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<div>'''This page is under development'''<br />
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==Code4Lib 2011 social activities ==<br />
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[http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&msa=0&msid=201419377696104618083.000499eeb466dfb962201&ll=39.169964,-86.53008&spn=0.025286,0.03077&z=15 Code4Lib 2011 Google Map] - It's the ultimate plot device! See what others are recommending and recommend your own places to see and things to do!<br />
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[http://www.imu.indiana.edu/pdfs/imu/pdfs/IMU%20Map%202011.pdf Map of the Indiana Memorial Union] - The conference is happening [http://www.imu.indiana.edu/event/AlumniHall.mov here], and [http://www.imu.indiana.edu/img/rooms/whittenberger.jpg here], [http://www.imu.indiana.edu/img/rooms/solarium.jpg here], and [http://www.imu.indiana.edu/event/TreeSuitesRoom.mov here]. Use this map and you can probably find it all.<br />
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==Local events==<br />
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* [https://wiki.dlib.indiana.edu/confluence/display/EVENTS/Code4Lib+2011+Proposal Original Proposal (suggests some nearby events)]<br />
* February 5: [http://music.indiana.edu/events/?e=9221 New Music Ensemble] at Auer Hall, 8 p.m, with [http://www.parnasmusic.com/Index.html duo parnas] performing.<br />
* February 7: [http://music.indiana.edu/events/?e=9224 Jazz Ensemble] at Musical Arts Center, 8 p.m.<br />
* February 8: [http://www.theroommovie.com/screeningspop.html Tommy Wiseau's Love Is Blind Tour] (showing of "[[wikipedia:The Room (film)|The Room]]" w/ Q&amp;A!)<br />
* February 8: [http://music.indiana.edu/events/share.php?e=9225 IU Wind Ensemble] at Musical Arts Center - FREE!<br />
* February 9: [http://music.indiana.edu/events/share.php?e=9226 IU University Orchestra] at Musical Arts Center - FREE!<br />
* February 8 and 9: [http://www.iuauditorium.com/site/show-fiddler.html Fiddler on the Roof] at the IU Auditorium - $38-60<br />
* February 9: [http://dylanettinger.bandcamp.com/ Dylan Ettinger]/[http://www.myspace.com/kamkama Kam Kama] at The Bishop <br />
* February 10: Bob Marley's band [http://wailers.com/ Legendary Wailers] at [http://www.thebluebird.ws/ Bluebird Nightclub] - $20<br />
* February 10: Amy Schumer at [http://www.comedyattic.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=84:amy-schumer&Itemid=3 The Comedy Attic] - $13<br />
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Things to see:<br />
* Indiana University Art Museum: [http://www.iub.edu/~iuam/section.php?navSection=galleries New in the Galleries]<br />
* Indiana University SoFA Gallery: [http://www.indiana.edu/~sofa/exhibitions/iu-school-of-fine-arts-student-shows-1/ MFA Painting, Metals, Graphic Design, Ceramics, and Textiles]<br />
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==Recommended Restaurants/Bars (no particular order)==<br />
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* [http://www.the-uptown.com/ Uptown Café] - great for breakfast, lunch, or wine<br />
* [http://www.villagedeli.biz/ Village Deli] - can accommodate large crowds for breakfast or lunch<br />
* [http://grazieitalianeatery.com/Welcome.html Grazie] - Italian, great wine selection<br />
* Japanee (320 N. Walnut St) - Bento Box lunch – yum!<br />
* [http://www.maxsplace.info/ Max’s Place] - pizza and beer<br />
* [http://www.samirasrestaurant.com/ Samira] - Afghanistan cuisine – lunch buffet w/ roasted chicken<br />
* Shanti (221 E. Kirkwood Ave) - great for lunch<br />
* [http://www.esanthairestaurant.com/ Esan Thai] - delicious, but takeout only – slow service<br />
* [http://www.cafedjango.us/ Café Django] - Indian and Thai, great noodle dishes<br />
* [http://www.stefanoscafe.com/ Stefano’s Ice Café] - best chicken salad sandwich in town<br />
* [http://www.thelaughingplanetcafe.com/ Laughing Planet] - yummy burritos/nachos<br />
* [http://www.bbcbagel.com/ Bloomington Bagel Co.] - best bagels in town<br />
* RockIt's Pizza (222 N. Walnut St) - open late for a slice after visiting nearby bars<br />
* [http://www.farm-bloomington.com/ Farm] - fun little hipster whiskey bar in basement<br />
* [http://www.nicksenglishhut.com/ Nick's] - local meat, in-house batter for deep fried goodness<br />
* [http://www.bbcbloomington.com/ Lennie’s Bar & Grill] - local brew<br />
* [http://squaredonuts.com Square Donuts] - donuts that are square and fresh and you eat them zomg<br />
* [http://uplandbeer.com/ Upland Brewing Co.] - more local brew (different from Lennie's)<br />
* [http://www.irishlion.com/ The Irish Lion] - Irish pub, Guinness on tap<br />
* [http://www.bloomingpedia.org/wiki/Bloomington_Sandwich_Company Bloomington Sandwich Co.] - great for lunch, yummy reuben<br />
* Bub’s Burgers and Ice Cream (480 N. Morton St) - eat the giganto burger in a certain time limit, get your picture on the wall (if that's what you're into)<br />
* [http://www.yogis.com/ Yogi's Grill & Bar] - bazillion beer choices<br />
* Restaurant Ami (1500 E. 3rd St) - Japanese/Korean, great for lunch<br />
* [http://www.turkuazcafe.com/ Turkuaz Cafe] - Turkish, pides great for lunch<br />
* [http://www.crazyhorseindiana.com/ Crazy Horse] - also bazillion beer choices<br />
* [http://www.finchsbrasserie.com/ Finch's] - great wine selection<br />
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==Planned events==<br />
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Plan one if you like! Either on your own or you can [[2011 committees_sign-up_page|join the social activities committee]].<br />
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=== [[Craft Brew Drinkup]] ===<br />
''''Date/Time TBA.'''' Like good beer? Bring some in your luggage! Some of us are planning on bringing on bottles of our favorite local brews to share. Interested? Sign up on the [[Craft Brew Drinkup]] page!<br />
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=== Newcomer Dinner ===<br />
First time at code4lib? Join fellow c4l newbies and veterans for an evening of food, socializing, and stimulating discussions about the many uses of <strike>bacon</strike> dongles.<br />
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Code4Lib veterans, you're invited too. Join us in welcoming the newcomers!<br />
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'''Plans'''<br />
* When: Monday evening (2/7)<br />
* Time: 6 PM (ish)<br />
* Mastermind (if you have any questions): [mailto:yoosebj@muohio.edu Becky Yoose]<br />
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''Guidelines:''<br />
*Max of '''6''' per location<br />
**Please, no waitlisting :(<br />
*ID yourselves so we can get a good mix of new people and veterans in each group<br />
**New folks - n<br />
**c4l vets - v<br />
*One leader needed for each location (declare yourself! - '''Vets are highly encouraged to lead the group :)''')<br />
**Leader duties<br />
***Make reservations if required; otherwise make sure that the restaurant can handle a group of 6 rowdy library coders <br />
***Herd folks from hotel to restaurant (know where you're going!)<br />
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'''Restaurants'''<br />
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'''West Side of Campus (towards downtown)'''<br />
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'''Indiana Avenue''', across street from campus (5-10 minute walk)<br />
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[http://www.buffalouies.com/home.html Buffa Louie's] (Wings/Subs/Sandwiches) - Gables location on Indiana Avenue is historic site<br />
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'''4th St. between IMU and downtown square''' (10-15 minute walk)<br />
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[http://www.anyetsangs.com/ Anyetsang's Little Tibet] (Tibetan/Thai/Indian)<br />
*Dot Porter (leader) - n<br />
*Jason Ronallo - n<br />
*Ben Anderson - n<br />
*Bill Dueber - v<br />
*Julie Meloni - n<br />
*Jakub Skoczen - n<br />
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[http://www.siamhousebloomington.com/ Siam House] (Thai)<br />
*Becky Yoose (leader) - v<br />
*Margaret Heller - n<br />
*Bohyun Kim - n<br />
*Karen Hanson - v<br />
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Puccini's La Dolce Vita (Italian)<br />
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'''Kirkwood Ave. (5th St) between IMU and downtown square''' (10-15 minute walk)<br />
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[http://www.nicksenglishhut.com/ Nick's English Hut] (American Pub) - NOTE: web site plays IU fight song<br />
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[http://www.cafepizzaria.com/ Cafe Pizzaria] (Pizza)<br />
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[http://www.falafelsonline.com/Falafels/www.FalafelsOnline.com.html Falafels] (Middle Eastern)<br />
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[http://www.finchsbrasserie.com/ Finch's] (Gastropub-ish)<br />
* Cary Gordon (leader) - v<br />
* Michael Doran - v<br />
* Tim Daniels - n<br />
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*Note:* FARMbloomingon is closed on Mondays<br />
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[http://www.the-uptown.com/nonflash.html Michael's Uptown Cafe] (Cajun/Creole/American)<br />
*Julie Hardesty (leader) - n<br />
*Jean Rainwater - v<br />
*D Ruth Bavousett - n<br />
* Theodor T - n<br />
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[http://www.thetrojanhorse.com/ Trojan Horse] (Greek)<br />
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Shanti (Indian, Vegetarian options)<br />
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'''6th St. between IMU and downtown square''' (10-15 minute walk)<br />
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[http://www.runciblespoonrestaurant.com/ Runcible Spoon] (Variety, Vegetarian/Vegan options)<br />
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'''Grant St. between 3rd St. and 6th St.''', about halfway between IMU and downtown square (10-15 minute walk)<br />
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[http://cafedjango.us/ Cafe Django] (Indian, Thai, Vegetarian options)<br />
* Maccabee Levine (leader) - v<br />
* Andrew Darby - v<br />
* Michael Slone - n<br />
* Linda Ballinger - n<br />
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[http://www.bloomingpedia.org/wiki/Snow_Lion Snow Lion] (Tibetan, Indian, Vegetarian options)<br />
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'''Lincoln St. between 3rd St. and 6th St.''', about halfway between IMU and downtown square (15-20 minute walk)<br />
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[http://www.esanthairestaurant.com/ Esan Thai] (Thai, Vegetarian options)<br />
* Ryan Scherle (leader) - v<br />
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'''Downtown Square''' (20-25 minute walk)<br />
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[http://uplandbeer.com/ Upland Brewing] (Microbrewery)<br />
* THE ARCHITECT'S GROUP<br />
** Mike Giarlo (leader) - v<br />
** Jay Luker (wall dodger) - v<br />
** Benoit Thiell (french tickler) - n<br />
** Dan Suchy (designated non-driver) - v<br />
** Matt Critchlow (lupulin addict) - n<br />
** Esme Cowles (designated non-walker) -v<br />
* THE ARCHIVIST'S GROUP<br />
** Mark Matienzo (leader) - v<br />
** Joe Atzberger (agitator) - v<br />
** Hillel Arnold (intern) - n<br />
** Mark Custer (title tk) - n<br />
** Patrick Force (TBD) - n<br />
** Adam Wead (zymurgist) - n <br />
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[http://www.irishlion.com/ Irish Lion] (Irish Pub)<br />
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[http://www.crazyhorseindiana.com/ Crazy Horse] (American)<br />
* Joel Richard (leader, usurped) - v <br />
* Genevieve Francis - n<br />
* Ben Shum - n<br />
* Francis Kayiwa - (former leader) n<br />
* Roberto Hoyle - n<br />
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[http://www.grazieitalianeatery.com/Welcome.html Grazie] (Italian)<br />
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[http://www.samirasrestaurant.com/ Samira] (Afghanistan cuisine)<br />
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[http://www.opietaylors.com/welcome.html Opie Taylors] (American)<br />
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[http://www.malibugrill.net/ Malibu Grill] (California)<br />
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[http://www.littlezagreb.com/ Janko's Little Zagreb] (Steakhouse)<br />
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[http://www.bloomingpedia.org/wiki/El_Norteño El Norteño] (Mexican)<br />
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[http://www.maxsplace.info/ Max's Place] (Pizza)<br />
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[http://www.restauranttallent.com/ Tallent] (Local/Seasonal)<br />
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ULCERATIVE LOONS GROUP<br />
* Matt Zumwalt (leader) - v<br />
* Michael Levy - n<br />
* Devon Smith - v<br />
* Sean Hannan - v<br />
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Roots on the Square (Vegan/Vegetarian)<br />
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'''East Side of Campus (away from downtown)'''<br />
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'''10th St., east of Wells Library''' (10-15 minute walk)<br />
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[http://www.bbcbloomington.com/ Lennie's Bar & Grill] (Pizza/American)<br />
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'''3rd St., east of Music School''' (10-15 minute walk)<br />
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[http://www.motherbearspizza.com/index2.html Mother Bear's Pizza] (Pizza)<br />
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[http://www.macgyros.com/ The MAC] (Mediterranean)<br />
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[http://www.yelp.com/biz/red-chopsticks-bloomington Red Chopsticks] (Sushi/Asian Fusion)<br />
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Cafe Ami/Domo (Japanese/Korean)<br />
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=== "Social Network Dine Arounds" ===<br />
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Wednesday night. Not sure what these are. Make it up as you go. Be social, network, dine around.<br />
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<div>Deadline for talk submission is ''Saturday, November 13''. See [http://www.mail-archive.com/code4lib@listserv.nd.edu/msg08878.html this mailing list post for more details], or the general [http://code4lib.org/conference/2011 Code4Lib 2011] page.<br />
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See the [http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/2011talkscall_Call_for_Submissions Call for Submissions] for guidelines on appropriate topic talks and the criteria on which submissions are evaluated.<br />
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Please follow the formatting guidelines:<br />
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== Talk Title: ==<br />
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* Speaker's name, affiliation, and email address<br />
* Second speaker's name, affiliation, email address, if second speaker<br />
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Abstract of no more than 500 words.<br />
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== How "great" are the Great Books? ==<br />
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* Eric Lease Morgan, University of Notre Dame (emorgan at nd.edu)<br />
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In the 1960s a set of books called the Great Books of the Western World was published. It was supposed to represent the best of Western literature and enable the reader to further their liberal arts education. Sixty volumes in all, it included works by Plato, Aristotle, Shakespeare, Milton, Galileo, Kepler, Melville, Darwin, etc. These great books were selected based on the way they discussed a set of 102 "great ideas" such as art, astronomy, beauty, evil, evolution, mind, nature, poetry, revolution, science, will, wisdom, etc. How "great" are these books, and how "great" are the ideas expressed in them?<br />
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Given full text versions of these books it is almost trivial to use the "great ideas" as input and apply relevancy ranking algorithms against the texts thus creating a sort of score -- a "Great Ideas Coefficient". Term Frequency/Inverse Document Frequency (TFIDF) is a well-established algorithm for computing just this sort of thing:<br />
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relevancy = ( c / t ) * log( d / f ) where:<br />
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* c = number of times a given word appears in a document<br />
* t = total number of words in a document<br />
* d = total number of documents in a corpus<br />
* f = total number of documents containing a given word<br />
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Thus, to calculate our Great Ideas Coefficient I sum the relevancy score for each "great idea" for each "great book". Plato's Republic might have a cumulative score of 525 while Aristotle's On The History Of Animals might have a cumulative score of 251. Books with a larger Coefficient could be considered greater. Given such a score a person could measure a book's "greatness". We could then compare the score to the scores of other books. Which book is the "greatest"? We could compare the score to other measurable things such as book's length or date to see if there were correlations. Are "great books" longer or shorter than others? Do longer books contain more "great ideas"? Are there other books that were not included in the set that maybe should have been included?<br />
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The first part of this talk describes the different steps involved in the text pre-processing to calculate an accurate TFIDF value for each item of the corpus. The results and statistical analysis are discussed in the second part. Finally I will outline the remaining work such as refining the analysis and extending the current quantitative process to a web implementation.<br />
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== UNR BookFinder: Leveraging Google Books to Move Beyond Catalog Search ==<br />
* Will Kurt, University of Nevada, Reno, (wkurt at unr.edu)<br />
Google Books is a great tool, but it lacks an easy method allowing users to access the items they find through their library. The UNR BookFinder is a mashup of the Google Books and WorldCat APIs (and some ugly hacks) which allows users to search for items with the power of Google’s fulltext search while eliminating the need to search all of the library’s various resources to find an item. The UNR BookFinder automatically searches the catalog and consortial ILL for the item, if these fail an ILLiad request form as automatically filled out. The end result is that the user can explore an universe of books and access them as fast as possible through the university library. A video of the alpha version can be found [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaqcUSTtdVk here].<br />
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== Moving a large multi-tiered search architecture from dedicated hosts to the cloud ==<br />
* Peter Ciuffetti, Senior Software Engineer, Credo Reference Ltd. (pete at credoreference.com)<br />
So you want to move a large production search service from dedicated hosts to the cloud? The flexibility is enticing, the costs are attractive, the geek cred is undeniable. Our cloud adventure came with many undocumented surprises ranging from mysterious server behavior to sales engineers suggesting that 'maybe the cloud isn't for you'. We eventually made it all work and our production service is now on the cloud. This talk will cover what the cloud product FAQs don't say, what their tech support doesn't know (or won't say) and mistakes you can avoid by talking to the guys with the arrows in their backs.<br />
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== VuFind Beyond MARC: Discovering Everything Else ==<br />
* Demian Katz, Library Technology Development Specialist, Villanova University (demian dot katz at villanova dot edu)<br />
The VuFind[http://vufind.org] discovery layer has been providing a user-friendly interface to MARC records for several years now. However, library data consists of more than just MARC records, and VuFind has grown to accommodate just about anything you can throw at it. This presentation will examine the new workflows and tools that enable discovery of non-MARC resources and some of the non-traditional applications of VuFind that they make possible. Technologies covered will include OAI-PMH, XSLT, Aperture, Solr and, of course, VuFind itself.<br />
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== Linked data apps for medical professionals ==<br />
* Rurik Thomas Greenall, NTNU Library, (rurik dot greenall at ub dot ntnu dot no)<br />
The promise of linked data for libraries has yet to be realized, as a demonstration of the power of RDF, HTTP-URIs and SPARQL, NTNU Library together with the Norwegian Electronic Health Library produced a linked data representation of MeSH and created a small translation app that can be used to help health professionals identify the right term and apply it in their database searches. This talk presents the simple ways in which the core technologies and concepts in linked data provide a solid, time-saving way of developing usable applications.<br />
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== fiwalk With Me: Building Emergent Pre-Ingest Workflows for Digital Archival Records using Open Source Forensic Software ==<br />
* Mark A. Matienzo, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library (mark at matienzo dot org)<br />
Many of the complications of born-digital records involve preparing them for transfer into a storage or preservation environment. Digital evidence of any kind is easily susceptible to unintentional and intentional modification. This presentation will describe the use of open source forensic software in pre-ingest workflows for digital archives. Digital archivists and other digital curation practitioners can develop emergent processes to prepare records for ingest and transfer using a combination of relatively simple tools. The granularity and simplicity of these tools and procedures provides the possibility for their smooth integration into a digital curation environment built on micro-services.<br />
== Why (Code4) Libraries Exist ==<br />
* Eric Hellman, President, Gluejar, Inc. (eric at hellman dot net)<br />
Libraries have historically delivered value to society by facilitating the sharing of books. The library "brand" is built around the building and exploitation of their collections. These collections have been acquired and owned. As ebook readers become the preferred consumption platform for books, libraries are beginning to come to terms with the fact that they don't own their digital collections, and can't share books as they'd like to. Yet libraries continue to be valuable in many ways. In this transitional period, only one thing can save libraries from irrelevance and dissipation: Code.<br />
== The Story of TILE: Making Modular & Reusable Tools ==<br />
* Doug Reside, MITH, University of Maryland (dougreside at gmail dot com)<br />
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The Text Image Linking Environment (TILE) is a collaborative project between the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), the Digital Library Program at Indiana University, and the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University Bloomington. Since May 2009, the TILE project team has been developing through NEH Research & Development funding a web-based, modular, image markup tool for both semi-automated linking between encoded text and image of text, and image annotation. The software will be complete and ready for release in June 2011. <br />
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The basic functionality of TILE is to create links between images and text that relates to that image – either annotations or transcriptions. We have paid particular attention to linking between image of text and transcription of text. These links may be made manually, but the project also includes an algorithm, written in JavaScript, for recognizing text within an image and automatically associating the coordinates with a Unicode transcription. Additionally, the tool can import and export transcriptions and links from and to a variety of metadata formats (TEI, METS, OWL) and will provide an API for developers to write mappings for additional formats. Of course, this functionality is immediately useful to a relatively limited set of editors of digital materials, but we have made modularity and extensibility primary goals of the project.<br />
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Many members of the TILE development team are also members of the Open Annotation Collaboration (OAC), and have therefore attempted to develop TILE’s annotation features to be OAC compliant. Like OAC, TILE assumes that the text and the images to be linked may exist at separate and completely unconnected servers. When a user starts the TILE tool for the first time, she is prompted to supply a URI to a TILE compliant JSON file. <br />
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TILE’s JSON is simple and thoroughly documented, and we provide several translators to map common existing metadata formats to the format. We have already created a PHP script that will generate TILE JSON from a TEI P5 document and are currently working to do the same for the METS files used in the Indiana University’s METS navigator tool. <br />
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Additionally, TILE provides a modular exporting tool that allows users to run the work they’ve done in TILE through an external translator and then download the result to the client computer. For example, a user may import a set of images and transcripts from a METS file at the Library of Congress, use TILE to link images and text, and then export the result as a TEI file. The TEI file may then be reimported to TILE at a later data to further edit or convert the file.<br />
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At Code4Lib, we will demonstrate the functionality of TILE and display a poster and provide handouts that describe the thinking behind TILE, how it is intended to be used, and details on how TILE is built and functions.<br />
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== We Don’t Server Their Kind : Managing E-resources with Flat-File Databases ==<br />
* Junior Tidal, Multimedia and Web Services Librarian, New York City College of Technology, CUNY (jtidal at citytech dot cuny dot edu)<br />
Managing E-resources can be a daunting challenge. URLs, database names, and even vendors can change, go down, or simply cease to exist. My proposal involves the use of a PHP-based, flat-file database driven web tool for database management. The design of this program was to fulfill two needs: ease of use for librarians with a lack of programming experience and to meet the security and technical restrictions placed by the college’s IT department. My presentation will explore the development of this tool, challenges within its development, and future improvements. PHP code and the flat-file database will also be explained and provided to attendees. For a working demonstration feel free to visit the New York City College of Technology’s A-Z database [http://library.citytech.cuny.edu/research/AToZ/index.php page] or the subject database [http://library.citytech.cuny.edu/research/subject/index.php page].<br />
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== Drupal 7 as a Rapid Application Development Tool ==<br />
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* Cary Gordon, President, The Cherry Hill Company & Board Member, The Drupal Association (cgordon at chillco dawt com)<br />
Five years ago, I discovered that the Drupal CMS had a programming framework disguised as an API, and learned that I could use it to solve problems.<br />
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Drupal 7 builds on that to provide a powerful toolset for interfacing with, manipulating and presenting data. It empowers tool-builders by providing a minimal install option, along with a more powerful installation profile system makes it easier for developers to package and distribute their applications.<br />
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== Helping Open Source Succeed ==<br />
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* [[User:DataGazetteer|Peter Murray]], LYRASIS, [mailto:Peter.Murray@lyrasis.org Peter.Murray@lyrasis.org] <br />
* Tim Daniels, LYRASIS, [mailto:Tim.Daniels@lyrasis.org Tim.Daniels@lyrasis.org]<br />
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Deciding if open source is an option for your institution, or what open source software matches your institution’s needs and capabilities, is a complex decision. LYRASIS is developing a new area of focus to assist libraries with decision tools and an open source software registry. We want to learn from the creators of open source software what questions institutions have when considering the adoption of open source software and what information you would like to see in a registry that compares various open source tools. A summary of topics discussed in this session will be openly published as part of LYRASIS’ program development plans and decision support resources.<br />
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The mission of the new and emerging LYRASIS Technology Services area is to serve members and the broader library community as a provider of expertise and capacity in open source based technology solutions. We think that viable roles for an organization supporting open source software are to: a) Increase understanding of open source technology within the library community, including value, benefits, risks, and costs; b) Assist in decision-making by providing resources to help libraries evaluate open source technologies, institutional readiness, and capacity for adoption; c) Support adoption and use of open source technologies and systems within libraries and consortia; d) Foster integration of open source software tools to expand the ability of existing programs to meet a range of library user needs; e) Develop and test new open source software programs, and contribute to the development of existing programs; f) Support long-term sustainability of viable, library-based open source software and systems. We recognize that these roles exist to some extent on a continuum, with latter services related to development and sustainability building on the knowledge and experience gained through deployment of existing open source systems. In turn, effective adoption and use depends on understanding open source systems and having resources to assist in decision-making and implementation.<br />
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With open source software in the “innovator” and “early adopter” stages in the library community, we intend to focus its initial efforts on roles A-D in the above list: increased understanding, decision-support, and effective adoption and integration of existing library-focused open source systems. This session is focused on the decision-support services area of activity.<br />
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The impact of this session is expected to be far reaching, if initially subtle. With most of the session time devoted to discussion and interaction among peers on questions surrounding the adoption of open source software, participants will take away a deeper understanding of topics each institution should consider when looking at open source software. These findings, along with that of similar sessions around the country, will inform the creation and expansion of the free decision support tools being developed by LYRASIS.<br />
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== Letting in the light: using Solr as an external search component ==<br />
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* Jay Luker, IT Specialist, ADS (jluker at cfa dot harvard dot edu)<br />
* Benoit Thiell, software developer, ADS (bthiell at cfa dot harvard dot edu)<br />
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It’s well-established that [http://lucene.apache.org/solr/ Solr] provides an excellent foundation for building a faceted search engine. But what if your application’s foundation has already been constructed? How do you add Solr as a federated, fulltext search component to an existing system that already provides a full set of well-crafted scoring and ranking mechanisms?<br />
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This talk will describe a work-in-progress project at the [http://adswww.harvard.edu/ Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System] to migrate its aging search platform to [http://invenio-software.org/ Invenio], an open-source institutional repository and digital library system originally developed at CERN, while at the same time incorporating Solr as an external component for both faceting and fulltext search.<br />
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In this presentation we'll start with a short introduction of Invenio and then move on to the good stuff: an in-depth exploration of our use of Solr. We'll explain the challenges that we faced, what we learned about some particular Solr internals, interesting paths we chose not to follow, and the solutions we finally developed, including the creation of custom Solr request handlers and query parser classes.<br />
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This presentation will be quite technical and will show a measure of horrible Java code. Benoit will probably run away during that part.<br />
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== Working with DuraCloud: How to preserve your data in the cloud ==<br />
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* Bill Branan, DuraSpace, bbranan at duraspace dot org<br />
* Andrew Woods, DuraSpace, awoods at duraspace dot org<br />
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Ever expanding digital collections have become the norm in academic libraries. As the size of collections grow, the need for simple-to-deploy yet powerful preservation strategies becomes increasingly important. The [http://duracloud.org DuraCloud] project, a cloud-hosted service for data management and preservation, is committed to bringing the availability and elasticity of the cloud to bear on the issue of digital preservation. This session will discuss the APIs and tools which can be used to communicate and integrate with the DuraCloud platform, providing an immediate connection to scalable storage available from multiple cloud storage providers, configurable services which can be run over your content out-of-the-box, and a development platform which can serve as the basis for ongoing data mining and analysis.<br />
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== Visualizing Library Data ==<br />
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* Karen Coombs, OCLC, coombsk at oclc dot org<br />
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Visualizations can be powerful tools to give context to library users<br />
and to provide a clear picture for data-driven decision-making in<br />
libraries. Map mashups, tag clouds and timelines can be used to show<br />
information to users in new ways and help them locate materials to meet<br />
their needs. QR codes can help link users to materials that libraries<br />
have in their collections. Charts and graphs can be used to help analyze<br />
library collections (holdings) and compare them to other libraries. This<br />
session will show prototypes which combine tools like Google Chart API,<br />
Protovis and Simile Widgets with data from WorldCat, WorldCat Registry,<br />
Classify, Terminology Services, and Dewey.info to create vivid<br />
illustrations in library user interfaces and administration tools.<br />
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== Kuali OLE: Architecture for Diverse and Linked Data ==<br />
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* Tim McGeary, Lehigh University, Kuali OLE Functional Council, tim dot mcgeary at lehigh dot edu<br />
* Brad Skiles, Project Manager, Kuali OLE, Indiana University, bradskil at indiana dot edu<br />
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With programming scheduled to be begin in January 2011 on the Kuali Open Library Environment (OLE), the Kuali OLE Functional Council is developing the requirements for an architecture for diverse data sets and linked data. With no frontrunner for one bibliographic data standard, and local requirements on what data will be accompanying or linked to the main record store, Kuali OLE needs to build a flexible environment for records management and access.<br />
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We will present the concepts of our planned architecture, a multi-repository framework, using a document repository, a semantic repository, and a relational repository, brokered on top of the enterprise service bus of Kuali Rice. As a community source project, this is an opportunity for the Kuali OLE partners to present our plans for discussion with the community, and we look forward to feedback, questions, and comments. <br />
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== One Week | One Tool: ultra-rapid open source development among strangers ==<br />
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* Scott Hanrath, University of Kansas Libraries, shanrath at ku dot edu<br />
* Jason Casden, North Carolina State University Libraries, jason_casden at ncsu dot edu<br />
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In summer 2010, the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, supported by an NEH Summer Institute grant, gathered 12 'digital humanists' for an intense week of collaboration they dubbed 'One Week | One Tool: a digital humanities barn raising.' The group -- several of whom hang their professional hats in libraries and most of whom were previously unacquainted -- was asked to spend one week together brainstorming, specifying, building, publicizing, and releasing an open source software tool of use to the digital humanities community. The result was Anthologize, a free, open-source, plugin that transforms WordPress into a platform for publishing electronic texts in formats including PDF, ePub, and TEI; in other words, a "blog-to-book" tool. This presentation will focus on how One Week | One Tool addressed the challenges of collaborative open source development. From the perspectives of two library coders on the team, we will describe and provide lessons learned from the One Week development process including: how the group structured itself without predefined roles; how the one week time frame and makeup of the group -- which included scholars, grad students, librarians, museum professionals, instructional technologists, and more -- influenced planning and development decisions; the roles of user experience and outreach efforts; the life of Anthologize since the end of the week; and thoughts on what a one week, one 'library' tool could look like.<br />
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== Improving the presentation of library data using FRBR and linked data ==<br />
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* Anne-Lena Westrum, Oslo Public Library (annelena at deichman dot no)<br />
* Asgeir Rekkavik, Oslo Public Library (asgeirr at deichman dot no)<br />
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The Pode project at Oslo Public Library has experimented on the automated FRBRizing of catalogue records, as well as expressing bibliographic descriptions as linked data to enrich catalogue browsing with information from external sources.<br />
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When a library enduser searches the online catalogue for works by a particular author, he will typically get a long list that contain all the different translations and editions of all the books by that author, sorted by title or date of issue. The Pode project applied a method of automated FRBRizing, based on the information contained in MARC records, RDF representation and SPARQL queries, to demonstrate how an author's complete production can be presented as a lucid list of unique works, that can easily be browsed by their different expressions and manifestations. Furthermore, by linking instances in the dataset to matching or corresponding instances in external sets, the presentation can be enriched with additional information about authors and works, as well as links to electronic full-text representations. <br />
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The talk will also present the work on making an RDF representation of the catalogue records for the whole collection of non-fiction documents at the Norwegian Multilingual library, linking subject headings and Dewey classes, and allowing endusers to browse the collection by the multilingual Dewey class labels published by OCLC at http://dewey.info.<br />
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The talk will focus on the challenges technological progresses such as these raise for cataloguers, to deliver consistent and standardized catalogue records. Many cataloguers have a local and pragmatic focus on the library's own and already existing services. Attitudes like this might represent a problem when emerging technologies find new applications for library catalogue data, as well as when the library wants to use data submitted by others to enrich their own services.<br />
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== Touch and go: building a touch screen kiosk with software you already own ==<br />
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* Andreas K. Orphanides, North Carolina State University Libraries, akorphan at ncsu dot edu<br />
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In October 2010, the NCSU Libraries debuted its first public touch-screen information kiosk, designed to provide on-demand access to useful and commonly consulted real-time displays of library information. With the exception of the touchscreen itself, the system was created using commonly available free software and off-the-shelf hardware. In this presentation, I will describe the process for creating the touchscreen interface that is used in this kiosk. I will walk through the challenges of developing for a touch-optimized environment in HTML and JavaScript; I will describe how free utilities and web browser plugins may be combined to secure a public touchscreen kiosk; and I will present a data analysis of touchscreen usage since the kiosk's rollout to evaluate content selection and interface design.<br />
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== Next-L Enju, NDL Search and library geeks in Japan ==<br />
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* Kosuke Tanabe, Keio University, tanabe at mwr dot mediacom dot keio dot ac dot jp<br />
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[http://github.com/next-l Next-L Enju ] is an open source integrated library system developed by Project Next-L, the library geek community in Japan launched on November 2006. It is built on open-source software (Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL/MySQL and Solr) and supports modern ILS features (e.g. FRBR structure and RESTful WebAPI).<br />
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Enju has been inplemented by some libraries, which include National Diet Library (NDL), the largest library in Japan. NDL has chosen Enju to provide a new search engine, called "NDL Search" and added some extra features (e.g. automatic FRBRization and providing bibliographic data in a Linked Data format) . The development version is available at http://iss.ndl.go.jp/ .<br />
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I'm one of the authors of Next-L Enju. I'd like to talk about the overview and structure of Next-L Enju, NDL Search and the activities of our project.<br />
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== Hydra Framework: A community based approach to developing a Digital Exhibit at Notre Dame ==<br />
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* Rick Johnson, University of Notre Dame, (rick dot johnson at nd dot edu)<br />
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At the dawn of the American Revolution, Ben Franklin quipped that "we must hang together, or surely we will hang apart."<br />
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The scope of managing, preserving, and interacting with digital content is too much for any one institution to conquer by itself. It's time to stop working by ourselves and start working together. Based on these principles the Hydra project was born in 2008 out of the Universities of Hull, Stanford and Virginia while partnering with Fedora Commons. The Hydra framework combines the efforts of the Blacklight, ActiveFedora, Solr, and Fedora Commons communities to provide a toolkit of reusable components to meet a diversity of content management needs.<br />
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Through connections we made at Code4Lib2010, it was immediately clear that the Hydra project's design and development philosophies complement our philosophies at the University of Notre Dame.<br />
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Come explore how we at Notre Dame have been welcomed into this community of developers, have adopted the Hydra Framework for our own Digital Repository efforts, and how we have utilized the common Hydra codebase to develop our own "Hydra Head" for Digital Exhibits. We will cover Hydra features such as inline editing of metadata, generation of metadata xml, search, and browsing a collection.<br />
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The Hydra Project is actively seeking partnerships with other institutions to extend its efforts. Will your institution be next?<br />
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More about the [https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/hydra/The+Hydra+Project Hydra Project]:<br />
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Hydra is a multi-institutional, multi-functional, multi-purpose framework that addresses digital content management on twin fronts. As a technical framework, it provides a toolkit of reusable components that can be combined and configured in different arrays to meet a diversity of content management needs. As a community framework, Hydra provides like-minded institutions with the mechanism to combine their individual development efforts, resources and priorities into a collective solution with breadth and depth that exceeds the capacity of any single institution to create, maintain or enhance on its own.<br />
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Hydra's ultimate objective is to effectively intertwine its technical and community threads of development, producing a community-sourced, sustainable application framework that provides rich and robust repository-powered solutions as an integrated part of an overall digital content management architecture. Such solutions can meet the distinct needs of digital library, institutional repository, discipline repository, research, preservation and publishing workflows.<br />
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== Mendeley's API and University Libraries: 3 examples to create value ==<br />
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* Jan Reichelt, Co-Founder, Mendeley<br />
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Mendeley (http://www.mendeley.com) is a technology startup that is helping to revolutionize the way research is done. Used by more than 600,000 academics and industry researchers, Mendeley enables researchers to arrange collaborative projects, work and discuss in groups, as well as share data across its web platform. Launched in London in December 2008, Mendeley is already the world’s largest research collaboration platform. Through this platform, we anonymously pools users’ research paper collections, creating a crowd-sourced research database with a unique layer of social information - each research paper is connected with socio-demographic information about its audience. <br />
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Based on this platform and data, I will present three examples of how Mendeley is working to support university libraries and contribute to opening up academic research:<br />
1) Mendeley’s integration as a workflow tool with institutional repositories with the aim of increasing IR deposit rates;<br />
2) Application examples building on Mendeley’s API to showcase what is possible with the newly available type of usage data Mendeley is aggregating;<br />
3) Preview of Mendeley’s library dashboard that will reveal content usage within an institution.<br />
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I would also hope that a subsequent discussion can address how you (the attendees) could envision Mendeley’s future in the library tech community.<br />
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== ArticlesPlus: Summon API Client Implementation and Integration with Drupal 6 ==<br />
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* Albert Bertram, University of Michigan (bertrama@umich.edu)<br />
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On September 27, 2010, the University of Michigan launched ArticlesPlus, an application for web-scale article discovery using the Serials Solutions' Summon service as its search engine. Rather than providing a search box which sent our patrons to the interface provided by Serials Solutions, we used Summon's API to integrate the search as a feature of our library's website. In addition to Summon as the search engine, we used our Drupal instance for the interface engine.<br />
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I propose to talk about how we implemented the Summon API, the Drupal module we developed in to access the Summon API, problems with implementing an interface ourselves, benefits of implementing the interface ourselves, and plans for future expansion or improved integration in our website.<br />
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== Let's Get Small: A Microservices Approach to Library Websites ==<br />
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* Sean Hannan, Johns Hopkins University, shannan at jhu dot edu<br />
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Most, if not all, library websites are housed and maintained in singular, monolithic content management systems. This is fantastic if the library website is the one place your users go for library information. But it isn't. Users are going to Facebook, checking mobile applications, browsing portals as well as checking the library website. Wouldn't it be great if you could update the information on all of these sites from a single source? Why maintain the library hours in five different places?<br />
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In this talk, I will show how breaking the construction of the library website into as-needed, swappable microservices can free your content to live where it needs to, as well as free you from the maintenance headaches usually involved. What kind of microservices, you ask? Well, basic templating and styling is a given, but how about a microservice that gracefully degrades your layouts for older browsers? Or enforces highfalutin typographic rules? Or optimizes your site assets to improve load times? All wonderful little black boxes that allow you to focus on the website and its content, and not the details.<br />
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I promise at least one diagram. That will burn your eyes.<br />
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== How "great" are the Great Books? ==<br />
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* Eric Lease Morgan, University of Notre Dame (emorgan at nd.edu)<br />
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In the 1960s a set of books called the Great Books of the Western World was published. It was supposed to represent the best of Western literature and enable the reader to further their liberal arts education. Sixty volumes in all, it included works by Plato, Aristotle, Shakespeare, Milton, Galileo, Kepler, Melville, Darwin, etc. These great books were selected based on the way they discussed a set of 102 "great ideas" such as art, astronomy, beauty, evil, evolution, mind, nature, poetry, revolution, science, will, wisdom, etc. How "great" are these books, and how "great" are the ideas expressed in them?<br />
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Given full text versions of these books it is almost trivial to use the "great ideas" as input and apply relevancy ranking algorithms against the texts thus creating a sort of score -- a "Great Ideas Coefficient". Term Frequency/Inverse Document Frequency (TFIDF) is a well-established algorithm for computing just this sort of thing:<br />
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relevancy = ( c / t ) * log( d / f ) where:<br />
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* c = number of times a given word appears in a document<br />
* t = total number of words in a document<br />
* d = total number of documents in a corpus<br />
* f = total number of documents containing a given word<br />
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Thus, to calculate our Great Ideas Coefficient I sum the relevancy score for each "great idea" for each "great book". Plato's Republic might have a cumulative score of 525 while Aristotle's On The History Of Animals might have a cumulative score of 251. Books with a larger Coefficient could be considered greater. Given such a score a person could measure a book's "greatness". We could then compare the score to the scores of other books. Which book is the "greatest"? We could compare the score to other measurable things such as book's length or date to see if there were correlations. Are "great books" longer or shorter than others? Do longer books contain more "great ideas"? Are there other books that were not included in the set that maybe should have been included?<br />
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The first part of this talk describes the different steps involved in the text pre-processing to calculate an accurate TFIDF value for each item of the corpus. The results and statistical analysis are discussed in the second part. Finally I will outline the remaining work such as refining the analysis and extending the current quantitative process to a web implementation.<br />
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== UNR BookFinder: Leveraging Google Books to Move Beyond Catalog Search ==<br />
* Will Kurt, University of Nevada, Reno, (wkurt at unr.edu)<br />
Google Books is a great tool, but it lacks an easy method allowing users to access the items they find through their library. The UNR BookFinder is a mashup of the Google Books and WorldCat APIs (and some ugly hacks) which allows users to search for items with the power of Google’s fulltext search while eliminating the need to search all of the library’s various resources to find an item. The UNR BookFinder automatically searches the catalog and consortial ILL for the item, if these fail an ILLiad request form as automatically filled out. The end result is that the user can explore an universe of books and access them as fast as possible through the university library. A video of the alpha version can be found [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaqcUSTtdVk here].<br />
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== Moving a large multi-tiered search architecture from dedicated hosts to the cloud ==<br />
* Peter Ciuffetti, Senior Software Engineer, Credo Reference Ltd. (pete at credoreference.com)<br />
So you want to move a large production search service from dedicated hosts to the cloud? The flexibility is enticing, the costs are attractive, the geek cred is undeniable. Our cloud adventure came with many undocumented surprises ranging from mysterious server behavior to sales engineers suggesting that 'maybe the cloud isn't for you'. We eventually made it all work and our production service is now on the cloud. This talk will cover what the cloud product FAQs don't say, what their tech support doesn't know (or won't say) and mistakes you can avoid by talking to the guys with the arrows in their backs.<br />
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== VuFind Beyond MARC: Discovering Everything Else ==<br />
* Demian Katz, Library Technology Development Specialist, Villanova University (demian dot katz at villanova dot edu)<br />
The VuFind[http://vufind.org] discovery layer has been providing a user-friendly interface to MARC records for several years now. However, library data consists of more than just MARC records, and VuFind has grown to accommodate just about anything you can throw at it. This presentation will examine the new workflows and tools that enable discovery of non-MARC resources and some of the non-traditional applications of VuFind that they make possible. Technologies covered will include OAI-PMH, XSLT, Aperture, Solr and, of course, VuFind itself.<br />
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== Linked data apps for medical professionals ==<br />
* Rurik Thomas Greenall, NTNU Library, (rurik dot greenall at ub dot ntnu dot no)<br />
The promise of linked data for libraries has yet to be realized, as a demonstration of the power of RDF, HTTP-URIs and SPARQL, NTNU Library together with the Norwegian Electronic Health Library produced a linked data representation of MeSH and created a small translation app that can be used to help health professionals identify the right term and apply it in their database searches. This talk presents the simple ways in which the core technologies and concepts in linked data provide a solid, time-saving way of developing usable applications.<br />
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== fiwalk With Me: Building Emergent Pre-Ingest Workflows for Digital Archival Records using Open Source Forensic Software ==<br />
* Mark A. Matienzo, Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library (mark at matienzo dot org)<br />
Many of the complications of born-digital records involve preparing them for transfer into a storage or preservation environment. Digital evidence of any kind is easily susceptible to unintentional and intentional modification. This presentation will describe the use of open source forensic software in pre-ingest workflows for digital archives. Digital archivists and other digital curation practitioners can develop emergent processes to prepare records for ingest and transfer using a combination of relatively simple tools. The granularity and simplicity of these tools and procedures provides the possibility for their smooth integration into a digital curation environment built on micro-services.<br />
== Why (Code4) Libraries Exist ==<br />
* Eric Hellman, President, Gluejar, Inc. (eric at hellman dot net)<br />
Libraries have historically delivered value to society by facilitating the sharing of books. The library "brand" is built around the building and exploitation of their collections. These collections have been acquired and owned. As ebook readers become the preferred consumption platform for books, libraries are beginning to come to terms with the fact that they don't own their digital collections, and can't share books as they'd like to. Yet libraries continue to be valuable in many ways. In this transitional period, only one thing can save libraries from irrelevance and dissipation: Code.<br />
== The Story of TILE: Making Modular & Reusable Tools ==<br />
* Doug Reside, MITH, University of Maryland (dougreside at gmail dot com)<br />
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The Text Image Linking Environment (TILE) is a collaborative project between the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), the Digital Library Program at Indiana University, and the School of Library and Information Science at Indiana University Bloomington. Since May 2009, the TILE project team has been developing through NEH Research & Development funding a web-based, modular, image markup tool for both semi-automated linking between encoded text and image of text, and image annotation. The software will be complete and ready for release in June 2011. <br />
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The basic functionality of TILE is to create links between images and text that relates to that image – either annotations or transcriptions. We have paid particular attention to linking between image of text and transcription of text. These links may be made manually, but the project also includes an algorithm, written in JavaScript, for recognizing text within an image and automatically associating the coordinates with a Unicode transcription. Additionally, the tool can import and export transcriptions and links from and to a variety of metadata formats (TEI, METS, OWL) and will provide an API for developers to write mappings for additional formats. Of course, this functionality is immediately useful to a relatively limited set of editors of digital materials, but we have made modularity and extensibility primary goals of the project.<br />
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Many members of the TILE development team are also members of the Open Annotation Collaboration (OAC), and have therefore attempted to develop TILE’s annotation features to be OAC compliant. Like OAC, TILE assumes that the text and the images to be linked may exist at separate and completely unconnected servers. When a user starts the TILE tool for the first time, she is prompted to supply a URI to a TILE compliant JSON file. <br />
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TILE’s JSON is simple and thoroughly documented, and we provide several translators to map common existing metadata formats to the format. We have already created a PHP script that will generate TILE JSON from a TEI P5 document and are currently working to do the same for the METS files used in the Indiana University’s METS navigator tool. <br />
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Additionally, TILE provides a modular exporting tool that allows users to run the work they’ve done in TILE through an external translator and then download the result to the client computer. For example, a user may import a set of images and transcripts from a METS file at the Library of Congress, use TILE to link images and text, and then export the result as a TEI file. The TEI file may then be reimported to TILE at a later data to further edit or convert the file.<br />
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At Code4Lib, we will demonstrate the functionality of TILE and display a poster and provide handouts that describe the thinking behind TILE, how it is intended to be used, and details on how TILE is built and functions.<br />
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== We Don’t Server Their Kind : Managing E-resources with Flat-File Databases ==<br />
* Junior Tidal, Multimedia and Web Services Librarian, New York City College of Technology, CUNY (jtidal at citytech dot cuny dot edu)<br />
Managing E-resources can be a daunting challenge. URLs, database names, and even vendors can change, go down, or simply cease to exist. My proposal involves the use of a PHP-based, flat-file database driven web tool for database management. The design of this program was to fulfill two needs: ease of use for librarians with a lack of programming experience and to meet the security and technical restrictions placed by the college’s IT department. My presentation will explore the development of this tool, challenges within its development, and future improvements. PHP code and the flat-file database will also be explained and provided to attendees. For a working demonstration feel free to visit the New York City College of Technology’s A-Z database [http://library.citytech.cuny.edu/research/AToZ/index.php page] or the subject database [http://library.citytech.cuny.edu/research/subject/index.php page].<br />
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== Drupal 7 as a Rapid Application Development Tool ==<br />
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* Cary Gordon, President, The Cherry Hill Company & Board Member, The Drupal Association (cgordon at chillco dawt com)<br />
Five years ago, I discovered that the Drupal CMS had a programming framework disguised as an API, and learned that I could use it to solve problems.<br />
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Drupal 7 builds on that to provide a powerful toolset for interfacing with, manipulating and presenting data. It empowers tool-builders by providing a minimal install option, along with a more powerful installation profile system makes it easier for developers to package and distribute their applications.<br />
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== Helping Open Source Succeed ==<br />
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* [[User:DataGazetteer|Peter Murray]], LYRASIS, [mailto:Peter.Murray@lyrasis.org Peter.Murray@lyrasis.org] <br />
* Tim Daniels, LYRASIS, [mailto:Tim.Daniels@lyrasis.org Tim.Daniels@lyrasis.org]<br />
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Deciding if open source is an option for your institution, or what open source software matches your institution’s needs and capabilities, is a complex decision. LYRASIS is developing a new area of focus to assist libraries with decision tools and an open source software registry. We want to learn from the creators of open source software what questions institutions have when considering the adoption of open source software and what information you would like to see in a registry that compares various open source tools. A summary of topics discussed in this session will be openly published as part of LYRASIS’ program development plans and decision support resources.<br />
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The mission of the new and emerging LYRASIS Technology Services area is to serve members and the broader library community as a provider of expertise and capacity in open source based technology solutions. We think that viable roles for an organization supporting open source software are to: a) Increase understanding of open source technology within the library community, including value, benefits, risks, and costs; b) Assist in decision-making by providing resources to help libraries evaluate open source technologies, institutional readiness, and capacity for adoption; c) Support adoption and use of open source technologies and systems within libraries and consortia; d) Foster integration of open source software tools to expand the ability of existing programs to meet a range of library user needs; e) Develop and test new open source software programs, and contribute to the development of existing programs; f) Support long-term sustainability of viable, library-based open source software and systems. We recognize that these roles exist to some extent on a continuum, with latter services related to development and sustainability building on the knowledge and experience gained through deployment of existing open source systems. In turn, effective adoption and use depends on understanding open source systems and having resources to assist in decision-making and implementation.<br />
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With open source software in the “innovator” and “early adopter” stages in the library community, we intend to focus its initial efforts on roles A-D in the above list: increased understanding, decision-support, and effective adoption and integration of existing library-focused open source systems. This session is focused on the decision-support services area of activity.<br />
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The impact of this session is expected to be far reaching, if initially subtle. With most of the session time devoted to discussion and interaction among peers on questions surrounding the adoption of open source software, participants will take away a deeper understanding of topics each institution should consider when looking at open source software. These findings, along with that of similar sessions around the country, will inform the creation and expansion of the free decision support tools being developed by LYRASIS.<br />
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== Letting in the light: using Solr as an external search component ==<br />
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* Jay Luker, IT Specialist, ADS (jluker at cfa dot harvard dot edu)<br />
* Benoit Thiell, software developer, ADS (bthiell at cfa dot harvard dot edu)<br />
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It’s well-established that [http://lucene.apache.org/solr/ Solr] provides an excellent foundation for building a faceted search engine. But what if your application’s foundation has already been constructed? How do you add Solr as a federated, fulltext search component to an existing system that already provides a full set of well-crafted scoring and ranking mechanisms?<br />
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This talk will describe a work-in-progress project at the [http://adswww.harvard.edu/ Smithsonian/NASA Astrophysics Data System] to migrate its aging search platform to [http://invenio-software.org/ Invenio], an open-source institutional repository and digital library system originally developed at CERN, while at the same time incorporating Solr as an external component for both faceting and fulltext search.<br />
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In this presentation we'll start with a short introduction of Invenio and then move on to the good stuff: an in-depth exploration of our use of Solr. We'll explain the challenges that we faced, what we learned about some particular Solr internals, interesting paths we chose not to follow, and the solutions we finally developed, including the creation of custom Solr request handlers and query parser classes.<br />
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This presentation will be quite technical and will show a measure of horrible Java code. Benoit will probably run away during that part.<br />
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== Working with DuraCloud: How to preserve your data in the cloud ==<br />
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* Bill Branan, DuraSpace, bbranan at duraspace dot org<br />
* Andrew Woods, DuraSpace, awoods at duraspace dot org<br />
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Ever expanding digital collections have become the norm in academic libraries. As the size of collections grow, the need for simple-to-deploy yet powerful preservation strategies becomes increasingly important. The [http://duracloud.org DuraCloud] project, a cloud-hosted service for data management and preservation, is committed to bringing the availability and elasticity of the cloud to bear on the issue of digital preservation. This session will discuss the APIs and tools which can be used to communicate and integrate with the DuraCloud platform, providing an immediate connection to scalable storage available from multiple cloud storage providers, configurable services which can be run over your content out-of-the-box, and a development platform which can serve as the basis for ongoing data mining and analysis.<br />
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== Visualizing Library Data ==<br />
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* Karen Coombs, OCLC, coombsk at oclc dot org<br />
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Visualizations can be powerful tools to give context to library users<br />
and to provide a clear picture for data-driven decision-making in<br />
libraries. Map mashups, tag clouds and timelines can be used to show<br />
information to users in new ways and help them locate materials to meet<br />
their needs. QR codes can help link users to materials that libraries<br />
have in their collections. Charts and graphs can be used to help analyze<br />
library collections (holdings) and compare them to other libraries. This<br />
session will show prototypes which combine tools like Google Chart API,<br />
Protovis and Simile Widgets with data from WorldCat, WorldCat Registry,<br />
Classify, Terminology Services, and Dewey.info to create vivid<br />
illustrations in library user interfaces and administration tools.<br />
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== Kuali OLE: Architecture for Diverse and Linked Data ==<br />
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* Tim McGeary, Lehigh University, Kuali OLE Functional Council, tim dot mcgeary at lehigh dot edu<br />
* Brad Skiles, Project Manager, Kuali OLE, Indiana University, bradskil at indiana dot edu<br />
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With programming scheduled to be begin in January 2011 on the Kuali Open Library Environment (OLE), the Kuali OLE Functional Council is developing the requirements for an architecture for diverse data sets and linked data. With no frontrunner for one bibliographic data standard, and local requirements on what data will be accompanying or linked to the main record store, Kuali OLE needs to build a flexible environment for records management and access.<br />
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We will present the concepts of our planned architecture, a multi-repository framework, using a document repository, a semantic repository, and a relational repository, brokered on top of the enterprise service bus of Kuali Rice. As a community source project, this is an opportunity for the Kuali OLE partners to present our plans for discussion with the community, and we look forward to feedback, questions, and comments. <br />
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== One Week | One Tool: ultra-rapid open source development among strangers ==<br />
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* Scott Hanrath, University of Kansas Libraries, shanrath at ku dot edu<br />
* Jason Casden, North Carolina State University Libraries, jason_casden at ncsu dot edu<br />
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In summer 2010, the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, supported by an NEH Summer Institute grant, gathered 12 'digital humanists' for an intense week of collaboration they dubbed 'One Week | One Tool: a digital humanities barn raising.' The group -- several of whom hang their professional hats in libraries and most of whom were previously unacquainted -- was asked to spend one week together brainstorming, specifying, building, publicizing, and releasing an open source software tool of use to the digital humanities community. The result was Anthologize, a free, open-source, plugin that transforms WordPress into a platform for publishing electronic texts in formats including PDF, ePub, and TEI; in other words, a "blog-to-book" tool. This presentation will focus on how One Week | One Tool addressed the challenges of collaborative open source development. From the perspectives of two library coders on the team, we will describe and provide lessons learned from the One Week development process including: how the group structured itself without predefined roles; how the one week time frame and makeup of the group -- which included scholars, grad students, librarians, museum professionals, instructional technologists, and more -- influenced planning and development decisions; the roles of user experience and outreach efforts; the life of Anthologize since the end of the week; and thoughts on what a one week, one 'library' tool could look like.<br />
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== Improving the presentation of library data using FRBR and linked data ==<br />
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* Anne-Lena Westrum, Oslo Public Library (annelena at deichman dot no)<br />
* Asgeir Rekkavik, Oslo Public Library (asgeirr at deichman dot no)<br />
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The Pode project at Oslo Public Library has experimented on the automated FRBRizing of catalogue records, as well as expressing bibliographic descriptions as linked data to enrich catalogue browsing with information from external sources.<br />
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When a library enduser searches the online catalogue for works by a particular author, he will typically get a long list that contain all the different translations and editions of all the books by that author, sorted by title or date of issue. The Pode project applied a method of automated FRBRizing, based on the information contained in MARC records, RDF representation and SPARQL queries, to demonstrate how an author's complete production can be presented as a lucid list of unique works, that can easily be browsed by their different expressions and manifestations. Furthermore, by linking instances in the dataset to matching or corresponding instances in external sets, the presentation can be enriched with additional information about authors and works, as well as links to electronic full-text representations. <br />
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The talk will also present the work on making an RDF representation of the catalogue records for the whole collection of non-fiction documents at the Norwegian Multilingual library, linking subject headings and Dewey classes, and allowing endusers to browse the collection by the multilingual Dewey class labels published by OCLC at http://dewey.info.<br />
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The talk will focus on the challenges technological progresses such as these raise for cataloguers, to deliver consistent and standardized catalogue records. Many cataloguers have a local and pragmatic focus on the library's own and already existing services. Attitudes like this might represent a problem when emerging technologies find new applications for library catalogue data, as well as when the library wants to use data submitted by others to enrich their own services.<br />
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== Touch and go: building a touch screen kiosk with software you already own ==<br />
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* Andreas K. Orphanides, North Carolina State University Libraries, akorphan at ncsu dot edu<br />
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In October 2010, the NCSU Libraries debuted its first public touch-screen information kiosk, designed to provide on-demand access to useful and commonly consulted real-time displays of library information. With the exception of the touchscreen itself, the system was created using commonly available free software and off-the-shelf hardware. In this presentation, I will describe the process for creating the touchscreen interface that is used in this kiosk. I will walk through the challenges of developing for a touch-optimized environment in HTML and JavaScript; I will describe how free utilities and web browser plugins may be combined to secure a public touchscreen kiosk; and I will present a data analysis of touchscreen usage since the kiosk's rollout to evaluate content selection and interface design.<br />
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== Next-L Enju, NDL Search and library geeks in Japan ==<br />
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* Kosuke Tanabe, Keio University, tanabe at mwr dot mediacom dot keio dot ac dot jp<br />
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[http://github.com/next-l Next-L Enju ] is an open source integrated library system developed by Project Next-L, the library geek community in Japan launched on November 2006. It is built on open-source software (Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL/MySQL and Solr) and supports modern ILS features (e.g. FRBR structure and RESTful WebAPI).<br />
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Enju has been inplemented by some libraries, which include National Diet Library (NDL), the largest library in Japan. NDL has chosen Enju to provide a new search engine, called "NDL Search" and added some extra features (e.g. automatic FRBRization and providing bibliographic data in a Linked Data format) . The development version is available at http://iss.ndl.go.jp/ .<br />
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I'm one of the authors of Next-L Enju. I'd like to talk about the overview and structure of Next-L Enju, NDL Search and the activities of our project.<br />
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== Hydra Framework: A community based approach to developing a Digital Exhibit at Notre Dame ==<br />
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* Rick Johnson, University of Notre Dame, (rick dot johnson at nd dot edu)<br />
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At the dawn of the American Revolution, Ben Franklin quipped that "we must hang together, or surely we will hang apart."<br />
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The scope of managing, preserving, and interacting with digital content is too much for any one institution to conquer by itself. It's time to stop working by ourselves and start working together. Based on these principles the Hydra project was born in 2008 out of the Universities of Hull, Stanford and Virginia while partnering with Fedora Commons. The Hydra framework combines the efforts of the Blacklight, ActiveFedora, Solr, and Fedora Commons communities to provide a toolkit of reusable components to meet a diversity of content management needs.<br />
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Through connections we made at Code4Lib2010, it was immediately clear that the Hydra project's design and development philosophies complement our philosophies at the University of Notre Dame.<br />
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Come explore how we at Notre Dame have been welcomed into this community of developers, have adopted the Hydra Framework for our own Digital Repository efforts, and how we have utilized the common Hydra codebase to develop our own "Hydra Head" for Digital Exhibits. We will cover Hydra features such as inline editing of metadata, generation of metadata xml, search, and browsing a collection.<br />
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The Hydra Project is actively seeking partnerships with other institutions to extend its efforts. Will your institution be next?<br />
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More about the [https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/hydra/The+Hydra+Project Hydra Project]:<br />
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Hydra is a multi-institutional, multi-functional, multi-purpose framework that addresses digital content management on twin fronts. As a technical framework, it provides a toolkit of reusable components that can be combined and configured in different arrays to meet a diversity of content management needs. As a community framework, Hydra provides like-minded institutions with the mechanism to combine their individual development efforts, resources and priorities into a collective solution with breadth and depth that exceeds the capacity of any single institution to create, maintain or enhance on its own.<br />
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Hydra's ultimate objective is to effectively intertwine its technical and community threads of development, producing a community-sourced, sustainable application framework that provides rich and robust repository-powered solutions as an integrated part of an overall digital content management architecture. Such solutions can meet the distinct needs of digital library, institutional repository, discipline repository, research, preservation and publishing workflows.<br />
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== Mendeley's API and University Libraries: 3 examples to create value ==<br />
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* Jan Reichelt, Co-Founder, Mendeley<br />
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Mendeley (http://www.mendeley.com) is a technology startup that is helping to revolutionize the way research is done. Used by more than 600,000 academics and industry researchers, Mendeley enables researchers to arrange collaborative projects, work and discuss in groups, as well as share data across its web platform. Launched in London in December 2008, Mendeley is already the world’s largest research collaboration platform. Through this platform, we anonymously pools users’ research paper collections, creating a crowd-sourced research database with a unique layer of social information - each research paper is connected with socio-demographic information about its audience. <br />
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Based on this platform and data, I will present three examples of how Mendeley is working to support university libraries and contribute to opening up academic research:<br />
1) Mendeley’s integration as a workflow tool with institutional repositories with the aim of increasing IR deposit rates;<br />
2) Application examples building on Mendeley’s API to showcase what is possible with the newly available type of usage data Mendeley is aggregating;<br />
3) Preview of Mendeley’s library dashboard that will reveal content usage within an institution.<br />
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I would also hope that a subsequent discussion can address how you (the attendees) could envision Mendeley’s future in the library tech community.<br />
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== ArticlesPlus: Summon API Client Implementation and Integration with Drupal 6 ==<br />
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* Albert Bertram, University of Michigan (bertrama@umich.edu)<br />
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On September 27, 2010, the University of Michigan launched ArticlesPlus, an application for web-scale article discovery using the Serials Solutions' Summon service as its search engine. Rather than providing a search box which sent our patrons to the interface provided by Serials Solutions, we used Summon's API to integrate the search as a feature of our library's website. In addition to Summon as the search engine, we used our Drupal instance for the interface engine.<br />
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I propose to talk about how we implemented the Summon API, the Drupal module we developed in to access the Summon API, problems with implementing an interface ourselves, benefits of implementing the interface ourselves, and plans for future expansion or improved integration in our website.<br />
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== Let's Get Small: A Microservices Approach to Library Websites ==<br />
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* Sean Hannan, Johns Hopkins University, shannan at jhu dot edu<br />
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Most, if not all, library websites are housed and maintained in singular, monolithic content management systems. This is fantastic if the library website is the one place your users go for library information. But it isn't. Users are going to Facebook, checking mobile applications, browsing portals as well as checking the library website. Wouldn't it be great if you could update the information on all of these sites from a single source? Why maintain the library hours in five different places?<br />
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In this talk, I will show how breaking the construction of the library website into as-needed, swappable microservices can free your content to live where it needs to, as well as free you from the maintenance headaches usually involved. What kind of microservices, you ask? Well, basic templating and styling is a given, but how about a microservice that gracefully degrades your layouts for older browsers? Or enforces highfalutin typographic rules? Or optimizes your site assets to improve load times? All wonderful little black boxes that allow you to focus on the website and its content, and not the details.<br />
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I promise at least one diagram. That will burn your eyes.<br />
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[[Category:Code4Lib2011]]</div>128.220.205.150https://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php?title=2011_nominations_list&diff=60612011 nominations list2010-08-04T16:20:58Z<p>128.220.205.150: </p>
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Below is a list of nominations for invited speakers for Code4Lib 2011. <br />
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* [http://jfwilliams.com/ Joan Frye Williams] - a sharp thinker of an extremely practical bent, I would expect her to tell us the cold, hard facts as she sees them in libraries today, which I think is what we should be hearing. - Roy<br />
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* [http://managemetadata.org/blog/ Diane Hillman] -- has years of experience working with library metaata, starting with traditional cataloging but over the past many years moving into modern metadata for library applications. Involved in RDA schema modelling. Knows what modern metadata looks like, knows what our legacy data is like, has a lot of insight into where we need to go and how to get there -- and on how systems people can work with catalogers to do it. --jrochkind<br />
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* [http://www.indiana.edu/~ovpit/bios/bwheeler.html Brad Wheeler] -- In addition to being the Vice-President for Information Technology and CIO at Indiana University, Brad has years of experience working in open source software communities including being a co-founder of the Sakai, Kuali, and HathiTrust communities. --rhmcdonald<br />
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* [http://abitofgeorge.com/ George Oates] -- George is the lead for the Internet Archive Open Library and has worked on the web since 1996, in a variety of roles that normally revolve around front-end design and online community. She is entirely comfortable with "amateur" metadata creation and hopes to explore this within the context of Open Library. Prior to her work at IA George was a lead on the Flickr Commons Initiative. --rhmcdonald<br />
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* [http://blog.photography.si.edu/ Effie Kapsalis] -- Effie Kapsalis is the Head of New Media at the Smithsonian Photography Initiative (SPI, photography.si.edu), a division of the Smithsonian Institution Archives which maintains the historical records of the Institution. She oversees click! photography changes everything (click.si.edu) a program that gathers experts from a variety of fields to talk about how they use photography in their discipline. She also is contributor and co-editor of THE BIGGER PICTURE, a blog about visual archives. She currently leads the Smithsonian's effort on the Flickr Commons to engage visitors with the Smithsonian's diverse photography archives representing over 150 years of history, art, culture, and design. She has more than 15 years experience managing, designing, and developing content for online environments in museum, corporate, and educational settings. --rhmcdonald<br />
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* [http://lawley.rit.edu/index.php?page=contact Elizabeth Lawley] -- Elizabeth Lane Lawley is the director of the [http://labforsocialcomputing.net/ Lab for Social Computing] at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where she is also an associate professor of Interactive Games & Media. Her interest in social computing focuses on how social computing tools can be used to enhance the educational experience. She received her master's degree in Library Science from the University of Michigan in 1987. In the early 1990s she worked as a Government and Law Bibliographer at the Library of Congress and then as manager of customer support for Congressional Information Service. Past speaking engagements include LITA forum, Internet Librarian, Google, Microsoft Research, NYPL, and the Australian Library & Information Association. --MrDys<br />
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[[Category: Code4Lib2011]]</div>128.220.205.150https://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php?title=2010_Conference_Buzz&diff=48062010 Conference Buzz2010-02-18T15:28:21Z<p>128.220.205.150: </p>
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<div>== Announcements From the Organizers ==<br />
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* twitter hashtag: #c4l10, tag: c4l10<br />
* [http://code4lib.org/conference/2010/schedule Conference Program]<br />
<!-- * [http://code4lib.org/conference/2010/breakouts Breakout Sessions]<br />
* [http://code4lib.org/conference/2010/lightning Lightning Talks]--><br />
* Internet in guest rooms at the Renaissance Asheville is FREE. <br />
* [http://tinyurl.com/ashevillemap Annotated Google Map]<br />
* Hospitality Suite: 1114 (“open when a warm body is there”) - will have a portable projector!<br />
* [http://www.marriott.com/hotels/event-planning/floor-plans/avlbr-renaissance-asheville-hotel/ Hotel Map].<br />
** Aside from the first floor we're using Swannanoa Room (2nd Floor), Hospitality Suite 1114; one preconference will use Oakland Heights (12th floor)<br />
* http://tinyurl.com/ashevillebuzz is an alias to this page<br />
* [http://www.ashevillenc.gov/residents/transportation/city_bus/default.aspx?id=968 Bus to the airport from downtown (doesn't run on Sundays)]<br />
* Jobs4Lib - flipchart near the registration area<br />
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== Does Anybody Want To...? ==<br />
See also [[C4L2010_social_activities]] -- should we move summaries here?<br />
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== Twitter ==<br />
Attending the conference and tweeting about it? Add yourself to [[2010 Twitter List]] to end up in the [http://twitter.com/code4lib/attendees-2010 @code4lib twitter list] for convenient following.<br />
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== Eats ==<br />
* '''Breakfast''' Tuesday - Thursday is continental <br />
* '''Lunch''' is provided on Tuesday and Wednesday. Lunch options on other days:<br />
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** Add some ideas here or see [http://tinyurl.com/ashevillemap the Google Map]<br />
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== Dinner Plans ==<br />
* '''Sunday & Monday'''<br />
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* '''Tuesday & Wednesday'''<br />
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== Things To Do ==<br />
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* [http://travel.nytimes.com/travel/guides/north-america/united-states/north-carolina/asheville/overview.html "36 Hours in Asheville, NC"] piece in the New York Times TRAVEL section from 2007.<br />
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See also [[C4L2010_social_activities]] -- should we move summaries here?<br />
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== SSH Tunneling to get around blocked ports ==<br />
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Ports blocked? Try this:<br />
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* On your laptop, execute:<br />
ssh -f -N -L 9999:chat.freenode.net:6667 machine.I.have.rights.on<br />
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...where chat.freenode.net:6667 is the machine/port you want to eventually get to, machine.i.have.rights.on is...well, that, and 9999 is an empty port on your local machine.<br />
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You'll be prompted for a password if you need one, after which you can put it in the background.<br />
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Then you can set up your chat software to talk to localhost:9999 and you're set.<br />
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== Ground Crew Contacts ==<br />
Please feel free to contact us about anything, any time, between now and the end of the conference.</div>128.220.205.150https://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php?title=C4L2010_social_activities&diff=4646C4L2010 social activities2010-02-16T21:33:39Z<p>128.220.205.150: </p>
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<div>==Code4Lib 2010 social activities ==<br />
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==Ideas==<br />
[http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009912010314 New breweries opening]<br />
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[http://digital.library.appstate.edu/code4lib2010.html Original Proposal (suggests some nearby events)]<br />
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[http://ashevilletwitterhashtags.blogspot.com/2009/09/asheville-beer-avlbeer.html Asheville Beer Hashtag]<br />
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==Planned events==<br />
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Plan one if you like! Either on your own or you can [[Committees_sign-up_page|join the social activities committee]].<br />
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== Asheville Brews Cruise ==<br />
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"Experience a taste of Asheville’s thriving local beer scene with an exclusive tour of three of our award-winning microbreweries." - http://www.brewscruise.com/asheville/<br />
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A big shout out to [http://www.talis.com Talis] for stepping up and sponsoring a portion of this event. Our first stop on the cruise will be a brewery slash pizza joint and Talis has generously offered to pay for our pizza. Yay!<br />
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==== Itinerary ====<br />
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# Pickup from the hotel is tentatively scheduled for 6:15pm. Those who haven't pre-paid should try to get there a little early.<br />
# Stop #1 will be the Asheville Pizza & Brewing Co. where we will sample 16-20 different beers and consume our delicious, alcohol-absorbing, [http://www.talis.com Talis]-sponsored pizza.<br />
# Stop #2 will be Highland Brewing Company, "Asheville's 1st and largest brewing company"<br />
# Stop #3 will be the French Broad Brewery which "specializes in a variety of European style beers."<br />
# Expected return to the hotel is around 9:30-10pm<br />
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==== Cost & Payment ====<br />
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The cost for the cruise is $40 per person. You have two options for paying:<br />
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# Pay in advance by sending me $40 via [http://paypal.com PayPal].<br />
# Bring $40 with you on the night of the cruise. I've been told they have a hand-held credit card machine for the cash-strapped.<br />
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Anyone who wants to can pay via PayPal, but I need at least 16 people to choose this option because the tour company wants to pre-bill my credit card for a minimum of 16 guests. There should be no fees involved if the money comes from your PayPal account or an associated bank account. The deadline for paying in advance is EOD Sunday, February 21st.<br />
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# Go to [http://paypal.com PayPal]<br />
# Click on "Send Money"<br />
# Enter lbjay@reallywow.com in the "To" field<br />
# Enter your own address in the "From" field (unless you're logged in)<br />
# Click the "Personal" tab and choose "Payment owed" from the options<br />
# Click "Continue"<br />
# On the next page you can specify a message Subject of "Brews Cruise"<br />
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==== Signup ====<br />
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'''Sorry, the event is full!''' We were forced to set a limit of 48 persons due to that's the max number of folks that will fit into two party buses, plus we don't want to overwhelm the staffs at the breweries. There is, however, is a waitlist that someone started below.<br />
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# Jay Luker (organizing, not driving)<br />
# Mike Giarlo (inebriator)<br />
# Rob Casson (drunk)<br />
# Declan Fleming (beer receptacle)<br />
# Jim Safley (recovering teetotaler)<br />
# Ian Walls (epicurean of ale)<br />
# Christopher Spalding (thirsty)<br />
# Jon Gorman (imbiber of that which is good)<br />
# Lori Stethers (token female)<br />
# Carol Ou (beer enthusiast)<br />
# Cristóbal Palmer (Reinheitsgebot skeptic)<br />
# Tod Olson (enabler)<br />
# Mark Matienzo (alefounder)<br />
# Sibyl Schaefer (barfly)<br />
# Laney McGlohon (brewmaster's assistant)<br />
# Tania Fersenheim (Gold Medalist - Ithaca Beerlympics - Summer 1993)<br />
# Melissa Manolis (Beer lacky and Librarian Groupie)<br />
# Greg McClellan (master of beerology and beeronomy)<br />
# Cary Gordon (hip hoppist)<br />
# Mark Gallagher (Thing 1)<br />
# Matt Bachtell (Thing 2)<br />
# Sarah Kahn (has no title)<br />
# Thom Cox (afraid of rectangles)<br />
# Eric James (pour)<br />
# Ray Schwartz (mighty thirsty)<br />
# Jason Stirnaman (all about the stout)<br />
# Mike Flakus (ipa all the way)<br />
# Ben Florin (sounds neat--what's "beer"?)<br />
# Ryan Wick (it comes in pints?)<br />
# Sam Kome (have churchkey, will travel)<br />
# Joe Atzberger<br />
# Brendan Gallagher<br />
# Chris Beer<br />
# Tom Keays (growler)<br />
# Ross Singer (empty vessel waiting to be filled)<br />
# Eric Hellman (49 IBU)<br />
# Paul Joseph (i bike leer)<br />
# Cody Hennesy (don't mind if i do)<br />
# Michael Vandenburg<br />
# Stephen Meyer (Wisconsinite)<br />
# Antonio Barrera<br />
# Andrew Nagy<br />
# Rosalyn Metz<br />
# Esmé Cowles<br />
# Dea Rice (Duchess of Ales)<br />
# Sean Hannan (Peer Pressured)<br />
# Scott Garrison (just made it by the froth of his beer?)<br />
# Dan Suchy ( [no longer] late and now full of gratitude) (berick: Dan, you get my spot. you better get double drunk for me!)<br />
<br />
'''There is a max of 48 persons for this event. Sorry!'''<br />
<br />
===== Wait List =====<br />
<br />
# Brad Westbrook<br />
# Spencer Lamm<br />
# Robert Haschart<br />
<br />
== 12 Bones BBQ Dinner Excursion ==<br />
(was a lunch excursion)<br />
<br />
[http://www.12bones.com/ 12 Bones BBQ] is widely considered the best BBQ in Asheville [[http://www.yelp.com/biz/12-bones-smokehouse-asheville *]]. However it is only open from 11-4, M-F. We would like to organize a group so that we can rent out the place on Wednesday night. If we get at least 50 people, it will be doable. <br />
<br />
<br />
'''When:''' Wednesday, February 24th<br />
<br />
'''Time:''' 6:30pm<br />
<br />
'''Where:''' 5 Riverside Drive Asheville NC, 28801<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
==== BBQ Excursion Signup ====<br />
<br />
For the time being please indicate interest in the BBQ excursion by adding your name to the list below. We'll figure out a way to coordinate and communicate the details somewhere down the line.<br />
<br />
# Rosalyn Metz (the new organizer)<br />
# Jay Luker (demoted but still devoted)<br />
# Mike Giarlo (consumer)<br />
# Rob Casson (glutton)<br />
# Declan Fleming (condor)<br />
# Erik Hatcher (carnivore)<br />
# Christopher Spalding (digs swine)<br />
# Mike Durbin (Porkaholic)<br />
# Jeremy Frumkin (alloftheabove)<br />
# Jon Gorman (Aficionado of smoke, flame, and good sauces)<br />
# Michael Klein (EAT PIG)<br />
# Mark Matienzo (saucy fellow)<br />
# Cary Gordon (do they have vegan pig?)<br />
# Sibyl Schaefer (finger licker)<br />
# Greg McClellan (Mmmm... Pig)<br />
# Ranti Junus (beef and chicken cheerleader)<br />
# Tania Fersenheim (can't think of any non-vulgar tag lines)<br />
# Matt Bachtell (hope they have vinegar based BBQ)<br />
# Ray Schwartz (I eat vegetarians)<br />
# Dileshni Jayasinghe (I just like to eat)<br />
# Joe Atzberger (con carne)<br />
# Michael Doran (a YES for Wednesday night)<br />
# Thom Cox (ancho pepper addict)<br />
# Chris Strauber (meat and flame!)<br />
# Cindy Harper (I'm sorry, Babe)<br />
# Brendan Gallagher<br />
# Chris Beer<br />
# Alexander O'Neill<br />
# Bess Sadler<br />
# Joyce Ouchida<br />
# Ross Singer (Some Pig)<br />
# Tod Olson (omnivore sans dilemma)<br />
# Paul Joseph<br />
# Vinita Tuteja<br />
# Robin Hitch<br />
# Ryan Wick<br />
# Becky Yoose (bringing the wetwipe napkins)<br />
# Joyce Chapman<br />
# Andrew Darby<br />
# Cory Lown<br />
# Peter Murray (who knows that NC BBQ means one has to actually add the BBQ sauce)<br />
# Jean Rainwater<br />
# Matt Cordial<br />
# Carol Ou (dinnertime excursion works for me)<br />
# Karen Coombs<br />
# Dan Lucas<br />
# Gerald Snyder<br />
# Michael Silver<br />
# Julia Bauder (dinner partier)<br />
# Jørn Thøgersen<br />
# Michael Poltorak Nielsen<br />
# Toke Eskildsen<br />
# Mads Villadsen (the Danes are coming for Wednesday night BBQ!)<br />
# Andreas Orphanides (I want to go to there.)<br />
# Michael Vandenburg<br />
# Wendy Huot<br />
# David Bucknum<br />
# Jason Casden<br />
# Graham Stewart<br />
# Joseph Ryan<br />
# Dhanushka Samarakoon<br />
# Eric Crenshaw<br />
# Katherine Lynch<br />
# Stephen Meyer<br />
# Antonio Barrera (whats a BBQ without me)<br />
# Ron Peterson<br />
# Andrew Nagy (no witty comment)<br />
# Corey Harper (Mmmmmm..... Carolina Pulled Pig)<br />
# Eric Palmitesta<br />
# Ben Florin<br />
# Emily Lynema (pulled pork delicious)<br />
# Erik Mitchell (Who could turn down an 80 person dinner experience?)<br />
# Mike Flakus (pulled-porker)<br />
# Matt Connolly (Memphian)<br />
# Ian Walls<br />
# Benjamin Young (BBQ is a noun)<br />
# Esmé Cowles<br />
# Tim Dennis<br />
# Harry Kaplanian<br />
<br />
'''Sorry there is an 80 person limit for this event'''<br />
<br />
'''Wait List'''<br />
# Ryan Scherle<br />
# Amy McGuire<br />
# Jason Battles<br />
# Hong Ma<br />
# Vanessa Meireles<br />
# Mark Diggory<br />
# Jonathan Rochkind<br />
# Robert Haschart<br />
<br />
==Vegetarian Dinner (Weds, AKA BBQ night)==<br />
<br />
[http://opheliasworldcafe.info/ Ophelia's World Cafe and Bar] does vegetarian, vegan, raw, gluten-free, sustainable seafood, and locally-raised meat products, with a focus on local and organic. Also, a full bar. [http://www.yelp.com/biz/ophelias-world-cafe-and-bar-asheville yelp reviews]. <br />
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* max of 30 people<br />
* meet at hotel to walk together - 6:30pm<br />
* We are confirmed with the restaurant - reservation is at 6:45<br />
* email Anna3LC if you have any questions - gmail<br />
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# Jodi Schneider <br />
# Maccabee Levine (token male)<br />
# Eric Hellman (token carnivore)<br />
# Carol Bean<br />
# Sam Kome (omnivorous w/exception of BBQ)<br />
# Dea Rice (Socialite)<br />
# Sean Hannan (token token collector)<br />
# Vidhya Arvind<br />
# Cristóbal Palmer<br />
# Lori Stethers<br />
# Rick Johnson<br />
# Anna Headley<br />
# Kevin Clarke<br />
# Gabriel Farrell<br />
# Eric James<br />
# Betsy Coles<br />
# Harish Maringanti<br />
# Emily Molanphy<br />
# Shawn Averkamp<br />
# Kevin Reiss<br />
# Birkin<br />
# Jon Stroop<br />
# Birong Ho<br />
# William Denton<br />
# Gretchen Gueguen<br />
# Steven Shelton<br />
# Banurekha Lakshminarayanan<br />
# Dan Brubaker Horst<br />
# Martin Mehrling<br />
# Dan Chudnov<br />
# '''We're full!'''<br />
<br />
'''Wait List'''<br />
# Erin Germ<br />
# Naomi Dushay<br />
# Shekhar Krishnan<br />
# Schuyler Erle<br />
<br />
== Newcomer Dinner ==<br />
First time at code4lib? Join fellow c4l newbies and veterans for an evening of food, socializing, and stimulating discussions about the many uses of bacon.<br />
<br />
Code4Lib veterans, you're invited too. Join us in welcoming the newcomers!<br />
<br />
'''Tentative plans (more information to come)'''<br />
* When: Monday evening<br />
* Time: 6 PM<br />
* Where: Meet in the hotel lobby. Restaurants - Look below<br />
* Mastermind (if you have any questions): [mailto:yoosebj@muohio.edu Becky Yoose]<br />
<br />
=== Newcomer Dinner Signup ===<br />
<br />
Clarification - you can still sign up if you didn't intially list your name the first time around. Sorry for any misunderstandings on my part. -_-; <br />
<br />
'''Restaurants'''<br />
<br />
''Guidelines:''<br />
*Max of '''8''' per location<br />
**Please, no waitlisting :(<br />
*ID yourselves so we can get a good mix of new people and veterans<br />
**New folks - n<br />
**c4l vets - v<br />
*One leader needed for each location (code4lib vets only)<br />
**Leader duties<br />
***Make reservations if required; otherwise make sure that the restaurant can handle a group of 8 rowdy library coders <br />
***Herd folks from hotel to restaurant (know where you're going!)<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Spots still available below! 2/11 - added a couple more restaurants to make sure everyone has a spot!'''<br />
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[http://www.vincenzos.com/ Vincenzo's] (Italian)<br />
# [Leader] Bess Sadler - v<br />
# Thom Cox - n<br />
# Alexander O'Neill - n<br />
# Leland Deeds - n<br />
# Erin Germ - n<br />
# Joe Atzberger - v<br />
# Cindy Harper - n<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[http://www.ichibanwasabi.com/ Wasabi Japanese Restaurant & Sushi Bar] (Japanese)<br />
# [Leader] Ranti Junus - v<br />
# Caitlin Shanley - n<br />
# Erin White - n<br />
# Chris Strauber - n<br />
# Jodi Schneider - v<br />
# Joyce Chapman - n<br />
<br />
<br />
[http://www.trippsrestaurants.com/ Tripps Restaurant] (Steakhouse)<br />
# [Leader]<br />
#<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[http://tableasheville.com/page/276-home Table] (“New American”) <br />
# [Leader] Devon Smith - v<br />
# Anna Headley - n<br />
# Cory Rockliff - n<br />
# Jeff Sherwood - n<br />
# Emily King - n<br />
# Laurie Sutherland - n<br />
<br />
<br />
[http://www.mellowmushroom.com/ Mellow Mushroom Pizza Bakers] (Pizza) <br />
# [Leader]<br />
#<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[http://limonesrestaurant.com/page/1240-Home Limones] (Mexican)<br />
# [Leader]<br />
#<br />
<br />
<br />
[http://www.salsas-asheville.com/ Salsas] (Mexican-Caribbean)<br />
# [Leader] Jay Luker - v<br />
# Gabriel Farrell - v<br />
# Sean Hannan - v<br />
<br />
<br />
[http://www.bistro1896.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=14&Itemid=42 Bistro 1896] (Bistro)<br />
# [Leader]<br />
# Yuka Egusa - n<br />
# Masao Takaku - n<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[http://www.jackofthewood.com/ Jack of the Wood] (another pub for y'all)<br />
# [Leader]<br />
#<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
'''Sorry, these are full'''<br />
<br />
[http://www.doccheys.com/menu/ Doc Chey’s Noodle House] (Asian)<br />
# [Leader] Emily Lynema - v<br />
# Julia Bauder - n<br />
# Joe Marquez - n<br />
# Jason Battles - n<br />
# Jill Ellern - n<br />
# Michael Vandenburg -n<br />
# Shekhar Krishnan<br />
# Schuyler Erle <br />
# '''Sorry - full'''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[http://ashevillebouchon.com/page/2511-Home Bouchon French Bistro] (French)<br />
# [Leader] Ben Florin -v<br />
# Gwen Exner - n<br />
# Joel Richard - n (super-green!)<br />
# Dan Lucas - n<br />
# Hong Ma - n<br />
# Vanessa Meireles - n<br />
# Mark Diggory - n (but not green)<br />
# David Woodbury - n<br />
# '''Sorry - full'''<br />
<br />
<br />
[http://www.melaasheville.com/ Mela Indian Restaurant] (Indian) (reservation made for 6:15 under Darby)<br />
# [Leader] Andrew Darby - v<br />
# Joyce Ouchida - n<br />
# Eric Celeste (spy) - n<br />
# Kossivi (Jean-Paul) Bessou - n<br />
# Steven Shelton - n<br />
# Jeff Silvis - n<br />
# Ya'aqov Ziso - n<br />
# Banurekha - n<br />
# '''Sorry - full'''<br />
<br />
<br />
[http://rosettaskitchen.com/our-menu Rosetta's Kitchen] (Vegetarian)<br />
# [Leader] Rosalyn Metz -v<br />
# Cody Hennesy - n<br />
# Sam Kome - n<br />
# John Yorio - n<br />
# Shawn Averkamp - n<br />
# Sarah Kahn- n<br />
# Cory Lown - n<br />
# Maccabee Levine - n<br />
# '''Sorry - full'''<br />
<br />
<br />
[http://www.suwanathaiorchid.com/index.php Suwana's Thai Orchid Restaurant] (Thai) <br />
# [Leader] Becky Yoose - v<br />
# Andy Mardesich - n<br />
# Amy McGuire<br />
# Birong HO<br />
# Ryan Scherle - n<br />
# Mark Mounts - n<br />
# Dan Brubaker Horst -n<br />
# Rick Johnson - n<br />
# '''Sorry - full'''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[http://thelobstertrap.biz/ The Lobster Trap] (Seafood) <br />
# [Leader] Michael Klein - v<br />
# Janis Mathewson - n<br />
# Karen Schwentner - n<br />
# Tom Bennett - n<br />
# Carol Ou - v<br />
# Kenny Ketner - n<br />
# Mike Flakus - n<br />
# Michael Doran - v<br />
# '''Sorry - full'''<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
[http://www.ashevillebiergarden.com/ The Bier Garden (Pub)]<br />
# [Leader] Mike Giarlo - v<br />
# Dileshni Jayasinghe - n<br />
# David Bucknum - n<br />
# Sean Chen - n<br />
# Sibyl Schaefer - n<br />
# Dan Suchy - n<br />
# Mark Matienzo - v<br />
# Declan Fleming - v<br />
# '''Sorry - full'''<br />
# Eric Palmitesta -n (WAITLISTED!) - (BY note - Hi Eric, can you please choose from the available list above? Thanks! [Hey, Eric, you might sign up for Jack of the Wood. Good beer there as well! -MJG])<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Cut and paste your name to the restaurant of your choice :)<br />
* Ross Singer<br />
* Monica Claassen-Wilson<br />
* Brendan Gallagher<br />
* Schuyler Erle<br />
* Tim Shearer<br />
* Michael Silver<br />
* Jason Stirnaman<br />
* Patrick Hochstenbach<br />
* David Chandek-Stark<br />
* David Kennedy<br />
* Paul Joseph<br />
* Vinita Tuteja<br />
* Clint Bellanger<br />
* Wendy Huot<br />
* Robin Hitch<br />
* Cary Gordon (likes anything that involves food)<br />
* Graham Stewart<br />
* David Woodbury<br />
* Antonio Barrera<br />
* Andrew Nagy<br />
* Harry Kaplanian<br />
* Scott Garrison<br />
* Kevin Reiss<br />
<br />
== Werewolf! ==<br />
It wouldn't be a tech conference unless we got together one evening to turn into a gang of murdering beasts and hyper-suspicious victims. Facilitated by the one and only mbklein.<br />
<br />
* When: Wednesday evening<br />
* Time: 8 PM<br />
* Where: TBA. Watch this space. <br />
<br />
=== Werewolf signup ===<br />
* Michael Klein<br />
* Alexander O'Neill<br />
* Bess Sadler<br />
* Leland Deeds<br />
* Jean Rainwater<br />
* Chris Beer<br />
* Wendy Huot<br />
* Jon Gorman<br />
* Jodi Schneider<br />
* Birkin (will arrive after the veggie-dinner, and hoping BBQ-ers will have time to make it, too)<br />
* Harish (ditto)<br />
* Jon Stroop<br />
* Joel Marchesoni (tentative)<br />
* Martin Mehrling<br />
* Michael Vandenburg<br />
<br />
== Working Out ==<br />
<br />
Gotta make up for those beer and BBQ excursions somehow. Let's work out! Ideas: hiking, jogging, [http://www.crossfitasheville.com CrossFitting], surfing,...<br />
<br />
== CrossFit Asheville ==<br />
[http://www.crossfitasheville.com CrossFit Asheville]<br />
Contacted the gym, we're invited to the Monday night 6:30pm slot.<br />
<br />
Who's in?<br />
* Erik Hatcher (crossfit newb), can carpool three others<br />
* ... a few others mentioned interest below ... <br />
<br />
== Interested Parties for various activities ==<br />
<br />
* Erik Hatcher (game for both jogging and CrossFitting, bring it!)<br />
* Erik Mitchell (Run downtown asheville or the parkway? - great 12 mile climb up the parkway around Pisgah Mtn.), How about a Code4Lib half-marathon? (Why NOT! Let's do a Half Marathon) - Ray Schwartz<br />
**Bike riding - yes might be sketchy given our current weather <br />
**Hike up Looking Glass Rock [http://www.hikewnc.info/trailheads/pisgah/pisgah/guidedhikes/lookingglassrock.html]<br />
* Emily Lynema (game for jogging, hiking, walking, jumping jacks; not crazy enough for parkway running!)<br />
* Ray Schwartz (game for a run - why not a half marathon?!).<br />
* Rick Johnson (Looking to fit in a 10, 12 ,and 8 mile run while in town. Was originally thinking I would go early in the morning: 6:30 or 7. May not be able to run together everytime but definitely looking for suggestions on good routes)<br />
* Thom Cox (lifting, cardio, yoga--all good)<br />
* Jason Stirnaman (hiking, biking - don't mind the weather, lifting, cross-fitting)<br />
* Jean Rainwater (need to get some runs in where the footing's not treacherous and the temp is above freezing)<br />
* Gerald Snyder (a couple mornings jogging would be good, but only 4 or 5 miles for me thanks)<br />
* Jodi Schneider (CrossFitting sounds fun if we can fit in [http://www.crossfitasheville.com/schedule/ their schedule], yoga, walking, hiking)<br />
* Becky Yoose (hiking (intermediate level max), walking, cheer others on while they run a half marathon)<br />
* Carol Bean (does shivering in the cold count as exercise?)<br />
* John Barneson (I'm game for a.m. runs 5-10 miles. I would love a nice scenic route and I don't mind trail running)<br />
* Gabriel Farrell (running, yoga, pickup soccer?)<br />
* Kevin Reiss (running/hiking)<br />
* Jeff Sherwood (I'd be into getting in a Crossfit WOD or maybe a run)<br />
* Nick Hanssens (yoga; I teach if there is space and interest)<br />
* Michael Vandenburg (Crossfit curious)<br />
* Ranti Junus (yoga, walking, thumb wrestling - maybe)<br />
* Mark Diggory (surfing,... kinda hard to find good waves in Asheville... will settle for a little hiking)<br />
<br />
== Sitting in a room together and half the time talking to each other out loud and half the time talking in IRC ==<br />
<br />
Because you know it's going to happen<br />
<br />
* William Denton<br />
* Mike Giarlo (fulfiller of destinies)<br />
* /ignore mjgiarlo<br />
* Antonio Barrera (trying to avoid a repeat of Portland)<br />
* Jodi Schneider (one of the highlights!!!)<br />
* Bess Sadler (can it be in the hospitality suite at 4am? That's the best!)<br />
* Mark Matienzo <br />
* Ranti Junus (hoping somebody can help me hacking my chumby one to install [http://elinks.or.cz/ elinks] or [http://www.qtweb.net/ qtweb])<br />
* Dan Chudnov (hoping for in-same-room IRC chat to be an olympic medal event in 2014)<br />
<br />
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<div>== Submissions for 20-Minute Talk Slots ==<br />
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Edit this page to submit your proposal for a 20-minute talk at the Code4Lib 2010 Conference. For more information, see the [[2010talkscall_Call_for_Submissions|Call for submissions]]. '''Please follow the formatting guidelines:'''<br />
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'''Talk Title:'''<br />
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Mobile Web App Design: Getting Started<br />
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'''Speaker name, affiliation, and email address:'''<br />
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Michael Doran, University of Texas at Arlington, doran@uta.edu, http://rocky.uta.edu/doran/<br />
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'''Abstract:'''<br />
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Creating or adapting library web applications for mobile devices such as the iPhone, Android, and Palm Pre is not hard, but it does require learning some new tools, new techniques, and new approaches. From the Tao of mobile web app design to using mobile device SDKs for their emulators, this presentation will give you a jump-start on mobile cross-platform design, development, and testing. And all illustrated with a real-world mobile library web application.<br />
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'''Talk Title:'''<br />
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Drupal 7: A more powerful platform for building library applications<br />
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'''Speaker name, affiliation, and email address:'''<br />
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Cary Gordon, The Cherry Hill Company, cgordon@chillco.com<br />
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'''Abstract:'''<br />
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The release of Drupal 7 brings with it a big increase in utility for this already very useful and well-accepted content management framework. Specifically, the addition of fields in core, the inclusion of RDFa, the use of the PHP_db abstraction layer, and the promotion of files to first class objects facilitate the development of richer applications directly in Drupal without the need to integrate external products.<br />
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'''Talk Title:'''<br />
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Fiwalk with Me: Using Automatic Forensics Tools and Python for Digital Curation Triage<br />
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'''Speaker name, affiliation, and email address:'''<br />
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Mark Matienzo, The New York Public Library, mark@matienzo.org<br />
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'''Abstract of no more than 500 words:'''<br />
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Building on Simson Garfinkel's work in Automated Document and Media Exploitation (ADOMEX), this project investigates digital curation applications of open source tools used in digital forensics. Specifically, we will be using [http://afflib.org AFFLib]'s fiwalk ("file and inode walk") application and its corresponding Python library to develop a basic triage workflow for accessioned hard drives, removable media, or disk images. These tools will allow us to create a simple, Web-based "digital curation workbench" application to do preliminary analysis and processing of this data.<br />
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'''Talk Title:'''<br />
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Do it Yourself Cloud Computing with Apache and R<br />
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'''Speaker name, affiliation, and email address:'''<br />
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Harrison Dekker, University of California, Berkeley, hdekker@library.berkeley.edu<br />
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'''Abstract of no more than 500 words:'''<br />
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R is a powerful and extensible open source statistical analysis application. Rapache, software developed at Vanderbilt University, allows web developers to leverage the numeric processing and graphical capabilities of R in real-time through simple Apache server requests. This presentation will provide an overview of both R and rapache and will explore how these tools are relevant to the library community.<br />
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'''Talk Title:'''<br />
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Metadata editing - a truly extensible solution<br />
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'''Speaker name, affiliation and email address:'''<br />
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David Kennedy, Duke University, david.kennedy@duke.edu<br><br />
David Chandek-Stark, Duke University, david.chandek.stark@duke.edu<br><br />
http://library.duke.edu/trac/dc/wiki/Trident<br />
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'''Abstract of no more than 500 words:'''<br />
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We set out in the Trident project to create a metadata tool that scales. In doing so we have conceived of the metadata application profile, a profile which provides instructions for software on how to edit metadata. We have built a set of web services and some web-based tools for editing metadata. The metadata application profile allows these tools to extend across different metadata schemes, and allows for different rules to be established for editing items of different collections. Some features of the tools include integration with authority lists, auto-complete fields, validation and clean integration of batch editing with Excel. I know, I know, Excel, but in the right hands, this is a powerful tool for cleanup and batch editing.<br />
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In this talk, we want to introduce the concepts of the metadata application profile, and gather feedback on its merits, as well as demonstrate some of the tools we have developed and how they work together to manage the metadata in our Fedora repository.<br />
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'''Talk Title:''' <br />
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Flickr'ing the Switch<br />
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'''Speaker name, affiliation and email address:'''<br />
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Dianne Dietrich, Cornell University Library, dd388@cornell.edu<br />
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'''Abstract of no more than 500 words:''' <br />
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We started out with a simple dream – to pilot a handful of images from our collection in Flickr. Since June 2009, we've grown that dream from its humble beginnings into something bigger: we now have a Flickr collection of over two thousand images. We added geocoding and tags, repurposed our awesome structured metadata, and screenscraped the rest. This talk will focus on the code, which made most of this possible.<br />
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This includes (and is certainly not limited to) using the Python Flickr API, various geocoding tools, crafting Flickr metadata by restructuring XML data from Luna Insight, screenscraping any descriptive text we could get our hands on, negotiating naming conventions for thousands of images, thinking cleverly in order to batch update images on Flickr at a later point (we had to do this more than once), using digital forensic tools to save malformed tifs (that were digitized in 1998!), and, finally, our efforts at scaling everything up so we can integrate our Flickr project into the regular workflow at technical services.<br />
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library/mobile: Developing a Mobile Catalog<br />
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'''Speaker name(s), affiliation(s), and email address(es):'''<br />
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Kim Griggs, Oregon State University Libraries, kim.griggs@oregonstate.edu<br />
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The increased use of mobile devices provides an untapped resource for delivering library resources to patrons. The mobile catalog is the next step for libraries in providing universal access to resources and information.<br />
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This talk will share Oregon State University (OSU) Libraries’ experience creating a custom mobile catalog. The discussion will first make the case for mobile catalogs, discuss the context of mobile search, and give an overview of vendor and custom mobile catalogs. The second half of the talk will look under the hood of OSU Libraries' custom mobile catalog to provide implementation strategies and discuss tools, techniques, requirements, and guidelines for creating an optimal mobile catalog experience that offers services that support time critical and location sensitive activities.<br />
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Enhancing discoverability with virtual shelf browse<br />
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'''Speaker name(s), affiliation(s), and email address(es):'''<br />
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Andreas Orphanides, NCSU Libraries, andreas_orphanides@ncsu.edu <br/><br />
Cory Lown, NCSU Libraries, cory_lown@ncsu.edu <br/><br />
Emily Lynema, NCSU Libraries, emily_lynema@ncsu.edu<br />
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With collections turning digital, and libraries transforming into collaborative spaces, the physical shelf is disappearing. NCSU Libraries has implemented a virtual shelf browse tool, re-creating the benefits of physical browsing in an online environment and enabling users to explore digital and physical materials side by side. We hope that this is a first step towards enabling patrons familiar with Amazon and Netflix recommendations to "find more" in the library.<br />
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We will provide an overview of the architecture of the front-end application, which uses Syndetics cover images to provide a "cover flow" view and allows the entire "shelf" to be browsed dynamically. We will describe what we learned while wrangling multiple jQuery plugins, manipulating an ever-growing (and ever-slower) DOM, and dealing with unpredictable response times of third-party services. The front-end application is supported by a web service that provides access to a shelf-ordered index of our catalog. We will discuss our strategy for extracting data from the catalog, processing it, and storing it to create a queryable shelf order index.<br />
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Where do mobile apps go when they die? or, The app with a thousand faces.<br />
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Jason Casden, North Carolina State University Libraries, jason_casden@ncsu.edu<br />
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New capabilities in both native and web-based mobile platforms are rapidly expanding the possibilities for mobile library services. In addition to developing small-screen versions of our current services, at NCSU Libraries we attempt to develop new services that take unique advantage of the mobile user context. Some of these ideas may require capabilities that are not exposed to the mobile browser. Smart technical planning can help to make sound development decisions when experimenting with mobile-enhanced development, while remaining agile when faced with constantly changing technical and non-technical restraints and opportunities.<br />
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This talk will be based on my experience as a developer of both native iPhone and web-based mobile library apps at NCSU Libraries, and with the effort to port our geo-mobile WolfWalk iPhone app to the web. I will also discuss some opportunities being created by other platforms, particularly Android-based devices.<br />
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Using Google Voice for Library SMS<br />
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Eric Sessoms, Nub Games, Inc., nubgames@gmail.com<br /><br />
Pam Sessoms, UNC Chapel Hill, psessoms@gmail.com<br />
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The LibraryH3lp Google Voice/SMS gateway (free, full AGPL source available at http://github.com/esessoms/gvgw, works with any XMPP server, LibraryH3lp subscription not required) enables libraries to easily integrate texting services into their normal IM workflow. This talk will review the challenges we faced, especially issues involved with interfacing to a Google service lacking a published API, and will outline the design of the software with particular emphasis on features that help the gateway to be more responsive to users. Because the gateway is written in the Clojure programming language, we'll close by highlighting which features of the language and available tools had the greatest positive and negative impacts on our development process.<br />
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Building a discovery system with Meresco open source components<br />
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Karin Clavel, TU Delft Library, The Netherlands, c.l.clavel@tudelft.nl<br /><br />
Etienne Posthumus, TU Delft Library, The Netherlands, e.posthumus@tudelft.nl<br />
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TU Delft Library uses Meresco, an open source component library for metadata management, to implement a custom integrated search solution called [http://discover.tudelft.nl/ Discover]). <br />
In Discover, different Meresco components are configured to work together in an efficient observer pattern, defined in what is called Meresco DNA (written in Python). The process is as follows: metadata is harvested from different sources using the Meresco harvester. It is then cross-walked into (any format you like, but we chose) MODS, then normalized, stored and indexed in three distinct but integrated indexes: a full-text Lucene index, a facet index and N-gram index for suggestions and fixing spelling mistakes. The facet index supports multiple algoritmes: drilldown, Jaccard, Mutual Information (or Information Gain) and Χ². One of the facets is used to cluster the search results by subject by using the Jaccard and Mutual Information algorithms.<br/><br />
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The query parser component automatically detects and supports Google-like, Boolean and field-specific queries. Different XML documents describing the same content item coalesce to provide the user interface with an easy way to access metadata from either the original or normalized metadata or from user generated metadata such as ratings or tags. Other Meresco components provide an SRU and a RSS interface.<br/><br />
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Discover currently holds all catalogue records, the institutional repository metadata, an architecture bibliography and a test-set of Science Direct articles. In 2010, it is expected to grow to over 10 million records with content from Elsevier, IEEE and Springer (subject to negotiatons with these publishers) and various open access resources. We will also add the university’s multimedia collection, ranging from digitized historical maps, drawing and photographs to recent (vod- and) podcasts.<br/><br />
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In the proposed session, we would like to show you some examples of above mentioned functionality and explain how Meresco components work together to create this flexible system.<br />
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Take control of library metadata and websites using the eXtensible Catalog<br />
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'''Speaker name(s), affiliation(s), and email address(es):'''<br />
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Jennifer Bowen, University of Rochester, jbowen@library.rochester.edu <br />
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'''Abstract of no more than 500 words:'''<br />
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The eXtensible Catalog Project has developed four open-source software toolkits that enable libraries to build and share their own web- and metadata-focused applications on top of a service-oriented architecture that incorporates Solr in Drupal, a robust metadata management platform, and OAI-PMH and NCIP-compatible tools that interact with legacy library systems in real-time.<br />
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XC’s robust metadata management platform allows libraries to orchestrate and sequence metadata processing services on large batches of metadata. Libraries can build their own services using the available “service-writers toolkit” or choose from our initial set of metadata services that clean up and “FRBRize” MARC metadata. Another service will aggregate metadata from multiple repositories to prepare it for use in unified discovery applications. XC software provides an RDA metadata test bed and a Solr-based metadata “navigator” that can aggregate and browse metadata (or data) in any XML format. XC’s user interface platform is the first suite of Drupal modules that treat both web content and library metadata as native Drupal nodes, allowing libraries to build web-applications that interact with metadata from library catalogs and institutional repositories as well as with library web pages. XC’s Drupal modules enable Solr in a FRBRized data environment, as a first step toward a full implementation of RDA. Other currently-available XC toolkits expose legacy ILS metadata, circulation, and patron functionality via web services for III, Voyager and Aleph (to date) using standard protocols (OAI-PMH and NCIP), allowing libraries to easily and regularly extract MARC data from an ILS in valid MARCXML and keep the metadata in their discovery applications “in sync” with source repositories. <br />
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This presentation will showcase XC’s metadata processing services, the metadata “navigator” and the Drupal user interface platform. The presentation will also describe how libraries and their developers can get started using and contributing to the XC code.<br />
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I Am Not Your Mother: Write Your Test Code<br />
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Naomi Dushay, Stanford University, ndushay@stanford.edu<br />
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How is it worth it to slow down your code development to write tests? Won’t it take you a long time to learn how to write tests? Won’t it take longer if you have to write tests AND develop new features, fix bugs? Isn’t it hard to write test code? To maintain test code? I will try to answer these questions as I talk about how test code is crucial for our software. By way of illustration, I will show how it has played a vital role in making Blacklight a true community collaboration, as well as how it has positively impacted coding projects in the Stanford Libraries.<br />
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How To Implement A Virtual Bookshelf With Solr<br />
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'''Speaker name, affiliation, and email address:'''<br />
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Naomi Dushay, Stanford University, ndushay@stanford.edu<br /><br />
Jessie Keck, Stanford University, jkeck@stanford.edu<br />
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Browsing bookshelves has long been a useful research technique as well as an activity many users enjoy. As larger and larger portions of our physical library materials migrate to offsite storage, having a browse-able virtual shelf organized by call number is a much-desired feature. I will talk about how we implemented nearby-on-shelf in Blacklight at Stanford, using Solr and SolrMarc: <br />
# the code to get shelfkeys out of call numbers<br />
# the code to lop volume data off the end of call numbers to avoid clutter in the browse <br />
# what I indexed in Solr given we have<br />
## multiple call numbers for a single bib record <br />
## multiple bib records for a single call number<br />
# Solr configuration, requests and responses to get call numbers before and after a given starting point as well as the desired information for display.<br />
# Other code needed to implement this feature in Blacklight (concepts easily ported to other UIs).<br />
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This virtual shelf is not only browsable across locations, but includes any item with a call number in our collection (digital or physical materials).<br />
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All code is available, or will be by Code4Lib 2010.<br />
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A Better Advanced Search?<br />
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'''Speaker name, affiliation, and email address:'''<br />
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Naomi Dushay, Stanford University, ndushay@stanford.edu<br /><br />
Jessie Keck, Stanford University, jkeck@stanford.edu<br />
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Even though we’d like to get basic searches working so well that advanced search wouldn’t be necessary, there will always be a small set of users that want it, and there will always be some library searching needs that basic searching can’t serve. Our user interface designer was dissatisfied with many aspects of advanced search as currently available in most library discovery software; the form she designed was excellent but challenging to implement. See http://searchworks.stanford.edu/advanced<br />
We’ll share details of how we implemented Advanced Search in Blacklight:<br />
# thoughtfully designed html form for the user (NOT done by techies!)<br />
# boolean syntax while using Solr dismax magic (dismax does not speak Boolean)<br />
# checkbox facets (multiple facet value selection)<br />
# fielded searching while using Solr dismax magic (dismax allows complex weighting formulae across multiple author/title/subject/… fields, but does not allow “fielded” searching in the way lucene does)<br />
## easily configured in solrconfig.xml<br />
# manipulating user entered queries before sending them to Solr<br />
# making advanced search results look like other search results: breadcrumbs, selectable facets, and other fun. <br />
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Scholarly annotation services using AtomPub and Fedora<br />
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Andrew Ashton, Brown University, andrew_ashton@brown.edu<br />
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We are building a framework for doing granular annotations of objects housed in Brown’s Digital Repository. Beginning with our TEI-encoded text collections, and eventually expanding to other media, these scholarly annotations are themselves objects stored and preserved in the repository. They are linked to other resources via URI references, and deployed using AtomPub services as part of Fedora’s Service/Dissemination model. <br />
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This effort stems from the recognition that standard web annotation techniques (e.g. tagging, Google Sidebar, page-level commenting, etc.) are not flexible or persistent enough to handle scholarly annotations as an organic part of natively digital research collections. We are developing solutions to several challenges that arise with this approach; particularly, how do we address highly granular portions of digital objects in a way that is applicable to different types of media (encoded texts, images, video, etc.). This presentation will provide an overview of the architecture, a discussion of the possibilities and problems we face in implementing this framework, and a demo of a live project using Atom annotations with a digital research collection.<br />
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With Great Power... Managing an Open-Source ILS in a state-wide consortium.<br />
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'''Speaker name(s), affiliation(s), and email address(es):'''<br />
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Emily A. Almond, Software Development Manager, PINES/Georgia Public Library Service, ealmond@georgialibraries.org<br />
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Using agile software development methodology + project management to achieve a balance of support and expertise. Lessons learned after implementation that inform how the consortium should evolve so that you can utilize your new ILS for the benefit of all stakeholders. <br />
Topics covered: <br />
-- troubleshooting and help desk support<br />
-- development project plans<br />
-- roles and responsibility shifts<br />
-- re-branding the ILS and related organizations.<br />
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Data Modeling; Logical Versus Physical; Why Do I Care?<br />
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'''Speaker name(s), affiliation(s), and email address(es):'''<br />
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Steve Dressler, Georgia Public Library Services, sdressler@georgialibraries.org<br />
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'''Abstract of no more than 500 words:'''<br />
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I am sure we have all been in the situation of having mountains of data stored in our database, needing a piece of information and yet being unable to determine how to get what we need. Computerized databases have been around for decades now and there are several architectures available; however, the ability of a database developer, regardless of the architecture, to store data in a format that is comprehensible to a businessperson yet readily accessible through software applications remains an impossible challenge.<br />
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Topics to be discussed include<br />
o Components comprising a logical model, how it is developed and how is it used?<br />
o Components comprising a physical model, how it is developed and how is it used?<br />
o What does a logical model look like?<br />
o What does a physical model look like?<br />
o Who works with a logical model and why?<br />
o Who works with a physical model and why?<br />
o What is the relationship between the logical model and the physical model?<br />
o What kind of a time investment is required to develop and maintain logical and physical models?<br />
o What are the challenges of keeping the two models in sync as the software application evolves?<br />
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Although data modeling is a huge discipline and presents research topics for millions of theses and dissertations, this twenty-minute snapshot view will allow anyone, technical or business, to sit through a development meeting and be able to grasp what is being discussed as well as gain a better understanding of logical and physical business flows.<br />
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Media, Blacklight, and viewers like you.<br />
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'''Speaker name, affiliation, and email address:'''<br />
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Chris Beer, WGBH, chris_beer@wgbh.org<br />
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There are many shared problems (and solutions) for libraries and archives in the interest of helping the user. There are also many "new" developments in the archives world that the library communities have been working on for ages, including item-level cataloging, metadata standards, and asset management. Even with these similarities, media archives have additional issues that are less relevant to libraries: the choice of video players, large file sizes, proprietary file formats, challenges of time-based media, etc. In developing a web presence, many archives, including the WGBH Media Library and Archives, have created custom digital library applications to expose material online. In 2008, we began a prototyping phase for developing scholarly interfaces by creating a custom-written PHP front-end to our Fedora repository. <br />
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In late 2009, we finally saw the (black)light, and after some initial experimentation, decided to build a new, public website to support our IMLS-funded /Vietnam: A Television History/ archive (as well as existing legacy content). In this session, we will share our experience of and challenges with customizing Blacklight as an archival interface, including work in rights management, how we integrated existing Ruby on Rails user-generated content plugins, and the development of media components to support a rich user experience.<br />
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DAMS PAS - Digital Asset Management System, Public Access System<br />
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'''Speaker name(s), affiliation(s), and email address(es):'''<br />
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Declan Fleming, University of California, San Diego, dfleming@ucsd.edu<br />
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Esme Cowles, University of California, San Diego, ecowles@ucsd.edu<br />
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After years of describing our DAMS with Powerpoint, we finally have a public access system that we can show our mothers. And code4lib! The UCSD Libraries DAMS is an RDF based asset repository containing over 250,000 items and their derivatives. We describe the core system, the metadata and storage challenges involved in managing hundreds of thousands of items, and the interesting political aspects involved in releasing subsets to the public. We also describe the caching approach we used to ensure performance and access control.<br />
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You Either Surf or You Fight: Integrating Library Services with Google Wave<br />
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Sean Hannan, Sheridan Libaries, Johns Hopkins University, shannan@jhu.edu<br />
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'''Abstract of no more than 500 words:'''<br />
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So Google Wave is a new shiny web toy, but did you know that it's also a great platform for collaboration and research? (I bet you did.) ...And what platform for collaboration and research would not be complete without some library tools to aid and abet that process? I will talk about how to take your library web services and integrate them with Google Wave to create bots that users can interact with to get at your resources as part of their social and collaborative work.</div>128.220.205.150