers Making Change'', Chad Leaman, Neil Squire Society
* Makers Making Change, a community based initiative that links makers, volunteers with technical skills, with people with disabilities with the goal of making affordable, open source assistive technolgies for those people with disabilities centered around community resources such as 3D printers in libraries and maker spaces.

''ElasticSearch API: Using Aggregation Queries to Do Cool Stuff'', Schuyler Lindberg, UBC

''Getting Things Done: Understanding and Analyzing Workflow'', Cynthia Ng
* How does work move through your organization? Does the order make sense? How many times is it passed on? How many people is it handled by? Do all the steps still need to done in the current work environment? This presentation provides some suggestions on methods to understand and analyze workflow using technical services as an example, but which can be applied in other areas.

''MediaConch: A Video Format Validation Tool for Archivematica'', Sarah Romkey, Artefactual
* MediaConch is a new tool for validating preservation video files. In this presentation, Sarah will talk about how we're integrating this tool into Archivematica, an open-source digital preservation system, and how Artefactual Systems approached this development project.

''Web Analytics with Piwik'', Jonathan Schatz, BC Libraries Cooperative

''A Coal Miner’s History: Mapping Digitized Audio Interviews'', Daniel Sifton, VIU
* Leveraging skills we developed in an earlier mapping project, we're using a rich set data from our Dspace instance to map the spoken word in the form of conversations [both audio and transcripts] about coal mines from the years 1900 – 1945 in and around the city of Nanaimo.

''Provincial Digital Library Update'', Daniel Sifton and Caroline Daniels
* A brief overview of strategies, efforts, and technologies regarding the BC Provincial Digital Library.

==== Breakout Sessions ====

''Intro to git/github for libraries'', Sara Allain and Mark Jordan
* A hands-on introduction to git, GitHub, and their potential uses in the library environment.

''Digital Collections'', Terry Brady, Georgetown University
* A group discussion.

''reSearcher (CUFTS/GODOT) and project sustainability'', Jeff Davis
* SFU has discontinued support for CUFTS/ERM, GODOT, and the CUFTS knowledgebase. This breakout will be a group discussion about what happens next.

''Needling The Haystack: An Introduction to SQL and Query Languages'', Alex Garnett, SFU
* Have you ever thought to yourself, "western nations seem powerless to defend against the creeping tide of fascism, but at least I know how to search within a database real well, as if that makes anything OK?"
* Good news -- now you can! This workshop will provide an introduction to SQL and related query languages for people who have little to no experience using modern database backends. We'll discuss the differences in difference SQL implementations, how to efficiently retrieve data from already-existing databases that you might encounter in your job, and hopefully demystify some general concepts of querying. If you've ever had a graphical database design course, so much the better; we'll be trying to supplement but not rehash those concepts. Please bring your own laptop.

''Using Islandora for Publishing XML'', Michael Joyce, SFU
* Islandora is well known in the library community as a digital repository. At Simon Fraser University we have been experimenting with it as a publishing platform for XML. Instead of simply presenting an XML file in the browser, we transform it to HTML for display. In this breakout session, we will examine the code for two projects: the TechBC Memory Project, a collection of oral histories, and a text transcription of Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge.

''FOLIO'', Andrew Nagy, EBSCO
* An introduction to [https://www.folio.org/ FOLIO], a project to develop an open source Library Services Platform.

''Provincial Digital Library Technologies Up Close'', Daniel Sifton, VIU
* An in depth demo of the harvesting/mapping/ingestion process in both the DPLA technology stack and in SuppleJack (from DigitalNZ) for consideration in a BC-PDL environment. Note, attendees will have an opportunity to explore the interfaces where they exist and where possible, but will not be interacting with these platforms at the command level. If you want to do this, however, this session might be a good place to get an understanding of the hidden pieces. To paraphrase Tom Vu, "Come to [this] seminar!"

''Awesome Excel Tips'', Trevor Smith
* Want to wrangle your data into submission either for collection management or budgeting? Learn how to use Pivot Tables, VLOOKUPs, advanced queries, or even a dashboard all inside Excel.

=== Organizers ===

* Sara Allain
* Jeff Davis
* James Fournie
* Tamarack Hockin
* Mark Jordan
* Paul Joseph
* Cynthia Ng

Comments or questions? Get in touch with us at c4lbc-organizers@googlegroups.com.

= '''Past Events''' =

See our [[BC_Past_Events|past events]] page.

Mentorship Program

2015-03-06T18:05:07Z

Terrywbrady: Added my name to the mentor list

== Goals ==
* Bring people together to build individual capacity and empowerment
* Increase diversity in participation and presentation at Code4Lib (both online and at conferences)
* Increase number of volunteers for developing and maintaining Code4Lib software projects

== Structure ==
Structure of the relationship between mentor and mentee can and should be defined at the outset by the parties involved. However, here are a few simple guidelines you may or may not want to follow for success:

* Set up a clear overall goal and timeframe. "Learn Ruby" is ok, but is not specific enough. "Create and deploy experimental Vote2Promote discussion board in Ruby on Rails" would be better.
* Set up expectations. For example:
** Set aside time each week to collaborate on articulating weekly goals.
** Establish a communication platform and expected response time in advance.
** Establish "office hours" in chat room or IM for questions and review of progress
* Evaluation: We would love to know what worked or didn't work for advice to future mentors

== Platforms for communication ==
This is generally worked out between the mentor and the partner. A mentor is not a replacement for reading the manual (RTFM). Please read the following before asking questions of the mentor (or the listserv for that matter):
[http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html How to Ask Questions the Smart Way]

* Instant Messenger
* [http://trello.com Trello]
* IRC Chat Room (Code4Lib)
* Email

== Participants ==
Please state whether or not you have a preference for your mentor or partner to be male, female, or some other unique demographic characteristics. Otherwise, it will be assumed that you don't mind either way.

=== Mentors ===
Bess Sadler - I currently have a couple of pro bono projects that would be good learning opportunities for someone interested in learning more about Blacklight, Ruby on Rails, Solr, museums, or libraries in Africa. I am also happy to be a mentor generally, and I'm open to suggestions about what form that might take.

[https://www.lib.umn.edu/about/staff/eric-larson Eric Larson] - I have been working in large academic libraries as a web designer/application developer for a decade. I am also the co-founder of a business successfully selling software to libraries. I would be interesting in mentoring people on entrepreneurship in libraries. I can offer advice on how to form a company, how to market your product, what it costs to exhibit at conferences, etc. I would also be happy to mentor people new to the field of library application development. I can answer all those questions you are afraid to ask elsewhere.

[http://mike.giarlo.name/ Mike Giarlo] - I've been in various IT positions in academic and research libraries for 17 years, during much of which I have concentrated on digital libraries and repositories. My most recent programming experience has been with Ruby on Rails, working as an active member of the Hydra project for Penn State since 2011. Coding isn't my superpower, though; if I have any superpower, perhaps it's that I've found ways to be successful as something of a conduit or a polyglot, which started when I built on my IT background by getting an MLIS. On an average work day, it's not uncommon for me to get into a nitty-gritty tech discussion with our software developers and DevOps and an hour later be chatting with a dean or a director about technology strategy or library services. Perhaps I can help you take your career in this direction as well.

[https://www.linkedin.com/in/terrywbrady Terry Brady] - I have built metadata management and data conversion software in corporate, government, non-profit, and higher education environments. For the last several years, I have sought opportunities to use my skills on meaningful projects. I found the libraries/archives space to be a great place to find meaningful projects. Working within a small IT team, I know the importance of building a larger community of peers. My [https://github.com/Georgetown-University-Libraries/Georgetown-University-Libraries-Code/releases current projects] focus on DSpace, Java, XSLT, PHP, JavaScript, and SQL. I would be happy to mentor folks on these technologies or on software development in general. [http://www.library.georgetown.edu/staff/twb27 Contact Info].

=== Partners ===

Bess Sadler - I have been a developer for Digital Humanities and Library software projects for over a decade, but I am relatively new to library management and administration and I would love to find a mentor with more experience than I have in those areas.

Jessica Wood - Currently a cataloger, looking for projects to improve my coding skills and get past the basic "learn to code" stuff, and to move more into the tech side of librarianship.

David Anderson - Looking to get some (any) experience with Solr and/or Drupal. Happy to contribute a small amount of free labor to interesting projects in exchange for knowledge. Currently a federal systems librarian, got MLS a year and a half ago. Been in the library field for 9 years in a wide variety of roles, if anyone wants to learn from my mistakes.

Jeffrey Sabol - Would like to gain experience coding in Ruby and Ruby on Rails. I would also like to learn about Solr and SQL databases. If anybody currently uses OCLC's WMS I would like to learn more about that system. I currently work as the Electronic Resources and Systems Librarian at Marymount California University. I would be willing to assist and help with any project that would help me learn these skills.

Alyssa Loera - Would like to gain experience in python/pymarc, ruby on rails, SQL databases and other tools. I've been working in libraries for 6 years and I'm in the process of getting my MLIS. Right now I coordinate digital projects at the academic university level but would love to learn more about the developer side of things.

Bryan Brown - I'm a developer in my first year out of library school working with Drupal, Islandora, Solr, Fedora, and OJS. I don't have much development experience, so I'd like to fill in the gaps (project management, participation in open source projects, code design, documentation writing and general development best practices). Mentors who work with/on Islandora or Hydra would be a huge plus.

Mark Eaton - I'm an academic librarian learning Python and Javascript. I'm at the point where I'm writing my own working scripts, but I could really use some input to make them better. I'd also welcome guidance on how best to build on what I've learned so far.

Megan Kudzia - I'm a Web Developer/Designer librarian and have been for the last four years. My long-term goal is to be a full-stack developer (which I realize will take years!) and I'm interested to know if there are others out there who want to work together toward that same goal? I'm currently strongest at front-end design and development (HTML, CSS, basic PHP), and I'm gradually working my way back "down" the back end (server and network administration, database management, etc.). I'm also interested more immediately in management (project, time, human). I seem to be accumulating student workers and interns so I'd love to share knowledge with others on what's working for them to scale up human management.

== Code4Lib Community Projects for Mentorship Opportunities ==
* Wiki Cleanup? - Lots of pages are out of date and other pages are hard to find. Perhaps even migrate from MediaWiki to Github Wiki.
* Drupal Upgrades?
* Code4Lib Journal WordPress Upgrades?
* [http://docs.railsbridge.org/curriculum/ RailsBridge Workshop] (either at Conference or individual effort)

2015 Preconference Proposals

2015-01-30T17:38:08Z

Terrywbrady: /* Pre-conferences */

Pre-conferences are NOT included in the Code4Lib Conference price and will be held on Monday, February 9, 2015 as either full day or half day sessions.

== Preconference Schedule (draft) ==
There may be some room switching when registration opens. Rooms will be confirmed the week before Code4Lib. See below for further information on each session.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Room (capacity) !! Morning (9 AM - Noon) !! Afternoon (1:30 PM - 4:30 PM)
|-
| '''Parlor A (30''') || Confessions of the (Accidental) Code Hoarder: How to make your Code Sharable (9: Needs: projector, internet connection, and power strips) || Intro to Git & possibly beyond (40: Needs: projector/screen)
|-
| '''Parlor B (30)''' || Code Retreat (18: Needs whiteboard, dry-erase markers, projector) || Code Retreat (15: Needs whiteboard, dry-erase markers, projector)
|-
| '''Parlor C (30)''' || [[code4lib/Write The Docs barcamp]] (8: Needs: projector/screen, flipboard/whiteboard, power sources for laptops) || [[code4lib/Write The Docs barcamp]] (5)
|-
| '''Grand Ballroom''' I (320) || '''CANCELLED''': [UXtravaganza] || Presentations workshop (1: Needs: projector/screen)
|-
| '''Grand Ballroom''' II (200) || Visualizing Library Data (60: Needs: projector) || DPLA API Workshop (34: Bringing their own projector)
|-
| '''Galleria I (35)''' || Coding Custom Solutions for Every Department in the Library with File Analyzer (1: Needs PC laptop projection, monitor, internet access/wifi, attendees bring laptops) || Fail4Lib 2015 (13: Needs: projector/screen; Requested: Conference table seating, limit 20 attendants)
|-
| '''Galleria II (60)''' || RailsBridge: Intro to programming in Ruby on Rails (25: Needs: internet/wifi, overhead projection) || CollectionSpace: Getting it up and running at your museum (5: Needs: Projector)
|-
| '''Galleria III (35)''' || Replace yourself with a painfully complex bash script...or try Ansible (20: Need projector) || Intro to Docker (52)
|-
| '''Studio (35)''' || Linked Data Workshop (56: Bringing their own projector) || Dive into Hydra (29: Needs: projector/screen; Requests: classroom style seating)
|-
| '''Directors (35)''' || Code4Arc (20: Needs: projector) || Code4Arc (18: Needs: projector)
|-
| '''Council (45)''' || Delivering and Preserving GIS Data (10: Projector, Video connector for MacBook Pro, wifi, power outlets) || A hands-on introduction to GeoBlacklight (19: Needs: projector, outlets; Requests: list of attendees)
|}

== Pre-conferences ==
===MORNING:===
==== Coding Custom Solutions for Every Department in the Library with File Analyzer ====
Morning, Galleria I
* Terry Brady, Georgetown University Library, twb27@georgetown.edu

The Georgetown University Library has shared an application called the [http://georgetown-university-libraries.github.io/File-Analyzer/ File Analyzer] that has allowed us to build custom solutions for nearly every department in the library.
* Analyzing Marc Records for the Cataloging department
* Transferring ILS invoices for the University Account System for the Acquisitions department
* Delivering patron fines to the Bursar’s office for the Access Service department
* Summarizing student worker timesheet data for the Finance department
* Validating counter compliant reports for the Electronic Resources department
* Preparing ingest packages for the Digital Services department
* Validating checksums for the Preservation department

This hands on workshop will step through the components of the application framework and the process of customizing the application.

TRAINING OUTLINE
* https://github.com/Georgetown-University-Libraries/File-Analyzer/wiki/File-Analyzer-Training-Code4Lib-2015

''Interested in Attending''
# Megan Kudzia
# Julie Swierczek

====Confessions of the (Accidental) Code Hoarder: How to make your Code Sharable:====
Morning, Parlor A
* Karen A. Coombs, OCLC, coombsk@oclc.org

Have you built something cool and useful that you want to share with others? This preconference session will discuss techniques and tools for sharing code. Using our own OCLC Developer Network PHP authentication code libraries as an example, we will discuss a set of recommended best practices for how to share your code.

We’ll start with coding standards and test writing so you can be confident of the quality of your code. Next we'll discuss inline documentation as a tool for developers and how auto-generating documentation will save you time and effort. Lastly we'll provide an overview of the tricky areas of dependency and package management, and distribution tools. Along the way, we'll cover PHP coding standards, testing, and popular PHP tools including PHPDoc for documentation, Composer for smooth installations, and using GitHub and Packagist to manage distribution, updates and community feedback.

''Interested in Attending''
# Peggy Griesinger
# Ray Schwartz
# Josh Wilson

==== Delivering and Preserving GIS Data ====
Morning, Council
* Darren Hardy, Stanford University, drh@stanford.edu
* Jack Reed, Stanford University, pjreed@stanford.edu

We will discuss how to set up a spatial data infrastructure (SDI) to deliver GIS data, to manage GIS content in a Fedora repository for preservation, and to establish metadata requirements for good spatial discovery. By the end of the workshop you will have a working SDI! This workshop is a compliment to the GeoBlacklight workshop in the afternoon.

''Interested in Attending''
# [[User:Ssimpkin|Sarah Simpkin]]
# Vicky Steeves
# Andrew Battista
# Peggy Griesinger

====Linked Data Workshop====
Morning, Studio
* Karen Estlund, University of Oregon, kestlund@uoregon.edu
* Tom Johnson, DPLA, tom@dp.la

Developer and metadata experts-focused linked data workshop. Topics covered will include: linked open data principles, converting existing data, and modeling linked data in DAMS.

''Interested in Attending''
# Logan Cox
# Ray Schwartz
# Chris Hallberg
# Derek Merleaux
# Steven Anderson
# Eben English
# Mark Mounts
# Heather Pitts
# Andrew Woods
# Carol Bean
# Naomi Dushay (probably)
# David Lacy
# David Uspal
# David Bass
# Brendan Quinn
# Chrissy Rissmeyer
# Sharon Clapp
# Anjanette Young
# Brooke Sansosti

====RailsBridge: Intro to programming in Ruby on Rails====
Morning, Galleria II
* Contact Carolyn Cole, Penn State University, carolyn@psu.edu
* Laney McGlohon, Stanford University, laneymcg@stanford.edu
* Additional instructors welcome

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

RailsBridge is a great workshop that opens the doors to projects like [http://projectblacklight.org/ Blacklight] and [http://projecthydra.org/ Hydra] and [https://github.com/traject-project/traject Traject].

''Interested in Attending''
# Maura Carbone
#Vicky Steeves
# Peggy Griesinger
# Mike Price
# Jean Rainwater
# Coral Sheldon-Hess
# Margaret Heller
# Bohyun Kim
# Mark Jarrell
# Bojana Skarich
#Sarah Bavier

====Replace yourself with a painfully complex bash script...or try Ansible====
Morning, Galleria III
* Chad Nelson, chad dot nelson @ lyrasis dot org
* Blake Carver, Blake dot carver @lyrasis dot org

[http://www.ansible.com Ansible] is an open source automation and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Configuration_management configuration management] tool that focuses on simplicity to help make your life as a developer, or a sysadmin, or even a full on devops-er, easier. This workshop will cover the basic building blocks used in Ansible as well as some best practices for maintaining your Ansible code. We will start by working through a simple example together, and then participants will be given time to work on their own projects with instructors providing guidance and troubleshooting along the way. By the end of the session, participants will have a working knowledge of Ansible and be able to write a working [http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks.html playbook] to meet local needs.

''Interested in Attending''
# Ray Schwartz
# Coral Sheldon-Hess
# Kevin S. Clarke
# Joshua Gomez
# Charlie Morris
# Andy Mardesich
# Anna Headley
# Chelsea Lobdell
# Shaun Ellis
# Mark Mounts
# Chris Sharp
# Heidi Frank
# Anjanette Young

====Visualizing Library Data====
Morning, Grand Ballroom II
* Matt Miller, matthewmiller@nypl.org, New York Public Library, NYPL Labs

Visualizing your institution’s data can give new insight about your holding’s strengths, weaknesses and outliers. They can also provide potential new avenues for discovery and access. This half day session will focus on programmatically visualizing library metadata. Emphasis will be on creating web-based visualizations utilizing libraries such as d3.js but attention paid towards visualizing large datasets while keeping them web accessible. By then end of the session participants will have template, sample code and methodologies enabling them to start producing visualization with their own data.

''Interested in Attending''
# Ashley Blewer!
# Bobbi Fox
# Ray Schwartz
# Ranti Junus
# Eric Phetteplace
# Joshua Gomez
# Charlie Morris
# Andy Mardesich
# Tao Zhao
# Chris Hallberg
# Derek Merleaux
# Bohyun Kim
# Mark Jarrell
# Eben English
# Shaun Ellis
# Sarah Simpkin
# Mark Mounts
# Kathryn Stine
# Steve Meyer
# Matt Critchlow
# Andrew Pasterfield
# Ray Henry
# Bret Davidson
# Naomi Dushay (maybe)
# Eric Frierson
# Matt Bernhardt
# Greg Bem (Morning only)
# Dominic Bordelon

===FULL DAY:===

====Code Retreat====
Full Day, Parlor B
* Jeremy Friesen, University of Notre Dame, jfriesen at nd dot edu
* Additional facilitators welcome; Especially if you have CodeRetreat experience.

"Coderetreat is a day-long, intensive practice event, focusing on the fundamentals of software development and design.
By providing developers the opportunity to take part in focused practice, away from the pressures of 'getting things done', the coderetreat format has proven itself to be a highly effective means of skill improvement.
Practicing the basic principles of modular and object-oriented design, developers can improve their ability to write code that minimizes the cost of change over time." [http://coderetreat.org/about About Code Retreat]

''Interested in Attending''
# Mike Giarlo
# Charlie Morris
# Devon Smith
# Barbara Hui
# Carol Bean
# Matt Connolly
# James Van Mil
# Glen Horton

====Code4Arc ====
Full Day, Directors
* Sarah Romkey, Artefactual Systems, sromkey@artefactual.com
* Justin Simpson, Artefactual Systems, jsimpson@artefactual.com
* Chris Fitzpatrick, ArchivesSpace, chris.fitzpatrick@lyrasis.org
* Alexandra Chassanoff, BitCurator Access, bitcurator@gmail.com

What does it mean to Code for Archives? Is it different than coding for libraries, and if so, how?

Code4Lib is a wonderful and successful model (you must agree or you wouldn't be reading this). This workshop is an attempt to create a space to replicate the model in an Archival context. A space to talk about development for archives, and the particular challenges of developing archival systems. Topics to discuss include Integration between different Archival software tools, and between Archival tools/workflows and larger institutional tools like institutional repositories, discovery and access systems.

The schedule may include the following:
* Panel type conversations about the State of Art in Archives
* Case Studies - discussion of workflows at specific institutions, including gaps in tools and how those are being addressed or could be addressed
* Tool Demos - access to demos of some of the open source tools used in an Archival Context (examples include ArchivesSpace, Archivematica, BitCurator, AtoM)

Artefactual will provide demos running Archivematica and AtoM, Lyrasis will do so for ArchivesSpace, BitCurator will for BitCurator. We encourage others to chime in here to expand the list of tools available to touch and play with.

When signing up, please indicate if you are an end-user or a developer.

''Interested in Attending''
# Laney McGlohon - developer
# Shaun Ellis
# Ryan Rotter - sysadmin/developer
# Matt LaChance
# Maureen Callahan - archivist, often-times product owner
# Liza Harrell-Edge - end-user
# Jessica Venlet - end-user/archivist (can be there in the afternoon)
# Andrew Berger - "digital" archivist

====[http://wiki.code4lib.org/Code4lib/Write_The_Docs_barcamp code4lib/Write The Docs barcamp]====
Full day, Parlor C
* code4lib wrangler: Becky Yoose, yoosebec at grinnell dot edu
* Write the Docs contacts: TBA

'''Event page where you can find the latest information and... documentation(!) at [http://wiki.code4lib.org/Code4lib/Write_The_Docs_barcamp]'''

Documentation. We all know that we need it for things we develop, but most of us either keep putting it off or write documentation that is not maintained, clear, concise, and so on. We're all guilty! So what's stopping us from doing better docs? Luckily, Portland is also the home to the NA Write the Docs conference, and is home for many folks who live and breathe documentation. This barcamp is open to both code4lib and non-code4lib conference attendees and is intended to provide a space where code4libbers can find practices and tools in creating better documentation for all as well as documentation wonks can find out ways in which the library wonks can help with better documentation access and organization.

Remember, like metadata, documentation is a love note to the future.

More information about Write the Docs at http://conf.writethedocs.org/ There will be a nominal fee (t/b/d) for non-Code4LibCon attendees (subject to organizer approval).

''Interested in Attending''
'''Full day'''
#

'''Morning'''
# Ranti Junus
# Mita Williams
# Whitni Watkins
# Jason Raitz

'''Afternoon'''
# Francis Kayiwa (if my Pre-Conf is in the AM) Otherwise with Ranti if my Pre-Conf is in the afternoon.
# Chris Sharp
# Julie Swierczek

===AFTERNOON:===
==== A hands-on introduction to GeoBlacklight ====
Afternoon, Council
* Darren Hardy, Stanford University, drh@stanford.edu
* Jack Reed, Stanford University, pjreed@stanford.edu

GeoBlacklight is a discovery solution for geospatial data that builds on the successful Blacklight platform. Many libraries have collections of GIS data that aren’t easily discoverable. This will be a hands-on workshop, focused on installing and running GeoBlacklight which builds on the morning workshop "Delivering and Preserving GIS Data".

''Interested in Attending''
# [[User:Ssimpkin|Sarah Simpkin]]
# Vicky Steeves
# Andrew Battista
# Peggy Griesinger

==== CollectionSpace: Getting it up and running at your museum ====
Afternoon, Galleria II
* Richard Millet, CollectionSpace.org, richard.millet@lyrasis.org
* Becky Escamilla, Oakland Museum of California, rescamilla@museumca.org

This workshop is designed for anyone interested in or tasked with the technical setup and configuration of CollectionSpace for use in any collections environment (museum, library, special collection, gallery, etc. For more information about CollectionSpace, visit http://www.collectionspace.org

Participants will be walked through the process of installing the software and performing basic configuration work on a stand-alone instance of CollectionSpace. Participants will learn how to create user accounts, set up basic roles and permissions, and may then catalog or otherwise document sample objects from their collections. Materials distributed prior to the workshop will cover hardware and system requirements for participants.

''Interested in Attending''
# Terry Brady
# Sharon Clapp

==== Dive into Hydra ====
Afternoon, Studio
* Justin Coyne, Data Curation Experts, justin@curationexperts.com
* Bess Sadler, Stanford University, bess@stanford.edu

Hydra is a collaboration of over 30 educational institutions who work together to solve their repository needs by building open-source software. Dive into Hydra is a course that bootstraps you into the Hydra software framework. We'll start at the basics and walk you through the various layers of the Hydra stack. We'll conclude by installing the Worthwhile gem, enabling every participant to walk away with their own Institutional Repository. Participants who have prior exposure to web programming will get the most out of this course. It's recommended (but not required) that you attend "RailsBridge" prior to this workshop.

''Interested in Attending''
# Maura Carbone
# Peggy Griesinger
# Mike Price
# Jean Rainwater
# Sara Amato
# David Bass
# Scott Fisher
# Brian E. Davis
# Sarah Bavier

==== DPLA API Workshop: ====
Afternoon, Grand Ballroom II
* Audrey Altman, DPLA
* Mark Breedlove, DPLA
* Mark Matienzo, DPLA
* Tom Johnson, DPLA

The Digital Public Library of America API workshop guides attendees through the process of creating an app based on DPLA's free, public API. The API provides access to over 8 million [http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0] licensed metadata records from America’s libraries, archives, and museums in a common metadata format. This workshop is designed for people of all technical skill levels and will cover API basics, the capabilities of the DPLA API, available toolsets, and tips for using records from the API effectively. Members of DPLA's technology team will be on hand to help the group build their first application, and answer questions about tools and content.

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here
# Ranti Junus
# Jean Rainwater
# Mita Williams
# Margaret Heller
# Bohyun Kim
# Steven Anderson
# Shaun Ellis
# Sarah Simpkin
# Mark Jarrell
# Heather Pitts
# Kathryn Stine
# Andrew Woods
# Greg Bem
# Brooke Sansosti

==== Fail4Lib 2015 ====
Afternoon, Galleria I
* Andreas Orphanides, akorphan (at) ncsu.edu
* Jason Casden, jmcasden (at) ncsu.edu

Failure. Failure never changes. Since failure is an inescapable part of our professional work, it's important to be familiar with it, to acknowledge it, and to grow from it -- and, in contravention to longstanding tradition, to accept it as a fact of development life. At Fail4Lib, we'll talk about our own experiences with projects gone wrong, explore some famous design failures in the real world, and talk about how we can come to terms with the reality of failure, to make it part of our creative process -- rather than something to be shunned. Let's train ourselves to understand and embrace failure, encourage enlightened risk-taking, and seek out opportunities to fail and learn. This way, when we do what we do -- and fail at what we do -- we'll do so with grace and without fear.

This year's preconference will include new case studies and an improved discussion format. Repeat customers are welcome! (Fail early, fail often.)

The schedule may include the following:
* Case studies. Avoid our own mistakes by bearing witness to the failures of others.
* Confessionals, for those willing to share. Let's learn from our own (and each others') failures.
* Group therapy. Vent about your own experiences in a judgment-free setting. Explore how we can make our organizations less risk-averse and more failure-tolerant.

''Interested in attending''
# Ray Schwartz
# Charlie Morris
# Emily Lynema
# Bret Davidson
# Hannah Sommers

==== Intro to Docker ====
Afternoon, Galleria III
* John Fink, McMaster University, john dot fink at gmail dot com
* Francis Kayiwa, University of Maryland Libraries , fkayiwa at umd dot edu

[http://docker.io Docker] ([http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/9669 jbfink code4lib journal article]) is an open source Linux operating system-level virtualization framework that has seen great uptake over the past year. This workshop will take you through the basic features of Docker, including setup, importing of containers, development workflows and deploying. Knowing when Docker is useful and when it isn't will also be covered. Ideally, every attendee will have ample experience creating and running their own Docker instances by the end.

''Interested in Attending''
# Jim Hahn
# Joshua Gomez
# Bobbi Fox
# Ray Schwartz
# Megan Kudzia
# Coral Sheldon-Hess (pleeeeaaase put this in a different slot from Ansible!)
# Cary Gordon (uses Docker in production on AWS)
# Eric Phetteplace
# Esther Verreau
# Charlie Morris
# Anna Headley (voting for afternoon, compliments ansible)
# Shaun Ellis
# Mark Mounts
# Matt Critchlow
# Ray Henry
# Eric Frierson
# Sara Amato
# David Lacy
# David Uspal
# Matt Bernhardt
# Brendan Quinn
# Anjanette Young
# Kevin S. Clarke

==== Intro to Git & possibly beyond ====
Afternoon, Parlor A
* Erin Fahy, Stanford University, efahy@stanford.edu
* Shaun Trujillo, Mount Holyoke College, strujill@mtholyoke.edu

We can start with the basics of Git and discuss ways in which it can help you version control just about any file, not just code. Points we can go over:
* What is a Distributed Version Control System?
* What's the difference between Git and Github.com?
* How to initialize new Git projects locally and on a remote server/Github
* Cloning/Forking existing projects and keeping up to date
* The wonderful world of Git branches
* Interactive rebasing
* Contributing code to existing projects & what pull requests are
* How to handle merge conflicts
* Overview of workflows and branch best practices
* (time allowing) Advanced git: pre/post hooks, submodules, anything else?

''Interested in Attending''
# Jeannie Graham
# Derek Merleaux
# Laurie Reeves
# Bojana Skarich
# Heidi Frank
# Jason Raitz
# Emily Lynema
# Brian E. Davis
# Dominic Bordelon

==== Presentations workshop ====
Afternoon, Grand Ballroom I
* Chris Beer, Stanford University, cabeer@stanford.edu
* Additional facilitators welcome.

This is a preconference session intended for first time Code4Lib speakers, habitual procrastinators, experienced speakers, those thinking about offering lightning talks, etc. If you're preparing a talk for this year's Code4Lib, this workshop is an opportunity to rehearse your presentation, get feedback from peers, get familiar with the presentation technology, etc.

''Interested in Attending''
#Vicky Steeves

[[Category:Code4Lib2015]]

2015 Preconference Proposals

2015-01-30T17:36:28Z

Terrywbrady: format training link

Pre-conferences are NOT included in the Code4Lib Conference price and will be held on Monday, February 9, 2015 as either full day or half day sessions.

== Preconference Schedule (draft) ==
There may be some room switching when registration opens. Rooms will be confirmed the week before Code4Lib. See below for further information on each session.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Room (capacity) !! Morning (9 AM - Noon) !! Afternoon (1:30 PM - 4:30 PM)
|-
| '''Parlor A (30''') || Confessions of the (Accidental) Code Hoarder: How to make your Code Sharable (9: Needs: projector, internet connection, and power strips) || Intro to Git & possibly beyond (40: Needs: projector/screen)
|-
| '''Parlor B (30)''' || Code Retreat (18: Needs whiteboard, dry-erase markers, projector) || Code Retreat (15: Needs whiteboard, dry-erase markers, projector)
|-
| '''Parlor C (30)''' || [[code4lib/Write The Docs barcamp]] (8: Needs: projector/screen, flipboard/whiteboard, power sources for laptops) || [[code4lib/Write The Docs barcamp]] (5)
|-
| '''Grand Ballroom''' I (320) || '''CANCELLED''': [UXtravaganza] || Presentations workshop (1: Needs: projector/screen)
|-
| '''Grand Ballroom''' II (200) || Visualizing Library Data (60: Needs: projector) || DPLA API Workshop (34: Bringing their own projector)
|-
| '''Galleria I (35)''' || Coding Custom Solutions for Every Department in the Library with File Analyzer (1: Needs PC laptop projection, monitor, internet access/wifi, attendees bring laptops) || Fail4Lib 2015 (13: Needs: projector/screen; Requested: Conference table seating, limit 20 attendants)
|-
| '''Galleria II (60)''' || RailsBridge: Intro to programming in Ruby on Rails (25: Needs: internet/wifi, overhead projection) || CollectionSpace: Getting it up and running at your museum (5: Needs: Projector)
|-
| '''Galleria III (35)''' || Replace yourself with a painfully complex bash script...or try Ansible (20: Need projector) || Intro to Docker (52)
|-
| '''Studio (35)''' || Linked Data Workshop (56: Bringing their own projector) || Dive into Hydra (29: Needs: projector/screen; Requests: classroom style seating)
|-
| '''Directors (35)''' || Code4Arc (20: Needs: projector) || Code4Arc (18: Needs: projector)
|-
| '''Council (45)''' || Delivering and Preserving GIS Data (10: Projector, Video connector for MacBook Pro, wifi, power outlets) || A hands-on introduction to GeoBlacklight (19: Needs: projector, outlets; Requests: list of attendees)
|}

== Pre-conferences ==
===MORNING:===
==== Coding Custom Solutions for Every Department in the Library with File Analyzer ====
Morning, Galleria I
* Terry Brady, Georgetown University Library, twb27@georgetown.edu

The Georgetown University Library has shared an application called the [http://georgetown-university-libraries.github.io/File-Analyzer/ File Analyzer] that has allowed us to build custom solutions for nearly every department in the library.
* Analyzing Marc Records for the Cataloging department
* Transferring ILS invoices for the University Account System for the Acquisitions department
* Delivering patron fines to the Bursar’s office for the Access Service department
* Summarizing student worker timesheet data for the Finance department
* Validating counter compliant reports for the Electronic Resources department
* Preparing ingest packages for the Digital Services department
* Validating checksums for the Preservation department

This hands on workshop will step through the components of the application framework and the process of customizing the application.

=== Training Outline ===
* https://github.com/Georgetown-University-Libraries/File-Analyzer/wiki/File-Analyzer-Training-Code4Lib-2015

''Interested in Attending''
# Megan Kudzia
# Julie Swierczek

====Confessions of the (Accidental) Code Hoarder: How to make your Code Sharable:====
Morning, Parlor A
* Karen A. Coombs, OCLC, coombsk@oclc.org

Have you built something cool and useful that you want to share with others? This preconference session will discuss techniques and tools for sharing code. Using our own OCLC Developer Network PHP authentication code libraries as an example, we will discuss a set of recommended best practices for how to share your code.

We’ll start with coding standards and test writing so you can be confident of the quality of your code. Next we'll discuss inline documentation as a tool for developers and how auto-generating documentation will save you time and effort. Lastly we'll provide an overview of the tricky areas of dependency and package management, and distribution tools. Along the way, we'll cover PHP coding standards, testing, and popular PHP tools including PHPDoc for documentation, Composer for smooth installations, and using GitHub and Packagist to manage distribution, updates and community feedback.

''Interested in Attending''
# Peggy Griesinger
# Ray Schwartz
# Josh Wilson

==== Delivering and Preserving GIS Data ====
Morning, Council
* Darren Hardy, Stanford University, drh@stanford.edu
* Jack Reed, Stanford University, pjreed@stanford.edu

We will discuss how to set up a spatial data infrastructure (SDI) to deliver GIS data, to manage GIS content in a Fedora repository for preservation, and to establish metadata requirements for good spatial discovery. By the end of the workshop you will have a working SDI! This workshop is a compliment to the GeoBlacklight workshop in the afternoon.

''Interested in Attending''
# [[User:Ssimpkin|Sarah Simpkin]]
# Vicky Steeves
# Andrew Battista
# Peggy Griesinger

====Linked Data Workshop====
Morning, Studio
* Karen Estlund, University of Oregon, kestlund@uoregon.edu
* Tom Johnson, DPLA, tom@dp.la

Developer and metadata experts-focused linked data workshop. Topics covered will include: linked open data principles, converting existing data, and modeling linked data in DAMS.

''Interested in Attending''
# Logan Cox
# Ray Schwartz
# Chris Hallberg
# Derek Merleaux
# Steven Anderson
# Eben English
# Mark Mounts
# Heather Pitts
# Andrew Woods
# Carol Bean
# Naomi Dushay (probably)
# David Lacy
# David Uspal
# David Bass
# Brendan Quinn
# Chrissy Rissmeyer
# Sharon Clapp
# Anjanette Young
# Brooke Sansosti

====RailsBridge: Intro to programming in Ruby on Rails====
Morning, Galleria II
* Contact Carolyn Cole, Penn State University, carolyn@psu.edu
* Laney McGlohon, Stanford University, laneymcg@stanford.edu
* Additional instructors welcome

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

RailsBridge is a great workshop that opens the doors to projects like [http://projectblacklight.org/ Blacklight] and [http://projecthydra.org/ Hydra] and [https://github.com/traject-project/traject Traject].

''Interested in Attending''
# Maura Carbone
#Vicky Steeves
# Peggy Griesinger
# Mike Price
# Jean Rainwater
# Coral Sheldon-Hess
# Margaret Heller
# Bohyun Kim
# Mark Jarrell
# Bojana Skarich
#Sarah Bavier

====Replace yourself with a painfully complex bash script...or try Ansible====
Morning, Galleria III
* Chad Nelson, chad dot nelson @ lyrasis dot org
* Blake Carver, Blake dot carver @lyrasis dot org

[http://www.ansible.com Ansible] is an open source automation and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Configuration_management configuration management] tool that focuses on simplicity to help make your life as a developer, or a sysadmin, or even a full on devops-er, easier. This workshop will cover the basic building blocks used in Ansible as well as some best practices for maintaining your Ansible code. We will start by working through a simple example together, and then participants will be given time to work on their own projects with instructors providing guidance and troubleshooting along the way. By the end of the session, participants will have a working knowledge of Ansible and be able to write a working [http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks.html playbook] to meet local needs.

''Interested in Attending''
# Ray Schwartz
# Coral Sheldon-Hess
# Kevin S. Clarke
# Joshua Gomez
# Charlie Morris
# Andy Mardesich
# Anna Headley
# Chelsea Lobdell
# Shaun Ellis
# Mark Mounts
# Chris Sharp
# Heidi Frank
# Anjanette Young

====Visualizing Library Data====
Morning, Grand Ballroom II
* Matt Miller, matthewmiller@nypl.org, New York Public Library, NYPL Labs

Visualizing your institution’s data can give new insight about your holding’s strengths, weaknesses and outliers. They can also provide potential new avenues for discovery and access. This half day session will focus on programmatically visualizing library metadata. Emphasis will be on creating web-based visualizations utilizing libraries such as d3.js but attention paid towards visualizing large datasets while keeping them web accessible. By then end of the session participants will have template, sample code and methodologies enabling them to start producing visualization with their own data.

''Interested in Attending''
# Ashley Blewer!
# Bobbi Fox
# Ray Schwartz
# Ranti Junus
# Eric Phetteplace
# Joshua Gomez
# Charlie Morris
# Andy Mardesich
# Tao Zhao
# Chris Hallberg
# Derek Merleaux
# Bohyun Kim
# Mark Jarrell
# Eben English
# Shaun Ellis
# Sarah Simpkin
# Mark Mounts
# Kathryn Stine
# Steve Meyer
# Matt Critchlow
# Andrew Pasterfield
# Ray Henry
# Bret Davidson
# Naomi Dushay (maybe)
# Eric Frierson
# Matt Bernhardt
# Greg Bem (Morning only)
# Dominic Bordelon

===FULL DAY:===

====Code Retreat====
Full Day, Parlor B
* Jeremy Friesen, University of Notre Dame, jfriesen at nd dot edu
* Additional facilitators welcome; Especially if you have CodeRetreat experience.

"Coderetreat is a day-long, intensive practice event, focusing on the fundamentals of software development and design.
By providing developers the opportunity to take part in focused practice, away from the pressures of 'getting things done', the coderetreat format has proven itself to be a highly effective means of skill improvement.
Practicing the basic principles of modular and object-oriented design, developers can improve their ability to write code that minimizes the cost of change over time." [http://coderetreat.org/about About Code Retreat]

''Interested in Attending''
# Mike Giarlo
# Charlie Morris
# Devon Smith
# Barbara Hui
# Carol Bean
# Matt Connolly
# James Van Mil
# Glen Horton

====Code4Arc ====
Full Day, Directors
* Sarah Romkey, Artefactual Systems, sromkey@artefactual.com
* Justin Simpson, Artefactual Systems, jsimpson@artefactual.com
* Chris Fitzpatrick, ArchivesSpace, chris.fitzpatrick@lyrasis.org
* Alexandra Chassanoff, BitCurator Access, bitcurator@gmail.com

What does it mean to Code for Archives? Is it different than coding for libraries, and if so, how?

Code4Lib is a wonderful and successful model (you must agree or you wouldn't be reading this). This workshop is an attempt to create a space to replicate the model in an Archival context. A space to talk about development for archives, and the particular challenges of developing archival systems. Topics to discuss include Integration between different Archival software tools, and between Archival tools/workflows and larger institutional tools like institutional repositories, discovery and access systems.

The schedule may include the following:
* Panel type conversations about the State of Art in Archives
* Case Studies - discussion of workflows at specific institutions, including gaps in tools and how those are being addressed or could be addressed
* Tool Demos - access to demos of some of the open source tools used in an Archival Context (examples include ArchivesSpace, Archivematica, BitCurator, AtoM)

Artefactual will provide demos running Archivematica and AtoM, Lyrasis will do so for ArchivesSpace, BitCurator will for BitCurator. We encourage others to chime in here to expand the list of tools available to touch and play with.

When signing up, please indicate if you are an end-user or a developer.

''Interested in Attending''
# Laney McGlohon - developer
# Shaun Ellis
# Ryan Rotter - sysadmin/developer
# Matt LaChance
# Maureen Callahan - archivist, often-times product owner
# Liza Harrell-Edge - end-user
# Jessica Venlet - end-user/archivist (can be there in the afternoon)
# Andrew Berger - "digital" archivist

====[http://wiki.code4lib.org/Code4lib/Write_The_Docs_barcamp code4lib/Write The Docs barcamp]====
Full day, Parlor C
* code4lib wrangler: Becky Yoose, yoosebec at grinnell dot edu
* Write the Docs contacts: TBA

'''Event page where you can find the latest information and... documentation(!) at [http://wiki.code4lib.org/Code4lib/Write_The_Docs_barcamp]'''

Documentation. We all know that we need it for things we develop, but most of us either keep putting it off or write documentation that is not maintained, clear, concise, and so on. We're all guilty! So what's stopping us from doing better docs? Luckily, Portland is also the home to the NA Write the Docs conference, and is home for many folks who live and breathe documentation. This barcamp is open to both code4lib and non-code4lib conference attendees and is intended to provide a space where code4libbers can find practices and tools in creating better documentation for all as well as documentation wonks can find out ways in which the library wonks can help with better documentation access and organization.

Remember, like metadata, documentation is a love note to the future.

More information about Write the Docs at http://conf.writethedocs.org/ There will be a nominal fee (t/b/d) for non-Code4LibCon attendees (subject to organizer approval).

''Interested in Attending''
'''Full day'''
#

'''Morning'''
# Ranti Junus
# Mita Williams
# Whitni Watkins
# Jason Raitz

'''Afternoon'''
# Francis Kayiwa (if my Pre-Conf is in the AM) Otherwise with Ranti if my Pre-Conf is in the afternoon.
# Chris Sharp
# Julie Swierczek

===AFTERNOON:===
==== A hands-on introduction to GeoBlacklight ====
Afternoon, Council
* Darren Hardy, Stanford University, drh@stanford.edu
* Jack Reed, Stanford University, pjreed@stanford.edu

GeoBlacklight is a discovery solution for geospatial data that builds on the successful Blacklight platform. Many libraries have collections of GIS data that aren’t easily discoverable. This will be a hands-on workshop, focused on installing and running GeoBlacklight which builds on the morning workshop "Delivering and Preserving GIS Data".

''Interested in Attending''
# [[User:Ssimpkin|Sarah Simpkin]]
# Vicky Steeves
# Andrew Battista
# Peggy Griesinger

==== CollectionSpace: Getting it up and running at your museum ====
Afternoon, Galleria II
* Richard Millet, CollectionSpace.org, richard.millet@lyrasis.org
* Becky Escamilla, Oakland Museum of California, rescamilla@museumca.org

This workshop is designed for anyone interested in or tasked with the technical setup and configuration of CollectionSpace for use in any collections environment (museum, library, special collection, gallery, etc. For more information about CollectionSpace, visit http://www.collectionspace.org

Participants will be walked through the process of installing the software and performing basic configuration work on a stand-alone instance of CollectionSpace. Participants will learn how to create user accounts, set up basic roles and permissions, and may then catalog or otherwise document sample objects from their collections. Materials distributed prior to the workshop will cover hardware and system requirements for participants.

''Interested in Attending''
# Terry Brady
# Sharon Clapp

==== Dive into Hydra ====
Afternoon, Studio
* Justin Coyne, Data Curation Experts, justin@curationexperts.com
* Bess Sadler, Stanford University, bess@stanford.edu

Hydra is a collaboration of over 30 educational institutions who work together to solve their repository needs by building open-source software. Dive into Hydra is a course that bootstraps you into the Hydra software framework. We'll start at the basics and walk you through the various layers of the Hydra stack. We'll conclude by installing the Worthwhile gem, enabling every participant to walk away with their own Institutional Repository. Participants who have prior exposure to web programming will get the most out of this course. It's recommended (but not required) that you attend "RailsBridge" prior to this workshop.

''Interested in Attending''
# Maura Carbone
# Peggy Griesinger
# Mike Price
# Jean Rainwater
# Sara Amato
# David Bass
# Scott Fisher
# Brian E. Davis
# Sarah Bavier

==== DPLA API Workshop: ====
Afternoon, Grand Ballroom II
* Audrey Altman, DPLA
* Mark Breedlove, DPLA
* Mark Matienzo, DPLA
* Tom Johnson, DPLA

The Digital Public Library of America API workshop guides attendees through the process of creating an app based on DPLA's free, public API. The API provides access to over 8 million [http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0] licensed metadata records from America’s libraries, archives, and museums in a common metadata format. This workshop is designed for people of all technical skill levels and will cover API basics, the capabilities of the DPLA API, available toolsets, and tips for using records from the API effectively. Members of DPLA's technology team will be on hand to help the group build their first application, and answer questions about tools and content.

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here
# Ranti Junus
# Jean Rainwater
# Mita Williams
# Margaret Heller
# Bohyun Kim
# Steven Anderson
# Shaun Ellis
# Sarah Simpkin
# Mark Jarrell
# Heather Pitts
# Kathryn Stine
# Andrew Woods
# Greg Bem
# Brooke Sansosti

==== Fail4Lib 2015 ====
Afternoon, Galleria I
* Andreas Orphanides, akorphan (at) ncsu.edu
* Jason Casden, jmcasden (at) ncsu.edu

Failure. Failure never changes. Since failure is an inescapable part of our professional work, it's important to be familiar with it, to acknowledge it, and to grow from it -- and, in contravention to longstanding tradition, to accept it as a fact of development life. At Fail4Lib, we'll talk about our own experiences with projects gone wrong, explore some famous design failures in the real world, and talk about how we can come to terms with the reality of failure, to make it part of our creative process -- rather than something to be shunned. Let's train ourselves to understand and embrace failure, encourage enlightened risk-taking, and seek out opportunities to fail and learn. This way, when we do what we do -- and fail at what we do -- we'll do so with grace and without fear.

This year's preconference will include new case studies and an improved discussion format. Repeat customers are welcome! (Fail early, fail often.)

The schedule may include the following:
* Case studies. Avoid our own mistakes by bearing witness to the failures of others.
* Confessionals, for those willing to share. Let's learn from our own (and each others') failures.
* Group therapy. Vent about your own experiences in a judgment-free setting. Explore how we can make our organizations less risk-averse and more failure-tolerant.

''Interested in attending''
# Ray Schwartz
# Charlie Morris
# Emily Lynema
# Bret Davidson
# Hannah Sommers

==== Intro to Docker ====
Afternoon, Galleria III
* John Fink, McMaster University, john dot fink at gmail dot com
* Francis Kayiwa, University of Maryland Libraries , fkayiwa at umd dot edu

[http://docker.io Docker] ([http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/9669 jbfink code4lib journal article]) is an open source Linux operating system-level virtualization framework that has seen great uptake over the past year. This workshop will take you through the basic features of Docker, including setup, importing of containers, development workflows and deploying. Knowing when Docker is useful and when it isn't will also be covered. Ideally, every attendee will have ample experience creating and running their own Docker instances by the end.

''Interested in Attending''
# Jim Hahn
# Joshua Gomez
# Bobbi Fox
# Ray Schwartz
# Megan Kudzia
# Coral Sheldon-Hess (pleeeeaaase put this in a different slot from Ansible!)
# Cary Gordon (uses Docker in production on AWS)
# Eric Phetteplace
# Esther Verreau
# Charlie Morris
# Anna Headley (voting for afternoon, compliments ansible)
# Shaun Ellis
# Mark Mounts
# Matt Critchlow
# Ray Henry
# Eric Frierson
# Sara Amato
# David Lacy
# David Uspal
# Matt Bernhardt
# Brendan Quinn
# Anjanette Young
# Kevin S. Clarke

==== Intro to Git & possibly beyond ====
Afternoon, Parlor A
* Erin Fahy, Stanford University, efahy@stanford.edu
* Shaun Trujillo, Mount Holyoke College, strujill@mtholyoke.edu

We can start with the basics of Git and discuss ways in which it can help you version control just about any file, not just code. Points we can go over:
* What is a Distributed Version Control System?
* What's the difference between Git and Github.com?
* How to initialize new Git projects locally and on a remote server/Github
* Cloning/Forking existing projects and keeping up to date
* The wonderful world of Git branches
* Interactive rebasing
* Contributing code to existing projects & what pull requests are
* How to handle merge conflicts
* Overview of workflows and branch best practices
* (time allowing) Advanced git: pre/post hooks, submodules, anything else?

''Interested in Attending''
# Jeannie Graham
# Derek Merleaux
# Laurie Reeves
# Bojana Skarich
# Heidi Frank
# Jason Raitz
# Emily Lynema
# Brian E. Davis
# Dominic Bordelon

==== Presentations workshop ====
Afternoon, Grand Ballroom I
* Chris Beer, Stanford University, cabeer@stanford.edu
* Additional facilitators welcome.

This is a preconference session intended for first time Code4Lib speakers, habitual procrastinators, experienced speakers, those thinking about offering lightning talks, etc. If you're preparing a talk for this year's Code4Lib, this workshop is an opportunity to rehearse your presentation, get feedback from peers, get familiar with the presentation technology, etc.

''Interested in Attending''
#Vicky Steeves

[[Category:Code4Lib2015]]

2015 Preconference Proposals

2015-01-30T17:34:30Z

Terrywbrady: Publish change to training script

Pre-conferences are NOT included in the Code4Lib Conference price and will be held on Monday, February 9, 2015 as either full day or half day sessions.

== Preconference Schedule (draft) ==
There may be some room switching when registration opens. Rooms will be confirmed the week before Code4Lib. See below for further information on each session.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Room (capacity) !! Morning (9 AM - Noon) !! Afternoon (1:30 PM - 4:30 PM)
|-
| '''Parlor A (30''') || Confessions of the (Accidental) Code Hoarder: How to make your Code Sharable (9: Needs: projector, internet connection, and power strips) || Intro to Git & possibly beyond (40: Needs: projector/screen)
|-
| '''Parlor B (30)''' || Code Retreat (18: Needs whiteboard, dry-erase markers, projector) || Code Retreat (15: Needs whiteboard, dry-erase markers, projector)
|-
| '''Parlor C (30)''' || [[code4lib/Write The Docs barcamp]] (8: Needs: projector/screen, flipboard/whiteboard, power sources for laptops) || [[code4lib/Write The Docs barcamp]] (5)
|-
| '''Grand Ballroom''' I (320) || '''CANCELLED''': [UXtravaganza] || Presentations workshop (1: Needs: projector/screen)
|-
| '''Grand Ballroom''' II (200) || Visualizing Library Data (60: Needs: projector) || DPLA API Workshop (34: Bringing their own projector)
|-
| '''Galleria I (35)''' || Coding Custom Solutions for Every Department in the Library with File Analyzer (1: Needs PC laptop projection, monitor, internet access/wifi, attendees bring laptops) || Fail4Lib 2015 (13: Needs: projector/screen; Requested: Conference table seating, limit 20 attendants)
|-
| '''Galleria II (60)''' || RailsBridge: Intro to programming in Ruby on Rails (25: Needs: internet/wifi, overhead projection) || CollectionSpace: Getting it up and running at your museum (5: Needs: Projector)
|-
| '''Galleria III (35)''' || Replace yourself with a painfully complex bash script...or try Ansible (20: Need projector) || Intro to Docker (52)
|-
| '''Studio (35)''' || Linked Data Workshop (56: Bringing their own projector) || Dive into Hydra (29: Needs: projector/screen; Requests: classroom style seating)
|-
| '''Directors (35)''' || Code4Arc (20: Needs: projector) || Code4Arc (18: Needs: projector)
|-
| '''Council (45)''' || Delivering and Preserving GIS Data (10: Projector, Video connector for MacBook Pro, wifi, power outlets) || A hands-on introduction to GeoBlacklight (19: Needs: projector, outlets; Requests: list of attendees)
|}

== Pre-conferences ==
===MORNING:===
==== Coding Custom Solutions for Every Department in the Library with File Analyzer ====
Morning, Galleria I
* Terry Brady, Georgetown University Library, twb27@georgetown.edu

The Georgetown University Library has shared an application called the [http://georgetown-university-libraries.github.io/File-Analyzer/ File Analyzer] that has allowed us to build custom solutions for nearly every department in the library.
* Analyzing Marc Records for the Cataloging department
* Transferring ILS invoices for the University Account System for the Acquisitions department
* Delivering patron fines to the Bursar’s office for the Access Service department
* Summarizing student worker timesheet data for the Finance department
* Validating counter compliant reports for the Electronic Resources department
* Preparing ingest packages for the Digital Services department
* Validating checksums for the Preservation department

This hands on workshop will step through the components of the application framework and the process of customizing the application.

* (Training Outline)[https://github.com/Georgetown-University-Libraries/File-Analyzer/wiki/File-Analyzer-Training-Code4Lib-2015].

''Interested in Attending''
# Megan Kudzia
# Julie Swierczek

====Confessions of the (Accidental) Code Hoarder: How to make your Code Sharable:====
Morning, Parlor A
* Karen A. Coombs, OCLC, coombsk@oclc.org

Have you built something cool and useful that you want to share with others? This preconference session will discuss techniques and tools for sharing code. Using our own OCLC Developer Network PHP authentication code libraries as an example, we will discuss a set of recommended best practices for how to share your code.

We’ll start with coding standards and test writing so you can be confident of the quality of your code. Next we'll discuss inline documentation as a tool for developers and how auto-generating documentation will save you time and effort. Lastly we'll provide an overview of the tricky areas of dependency and package management, and distribution tools. Along the way, we'll cover PHP coding standards, testing, and popular PHP tools including PHPDoc for documentation, Composer for smooth installations, and using GitHub and Packagist to manage distribution, updates and community feedback.

''Interested in Attending''
# Peggy Griesinger
# Ray Schwartz
# Josh Wilson

==== Delivering and Preserving GIS Data ====
Morning, Council
* Darren Hardy, Stanford University, drh@stanford.edu
* Jack Reed, Stanford University, pjreed@stanford.edu

We will discuss how to set up a spatial data infrastructure (SDI) to deliver GIS data, to manage GIS content in a Fedora repository for preservation, and to establish metadata requirements for good spatial discovery. By the end of the workshop you will have a working SDI! This workshop is a compliment to the GeoBlacklight workshop in the afternoon.

''Interested in Attending''
# [[User:Ssimpkin|Sarah Simpkin]]
# Vicky Steeves
# Andrew Battista
# Peggy Griesinger

====Linked Data Workshop====
Morning, Studio
* Karen Estlund, University of Oregon, kestlund@uoregon.edu
* Tom Johnson, DPLA, tom@dp.la

Developer and metadata experts-focused linked data workshop. Topics covered will include: linked open data principles, converting existing data, and modeling linked data in DAMS.

''Interested in Attending''
# Logan Cox
# Ray Schwartz
# Chris Hallberg
# Derek Merleaux
# Steven Anderson
# Eben English
# Mark Mounts
# Heather Pitts
# Andrew Woods
# Carol Bean
# Naomi Dushay (probably)
# David Lacy
# David Uspal
# David Bass
# Brendan Quinn
# Chrissy Rissmeyer
# Sharon Clapp
# Anjanette Young
# Brooke Sansosti

====RailsBridge: Intro to programming in Ruby on Rails====
Morning, Galleria II
* Contact Carolyn Cole, Penn State University, carolyn@psu.edu
* Laney McGlohon, Stanford University, laneymcg@stanford.edu
* Additional instructors welcome

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

RailsBridge is a great workshop that opens the doors to projects like [http://projectblacklight.org/ Blacklight] and [http://projecthydra.org/ Hydra] and [https://github.com/traject-project/traject Traject].

''Interested in Attending''
# Maura Carbone
#Vicky Steeves
# Peggy Griesinger
# Mike Price
# Jean Rainwater
# Coral Sheldon-Hess
# Margaret Heller
# Bohyun Kim
# Mark Jarrell
# Bojana Skarich
#Sarah Bavier

====Replace yourself with a painfully complex bash script...or try Ansible====
Morning, Galleria III
* Chad Nelson, chad dot nelson @ lyrasis dot org
* Blake Carver, Blake dot carver @lyrasis dot org

[http://www.ansible.com Ansible] is an open source automation and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Configuration_management configuration management] tool that focuses on simplicity to help make your life as a developer, or a sysadmin, or even a full on devops-er, easier. This workshop will cover the basic building blocks used in Ansible as well as some best practices for maintaining your Ansible code. We will start by working through a simple example together, and then participants will be given time to work on their own projects with instructors providing guidance and troubleshooting along the way. By the end of the session, participants will have a working knowledge of Ansible and be able to write a working [http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks.html playbook] to meet local needs.

''Interested in Attending''
# Ray Schwartz
# Coral Sheldon-Hess
# Kevin S. Clarke
# Joshua Gomez
# Charlie Morris
# Andy Mardesich
# Anna Headley
# Chelsea Lobdell
# Shaun Ellis
# Mark Mounts
# Chris Sharp
# Heidi Frank
# Anjanette Young

====Visualizing Library Data====
Morning, Grand Ballroom II
* Matt Miller, matthewmiller@nypl.org, New York Public Library, NYPL Labs

Visualizing your institution’s data can give new insight about your holding’s strengths, weaknesses and outliers. They can also provide potential new avenues for discovery and access. This half day session will focus on programmatically visualizing library metadata. Emphasis will be on creating web-based visualizations utilizing libraries such as d3.js but attention paid towards visualizing large datasets while keeping them web accessible. By then end of the session participants will have template, sample code and methodologies enabling them to start producing visualization with their own data.

''Interested in Attending''
# Ashley Blewer!
# Bobbi Fox
# Ray Schwartz
# Ranti Junus
# Eric Phetteplace
# Joshua Gomez
# Charlie Morris
# Andy Mardesich
# Tao Zhao
# Chris Hallberg
# Derek Merleaux
# Bohyun Kim
# Mark Jarrell
# Eben English
# Shaun Ellis
# Sarah Simpkin
# Mark Mounts
# Kathryn Stine
# Steve Meyer
# Matt Critchlow
# Andrew Pasterfield
# Ray Henry
# Bret Davidson
# Naomi Dushay (maybe)
# Eric Frierson
# Matt Bernhardt
# Greg Bem (Morning only)
# Dominic Bordelon

===FULL DAY:===

====Code Retreat====
Full Day, Parlor B
* Jeremy Friesen, University of Notre Dame, jfriesen at nd dot edu
* Additional facilitators welcome; Especially if you have CodeRetreat experience.

"Coderetreat is a day-long, intensive practice event, focusing on the fundamentals of software development and design.
By providing developers the opportunity to take part in focused practice, away from the pressures of 'getting things done', the coderetreat format has proven itself to be a highly effective means of skill improvement.
Practicing the basic principles of modular and object-oriented design, developers can improve their ability to write code that minimizes the cost of change over time." [http://coderetreat.org/about About Code Retreat]

''Interested in Attending''
# Mike Giarlo
# Charlie Morris
# Devon Smith
# Barbara Hui
# Carol Bean
# Matt Connolly
# James Van Mil
# Glen Horton

====Code4Arc ====
Full Day, Directors
* Sarah Romkey, Artefactual Systems, sromkey@artefactual.com
* Justin Simpson, Artefactual Systems, jsimpson@artefactual.com
* Chris Fitzpatrick, ArchivesSpace, chris.fitzpatrick@lyrasis.org
* Alexandra Chassanoff, BitCurator Access, bitcurator@gmail.com

What does it mean to Code for Archives? Is it different than coding for libraries, and if so, how?

Code4Lib is a wonderful and successful model (you must agree or you wouldn't be reading this). This workshop is an attempt to create a space to replicate the model in an Archival context. A space to talk about development for archives, and the particular challenges of developing archival systems. Topics to discuss include Integration between different Archival software tools, and between Archival tools/workflows and larger institutional tools like institutional repositories, discovery and access systems.

The schedule may include the following:
* Panel type conversations about the State of Art in Archives
* Case Studies - discussion of workflows at specific institutions, including gaps in tools and how those are being addressed or could be addressed
* Tool Demos - access to demos of some of the open source tools used in an Archival Context (examples include ArchivesSpace, Archivematica, BitCurator, AtoM)

Artefactual will provide demos running Archivematica and AtoM, Lyrasis will do so for ArchivesSpace, BitCurator will for BitCurator. We encourage others to chime in here to expand the list of tools available to touch and play with.

When signing up, please indicate if you are an end-user or a developer.

''Interested in Attending''
# Laney McGlohon - developer
# Shaun Ellis
# Ryan Rotter - sysadmin/developer
# Matt LaChance
# Maureen Callahan - archivist, often-times product owner
# Liza Harrell-Edge - end-user
# Jessica Venlet - end-user/archivist (can be there in the afternoon)
# Andrew Berger - "digital" archivist

====[http://wiki.code4lib.org/Code4lib/Write_The_Docs_barcamp code4lib/Write The Docs barcamp]====
Full day, Parlor C
* code4lib wrangler: Becky Yoose, yoosebec at grinnell dot edu
* Write the Docs contacts: TBA

'''Event page where you can find the latest information and... documentation(!) at [http://wiki.code4lib.org/Code4lib/Write_The_Docs_barcamp]'''

Documentation. We all know that we need it for things we develop, but most of us either keep putting it off or write documentation that is not maintained, clear, concise, and so on. We're all guilty! So what's stopping us from doing better docs? Luckily, Portland is also the home to the NA Write the Docs conference, and is home for many folks who live and breathe documentation. This barcamp is open to both code4lib and non-code4lib conference attendees and is intended to provide a space where code4libbers can find practices and tools in creating better documentation for all as well as documentation wonks can find out ways in which the library wonks can help with better documentation access and organization.

Remember, like metadata, documentation is a love note to the future.

More information about Write the Docs at http://conf.writethedocs.org/ There will be a nominal fee (t/b/d) for non-Code4LibCon attendees (subject to organizer approval).

''Interested in Attending''
'''Full day'''
#

'''Morning'''
# Ranti Junus
# Mita Williams
# Whitni Watkins
# Jason Raitz

'''Afternoon'''
# Francis Kayiwa (if my Pre-Conf is in the AM) Otherwise with Ranti if my Pre-Conf is in the afternoon.
# Chris Sharp
# Julie Swierczek

===AFTERNOON:===
==== A hands-on introduction to GeoBlacklight ====
Afternoon, Council
* Darren Hardy, Stanford University, drh@stanford.edu
* Jack Reed, Stanford University, pjreed@stanford.edu

GeoBlacklight is a discovery solution for geospatial data that builds on the successful Blacklight platform. Many libraries have collections of GIS data that aren’t easily discoverable. This will be a hands-on workshop, focused on installing and running GeoBlacklight which builds on the morning workshop "Delivering and Preserving GIS Data".

''Interested in Attending''
# [[User:Ssimpkin|Sarah Simpkin]]
# Vicky Steeves
# Andrew Battista
# Peggy Griesinger

==== CollectionSpace: Getting it up and running at your museum ====
Afternoon, Galleria II
* Richard Millet, CollectionSpace.org, richard.millet@lyrasis.org
* Becky Escamilla, Oakland Museum of California, rescamilla@museumca.org

This workshop is designed for anyone interested in or tasked with the technical setup and configuration of CollectionSpace for use in any collections environment (museum, library, special collection, gallery, etc. For more information about CollectionSpace, visit http://www.collectionspace.org

Participants will be walked through the process of installing the software and performing basic configuration work on a stand-alone instance of CollectionSpace. Participants will learn how to create user accounts, set up basic roles and permissions, and may then catalog or otherwise document sample objects from their collections. Materials distributed prior to the workshop will cover hardware and system requirements for participants.

''Interested in Attending''
# Terry Brady
# Sharon Clapp

==== Dive into Hydra ====
Afternoon, Studio
* Justin Coyne, Data Curation Experts, justin@curationexperts.com
* Bess Sadler, Stanford University, bess@stanford.edu

Hydra is a collaboration of over 30 educational institutions who work together to solve their repository needs by building open-source software. Dive into Hydra is a course that bootstraps you into the Hydra software framework. We'll start at the basics and walk you through the various layers of the Hydra stack. We'll conclude by installing the Worthwhile gem, enabling every participant to walk away with their own Institutional Repository. Participants who have prior exposure to web programming will get the most out of this course. It's recommended (but not required) that you attend "RailsBridge" prior to this workshop.

''Interested in Attending''
# Maura Carbone
# Peggy Griesinger
# Mike Price
# Jean Rainwater
# Sara Amato
# David Bass
# Scott Fisher
# Brian E. Davis
# Sarah Bavier

==== DPLA API Workshop: ====
Afternoon, Grand Ballroom II
* Audrey Altman, DPLA
* Mark Breedlove, DPLA
* Mark Matienzo, DPLA
* Tom Johnson, DPLA

The Digital Public Library of America API workshop guides attendees through the process of creating an app based on DPLA's free, public API. The API provides access to over 8 million [http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0] licensed metadata records from America’s libraries, archives, and museums in a common metadata format. This workshop is designed for people of all technical skill levels and will cover API basics, the capabilities of the DPLA API, available toolsets, and tips for using records from the API effectively. Members of DPLA's technology team will be on hand to help the group build their first application, and answer questions about tools and content.

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here
# Ranti Junus
# Jean Rainwater
# Mita Williams
# Margaret Heller
# Bohyun Kim
# Steven Anderson
# Shaun Ellis
# Sarah Simpkin
# Mark Jarrell
# Heather Pitts
# Kathryn Stine
# Andrew Woods
# Greg Bem
# Brooke Sansosti

==== Fail4Lib 2015 ====
Afternoon, Galleria I
* Andreas Orphanides, akorphan (at) ncsu.edu
* Jason Casden, jmcasden (at) ncsu.edu

Failure. Failure never changes. Since failure is an inescapable part of our professional work, it's important to be familiar with it, to acknowledge it, and to grow from it -- and, in contravention to longstanding tradition, to accept it as a fact of development life. At Fail4Lib, we'll talk about our own experiences with projects gone wrong, explore some famous design failures in the real world, and talk about how we can come to terms with the reality of failure, to make it part of our creative process -- rather than something to be shunned. Let's train ourselves to understand and embrace failure, encourage enlightened risk-taking, and seek out opportunities to fail and learn. This way, when we do what we do -- and fail at what we do -- we'll do so with grace and without fear.

This year's preconference will include new case studies and an improved discussion format. Repeat customers are welcome! (Fail early, fail often.)

The schedule may include the following:
* Case studies. Avoid our own mistakes by bearing witness to the failures of others.
* Confessionals, for those willing to share. Let's learn from our own (and each others') failures.
* Group therapy. Vent about your own experiences in a judgment-free setting. Explore how we can make our organizations less risk-averse and more failure-tolerant.

''Interested in attending''
# Ray Schwartz
# Charlie Morris
# Emily Lynema
# Bret Davidson
# Hannah Sommers

==== Intro to Docker ====
Afternoon, Galleria III
* John Fink, McMaster University, john dot fink at gmail dot com
* Francis Kayiwa, University of Maryland Libraries , fkayiwa at umd dot edu

[http://docker.io Docker] ([http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/9669 jbfink code4lib journal article]) is an open source Linux operating system-level virtualization framework that has seen great uptake over the past year. This workshop will take you through the basic features of Docker, including setup, importing of containers, development workflows and deploying. Knowing when Docker is useful and when it isn't will also be covered. Ideally, every attendee will have ample experience creating and running their own Docker instances by the end.

''Interested in Attending''
# Jim Hahn
# Joshua Gomez
# Bobbi Fox
# Ray Schwartz
# Megan Kudzia
# Coral Sheldon-Hess (pleeeeaaase put this in a different slot from Ansible!)
# Cary Gordon (uses Docker in production on AWS)
# Eric Phetteplace
# Esther Verreau
# Charlie Morris
# Anna Headley (voting for afternoon, compliments ansible)
# Shaun Ellis
# Mark Mounts
# Matt Critchlow
# Ray Henry
# Eric Frierson
# Sara Amato
# David Lacy
# David Uspal
# Matt Bernhardt
# Brendan Quinn
# Anjanette Young
# Kevin S. Clarke

==== Intro to Git & possibly beyond ====
Afternoon, Parlor A
* Erin Fahy, Stanford University, efahy@stanford.edu
* Shaun Trujillo, Mount Holyoke College, strujill@mtholyoke.edu

We can start with the basics of Git and discuss ways in which it can help you version control just about any file, not just code. Points we can go over:
* What is a Distributed Version Control System?
* What's the difference between Git and Github.com?
* How to initialize new Git projects locally and on a remote server/Github
* Cloning/Forking existing projects and keeping up to date
* The wonderful world of Git branches
* Interactive rebasing
* Contributing code to existing projects & what pull requests are
* How to handle merge conflicts
* Overview of workflows and branch best practices
* (time allowing) Advanced git: pre/post hooks, submodules, anything else?

''Interested in Attending''
# Jeannie Graham
# Derek Merleaux
# Laurie Reeves
# Bojana Skarich
# Heidi Frank
# Jason Raitz
# Emily Lynema
# Brian E. Davis
# Dominic Bordelon

==== Presentations workshop ====
Afternoon, Grand Ballroom I
* Chris Beer, Stanford University, cabeer@stanford.edu
* Additional facilitators welcome.

This is a preconference session intended for first time Code4Lib speakers, habitual procrastinators, experienced speakers, those thinking about offering lightning talks, etc. If you're preparing a talk for this year's Code4Lib, this workshop is an opportunity to rehearse your presentation, get feedback from peers, get familiar with the presentation technology, etc.

''Interested in Attending''
#Vicky Steeves

[[Category:Code4Lib2015]]

2015 Preconference Proposals

2014-12-08T17:41:54Z

Terrywbrady: Added name to pre-conf

== Preconference Schedule (draft) ==

Session titles in Italics means they have not been confirmed yet by presenters/workshop leaders.

This is a draft, and there may be some room switching when registration opens. Rooms will be confirmed the week before Code4Lib.

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Room (capacity) !! Morning (9 AM - Noon) !! Afternoon (1:30 PM - 4:30 PM)
|-
| '''Parlor A (30''') || Confessions of the (Accidental) Code Hoarder: How to make your Code Sharable (Needs: projector, internet connection, and power strips) || Intro to Git & possibly beyond (Needs: projector/screen)
|-
| '''Parlor B (30)''' || Code Retreat (Needs whiteboard, dry-erase markers, projector) || Code Retreat (Needs whiteboard, dry-erase markers, projector)
|-
| '''Parlor C (30)''' || code4lib/Write The Docs barcamp (Needs: projector/screen, flipboard/whiteboard, power sources for laptops) || code4lib/Write The Docs barcamp
|-
| '''Grand Ballroom''' I (320) || CANCELLED: [UXtravaganza] || Presentations workshop (Needs: projector/screen)
|-
| '''Grand Ballroom''' II (200) || Visualizing Library Data (Needs: projector) || DPLA API Workshop (Bringing their own projector)
|-
| '''Galleria I (35)''' || Coding Custom Solutions for Every Department in the Library with File Analyzer (Needs PC laptop projection, monitor, internet access/wifi, attendees bring laptops) || Fail4Lib 2015 (Needs: projector/screen; Requested: Conference table seating, limit 20 attendants)
|-
| '''Galleria II (60)''' || RailsBridge: Intro to programming in Ruby on Rails (Needs: internet/wifi, overhead projection) || CollectionSpace: Getting it up and running at your museum (Needs: Projector)
|-
| '''Galleria III (35)''' || Replace yourself with a painfully complex bash script...or try Ansible (Confirmed with Chad; No given setup needs yet) || Intro to Docker
|-
| '''Studio (35)''' || Linked Data Workshop (Bringing their own projector) || Dive into Hydra (Needs: projector/screen; Requests: classroom style seating)
|-
| '''Directors (35)''' || Code4Arc (Needs: projector) || Code4Arc (Needs: projector)
|-
| '''Council (45)''' || Delivering and Preserving GIS Data (Projector, Video connector for MacBook Pro, wifi, power outlets) || A hands-on introduction to GeoBlacklight (Needs: projector, outlets; Requests: list of attendees)
|}

== Instructions ==
Thank you for considering proposing a pre-conference! Here are a few details:

* We will be taking pre-conference proposals until '''November 7, 2014'''
* If you cannot or do not want to edit this wiki directly, you can email your proposals to cmh2166@columbia.edu or collie@msu.edu
* Examples from the 2014 pre-conference proposals can be found at [[2014 preconference proposals|http://wiki.code4lib.org/2014_preconference_proposals]]
* If you are interested in ''attending'' a particular pre-conference, please append your name below that proposal (indicating interest in more than one proposal is fine!)
* If you have an idea for a pre-conference, but cannot facilitate yourself please post the idea below and email cmh2116@columbia.edu or collie@msu.edu
* '''NOTE:''' Pre-conferences are NOT included in the Code4Lib Conference price and will be held on Monday, February 9, 2015 as either full day or half day sessions
* Please use the template for proposals provided in the pre-formatted block below

== Pre-conferences ==

===MORNING:===

=== Delivering and Preserving GIS Data ===

'''Half Day [Morning]'''

* Darren Hardy, Stanford University, drh@stanford.edu
* Jack Reed, Stanford University, pjreed@stanford.edu

We will discuss how to set up a spatial data infrastructure (SDI) to deliver GIS data, to manage GIS content in a Fedora repository for preservation, and to establish metadata requirements for good spatial discovery. By the end of the workshop you will have a working SDI! This workshop is a compliment to the GeoBlacklight workshop in the afternoon.

''Interested in Attending''

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

# [[User:Ssimpkin|Sarah Simpkin]]
# Vicky Steeves
# Andrew Battista
# Peggy Griesinger
#
#
#
#
#
#

=== A hands-on introduction to GeoBlacklight ===

'''Half Day [Afternoon]'''

* Darren Hardy, Stanford University, drh@stanford.edu
* Jack Reed, Stanford University, pjreed@stanford.edu

GeoBlacklight is a discovery solution for geospatial data that builds on the successful Blacklight platform. Many libraries have collections of GIS data that aren’t easily discoverable. This will be a hands-on workshop, focused on installing and running GeoBlacklight which builds on the morning workshop "Delivering and Preserving GIS Data".

''Interested in Attending''

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

# [[User:Ssimpkin|Sarah Simpkin]]
# Vicky Steeves
# Andrew Battista
# Peggy Griesinger
#
#
#
#
#
#

===RailsBridge: Intro to programming in Ruby on Rails===

'''"Half-Day" [morning]'''

* Contact Carolyn Cole, Penn State University, carolyn@psu.edu
* Laney McGlohon, Stanford University, laneymcg@stanford.edu
* Additional instructors welcome

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

RailsBridge is a great workshop that opens the doors to projects like [http://projectblacklight.org/ Blacklight] and [http://projecthydra.org/ Hydra] and [https://github.com/traject-project/traject Traject].

''Interested in Attending''

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

# Maura Carbone
#Vicky Steeves
# Peggy Griesinger
# Mike Price
# Jean Rainwater
# Coral Sheldon-Hess
# Margaret Heller
# Bohyun Kim
# Mark Jarrell
#

=== Replace yourself with a painfully complex bash script...or try Ansible ===

'''Half Day [Morning]'''

* Chad Nelson, chad dot nelson @ lyrasis dot org
* Blake Carver, Blake dot carver @lyrasis dot org

Abstract:

[http://www.ansible.com Ansible] is an open source automation and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Configuration_management configuration management] tool that focuses on simplicity to help make your life as a developer, or a sysadmin, or even a full on devops-er, easier. This workshop will cover the basic building blocks used in Ansible as well as some best practices for maintaining your Ansible code. We will start by working through a simple example together, and then participants will be given time to work on their own projects with instructors providing guidance and troubleshooting along the way. By the end of the session, participants will have a working knowledge of Ansible and be able to write a working [http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks.html playbook] to meet local needs.

''Interested in Attending''

If you would be interested in attending, please indicate by adding your name (but not email address, etc.) here
# Ray Schwartz
# Coral Sheldon-Hess
# Kevin S. Clarke
# Joshua Gomez
# Charlie Morris
# Andy Mardesich
# Anna Headley
# Chelsea Lobdell
# Shaun Ellis
# Mark Mounts
# Chris Sharp

=== Intro to Docker ===

'''Half Day [Whenever]'''

* John Fink, McMaster University, john dot fink at gmail dot com
* Francis Kayiwa, University of Maryland Libraries , francis dot kayiwa at gmail dot com

Abstract:

[http://docker.io Docker] ([http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/9669 jbfink code4lib journal article]) is an open source Linux operating system-level virtualization framework that has seen great uptake over the past year. This workshop will take you through the basic features of Docker, including setup, importing of containers, development workflows and deploying. Knowing when Docker is useful and when it isn't will also be covered. Ideally, every attendee will have ample experience creating and running their own Docker instances by the end.

''Interested in Attending''

# Jim Hahn
# Joshua Gomez
# Bobbi Fox
# Ray Schwartz
# Megan Kudzia
# Coral Sheldon-Hess (pleeeeaaase put this in a different slot from Ansible!)
# Cary Gordon (uses Docker in production on AWS)
# Eric Phetteplace
# Esther Verreau
# Charlie Morris
# Anna Headley (voting for afternoon, compliments ansible)
# Shaun Ellis
# Mark Mounts
# Matt Critchlow
# Ray Henry

=== Code Retreat ===

'''Full Day'''

* Jeremy Friesen, University of Notre Dame, jfriesen at nd dot edu
* Additional facilitators welcome; Especially if you have CodeRetreat experience.

Abstract:

"Coderetreat is a day-long, intensive practice event, focusing on the fundamentals of software development and design.
By providing developers the opportunity to take part in focused practice, away from the pressures of 'getting things done', the coderetreat format has proven itself to be a highly effective means of skill improvement.
Practicing the basic principles of modular and object-oriented design, developers can improve their ability to write code that minimizes the cost of change over time." [http://coderetreat.org/about About Code Retreat]

''Interested in Attending''

# Mike Giarlo
# Charlie Morris
# Devon Smith
# Barbara Hui
# Carol Bean
# Matt Connolly
#
#
#
#

=== Presentations workshop ===

'''"Half Day [Afternoon]"''' (but could be expanded based on interest)

* Chris Beer, Stanford University, cabeer@stanford.edu
* Additional facilitators welcome.

This is a preconference session intended for first time Code4Lib speakers, habitual procrastinators, experienced speakers, those thinking about offering lightning talks, etc. If you're preparing a talk for this year's Code4Lib, this workshop is an opportunity to rehearse your presentation, get feedback from peers, get familiar with the presentation technology, etc.

''Interested in Attending''

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

#Vicky Steeves
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#

=== Dive into Hydra ===

'''"Half Day [Afternoon]"'''

* Justin Coyne, Data Curation Experts, justin@curationexperts.com
* Bess Sadler, Stanford University, bess@stanford.edu

Hydra is a collaboration of over 30 educational institutions who work together to solve their repository needs by building open-source software. Dive into Hydra is a course that bootstraps you into the Hydra software framework. We'll start at the basics and walk you through the various layers of the Hydra stack. We'll conclude by installing the Worthwhile gem, enabling every participant to walk away with their own Institutional Repository. Participants who have prior exposure to web programming will get the most out of this course. It's recommended (but not required) that you attend "RailsBridge" prior to this workshop.

''Interested in Attending''

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

# Maura Carbone
# Peggy Griesinger
# Mike Price
# Jean Rainwater
# Sara Amato
#
#
#
#
#

=== code4lib/Write The Docs barcamp ===

'''"Full Day"''', with options for jumping in for half a day

* code4lib wrangler: Becky Yoose, yoosebec at grinnell dot edu
* Write the Docs contacts: TBA

Abstract

Documentation. We all know that we need it for things we develop, but most of us either keep putting it off or write documentation that is not maintained, clear, concise, and so on. We're all guilty! So what's stopping us from doing better docs? Luckily, Portland is also the home to the NA Write the Docs conference, and is home for many folks who live and breathe documentation. This barcamp is open to both code4lib and non-code4lib conference attendees and is intended to provide a space where code4libbers can find practices and tools in creating better documentation for all as well as documentation wonks can find out ways in which the library wonks can help with better documentation access and organization.

Remember, like metadata, documentation is a love note to the future.

More information about Write the Docs at http://conf.writethedocs.org/

There will be a nominal fee (t/b/d) for non-Code4LibCon attendees (subject to organizer approval).

''Interested in Attending''

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

'''Full day'''
# Emily Lynema
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#

'''Morning'''
# Ranti Junus
# Mita Williams
# Whitni Watkins
#
#
#
#
#
#
#

'''Afternoon'''
# Francis Kayiwa (if my Pre-Conf is in the AM) Otherwise with Ranti if my Pre-Conf is in the afternoon.
# Kevin S. Clarke
# Chris Sharp
#
#
#
#
#
#
#

=== Linked Data Workshop ===

'''"Half Day [morning]"'''

* Karen Estlund, University of Oregon, kestlund@uoregon.edu
* Tom Johnson, DPLA, tom@dp.la

Abstract:

Developer and metadata experts-focused linked data workshop. Topics covered will include: linked open data principles, converting existing data, and modeling linked data in DAMS.

''Interested in Attending''

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

# Logan Cox
# Ray Schwartz
# Chris Hallberg
# Derek Merleaux
# Steven Anderson
# Eben English
# Mark Mounts
# Heather Pitts
# Andrew Woods
# Carol Bean

=== Code4Arc ===

'''"Full Day"''' (with options for half day participation)

* Sarah Romkey, Artefactual Systems, sromkey@artefactual.com
* Justin Simpson, Artefactual Systems, jsimpson@artefactual.com
* Chris Fitzpatrick, ArchivesSpace, chris.fitzpatrick@lyrasis.org
* Alexandra Chassanoff, BitCurator Access, bitcurator@gmail.com

Abstract:

What does it mean to Code for Archives? Is it different than coding for libraries, and if so, how?

Code4Lib is a wonderful and successful model (you must agree or you wouldn't be reading this). This workshop is an attempt to create a space to replicate the model in an Archival context. A space to talk about development for archives, and the particular challenges of developing archival systems. Topics to discuss include Integration between different Archival software tools, and between Archival tools/workflows and larger institutional tools like institutional repositories, discovery and access systems.

The schedule may include the following:

* Panel type conversations about the State of Art in Archives
* Case Studies - discussion of workflows at specific institutions, including gaps in tools and how those are being addressed or could be addressed
* Tool Demos - access to demos of some of the open source tools used in an Archival Context (examples include ArchivesSpace, Archivematica, BitCurator, AtoM)

Artefactual will provide demos running Archivematica and AtoM, Lyrasis will do so for ArchivesSpace, BitCurator will for BitCurator. We encourage others to chime in here to expand the list of tools available to touch and play with.

When signing up, please indicate if you are an end-user or a developer.

''Interested in Attending''

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

# Laney McGlohon - developer
# Shaun Ellis
#
#
#
#
#
#
#
#

=== Fail4Lib 2015 ===

'''Half Day [TBD, probably afternoon]'''

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

Abstract:

Failure. Failure never changes. Since failure is an inescapable part of our professional work, it's important to be familiar with it, to acknowledge it, and to grow from it -- and, in contravention to longstanding tradition, to accept it as a fact of development life. At Fail4Lib, we'll talk about our own experiences with projects gone wrong, explore some famous design failures in the real world, and talk about how we can come to terms with the reality of failure, to make it part of our creative process -- rather than something to be shunned. Let's train ourselves to understand and embrace failure, encourage enlightened risk-taking, and seek out opportunities to fail and learn. This way, when we do what we do -- and fail at what we do -- we'll do so with grace and without fear.

This year's preconference will include new case studies and an improved discussion format. Repeat customers are welcome! (Fail early, fail often.)

The schedule may include the following:

* Case studies. Avoid our own mistakes by bearing witness to the failures of others.
* Confessionals, for those willing to share. Let's learn from our own (and each others') failures.
* Group therapy. Vent about your own experiences in a judgment-free setting. Explore how we can make our organizations less risk-averse and more failure-tolerant.

''Interested in attending''

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

# Ray Schwartz
# Charlie Morris
# Emily Lynema
#
#
#
#
#
#
#

=== Coding Custom Solutions for Every Department in the Library with File Analyzer ===

'''"Half Day [Morning]"'''

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

Abstract

The Georgetown University Library has shared an application called the [http://georgetown-university-libraries.github.io/File-Analyzer/ File Analyzer] that has allowed us to build custom solutions for nearly every department in the library.

* Analyzing Marc Records for the Cataloging department
* Transferring ILS invoices for the University Account System for the Acquisitions department
* Delivering patron fines to the Bursar’s office for the Access Service department
* Summarizing student worker timesheet data for the Finance department
* Validating counter compliant reports for the Electronic Resources department
* Preparing ingest packages for the Digital Services department
* Validating checksums for the Preservation department

This hands on workshop will step through the components of the application framework. Workshop participants will install and develop custom File Analyzer tasks in this session.

The workshop agenda will loosely follow the [https://github.com/Georgetown-University-Libraries/File-Analyzer/wiki/File-Analyzer-Training----Code4Lib-2014 pre-conference agenda from Code4Lib 2014].

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=== Confessions of the (Accidental) Code Hoarder: How to make your Code Sharable: ===

'''Half Day [Whenever]'''

* Karen A. Coombs, OCLC, coombsk@oclc.org

Abstract
Have you built something cool and useful that you want to share with others? This preconference session will discuss techniques and tools for sharing code. Using our own OCLC Developer Network PHP authentication code libraries as an example, we will discuss a set of recommended best practices for how to share your code.

We’ll start with coding standards and test writing so you can be confident of the quality of your code. Next we'll discuss inline documentation as a tool for developers and how auto-generating documentation will save you time and effort. Lastly we'll provide an overview of the tricky areas of dependency and package management, and distribution tools. Along the way, we'll cover PHP coding standards, testing, and popular PHP tools including PHPDoc for documentation, Composer for smooth installations, and using GitHub and Packagist to manage distribution, updates and community feedback.

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# Ray Schwartz
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=== CANCELLED: ''UXtravaganza'' ===
'''"Half or Full Day [Based on Interest?, Morning/Afternoon Doesn’t Matter]"'''

* William Hicks, University of North Texas, William.hicks@unt.edu
* Volunteers?

Abstract

I’m envisioning a 1/2 of full day for front-end developers, content strategy people, and other misfits with an interest in user experience, where we can talk about our shared problems, use cases, the state of current research, and play with each other’s sites. A half day seems doable, but if there’s significant enough interest we could push for a full? Here are a few of the things I think might be interesting to see happen:

* '''Analytics Share-fest:''' A few volunteers demonstrate data about their websites, catalogs, archival/digital collections. Most of us know our own sites but it would be interesting/validating to share this data with others so we can start to see commonalities between institutions, in certain kinds of systems, etc. For anyone using event tracking, or using click- or heat-maps, this would be a great opportunity to show off what people are seeing.

* '''UX Best Practices Catch Up:''' This spring I had the opportunity to attend a few days worth of usability workshops from the Nielsen-Norman Group, most of which was focused on mobile. I could distill down a lot of the information into an short presentation. Since this is a constantly moving area of research it would be nice to see a few people do other similar short presentations on some current trends/findings relevant to libraries, search, etc.

* '''Mobile Dev Lab:''' The UNT Libraries has been collecting a small set of smartphones and tablets for testing and development. Basically an [http://labup.org Open Device Lab]. We have about a dozen devices now of varying sizes, OS, OS Versions, + Google Glass. I’ll bring the devices, you can bring yours, and assuming we can get the wifi up and running we can test our sites/services with our big sausage fingers rather than pretending to do so through emulators and the one or two devices we each usually have on hand. If anyone is game they can do a tutorial on Browser-based Inspector Tools, Browser-Cams, or other testing services.

* '''The Eye’s Have It.''' The UNT Libraries is also in the process of acquiring an eye tracker and software for usability and other gaze-based research studies. We’ll take possession of it shortly after this pre-conference proposal is due and will have a couple of months to play with them before the conference. Assuming we can get our act together learning the device and can get past the technical hurdles of setting it up at the pre-conference, we could try to do some live demos on each other’s sites; i.e. You nominate a site/service, someone in the audience volunteers to wear the device, and we all watch them struggle do the tasks you request on a projector. Rinse. Lather. Repeat. It would hardly be scientific, but it sure would be fun. As a backup, if we have some sites nominated beforehand, I can run a few students at my library through some tasks here and we can show off the results to the crowd.

For those of you wanting to attend and help out, I’d really like to see some discussion on typography, writing for the web, “dealing with business/administrative requirements from on-high", maybe do some prototyping exercises, etc. Similarly if anyone is interested in doing some tutorials on bootstrap or how-to’s on running a usability test, that would be rad. But we need you to step up and steer part of the time for most of this to work, so if you are interested in some aspect, and especially if you want to volunteer to lead a bit of the time, contact me.

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# Ray Schwartz
# Andy Mardesich
# Chelsea Lobdell
# Eben English (1/2 day)
# Shaun Ellis (as attendee or volunteer)
# Whitni Watkins (as attendee or volunteer)
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=== Intro to Git & possibly beyond ===

'''Half Day [Whenever]'''

* Erin Fahy, Stanford University, efahy@stanford.edu
* Shaun Trujillo, Mount Holyoke College, strujill@mtholyoke.edu

We can start with the basics of Git and discuss ways in which it can help you version control just about any file, not just code. Points we can go over:

* What is a Distributed Version Control System?
* What's the difference between Git and Github.com?
* How to initialize new Git projects locally and on a remote server/Github
* Cloning/Forking existing projects and keeping up to date
* The wonderful world of Git branches
* Interactive rebasing
* Contributing code to existing projects & what pull requests are
* How to handle merge conflicts
* Overview of workflows and branch best practices
* (time allowing) Advanced git: pre/post hooks, submodules, anything else?

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# Derek Merleaux
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=== Visualizing Library Data ===

'''"Half Day [Morning||Afternoon]"'''

* Matt Miller, matthewmiller@nypl.org, New York Public Library, NYPL Labs

Visualizing your institution’s data can give new insight about your holding’s strengths, weaknesses and outliers. They can also provide potential new avenues for discovery and access. This half day session will focus on programmatically visualizing library metadata. Emphasis will be on creating web-based visualizations utilizing libraries such as d3.js but attention paid towards visualizing large datasets while keeping them web accessible. By then end of the session participants will have template, sample code and methodologies enabling them to start producing visualization with their own data.

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# Ashley Blewer!
# Bobbi Fox
# Ray Schwartz
# Ranti Junus
# Eric Phetteplace
# Joshua Gomez
# Charlie Morris
# Andy Mardesich
# Tao Zhao
# Chris Hallberg
# Derek Merleaux
# Bohyun Kim
# Mark Jarrell
# Eben English
# Shaun Ellis
# Sarah Simpkin
# Mark Mounts
# Kathryn Stine
# Steve Meyer
# Matt Critchlow
# Andrew Pasterfield
# Ray Henry

=== CollectionSpace: Getting it up and running at your museum ===

'''Half Day [Afternoon]'''

* Richard Millet, CollectionSpace.org, richard.millet@lyrasis.org
* TBD

This workshop is designed for anyone interested in or tasked with the technical setup and configuration of CollectionSpace for use in any collections environment (museum, library, special collection, gallery, etc. For more information about CollectionSpace, visit http://www.collectionspace.org

Participants will be walked through the process of installing the software and performing basic configuration work on a stand-alone instance of CollectionSpace. Participants will learn how to create user accounts, set up basic roles and permissions, and may then catalog or otherwise document sample objects from their collections. Materials distributed prior to the workshop will cover hardware and system requirements for participants.

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=== DPLA API Workshop: ===

'''Half Day [Afternoon]'''

* Audrey Altman, DPLA
* Mark Breedlove, DPLA
* Mark Matienzo, DPLA
* Tom Johnson, DPLA

The Digital Public Library of America API workshop guides attendees through the process of creating an app based on DPLA's free, public API. The API provides access to over 8 million [http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0] licensed metadata records from America’s libraries, archives, and museums in a common metadata format. This workshop is designed for people of all technical skill levels and will cover API basics, the capabilities of the DPLA API, available toolsets, and tips for using records from the API effectively. Members of DPLA's technology team will be on hand to help the group build their first application, and answer questions about tools and content.

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

# Ranti Junus
# Jean Rainwater
# Mita Williams
# Margaret Heller
# Bohyun Kim
# Steven Anderson
# Shaun Ellis
# Sarah Simpkin
# Mark Jarrell
# Heather Pitts
# Kathryn Stine
# Andrew Woods

[[Category:Code4Lib2015]]

2015 Preconference Proposals

2014-10-31T22:55:39Z

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== Instructions ==
Thank you for considering proposing a pre-conference! Here are a few details:

* We will be taking pre-conference proposals until '''November 7, 2014'''
* If you cannot or do not want to edit this wiki directly, you can email your proposals to cmh2166@columbia.edu or collie@msu.edu
* Examples from the 2014 pre-conference proposals can be found at [[2014 preconference proposals|http://wiki.code4lib.org/2014_preconference_proposals]]
* If you are interested in ''attending'' a particular pre-conference, please append your name below that proposal (indicating interest in more than one proposal is fine!)
* If you have an idea for a pre-conference, but cannot facilitate yourself please post the idea below and email cmh2116@columbia.edu or collie@msu.edu
* '''NOTE:''' Pre-conferences are NOT included in the Code4Lib Conference price and will be held on Monday, February 9, 2015 as either full day or half day sessions
* Please use the template for proposals provided in the pre-formatted block below

=== Proposal formatting guidelines: ===

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

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== Pre-conference Proposals ==

Post your ideas here!

=== Delivering and Preserving GIS Data ===

'''Half Day [Morning]'''

* Darren Hardy, Stanford University, drh@stanford.edu
* Jack Reed, Stanford University, pjreed@stanford.edu

We will discuss how to set up a spatial data infrastructure (SDI) to deliver GIS data, to manage GIS content in a Fedora repository for preservation, and to establish metadata requirements for good spatial discovery. By the end of the workshop you will have a working SDI! This workshop is a compliment to the GeoBlacklight workshop in the afternoon.

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# [[User:Ssimpkin|Sarah Simpkin]]
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=== A hand's on introduction to GeoBlacklight ===

'''Half Day [Afternoon]'''

* Darren Hardy, Stanford University, drh@stanford.edu
* Jack Reed, Stanford University, pjreed@stanford.edu

GeoBlacklight is a discovery solution for geospatial data that builds on the successful Blacklight platform. Many libraries have collections of GIS data that aren’t easily discoverable. This will be a hands-on workshop, focused on installing and running GeoBlacklight which builds on the morning workshop "Delivering and Preserving GIS Data".

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# [[User:Ssimpkin|Sarah Simpkin]]
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===RailsBridge: Intro to programming in Ruby on Rails===
'''"Half-Day" [morning]'''
* Contact Carolyn Cole, Penn State University, carolyn@psu.edu
* Additional instructors welcome

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

RailsBridge is a great workshop that opens the doors to projects like [http://projectblacklight.org/ Blacklight] and [http://projecthydra.org/ Hydra] and [https://github.com/traject-project/traject Traject].

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# Maura Carbone
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=== Replace yourself with a painfully complex bash script...or try Ansible ===
'''Half Day [Morning]'''

* Chad Nelson, chad dot nelson @ lyrasis dot org
* Blake Carver, Blake dot carver @lyrasis dot org

Abstract:

[http://www.ansible.com Ansible] is an open source automation and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Configuration_management configuration management] tool that focuses on simplicity to help make your life as a developer, or a sysadmin, or even a full on devops-er, easier. This workshop will cover the basic building blocks used in Ansible as well as some best practices for maintaining your Ansible code. We will start by working through a simple example together, and then participants will be given time to work on their own projects with instructors providing guidance and troubleshooting along the way. By the end of the session, participants will have a working knowledge of Ansible and be able to write a working [http://docs.ansible.com/playbooks.html playbook] to meet local needs.

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=== Intro to Docker ===
'''Half Day [Whenever]'''

* John Fink, McMaster University, john dot fink at gmail dot com
* Francis Kayiwa, Kayiwa Consulting , francis dot kayiwa at gmail dot com

Abstract:

[http://docker.io Docker] ([http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/9669 jbfink code4lib journal article]) is an open source Linux operating system-level virtualization framework that has seen great uptake over the past year. This workshop will take you through the basic features of Docker, including setup, importing of containers, development workflows and deploying. Knowing when Docker is useful and when it isn't will also be covered. Ideally, every attendee will have ample experience creating and running their own Docker instances by the end.

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=== Code Retreat ===
'''Full Day'''

* Jeremy Friesen, University of Notre Dame, jfriesen at nd dot edu
* Additional facilitators welcome; Especially if you have CodeRetreat experience.

Abstract:

"Coderetreat is a day-long, intensive practice event, focusing on the fundamentals of software development and design.
By providing developers the opportunity to take part in focused practice, away from the pressures of 'getting things done', the coderetreat format has proven itself to be a highly effective means of skill improvement.
Practicing the basic principles of modular and object-oriented design, developers can improve their ability to write code that minimizes the cost of change over time." [http://coderetreat.org/about About Code Retreat]

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=== Presentations workshop ===

'''"Half Day [Afternoon]"''' (but could be expanded based on interest)

* Chris Beer, Stanford University, cabeer@stanford.edu
* Additional facilitators welcome.

This is a preconference session intended for first time Code4Lib speakers, habitual procrastinators, experienced speakers, those thinking about offering lightning talks, etc. If you're preparing a talk for this year's Code4Lib, this workshop is an opportunity to rehearse your presentation, get feedback from peers, get familiar with the presentation technology, etc.

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=== Dive into Hydra ===

One of:
'''"Half Day [Afternoon]"'''

* Justin Coyne, Data Curation Experts, justin@curationexperts.com
* Bess Sadler, Stanford University, bess@stanford.edu

Hydra is a collaboration of over 30 educational institutions who work together to solve their repository needs by building open-source software. Dive into Hydra is a course that bootstraps you into the Hydra software framework. We'll start at the basics and walk you through the various layers of the Hydra stack. We'll conclude by installing the Worthwhile gem, enabling every participant to walk away with their own Institutional Repository. Participants who have prior exposure to web programming will get the most out of this course. It's recommended (but not required) that you attend "RailsBridge" prior to this workshop.

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=== code4lib/Write The Docs barcamp ===

One of:
'''"Full Day"''', with options for jumping in for half a day

* code4lib wrangler: Becky Yoose, yoosebec at grinnell dot edu
* Write the Docs contacts: TBA

Abstract

''Placeholder for now - more information will be available before the proposal deadline''. More information about Write the Docs at http://docs.writethedocs.org/

There will be a nominal fee (t/b/d) for non-Code4LibCon attendees (subject to organizer approval).

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=== Linked Data Workshop ===

One of:
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* Karen Estlund, University of Oregon, kestlund@uoregon.edu
* Tom Johnson, DPLA, tom@dp.la

Abstract:

Developer and metadata experts-focused linked data workshop. Topics covered will include: linked open data principles, converting existing data, and modeling linked data in DAMS.

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

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=== Archivematica for users and developers ===

One of:
'''"Full Day"'''

* Sarah Romkey, Artefactual Systems, sromkey@artefactual.com
* Justin Simpson, Artefactual Systems, jsimpson@artefactual.com

Abstract:

This is a workshop intended for both end-users of Archivematica (librarians, archivists, systems administrators) as well as developers who are interested in Archivematica feature development, or use of Archivematica back-end features for integration into other projects.

In the morning, the end-users will meet with Sarah for a hands-on Archivematica training session. We will discuss processing configurations, use cases, and installation/hosting options for Archivematica. We will also demonstrate DIP upload to Archivematica's access system, AtoM. During this time, developers will meet with Justin and other Artefactual developers for a hackaton style session focusing on Archivematica development and integration.

For the afternoon, we plan to bring the two groups together to discuss, share use cases, and have breakout sessions focused on specific topics that arose from the morning and afternoon sessions.

When signing up, please indicate if you are an end-user or a developer.

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=== Fail4Lib 2015 ===
'''Half Day [TBD, probably afternoon]'''

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

Failure. Failure never changes. Since failure is an inescapable part of our professional work, it's important to be familiar with it, to acknowledge it, and to grow from it -- and, in contravention to longstanding tradition, to accept it as a fact of development life. At Fail4Lib, we'll talk about our own experiences with projects gone wrong, explore some famous design failures in the real world, and talk about how we can come to terms with the reality of failure, to make it part of our creative process -- rather than something to be shunned. Let's train ourselves to understand and embrace failure, encourage enlightened risk-taking, and seek out opportunities to fail and learn. This way, when we do what we do -- and fail at what we do -- we'll do so with grace and without fear.

This year's preconference will include new case studies and an improved discussion format. Repeat customers are welcome! (Fail early, fail often.)

The schedule may include the following:

* Case studies. Avoid our own mistakes by bearing witness to the failures of others.
* Confessionals, for those willing to share. Let's learn from our own (and each others') failures.
* Group therapy. Vent about your own experiences in a judgment-free setting. Explore how we can make our organizations less risk-averse and more failure-tolerant.

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=== Coding Custom Solutions for Every Department in the Library with File Analyzer ===

One of:
'''"Half Day [Morning]"'''

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

Abstract

The Georgetown University Library has shared an application called the [http://georgetown-university-libraries.github.io/File-Analyzer/ File Analyzer] that has allowed us to build custom solutions for nearly every department in the library.

* Analyzing Marc Records for the Cataloging department
* Transferring ILS invoices for the University Account System for the Acquisitions department
* Delivering patron fines to the Bursar’s office for the Access Service department
* Summarizing student worker timesheet data for the Finance department
* Validating counter compliant reports for the Electronic Resources department
* Preparing ingest packages for the Digital Services department
* Validating checksums for the Preservation department

This hands on workshop will step through the components of the application framework. Workshop participants will install and develop custom File Analyzer tasks in this session.

The workshop agenda will loosely follow the [https://github.com/Georgetown-University-Libraries/File-Analyzer/wiki/File-Analyzer-Training----Code4Lib-2014 pre-conference agenda from Code4Lib 2014].

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2015 Prepared Talk Proposals

2014-10-31T22:47:40Z

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Code4lib 2015 is a loosely-structured conference that provides people working at the intersection of libraries/archives/museums/cultural heritage and technology with a chance to share ideas, be inspired, and forge collaborations. For more information about the Code4lib community, please visit http://code4lib.org/about/.
The conference will be held at the Portland Hilton & Executive Tower in Portland, Oregon, from February 9-12, 2015.

'''Proposals for Prepared Talks:'''

We encourage everyone to propose a talk.

Prepared talks are 20 minutes (including setup and questions), and should focus on one or more of the following areas:
* Projects you've worked on which incorporate innovative implementation of existing technologies and/or development of new software
* Tools and technologies – How to get the most out of existing tools, standards and protocols (and ideas on how to make them better)
* Technical issues - Big issues in library technology that should be addressed or better understood
* Relevant non-technical issues – Concerns of interest to the Code4Lib community which are not strictly technical in nature, e.g. collaboration, diversity, organizational challenges, etc.

Proposals can be submitted through Friday, November 7, 2014 at 5pm PST (GMT−8). Voting will start on November 11, 2014 and continue through November 25, 2014. The URL to submit votes will be announced on the Code4Lib website and mailing list and will require an active code4lib.org account to participate. The final list of presentations will be announced in early- to mid-December.

'''Proposals for Prepared Talks:'''

Log in to the Code4lib wiki and edit this wiki page using the prescribed format. If you are not already registered, follow the instructions to do so.
Provide a title and brief (500 words or fewer) description of your proposed talk.
If you so choose, you may also indicate when, if ever, you have presented at a prior Code4Lib conference. This information is completely optional, but it may assist voters in opening the conference to new presenters.

Please follow the formatting guidelines:

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== Talk Title: ==

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

Abstract of no more than 500 words.

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'''Talk Proposals'''
==Drupal 8 — Evolution & Revolution==

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

Drupal 8 is in beta and nearing release. Among its many features, it notably has become more developer friendly through its adoption of the Symfony PHP framework along with Symfony's outstanding set of libraries (like Guzzle) and tools (like Composer). And, in implementing the Twig theming system, it is can begin to escape PHPtemplate. These moves also make it easier to create headless systems that uses Angular.js and other systems for presentation, or even forgo presentation entirely.

From the site-builder's perspective, Drupal 8 provides a much smother experience and makes it easier to build and implement site recipes.

==Using GameSalad to Build a Gamified Information Literacy Mobile App for Higher Education==

* [[User:StanBogdanov|Stanislav 'Stan' Bogdanov]], stan@stanrb.com, Adelphi University and [http://bogliollc.com Boglio LLC]

GameSalad is a popular tool for developing mobile and desktop games with little actual programming. In this presentation, Stan Bogdanov breaks down the development process he followed while building [https://github.com/stanrb/mobiLit mobiLit], a mobile app with the goal of being the first open-source gamified information literacy app to be used as part of a college-level information literacy curriculum. He will go through the basics of using GameSalad to create an app that can be easily customized by non-programmers and the instructional principles used to teach the material in a mobile medium. Stan will also go through two qualitative design studies he did on the app and discuss their results and the lessons learned from building mobiLit. The session will conclude with an overview of the next steps for the [https://github.com/stanrb/mobiLit mobiLit project].

==The Impossible Search: Pulling data form unknown sources==

* Riley Childs, no official affiliation (currently a Senior in High School at Charlotte United Christian Academy), rchilds (AT) cucawarriors.com

It's easy to search data you know the structure of, but what if you need to pull in data from sources that don't have a standard structure. The ability to search community events along with your standard catalog search results is an example, but often the only way to pull these events is through XML, JSON, (Insert structured format here), or even just raw html. But how do you get that structure? That simple question is what makes this impossible. The process to define and process this structure takes a lot of manual labor, especially if the data you are pulling is just HTML, and then every time you add data to the index you have to run all the data through a script to pull in data in a format Solr or an other index can use. This talk will focus on Solr, but the principles explained will apply to many other indexes.

==What! You're Not Using Docker?==

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

Boring part: Docker[1] is a container system that provides benefits similar to virtualization with only a fraction of the overhead. Scintillating part: Docker can host between four to six times the number of service instances than systems such as Xen or VMWare on a given piece of hardware. But thats not all! Docker also makes it simple(r) to create transportable instances, so you can spin up development servers on your laptop.

*[1]https://www.docker.com/

== Video Accessibility, WebVTT, and Timed Text Track Tricks ==

* Jason Ronallo, jronallo@gmail.com, NCSU Libraries

Video on the Web presents new challenges and opportunities. How do you make your video more accessible to those with various disabilities and needs? I'll show you how. This presentation will focus on how to write and deliver captions, subtitles, audio descriptions, and timed metadata tracks for Web video using the WebVTT W3C standard. Encoding timed text tracks in this way opens up opportunities for new functionality on your websites beyond accessibility. The presentation will show some examples of the potential for using timed text tracks in creative ways. I'll cover all the HTML and JavaScript you will need to know as well as some of the CSS and other bits you could probably do without but are too fun to pass up.

== Categorizing Records with Random Forests ==

* Geoffrey Boushey, geoffrey.boushey@ucsf.edu, UCSF Library
Academic libraries are increasingly responsible for providing ingest, search, discovery, and analysis for data sets. Emerging techniques from data science and machine learning can provide librarians and developers with an opportunity to generate new insights and services from these document collections. This presentation will provide a brief overview of common machine learning classification techniques, then dive into a more detailed example using a random forest to assign keywords to research data sets. The talk will emphasize the insight that can be gained from machine learning rather than the inner workings of the algorithms. The overall goal of this presentation is to provide librarians and developers with the context to recognize an opportunity to apply machine learning categorization techniques at their home campuses and organizations.

== Data Science in Libraries ==

* Devon Smith, smithde@oclc.org, OCLC

Data Science is increasing in buzz and hype. I'll go over what it is, what it isn't, and how it fits in libraries.

== PDF metadata extraction for academic literature ==

* Kevin Savage, kevin.savage at mendeley.com, Mendeley
* Joyce Stack, joyce.stack at mendeley.com, Mendeley

Mendeley recently added a, "document from file," endpoint to its API which attempts to extract metadata such as title and authors directly from PDF files. This talk will describe at a high level the machine learning methods we used including how we measured and tuned our model. We will then delve more deeply into our stack, the tools we used, some of the things that didn't work and why PDFs are the worst thing ever to compute over.

== Giving Users What They Want: Record Grouping in VuFind ==

* Mark Noble, mark@marmot.org, [//www.marmot.org Marmot Library Network]

In 2013, Marmot did extensive usability studies with patrons to determine what was difficult in the catalog. Many patrons had problems sifting through all of the various formats and editions of a title. In 2014 we developed a method for [//mercury.marmot.org/Union/Search?lookfor=divergent grouping records] so only a single work is shown in search results and all formats and editions are listed under that work. We will discuss our definition of a 'work' based on FRBR principles; combining meta data from MARC records with metadata from other sources like OverDrive; the technical details of Record Grouping; the design decisions made during implementation; and the reaction from users and staff.

== Topic Space: a mobile augmented reality recommendation app ==

* Jim Hahn, jimhahn@illinois.edu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Topic Space module (http://minrvaproject.org/modules_topicspace.php ) was developed with an IMLS Sparks! Grant to investigate augmented reality technologies for in-library recommendations. The funding allowed for sustained university community collaboration by the University Library, the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, as well as graduate student programmers sourced from the Department of Computer Science. Collaborators designed app functionality and identified relevant open source libraries that could power optical character recognition (OCR) functionality from within the mobile phone. Topic space allows a user to take a picture of an item's call number in the book stacks. The module will show the user other books that are relevant but that are not shelved nearby. It can also show users books that are normally shelved here but that are currently checked out.

Research questions included development of back end (server-side) pattern matching algorithms for recommendations, and a rapid formative evaluation (user testing in Undergrad Library) of interface design that would provide optimal user experience for receiving recommendations and navigation of the book stacks as a context to recommendations. Implications of research and development include best practice recommendations for interface development based on the formative user studies (e.g. communicating what works in this area, and what does not), further – based on the back end API developed for Topic Space, grant staff created web based recommendations that could serve as a new way of providing readers advisory and “more like this” recommendations from discovery interfaces library wide.

The recommender references both shelf locations of an item as well as other items circulation counts to provide recommendations. Outcomes of the grant include the availability of the Topic Spaces module on the Android Play store (select Undergrad library for Topic Space module: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=edu.illinois.ugl.minrva ) and an experimental ([http://backbonejs.org/ Backbone.js]) Topic Space web app: http://minrva-dev.library.illinois.edu

== Leveling Up Your Git Workflow ==

* Megan Kudzia, moneill@albion.edu, Albion College Library
* Kate Sears, eks11@albion.edu, Albion College Library

Have you started experimenting with Git on your own, but now you need to include others in your projects? Learn from our mistakes! Transitioning from a one-person git workflow and repo structure, to a structure that includes multiple people (including student workers), is not for the faint of heart. We'll talk about why we decided to work this way, our path to developing a git culture amongst ourselves, conceptual and technical difficulties we've faced, what we learned, and where we are now. Also with pretty pictures (aka workflow drawings).

== Drone Loaning Program: Because Laptops are so last century ==

* Uche Enwesi, uenwesi@umd.edu, University of Maryland Libraries
* Francis Kayiwa, fkayiwa@umd.edu, University of Maryland Libraries

At Univ. Maryland we are in the very early stages of looking into allowing our student body get their hands on a drone. Yes that's right we will let students take out a drone for n amount of hours to work on projects of their choosing. The talk will talk about the logistics of getting a program of this sort from concept to "Is the drone available?". If people sign waivers we will also promise not to crash the drone into code4lib attendees.

== Got Git? Getting More Out of Your GitHub Repositories ==

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

This presentation will discuss how librarians, developers, and system administrators at Georgetown University are maximizing their use of the public and private GitHub repositories.

In additional to all of the great benefits of using Git for code management, the GitHub interface provides a powerful set of tools to showcase a project and to keep your users informed of developments to your project. These tools can assist with marketing and outreach - turning your code repository into a focus of conversation!

* [http://georgetown-university-libraries.github.io/File-Analyzer/ Style-able Project Pages]
* [https://github.com/Georgetown-University-Libraries/File-Analyzer/wiki Project Wikis]
* [https://github.com/Georgetown-University-Libraries/Georgetown-University-Libraries-Code/releases Project Release Notes/Portfolios]
* [https://rawgit.com/Georgetown-University-Libraries/Georgetown-University-Libraries-Code/master/samples/GoogleSpreadsheetFilter.html Web Resources That Can Be Directly Requested]
* Gists for code sharing
* Private Repositories and Organizational Groups
* Pull Request Conversation Tracking
* Customized Issue management

== Quick Wins for Every Department in the Library - File Analyzer! ==

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

The Georgetown University Library has customized workflows for nearly every department in our library with a single code base.
* Analyzing Marc Records for the Cataloging department
* Transferring ILS invoices for the University Account System for the Acquisitions department
* Delivering patron fines to the Bursar’s office for the Access Service department
* Summarizing student worker timesheet data for the Finance department
* Validating COUNTER compliant reports for the Electronic Resources department
* Generating ingest packages for the Digital Services department
* Validating checksums for the Preservation department

Learn how you can customize the [http://georgetown-university-libraries.github.io/File-Analyzer/ File Analyzer] to become a hero in your library!

[[Category:Code4Lib2015]]
[[Category:Talk Proposals]]

2015 Prepared Talk Proposals

2014-10-31T22:46:15Z

Terrywbrady: Added talk proposal

'''DRAFT ONLY'''

Code4lib 2015 is a loosely-structured conference that provides people working at the intersection of libraries/archives/museums/cultural heritage and technology with a chance to share ideas, be inspired, and forge collaborations. For more information about the Code4lib community, please visit http://code4lib.org/about/.
The conference will be held at the Portland Hilton & Executive Tower in Portland, Oregon, from February 9-12, 2015.

'''Proposals for Prepared Talks:'''

We encourage everyone to propose a talk.

Prepared talks are 20 minutes (including setup and questions), and should focus on one or more of the following areas:
* Projects you've worked on which incorporate innovative implementation of existing technologies and/or development of new software
* Tools and technologies – How to get the most out of existing tools, standards and protocols (and ideas on how to make them better)
* Technical issues - Big issues in library technology that should be addressed or better understood
* Relevant non-technical issues – Concerns of interest to the Code4Lib community which are not strictly technical in nature, e.g. collaboration, diversity, organizational challenges, etc.

Proposals can be submitted through Friday, November 7, 2014 at 5pm PST (GMT−8). Voting will start on November 11, 2014 and continue through November 25, 2014. The URL to submit votes will be announced on the Code4Lib website and mailing list and will require an active code4lib.org account to participate. The final list of presentations will be announced in early- to mid-December.

'''Proposals for Prepared Talks:'''

Log in to the Code4lib wiki and edit this wiki page using the prescribed format. If you are not already registered, follow the instructions to do so.
Provide a title and brief (500 words or fewer) description of your proposed talk.
If you so choose, you may also indicate when, if ever, you have presented at a prior Code4Lib conference. This information is completely optional, but it may assist voters in opening the conference to new presenters.

Please follow the formatting guidelines:

<pre>

== Talk Title: ==

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

Abstract of no more than 500 words.

</pre>

'''Talk Proposals'''
==Drupal 8 — Evolution & Revolution==

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

Drupal 8 is in beta and nearing release. Among its many features, it notably has become more developer friendly through its adoption of the Symfony PHP framework along with Symfony's outstanding set of libraries (like Guzzle) and tools (like Composer). And, in implementing the Twig theming system, it is can begin to escape PHPtemplate. These moves also make it easier to create headless systems that uses Angular.js and other systems for presentation, or even forgo presentation entirely.

From the site-builder's perspective, Drupal 8 provides a much smother experience and makes it easier to build and implement site recipes.

==Using GameSalad to Build a Gamified Information Literacy Mobile App for Higher Education==

* [[User:StanBogdanov|Stanislav 'Stan' Bogdanov]], stan@stanrb.com, Adelphi University and [http://bogliollc.com Boglio LLC]

GameSalad is a popular tool for developing mobile and desktop games with little actual programming. In this presentation, Stan Bogdanov breaks down the development process he followed while building [https://github.com/stanrb/mobiLit mobiLit], a mobile app with the goal of being the first open-source gamified information literacy app to be used as part of a college-level information literacy curriculum. He will go through the basics of using GameSalad to create an app that can be easily customized by non-programmers and the instructional principles used to teach the material in a mobile medium. Stan will also go through two qualitative design studies he did on the app and discuss their results and the lessons learned from building mobiLit. The session will conclude with an overview of the next steps for the [https://github.com/stanrb/mobiLit mobiLit project].

==The Impossible Search: Pulling data form unknown sources==

* Riley Childs, no official affiliation (currently a Senior in High School at Charlotte United Christian Academy), rchilds (AT) cucawarriors.com

It's easy to search data you know the structure of, but what if you need to pull in data from sources that don't have a standard structure. The ability to search community events along with your standard catalog search results is an example, but often the only way to pull these events is through XML, JSON, (Insert structured format here), or even just raw html. But how do you get that structure? That simple question is what makes this impossible. The process to define and process this structure takes a lot of manual labor, especially if the data you are pulling is just HTML, and then every time you add data to the index you have to run all the data through a script to pull in data in a format Solr or an other index can use. This talk will focus on Solr, but the principles explained will apply to many other indexes.

==What! You're Not Using Docker?==

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

Boring part: Docker[1] is a container system that provides benefits similar to virtualization with only a fraction of the overhead. Scintillating part: Docker can host between four to six times the number of service instances than systems such as Xen or VMWare on a given piece of hardware. But thats not all! Docker also makes it simple(r) to create transportable instances, so you can spin up development servers on your laptop.

*[1]https://www.docker.com/

== Video Accessibility, WebVTT, and Timed Text Track Tricks ==

* Jason Ronallo, jronallo@gmail.com, NCSU Libraries

Video on the Web presents new challenges and opportunities. How do you make your video more accessible to those with various disabilities and needs? I'll show you how. This presentation will focus on how to write and deliver captions, subtitles, audio descriptions, and timed metadata tracks for Web video using the WebVTT W3C standard. Encoding timed text tracks in this way opens up opportunities for new functionality on your websites beyond accessibility. The presentation will show some examples of the potential for using timed text tracks in creative ways. I'll cover all the HTML and JavaScript you will need to know as well as some of the CSS and other bits you could probably do without but are too fun to pass up.

== Categorizing Records with Random Forests ==

* Geoffrey Boushey, geoffrey.boushey@ucsf.edu, UCSF Library
Academic libraries are increasingly responsible for providing ingest, search, discovery, and analysis for data sets. Emerging techniques from data science and machine learning can provide librarians and developers with an opportunity to generate new insights and services from these document collections. This presentation will provide a brief overview of common machine learning classification techniques, then dive into a more detailed example using a random forest to assign keywords to research data sets. The talk will emphasize the insight that can be gained from machine learning rather than the inner workings of the algorithms. The overall goal of this presentation is to provide librarians and developers with the context to recognize an opportunity to apply machine learning categorization techniques at their home campuses and organizations.

== Data Science in Libraries ==

* Devon Smith, smithde@oclc.org, OCLC

Data Science is increasing in buzz and hype. I'll go over what it is, what it isn't, and how it fits in libraries.

== PDF metadata extraction for academic literature ==

* Kevin Savage, kevin.savage at mendeley.com, Mendeley
* Joyce Stack, joyce.stack at mendeley.com, Mendeley

Mendeley recently added a, "document from file," endpoint to its API which attempts to extract metadata such as title and authors directly from PDF files. This talk will describe at a high level the machine learning methods we used including how we measured and tuned our model. We will then delve more deeply into our stack, the tools we used, some of the things that didn't work and why PDFs are the worst thing ever to compute over.

== Giving Users What They Want: Record Grouping in VuFind ==

* Mark Noble, mark@marmot.org, [//www.marmot.org Marmot Library Network]

In 2013, Marmot did extensive usability studies with patrons to determine what was difficult in the catalog. Many patrons had problems sifting through all of the various formats and editions of a title. In 2014 we developed a method for [//mercury.marmot.org/Union/Search?lookfor=divergent grouping records] so only a single work is shown in search results and all formats and editions are listed under that work. We will discuss our definition of a 'work' based on FRBR principles; combining meta data from MARC records with metadata from other sources like OverDrive; the technical details of Record Grouping; the design decisions made during implementation; and the reaction from users and staff.

== Topic Space: a mobile augmented reality recommendation app ==

* Jim Hahn, jimhahn@illinois.edu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Topic Space module (http://minrvaproject.org/modules_topicspace.php ) was developed with an IMLS Sparks! Grant to investigate augmented reality technologies for in-library recommendations. The funding allowed for sustained university community collaboration by the University Library, the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, as well as graduate student programmers sourced from the Department of Computer Science. Collaborators designed app functionality and identified relevant open source libraries that could power optical character recognition (OCR) functionality from within the mobile phone. Topic space allows a user to take a picture of an item's call number in the book stacks. The module will show the user other books that are relevant but that are not shelved nearby. It can also show users books that are normally shelved here but that are currently checked out.

Research questions included development of back end (server-side) pattern matching algorithms for recommendations, and a rapid formative evaluation (user testing in Undergrad Library) of interface design that would provide optimal user experience for receiving recommendations and navigation of the book stacks as a context to recommendations. Implications of research and development include best practice recommendations for interface development based on the formative user studies (e.g. communicating what works in this area, and what does not), further – based on the back end API developed for Topic Space, grant staff created web based recommendations that could serve as a new way of providing readers advisory and “more like this” recommendations from discovery interfaces library wide.

The recommender references both shelf locations of an item as well as other items circulation counts to provide recommendations. Outcomes of the grant include the availability of the Topic Spaces module on the Android Play store (select Undergrad library for Topic Space module: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=edu.illinois.ugl.minrva ) and an experimental ([http://backbonejs.org/ Backbone.js]) Topic Space web app: http://minrva-dev.library.illinois.edu

== Leveling Up Your Git Workflow ==

* Megan Kudzia, moneill@albion.edu, Albion College Library
* Kate Sears, eks11@albion.edu, Albion College Library

Have you started experimenting with Git on your own, but now you need to include others in your projects? Learn from our mistakes! Transitioning from a one-person git workflow and repo structure, to a structure that includes multiple people (including student workers), is not for the faint of heart. We'll talk about why we decided to work this way, our path to developing a git culture amongst ourselves, conceptual and technical difficulties we've faced, what we learned, and where we are now. Also with pretty pictures (aka workflow drawings).

== Drone Loaning Program: Because Laptops are so last century ==

* Uche Enwesi, uenwesi@umd.edu, University of Maryland Libraries
* Francis Kayiwa, fkayiwa@umd.edu, University of Maryland Libraries

At Univ. Maryland we are in the very early stages of looking into allowing our student body get their hands on a drone. Yes that's right we will let students take out a drone for n amount of hours to work on projects of their choosing. The talk will talk about the logistics of getting a program of this sort from concept to "Is the drone available?". If people sign waivers we will also promise not to crash the drone into code4lib attendees.

== Got Git? Getting More Out of Your GitHub Repositories ==

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

This presentation will discuss how librarians, developers, and system administrators at Georgetown University are maximizing their use of the public and private GitHub repositories.

In additional to all of the great benefits of using Git for code management, the GitHub interface provides a powerful set of tools to showcase a project and to keep your users informed of developments to your project. These tools can assist with marketing and outreach - turning your code repository into a focus of conversation!

* [http://georgetown-university-libraries.github.io/File-Analyzer/ Style-able Project Pages]
* [https://github.com/Georgetown-University-Libraries/File-Analyzer/wiki Project Wikis]
* [https://github.com/Georgetown-University-Libraries/Georgetown-University-Libraries-Code/releases Project Release Notes/Portfolios]
* [https://rawgit.com/Georgetown-University-Libraries/Georgetown-University-Libraries-Code/master/samples/GoogleSpreadsheetFilter.html Web Resources That Can Be Directly Requested]
* Gists for code sharing
* Private Repositories and Organizational Groups
* Pull Request Conversation Tracking
* Customized Issue management

== Quick Wins for Every Department in the Library - File Analyzer! ==

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

The Georgetown University Library has customized workflows for nearly every department in our library with a single code base.
* Analyzing Marc Records for the Cataloging department
* Transferring ILS invoices for the University Account System for the Acquisitions department
* Delivering patron fines to the Bursar’s office for the Access Service department
* Summarizing student worker timesheet data for the Finance department
* Validating COUNTER compliant reports for the Electronic Resources department
* Generating ingest packages for the Digital Services department
* Validating checksums for the Preservation department

Learn how you can customize the [https://github.com/Georgetown-University-Libraries/File-Analyzer File Analyzer] to become a hero in your library!

[[Category:Code4Lib2015]]
[[Category:Talk Proposals]]

2015 Prepared Talk Proposals

2014-10-31T22:41:57Z

Terrywbrady: Terry Brady, added talk proposal

'''DRAFT ONLY'''

Code4lib 2015 is a loosely-structured conference that provides people working at the intersection of libraries/archives/museums/cultural heritage and technology with a chance to share ideas, be inspired, and forge collaborations. For more information about the Code4lib community, please visit http://code4lib.org/about/.
The conference will be held at the Portland Hilton & Executive Tower in Portland, Oregon, from February 9-12, 2015.

'''Proposals for Prepared Talks:'''

We encourage everyone to propose a talk.

Prepared talks are 20 minutes (including setup and questions), and should focus on one or more of the following areas:
* Projects you've worked on which incorporate innovative implementation of existing technologies and/or development of new software
* Tools and technologies – How to get the most out of existing tools, standards and protocols (and ideas on how to make them better)
* Technical issues - Big issues in library technology that should be addressed or better understood
* Relevant non-technical issues – Concerns of interest to the Code4Lib community which are not strictly technical in nature, e.g. collaboration, diversity, organizational challenges, etc.

Proposals can be submitted through Friday, November 7, 2014 at 5pm PST (GMT−8). Voting will start on November 11, 2014 and continue through November 25, 2014. The URL to submit votes will be announced on the Code4Lib website and mailing list and will require an active code4lib.org account to participate. The final list of presentations will be announced in early- to mid-December.

'''Proposals for Prepared Talks:'''

Log in to the Code4lib wiki and edit this wiki page using the prescribed format. If you are not already registered, follow the instructions to do so.
Provide a title and brief (500 words or fewer) description of your proposed talk.
If you so choose, you may also indicate when, if ever, you have presented at a prior Code4Lib conference. This information is completely optional, but it may assist voters in opening the conference to new presenters.

Please follow the formatting guidelines:

<pre>

== Talk Title: ==

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

Abstract of no more than 500 words.

</pre>

'''Talk Proposals'''
==Drupal 8 — Evolution & Revolution==

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

Drupal 8 is in beta and nearing release. Among its many features, it notably has become more developer friendly through its adoption of the Symfony PHP framework along with Symfony's outstanding set of libraries (like Guzzle) and tools (like Composer). And, in implementing the Twig theming system, it is can begin to escape PHPtemplate. These moves also make it easier to create headless systems that uses Angular.js and other systems for presentation, or even forgo presentation entirely.

From the site-builder's perspective, Drupal 8 provides a much smother experience and makes it easier to build and implement site recipes.

==Using GameSalad to Build a Gamified Information Literacy Mobile App for Higher Education==

* [[User:StanBogdanov|Stanislav 'Stan' Bogdanov]], stan@stanrb.com, Adelphi University and [http://bogliollc.com Boglio LLC]

GameSalad is a popular tool for developing mobile and desktop games with little actual programming. In this presentation, Stan Bogdanov breaks down the development process he followed while building [https://github.com/stanrb/mobiLit mobiLit], a mobile app with the goal of being the first open-source gamified information literacy app to be used as part of a college-level information literacy curriculum. He will go through the basics of using GameSalad to create an app that can be easily customized by non-programmers and the instructional principles used to teach the material in a mobile medium. Stan will also go through two qualitative design studies he did on the app and discuss their results and the lessons learned from building mobiLit. The session will conclude with an overview of the next steps for the [https://github.com/stanrb/mobiLit mobiLit project].

==The Impossible Search: Pulling data form unknown sources==

* Riley Childs, no official affiliation (currently a Senior in High School at Charlotte United Christian Academy), rchilds (AT) cucawarriors.com

It's easy to search data you know the structure of, but what if you need to pull in data from sources that don't have a standard structure. The ability to search community events along with your standard catalog search results is an example, but often the only way to pull these events is through XML, JSON, (Insert structured format here), or even just raw html. But how do you get that structure? That simple question is what makes this impossible. The process to define and process this structure takes a lot of manual labor, especially if the data you are pulling is just HTML, and then every time you add data to the index you have to run all the data through a script to pull in data in a format Solr or an other index can use. This talk will focus on Solr, but the principles explained will apply to many other indexes.

==What! You're Not Using Docker?==

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

Boring part: Docker[1] is a container system that provides benefits similar to virtualization with only a fraction of the overhead. Scintillating part: Docker can host between four to six times the number of service instances than systems such as Xen or VMWare on a given piece of hardware. But thats not all! Docker also makes it simple(r) to create transportable instances, so you can spin up development servers on your laptop.

*[1]https://www.docker.com/

== Video Accessibility, WebVTT, and Timed Text Track Tricks ==

* Jason Ronallo, jronallo@gmail.com, NCSU Libraries

Video on the Web presents new challenges and opportunities. How do you make your video more accessible to those with various disabilities and needs? I'll show you how. This presentation will focus on how to write and deliver captions, subtitles, audio descriptions, and timed metadata tracks for Web video using the WebVTT W3C standard. Encoding timed text tracks in this way opens up opportunities for new functionality on your websites beyond accessibility. The presentation will show some examples of the potential for using timed text tracks in creative ways. I'll cover all the HTML and JavaScript you will need to know as well as some of the CSS and other bits you could probably do without but are too fun to pass up.

== Categorizing Records with Random Forests ==

* Geoffrey Boushey, geoffrey.boushey@ucsf.edu, UCSF Library
Academic libraries are increasingly responsible for providing ingest, search, discovery, and analysis for data sets. Emerging techniques from data science and machine learning can provide librarians and developers with an opportunity to generate new insights and services from these document collections. This presentation will provide a brief overview of common machine learning classification techniques, then dive into a more detailed example using a random forest to assign keywords to research data sets. The talk will emphasize the insight that can be gained from machine learning rather than the inner workings of the algorithms. The overall goal of this presentation is to provide librarians and developers with the context to recognize an opportunity to apply machine learning categorization techniques at their home campuses and organizations.

== Data Science in Libraries ==

* Devon Smith, smithde@oclc.org, OCLC

Data Science is increasing in buzz and hype. I'll go over what it is, what it isn't, and how it fits in libraries.

== PDF metadata extraction for academic literature ==

* Kevin Savage, kevin.savage at mendeley.com, Mendeley
* Joyce Stack, joyce.stack at mendeley.com, Mendeley

Mendeley recently added a, "document from file," endpoint to its API which attempts to extract metadata such as title and authors directly from PDF files. This talk will describe at a high level the machine learning methods we used including how we measured and tuned our model. We will then delve more deeply into our stack, the tools we used, some of the things that didn't work and why PDFs are the worst thing ever to compute over.

== Giving Users What They Want: Record Grouping in VuFind ==

* Mark Noble, mark@marmot.org, [//www.marmot.org Marmot Library Network]

In 2013, Marmot did extensive usability studies with patrons to determine what was difficult in the catalog. Many patrons had problems sifting through all of the various formats and editions of a title. In 2014 we developed a method for [//mercury.marmot.org/Union/Search?lookfor=divergent grouping records] so only a single work is shown in search results and all formats and editions are listed under that work. We will discuss our definition of a 'work' based on FRBR principles; combining meta data from MARC records with metadata from other sources like OverDrive; the technical details of Record Grouping; the design decisions made during implementation; and the reaction from users and staff.

== Topic Space: a mobile augmented reality recommendation app ==

* Jim Hahn, jimhahn@illinois.edu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Topic Space module (http://minrvaproject.org/modules_topicspace.php ) was developed with an IMLS Sparks! Grant to investigate augmented reality technologies for in-library recommendations. The funding allowed for sustained university community collaboration by the University Library, the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, as well as graduate student programmers sourced from the Department of Computer Science. Collaborators designed app functionality and identified relevant open source libraries that could power optical character recognition (OCR) functionality from within the mobile phone. Topic space allows a user to take a picture of an item's call number in the book stacks. The module will show the user other books that are relevant but that are not shelved nearby. It can also show users books that are normally shelved here but that are currently checked out.

Research questions included development of back end (server-side) pattern matching algorithms for recommendations, and a rapid formative evaluation (user testing in Undergrad Library) of interface design that would provide optimal user experience for receiving recommendations and navigation of the book stacks as a context to recommendations. Implications of research and development include best practice recommendations for interface development based on the formative user studies (e.g. communicating what works in this area, and what does not), further – based on the back end API developed for Topic Space, grant staff created web based recommendations that could serve as a new way of providing readers advisory and “more like this” recommendations from discovery interfaces library wide.

The recommender references both shelf locations of an item as well as other items circulation counts to provide recommendations. Outcomes of the grant include the availability of the Topic Spaces module on the Android Play store (select Undergrad library for Topic Space module: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=edu.illinois.ugl.minrva ) and an experimental ([http://backbonejs.org/ Backbone.js]) Topic Space web app: http://minrva-dev.library.illinois.edu

== Leveling Up Your Git Workflow ==

* Megan Kudzia, moneill@albion.edu, Albion College Library
* Kate Sears, eks11@albion.edu, Albion College Library

Have you started experimenting with Git on your own, but now you need to include others in your projects? Learn from our mistakes! Transitioning from a one-person git workflow and repo structure, to a structure that includes multiple people (including student workers), is not for the faint of heart. We'll talk about why we decided to work this way, our path to developing a git culture amongst ourselves, conceptual and technical difficulties we've faced, what we learned, and where we are now. Also with pretty pictures (aka workflow drawings).

== Drone Loaning Program: Because Laptops are so last century ==

* Uche Enwesi, uenwesi@umd.edu, University of Maryland Libraries
* Francis Kayiwa, fkayiwa@umd.edu, University of Maryland Libraries

At Univ. Maryland we are in the very early stages of looking into allowing our student body get their hands on a drone. Yes that's right we will let students take out a drone for n amount of hours to work on projects of their choosing. The talk will talk about the logistics of getting a program of this sort from concept to "Is the drone available?". If people sign waivers we will also promise not to crash the drone into code4lib attendees.

== Got Git? Getting More Out of Your GitHub Repositories ==

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

This presentation will discuss how librarians, developers, and system administrators at Georgetown University are maximizing their use of the public and private GitHub repositories.

In additional to all of the great benefits of using Git for code management, the GitHub interface provides a powerful set of tools to showcase a project and to keep your users informed of developments to your project. These tools can assist with marketing and outreach - turning your code repository into a focus of conversation!

* [http://georgetown-university-libraries.github.io/File-Analyzer/ Style-able Project Pages]
* [https://github.com/Georgetown-University-Libraries/File-Analyzer/wiki Project Wikis]
* [https://github.com/Georgetown-University-Libraries/Georgetown-University-Libraries-Code/releases Project Release Notes/Portfolios]
* [https://rawgit.com/Georgetown-University-Libraries/Georgetown-University-Libraries-Code/master/samples/GoogleSpreadsheetFilter.html Web Resources That Can Be Directly Requested]
* Gists for code sharing
* Private Repositories and Organizational Groups
* Pull Request Conversation Tracking
* Customized Issue management

[[Category:Code4Lib2015]]
[[Category:Talk Proposals]]

2014 Links from Talks

2014-10-14T22:30:19Z

Terrywbrady: Incorrect link from my 2014 lightning talk

== What's this page ==

Making a page for links mentioned in talks. Sadly, started it halfway through conference and network is flaky, but will try to go back.

Tuesday, March 25

== Welcome to Code4Lib 2014 ==
Tim McGeary, Code4Lib 2014 Conference Co-Chair and Director of Library & Information Technology at UNC-Chapel Hill

== Opening Keynote ==
Sumana Harihareswara

http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/2014_Keynote_by_Sumana_Harihareswara

== A Book, a Web Browser and a Tablet: How Bibliotheca Alexandrina’s Book Viewer Framework Makes it Possible ==
Engy Morsy

== Quick and Easy Data Visualization with Google Visualization API and Google Chart Libraries ==
Bohyun Kim

== WebSockets for Real==Time and Interactive Interfaces ==
Jason Ronallo

== Personalize Your Google Analytics Data with Custom Events and Variables ==

Josh Wilson

*[https://www.dropbox.com/s/dpxnffoenmpyh7d/Personalizing%20Google%20Analytics.pdf Slides (PDF)] | [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vmCgMRr4-wJJqiPS2vA9K6JLGtsxRgOMsXhdqqcqz7E/edit?usp=sharing Slides (Google Docs)]
*[https://github.com/joshwilsonnc/ga_cdm Code for recording CONTENTdm 6 metadata fields as Events (Github)]
*Questions? joshwilsonnc at gmail.

== Discovering your Discovery System in Real Time ==
Godmar Back and Annette Bailey

== Structured Data NOW: seeding schema.org in library systems ==

* [http://stuff.coffeecode.net/2014/structured_data_now The presentation itself]
* [http://www.w3.org/TR/rdfa-lite/ RDFa Lite 1.1 W3C recommendation] - one of the only W3C specifications that acts like a single-page, clearly written, easily understood tutorial. It's marvellous!
* [http://schema.org schema.org official web site]
* [http://stuff.coffeecode.net/2014/schema_org_codelab/ schema.org hands-on code lab] - teaches you step by step how to add schema.org to a web page using RDFa
* [http://www.w3.org/community/schemabibex/ W3C Schema Bib Extend Community Group] - best practices for schema.org bibliographic use cases, extension proposals in progress, mailing list for assistance

Dan Scott

== Next Generation Catalogue - RDF as a Basis for New Services ==
Anne-Lena Westrum, Benjamin Rokseth, Asgeir Rekkavik, and Petter Goksøyr Åsen

== More Like This: Approaches to Recommending Related Items using Subject Headings ==
Kevin Beswick

== Breakout Sessions I (no breakout report, but please select a recorder and post the report to the wiki) ==

== Lightning Talks I ==

Wednesday, March 26

# ResCarta Foundation
## [http://www.rescarta.org rescarta.org]
# Arie Nugraha: SLiMS: Indonesia Grassroot Libraries Revolution]
## [https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzZt7DLxfV4Xd05lTXBjb0xQdGc/edit?usp=sharing SLiMS: Indonesia Grassroot Libraries Revolution - Slide links]
## [http://slims.web.id SLiMS Site page]
## [https://github.com/slims/slims7_cendana Github page]
# Harvard Library Lab (Bobbi Fox)
# Logs Are Your Friend (Rosalyn Metz)
# Solr Browse & Sort (Michael Gibney)
# GeoHydra (Darren Hardy)

== Visualizing Solr Search Results with D3.js for User==Friendly Navigation of Large Result Sets ==
Julia Bauder

== Visualizing Library Resources as Networks ==
Matt Miller

== We Are All Disabled! Universal Web Design Making Web Services Accessible for Everyone ==
Cynthia Ng

== Dead-simple Video Content Management: Let Your Filesystem Do The Work ==
Andreas Orphanides

http://www.dropbox.com/sh/ogo7su7shn0zegt/Ttv_5o_QZg

== Lightning Talks 2 ==

Proxy Authentication with Google Open ID

Paired Programming

* [http://scholarsphere.psu.edu/files/6395w812z Slides]
* [http://www.extremeprogramming.org/rules/pair.html Source of quote about pair programming]

Mx Matienzo - "Dial-A-DPLA":

* [http://matienzo.org/storage/2014/2014Mar-code4lib-lightning-talk/ Slides]
* [https://github.com/anarchivist/dial-a-dpla Code]
* [http://twilio.com/ Twilio]
* [https://github.com/RobSpectre/Twilio-Hackpack-for-Heroku-and-Flask Twilio hackpack for Heroku and Flask]
* [http://labs.cooperhewitt.org/2013/object-phone/ Cooper-Hewitt's "Object Phone"]

Copy, Paste & Search (Cory Lown)

qstat (Hillel Arnold)

Add map view to Your Blacklight app (Jack Reed)

Drupal 8: Of Course (Cary Gordan)

LTI Protocol + Discovery API (LMS <3)

File Analyzer (Terry Brady)
*[http://georgetown-university-libraries.github.io/File-Analyzer/ File Analyzer Documentation]

Highcharts JS (Heather RayL)

jQuery.xmleditor

This is my Search (Cynthia "Arty" Ng)

*

== Bulding for others (and ourselves): the Avalon Media System ==
Michael B. Klein and Julie Rudder

== Sustaining your Open Source project through training ==
Bess Sadler and Mark Bussey

== Behold Fedora 4: The Incredible Shrinking Repository! ==
Esmé Cowles

== A reusable application to enable self deposit of complex objects into a digital preservation environment ==
Jill Sexton, Mike Daines, and Greg Jansen

== Breakout Sessions 2 (no breakout report; but please select a recorder and post the report on the wiki)

== Organic Free-Range API Development - Making Web Services That You Will Actually Want to Consume ==
Steve Meyer and Karen Coombs

Slides: http://www.oclc.org/resources/developer-network/PPTs/consumable-APIs-coombs-meyer.pptx

== Towards Pasta Code Nirvana: Using Javascript MVC to Fill Your Programming Ravioli ==
Bret Davidson

== PhantomJS+Selenium: Easy Automated Testing of AJAX-y UIs ==
Martin Haye and Mark Redar

http://bit.ly/c4lphantom

== Queue Programming -- how using job queues can make the Library coding world a better place ==
Birkin James Diana

Thursday, March 27

== Closing Keynote - An Interview with Valerie Aurora ==

== Lightning Talks ==
Bplgeo: A Gem to Process Geographic Data / Steven Anderson

Frog Boiling / Charlie Morris & Angie Fullington
* [http://www.slideshare.net/cdmorris22/frogboil Slides]

Dev Ops @ PSU / Justin Patterson

MozSuite Webmastery, Software Carpentry, Privacy, & Archives / Jeannie Rose Halperin

Mass Digitization / Tim Shearer

Schema.org + Google CSE + Local Search / Sean Aery

Chicago Collections Consortium / Tracy Seneca & Kate Flynn

Contrary Technologies / Ian Walls

Browse-Everything for Rails

== Under the Hood of Hadoop Processing at OCLC Research ==
Roy Tennant

== Lucene’s Latest (for Libraries) ==
Erik Hatcher

== All Tiled Up ==
Mike Graves

2014 preconference proposals

2014-03-29T15:45:25Z

Terrywbrady: /* FileAnalyzer: Rapid Development of File Manipulation Tasks */

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

Proposals were accepted through December 6th, 2013.

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

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

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

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

=Code4Lib 2014 Pre-Conference Proposals=

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

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

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

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

[[resources to help you learn drupal]]

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

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

* Renna Tuten

=====Morning=====

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

=====Afternoon=====

 

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===Open Refine Hackfest===
'''"Half-Day[Morning]"'''
* 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>Jason Stirnaman
<li>Joshua Gomez
<li>Sam Kome
<li>Mike Beccaria
<li>Angela Zoss
<li>A. Soroka
<li> Matt Zumwalt
<li>Jim LeFager
</ol>
----

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

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

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

''Interested in Attending''

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

----

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

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

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

''Interested in Attending''

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

# Megan Kudzia
# Bret Davidson
# Coral Sheldon-Hess
# Cory Lown
# Emily Daly
# Angela Zoss
# Sean Aery
# Francis Kayiwa
# Heidi Frank
# Junior Tidal
# Ted Lawless
# David Lacy
# Erik Hatcher
# Jon Baer
----

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

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

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

''Interested in Attending''

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

# Shaun Ellis
# Kevin Reiss
# Megan Kudzia
# Erik Hatcher
# Emily Daly
# Laurie Lee Moses
# Francis Kayiwa
# Ted Lawless
# David Lacy
# Jon Baer

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===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

# Ayla Stein
# Heidi Dowding
# Caitlin Christian-Lamb
# Scott Bacon
# [[User:RileyChilds | Riley Childs]]
# Carolina Garcia
# David Uspal
# Chris Hallberg
# Kelly Leong

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

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

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

''Interested in Attending''

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

# Robin Dean
# Erin White
# Andrew Darby
# Sam Kome
# Ryan Scherle
# Will Shaw
# Liz Milewicz
# Cynthia "Arty" Ng
# Laurie Lee Moses (if I don't do the Hackfest for Blacklight)
# Ranti Junus
# Bohyun Kim (Afternoon)
# Mike Hagedon
# Chris Hallberg
#Susan Ivey
# Ian Chan (afternoon)

----

===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
#Jason Stirnaman
#Julia Bauder
#Linda Ballinger
#Scott Hanrath
#Caitlin Christian-Lamb
#Ian Walls
#Scott Bacon
#mx matienzo
#Chris Sharp
#Junior Tidal
#Julie Rudder
#David Uspal
----

===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
# Carolina Garcia
# Tom Burton-West
# Dan Scott
# Devin Higgins
# Mark Breedlove
----

=== 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?

* Presentations:
** Main: http://goo.gl/6u0BNW
** Discovery: http://goo.gl/eknEXY
** GeoBlacklight Screencast: http://goo.gl/yF5dmh
** GeoBlacklight Design: http://goo.gl/ls4IBz
** GeoBlacklight Schema: http://goo.gl/UTIzRl

''Interested in Attending''

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

# Esmé Cowles
# David Drexler
----

===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)

4. mx matienzo (likewise ok w/ half day)

5. Ginny Boyer (I'd be good with a half day too)

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

2. Jason Casden

3. Bohyun Kim

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

2. Heidi Dowding

3. Coral Sheldon-Hess

4. Cory Lown

5. Rachel Vacek
----

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

The FileAnalyzer (http://georgetown-university-libraries.github.io/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.

[https://github.com/Georgetown-University-Libraries/File-Analyzer/wiki/File-Analyzer-Training----Code4Lib-2014 Training Script - Code4Lib 2014]

''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

# Michael Doran
----

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

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

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

''Interested in Attending''

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

# Declan Fleming
# Esmé Cowles
# Jason Stirnaman
# Liz Milewicz
# Ranti Junus

----

=== 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

# Sam Kome
# Paula Gray-Overtoom
# Liz Milewicz
# Michael Doran
# Caitlin Christian-Lamb
# [[User:RileyChilds|Riley Childs]]
# Jim LeFager
----

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

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

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

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

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

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

''Interested in Attending''

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

Morning:
* Julia Bauder

Afternoon:
* your name

All day:

# Josh Wilson
# Sam Kome
# Linda Ballinger
# Caitlin Christian-Lamb
# Laurie Lee Moses (seriously hard to decide here!)
# David Bass
# John Rees
# Lynn Eaton
# Hillel Arnold
# Susan Ivey
# Kristen Merryman
# Mark Mounts
# John Sarnowski
----

===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:

====Notes====

Preconference Discussion notes: http://bit.ly/NKjdTP

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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
# Liz Milewicz
# Scott Hanrath
# Mike Beccaria
# Sean Aery
# Carolina Garcia
# Heidi Frank
# Chung Kang
# Nabil Kashyap
# Justin Simpson
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===Summon Hackfest ===

Presenter: Eddie Newwirth and presenters from Summon libraries
Contact: Scott Schuetze (first DOT last @ serialssolutions. com)

The Summon Hackfest (10:30am-12pm) will be a great opportunity for libraries using the Summon service to talk about improving discovery of resources, share their creative customizations and code, and exchange ideas about ways they can leverage the Summon API to better meet the needs of their users.

The Summon Hackfest is open to all libraries currently using ProQuest discovery and management services (Intota, Summon, Ulrich’s or the 360 suite of services), whether they are attending Code4Lib or are just in the area.

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2014 Lightning Talks

2014-03-27T15:44:28Z

Terrywbrady: /* Wednesday 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM */

==Tuesday 15:40 PM to 16:40 PM==

==Wednesday 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM==
# Proxy Authentication with Google Open ID
# Paired Programming
# Dial-a-DPLA (Mark Matienzo)
# Copy, Paste & Search (Cory Lown)
# qstat (Hillel Arnold)
# Add map view to Your Blacklight app (Jack Reed)
# Drupal 8: Of Course (Cary Gordan)
# LTI Protocol + Discovery API (LMS <3)
# [http://georgetown-university-libraries.github.io/File-Analyzer/ File Analyzer] (Terry Brady)
# Highcharts JS (Heather RayL)
# jQuery.xmleditor
# This is my Search (Cynthia "Arty" Ng)

==Thursday 10:15 AM to 11:00 AM==

# Bplgeo: A Gem to Process Geographic Data / Steven Anderson
# Frog Boiling / Charlie Morris & Angie Fullington
# Dev Ops @ PSU / Justin Patterson
# MozSuite Webmastery, Software Carpentry, Privacy, & Archives / Jeannie Rose Halperin
# Mass Digitization / Tim Shearer
# Schema.org + Google CSE + Local Search / Sean Aery
# Chicago Collections Consortium / Tracy Seneca & Kate Flynn
# Contrary Technologies / Ian Walls
# Browse-Everything for Rails

List of Library Github Accounts

2014-03-26T17:35:36Z

Terrywbrady:

This is a list of Github accounts belonging to libraries, or in which libraries manage their code, or which contain projects relevant to libraries. Add yours! Add any others you know of! Maybe add links to interesting projects in subbullets!

Let's make it alphabetical to start with, and figure out a better organizing method if it gets big enough to need it.

See also [https://github.com/filler/universities-on-github Universities on Github]

* [https://github.com/ryersonlibrary Ryerson University Library & Archives]
* [https://github.com/nims-library Scientific Information Office, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS Library)]
* [https://github.com/scds Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship, McMaster University]
* [https://github.com/ualbertalib University of Alberta Libraries]
* [https://github.com/Georgetown-University-Libraries Georgetown University Libraries]

2014 Social Activities

2014-03-24T17:38:34Z

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

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

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

== Planned Events ==

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

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

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

'''Plans'''
* When: Monday 3/24
* Time: 6 PM (ish) or whenever you can get your group together
* Mastermind (if you have any questions): [mailto:yoosebec@grinnell.edu Becky Yoose]

''Guidelines:''
*Max of '''6''' per group
**Please, no waitlisting
**Some restaurants can hold multiple groups of six. It is up to you to investigate the venue to see if this is possible.
*ID yourselves so we can get a good mix of new people and veterans in each group
**New folks - n
**c4l vets - v
*One leader needed for each location (declare yourself! - '''Vets are highly encouraged to lead the group''')
**Leader duties
***Make reservations if required; otherwise make sure that the restaurant can handle a group of 6 rowdy library tech type folks
***Herd folks from hotel to restaurant (know where you're going!)
*See a restaurant that's not listed? Feel free to add one, '''but please make sure that it is open that Monday evening.'''

'''Restaurants'''

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

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

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

[http://www.sonoraleigh.com/index.php Sono] (Japanese)
# Ryan Wick - v (leader) - Reservations made at 6:30. '''Meet in hotel lobby at 6:15''' email: ryanwick@gmail
# Paul Ruderman - n
# Sharon Clapp - v
# Robin Dean - v
# Tommy Ingulfsen - n
# Stephen Patton - n
# '''Full group!'''

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

[http://ac-restaurants.com/pooles/ Poole's] (Local food)
# Jean Rainwater - v (leader) - they don't take reservations - email me contact info at Jean_Rainwater-at-brown-dot-edu '''Meet at Fayetteville St. door in lobby at 6:15'''
# Cynthia (Arty) Ng
# Catelynne Sahadath -n
# Maura Carbone -n
# Kate Hill -n
# Martin Haye - v (twice at c4l)
# '''Full group!'''

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

[http://bigeasync.com/ The Big Easy] (New Orleans/Creole)
# Robert Haschart - v (leader) Reservations for 6 people at 6:30pm. email me contact info at rh9ec-at-virginia-dot-edu
# Xiaoming Wang
# Michael Durbin - v
# Sue Richeson -n
# Ed Fugikawa -n
# Tao You - n
# '''full group!'''

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

# Julia Bauder - v (leader) Reservations for 6 people at 6:15pm. Please e-mail me your contact info at bauderj-at-grinnell-dot-edu)
# Brian Riley - n
# Mark Mounts - v
# Birkin James Diana - v
# Walter Stine - n
# Michael Levy - v(ish; I attended once, in 2011)
# '''Full group!'''

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

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

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

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

Group 2
# Matt Zumwalt - v (leader)
# Chris Sharp - v
# Joe Ferrie - n
# Logan Cox - n
# Jerry Nugent - n
# Joe Atzberger - v
# '''Full group!'''

[http://ac-restaurants.com/chucks/ Chuck's] (Burgers)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Group V (Declan made reservations for 6 at 6p. Contact: declan@declan.net We'll leave the lobby at 5:45 and saunter over to The Pit.)
# Declan Fleming - v (leader)
# Mike Giarlo - v
# Carolina Garcia - v
# Jefferson Bailey - n
# Laura Akerman - n
# Lauren Work - n
# '''Full group!'''

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

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

[http://www.theremedydiner.com/ The Remedy Diner] (Diner (lots of Veg*n options))
# Erin White - v (leader) - meet at the LINK (second floor Sheraton, computerz, fancy chairs) at 6 p.m. The Remedy doesn't take reservations so there may be a wait.
# Linda Ballinger - v(ish)
# Terry Brady - v (been one other time)
# Gabe Ormsby - n
# Eric James - v
# Jenny Gubernick - n
# '''Full group!'''

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

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

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

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

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

[http://boylanbridge.com/ Boylan Bridge Brewpub] (Brewpub)
# Carolyn Cole v (leader) We will meet in in the lobby around 5:30ish and walk over (its about a 20 minute walk). If you are not meeting us in the lobby let me know so we do not wait for you (cam156 at psu)
# Justin Simpson - n
# Christian Sarason - v (3rd times a charm?)
# Scott Bacon - n
# Andy Weidner - n
# David Malone - n (ish)
# '''Full group!'''

[http://www.mantraindiancuisinebar.com/ Mantra] (Indian)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A reception and tour of the James B. Hunt Library on NCSU's Centennial Campus will take place on Tuesday, March 25, 5:00-7:30 PM. The library, which opened in January 2013, was recently [http://library.stanford.edu/projects/stanford-prize-innovation-research-libraries-spirl/2014-prizes winner] of the Stanford Prize for Innovation in Research Libraries, and has been recognized for it's [http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/huntlibrary/technology advanced technology and hi-tech spaces]. See the library through the eyes of the students in the over 3,000 Instagram photos in the [http://d.lib.ncsu.edu/myhuntlibrary My #HuntLibrary] project. The furniture alone has generated interest, as shown on the [http://chairsofhuntlibrary.tumblr.com/ Chairs of Hunt Library] Tumbler site.

'''Travel to Hunt'''

Buses will begin loading at the Sheraton at 5:00 PM after the day's sessions have concluded. The last bus will leave the Sheraton at 5:45 PM, but attendees are encouraged to join the earlier buses if possible. Please note that the Hunt Library is 4 miles from the Sheraton and is not directly accessible via public transit from downtown.

'''Reception'''

Pizza and light snacks will be made available in the Multipurpose Room, along with soft drinks, and beer from the [http://www.ncsu.edu/foodscience/Sheppard/NCSU-12004%20Brewery%20Brochure1.pdf NC State Brewery]. Food and drink will be available until 7:00 PM.

'''Tour'''

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

'''Travel back to the Sheraton'''

Buses will begin to load for the return trip at 6:45 PM. The last bus will leave the Hunt Library at approximately 7:30 PM.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

*Riley Childs, Riley@TFSGEO.com

=== Game Night: Wednesday Evening ===

Game Night is another alternative option for Wednesday evening socializing. Conference goers are welcome to bring their own games from home. Games should probably be of the shorter variety (<2 hours) to allow new players to learn and finish games.

'''Where:''' Magnolia 2

'''When:''' Wednesday Evening from 6 to at least 10

'''Signup:''' None. Just show up or leave as you please. There will be 4 tables with 8 chairs each.

'''Food:''' Bring your own food/drinks. All alcoholic drinks must be bought at the bar.

'''Fun:''' Absolutely

Jason Raitz (jcraitz @ ncsu) for questions to direct to the hotel.

'''Games!''' Who's bringing what:

* [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/257/kill-doctor-lucky Kill Doctor Lucky] (yo_bj)
* [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/6830/zendo Zendo] (coral)
* [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/98778/hanabi Hanabi] (coral)
* [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/815/chrononauts Chrononauts] (pnkrcklibrarian)
* [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/258/fluxx Fluxx] (pnkrcklibrarian)
* [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/12692/gloom Gloom] (pnkrcklibrarian)
* [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/16992/tsuro Tsuro] (dan)
* [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/100901/flash-point-fire-rescue Flash Point] (dan)
* [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/30549/pandemic Pandemic] (dan)
* [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/68448/7-wonders 7 Wonders] (dan)
* [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/140457/ultimate-werewolf-inquisition Ultimate Werewolf: Inquisition] (rachelvacek)
* [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/131357/coup Coup] (rachelvacek)
* [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/129622/love-letter Love Letter] (rachelvacek)
* [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/478/citadels Citadels] (rachelvacek)
* [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/70323/king-of-tokyo King of Tokyo] plus expansions (rachelvacek)

== Social Map - Places of Interest==

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

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

== Ideas ==

''Add your own ideas here''

'''Game Night'''

Update: We've secured Wednesday night in Magnolia 2! I'm adding this as a planned event above.

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

* I'll be bringing a few board games that I normally take to my weekly library game nights. Some of collaborative and are great facilitators for conversation (Flash Point, Pandemic). - Dan, danmoore1987 on gmail.

'''Trolley Pub'''

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

Note: with weather being what it might be and the money required, this might not be a good idea now. --J. Raitz @ NCSU

'''Brewpub Walk'''

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

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

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

== Local Events ==

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

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

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

=== Exhibits, Showings, Museums ===

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

=== Outside Activities ===

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

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

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

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

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

=== Run Clubs ===

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

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

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

== Local Food ==

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

=== Restaurants ===

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

=== Desserts ===

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

=== Coffee ===

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

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

== Local Drinks ==

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

=== Bars ===

'''Fayetteville St. District'''

* [http://www.raleightimesbar.com/ Raleigh Times] Draft Magazine Top 100 beer bar
* [http://www.busybeeraleigh.com/ Busy Bee] Draft Magazine Top 100 beer bar (The Hive is upstairs)
* [http://foundationnc.com/ Foundation] Cocktails, bourbon, local beer
* [http://neptunesparlour.com/ Neptunes Parlour] Cocktails, local beer
* [http://ac-restaurants.com/fox/ Fox Liquor Bar] Cocktails, local beer (''Ashley Christiansen'')
* [http://www.slimsraleigh.com/ Slim's] Dive bar (live music)
* [http://www.capitalclub16.com/Capital_Club_16/Home.html Capital Club 16]

'''Moore Square'''

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

'''Warehouse District'''

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

'''Glenwood South'''

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

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

* [http://www.tylerstaproom.com/ Tyler's Tap Room] Beer
* [http://www.person-street.com/ Person Street Bar]

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

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

=== Breweries ===

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

'''Walking Distance'''

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

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

'''Greater Raleigh'''

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

'''Greater Triangle'''

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

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

=== Bottle Shops ===

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

==Raleigh Events March 23-27==

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

===Sunday March 23===

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

===Monday March 24===

* Cure for the Mondays Comedy Night at [http://www.tnnirishpub.com/ Tir Na Nog]

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

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

===Wednesday, March 26===

===Thursday, March 27===

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

== Live Music ==

'''Sunday March 23'''

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

'''Monday March 24'''

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

'''Tuesday March 25'''

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

'''Wednesday March 26'''

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

'''Thursday March 27'''

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

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

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

'''R-Line Downtown Circulator'''

Free [http://www.godowntownraleigh.com/get-around/r-line circulator bus] that connects downtown districts (see [http://www.godowntownraleigh.com/_files/docs/final_rline_map.pdf map]). Buses run every 10-15 minutes and can be tracked on the [http://m.yourhere.com/ R-Line mobile application].

'''Capital Area Transit'''

The [http://www.raleighnc.gov/transit/ CAT bus system] covers the Greater Raleigh area.

'''Triangle Transit'''

The [http://www.triangletransit.org/ TTA bus system] provides transportation to Chapel/Carrboro, Durham and other points across the Triangle region. The TTA routes complement CAT routes to West Raleigh locations such as NC State.

'''Rickshaws'''

[http://www.raleighrickshaw.com/ Raleigh Rickshaw] and [http://www.crankarmrickshaw.com/ Crank Arm Rickshaw] provide on call or on street pickup. Since January has decided to stick around through late March the rickshaws may not be out on the streets much however.

2014 Social Activities

2014-03-24T12:41:31Z

Terrywbrady:

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

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

== Planned Events ==

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

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

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

'''Plans'''
* When: Monday 3/24
* Time: 6 PM (ish) or whenever you can get your group together
* Mastermind (if you have any questions): [mailto:yoosebec@grinnell.edu Becky Yoose]

''Guidelines:''
*Max of '''6''' per group
**Please, no waitlisting
**Some restaurants can hold multiple groups of six. It is up to you to investigate the venue to see if this is possible.
*ID yourselves so we can get a good mix of new people and veterans in each group
**New folks - n
**c4l vets - v
*One leader needed for each location (declare yourself! - '''Vets are highly encouraged to lead the group''')
**Leader duties
***Make reservations if required; otherwise make sure that the restaurant can handle a group of 6 rowdy library tech type folks
***Herd folks from hotel to restaurant (know where you're going!)
*See a restaurant that's not listed? Feel free to add one, '''but please make sure that it is open that Monday evening.'''

'''Restaurants'''

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

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

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

[http://www.sonoraleigh.com/index.php Sono] (Japanese)
# Ryan Wick - v (leader) - Reservations made at 6:30. '''Meet in hotel lobby at 6:15''' email: ryanwick@gmail
# Paul Ruderman - n
# Sharon Clapp - v
# Robin Dean - v
# Tommy Ingulfsen - n
# Stephen Patton - n
# '''Full group!'''

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

[http://ac-restaurants.com/pooles/ Poole's] (Local food)
# Jean Rainwater - v (leader) - they don't take reservations - email me contact info at Jean_Rainwater-at-brown-dot-edu '''Meet at Fayetteville St. door in lobby at 6:15'''
# Cynthia (Arty) Ng
# Catelynne Sahadath -n
# Maura Carbone -n
# Kate Hill -n
# Martin Haye - v (twice at c4l)
# '''Full group!'''

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

[http://bigeasync.com/ The Big Easy] (New Orleans/Creole)
# Robert Haschart - v (leader) Reservations for 6 people at 6:30pm. email me contact info at rh9ec-at-virginia-dot-edu
# Xiaoming Wang
# Michael Durbin - v
# Sue Richeson -n
# Ed Fugikawa -n
# Tao You - n
# '''full group!'''

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

# Julia Bauder - v (leader) Reservations for 6 people at 6:15pm. Please e-mail me your contact info at bauderj-at-grinnell-dot-edu)
# Brian Riley - n
# Mark Mounts - v
# Birkin James Diana - v
# Walter Stine - n
# Michael Levy - v(ish; I attended once, in 2011)
# '''Full group!'''

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

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

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

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

Group 2
# Matt Zumwalt - v (leader)
# Chris Sharp - v
# Joe Ferrie - n
# Logan Cox - n
# Jerry Nugent - n
# Joe Atzberger - v
# '''Full group!'''

[http://ac-restaurants.com/chucks/ Chuck's] (Burgers)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Group V (Declan made reservations for 6 at 6p. Contact: declan@declan.net We'll leave the lobby at 5:45 and saunter over to The Pit.)
# Declan Fleming - v (leader)
# Mike Giarlo - v
# Carolina Garcia - v
# Jefferson Bailey - n
# Laura Akerman - n
# Lauren Work - n
# '''Full group!'''

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[http://boylanbridge.com/ Boylan Bridge Brewpub] (Brewpub)
# Carolyn Cole v (leader) We will meet in in the lobby around 5:30ish and walk over (its about a 20 minute walk). If you are not meeting us in the lobby let me know so we do not wait for you (cam156 at psu)
# Justin Simpson - n
# Christian Sarason - v (3rd times a charm?)
# Scott Bacon - n
# Andy Weidner - n
# David Malone - n (ish)
# '''Full group!'''

[http://www.mantraindiancuisinebar.com/ Mantra] (Indian)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A reception and tour of the James B. Hunt Library on NCSU's Centennial Campus will take place on Tuesday, March 25, 5:00-7:30 PM. The library, which opened in January 2013, was recently [http://library.stanford.edu/projects/stanford-prize-innovation-research-libraries-spirl/2014-prizes winner] of the Stanford Prize for Innovation in Research Libraries, and has been recognized for it's [http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/huntlibrary/technology advanced technology and hi-tech spaces]. See the library through the eyes of the students in the over 3,000 Instagram photos in the [http://d.lib.ncsu.edu/myhuntlibrary My #HuntLibrary] project. The furniture alone has generated interest, as shown on the [http://chairsofhuntlibrary.tumblr.com/ Chairs of Hunt Library] Tumbler site.

'''Travel to Hunt'''

Buses will begin loading at the Sheraton at 5:00 PM after the day's sessions have concluded. The last bus will leave the Sheraton at 5:45 PM, but attendees are encouraged to join the earlier buses if possible. Please note that the Hunt Library is 4 miles from the Sheraton and is not directly accessible via public transit from downtown.

'''Reception'''

Pizza and light snacks will be made available in the Multipurpose Room, along with soft drinks, and beer from the [http://www.ncsu.edu/foodscience/Sheppard/NCSU-12004%20Brewery%20Brochure1.pdf NC State Brewery]. Food and drink will be available until 7:00 PM.

'''Tour'''

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

'''Travel back to the Sheraton'''

Buses will begin to load for the return trip at 6:45 PM. The last bus will leave the Hunt Library at approximately 7:30 PM.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

*Riley Childs, Riley@TFSGEO.com

=== Game Night: Wednesday Evening ===

Game Night is another alternative option for Wednesday evening socializing. Conference goers are welcome to bring their own games from home. Games should probably be of the shorter variety (<2 hours) to allow new players to learn and finish games.

'''Where:''' Magnolia 2

'''When:''' Wednesday Evening from 6 to at least 10

'''Signup:''' None. Just show up or leave as you please. There will be 4 tables with 8 chairs each.

'''Food:''' Bring your own food/drinks. All alcoholic drinks must be bought at the bar.

'''Fun:''' Absolutely

Jason Raitz (jcraitz @ ncsu) for questions to direct to the hotel.

'''Games!''' Who's bringing what:

* [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/257/kill-doctor-lucky Kill Doctor Lucky] (yo_bj)
* [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/6830/zendo Zendo] (coral)
* [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/98778/hanabi Hanabi] (coral)
* [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/815/chrononauts Chrononauts] (pnkrcklibrarian)
* [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/258/fluxx Fluxx] (pnkrcklibrarian)
* [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/12692/gloom Gloom] (pnkrcklibrarian)
* [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/16992/tsuro Tsuro] (dan)
* [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/100901/flash-point-fire-rescue Flash Point] (dan)
* [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/30549/pandemic Pandemic] (dan)
* [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/68448/7-wonders 7 Wonders] (dan)
* [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/140457/ultimate-werewolf-inquisition Ultimate Werewolf: Inquisition] (rachelvacek)
* [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/131357/coup Coup] (rachelvacek)
* [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/129622/love-letter Love Letter] (rachelvacek)
* [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/478/citadels Citadels] (rachelvacek)
* [http://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/70323/king-of-tokyo King of Tokyo] plus expansions (rachelvacek)

== Social Map - Places of Interest==

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

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

== Ideas ==

''Add your own ideas here''

'''Game Night'''

Update: We've secured Wednesday night in Magnolia 2! I'm adding this as a planned event above.

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

* I'll be bringing a few board games that I normally take to my weekly library game nights. Some of collaborative and are great facilitators for conversation (Flash Point, Pandemic). - Dan, danmoore1987 on gmail.

'''Trolley Pub'''

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

Note: with weather being what it might be and the money required, this might not be a good idea now. --J. Raitz @ NCSU

'''Brewpub Walk'''

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

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

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

== Local Events ==

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

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

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

=== Exhibits, Showings, Museums ===

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

=== Outside Activities ===

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

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

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

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

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

=== Run Clubs ===

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

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

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

== Local Food ==

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

=== Restaurants ===

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

=== Desserts ===

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

=== Coffee ===

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

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

== Local Drinks ==

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

=== Bars ===

'''Fayetteville St. District'''

* [http://www.raleightimesbar.com/ Raleigh Times] Draft Magazine Top 100 beer bar
* [http://www.busybeeraleigh.com/ Busy Bee] Draft Magazine Top 100 beer bar (The Hive is upstairs)
* [http://foundationnc.com/ Foundation] Cocktails, bourbon, local beer
* [http://neptunesparlour.com/ Neptunes Parlour] Cocktails, local beer
* [http://ac-restaurants.com/fox/ Fox Liquor Bar] Cocktails, local beer (''Ashley Christiansen'')
* [http://www.slimsraleigh.com/ Slim's] Dive bar (live music)
* [http://www.capitalclub16.com/Capital_Club_16/Home.html Capital Club 16]

'''Moore Square'''

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

'''Warehouse District'''

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

'''Glenwood South'''

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

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

* [http://www.tylerstaproom.com/ Tyler's Tap Room] Beer
* [http://www.person-street.com/ Person Street Bar]

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

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

=== Breweries ===

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

'''Walking Distance'''

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

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

'''Greater Raleigh'''

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

'''Greater Triangle'''

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

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

=== Bottle Shops ===

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

==Raleigh Events March 23-27==

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

===Sunday March 23===

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

===Monday March 24===

* Cure for the Mondays Comedy Night at [http://www.tnnirishpub.com/ Tir Na Nog]

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

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

===Wednesday, March 26===

===Thursday, March 27===

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

== Live Music ==

'''Sunday March 23'''

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

'''Monday March 24'''

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

'''Tuesday March 25'''

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

'''Wednesday March 26'''

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

'''Thursday March 27'''

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

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

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

==Getting Around==

'''R-Line Downtown Circulator'''

Free [http://www.godowntownraleigh.com/get-around/r-line circulator bus] that connects downtown districts (see [http://www.godowntownraleigh.com/_files/docs/final_rline_map.pdf map]). Buses run every 10-15 minutes and can be tracked on the [http://m.yourhere.com/ R-Line mobile application].

'''Capital Area Transit'''

The [http://www.raleighnc.gov/transit/ CAT bus system] covers the Greater Raleigh area.

'''Triangle Transit'''

The [http://www.triangletransit.org/ TTA bus system] provides transportation to Chapel/Carrboro, Durham and other points across the Triangle region. The TTA routes complement CAT routes to West Raleigh locations such as NC State.

'''Rickshaws'''

[http://www.raleighrickshaw.com/ Raleigh Rickshaw] and [http://www.crankarmrickshaw.com/ Crank Arm Rickshaw] provide on call or on street pickup. Since January has decided to stick around through late March the rickshaws may not be out on the streets much however.

2014 Social Activities

2014-03-06T22:47:05Z

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

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

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

== Planned Events ==

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

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

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

'''Plans'''
* When: Monday 3/24
* Time: 6 PM (ish) or whenever you can get your group together
* Mastermind (if you have any questions): [mailto:yoosebec@grinnell.edu Becky Yoose]

''Guidelines:''
*Max of '''6''' per group
**Please, no waitlisting
**Some restaurants can hold multiple groups of six. It is up to you to investigate the venue to see if this is possible.
*ID yourselves so we can get a good mix of new people and veterans in each group
**New folks - n
**c4l vets - v
*One leader needed for each location (declare yourself! - '''Vets are highly encouraged to lead the group''')
**Leader duties
***Make reservations if required; otherwise make sure that the restaurant can handle a group of 6 rowdy library tech type folks
***Herd folks from hotel to restaurant (know where you're going!)
*See a restaurant that's not listed? Feel free to add one, '''but please make sure that it is open that Monday evening.'''

'''Restaurants'''

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

[http://bukuraleigh.com/buku/ bu ku] (Global street food)
# Bohyun Kim - v (leader)
# Junior Tidal - n
# Brian Rogers - n
# Vanessa Lucas - n
# Ashley Blewer - n
# Paula Gray-Overtoom - v
# '''Full group!'''

[http://www.oxfordraleigh.com/ The Oxford] (Gastropub)
# Roy Tennant - v (leader) 6:30 reservation set
# David Bass - n
# Dan Moore - n
# Jack Reed - n

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

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

[http://ac-restaurants.com/pooles/ Poole's] (Local food)
# Jean Rainwater - v (leader)
# Cynthia (Arty) Ng
# Catelynne Sahadath -n
# Maura Carbone -n

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

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

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

# Julia Bauder - v
# Emily Reynolds - n

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

[http://busybeeraleigh.com/ Busy Bee Cafe] (American)
# Ken Varnum - v (leader) -- reservation for 6 people at 6:15. Send me your contact info at varnum umich edu.

[http://ac-restaurants.com/beasleys/ Beasley's Chicken + Honey] (Southern)
# Rosalyn Metz - v (leader)
# Chad Nelson - v (insubordinator)
# Andrew Pasterfield - v
# Aaron Coburn - n
# Arcadia Falcone -n
# Mike Beccaria - v
# '''Full group!'''

[http://ac-restaurants.com/chucks/ Chuck's] (Burgers)

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

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

[http://bidamanda.com/ Bida Manda] (Laotian)
# Dre - v (leader)
# Heather Rayl - n
# Ranti Junus - v
# Jennifer Kishi - n
# Nabil Kashyap - n
# Laura Wrubel - n
# '''Full group!'''

[http://www.tnnirishpub.com/ Tir Na Nog] (Pub)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[http://brewmastersbarandgrill.com/ Brewmasters Bar and Grill] (Brewpub)
# Esmé Cowles - v (leader)
# Christina Salazar - v/n

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

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

[http://boylanbridge.com/ Boylan Bridge Brewpub] (Brewpub)

[http://www.mantraindiancuisinebar.com/ Mantra] (Indian)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A reception and tour of the James B. Hunt Library on NCSU's Centennial Campus will take place on Tuesday, March 26, 5:00-7:30 PM. See the library, which opened in January 2013, through the eyes of the students in the over 3,000 Instagram photos in the [http://d.lib.ncsu.edu/myhuntlibrary My #HuntLibrary] project. The furniture alone has generated interest, as shown on the [http://chairsofhuntlibrary.tumblr.com/ Chairs of Hunt Library] Tumbler site.

'''Travel to Hunt'''

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

'''Reception'''

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

'''Tour'''

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

'''Travel back to the Sheraton'''

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

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

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

Where: TBA

Time: Evening after the tour :c)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

== Social Map - Places of Interest==

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

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

== Ideas ==

''Add your own ideas here''

'''Game Night'''

Time and location to be determined

'''Trolley Pub'''

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

'''Brewpub Walk'''

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

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

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

== Local Events ==

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

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

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

=== Exhibits, Showings, Museums ===

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

=== Outside Activities ===

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

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

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

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

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

=== Run Clubs ===

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

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

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

== Local Food ==

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

=== Restaurants ===

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

=== Desserts ===

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

=== Coffee ===

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

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

== Local Drinks ==

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

=== Bars ===

'''Fayetteville St. District'''

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

'''Moore Square'''

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

'''Warehouse District'''

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

'''Glenwood South'''

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

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

* [http://www.tylerstaproom.com/ Tyler's Tap Room] Beer

=== Breweries ===

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

'''Walking Distance'''

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

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

'''Greater Raleigh'''

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

'''Greater Triangle'''

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

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

=== Bottle Shops ===

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

==Raleigh Events March 23-27==

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

===Sunday March 23===

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

===Monday March 24===

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

===Wednesday, March 26===

===Thursday, March 27===

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

== Music ==

'''Sunday March 23'''

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

'''Monday March 24'''

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

'''Tuesday March 25'''

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

'''Wednesday March 26'''

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

'''Thursday March 27'''

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

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

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

2014 preconference proposals

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==Code4Lib 2014 Pre-Conference Proposals==

Proposals will be accepted through December 6th, 2013.

Please fill out your proposal in the following format. If you are interested in attending a proposed pre-conference add your name to the list for that proposal.

Pitch Format:

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===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=====

=====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

----

===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

===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

1. Shaun Ellis

===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?===
'''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)

'''Interested in Attending'''

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

===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

===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

=== 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

===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

1. Kate Kosturski

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

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

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

2. Heidi Dowding
----

===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

[[:Category:Code4Lib2014]]

2014 preconference proposals

2013-11-26T15:40:16Z

Terrywbrady:

==Code4Lib 2014 Pre-Conference Proposals==

Proposals will be accepted through December 6th, 2013.

Please fill out your proposal in the following format. If you are interested in attending a proposed pre-conference add your name to the list for that proposal.

Pitch 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=====

=====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

----

===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

===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

1. Shaun Ellis

===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?===
'''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)

'''Interested in Attending'''

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

===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

===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

=== 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

===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

1. Kate Kosturski

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

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

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

2. Heidi Dowding
----

===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

[[:Category:Code4Lib2014]]

2014 Prepared Talk Proposals

2013-10-30T19:06:38Z

Terrywbrady: /* Rapid Development of Automated Tasks with the File Analyzer */

==2014 Prepared Talk Proposals==

'''Proposals for Prepared Talks:'''

Prepared talks are 20 minutes (including setup and questions), and should focus on one or more of the following areas:

* ''Projects'' you've worked on which incorporate innovative implementation of existing technologies and/or development of new software
* ''Tools and technologies'' – How to get the most out of existing tools, standards and protocols (and ideas on how to make them better)
* ''Technical issues'' - Big issues in library technology that should be addressed or better understood
* ''Relevant non-technical issues'' – Concerns of interest to the Code4Lib community which are not strictly technical in nature, e.g. collaboration, diversity, organizational challenges, etc.

'''To Propose a Talk'''
* Log in to the wiki in order to submit a proposal. If you are not already registered, follow the instructions to do so.
* Provide a title and brief (500 words or fewer) description of your proposed talk.
* If you so choose, you may also indicate when, if ever, you have presented at a prior Code4Lib conference. This information is completely optional, but it may assist us in opening the conference to new presenters.

As in past years, the Code4Lib community will vote on proposals that they would like to see included in the program. This year, however, only the top 10 proposals will be guaranteed a slot at the conference. Additional presentations will be selected by the Program Committee in an effort to ensure diversity in program content. Community votes will, of course, still weigh heavily in these decisions.

Presenters whose proposals are selected for inclusion in the program will be guaranteed an opportunity to register for the conference. The standard conference registration fee will still apply.

''Proposals can be submitted through '''Friday, November 8, 2013, at 5pm PST'''''. Voting will commence on November 18, 2013 and continue through December 6, 2013. The final line-up of presentations will be announced in early January, 2014.

'''Talk Proposals'''

----

== Using Drupal to drive alternative presentation systems ==

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

Recently, we have been building systems that use angular.js, Rails, or other systems for presentation, while leveraging Drupal's sophisticated content management capabilities on the back end.

So far, these have been one-way systems, but as we move to Drupal 8 we are beginning to explore ways to further decouple the presentation and CMS functions.

== A Book, a Web Browser and a Tablet: How Bibliotheca Alexandrina's Book Viewer Framework Makes It Possible ==

* [[User:Mohammed.abuouda|Mohammed Abu ouda]], Bibliotheca Alexandrina (The new Library of Alexandria)

A lot of institutions around the world are engaged in multiple digitization projects aiming at preserving the human knowledge present in books and availing them through multiple channels to people around the whole globe. These efforts will sure help close the digital gap particularly with the arrival of affordable e-readers, mobile phones and network coverage. However, the digital reading experience has not yet arrived to its maximum potential. Many readers miss features they like in their good old books and wish to find them in their digital counterpart. In an attempt to create a unique digital reading experience, Bibliotheca Alexandria (BA) created a flexible book viewing framework that is currently used to access its current collection of more than 300,000 digital books in five different languages which includes the largest collection of digitized Arabic books.

Using open source tools, BA used the framework to develop a modular book viewer that can be deployed in different environments and is currently at the heart of various BA projects. The Book viewer provides several features creating a more natural reading experience. As with physical books, the reader can now personalize the books he reads by adding annotations like highlights, underlines and sticky notes to capture his thoughts and ideas in addition to being able to share the book with friends on social networks. The reader can perform a search across the content of the book receiving highlighted search results within the pages of the book. More features can be further added to the book viewer through its plugin architecture.

== Structured data NOW: seeding schema.org in library systems ==

* [http://coffeecode.net Dan Scott], Laurentian University
** Previous code4lib presentations: [https://archive.org/details/code4lib.conf.2008.pres.CouchDBsacrilege CouchDB is sacrilege... mmm, delicious sacrilege] at Code4Lib 2008

The semantic web, linked data, and structured data are all fantastic ideas with a barrier imposed by implementation constraints. If their system does not allow customizations, or the institution lacks skilled human resources, it does not matter how enthused a given library might be about publishing structured data... it will not happen. However, if the software in use simply publishes structured data by default, then the web will be populated for free. Really! No extra resources necessary.

This presentation highlights Dan's work with systems such as Evergreen, Koha, and VuFind to enable the publication of schema.org structured data out-of-the-box. Along the way, we reflect the current state of the W3C Schema.org Bibliographic Extension community group efforts to shape the evolution of the schema.org vocabulary. Finally, hold on tight as we contemplate next steps and the possibilities of a world where structured data is the norm on the web.

== Towards Pasta Code Nirvana: Using JavaScript MVC to Fill Your Programming Ravioli ==

* Bret Davidson, North Carolina State University Libraries, bret_davidson@ncsu.edu
** Previous Code4Lib Presentations: [http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/2013_talks_proposals#Data-Driven_Documents:_Visualizing_library_data_with_D3.js Visualizing library data with D3.js] at Code4Lib 2013

JavaScript MVC frameworks are ushering in a golden age of robust and responsive web applications that take advantage of evergreen browsers, performant JS engines, and the unprecedented reach provided by billions of personal computing devices. The web browser has emerged as the world’s most popular application runtime and the complexity[1] and scope of JavaScript applications has exploded accordingly. Server-side web frameworks like Rails and Django have helped developers adhere to best practices like modularity, dependency injection, and unit testing for years, practices that are now being applied to JavaScript development through projects like Backbone[2], Ember[3], and Angular[4].

This talk will discuss the issues JavaScript MVC frameworks are trying to solve, common features like data binding, implications for the future of web development[5], and the appropriateness of JavaScript MVC for library applications.

*[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_code
*[2]http://backbonejs.org
*[3]http://emberjs.com
*[4]http://angularjs.org
*[5]http://tomdale.net/2013/09/progressive-enhancement-is-dead/

== WebSockets for Real-Time and Interactive Interfaces ==

* [http://ronallo.com Jason Ronallo], NCSU Libraries, jason_ronallo@ncsu.edu

Previous Code4Lib presentations:
* [http://code4lib.org/conference/2012/ronallo HTML5 Microdata and Schema.org] 2012
* [http://code4lib.org/conference/2013/ronallo HTML5 Video Now!] 2013

Watching the Google Analytics Real-Time dashboard for the first time was mesmerizing. As soon as someone visited a site, I could see what page they were on. For a digital collections site with a lot of images, it was fun to see what visitors were looking at. But getting from Google Analytics to the image or other content of what was currently being viewed was cumbersome. The real-time experience was something I wanted share with others. I'll show you how I used a WebSocket service to create a real-time interface to digital collections.

In the Hunt Library at NCSU we have some large video walls. I wanted to make HTML-based exhibits that featured viewer interactions. I'll show you how I converted Listen to Wikipedia [1] into an bring-your-own-device interactive exhibit. With WebSockets any HTML page can be remote controlled by any internet connected device.

I will attempt to include real-time audience participation.

[1] http://listen.hatnote.com/

== Rapid Development of Automated Tasks with the File Analyzer ==

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

The Georgetown University Libraries have customized the File Analyzer and Metadata Harvester application (https://github.com/Georgetown-University-Libraries/File-Analyzer) 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.

Learn about the functionality that is available for download, how you can use this tool to automate workflows from digital collections to ILS ingests to electronic resources statistics and also discuss the opportunities to collaborate on enhancements to this application!

[[:Category:Code4Lib2014]]

2014 Prepared Talk Proposals

2013-10-30T19:06:10Z

Terrywbrady:

==2014 Prepared Talk Proposals==

'''Proposals for Prepared Talks:'''

Prepared talks are 20 minutes (including setup and questions), and should focus on one or more of the following areas:

* ''Projects'' you've worked on which incorporate innovative implementation of existing technologies and/or development of new software
* ''Tools and technologies'' – How to get the most out of existing tools, standards and protocols (and ideas on how to make them better)
* ''Technical issues'' - Big issues in library technology that should be addressed or better understood
* ''Relevant non-technical issues'' – Concerns of interest to the Code4Lib community which are not strictly technical in nature, e.g. collaboration, diversity, organizational challenges, etc.

'''To Propose a Talk'''
* Log in to the wiki in order to submit a proposal. If you are not already registered, follow the instructions to do so.
* Provide a title and brief (500 words or fewer) description of your proposed talk.
* If you so choose, you may also indicate when, if ever, you have presented at a prior Code4Lib conference. This information is completely optional, but it may assist us in opening the conference to new presenters.

As in past years, the Code4Lib community will vote on proposals that they would like to see included in the program. This year, however, only the top 10 proposals will be guaranteed a slot at the conference. Additional presentations will be selected by the Program Committee in an effort to ensure diversity in program content. Community votes will, of course, still weigh heavily in these decisions.

Presenters whose proposals are selected for inclusion in the program will be guaranteed an opportunity to register for the conference. The standard conference registration fee will still apply.

''Proposals can be submitted through '''Friday, November 8, 2013, at 5pm PST'''''. Voting will commence on November 18, 2013 and continue through December 6, 2013. The final line-up of presentations will be announced in early January, 2014.

'''Talk Proposals'''

----

== Using Drupal to drive alternative presentation systems ==

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

Recently, we have been building systems that use angular.js, Rails, or other systems for presentation, while leveraging Drupal's sophisticated content management capabilities on the back end.

So far, these have been one-way systems, but as we move to Drupal 8 we are beginning to explore ways to further decouple the presentation and CMS functions.

== A Book, a Web Browser and a Tablet: How Bibliotheca Alexandrina's Book Viewer Framework Makes It Possible ==

* [[User:Mohammed.abuouda|Mohammed Abu ouda]], Bibliotheca Alexandrina (The new Library of Alexandria)

A lot of institutions around the world are engaged in multiple digitization projects aiming at preserving the human knowledge present in books and availing them through multiple channels to people around the whole globe. These efforts will sure help close the digital gap particularly with the arrival of affordable e-readers, mobile phones and network coverage. However, the digital reading experience has not yet arrived to its maximum potential. Many readers miss features they like in their good old books and wish to find them in their digital counterpart. In an attempt to create a unique digital reading experience, Bibliotheca Alexandria (BA) created a flexible book viewing framework that is currently used to access its current collection of more than 300,000 digital books in five different languages which includes the largest collection of digitized Arabic books.

Using open source tools, BA used the framework to develop a modular book viewer that can be deployed in different environments and is currently at the heart of various BA projects. The Book viewer provides several features creating a more natural reading experience. As with physical books, the reader can now personalize the books he reads by adding annotations like highlights, underlines and sticky notes to capture his thoughts and ideas in addition to being able to share the book with friends on social networks. The reader can perform a search across the content of the book receiving highlighted search results within the pages of the book. More features can be further added to the book viewer through its plugin architecture.

== Structured data NOW: seeding schema.org in library systems ==

* [http://coffeecode.net Dan Scott], Laurentian University
** Previous code4lib presentations: [https://archive.org/details/code4lib.conf.2008.pres.CouchDBsacrilege CouchDB is sacrilege... mmm, delicious sacrilege] at Code4Lib 2008

The semantic web, linked data, and structured data are all fantastic ideas with a barrier imposed by implementation constraints. If their system does not allow customizations, or the institution lacks skilled human resources, it does not matter how enthused a given library might be about publishing structured data... it will not happen. However, if the software in use simply publishes structured data by default, then the web will be populated for free. Really! No extra resources necessary.

This presentation highlights Dan's work with systems such as Evergreen, Koha, and VuFind to enable the publication of schema.org structured data out-of-the-box. Along the way, we reflect the current state of the W3C Schema.org Bibliographic Extension community group efforts to shape the evolution of the schema.org vocabulary. Finally, hold on tight as we contemplate next steps and the possibilities of a world where structured data is the norm on the web.

== Towards Pasta Code Nirvana: Using JavaScript MVC to Fill Your Programming Ravioli ==

* Bret Davidson, North Carolina State University Libraries, bret_davidson@ncsu.edu
** Previous Code4Lib Presentations: [http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/2013_talks_proposals#Data-Driven_Documents:_Visualizing_library_data_with_D3.js Visualizing library data with D3.js] at Code4Lib 2013

JavaScript MVC frameworks are ushering in a golden age of robust and responsive web applications that take advantage of evergreen browsers, performant JS engines, and the unprecedented reach provided by billions of personal computing devices. The web browser has emerged as the world’s most popular application runtime and the complexity[1] and scope of JavaScript applications has exploded accordingly. Server-side web frameworks like Rails and Django have helped developers adhere to best practices like modularity, dependency injection, and unit testing for years, practices that are now being applied to JavaScript development through projects like Backbone[2], Ember[3], and Angular[4].

This talk will discuss the issues JavaScript MVC frameworks are trying to solve, common features like data binding, implications for the future of web development[5], and the appropriateness of JavaScript MVC for library applications.

*[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_code
*[2]http://backbonejs.org
*[3]http://emberjs.com
*[4]http://angularjs.org
*[5]http://tomdale.net/2013/09/progressive-enhancement-is-dead/

== WebSockets for Real-Time and Interactive Interfaces ==

* [http://ronallo.com Jason Ronallo], NCSU Libraries, jason_ronallo@ncsu.edu

Previous Code4Lib presentations:
* [http://code4lib.org/conference/2012/ronallo HTML5 Microdata and Schema.org] 2012
* [http://code4lib.org/conference/2013/ronallo HTML5 Video Now!] 2013

Watching the Google Analytics Real-Time dashboard for the first time was mesmerizing. As soon as someone visited a site, I could see what page they were on. For a digital collections site with a lot of images, it was fun to see what visitors were looking at. But getting from Google Analytics to the image or other content of what was currently being viewed was cumbersome. The real-time experience was something I wanted share with others. I'll show you how I used a WebSocket service to create a real-time interface to digital collections.

In the Hunt Library at NCSU we have some large video walls. I wanted to make HTML-based exhibits that featured viewer interactions. I'll show you how I converted Listen to Wikipedia [1] into an bring-your-own-device interactive exhibit. With WebSockets any HTML page can be remote controlled by any internet connected device.

I will attempt to include real-time audience participation.

[1] http://listen.hatnote.com/

== Rapid Development of Automated Tasks with the File Analyzer ==

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

The Georgetown University Libraries have customized the File Analyzer and Metadata Harvester application ([https://github.com/Georgetown-University-Libraries/File-Analyzer]) 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.

Learn about the functionality that is available for download, how you can use this tool to automate workflows from digital collections to ILS ingests to electronic resources statistics and also discuss the opportunities to collaborate on enhancements to this application!

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Virtual Lightning Talks

2013-02-15T15:06:52Z

Terrywbrady: /* Presenter Signup */

One of the highlights of the Code4Lib annual meeting is the “lightning talk” rounds. A lightning talk is a fast-paced 5 minute talk on a topic of the presenter’s choosing. They are usually scheduled on an ad-hoc, first-come-first-served basis on the day of the event. They are an opportunity to provide a platform for someone who is just getting started with public speaking, who wants to ask a question or invite people to help with a project, or for someone to boast about something he or she did or tell a short cautionary story. These things are all interesting and worth talking about, but there might not be enough to say about them to fill up a full session timeslot.

“Virtual Lightning Talks” replicates this conference activity online in a virtual meeting environment. Each one-hour block consists of 10 six-minute sessions (one minute for the presenter to take control of the virtual meeting environment and test audio followed by a five minute presentation). Presenters show their work by sharing their entire desktop; the presentation can consist of slides, web browser, command-line shell, or any other application that can be shown on the desktop.

Code4Lib Virtual Lightning Talks is using [https://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/ Google Hangouts].
Viewers can watch the event streamed live via [https://www.google.com/+/learnmore/hangouts/onair.html Google Hangouts On Air].
The talks will also be recorded for later viewing.

== Presenter Guidelines ==
'''Technical Requirements''': Google+ account plus the [https://tools.google.com/dlpage/hangoutplugin Google Hangouts browser plugin].
In addition, the presentations will use Voice-over-IP (VoIP), so you must have a microphone to present (and preferably a headset to eliminate echo).

'''At the start of the hangout''': Presenters will be invited to the hangout.

* The hangout will open 30 minutes prior to the scheduled start time. If you want to have extra time to test the system and get ready for your presentation, sign in during this 30 minute window.
* Your screen resolution must be 1280 by 768 or less.
* If you have more than one screen/monitor, disable all screens but one. (The software will share all of your screens as one large desktop, making it hard for people to follow.)

'''At your presentation''': The ''em cee'' will give you full control of the presentation software, and you'll be able to share your full screen with the participants -- they will see what you see on your screen. Audio tones will cue you as to how much time you have left: four tones is four minutes left, three tones is three minutes left, and so forth. Two quick high-pitched tones means you have thirty seconds, and a long high-pitched tone means that time is up. You may want to run you own countdown timer to keep track of time as well.

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== Virtual Lightning Talks #2 -- April 3, 2013 ==
April 3, 2013 at 1:30pm Eastern U.S. time ([http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?p1=805&iso=20130403T1330&msg=Code4Lib%20Virtual%20Lightning%20Talks&ah=1&sort=2 see this time in your local timezone]). Presenters can come in 30 minutes early to test the environment.

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=== Participant Signup ===
Please sign up using [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dDQyNHl1dWprZU1fcE5HZENfTWVHNmc6MQ#gid=0 this Google Drive form].

== Virtual Lightning Talks #1 -- April 29, 2011 ==
Screencasts of individual sessions saved to the Internet Archive are linked below.

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| Luciano Ramalho || luciano.ramalho@bireme.org || [http://www.archive.org/details/Marc-dmAJavascriptApiForIndexingMarc-jsonRecordsInCouchdb MARC-DM: a JavaScript API for indexing MARC-JSON records in CouchDB]
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| Michael Appleby, Youn Noh || michael.appleby@yale.edu, youn.noh@yale.edu || [http://www.archive.org/details/ExtendingVufindForCross-collectionSearch Extending VuFind for cross-collection search]
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| Jay Luker || jluker@cfa.harvard.edu || [http://www.archive.org/details/ExtendingSolrsDefaultSimilarityScoringForLongerFulltextDocuments Extending Solr's default Similarity scoring for longer, fulltext documents]
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2013 social activities

2013-02-08T14:41:19Z

Terrywbrady: /* Game Night! */

== Ideas ==

* Aviary: super-crazy cocktails. http://www.molecularrecipes.com/molecular-mixology/aviary-cocktails/ . List your name if you're interested, whether Sunday, Monday, and/or Tuesday (after newcomer dinners) work, and whether you're just interested in stopping by, or doing a 7 cocktail tasting flight.*
** statsfool: sunday/monday/tuesday, either drinks or flight.
** Amyhannah: monday/tuesday, drinks, probably not the flight.
** anarchivist: sunday/monday, prefer drinks over flight but could be convinced
** [[User:highermath|highermath]]: monday (could use 10 cocktails after Drupal subCon, I am sure). Uber now works in Chicago, so I would do the flight.
** [[User:pberry|pberry]]: any night but Wednesday (that's Goose Island night) and I'd be up for drinks or flight, although leaning away from flight.
** [[User:thatandromeda|thatandromeda]] oh my gosh yes, any time, probably not the flight.
** [[User:Gdave|gdave]] beautiful site, I would be interested, Sun,Mon,Tues. either drink or flight.
** [[User:shawnc12|shawnc12]]: sunday/monday, either drink or flight
** wdenton: any night, either drink or flight
** beatricep: sunday/monday drink, highly susceptible to flight by peer pressure..
** ryan hess: sunday/monday drink or flight
** infosoph: sunday/monday yes/yes!!
** [[User:Pfeeley|Pfeeley]]: sunday/monday/tuesday, either drink or flight
* Brewery tour - some possible candidates would be Goose Island, Brew Bus http://www.chicagobrewbus.com/, Piece, Revolution, Half Acre.
* Library field trips - because we're library geeks. Possible places include Newberry and Read/Write.--Read/Write Library confirmed for February 12.--Newberry Library confirmed for February 14.
* Art Institute of Chicago - Only open until 5pm, but possible for people coming in early enough on Sunday.
** escowles: I'm getting in around noon on Sunday, and interested in this.
** pgrayove: I'm getting in around noon on Sunday too. I'm interested.
** ranti: And I am.
* Local Option http://localoptionbier.com/ - So you've heard of Hopleaf, you've heard of Maproom. Come to Chicago's *ahem* best kept secret for good food and an evening session on Monday. We will need a tally to make requisite arrangements. Target for arrival at bar: 7ish. Probably a group gathering to head north around 6:30 in hotel lobby (if you want to take the #8 Halsted bus that is).
** kayiwa
** Linda Ballinger
** Courtney Greene
** John Pillans
** +6 from NCSU incl one Bret Davidson
** Megan Kudzia
** Andrew Darby
** erinrwhite
** [[User:ianc|Ian Chan]]
** Ranti Junus
** Will Clarke
** Cody Hanson
** Jesse Brown

== Planned Events ==

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

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

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

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

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

'''Restaurants'''

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

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

* Al Cornish - v (leader)
* Carolyn Cole - n
* Dileshni Jayasinghe - v
* Will Clark - n
* Adam Constabaris - v
* Patrick Hogan - n
* '''Capped at 6'''

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* Andrew Nagy (leader) - v
* Virginia Schilling - n
* Jane Sandberg - n
* Richard Aroksaar - n
* Jesse Brown - n (jfbrown78 at gmail dot com)

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

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

* Emily Lynema (leader) - v
* Christie Peterson - n
* James Stuart - v
* Emily Shaw - n (emilyfshaw at gmail dot com)
* Ian Chan - n (ichan@csusm.edu)
* Zeno Tajoli - n

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

* Andrew Darby (leader) - v
* Josh Wilson (joshwilsonnc at gmail) - n
* Tim Thompson - n
* Mariela Hristova - n
* ryan hess - n
* Patrick Feeley - n
* '''Capped at 6'''

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

* Rachel Shaevel (herder, self-proclaimed dictator, and reservation maker) - n (we're on for 6:15!)
* Myrna E Morales (follower) - n
* Sarah Thorngate - n
* Steven Marsden - n
* David Lacy - v
* Luke Gaudreau - n
* '''Capped at 6'''

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

=== Veg*n Dinner ===

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

Max *6* people per party this year.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''Class is full.'''

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

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

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

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

=== Game Night! ===

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

== Social Map - Places of Interest==

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

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

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

To use it:

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

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

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

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

== Local Events ==
Events Listings
* Chicago Reader http://www.chicagoreader.com/
* The City of Chicago’s Events Guide: http://www.choosechicago.com/
* Metromix Chicago: http://chicago.metromix.com/events
* Timeout Chicago: http://timeoutchicago.com/
* Chicago Studio Club's [http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?title=LIVE%20MUSIC%20in%20Chicagoland%20via%20Chicago%20Studio%20Club!%20&height=1000&wkst=1&hl=en&bgcolor=%2399ff99&src=info%40chicagostudioclub.net&color=%237A367A&ctz=America%2FChicago Live Music Google Calendar]

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

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

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

===Monday February 11===

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

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

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

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

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

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

'''''Directions: '''''
The Newberry is at 60 W Walton St. It could take half an hour to get there from the conference hotel via CTA, so those of you who wish to take public transit as a group can meet me in the hotel lobby by 3:00. We will then go to the UIC-Halsted El stop (5 blocks from hotel), change trains in the Loop, then walk 3-4 blocks to the Newberry. Otherwise, plan on making your preferred way there and meet in the Newberry lobby by 3:30.

'''''Sign Up List'''''
# Michael Doran - doran@uta.edu
# William Denton - wtd@pobox.com
# Wayne Schneider - wschneider@hclib.org
# Matt Cordial - rev3lator [at] gmail.com
# ryan hess - mhess8 [at] depaul.edu
# [[User:ianc|Ian Chan]] ichan@csusm.edu
# Richard Aroksaar - richard_aroksaar@nps.gov
# [name] - [email address]
#

== Music ==

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

[[Category:Code4Lib2013]]

2013 preconference proposals

2013-02-07T14:14:45Z

Terrywbrady: /* UIC Forum, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm on Monday, February 11 */

Please sign up to attend by January 15th. Doesn't mean you can't change your mind, but we will use the host committee will use these numbers to assign rooms.

Proposals '''now closed'''.

Spaces available: 4+ Rooms

Please follow the formatting guidelines:
<pre>
=== Talk Title ===

* Presenter/Leader, affiliation (optional), and email address (mandatory!)
* Second Presenter/Leader, affiliation, email address, if applicable

Description.
</pre>

==Full Day==

===Drupal4lib Sub-con Barcamp===
====UIC Forum, 9:00 am to 5:00 pm on Monday, February 11====
* Contact [[User:highermath|Cary Gordon]], cgordon@chillco.com or
* [[User:cdmo|Charlie Morris]], NCSU Libraries, cdmorris@ncsu.edu

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.

If we run out of topics, we will pay homage to the project by testing patches for Drupal 8. It is easy, and we will show you how to do this invaluable task.

This event is open to the library community. There is a nominal fee ($10) for non-Code4LibCon attendees.

Local Drupal uber-ninja Larry Garfield will stop by to answer questions and give us some guidance.

====I plan on attending:====

=====All Day=====
*Margaret Heller
*Mahria Lebow, mahria at uw edu
*Paula Gray-Overtoom, pgrayove at gmail.com
*Dhanushka Samarakoon, dhanu80 at g mail com
*Leo Robert Klein <del>(when he figures out what date this is)</del> - 2/11 (9a-5p). P.S. Oh Great One! Who do we hand the 10 bucks to?
*Sarah Shealy, sarah.shealy at gmail.com

=====Morning=====
* [[User:Kevenj|Keven Jeffery]]
* Sean Chen

=====Afternoon=====
* Kevin Reiss, Princeton University Library, kr2 at princeton.edu (afternoon only)
* Christina Salazar (afternoon only)
* Sarah Dooley (afternoon)
* Josh Wilson, joshwilsonnc at gmail (likely afternoon only)
* Ken Varnum, varnum at umich e-d-u
* Cody Hennesy, chennesy at library berkeley edu
* Colin Koteles, koteles at cod dot edu

==Half Day Morning==
=== Open space session ===
====303 Library of the Health Sciences, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm on Monday, February 11====
* Dan Chudnov, dchud at gwu edu

The rest of code4libcon is pretty well structured these days; come in the morning for a few hours of old-school [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-space_technology open space technology] unconference. Bring a rough talk or idea you want to share or questions you have or something you want to learn about or discuss with other people, and be ready to tell us about it. Use it as extra prep time for your upcoming prepared or lightning talk if you want. We'll plan the morning out a little bit at the beginning, but not too much. What we do will be up to the people there in the room.

If there's interest, we could start with a "welcome to code4lib" introductory session for newcomers.

'''I plan on attending:'''
* Devon Smith
* Esmé Cowles, escowles@ucsd.edu
* Jason Casden
* Ryan Eby
* mark matienzo
* Donald Mennerich
* Patrick Berry, pberry@csuchico.edu
* Kåre Fiedler Christiansen, kfc@statsbiblioteket.dk
* Michael Poltorak Nielsen mn at statsbiblioteket dot dk
* Joe Atzberger, ohiocore@gmail.com
* Shawn Carraway carraways at midlandstech dot edu
* Emily F. Shaw emily-f-shaw at uiowa dot edu

=== Delivery services ===
====1-1010 Richard J. Daley Library, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm on Monday, February 11====
* Ted Lawless, Brown University Library, tlawless at brown edu.
* Kevin Reiss, Princeton University Library, kr2 at princeton edu.

Are you interested in making it easier for users to obtain copies of known items? Do you feel your OpenURL and Interlibrary Loan software could be streamlined? This pre-conference workshop will focus on providing services that deliver content to users. Discovery systems are doing a better job of exposing library holdings but there's still a lot of work to do actually get the content in the users hands.

Possible topics/activities include:
* group discussion of what some libraries have done in this area
* comparisons of different approaches to addressing delivery
* overview of tools available
* sharing of strategies and experiences
* time to work with and review open source code in this area. Some possible tools to install and test out [https://github.com/team-umlaut/umlaut Umlaut], [https://github.com/lawlesst/heroku-360link Py360 Link].

Resources and background information:
* [https://github.com/team-umlaut/umlaut/wiki/What-is-Umlaut-anyway What-is-Umlaut-anyway]
* [http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/7308 Hacking 360 Link: A hybrid approach]
* [http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/108 Auto-Populating an ILL form with the Serial Solutions Link Resolver API]
* [http://lawlesst.github.com/notebook/delivery.html Focusing on Delivery]

'''I plan on attending:'''
* Ken Varnum, varnum at umich e-d-u
* Curtis Thacker
* Rosalyn Metz rosalynmetz at gmail com
* James Van Mil - james.vanmil at gmail com
* Andrew Nagy
* Ranti Junus
* Aaron Collier - acollier at csufresno edu
* Demian Katz - demian dot katz at villanova dot edu
* Jacob Andresen - jacob at reindex dot dk
* Erin White - erwhite at vcu edu
* Zeno Tajoli tajoli at cilea it
* William Hicks - William{dot}hicks{at}unt{dot}edu
* Beatrice Pulliam bpulliam at providence edu
* David Bietila dbietila at uchicago edu
* James Staub - james dot staub at nashville dot gov

=== Intro to Blacklight CANCELED ===

PLEASE NOTE: This pre-conference has been canceled in favor of joining forces with the RailsBridge workshop. The afternoon Blacklight session will still be offered.

=== RailsBridge Intro to Ruby on Rails ===
====UIC Forum, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm on Monday, February 11====
* Jason Ronallo, North Carolina State University Libraries, jronallo@gmail.com
* Mark Bussey, Data Curation Experts (mark at curationexperts.com)
* Shaun Ellis (helper), Princeton University Library, shaune@princeton.edu
* Ross Singer, Talis, rossfsinger@gmail.com
* Adam Wead (helper), Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, awead@rockhall.org
* Bess Sadler, Stanford University, bess@stanford.edu
* James Stuart
* Jason Stirnaman (helper), University of Kansas Medical Center, jstirnaman@kumc.edu
* Anyone else want to come and help folks? Contact Jason.

RailsBridge comes to code4lib! We'll follow the RailsBridge curriculum (http://railsbridge.org) to provide a gentle introduction to Ruby on Rails. Topics covered include an introduction to the Ruby language and the Rails framework. Participants will build a working Rails application.

* Note: Attendees can follow up with the Intro to Blacklight afternoon session, which will be tailored for folks new to Ruby

There is some pre-preconference preparation needed so that we can effectively use our time.

'''IMPORTANT''': From this point on if you sign up you '''must''' do the following in order to be prepared for the preconference workshop:
# Add your name below
# fill out the [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEpxd0tzU1ZscnU5QUUtd0JGUk9qQkE6MA#gid=0 experience survey]
# read [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lQEvljB6MWOdxqcibYsQDVMT2hCevk7Y5cm3143_eaU/edit the emails you have missed]

'''I plan on attending:'''
# First and last name and email address
# John MacGillivray
# Christina Salazar - christina{dot}salazar{at}csuci{dot}edu
# Karen Coombs - coombsk{at}oclc{dot}org
# Becky Yoose - b dot yoose at google overlord
# Jeremy Morse - jgmorse at umich
# Julia Bauder - julia{dot}bauder{at}gmail{dot}com
# Chung Kang
# Karen Miller - k-miller3{at}northwestern{dot}edu
# Betsy Coles - bcoles{at}caltech{dot}edu
# Jay Luker - jay{dot}luker{at}gmail{dot}com
# Santi Thompson
# Sarah Dooley - sarah{at}nclive{dot}org
# Brandon Dudley
# Ken Irwin
# Dennis Ogg - ogg{at}ucar{dot}edu
# Ian Walls - iwalls{at}library{dot}umass{dot}edu
# Steven Villereal – villereal{at}gmail{dot}com
# Hillel Arnold - hillel{dot}arnold{at}gmail{dot}com
# Josh Wilson - joshwilsonnc at gmail
# Cynthia Ng - cynthia [dot] s [dot] ng [at] gmail
# Ian Chan
# Heidi Frank - hf36{at}nyu{dot}edu
# Mark Mounts - mark{dot}mounts{at}dartmouth{dot}edu
# Bill McMillin - wmcmilli{at}pratt {dot}edu
# David Lacy - david dot lacy at villanova dot edu
# Courtney Greene - crgreene at indiana dot edu
# Laney McGlohon - lmcglohon@getty.edu
# Nancy Enneking - nenneking@getty.edu
# Jason Raitz - jcraitz at ncsu dot edu
# Nick Cappadona
# Steven Marsden - steven.marsden@ryerson.ca
# Linda Ballinger - ballingerl at newberry dot org
# Brendan Quinn - brendan-quinn at northwestern dot edu
# Michael Levy - mlevy {at}ushmm {dot}org
# Michael North (m-north at northwestern dot edu)
# Shawn Averkamp - shawnaverkamp{at}gmail{dot}com
# Allan Berry - allan{dot}berry{at}gmail{dot}com
# Cody Hennesy - chennesy at library dot berkeley dot edu
# Devin Higgins - higgi135 at msu dot edu
# Emily Zervas - emily{dot}zervas{at}gmail{dot}com
# Rob Dumas - rdumas {at} chipublib {dot} org
# Evan Boyd - eboyd /at/ ctschicago /period/ edu
# Lauren Ajamie - lauren dot ajamie at nd dot edu
# David Anderson - david dot anderson3 at nih dot gov
# David Bucknum - dabu at loc dot gov
# Dave Menninger - dave.menninger at gmail dot com
# Chris Day - cday2 at saic dot edu
# Corey Harper - corey dot harper at nyu dot edu
# Dileshni Jayasinghe - d dot jayasinghe at utoronto dot ca
# Harish Nayak - hnayak at library dot rochester dot edu
# David Cliff dgcliff@iu.edu
# Cody Hanson codyhanson@umn.edu
# Sean Purcell seanpurc{at}uga{dot}edu
# Laurie Lee Moses lmoses{at}colum{dot}edu
# Sibyl Schaefer sibylschaefer at gmail dot com
# Alisak Sanavongsay asanavongsay{at}ucmerced.edu
# Wayne Schneider wschneider at hclib dot org
# Carolyn Caizzi - carolyn{dot}caizzi {at}northwestern{dot}edu
# Julie Rudder - j-rudder at northwestern dot edu
# Matthew Butler - matthew-butler at uiowa dot edu
# Andromeda Yelton - andromeda.yelton at gmail
# Adam Strohm - adamstrohm at gmail dot com
# Kelly Thompson - thompson {dot} kelly {dot} j {at} gmail {dot} com
# Jane Sandberg - sandbrg2 {at} illinois {dot} edu
# Colin Koteles - koteles at cod dot edu
# George Campbell - campbelg{at}oclc{dot}org
# Sarah Thorngate - scthorngate{at}northpark{dot}edu
# Will Clarke - wfu.edu at clarkewd
# Terry Brady - twb27 at georgetown dot edu
'''IMPORTANT''': From this point on if you sign up you '''must''' do the following in order to be prepared for the preconference workshop:
# Add your name above
# fill out the [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEpxd0tzU1ZscnU5QUUtd0JGUk9qQkE6MA#gid=0 experience survey]
# read [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lQEvljB6MWOdxqcibYsQDVMT2hCevk7Y5cm3143_eaU/edit the emails you have missed]

===Intro to NoSQL Databases===
====1-470 Richard J. Daley Library, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm on Monday, February 11====
* Joshua Gomez, George Washington University, jngomez at gwu edu

Since Google published its paper on BigTable in 2006, alternatives to the traditional relational database model have been growing in both variety and popularity. These new databases (often referred to as NoSQL databases) excel at handling problems faced by modern information systems that the traditional relational model cannot. They are particularly popular among organizations tackling the so-called "Big Data" problems. However, there are always tradeoffs involved when making such dramatic changes. Understanding how these different kinds of databases are designed and what they can offer is essential to the decision making process. In this precon I will discuss some of the various types of new databases (key-value, columnar, document, graph) and walk through examples or exercises using some of their open source implementations like Riak, HBase, MongoDB, and Neo4j.

'''I plan on attending:'''
* Esha Datta
* Trevor Thornton
* Michael Doran
* Ray Schwartz - schwartzr2@wpunj.edu
* Kevin Clarke
* Andreas Orphanides
* Tommy Ingulfsen - tommying{at}caltech{dot}edu
* Harrison Dekker
* Eric James eric dot james at yale dot edu
* Sean Crowe - sean.crowe@uc.edu
* Scott Hanrath - shanrath@ku.edu
* Erin Fahy - erin.fahy at mtholyoke edu
* Karen Coyle - kcoyle at kcoyle.net
* Charles Draper
* David Uspal
* Shawn Kiewel - smkiewel at uga dot edu
* Stephanie Collett - stephanie dot collett at ucop dot edu
* Declan Fleming - declan at declan dot net
* David Gonzalez - d.gonzalez26 at umiami dot edu
* Jeff Peterson - gpeterso at umn dot edu
* May Chan - msuicat at gmail dot com
* Kathryn Stine - kathryn dot stine at ucop dot edu
* Tim Thompson - t.thompson5{at}miami{dot}edu
* Eben English - eenglish [at] bpl dot org
* Marisa Strong - marisa dot strong at ucop dot edu
* Michael Lindsey - mackeral at gmail dot com
* Mike Hagedon - hagedonm at u dot library dot arizona dot edu
* Scott Fisher - first/last name with dot in between at ucop dot edu
* James Griffin - griffinj at lafayette dot edu
* Jesse Brown - jfbrown78 at gmail dot com
* [[User:gdave|Dave Green]] david dot L dot green at dartmouth dot edu
* Michael Poltorak Nielsen mn at statsbiblioteket dot dk
* Mads Villadsen, mv@statsbiblioteket.dk
* Jørn Thøgersen, jt@statsbiblioteket.dk
* Julien Gibert, gibert at abes dot fr
* Lisa Gonzalez, lgonzalez@ctu.edu
* Charles Ledvina, charles@indexdata.com
* Jim LeFager, jlefager@depaul.edu
* Debbie Maron, dmaron@purdue.edu
* Carolina Garcia - cg116 nyu
* Tracy Seneca- tjseneca@uic.edu
* William Denton - wtd@pobox.com
* Andrew Darby - agdarby at miami dot edu
* Gary Maixner maixner2 at uiuc dot edu
* Jeremy Prevost
* Esther Verreau everreau skokielibrary info
* Matthew Short, mshort@niu.edu
* Kate Flynn, kef@uic.edu
* Jon Stroop - jstroop at princeton
* Mark Redar

==Half Day Afternoon==
=== Data Visualization Hackfest ===
====1-470 Richard J. Daley Library, 1:30 pm to 5:30 pm on Monday, February 11====
* Chris Beer, cabeer at stanford.edu
* Dan Chudnov, dchud at gwu edu

* Description: Want to hack/design/plan/document on a team of people who enjoy learning by creating? Interested in data visualization? Well, this hackfest is for you. Not familiar with the concept of a hackfest? See Roy Tennant's [http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA332564.html "Where Librarians Go To Hack"] and the page for the [http://access2010.lib.umanitoba.ca/node/3.html Access 2010 Hackfest]. We propose a half-day hackfest with a focus on visualization library data -- think stuff like library catalog data, access/circulation statistics, etc. Here's how it works, roughly:
- we'll (you'll!) do lightning tutorials for some data visualization tools, toolkits (R? d3js? ?), datasets.
- we'll separate into groups and hack on stuff.
- at the end of the day, we'll present our progress.

Not a code hacker? No worries; all skill sets and backgrounds are valuable!

'''I plan on attending:'''
# Devon Smith
# Esha Datta
# Ray Schwartz - schwartzr2@wpunj.edu
# Karen Coombs - coombsk{at}oclc{dot}org
# Julia Bauder - julia{dot}bauder{at}gmail{dot}com
# Jason Stirnaman (jstirnaman at kumc.edu)
# Joshua Gomez
# Ayla Stein (astein at uh.edu)
# Harrison Dekker
# Ian Walls - iwalls{at}library{dot}umass{dot}edu
# Scott Hanrath - shanrath@ku.edu
# Annie Pho
# [[User:Kevenj|Keven Jeffery]]
# James Van Mil - james.vanmil at gmail com
# Sean Crowe - sean.crowe@uc.edu
# Karen coyle - kcoyle at kcoyle.net
# David Lacy - david dot lacy at villanova dot edu
# mark matienzo
# David Uspal
# Emily Lynema - ejlynema at ncsu dot edu
# Sean Chen
# Donald Mennerich
# Allan Berry - allan{dot}berry{at}gmail{dot}com
# Declan Fleming - declan at declan dot net
# Chick Markley -- chick at qrhino dot com
# Rosalyn Metz -- rosalynmetz at gmail com
# Devin Higgins - higgi135 at msu dot edu
# Emily Zervas emily{dot}zervas{at}gmail{dot}com
# May Chan -- msuicat at gmail dot com
# Kathryn Stine - kathryn dot stine at ucop dot edu
# James Griffin - griffinj at lafayette dot edu
# Dave Menninger dave.menninger at gmail dot com
# [[User:gdave|Dave Green]] david dot L dot green at dartmouth dot edu
# Rikke Willer - riwi at dtic dot dtu dot dk
# Michael Poltorak NIelsen mn at statsbiblioteket dot dk
# Mads Villadsen, mv@statsbiblioteket.dk
# Jørn Thøgersen, jt@statsbiblioteket.dk
# Joe Atzberger, ohiocore@gmail.com
# Julien Gibert, gibert at abes dot fr
# Christie Peterson - cpeterson at jhu dot edu
# Jim LeFager - jlefager@depaul.edu
# Harish Nayak - hnayak at library dot rochester dot edu
# William Denton - wtd@pobox.com
# Shawn Carraway carraways at midlandstech dot edu
# Naomi Dushay - ndushay at stanford dot edu
# William Hicks - William{dot}hicks{at}unt{dot}edu
# Beatrice Pulliam bpulliam at providence edu
# Matthew Short, mshort@niu.edu
# George Campbell, campbelg{at}oclc{dot}org
# James Staub - james dot staub at nashville dot gov
# Will Clarke - wfu dot edu at clarkewd

=== Intro to Hydra ===
====303 Library of the Health Sciences, 1:30 pm to 5:30 pm on Monday, February 11====
* Adam Wead, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (awead at rockhall.org)
* Justin Coyne, Data Curation Experts (justin.coyne at curationexperts.com)
* Mark Bussey, Data Curation Experts (mark at curationexperts.com)

Hydra (http://projecthydra.org) is a free and open source repository solution that is being used by institutions on both sides of the North Atlantic to provide access to their digital content. Hydra provides a versatile and feature rich environment for end-users and repository administrators alike. Leveraging Blacklight as its front end discovery interface, the hydra project provides a suite of software components, data models, and design patterns for building a robust and sustainable digital repository, as well as a community of support for ongoing development. This workshop will provide an introduction to the hydra project and its software components. Attendees will leave with enough knowledge to get started building their own local repository solutions. This workshop will be led by Adam Wead of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

'''I plan on attending:'''
* Jeremy Prevost
* Dennis Ogg - ogg{at}ucar{dot}edu
* Terry Brady
* Betsy Coles - bcoles{at}caltech{dot}edu
* Brendan Quinn - brendan-quinn at northwestern dot edu
* Shawn Kiewel - smkiewel at uga dot edu
* Steven Villereal – villereal{at}gmail{dot}com
* Ryan Eby
* Dean Farrell
* Ian Chan
* Mark Mounts - mark{dot}mounts{at}dartmouth{dot}edu
* Carl Jones
* Laney McGlohon - lmcglohon@getty.edu
* Nancy Enneking - nenneking@getty.edu
* Allan Berry - allan{dot}berry{at}gmail{dot}com
* Andrew Darby - agdarby at miami dot edu
* Kåre Fiedler Christiansen - kfc@statsbiblioteket.dk
* Corey Harper - corey dot harper at nyu dot edu
* Gary Maixner - maixner2 at uiuc dot edu
* Sibyl Schaefer - sibylschaefer at gmail dot com
* Emily F. Shaw - emily-f-shaw{at}uiowa{dot}edu
* Alicia Morris - alicia.morris@tufts.edu
* Tim Thompson - t.thompson5{at}miami{dot}edu
* Kate Flynn, kef@uic.edu
* Shawn Averkamp, shawn-averkamp{at}uiowa{dot}edu

=== Intro to Blacklight ===
====1-1010 Richard J. Daley Library, 1:30 pm to 5:30 pm on Monday, February 11====
* Bess Sadler, Stanford University Library (bess at stanford.edu)
* Jason Ronallo, NC State (jronallo at gmail.com)
* Shaun Ellis (helper), Princeton University Library, (shaune@princeton.edu)

Blacklight (http://projectblacklight.org) is a free and open source discovery interface built on solr and ruby on rails. It is used by institutions such as Stanford University, NC State, WGBH, Johns Hopkins University, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and an ever expanding community of adopters and contributors. Blacklight can be used as a front-end discovery solution for an ILS, or the contents of a digital repository, or to provide a unified discovery solution for many siloed collections. In this workshop we will cover the basics of solr indexing and searching, setting up and customizing Blacklight, and leave time for Q&A around local issues people might encounter.

Note: this workshop will be tailored as a follow-on to the morning's RailsBridge Intro to Ruby on Rails workshop, but everyone is welcome

'''I plan on attending:'''
* John MacGillivray
* Jon Stroop
* Jeremy Morse - jgmorse at umich
* Karen Miller - k-miller3{at}northwestern{dot}edu
* Tommy Ingulfsen - tommying{at}caltech{dot}edu
* Chung Kang
* Santi Thompson
* Brandon Dudley
* Ken Irwin
* Hillel Arnold
* Heidi Frank - hf36{at}nyu{dot}com
* Chris Sharp - csharp{at}georgialibraries{dot}org
* Bill McMillin - wmcmilli{at} pratt{dot} edu
* Jason Raitz - jcraitz at ncsu dot edu
* Linda Ballinger - ballingerl at newberry dot org
* Tim Thompson - t.thompson5{at}miami{dot}edu
* David Gonzalez - d.gonzalez26 at umiami dot edu
* Courtney Greene - crgreene at indiana dot edu
* Evan Boyd - eboyd /at/ ctschicago /period/ edu
* Lauren Ajamie - lauren dot ajamie at nd dot edu
* David Anderson - david dot anderson3 at nih dot gov
* Michael Lindsey - mackeral at gmail dot com
* David Bucknum - dabu at loc dot gov
* Chris Day - cday2 at saic dot edu
* Carolina Garcia - cg116 nyu
* David Cliff dgcliff@iu.edu
* Cody Hanson codyhanson@umn.edu
* Sean Purcell seanpurc{at}uga{dot}edu
* Laurie Lee Moses lmoses{at}colum{dot}edu
* Alisak Sanavongsay asanavongsay{at}ucmerced.edu
* Wayne Schneider wschneider at hclib dot org
* Carolyn Caizzi carolyn{dot}caizzi{at}northwestern{dot}edu
* Julie Rudder - j-rudder at northwestern dot edu
* Andromeda Yelton - andromeda.yelton at gmail
* Adam Strohm - adamstrohm at gmail dot com
* Luke Gaudreau - luke underscore gaudreau at harvard dot edu

=== DPLA Intro/Hacking ===
====Seminar Room A of Richard J. Daley Library, 1:30 pm to 5:30 pm on Monday, February 11====
* Presenter(s)/Leader(s): Nate Hill (Chattanooga Public Library, DPLA Audience and Participation Co-chair), SJ Klein (Wikimedia, OLPC, DPLA Technical Aspects Co-chair), Jeff Licht (DPLA Technical Development Project Manager)

The [http://dp.la Digital Public Library of America] (DPLA) is an open source metadata repository that provides read-only access to millions of records from across the United States via an open REST API. All API queries are returned as JSON-LD, a lightweight linked data format, and the metadata is freely reusable under a CC0 public domain license. A front-end portal is currently under development and will be launched in April 2013, though it will serve as but one way into the DPLA’s data. The DPLA encourages the development of applications and tools by developers of all skill levels and backgrounds. In this workshop, participants will actively code against the API to make apps, visualization tools, plug-ins, and other interesting tools that make use of DPLA data.

'''I plan on attending:'''
* First and last name, Affiliation
* Justin Clark, Berkman Center for Internet and Society
* Anita Patel, Berkman Center for Internet and Society
* Peter Murray, LYRASIS

'''I plan on making:'''
* App name (your name): app description

=== Fail4lib ===
====1-360 Richard J. Daley Library, 1:30 pm to 5:30 pm on Monday, February 11====
* Jason Casden, NCSU Libraries (jmcasden at ncsu.edu)
* Andreas Orphanides, NCSU Libraries (akorphan at ncsu.edu)

The Code4lib community is full of driven people who embrace the risks that are often associated with new projects. While these traits lead to the incredible projects that are presented at Code4lib, creative technical work also often leads to unexpected, vexing, or disappointing results even from eventually successful projects (however you define the term). Learning more about how our colleagues deal with failure in various contexts could lead to the development of better methods for communicating the value of productive failure, modifying project plans ("The Pivot"), and failing more cheaply.

Hopefully we can define the format as a group, but a fairly high level of participation is crucial if this is to be a worthwhile preconference. Some possible agenda items that could be mixed and matched to fill the afternoon:

# Given willing presenters, a series of 10-20 minute presentations that go into some depth about specific failures.
# Depending on the number of participants, either a multi- or single-track series of unconference-like themed discussions on various aspects of failure, possibly including themes like:
#* Technical failure
#* Failure to effectively address a real user need
#* Overinvestment
#* Outreach/Promotion failure
#* Design/UX failure
#* Project team communication failure
#* Missed opportunities (risk-averse failure)
#* Successes gleaned from failures
# A panel of participants who have prepared in advance to answer moderator and audience questions about their experience with failure.
# A prepared reading assignment that we could all forget to read, creating a shared fail in order to start the preconference on the right foot.

I'll serve as a moderator (if needed) and participant and would welcome more organizers. I am happy to be outvoted by participants on any of these points--I just want to get us talking about our screw-ups, blind spots, and anvils dropping from the sky.

'''I plan on attending:'''
* Becky Yoose
* Lisa Rabey
* Cynthia Ng (maybe) - cynthia [dot] s [dot] ng [at] gmail
* Patrick Berry, pberry@csuchico.edu
* Erin White, erwhite at vcu edu
* Ranti Junus, ranti.junus at gmail

=== Solr 4 In Depth ===
====UIC Forum, 1:30 pm to 5:30 pm on Monday, February 11====
* Contact: Erik Hatcher (erik.hatcher at lucidworks.com)

The long awaited and much anticipated Solr 4 has been released! It's a really big deal. There are so many improvements, it makes the head spin. This session will cover the major feature improvements from Lucene's flexible indexing and scoring API up through SolrCloud in a digestable half-day format. Sounds like this is an evening thing that might happen at a bar somewhere?

'''I plan on attending:'''
* First and last name
* Erin Fahy - erin.fahy at mtholyoke edu
* Esmé Cowles, escowles@ucsd.edu
* Jon Stroop
* Adam Constabars
* Kevin Clarke
* Jacob Andresen (jacob at reindex dot dk)
* Ted Lawless (tlawless at brown dot edu)
* Tom Burton-West
* Curtis Thacker
* Eric James eric dot james at yale dot edu
* Bess Sadler (bess at stanford dot edu)
* Michael North
* Charles Draper
* Nick Cappadona
* Stephanie Collett - stephanie dot collett at ucop dot edu
* Kalee Sprague - kalee dot sprague at yale dot edu
* Jeff Peterson - gpeterso at umn dot edu
* Erik Hetzner
* Demian Katz - demian dot katz at villanova dot edu
* Eben English - eenglish at bpl dot org
* Raman Chandrasekar
* Jason Ronallo - jnronall@ncsu.edu
* Eric Larson - elarson@library.wisc.edu
* Mike Hagedon - hagedonm at u dot library dot arizona dot edu
* Jesse Brown - jfbrown78 at gmail dot com
* Steven Marsden - steven.marsden@ryerson.ca
* Zeno Tajoli - tajoli at cilea it
* Charles Ledvina - charles att indexdata dott com
* Tracy Seneca - tjseneca@uic.edu
* Tod Olson - tod at uchicago dot edu
* Esther Verreau - everreau skokielibrary info
* Jane Sandberg - sandbrg2 at illinois dot edu
* Mark Redar
[[Category:Code4Lib2013]]

2013 social activities

2013-01-22T18:48:28Z

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

2013 preconference proposals

2012-12-05T22:36:52Z

Terrywbrady: /* Intro to Hydra */

Proposals '''now closed'''.

Spaces available: 4+ Rooms

Please follow the formatting guidelines:
<pre>
=== Talk Title ===

* Presenter/Leader, affiliation (optional), and email address (mandatory!)
* Second Presenter/Leader, affiliation, email address, if applicable

Description.
</pre>

==Full Day==

===Drupal4lib Sub-con Barcamp===

* Contact [[User:highermath|Cary Gordon]], cgordon@chillco.com or
* [[User:cdmo|Charlie Morris]], NCSU Libraries, cdmorris@ncsu.edu

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.

If we run out of topics, we will pay homage to the project by testing patches for Drupal 8. It is easy, and we will show you how to do this invaluable task.

Local Drupal uber-ninja Larry Garfield will stop by to answer questions and give us some guidance.

'''I plan on attending:'''
* Kevin Reiss, Princeton University Library, kr2 at princeton.edu (afternoon only)
* Christina Salazar (afternoon only)

==Half Day Morning==
=== Open space session ===

* Dan Chudnov, dchud at gwu edu

The rest of code4libcon is pretty well structured these days; come in the morning for a few hours of old-school [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-space_technology open space technology] unconference. Bring a rough talk or idea you want to share or questions you have or something you want to learn about or discuss with other people, and be ready to tell us about it. Use it as extra prep time for your upcoming prepared or lightning talk if you want. We'll plan the morning out a little bit at the beginning, but not too much. What we do will be up to the people there in the room.

If there's interest, we could start with a "welcome to code4lib" introductory session for newcomers.

'''I plan on attending:'''
* Devon Smith
* First and last name
* Esmé Cowles
* Jason Casden

=== Delivery services ===
* Ted Lawless, Brown University Library, tlawless at brown edu.
* Kevin Reiss, Princeton University Library, kr2 at princeton edu.

Are you interested in making it easier for users to obtain copies of known items? Do you feel your OpenURL and Interlibrary Loan software could be streamlined? This pre-conference workshop will focus on providing services that deliver content to users. Discovery systems are doing a better job of exposing library holdings but there's still a lot of work to do actually get the content in the users hands.

Possible topics/activities include:
* panel discussion of what some libraries have done in this area
* comparisons of different approaches to addressing delivery
* overview of tools available
* sharing of strategies and experiences
* time to work with and review open source code in this area. Some possible tools to install and test out [https://github.com/team-umlaut/umlaut Umlaut], [https://github.com/lawlesst/py360link Py360 Link].

Resources and background information:
* [https://github.com/team-umlaut/umlaut/wiki/What-is-Umlaut-anyway What-is-Umlaut-anyway]
* [http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/7308 Hacking 360 Link: A hybrid approach]
* [http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/108 Auto-Populating an ILL form with the Serial Solutions Link Resolver API]
* [http://lawlesst.github.com/notebook/delivery.html Focusing on Delivery]

'''I plan on attending:'''
* First and last name

=== Intro to Blacklight ===
* Bess Sadler, Stanford University Library (bess at stanford.edu)
* Justin Coyne, MediaShelf (justin.coyne at yourmediashelf.com)

Blacklight (http://projectblacklight.org) is a free and open source discovery interface built on solr and ruby on rails. It is used by institutions such as Stanford University, University of Virginia, WGBH, Johns Hopkins University, the Rock and Roll hall of fame, and an ever expanding community of adopters and contributors. Blacklight can be used as a front-end discovery solution for an ILS, or the contents of a digital repository, or to provide a unified discovery solution for many siloed collections. In this workshop we will cover the basics of solr indexing and searching, setting up and customizing Blacklight, and leave time for Q&A around local issues people might encounter.

Note: this workshop can be a standalone intro, or attendees can follow up with the intro to hydra workshop in the afternoon.

'''I plan on attending:'''
* Linda Ballinger
* Terry Brady
* First and last name

=== RailsBridge Intro to Ruby on Rails ===
* Jason Ronallo, North Carolina State University Libraries, jnronall@ncsu.edu
* Mark Bussey, Data Curation Experts (mark at curationexperts.com)
* Shaun Ellis (helper), Princeton University Library, shaune@princeton.edu
* Ross Singer, Talis, rossfsinger@gmail.com
* Adam Wead (helper), Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, awead@rockhall.org
* Anyone else want to come and help folks? Contact Jason.

RailsBridge comes to code4lib! We'll follow the RailsBridge curriculum (http://railsbridge.org) to provide a gentle introduction to Ruby on Rails. Topics covered include an introduction to the Ruby language, the Rails framework, and version control with git. Participants will build a working Rails application.

There will be some pre-preconference preparation needed so that we can effectively use our time. Details to come.

* Note: Attendees can follow up with the Intro to Blacklight afternoon session, which will be tailored for folks new to Ruby

'''I plan on attending:'''
* First and last name
* Shawn Kiewel
* Jon Stroop
* Christina Salazar
* Karen Coombs - coombsk{at}oclc{dot}org
* Becky Yoose
* Jeremy Morse
* Julia Bauder
* Chung Kang
* Karen Miller

===Intro to NoSQL Databases===
* Joshua Gomez, George Washington University, jngomez at gwu edu

Since Google published its paper on BigTable in 2006, alternatives to the traditional relational database model have been growing in both variety and popularity. These new databases (often referred to as NoSQL databases) excel at handling problems faced by modern information systems that the traditional relational model cannot. They are particularly popular among organizations tackling the so-called "Big Data" problems. However, there are always tradeoffs involved when making such dramatic changes. Understanding how these different kinds of databases are designed and what they can offer is essential to the decision making process. In this precon I will discuss some of the various types of new databases (key-value, columnar, document, graph) and walk through examples or exercises using some of their open source implementations like Riak, HBase, CouchDB, and Neo4j.

'''I plan on attending:'''
* First and last name
* Esha Datta
* Trevor Thornton
* Michael Doran
* Ray Schwartz
* Kevin Clarke
* Andreas Orphanides
* Chung Kang
* Tommy Ingulfsen

==Half Day Afternoon==
=== Data Visualization Hackfest ===
* Chris Beer, cabeer at stanford.edu
* Dan Chudnov, dchud at gwu edu

* Description: Want to hack/design/plan/document on a team of people who enjoy learning by creating? Interested in data visualization? Well, this hackfest is for you. Not familiar with the concept of a hackfest? See Roy Tennant's [http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA332564.html "Where Librarians Go To Hack"] and the page for the [http://access2010.lib.umanitoba.ca/node/3.html Access 2010 Hackfest]. We propose a half-day hackfest with a focus on visualization library data -- think stuff like library catalog data, access/circulation statistics, etc. Here's how it works, roughly:
- we'll (you'll!) do lightning tutorials for some data visualization tools, toolkits (R? d3js? ?), datasets.
- we'll separate into groups and hack on stuff.
- at the end of the day, we'll present our progress.

Not a code hacker? No worries; all skill sets and backgrounds are valuable!

'''I plan on attending:'''
* First and last name
* Devon Smith
* Esha Datta
* Ray Schwartz
* Karen Coombs - coombsk{at}oclc{dot}org
* Julia Bauder
* Jason Stirnaman (jstirnaman at kumc.edu)
* Chung Kang

=== Intro to Hydra ===
* Adam Wead, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (awead at rockhall.org)
* Mike Giarlo, Penn State Information Technology Services (michael at psu.edu)
* Mark Bussey, Data Curation Experts (mark at curationexperts.com)

Hydra (http://projecthydra.org) is a free and open source repository solution that is being used by institutions on both sides of the North Atlantic to provide access to their digital content. Hydra provides a versatile and feature rich environment for end-users and repository administrators alike. Leveraging Blacklight as its front end discovery interface, the hydra project provides a suite of software components, data models, and design patterns for building a robust and sustainable digital repository, as well as a community of support for ongoing development. This workshop will provide an introduction to the hydra project and its software components. Attendees will leave with enough knowledge to get started building their own local repository solutions. This workshop will be led by Adam Wead of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

'''I plan on attending:'''
* Jeremy Prevost
* Dennis Ogg
* Linda Ballinger
* Terry Brady
* First and last name

=== Intro to Blacklight ===
* Bess Sadler, Stanford University Library (bess at stanford.edu)
* Justin Coyne, MediaShelf (justin.coyne at yourmediashelf.com)
* Jason Ronallo, NC State (jronallo at gmail.com)
* Shaun Ellis (helper), Princeton University Library, (shaune@princeton.edu)

Blacklight (http://projectblacklight.org) is a free and open source discovery interface built on solr and ruby on rails. It is used by institutions such as Stanford University, NC State, WGBH, Johns Hopkins University, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and an ever expanding community of adopters and contributors. Blacklight can be used as a front-end discovery solution for an ILS, or the contents of a digital repository, or to provide a unified discovery solution for many siloed collections. In this workshop we will cover the basics of solr indexing and searching, setting up and customizing Blacklight, and leave time for Q&A around local issues people might encounter.

Note: this workshop will be tailored as a follow-on to the morning's RailsBridge Intro to Ruby on Rails workshop, but everyone is welcome

'''I plan on attending:'''
* First and last name
* Shawn Kiewel
* Jon Stroop
* Jeremy Morse
* Karen Miller
* Tommy Ingulfsen

=== DPLA Intro/Hacking ===

* Presenter(s)/Leader(s): TBD
* Guy Who'd Be Interested in Helping: Jay Luker, Smithsonian Astrophysics Data System (jluker at cfa.harvard.edu)

This is a stub proposal entered solely to beat the submission deadline. I think there's be sufficient interest in this session, but only thought of it yesterday and haven't had time to coordinate with actual DPLA'ers and confirm that any of them are definitely coming.

'''I plan on attending:'''
* First and last name

=== Fail4lib ===
* Jason Casden, NCSU Libraries (jmcasden at ncsu.edu)
* Andreas Orphanides, NCSU Libraries (akorphan at ncsu.edu)

The Code4lib community is full of driven people who embrace the risks that are often associated with new projects. While these traits lead to the incredible projects that are presented at Code4lib, creative technical work also often leads to unexpected, vexing, or disappointing results even from eventually successful projects (however you define the term). Learning more about how our colleagues deal with failure in various contexts could lead to the development of better methods for communicating the value of productive failure, modifying project plans ("The Pivot"), and failing more cheaply.

Hopefully we can define the format as a group, but a fairly high level of participation is crucial if this is to be a worthwhile preconference. Some possible agenda items that could be mixed and matched to fill the afternoon:

# Given willing presenters, a series of 10-20 minute presentations that go into some depth about specific failures.
# Depending on the number of participants, either a multi- or single-track series of unconference-like themed discussions on various aspects of failure, possibly including themes like:
#* Technical failure
#* Failure to effectively address a real user need
#* Overinvestment
#* Outreach/Promotion failure
#* Design/UX failure
#* Project team communication failure
#* Missed opportunities (risk-averse failure)
#* Successes gleaned from failures
# A panel of participants who have prepared in advance to answer moderator and audience questions about their experience with failure.
# A prepared reading assignment that we could all forget to read, creating a shared fail in order to start the preconference on the right foot.

I'll serve as a moderator (if needed) and participant and would welcome more organizers. I am happy to be outvoted by participants on any of these points--I just want to get us talking about our screw-ups, blind spots, and anvils dropping from the sky.

'''I plan on attending:'''
* First and last name
* Becky Yoose

=== Solr 4 In Depth ===
* Contact: Erik Hatcher (erik.hatcher at lucidworks.com)

The long awaited and much anticipated Solr 4 has been released! It's a really big deal. There are so many improvements, it makes the head spin. This session will cover the major feature improvements from Lucene's flexible indexing and scoring API up through SolrCloud in a digestable half-day format.

'''I plan on attending:'''
* First and last name
* Esmé Cowles
* Jon Stroop
* Adam Constabars
* Kevin Clarke
* Jacob Andresen

[[Category:Code4Lib2013]]

2013 preconference proposals

2012-12-05T22:36:29Z

Terrywbrady: /* Intro to Blacklight */

Proposals '''now closed'''.

Spaces available: 4+ Rooms

Please follow the formatting guidelines:
<pre>
=== Talk Title ===

* Presenter/Leader, affiliation (optional), and email address (mandatory!)
* Second Presenter/Leader, affiliation, email address, if applicable

Description.
</pre>

==Full Day==

===Drupal4lib Sub-con Barcamp===

* Contact [[User:highermath|Cary Gordon]], cgordon@chillco.com or
* [[User:cdmo|Charlie Morris]], NCSU Libraries, cdmorris@ncsu.edu

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.

If we run out of topics, we will pay homage to the project by testing patches for Drupal 8. It is easy, and we will show you how to do this invaluable task.

Local Drupal uber-ninja Larry Garfield will stop by to answer questions and give us some guidance.

'''I plan on attending:'''
* Kevin Reiss, Princeton University Library, kr2 at princeton.edu (afternoon only)
* Christina Salazar (afternoon only)

==Half Day Morning==
=== Open space session ===

* Dan Chudnov, dchud at gwu edu

The rest of code4libcon is pretty well structured these days; come in the morning for a few hours of old-school [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-space_technology open space technology] unconference. Bring a rough talk or idea you want to share or questions you have or something you want to learn about or discuss with other people, and be ready to tell us about it. Use it as extra prep time for your upcoming prepared or lightning talk if you want. We'll plan the morning out a little bit at the beginning, but not too much. What we do will be up to the people there in the room.

If there's interest, we could start with a "welcome to code4lib" introductory session for newcomers.

'''I plan on attending:'''
* Devon Smith
* First and last name
* Esmé Cowles
* Jason Casden

=== Delivery services ===
* Ted Lawless, Brown University Library, tlawless at brown edu.
* Kevin Reiss, Princeton University Library, kr2 at princeton edu.

Are you interested in making it easier for users to obtain copies of known items? Do you feel your OpenURL and Interlibrary Loan software could be streamlined? This pre-conference workshop will focus on providing services that deliver content to users. Discovery systems are doing a better job of exposing library holdings but there's still a lot of work to do actually get the content in the users hands.

Possible topics/activities include:
* panel discussion of what some libraries have done in this area
* comparisons of different approaches to addressing delivery
* overview of tools available
* sharing of strategies and experiences
* time to work with and review open source code in this area. Some possible tools to install and test out [https://github.com/team-umlaut/umlaut Umlaut], [https://github.com/lawlesst/py360link Py360 Link].

Resources and background information:
* [https://github.com/team-umlaut/umlaut/wiki/What-is-Umlaut-anyway What-is-Umlaut-anyway]
* [http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/7308 Hacking 360 Link: A hybrid approach]
* [http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/108 Auto-Populating an ILL form with the Serial Solutions Link Resolver API]
* [http://lawlesst.github.com/notebook/delivery.html Focusing on Delivery]

'''I plan on attending:'''
* First and last name

=== Intro to Blacklight ===
* Bess Sadler, Stanford University Library (bess at stanford.edu)
* Justin Coyne, MediaShelf (justin.coyne at yourmediashelf.com)

Blacklight (http://projectblacklight.org) is a free and open source discovery interface built on solr and ruby on rails. It is used by institutions such as Stanford University, University of Virginia, WGBH, Johns Hopkins University, the Rock and Roll hall of fame, and an ever expanding community of adopters and contributors. Blacklight can be used as a front-end discovery solution for an ILS, or the contents of a digital repository, or to provide a unified discovery solution for many siloed collections. In this workshop we will cover the basics of solr indexing and searching, setting up and customizing Blacklight, and leave time for Q&A around local issues people might encounter.

Note: this workshop can be a standalone intro, or attendees can follow up with the intro to hydra workshop in the afternoon.

'''I plan on attending:'''
* Linda Ballinger
* Terry Brady
* First and last name

=== RailsBridge Intro to Ruby on Rails ===
* Jason Ronallo, North Carolina State University Libraries, jnronall@ncsu.edu
* Mark Bussey, Data Curation Experts (mark at curationexperts.com)
* Shaun Ellis (helper), Princeton University Library, shaune@princeton.edu
* Ross Singer, Talis, rossfsinger@gmail.com
* Adam Wead (helper), Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, awead@rockhall.org
* Anyone else want to come and help folks? Contact Jason.

RailsBridge comes to code4lib! We'll follow the RailsBridge curriculum (http://railsbridge.org) to provide a gentle introduction to Ruby on Rails. Topics covered include an introduction to the Ruby language, the Rails framework, and version control with git. Participants will build a working Rails application.

There will be some pre-preconference preparation needed so that we can effectively use our time. Details to come.

* Note: Attendees can follow up with the Intro to Blacklight afternoon session, which will be tailored for folks new to Ruby

'''I plan on attending:'''
* First and last name
* Shawn Kiewel
* Jon Stroop
* Christina Salazar
* Karen Coombs - coombsk{at}oclc{dot}org
* Becky Yoose
* Jeremy Morse
* Julia Bauder
* Chung Kang
* Karen Miller

===Intro to NoSQL Databases===
* Joshua Gomez, George Washington University, jngomez at gwu edu

Since Google published its paper on BigTable in 2006, alternatives to the traditional relational database model have been growing in both variety and popularity. These new databases (often referred to as NoSQL databases) excel at handling problems faced by modern information systems that the traditional relational model cannot. They are particularly popular among organizations tackling the so-called "Big Data" problems. However, there are always tradeoffs involved when making such dramatic changes. Understanding how these different kinds of databases are designed and what they can offer is essential to the decision making process. In this precon I will discuss some of the various types of new databases (key-value, columnar, document, graph) and walk through examples or exercises using some of their open source implementations like Riak, HBase, CouchDB, and Neo4j.

'''I plan on attending:'''
* First and last name
* Esha Datta
* Trevor Thornton
* Michael Doran
* Ray Schwartz
* Kevin Clarke
* Andreas Orphanides
* Chung Kang
* Tommy Ingulfsen

==Half Day Afternoon==
=== Data Visualization Hackfest ===
* Chris Beer, cabeer at stanford.edu
* Dan Chudnov, dchud at gwu edu

* Description: Want to hack/design/plan/document on a team of people who enjoy learning by creating? Interested in data visualization? Well, this hackfest is for you. Not familiar with the concept of a hackfest? See Roy Tennant's [http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA332564.html "Where Librarians Go To Hack"] and the page for the [http://access2010.lib.umanitoba.ca/node/3.html Access 2010 Hackfest]. We propose a half-day hackfest with a focus on visualization library data -- think stuff like library catalog data, access/circulation statistics, etc. Here's how it works, roughly:
- we'll (you'll!) do lightning tutorials for some data visualization tools, toolkits (R? d3js? ?), datasets.
- we'll separate into groups and hack on stuff.
- at the end of the day, we'll present our progress.

Not a code hacker? No worries; all skill sets and backgrounds are valuable!

'''I plan on attending:'''
* First and last name
* Devon Smith
* Esha Datta
* Ray Schwartz
* Karen Coombs - coombsk{at}oclc{dot}org
* Julia Bauder
* Jason Stirnaman (jstirnaman at kumc.edu)
* Chung Kang

=== Intro to Hydra ===
* Adam Wead, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (awead at rockhall.org)
* Mike Giarlo, Penn State Information Technology Services (michael at psu.edu)
* Mark Bussey, Data Curation Experts (mark at curationexperts.com)

Hydra (http://projecthydra.org) is a free and open source repository solution that is being used by institutions on both sides of the North Atlantic to provide access to their digital content. Hydra provides a versatile and feature rich environment for end-users and repository administrators alike. Leveraging Blacklight as its front end discovery interface, the hydra project provides a suite of software components, data models, and design patterns for building a robust and sustainable digital repository, as well as a community of support for ongoing development. This workshop will provide an introduction to the hydra project and its software components. Attendees will leave with enough knowledge to get started building their own local repository solutions. This workshop will be led by Adam Wead of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

'''I plan on attending:'''
* Jeremy Prevost
* Dennis Ogg
* Linda Ballinger
* First and last name

=== Intro to Blacklight ===
* Bess Sadler, Stanford University Library (bess at stanford.edu)
* Justin Coyne, MediaShelf (justin.coyne at yourmediashelf.com)
* Jason Ronallo, NC State (jronallo at gmail.com)
* Shaun Ellis (helper), Princeton University Library, (shaune@princeton.edu)

Blacklight (http://projectblacklight.org) is a free and open source discovery interface built on solr and ruby on rails. It is used by institutions such as Stanford University, NC State, WGBH, Johns Hopkins University, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and an ever expanding community of adopters and contributors. Blacklight can be used as a front-end discovery solution for an ILS, or the contents of a digital repository, or to provide a unified discovery solution for many siloed collections. In this workshop we will cover the basics of solr indexing and searching, setting up and customizing Blacklight, and leave time for Q&A around local issues people might encounter.

Note: this workshop will be tailored as a follow-on to the morning's RailsBridge Intro to Ruby on Rails workshop, but everyone is welcome

'''I plan on attending:'''
* First and last name
* Shawn Kiewel
* Jon Stroop
* Jeremy Morse
* Karen Miller
* Tommy Ingulfsen

=== DPLA Intro/Hacking ===

* Presenter(s)/Leader(s): TBD
* Guy Who'd Be Interested in Helping: Jay Luker, Smithsonian Astrophysics Data System (jluker at cfa.harvard.edu)

This is a stub proposal entered solely to beat the submission deadline. I think there's be sufficient interest in this session, but only thought of it yesterday and haven't had time to coordinate with actual DPLA'ers and confirm that any of them are definitely coming.

'''I plan on attending:'''
* First and last name

=== Fail4lib ===
* Jason Casden, NCSU Libraries (jmcasden at ncsu.edu)
* Andreas Orphanides, NCSU Libraries (akorphan at ncsu.edu)

The Code4lib community is full of driven people who embrace the risks that are often associated with new projects. While these traits lead to the incredible projects that are presented at Code4lib, creative technical work also often leads to unexpected, vexing, or disappointing results even from eventually successful projects (however you define the term). Learning more about how our colleagues deal with failure in various contexts could lead to the development of better methods for communicating the value of productive failure, modifying project plans ("The Pivot"), and failing more cheaply.

Hopefully we can define the format as a group, but a fairly high level of participation is crucial if this is to be a worthwhile preconference. Some possible agenda items that could be mixed and matched to fill the afternoon:

# Given willing presenters, a series of 10-20 minute presentations that go into some depth about specific failures.
# Depending on the number of participants, either a multi- or single-track series of unconference-like themed discussions on various aspects of failure, possibly including themes like:
#* Technical failure
#* Failure to effectively address a real user need
#* Overinvestment
#* Outreach/Promotion failure
#* Design/UX failure
#* Project team communication failure
#* Missed opportunities (risk-averse failure)
#* Successes gleaned from failures
# A panel of participants who have prepared in advance to answer moderator and audience questions about their experience with failure.
# A prepared reading assignment that we could all forget to read, creating a shared fail in order to start the preconference on the right foot.

I'll serve as a moderator (if needed) and participant and would welcome more organizers. I am happy to be outvoted by participants on any of these points--I just want to get us talking about our screw-ups, blind spots, and anvils dropping from the sky.

'''I plan on attending:'''
* First and last name
* Becky Yoose

=== Solr 4 In Depth ===
* Contact: Erik Hatcher (erik.hatcher at lucidworks.com)

The long awaited and much anticipated Solr 4 has been released! It's a really big deal. There are so many improvements, it makes the head spin. This session will cover the major feature improvements from Lucene's flexible indexing and scoring API up through SolrCloud in a digestable half-day format.

'''I plan on attending:'''
* First and last name
* Esmé Cowles
* Jon Stroop
* Adam Constabars
* Kevin Clarke
* Jacob Andresen

[[Category:Code4Lib2013]]

2013 talks proposals

2012-10-15T17:23:24Z

Terrywbrady:

Deadline for talk submission is ''Friday, November 2'' at 5pm PT.

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

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

Please follow the formatting guidelines:

<pre>
== Talk Title ==

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

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

== Modernizing VuFind with Zend Framework 2 ==

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

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

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

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

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

== Drupal 8 Preview — Symfony and Twig ==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

== Touch Kiosk 2: Piezoelectric Boogaloo ==

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

== The Metadata Überset: Using a METS Document to Create and Update Fedora Data Streams ==

* Jennifer Eustis, University of Connecticut Libraries, jennifer.eustis@lib.uconn.edu

The University of Connecticut Libraries is currently building a Fedora digital repository. We investigated the viability of using, Islandora to meet our needs of an administration module on top of Fedora. As our analysis came to end, we found that Islandora did not meet all of our needs. On the one hand, Islandora was convenient in terms of a being an already existing solution with a robust support community. We also liked that Islandora created and updated the Dublin Core (DC) and Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS) data streams seamlessly in Fedora Digital Objects. This was because we had decided to use MODS as our normalized metadata standard for descriptive metadata. On the other hand, our content model architecture was more atomistic than that of Islandora. Our content creators felt that content should be managed in separate Fedora Digital Objects whereas Islandora managed content as data streams. Furthermore, our content creators wanted a more tailored management system that Islandora could not deliver. Because of these concerns, we decided to build our own repository management system.
This decision entailed rethinking how to replicate Islandora’s functionality of creating and updating the DC and MODS data streams. When speaking to the programmer on the project, one of his tasks was to ingest METS (Metadata Encoding Transmission Standard) documents from Archivematica into Fedora. The programmer and I talked about the idea of using METS as a metadata standard to help us create and update data streams. As the metadata librarian on the project, I also wanted a way to be able to update other types of metadata beyond the description such as important rights or preservation metadata, which would not be in the same data streams as the DC and/or MODS. Moreover, I knew that metadata would not be the same in all of our Fedora Digital Objects. Each of our Fedora Digital Objects would need to have data streams created and updated with appropriate metadata. This lead to the decision of using a METS document with all the relevant metadata needed to create and update data streams. All of our Fedora Digital Objects would have such a METS document. Because these METS documents dealt with a rather large portion of our available metadata, we began to refer to them as the superset and eventually the METS überset document. As a result, as the metadata librarian, I created a METS Profile for the METS überset document that has just been approved and registered by the Library of Congress.
In this presentation, I will describe my process of how the METS überset document came to be and the specifications outlined in its METS Profile. I will also highlight the lessons learned from the process.

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

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

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

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

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

== Quality Assurance Reports for DSpace Collections ==

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

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

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

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

[[Category:Code4Lib2013]]

2013 talks proposals

2012-10-15T17:18:57Z

Terrywbrady: